Episode 503- Weekday edition ( Thursday)The Narrative Podcast

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Without the Narrative Podcast.

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Whatever, peace, peace, peace, family, peace, peopond on this terrific Thursday.
You're now tapped into another edition of the mighty Mighty

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Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast is a home of original people,
original people, peace, original people, respirosity and original people positivity.
The near. The podcast promotes positive frames of reference about
original people, then original people culture. The Narrative Podcast provides

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positive frames of reference about original people and original people culture.
Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. I am your host, Halsy Allen.
Welcome all my narrators, peace piece piece. Alright, so.

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How's everybody doing today?

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Great? I hope you got some good stuff planned and
you know I planning your weekend accordingly. But you know, we.

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Still got time to finish this.

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Week day strong. We got today and tomorrow to make
some major moves, so you know, manage your time wisely
and do what you need to do to finish this
weekday strong. But anyway, welcome to the Narrative podcasts Uh
for those uh they're an unfamiliar with me and my platform,

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The Narrative Podcast is an all black platform. If I
speak about all Black content, all things black, covering anything
in the news from the black perspective. So just to
give you a h a brief introduction to the Narrative Podcast, UH.
The Narrative Podcast highlights the beauty, strength, and resilience of

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the Black community, covering topics such as black love, empowerment, unity,
and progression near The podcast also dives deep into discussions
about black health, economic wealth, innovation, and positive reinforcement of
Black voices. Tune in week days and week ends to

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hear stories about uplifting news and they focus on the
achievements of Black individuals across the globe. So essentially, this
is the Black Black, Black Black Podcast. You know, my
core mission statement is to promote positive reinforcement of our
people and our culture and to you know, normalize UH

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us being positive UH towards one another and upholding our
rich heritage and you know, cultural traditions that make us us. So,
you know, celebrating the accomplishments and achievements of our people
and magnifying and highlighting all our UH tenacity, resilience and

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accomplishments that we've achieved over the course of time here
in the United States and America and abroad, so you know,
that's what this podcast is all about. So how I
typically start things off is I have a a I

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provide a comparison and contrast of my two different format styles.
I broadcast during the weekdays and the weekends, so you know,
I give you a just a brief glimpse into both,
you know, format styles to let you know how I
be presenting my material. And then from there I go

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on to a promotional portion of uh the podcast. Uh,
this podcast comes with a monthly maintenance feed, and I
have some projects you know, to generate uh, the sufficient
amount of income to you know, keep this podcast going,
So I'll be plugging and promoting those.

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Uh projects.

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And then after I'm done with the promotional portion of
the narrative podcast, I provide a broad overview of the platform,
just let you know, you know, what the podcast is about.

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In broader detail, just all the nuances.

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You need to be aware of on listening to the podcast.
You know, it's the longest part of my program, but
it's essential to you know, provide the listeners with everything
they need to know to you know, make the listening
experience more enjoyable, so you'll be able to keep up

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with the content better and you will see the bigger
picture where I'm going with the content and be able
to apply in real time and get the maximum benefit
from listening to the platform. So that's why I do
a broad overview of the you know platform before diving
into the uh material and then the actual content itself.

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So yeah, try to keep everything short.

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And to the points. UH basically I get, I uh
provide a positive frame of reference. You know. That's my
main focus is to provide positive frames of reference about
our people and our culture. And then after I uh,
you know, I build all my content around my uh

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positive frame of reference that I'm providing for that day,
So I break down uh all my content in down
in the sections, and these sections has speaking points, so
you know, that's pretty much the breakdown of the narrative podcast.
As a matter of fact, I have a slogan for
my podcast, the Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode

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at a time by destroying negative stereotypes about our people
and our culture. How do I destroy the negative stereotypes
about our people in our culture by providing positive frames
of reference about our people in our culture. And that's
the UH absolute you know, overall this statement for the
narrative podcast is by positive frames of reference about original

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people and original people culture. And I'll be breaking down
the original people part momentarily.

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So at first, let's get right on into it.

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With the UH format style breakdown. So first and foremost,
I brought the cast UH during weekdays and weekends.

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So I'll be breaking down my weekday.

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Format first, as it is Thursday a weekday, So the
primary focus is to provide positive frames of reference about
our people and our culture. And my positive frame of
reference that I focus on during the week days is
positive news articles. And the reason why I focus on

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delivering positive news articles during the week days is because
all weekday long, we are being subjected to and embarded
with negative news about you know, our people and our culture.
Our images and likenesses are corrupted by the people that

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run the media, and it's a form of psychological attack.
It's actually psychological programming and conditioning at its finest. What
they do is take and corrupt our images and likenesses
by playing up negative stereotypes and stigmas about our people

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and our culture. So you know, it's in it's definitely
a form of propaganda. Used against our people to you know,
reinforce white supremacy and then also you know, create a
wealth gap between our people and dominant society, which just

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happens to be you know, white people. So you know
that's the play. And that's why I provide the positive
news articles during the weekday to you know, in an
attempt to undo that psychological programming and conditioning, and then

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also to demonstrate the positive things do happen within our
community and we are not the uh negative images that
they portray us to be. And so when I also
say media, I don't just mean the news like news

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and news outlets. I mean all forms of media. I
mean uh, books, television shows, movies, you know, advertisements, all
forms of media any you know, any form of media,
our people are depicted in a negative way or a

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stereotypical way. So after I deliver my positive frame of
reference of you know, positive news articles, from there, I
move on to a section that I uh call my
speaking point sections. So basically, I'm a podcaster. All podcasters

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talk about current events and relevant issues, and I'm no different.
I'm an audio podcaster, So you know, I don't have
any visual content to give you, but all the things
that I speak about are from you know, our people's perspective.
So whatever's going on in the world, whether it's national

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news or global news or just things uh pertaining directly
to our people coming out from our community and about
someone in our community, I'm breaking it down from our perspective.
You know what that means to us, how that news
equates to u uh our position in life and status

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and whatever we're going through. You know, I'm breaking it
down from our angle. And what I'm doing in this
section is I'm controlling the narrative, cause the media go
out of its way to have its looking and sounding crazy.
So I'm bringing b everything back into focus through my

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speaking point section. In the rare instance that I don't
have anything to speak about or I don't feel any things,
you know, poignant or relevant to speak on that's happening
in the news, I'll replace this section with a PSA section.

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And my PSA is just basically a speaking point.

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More derivative of you know, social observations that I'm making
about our people. You know, things I feel as a
people we need to work on, you know, to improve
our images. And when I say we, I mean me too.
And in many cases, I mean me especially, But you know,

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that's my speaking point.

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Section of the Narrative podcast.

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So I just have two sections during the weekday and
that's what they're about. Now. As for my weekend section,
that's a little bit longer. I have more sections. And
to fully break down my uh you know, weekend edition

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of the Narrative podcast, i'm'a have to give you a
little backstory. So when I first started doing this, it
was like in the midst of the pandemic lockdown. So
like me, like many of other people, just sitting home

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board nothing to do, cause you know, we had curfew,
there was the peaceful uh protesting and you know, essentially
a uprising here in the United States over George Floyd,
amar Rbery and Breonna Taylor and so much more, just

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you know, had all come to a head. And then
plus the uh C nineteen coronavirus. I say, in C
nineteen cause I don't know, you know, if you still
gotta talking code for algorithm purposes, I don't know, but anyway,

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uh that and then just all k types of negative news.
So essentially, you know, for something, just for something to do,
I started the podcast. I just went online podcasting, did
all my due diligence, like you know, downloaded the podcast

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at whatever, So I didn't really have a focus on
anything per se. I was just testing the waters, just
like as a project, just something to do. As time
drug on. They're just the news became just increasingly more negative,

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you know, in that space, particularly you know, about our
people and our culture. So then I kind of tweeked
my platform. I focused on our specifically our issues and
what we was going through as a people, and then
I tweeted some more. You know, I started throwing in

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you know, black owned businesses to support and just a
host of social issues that we was having, and and
then I tweeked it something more. Even then.

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I tweaked it up even more. I streamlined it.

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You know, I had a overall speaking point, cause when
I first started it, I used to just talk and
talk and know real focus and direction about what I
was speaking about. And then I tweaked it even more.
I streamlined it. I had one overall speaking point and
then some subtopics. And so that's essentially how the Narrative

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podcast was born. It was born, you know, through the
pandemic lockdown. It was in the last few stages like
we were still in quarantine, you know, social distancing and
all that. Who was coming out of it were slowly
like opening opening it. I think they had just dropped

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the mass mandate when I started my podcast. And then
you know, as time went on, other people who was
at home.

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Who had started podcasts had.

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Stopped, you know, doing their uh you know, regular uploads
because it was coming out of it, and they was
going back to whatever they was doing before they began
their audio podcast. But I stuck with it and just
kept on refining it and refining it and refining it
until I come up with this formatsu style that I

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have now. And the week days you know, came later
cause I only leased a broadcast on the weekends period.

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So the week day edition, that's something new.

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I've been doing that for a little bit over a year,
maybe like half as long as I've been uh you know,
a broadcast, so that that's something new. But essentially, you know,
the weekends was the only time that I used to broadcast,
and then I later added the weekdays. So that's why

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I refer to the Narrative Podcast weekend edition as a full.

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Episode of the Narrative Podcast.

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So essentially, overall, I think I have a total of
five sections that I do. I'm not gonna break down
all all the sections for my weekend edition.

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I'm just gonna give you.

