Happy Juneteenth!

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FORCY Radio. There we go,
There we go. I love that beat.

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Oh my god, it is so
awesome. It's so awesome. Good

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evening, and welcome to another star
studed conversation with Setting it Straight with Miss

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Gray and co host Madame Tray,
a nerve from all the way from Virginia.

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Tray Tray, what's happening? How
are you? I'm wonderful. How

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is everybody's doing today? Everybody's well, I'm good, I'm good, I'm

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good. And now, of course
you know from around mc arner, down

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the block, two streets, two
street signs away, It's tom Ay any

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time you need her, not at
nighttime, though, now at night don't

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don't do that. But during the
day she come, she would come your

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way. Tommy, I know after
a while, I'm gonna get tired of

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the antecdotes. I don't have to
come up with something else. But for

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right now, you know, I'm
good. I'm actually kind of tired.

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So I think we're gonna be hit
with some really heavy rain because all of

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a sudden, I just got this
the itis to sleep fights over me and

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I'm like, where is this And
only if it's this heavy, it's only

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because it's getting ready to rain.
So um, But without further ado,

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let's pray and then we're gonna go
on with the shell. Father God,

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would just thank you. We praise
you so much. I love you so

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much. We love you so much, we fall in love with you every

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minute of the day, because you
alone are worthy to be praised. We

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just thank you, Father God for
your saving grace and your mercy. Thank

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you, Father God for your supernatural
lessons, your grace, Father God,

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in your favor. We thank you
for ever increasing faith. Thank you for

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peace that passes all understanding. Just
thank you, Father God, that you

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give us the authority and power to
tread over serpents and to take the enemy

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back and take everything he has ever
stolen from us, backed by force.

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We love you so much, Father
God. As usual, this is your

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show. We are just your daughters. We stand behind the cross. We

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love you so much. Have your
way as you always do, setting the

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captives free in Jesus name. We
pray, Amen and amen Amen. Well,

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thank you for that, and thank
God. God has just been blowing

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my mind as y'all always. This
past weekend we had the hurricane one of

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I guess a few now hurricane exposed
and is that one of our high schools

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out in Orlando, I mean out
of it went to garden and it was

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very I mean it was storming Saturday. But God told me, I said,

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he said, I need you to
be there by nine thirty. It

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started at nine and it goes from
nine to twelve. I think that's like,

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well, God, I got a
little time. He said, no,

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you need to be ready to head
out. So my oldest boy said

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he'd go with me. And sure
enough, the moment we got in the

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car and made that left and going
towards the event. We were going towards

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the storm, it was like it
just looked like somebody stepped out of heaven

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and poured a bucket of water and
we couldn't see, but I kept going

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and out of obedience, and then
I'm like Lord, and when I said

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Lord, it started to clear up. We made it to the school.

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No rain, you know, but
it was dark. It's dark, clouds

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and stuff. But we made it
there, went in. I mean,

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everybody was just so friendly. They
were naturally just so nice, and it

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was just it was packed. It
had to be. When I was there

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for about forty five minutes or so, it had to build. A thousand

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people there had to be, and
it was female was there, the mosquito

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people of Orange County, all kinds
of agencies I didn't even know existed.

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And the freebees were great. They
had more than a ton of stuff.

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They were expecting. I think they
said they're expecting about five thousand people,

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so they came in with stuff.
So another commissioner is having what a commissioners

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having won this Wednesday night. But
I think, you know, I don't

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know what the weather's gonna look like, but it's worth going because you can

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ask questions. I had questions about
a generator and where the story, you

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know, keep it, and stuff
like that, and the gentleman was very

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knowledgeable, and he told me some
of his tricks that you know, to

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be able to keep it outside but
also chained it up so nobody could steal

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it and stuff like it was just
really good stuff. On my Facebook page,

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I had took a picture with our
mayor, Mayor Demmis. I didn't

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know he was coming when I heard
this voice. And I'm like, that

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sounds like that's That's only one man
that speaks talks like that. That's Demming.

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And I looked over and I can
see it's the top of his head.

