April 26, 2024 • 33 mins
In this episode we talk about a few things. One of the main being two black historic men. Harvey B Gantt and Harvey Boyd. They both share a big history space within Charlotte. Check out the episode to get all the details.
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Yo Q what up?
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Man I'm keeping it real what up the W.
Welcome
to not
just music
music
where we keep it real
and honest
always
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What's going on it's your boy Duann
bringing you from Not Just Music Podcast
joining us another week let's go
Again Not Just Music Podcast
I'm your boy Duann Marino
Q Quincy Murray back in the building as
always
again what's going on brother how you doing
Bless Holly Fave
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Good good
Another Thursday
APM
Hopefully everybody is
in the building is having and enjoying life
we were just talking about this
again failure
you have to go through
failure if you're not going through failure
you're not learning
a lot of y'all seem to think that life is just
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supposed to be breeze and
mommy and daddy is supposed to take care of everything
and you know we never
get out here and take tries and
learn to fail because
your parents failed their
parents failed and
the only way they learned is from their failures
and a lot of these
generations now have changed the
course of that to make
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it seem as if failure is
only supposed to go or be one side
and it's not and they don't know what to do
when they fail or when a failure
situation appears
confused
run scared
what am I going to do
most of the times I think
a lot of this can be settled
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if we can just like I say
learn
stop taking
the L's is a
it's over
life can't be
over that fast I mean if you
really think about it especially
if you're like 21
22
and that phase of my life was
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very courageous
Dwan and Dwan thought he could
do it all what about you Q
yeah that was
my crucial times
I was trying to find myself
around that time you know that's when you're trying
to find yourself you're trying
to you know figure out
you know
becoming a man you know
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relationships, girls
start getting into that
start nibbing and dabbing into
some things too you know that Jane
Posey be doing
thank God I ain't getting into the drugs
I never was a smoker or a drinker
so I ain't deal with that
you know women
was my problem I got into
little problems with women but
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yeah I was kind of
you know wet behind the ears at that
age you know I had to
my 20's is
I think I drove my momma through hell in my 20's
like made her nervous that was like my
crucial years that
you know my momma was kind of worried about me
like this boy I don't know what
happened
but yeah I had a
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I had a
little I ain't gonna go with this today of course
I'm still in my
black
in my history book man
you know y'all black
folk gonna get this regardless of
I'm gonna give it to you
just
the expectancy
of the turnout of what
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history has
given
this podcast is actually
satisfying
to think that nobody would be thinking about it
but to see that y'all really do
appreciate somebody
talking about
history I mean I know y'all we give y'all
real life situations here and there
and just real life talks
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go through stuff we feel things we say things
we go and we talk about it
then here are those
moments when
here is this
moment now again
we have a chance to talk about
history I've been
unfolding and I finally
need to start putting them out cause I got a lot of
podcasts that I have not released just
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due to how much content
I just want to create versus just
when I just drop it I'm gonna release a lot
of it at one time but
I want it to be a certain level
of
of content that
people that y'all can really digest
cause a lot of y'all really cannot
you know
getting the wrong kind of information or the wrong
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kind of education nowadays
y'all are misguided
misinformed
is understanding being misguided
is a lot of that is going to be due to
like I said who's in your life
if you don't have the right people in your life to put this stuff in
your life I mean what can
you do? Hey but it also
starts with self choice too man
you still gotta have some
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a little bit of common
sense up there like
this don't seem right this
seem off I might need
to look into this you know
common sense I'm not saying no at all
but you gotta have some common sense though
that instinct that gut
feeling you know
well at least I have it. Definitely
something ain't right
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some people
don't have it man. It's cool
and we gonna learn
we gonna learn stuff y'all but anyway
I'm gonna keep this laptop turned
you know slightly sideways
my dad's laptop and
there's a sticker on the back of it
that I really don't want to be seen
with me so
that's why it's turned sideways like this
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it's not to promote them in any
manner it's a
cowboy sticker just so y'all know
and I don't do Dallas Cowboys
so you know
he does
definitely he'll watch it and know that I've had it turned sideways
love you daddy
appreciate the laptop borrowed
for this podcast again
nice to throw in right there though
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had to let that be known
first Charlotte
what's up Charlotte man what's the business
Charlotte let's talk about
more of these black
history
history people
that we don't know about
ones that probably none of y'all
thought to even look up that I just decided
you know what I'm gonna look it up
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the crazy part of looking it up is very
small avenues
to find or look up
about black
history in Charlotte
so the crazy
part is that now that I actually did
one video we did one
video and then
there's a couple of few videos that
I point to actually history
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there's this situation
that one from Charlotte actually made its way
into the Charlotte search now
so if I search black
history in Charlotte
that video associates with
that search now so it lets me know that getting
in that lane is probably an open lane to do that
so
again all in doing your
learn
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some stuff y'all with your businesses
go learn some stuff see if somebody
is actually already out there doing what you're doing
don't go jump in that lane because that's a saturated
market so they see that whole video that we did
that whole episode they can search it
if it's searched it's within the search
category and that was a powerful
episode too so just to point out