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You know, my positive uh frame of reference that I
focus on in a few more sections that are different
from you know, my weekday edition of the Narrative podcast.
So on the weekends, I focus on delivering uh, you know,

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positive frames of reference about business ownership and entrepreneurialism. Uh.
The reason why I focus on uh business owners and
entrepreneurialism is because we're not giving those frames of references.
We don't have many of those frames of references to
draw inspiration from. And that's intentionally done by the people

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that run the media. They don't want us to be
inspired to or want to aspire to be a business
owner or entrepreneur, you know. And that's really kind of
an inherent plot to uh get rid of our people,
to reinforce uh white supremacy by you know, keeping a

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str uh stranglehold on the resources. Thus, you know, keeping
the wealth gap in place. The wealth gap is in
place to you know, keep our people, especially those of
us living here in the United States, exactly where we're

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at financially, there aren't many of us, you know, who
are uh upper class. And now through in within the
last uh since the pandemic lockdown, there's officially no middle class.
There's no middle class anymore. So now it's just like

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upper class upper middle class. There's no middle class anymore.
And then there's working class, and then there's poverty. So
many of us are at the working class level. The
rest of us are at the poverty level. So you know,

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like I said, it's a uh, a plot to reinforce
white supremacy, and you know cements the wealth gap. You
know that want us to be inspired to start our
own businesses and you know, control our own finances, that

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want us to be dependent on the system, and then
sit back and make fun of us for being a
dependent on the system and call us lazy. You know
when they when every time we try to do something
for ourselves. All throughout history, especially here in the United
States of America, when we did have our own they

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used to encroach on our privacy, come into our neighborhoods,
defile our neighborhoods, burn our businesses down, burn our whole
townships down. Either burn it down or flood it or
just you know, disturb our peace. They used to come
by boat loads into our neighborhoods, vandalize our churches, vandalize

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our businesses, you know, mess with our youth, growing men,
messing with our youth for a pastime, something to do.
And you know, and now it's just perceived that the
reason why we're not economically advancing is because we're all lazy.
That's the narrative that they're running with. So that's why

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I focus on delivering, you know, positive examples of those
of us who have become business owners and are and
our entrepreneurs. And I call that section my highlight section.
And what I'm doing in that section is I'm highlighting

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the journey of an entrepreneur or a business owner. And
the type of information that I'm providing in that section
about an entrepreneur or a business owner, you know, it's
basically a brief, brief, miniature bio of their life. You know,

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everything that led up to them finally owning their own business,
like all their life experiences, all their education, all their
vocational training skills, if applicable, you know what play the
role into them owing their own business. I also include
other specific details such as like you know what year

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they were born and.

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What schools they attended, and you.

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Know childhood friends, memories, and you know, any significance far
as like what they name their businesses because many other
business owners the name of their business or product is
an acronym for something. So I break down their business

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philosophy if they have one, you know, if it's an
online business, I give you specifics on how to go
about ordering their product, what system apart, And then I
also include with a system apart from the competition, and
what makes their business so special? You know. Then like

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if they're a brick and mortar location, I include things
like hours of operation, the size of you know, the
capacity the building can hold, parking directions if applicable, when
I can find the information. Sometimes I can't find all that.

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And then last, but not least, you know, there's a
criteria in which I select the businesses that I'll be
highlighting in the highlights section, and it goes as followed.
You know, there must be a black owned business from
the top to the bottom. You know, they gotta be
the owner and you know, no outside business partners. It's

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just like they got it off the muscle. Then also
they hire their own, of course, and then they must,
uh you know, also do something for the community they're
r they're rooted in. They either have to uh pay
into a a nonprofit organization or have their own, or

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do something that impacts the community in a positive way.
When I'm saying the community, I mean the black community,
or as I refer to our community, original people community.
I also refer to our people on this platform as
original people, and I'll be covering that in the broad
overview of the Narrative Podcast. But I'm just you know,

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giving you a snippet of the highlight section on the
weekend edition of the Narrative Podcast. And uh, last, but
not least, uh, the business that that I'm highlighting in
the highlight section must coincide with my theme. And my
theme currently is nationally recognized days or months. So whatever

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business that I'm highlighting must coincide whatever the nationally recognized
day or month is for that day or month. And
the reason why I do that cause when I first
started doing the highlight section of the Narrative Podcast, I
noticed that I kept on highlighting the same businesses over

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and over. So now if I have a theme, I'm
more apt to give you a brand new business to patronize.
And then also what I'm doing in that section is
also I'm also promoting group economics, making you aware of

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businesses to support so we can circulate our dollars within
our community, creating our own infrastructure.

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Then we won't be dependent on the system.

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So you know, that's the uh purpose and nature of
the Highlight section on the new the Podcast week in edition.
And then another section that I have that's different, you
know from my weekday section is the Spotlight section. Now,
the Spotlight section is similar to the Highlight section with

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one key difference. While I'm focus on focusing uh specifically
on a business owner or an entrepreneur, you know, on
the spotlight section, I'm just focusing on an individual from
our community that impacts our community in a positive way,

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either through uh, you know, their body of work, uh,
what they're doing for the community services, providing services, involved
in some type of nonprofit organization or advocacy movements you
know that per heals our community forward, or you know,

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for projecting the type of aura on whatever platform they
hold that they can look at that individual and see
we can look at the individual and see ourselves in
the light of greatness through whatever they're doing. So essentially

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that's a section where you know, I'm just proving all
heroes don't wear cakes. I'm also promoting positive reinforcement, you know,
because we've been brainwashed and conditioned to use our platforms
to try to destroy each other. So the Spotlight section
of the Narrative podcast we can addition, is dedicated to normalizing,

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you know, upholding and uplifting your brother or sister on
your platform, you know, building them up on your platform,
rather than using your platform to you know, destroy your
brother and sister's reputation and you know, taking them down
a notch. You know, we should be using our platforms

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to build each other up, network and build infrastructure, and
you know, teach each other valuable skills and life lessons
rather than take cheap shots at each other. So that's
what we should be dedicating our platforms to doing. Like
I said, we're just victims of psychological programming and conditioning

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because that's a you know, a big part of the
white supremacy agenda is to destroy us from the inside,
have us turn on each other and destroy each other.
And they just sit back and you know, create all

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this division amongst us and give us the tools to
destroy each other and sit back and leave us alone
and let us be a victim of our own devices.

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So that's the purpose of.

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The Narrative Podcast Weekend Edition Spotlight section, of spotlighting the
individual from our community impacting our community in a positive way.
So essentially, I'm giving them the roses while they're here
for doing.

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Good work in the community.

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And then, last but not least, I close out on
the very positive notes. My final section of the Narrative
Podcast Weekend Edition, I close out with a section called
my Wise Word of the Day. And my Wise Word
of the Day is just basically a philosophical thoughts something
to the designed to promote critical thinking by you know,

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helping us just conceptualize and ponder the simple complexities of
this thing that we call life. And that's pretty much
the Narrative Podcast Weekend Edition experience. So you know, listen
to both, you know, during.

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The weekdays and the weekends.

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See which one works best for you. I hope both
of them work, you know, because I need all the
support to you know, keep fueling this platform and you know,
get us all on the same page and networking and
loving each other and promoting and supporting one another. That's
what near the podcast is all about to promote that.

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So now onto my next section, which is the promotional
portion of the Narrative Podcast, and the first project that
I will be promoting is the podcast itself. There are
many ways to support the Narrative Podcast. This is an

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all audio podcast obviously, so I'm available on all audio
podcasts streaming sites. Wherever you go to listen to a podcast,
you'll find the Narrative podcast on that audio podcast streaming site.
So when you find my podcast, the Narrative Podcast, I

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need you to download the episode. So on the audio
podcast streaming site, she shit see download button. It's usually
a cloud shaped icon with an arrow pointing down and
the arrow pointing down is to denote the action of downloading.

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So when you see that icon, I need you to
click on it to fully download the episode. By doing this,
this will generate page hits. The page hits, you know,
generate the CPMs. The CPMs correlate into revenue streams, so
you know, download it to help me earn money for

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the podcast. And then after you download it, download it
the episode. Then I need you to share upload the
episode to whatever platform that you enjoy sharing or uploading
content too, and that's how you support the narrative podcast
and audio format styles. It's available again on all audio

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podcast streaming sites. Just when you're doing it, make sure
it's the one hosted by me, Hawsey Allen. There are
thousands of podcasts out there titled the narrative podcast, but
you know, only one hosted by yours truly, so you
know that's the only one that actually matters. It matters because, like,

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if you're listening, if you want to check out something
about you know organically about your people and your culture,
and just to make sure we're on the same page
black people in black culture, you want to make sure
you're listening to my podcast because I don't know what
all those other narrative podcasts talk about, what their speaking

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points are, but the focal point for mine is all
black content you know about our people and our culture.
So if you want to listening to all black content,
make sure you're listening to the narrative.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Podcast hosted by Halsey Allen.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Moving right along, the next way you can support the
narrative podcasts is to follow me on x formally Twitter.
And the reason why you want to follow me on
x is because this podcast platform that I'm on automatically

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uploads episodes and sends it to Twitter. It's sent to Twitter,
So every time I'm done recording an episode of the
Narrative Podcast, it automatically goes to Twitter without any you know,
effort on my IM. It just it's an automatic feature.

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If you see the Narrative podcast link posted on any
other sites besides x there's a very good chance I
had to manually go to that site and paste the
link there. So when you're scrolling on like Facebook or
threads or Instagram and you see happen to come across
the Narrative Podcast hosted by me Halsey Island, it's because

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I had to manually past the link there. But that's
one of the outside of the audio podcast streaming sites,
you know, that's the only site where it just automatically
does it all by itself. So by following me on

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x formly Twitter, you know you will receive your alerts
and so you'll be privy to when a new episode
of the Narrator podcast debuts. You have that you know,
im media alert, and you'll know when a brand new
episode of the Narrator Podcast premiere. So that's why you

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want to follow me on X. My ex profile name
is Icetay Good at Halsey Island.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
And in your confirmation that you're on the correct X page.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
You should see book pin to the top of my page.
It's a black book and on the title it says
the Black Card. That's your confirmation that you're on the
correct X page. I used to have a picture of myself,
you know, on the page, but I removed it and

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put that to promote my book. It's a book of
poetry titled The Black Card, and I'll be promoting that momentarily,
but right now we're just focusing on how to support
the narrative podcast when following me from X. So, after
you confirmed that you're on the correct X page, and
just to you know, briefly explain why you need the

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confirmation you're on the correct X page. If you know
anything about social media, there's weirdos out there that like
cloning pages. So you know, that's your absolute confirmation you're
on the correct X page. I didn't go through the
trouble of verifying my exit count, you know, because there's

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a like, I think a monthly fee attached to that
but whatever. And when I started my ex account, it
was just strictly for social media. I had tons of
friends on Twitter and you know, use to socialized inbox
people and all that good stuff.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
But now I just reserve it to promote my content.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
But anyway, so after you've confirmed you're on the correct
x page, go look for the latest link of the
Narrative podcast and when you see it, click on that link.
When the link expands, you should see the narrative podcast logo.
Once you see my narrative podcast logo, I need you

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to listen to the episode. And my narrative podcast logo
is just essentially a silhouette of a microphone. It says
the Narrative podcast on it. And so when you see
my podcast low, go listen to the episode. Let it
play for a few seconds. And then after you do that,

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click on the like button. And the like button is
in the shape of a heart. So put the heart
shaped like button located at the top of the podcast logo.
And when you do this, this will cause the logo
to expand a second time. And when you spand the

