Episode 505 Weekday edition (Wednesday)- The Narrative Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And and and.

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Stop and.

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Total narrative without the Narrative Podcast, the.

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Narrative or whatever a.

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Peace, peace, peace family. We now tap into another edition
of the mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast is
the home of original people, original people, Peace, original people,
respirosity and original people Positivity. Narrative Podcast promote positive frames
of reference about original people and original coach. The Narrative

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Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people and
originally culture. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. I am your host,
Haulzie Allen. Welcome all my narrators, Peace, Peace, Peace, PEACEP ANDTD.
So here we are for again with another episode of

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the Narrative Podcast. On this wonderful Wednesday hump day, we
made it over the hunt So weekend. Right around the corner.
The world is doing what the world is doing. You know,
the grains are running down that hour glass. It just

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seems like we just begin.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
This season.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Because it's technically not a year, you know, if you
didn't know anything about the Gregorian calendar. But anyway, we're here,
I'm here, You're here. Everything is all good, you know,
can I definitely cannot complain had a great week so far,

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only good things to come. And I suspect if you're
a follower of this platform, only good things is coming
for you as well. But anyway, welcome to the Near podcast.
For those that you do not know what this platform
is all about, who I am. This is an all

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black platform, speak about all things black on this platform, So.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
You know that's what we're going to be doing today.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
And I'm gonna just give you a brief, miniaturized breakdown
of the NERK podcast. I'll give you a more in
depth one a little bit later on in the podcast,
but just to scratch the surface about what it is

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I do here on this platform. The Narrative podcast highlights
the beauty, strength, and resilience of the black community, covering
topics such as black love, empowerment, unity, and progression. The
Narrative podcast dives deep into discussions about black health, economic wealth, innovation,

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and positive reinforcement of black voices to and then weekdays
and weekends to hear uplifting news and to focus on
the achievements of Black individuals across the globe. And that's
just scratching the surface on what it is I do
on this platform. The Narrative Podcast is dedicated to delivering

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positive frames of reference about black people and black culture.
As I refer to our people on this platform, original
people and original people culture.

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You know.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
As a matter of fact, I have a slogan for
this podcast, the Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode
at the time by destroying negative stereotypes.

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About original people and original people culture.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
How do I destroy the negative stereotypes about how our
people and our culture by providing positive frames of reference
about our people and our culture. So yeah, that's pretty
much what the Narrative Podcast is all about, and how
I typically get things started is first I give you a,

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you know, a comparison in contrast of the two times
that I broadcast. I broadcast during the week days and
the weekends. So I just, you know, give you a
breakdown of you know, my format, delivery style.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
For the weekdays and the weekends, and just tell you,
you know, my primary focus on each each of those days.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then I.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
Go into another portion of the Narrative podcast, which is
the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast. And the reason
why I need a promotional portion of this podcast platform
that I'm recording on has a monthly maintenance feed, and

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so by promoting these projects, that will help cover the
monthly maintenance feed because the projects that I'll be plugging
generate revenue, and so you know, I'll funnel those you know,
income streams back into the platform to keep.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
It running and operating smoothly.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
My ultimate goal is the transition from audio to video,
so I'm gonna need all you guys in support on that.
So that's the nature of the promotional portion of the
Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
So it's basically like a you know, a crowd funding
portion essentially. So after I'm done with the promotional portion
of the Narrative Podcast, the next section is.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
A broad overview of the Narrative podcast, where I'm just
breaking down all the nuances of the podcast and then
I actually go into the podcast content itself and there
you have it. That's pretty much my format delivery style.

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But before that, you know, the Narrative Podcast is all about,
you know, promoting and positively reinforcing black people and black culture, waking.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Us up to the idea that we are one you know,
blood and one united family.

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And so.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Having said that, we're going to start things off by
acknowledging you know dearly the party, you know, family member
of the United Family of our people.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
So we just had recent recently.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
The last time I joined you, I was just seeming
to recently send out condolences to a brother by the
name of Ronnie Pardner of City High and unfortunately, you.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Know, now we have.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
You know, some more condolences, you know, to a you
know acknowledge.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
So unless you've been living under a rock, we recently
just lost a brother near and dear to everybody's hearts.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
If you're a gen xer.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
In the Black American community, he was definitely a fixture
and a part of your childhood.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
Growing up, you know. So we're going to get right.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
To it talking none other than mister Malcolm Jamal Warner.
So basically, he passed.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Away on the.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
Twenty if I believe, he drowned on a while while
on vacation.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
He's vacationing over in Costa Rica, and the news says
he was just swimming and basically, you know, got cotton
the undertow of a like a massive wave or whatever.

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Some other people that were swimming in that vicinity too,
you know, they experienced it as well, but they ended
up surviving it with some minor complications, but our brother,
he just he wasn't that fortunately, as the news reports,

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and it's really tragic and untimely. Just the eye opener
that you know, any time you can just get literally
just you know, this is a moment where life kind
of sucks, you know, because he was just so pro
prolific and uh profound individual.

Speaker 7 (11:06):
There's people in.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
The world, Uh, upon meeting them, you know that they're special,
that they have a destiny ah and they are chosen ones.
And uh, our brother definitely was a chosen one. You know,
his name Malcolm Jamal. He was named after the lakes,

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you know, Malik Eljai Shabaz a k A Malcolm x
or so there there's that in the Jamal was from
the Atramic house of Shakur. So his name was the

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you know, embodiment of the movement itself, and he filled
those shoes throughout the years, we've seen his growth pattern.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
You know, he channeled that, you know all that I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
I don't like saying radical because there's nothing radical about
knowledge of self. You're supposed to have a sense of identity.
But you know, for just the sake of just saying it,
you know, that radical movement got instilled with him in

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an early age and it translated into you know, the
craft of acting. The brother also was a musician. He
played the bass guitar and a poet as well. Fantastic
spoken word artist, got a lot of spoken word poems.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
And mixtapes. You know it just.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
His way with words is just like so dynamic and compelling.
He really left his mark on the world. He really
experienced life. And you know, a whole lot of people
close to him and have worked with him and experienced
him or just shaken right now and they're still just

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you know, blinking, not believing it's real, hoping they got
it wrong, you know, hoping it's a hoax and all that.
You know, they just want to wake up from it.
But you know, that's just how life works. You know,
if it was meant to understand that, we would you know,
the creator had something better for our Brethern, and he

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definitely fulfilled his destiny while in this physical play. You know,
he inspired a whole lot of people and touched a
whole lot of people's lives and transformed a lot of
whole people's lives because all up and down the timelines
you're seeing people meeting him and sharing their experience they

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had with him.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
He's a union being, you know.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
So I'm pretty sure everybody don't have a good the
time I met Malcolm Jamorrow Warner's story, I'm.

Speaker 7 (14:35):
One of those people. He wasn't mean or nothing.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I think I shared the story on my platform
a long time ago. But just to quickly reiterate, you know,
before I get you know, send, give the brother a
proper send off on my platform.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
That's kind of a big regret in life.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
I never, as the old saying goes, you only get
one time to make a first impression, and I wish
I would have got a.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Chance to have a do over.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
But I didn't like I met him, and I blew it.
So backstory real quick. In my Negative Woods where I live,
we have Black History celebration.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
It's an annual thing.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
We start having activities, you know, in late January to
compensate Black History only being twenty eight days, and then
there's a big giant, you know, celebration on the last week,
the last two weeks of Black History Month. So anyway,

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and on the last two weeks of the Black History Month,
that's the biggest you know, celebration in the whole town.
And what they usually do is have celebrities do meet
and greek on these last two weeks of the celebration,
they rent out of venue. The venues packed with vendors

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and local performers. People dancing, doing you know, performance, smoke
a word, art, playing instruments.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
It's just like art, just a really good time around
that time.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Now, my story takes place in the early two thousands
is when this happened, when he was here, So.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
This is before like Uber and Lyft Prize, right, So anyway,
this is you know, I'm gonna get right to it.
So the venues happening. He's scheduled to be there.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Between the hours of like you know, two to four pm,
you know, and they're advertising so you know it was
a long time ago because I'm about to say our word.
They're advertising the event on the radio NonStop, you know.

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But bye, you know today come down, last two weeks
Black History Weekend in the house. We'll have Malcolm Jamal Warner,
star of you know TV, most known for his role
on The Cosmic Show is Steo Da Da Da. You
know they're advertising like that. It's just in Rotation's present

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in rotation.

Speaker 7 (17:45):
So now I wake up early after a long night.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'm determined to go to the event, get on my
running done early in the morning, so I want to
go get fresh. I want to get go, get edged dug,
you know, go get me a fresh fit and all that.
Get everything I need to get done early in the morning.
So I'm taking inventory around the house. Stuff I need groceries.

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I want to do everything. Wow, you know, early in
the morning. My early morning runs. So boom, I'm out.
I called for a ride right because, like I said,
you know, this ain't this is before Ubern lives. So yo,
drop me off at Da Da da. So drop me

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off at the shopping plaza. The shopping plaza is like everything.
I need a grocery store and then something to eat.
And then you know, this is where Malcolm comes in.
He's at a coffee shop. Now I go to the
grocery store. After I've got my you know, groceries and

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stuff for the house. Then you know, I'm hungry. After words,
I go to it Spizoz. I find me an Asian
spot all you can eat, Chinese fee whatever. Boom eat that,
bust that down, you know, call my ride pick me up.

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I'm ready to go. And then like there's a coffee
shop down now. Usually like the all you can joints,
they got like, you know, ice cream and whatever. This
spot was a good spot they got they had what
they had. They had like you know, just a couple
of selections and the salad bar. So I want something cold.

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I kind of want my ice cream. Don't got ice
cream in the low spot, but they do have, you know,
the coffee shop. The coffee shop got BLNDI drinks, smoothies
and whatever. So get there right and then none of
who gets and guess who's there? None other than Malcolm
Jamal Warner. Now he's not doing promo for the coffee shop.

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He's just there on the humbug.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
He's just like, you know, just there. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
He's in the city.

Speaker 7 (20:19):
He just happens to be at this coffee shop. And
when I get in there, you know, eyes lock.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Immediately there's nobody in there. There's no press or nothing.
But in the shop is the banner advertising the event
that he's supposed to be at. Because there's little flyers
and stuff all over town. But in the coffee shop,
he just happened to be at There was a little banner,
you know, advertising the event, got his picture on it.

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You know, he's supposed to be like the special guests
for that night. There was a whole bunch of little
celebrities all that week coming through, but it was just
happened to be just his dad.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
Now on the.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Banner, it says, you know Malcolm Jamal Warner, known as TV's.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Bo. So I'm going in.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
He's talking to like, I guess the uh you know,
the owner. And then there's a bar rista up in there.
There's like nobody else in the coffee shop. You know,
I guess the lunch rest hadn't fully hit in yet.
He's asking like how to get to the venue from
the coffee shop.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
I look up.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
To see the banner, and now I made the connection, Like,
oh snap, this is like Malcolm when he had blocks, right.

