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INTERVIEW: Lanny Smith, Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton & Fred Hampton Jr. Talk Actively Black Apparel + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all done? Morning?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody is dj n V just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 4: We are the Breakfast Club. Lona Roses here as well.
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  Speaker 4: We got some special guest joining us this morning. Yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 4: we have a Landy Smith here.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: We have Cee, Sir Williams, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: We have Fredrika Newton, good morning morning. And we have
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  Speaker 4: fred Hampton Junior.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: How y'all feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 7: We're blessed man Black and blessed man, blessed Black and
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  Speaker 7: Holly favor. Yes, Sir Landy, why we all gathered here
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  Speaker 7: today with all these amazing people?
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  Speaker 2: Brother?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 7: We we had a New York Fashion Week show about
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  Speaker 7: about a month ago, man, and we were blessed to
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  Speaker 7: have these individuals show up and walk on the fast
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  Speaker 7: on the on the runway with us, along with uh
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  Speaker 7: doctor Bernice King and Aliosha Sabbaz, the daughters of Malcolm
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  Speaker 7: X and Marin Luther King. And the response to it,
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  Speaker 7: the way that black people have responded to seeing these
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  Speaker 7: people on the runway, knowing that this history wasn't that
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  Speaker 7: long ago, Like that, try to tell us that it
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  Speaker 7: was has been powerful man so actively black. The company
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  Speaker 7: that I founded, we were built with the intention to
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  Speaker 7: uplift and reinvest back into the black community. And uh,
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  Speaker 7: these incredible legends have been supportive of the brand.
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  Speaker 3: So when you when you, I want you all to
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  Speaker 3: know man Cecid Williams.
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  Speaker 8: Right, y'all know this legends picture right here, the brother
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  Speaker 8: drinking out of the white's only water found. I always
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  Speaker 8: wanted to ask you, mister Williams, was it a spontaneous
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  Speaker 8: active rebellion or something something you plan to do as
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  Speaker 8: a statement.
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  Speaker 6: It was a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 9: I was thirsty, but also there was a middle of
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  Speaker 9: the sunshine of the summer. You know, it was evident
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  Speaker 9: to myself t shirt. But also this was not the
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  Speaker 9: first time I did this. There were many other times
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  Speaker 9: that I felt I wanted to look close. Really I
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  Speaker 9: was not satisfied, but living on the status sqrore and segregation.
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  Speaker 6: So this was.
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  Speaker 9: Something that I had done many times, and my mother
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  Speaker 9: wanted me not to do it anymore. But I did
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  Speaker 9: it again and this time it was photographed.
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel fear in that moment or was your
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  Speaker 3: faith stronger than your field?
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  Speaker 9: None?
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  Speaker 6: Whatsoever?
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  Speaker 9: This is about fifteen to twenty miles from Orangeburg and
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  Speaker 9: on Highway twenty one and coming back from an assignment
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  Speaker 9: for Jet magazine.
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  Speaker 6: But I never sent this picture to Jet.
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  Speaker 9: It was something that I held in the family, and
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  Speaker 9: I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know,
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  Speaker 9: given it to my mother and father to see, So
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  Speaker 9: I hid it from them and never sent it to
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  Speaker 9: Jet either.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, how did they get it?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe three or four years later.
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  Speaker 9: I showed it to them in a conversation one Sunday
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  Speaker 9: afternoon doing a dinner. It kind of came out and
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  Speaker 9: then I got chewed out.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: What did that single act teach you about the power
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  Speaker 8: of defiance in the faith of injustice?
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  Speaker 9: Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation,
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  Speaker 9: it was something that we encountered all day long, from
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  Speaker 9: birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period
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  Speaker 9: of time felt again we were treated as subclass human being,
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  Speaker 9: not being able to go to a store and go
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  Speaker 9: into a rest room or go or drink get a
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  Speaker 9: drink of water out of a fountain, or having to
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  Speaker 9: go to a side window or go into a movie
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  Speaker 9: theater and having to sit in a separate place or
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  Speaker 9: not at all. So but again one thing that I
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  Speaker 9: would like to that's maybe out of characteristic of many
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  Speaker 9: southerns there were many good white.
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  Speaker 6: People at the time as well.
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  Speaker 9: You can't just put a blanket statement against that all
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  Speaker 9: people treated us.
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  Speaker 6: There were many good hearted.
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  Speaker 9: White people at the time, and they were friends of
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  Speaker 9: my family and they helped support our family so well.
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  Speaker 9: There were some people in South Carolina again who live by,
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  Speaker 9: who treated us as a status quo not being able
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  Speaker 9: to do this or that.
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  Speaker 4: So crazy to think about it, like, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: you have these conversations, we're really not that.
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  Speaker 6: Far removed from that at home.
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  Speaker 4: That's not saying like you don't you don't really think
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  Speaker 4: about it like you said earlier, like we're not far
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  Speaker 4: removed from racism. And even in the story that my
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  Speaker 4: dad told me, I'm like, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: This is what fifty years ago, sixty years.
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  Speaker 8: I got got one of my aunts. She said, I
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  Speaker 8: don't know nothing about no I don't know nothing about
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  Speaker 8: no integration. Yeah, she knew was segregating schools.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we had ruby bridges walked the roung way as well.
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  Speaker 7: And it was a powerful moment because everybody remembers that
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  Speaker 7: picture six year old little girl being escorted into the
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  Speaker 7: school by federal marshals and Ruby just turned seventy one,
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  Speaker 7: but you know, black on cracks, so she looks forty
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  Speaker 7: five and she walks out on the runway. It made
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  Speaker 7: it real to people like that same little girl in
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  Speaker 7: that black and white photo is walking right here in
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  Speaker 7: front of me. So that's that's the power of having
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  Speaker 7: these individuals here with me, showing you know how close
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  Speaker 7: we are to everything that we still fighting to this day.
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  Speaker 4: Do y'all hate you, I'm sorry, Do y'all hate white people?
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  Speaker 4: God damn right, And I'm gonna tell you why. When
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  Speaker 4: I talked to my dad, my dad has a feeling
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  Speaker 4: towards white people, right, And I always joke and I
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  Speaker 4: laugh about it. But then when he tells me his
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  Speaker 4: history of him being in the military, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're in the same barracks. Then when they go get
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  Speaker 4: some food, it's white only, and is people in the
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  Speaker 4: barracks they go get food, he can't. Yeah, he talks
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  Speaker 4: about the water fountain in the bathroom and all this
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  Speaker 4: other stuff, and why he looks at white people the
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  Speaker 4: way that he does, I understand it. So that's why
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  Speaker 4: I ask you the same, each one of you.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's brought to the forefront by Landy Smith and
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  Speaker 9: again the fashion show. In fact, he labeled the fashion show.
