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Celebrating Black History Month · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Let y'all already know how it's gonna get. Y'all already know how we started
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that. Girl. Oh what's up, y'all? Happy Thursday? We made
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it, girl, I mean y'all, let me tell y'all we done made
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it. Almost for the weekend. We are one day away, So happy
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Thursday to everybody. I hope everyone has had a phenomenal week. Many of
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you know today is February first, and guess what, it's Black History Month.
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But for me, I celebrate Black History every day because every day that
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I wake up, I'm black every day, So I celebrated every day.
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But again, y'all, welcome back to another Black another I'm about to say,
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another black another episode, a black girl interrupted. I hope everyone is
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having a great night tonight. I hope everyone has had a great week so
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far. Yes, I know it's the first of the month. I know
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rent is due, mortgages, mortgage pay, baby, I know all of
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that is due. Well, guess what we're gonna celebrate the whole month of
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February, baby, We celebrating Black History Month. Like we're gonna talk about
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some hidden figures that we don't normally talk about. That's what we're gonna talk
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about tonight' that's what we're doing, Like we celebrate, like I really,
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really really like I just want to say, it's a beautiful thing to be
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black. You know what I'm saying. Black is a powerful color. It's
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a strength. I mean, it's it's everything. Like no matter what what
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you mix with it, you're gonna always get black. So I love that.
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I love love, love love love. I'm loving to see. I'm
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loving my black men and my black women. I'm loving to see y'all women
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right now, like y'all are doing the damn thing. Like I'm so proud
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of y'all. You know, of course, we have a long ways to
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go. We still have some space for growth, but I hopefully eventually we'll
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get to where we need to go. But y'all welcome, welcome, Welcome
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back again to another episode A Black Girl Interrupted. But y'all already know how
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I get started. Y'all know, I always got to do my mental health
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check in. Y'all know that even more so now, not just because it's
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Black History Month, but because suicide is the second leading is I'm so sorry,
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it's the third leading car death in Black men between the ages of eighteen
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and twenty six, I believe are the ages. So I always gotta do
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my mental health check ins. I always have to make sure y'all are good,
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because if I don't check on y'all, who does. If I don't
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make sure that you're straight mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, who else
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is gonna do it? And y'all know, I pride myself I advocate for
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mental health because I do want y'all to know that black mental health does matter.
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So before we get started, y'all already know I always do something inspirational,
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something powerful, something motivating before we even jump into tonight's conversation. So
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let's go ahead and let's get started, and then we jump it into Black
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history of mind, we celebrate it. So let's go Life is not easy
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at all. There's gonna be challenges. You're gonna get beat down. That's
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the way life is. So sort of put a mask on your face and
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you go home and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you,
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when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself, and fear comes in.
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Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future,
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and it scares you. Just that fear paralyzes you. And I just
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want to ask you today, do you think you have hope? At some
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point everything's going to go south on you. Everything's going to go south,
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and you're going to say, this is it, this is how I end.
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Now. You can either accept that or you can get to work.
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That's all it is. You just begin, you do the math. You
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solve one problem and you solve the next one. And it doesn't matter how
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you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All the
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matters is that you got to get up. You have could get up.
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What I've experience you're having right now, it has not come to stay.
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It has come to pass. Sometimes you have to just back up and go
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within yourself and try and meditate and recharge your batteries, go away, clear
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your head, and then come back and look at it from a different battage
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point. Don't operate while you are under the stell or the effect of what's
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going on. Don't allow your emotions to control you. We are emotional,
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but you want to begin to discipline your emotion. If you don't discipline and
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contain your emotions, they will use you. You don't have to force yourself
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or motivate yourself to think negatively, to be depressed, to beat yourself up
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over the head, to fill loaded with guilt. You don't have to make
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any effort to do that. Your mind is on automatic. It will do
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that by itself. But if you want to begin to move into your own
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personal greatness, you've got to be willing to go against the tide. You've
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got to be willing to harness your will and say, in spite of this,
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I'm in control. I'm not gonna let this gift me down. I'm
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not gonna let this destroy me. I'm coming back. Do you ask a
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pout, what do you want? Man? I want to be done and
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tell me something. I don't know everybody wants it, but the world reality
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of it is everybody don't get it. And the crazy thing is if you
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want it, you can get it. It's not like somebody's stopping you,
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holding the guns you head and telling you you can't get it. As a
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matter of will, it's a matter of how work. As a matter of
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sacrifice, it is a matter of dedication, as a matter of how commitment.
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The difference is not the genetic code, the potential. It's a guy
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that's willing to get knocked down finally does some fortune standing again, the person
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bearings to see it through. To never say die attitude. We know the
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battle ahead, we know the journey. Your hand's gonna get tough. We
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know we gonna face opposites. We know it's gonna be some discomfort. We
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know they're gonna try to break it. We know they're coming forth. We
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know that's gonna happen already. So let's think up in our minds before the
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battle that we're gonna be victorious. Don't cry it to get rough, crowd
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to keep going. No crowde quits. You already in pain, you already
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hurt. Get a reward. Promise at the end of pain and success.
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You're not gonna die because you feeling a little pay You can tell yourself,
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I won't give up. When that depression hits you come out of nowhere,
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you tell yourself, I won't give up. This will guarantee that to tell
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somebody now down on their luck, they can never come back hook and guarantee
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that you can't be that, you can't have your tea cooking. Guarantee that
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you can't do what you want to do. No one can do that.