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second time, and it gives you some more features to engage.
And by the way, so like the more features that
you perform in this you know process, the more page
hits to degenerate, and the more page hits it generates,

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the more revenue I collect. So just do everything in
the process to help generate income streams for the platform
to keep it running. And then my ultimate goal is
to expand on into you know, visual format, you know,
make that transition from all audio to video, and I

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want quality video. So you know, that's why it's essential
to support the Narrative podcast like this. So anyway, after
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(42:33):
is to follow me on YouTube. In my YouTube page
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much Halsey il Allen on all social media platforms, and
you should see a picture of either me sporting uh
some twists or a picture you know of me, like

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a black and white of me and my I call'em
my deep pose. You know, that's supposed to be deep
slash sexy. I got my eyes shut and I got
my uh hand on my forehead, you know, the dramatic pose.
That's my like deep sexy dramatic pose. I was on
my uh poetry, real tough. So those are my two

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profile pictures. I need to update both of 'em. But
one is just exclusively for poetry, that's the deep pose,
and then the other one is for the narrative podcast stuff.
That's the one where I'm sporting to twist. But anyway,

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I'm also on LinkedIn to Hawsey Allen. Again you will
see a uh my profile picture. Uh but anyway, that's
all I was saying. Uh, my pro foule name is
Causey Allen on YouTube. And so you can support the

(44:12):
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older episodes of the Narrative Podcast is because recently YouTube
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sharing and you know things that you can certain minimum

(44:57):
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rather than update you know, the software and make the

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specifications to their platform they need to be in compliance
with YouTube's new policies, they rather just dropped YouTube altogether
as a distribution of you know, site or whatever. How
I got it or how they explained it to me

(45:41):
in the email. So essentially, I can't upload brand new
episodes of the Narrative podcast to YouTube anymore. So, just
like x Wascinc is sync to my platform, YouTube once
was sent to my platform as well, meaning every single time,

(46:02):
you know, I uploaded the episode of the Narrative podcast automatically,
you know, with the YouTube. But since YouTube, you know,
change your policies and all that, it's no longer compatible
with YouTube, which means you know, YouTube can no longer

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you know, upload.

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Episodes from this platform to YouTube anymore.

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So well, like I said, there are older episodes that
YouTube did not delete. It's still on YouTube, and you
can support those. And by supporting them, you know, they'll generate.

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The page clicks and the page plis.

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Will generate wherever thee so you can still support the
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then once again with the comments, put something in the
comment box on YouTube, you know, just comment on the
YouTube video and the YouTube video it was just the
silhouette of my UH podcast logo with the entire episode

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on it. Black Comedy Share. You know my YouTube episodes
of the Narrative podcast across all social media platforms, and
that's how you support the Narrative podcast when following me
from YouTube, and you don't have to subscribe to my
channel to access my older episodes of the Narrative podcast.

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To access those, you go to my videos which are
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all the episodes of the narra the podcast, all in
chronological order from the very first day.

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That I started my podcast account.

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I think the last UHT so the debut on UH
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or something like that. But go support the Narrative podcast
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them across all social media platforms and that's how you
support the Narrat podcast for following me from YouTube. Alright,

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the next project I'd like to promote is my personal er,
a book of poetry that I've written. It's thirty pages
long and it's titled The Black Card. The Black Card is, uh,
you know, a quintessential guide about Black people and black culture.

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It's a thirty page book of poetry that you know,
captures the entire experience of black people. Whereas I refer
to our people on this platform, original people. So if
you're a mellenated man or woman, you'll automatically fall in
love with this book. You will be able to relate

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to each and every piece that you read in this
book of poetry. And to get this book of poetry,
go to a site called Poetizer. Poetizer dot com that's
the exact address, and once you get to that site,

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they have a virtual online bookstore where to where you'll
be able to find the book. And again, the title
of the book is called The Black Card and it's
written by me Hawsey Allen. If you're unfamiliar with Poetizer,
Poetizer is a social media platform for people that enjoy writing.

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It's open to all genres of writing, but it particularly
caters to people that like to write poetry, and it's
implied in the title poet Tizer. They have games and
activities for poets. They have daily writing prompts. And then
also they got the social media factor in there, so

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people can meet each other socially, interact, make friends. You know,
DM people have a friend list, d N people write
on people's wall, offer constructive feedback on your poetry pieces,
and a host of other things. It's really fun, you know,
definitely worth checking out if you like writing. But the

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most important feature that they have is built in self
publishing software which will allow the members of this social
media community to write books, not only write them, market it,
market them and sell them. And that's the purpose of
their virtual online bookstore. What you will find in their

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virtual online bookstores, it's books that people in that community
have written. And that's what I did. I wrote a
book of poetry and it's available on poetizers dot com.
So go the poetizer dot com, go to their virtual
online bookstore and look for my book titled The Black Card.
And now I'm give you a little bit more insight

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into the book by giving you a brief description of it.
The Black Card is a poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute
to the reality, resilience, and richness of the Black experience.
With bold versus that cut deep in imagery that sores.

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The Black Card reclaims dignity, demand's respect, and honors the
legacy of the people who have turned struggling to strength
culture into power. More than just poetry, this is a declaration.
Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything. So
head on over to poetizer dot com go their virtual

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online bookstore and look for my book titled The Black Card,
written by me Hawsey Allen. Purchase your copy of The
Black Card today or get your Black Card revoked. And then, last,

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but not least, the last project I'd like to promote
here on the Narrative podcast Weekday edition is my personal
poetry blog on blogger dot com. It's called Hawses Poetry Corner,
and the poems featured on Halls's Poetry Corner is just
an amalgamation of poems that I've written over the years,

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and the poems are just varying from a wide array
of topics. Pretty much. It's relatable poetry. You know, if
you just like to read or you know you're a poet,
you you're r uh a poetry enthusiast. This is the

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blog site for you to check out. It's called Haws's
Poetry Corner on blogger dot com at ww dots mister
Hawses blogs dot com. And the way support Haws's Poetry
Corner is to share the link to Haws's Poetry Corner
which is ww dot mister Howes blogs dot com our

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poems posted on Hallses Poetry Corner blog across all social
media sites. And then also another way to support the
blog site and is when you come to the site.
Underneath each poet poetry piece on Hawses's Poetry Corner blog,
you should see a light button. A light button's in
the shape of a hearts to click on the heart

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shaped like button. And then after you've clicked on the
hearts like button, then comments in the comment section on
each poetry piece on Horses's Poetry for in the blog
after you left me a comment in the comment section
or well yeah I already told you to share it,

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but yeah, so like in comment on all the poems
on horses Poetry For in the blog. Now with the comments.
You know, put something in the comic box. Leave me
some type of comments, some type of feedback, positive or negative.
Can't thank any feedback to give me. Sign your name,

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you know your name that you're viewing the site in
your profile name. Put a character, an emoji, a flag, something,
something in the comic box. You can literally type the
words something and that will generate into a pay but

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at least a comment in the comment box. That's how
he supports, you know the Narrative podcast part me pauses
poetry Coinner. So yeah, I am a big poetry buff.
Anytime I'm not recording episodes of the Narrative Podcast, I'm

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writing poetry. I'm performing it, attending some type of poetry event,
or like reading it or reading a book of poetry
or something, doing something poetic. You know. That's how I
spend all my free time. Writing tablets are a big
part of my cost cost of living expense. I'm constantly

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writing poetry, like in one of my note pads. It's
probably like a book, like I just I currently only
have one book of poetry, but I can literally turn
all my tablets into like a book of poetry. That's
how often I write poetry. I don't post every single

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poem I write. As a matter of fact, the poems
that I post on Hawes's poetry for in the blog
are completely sporadic. They come at the spur of the moments,
which is a unique gift because when you read the
poems on their the general tone of them are really

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specific and highly detailed. But I guarantee you, I promise you,
right hand to God, they were completely sporadic. You know,
I didn't you know, I didn't premeditate what I was
wanting to write about. I didn't follow the steps of writing, eddie, drafting,
editing and all that. I just, you know, whatever thought

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popped into my mind at that time. You know, that's
what the poem was about. Like or you know, all
the poems posting on that blog site took an took
on an organic you know, meaning all on their own,

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like with no help for me. I just felt like
the universe channeled it through me because they're literally not
for me. Like I can't really relate to any of
the poems, even the ones that are specifically dealing with
issues within our community. And I got a few poems

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dealing with blood relatives that I dedicated poems to on there.
But again, you know, completely the furthest thing from my
mind when I wrote in posted it. So you know
that's how my gift works. It just comes at random. No,

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I I got into a loop where I was writing
two or three poems a week, you know, postinging, posting
two or three poems a week, you know. But now
I'm kind of consumed with the narrative podcast. But you know,
I'm gonna get back into the swing of posting on
a regular basis. You know. I just I don't force

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my gift. I'm not. If I'm not in the move
to post, I don't post. That's not how it works.
I am an artist, you know. It's just it has
to click on all by itself. So that's how my
gift works. But go check it out. Hawses Poetry Corner
on blogger dot com at ww dots. Mister Hawses blogs

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dot com not even have a slogan for my blog site,
Hawes's Poetry Corner Poetry with a passion, Poetry for all occasions.
So upon reading the poem's Hall's Poetry Corner, you know
you will see that each poem lives up to that

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slogan because there are that uh detailed and intricate and.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Relatable, So go check them out.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Hawses Poetry Corner on blogger dot com at ww dots
mister Hawses blogs dot com. Poetry or the passion poetry
for all occasions. When you come to Halls's Poetry Corner
blog on blogger dot com, prepare to step into a
world where emotions flow like rivers and words paint vivid pictures.

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Hallses's Poetry Corner is your ultimate destination for captivating poetry
that touches the soul. Whether you're a poetry enthusiast or
just a casual reader, Halls's Poetry Corner has something for everyone.
Explore all my poems, timeless classics and thought provoking verses.
Prepare to night your imagination and explore the beauty of

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language in this purist form. Let's celebrate the art of
poetry together on Halls's Poetry Corner blog on blogger dot
com at ww dot mister Hawes blogs dot com log in.
Enjoy the experience, live and poetry all right, and that'll

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do it for the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast
weekday edition and now before I bring it all the
way to a close. I just like to petition all
content creators. If you're a content creator, to promote the
Narrative podcast, shout out the Narrative podcast. Promote Halls's poetry corner.