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  Speaker 9: This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are
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  Speaker 9: just evidence of time and period we lived in America
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  Speaker 9: that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring
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  Speaker 9: it back, but it's long gone. But people at me
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  Speaker 9: who had experienced this and people that were on the
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  Speaker 9: show that was put together by this amazing brother who
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  Speaker 9: has brought forth this apparel that again has criss crossed
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  Speaker 9: across America and being put into the hands of today's generation.
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  Speaker 9: T shirts and other things that he makes. We're not
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  Speaker 9: going to stand for again segregating America. It's going to
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  Speaker 9: be something that is long gone. And to answer your question,
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  Speaker 9: there are again many many good white people. And again
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  Speaker 9: there's a myths I think that all white people are bad.
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  Speaker 8: I was growing up in South Carolina was such a
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  Speaker 8: mind fuck because to your point, I grew up around
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  Speaker 8: a lot of good white people, but then we were
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  Speaker 8: also aware of the white people who treated us like
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  Speaker 8: sad as cool, like there's a certain places you knew
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  Speaker 8: you weren't supposed to go but then I also had
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  Speaker 8: my white friend and Thomas and his family who lived
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  Speaker 8: right by me, so it was a class thing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just it's just, i don't know, talk kind
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  Speaker 3: of different.
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  Speaker 1: But the tag team. But you first, I'm chairman, Fred
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  Speaker 1: Himpton Jr. I'm honored to be here again, conch fits
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  Speaker 1: salute to this brother and his wife, his team. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because say everything's political, including fashion
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  Speaker 1: able to get this peel in the apple sauce, these
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  Speaker 1: type of discussions, it's a revolutionaries. It's a misnom about
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  Speaker 1: like it's motivated your moves, how we move, it's a
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  Speaker 1: hatred for someone else. Comandante uh Ernest though Chakovar said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a revolutionary no matter how preposterous it may sound,
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  Speaker 1: it's got about the most sincereous sentiments of love. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying this sort of abstracts sort of way,
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  Speaker 1: but we're talking about the work such organizations the Black
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  Speaker 1: Panther Party. The motivation of getting up with the first
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  Speaker 1: free breakfast programs, free busting programs, survival programs was not
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  Speaker 1: directly at a hatred for anyone, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: But again, motivate for love for people. But let me
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  Speaker 1: say this, though, I think all black people should get
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  Speaker 1: like a mass Nobel Peace Prize, all of us.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that we ain't just on mass snapped out.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's a run that we
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  Speaker 1: ain't motivated at a hatred. But again, and sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: though it's a reactionary response is kind of justified.
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  Speaker 2: But again, for the record, it's a motive. Got a
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  Speaker 2: love for the people.
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  Speaker 10: Like to echo if I could, Hi, I'm Frederica and
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  Speaker 10: Huing Newton was my husband. And what came to mind
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  Speaker 10: when you when you even asked that question was quote
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  Speaker 10: from Hue that said, what motivates people is not hatred,
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  Speaker 10: but it's love for other people. So my mother was white,
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  Speaker 10: and she introduced me to Hue because she was doing
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  Speaker 10: work with the Black Panther Party and she was the
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  Speaker 10: only one that they trusted to do the real estate work.
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  Speaker 10: So I couldn't. I did not grow up hating anyone.
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  Speaker 10: But what I do hate is white supremacy and the
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  Speaker 10: impact on black community. I actually hate that and the
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  Speaker 10: impacts of the impact that has had on us. So again,
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  Speaker 10: as my brother said, so eloquently as he always does,
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  Speaker 10: as he always does, is that the Black Panther Party
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  Speaker 10: service was out of love, out of love for black people,
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  Speaker 10: out of love for oppressed people. And it wasn't it
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  Speaker 10: wasn't guided by hate. So it's impossible for me to
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  Speaker 10: hate anybody. I mean, I'm sorry, no, no, go ahead, now.
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  Speaker 3: I was glads.
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  Speaker 8: What's the biggest misconception people still have about the Black
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  Speaker 8: Panther Party.
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  Speaker 10: I think there were two, and you can, sir join me.
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  Speaker 10: One of them is that women were not in leadership
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  Speaker 10: in the Black Panther Party.
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  Speaker 11: Women were, in fact.
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  Speaker 10: Seventy percent of the membership at one point with women.
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  Speaker 10: And the fact that Black Panther Party was a racist
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  Speaker 10: organization and we worked in coalition with all organizations whose
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  Speaker 10: common fight was against oppression. So those were two misnomers.
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  Speaker 10: The history likes to talk about the misogyny and division
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  Speaker 10: between black men and black women and the party, and
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  Speaker 10: we came in with our own stuff. The average age
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  Speaker 10: was seventeen in the Black Panther Party, so you had
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  Speaker 10: pimps and educators, you.
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  Speaker 11: Know, all.
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  Speaker 10: And so we fought against we fought against homophobia, we
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  Speaker 10: fought against misogyny and these things were we were called
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  Speaker 10: out for those things. So you know, we were young
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  Speaker 10: men and women whose motivation was love and people were
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  Speaker 10: like his dad put their lives on the line and
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  Speaker 10: gave them their lives out of love, not out of hatred.
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  Speaker 12: Did your mother ever, I know you said that your
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  Speaker 12: mother was white. She see her face any hardships, I did.
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  Speaker 10: My mother's whole whole business was dismantled as a result
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  Speaker 10: of her work with the party. The FBI has a
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  Speaker 10: file this stick on my mother. So I grew up
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  Speaker 10: also seeing the white people I knew growing up were
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  Speaker 10: all progressive. So I saw the great sacrifices that she
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  Speaker 10: made financially, emotionally, physically, as we all did.
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  Speaker 11: So yes, I did.
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  Speaker 13: Mss Frederick, How do you feel today when you see
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  Speaker 13: like the government and different people honoring either Black Panther
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  Speaker 13: Party or Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. And you know,
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  Speaker 13: things were so different back then where you didn't feel
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  Speaker 13: that support from the government owners well even even the
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  Speaker 13: way that even the way they just talked about or
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  Speaker 13: like portrayeding like movies and like you know, they use
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  Speaker 13: it to make money off of the story and the
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  Speaker 13: tales or whatever. But then you guys were cast out
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  Speaker 13: and made to be these horrible people who were racist
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  Speaker 13: and didn't want anything to do with progression.
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  Speaker 10: I see that doors are opening because we've done the work.
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  Speaker 10: We've done the work to educate people on what the
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  Speaker 10: true history was. I don't see the government supporting us.
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  Speaker 10: I mean maybe local government. The city of Oakland has
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  Speaker 10: given us a lot of support. We now have the
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  Speaker 10: Black Panther Party Museum, and people travel internationally to come
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  Speaker 10: see this museum from the because there has been no
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  Speaker 10: history available. So I think that doors are opening, not
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  Speaker 10: only with white people, but with black people too, because
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  Speaker 10: black people were scared to.
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  Speaker 11: Embrace his history.