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So he was talking about the hurricane
preparedness and the importance of it um

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and everything else. And I took
a little picture with him when he was

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coming back before he went upon an
interview and stuff like that, because I,

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you know, it was just it
was just a nice, well attended

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event. Young kids were there as
ushers and and and people informing you we

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had to department corrections were there.
I mean, everybody was there. The

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city employees came out and like I
said, they were every The only thing

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missing was a food truck. And
I guess they don't want you to stay

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around too long. You need to
just go. You got you got you

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your seven satchels. Okay you can
you could roll out down, you can

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roll and they were full full.
I got all kinds I made. Said

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I had to teach Don how to
work a conference. I said, this

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is what you do. I told
him, I said, when you get

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there, now, you can stay
with me if you want to. We

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can divide and conquer. But every
table that's got something on it, put

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it in the bag, put it
in back every now and then. He

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so he he chose to stay with
me. And you know Donald six five,

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so you know he's looking off.
He could do this and just see

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everything, and I'm like, gone, gone, get the roller. He

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said, oh oh, I said, I'm telling this boy to get stuff.

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And I'm thank god the people didn't
really pay me too much attention,

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but I have to. I have
to teach you how to work at conference.

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You know, you just don't stand
there and look around and let the

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other old a lot of old people
want to push you out the way and

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stuff. I almost tipped the lady
over in a little cart there. But

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anyway, um, you know,
I just kind of I got myself back

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together because I forgot you know,
it's cameras everyone. Um, but yeah,

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there was this little you know,
a little too much. I was

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like, you know, it's enough
for everybody everybody looking around. Yeah,

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I said it because you ain't got
to roll your little cart over, your

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little roll hover around on my foot
and what's left of it. So because

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we will go there, I'll tip
it over real quick, said, oops,

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you all right here? Oh hello, I should get down there.

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I'll better come helper if we walk
home. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

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Okay, all right. Well tonight
we're gonna talk about something. A holiday,

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a new holiday on the horizon.
It's not new to many people at

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all, but now it's rolling out
and it looks like we're experiencing some of

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its firsts this year. So I
know that I've got we're in capable hands

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because between Trey and Tommy, they're
going to explain it what June teenth is

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all about, why we should appreciate
it, how we can celebrate it,

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how it's being celebrated, and again
the history. And I'm really interested in

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that, the historical perspective, I
really am. So I'm gonna be silent,

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believe it or not, and I'm
gonna let the ladies go at it.

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It's between y'all, now, Okay, I'll go first. So June

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teenth is actually league derived from when
a group of enslaved people finally found out

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that we had been free. So
it was adopted in Texas June nineteenth,

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eighteen sixty five, actually two and
a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was

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was issued. So the person that
was instrumental in making sure the people knew

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about that was General Major General Gordon
Ranger proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas.

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So, and I think, if
I'm not mistaken, it's been a

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federal holiday since twenty twenty one,
adopted by recognized by Joe Biden. He

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signed the June team National Independence Day
Act into law. So I think we're

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two years in now, which is
a great thing. So I don't know

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if Tommy, if you want to
add some more that you're aware of,

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and maybe we can go into or
some of the things ways that people are

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celebrating that. I think he signed
it back in twenty twenty one, but

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to make it real visible this year
and everybody's really into it and the celebrations

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and all, I think this is
I would say, quote unquote the first

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time I've seen it here in Florida. I'm saying Florida because I remember we

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were in Virginia twenty twenty one and
my daughters, my two daughters and my

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granddaughter. We all had our June
Teeth t shirts on and it wasn't no

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function that we went to, but
we was letting know that we celebrating that

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day. And also in Tennessee,
if I'm not mistaken, they have been

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bringing it longer than most states have, because that's where the I'm trying to

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remember. Is it in Memphis where
the buses the Freedom the Freedom Brus because

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they actually have a Excuse me,
I don't know if it's a replica or

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the actual bus itself. Is there
as a monument peace? And I think

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it is Memphis because I had a
friend of mine he used to live there,

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and he told me about Juneteenth,
and it was just so happened.

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One weekend his mom came and him
and his daughter and his mom went to

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Memphis and they were caught off into
the celebration of Juneteenth, and so he

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kind of educated me on Juneteenth and
it's a a holiday that was well.

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They saying that it's been celebrated since
eighteen sixty but it wasn't signed to sixty

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three, so I'm not sure what
they were celebrating prior to that time.

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But you know, I thank God
for the freedom of day and and and

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the acknowledgement the celebration. UM.
And there were a couple of quotes that

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I was reading that were from like
um, Michelle Obama and a couple of

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others that we were very interesting of
their comments. And I'm gonna pull that

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up in a short live time but
um, but UM, go ahead,

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tray, let me find that real
quick. And I want to show I

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want to read a few Okay,
So I know some people have been celebrating.