you know that's just
a tidbit for those that do
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content and create content and make it
create your own lane, jump in your own lane
do it until you can find that lane
that everyone it could be respected
one, two, is
fresh something that you could do a lot
of
but anyway here we go Charlotte
Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte
in the city of Charlotte
a lot of people
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understood especially my mom and my dad
they were around during the time of
the era of
when schools were segregated
and then when they broke the whole situation
of segregation
one of those people
her name was
Dorothy Counts Skaggins
I think that's how you
pronounce her last name Dorothy Counts Skaggins
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integrated
Charlotte Public Schools
on September 4th, 1957
she was one of
four black students who integrated
Charlotte's public schools
as she entered Harding High
Harding High School it's over there on the west side
throngs from
people
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who opposed
school's integration hurled
racial slurs to her
spit at her
threw rocks at her
although her stay
was very short
at Hardin
and we're talking really short
she only lasted four days at the school
but
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photos of her
courageously walking into school
rallied black
people nationwide to push officials
to reinforce the landmark
Brown vs. Board of Education
decision which
declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional
so she made an impact
in four days
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that's powerful
just walking in
wow, that's deep
I go to the show
the little bit of time we have
the moment you have you never know
what use it to the best you can
you know that moment
put your best foot forward
you never know
how impactful it could be
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one day
I can tell from
there's one picture
I'm going to pull up
I pull it up somewhere within
this video screen
just know that
this one was actually
big for Charlotte
think about it
Hardin being one of those schools
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that a lot of people
probably even never knew
that even went on there
in the littlest bit of knowing
that much though
that the black community
that surrounds Hardin
it makes sense
to certain situations
certain schools, certain areas
and certain locations
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how we rallied
as black people
to become and take over a lot of these areas
I'm sure you'd probably like that
and probably in states with too
and we'll get into that history too
after a while
but again
there are a lot of
black
situations that are overlooked
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in North Carolina
period
but this is one of them
that is like okay
how you never
get to really hear about it
I was in school in the 80s
90s
and I graduated in 2001
I never heard of this lady
they never brought this up
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they never
announced black history
it's never here
this is what you need to know
this is the first person to do this
they don't talk about that stuff
they won't talk about it
and again it makes sense
that's why I won't get talked about
and it'll probably make us
more motivated
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more educated
and that's the part that I miss
our identity
and your identity
and the realization of who we are
that's
definitely
a big breaking situation
another person
this is a person
I feel should be
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recognized too because a lot of us didn't know it
I'm going to put it up
right here
a lot of us probably never
seen or known
well we've probably seen the Mecklenburg County
Seal
a lot of people
probably didn't know that a black man
made
that symbol
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so we're going to shout out Harvey Boyd
for
in 1964 Matthews Harvey Boyd
was a 20 year
old designer in the Charlotte
Observers Ad Department
when he saw a solicitation
for designs for an official
Mecklenburg County Seal he threw his hat
in the ring and created an iconic
emblem that featured
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imagery from the county's past present
and likely future
he won and now that
seal is
emblazoned
countywide
he still lives
in Matthews today
wow
that's crazy right
his name is Harvey Boyd
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again
he's from Matthews
and he's still alive but just remember this
if you see Harvey Boyd
if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
I want to get him on here
that would be a dope situation
if y'all can get Harvey if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
and if Harvey Boyd is
still available to me
please Harvey won't you
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I would love to
if I have to come to you
and sit down with you that's fine too
because I don't expect you
to be a young man or not whatever it is
I honor and respect that so
if I have to come to you that would be
totally fine just to sit down and have a conversation
to understand
this whole situation in 1964
because again we were still
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highly in a segregated situation
so I would love to know what it was like
what you had to deal with
to get this seal across and who you had
to give it to because I know it's in detail
behind it it would be a dope story to know
so if y'all know
who Harvey Boyd is and the Boyd family
if y'all hear me
under the sound of my voice if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
and that's your uncle
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that's your granddad that's your great-grandfather
whoever it is to you
let him know that
us at Not Just Music Podcast would love
to talk to him
Next
I want to bring up this situation because
rarely we
talk about
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the government in this light
and I'm going to ask you a question
before I get into this because I really
felt I wanted to ask you
this it just made sense to just be
like Q was a
very, very, very
vocal dude
and
you never
wonder
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you vocalize a lot
of opinionated things
that are not wrong for doing
it's your opinion. Do you cringe on
some of the stuff I say? No, I ain't go cringe
no, no, no, I ain't go cringe because
these
pathways have been
walked before these shoes have been
you know people have had
to have done what you've done
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so it's not like wrong
for you to do or have those opinions
like you had those opinions but
have you ever thought about
taking the stance of if you can't
beat them join them meaning
have you ever thought about being like a mayor
have you ever thought about being like
what's another lane
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a city council
have you ever thought about
doing anything
like that
funny you ask absolutely
yes, yes. So what's your stance on it?