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  Speaker 10: And I know you could speak to that too, with
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  Speaker 10: Judas and the Black Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: It's the exact team, which you know, I'll make sure
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  Speaker 1: the narrative that time we talked about, you know, struggles
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  Speaker 1: and some sort of abstract and starts sort of way.
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  Speaker 1: But a manager at the Black Panther Party cubs and organizations,
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  Speaker 1: as we say, it's tough act to follow, but not
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the footsteps, but the path of all
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  Speaker 1: steps of the Black Panther Party. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times we talked, you know, I was looking to see
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  Speaker 1: an interview I think in the late late eighties where
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  Speaker 1: they had Muhammad Ali on they put him on a
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  Speaker 1: Whai cereal box and then interviewer sayd why would you
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  Speaker 1: put him on the weedy cereal box now? You want
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  Speaker 1: to touch him before? And the representative for Weed seius,
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  Speaker 1: who we do it now because he's because he's safe,
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  Speaker 1: and we we say we serve hot politics and hot
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  Speaker 1: food with our present day survival programs on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: And of course uhs tainted when the ruling class, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because their position his storage. We even
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  Speaker 1: talking about Malcolm Mixture about to march on Washington when
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  Speaker 1: they positioned this and they can't stop it, co opt it,
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  Speaker 1: wore it down, change it, mix, slain the beat. So
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  Speaker 1: we have to like there was a lot of battles,
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  Speaker 1: like even Judie and Black Messaiah we had to struggle
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  Speaker 1: to us. Were subsequently ended with what I referred to
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  Speaker 1: as a dream team with the cast and UH to
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  Speaker 1: be able to put that path of cub peel in
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  Speaker 1: the Apple sauce. It's it's humbling being oppressed, it's embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: being oppressed. So a lot of times you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to work with different dynamics and getting to get
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  Speaker 1: to get the message out, but still make sure we
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  Speaker 1: maintain our politics France Fanad said, be able to accept
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  Speaker 1: their concessions without compromise and our principles.
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  Speaker 8: So how do you just always protect the legacy of
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  Speaker 8: the Panthers from being commercialized or white wise?
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  Speaker 2: That day a battle I'm talking, I just really come
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  Speaker 2: in yesterday. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I got to sleep with my with the
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  Speaker 1: bulletproof vests on a political bulletproof vests. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because again in a lot of times it's
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  Speaker 1: the farious intent or naivety. Sometimes you don't mean no harm.
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  Speaker 1: They'll come in like even no, no, not out of egotistical,
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  Speaker 1: but the title Chairman Fred, It's not egotistics, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's a struggle like for people you
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  Speaker 1: respect the structured organization. The Black Panther Party wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: some rag tag group of cats. You had to minister
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  Speaker 1: defense up Newton and chairman Boby c and colonization and
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  Speaker 1: impact our people so bad. Automatically, they respect ruling class titles.
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  Speaker 1: They'll say professors such and such whatever. When it comes
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  Speaker 1: to our people. You know what I'm saying, organization is
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  Speaker 1: stead on its own terms. We struggle abou chairming Fred
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  Speaker 1: and Defence Count tomork Clark. They were assassinated. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, We don't the other other community. They
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  Speaker 1: don't play no games about you. You you wanted to turn,
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  Speaker 1: they said, hold on. That's makes me very clear about
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  Speaker 1: those terms political prisoners. When we jamali ma'am mean so
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  Speaker 1: many others. We have the struggle again be consistent even
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  Speaker 1: when it's non fashionable.
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  Speaker 8: Speaking of fashion, Uh Lanny, why was it important to
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  Speaker 8: have these historical black figures walk into Actively Black fashion show?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: So one the tagline for Actively Black is there's greatness
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  Speaker 7: in our DNA and very intentional about that because I
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  Speaker 7: think over the centuries of oppression, subconsciously our people have accepted,
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  Speaker 7: not I won't say accepted. Sometimes it seeks into our
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  Speaker 7: subconscious that we are less than, not as good as
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  Speaker 7: this is what has been told to us, this is
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  Speaker 7: what has been preached to us for centuries. I'm trying
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  Speaker 7: to rewrite that narrative. I'm trying to deprogram and reprogram
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  Speaker 7: our own people to understand that there's greatness in our DNA.
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  Speaker 7: It's literal greatness in the DNA that walked on that
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  Speaker 7: runway when you see Malcolm and Martin's daughters walk on
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  Speaker 7: that runway together. That DNA is something that has that
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  Speaker 7: has move mountains, that has changed lives, you know what
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  Speaker 7: I'm saying, And that exists within all of us. So
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  Speaker 7: it was important for our people to see that, to
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  Speaker 7: know that we are more than just our trauma, you
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  Speaker 7: know what I mean. We have so much greatness inside
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  Speaker 7: of us, and if we start acting out of that greatness,
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  Speaker 7: that's how we can change things for our community.
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  Speaker 4: How difficult was it getting everybody in and how how
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  Speaker 4: long did it taken?
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  Speaker 5: It was stressful.
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  Speaker 7: One there was a white supremacist who was killed by
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  Speaker 7: another white man about a week before our show, and yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: and it sent some shockwaves through our plans because you're
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  Speaker 7: talking about children of people who were assassinated, real political violence,
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: and so I had to reconvince Iliasa Shabaz and Doctor
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: King to still be a part of this show. There
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: were some safety concerns. We had to bring in three
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: extra teams of security just to make sure that they
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: were secure, because the rhetoric was that there was going
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: to be payback, which never made sense to me because
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: there was a white man that killed them, you know
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: what I mean. But I think the reason why I
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: was able to execute on that was the respect that
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: I had paid to these individuals before everyone you see
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: up here, Doctor King, doctor Eliosta Shabbaz. I went to
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: them and asked them for permission to put their family
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: members on this gear. I have licensing agreements with them
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: so that when we sell apparel, the Black Panther Party
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: Museum gets money, Fred Hampton, the Hampton House gets money.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Cecil Williams Museum gets money. Right the Sabbaz Center, the
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: King Center actively black pays them when we sell this
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: merch And so you can go on any market on
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: any weekend and you'll see a lot of us selling
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: this stuff, not realizing these people actually lost people in
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: this struggle and they weren't compensated right, And so I
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: think I earned a level of respect with them that
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: when I made that call and I asked, can you
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: walk on this wrong way for me? They answered the call.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: And I feel so humbled. I mean, doctor King, when
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: she when she arrived, she gave me a signed speech
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: from from her father and she prayed with me, and
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: I broke down and cried. You know what I mean,
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Like her schedule is crazy for her to move around
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: her travel schedule to be there for this show. Uh,
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: it's something I'm forever grateful.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Did y'all have any concerns, any security concerns at all?