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I know they have been festival votes
throughout UM and then especially food trucks,

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performances that have been taken place,
some of the things that they talk

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about, even the reading of the
Emancipation Proclamation itself. Some some different songs

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that are sung maybe in the churches
are Swing Low and Sweet Chariot, Lift

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every voice and sing. So um, those are some of the traditions that

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people are have been doing. And
I know, UM, I think if

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I was watching the news correctly,
they were broadcasting some some history, and

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even voter voter registration has been taken
place to try to encourage people to register

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to vote, which is very crucial
in our communities, but it's crucial all

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over, but especially in our communities
because we need to make sure that were

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our voices are heard, because we
haven't heard for so long, and so

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it's very important to get folks to
register to vote. You know, I

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was excited the first time I was
able to vote. You know that that

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was liberating to me because I knew
the history. You know, it wasn't

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a time where it was a time
where we weren't able to and then in

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some places and still now they're making
it difficult for you to vote. You

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know, you're accounting how many pieces
of candy in the jar, or you

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know, reciting um, maybe preamble
to the Constitution, those types of things.

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Um. So right now, people
need to be very cognizant on the

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movements to try to stifle people's voices
and so we I can't stress it enough.

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You know, start educating your children, educate yourself about history so that

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you'll understand why it's so important,
not just for presidential elections, but your

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local election, your mayor your city
council, your school board, it affects

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it affects your communities. Senators,
as congressman, you have to make sure

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that you vote on a local levels, not just for presidential elections. So

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we want to encourage people to do
that. I know next year is going

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to be the next year going to
be the big election. So folks need

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to be cognizant or the rules and
where the rules to getting or vote a

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registration card, also where they are
to vote, and then you know,

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being our cognizant of the candidates and
what they stand for. So make sure

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you get your stuff lined up before
it's too late to be able to vote.

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So Tommy, is you ready to
add him? I was trying to

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find two things. One because you
know, there's a flag and it is

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red, black and green, and
it said June team celebration in Galveston,

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Texas. Last year, the history
traced its rules to the city of cow

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Um cow Calhoun and it was oh
Calhoun and um or hair but um.

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I was trying to find those quotes
I had earlier. I know I shouldn't

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have moved from him, but they
h and and I had Oh Man,

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I do have an arm band and
the red, black and green flag stands

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for unity. And I matter of
fact, my aunt blessed me last year

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with the Unity band to go with
my um my watch, and I forgot

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all about it today, but I
have on I didn't have on a red

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or black green on, so I
had put on the blook. But anyway,

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but um um, I remember this
stands for unity, and the red

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was for the blood. The black, Oh, I can't remember what the

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black was for. And I think
the green represented the freedom. I don't

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quote me on that, but I
believe that's what it was telling me.

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And I was like, oh man, and I just thought that was so

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awesome to have a m you know
those that flag that means unity because I

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know um Desmond Tutu said we can
only be human if we're human together.

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So that made a lot of sense
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um. I think Michelle Obama had
a quote saying that there's a lot of

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things that we are still we've yet
to overcome, but yet we can bring

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it together with unity or something to
that effect, and she she was good,

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but I for some reason, it's
not showing up where I had it.

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I had it so the same.
The official June teenth flag was red,

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white, and blue, so I
think half of them was the blued

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in the star and it was displaying
that all American slaves and that the Senates

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were Americans. But the red,
black, and green represent blood, soil,

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and prosperity of Africa, and that's
it. That's it. I couldn't

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remember exactly because I remember I had
it. I have all kinds of stuff

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around here. I wasn't thinking to
grab it because I And it's so funny

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because in Sam's last year, they
had these little books and I still have

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a few of them, and I
believe I gave you June teenth away to

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one of my god babies. But
like it's telling you about the Negro the

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Negro National Baseball League and Hank Aaron. No if Jackie Robinson, I Hank

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Aaron Jackie Robinson, and it would
just look and they would look. There'd

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be two books together, you know, back to back, and it gave

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you and one of them was a
June teenth. But I gave it to

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one of my babies so that they
can learn about June teenth. I'm I'm

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one of the ones that like to
buy books and educate you and enrich your

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knowledge of your historical site, your
history, because you know, if you

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don't know your history, how you
know where you're going? What's your future

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life? How do you make a
difference? How do you make change in

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life for you and others? If
you don't know where you come from,

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you gotta have a base from where
you come from in order to know how

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to allow God to set your course
for where you're going. Because it's it's

