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

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Every day.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wait, Breakfast Club.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Y'all done? Morning?

Speaker 4 (00:07):
Everybody is dj n V just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club. Lona Roses here as well.
We got some special guest joining us this morning. Yes, indeed,
we have a Landy Smith here.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Good morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 6 (00:18):
We have Cee, Sir Williams, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
We have Fredrika Newton, good morning morning. And we have
fred Hampton Junior.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
How y'all feeling this morning?

Speaker 6 (00:26):
Man?

Speaker 7 (00:26):
We're blessed man Black and blessed man, blessed Black and
Holly favor. Yes, Sir Landy, why we all gathered here
today with all these amazing people?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Brother?

Speaker 5 (00:33):
Man?

Speaker 7 (00:34):
We we had a New York Fashion Week show about
about a month ago, man, and we were blessed to
have these individuals show up and walk on the fast
on the on the runway with us, along with uh
doctor Bernice King and Aliosha Sabbaz, the daughters of Malcolm
X and Marin Luther King. And the response to it,
the way that black people have responded to seeing these

(00:56):
people on the runway, knowing that this history wasn't that
long ago, Like that, try to tell us that it
was has been powerful man so actively black. The company
that I founded, we were built with the intention to
uplift and reinvest back into the black community. And uh,
these incredible legends have been supportive of the brand.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
So when you when you, I want you all to
know man Cecid Williams.

Speaker 8 (01:18):
Right, y'all know this legends picture right here, the brother
drinking out of the white's only water found. I always
wanted to ask you, mister Williams, was it a spontaneous
active rebellion or something something you plan to do as
a statement.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
It was a little bit of both.

Speaker 9 (01:32):
I was thirsty, but also there was a middle of
the sunshine of the summer. You know, it was evident
to myself t shirt. But also this was not the
first time I did this. There were many other times
that I felt I wanted to look close. Really I
was not satisfied, but living on the status sqrore and segregation.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
So this was.

Speaker 9 (01:55):
Something that I had done many times, and my mother
wanted me not to do it anymore. But I did
it again and this time it was photographed.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Did you feel fear in that moment or was your
faith stronger than your field?

Speaker 9 (02:04):
None?

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Whatsoever?

Speaker 9 (02:05):
This is about fifteen to twenty miles from Orangeburg and
on Highway twenty one and coming back from an assignment
for Jet magazine.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
But I never sent this picture to Jet.

Speaker 9 (02:14):
It was something that I held in the family, and
I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know,
given it to my mother and father to see, So
I hid it from them and never sent it to
Jet either.

Speaker 8 (02:25):
Wow, how did they get it?

Speaker 6 (02:29):
Maybe three or four years later.

Speaker 9 (02:31):
I showed it to them in a conversation one Sunday
afternoon doing a dinner. It kind of came out and
then I got chewed out.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (02:39):
What did that single act teach you about the power
of defiance in the faith of injustice?

Speaker 9 (02:45):
Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation,
it was something that we encountered all day long, from
birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period
of time felt again we were treated as subclass human being,
not being able to go to a store and go
into a rest room or go or drink get a

(03:07):
drink of water out of a fountain, or having to
go to a side window or go into a movie
theater and having to sit in a separate place or
not at all. So but again one thing that I
would like to that's maybe out of characteristic of many
southerns there were many good white.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
People at the time as well.

Speaker 9 (03:27):
You can't just put a blanket statement against that all
people treated us.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
There were many good hearted.

Speaker 9 (03:33):
White people at the time, and they were friends of
my family and they helped support our family so well.
There were some people in South Carolina again who live by,
who treated us as a status quo not being able
to do this or that.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
So crazy to think about it, like, you know, when
you have these conversations, we're really not that.

Speaker 6 (03:51):
Far removed from that at home.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
That's not saying like you don't you don't really think
about it like you said earlier, like we're not far
removed from racism. And even in the story that my
dad told me, I'm like, this is crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
This is what fifty years ago, sixty years.

Speaker 8 (04:04):
I got got one of my aunts. She said, I
don't know nothing about no I don't know nothing about
no integration. Yeah, she knew was segregating schools.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
Yeah, we had ruby bridges walked the roung way as well.
And it was a powerful moment because everybody remembers that
picture six year old little girl being escorted into the
school by federal marshals and Ruby just turned seventy one,
but you know, black on cracks, so she looks forty
five and she walks out on the runway. It made
it real to people like that same little girl in

(04:31):
that black and white photo is walking right here in
front of me. So that's that's the power of having
these individuals here with me, showing you know how close
we are to everything that we still fighting to this day.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Do y'all hate you, I'm sorry, Do y'all hate white people?
God damn right, And I'm gonna tell you why. When
I talked to my dad, my dad has a feeling
towards white people, right, And I always joke and I
laugh about it. But then when he tells me his
history of him being in the military, and you know,
they're in the same barracks. Then when they go get
some food, it's white only, and is people in the

(05:03):
barracks they go get food, he can't. Yeah, he talks
about the water fountain in the bathroom and all this
other stuff, and why he looks at white people the
way that he does, I understand it. So that's why
I ask you the same, each one of you.

Speaker 9 (05:18):
Well, that's brought to the forefront by Landy Smith and
again the fashion show. In fact, he labeled the fashion show.
This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are
just evidence of time and period we lived in America
that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring
it back, but it's long gone. But people at me

(05:39):
who had experienced this and people that were on the
show that was put together by this amazing brother who
has brought forth this apparel that again has criss crossed
across America and being put into the hands of today's generation.
T shirts and other things that he makes. We're not
going to stand for again segregating America. It's going to

(06:01):
be something that is long gone. And to answer your question,
there are again many many good white people. And again
there's a myths I think that all white people are bad.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
I was growing up in South Carolina was such a
mind fuck because to your point, I grew up around
a lot of good white people, but then we were
also aware of the white people who treated us like
sad as cool, like there's a certain places you knew
you weren't supposed to go but then I also had
my white friend and Thomas and his family who lived
right by me, so it was a class thing.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
So it's just it's just, i don't know, talk kind
of different.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
But the tag team. But you first, I'm chairman, Fred
Himpton Jr. I'm honored to be here again, conch fits
salute to this brother and his wife, his team. You
know what I'm saying, Because say everything's political, including fashion
able to get this peel in the apple sauce, these
type of discussions, it's a revolutionaries. It's a misnom about
like it's motivated your moves, how we move, it's a