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: My man came and made sure we were we were,
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: we were, we were, We.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Were good with the security.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: We weren't gonna let nobody even get close to touching
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: you know this royalty.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, respect, no touch on his love of respect. Are
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: trying to say Black people we like, we like treat
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: like the Rodney Danger feels of all racist, no no respect,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and like even it's a real big thing with us,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like with the movie Julius and Black Massiry Ryan Cooler.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the respect they can't this
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: brother here, I mean the respect. You know what I'm saying,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: you can Uh, this video was a homeless brother told
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: me you can feel disrespect, but the respect that they
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: have again, that that helped set the stage. And I'm
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: saying how he came in, how we continued to move together.
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: If I could say something about licensing rights and bootleg
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: you can go out any day of the week and
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: see Black Panther Party everything, And there's no way that
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: I could financially.
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: Stop that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: Lannie, how long did you try and get.
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: In touch with us?
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: For a few years And he didn't have to. He
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: didn't have to. He could have put Hughey's imagery. And
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: this is the second line that he's done. The first
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: was all power to the people where it was Black
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: Panther Party icons the cat. He didn't have to do that,
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, and he did. So I'll do anything to
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: support him and actively black, anything to support him because
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: of the respect that he played all of us is.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: I'm just gonna say he didn't have to do it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Man of integrity.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: He's a man of integrity.
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: What does it mean to be actively black?
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: That's such a layer question. And there's a reason why
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: I named it that you got to understand. When I
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: was starting to actively black. By the way, we'll celebrate
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: five years this Black Friday. We launched on Black Friday
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty. I had a lot of black people tell me,
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: don't name the company actively Black. I had black executives
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: tell me, if you put black in this name, it
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: will not be successful. And I realized that a lot
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: of them were speaking from a place of a fear
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: of working in corporate environments where they had to minimize
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: who they were in their identity, And so there's nothing
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: passive about what we have to do to uplift our people, right,
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: So it's a double entendre. I want our people to
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: be more healthy. We do free mental health events, we
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: do f activations where we're having people do yoga, sound, bath, meditation.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: We're getting our people access to the things that they
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: need so that we can keep moving. That's the only
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: way the movement can keep going is if we're healthy
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: enough to keep moving. Right, So it's a double chandra.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: We're active, we're brand, but also what we have to
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: do to uplift our people is nothing passive about this mission.
• 20:20
  Speaker 13: How do you feel when creators Because I know a
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: lot of different artists, fashion designers or whatever that are
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: black that feel like they shouldn't have to have the
• 20:29
  Speaker 13: responsibility to do what you're doing in their work, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: they make it a point like they don't want to
• 20:35
  Speaker 13: be called black designers. They just want to be designers.
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: They don't want to have to you know, like Kirby
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: when he did the fashion show that he did that
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: talked about the attack on black lives. They feel like
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: they shouldn't have to do that because they're black. How
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: do you feel about creators that take that sense.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I disagree wholeheartedly. I've even seen so many of
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: our black figures make statements against championing Black.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Owned, which just really confuses me.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean, Because when we think about
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: the European designer that our people will spend our money on,
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: we look at something that's made in Italy or that's
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Parisians as a feature, right, black owned is not a description,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: it's a feature. We are the most creative people on earth.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: We are the most soulful people on earth. It's a
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: feature to be black owned when you think about what
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: we've created from nothing, and so I champion it. But also,
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: I'm not a designer.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: I didn't start this because I was a designer. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: went to design school. I'm a former basketball player. Hurt
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: my knee thirty days after I signed my first NBA contract.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: This is not a world that I even thought I
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: was going to be in. Actively. Black is a purpose driven,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: mission driven thing. I didn't even start this to make
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: the most money possible. It was how do I create
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: something that can uplift my people? And in twenty twenty
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: when after the murder George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Nahmad Aubrey, I saw a lot of the brands that
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: I grew up wearing make performative declarations about what they
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: were going to do for black people and never do it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: And you see four years later that's what it was.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: It was performative. It was part of a marketing strategy.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: And so my thought was, it's time for us to
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: stop asking for a seat at the table and build
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: our own table. You know, the McKenzie report that came
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: out in twenty twenty four says black people today it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: been between twenty to twenty five billion on apparel and
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: shoes annually. So when I'm talking about a reparation, it's reclamation.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: It's something that if we turn our influence, our global
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: influence inward to something that we own that champions us.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: How powerful is that if we're giving back to not
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: only these folks, but to our community at the size
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: that we are. Now, what happens when we build the
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: black owned version of Nike? You know what happens when
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: actively Black is a multi billion dollar brand that can
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: keep doing what we're doing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: And by the way, Matt pickaback on, that image of
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: drinking out of the fountain had been you might say,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: stolen over decades, used without giving asking permission.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: When Lady Smith, an active right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Came in to photograph us, he said he was going
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: to give us a contribution to our non profit museum.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: We have the first and only civil rights museum in
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: South Carolina, the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. And forty
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: five days after again this brother and his brand, his
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: crew came in and photographed us and put this image
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: on his peril. We got a check from him, well,
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: PayPal if.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: You want to.
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: And then again after the New York Show again they
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: sold I think maybe about fifty thousand dollars more T shirts.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: They sent me another check, so they reciprocate. But what
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: he's doing here is so ingenious because it's little known
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: that the power impact of one image, say an image,
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: an image is eight times more, if active, than the
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: written language. And educators should begin to use this in
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: our systems today, teaching everyone and having that power and
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: capacity to see no longer is it really going to
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: be a reading, writing, and arithmetic. It's going to be reading,
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: writing and seeing or looking and with AI making his presence.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: So this brother is using images to make an impact.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: So what.
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: My fellow individuals here are doing and myself, we are
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: bringing it again the sacrifices that we where we paved
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: the way for today's generation forward and the power and
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: impact to make this relative today is immeasurable by again
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: such access.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: What he's doing to put images on.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: T shirts looks so clean in that picture. What you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: was doing for money back then?
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: By the season, I was taking pictures. I took pictures
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: ever since I was nine years old, and at twelve
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: years old, I found out I could make money. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: did a waiting for thirty five dollars.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: And we're homeboys in.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: South Carolina's home state. So you know, as you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: we don't give up. But by the way, when you
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: ask a question about again.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: About you know, what's.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Happened today and things like that, we're not going back.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: We as the people have fought too long and too hard,
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: and not only that, we have the stamina to face
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: anything that's going on in America today. We're not going
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: back to that. The young people not going to stand
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: for it. The middle aged people are not going to
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: stand for it. And the old people like us who
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: have actually experienced this, we're not going back. It's going
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: to be we're going forward with democracy, freedom and justice.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Do you believe today's generation carries the same spirit or
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: sacrifice that your generation did?
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's just that it has not been focused on
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: and utilize. But things like this act that this brother
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: put together will help to materialize this. It would be
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: amazing of how he has really put into motion millions
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: of people across these the states, which simple as simple
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: as an image on a T shirt, this classic image
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: here of Huet Newton, a statement that again you can't
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: really measure the impact.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: That that will be to young minds who.