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a lot that we can learn,
excuse me, from all these great historians,

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and you know, hearing the history, knowing your history, recognizing the

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name. You know, when we
grew up, you know, I knew

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about a Charles Drew. I understood
what the Journal true did. I knew

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what Marcus Garvin, what was his
platform? But a lot of times you

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talk to people and they have no
knowledge of it. None. And I

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never forget one night me my niece
from that stays in DC, my oldest

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daughter. It was a couple of
we was talking about reparations and forty eightcers

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in the mule. You know those
things, those were real situations, whether

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you knew it or not. You
know, people always time about I didn't

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get my forty acres in the mute. But you know what, when you

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get it, did you work it? You could have had it, but

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did you work it? And that's
the key to a lot of it.

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People want you to give, give, give, but when you get it,

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do you take care of it?
Do you manage it? Do you

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watch it? Do you is it
something? It's a siege. You got

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a soul and did you put it
on good ground? Did you put it

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in good soul? A lot of
times we don't realize we have had the

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forty eight because in the mule,
but we didn't take care of it.

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So now we're looking forward, it's
gone. So it's just the history that

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we find out in reference to where
our people came from. And I wish

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my heart so desire it's for our
young sisters and brothers to understand the shoulders

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they're walking on because of them that
paved the way, those that you know,

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help get us from the south to
the north to build history or whatever.

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Those that you're walking, those shoulders
you're walking on, you wouldn't have

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what we have today if it wasn't
for their struggles, if it wasn't for

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their sacrifice. It's just no different
than I and I'm not placing it as

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high, but it's just like God
allowed Jesus to come upon this earth and

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nobody has suffered the brutal death,
I mean brutal beaten that he went through.

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Man did not kill him, He
gave up the ghosts. But what

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he went through, what he endured, the stripes on his back so that

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we could be healed, you know, the beatings, the crowning of the

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crown, the thorns in his head. You can't nobody walk this earth and

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say that they don't went through some
thing that dramatic and that strenuous and that

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hard every time you think about it. Yeah, we hear about someone being

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shot, a couple of our people
that have been drugged, you know,

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down a bumpy road or whatever,
but they didn't survive. But God survived

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it and allowed us to see.
But he gave up the goals. Man

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can't do that. Man can't do
that. But if our young people can

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just understand the fight of what has
happened and what's been going on, we're

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two years and a half and don't
even know we're free. We're still work

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in the farm and everything else,
you know, So don't be mad at

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who did it take that anger and
make something better of yourself, better your

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community. That's why they're doing all
these community events to bring that unity together.

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And if we don't stop and realize
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what's going to happen. And I'm
glad you said that, because I'm sitting

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here and all I'm saying to myself
is when when are we gonna really be

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unified? When? And then only
times things mattered or change was when people

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got on their knees and prayed.
If we as a people can go back

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to praying first before complaining, praying
first, before pointing the finger, praying

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first, before you start to organize
a protest, pray first. I have

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lived a lifestyle of prayer, and
trust me when I say prayer changes a

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thing, there's nothing compared to it. There's no intellect, there's nothing human

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that is not humanly possible for the
things that manifest through prayer. And I'm

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just sitting here and I'm listening.
I've seen on the news they even had

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a thing I think was Saturday night. They We're gonna have an hour's worth

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a conversation on June teenth, and
I missed it. I was really surprised

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if the news channel was gonna pick
that up. And everybody's wearing there there

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there. I've seen some folks with
T shirts on the thing. But I'm

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like, yeah, but then that
that's today. How are we gonna What

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are we doing tomorrow? How are
we making it? What changes will be

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made tomorrow? And this is what
has gotten me a little really disturbed with

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my people, because I mean,
and they're there are things being made.

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I don't get me wrong, They're
in roads being made over here. Over

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there, nothing's connecting, but over
here they're doing something or what they're they're

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doing something thing. But we need
to be unified as one, not so

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many voices, not so many chiefs, not and knowing you know, no,

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no, nobody wants to follow,
not all the leaders, but no

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followers. So I'm wondering the whin
Will we ever see a united race?

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Will we ever see a united ethnic
group? Is it meant to be?

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Can we get some changes? Can
we get everybody that's over eighteen to vote?