I'm see
this kind of guy I am like
I hold true to my morals
I hold true to
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who I am
no matter where I'm at you put me in
a room full of people that's
biased against what I believe
I'm still believe what I believe
but my thing is
I know how to get in those doors
with people I know how to rub elbows
with people and once
I get in and once you give me a little
position and where I
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can have my voice heard
where I can speak for millions of people
that feel like me or can't
speak or say what they what
I want to say or scared to say what I want to
say then that's when I take my opportunity
and I will become
that person I will be
who people thought I was Quincy Murdock
I won't change
I'll just maneuver
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my way into a situation
buddy buddy once I get in
you see my true agenda
yeah so I would love to run for
counselor or something like that
Chris Rock in that movie
his president had Bernie back as his
camera
I mean you know and I can do
and I can hit you with educational stuff too
and I ain't got a curse in my speeches
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you know I can
get my point across very intelligently
and very educational
and I can use real life situations
to make those people
you know what I'm saying understand
it more than I can hit you with
the fact area
so whatever way you want to play it
I can play it
so yeah I think I'll make a good city counselor
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or spokesman
or any office thing
so the reason why I say that
has reason
Charlotte especially
has been known for
having black people in those
seats right
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shout out my boy Gary
I need to get Gary
on here Gary Young
he's been on city
council for working around
the city council
with the city council and then actually on city council
for as long as I can remember
I mean he went to school with me
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he graduated actually a year after I did
yeah 02
02 or 03
one or the other but
Gary is
I think his last name is Young
if I'm mistaken
one of those kids
that you knew he would be
into something like that
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and actually
never lost his credibility to who he was
like you said
you don't want to change who you are
you continue to
you'll still see brothers in the joints
you'll see them stepping out
and going to do things and hitting the city
but he's tying himself in
though because the case of he wants to know what the people need
and see what the people need
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see what's going on
people like
first person I want to say
to speak on is Harvey B.
Gantt
Harvey B. Gantt
is the first
black mayor of Charlotte
he actually let me read because
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Harvey Gantt made history
some of his background
got a little bit of his background
before
what kind of person
he was you know what I'm saying
before that
his upbringing
you can tell his mentality was already on this because
look where he came in at
Harvey Gantt made history
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he was elected Charlotte's
first black mayor
in 1983 that's y'all born
but it wasn't
his first time as a trailblazer
20 years earlier
he became the first black student admitted
to Clemson University
you know where I'm going with this now?
this is the parts where
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I say
like you said
the lady went into the
well she was a young girl then
she entered heart and
it was so bad on her for 4 days
but she made an impact
you make your point
all it takes is that one
all it takes is one episode
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one episode
one reel
it takes just that one
time
and it's taking off
you gotta play big
that risk
that risk to go to a predominantly
white school
Clemson University now y'all
down in South Carolina
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the Tigerpaw, the Orange
he would later
co-found
get
Huberman
architects
in 1971
and joined Charlotte City Council 3 years later
as mayor he led
Charlotte as it adopted
its identity as
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a new South City
as an architect he developed
some of the city's most recognizable
landmarks such as
the Charlotte Transportation Center
and Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
now that's big
cause anybody that's in Charlotte
knows about the transportation area
the buses, the trains
downtown Charlotte
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shout out my dad he retired out of Cats
and that's a spot
what's the VAS
what's the
center down there
where they hold the
epicenter
yeah that area man
yeah dope area right there
downtown
a lot of transportation right there
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he basically
the first situation of
Cats probably I remember
especially
when my dad was working
in my younger years
so much has changed with Charlotte
Transit man
the transit system and the bussing system
a lot of the stuff is solid though for what you see
before I was like
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it's just how much has grown
from that small situation
to how big it is now
there's people on the streets
everywhere downtown
yup
today he remains active
in Charlotte's political
scene serving on
several business, civic
and philanthropic boards
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so again
Charlotte Harvey began
to be a
big part of it
Q I brought that situation up
because sometimes some stuff that he did
reminds me of how you
feel
and the things that you feel about
the black community
and stuff like that
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I think a lot of us miss out on it
because we don't have
those avenues to know
who do I talk to
who do I need to
put myself in front of
to be able to be a
mayor or to be
I would love that too man
now that you brought that up
I would love that go into that field
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look it up
look it up
that's why I see this moving on to the next person
I'm speaking on
can I say something
yeah
because I feel like
and this is what I think
the seats
in the offices and stuff could use somebody
that
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people could relate to
they see me
they can relate to me
you know what I'm saying
no disrespect to the city
councils and people they put
in the seats but that's why I asked
about the credibility, their life story
because
you gotta put some people that's been
through some things like some real life
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situations that's gonna understand
you know the people
cause that's the main thing what it's about
and when I speak now
I speak because
for one if the people are hurt
if the people are doing bad around me
that's gonna hurt me
it's gonna affect me so
that's the mindset I would have as a mayor
like you know I'm already thinking
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the people because I'm not thinking about
just fixing Quincy I'm thinking about
fixing the people around me
cause if people around me are not good
I'm not gonna be able to be good
and proud you gotta think of it that way
you know what I'm saying
how can we live in a good world
with bad people
people that's not focused, educated
or willing to learn
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so that's I think I'll
see I just pitched my vote
that's why I would be a good Senate
or something cause I want to see
the people win
cause then I will win
and see that's the whole point
you have
you have the
the ones that
can be vocal
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and they're not standing on it
they're not going to stand on it
the reason why they're not
gonna stand on it because in case they don't know
the right way to do it
let me give you an example
and this can kinda end this one
I'll get to the next person on the next
next week's episode
you think about it like this
there's this one
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where people can connect
to the world
that they don't use it to the best of their
ability
meaning you have a platform
like you have a website
like you could take
podcasts
into the next level on your own
choosing to right because you have a website
you have the space to do it
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you have the platform to do it
it's an ability
right?