Speaker 7 (21:54):
It was just like I think it was like right after.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
That pocket of when you know Malcolm and Eddie had rated,
it had went into syndication. I think his next big
thing he was working on was a sitcom with the
uh Dang, I can't think of the actor's name, Homie from.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Seinfeld to play George.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
I can't think of his name right now, Alex something anyway,
So the banner, like I said, said, you know Malcolm
Jamal Warner.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
Uh you know, ah, THEO from Cosby Show and many
other hits. You know, da da da.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
I look up just kind of go in there, and
like I said, he's getting directions from the comfi guy
or whatever, the owner, and he's like, we'll be with
you in the minute, sir. And then I was like, oh,
you know, what up THEO? I said, what up THEO?

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That's the first first out of my mouth.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
I seen him.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
He looked at me and he looks up at the
the banner.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
And he said Malcolm, like he wanted me to say
his real name. Like he's like low key saying, nigga,
my name ain't THEO.

Speaker 7 (23:30):
Pardon me.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
I try not to curse on here, but you know
that's the tone of his voice like he was saying that,
like he said THEO. I mean, he said Malcolm, and
they're real Like he was like real stern and rough
with it because it's like, you know, nigga, my name
ain't THEO. Basically, So that was my experience, my little

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running with Malcolm Jamorro Warner.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
I wish I would have had it, you know, do over.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
I wish I could have met him again in life
and had a do over, because I see, I rubbed
him the wrong way.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
I was gonna ask him for an.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
Autograph, instantly annoyed himself, like I was too embarrassed to
ask for the autograph. So I got my little frappuccino
or whatever and left.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
And that's that.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
That's my my Malcolm Jamar Warner story of you know,
me meeting him in real life. So I didn't even
go to the venue because in my mind, I already
seen him.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
So like what I'm gonna go for?

Speaker 6 (24:35):
That was the whole highlight, you know, to go to
the venue. I still, you know, went to all the
other places I had planned to go. He ended up,
you know, going to the last couple of days of
the Black History event, but the night I was supposed
to go see him there, I didn't. I didn't go,

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you know, I was like I was just kind of like,
oh man, I blew that one. So that's just a
little story I had, you know, people that know me
think I'm doing the Joey Cats story. It's like that's
that's what happened. Like, why would I make something up
like that, you know what I'm saying. I mean, it's

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you know, like I said, the brother was really prolific,
really talented, you know, left a good.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
Impression on like everybody.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Just I don't even got no words to just say,
how good of an entertainery was just like a limitless
well spurk of talent, you know.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
And he's not here anymore.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
That's kind of that sucks. But you know, as they
say to Shaw, must go on, and it will go on,
you know. So yeah, m hm, So without you know

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any further a dude, want to just acknowledge the life
in times of mister Malcolm jamalro Warner. I want to
give him a brief moment of silence before moving on
with the programming. All right, west Rail brother, you definitely

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inspired a whole lot of people there.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
The podcast send its deepest.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Condolences to the family, friends and associates, and all those
that knew him and are currently impacted by his untimely transition.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
Standing love like healing energy.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
To the family, friends, associates, loved ones, and you know,
anybody that ever.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Had the pleasure of making his acquaintance in life. All right,
So now.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
We are going to start with the very first portion
of the Narrative podcast, which is my format style breakdown.
So first of all, I broadcast during the weekdays and
the weekends all the narrative podcasts, So today is a week. Today,

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I'm going to break down my format style for today
and what that's all about. So first and foremost, the
Narrative Podcast delivers, as I said in my intro, positive
frames of reference about original people and original people culture.
And the frame of reference that I focus on delivering
during the weekday about our people on our culture is

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positive news articles. And I focus on that positive frame
of reference because all week day long, we are exposed
to negative news about our people and our culture all
week day long. Nothing positive in any form of media
as it pertains to the likenesses and images of our

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people in our culture. So not just the news that
depicts us in a negative way. All forms of media
depicts depicts us in a negative light. Books, literature, you know, advertisements,
radio music, virtually almost nothing, you know, no positive frames

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of reference is can you find about our people in
our culture unless you look for it. It's just not
generally readily available. You know, you really have to probe
and look for positive things about our people and our culture,
especially those of us living here in the United States
of America. You know, that's just the global impact of

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you know, how they do. It's in the media. It
is definitely a form of psychological programming and conditioning, definitely
propaganda at its finest.

Speaker 7 (29:54):
And they do this.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
They manipulate the media to tarnish our images and also
to warp the minds of the masses. They also do
with the program and condition our minds to normalize things
within our community. It should not be normalized, to accept
things we should not be accepting, to be and to

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be sensitizer us from violence, to violence and degeneracy. So
that's why I focus on delivering positive news articles during
the weekday to undo this psychological you know, programming, and
also to demonstrate that positive things do happen within our community.

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And then after I'm done delivering my positive news articles,
I then go into a section called my speaking point section,
and basically it's just commentary. I'm a pot I'm a podcaster,
so all casters kind of deliver commentary and reaction to

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you know, news articles and just whatever's happening in the world.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
The differences you know.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
With me is always to focus on our people and
our culture, even if it doesn't directly relate to us
or specifically about us. I always, you know, unpack it
whatever's going on in the world from the black perspective.
And the nature of the speaking point section is basically

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to control the narrative because the media go out of
this way to have us looking and sounding crazy. So
you know, that's my purpose of delivering the positive news
articles and you know, commentating on you know, whatever's going
on in the world, whatever's.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Going on in the news or on the internet.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
And then another point that I'd also like to add
pretty much all my speaking points here that I focus
on the narrative podcast you know, my main focal point.
You know, I always unpack everything from the bigger picture perspective,
no matter what the topic is. That's where everything revolves

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around the bigger picture because typically any negative thing happened
happening within our community centers around systemic oppression and psychological
programming and conditioning. I guarantee you like anytime anything negative

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is happening within our community, you know that that's the
biggest culprit. You know, you can always link it back
to that systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning. You know,
the powers that be are doing a real number on
our people via the media, you know, especially those of

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us living here in the United States of America. Our
government has experiment honest medically, psychologically, and socially, you know,
conducting social experiments, conducting medical experiments, psychological experiments on us.

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So we're just like our nation's labrats. So all that
takes a major toll. So anytime we're hearing stories about
violence or you know, not living up to our full
potential in life. While we do have to take accountability
for our own individual actions and our own choice to

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make in life, you can never ever count out you know,
systemic oppression and psychology programming that you know.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
Play the role.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Into us not being where we need to be. So
you know that's my weekday format. Now I'm gonna break
down my weekend format. So my weekend format is known
as my full episodes of the Narrative podcast. And the

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reason being because my weekend episodes have more sections than
my weekday My weekday episodes of the Narrative podcast they
only have two sections. They only have the positive news
articles and the speaking points.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Now my.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
You know weekend episodes. I think they have a total
of five sections. I'm not gonna break down each one
of those sections. I'm just gonna you know, tell you
briefly how it differs from you know, the weekday experience.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
Before that.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
I guess I gotta give a backstory on why did
the podcast anyway. So first of all, when I first
started recording this series, I only used to record on
the weekends. There was no weekday you know format. I

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only used to record on weekends. I started doing this
like in the wake of the pandemic. You know, we
was all locked up in the house. Pretty much everybody
in their mom had a podcast, and that's what you did,
you know, because it was bored to pass the time,

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and you know, it was either podcasting or doing tiktoks.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
That's what everybody was doing.

Speaker 6 (35:53):
And pandemic, it was doing podcasting or TikTok to pass
the time and to keep their sanity because it was
just total chaos and madness outside it was. It was
in the whole civil unrest, you know, and natural disasters.

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Every other week. It's something going on either within pertaining
to you know, everything that was happening in the nation
with George Floyd, Janna Taylor, Amar Aubury, you know, and
the elections and all that. So it just, you know,

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the country just erupted. And that's where people were doing
while they were sticking the house. They were just looking
for any outlet to vent their frustrations and past the
time as well, and so people were like either podcasting
were doing tiktoks. I chose podcasting, so started my podcast.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
I didn't know what to talk about when I first
started it, you know, I was new to it, like
everybody else new to it. I gave it a focus.
I focused on my people.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
So that was my first incarnation, just to start talking
about things weighing onto my mind as it was pertaining
to my people. So my first couple episodes was just
like a glorified rant. Not even gonna lie my first
like two or three. So I streamlined it again, and

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then I think third or fourth one, I started doing
black owned businesses and talking about more social issues, and
I streamlineded.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Again, you know, gave it a just overall positive frame
of reference.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Know, just you know what the whole entire show is
on the center around my positive frame of reference.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
And then from there, you know, I broke it.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Down into sections, gave each section to speaking points, and
this is my you know, that's how my format style began,
you know. And when I did that, that's when I
started getting the audience. That's when people started listening on
a regular basis. And then you know, as my stats,

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when as we was coming out of the pandemic, like
a whole lot of other people stopped went back to
their normal lives, I kept on going and I kept
on looking for the ways that we find it, still
looking for ways to rEFInd it and make it more
efficient to listen to. But you know, I think I'm
getting better every single episode. And that's how you know,

(38:55):
the narrative podcast was born. That's you know, how I
developed this you know format system to you know, deliver
my content. So like I said, you know, the weekend format,
that's just something brand new, just been doing that half

(39:16):
as long as I've been broadcasting. So from when the
pandemic started up to now you do the math, you know,
I had the weekday format style eight months you know later.
But anyway, moving along, so my positive frame of reference

(39:41):
that I focus on on the weekends is business ownership
and entrepreneurialists. I focus on that because we don't have
many frames of reference about, you know, what it's like
to owner business owner, or to be an entrepreneur. It's
intentionally done because again, the people that run the media,
they want to control the narrative. They want to control

(40:04):
what we see, so they don't want to show you know,
dignified business owners. They want to you know, only show
us in the negative light. So they want to show
us acting ratchet and behaving in the degenerate manner. That's

(40:24):
what they want to promote. They want to promote the foolishness.
They want to promote us in odys with each other.
They want to promote all the negative stereos types and
stigmas within our culture about our people. So you know,
that's a part of the programming and conditioning I'm talking about.