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: Are growing up and again reading, writing, arithmetic had its
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: place in our education. But again it's a different thing
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: again five and six years old people, our students and
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: our youth using cell phones. And so it's amazing of
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: what the future is going to bring with this kind
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: of instant learning that we are now accustomed to.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: You you know, you know, Landy, you have put a
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: post up and you said all the black people who
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: have said posted and reposted, I am not my ancestors.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Get ready.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: The chance to prove that statement is coming soon. It's
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: easy for us to talk tough while not living in
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: Jim Crow and this Jim Crow two point oho is
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: fully installed. Were going to see that ancestor in passing
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: in real time.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so how do you?
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: How do you want folks to show up? Because I
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: agree with you, I don't know if they got the
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: we got to stand.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I love the optimism here, you know what I'm saying.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: But you know, I see people make that statement I
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: am not, we are not our ancestors, and it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Pisches me off.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean when you think about the
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: sacrifices that were made. We can't stay out of certain stores,
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. I've been telling people, hey,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Lululemon don't want you, come get these types from actively Black.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: We can't stay out of certain stores, and they tell
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: us they don't want us. So I don't know that
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: we have collectively our generation and the younger generation shown
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: that we have that level of sacrifice and grit that
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: it takes. You know, people gave their lives.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: I'm reading rereading ASADA's biography and just when you read
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: the things that she went through as a revolutionary for
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: our people, I don't know to me, people that's willing.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: To give up so much for the struggle. It's people
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: that have told.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Me, man, I love actively black silently, but I can't
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: publicly support it because I might lose this or somebody
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: might be So if if you scared to lose a check,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: if you're scared to what these people are gonna think
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: of you for being boldly black, then you don't. You're
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: definitely not our ancestors. Because our ancestors are willing to
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: die for this. And so that's what I meant by that, Like,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: we're gonna find out soon we see what's happening in
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: this country. We're gonna see who's willing to actually stand
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: up and be like our ancestors.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: You know, brother Seeson, you've witnessed you know, segregation, civil
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: rights marches, movements like Black Lives Matter. How do you
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: see the evolution of protest in America?
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: Well, I think today with social media and other kinds
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: of things that we have in our society that runs
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: rampart through all from middle school children on up, we
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: have different tools for today's environment and for today is
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: our position and the things that are again oppressive to
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: us as a people. But one thing is gonna remain
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: of the same we as African Americans have as a
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: stamma we he come from again, see very apply what's
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: out the in our DNA to withstand the heat, withstand
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: the pressure, and to move on. But again, as I
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: say there a minute ago, I believe that today's generation
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: we have the they have the capacity to do it.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: It's just that they have not been focused in the
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: right and so we're kind of running around englessly without
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: the unit say their leadership to what we can do today.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: But just for example, suppose, for example, people of color
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: were to unite. Suppose Jewish people, Hispanic people, African American people,
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: our Indian brothers, our East Indian brothers, our Native Americans.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: So by the way, whose history has been wiped off
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: the face of the earth by may or the fact
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: that they just stood down and withstood European settlements in
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: this country. Just think if people of color would unite.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: They just think of the political possibilities of that coalition.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: I think, I think we I think we have to
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: be we have to unite ourselves first. That's that's you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: there's there's so there's so many things that divide us.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: We still got diaspora, a wars, We still have so
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: much toxicity when it comes to even between black men
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: and black women. I think if we can unite first,
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: I think everybody else gonna follow our.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Lead like they always do, you know what I mean.
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: So yeah, that's that's part of my plan and my
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: mission with Actively Black is to be that flag, that
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: banner that we can all fly under. I'm not just
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: building this just for Black America. I'm building this for
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: the entire diaspora, you know what I mean when I
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: say actively Black.
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: I know there's always the conversations about reparations. Is there
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: a way do you guys feel like and is there
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: a way that you feel like you could ever be
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: really repaid for what your families have had to go through,
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: what you've had to experience, Because people make that conversation
• 30:51
  Speaker 13: so simple of like we should re receiving this because
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: we went through this, But you guys personally experienced so
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: much loss and hurt, like is that or is there
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: a real antwer to that for you?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: No, of course, no matter resources can commensate. You know
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and I'm gonna say this, the terrorism
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that we've been subjected to. In fact, we say that,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you know, every day is septimty eleven for us, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in fact we define these some of the Fourth Fro
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, amongst other days. It's one of our
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Septement eleven stories. Uh, we say yesterday and two of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: our twin towers quote unquote Feil chairman friend defensing the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Marl Claque. But just the question of resource, I mean,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: reparations are deep. Uh definitely, Uh, economists the resources player
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: key roll. But the political significance of this is important too,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: how we view ourselves. A lot of our people don't
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: think were worthy of being attacked, and like we have to,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So for the rooting class
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in particular, to acknowledge that, you know what I'm saying again,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: these we are we are I say, black people, We
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the ov not the old g's. We had the original
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: victims of terrorism, people who have been terrorismals. So euphanism
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: as slavery, Jim Crow red lining, deaths passing away. So
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: just so that that discussion, I mean that that's hop
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and so many other communities different people don't reparations. Why
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: is it such a position not to talk about that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: with the black community and reparation even more than the economics. Uh,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the bodies the most valuable resources that they have been
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: stolen from our people. With black bodies. We got political
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: prisoners who are still locked up. We got to get that,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you know, say, and the resource the finance too.
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: You know, I wanted to address the question that you
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: asked before about the ancestors and how does it feel.
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: It saddens me when when I see those posts on online,
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: but it also makes me think that it's it's real
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: evidence of of lack of education around what ancestors. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: it's by design, And here's evidence that there's misinformation. Even
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: my own grandchildren when I when I overhear what they're learning,
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: what they're what they're taught in school. And my own
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: son and my grandchildren get no history on revolutionary organizations
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: like the Black Panther Party. So this is just further evidence.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: When you see something so ignorant that says we are
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: not our ancestors, I said, you're actually not. But had
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: you read about what your ancestors actually did, what they
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: actually did instead of the sanitized version of Martin and
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: Malcolm and the Black Panther Party and all the history
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: that was erased. Then you would be proud to say,
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: I want to be like my ancestors.
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: That's my goal.
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: And it's so scary because they're really trying to delete
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: and get rid of all of our history. So, like
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: you just said, your grandkids, they don't the things that
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: they're being taught. It's not even of what you all
• 33:41
  Speaker 12: went through or actually don't know the first thing about it,
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: you know.
• 33:45
  Speaker 14: So it's like, how does history lessons go for you?
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: Are you their teacher?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Then?
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: Like do you how do you handle that when you
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: see what they're being taught and what they're not being taught?