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No one can predict that. You don't know what the possibilities are for your
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life. Because if you're willing to go through all the battle you gotta go
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through to get to where you want to get, who's got the right to
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stop you? There's your right to listen to your gun. It ain't nobody's
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late to say no not to you earn your could be where you want to
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be A do what you want to do. All we need to do is
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we look at our dreams as we get ready to hit the fly invested probably
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favorite. I don't care if you're sick. I don't care what you're going
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through. If you're not Dad, he ain't through with you. He had
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as you're waking up, you're stilling the game. As long as you are
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up, as long as the rights your nuts from boot who's stilling the game?
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Who still can war it? Can? I get your butt up?
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Like when I say I love watching those videos, Like I don't think y'all
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understand, like how motivated I get the more I hear that, because that
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makes me push and work even harder to get to my dream. Because,
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like I say, every day I get up with a different mindset. Every
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day I say, you know what, I'm gonna do something different to get
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to my goal. Whether it's if I change the topic, if I change
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the time that I go on, I'm gonna always do something differently to get
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me closer to my goal, because my goal is to walk away from corporate
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America. Like when I say I enjoy doing this, I love doing this.
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I love love, love, love love. I love doing this.
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Now that I figured out what my purpose is and life, I want to
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pursue this even more because I've created a space for me that's safe for me,
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where I could come in and I'm able to talk to y'all and I'm
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able to tell y'all about my day and how things have gone and what's been
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bothering me. Like I love that. I love being able to have these
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one on one conversations with y'all with no judgment. I love the way we
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interact with each other. So this is why I do what I do.
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This is why black Girl Interrupted is what black Girl Interrupted is. I love
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the fact that we could have some of the most uncomfortable conversations and still be
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comfortable in this space because y'all know I don't allow disrespect. I allow everyone
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to have an opinion, whether your opinion is the same or different from mine.
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I allow that in a space, and we do it healthy. So
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I'm gonna keep doing and pushing the way that I'm going because, like I
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said, black Girl Interrupted, you will never forget black Girl interrupted. Black
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Girl interrupted will be a household name. I've already spoke it. God said,
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it's already done, and I'm leaving it. I'm just putting in the
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work. So I say all of that to say is no matter what your
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dreams, your goals, or your aspirations are, don't give up. No
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matter how hard it gets. Don't give up because your test will one day
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be your testimony. One day you'll be able to look back and say,
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man, I remember when it's happened, but look at where I'm at now.
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So this is why I do what I do. This is why I
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do these mental health checks, because guess what, it's imperative that we do
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this because not everyone that tunes in it's sitting in a good space right now.
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So if my show brings you some type of joy, if even for
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thirty minutes, if for an hour, two hours, whatever, even if
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it's five minutes, and it's help to put a smile on your face.
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I've done exactly what God has wanted me to do, So that's how I
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feel about it. But dropping a comments, y'all, let me know how
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are you feeling. I'm always doing my mental health check ins. If you
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ever need me to encourage you, uplift you, empower you, just maybe
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be an ear. Y'all already know what to do. Y'all know what to
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do. I tell y'all that all the time. Give me up, give
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me up, and let's talk. Let's figure out what we gotta do to
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make it through, to get you over that little home, even if it's
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just for the date. Let's do whatever it is that we gotta do and
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keep it moving like we gotta do that, like y'all, we gotta stick
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together. But y'all drop in a come you know how you're feeling mentally,
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emotionally, spiritually. You know, like I say, today it's Thursday.
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I know everybody's stress because it's the first of the month. Bills are du
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everything, so I know that. But y'all know we gotta do that every
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month. We gotta maintain where we live. But a more positive note,
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I love you guys. I appreciate all the continuous support that you guys give
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me each and every episode. Like I love that. I appreciate it.
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And I'm so blessed and humble to have the beautiful people around me that I
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have around me now that pushed me to be better and always encourage me to
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win. So I love y'all. I do. I love y'all. So
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anyway, so we jumping into Night's conversation. This is not gonna be a
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long episode because we just gonna set we celebrating Black History Month, but we're
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doing it for the whole month. I got some great conversations, some that
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might be a little uncomfortable, but it's part of American history. And this
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ain't and when I say this ain't no shit you see in a textbook.
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So we're not talking about no textbook black history. I'm talking about like we're
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really talking about black history. Like we really get into the meat and potatoes
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of this. So ah, y'all, welcome to February. And y'all guess
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what it's leap here? So we get an extra date, we get an
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extra day in Black History Month. But like I say, I celebrate it
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every day. I celebrate it every day. I love it, love it,
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love it. I wouldn't change if for anything. So what is Black
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History Month, y'all? What is it? How did Black History Month even
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come to be? I don't know, but let's see what it is.
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Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time
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for recognizing their central role in US history. During his time as President,
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Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month by calling upon the public to seize the
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opportunity to honor the two often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of
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endeavor throughout our history. February was chosen for a number of reasons, including
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the births of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, and the founding of the NAACP,
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to name a few. Each year, we honor Black Americans and all
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those who continue the fight against systemic racism and who advocate for total equality.