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Shout out to Hallses's Poetry corner. On your content creating platforms,
whether you have an audio a platform or a visual
bit of visual platform, you know, promote you know, the
Narrative podcast and always hold you on the blog. Appreciate
your advance, our return to favor. And that'll do it

(01:01:15):
for the promotional portion of the Narrative podcast. And now
on to the nitty gritty you get in to the
nitty gritty. Wanna give you a full broad overview of
the Narrative podcast in its entirety. All the nuances you
need to be you know, have knowledge of when listening

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to the Narrative podcast to you know, you know better
immerse yourself with the content and you know just it.
It'll make it more relatable and you'll be able to
digest the content better listening to this overview, and then
you know be able to apply what I'm saying in

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real time. So first and foremost, the name the narrative Podcast.
What is the significance Why did I name my podcast
narrative Podcast?

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
You know, I just don't like the false narrative.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Surrounding how my people and culture are depicted across all
media platforms. So that's why I name my podcast the
narrative Podcast. Is basically, you know, birthed out of that.
You know, I don't like the way the media paints
a false narrative. And you know that's the significance of

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the word the name of my podcast, the narrative podcast,
you know, and why I dedicated changing the narrative about
our people and our culture. So that's why I name
my podcast the Narrative. Now, the first nuance you need

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to be acquainted with when listening to the Narrative Podcast
is that I refer to my listening audience, which is
you all right now listening and listening land as my narrators.
I was inspired by the textbook definition of the word narrator,
and the narrator, by definition, is basically one who tells

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or narrates a story for the audience, and the purpose
of their narration is just to provide a overview and
to contextualize the story for the audience, so the audience
can keep up with the story, whatever the format style

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that the story's in. You know, that's the job of
a narrator just to tell you about the main point,
sub points, main characters, just to you know, help the
audience pick up the slack and keep them in the
loop about what's going on in the story that they're patronizing.

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And so that's what inspired to, you know, coined the
term narrator. And how I've you know further or what
kind of explains it a little bit better is an
analogy I always use. I heard it a long time

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ago at the seminar and it always just kind of
resonated with me. You know, it goes a little something
like this. You don't tell your own story, your own
story will be told for you. And that's essentially why

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I've coined the term narrator as it relates to our
repeat because the current people that are telling or narrating
our story for us is the media, and the story
that they're telling about our people is a negative one,
and that's why we need to tell or narrate our

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own story to put it into full context of who
we are as a people and who we truly are
as a people. We're kings and queens, gods and goddess
of the universe. And that's how our images and likenesses
need to be circulated across all media platforms. It needs
to be framed up in that context of our true

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nature of who we are as a people. See why
we cannot control the narrative that the media puts out
about our people and our culture. We can control the
type of story tell or narrates about ourselves on our

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on our own platforms. So that's why you know, I
call my listening audience my narrators. And so now I'm
gonna give you examples on how to be a narrator.
I coined the term to apart me. I coined the

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term narrator, And I'm narrating every single episode you know
that debuts in audio format. So I'm providing positive frames
of reference about our people and our culture in audio format.

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So that's how I'm changing the narrative. I'm changing the
narrative one episode at a time. So as a narrator
on your end, you can change the narrative one so
media at posts at a time. Visually, you can put
out positive frames of reference you know, visually on your platform.

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So that's how you can tell or narrate our people's
story on your own platform. So I give some you know,
examples of how to be an effective narrator visually on
your end you can post. So just like I give

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positive frames of reference about our people on this platform
and audio format, you can do the same thing on
your end visually. And so the types of frames of
reference that I give directly defy the negative stigmas and

(01:07:54):
stereotypes projected onto our people and about our culture. So
the types of uh, positive frames of reference that you
can share on your end visually are you know, the
same you know, befive the negative stereotypes about our people
in our culture by telling our story visually. So, for example,

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there's the negative stereotype of that our people are unintelligent.
You can post a visual story of you, yourself, or
somebody in your community or somebody in your family excelling academically,

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you know, destroying that negative stereotype that all our people
are unintelligent. Uh, there's a negative stereotype about our people
not knowing how to swim. You can uh post positive

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visual imagery proving you know, not only our people that
we know how to swim, that we break you know,
swimming records, you know visually. You know, there's the negative
stereotype that all of us live down in uh, broken down,

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run down neighborhoods. You know, we live in dug ghetto
d hood and it's just a travesty to look at.
It's a eye store. You know, we live in impoverished
areas and we don't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Care anything about our community.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
You know, that's the narrative that they try to associate
us with, you know, try to stigmatize our people with.
You can uh post visual imagery of us living in
nice neighborhoods. It's keeping our our neighborhoods that you know
we predominantly occupy cause they're not our neighborhoods. This is

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just like mostly areas that they throw us in. But
you know these neighborhoods that we reside in that we
upkeep it and have it looking pristine and nice. You
can upload visual imagery of us beautifying our living spaces,
organizing community cleanups, you know, painting over building structures that

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are defaced, like painting over graffiti, picking up trash, organizing
recycling activities, things of that nature, just beautifying our living
space to defy the negative stereotype of us living in
broken down, raggedy neighborhoods. So that's what being a narrator

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is all about, is defying the negative stereotype by providing
receipts that you know, are the antithesis of the negative
stereotype that we're associated with. And if you can't think
of any of those examples that I just named, one

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of the most pointy relevant things you can do as
a narrator is just to promote and push happiness, peace
and clarity. And you yourself, you know, living your best life,
or you know people in your neighborhood, or you know,
whoever is relevant in your world in your community living

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their best life, smiling and happy, and you know, being
friendly and enjoying life. You know that directly changes the narrative.
So that's how you can change the narrative on your

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and one social media post at a time. Now another
nuance of the narrative podcast on this platform. I refer
to our people, black people as original people. I refer
to our people as original people for a host of

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different reasons. The main reason is cause I feel the
word original accurately describes our people. Not that there's anything
wrong with referring to yourself as black, but you know,
I just feel the word original is more uh true

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to who we are as a people. And you know it,
it's a real all encompassing term that applies to all
millenated people. So when you get down to the text
but definition of the world original, it just really highlights

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individual individualism, you know, being unique, being one of a kind,
being a trendsetter. I think that embodies and captures who
we are as a people because we don't follow trends.

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
We set trends.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Are the trends that we do follow is because somebody
from our community.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Set the trend for us to follow.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
You know, we are the most impactful people group of
people in the entire world. Everybody tries to be like us.
Everybody tries to talk like us, just like us, act
like us. To some small capacity, everybody is highly influenced
by our people. Regardless of how much they say they

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don't like us, regardless of how much they say they
hate us, they try to embody everything that makes us us.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
And that's a fact.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
It's not you know, a bias, it's an actual fact,
like all other cultures try to you know, uh, model
themselves after us to some small capacity. Another reason why

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I refer to our people as original people. I will
have to go to the text with definition again. The
term original off often symbolizes or uh, you know, hints
at being the first, and our people definitely were and
are the first. We were here thousands of years before

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any other civilization ever existed. As a matter of fact,
we mothered and fathered civilization. No other civilization, you know,
no other group of people would exist had it not
been for us. Pretty much all other groups of people
descend from us. Everybody on the planet is our distant relatives.

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So you know, we mothering a father civilization like all
these other groups of people essentially.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Are are our children.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
We were here first, uh you know, created civilization as
we know it here here on Earth, you know, this
physical realm.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
We also originated everything.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Every modern day convenience or invention you can possibly think
of that enhances or makes life easier, we were directly
involved in that. We originated. We were the original explorers,
We are the original inventors. We were the original architects, scholars, philosophers, astronomers, astrologers, uh, scientists, chemists,

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we originally did it. All everything is derived from our
people originally. So yeah, that's why I refer to our
people as original people in the historical context of who

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we are as a people. And then also in true
stride with the name of my podcast, the Narrative Podcast,
every episode I have to set the false narrative surrounding

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slavery straight. Every episode, I try to you know, dispel
or destroy the negative stereotype of slavery. You know, the
people recording history his story has designated slavery as the

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most definitive time period for our people, especially you know,
foundationally Black Americans. They want around with this false narrative
that the only way we exist as a people outside

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of Africa is because slave ships dropped us off in
all these different parts all over the world. And that's
the only r reason why we got to all these
different uh places in the world is because of slave.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Shit picked us up and dropped us off.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
In all these different parts of the world. And that's
a false narrative. Like the majority of us living in
any other place other than Africa most likely had was
already existing and living there. I mean, it makes perfect

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common sense when you think about it. If we was
here first, didn't you think we thought in our minds,
let's leave Africa and see what's over here, and see
what's over here, and see what's over here.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
We were the original explorers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
And then mathematically, white people haven't even been on the
earth that long. So they want to try to attribute
us living anywhere other than Africa to Europeans and White
Spaniards because those where the people involved in the slave trade,
Europeans and White Spaniards, and they were even they didn't

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even exist before slavery. We're the only group of people
with no beginning day. There's no beginning day of when

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we start appearing in the world. Every other group of
people has at a time period which you start seeing
them in that region of the world. Everybody except us
know why, because there's never been a period recording history
that our people did not exist. Again, we are the

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original tribe of Man. We was here thousands of years
before every other group of people, which means we existed
on every single continent in the entire world. How dare
you try to assign slavery to our existence? You want
to skip over the part where we taught people how

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to survive, where we ruled entire empires, where we built
complex architecture that still can't nobody today figure out where're
directly responsible for all the seven Wonders of the of
the world.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
We built those, every single.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
You know artifact on Earth, that science we built it.
And our people was always highly intelligent, always highly civilized,
always highly advanced. But they want to pack this false

(01:21:18):
narrative that we was you know, you know into jungle
and savage, and you know, uh, that's how they depict
that savage natives. You know, we don't have a history
of ever being savage. We never ate people, you know,

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that's something in Hollywood they do, like we was in
the jungle, eating people, tying people, burning people to a state.
Most African tribes, you know, plant based diets. The only
proteins that they ever ate was animal proteins within that region.