(06:53):
hatred for someone else. Comandante uh Ernest though Chakovar said,
you know, a revolutionary no matter how preposterous it may sound,
it's got about the most sincereous sentiments of love. And
I'm not saying this sort of abstracts sort of way,
but we're talking about the work such organizations the Black
Panther Party. The motivation of getting up with the first
free breakfast programs, free busting programs, survival programs was not

(07:14):
directly at a hatred for anyone, you know what I'm saying,
But again, motivate for love for people. But let me
say this, though, I think all black people should get
like a mass Nobel Peace Prize, all of us.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
The fact that we ain't just on mass snapped out.
You know what I'm saying, it's a run that we
ain't motivated at a hatred. But again, and sometimes even
though it's a reactionary response is kind of justified.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
But again, for the record, it's a motive. Got a
love for the people.

Speaker 10 (07:39):
Like to echo if I could, Hi, I'm Frederica and
Huing Newton was my husband. And what came to mind
when you when you even asked that question was quote
from Hue that said, what motivates people is not hatred,
but it's love for other people. So my mother was white,
and she introduced me to Hue because she was doing

(08:01):
work with the Black Panther Party and she was the
only one that they trusted to do the real estate work.
So I couldn't. I did not grow up hating anyone.
But what I do hate is white supremacy and the
impact on black community. I actually hate that and the
impacts of the impact that has had on us. So again,

(08:23):
as my brother said, so eloquently as he always does,
as he always does, is that the Black Panther Party
service was out of love, out of love for black people,
out of love for oppressed people. And it wasn't it
wasn't guided by hate. So it's impossible for me to
hate anybody. I mean, I'm sorry, no, no, go ahead, now.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
I was glads.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
What's the biggest misconception people still have about the Black
Panther Party.

Speaker 10 (08:51):
I think there were two, and you can, sir join me.
One of them is that women were not in leadership
in the Black Panther Party.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Women were, in fact.

Speaker 10 (09:02):
Seventy percent of the membership at one point with women.
And the fact that Black Panther Party was a racist
organization and we worked in coalition with all organizations whose
common fight was against oppression. So those were two misnomers.
The history likes to talk about the misogyny and division

(09:27):
between black men and black women and the party, and
we came in with our own stuff. The average age
was seventeen in the Black Panther Party, so you had
pimps and educators, you.

Speaker 11 (09:39):
Know, all.

Speaker 10 (09:39):
And so we fought against we fought against homophobia, we
fought against misogyny and these things were we were called
out for those things. So you know, we were young
men and women whose motivation was love and people were
like his dad put their lives on the line and

(09:59):
gave them their lives out of love, not out of hatred.

Speaker 12 (10:03):
Did your mother ever, I know you said that your
mother was white. She see her face any hardships, I did.

Speaker 10 (10:11):
My mother's whole whole business was dismantled as a result
of her work with the party. The FBI has a
file this stick on my mother. So I grew up
also seeing the white people I knew growing up were
all progressive. So I saw the great sacrifices that she
made financially, emotionally, physically, as we all did.

Speaker 11 (10:33):
So yes, I did.

Speaker 13 (10:34):
Mss Frederick, How do you feel today when you see
like the government and different people honoring either Black Panther
Party or Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. And you know,
things were so different back then where you didn't feel
that support from the government owners well even even the
way that even the way they just talked about or
like portrayeding like movies and like you know, they use

(10:54):
it to make money off of the story and the
tales or whatever. But then you guys were cast out
and made to be these horrible people who were racist
and didn't want anything to do with progression.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
I see that doors are opening because we've done the work.
We've done the work to educate people on what the
true history was. I don't see the government supporting us.
I mean maybe local government. The city of Oakland has
given us a lot of support. We now have the
Black Panther Party Museum, and people travel internationally to come
see this museum from the because there has been no

(11:28):
history available. So I think that doors are opening, not
only with white people, but with black people too, because
black people were scared to.

Speaker 11 (11:35):
Embrace his history.

Speaker 10 (11:36):
And I know you could speak to that too, with
Judas and the Black Messiah.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's the exact team, which you know, I'll make sure
the narrative that time we talked about, you know, struggles
and some sort of abstract and starts sort of way.
But a manager at the Black Panther Party cubs and organizations,
as we say, it's tough act to follow, but not
to walk in the footsteps, but the path of all
steps of the Black Panther Party. And a lot of

(12:02):
times we talked, you know, I was looking to see
an interview I think in the late late eighties where
they had Muhammad Ali on they put him on a
Whai cereal box and then interviewer sayd why would you
put him on the weedy cereal box now? You want
to touch him before? And the representative for Weed seius,
who we do it now because he's because he's safe,
and we we say we serve hot politics and hot
food with our present day survival programs on and so forth.

(12:25):
And of course uhs tainted when the ruling class, you
know what I'm saying, because their position his storage. We even
talking about Malcolm Mixture about to march on Washington when
they positioned this and they can't stop it, co opt it,
wore it down, change it, mix, slain the beat. So
we have to like there was a lot of battles,
like even Judie and Black Messaiah we had to struggle
to us. Were subsequently ended with what I referred to
as a dream team with the cast and UH to

(12:47):
be able to put that path of cub peel in
the Apple sauce. It's it's humbling being oppressed, it's embarrassing
being oppressed. So a lot of times you know, we
got to work with different dynamics and getting to get
to get the message out, but still make sure we
maintain our politics France Fanad said, be able to accept
their concessions without compromise and our principles.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
So how do you just always protect the legacy of
the Panthers from being commercialized or white wise?