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This year's Black History Month theme, Black Resistance, explores how African Americans have
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resisted historic and ongoing oppression since the nation's earliest days. When reflecting on this
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year's theme, we think of doctor Martin Luther King Junior, John Lewis,
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Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and countless others for their courage and standing up
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for basic human, civil and equal rights. We also think of the work
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being done through the Black Lives Matter movement and that of many others in our
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local communities who carry on their legacies. We celebrate these legacies, new and
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old, and support their activism. Littler remains focused on being stronger allies to
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the Black community, which continues to experience marginalization, racism, and oppression.
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We are committed to standing in solidarity as we continue to work together to achieve
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equality for all. We take this moment to honor Littler's Black employees and allies
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today, as every day we recognize them and their contributions to advancing inclusion,
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equity, and diversity at the firm, in the legal industry, and across
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our communities. I was not expected to see his face at the end,
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but y'all know what, Tyree Nichols, y'all know that that hit a little
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close to home. And you know I've been staying up to date with that
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trial, with that case, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe the
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trial starts in May, so I'll bring y'all all the updates as I get
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them, So I'll bring them to y'all because my people are real connected to
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the trial. So that's how I'm able to get all the information, not
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just the stuff you see on the internet, but I get the other stuff
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as well. So Black History Month, Like, do I feel like we
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should just be limited to a month? No, because we're Black every day,
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so I get up and I celebrate every day. Do I appreciate that
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it's recognized. Absolutely, because you have Latino Month, Heritage Month, I
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believe is what it's called. We have, you know, the other for
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the other races. You have the Chinese New Year. But I appreciate that
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we get recognized, but I'm upset that we don't get a lot of those
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holidays that we have to do for the other Let me get off my soul
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box. But I really wish we got more than just Martin Luther King Junior
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Day. I wish a lot of jobs would recognize June teen. I mean
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just me. I really feel like for the month of February, like we
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should, man, y'all should approved our PTO baby, because uh, it's
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our munth February. That below on us. No, but but real talk
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though, I mean what this black history might mean to you? What what
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does that mean to you? Like, what does it mean to be black?
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Oh? That got my sister. Hey, sister, she says,
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thanks, thank you for celebrating us. Let me say this. I'm gonna
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always celebrate us because we're who comes first. I'm gonna always celebrate home.
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That's one thing I'm gonna always do right, wrong, indifferent, I'm gonna
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always go black. Do we have a lot of work to do with amongst
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us? Oh, yeah, we do. We have a lot of work.
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But we also have a lot of history. And I'm not talking about
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what they teach us in textbooks. The fact that they're trying to erase black
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history as if it never happened. That's a problem to me because black folks
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we were booming, y'all. We were booming. We were wealthy, We
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had businesses, we had inventors, we had lawyers, doctors, astrologists,
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physics, you know, physics, y'all, excuse me, physicians, physicists,
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we had authors. But they only give us a little bit of our
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history this month, in twenty nine days. I'm gonna try to give us
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all of our history. I'm talking about from slavery to Black Wall Street and
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everything in between. I'm gonna talk about black hidden figures that we don't know,
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that people don't talk about. We always hear them, And please don't
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take this the wrong way. Martin Luther King, Junior, Barack Obama,
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all of them rolls apart like who. But we have more historically black figures
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outside of them that get no recognition. We know who Martin Luther King is,
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we know who Malcolm X is. We know who Rosea Parks is.
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We know who Jesse Owens is, we know who Jesse Robinson is. Like
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we know them, but I want to go back. I want to talk
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about the hidden figures that we don't talk about. That some of y'all may
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be like, oh damn, I didn't know that. Like you have Claudee
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Covid, who was fifteen years old at the time in Montgomery, Alabama,
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who was the original person that refused to give up a seat to a white
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person in Alabama on the bus, not rus of Parks. You got Jane
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Bowlet, you got Thomas Jennings, and those are just of the few people
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I'm gonna talk about I'm gonna talk about Alexis Kennedy, who was the first,
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I'm so sorry, the first black female neuro surgeon in nineteen eighty one.
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Bet y'all didn't know that because they don't put that into textbooks. So
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for this month of February, we're gonna talk about those hidden figures. We're
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gonna talk about the people that were not in the textbook. We're gonna talk
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about in Black history that's not put in textbooks, buck breaking. A lot
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of people are like, oh, what is that. We're gonna talk about
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what the true definition of what picnic really means that's not in the textbook.
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I don't wanna talk Let me say this. I don't want to talk about
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what goes what they put about us in textbooks. I want to talk about
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the real Black history, not the water down version, not the unseasoned version
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of Black History Month. I want to talk about the season version. And
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when I say I'm not talking about salt and pepper baby, I'm talking about
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some torn and satury season and I'm talking about some mordern season, salt Lowry
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season. Salt Baby, We're gonna throw in a little garlic outer maybe some
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garlic, salt, onion powder, some paprika. That's what I'm getting into
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for this month because I gotta celebrate us, because we don't celebrate see nothing.
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They're trying to water down our history and we can't keep we can't keep
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allowing that to happen. We can't keep letting them tell us what didn't happen,
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and we just believe it. And that's what we tend to do.
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We tend to sit and we listen to what they have put in the textbooks
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about us. No, baby, we're not going for that. So all
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that that they taught us in school black history, put them books to the
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side, baby, because we're gonna have a real history lesson. We're gonna
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get into the real black history. Like I said, I'm celebrating us.