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Can we get them out there to
vote? Even if you don't,

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And it's not about who you're gonna
vote for, it's about can you make

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it to the polls? Can we
count on you to just go and do

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your best. Unfortunately, we've got
the lesser of two evils, So nobody's

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gonna be perfect. Nobody's gonna be
the perfect person for the job. No

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that that that doesn't exist. But
let's try and see if you could just

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come on and vote, like you
said trade. When I turned eighteen,

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that was my biggest thing, getting
my driver's license and going to get my

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voter's card. I'm serious about that, and I did that for all my

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kids want they turned eighteen. But
you know, I'm waiting for the unification.

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I mean, I'm glad you said
that the colors because I did see

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the flag and I'm like, what, I said, what group does this

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represent? I didn't know, but
I thought it was maybe a country flag.

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I didn't know it was, you
know, and that's blood, you

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know, soil and freedom. That
says a lot. Excuse me. I'm

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just waiting for the unification. I'm
not holding my breath, but I'm waiting.

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I think, but I think maybe
people just need to write down or

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jot down, you know, what
they wish would change in their community.

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You know, it could be something
small, could be something big, but

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just write down, and I think
I've said it before, write down what

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you would like to see change in
your community or improve in your community,

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and then I think it was gonna
says, be the change you want to

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see the world in the world.
So it's and started with you. But

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there, I'm pretty sure when you're
talking with people, there are people who

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are like minded as you are,
you know, just saying you generally,

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so I know that people who who
have similar thoughts that I do, who

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want to see better for the community. But you really have to you know,

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people say they don't want to watch
the news. You better watch the

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news because stuff is happening, you
know. And I'm not going to promote

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anyone over the other, but this
is what I would say. Listen to

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what people saying who are in position
you hear for yourself, watch it live,

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and then go to the news stations
and see which is picking up the

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truth part to it. Some stuff
sways all the ways left field. And

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I'm not talking about lib brules or
democratic I'm just saying that I didn't hear

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that, that's not what I heard, and just you have to be in

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tune to what is going on and
then make your choices from that, not

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based on what this person over here
said about the candidate or what that person

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over because you can get stuff lost
in the shuffle. I remember a game

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needs to play as a team building
where you I can't think it was I'll

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say pass it along where you wish. When somebody's ears, a line of

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people goes on our circle and by
the time it gets back to where you

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were, not not anything that you
had said, And so stuff can get

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gets lost in translation. But you
have to be mindful of what people are

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saying that affects you. And unfortunately
the history is being stifled in some states

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Florida just throwing a place out.
History is being stifled. But that doesn't

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mean history stop. You have Google
Search, you have books that you can

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go and see. You can order
books off of Amazon and eBay. You

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know, people really need to be
mindful of and ask yourself, why are

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they trying to stifle history? You
know, what is it about history that

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you don't want people to know?
Why are you so afraid? And if

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you look at history back in the
day, at one point they didn't want

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to hold lot of blacks huddling together
either because it was fearful. What are

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they tell talking about I don't have
a hold of it. And so the

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slaves were very strategic because you know, they had to be strategic on how

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they met and then how the codes
that they had, you know, follow

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the drinking gool to freedom, the
Big Dipper or the Little Different, whichever

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that one was. They knew which
houses to go to that were safe houses

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as part of the underground railroad.
And that's in books. That's in books.

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I've learned that reading it. I've
learned it from my parents, my

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grandparents and grand you know, great
uncles and stuff. We talked about that,

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we had books on that. But
unfortunate that people don't want to go

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back to history. Oh that was
in the past. No, it might

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have been in the past, but
look at some of this stuff that's resurfacing,

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and then we don't aren't careful,
We're gonna find ourselves back in that

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same predicament. I think, you
know, you don't want to be in

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a place where blacks cannot associate with
whites and all this other stuff. That's

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that's crazy. You know, the
world will be a boring place if everybody

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look the same, act the same
and thought. You know, I don't

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like Diggotry. I really don't,
but I'm saying if everybody got together,

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I'm pretty sure if they'll find more
common ground than uncommon ground, more more

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similarities than unselling in similarities or not
similarities or whatever the word is. So

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I it just would behoove everybody just
take ownership themselves and figure out what can

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I do to make a difference.
And it starts with a conversation. Young

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people are doing it all. You
look with the kids with the gun laws

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and how they got themselves together,
walkouts and stuff like that, And that's

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across across the globe that they were
doing and how did they do that?

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They would communicate. We need to
learn from them. So that's what I'm

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might take right now. I found
the quotes and Correta Scott King said,

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struggle is never ending process. Freedom
is never really won. You earn it,

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and when it in every generation you
building upon building by getting better.