Speaker 2 (13:12):
That day a battle I'm talking, I just really come
in yesterday. I can't.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
I said, I got to sleep with my with the
bulletproof vests on a political bulletproof vests. You know what
I'm saying, because again in a lot of times it's
the farious intent or naivety. Sometimes you don't mean no harm.
They'll come in like even no, no, not out of egotistical,
but the title Chairman Fred, It's not egotistics, you know
what I'm saying. It's a struggle like for people you
respect the structured organization. The Black Panther Party wasn't just
some rag tag group of cats. You had to minister

(13:39):
defense up Newton and chairman Boby c and colonization and
impact our people so bad. Automatically, they respect ruling class titles.
They'll say professors such and such whatever. When it comes
to our people. You know what I'm saying, organization is
stead on its own terms. We struggle abou chairming Fred
and Defence Count tomork Clark. They were assassinated. You know
what I'm saying, We don't the other other community. They
don't play no games about you. You you wanted to turn,
they said, hold on. That's makes me very clear about

(14:01):
those terms political prisoners. When we jamali ma'am mean so
many others. We have the struggle again be consistent even
when it's non fashionable.

Speaker 8 (14:10):
Speaking of fashion, Uh Lanny, why was it important to
have these historical black figures walk into Actively Black fashion show?

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (14:18):
So one the tagline for Actively Black is there's greatness
in our DNA and very intentional about that because I
think over the centuries of oppression, subconsciously our people have accepted,
not I won't say accepted. Sometimes it seeks into our
subconscious that we are less than, not as good as
this is what has been told to us, this is

(14:38):
what has been preached to us for centuries. I'm trying
to rewrite that narrative. I'm trying to deprogram and reprogram
our own people to understand that there's greatness in our DNA.
It's literal greatness in the DNA that walked on that
runway when you see Malcolm and Martin's daughters walk on
that runway together. That DNA is something that has that

(14:59):
has move mountains, that has changed lives, you know what
I'm saying, And that exists within all of us. So
it was important for our people to see that, to
know that we are more than just our trauma, you
know what I mean. We have so much greatness inside
of us, and if we start acting out of that greatness,
that's how we can change things for our community.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
How difficult was it getting everybody in and how how
long did it taken?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
It was stressful.

Speaker 7 (15:26):
One there was a white supremacist who was killed by
another white man about a week before our show, and yeah, yeah,
and it sent some shockwaves through our plans because you're
talking about children of people who were assassinated, real political violence,

(15:49):
and so I had to reconvince Iliasa Shabaz and Doctor
King to still be a part of this show. There
were some safety concerns. We had to bring in three
extra teams of security just to make sure that they
were secure, because the rhetoric was that there was going
to be payback, which never made sense to me because
there was a white man that killed them, you know
what I mean. But I think the reason why I

(16:11):
was able to execute on that was the respect that
I had paid to these individuals before everyone you see
up here, Doctor King, doctor Eliosta Shabbaz. I went to
them and asked them for permission to put their family
members on this gear. I have licensing agreements with them
so that when we sell apparel, the Black Panther Party

(16:32):
Museum gets money, Fred Hampton, the Hampton House gets money.
Cecil Williams Museum gets money. Right the Sabbaz Center, the
King Center actively black pays them when we sell this
merch And so you can go on any market on
any weekend and you'll see a lot of us selling
this stuff, not realizing these people actually lost people in

(16:52):
this struggle and they weren't compensated right, And so I
think I earned a level of respect with them that
when I made that call and I asked, can you
walk on this wrong way for me? They answered the call.
And I feel so humbled. I mean, doctor King, when
she when she arrived, she gave me a signed speech
from from her father and she prayed with me, and
I broke down and cried. You know what I mean,

(17:13):
Like her schedule is crazy for her to move around
her travel schedule to be there for this show. Uh,
it's something I'm forever grateful.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Did y'all have any concerns, any security concerns at all?

Speaker 7 (17:24):
My man came and made sure we were we were,
we were, we were, We.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Were good with the security.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
We weren't gonna let nobody even get close to touching
you know this royalty.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, respect, no touch on his love of respect. Are
trying to say Black people we like, we like treat
like the Rodney Danger feels of all racist, no no respect,
and like even it's a real big thing with us,
like with the movie Julius and Black Massiry Ryan Cooler.
You know what I'm saying, the respect they can't this
brother here, I mean the respect. You know what I'm saying,

(17:54):
you can Uh, this video was a homeless brother told
me you can feel disrespect, but the respect that they
have again, that that helped set the stage. And I'm
saying how he came in, how we continued to move together.

Speaker 10 (18:04):
If I could say something about licensing rights and bootleg
you can go out any day of the week and
see Black Panther Party everything, And there's no way that
I could financially.

Speaker 11 (18:20):
Stop that.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
Lannie, how long did you try and get.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
In touch with us?

Speaker 10 (18:27):
For a few years And he didn't have to. He
didn't have to. He could have put Hughey's imagery. And
this is the second line that he's done. The first
was all power to the people where it was Black
Panther Party icons the cat. He didn't have to do that,
I mean, and he did. So I'll do anything to

(18:49):
support him and actively black, anything to support him because
of the respect that he played all of us is.
I'm just gonna say he didn't have to do it.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Man of integrity.

Speaker 11 (19:03):
He's a man of integrity.

Speaker 14 (19:05):
What does it mean to be actively black?

Speaker 7 (19:10):
That's such a layer question. And there's a reason why
I named it that you got to understand. When I
was starting to actively black. By the way, we'll celebrate
five years this Black Friday. We launched on Black Friday
twenty twenty. I had a lot of black people tell me,
don't name the company actively Black. I had black executives
tell me, if you put black in this name, it
will not be successful. And I realized that a lot

(19:35):
of them were speaking from a place of a fear
of working in corporate environments where they had to minimize
who they were in their identity, And so there's nothing
passive about what we have to do to uplift our people, right,
So it's a double entendre. I want our people to
be more healthy. We do free mental health events, we

(19:59):
do f activations where we're having people do yoga, sound, bath, meditation.
We're getting our people access to the things that they
need so that we can keep moving. That's the only
way the movement can keep going is if we're healthy
enough to keep moving. Right, So it's a double chandra.
We're active, we're brand, but also what we have to
do to uplift our people is nothing passive about this mission.