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It's all about us and that's the way it's gonna be. Now what anybody
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that gets upset about what Black Girl interrupted it's doing for the month of February,
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it is what it is. Because we celebrate every other holiday, we
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get them days off. But you want us to forget about our history.
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No, we're not forgetting about that. We're talking about it. I'm gonna
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learn y'all something. What the all folks say, let me learn your something.
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So that's what we're doing for the month of February. Y'all we getting
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into it like we are really truly gonna have a good time this month.
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And I mean from music, I'm talking about the food, everything. We
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celebrating black being black. If you're a black business owner, dropping the comments
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so I can celebrate your business. If you just black period, I don't
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care, drop in the comments. I want to celebrate you. I want
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to celebrate your accomplishments. If your baby or your children have done phenomenal things,
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let me know in the comments so I could. I want to celebrate
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that. We're celebrating black, we buying black, we being black, were
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black. It's black everything, black everything. I'm loving it, like I
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don't like. I don't think y'all understand. So when I sat down and
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I was like, Okay, I gotta think about my conversations. What am
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I gonna talk about for February? I say, you know what we're doing
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Black History Month. As Black History Month, we're gonna talk about black history.
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We're gonna celebrate Black history. And I'm like, okay, but I
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want to talk about not just Martin Luther King, not just Barack Obama,
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not just Serena Williams. And I'm not saying that they haven't contributed to the
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Black history. They have, but I want to talk about the people that
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paved the way for Martin Luther King, for Barack Obama, for Serena Williams,
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you know, for the Serena Williams, you know, for the Jesse
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Owens, for the you know, Shirley Chisholms, for the Maya Angelous.
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I want to talk about the people that paved the way that made it possible
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for us to have these beautiful black historians. That's what I want to talk
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about. I want to talk about Nat Turner, maybe Frederick Douglass. We
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always talk about them, but I really want to get into the hidden figures.
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I really want to do that. Carter G. Woodson, That's what
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I want to talk about this month. We don't hear about them, the
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Zora Neil Hurston's, the Langston Hughes, the Harland Renaissance, y'all. You
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know, like I really want to get in today. I really want to
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talk about that, because again, that's textbook that they've given us all these
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years. But it's up to us to go back and really learn about the
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people that really paved the way for the Martin Luther Kings, for the Malcolm
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Xis, for the Correta Scott Kings. It's up to us to know our
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history and not rely on textbook to tell us because they watered it down anyway.
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Some of y'all still don't believe that the CI had something to do with
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Martin Luther King Jr's death or Malcolm X. Some of y'all still believe Rosa
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Parks was the first woman to sit down on the bus and I give up
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a seat. So that's what we're talking about for the month of February.
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Like, if you're a black business owner, let me know so I can
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shout your business out. If you're contributing to help rebuild Black Wall Street,
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let's do it. Let's do it. Let's celebrate. That's what I want
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to do. I want to celebrate y'all being I want to celebrate us.
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And I don't mean no real housewives, no love and hip hop type shit.
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No, no, no, because that's a pure piss, poor ass
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connotation of how they portray black people in the media. Because not all of
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us are like that, just like all black men and I dead be fathers.
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But the media has told you that not all black mothers are deadbeat moms
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or are gold diggers. But that's what the media keeps telling you. So
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we have to start rewriting our own history. We have to stop depending on
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others to write our own history. And we know what better than they do.
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That's what I want to talk about. That's what I'm celebrating this month.
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That's what I'm doing. What are y'all doing for Black history? And
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let me know y'all jogging to comments, let me know what y'all doing for
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Black historum, because baby, let me tell you it's going up. It's
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going up. This month, we really truly get into our Black history,
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my bab. So for some that don't know who is CARTERGI. Woodson,
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here's something to tell you who he really truly is. February officially marks Black
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History Month in the US. It is one of the nation's oldest organized history
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celebrations, which highlights African American achievements and their role in US history. It
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was started by Carter G. Woodson, known as the father of Black History.
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Woodson noticed that African Americans and their achievements were excluded from books and schools.
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In the early nineteen hundreds, the son of freed Virginia slaves, herened
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a PhD in history from Harvard and came out with the idea of Negro History
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Week to encourage Black Americans to know more about their own history. In nineteen
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fifteen, Woodson founded what is known today as the Association for the Study of
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African American Life and History to promote Black history. Wison cho's February for a
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Negro History Week because it coincided with the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick
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Douglas, who escaped slavery and became a social activist. As celebrations were ongoing,
28:37
Whitson promoted the week as a time to focus on African American history.
28:41
The first Negro History Week was announced in February nineteen twenty six. Negro History
28:47
Week was widely successful, but Whitson feltmore was needed. In the late nineteen
28:51
sixties, the civil rights and Black power movements advocated for an official shift from
28:56
Black History Week to Black History Month. In nineteen seventy six, President Gerald
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Ford officially recognized Black History Month, urging Americans to seize the opportunity to honor
29:06
the two often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our
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history. Each year, the theme for Black History Month is chosen by ASA
29:15
LH. This year's theme is Black Health and Wellness, which will also examine
29:19
how the US healthcare system has often underserved the black community. I don't know
29:37
why I guess so emotional when I see a lot of the things that we
29:42
do and has overlooked Black people. We are so powerful, we're so strong,
29:56
like we are amazing people, but the world has told us we're not.