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That's what I want my young people
to realize. It gets better every generation.

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Frederick Douglas said knowledge makes a man
unfit to be a slave. The

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more you educate yourself, the less
you find yourself enslave. Then um here

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Desmond too, he said human.
My humanity is bound up in yours,

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for we can only be human together. I love that, Michelle Obama.

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She said, there are still many
causes worth sacrificing for so much history is

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yet to be made. Yet history
is yet to be made. And I'm

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my last one, which we always
have to quote Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

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It'say, it is a cruel to
of slavery could not stop us.

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The opposition we now face will surely
fail because the goal of America is freedom,

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abuse abused, and scorn those we
may be. Though we may be,

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our destiny is tied up with america
destiny. So somewhere, somehow,

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like I'm gonna pickaback off of you, miss Gray, and I'm picking back

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off of you trade when do we
make a change? How do we make

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a change? And at what point
will we start making that change? Because

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we gotta start somewhere. Like Tray
said, it can be a conversation.

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If you're gonna do a demonstration,
pray about it before you do the demonstration,

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walk peacefully. And I'm gonna just
go back to this song that just

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came out. Instead of complaining,
we're just gonna praise him. So while

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you don't pray, you're protesting,
and then just start giving God praise.

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A change can start there, just
as easy acknowledging those that are making quotes

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of making statements, but also let's
do something about it. Let's do something

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about it. Not take well everything. I thank you ladies, you highly

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educated me. Tonight. I understand
it now and I feel comfortable that I

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can have a conversation about June teenth
and what I am going to do,

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you know, the next year or
throughout this year. I'm not going to

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wait a year to be activated.
I'm activated as of tonight. Now I

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know what the stands for, so
we can I can preach on you know,

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the colors of the flag of June
teenth. I we can find scriptures

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on that. So then once finding
the scriptures, it's about action. It's

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the action verb. I just read
received the email from Rebbi Jonathan Cohn that

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talked about in the Hebrew language the
verb comes first, not the noun.

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The action comes first. And I
was like, I gotta said that to

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you guys. It was it blew
me away. So instead of saying there

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goes Jane, it goes Jane there
over there. So the action verb is

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first. So then you go back
and you can link that the faith without

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works is dead. You have the
faith, but you got to work it.

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And now you got action. And
here's God, you know, saying

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it's about what do you do?
So what do you do? Now?

422
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.079
Well, you figure out what you
need to do, you pray about it,

423
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and you do this. Don't wait
till next year. What do you

424
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do? But I was talking to
a former friend recently and he was like,

425
00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:58.840
yeah, I'm just ready for my
next chapter. I said, no,

426
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:04.559
when you're gonna end this book?
You got about three volumes. Not

427
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.599
that I'm keeping tabs, but it's
not like you've got about three volumes going

428
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:13.360
there. When do we end the
book and start the new chapter a new

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00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.400
book? When do we end the
chapter thank you Lord, and start the

430
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:22.280
new book. You keep building on
and building on and building on, and

431
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:29.519
for what it doesn't go anywhere.
It gets buried with the book eventually,

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So let's create a new book.
It's a book of action. It's a

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book of very little words. It's
a book of Okay, this is what

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I'm going to do. And if
you need my help, let me know.

435
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:49.840
But I'm gonna go over here and
I'm gonna do this, okay,

436
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.760
And I'm doing it, and I'll
check back with you in about three months.

437
00:38:53.800 --> 00:39:02.039
I'll check back with you in thirty
days. Best action. And that's

438
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:06.239
putting your you know, putting your
money where your mouth is. That's putting

439
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:13.000
everything that's faith without works faith.
Faith, Faith is closing your eyes.

440
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:21.039
Faith is blindfolding you too. You
trade you, Tommy, and we're at

441
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.960
at at a flight of stairs.
I go down the stairs. I blindfolded

442
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:30.960
you both, and I tell y'all
follow my voice. You know, even

443
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:35.639
though you know I'm missing some fingers
in a hand. I'm not gonna let

444
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:37.800
y'all fall. I'm not gonna let
you get hurt. I hope that you

445
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:45.280
trust me enough with that. But
you have enough faith and confidence that I'm

446
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:49.519
not gonna let you get hurt,
not on my watch. That's faith.

447
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.960
Faith, Is that what you wope
for? And the evidence of things not

448
00:39:52.239 --> 00:40:00.360
seen? No, not seen faith, it is you hope. I hope

449
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:05.920
that we don't get a hurricane this
week. I haven't seen it yet.