Speaker 13 (20:20):
How do you feel when creators Because I know a
lot of different artists, fashion designers or whatever that are
black that feel like they shouldn't have to have the
responsibility to do what you're doing in their work, and
they make it a point like they don't want to
be called black designers. They just want to be designers.
They don't want to have to you know, like Kirby

(20:40):
when he did the fashion show that he did that
talked about the attack on black lives. They feel like
they shouldn't have to do that because they're black. How
do you feel about creators that take that sense.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah, I disagree wholeheartedly. I've even seen so many of
our black figures make statements against championing Black.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Owned, which just really confuses me.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
You know what I mean, Because when we think about
the European designer that our people will spend our money on,
we look at something that's made in Italy or that's
Parisians as a feature, right, black owned is not a description,
it's a feature. We are the most creative people on earth.

(21:23):
We are the most soulful people on earth. It's a
feature to be black owned when you think about what
we've created from nothing, and so I champion it. But also,
I'm not a designer.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
You know.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
I didn't start this because I was a designer. I
went to design school. I'm a former basketball player. Hurt
my knee thirty days after I signed my first NBA contract.
This is not a world that I even thought I
was going to be in. Actively. Black is a purpose driven,
mission driven thing. I didn't even start this to make
the most money possible. It was how do I create
something that can uplift my people? And in twenty twenty

(22:02):
when after the murder George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and
Nahmad Aubrey, I saw a lot of the brands that
I grew up wearing make performative declarations about what they
were going to do for black people and never do it.
And you see four years later that's what it was.
It was performative. It was part of a marketing strategy.
And so my thought was, it's time for us to
stop asking for a seat at the table and build
our own table. You know, the McKenzie report that came

(22:23):
out in twenty twenty four says black people today it's
been between twenty to twenty five billion on apparel and
shoes annually. So when I'm talking about a reparation, it's reclamation.
It's something that if we turn our influence, our global
influence inward to something that we own that champions us.
How powerful is that if we're giving back to not

(22:45):
only these folks, but to our community at the size
that we are. Now, what happens when we build the
black owned version of Nike? You know what happens when
actively Black is a multi billion dollar brand that can
keep doing what we're doing.

Speaker 9 (22:56):
And by the way, Matt pickaback on, that image of
drinking out of the fountain had been you might say,
stolen over decades, used without giving asking permission.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
When Lady Smith, an active right.

Speaker 9 (23:12):
Came in to photograph us, he said he was going
to give us a contribution to our non profit museum.
We have the first and only civil rights museum in
South Carolina, the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. And forty
five days after again this brother and his brand, his
crew came in and photographed us and put this image

(23:32):
on his peril. We got a check from him, well,
PayPal if.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
You want to.

Speaker 9 (23:39):
And then again after the New York Show again they
sold I think maybe about fifty thousand dollars more T shirts.
They sent me another check, so they reciprocate. But what
he's doing here is so ingenious because it's little known
that the power impact of one image, say an image,
an image is eight times more, if active, than the

(24:00):
written language. And educators should begin to use this in
our systems today, teaching everyone and having that power and
capacity to see no longer is it really going to
be a reading, writing, and arithmetic. It's going to be reading,
writing and seeing or looking and with AI making his presence.
So this brother is using images to make an impact.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
So what.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
My fellow individuals here are doing and myself, we are
bringing it again the sacrifices that we where we paved
the way for today's generation forward and the power and
impact to make this relative today is immeasurable by again
such access.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
What he's doing to put images on.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
T shirts looks so clean in that picture. What you
was doing for money back then?

Speaker 9 (24:51):
By the season, I was taking pictures. I took pictures
ever since I was nine years old, and at twelve
years old, I found out I could make money. I
did a waiting for thirty five dollars.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
And we're homeboys in.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
South Carolina's home state. So you know, as you know,
we don't give up. But by the way, when you
ask a question about again.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
About you know, what's.

Speaker 9 (25:13):
Happened today and things like that, we're not going back.
We as the people have fought too long and too hard,
and not only that, we have the stamina to face
anything that's going on in America today. We're not going
back to that. The young people not going to stand
for it. The middle aged people are not going to
stand for it. And the old people like us who

(25:33):
have actually experienced this, we're not going back. It's going
to be we're going forward with democracy, freedom and justice.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
Do you believe today's generation carries the same spirit or
sacrifice that your generation did?

Speaker 9 (25:46):
Yes, it's just that it has not been focused on
and utilize. But things like this act that this brother
put together will help to materialize this. It would be
amazing of how he has really put into motion millions
of people across these the states, which simple as simple
as an image on a T shirt, this classic image
here of Huet Newton, a statement that again you can't

(26:10):
really measure the impact.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
That that will be to young minds who.

Speaker 9 (26:14):
Are growing up and again reading, writing, arithmetic had its
place in our education. But again it's a different thing
again five and six years old people, our students and
our youth using cell phones. And so it's amazing of
what the future is going to bring with this kind
of instant learning that we are now accustomed to.

Speaker 8 (26:36):
You you know, you know, Landy, you have put a
post up and you said all the black people who
have said posted and reposted, I am not my ancestors.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Get ready.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
The chance to prove that statement is coming soon. It's
easy for us to talk tough while not living in
Jim Crow and this Jim Crow two point oho is
fully installed. Were going to see that ancestor in passing
in real time.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Yeah, so how do you?

Speaker 8 (26:55):
How do you want folks to show up? Because I
agree with you, I don't know if they got the
we got to stand.

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
I love the optimism here, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
But you know, I see people make that statement I
am not, we are not our ancestors, and it.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Pisches me off.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
You know what I mean when you think about the
sacrifices that were made. We can't stay out of certain stores,
you know what I'm saying. I've been telling people, hey,
Lululemon don't want you, come get these types from actively Black.
We can't stay out of certain stores, and they tell
us they don't want us. So I don't know that
we have collectively our generation and the younger generation shown

(27:30):
that we have that level of sacrifice and grit that
it takes. You know, people gave their lives.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (27:35):
I'm reading rereading ASADA's biography and just when you read
the things that she went through as a revolutionary for
our people, I don't know to me, people that's willing.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
To give up so much for the struggle. It's people
that have told.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Me, man, I love actively black silently, but I can't
publicly support it because I might lose this or somebody
might be So if if you scared to lose a check,
if you're scared to what these people are gonna think
of you for being boldly black, then you don't. You're
definitely not our ancestors. Because our ancestors are willing to
die for this. And so that's what I meant by that, Like,

(28:14):
we're gonna find out soon we see what's happening in
this country. We're gonna see who's willing to actually stand
up and be like our ancestors.