you can take a stand song
whatever it is you want to take a stand song
and just run it up
daily or weekly
every 2 weeks, every 3 weeks
twice a week
however you choose to do it
you can release it on your own
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it's easy to do now
in the sense of
just think about it
all that stuff that you feel
put it on blogs
just do it on your website
you can post it just like how
podcasting is done
post it on your blogs
it's on your website to be
able to upload it
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and have audio cast and everything
actually chronologically
how it's done with not just music
but at the same time
you think about it you can use that
as your guide to get to people
and use that as
your way to say okay well look
I want to be in government roles
or be in seats
put yourself out there
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then when it's time to
get with it and vote
you have a following
you have people that's even if it's small
but at the same time you can have
a small following and still be
and get elected
anybody can be in these seats
it's just you gotta put your name in the hat
cause yeah that's another
thing cause I think I need to have that
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that very
sit down where
people really understand
my perspective cause
like I said sometimes I feel
like I feel like Kanye
in ways like how he might say something
like
you don't mean no harm by it
the way you say it might be
kind of edgy and it might rub
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somebody the wrong way but it's a
message in that what I'm
saying like when you go back
and you look at it like one thing I
said
I was using
porn as an example
it's this kind of
degrading porn that white
men downgrade the
black woman and it's on
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camera it's like you know willingly
and I would like this reminds me
of slavery like how the white
men would you know I'm saying
like you know rape the black
woman and stuff like that even
when she was married to a black man
and it divided
the black race and
it hurt the credibility of
the black race and for one it made us
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hate ourselves so then we hated
each other so I said
we spend more time
as black people attacking black
and destroying black
and down talking our own people
that we're not even mad
on the people that inflicted the true
problems and injuries and
you know and stuff on us and to this
day they still do it like we
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rather attack our own people instead of attack
the white man
so that like that one thing
about porn that's what I'm
trying to tell you the small thing about
porn goes to something bigger
that's what I'm trying to get to the people
it's not about just porn
you missed my message when I was saying it
that I was getting on a bigger message
like we are
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attacking our own people we're mad at our own
people we should be mad
at them the ones that inflicted all
this miseducation
on us and raping our
wives and you know what I'm saying
separating us and selling us and
you know not giving us our history
now we're mad we don't even know
who to be mad about or mad at
we're mad at our own people
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and once we
can figure that out and know who the
real problem is I
think we'll be better as people
it'll fix a lot
I think still
to this day
a lot of us
can do better
at meaning
the accountability
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to
why things are going the way they
are
especially if
it was coming from a
I think if it was coming from a governmental
situation
and it could trickle down
totally different it's just that the
small people only gonna
look at it as if it's a combative
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thing like how you just said it's like
it was taken the wrong way
it's always gonna be a thing of
combat it's not gonna be a thing
of acceptance because people always
but you as a man if I said it that
way you get what I'm saying when I
explained it when I said it on social media you get
where I was coming from right?
so
it's just the mentality
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of the acceptance
whoever's getting the acceptance
whoever's taking it in
and accepting it the way they're accepting it
they're gonna accept it whoever however
they were raised is how it's gonna come down to
really to me because I mean
and I don't hate black women man
if anything I was trying to educate
I don't hate black
women man I don't hate black people
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but the thing of
it is the only way you
can help somebody is being honest
and telling the truth you know what I'm saying?
I uh it's
the thing of taking credibility
and accepting that we
can be the change like I
just asked Q you know
would you mind being in the government you know
so again it's
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the accountability
is definitely gonna come down
to the people like Q said it's
the accountability what we accept
is what we gonna continue to keep
you know we gonna keep following
for that mess every time
it's easy to follow for it when you're not
as again trained you ain't
being trained nobody saying that to you about it
ain't nobody putting it in your face
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showing examples how somebody gonna know about it
won't know so
again
we hope you
enjoyed our black talk
we gonna get right back to it next week
next Thursday
next episode another time
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Man I'm keeping it real what up the W.