30:03
I'm school storry y'all, but it's heartbreaking to see everything that we go
30:11
through and how they want us to forget our history. But I will never
30:21
forget my history. I'll never forget what we fought for and what we what
30:26
we still fight for to this state. When I tell you. When I
30:34
sat down and I started doing my research for this month for the episodes,
30:41
I came across some of the most amazing people that we don't hear about,
30:51
and I said, I've got to talk about these people like I have to,
30:56
because you'll be surprised at so many things that we've done that the white
31:02
culture has taken credit for. And that's what I mean when I say the
31:07
textbook, they give us the water down version and say, oh, well
31:14
we did this, but so and so, No, we did that,
31:19
the elevator, US Home security, US, the first lawyer, black female,
31:32
first black female neurosurgeon. We have done so many things, the black
31:38
women that contributed to NASA. But again they want to snatch that away from
31:45
us. A lot of people that don't know the history of Lake Lanier booming
31:52
in Georgia, but they just couldn't stand to see us have anything. So
31:59
they said to y'all, middle finger, to y'all, we're gonna flood that.
32:06
Several other cities South Carolina. I want to say, was that Mary
32:09
in South Carolina flooded, flourishing for black people, black men, and black
32:16
women. Then you had Black Wall Street in Oklahoma. We had the massacre.
32:27
We had the rules were massacre. They don't give us that in textbooks.
32:35
They don't tell you that. They don't tell you how strong black people
32:42
were and how we used to address to the nines baby when we would step
32:46
out nineteen seventy Chicago, Harlem during the time when we had the Linston uses.
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They don't tell you all of that in a textbook. But we're gonna
33:05
get into that this month. We're gonna talk about that. Like when I
33:08
say, we're really gonna get into that. We're gonna have some uncomfortable conversations
33:15
this month, but I have those uncomfortable conversations every day. But really,
33:21
but we're really gonna get into the meat and potatoes of Black History months because
33:28
I want you all to learn to appreciate your history. I want you to
33:32
read and learn where you come from and not what they've taught you in school.
33:43
Because we're more than just a textbook. Our history goes way way way
33:51
back, not just where it started in a textbook. So I want to
33:58
get into that. I want to discuss that. Like I said, I
34:00
want to know what you're doing. If you're a black business owner, shout
34:05
it out so I could celebrate it. Whatever you're doing, I want to
34:10
know. I want to celebrate it. If you're selling a product, let
34:17
me know. I want to support it. Let me put the word out
34:22
and let everybody know, hey, come support this black owned business. I
34:28
want us to have our own schools. I want us to rebuild the Black
34:30
Wall Street. I want us to start standing together and stop allowing the world
34:39
to separate us. That's what I want for us. I really want to
34:45
see us black people. I really want to see us win. But I
34:50
can't do that by myself. Y'all gotta help me. But we have to
34:53
stop looking and viewing one another as a competition. We really have to start
34:59
working together. Like I really don't think y'all understand the strength and how powerful
35:05
we could really truly be. If we put the jealous and the envy and
35:08
the pride to the side, we could really overcome and do a lot.
35:15
But a lot of y'all have a lot of jealous spirits that you don't want
35:22
to see another person doing a little better than you, and it's always us.
35:25
We need to come out of the crabs in a bucket mentality. We
35:31
need to start buying land. We need to start buying property. This is
35:36
what we need to start leaving for our children. Not that if your grandparents
35:44
leave you a home, buy the land, keep the house, pass that
35:51
on to your children, let your babies pass it on today children, and
35:54
so on and so forth. My whole goal before I leave this earth is
36:04
to leave my children at least an acre or two of land. That's my
36:07
goal because I want to change the trajectory of history. You'll get what I'm
36:16
saying because back then in our history, grandparents left the homes to their children.
36:22
Those children left the homes in land today to their children. We need
36:29
to get back to that. We need to wield our history back in.
36:35
We need to start just it's so many things that we need to start doing.
36:43
But we have to also stop being afraid. Our ancestors did it.
36:47
They fought for us, and we don't fight anymore. We fight, but
36:52
we fight each other when really we need to be working together our history,
37:02
that's our history. It was imperative, you know, Like I say,
37:08
the elders, we need to bring that community back. That's our Black history.
37:16
That's that's that's what we did. You'll get what I'm saying. Like
37:21
we were a community, we were a village. We looked out for one
37:23
another's children. We took care of one another's children. That was the history.
37:30
But y'all keep allowing people to come in and and and and erase that
37:36
and disseminate that. You're letting them take that away from us, and we're
37:39
not fighting we're not fighting for it. We fighting each other. You know,
37:46
I'm gonna say that again. We're fighting each other. Your your your
37:52
beefing with your siblings. Over land and our ancestors didn't want that. They
38:00
left the land to create generational wealth for us, not this stuff we're going
38:06
through right now. So for Black History Month, no more textbook conversations.
38:15
We don't have real life Black history. My conversations, real conversations, and
38:20
I'm talking about real conversations, how black people are treated, how history continues
38:30
to repeat itself. I just had this conversation last night, and like I
38:40
said, we keep running back to the oppressor. You can't tell me oppression
38:52
doesn't exist. All the police brutality cases that we see, all the black
39:04
men that we see locked up every day where they get free labor, that's
39:13
history repeating itself. But we gotta have we we really truly, like I
39:22
see, I'm celebrating Black History Month, not that water down bs. They
39:30
try to feed us and we keep eating. I mean, just I want
39:38
to talk about the Tuskegee Experiment. A lot of people don't know the bank.