450
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.960
I've seen some broadcasting, but I
hope that it is my hope we do

451
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:15.280
not get a storm. And the
evidence of things unseen even though the news

452
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.519
is trying to blast it. The
stories are gonna start getting crazy over the

453
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:27.199
next twenty four hours or forty eight
hours. But my faith, I'm hoping

454
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.360
that it doesn't take place. Now. All I need to find now,

455
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.679
let me tell you how beautiful God
is. All I need to find is

456
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:38.039
two more people of like mindedness that
agree with me, and we pray,

457
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:44.320
Amen, hands we don't. I
don't have to touch you and agree.

458
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.880
We can agree right now. I
can said, tray, please pray that

459
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.800
that we don't get that it may
form, weapons may form, no weapon

460
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:59.679
form against me, shall prosper weapons
form. Burdens are there. I'll remove

461
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.960
your shoulder from the burden that free
your hands from the pots. The burdens

462
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:08.039
are there, But my yoka is
easy, My burden is light. But

463
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:14.440
all I need is these three,
two young women and rebel and we come

464
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:21.920
together and we just say a prayer. You cannot tell me that that storm

465
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.840
gonna take a turn and stay out
there in the ocean, because I'm not

466
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:29.960
gonna just pray that it don't come
to Orlando, that it don't come to

467
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.920
Florida. I'm gonna because we've got
some Caribbean countries between here and that thing

468
00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:37.719
out there. I don't want them
to get hit that they have yet to

469
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:44.519
be restored. So let's let's keep
it in the water. We may it

470
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:46.920
may dig up some animals that we've
never seen before, but so bid.

471
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.519
Yeah, but my faith is all
I have to do is ask, And

472
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.960
I've got three women on here that
all we have to do is to say

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00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.559
a prayer. And we don't bring
it up again. We don't have to

474
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:07.400
pray this time, tomorrow night and
the next night. No. The reason

475
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.079
why the prayers don't get answered is
because the requesting person don't believe that it's

476
00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:16.360
gonna take place. If Tommy said, well, you know, miss Graham

477
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.280
gonna come back, I'll pick you
up. I'll be there by seven fifteen,

478
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.559
and she don't get hit a seven
forty five. And this is not

479
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:27.519
the first time she's done it,
but it's the second time she's done it.

480
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.800
How long you think I'm gonna trust
Tommy to come get me on time?

481
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:44.440
And I got proof because we're late
every time. So that's that's where

482
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:46.400
we could start. Let's start a
prayer. And I love your idea.

483
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:51.199
You know you're what you said trade
you know write down somethings you'd like to

484
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.159
see change, write down some things
you like to see the first day,

485
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.639
you have to remove the moat out
your own eyes, so you know you

486
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:00.760
can sweep around your own front door
before you try to speak around mind.

487
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.400
So I'm gonna get my house in
order. I'm not gonna come and tell

488
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.039
you to get your house. And
I almost come and say, what can

489
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:12.239
I help you with? What you
need from me? Well, you know,

490
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.599
no, don't sing it, Please
don't sing it because that bothers me.

491
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.280
So just coach, just get to
the point. I ain't got time

492
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.760
for you to find the harmony.
I don't have time for that. What

493
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:28.000
do you need? What do you
need? Because don't underestimate me. You

494
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:34.079
don't know what I you don't know
who I know. So what do you

495
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.079
need? How do we need to
do this? Well? I want to

496
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.840
feed some people in my neighborhood.
Okay, So what is it gonna take?

497
00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:45.800
What's it gonna take? Now?
What? Well? How many people

498
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.840
you got, Well, it looks
about twelve people. What's their age range?

499
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.199
Okay, So we got a couple
of younger people, We've got some

500
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.480
kids, we got a couple of
families, there. We got three elders,

501
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:57.199
we got three seniors. Okay,
well they're not gonna they don't want

502
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:00.320
the little you know, pouch of
juice Capri son, So we need to

503
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.079
get them some bottles of water,
or get them a whole bottle of juice.

504
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.400
Don't get them crabberried juice. Don't
get them. Um what's the other

505
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:09.400
one? Um to make them go
to the bathroom. We don't need that,

506
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.239
thank you. Prue juice don't do
that. So we won't do that.