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It's like antelope and gazelle stuff like that, not lions
and tigers and bears.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
It wasn't eating that. It was like far as, like.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
You know, their protein sources like fish, goat, puh, fish goats, antelope,
maybe some gazelle. Chicken. Yeah, they got chickens in Africa
for those of us that are from Africa. The majority

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of US foundational Black Americans here living in America. We
already was here.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
We was already here, was already everywhere every.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Continent you can already think of, there was a large
concentration of us already living there. But I'm just speaking
from the foundation of Black American perspective. The people that
they tell us are the native are quotes. Native Americans
are not. They're from Siberia. The people on these reservations

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and own these hotels, they're not. They was assigned their
status as Native Americans by the US government and was
later reinforced with the Census Bureau. The original people of
this land was a Copper s uh toned people, as

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described by every single explorer that ever charted these regions
in their journals. And it's all in like you know,
the Library of Congress. You they got books to tell
you all the original indigenous tribes of you know, America,
and they were all black, not near one of these

(01:24:02):
people on these tribal council or Copper Tone they Siberians.
While you could look on job applications they say Polynesian, Asian, Filipino, Polynesian,

(01:24:24):
Native American Eskimo Alaskan, cause it's all one group of people.
Those are the people that's on these reservation. That those
who d are who they descend from, and the ones
that don't descend from them descend from white people because

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our government allowed them to change their ethnicity for five
dollars in order to avoid paying taxes. Or if you
were white living in America, you could say you're a
Native American, you know, take the five dollars, five ducks
down to the uh treasury. That would change your paperwork
and you know, call you a Native american An. As

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for the rest of us, the original indigenous people of
this land, they enslaved us. They put us on the
plantation with some Africans. They enslaved all as well. But
for the mo majority of the part that they teach
us about slavery, everything was either an exaggeration or a
complete and utter lie. The only actual thing they get

(01:25:37):
right about slavery is how brutally they tortured us during slavey.
They absolutely uh castrated men, They absolutely decapitated people. They
absolutely used us as livestock, you know, to uh you know,
plow the field. They absolutely tied like the thing they

(01:25:59):
tied the horse to the plow the field. They tied
to us to plow the field. They absolutely used our
children to warm their feet bed warmers. They absolutely did
rape men and women. They absolutely did do horrendous things
to our people to break them psychologically. That's the thing,

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that's the accurate things they got right about the slave
trade and slavery in general. But everything else is either
a lie or an exaggeration. You know, they lied and
exaggerated about how how long the slave trade went on,

(01:26:47):
you know, the trajectory path from Africa to America, the
transatlantic slave trade, channel slavery, all that shit was a lie.
Part of my language. Are trying not to cuss, but
I just wanted to be very clear to you know,
destroy the false narrative of slavery and how it relates, uh,

(01:27:10):
how they tried to make it relate to our people.
Also during slavery, they tried to make it seem like
we was docile and we accepted it and we just
you know, went with the program, when in reality, we
gave it to them just as bad as we got it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
Just as all the horrible.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
Things that they was doing to us, we was returning
to favor in kind, but they wanted to teach us
through history like Haiti. Haiti was the only time our
people were revolted. Haitians were inspired by Black Americans, hearing
the tales of Black Americans to rise up against their oppressor.

(01:27:50):
That's what caused them to revote. They didn't revolt until
they heard stories about us revoting. There's no other group
of UH black people any anywhere in the entire world.

(01:28:12):
They're revolted and are currently revolting harder than Black Americans period.
So that's the uh you know misconception about uh SL slavery, enslavement,
you know that slave narrative that they keep on trying

(01:28:36):
to push on our people. I want to clear that
up today. I try to clear it up every episode.
Of course, it's just too long to break it down.
That's why I get so long winded about it, because
the glibe been going on so long. But you know,
you have to do your own due diligence and study

(01:28:57):
for yourself. But like again, like I said, I try
to clear up that false narrative about slavery every single episode.
The reason why I try to do that is they
push the slave UH narrative to instill fear in us,
to separate us as a people, to cause the division

(01:29:17):
and conflict amongst us, and to instill fear, and also
to take a stab by our self esteem. You know,
they always wanna uh pull that out the uh their
uh you know faced well.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
Your people were just slaves.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
You know what I'm saying, in a real derogatory way.
And it just wasn't that. It just wasn't that. So
that's why I refer to our people as original people
in the historical context. And you know that's me just
debunking the false narrative surrounding slavery. And then lastly, why

(01:30:01):
I refer to our people as original people. It's an
effort to unite us as one universal people. While we
do need to keep our.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Own traditions alive and celebrate.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Our own individual rich cultures, our own individual rich lineages
and nationalities, we do need to converge at.

Speaker 4 (01:30:23):
Some point as a united people.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
And the term original will help us do that because
there are just so many gray areas, so many levels
of blackness that just don't apply to all of us.
The word original does that will help unify us and

(01:30:49):
solidify us as one uh you know, international group. You
see cause people outside of our culture when they see
one of us, all they say is you're black. But
you know again, you know, we like celebrating and acknowledging

(01:31:12):
our nationalities, our lineages, and you know what makes us
us and the things our ancestors went through, and you know,
the uh rich traditions and cultures we celebrate that makes
us who we are as a people. But also we
also need to acknowledge that we are all one people,

(01:31:37):
and the term original will help us do that. We're
all melanated people. We all possess high concentrations of carbon
aka melanin. We can all trace our lineage back to
the original point of origin, and we all face the
same socio economic plight everywhere our people exist. You know,

(01:32:00):
there's always the plight of white supremacy, dominant society trying
to control us. We all, you know, fight against the
uh inherent wealth gap that we have between us in
dominant society and then dominant society trying to uh ostracize

(01:32:22):
us and create rules, laws and regulations to suppress us
as a people.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
So you know, we all have that in common. And
the UH term original.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
People kind of is the uh the glue that binds
us all together. So that's why I refer to our
people as original people as often as possible here on
the Narrative Podcast. So yeah, moving right along, The Narrative
Podcast is a positive safe space for original people.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
I promote positivity.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
I really promote positive reinforcement of our people in our
culture because we are all alone in this universe. We'd
get attacked from all sides. The only people that's gonna
help us is us. The only people that's gonna celebrate
us is us. There are a few people, open minded
people out other groups of people that acknowledge us from

(01:33:23):
time to time, but their acknowledgement will never ex uh
supersede their love they have for their own group.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
So said all that to say, nobody ever helped us,
nobody ever gave us anything. Uh. The few people outside
of our culture that did, you know, help us during slavery,
the time when our people were enslaved, and you know,
they only did that because it was financially advantageous for

(01:33:56):
them to do that, not because they believed it was
wrong and believe people shouldn't be treated like that. So,
you know, that's why I promote positive reinforcement, promote us
celebrating our accomplishments and achievements, promote you know, love and

(01:34:16):
unity and positivity on here. I don't gossip and slander people.
I try to you know, really discourage against gossip because
I feel gossip is tearing our community apart. So I
try to just really make this a space of love

(01:34:39):
and really try to make this a positive, safe space
for original people that we can listen to this content
not you know, feel ashamed or cringe at the stuff
I'm presenting as we do. We cringe on other platforms
the things you know, people are saying and the hosts

(01:35:01):
are allowing people to say. And you know, I want
us represent it. Well, that's the nature of the narrative
podcast is always represent us well, always put you know
it into perspective who we are as a people, and
you know it, never get confused. You know, this is

(01:35:23):
a heavy, you know, black people dominated space, and that's
pretty much the nature of the podcast. Also, when I
do deliver my speaking points, whenever I'm speaking about anything
within our community, it's from our perspective and everything centered

(01:35:43):
around the bigger picture perspective. Typically, anything negative happening within
our community is because you know, we've deviated from our
true nature of who we are are due to a
couple of major things psychological programming and conditioning and systemic oppression.

(01:36:11):
So that's how I pretty much center all my speaking
points around that topic. Anything I discussed here on the
up this platform is all, you know, the central focus
is on systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning and
how those play a big role into destroying our people

(01:36:33):
and what's always at place anytime something negative is happening
within our community. So that's my you know, broad focus
that I try to focus on my content on, but
also to make this a positive, safe space for our
people and our culture. So I don't you know, roast people,

(01:36:53):
and I don't try to kick dirt on nobody's name,
But there is an exception that every rule, and the
exception is of somebody from our community presents themselves as
a a you know, threat to our community. They don't
deserve to, you know, if they're doing something in the
headlines that's causing you know, everybody to have to weigh

(01:37:17):
in on it because of their antics. You know, it's
usually stems from them intentionally playing up negative stereotypes in
order to receive monetary game, and once you like, you know,
throw us under the bus to receive monetary game. Make

(01:37:38):
us all look bad so you can get money. Then
you know, the no name calling thing goes out the windows.
So other than that, it's a positive safe space for
original people. Last, but not least, is a time since
of the platform. I try not to see one hour
per broadcast. The broad overview of the narrative podcast is

(01:38:00):
the longest portion of the program. But I do this
in order, you know, it's more to the audience's advantage
to help, you know, contextualize the content and break it
down for you. So that's, you know, for your benefit. Now,
I've done episodes where I skip the broad overview, but

(01:38:23):
it lacked lester. You know, this helps you connect all
the dots. But I try to keep everything brief and
to the point. I don't have all day to speak,
and I know you don't have all day to listen.
I wanna deliver the message and I beat you upside
the head with the message. That's why I develop my

(01:38:44):
presenting style. You know, I break everything down the sections.
Each section has speaking points at time. These speaking point
to make everything you know efficiently for you to be
able to listen to and it a jail, and then
to resonate better. I can't captivate you if I'm boring

(01:39:05):
you to death. So that prevents me from rambling and
ranting and allows me to speak on a whole lot
of topics as well. So that's why my platform is
time sensitive. I try not conceive one hour per broadcast
because it's an audio platform. If I do, they see

(01:39:28):
over hours, not by much, and you really can't tell
by listening. But yeah, that's why, you know, I try
to time each episode. So now it should be all
caught up with my format, and you should know be
aware of all the nuances of the Narrative Podcast and
how to apply it and get the most out of it.

(01:39:49):
And if you're still kind of gray, I'm over five
hundred episodes in now, so just go through my episode
catalog to bring yourself up to speed. Just remember to
download this episod so no I previously recorded episodes of
the Narrative Podcast wherever you get your podcast sources from.
And now, without any further ado, we're gonna dive into
this Weekday Thursday episode of the Narrative Podcast Weekday Audition

(01:40:15):
with my very.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
First positive news article.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
And the very first positive news article of this weekly
edition of The Narrative podcast. The headline read, young Black
inmate graduates high school as valedictorian at Rikers Island Prison

(01:40:45):
and this is a story about a brother by the
name of Jarrel Daniels. He earned his ged in twenty
twenty three. He went on to study sociology and African
American studies at Columbia University and became a Truman Scholar.
He's also a motivational speaker and does ted talks as well.

(01:41:11):
Since his incarceration, he was involved in the shooting at
age seventeen, got convicted at eighteen. It was for attempted murder.
They also charged him with gang conspiracy and weapons charge.