39:43
We've heard about it. We know what they what they've taught us.
39:47
We know what they've taught us in the textbook, but I really want to
39:57
get deep into it. I want to get into Alexa Kennedy. I want
40:04
to talk about Charles or Drew Jane Bowling. Like some of y'all are like,
40:09
who the heck is that? Who is that? Like? I ain't
40:13
never heard of them, but you're gonna learn about him this month. Mm
40:19
hm. Again, every every Black History month is always Martin Luther King,
40:24
Malcolm x Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, and and again that's not to take
40:30
away from their contributions, but there are other people before them that we don't
40:35
talk about. There are people that came after them that we don't talk about
40:39
that I want to address. I want to talk about him this month.
40:42
I want to give them their flowers. Some of them have gone, some
40:45
of them are still here, so I want to get I want to give
40:50
them their flowers while they're still here. That's what I want to do.
40:54
I want to celebrate those black figures. I want to celebrate their contributions to
40:59
Black history. If you can think of anybody, drop in the comments and
41:05
let me know who else, who else? Who else? Do y'all want
41:09
to talk about. What else do y'all want to talk about for Black History
41:13
much? Because we're gonna talk about it all. We just gonna have some
41:16
great conversations. Like I say, some are gonna be uncomfortable, some are
41:20
gonna be very triggering to people, but we're gonna have us some good conversations.
41:24
As money. I'm excited about it because, like I say, doing
41:29
my own research and reading, I'm like, man, we didn't been through
41:35
some shit, y'all. We done been through it. We're the most resilient
41:42
group of people ever. We've endured so much and we still come out victorious
41:49
no matter how much they have tried to break us down. Somehow we always
41:53
come and we build ourselves back up, and I'm proud of it. We
42:00
don't see that, you know, Like I say, they give you the
42:02
textbook, but I don't want I don't want just the textbook. I want
42:08
a real Black history. And that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing
42:14
for the month of February. So tonight was just an introduction into a Black
42:17
History month. That's all it was. For Tuesday. We're getting down into
42:24
it. We get we were pulling these band days off and we are celebrating
42:29
black history, and like I say, from food to music, everything black
42:35
we celebrate again. If you're a black business owner, whatever it is,
42:39
I want to know. I want to shout you out. I want to
42:43
celebrate you. I'm gonna keep repeating that. I want to celebrate you.
42:47
Whatever accomplishments that you've made, I want to celebrate you. We're doing all
42:52
things black this month. If you have a brand, you want me a
42:58
promote, send it to me, Shoot it to me. Let's get it
43:01
started. I'm already wearing. Let me move this out of the way.
43:06
So a friend of mine is a fashion designer from New York, and you
43:10
see what it says. I support black fashion business. So if you're a
43:15
fashion designer, whatever it is, I want to celebrate it. I don't
43:19
give a damn. If your self shoelaces, if you're a water carry,
43:22
I want to celebrate it. If you got links that I could post on
43:27
my page and keep sharing and keep sharing to get people to come and buy
43:31
your services, I want to know. It's all black this month, all
43:37
black, all black, all black black entrepreneurs. If you're a rapper,
43:43
singer, dancer, I'm celebrating you. But don't forget. I'm gonna celebrate
43:50
you even after this month is over. How about that, not just the
43:54
twenty nine days they give us every year. Well, this year is thirty,
43:59
well thirty one because we have Martin Luther King Junior and we have June
44:01
team. But I want to celebrate you all the time, not just for
44:07
the month of February. That's what I want to do, is I want
44:12
to celebrate you all the time, not just for the month of February,
44:16
because I'm not black. Just we're not black just for the month of February.
44:20
We're black every day. That's what we are. Let's see. We
44:23
gotta comment. My cousin says, all right, let them know. There
44:27
are so many other names that are so big and has done so much that
44:30
that's not tall in school, right, And that's what I mean when I
44:34
say the textbook we're not doing. Let me tell you something. We are
44:37
not doing textbook Black History Month. Okay, let me let me put that
44:42
out there. We are not let me say this loud for the people in
44:45
the back they can't hear me. We are not celebrating text book black history.
44:52
Okay, that's not what we're celebrating. We're celebrating the real Black history.
44:58
And I'm talking about hidden figures. I'm talking about where did the word
45:02
picnic really come from? What is buck breaking? Were getting down into it.
45:09
I'm gonna talk about the history of Lake Lanier. I want to talk
45:15
about what I want to And like I said, y'all don't quote me on
45:17
this, but I believe it is Marion, South Carolina, how they flooded.
45:23
I bet y'all didn't know that. I bet y'all are going through your
45:28
history books and you're like, but they didn't teach us. Yeah, of
45:30
course they're not. Of course they're not gonna teach you that because that's too
45:37
much realness in black history. So we're just gonna give you the uncut.
45:43
We're just gonna give you the PG version of your black history. We're just
45:46
gonna tell you about the little things. No, because we didn't do little
45:52
things. Black folks did big things. We did major things. Like I
45:58
say, if it wasn't for a blacklack woman, you wouldn't have a home,
46:00
you wouldn't be able to have your home security. But it wasn't for
46:06
a black person, we wouldn't have elevators and The list just goes on and
46:13
on and on and on and on of so many accomplishments that white people have
46:20
taken credit for. We wouldn't have dry cleaning if it wasn't for black people.