(40:46):
They want to program it's our minds and to be
what they want us to be, which is nothing.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
So you know that's why I focus on.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
You know, business ownership entrepreneurialism to get us to refresh us,
to reboot our minds, to get us back in the
mindset we had before integration. You know, just speaking of
those of us living in United States of America, we
own We had our whole entire townships, we owned all

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our own businesses, we controlled our finances, We had a
tight niched community, We loved each other, we generally cared
about one another. But again, through you know, programming and conditioning,
through the media, they destroyed all of that, all of

(41:40):
our unity, all of our progression again to build our
minds and to being what they want us to be,
which is nothing.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
So you know, that's why I do.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
Focus on business ownership entrepreneurialism just to kind of refresh
our memories, to get us back into, you know, the
state of mind that we used to be, and get
us back to our true essence. And our true essence
is kings and Queen's gods and goddesses of the universe,
and that's how we should be depicted across all media formats.

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But you know, particularly I focus on business ownership and entrepreneurialism.
I call that section my highlight section because I'm highlighting
a business owner or entrepreneur's journey into becoming a business owner.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
You know, everything that they went through.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
That led them up to owning their own business, all
their life experience, all their education training, you know, early
year fundamentals.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
I try to include, like you know.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Where they grew up, you know what town they grew
up at, and how they got inspired to do whatever
it is they you know, whatever business they're owning or operating, and.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
You know.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Things of that nature. So about the business itself, some
stuff I try to include, like the specifics of the business.
You know, like if it's online business, how do you
order the product? What do they specialize in? What system
apart from the competition, what's the business model ordering? You know,

(43:33):
how to order the product if if it's in like
special way to order it, and you know what they
get and if their in stock and all that, you know,
all the nuances of online businesses. Enough, it's a brick
and mortar location, I try to include everything the directions,
what side of town it's at, driving route, how.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
Big the business, how big the building is, is you know.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
The maximum capacity of the building, hours of operation, Uh,
what what year where they established? How long have they
been at that location? Do they have other locations? Just
everything you need to know about patronizing the brick and
mortar I try to include. I also try to include,

(44:21):
like I said, a brief bio of the business owner,
just all the specifics you need to know about them
and their business.

Speaker 7 (44:30):
And you know their.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
Their journey, they are, they the path that they took
to become a business owner. So all that's included in
the highlight section or like all the intimate details you
would need to know.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
If I don't, if I can't provide.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
Specific details is just because there are none available, like Ripley's.
Believe it or not, some people want their lives private
and don't post that stuff. But I think that's how
a lot of black owned businesses shoot yourselves in the
foot and want to be a little overly private. You know,

(45:12):
if you want business, the typical consumer wants to do
business with somebody who they are familiar with. So when
you tell your bio your life story on your website,
this provides you with a sense of familiarity. So now

(45:32):
I kind of sort of know you.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
I want to you know, I feel safe spending my
money with you.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
See But anyway, it's far the highlight section and that's
pretty much, you know, all I try to provide in
that section. I also some qualifying factors that I use
to select the business owners that I highlight in the
highlight section, goals has followed. First of all, they own

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and operate their own business, so they're black owned from
the top to the bottom. They hire their own in
many cases their family owned and operated establishments. So in
that instance, I would be giving the audience positive frame
of reference on generational wealth.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
And then.

Speaker 6 (46:29):
You know, they also must do some type of community outreach.
They either have to pay into a nonprofit organization or
have their own, or do some type of you know,
philanthropy that impacts the community that they are rooted in,
you know, something to uplift the community that their business

(46:51):
is rooted in. Do something for the community, like do
something with the youth, elderly people in the homeless, you know,
indeed of food or whatever. It is something that their
businesses advocate for. And then, last, but not least, they
mustn't line up with my overall theme for that section

(47:13):
and my overall theme for that section, all the businesses
must coincide with the nationally recognized month or a day.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
And that's the highlight section on.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
The Narrative podcast weekend edition. Another section that I have
that is different from my weekday format it's called the
spotlight section, and the spotlight section, what I'm doing is
I'm spotlighting businesses.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
Are partner me.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
I'm spotlighting individuals. And what I'm doing in that section
is normalizing positive reinforcement because unfortunately, due to psychological programming
and conditioning, we are programmed in conditioned to believe that

(48:04):
we can't get any traction online unless we're spreading lives,
gossip and slander about our brothers and sisters, all right,
So to counter that, what I'm doing in that section
is I'm basically trying to, you know, essentially do the

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same thing I'm.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
Doing in the highlight section.

Speaker 6 (48:28):
However, while I'm focusing on a business owner, in the
spotlight section, I'm focusing on somebody in our community that's
engaging in something positive that's impacting our community in a
positive way, whether it's advocacy, philanthropy, or you know, just

(48:50):
being a positive role model, you know, for the youth,
or just speaking on our issues eloquently on different plays, plats,
just things of that nature. Again, in the purpose of
the spotlight section is to congratulate and acknowledge somebody, you know,

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doing something positive within our community that impacts our community.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
In a positive way. So that's essentially.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
You know, the nature of the spotlight section is just
to you know, celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of someone
in our community that is impacting our community in a
positive way through their actions and deeds. And to also

(49:47):
normalize congrat using your platform to congratulate a brother and
sister for doing something positive to uplift this rather than tearity,
tearing them down, trying to slander their name and gossip
about them on your platform. So you know, that's what

(50:08):
I'm trying to re introduce and get us reacquainted with
in that section.

Speaker 7 (50:16):
And then last but not least, my.

Speaker 6 (50:19):
I finally close it on a positive note. And like
I said, I got more sections. I'm not going to
break down every single section you know on my weekend
edition of The Narrative podcast. Is another goal of my
podcast is to make everything time effishent So for times sake,
I'm not going to break down all the sections of

(50:42):
my weekend edition. You will just have to tune in
and see how the weekend differs from the weekday. So,
like I said, I close out on a positive note,
positive with a section I call my wise.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Word of the day. My wise word of the day
is just.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
A philosophical sentiment, something that will inspire critical thinking and
help you ponder the simple complexities of this thing called life.
And so check check it out this weekend to hear
the Narrative podcast. We can edition in its entirety, and

(51:29):
you will hear all the sections you know and make
the decision on whether you want to tune in on
weekends and check me out or just rock with me
during the weekday, which is ever more convenient for you.
Hopefully it'll be both for Matt Styles. But that's pretty
much the two narrative podcasts format styles. And now onto

(51:53):
the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast. So first and foremost,
the Narrative Podcast is available on all audio podcast streaming platforms.
So wherever you go to listen to uh the Narrative, uh,
listen to your podcast, you know the Narrative podcast is
available on it, So just make sure you're listening to

(52:17):
the one hosted by me Halsey Allen. Because there are
thousands upon thousands of podcasts titled the Narrative Podcast, so
make sure you're listening to the one hosted by me
Hawsey Allen. That's only if you want to listen to
all black content. Here somebody speak about all things black,

(52:38):
because all those other podcasts titled the Narrative Podcast, there's
no telling what you will be listening to, you know.
That's how you can support the Narrative podcast when you
listening to listening to me on the audio podcast streaming sites.

(53:01):
Another way, you know, in addition to listening to me
on those sites, you can, you know, find whatever podcast
streaming site that you patronize, and then when you find
my podcast, hit the download but and download the episode

(53:23):
of the Narrator podcast, you know, wherever you get your
audio streaming podcast service from. And then after you downloaded
the episode, share the episode across all social media platforms.
And that's how you support the Narrative podcast. From listening
to me on the audio podcast streaming site. Another way

(53:47):
you can support the Narrative Podcast to follow me on
X formally Twitter. And the reason why you want to
follow me on X formally Twitter, and the reason why
you want to follow me on X form of the Twitter,
it's because X is sent to Twitter. Meaning every single

(54:13):
time I upload an episode of the near the podcast,
it automatically uploads to my EX account and my EX
profile name is I Stayed Good at Hawsey Allen. And
so your confirmation you're on the correct X page, you.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
Should see a copy of a little black book pin
to the top of the page.

Speaker 6 (54:40):
And on the title of that little black book it
says the black card that's a book of poetry that
I've written and that I'll be plugging momentarily in this
section where right now we're focusing on supporting.

Speaker 7 (54:55):
The platform, the Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 6 (54:59):
So, like I said, first and foremost, go to my
EX page and my EX page is I Stay Good
at Hawsey Allen. And then you should see a little
copy of the little book the black book pins at

(55:19):
the top of the page. It says the black card.
That's your confirmation you're on the correct page. And once
you've confirmed that you're on the correct X page, go
ahead on and click on the latest link of the
Narrative Podcast on my EX page. And now why you
need that confirmation you're on the correct X page because

(55:43):
they be cloning pages right and left, So that's why
you need the confirmation you're on the correct X page.
So after you confirm you're on the direct correct X page,
click on the latest link of the narrative podcast. But
on clicking on that link, what should happen is the
link should expand, revealing my podcast logo. My podcast logo

(56:07):
is you know, a silhouette of a microphone, and on
the silhouette of the microphone it says the narrative podcast.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
That's my podcast logo.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
And so when you see that, click on the light button.
And the light button should be located at the top
of that podcast logo. It's in the shape of a heart.
To clip the heart shaped black button.

Speaker 7 (56:34):
At the top of the podcast logo. And then so
after you've confirmed you're on the correct.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
Podcast or like after you clicked on the heart shaped
blight button, the heart shaped like button should cause the
podcast logo to expand the second time.

Speaker 7 (56:58):
And then do all options in the menu option. The
more options you.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Could participate in, the more UH page clicks to degenerate,
and the more page clicks it generates, the more revenue
it accumulates for me. So you know, do all the
steps in the process. You know about seos and analytics
and all that. You know that's how that works. So

(57:26):
you know, after the podcast logo has to spend the
second time What I then need to do is click
on the heart shaped like button again. So click on
the heart shaped like button again, but this time is
to be located underneath the podcast logo. Then after you've

(57:46):
clicked on the heart shaped podcast heart shaped light button
again the second time, then leave me a comment in
the comment box. Comment whatever you like to me about
the podcast, positive or negative, just whatever you feel in

(58:07):
your heart to you know, leave you know, any feedback
about If you can't think of any feedback.

Speaker 7 (58:16):
To leave me.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
Sign your name in the comment box, a letter of
the alphabet, a character, a flag, an emoji. Put something
in the comment box, you know, whatever you want to
put in the comment box, but just put something, because
again it's all for the analytics and all that, So
put something in the comment box. Then if you've left

(58:42):
the comment in the comment box, then I need you
to again hit the download. But the download button should
be easy to find. It's a cloud shaped icon with
the arrow pointing down. The arrow pointing down symbolize is
the action of downloading.

Speaker 7 (59:01):
And click on that.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
To download that episode of the Narrative podcast. And after
you've downloaded the episode of the Narra the podcast, I
needed you to get the share button and share or
upload that episode of the Narrative podcast to whatever social
media platform that you like sharing or uploading content too.