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: I thank god I have a museum that they as
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: as Cecil so aptly said, black people are visual and
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: the Black Panther Party knew that and they're visual learners.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: We weren't necessarily a reading community. So at the beginning,
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: at the end the front and the back of every
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: Black Panther Party newspaper which is in publication for thirteen years,
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: there was images. Emry Douglas a Sally Dixon were our
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: artists and they painted, they drew what was more impactful
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: than what they would have read had they read. My
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: kids are the same way. They come and they see
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: the images in the museum and they ask questions. It
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: impacts them. When I brought my granddaughter to the Actively
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: Black show two years ago and my grandson this time,
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: and they were blown away. My grandson way, hold up,
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: that's Ruby Bridges, Nana, and when it was Tommy Smith
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: and John Carli.
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: What.
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: He's fifteen years old, so he is learning some history,
• 34:57
  Speaker 10: but to see it in living color and him wearing
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: he only wears actively black. He only wears actively black
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: apparel to school. This almost makes me cry because he
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: only would wear Nike before. He would only wear Nike,
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: and I try and to talk to him about what's
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: going on, but he only wears actively black.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: The beauty of what Landy's doing though.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: He got the images, but then he got the people
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: to tell the story.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: What scares me is that we live in.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: An era where people can make up images and make
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: up stories.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Behind those images.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: So I don't know why we have so much faith
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: in you know, the images of this error moving forward?
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think that was also part of
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: the strength of what we did with the show, right,
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: it was not just the imagery, It wasn't just the videos.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Is people being able to see them in person, you know.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: So I know one of the things we've talked about,
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: doctor Eliosis Abiza talked about, Doctor Kenye has talked about
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: is taking what we did in New York Fashion Week,
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: going on tour, letting people see Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton, Sherman,
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: fred Hampton Junior in person, seeing Ruby Bridges walk out
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: in person, because that, you know, AI can't do that, you.
• 36:10
  Speaker 12: Know what I mean, and something I think is really
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: really dope, you know, but I just want to make
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: sure it's true your clothing products are made from cotton
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: from black farmers or is that a specific line specific line?
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: So you know, when Trump announced the one hundred and
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: fifty percent tariffs, it really impacted us. Most of our
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: performance apparel at leisure apparel is made from overseas, so
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: we were trying to look to find the domestic partner
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: to see what we could get done here in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: United States. And I thought about these black farmers who
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: have lost ninety percent of their land in the last
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: seventy five years. So we used to own twenty million
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: acres of farmland black farmers. We now only own three
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: million acres of farmland, and in the next twenty years
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: that could potentially go to zero. So we partner with
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: bridge Forth Farms, a fifth generation black farmer, and we
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: to cotton directly from them. So the hoodie I'm wearing
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: right now, it shows on the back it says made
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: from cotton.
• 37:10
  Speaker 14: From cotton.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: So when people when people buy this product, when they
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: buying this hoodie and they buying a cotton shirt, there's
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: money that's going directly to these black farmers who have
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: been historically discriminated against from the government, and there's some
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: power in it. It's a story of reclamation. People don't
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: understand that the entire United States economy was built off
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: the backs of slavery and cotton. And we're talking about
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: trillion trillions of dollars in today's money that was generated
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: that our people were kept out of. So what happens
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: when we reclaim this thing that was once used.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: To enslave us? What if we use that to save us?
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: And that's what I've been trying to get people to understand,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: especially about this collection. In particular, I had black people
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: telling me, man that the cotton shirt is too expensive,
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: the hoodie is too expensive. It's like, man, you'll go
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: spend eight hundred dollars on that Louis. You'll go spend
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: it on that Gucci. But you're telling me that this
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: collection that is literally from cotton grown by black farmers
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: that are supporting us, that that black dollar recirculates in
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: our community, it's too expensive. And that's an issue of
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: how we value ourselves versus the things that we value
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: from other people, not understanding that we are the sauce
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: and the seasoning. We are the originators of all of
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: this that gets colonized, repackaged and sold back to us.
• 38:33
  Speaker 14: That is actively black though.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: That is dope.
• 38:35
  Speaker 14: That is a flex made from cotton grown by black farmers.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: No, you cooked up with Michael Jackson State and did
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: a Michael Jackson collab. How difficult was that?
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Honestly, you know these collabs have come in away, that
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: these doors have been opened where now it's they're they're
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: coming at us. I got a shout out Damon John,
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: founder of Food, because it started with him. He reached
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: out to do a Footboo collab we sat down, talked
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: about it, got everything straight, and he asked me, what
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: else are you working on? And I showed him a
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: concept of a Black Panther actively Black collab because the
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: movie that came out in twenty eighteen was such an
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: inspiration to me. He picked up the phone in the
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: middle of the meeting and called the head of licensing
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: for Marvel and Disney and said, y'all need to see
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: what I just saw. So our first major collaboration was
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: for Wakanda Forever, and when that happened, it just kind
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: of opened the floodgates. The Bob Marley estate reached out
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: ahead of the One Love movie, So that's how we
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: got that collaboration.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: We've got one with the Tupac A State as well.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: So now that you know, they saw that we operated
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: in excellence in the way that we executed on these collaborations,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: So now the doors have been opened. So we got
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: a Bosqueyach collab coming out this December. It'll release that
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: art basel all of these these these legends in black history, charlamage.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: You wearing the Mhammad Ali collab that we got.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Lanni Ali literally told me, she said, we've done collapsed
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: with every brand you could think of. But my husband
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: stood for way more than what he just did in
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: the ring. I believe actively black can tell a story
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: they can't tell. So I think that's that's the power
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: of what we're doing with actively black.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: I want to ask you, brother, fred your father once
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: said you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: the revolution. So what does that revolution look like in
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: twenty twenty five? I want you to chime in on
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: that to Frederick.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: A couple of things. I think people get involved in
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: struggle or become quote unquote conscious one of three ways inspiration,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: aspiration or desperation, And there's are definitely different depthent times.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: That's them to the war and the revolution. The war
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you get your respective armies, you suit up and you boot
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: up and you get out to get out. Revolution you
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: gain the mass and participation on the masters of the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: people these times right now, quote from Lennon and say
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: what it takes people twenty years and learn in ordinary times,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they can learn in two years, and revolutionary times often
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: said that I'm a revolutionary in reaction every time. So
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: right now you see, like at warp speed, the different
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: type of discussions you look in nineteen sixty sixty during
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the Black Power movement, you had a different sort of athlete,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you had a different sort of entertainer. It was a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: climate where Marvin Gaye was able to go against Bear
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Gordon Red records, I'm gonna put this song out, what's
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: going on, whether you like it or not. It was
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: a climate where James Brown, who had a whole totally
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: different song played at first, well, ah try Brown, I know,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: see man, I mean, went to drove down on him
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and he say get up to ante. He came back
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: out said I'm black and I'm proud. Even at different
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: street tribes, a lot of people refer to as the gangs.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: You had the Devil Disciples in Chicago's get up publicly
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and say we now renowned ourself that we know it's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the Black Disciples. Due to doing doing part to the
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: political education we received from chairman I hotly respect chairman
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: with the black chairman for wepons, the party impacted on
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: them the vice laws.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I said. The FBI tried to post the vice laws
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: in Chicago to him.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: They'd give them a certain portion of the West Side
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: if the Path of Party couldn't open a free medical
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: center chairman Fred won these brothers and sisters to a
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: point of unity. But they subsequently worked to the Free
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Medical Center and by the government's own account, they own records.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: They say it was a record load. So they call
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: black on black crime. So to go to the heart
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of the question, that's what is these type of dynamics,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying where you know that it's
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: our relationships, our music, our discussions.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: It's a whole. You can feel it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: My mother tells me, I like to call them war
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and love stories. She comes, you know, saying two three
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, say coming down street.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: The people.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, uh not not drunks or wine.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Here is who are demoralized even the terms with you
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, who the more they are power
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to the people, you know what I'm saying, A different climate,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. And you can see it even
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: now I'm watching right now your cargo. You can see
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it the type of discussion that are being up and
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are forced to have the discussion
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and say this enclosing, people talk about the segregation like
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: oh we stuck together, Oh no, this is all so
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: you cannot negate the lot of people were forced together.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: You talk about the sixties, this, don't get don't talk
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: about the nice things you got, you get. You cannot
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: negate Nixon's role. You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: say this, he turns more than me black. He turns
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: more than me black. But now he don't believe me
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: like I can live it right now. Hear what you're
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: saying now, chairman.
