What Do You Love About Being Black - 06.19.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, happy juneteenths everyone. This today is Juneteenth morning. Crew.
We're gonna ask a question. We got to do this
because it's Juneteenth. Here's a question. What do you love
about being black?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Come on, everything, Come on, come on culture today.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Because you know, because of all the stereotypes and everything
that are out there, sometimes you know, people may feel like,
oh boy, it's so hard, it's so hard, it's so
hard being black. Why we got you know, why we
got to go through all this stuff being black? You know,
it's a love strength.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I love them strength. I love the power. I love
our culture, I love our music. I love everything about us. Man.
I there's not a day I want to wake up
and be another color. I love being black and strong
it is. You know what we've gone through a lot.
We've gone through a lot, and I hate what we've
gone through. But I love how strong and powerful we

(01:02):
are after what we've gone through. You know what the
songwriter say, my soul look back and wonder how I
got over. We have gotten to a position where I
am so grateful that we are here and we keep
getting better and better. I just yeah, then.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
So much more.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
That's where I'm going, so much more. But where we are.
I'm not mad about it. Look back, look back, look back,
and now look at it. Look at us, look at us. Now,
come on.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, and we're not trying to go back. Okay, that
is the issue. We're not trying to go back there.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's so many things I love about being black, But
the number one thing that I love about being black
seasoning on food Lord. It is so important in life.
It's so important in life. We stand on that, don't
we stand on.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't know. I go.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
I've been the White People House and eight I've tried.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I've tried to start.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We just ain't it.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dresses, learn this recipe, sit under us. We've talked y'all,
so many things. Yes, go that down, sweet potato, try
try it, neck bones, turke it next, poke ya try
these things.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
You know what I love about being black?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because crazy? But I get a season and we get
hot sauce in our bag, and.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right, I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But I love We are trend setters. We are trend setters.
We set the tone. We tell you what's cool, what's not,
what's hot, what's not. We tell you what to wear,
We tell you how to wear your hair. We tell
you what to drink. We tell you what liquor's hot,
What dance is hot, what music is hot? Liquor is hot,

(02:54):
Just saying we'll tell you what's different, kind of brand
of liquor. That didn't sound right on, Jim.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
What do with them?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Celebration?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's a holiday. That's funny though. Its me in everything.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
We are the trend sets. Yeah, we set to the drink,
what food to yeah, just everything.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
We get no credit for that. How creative and innovative
we are, we get no credit for it. But we
do set the trends. I love how we rise to
every occasion. I love our resilience, what we've gone through,
how we just keep setting that bar higher and higher.
I love just you know, from every possible hardship, setback,

(03:42):
racist act. You know, we just keep continuing. We continue
to rise. We do, we do, We embody that. I
love our rhythm, I love our flow. I love it all.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I just don't, Sam, just don't don't worry about no.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I like to swim. I like swimming.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
At the beach here.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sometimes sometimes I gotta keep in wind.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Sometimes there were no black people in country, do you
know what this would look like? It would be it
would be terrible to live here for those black people here.
Terrible because yeah, all our TV shows everything. I love
the fact that black people have learned so well how
to laugh at pain.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
We laughed at yeah somewhere. Yeah, and we keep going.
We keep we keep going.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I love our HBCUs, I love our Prime, I love
our culture. It's just so much about being black.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I could go on being more than.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm going to the salon today too. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.