Welcome
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always
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What's going on it's your boy Duann
bringing you from Not Just Music Podcast
joining us another week let's go
Again Not Just Music Podcast
I'm your boy Duann Marino
Q Quincy Murray back in the building as
always
again what's going on brother how you doing
Bless Holly Fave
(00:46):
Good good
Another Thursday
APM
Hopefully everybody is
in the building is having and enjoying life
we were just talking about this
again failure
you have to go through
failure if you're not going through failure
you're not learning
a lot of y'all seem to think that life is just
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supposed to be breeze and
mommy and daddy is supposed to take care of everything
and you know we never
get out here and take tries and
learn to fail because
your parents failed their
parents failed and
the only way they learned is from their failures
and a lot of these
generations now have changed the
course of that to make
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it seem as if failure is
only supposed to go or be one side
and it's not and they don't know what to do
when they fail or when a failure
situation appears
confused
run scared
what am I going to do
most of the times I think
a lot of this can be settled
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if we can just like I say
learn
stop taking
the L's is a
it's over
life can't be
over that fast I mean if you
really think about it especially
if you're like 21
22
and that phase of my life was
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very courageous
Dwan and Dwan thought he could
do it all what about you Q
yeah that was
my crucial times
I was trying to find myself
around that time you know that's when you're trying
to find yourself you're trying
to you know figure out
you know
becoming a man you know
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relationships, girls
start getting into that
start nibbing and dabbing into
some things too you know that Jane
Posey be doing
thank God I ain't getting into the drugs
I never was a smoker or a drinker
so I ain't deal with that
you know women
was my problem I got into
little problems with women but
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yeah I was kind of
you know wet behind the ears at that
age you know I had to
my 20's is
I think I drove my momma through hell in my 20's
like made her nervous that was like my
crucial years that
you know my momma was kind of worried about me
like this boy I don't know what
happened
but yeah I had a
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I had a
little I ain't gonna go with this today of course
I'm still in my
black
in my history book man
you know y'all black
folk gonna get this regardless of
I'm gonna give it to you
just
the expectancy
of the turnout of what
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history has
given
this podcast is actually
satisfying
to think that nobody would be thinking about it
but to see that y'all really do
appreciate somebody
talking about
history I mean I know y'all we give y'all
real life situations here and there
and just real life talks
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go through stuff we feel things we say things
we go and we talk about it
then here are those
moments when
here is this
moment now again
we have a chance to talk about
history I've been
unfolding and I finally
need to start putting them out cause I got a lot of
podcasts that I have not released just
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due to how much content
I just want to create versus just
when I just drop it I'm gonna release a lot
of it at one time but
I want it to be a certain level
of
of content that
people that y'all can really digest
cause a lot of y'all really cannot
you know
getting the wrong kind of information or the wrong
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kind of education nowadays
y'all are misguided
misinformed
is understanding being misguided
is a lot of that is going to be due to
like I said who's in your life
if you don't have the right people in your life to put this stuff in
your life I mean what can
you do? Hey but it also
starts with self choice too man
you still gotta have some
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a little bit of common
sense up there like
this don't seem right this
seem off I might need
to look into this you know
common sense I'm not saying no at all
but you gotta have some common sense though
that instinct that gut
feeling you know
well at least I have it. Definitely
something ain't right
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some people
don't have it man. It's cool
and we gonna learn
we gonna learn stuff y'all but anyway
I'm gonna keep this laptop turned
you know slightly sideways
my dad's laptop and
there's a sticker on the back of it
that I really don't want to be seen
with me so
that's why it's turned sideways like this
(05:54):
it's not to promote them in any
manner it's a
cowboy sticker just so y'all know
and I don't do Dallas Cowboys
so you know
he does
definitely he'll watch it and know that I've had it turned sideways
love you daddy
appreciate the laptop borrowed
for this podcast again
nice to throw in right there though
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had to let that be known
first Charlotte
what's up Charlotte man what's the business
Charlotte let's talk about
more of these black
history
history people
that we don't know about
ones that probably none of y'all
thought to even look up that I just decided
you know what I'm gonna look it up
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the crazy part of looking it up is very
small avenues
to find or look up
about black
history in Charlotte
so the crazy
part is that now that I actually did
one video we did one
video and then
there's a couple of few videos that
I point to actually history
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there's this situation
that one from Charlotte actually made its way
into the Charlotte search now
so if I search black
history in Charlotte
that video associates with
that search now so it lets me know that getting
in that lane is probably an open lane to do that
so
again all in doing your
learn
(07:22):
some stuff y'all with your businesses
go learn some stuff see if somebody
is actually already out there doing what you're doing
don't go jump in that lane because that's a saturated
market so they see that whole video that we did
that whole episode they can search it
if it's searched it's within the search
category and that was a powerful
episode too so just to point out
you know that's just
a tidbit for those that do
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content and create content and make it