46:25
Bet y'all didn't know that. That wasn't in the textbook? Was it?
46:32
That wasn't in your history book, now, was it? So?
46:37
No, we're not doing textbook history. We're not doing textbook black history.
46:39
No we're not. We're doing real life black history. We're celebrating real black
46:45
history, not just what you see on TV, not just what they put
46:52
in the books or in the magazines. We're talking real black history. And
46:58
when I say real Black history, I mean we're getting down into the roots
47:05
and we're gonna have fun doing it. We're gonna laugh, we're gonna cry,
47:09
We're gonna do all of that because our history was painful. But just
47:15
know that we're victorious and we're resilient. I want to talk about the black
47:21
churches, and I'm not talking about tdjs M. I said it. That's
47:38
what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the elders and
47:44
how we used to sit on a porch and pick greens and shunk peeds.
47:50
That's our history. How we used to get our hair hot combed with the
47:54
blue magic grease on Saturday night because we had to get ready for church,
48:00
and we went to church three times a day. On Sunday you went to
48:04
morning Sir Sunrise service, then we had to go to children's church. And
48:07
when children's church was over, you had to go into the big sceinces you
48:09
weary with the pack. That's the history. What I tell y'all, I'm
48:16
gonna show y'all pictures. M Yeah, we celebrating Black history. I'm getting
48:30
I'm getting emotional again just even thinking about it, because we've done some amazing
48:36
things and we still continue to do amazing things. Black men do. Take
48:42
care of their children moms. Black moms are not gold diggers. There are
48:49
still two parent house tools out here, despite what's so, despite what the
48:53
media puts out and put trays. So we celebrate. We're gonna do it
49:05
big for Black history money. Were not gonna let them water us down this
49:09
baby any other day after that, we celebrate. It's going up. It's
49:15
going up, y'all. I woke up to the man, when I tell
49:20
you, I was so excited about tonight. I was like, ooh,
49:22
black history. Muther started ay like I was ready because I get to talk
49:30
to y'all about real black history. That's what I love the most about having
49:37
a platform like this. We get to talk about the real black history.
49:43
We get to celebrate the real black history. We get to rejoice, we
49:49
get to laugh, we get to cry. We have to do all of
49:51
that among celebrating the fact that we're black. Because you got people out here
49:58
that are pinion thousands and thousands of dollars to look like the blueprint. So
50:06
I want you all to know black men and black women, but just those
50:10
crowns and walk like the kings and queens that we really truly are. Because
50:15
we are, we're innovators. We're forced to be reckoned with it. Can't
50:21
nobody to take that from us. Start buying your baby those books and teaching
50:28
your children early about your black history. Start going back to the libraries.
50:37
I think that's what I want to start doing, is taking my baby back
50:40
to the library. So I'm excited about that, and I hope y'all are
50:51
too. I hope y'all are ready and amped up and excited for everything that
50:55
I'm bringing for Black history. Money I hope y'all are ready. So to
51:01
close us out, like I said, I told y'all, this was not
51:04
gonna be a long episode. This was just an introduction to kind of let
51:07
y'all know what I'm gonna be talking about for this month. But to close
51:12
it out, I got something for y'all, and I just love love,
51:16
love, love, love love love this. So here we go, and
51:19
then we're just gonna go ahead and wrap it up, and I'll give y'all
51:22
some updates and everything that's gonna come for this month. Here we go.
51:29
Black on black black, Yeah, Hey, okay, black black black,
51:34
black on black black, my fast so black black black, I'm black,
51:37
my skinny so black. I'm looking out. Black on black is black friends,
51:39
this black wheels in this black with this black black, black on black
51:44
on black on blackgang black out the cup? How about the roof? When
51:49
I run into you, turns black? It's the droutside in the moon.
51:51
Let me no want me, no cheer. When the all black a couple
51:53
of white girls working all black dupe? When your man marchin an all black
51:57
puple color, the truth, I'm out there out your too. I can
52:00
tell when it's not the true talking that ship, nigga, b it is
52:02
what you're gonna do, what you're gonna do back, and I'm black and
52:06
place man, it's in the back like oh words, all black, like
52:08
got your hurt, got your hurt with your heart still us some tennessy black
52:12
on the curve just for the memory yet the deceased. When I'm black out
52:15
of a waking the beast, What is gonna be? What is gonna be?
52:16
You don't want what black me, but you never seen my so black.
52:20
I'm black on black on black on black on black black black black on
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black black man so black black black and black maskinny so black. I'm looking
52:27
at black on black is black friend black black black black shris and black on
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black on black on black on black black black black on black black man's so
52:37
black black black. I'm black maskinny so black. I'm wrecking that black on
52:39
black is black brid just black wheels in this black with this black shrie so
52:45
black on plain, I like Trayvon with this black hoodie on Huey p Luton
52:51
Black Rever lu Shan. I'm with the new Young Queen and some illegal aliens.
52:54
I got a black face bard up and it ain't just me, it's
52:58
all us, so honey years, it's an old pressure. I'm about to
53:00
give me that black tesla, black skin marks on the pavement. Cops want
53:04
to see me get in a black cage, black on black on black,
53:06
Master Juble with the tap dance, gut you with the dapper Dan, tell
53:09
them kiss my black ass. Riding on the diner with the black mags.