(01:41:32):
He was sittenced in six years. While incarcerated, he participated
in a program called Inside Criminal Justice Seminar, which focused on,
you know, bringing the community, get together the prison population,

(01:41:57):
community and other social advocates and people in the justices system,
breaking it down and you know, trying to basically get
an understanding like of you know, the justice system here
in America, how it works. Get them on one accord,

(01:42:22):
you know, make sure the inmates have fair rights and stuff.
You know, just because you're convicted of a crime doesn't
mean you don't deserve to be you know, acknowledged as
a human being. You're there to be punished, You're not
there to be you know, experimenting on or brutalize. You've
already committed your crime. You're doing your time. You know,

(01:42:46):
it's not supposed to be, you know, a pleasure. It's
not supposed to be a vacation that you ain't supposed
to be feeling like you at the Rich Carlton, but
you should feel like, you know, you're in humane conditions.
So that's what that program was designed for, to make
sure the inmates were receiving humane conditions and also to

(01:43:09):
brief them on you know, how the system works and help,
you know, prevent them from you know, getting in trouble again.
So that's what that program was all about. He also

(01:43:31):
while in college to general studies double major in sociology
and African American studies. He also joined another program called

(01:43:52):
j I. E. Uh SO Scholars Program, which stands for
Justice in Education, and they provided academic support for inmates,
so you know, giving 'em resources on how to uh

(01:44:14):
you know, get their high school her their GEDs and
take college or vocational skills training horses. And then he
founded his own nonprofit organization in twenty nineteen called JAYC,
which stands for Justice Ambassador Youth Council UH, which focused

(01:44:39):
on housing and education and law, you know, for the
youth to get them UH involved in the neighborhoods advocacy,
you know, giving back and then also focus on UH
fair housing and understanding the law as well legal aid.

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
Clinics and such.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
And then he also participated in another program called Community
Justice Alliance which focused on UH food insecurities and police violence.
And so he's involved in UH a lot more activities
than that. I just highlighted the best of always done

(01:45:28):
and currently doing since you know, being incarcerated. He is
definitely an example that you can change your life around.
Your current situation doesn't have to be your final destination. So,
without any further ADO, please join me to giving our
brother Jarell Daniels a warm narrative podcast round of applause.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
UH.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Next article on the Narrative Podcast Week, they addition the
headline Read's third Annual Conference for Black Dula's to gather
UH together Nearly UH thirty speakers to reclaim birth work

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and protect a legacy. The conference will commence at uh
UH DoubleTree Hotel by the Hilton and Portland, Oregon, on
September fifth through the seventh of this year. It's gonna

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be UH transfer UH transformational gathering to UH coven doula's
midwives and UH.

Speaker 4 (01:47:05):
Paternal health professionals.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
So if you don't know what a doula is, it's
essentially like somebody a birthing coach. You know, everything UH
pregnant women go through, you know, when they're doing their
UH lama's classes. That's kind of the function of a
doula that we need a lot of those within our community. Now.

(01:47:32):
Doulas is more on the holistic side of it and
if you wanna do a natural birth, and a lot
of us should be doing natural births as like Western
medicine has, especially of those if it's living in the
United States of America, has really you know, messed our

(01:47:53):
people up. There's a whole lot of things that they
do to our shit UH babies at birth. You know,
they start the UH agenda at birth. They like pumping
full of drugs, implant hypnotic suggestions in the baby, I'm
laughing to keep from crying. This is like, we live

(01:48:15):
in a really wicked state, a really wicked country that
target our people and that's you know, a doula will
help UH protect our babies. So the significance of this

(01:48:37):
program is UH. Based on s UH stats from the CDC,
sixty s percent of all pregnancy related deaths are deemed preventable. UH.
The conference will serve as a essential platform for sharing knowledge,

(01:48:57):
building sustainable practices, and reclaiming birth work as a sacred practice.
They'll also offer green spaces to meet up outdoor sessions
designed for a to UH foster deep connections and healing.

(01:49:23):
To find out more about this event, go to smdulaconference
dot com, or if you ask specific questions, go to
info at smcdulas dot com or call five zero three
to eight to A one sixteen eighty eight. All right,

(01:49:51):
hit you with the phone number again. It's five O
three to eight one sixteen eighty eight. Just had to
double check the up a phone number.

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
But yeah, that's what the event will be hosted.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
You know, everything you need to know is at sm
doulasconference dot com. That's everything you need to know will
be posted on that site was founded by Sharifa M.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
Monroe in two thousand and twenty two.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
SMC Doulas is committed to the vision that every woman
deserves a doulah. Rooted in African centered birth traditions, SMC
Doulah trains and certifies birth workers to support Black, Indigenous,
and underserved communities, ensuring that birth and families receive respectful,

(01:50:50):
culturally censored, and evidence based care.

Speaker 4 (01:50:59):
So go check that out. So go check that out.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
As m dulas conference dot com. Please join me in
the giving the organizers that made this event possible a
warm Narrative Podcast round of applause. All right, my very

(01:51:33):
last positive news article on this weekday edition of The
Narrative Podcast reads. Black woman makes history as first full
time football announcer and the sister's name is THEA. Floyd.
She is from Huntsville, Georgia. She attended Alabama A and

(01:51:57):
N University, so that's a UH HBCU UH. She has
time in as UH being a play by play announcer
for Alabama A and M University. She'll call the UH
Bulldogs games throughout UH all throughout the UH two thousand

(01:52:19):
twenty five season, and she's also within her resume, she's
done stuff for NBC, UH, ESPN and Scape Sports Illustrated
and the list goes on. She's highly declarated in announcing
UH sporting events most requested and of course, first woman

(01:52:47):
of her kind in that field, black women in their
kind up that field. So that's really a really auspicious event.
You know, it's a male dominated fi UH field.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
UH.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
So that the sister's even watching sports it to begin with,
you know, that's something within itself, you know, keeping up
with the game and be able to break down the
blow by blow and keep up with the stats, and
you know, that's definitely an accomplishment in the achievement. So,

(01:53:28):
without any further adode, please join me in giving the
Warm Narrative Podcast round of applause to our sister THEA.

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
Floyd for this tremendous accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Alright, so now we're in the home stretch springing this
thing UH to a close with the very last section
of the New the Podcast Weekday edition. This section is
titled the Speaking Points section, and to reiterate, I'll be
talking about current events, current issues, things trending in the

(01:54:13):
news headlines, anything newsworthy that I feel new is newsworthy
because it's my platform to discuss. And again, in the
rare times I feel there's nothing going on in the
news worth discussing, I replace it, you know with a
PSA and my PSAs or just observations that I've made

(01:54:36):
or I've noticed that our people need to work on
as a people. And by we, I mean me too,
and in many cases me especially today is kind of
a both day. So it's a PSA and it's a
news article all in one. So let go, let's get

(01:54:58):
into it. You know, been going viral the Carnival Cruise
ships situation. So there's a situation going on with the
commercial cruise liner of Carnival where you know, some passengers

(01:55:24):
feel that they're insurrecting anti black rules to discourage black
people from wanting to, you know, patronize their vessel. And

(01:55:45):
I've heard mixed reviews all throughout our community, and you know,
here's the thing. So the breakdown of the situation. So
many of the complaints were that the uh, passengers were

(01:56:08):
being loud and unruly and ignoxious and uh, you know,
making other guests feel uncomfortable and the other guests where
you guessed it white people making white people feel uncomfortable,
and so for that, they're saying they're instituting you know,

(01:56:31):
no speakers and the host of other things. Alright, So
they're newly UH proposed things that they're cracking down on
on carnival cruise lines due to uh, you know, black passengers,
you know recent recently UH boarding on a on recent

(01:56:57):
trick UH plan to ban non electric handheld fans commonly
used during line dances, nightclubs, and indoor dance floors added
only within the past few weeks. No playing music allowed

(01:57:25):
via bluetooth speakers or no speakers portable speakers. You can't
listen to any speakers music using speakers. Dance floors are
our alcohol free zone curfew for miners are now under

(01:57:45):
seventeen and must lead public area is by one a
m unless companied by an adults. Marijuana, cannabis, cannabis and
smoking are prohibited in line with federal UH law. No
bringing personal bluetooth speakers or fans on board cruisizes would disembark.

Speaker 4 (01:58:17):
So, and here's the kicker.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
No rap music will be played. Our proposer proposing not
to UH play any rap music or hip hop. So

(01:58:46):
this is people from our community feel that they're unjustly
uh targeting specifically our community, and to reinforce their new rules,
they're showing people from our community and ultra rare form.

(01:59:07):
We're showing people from our community who are intoxicated. We're
showing young ladies from our community tworking and scandidly clads
working at that. And you know, let's unpack this and
remember this is the narrative podcast. So I'm gonna unpack

(01:59:30):
this news from the black perspective. I'm gonna unpack it
from the bigger picture perspective. I'm gonna unveil where psychological
programming and systemic oppression play a role in this particular article. Now,

(01:59:56):
Chris Rock had a joke a long time he said
he don't like niggas. He said, there's a difference between
black people and niggas, and he don't like niggas. Now,
when you break down the term niggas, it actually derived

(02:00:20):
it was something within you know, black culture that actually
meant something positive before the colonizers got a hold of it.
It was derived from a word called ni goose, which

(02:00:41):
really kind of translated into king or queen. But over
the centuries, during the enslavement process the term niggas over time,
because through colonization and whitewashing, took on the identity of
something negative. And you know, as a result of that,

(02:01:03):
all things negative is now associating attached to the word nigga.
The leg tupacamarsh Kor attempted to redeem that word by
giving it an acronym niggas never ignorant, getting goals accomplished,
But that didn't really kind of restore it to its

(02:01:26):
former prominence. But said all that to say, there are
different types of us. There are those of us who
are overly loud, overly boisterous those there are those of
us that are quite frankly embarrassing, you know. And the men.

(02:01:51):
You know, there's uh the where they draws the pants
sagging off. They behind don't know how to articulated conversation
without swearing every other word. Mother flipping new shit, men
flicking new You know, that's on the men's side of it.

(02:02:11):
We got unsavory people in our community. On the women's
side of it, unsavory women within our community coming out
the house, you know, no sense of urgency walking around
in broad daylight in your pajama pants, wharing a. I.