Speaker 7 (59:25):
And the next way you can.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
Support the Narrative podcast is to follow me on YouTube
formally X or YouTube. Pardon me, YouTube, wasn't formally X
having a little bit of brain fart there this.

Speaker 7 (59:46):
Morning, but.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
So you can follow me on YouTube and my YouTube
page it's Halsey Allen. And when you follow me on YouTube,
go to my videos to access access all the older
episodes of the Narrative podcast. Go to my YouTube page,
Halsey Allen. Go to my videos to access all the

(01:00:09):
older episodes of the Narrative podcast. And when you go
to my YouTube page, like comment and share all those
older episodes of the Narrative podcast to whatever social media
platform that you like, liking or are sharing or uploading
content too. And the reason why they're all older episodes

(01:00:34):
of the air of the podcast is because YouTube changed
their community guidelines and policies they updated through software.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
When they did that left.

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
This podcast that I'm recording these episodes on in non
compliance with their new community guidelines. And so rather than
you know, reformatting their whole systems to a lineup with
YouTube's you know, community guidelines. They just decided to drop
YouTube as you know, it's one of their distribution sites. So,

(01:01:13):
longest story short, I can't upload brand new episodes of
the Narra the podcast YouTube anymore because of that change.

Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
However, you can.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Still support these older episodes that's currently on YouTube. YouTube
has not deleted the older episodes of the near of
the podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:01:33):
Access to them by.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
Going to my videos on YouTube. And again my profile
name is haws Allen.

Speaker 7 (01:01:43):
Go to my videos.

Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
Access all the older videos of the Narrative podcast is
posted on YouTube. They're all in chronological order, going all
the way back to my very first episode. So that's
how you support the Narrative podcast and following me from YouTube.

Speaker 7 (01:02:01):
And remember all engagement counts.

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
So even though those videos are still old, if you
support them, they still count, and the analytics and all
that and I get paid and funnel you know, the
money that they generate back into this platform. Now, the
next project I would like to promote it is my
personal book of poetry that I've written in this title

(01:02:30):
The Black Card, and it's written by me Hawsey Allen.
The Black Card is available for purchase on a platform
called Poetizer, and to get the Poetizer go to poetizer
dot com visit their virtual online bookstore to purchase the

(01:02:51):
book written by me in this called The Black Card.
The Black Card is a thirty page book of poetry
chronicling and highlighting all the.

Speaker 7 (01:03:04):
The entire complete experience that make us us.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
So it highlights the Black experience, everything we experience as
a people. All the nuances of our culture, both positive
and negative, are all chronicle in that book of poetry.
And the name of it again is called the Black Card.
Go check it out on Poetizer. Go to poetizer dot com,

(01:03:32):
go the Versal online bookstore, and look for my book
titled The Black Card, written by me Hausey Allen. Now,
if you're unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizer is a social media
platform for people to like to write, particularly poetry. And

(01:03:53):
it's implied in the title Poetizer.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
So it's really get really caters to people that like
to write poetry.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
It's a social media platform for them socially interact.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
As well as right.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
They have all kinds of games and contests. They have
daily writing prompts. You can make friends socially interact like
all other social media platforms, got a friend list, got
you know, DM people and right on people's walls and
the whole nine. But their most important feature that they

(01:04:32):
have on that site they have built in self publishing software,
which it will allow the members of that social community,
social media community to write, market, publish and sell books.

(01:04:53):
So that's the nature of the self publishing software, and
it's also the nature of the reason why they have
a virtual online bookstore. The virtual online bookstore is for
the participants of that social media site. You know, after
they write a book, they can again market and sell

(01:05:14):
that book they create on that social media site.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
And it's an excellent tool for the novice writer.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
You can produce some quality work for well under one
thousand dollars, you know. It definitely, you know, from my perspective,
is just as good as Kindo or Amazon Books or
any other self publishing site at a fraction of the cost.

Speaker 7 (01:05:44):
They also have illustration and all that, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
The only that they don't have as of yet they
don't have like editing services, and they don't have advertising services.
So you're on your own the advertising wrong with your
own to editing and all that, but they do offer
the standard you know, you can pick from a hardback

(01:06:11):
soft back. I think they said they're working on you know,
audio books, you know. I think that's their next incarnation,
is the audio book and audio and the ebook. They're
working on that. Well, lest that's what I saw my newsletter.
I don't know, so I don't know when that'll be available,

(01:06:34):
but go check it out The Black Card on poetizer
dot com, go the virtual online bookstore and purchase it today.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
And so now to give you some more insight on
the book, I'll give you a little you know, insightfuled
sales pitch or insightfuled the description.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Of the group.

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
So, the Black Card is more than just poetry.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
It is a poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute to the regality, resilience,
and richness of the Black experience with bold versus the
cut deep in imagery that sores. A Black Card reclaims dignity,
demands respect, and honors the legacy of a people who

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have turned struggling industry and culture in the power. More
than just poetry, this is a declaration Black as world,
Black is unstoppable, Black is everything.

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
So head on over to.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Poetizer dot com and purchase your copy of my book
of poetry, The Black Card. Purchase the Black Cart today
or get your Black Card revote.

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
And last, but not least, the last.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
Project I would like to promote in the promotional portion
of the Narrative podcast is my personal poetry blog on
blogger dot com. It is titled Hawsey's Poetry Corner and
the address to it is ww dots mister Hawses blogs
dot com and again it's on blogger dot com. The

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poems featured on Hawse's Poetry Corner blog it's just creative
amalgamation of you know, versatile relatable poems. The cover and
canvas various topics. Pretty much anything one with experience in life,

(01:08:57):
there's a poem on there to commemorate that experience or
any type of emotion you are currently feeling or have
ever felt before in your life, there's a poem on
Haus's Poetry Corner to capture that. Pretty much anybody from
any walk of life can relate to the poems posted

(01:09:20):
on that site. Now, I do have some poems on
there specifically for our community, the black community, about you know,
things we go through as a people, but primarily you know,
the poems featured on that blog site or just for
anybody to read and enjoy. If you like reading or

(01:09:40):
if you like reading poetry, this is definitely the site
for you to you know, observe and immerse yourself in
some dynamic organic poetry. So I even have a slogan

(01:10:01):
for that site, Hawses Poetry Corner Poetry with a passion.

Speaker 7 (01:10:05):
Poetry for all occasions.

Speaker 6 (01:10:07):
And when you read the poems posting on that site,
you will see that all the poems live up to
that slogan. So check them out on blogger dot com
at ww dot mister Howes blogs dot com. And again
the name of my blog site, it's called the Hawses
Poetry Corner. You can support Hawsy's Poetry Corner simply by

(01:10:30):
sharing the link to Haws's Poetry Corner which is ww
dot mister Hawses blogs dot com or posting poems featured
on Haws's Poetry Corner across all social media platforms. And
then another way it can support. When you come to

(01:10:53):
the site Hawes Postry Corner at ww dot mister hogs
blogs dot com. You can also like all the poems
and the like button should be located directly underneath each
poetry piece, and it's in the shape of a heart.
So click the heart shaped like button underneath each poetry piece.
Then if you click the like button, then there is

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a comment box. Leave me a comment in the comic box.
Comment whatever you like about the poem. Any constructive feedback
you would like to give me, give me whether it's
positive or negative.

Speaker 7 (01:11:31):
I'm open to it. If you can't think of any
feedback to leave.

Speaker 6 (01:11:37):
Me, sign your name in the comment box, whatever your
profile name is that you're cruising the poems on on
that site, you can, you know, sign the name in
that box if you would like for me to respond
to your comment, signing with your Gmail account, if you

(01:11:57):
have a Gmail account, signing with the Gmail account, and
when you do that, I will receive an email notification
that you have commented on one of my poems. You know,
when I go to the blog side of it, it'll
reveal all my stats. It will show me a comprehensive
print out of all the comments that I have. You know,

(01:12:19):
in case, just in case, if I miss it, I'll
always know you know, who you know has left me
a comment on one of my poems. But yeah, so like,
comment and share. Basically, it's how you support the poems
on Hart's Poetry Corner blog.

Speaker 7 (01:12:49):
So now I'm gonna just give you another brief overview
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
Of my blog site when you get there, my little
welcome greeting or whatever. So when you get to Hawses's
Poetry Corner, prepared to step into a world where emotions
float like rivers and paint vivid pictures. Hawes's Poetry Corner
is your ultimate destination for captivating poetry to touch the soul.

(01:13:20):
Whether you're a poetry enthusiast or just a casual reader,
hallses Poetry Corner has something for everyone. It's for all
my poem's, timeless classics and thought provoking verses com parodignite
your imagination, is for the beauty of language and its
purest form that celebrate the art of poetry together. And

(01:13:41):
that's pretty much it for Hallses' Poetry Corner blog. And remember,
Harses's Poetry Corner is poetry or a passion poetry for
all occasions. Visit it on blogger dot com at ww
dot mister Hawes blogs dot com and that'll do it
for my promotional portion of the Ner podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:14:06):
Keep tuning in.

Speaker 6 (01:14:08):
Listening on a regular basis. I will be promoting all
my new projects on here or just keep your eyes peeled.
You know they'll be in the form of you know,
some type of ad agency or Facebook ad and YouTube
you'll add something you will see while you're strolling.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
But definitely support the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Supports.

Speaker 6 (01:14:38):
Hausey's Poetry Corner blog. Support the Black Card, not just
support it. Promoting on your social media platforms promoted everything
I do is positive, so you know, promoting.

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
And I appreciate you in advance.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
Or all content creators, whether you're an audio podcasters such
as myself, or a visual podcaster or a visual content.

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
Creator, promote the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
Hosted by me Halsey Allen on all of your content platforms.
I appreciate you in advance, So please promote the Narrative
podcast hosted by yours truly on all your content platforms,

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hosted by Halsey Allen. And so when you're giving me
the shout out, make sure you tack that party in
hosted by Halsey Allen, because like I said, there are
thousands of podcast out there entitled The Narrative podcast. That's
the way you differentiate, you know, mine from all the others,
the ones you gotta say, host it my Hawsey Allen

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because you know, nobody know what you're talking about if
you just say narrative, narrative, narrative. But yeah, appreciation your events,
and that'll wrap the promotional portion of the narrative podcast.
Now we're going to dive into the broad overview of

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the narrative podcast before diving into the actual content today.
So here we are diving into the broad overview of
the narrative podcast. So let's start with the name I

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decided to name my podcast Narrative Podcast. Is I don't
like the boss narrative surrounding how my people's images and
likenesses are depicted across all media platforms where the picked
it in the negative light. And as I said before,
you know, it's all about propaganda. It's all about psychological

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programming and conditioning us our people and people outside of
our culture as well by giving them negative frames of
reference about our people and our culture. And so you know,
that's why essentially I named my podcast the narrative podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:17:27):
You know, to be a space where I can you know,
alter the perception of our people you know, on this platform, thus.