Speaker 8 (28:21):
You know, brother Seeson, you've witnessed you know, segregation, civil
rights marches, movements like Black Lives Matter. How do you
see the evolution of protest in America?

Speaker 9 (28:30):
Well, I think today with social media and other kinds
of things that we have in our society that runs
rampart through all from middle school children on up, we
have different tools for today's environment and for today is
our position and the things that are again oppressive to

(28:50):
us as a people. But one thing is gonna remain
of the same we as African Americans have as a
stamma we he come from again, see very apply what's
out the in our DNA to withstand the heat, withstand
the pressure, and to move on. But again, as I
say there a minute ago, I believe that today's generation

(29:12):
we have the they have the capacity to do it.
It's just that they have not been focused in the
right and so we're kind of running around englessly without
the unit say their leadership to what we can do today.
But just for example, suppose, for example, people of color
were to unite. Suppose Jewish people, Hispanic people, African American people,

(29:38):
our Indian brothers, our East Indian brothers, our Native Americans.
So by the way, whose history has been wiped off
the face of the earth by may or the fact
that they just stood down and withstood European settlements in
this country. Just think if people of color would unite.
They just think of the political possibilities of that coalition.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
I think, I think we I think we have to
be we have to unite ourselves first. That's that's you know,
there's there's so there's so many things that divide us.
We still got diaspora, a wars, We still have so
much toxicity when it comes to even between black men
and black women. I think if we can unite first,
I think everybody else gonna follow our.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Lead like they always do, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (30:20):
So yeah, that's that's part of my plan and my
mission with Actively Black is to be that flag, that
banner that we can all fly under. I'm not just
building this just for Black America. I'm building this for
the entire diaspora, you know what I mean when I
say actively Black.

Speaker 13 (30:36):
I know there's always the conversations about reparations. Is there
a way do you guys feel like and is there
a way that you feel like you could ever be
really repaid for what your families have had to go through,
what you've had to experience, Because people make that conversation
so simple of like we should re receiving this because
we went through this, But you guys personally experienced so

(30:56):
much loss and hurt, like is that or is there
a real antwer to that for you?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
No, of course, no matter resources can commensate. You know
what I'm saying, and I'm gonna say this, the terrorism
that we've been subjected to. In fact, we say that,
you know, every day is septimty eleven for us, and
in fact we define these some of the Fourth Fro
nineteen sixty nine, amongst other days. It's one of our
Septement eleven stories. Uh, we say yesterday and two of
our twin towers quote unquote Feil chairman friend defensing the

(31:24):
Marl Claque. But just the question of resource, I mean,
reparations are deep. Uh definitely, Uh, economists the resources player
key roll. But the political significance of this is important too,
how we view ourselves. A lot of our people don't
think were worthy of being attacked, and like we have to,
you know what I'm saying, So for the rooting class
in particular, to acknowledge that, you know what I'm saying again,

(31:45):
these we are we are I say, black people, We
the ov not the old g's. We had the original
victims of terrorism, people who have been terrorismals. So euphanism
as slavery, Jim Crow red lining, deaths passing away. So
just so that that discussion, I mean that that's hop
and so many other communities different people don't reparations. Why
is it such a position not to talk about that
with the black community and reparation even more than the economics. Uh,

(32:09):
the bodies the most valuable resources that they have been
stolen from our people. With black bodies. We got political
prisoners who are still locked up. We got to get that,
you know, say, and the resource the finance too.

Speaker 10 (32:18):
You know, I wanted to address the question that you
asked before about the ancestors and how does it feel.
It saddens me when when I see those posts on online,
but it also makes me think that it's it's real
evidence of of lack of education around what ancestors. So

(32:43):
it's by design, And here's evidence that there's misinformation. Even
my own grandchildren when I when I overhear what they're learning,
what they're what they're taught in school. And my own
son and my grandchildren get no history on revolutionary organizations
like the Black Panther Party. So this is just further evidence.

(33:05):
When you see something so ignorant that says we are
not our ancestors, I said, you're actually not. But had
you read about what your ancestors actually did, what they
actually did instead of the sanitized version of Martin and
Malcolm and the Black Panther Party and all the history
that was erased. Then you would be proud to say,

(33:26):
I want to be like my ancestors.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
That's my goal.

Speaker 12 (33:29):
And it's so scary because they're really trying to delete
and get rid of all of our history. So, like
you just said, your grandkids, they don't the things that
they're being taught. It's not even of what you all
went through or actually don't know the first thing about it,
you know.

Speaker 14 (33:45):
So it's like, how does history lessons go for you?
Are you their teacher?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Then?

Speaker 12 (33:50):
Like do you how do you handle that when you
see what they're being taught and what they're not being taught?

Speaker 10 (33:56):
I thank god I have a museum that they as
as Cecil so aptly said, black people are visual and
the Black Panther Party knew that and they're visual learners.
We weren't necessarily a reading community. So at the beginning,
at the end the front and the back of every
Black Panther Party newspaper which is in publication for thirteen years,

(34:19):
there was images. Emry Douglas a Sally Dixon were our
artists and they painted, they drew what was more impactful
than what they would have read had they read. My
kids are the same way. They come and they see
the images in the museum and they ask questions. It
impacts them. When I brought my granddaughter to the Actively

(34:41):
Black show two years ago and my grandson this time,
and they were blown away. My grandson way, hold up,
that's Ruby Bridges, Nana, and when it was Tommy Smith
and John Carli.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
What.

Speaker 10 (34:54):
He's fifteen years old, so he is learning some history,
but to see it in living color and him wearing
he only wears actively black. He only wears actively black
apparel to school. This almost makes me cry because he
only would wear Nike before. He would only wear Nike,

(35:14):
and I try and to talk to him about what's
going on, but he only wears actively black.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
The beauty of what Landy's doing though.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
He got the images, but then he got the people
to tell the story.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
What scares me is that we live in.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
An era where people can make up images and make
up stories.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Behind those images.