create your own lane, jump in your own lane
do it until you can find that lane
that everyone it could be respected
one, two, is
fresh something that you could do a lot
of
but anyway here we go Charlotte
Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte
in the city of Charlotte
a lot of people
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understood especially my mom and my dad
they were around during the time of
the era of
when schools were segregated
and then when they broke the whole situation
of segregation
one of those people
her name was
Dorothy Counts Skaggins
I think that's how you
pronounce her last name Dorothy Counts Skaggins
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integrated
Charlotte Public Schools
on September 4th, 1957
she was one of
four black students who integrated
Charlotte's public schools
as she entered Harding High
Harding High School it's over there on the west side
throngs from
people
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who opposed
school's integration hurled
racial slurs to her
spit at her
threw rocks at her
although her stay
was very short
at Hardin
and we're talking really short
she only lasted four days at the school
but
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photos of her
courageously walking into school
rallied black
people nationwide to push officials
to reinforce the landmark
Brown vs. Board of Education
decision which
declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional
so she made an impact
in four days
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that's powerful
just walking in
wow, that's deep
I go to the show
the little bit of time we have
the moment you have you never know
what use it to the best you can
you know that moment
put your best foot forward
you never know
how impactful it could be
(09:56):
one day
I can tell from
there's one picture
I'm going to pull up
I pull it up somewhere within
this video screen
just know that
this one was actually
big for Charlotte
think about it
Hardin being one of those schools
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that a lot of people
probably even never knew
that even went on there
in the littlest bit of knowing
that much though
that the black community
that surrounds Hardin
it makes sense
to certain situations
certain schools, certain areas
and certain locations
(10:40):
how we rallied
as black people
to become and take over a lot of these areas
I'm sure you'd probably like that
and probably in states with too
and we'll get into that history too
after a while
but again
there are a lot of
black
situations that are overlooked
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in North Carolina
period
but this is one of them
that is like okay
how you never
get to really hear about it
I was in school in the 80s
90s
and I graduated in 2001
I never heard of this lady
they never brought this up
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they never
announced black history
it's never here
this is what you need to know
this is the first person to do this
they don't talk about that stuff
they won't talk about it
and again it makes sense
that's why I won't get talked about
and it'll probably make us
more motivated
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more educated
and that's the part that I miss
our identity
and your identity
and the realization of who we are
that's
definitely
a big breaking situation
another person
this is a person
I feel should be
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recognized too because a lot of us didn't know it
I'm going to put it up
right here
a lot of us probably never
seen or known
well we've probably seen the Mecklenburg County
Seal
a lot of people
probably didn't know that a black man
made
that symbol
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so we're going to shout out Harvey Boyd
for
in 1964 Matthews Harvey Boyd
was a 20 year
old designer in the Charlotte
Observers Ad Department
when he saw a solicitation
for designs for an official
Mecklenburg County Seal he threw his hat
in the ring and created an iconic
emblem that featured
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imagery from the county's past present
and likely future
he won and now that
seal is
emblazoned
countywide
he still lives
in Matthews today
wow
that's crazy right
his name is Harvey Boyd
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again
he's from Matthews
and he's still alive but just remember this
if you see Harvey Boyd
if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
I want to get him on here
that would be a dope situation
if y'all can get Harvey if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
and if Harvey Boyd is
still available to me
please Harvey won't you
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I would love to
if I have to come to you
and sit down with you that's fine too
because I don't expect you
to be a young man or not whatever it is
I honor and respect that so
if I have to come to you that would be
totally fine just to sit down and have a conversation
to understand
this whole situation in 1964
because again we were still
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highly in a segregated situation
so I would love to know what it was like
what you had to deal with
to get this seal across and who you had
to give it to because I know it's in detail
behind it it would be a dope story to know
so if y'all know
who Harvey Boyd is and the Boyd family
if y'all hear me
under the sound of my voice if y'all know who Harvey Boyd is
and that's your uncle
(14:20):
that's your granddad that's your great-grandfather
whoever it is to you
let him know that
us at Not Just Music Podcast would love
to talk to him
Next
I want to bring up this situation because
rarely we
talk about
(14:42):
the government in this light
and I'm going to ask you a question
before I get into this because I really
felt I wanted to ask you
this it just made sense to just be
like Q was a
very, very, very
vocal dude
and
you never
wonder
(15:04):
you vocalize a lot
of opinionated things
that are not wrong for doing
it's your opinion. Do you cringe on
some of the stuff I say? No, I ain't go cringe
no, no, no, I ain't go cringe because
these
pathways have been
walked before these shoes have been
you know people have had
to have done what you've done
(15:26):
so it's not like wrong
for you to do or have those opinions
like you had those opinions but
have you ever thought about
taking the stance of if you can't
beat them join them meaning
have you ever thought about being like a mayor
have you ever thought about being like
what's another lane
(15:48):
a city council
have you ever thought about
doing anything
like that
funny you ask absolutely
yes, yes. So what's your stance on it?