Speaker 6 (01:17:45):
Changing the narrative, hence the title the narrative Podcast. The
very first nuance you need to be aquaint acquainted with
is the narrator. So I call my target listening audience,
which is you all out there in listening land, my narrators.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
I call.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
My target listening audience my narrators because I was inspired
to coin that phrase by the textbook definition of the
word narrator. The word narrator just simply means one who
tells or narrates, you know, the story for the audience.

Speaker 7 (01:18:28):
You know, they just.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
Contextualize, you know, all the finer points of the story
to break it down for the audience. So they just,
you know, they make the story more digestible for the audience,
no matter what the format that the story's end, whether
it's visually like a.

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
You know, a book or a play, if you're writing
a play.

Speaker 6 (01:18:57):
Or seeing a play being performed, you know, the narrator's
job is to tell you, you know, all the specific
details you need to know to be able in order
to be able to properly keep up with the story.
So that's you know, my reasoning behind you know, referring

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to my target listening audience as my narrators to give you,
you know, more context. I'll use this a knowledgy all
the time. I can't remember where I picked it up.
I think it was had a speech or something. It's
some type of speaking engagement, but it stuck with me.

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So to my rememberances a little something like this, if
you don't tell your own story, your own story will be.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Told for you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:51):
And so that was my methodology with joining the phrase
narrator because you know, as it relates to our people
in our culture, we need to tell or narrate our
own stories because currently our stories are being told for
us by the media, and they're telling a negative story.

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They're highlighting all the lower points you know, about our
people and our culture. They're playing up all these negative
stereotypes and stigmas about our people in our culture, you know,
across all media platforms. So while we cannot control the
frames of reference that the media puts out about our

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people in our culture, we can control what we choose
to share, you know, or choose to us show the
world on our own platforms about our people and our culture.
So we have the power to change the narrative in
that regard. So now I'm going to give you some

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example on how you can be an effective narrator. So,
since I coined the phrase, I'm obviously a narrator. Every
single episode of the narrative podcast you're experiencing, I'm helping
you experience positive frames of reference with our people in
our culture in audio format. So every time you listen

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to my platform, I'm delivering positive frames of reference about
our people in our culture in audio format. That's how
I'm changing the narrative. I'm changing the narrative on my end,
one episode at a time. As a narrator, you can
change the narrative on your end visually, one social media

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posts at a time, meaning you can post positive visual
images of us that reflect our people in a positive
light on your own.

Speaker 7 (01:22:00):
Social media platform, especially if you're content creator.

Speaker 6 (01:22:05):
So like not only just positive visual images, but positive
visual images that directly debunk a negative stereotype or stigma
about our people and our culture. For example, there's a
negative stereotype that we are unintelligent. So you can post

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positive visual imagery of us excelling academically, you yourself excelling academically,
or you know somebody in your family or community, excelling academically,
not only excelling academically, breaking and academic record, or inventing

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something that you know changes.

Speaker 7 (01:22:54):
You know, the world.

Speaker 6 (01:22:56):
You know the world can benefit from the invention whatever,
God any So you know, that's a couple examples of
how you can be an effective narrative. If you can't
think of any of those examples, one of the most
really common ways you can be an effective narrator is

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just to be just happy and enjoying life, you know,
in a good space and a peaceful space with yourself,
enjoying life, smiling, having good, clean fun, not engaging.

Speaker 7 (01:23:40):
In nothing the botress or stereotypical.

Speaker 6 (01:23:45):
So not like puffing on a blunt or down to
some liquor, but just just generally being happy, peaceful and
serene and calm.

Speaker 7 (01:23:55):
You know what I mean That throws a big monkey wrenching.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
The plans to destroy us is if you haven't been
paying attention, there is inherent plot to destroy us. Like
I said, they're using the media to weigh psychological warfare
on us. They're also putting things in the air, our food, water,

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things to alter our molecular structure, either completely rewrite our
DNA or.

Speaker 7 (01:24:34):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
Destroyers, you know, destroyed our unique genetic maker. You know,
the ultimate goal is to have us out of you.
So but by you smiling and just being happy that those.

Speaker 7 (01:24:51):
A huge monkey wrench in their plans.

Speaker 6 (01:24:54):
It's like, dang, we're doing all this stuff to these
people and it's backfire and they're still finding a way
to persevere and carry on despite all these obstacles we
put in front of them. So, you know, that's how
you can positively change the narrative visually on your end,

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on your own, you know, social media platforms another term
you should be acquainted with when listening to the Narrative podcast.
Here's a term that I refer to our people instead
of black. I refer to our people on this platform.

Speaker 7 (01:25:36):
As original people. I do it for many many reasons,
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:25:42):
The most common reason, you know, I feel the word
original just describes us better as a people. There's nothing
wrong with being black man around saying the word black. However,
it's just I don't feel it's an accurate description of
who we are as a people. I think original better

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suits us. First of all, you know, original, when we're
looking at the text with definition of the word, it's
kind of like unique, one of a kind, and the first,
and I feel all that describes our people. We are unique,
We're one of the kind. We're original in that regard.

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You know, we set trends, we don't follow them. The
only trends we follow are the ones we set. In
the rest of the world you know, follows our lea.
You know, we impact the entire world everything we do,
you know, our food, the way we dress, the way

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we speak. The most impactful culture in the entire world
is hip hop culture. We're going to argue and debate
about the true origins for the rest of our lives,
and we just had the fiftieth anniversary of.

Speaker 7 (01:27:01):
It with one thing for certain, two things.

Speaker 6 (01:27:06):
For sure, we can all agree that black people originated
with types of black people originated.

Speaker 7 (01:27:14):
You know, we're gonna argue about that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:18):
For you know, for another fifty years, where we can
all agree that black people definitely originated the dark form,
for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:27:29):
And that's the most.

Speaker 6 (01:27:30):
Impactful, influential culture in the entire world. We created it,
as well as so many other things. So set all
that to say, we're trends setters, and the world follows
the trends that we set. So we're original in that regard.

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Now where it original also hints at the first and
where we definitely as people black people, we definitely was
who was and are that we're the first, you know,
scientifically and scientifically proven we existed thousands of years before

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any other group per class of people. As a matter
of fact, all groups and classes of people directly descended
from our people. You know, who was the blueprint for humanity.

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Everything's created in our likeness is whether they want to
concede to it or not, whether they don't like or
even hate us. We can't argue that we was here
thousands of years before everybody. We're the only group of
people that don't actually even have an origin story. The
reason why we don't is because there's never been a

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time period where our people haven't existed. Everybody else in
the world, you know, only been around a couple thousands
of years. They didn't start popping up and you know,
wherever they're currently from, whatever their nationality is, they didn't
start popping up in those places till well after you know,

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we had already been established, and we were always highly intelligent,
were never like dwelling in caves. Nothing you know, was
ever prehistoric about us. Nothing was ever savage about us.
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:29:37):
We always had.

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
Sophisticated tools, weaponry, always possessed a high level.

Speaker 7 (01:29:45):
Of intellect and ingenuity.

Speaker 6 (01:29:48):
We originated all modern day conveniences, all modern day inventions
to make life easier was directly derived from us, the
original tribe of man. So that's what I mean by
original when I say we're original original people historically.

Speaker 7 (01:30:13):
Then also I have to be bunk every episode. I
have to be bunk the false narrative of slavery. You know,
they really try.

Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
To history, the people that write history, they really try
to promote slavery as the most.

Speaker 7 (01:30:42):
Quintessential time period of our existence.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
You know, they want they go out of their way
to tell us, you know, your your people were slaves.
And not only that, slavery is the only reason why
we exist in other regions in the in the entire
world outside of Africa, like because white Spaniards and Europeans

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dropped us off in all these other different continents. That's
the only reason why we exist, you know, and wherever
we're currently residing at and that's the biggest crop of
horsemen nor eat ever. Because like I said, we were
the original people means, which means we were the original explorers,

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which means we didn't just stay in one spot our
entire lives. We inhabited We left Africa thousands.

Speaker 7 (01:31:45):
Of years before all these other people even started caring
in the world, So.

Speaker 6 (01:31:53):
You know, we visited different places in the world, which
it was easier to do because the geographic landscape of the.

Speaker 7 (01:32:01):
World changed like seven times.

Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
So when we migrated from Africa, which isn't technically in Africa,
you know, Greek god named Africa is actually a keep
a line. But I don't got enough time to get
into all that, but.

Speaker 7 (01:32:22):
You know, essentially.

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
We was there thousands of years before anybody you know,
start popping up, so we had already been in wherever
we're currently located, especially those of its living in the
United States of America who was already originally here.

Speaker 7 (01:32:43):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
But they keep online this false slave narrative that they
kept on going back to the continent for thousands of years,
just transportant African slavers, and it don't even really make sense,
and nobody never because it out why they did, you know,
enslave some they don't emphasize some all.

Speaker 7 (01:33:07):
Of us didn't come from Africa.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
Like you know, I'm just speaking from the Americans perspective,
you know, like globally, like we was in Europe too,
and on the continent of Asia, like all these different
African tribes. And the thing is, we've been there so
long you might as well just say we're of that region,

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not of Africa, because that's how long we had been there.
We've been there so long. You know, it's superseded, you know,
all those other populations. Our resistance did so like, but
they keep on pushing the slave narrative that they just

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kept on transports. You know, so many false things about it,
the route they took, the time period for how long
they kept on transporting slaves. Again, speaking from the perspective

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of you know, Black Americans, we got repurposed, you know,
we got rebranded. We were the original indigenous natives of
this land. The people who they show us in movies
are not the ones there in all the raven dances

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and the o yo yo. But that's not the original
indigenous natives. Every explorer describes their people that originally inhabited
this land as a.

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
Copper skin people.

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
Not look at all them people on reservations and on
the planes are any one of.

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
Them remotely copper complexity, No, you're not, because they're not
from here. They're from Siberia.

Speaker 6 (01:35:08):
You know, they got they came here, and it's just
all a big, live, big finness, and God bless them.
They really, in their hearts really feel that they're the
original indigenous native. You know, they have their traditions that
they keep on going with the tam of hawks and
all that, and the war game, all of its African,

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all of us came from us, all of us black,
you know, even going further back in meso America, the Incans,
the Mayans, you hear people like Madazuma.

Speaker 7 (01:35:46):
Black guy, you know, the Old Max, the Aztecs all black.

Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
Or original people, you know, original indigenous natives, like in Australia,
the Aboriginal tribe most definitely the Black as the darn
Ace of spades, Like, how can you not pick that up?

Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
Why sam O.

Speaker 6 (01:36:41):
Black who was everywhere? Is what I'm saying. There's not
never a time we didn't exist. There's not no corner
of the earth didn't already originally.

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
Have it before slavery. But yet they keep on.

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
Trying to tell us that our presence in whatever part
of the world is due to you know, a slave
shit dropping us off to you, And that's just wrong,
y'alllso want to tell us that who was docile and
we never tried to revolve like we only had.

Speaker 7 (01:37:19):
One Herriet Tubman and with one mad Turner.

Speaker 6 (01:37:22):
When in reality we had thousands of Harriet Tubman, thousands
of mat Turners, and who was never.

Speaker 7 (01:37:30):
Docile during the time that we were enslave?

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
You know how many Antebella mansions burned down consistently all
throughout slavery. The only actual thing they get right about
slavery is how badly they used to torture us they
actually did, used to castraight the men they actually did,
used to rape the women they actually did, used to

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do horrible horrendous things to the child the children.

Speaker 7 (01:38:00):
They used to use our baby for alligator baby.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
They used to eat our flesh, used to wear our skin,
make wallets and shoes out of her skin, make like
brooms and stuff out of her hair, bread us like animals.

Speaker 7 (01:38:40):
Used to make us sleep in the same bed as
them just to warm their feet.

Speaker 6 (01:38:57):
So yeah, that's the only thing to get right about
slavey was how dirty they get us.

Speaker 7 (01:39:01):
But some key things they live out leave out is we.
You know, we fought for our freedom.

Speaker 6 (01:39:09):
We gave it just as good as we got it.
We punished them too, so while they was punishing that us,
we returned it in kin. We didn't just sit up
there and take it. There was a few with lost souls,
some sambos that we betrays and sell us out and

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be complicit, you know, with slavery. But the majority of us,
we wasn't having it. They also wanted to teach us.
You know, the only reason why we got our freedom

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because white people felt it was morally wrong to enslave us.
And you know, they were doing their.

Speaker 7 (01:39:59):
Christian shouldn't do.

Speaker 6 (01:40:02):
They were bound by their Christian principles and the reality
that's a lie to all the evolutionists.

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
They all had a financial state in freeingness. As many
of them were poor Southerners.

Speaker 6 (01:40:15):
We could not get jobs because of slavery, and in
their minds, if they fought to help aboutish slavery, they'll
get hired and dark garne.

Speaker 7 (01:40:25):
It if they wasn't right, Like, as soon as slavery ended,
they had jobs.

Speaker 6 (01:40:30):
All the poor white people that couldn't get jobs because
they you know, all the plantation owners, and there's like
it's cheaper just to have slaves. You can breed them generation,
you don't got to give them lunch breaks, you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:40:45):
Have to do nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:40:49):
But soon as slavery ended, there was white people that
a quote unquote helped us. They got jobs, We got
jobs that got operty. They outland right when slavey end me.
So everybody, all these evolutionists, they all have a financial stake, innit.

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So the only reason why the North from one at
the end the Civil War or wanted us free to.

Speaker 7 (01:41:21):
Begin with, is because they couldn't keep up, you know,
with the supply and demand of business.

Speaker 6 (01:41:30):
The South was like, you know, profiting more than the
North financially, and they couldn't keep up. So they try
to force them to, you know, relinquish their slaves.

Speaker 7 (01:41:46):
The South said no, and.

Speaker 6 (01:41:48):
Not only are we not gonna let our slaves go,
what we're gonna succeed from y'all?

Speaker 7 (01:41:53):
Will you think of that?

Speaker 6 (01:41:55):
So that's was the Civil War. It wasn't nothing to
do with them have in a soft spot for us.
It was all about money. So you know, you gotta
do your own due diligence to find every teeny tiny

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lie about slavery. But you know, every episode I try
to debunk a little bit of it. But I just
wanted us to, you know, shd that cardal mind about slavery,
you know, because I just keep on recycling that lie.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
And their ultimate goal with to keep on pushing.

Speaker 6 (01:42:43):
That false slave narrative is to have us in a
subconscious state of fear.

Speaker 7 (01:42:51):
And then also to you know, mess with our self esteem, like, oh,
you got as.

Speaker 6 (01:43:00):
Used to be slaves. You know, that's all y'all ever
was with slaves. You don't have a culture. They love
saying that about American blacks, that we don't have any culture.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
We don't know who you are and our roots and
all that. And the fact is that this is our land.
We built it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
We wasn't originally located here. And all immigrants, you know,
whether they're our own brothers and sisters from Africa in
the Islands and all other places, or it's like European immigrants,
they all owe a day of thanks to black Americans

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because there would be no America the immigrant too, had
it not been for our ancestors. So yeah, that's just

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where I want to land my plane with debunking the
slave narrative. Moving right along, the last reason I refer
to our people as original people is the kind of
unify ourselves as a united people. Now, I know a

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whole lot of people listening to me will say, well,
you're you're really pushing that FBA stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
And uh, you're so prideful about being you know.

Speaker 6 (01:44:49):
A foundation of Black American, all the foundation of Black
Americans say delineate and separate yourself from our you know,
these other groups of black people. But what they mean
is separate ourselves from the ones that try to undermine

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us and undercut us, and you know the ones that say,
you know, black people have no culture. Some are African
brothers that gotta word for us to call us akactas
or cotton pickers. So we delineate ourselves from those brothers
and sisters. But there are people brothers and sisters in

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the UK and you know other parts of Africa and
the islands that do get it. They do understand our
contributions and do believe we need to be acknowledged and
highly respected at all times.

Speaker 7 (01:45:52):
So that's not what we mean.

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
Were delineating from these people that only want to be black,
you know, only want to be for our people when
it's convenient when they immigrate to America, you know, with
which you with which you witch you. But then when
something happens in our community that ain't got nothing to
do with us, I'm this, I'm that, I'm this, That's

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what that means. But you know, getting back to it,
I refer to our people as original people on this
platform as an effort to uplify us as a people.
There's so many different types of us and people outside
of our culture when they look at us, all they
see is is black. They don't know you, you know,

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speak Spanish until you open your mouth, and don't know
he speaks French until you open your mouth. You know,
all they can look at your flesh tone is that.
You know, if you don't say anything, you're just black.
You know, they don't know you're from Nigeria, they don't
know you're from wherever. We're the only people that make

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all these difference is with nationality and lineages and all that,
and we should preserve our rich cultures and heritages and
you know, ethnic backgrounds and upbringings and all that. But
then we also got to acknowledged we all of the
same blood, We all possessed the same genes. Y'all possessed

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high concentrations of carbon aka melanin.

Speaker 7 (01:47:30):
And most importantly, we all, you know, face the same
plight as a people.

Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
Anywhere our people are located in the entire world, dominant
society tries to subjucate us.

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
With their laws, with their rules, with their taxes, you know.
So we all have that in common.

Speaker 6 (01:47:57):
So we're that we should have one where we can
all universally identify as and fall under and fall under.
You know, there's no question when we're talking about reparation,
who gets what? You know, wherever you're oppressed on your land,

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you gotta beseech your government for oppressing you, and you know.

Speaker 7 (01:48:24):
Get it from your government wherever you're located at.

Speaker 6 (01:48:29):
But as a people, as a whole, we are all original,
we all you know, the term original applies to all
of this.

Speaker 7 (01:48:45):
So you know, that's why I refer to our.

Speaker 6 (01:48:47):
People as original people in attend to unify us as
one unighted people.

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
Moving right along.

Speaker 6 (01:49:00):
There, the podcast is a positive safe space for original people.

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:49:09):
I don't try to.

Speaker 6 (01:49:15):
Gossip, slander and name call our brothers and sisters. This
is all about edification. And the upliftment of our people
and our coaching with this platform, and I try to
inspire everybody listening to dedicate their platforms to uplifting and
edifying our people. Rather than gossiping and slandering and detegrating

(01:49:39):
each other online, we should be uniting and networking and building,
you know, sharing our resources, not tearing each other down.
That's why I really try to promote and push on
this platform. You know, the stable is positive reinforcement because
nobody positively reinforces our our people.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
We're truly our own only allies.

Speaker 6 (01:50:05):
And that's real, Like, don't nobody get down with our people,
support our people, care about our people. It's just it's
us against the world, literally, So that's the spirit of
the narrative. Podcast is all about positive reinforcement and you know,

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getting back to being harmonious and prosperous.

Speaker 7 (01:50:29):
As a people.

Speaker 6 (01:50:34):
So the only exception to the no name crawling rule,
no put down rule is you know, if you're if
you've presented yourself as an enemy of our people, then
you don't deserve to be spoken to or about in
the high regard. So you know, if they're going out

(01:50:58):
of your way to throw a under the bus for
monetary game. If you're intentionally playing up negative stigmas or
stereotypes or black tropes, then you know, I can't rock
with you, and I don't think highly of you, and
I won't speak highly about you other than that, it's

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a positive safe space for original people. Last, but not least,
the narrative podcasts or the time sence of the platform.
As I said, you know, I've come up with the
systematic way to not veer off putting and you know,
just you know, hyper focus all my speaking points and

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make it real, digestible for the listener to keep up
with and follow. And the primary thing at play is,
you know, the time factor. I try not to see
one hour per broadcast because it's an all audio podcast.

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I don't want to be speaking to you all day.
I know you don't want to listen all day. So
I try to make everything brief and to the point
as possible. The broad overview of the narrative podcast is
the longest portion of the program. My actual content is

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very short and brief and to the point. And so
when I do that, that will allow me to talk
about multiple topics.

Speaker 7 (01:52:37):
And then also enrich the enrich the experience for the listener.

Speaker 6 (01:52:45):
Make it informative and entertaining at the same time, so
you know, give you fill you with anticipation for the
next episode and prevent me from just being all over
the place, you know, going to a new topic without

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finishing up a complete thought from the old topic. So
that's why I really try to hyper focus at being
time official.

Speaker 7 (01:53:14):
So there it can go.

Speaker 6 (01:53:15):
That's the entire narrative podcast experience. If you feel like
left everything out or you're not quite clear on my
delivery style, then you know, go through my episode long
to bring yourself up to speed. I'm well over five
hundred episodes in now, so yeah, just remember download this

(01:53:40):
episode and I'll previously recorded episodes up in their podcast
where each podcast sources from.

Speaker 7 (01:53:46):
And now moving right along on this lovely wonderful with Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (01:53:56):
With my very first positive news article of the day, uh,
my first positive news article. The headline reads, black Couple
launches new platform as a digital home for black creators

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and archer entrepreneurs and coaching. And the platform is called
black X and if you want to know more about it,
visit black X at black X dot black and X
not the letter X, but X black e X dot black.