Speaker 8 (35:34):
So I don't know why we have so much faith
in you know, the images of this error moving forward?

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Yeah, I mean I think that was also part of
the strength of what we did with the show, right,
it was not just the imagery, It wasn't just the videos.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Is people being able to see them in person, you know.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
So I know one of the things we've talked about,
doctor Eliosis Abiza talked about, Doctor Kenye has talked about
is taking what we did in New York Fashion Week,
going on tour, letting people see Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton, Sherman,
fred Hampton Junior in person, seeing Ruby Bridges walk out
in person, because that, you know, AI can't do that, you.

Speaker 12 (36:10):
Know what I mean, and something I think is really
really dope, you know, but I just want to make
sure it's true your clothing products are made from cotton
from black farmers or is that a specific line specific line?

Speaker 7 (36:20):
So you know, when Trump announced the one hundred and
fifty percent tariffs, it really impacted us. Most of our
performance apparel at leisure apparel is made from overseas, so
we were trying to look to find the domestic partner
to see what we could get done here in the
United States. And I thought about these black farmers who
have lost ninety percent of their land in the last

(36:41):
seventy five years. So we used to own twenty million
acres of farmland black farmers. We now only own three
million acres of farmland, and in the next twenty years
that could potentially go to zero. So we partner with
bridge Forth Farms, a fifth generation black farmer, and we
to cotton directly from them. So the hoodie I'm wearing

(37:04):
right now, it shows on the back it says made
from cotton.

Speaker 14 (37:10):
From cotton.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
So when people when people buy this product, when they
buying this hoodie and they buying a cotton shirt, there's
money that's going directly to these black farmers who have
been historically discriminated against from the government, and there's some
power in it. It's a story of reclamation. People don't
understand that the entire United States economy was built off

(37:35):
the backs of slavery and cotton. And we're talking about
trillion trillions of dollars in today's money that was generated
that our people were kept out of. So what happens
when we reclaim this thing that was once used.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
To enslave us? What if we use that to save us?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (37:51):
And that's what I've been trying to get people to understand,
especially about this collection. In particular, I had black people
telling me, man that the cotton shirt is too expensive,
the hoodie is too expensive. It's like, man, you'll go
spend eight hundred dollars on that Louis. You'll go spend
it on that Gucci. But you're telling me that this
collection that is literally from cotton grown by black farmers

(38:12):
that are supporting us, that that black dollar recirculates in
our community, it's too expensive. And that's an issue of
how we value ourselves versus the things that we value
from other people, not understanding that we are the sauce
and the seasoning. We are the originators of all of
this that gets colonized, repackaged and sold back to us.

Speaker 14 (38:33):
That is actively black though.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
That is dope.

Speaker 14 (38:35):
That is a flex made from cotton grown by black farmers.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
No, you cooked up with Michael Jackson State and did
a Michael Jackson collab. How difficult was that?

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Honestly, you know these collabs have come in away, that
these doors have been opened where now it's they're they're
coming at us. I got a shout out Damon John,
founder of Food, because it started with him. He reached
out to do a Footboo collab we sat down, talked

(39:07):
about it, got everything straight, and he asked me, what
else are you working on? And I showed him a
concept of a Black Panther actively Black collab because the
movie that came out in twenty eighteen was such an
inspiration to me. He picked up the phone in the
middle of the meeting and called the head of licensing
for Marvel and Disney and said, y'all need to see
what I just saw. So our first major collaboration was
for Wakanda Forever, and when that happened, it just kind

(39:29):
of opened the floodgates. The Bob Marley estate reached out
ahead of the One Love movie, So that's how we
got that collaboration.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
We've got one with the Tupac A State as well.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
So now that you know, they saw that we operated
in excellence in the way that we executed on these collaborations,
So now the doors have been opened. So we got
a Bosqueyach collab coming out this December. It'll release that
art basel all of these these these legends in black history, charlamage.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
You wearing the Mhammad Ali collab that we got.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
Lanni Ali literally told me, she said, we've done collapsed
with every brand you could think of. But my husband
stood for way more than what he just did in
the ring. I believe actively black can tell a story
they can't tell. So I think that's that's the power
of what we're doing with actively black.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
I want to ask you, brother, fred your father once
said you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill
the revolution. So what does that revolution look like in
twenty twenty five? I want you to chime in on
that to Frederick.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
A couple of things. I think people get involved in
struggle or become quote unquote conscious one of three ways inspiration,
aspiration or desperation, And there's are definitely different depthent times.
That's them to the war and the revolution. The war
you get your respective armies, you suit up and you boot
up and you get out to get out. Revolution you
gain the mass and participation on the masters of the
people these times right now, quote from Lennon and say

(40:54):
what it takes people twenty years and learn in ordinary times,
they can learn in two years, and revolutionary times often
said that I'm a revolutionary in reaction every time. So
right now you see, like at warp speed, the different
type of discussions you look in nineteen sixty sixty during
the Black Power movement, you had a different sort of athlete,
you had a different sort of entertainer. It was a
climate where Marvin Gaye was able to go against Bear

(41:16):
Gordon Red records, I'm gonna put this song out, what's
going on, whether you like it or not. It was
a climate where James Brown, who had a whole totally
different song played at first, well, ah try Brown, I know,
see man, I mean, went to drove down on him
and he say get up to ante. He came back
out said I'm black and I'm proud. Even at different
street tribes, a lot of people refer to as the gangs.
You had the Devil Disciples in Chicago's get up publicly

(41:36):
and say we now renowned ourself that we know it's
the Black Disciples. Due to doing doing part to the
political education we received from chairman I hotly respect chairman
with the black chairman for wepons, the party impacted on
them the vice laws.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I said. The FBI tried to post the vice laws
in Chicago to him.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
They'd give them a certain portion of the West Side
if the Path of Party couldn't open a free medical
center chairman Fred won these brothers and sisters to a
point of unity. But they subsequently worked to the Free
Medical Center and by the government's own account, they own records.
They say it was a record load. So they call
black on black crime. So to go to the heart
of the question, that's what is these type of dynamics,
you know what I'm saying where you know that it's