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the the lines have been drawn, and and to
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: your points, it's forcing people to pick which.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Side they're gonna be on.
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: And for a long time, when we got comfortable, there
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: are a lot of our own people who would straddle
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: that line. And now that the lines are drawn, where
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: you're seeing the Black History Museum being attacked, when you're
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: seeing these things happen, where's so blatant you can't hide
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: behind straddling that line. And and we're even seeing it
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: with actively Black. A lot of black people who are
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: afraid to put on the brand because it said actively black.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: They're now like, yo, I need that because whether you
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: wear this or not, your your your melanin ain't gonna
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: change you black and you're gonna you're gonna and you're
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: gonna be treated as such.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: So if that's the case, you might as well, you know,
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: rep this gang. You know what I'm saying, Like, let
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: this be the set that you claim. You know, the
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: the the KKK, the Proud Boys, they still walking around.
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: We should have no beef with another black man while
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: these people who have taken our lives are still walking around.
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: You want to you wanna you want to run up
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: on somebody, run up on these white supremacists. You know
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying. And so I think that's what you're
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: saying is we're gonna see our own, who may have
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: been turned against each other, We're gonna be forced to
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: come together to turn against the real opposition.
• 44:22
  Speaker 12: Fredie, you can see someone look is miss Frederica and
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: miss the Seacool.
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: You are killing me.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: The whole time.
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: You know, you've just been saying the names, brother, Frederica.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Brother.
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: The path forward for us after the Americans and people
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: of color is we've got to write our on stories.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: You see, it's a difference in say, let's say a
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: famous fable is Native Americans on the shores of plumbous
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: rock and they see three ships come over, and the
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: guy gets off the ship and says, I discovered America
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: or whatever. The Indians didn't write those stories. It was
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: written from a European standpoint. So we've got to today
• 45:10
  Speaker 9: the path forward with us. We've got to write our
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: on stories, we've got to tell, we've got to make
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: investments and so forth. I admire what you're doing in
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: my town of Orangeburg, the town where there's two HBCUs.
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: You have established the crystal restaurants. I started to bring
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: you a crystal Hamburger by the way. Okay, well come
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: back and see see our museum. But we've got to
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: invest and become we are the world's greatest.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: Prosumers, you know, consumers.
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: We all really move that though other than say we
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: are also producers. We make things, We manufacture things. Content
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: creation for example, or something we could do, and the
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: power we have to on podcasts such as we're doing
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: making reaching millions of people at the time. This is
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: what we've got to do in the path forward, to
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: come together and come to groups of what's happened to day.
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: And this is what if if I were Hugh and Newton.
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: I may Cecil Williams, Yes, from the small act of
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: defiance that I did.
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: But this is what we must know today to get
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: it all together.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Mister fred rig.
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: As a seventy three year old woman, my act of
• 46:22
  Speaker 10: revolution looks different than when I was seventeen, and so
• 46:26
  Speaker 10: all I can not All I can do. What I
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: can do, first of all, is know that revolution looks
• 46:34
  Speaker 10: like many things in the world that I live in
• 46:39
  Speaker 10: and that I create. Revolution looks like bringing people who
• 46:44
  Speaker 10: wouldn't ordinarily be together in the same room together. People
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: who wouldn't never embrace this Black Panther Party not only history,
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: but be proud of it, are now proud of it.
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: As a result of the work that we've done. There
• 47:01
  Speaker 10: are organizations that asked me to speak, that visit our museum.
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: As Lanny said earlier, who would never I'm talking about
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: black people who would never have embraced his history before
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: out of fear. But because we talk about heightening the contradiction,
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: they are now forced forced to embrace this history. And
• 47:22
  Speaker 10: so I can't speak to the broader what revolutionary, what
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: revolution looks like, but I can do my work to
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: make sure that this history is available. So that people
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: learn about our victories and our mistakes. One of the
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: things we talk about is for young revolutionaries today to
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: make sure that they address their own mental, spiritual, and
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: physical health. That you cannot be impactful and effective if
• 47:50
  Speaker 10: you are broken inside, if you're not whole. And that's
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: one thing that I mean, we were fighting for our
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: lives every day. We didn't have the luxury to meditate
• 47:59
  Speaker 10: like this woman did or even know the importance of
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: so as a result, you have a lot of wounded
• 48:06
  Speaker 10: comrades who have not who didn't have the luxury of
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: taking care of themselves, have trauma that was never addressed.
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: So that's what at the museum and the doctor Huey P.
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: Newton's Foundation just celebrated thirty years this month of existence,
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: and at this museum, thank you. We we address all
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: of the needs, the physical and emotional needs. We have meditation,
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: we have sound baths, we have I mean, this month
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: we're just full of full of activities so that we
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: can keep ourselves healthy while we fight this war.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you said I could always say.
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: I feel like our generation is the first generation that
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: has the luxury of healing.
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: Yeah, all, thank god, Thank God, we were somebody yesterday,
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: like even a luxury to just kind of like take
• 48:51
  Speaker 13: the time to educate yourself, like stop like and just
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: watch something or learn something. A lot of times people
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: didn't have that, Like you literally had to fight every
• 48:59
  Speaker 13: minute of your life just to be okay.
• 49:00
  Speaker 10: Twenty four hours a day. We didn't just check in
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: and punch of time clock and we didn't get paid.