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That's that's the entire site. I just want to clear
it up, you know, clear up any misconception. It's black
e X dot black, all lowercase those spaces. It was
founded by a brother by the name of Derek L.

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Thomas and his wife Joyce. So the focus of his
platform is the amplify Black voices, Black enterprise, and black culture.

Speaker 7 (01:55:23):
It's on the open UH platform.

Speaker 6 (01:55:26):
It's an open platform for content, yeats, businesses, community supporters
to engage. They also promote storytelling and economic empowerment and
cultural collaboration.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
UH.

Speaker 6 (01:55:47):
Derek is a former Marine vett and the advocate and
the advocate for disabled veterans. He has a background in
cybersecurity and over two decades of federal contracting experience. He

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started this platform because he wanted to uplift the community.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
And so.

Speaker 7 (01:56:16):
The actual platform features extreaming services to.

Speaker 6 (01:56:20):
Constream all kinds of black content, whether it's TV shows
or movies, you know, things you know we might find enjoyable.
They also have merch you know black vendors and you
go look at whatever they got something we got.

Speaker 7 (01:56:39):
Food, they got.

Speaker 6 (01:56:42):
You know, clothing and accessories and household items and just
any common convenience in life. Might leave envelopes, hats, dress rooms,
whatever it's on that site.

Speaker 7 (01:57:00):
Some one stop shop.

Speaker 6 (01:57:04):
Again, books, so TV shows, movies, whatever content that you produce,
you're more to welcome the post on there. It's just
as long as you're like any other social media site,
as long as you follow the community guidelines and upload

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whatever content you have in the correct format.

Speaker 7 (01:57:29):
So if you have specific questions, just visit them at
press at black x dot black.

Speaker 6 (01:57:44):
If you're a vendor you got some merchandise to sell,
visit them at vendors at black x dot black.

Speaker 7 (01:57:53):
And, like I said, just to reiterate, some key features are.

Speaker 6 (01:58:00):
Digital streaming, storytelling, and marketplace and being the kicker.

Speaker 7 (01:58:06):
They launched on juneteen, So visit them at black x.

Speaker 6 (01:58:16):
Dot black and please join me to give me the
warm Narrative Podcast round of applause to the brother that
made that all possible, Derek L. Thomas and his wife Choice.

(01:58:44):
All right, moving right along. The next positive news article
on the Narrative Podcast. The headline reads, black father and
Son duo launches their first black owned social media managing
management platform.

Speaker 5 (01:59:04):
For UH.

Speaker 6 (01:59:07):
Big creators and entrepreneurs. And I think I may have
covered them before. But you know, when they pop up
in my feed, it looks positive. I just I dropped
my notes. It looks familiar. I think I might have
did this one before if I did a thousand apologies.

Speaker 5 (01:59:31):
But yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:59:37):
The name of the company is bandicil and to find
out more about it via the visit bandicil dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:59:46):
That's B A N D C I L.

Speaker 6 (01:59:50):
It's an all in one, state of the art social
media platform or media management platforms. So that's basically like
it's a content creator HUG. So whatever content that you're producing,

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they'll come up with marketing campaigns and other strategies to
improve your analytics on whatever platform you are. If you're
a podcaster, if you do skits, you know, whatever content
that you produce. This is a content creator HUG to
essentially like get your you know, views up and all that.

Speaker 7 (02:00:33):
So I might be considering that.

Speaker 6 (02:00:35):
And what they do is they just they share whatever
content you produce and on all the platforms TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram,
whatever you know, whatever you know the popular thing to
share stuff to you, they do it for you.

Speaker 7 (02:00:54):
They come up with a marketing.

Speaker 6 (02:00:55):
Campaign and ads and all that for packages as low
as nineteen dollars a month to UH sixty to one
hundred and two hundred a month, depiving on what type
of content creative you are and how large you're trying to,
you know, expand to whatever audiences.

Speaker 7 (02:01:18):
Go check them out.

Speaker 6 (02:01:21):
And once again the name of the company is called
band Seal b a nb cil and the website is
bandseal dot com.

Speaker 7 (02:01:31):
They also advertised on Instagram.

Speaker 6 (02:01:35):
And please join me and to give me five minute
seven creators to make your site possible.

Speaker 7 (02:01:42):
Elton and Jordan broke me. All right, move right along.

Speaker 6 (02:02:01):
With my very last positive news article on this weekday
edition of The Narrative podcast.

Speaker 7 (02:02:08):
The headline riggs.

Speaker 6 (02:02:11):
Thirteen year old celebrity chef began cooking when she was
only six years old.

Speaker 7 (02:02:18):
And the young sister's name.

Speaker 6 (02:02:20):
Is Deliah Thomas. Deliyah is from Hattensburg, Mississippi. She's been
cooking since she was six years old. There's nothing really
too much.

Speaker 7 (02:02:34):
More about about it. I had to find out that
because the.

Speaker 6 (02:02:38):
Article was just like it didn't it didn't even say
her first and last name. I had to do my
own digging. She advertised her business. Her social media handle
is the Mini Chef Mini chef here at Mini Chef
Deliyah on Instagram and de Leah is the hyphen Leah,

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and yeah, that's pretty much it. She's from Hackensburg, Mississippi.
She's cooked for celebrities such as.

Speaker 7 (02:03:19):
Genuine and Finessed two timer two times.

Speaker 6 (02:03:31):
I think that's I don't know the miss two times,
but that's pretty much all information I have about the
young lady.

Speaker 7 (02:03:40):
She's making her way in the world.

Speaker 6 (02:03:42):
She's her clientele is expanding, she's being requested by celebrities
to be their person uh, to be their personal chef.
So without any further ado, he's jointing giving our young
sister Daliah Thomas a more narrative podcast.

Speaker 7 (02:04:03):
Round of applause, and like I said.

Speaker 6 (02:04:18):
Moving forward, you know, the broad overview is the very
the longest part of this program.

Speaker 7 (02:04:30):
Everything short briefing.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
To the point.

Speaker 6 (02:04:32):
As you see, all my positive news articles are done,
and now we're on the very last section.

Speaker 7 (02:04:38):
Of the narrative podcast. This is my speaking point section.

Speaker 6 (02:04:42):
And just to briefly reiterate, my speaking point section is
just basically you know, breaking news, current news, whatever's going
on in the media, whether it's pertaining directly to you know,
our community or what it may, you know, potentially mean

(02:05:08):
for our community. So basically, anything any type, any news
related article.

Speaker 7 (02:05:17):
Happening in the world, I'm.

Speaker 6 (02:05:18):
Just commentating, commentating on it from the black perspective, you know.
And so what I'm doing in this section is I'm
controlling the narrative. Now every one's in the blue moon,
you know, if it's a snow, if it's a slow
media week or I or if it's just nothing going

(02:05:38):
on I feel in the world, I replace it with
basically an observation, you know, just something I feel like,
you know, a PSA. So I feel our people need

(02:06:01):
to work on as the people together. And when I
say you know, we, I mean me too, and in
many cases me especially. But you know, I actually do
got a news topic touch on briefly before, you know,
wrapping this thing up.

Speaker 7 (02:06:23):
So let's talk about it. The latest police brutality case.

Speaker 6 (02:06:32):
It's going viral. It happened originally at February of this year,
on the nineteenth in Florida, South Florida, involving a young
man by the.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
Name of.

Speaker 6 (02:06:52):
William McNeil Jr. So basically, like I said, happened in February.
It was just like a routine traffic stock. So what's
happened is of course the UH they're doing an investigation.

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The body cam footage is released now and they're reviewing
that and in it you will see, you know, the
altercation all from the UH you know, beginning to the end.
Officers pulled him over, said you know, he was driving
without his headlights and it was, you know, the law

(02:07:37):
firm to have his head lights on.

Speaker 7 (02:07:39):
So it was in the daytime.

Speaker 6 (02:07:41):
He was just kind of puzzled, like, why I have
my high light, my my headlights on in the daytime.
There's no brain it's not dark and da, da dad.
And then I requested, you know, to you know, going out,
what law that says I have to have it?

Speaker 5 (02:07:58):
Now?

Speaker 6 (02:07:59):
It was two officers there was. The first officer was
very combative. He was like, get out of the card.
Now you're being arrested. And by the way, didn't read
him his mirandom Rice. He requested a sergeant or a supervisor.
Another guy shows up. He's not the sergeant or the supervisor.

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Neither one of them ever, you know, provided their badge
numbers to them. You know, again, they didn't read him
it's Miranda Rice. Before they yanked them out the car.
When you arrest somebody, you always have to read them
they're Miranda rights and let them know that they're being arrested.

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You can't just tell them you are now under arrest.
You have to follow up with the reading of the rights.
He said, but your uh, you know, hands up. He
showed them his hands, but before that they punched.

Speaker 7 (02:08:59):
He is window open? He said, my window doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
You know.

Speaker 6 (02:09:11):
It played out really bad, and unfortunately, unfortunately he did
play a minor role in that because he kind of.

Speaker 7 (02:09:24):
Argue with the police.

Speaker 6 (02:09:26):
And what you gotta understand with law enforcement is they
only train police officers how to unlive people. That's the
scope of their training. They might teach them some tactical driving,
but essentially they go out to the shooting range. They

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learn how to fire different ammunition rounds and learn how
to fire the shot. Then they learned how to fire
their Barretta or service revolver, how to upkeep that.

Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:10:02):
Night Stick might teach them some self defense simple you know.

Speaker 6 (02:10:10):
Holds to put people in to restrain people, but they
don't teach them how to They don't teach them enter
any interpersonal soft skills.

Speaker 7 (02:10:22):
Within the police training. They don't teach them how to
be escalate the situation.

Speaker 6 (02:10:28):
They don't teach them how to gather the facts, you know,
when engaging somebody, you know, how to get extract information
out of a civilian.

Speaker 7 (02:10:41):
They picked that up after they come out.

Speaker 6 (02:10:44):
Of the academy when they're assigned to a beat cop
their partner, and they just briefed them for like six months,
and so the b copy been on the beat for
like four or five months. They didn't teach the beat
cop nothing, so they don't know how to be escalate,
you know, they don't know how to use interpersonal soft skills.

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They don't have no you know, they don't teach you
manners how to engage civilians. They just pick all that
up as they go. There's still no excuse to treat
people like that, to violate a human and civil rights.
But they don't know the laws when I'm getting that,

(02:11:24):
so you can't ever ask the police officer to tell
me what law says I can't do it, And they
don't know statutes in law.

Speaker 7 (02:11:34):
They don't teach them that, so they don't even know.