(42:12):
our relationships, our music, our discussions.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
It's a whole. You can feel it.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
My mother tells me, I like to call them war
and love stories. She comes, you know, saying two three
in the morning, you know, say coming down street.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
The people.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
You know what I'm saying, uh not not drunks or wine.
Here is who are demoralized even the terms with you
know what I'm saying, who the more they are power
to the people, you know what I'm saying, A different climate,
That's what I'm saying. And you can see it even
now I'm watching right now your cargo. You can see
it the type of discussion that are being up and
a lot of people are forced to have the discussion
and say this enclosing, people talk about the segregation like

(42:43):
oh we stuck together, Oh no, this is all so
you cannot negate the lot of people were forced together.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
You talk about the sixties, this, don't get don't talk
about the nice things you got, you get. You cannot
negate Nixon's role. You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna
say this, he turns more than me black. He turns
more than me black. But now he don't believe me
like I can live it right now. Hear what you're
saying now, chairman.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
Yeah, the the lines have been drawn, and and to
your points, it's forcing people to pick which.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
Side they're gonna be on.

Speaker 7 (43:11):
And for a long time, when we got comfortable, there
are a lot of our own people who would straddle
that line. And now that the lines are drawn, where
you're seeing the Black History Museum being attacked, when you're
seeing these things happen, where's so blatant you can't hide
behind straddling that line. And and we're even seeing it

(43:32):
with actively Black. A lot of black people who are
afraid to put on the brand because it said actively black.
They're now like, yo, I need that because whether you
wear this or not, your your your melanin ain't gonna
change you black and you're gonna you're gonna and you're
gonna be treated as such.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
So if that's the case, you might as well, you know,
rep this gang. You know what I'm saying, Like, let
this be the set that you claim. You know, the
the the KKK, the Proud Boys, they still walking around.
We should have no beef with another black man while
these people who have taken our lives are still walking around.
You want to you wanna you want to run up

(44:11):
on somebody, run up on these white supremacists. You know
what I'm saying. And so I think that's what you're
saying is we're gonna see our own, who may have
been turned against each other, We're gonna be forced to
come together to turn against the real opposition.

Speaker 12 (44:22):
Fredie, you can see someone look is miss Frederica and
miss the Seacool.

Speaker 11 (44:28):
You are killing me.

Speaker 6 (44:32):
The whole time.

Speaker 14 (44:32):
You know, you've just been saying the names, brother, Frederica.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Brother.

Speaker 9 (44:36):
The path forward for us after the Americans and people
of color is we've got to write our on stories.
You see, it's a difference in say, let's say a
famous fable is Native Americans on the shores of plumbous

(44:56):
rock and they see three ships come over, and the
guy gets off the ship and says, I discovered America
or whatever. The Indians didn't write those stories. It was
written from a European standpoint. So we've got to today
the path forward with us. We've got to write our
on stories, we've got to tell, we've got to make
investments and so forth. I admire what you're doing in

(45:17):
my town of Orangeburg, the town where there's two HBCUs.
You have established the crystal restaurants. I started to bring
you a crystal Hamburger by the way. Okay, well come
back and see see our museum. But we've got to
invest and become we are the world's greatest.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
Prosumers, you know, consumers.

Speaker 9 (45:39):
We all really move that though other than say we
are also producers. We make things, We manufacture things. Content
creation for example, or something we could do, and the
power we have to on podcasts such as we're doing
making reaching millions of people at the time. This is
what we've got to do in the path forward, to
come together and come to groups of what's happened to day.

(46:02):
And this is what if if I were Hugh and Newton.
I may Cecil Williams, Yes, from the small act of
defiance that I did.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
But this is what we must know today to get
it all together.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Mister fred rig.

Speaker 10 (46:17):
As a seventy three year old woman, my act of
revolution looks different than when I was seventeen, and so
all I can not All I can do. What I
can do, first of all, is know that revolution looks
like many things in the world that I live in

(46:39):
and that I create. Revolution looks like bringing people who
wouldn't ordinarily be together in the same room together. People
who wouldn't never embrace this Black Panther Party not only history,
but be proud of it, are now proud of it.
As a result of the work that we've done. There

(47:01):
are organizations that asked me to speak, that visit our museum.
As Lanny said earlier, who would never I'm talking about
black people who would never have embraced his history before
out of fear. But because we talk about heightening the contradiction,
they are now forced forced to embrace this history. And

(47:22):
so I can't speak to the broader what revolutionary, what
revolution looks like, but I can do my work to
make sure that this history is available. So that people
learn about our victories and our mistakes. One of the
things we talk about is for young revolutionaries today to
make sure that they address their own mental, spiritual, and

(47:46):
physical health. That you cannot be impactful and effective if
you are broken inside, if you're not whole. And that's
one thing that I mean, we were fighting for our
lives every day. We didn't have the luxury to meditate
like this woman did or even know the importance of
so as a result, you have a lot of wounded

(48:06):
comrades who have not who didn't have the luxury of
taking care of themselves, have trauma that was never addressed.
So that's what at the museum and the doctor Huey P.
Newton's Foundation just celebrated thirty years this month of existence,
and at this museum, thank you. We we address all
of the needs, the physical and emotional needs. We have meditation,

(48:30):
we have sound baths, we have I mean, this month
we're just full of full of activities so that we
can keep ourselves healthy while we fight this war.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
I'm glad you said I could always say.

Speaker 8 (48:40):
I feel like our generation is the first generation that
has the luxury of healing.

Speaker 13 (48:44):
Yeah, all, thank god, Thank God, we were somebody yesterday,
like even a luxury to just kind of like take
the time to educate yourself, like stop like and just
watch something or learn something. A lot of times people
didn't have that, Like you literally had to fight every
minute of your life just to be okay.

Speaker 10 (49:00):
Twenty four hours a day. We didn't just check in
and punch of time clock and we didn't get paid.
So it's completely volunteer and we live collectively. And at
night you were on watch to make sure that the
police did not didn't shoot up where you were living.
So this was I mean real life for a revolutionary
at that time, and so we didn't have the luxury

(49:22):
to even talk about recreation or taking care of ourselves.
I think when I met Erica, when Erica Huggins, when
she came home from prison, she was the first person
I knew in the party who would meditate, and she
taught She brought Hughey to that practice where he started
to meditate and to embrace this whole spiritual aspect of revolution.