53:14
Just another black man trying to say about the cask. Yeah, black on
53:19
black, matter of fact, where the fuck up for the acres? Every
53:22
black on black on black on black on black black black on black black so
53:25
black black black, I'm black my skinny so black. I'm boking black on
53:29
black is black black wheels and this black black black black on black on black
53:36
on black black black black black black black black on black black. Yeah,
53:49
hey okay, black black black black on black black so black black black and
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black my skinny so black. I'm backing that black on black is black black
53:59
wheels, this black this black black black black on black black black black black
54:05
black and black black so black black black and black maskin so black black everything
54:09
is BLACKA need a longer money Black Year? How about Black History Year for
54:21
one year? Yeah, every two years, one year Black History right right
54:25
right up. The truth coup the truth man. Let me say, y'all
54:32
when I started that video, y'all eye screen because I said, hey,
54:38
we cut up here, we cut up. But I agree with Bobby Brown.
54:44
We need a whole year, like every two years. Like you know
54:45
how Leapier comes every four years. Uh, Like I think we need to
54:52
have like Leapier comes every four years. I think Black History. We should
54:55
have Black History Year, like the whole year. I really think we should.
55:00
But that's just not your opinion. Note, but I agree with Bobby,
55:04
even though you know, Bobby's a change man, but I can't like
55:09
I agree with him. But that that's how I wanted to bring that to
55:14
a close, baby, because I'm black, black, black, black black
55:17
man. But I just want to say this. I love y'all so much.
55:22
Thank y'all for tuning in to my introduction into Black History Month or the
55:25
month of February. Like I say, it's going up, like when I
55:30
say we having some real conversation, or it's going down this month, like
55:34
I say, we getting down into the meat and potatoes or the real Black
55:37
history, not that textbook. So whatever you learned in your textbook. Put
55:40
your book to the side, get your note pad and take some notes because
55:45
we're talking. And on that note, I love you guys. But for
55:50
the upcoming episodes for a Black Girl Interrupted, So Tuesday night, I will
55:54
be back, of course, same time, same place, eight thirty pm
55:59
Central time, now thirty Eastern time. But we're gonna get into talk about
56:02
Claudee Covin, who at the time was fifteen when she refused to give up
56:07
her seat on the bus boy white person in Montgomery, Alabama. So Rosa
56:12
Parts was not the first person that this happened. But we'll get more into
56:15
that on Tuesday. Don't forget like, share, comment and subscribe, baby,
56:21
don't forget share, Share, Share, share Share. Let your people
56:23
know we getting into it for black histor mud. Tell them we're going up,
56:28
baby, and I celeb and we're celebrating black. So again, let
56:31
me say this, if you are a black business owner, entrepreneur, whatever
56:35
it is that you do, I want to celebrate you. I want to
56:37
recognize you. I want to shout you out. You know what I'm saying.
56:39
If you have if you have a brand, I want to shout you
56:43
out. You get what I'm saying, I want to celebrate you. I
56:45
want to recognize you. I want you to know that you that you matter
56:49
to my black men. Let me say this to y'all. You matter.
56:52
I love you. Your mental health matters, everything about you matters. I
56:55
don't care what the world says. I know black men, y'all are everything
57:00
to me. Okay, to my black women, let me say this to
57:02
y'all. I see you, Queen, I see you. I see you
57:07
cutting up, I see you doing everything. Hey Bell, I hope you're
57:10
having a good night at work, but I see you. You know what
57:15
I'm saying. You not my competition, You my sister. You know what
57:19
I'm saying. And if you win, and I want to sit next to
57:21
you because winners run together. Only haters hate from the outside because they can't
57:27
get into the winning's circle. But you don't always have to be a hater.
57:31
It doesn't hurt to congratulate a salute your black sister or your black brother
57:37
because they made it. You need to be sitting next to them and figure
57:39
out what it is that they did to get where they where you're trying to
57:43
go. We need to stop being gatekeepers of information, but we gonna get
57:50
into that, Like we really gonna get into that. Like when I say
57:52
I want to really truly get into black history, I really want to truly
57:55
get into black history, Like I really want to get into that. So
58:01
I just want to say I love you guys. Like I say, tonight's
58:05
episode was not gonna be a long one. This was just, like I
58:07
say, my introduction into the month of February, because today is February first.
58:12
But we really gonna get into it Tuesday. Like I say, Black
58:15
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58:19
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Hit the three dots, hit, Invite, Invite your friends. I want
58:47
everybody to come celebrate, support and let me tell you something. It's strengthen
58:52
numbers We're all trying to get to the finish line. So if I know
58:55
something, I'm gonna pass that information onto this person and I hope that you
59:00
pass it back. Excuse me, so we are celebrated. Like I say,
59:07
everything black. So Happy Thursday. I love you guys. I hope
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everyone has has had a great, great week. I hope you have a
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good weekend. I will see y'all again on Tuesday again, same time,
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same place. Don't forget if you ever want to be a guest on Black
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Girl Interrupted or if you have a show idea, the email is down at
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the bottom of the screen black Girl Interrupted Podcast at gmail dot com. If
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you got an idea something for Black History Month, shoot it to me.
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I can put it in, squeeze it in. We can do whatever we
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gotta do. But I love you guys again. Thank you guys so much
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better. Continue with support and I will see you guys Tuesday, same time,
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same place. I love Have a good night,