Speaker 6 (02:11:37):
It's a waste of breath asking them to tell you
the law because they don't know it. So what you
do have the right to do. You have the right
to remain silent. You should comply with any and all instructions.
Now we got a history of when we comply with

(02:12:00):
their instructions. As we saw with Orlando Costile, he was
en very accommodating to the police. He didn't pose an
immediate threat. He followed each and every last one of
your commands. He had all his registrations, paperwork, his registration.
He complied from A to Z. And they underlive me anyway,
right in front of us on camera. But you are

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supposed to be as complyant as possible. And they tell
you to stop. Stop, roll down your windows, showing your hands.
You ain't got no weapons, don't make any sudden moves.
You know, have your documentation ready to go, have your
license and registrations. When they're questioning you say, I don't

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answer questions.

Speaker 7 (02:12:49):
What am I being stopped for?

Speaker 6 (02:12:52):
Well, we're just trying to grab the information. I don't
answer any questions. What am I being stopped for? Am
I free to go? Why did you stop? Am I
being arrested? Am I being arrested? They already told me
he was arrested so that's the end of his conversation.
When they're telling you you're under arrest. Hey, okay, I'm

(02:13:14):
under arrest. What he should have said after they told
him he was under arrest, you know, tell him, you know,
I I exercised my right, you know, to remain silent
and just to let y'all know I got a camera.
Your guys being recorded. Okay, that's fine. In the conversation,

(02:13:41):
ask them, do I have permission to open my door?
My window does not work? Man, have permission to exit
my vehicle? Can I open the door to action my vehicle?
Or do you want to open the door for me
because I don't want you to think I have any
weapons or I'm trying to run. Can y'all open door

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for me and let me out? You know what I'm saying,
But b as accommodating as possible after you are already
told you're under arrest. But if they're just gathering information
and tales, we're just you know, we in this area,
you know, when they're just probing you. No, I don't

(02:14:27):
answer questions. No, you cannot search me. You know, you
cannot search my vehicle if you're in the car. If
you're a pradestrian. I do not consent to a search.
I don't answer questions. I don't consent to your search. Well,
if you have nothing on you don't got nothing to
worry about. I don't have anything on me. I'm exercising

(02:14:49):
my civil rights. I don't consent to a search. If
I'm not being arrested, I don't consent to a search.
What am I being arrested for?

Speaker 7 (02:15:00):
Am I under arrest?

Speaker 2 (02:15:01):
Or?

Speaker 6 (02:15:01):
Am I being detained? What am I being detained for? Well,
you're just making it harder for me. I don't answer questions.
What am I being detained for?

Speaker 7 (02:15:11):
What's your name? Can I have your badge number? Can
I have a supervisor?

Speaker 6 (02:15:20):
And again, you know, for our people that being totally
compliant can go back. And then they gotta get to
a point if you feel like they're gonna do you dirty,
if they feel they're gonna beat you up anyway, if
you feel they're gonna unlive you anyway, you gotta make

(02:15:40):
your conscious decision. Am I gonna stand here or take it?
Or am I gonna take my last breath defending myself?
Because either way they're gonna pack you out. You know,
if they got got their mind made up that they're
gonna pack you out, Are they gonna beat you up,
or they're gonna unlive you.

Speaker 7 (02:15:59):
You know you should feel it. You know, whatever they're
going to do to you, you should feel it. And
then you got to make that.

Speaker 6 (02:16:07):
Conscious decision for yourself. Am I gonna stand here and
let them just beat on me? Or they're gonna let
them unlively? You know, you gotta make that decision for
yourself and get it right with God, the higher power creator,
get that divine intervention in that moment, which you should

(02:16:31):
do if they're if they're presenting, you know, the energy,
if they're going to harm you, regardless of how compliant
you are with their commands. Because our ultimate goal people,
if you got especially if you got a family, your

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goal is to get home in the same condition you
left the house, and you want to get back home
to your look ones. You want to get back home
to your children. If you've got children, like yo, just
like you got to eat that when they get behind you,
You got to eat that. You gotta kick that ego

(02:17:17):
to the side. You don't gotta be like yes sir,
no sir, and all that old corny stuff. But you
gotta present a minimal threat. You don't want to interpret
or have them construe you know, your body language or
voice pattern as hostile. Because again, most of the police

(02:17:42):
officers on the force, again, like I said, I frame
everything up and my speaking points for systemic oppression and
psychological programming and conditioning. And that's where you know, that
comes into place with most white police officers. All the

(02:18:02):
frames of reference they have to go on about our
people are all negative ones. So when they see a
black person, they only got what they see on television,
what they hear the music.

Speaker 7 (02:18:18):
They're afraid. You know, they're already apprehensive. They're already apprehensive
upon meeting you because they only have negative frames of
reference about me. So therefore they're not gonna give you
a fair shake. You know, they're gonna go on what

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they have about you through their mental rolodeus understand me.
So you know, when it comes to our people, we
don't have equal rights. We never did.

Speaker 6 (02:18:55):
As a matter of fact, the origin of the police,
you know, was rooted in slavey. The original incardination of
law enforcement the United States of America or the United
Corporation of America, if you know, you know, is the

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slave Patrol. That was the first law enforcement in the
United States where was the slave patrol, and their primary
function was to capture runaway slaves. So when they will
come across and run away slave, they say, hey, boy,

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where are you at?

Speaker 7 (02:19:38):
Who you belong to? Where's your paper?

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:19:41):
Correlate that the modern day, excuse me, having seen.

Speaker 6 (02:19:46):
You around here, you mind showing me some I D
or if in your vehicle, can I see some license
and registration? You know, the parallel was uncanny time can
not change for our people. So you know, know your rights,

(02:20:14):
you know, for legal purposes, know everything you can they
can and can't say to you. But then also you
got to be using discretion and know you don't actually
have those rights because those civil liberties don't apply to
you if you're black.

Speaker 7 (02:20:30):
They shit, but they don't period.

Speaker 6 (02:20:34):
It's a damn shame that like every black male in
the United States of America, they have to get the
coming of age talk from their elders about how to
engage law enforcement. So right when you get thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
this is the talk that we all had. I got

(02:20:55):
to talk for my mama. My dad's in jail right
now on the elbow, never coming home. Don't even know
who I am. We got to mention I haven't spoken
to them, like over five years. You don't even remember
who I am. That's how long you've been in me.

(02:21:19):
I had to get my talk from my mama about
how they engage law enforce me. My older siblings, my
older male siblings, I can't. I couldn't get nothing out
of them. They didn't know nothing. My uncles, they wasn't
even teaching their own males children about life, so they
ain't got nothing to say to me. My mama taught

(02:21:43):
me how to uh you know, respond to law enforce me,
and what to do not to make myself appear menacing
or threatening in their eyes. So said all that to say,

(02:22:18):
you know, we done seen the scenario play out over
and over again. It's not no shocker at this point.
We're desensitized to it. We see it so much we
already know what it is. The only thing that really
stands out and hurts really bad. In that video, saw

(02:22:43):
like three black officers on the scene, and they did nothing.
As a matter of fact, they only added to it.
They made the white officers feel comfortable by proceeding to

(02:23:03):
use excessive force that made them feel comfortable, saying, we
won't rat you out, we won't tell on you treat
that nigga any old type of way you want to
he ain't you know, he ain't nothing to me. That's
what they were saying with their body language. That's what
they were saying with their incomplicit you know, mannerisms and behavior.

(02:23:35):
Shoot like Ice Cube said, and straight out of comptent,
the black ones trying to show out for the white ones,
and that, you know, that's just a shame. Got so
many Uncle ruggis, sambo ass negroes on the police force.

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You know, sisters got more testicles than some of these
brothers on the police forces. I didn't seen videos where
I seen sisters extend their arms and then tell they
mill you know, superiors or subordinates to back off, and

(02:24:23):
she want to have to unlive her. It ain't happening,
you know what I'm saying. I don't know what happens
to brothers when they get on the forest acting like
they're not from the neighborhood. Now, I know, you ain't
supposed to like just turn a blind eye to crime.
If they like openly selling dope, openly got a firearm,

(02:24:49):
you know, like openly doing something unlawful.

Speaker 7 (02:24:54):
Heck no, you ain't suposed to be they brother and
that scenario.

Speaker 6 (02:24:58):
But if you see a gang of Caucasian police officers
that are just trying to rough them up because you know,
they're just trying to give them a hard time just
because they're black, you are obligated to say something.

Speaker 7 (02:25:17):
If they suspend you, they suspend you. If they fire you,
they fire you. But you got to be black whenever.

Speaker 6 (02:25:23):
You know, at the end of the day, when you
take that uniform off, you still black and it can't
happen to you. So yeah, that's just the biggest disappointing thing.

(02:25:45):
There's like three or four brothers presence, and they didn't
say or do nothing their most sambo uncle ruggis. I
wish that I knew their names.

Speaker 7 (02:25:57):
I hope they.

Speaker 6 (02:25:58):
Released their names because I'm sure blasting cowards all up
and down social media.

Speaker 7 (02:26:07):
Traders. If you are law enforcement officers and you see.

Speaker 6 (02:26:16):
Then filthy beasts doing your brother or sister like that,
you don't say nothing, use to use a coward, pack
you all the wall, get you out of here. You
just just hang it up, you know, We're gonna disintegrate
your race card. We're gonna we're gonna disintegrate your black card.
We ain't gonna just revoke it. We're gonna disintegrate it.

(02:26:38):
You can't never use your black card again. Coward, your
your mama shit is swallows. Ain't nothing worse than the Samdbo.

(02:27:07):
Now we say Uncle Tom all the way, but you
gotta do a due diligence on who Uncle Tom actually was.
We say that, you know, from a misinformed space, but uh,
you know, the real enemy of our people is the Sambo.

(02:27:32):
And the Sambo could be a woman's suit Samantha Bo,
because a woman Samantha Bo. But yeah, so we've seen it,
this particular story play out in several different scenarios. Like

(02:27:56):
I said, all he had to wous be in compliance.
If they would have proceeded there, it would have been
it wouldn't have drugged on this long. If it wasn't
in complete compliance, It wouldn't have took from February all
the way up until now.

Speaker 7 (02:28:17):
You know, it would have been the media.

Speaker 6 (02:28:18):
You know what I'm saying. It would have been more
media because they would look super crazy. But yeah, that's
where I'm Gonna laand my plane. Thank you all for

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Together we will change the narrative. I'm Hawsey Allen. I'm
changing the narrative one episode at a time, and I'm
asking you to help me change the narrative by becoming
a narrator. And while I'm changing the narrative on my end,

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one episode at a time as a narrator, you can
help me change the narrative on your end, one social
media host at a time. Until next time. Halsey Allen
and the Narrative Podcast signing off.

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narrative or from one episode at a time,

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