(49:43):
We can't be effective if we're not taking.

Speaker 11 (49:45):
Care of ourselves.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Can I ask? What was Huey P. Newton's vision for
freedom beyond revolution? Like what did peace look like to him?

Speaker 10 (49:55):
Piece I think was the absence of any fear, the
absence of to live life without fear of gosh, it's
a question that I never asked him. I don't know
that he ever attained I don't know. I know that
he didn't never attain himself in his own life. But
I think maybe peace was the absence of feeling fear

(50:16):
about being black, you know, just to to feel to
know that your children were not subject to the same
things that he was, that our grandchildren could could live
a life.

Speaker 11 (50:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (50:33):
It's so hard to visualize because I've never had.

Speaker 7 (50:36):
It, and we and we've been so we've been so conditioned,
and you know, when you just said that, it sparked
you know, I want to make sure I recognize her,
the black woman behind actively black. He's here, Beyonca Winslow.
I could not do this without her. But we're getting
ready to welcome our first child into this world. Thank you,

(50:57):
Thank you. I got a son on the way. There's
there's greatness in his DNA. But when you said that,
one of the things that I started thinking about was
I gotta have conversations with him about when the police
get behind you. This is how you gotta react that
that fear that we don't even realize is embedded because
we've had to deal with it for so long, the
things that that we have to prepare for that other

(51:18):
people who are not black, they don't have to think
about those things. So when you say that peace is
like the absence of fear, that was that really struck
me because it's been heavy on my mind the world
that my son is getting ready to answer.

Speaker 10 (51:31):
It's true. I mean I wore out my carpet when
my son got his driver's license, in particular because I
wasn't afraid that he would get an accident. I was
afraid that he would be killed by the police. And
I don't you know, that's not something that everybody has.
White folks don't grow up thinking that they're gonna have

(51:51):
to have that talk with their kids. But that's in
our DNA. That's that's reproductive survival success.

Speaker 11 (52:00):
To make sure that our kids know the real truth.

Speaker 10 (52:04):
That's a revolutionary Yet, to have to prepare your kid
to live, I want to. I want my grandchildren not
to have to prepare their sons and daughters in the
same way I had to prepare their dad.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Well, we appreciate you for joining us. How can people
pick up some of your clothesline and.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
Actively black dot com. You can find us on all
social networks Actively Black. What you see here is the
result of the tribe of so many black people supporting
Actively Black. That fashion show. We didn't have any major
sponsors who funded it. We had to come out of pocket.
We had to come out of what was generated because

(52:45):
people supported the brand. And that's the importance of buying
Black owned. That's why it's important to buy Black owned.
It's not just another T shirt, it's not just another hoodie.
It allows us to reinvest back into our communities. It
allows us as actively Black to support these living legends.
I just got to say this one last thing because
it's what inspired me to reach out to these living legends.

(53:07):
I read a story that Rosa Parks was facing eviction
in the later part of her life, and that pissed
me off because how can somebody who made so many
sacrifices for us, all the people who made money off
of the movement, how could nobody have been taken care
of her?

Speaker 5 (53:20):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (53:21):
And when I read that story, I was like, who
can I find who's still living that we can support.
And so the first people I reached out to were
John Carlos and Tommy Smith, famous for that nineteen sixty
eight photo at the Olympics, and that was our actual
first collaboration. And I did it because I was able
to sell this product and cut them a check.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
We got to take care of the ones who paved
the way for us so that we can continue. So
that's why I champion buying black owns so much. Have
some grace for black founders. We get less than zero
point three percent of all venture capital investment. We are
building from underneath the ground. When you look at skyscrapers,
they dig one hundred and twenty meters deep in the

(54:04):
ground before they start building upwards. A lot of times
our own people give up on us before we've even
cracked the surface. We are building from underneath the ground.
We need y'all support so that we can actually build
the skyscraper so you can see that one day. You know,
there's no reason why we shouldn't have our own Nike.
That's what actively black is. When we build this multi
billion dollar brand, it's not for my personal wealth. It's

(54:27):
for us to uplift our people actively Black dot com.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
Hell I want, I want, I want a brother, sister, Frederica,
give them the museum websites.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Yeah, some people can donate.

Speaker 6 (54:35):
Well, you can go to Cecil Williams Music.

Speaker 9 (54:39):
I'm sorry, South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. But we also
have a way of like PayPal and the email address
there and several other ways. But we're easily find We're
again in the college town of Orange, big South Carolina,
and we need your supporter, even dollars. One dollar helps,
So please support us as that's right.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
If you part guests, I want to make sure you
get this and then and then so so Fridie could
close us out, make sure you got that.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
What's that?

Speaker 10 (55:07):
What's the museum Black the Black Panther Party Museum on.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
We'll Fredrika, he just gave it to me.

Speaker 11 (55:19):
That's all I said. Was on Instagram.

Speaker 10 (55:22):
Is at the Black Panther Party Museum and the doctor
Huey P. Newton Foundation celebrating thirty years this year. Please
come visit us in Oakland, California, Black Panther Party Museum.
We're open, I mean we're and we're packed. So this
month celebrates the Black Panther Party History Month and we're
full of celebrations, so please visit us there.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Thank you, okay uh. Also I'm thank you for having
us here. Finsfide Saluta our fellow Paltlis Clinch fist salut
is actively Black the Civil fourth International Revolutionary Day come
to Chicago. Also the Hampton House dot org. We get
programs going to child homem Chamber of Friend Hampton maybe
Illinois again Hampton House dot org. On the close out

(56:04):
to this quo back minutes to doctor U. E. P.
Newton pictures were for a thousand words, but action and supreme.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Way.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
This is a quality product that this brother.

Speaker 9 (56:14):
One of the things that impressed me, like I've had
many few and thank got so much for or something. Well,
when I first felt the quality of the materials and
what he was doing, that convinced me that this was
the right brothers the sport. So it equals anything that's
out there, you know, all the apparel that he is
making now and all the things that he does, he
deal he works at the top of the line, first class.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Well, it's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Good morning, Thank you guys, Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
Every day a week ago, clicks up the breakfast Club'll done.