(02:02:32):
I don't know if they're called bondage. The things that
come all the way down to your back. Back in
the days, you know, this type of female will have
rollers in her hair, coming outside with the rollers in
her hair, and uh, fuzzy slippers in the house rope
going to the grocery store. These days, the young girls

(02:02:56):
come out and the pajama pants with the thing coming
the or whatever it is, coming all the way down
looking like they just rolled out of bed, and it's
two or three o'clock in the afternoon. Speak to him.

Speaker 4 (02:03:12):
They always got an attitude, rolling their neck.

Speaker 3 (02:03:16):
You know, talk so fast, you know, sound like a
tongue twist rapper, always argumentative, got their neck rolling about something,
got a tongue ring, you know, tattoos, piercings, tongue ring.

(02:03:39):
You know, we got unsavory people within our community. We
have unredeemable people within our community. We can't save everybody.
We can't take everybody with us. You know, the psychological
programming and conditioning is really deeply embedded in and rooted

(02:04:03):
in a whole lot of our people. It's not their fault,
but it's too late. It can't be undone you know,
they don't see anything wrong with how they're behaving. Their
own family and friends can't get through to them that
they're the problem. We have those type of people within

(02:04:27):
our community. But on the reverse, everybody, all people have
people like that within their community that is shame and
embarrass them in their communities. Spanish people have people the
shame and embarrass them as a people. Asian people, they

(02:04:51):
got people that shame and embarrass them as Asian people.
White people have people within their community that and embarrass
them as a people. We all have people like that
be shamed or embarrass our communities. We all have low life,
degenerate people in our communities that shame or embarrass us

(02:05:16):
as a people. So some, some of the African Americans
black people on that on that voyage shamed and embarrassed
us as a people. In keyword some some does not

(02:05:39):
represent and reflect all a few. This was the actions
of a few people that couldn't act like they had
some damn sense. You know, I can't stand people like that.
I don't like being around people like that. I don't
like talking to people like that. I get worked up

(02:06:03):
just talking about it. You know, I'm having an anxiety
attack right now, just thinking about people within our community
to act like that. I cannot stand that type of behavior.
I can't stand it when young people do listen to rap.
I know some rappers that perform these songs can't stand,

(02:06:27):
you know, when they're out in public and they're hearing
it blaring the Wi Fi blaring, even though they're the
artists they're performing it. They want their piece and quiet.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
I know they.

Speaker 3 (02:06:39):
Can't stand being the public spaces and people sitting up
there blaring the music. Like I love rap, I love
hip hop, I grew up in it, but there's an
appropriate time and appropriate place and appropriate setting for everything.
And if you that, you know, inconsiderate not to consider

(02:07:05):
the people around you, you're a lost cause. It used
to be a time when we were so dignified and
so respectful. These young generations, they don't even acts you
in public spaces, Hey, can I play my music?

Speaker 4 (02:07:22):
Is it alright?

Speaker 3 (02:07:26):
They just act like they're supposed to do it, especially
on public transportation, city buses, subways, they just got it
blasting and like, you don't want to hear that all
the time. So I get it. I totally get it.

(02:07:46):
I totally agree with that I cannot stand people in
our community like that, pants sagging all off, they behind,
smelling like alcohol, smelling like marijuana. You know, can't stand that.

(02:08:15):
So not saying I'm holier than thou and I don't
mess up and I don't do things sometimes, you know,
in my younger days, I was definitely like that. A
lot of us was definitely like that. But again, some

(02:08:39):
is not a reflection of all. And as the story
unfolded and I'm seeing more perspectives of what was happening
on that voyage, it leads me to believe that there
is undoubtedly white supremacis see at place, because when you

(02:09:03):
think about the headlines and how the story broke and
the things surrounding to get what do they do? What
do white supremacists do? What do they push and what
they promote? They push and promote propaganda. They control the media,

(02:09:24):
They control what we see. They control what we perceive
to be reality, and the reality that they want to
project onto our people and about our people. They want
our people and people outside of our culture to believe

(02:09:44):
we are all ignorant savages. And so those are the
images you know that's being circulated around the internet to
justify Carnival's decision to cracking down, you know, on the rules.

(02:10:05):
Then we're seeing an influx of white people doing videos
and talking about, you know, all the negative things that
the black people were doing on this voyage, on this cruise,
and like when the first story first broke, you know me,

(02:10:28):
like a lot of other content creators. This is why
this is the primary reason why I don't, you know,
I might be shooting myself in the foot as far
as like getting views and going viral and all that,
But how I deliver my content as I wait for

(02:10:51):
the whole story to play out before I post my
perception on the story, I try to get all angles
and try to get all views before you know, I
put my two cents in. And so I wish a
whole lot of influential content creators and personalities within our

(02:11:16):
community would have used the same discernment that I'm using
and waited for the story to fully play out before
they delivered their commentary and their verdict about the Carnival
being justified in these new set of rules, because had

(02:11:38):
they have, they wouldn't have made the comments.

Speaker 4 (02:11:42):
That they made about our people on that cruise.

Speaker 3 (02:11:46):
Sign Like some of them were coughts engaging in reprehensible activities.
These new rules that they're trying to impulate, trying to implement,
are definitely targeting black people. So that's the narrative that

(02:12:14):
they always try to frame up that it's always our people,
like we're the problem in all scenarios, when in reality,
we just now in twenty twenty five, have accrued.

Speaker 4 (02:12:32):
The finances to be able to take.

Speaker 3 (02:12:35):
A carnival cruise lines and then like you don't even
see the racism when you're hearing the white people talk.
This is a nice place, this is a prestigious place
before these people you see came on board and ruin

(02:12:56):
the experience for us. Who are these people that they're
talking about. They're talking about black people. They're saying black
people single handily ruined the experience of experiencing a you know,
an ocean ride or avoid of vacation. We get into

(02:13:21):
a financial space where we can afford cruises to go
on cruises now, and now you're telling us we can't
enjoy ourselves because you want to crack down on rules.
You don't want us playing rap music, You don't want
us listening to our rap a rap music. You don't

(02:13:43):
like it. When we dance, we can't if we're of age,
we can't get lit everybody. That's what a cruise ship
is for. It's for to get lit. All people get
lit on cruises. Now, I get the no marijuana. I
get that. I totally one hundred and ten percent concur

(02:14:05):
with that. If you don't smoke marijuana, you don't want
to smell it, you don't want it in your clothing.
You know, you don't want to wreak up marijuana if
you don't smoke marijuana. So I get that. I get
that rule. I do get that one, But all these
other rules, they are definitely anti black. They are definitely

(02:14:29):
reinforcing the negative stereotype of our people not being civilized.
So when you look at cruise ship culture, you have
they offer liquor, they offered mixed drinks, they offer cocktails.

(02:14:52):
That's the whole lord going on the cruise ship. So
you can get lit. You can sit on the deck,
call somebody that bring you a mixed drink while you're
on the deck, or you know, on the dance floor

(02:15:12):
if you're dancing, they'll bring your alcohol to you. Now,
when you further break down the rules, no children unsupervised.
White people's children are always unsupervised, and they are the

(02:15:33):
most unruly, bad little efforts on the planet. You don't
seen them on commercial airlines. They kick the seats, they're
raised their voice to scream at the top of their
lungs just because they're in the terminal. They some unruly

(02:15:54):
white people gotta have a leash on their child to
keep them in proximity so they ain't they don't wander
off because they got the propensity to wander off. They
can't even control their children. And they saying they don't
want our children to enjoy the sea experience. And then

(02:16:18):
we as content creators were going with the narrative, Yeah, man,
but shit, don't nobody want to hear all that shit?

Speaker 4 (02:16:26):
And niggas make me sick?

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
Man? And yeah, niggas, niggas, nigga niggas, niggas need this,
and niggas do that. White people do it too. White
people do it too. All the behavior that is outlined
in these new rules, White people were doing it too.

(02:16:49):
But we just don't see the white people doing it
too because they want to shift the blame on our people.
You see, it's a white supremacy at its pinnacle peak.
They don't like it when we have fun. They don't

(02:17:10):
have a natural sense of rhythm, so they don't want
us on the dance floor tearing it up. Tearing up
the dance floor.

Speaker 4 (02:17:17):
They mad because they can't do the same dance.

Speaker 3 (02:17:20):
As we do. They ain't got no rhythm. They don't
like it because they can't relate to hip hop. They
can't relate to the rap music. They don't want to
hear it. Now, shoot to the fact, you do need
to keep your music at a respectable decibel and be

(02:17:41):
respectful to people around you, because everybody don't want to
listen to what you're listening to, regardless of the genre
of music. You need to be respectful when you're listening
to your music. But again, white people do it too.
Nobody takes it in Shoot. When white people do it, people,

(02:18:01):
white people rock out, play the death metal, pay the
play the h they call it thrasher rock, punk rock.

Speaker 4 (02:18:12):
They play that up super loud. Nobody says nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:18:16):
White people walking around with uh.

Speaker 4 (02:18:19):
With long neck bottles of beer.

Speaker 3 (02:18:28):
They do all the same things that they're complaining that
black people are doing. On this cruise, they do it too.
The crew personnel. They do it too, the white crew personnel.
All the complaints, they do it too. They smoke weed too.

(02:18:50):
You know, they was probably buying weed from the black passengers,
smoking blunts with the black passengers, how about that. But
they always try to deflect it and make us seem
like we're the problem. We're worse when you look at

(02:19:13):
American culture, American society. You know, American cinema is a
perfect example to see America through the eyes of the world.
Our most influential films we have in America are Coming

(02:19:34):
to age tells in all Hollywood cinema. And then when
you see these coming to age tales, it usually encompasses
a group of white people, of white teenagers going on vacation.
They go on vacation to the Florida Keys, Tianjuana, Antiqua,

(02:20:04):
Caribbean Islands, Uh, Fort Loderdal, Cancun. You can't tell me
them white kids don't get lit and nobody says nothing.
That's what we visually see in these fearms, are like, Oh,

(02:20:25):
that looks fun, I'm gonna do it too. Yeah, whoo.

Speaker 4 (02:20:28):
You know how they get liot to go whew, They go.

Speaker 3 (02:20:31):
Whoo like Rick fleir. You know when white people get
lit to go whoo, White women raise, they tops up
when they get lit for no apparent reason. They'll be
at a party and they just raise, They top up
and exposed. They're tatas. You see how divisive that is.

(02:20:54):
Still to this day. They always trying to say, our
people defire and ruining things for them. Well, we don't
have the history of defiling and ruining things for them.
They got the history of defiling and ruining things for us.
They got the history of burning down our townships, ruining

(02:21:19):
our places of business, running our people off the road,
burning our towns down, flooding our towns, burning our businesses down,
burning our churches down.