I'm see
this kind of guy I am like
I hold true to my morals
I hold true to
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who I am
no matter where I'm at you put me in
a room full of people that's
biased against what I believe
I'm still believe what I believe
but my thing is
I know how to get in those doors
with people I know how to rub elbows
with people and once
I get in and once you give me a little
position and where I
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can have my voice heard
where I can speak for millions of people
that feel like me or can't
speak or say what they what
I want to say or scared to say what I want to
say then that's when I take my opportunity
and I will become
that person I will be
who people thought I was Quincy Murdock
I won't change
I'll just maneuver
(16:54):
my way into a situation
buddy buddy once I get in
you see my true agenda
yeah so I would love to run for
counselor or something like that
Chris Rock in that movie
his president had Bernie back as his
camera
I mean you know and I can do
and I can hit you with educational stuff too
and I ain't got a curse in my speeches
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you know I can
get my point across very intelligently
and very educational
and I can use real life situations
to make those people
you know what I'm saying understand
it more than I can hit you with
the fact area
so whatever way you want to play it
I can play it
so yeah I think I'll make a good city counselor
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or spokesman
or any office thing
so the reason why I say that
has reason
Charlotte especially
has been known for
having black people in those
seats right
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shout out my boy Gary
I need to get Gary
on here Gary Young
he's been on city
council for working around
the city council
with the city council and then actually on city council
for as long as I can remember
I mean he went to school with me
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he graduated actually a year after I did
yeah 02
02 or 03
one or the other but
Gary is
I think his last name is Young
if I'm mistaken
one of those kids
that you knew he would be
into something like that
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and actually
never lost his credibility to who he was
like you said
you don't want to change who you are
you continue to
you'll still see brothers in the joints
you'll see them stepping out
and going to do things and hitting the city
but he's tying himself in
though because the case of he wants to know what the people need
and see what the people need
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see what's going on
people like
first person I want to say
to speak on is Harvey B.
Gantt
Harvey B. Gantt
is the first
black mayor of Charlotte
he actually let me read because
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Harvey Gantt made history
some of his background
got a little bit of his background
before
what kind of person
he was you know what I'm saying
before that
his upbringing
you can tell his mentality was already on this because
look where he came in at
Harvey Gantt made history
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he was elected Charlotte's
first black mayor
in 1983 that's y'all born
but it wasn't
his first time as a trailblazer
20 years earlier
he became the first black student admitted
to Clemson University
you know where I'm going with this now?
this is the parts where
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I say
like you said
the lady went into the
well she was a young girl then
she entered heart and
it was so bad on her for 4 days
but she made an impact
you make your point
all it takes is that one
all it takes is one episode
(20:34):
one episode
one reel
it takes just that one
time
and it's taking off
you gotta play big
that risk
that risk to go to a predominantly
white school
Clemson University now y'all
down in South Carolina
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the Tigerpaw, the Orange
he would later
co-found
get
Huberman
architects
in 1971
and joined Charlotte City Council 3 years later
as mayor he led
Charlotte as it adopted
its identity as
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a new South City
as an architect he developed
some of the city's most recognizable
landmarks such as
the Charlotte Transportation Center
and Friendship Missionary Baptist Church
now that's big
cause anybody that's in Charlotte
knows about the transportation area
the buses, the trains
downtown Charlotte
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shout out my dad he retired out of Cats
and that's a spot
what's the VAS
what's the
center down there
where they hold the
epicenter
yeah that area man
yeah dope area right there
downtown
a lot of transportation right there
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he basically
the first situation of
Cats probably I remember
especially
when my dad was working
in my younger years
so much has changed with Charlotte
Transit man
the transit system and the bussing system
a lot of the stuff is solid though for what you see
before I was like
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it's just how much has grown
from that small situation
to how big it is now
there's people on the streets
everywhere downtown
yup
today he remains active
in Charlotte's political
scene serving on
several business, civic
and philanthropic boards
(22:46):
so again
Charlotte Harvey began
to be a
big part of it
Q I brought that situation up
because sometimes some stuff that he did
reminds me of how you
feel
and the things that you feel about
the black community
and stuff like that
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I think a lot of us miss out on it
because we don't have
those avenues to know
who do I talk to
who do I need to
put myself in front of
to be able to be a
mayor or to be
I would love that too man
now that you brought that up
I would love that go into that field
(23:30):
look it up
look it up
that's why I see this moving on to the next person
I'm speaking on
can I say something
yeah
because I feel like
and this is what I think
the seats
in the offices and stuff could use somebody
that
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people could relate to
they see me
they can relate to me
you know what I'm saying
no disrespect to the city
councils and people they put
in the seats but that's why I asked
about the credibility, their life story
because
you gotta put some people that's been
through some things like some real life
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situations that's gonna understand
you know the people
cause that's the main thing what it's about
and when I speak now
I speak because
for one if the people are hurt
if the people are doing bad around me
that's gonna hurt me
it's gonna affect me so
that's the mindset I would have as a mayor
like you know I'm already thinking
(24:36):
the people because I'm not thinking about
just fixing Quincy I'm thinking about
fixing the people around me
cause if people around me are not good
I'm not gonna be able to be good
and proud you gotta think of it that way
you know what I'm saying
how can we live in a good world
with bad people
people that's not focused, educated
or willing to learn
(24:58):
so that's I think I'll
see I just pitched my vote
that's why I would be a good Senate
or something cause I want to see
the people win
cause then I will win
and see that's the whole point
you have
you have the
the ones that
can be vocal
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and they're not standing on it
they're not going to stand on it
the reason why they're not
gonna stand on it because in case they don't know
the right way to do it
let me give you an example
and this can kinda end this one
I'll get to the next person on the next
next week's episode
you think about it like this
there's this one
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where people can connect
to the world
that they don't use it to the best of their
ability
meaning you have a platform
like you have a website
like you could take
podcasts
into the next level on your own
choosing to right because you have a website
you have the space to do it
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you have the platform to do it
it's an ability
right?
