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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. Before we get out of here and get
to Steve's closing remarks, we got to mention the death
of legendary actor John Amos. He has died at the
age of eighty four. He's best known to our generation,
of course, is James Evans on Good Times and notable
films like Roots and Coming to America. Our condolences to
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his family and to his friends are ip John Amos great,
greatest TV.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, yes, you know. And in light of that, let
me my closing remarks are kind of like yesterday. Now,
I was talking about manhood, and I want to be
perfectly clear about something. Like I said yesterday, I'm not
a spokesperson for black people, but I am an expert
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at manhood. And the type of men that I was
talking to yesterday are men who are like me, because
I know a lot of men like me. As a
matter of fact, That's who I identify with. That's the
type of man that identifies with me. We are men,
We are cut from the same cloth. You know, our
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faiths can vary, but our compass for manhood is the
exact same. And you know, we just men. Man it's
just stuff that men doing, the stuff that men don't do.
And I'm sorry man, that we live in a world now, man,
where we try to be accepting of everything that everybody
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want to do. That a person should have the freedom
to do what they want to do. What about the
obligation to do what you're supposed to do? What about that?
We're always talking about the freedom of doing what you
want to do. Hey, man, doing what you want to
do sometimes gets in the way oftentimes of what you're
supposed to do and what you gotta do. I want
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to be on vacation every day, but I gotta go
to work. You see what happens with that. You know,
I would love to be lazy and not perform my duties,
but it's my job. It's just my job as a man.
Put your crown on, brothers, and be proud of that crown.
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It's nothing wrong with wearing your crown. If you're trying
to take care of your family with your job. I
don't care what your position is or your income level.
If you are trying to stand up and support your family,
be that man and take pride in that man. It's
something to be a man who a man to taking
care of your family. It's something to that. Stop letting
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these people, man, who got this new male? Woman got
to bring something to the table. I ain't taking care
of no woman. Where that comes from. Where that comes from,
I tell you where it came from. Man, it come
from a lot of cats man not and have the
proper male role models in their life telling me and
to stand up and be men. Well, I'm just one
that's gonna say to the men like me, Man, I
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appreciate you. I appreciate you holding down the cold. I
appreciate you standing strung. This ain't about no no snitching
or none of that. That ain't what this is. I'm
talking about manhood. Real men go to work every day.
Real men obey the law, Real men honor women, real
men pray, Real men love God, Real men take care
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of their children. Real men respect women. That's what real
men do. It's simple, man, It ain't that hard to
figure it out. Stop letting these cats in here swear
you with all these different opinions. And it's a lot
of men like me, and I'm just talking to the
ones that's like me. I don't get it. I ain't
got to get it. As a matter of fact, Can
I be real clear? I don't want to get it.
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I don't want my hand looking like my wife's hand.
I don't want my toes looking like my wife's toes.
Then at the same time, I don't want my wife
hand looking like mine. I don't want a the sheet
to come up at the foot of the bed and
her foot look like my foot. I don't want that. Man,
what happened to that? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So hate to be strong with that? It's nothing wrong
with wanting to be that kind of man. I ain't
got to be open to everything you want? But man,
why though? When I know full well I can't. It's
that's a heavy load, bro. Where we going? Who tied
of wearing pants? But see, that's what's wrong, though, That's
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what's wrong, because it's symbolic of everything else that's wrong.
It's who where the pants? In your family? You know?
It's when don't nobody care about that no more? Who
the head of your household? It's when people don't care
about that no more. Now, I don't mean that to
sound sexist, but if you marry a woman and she
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takes your last name, there's an important marriage there. There's
a thing there with taking that last name. It's an
honor thing, but it comes with a responsibility. If you
ask the woman to take your last name, you don't
think you're supposed to take care of her. You don't.
You don't think. You don't think that's your obligation. It is.
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It's your obligation as men. I'm sorry, brothers, I got
to keep saying it to you, man, because in case
you ain't heard it, listen to somebody who had a
father for forty years, who had a grandfather, who got
two big brothers, my youngest brother eleven years older than me.
I ain't seen nothing but men, I still got my
uncle Donald in my life. I'm telling you, man, I
know me and men that worked hard for their families,
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man that provided that sacrifice stuff of their own so
they family could have something. I watched my father make
sure I had everything I needed, not everything I wanted.
Everything I needed food, shelter, clothing. He took care of him.
Now I wanted some extra. I had to get a job.
You want a bike, that's cool, pimp, you gotta go
get a job by your bike. You gotta do some
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extra choice around the house. That's how I was raised.
I'm not getting off mine, and I appreciate all the
men out theirs that ain't getting off theirs. Man, congratulations,
because manhood is still alive. Chivalry is not dead. Now
are those of us who will carry that banner. And
I'm proud of those men like that talking about you
high fashion. I ain't none of that. Feel how you
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want to feel about me, but when you get through,
there's not that. At the end of the day, you're
talking to a grown ass man. And don't run over
here because I do not want to show it to you.
Leave me alone with a little glass of Scotch my
cigars and just leave me alone. I ain't got no
problem with you. You ain't got no problem with me. Y'all,
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have a great day today. Talk to God. He'd absolutely
love to hear from you. Man. I love being a man.
I'm holding on the vine strong.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
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