Speaker 4 (02:21:37):
We ain't not never did nothing to thend.

Speaker 3 (02:21:41):
They got the history of doing things to us. This
is classic textbook, you know, gentrification happening right in front
of us, and then our people like a whole lot.
I was disciplined. It on all the black celebrities and

(02:22:02):
content creators to weigh in on this, and they're not
seeing the white supremacists handed all of this. They're not
seeing that they're manipulating the media to make it look
like our people is the problem. You see This is

(02:22:27):
like if you tell a child they're stupid all their life,
you're telling them from the time they're a baby to
a time they're grown, you're stupid.

Speaker 4 (02:22:43):
When the child becomes a fool adult.

Speaker 3 (02:22:47):
Has to make decisions for themselves, their go to and
their subconscious mind, they're going to say, damn every.

Speaker 4 (02:22:57):
Time they make a mistake, I am so stupid.

Speaker 3 (02:23:00):
That's what they're gonna say, because you're being programming and
conditioning their minds to believe that they're stupid. And what
the media does is they program and condition our minds
into saying I'm ghetto. They conditioned the minds of white
people through the negative frames of references that they keep

(02:23:23):
on promoting and propagating through the media that those people
are ghetto, those people are ratchet, those people are uncivilized,
And y'all do the same thing just in a different way.
They do the exact same things, just in a different way.
They felt uncomfortable around black people. They didn't want black

(02:23:46):
people vacationing next to them, and that's what the bottom
line all of this is about. They didn't want white
black people on that boat with them. They don't want
to be our equals and they had to be on
equal terms with us, and is it nothing you can
do about it? We have the same amount of financial wealth.

(02:24:08):
Now we can treat ourselves cruisers now, so you're gonna
see black people on them cruise shits. You gonna see
black people in those uh gated communities now because we're
on the rise. Regardless of all these obstacles, y'all keep
on putting in front of us. We keep on hopping

(02:24:32):
over all the obstacles. It's no matter where you move
to in the United States, you wanna have a black
next door negative. No matter where you work in the
next in the United States, you wanna have a black
co worker. And black people wanna blank bring uh black coaching.
We gonna blame hip hop, jazz blues. We're gonna bring our.

Speaker 4 (02:24:57):
Iteration and interpretation of it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:00):
If that makes you uncomfortable, you probably need to leave, uh, you.

Speaker 4 (02:25:05):
Know, leave the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (02:25:07):
Like y'all always say, if y'all don't like it so much,
then get the hell out. If y'all don't like.

Speaker 4 (02:25:12):
It so much, y'all get the hell out, cause we hear.

Speaker 3 (02:25:17):
A baby, and we ain't going nowhere, especially foundationally, Black Americans.
We built this country. Hell you talking about go back
to Africa and we're from here. So that's set all

(02:25:39):
that to say. You know, it's definitely uh a conspiracy.
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's an actual, real deal
conspiracy put together, you know, by just a bunch of
uptight white people that don't want to share the boat
with black people, don't wanna embrace hip hop culture, don't
wanna embrace black cod you, but constantly use hip hop

(02:26:02):
culture when it's convenient for them. So how this is
gonna play out? I don't feel we should have launch
a full on boycott of the carnival because one, don't
nobody never stick to the boycott anyway. But two, when
their cells decline, and they will guess who they're going

(02:26:23):
to use to boast their cells black people. They're going
to actually use black rappers to promote carnival cruise lines.
They're going to do little slick shit like have fried
chicken in the buffet and you know, their iteration of

(02:26:45):
what they believe soul food is. And they're gonna be
playing R and B in the rat. So my people
don't get worked up over nothing. This ain't nothing. They
need us. We don't need them.

Speaker 4 (02:27:00):
We don't need to do a full on boycott.

Speaker 3 (02:27:02):
They gonna be begging us to come sell on Carnival
cruise like they always beg us. We ain't never needed them,
They always needed us. But you know, we can't prove
that they We can't prove to them that how badly
they need us if you keep on supplying them with

(02:27:26):
ammunition to harm usself, To all the black content creators
and you know, TikTokers and people weighing in on this
particular situation, I respect the opposing view. You know, if
you wanna call, you know, call us out and be like, yeah,
we gotta take accountability, and yeah, they didn't need to

(02:27:47):
be doing all that. Y'all forgot when y'all made y'all
statement that white people do it too, They was doing
it too. They just the cameras wasn't on them to
capture know them doing it. They was drinking their beer.
Their kids was sitting up there running wild on their cruise. Trust, trust,

(02:28:09):
and believe me they was. White people got some badass kids, horrible.
You see them throw tantrums in public and curse their
parents out and talk telling them I don't want to.
I don't like to have shut up mom, shut up Dad.

(02:28:43):
So yeah, that's all I wear, im want laying my plane.
Don't sit up there and run with the narrative of
our people being uncivilized and our people being the problem
all the time. Sure, we need to take accountability for
our actions when it's applicable, but ask yourself the question,

(02:29:06):
when have we ever not taken accountability?

Speaker 4 (02:29:09):
When has it ever been a time period where.

Speaker 3 (02:29:14):
Is somebody within our community or outside of our community
that says we gotta do better? Who sets the narrative,
Who dicks take Who dictates the narrative. Who's out there
taking minutes and notes weighing in on morality? Who made
who the hell made them the moral judge of our people?

(02:29:38):
Are the blood they spilled it within our community? Are
the immoral things that do to us on a constant,
everyday basis and sleep comfortably at night? Who the hell
are they to sit up there and tell us that
we are in moral when they got laws preventing us

(02:30:01):
from earning the same ways as they earned. When they
set up there and deny our people, uh, you know,
finances that would buy them a home. We can't do
nothing in peace. We set up there enjoy pluck. We

(02:30:21):
can't enjoy public spaces. You know, that was the birth
of the Karen remembered the white lady in the dark shades.
That's how the uh catchphrase Karen really took off. And
she's sitting on the phone calling the police talk about
you know, the grill that kicked off the Karen culture.

(02:30:45):
So that's all that situation was. That was just the
Karen moment caught and you know, if they baited us
in with it, and we took the bait, all our
content creators in the black community, they came out of
the woodwork to look at the foot and be like,
we're the problem. But they didn't for once question like
who put the footage out there? Sure, the people that

(02:31:10):
control the media control the media, can frame up the
situation to look like how they wanted to look like,
and how they wanted to look like was black people
acting like ignorant, dumb trump niggas, And we went for
the narrative as content creators saying, yeah, niggas don't need
to be acting like that. White people don't want to

(02:31:32):
hear all that bullshit and you need to respect Malca
like yo, are y'all hearing y'allselves? That's how y'all sound.
You need to respect malca them some good white folk.
You don't act I don't like that in front of
no white folk. That's how y'all sounding online with that

(02:31:54):
stand on business, stand by your own people. We are
all family. You got your blood relatives to do stuff,
and you know they're wrong, but there your blood relatives,
and if something happened to them, you riding with your
blood relative. If somebody touching you riding with your blood relative,

(02:32:19):
after the altercations over, you're gonna grab your blood relative,
pull them to the side and let them know how
the wrong they was in that situation. But at the
moment that it's happening, you riding with your blood relative.
And that's the energy we need to have as a people.
And quit taking this bait that these white supremacists keep

(02:32:42):
on putting out for us to take to condemn and
demean and demoralize each other. Because that's what I.

Speaker 2 (02:32:51):
Saw all why this.

Speaker 3 (02:32:55):
Story was happening in front of us, who is looking
for that opportunity to uh spew all these black tropes
about us, All these comedians spewing all these black tropes. Yeah,
look at them niggas, they smoking black mouths and uh
gambling on the deck and shooting dice and twerking it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(02:33:17):
all these black tropes coming out of all these comedians' mouths. Man,
it was sickening. It's sickening, bruh that we look at
each other like that. And that's what you see. You
see your black brother and sister through the lens of
white America. That's who is controlling the narrative. There was

(02:33:38):
purposely putting the camera on the black people, you know,
to reinforce their point that they was trying to make,
you know what I'm saying, while not focusing the camera
on the white people doing the exact same thing that
they're complaining about. So that's where I'm land with that.

(02:34:09):
They always try to do it. I mean, like like,
look at our uh sister, Janet Jackson. It almost been
twenty whole years since the uh they gave it a name,
Nippo Palooza. They ain't never really never formally apologized to
Janet Jackson. They gonna set up there and say she
single handedly defiled the super Bowl, which isn't a prestigious

(02:34:33):
event talking about it's uh the super Bowl, it's clean,
uh family Fund, and no it ain't. Football players suffered
concussions for our entertainment, all kinds of sport, acute sport injuries,
so we can be entertained by them. And then what

(02:34:53):
goes on in the stands selling and consumption of alcohol,
and nobody's watching the limit the intake, nobody's questioning people said,
you know, this is your sixth or seventh beer. They
don't care as long as they're making money. So there

(02:35:14):
ain't nothing morally right about the super Bowl. But yet
they try to morally condemn Janet Jackson for a situation
she didn't even have no control of it. Who are
these damn savages to morally condemn us? Stop running with
that narrative all the time that we're the problem. That's

(02:35:40):
the narrative that there was going to try to make
our people look like degenerates and a moral people. So yeah,
y'all got a point. I do feel uncomfortable around some
of our people. There are some of our people I
feel she'd be like, there are some of our people

(02:36:03):
I feel shit, Just be like somebody used to just
put 'em out their misery cause there's no you can't
help 'em. They're that, you know, they're that far gone.
They're like they don't even see like how wicked and
wrong they are for the things they do. Talking to
they mama like that, talking to they parents like that,
talking to they children like that, coming out s outside

(02:36:26):
the house looking like like they do, carrying conducting themselves
like that. There's a whole lot of our people. We
can't say there's a whole lot of people within the
Asian culture. Asian people can't say there's a whole lot
of people. But the Spanish uh culture s proud. Spanish

(02:36:46):
people can't say we all got our problems, we all
got our flaws, but our problems aren't any worse than
anybody else's problems. So quit going with that narrative like
we're worse than anybody else. The white people on that
bus are on that boat. Pardon me. They was engaging

(02:37:07):
in all the activities that they were complaining about, and
now they're trying to insurrect the rule system designed to
you know, shame and in uh scold black people. So

(02:37:31):
that's where I'm land not playing with that. Thank you
all for listening to this episode of The Narrative Podcast.
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