you can take a stand song
whatever it is you want to take a stand song
and just run it up
daily or weekly
every 2 weeks, every 3 weeks
twice a week
however you choose to do it
you can release it on your own
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it's easy to do now
in the sense of
just think about it
all that stuff that you feel
put it on blogs
just do it on your website
you can post it just like how
podcasting is done
post it on your blogs
it's on your website to be
able to upload it
(26:48):
and have audio cast and everything
actually chronologically
how it's done with not just music
but at the same time
you think about it you can use that
as your guide to get to people
and use that as
your way to say okay well look
I want to be in government roles
or be in seats
put yourself out there
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then when it's time to
get with it and vote
you have a following
you have people that's even if it's small
but at the same time you can have
a small following and still be
and get elected
anybody can be in these seats
it's just you gotta put your name in the hat
cause yeah that's another
thing cause I think I need to have that
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that very
sit down where
people really understand
my perspective cause
like I said sometimes I feel
like I feel like Kanye
in ways like how he might say something
like
you don't mean no harm by it
the way you say it might be
kind of edgy and it might rub
(27:54):
somebody the wrong way but it's a
message in that what I'm
saying like when you go back
and you look at it like one thing I
said
I was using
porn as an example
it's this kind of
degrading porn that white
men downgrade the
black woman and it's on
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camera it's like you know willingly
and I would like this reminds me
of slavery like how the white
men would you know I'm saying
like you know rape the black
woman and stuff like that even
when she was married to a black man
and it divided
the black race and
it hurt the credibility of
the black race and for one it made us
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hate ourselves so then we hated
each other so I said
we spend more time
as black people attacking black
and destroying black
and down talking our own people
that we're not even mad
on the people that inflicted the true
problems and injuries and
you know and stuff on us and to this
day they still do it like we
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rather attack our own people instead of attack
the white man
so that like that one thing
about porn that's what I'm
trying to tell you the small thing about
porn goes to something bigger
that's what I'm trying to get to the people
it's not about just porn
you missed my message when I was saying it
that I was getting on a bigger message
like we are
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attacking our own people we're mad at our own
people we should be mad
at them the ones that inflicted all
this miseducation
on us and raping our
wives and you know what I'm saying
separating us and selling us and
you know not giving us our history
now we're mad we don't even know
who to be mad about or mad at
we're mad at our own people
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and once we
can figure that out and know who the
real problem is I
think we'll be better as people
it'll fix a lot
I think still
to this day
a lot of us
can do better
at meaning
the accountability
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to
why things are going the way they
are
especially if
it was coming from a
I think if it was coming from a governmental
situation
and it could trickle down
totally different it's just that the
small people only gonna
look at it as if it's a combative
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thing like how you just said it's like
it was taken the wrong way
it's always gonna be a thing of
combat it's not gonna be a thing
of acceptance because people always
but you as a man if I said it that
way you get what I'm saying when I
explained it when I said it on social media you get
where I was coming from right?
so
it's just the mentality
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of the acceptance
whoever's getting the acceptance
whoever's taking it in
and accepting it the way they're accepting it
they're gonna accept it whoever however
they were raised is how it's gonna come down to
really to me because I mean
and I don't hate black women man
if anything I was trying to educate
I don't hate black
women man I don't hate black people
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but the thing of
it is the only way you
can help somebody is being honest
and telling the truth you know what I'm saying?
I uh it's
the thing of taking credibility
and accepting that we
can be the change like I
just asked Q you know
would you mind being in the government you know
so again it's
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the accountability
is definitely gonna come down
to the people like Q said it's
the accountability what we accept
is what we gonna continue to keep
you know we gonna keep following
for that mess every time
it's easy to follow for it when you're not
as again trained you ain't
being trained nobody saying that to you about it
ain't nobody putting it in your face
(31:56):
showing examples how somebody gonna know about it
won't know so
again
we hope you
enjoyed our black talk
we gonna get right back to it next week
next Thursday
next episode another time
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(32:18):
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a brand to brand ourselves
to other than just saying
it's just not just music podcast 100%
podcast is definitely in my blood
is definitely in me it's more
to it than just sitting up here talking about it
(32:40):
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(33:02):
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.