• 49:06
  Speaker 10: So it's completely volunteer and we live collectively. And at
• 49:09
  Speaker 10: night you were on watch to make sure that the
• 49:11
  Speaker 10: police did not didn't shoot up where you were living.
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: So this was I mean real life for a revolutionary
• 49:19
  Speaker 10: at that time, and so we didn't have the luxury
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: to even talk about recreation or taking care of ourselves.
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: I think when I met Erica, when Erica Huggins, when
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  Speaker 10: she came home from prison, she was the first person
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  Speaker 10: I knew in the party who would meditate, and she
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  Speaker 10: taught She brought Hughey to that practice where he started
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  Speaker 10: to meditate and to embrace this whole spiritual aspect of revolution.
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  Speaker 10: We can't be effective if we're not taking.
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  Speaker 11: Care of ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Can I ask? What was Huey P. Newton's vision for
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  Speaker 3: freedom beyond revolution? Like what did peace look like to him?
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  Speaker 10: Piece I think was the absence of any fear, the
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  Speaker 10: absence of to live life without fear of gosh, it's
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  Speaker 10: a question that I never asked him. I don't know
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  Speaker 10: that he ever attained I don't know. I know that
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  Speaker 10: he didn't never attain himself in his own life. But
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  Speaker 10: I think maybe peace was the absence of feeling fear
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  Speaker 10: about being black, you know, just to to feel to
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  Speaker 10: know that your children were not subject to the same
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  Speaker 10: things that he was, that our grandchildren could could live
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  Speaker 10: a life.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: It's so hard to visualize because I've never had.
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  Speaker 7: It, and we and we've been so we've been so conditioned,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, when you just said that, it sparked
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  Speaker 7: you know, I want to make sure I recognize her,
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  Speaker 7: the black woman behind actively black. He's here, Beyonca Winslow.
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  Speaker 7: I could not do this without her. But we're getting
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  Speaker 7: ready to welcome our first child into this world. Thank you,
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  Speaker 7: Thank you. I got a son on the way. There's
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  Speaker 7: there's greatness in his DNA. But when you said that,
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  Speaker 7: one of the things that I started thinking about was
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  Speaker 7: I gotta have conversations with him about when the police
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  Speaker 7: get behind you. This is how you gotta react that
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  Speaker 7: that fear that we don't even realize is embedded because
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  Speaker 7: we've had to deal with it for so long, the
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  Speaker 7: things that that we have to prepare for that other
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  Speaker 7: people who are not black, they don't have to think
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  Speaker 7: about those things. So when you say that peace is
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  Speaker 7: like the absence of fear, that was that really struck
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  Speaker 7: me because it's been heavy on my mind the world
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  Speaker 7: that my son is getting ready to answer.
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  Speaker 10: It's true. I mean I wore out my carpet when
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  Speaker 10: my son got his driver's license, in particular because I
• 51:39
  Speaker 10: wasn't afraid that he would get an accident. I was
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: afraid that he would be killed by the police. And
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  Speaker 10: I don't you know, that's not something that everybody has.
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  Speaker 10: White folks don't grow up thinking that they're gonna have
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  Speaker 10: to have that talk with their kids. But that's in
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  Speaker 10: our DNA. That's that's reproductive survival success.
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  Speaker 11: To make sure that our kids know the real truth.
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  Speaker 10: That's a revolutionary Yet, to have to prepare your kid
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  Speaker 10: to live, I want to. I want my grandchildren not
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  Speaker 10: to have to prepare their sons and daughters in the
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  Speaker 10: same way I had to prepare their dad.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we appreciate you for joining us. How can people
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  Speaker 7: Actively black dot com. You can find us on all
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  Speaker 7: social networks Actively Black. What you see here is the
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  Speaker 7: result of the tribe of so many black people supporting
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  Speaker 7: Actively Black. That fashion show. We didn't have any major
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  Speaker 7: sponsors who funded it. We had to come out of pocket.
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  Speaker 7: We had to come out of what was generated because
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  Speaker 7: people supported the brand. And that's the importance of buying
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  Speaker 7: Black owned. That's why it's important to buy Black owned.
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  Speaker 7: It's not just another T shirt, it's not just another hoodie.
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  Speaker 7: It allows us to reinvest back into our communities. It
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  Speaker 7: allows us as actively Black to support these living legends.
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  Speaker 7: I just got to say this one last thing because
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  Speaker 7: it's what inspired me to reach out to these living legends.
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  Speaker 7: I read a story that Rosa Parks was facing eviction
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  Speaker 7: in the later part of her life, and that pissed
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  Speaker 7: me off because how can somebody who made so many
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  Speaker 7: sacrifices for us, all the people who made money off
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  Speaker 7: of the movement, how could nobody have been taken care
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  Speaker 7: of her?
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: And when I read that story, I was like, who
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  Speaker 7: And so the first people I reached out to were
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  Speaker 7: John Carlos and Tommy Smith, famous for that nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: We got to take care of the ones who paved
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  Speaker 7: the way for us so that we can continue. So
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  Speaker 7: that's why I champion buying black owns so much. Have
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  Speaker 7: some grace for black founders. We get less than zero
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  Speaker 7: point three percent of all venture capital investment. We are
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  Speaker 7: building from underneath the ground. When you look at skyscrapers,
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  Speaker 7: they dig one hundred and twenty meters deep in the
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  Speaker 7: ground before they start building upwards. A lot of times
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  Speaker 7: our own people give up on us before we've even
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  Speaker 7: cracked the surface. We are building from underneath the ground.
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  Speaker 7: We need y'all support so that we can actually build
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  Speaker 7: the skyscraper so you can see that one day. You know,
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  Speaker 7: there's no reason why we shouldn't have our own Nike.
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  Speaker 7: That's what actively black is. When we build this multi
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  Speaker 8: Hell I want, I want, I want a brother, sister, Frederica,
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some people can donate.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. But we also
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  Speaker 7: If you part guests, I want to make sure you
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 10: What's the museum Black the Black Panther Party Museum on.
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  Speaker 3: We'll Fredrika, he just gave it to me.
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  Speaker 11: That's all I said. Was on Instagram.
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  Speaker 10: Is at the Black Panther Party Museum and the doctor
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  Speaker 10: Huey P. Newton Foundation celebrating thirty years this year. Please
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  Speaker 10: come visit us in Oakland, California, Black Panther Party Museum.
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  Speaker 10: We're open, I mean we're and we're packed. So this
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  Speaker 10: month celebrates the Black Panther Party History Month and we're
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  Speaker 10: full of celebrations, so please visit us there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, okay uh. Also I'm thank you for having
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  Speaker 1: to this quo back minutes to doctor U. E. P.
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  Speaker 1: Newton pictures were for a thousand words, but action and supreme.
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  Speaker 2: Way.
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  Speaker 9: One of the things that impressed me, like I've had
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the Breakfast Club.
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