507
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.360
Keep the prude juice out the bags, thank you. Okay, so

508
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:20.559
let's go for us some proof.
But you know, because get some Caprice

509
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:22.239
songs for the kids. It's get
some pop tarts for the kids. What

510
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:27.960
else do you need? Well,
I got you know, Drage called me

511
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.559
said, you know what I got
about six families. I know that they

512
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.920
can use some help. Okay,
well, you know I'm not up there

513
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.239
with you, so let me just
cash ap you. Let's see you say

514
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.760
you got six families, we get
put a piece about five ten eight dollars

515
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.840
bag and together food going to the
dollars store. I'll send you, you

516
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:47.920
know, I'll see you fifty dollars. You know, make that if you

517
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:57.000
can make that work, that'll be
great. Fifty dollars. Get the dollars

518
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:02.800
start there, and I don't need
to get a crowd, because there's another

519
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:08.239
thing about God. Whatever you do
in darkness and in that secret place,

520
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:15.360
he will amplify. He will bring
you before great men. Here. Your

521
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:21.159
gift will make room for you.
You don't have to do anything. Amen.

522
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.360
Amen. I was telling both about
the twins today in separate times,

523
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.400
but I said, you know,
we're nobody, but there's so much we've

524
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:35.360
done and so much we can do. But we weren't born with a silver

525
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.960
spoon in our mouths. I was
not born with a business sense at all.

526
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.079
I was just trying to help people
and I just happen to be a

527
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.000
good listener. So that equal to
be becoming a therapist, a counselor and

528
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:50.599
being called a therapist in high school, then going on and studying psychology.

529
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:52.519
Then I found out what I have
to get a whole pH need to make

530
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:57.480
it work. I hear about social
work, I go that route and now

531
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.320
I'm well covered and people still people
through to this day. I'm thinking that

532
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:06.440
I'm a licensed clinical social worker and
I'm not. But I mean the private

533
00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:15.599
practice for almost thirty years. I
know people. I know people, So

534
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:21.400
it just takes a step like that, that's all. It just takes a

535
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.119
step. I have a cousin in
Mississippi. She was at she put her

536
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.480
I told you, I think I
share with you y'all. Week last week

537
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.280
or maybe the week before, I
was surprised that, you know, these

538
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.320
kidney um company, the places where
they go for kidney treatment and cancer themself,

539
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.719
they have the snacks that they give
to the to the patience. We're

540
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:44.119
thalking about like where where they get
it from or how long? You know?

541
00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:46.639
I don't. I don't think about
that until they she announced that they're

542
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:52.559
running low on food snacks at these
places. So I'm like, you know

543
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:54.679
what, maybe And I went to
God, because everything I do, I

544
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:58.079
go to God. I went to
God. I said, you give you

545
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:00.840
to say something. He said,
hold on just a minute, just wait

546
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:06.599
just a minute. So hopefully I'm
believing God that enough people saw her posts

547
00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.519
and other people who posted it and
say this is why you repost hint,

548
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:16.679
hint, because somebody may see it
and pay it for and want to pay

549
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:23.000
it forward. Somebody may hear some
information that they had no idea. This

550
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:29.119
is why you repost. You got
people. I'm not gonna get on that,

551
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:32.480
but you have to start somewhere.
Stop talking about starting, and just

552
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:37.000
start it. I don't care if
you feed one person everybody. Just feed

553
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.639
one person. That's the challenge.
And y'all come back on the show next

554
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.159
week. And I'm talking to the
audience mainly, and y'all come back and

555
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:46.679
you tell me how many people you
fed and what and what was what was

556
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:52.679
the reward? What did God do
for you? I challenge you to feed

557
00:47:52.840 --> 00:48:00.880
one person between now and next Monday
with happiness. Put a bottle of water

558
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:08.840
in there and a dessert. I
double dare you, I double dare you?

559
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:13.039
Start something. You gotta start somewhere. You're still wondering where you start?

560
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:20.760
Where there you go? Meet me
where I'm at. Come on,

561
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.840
that's all it takes. And I
shouldn't have to challenge you, but let

562
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:28.320
me show you. Let me show
you how good my God is. Do

563
00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:34.039
that and you report back next week. Come on the show and you report

564
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:42.320
to us next week. Okay,
what you did? What kind of food

565
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:45.320
you gave him? How did you
package it? Did you include a beverage?

566
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:49.639
And did you include a dessert.
That's all I want to know.

567
00:48:52.320 --> 00:49:00.360
I double dare you and watch what
my God will do, because guess what,

568
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:06.519
you cannot beat him giving. You
cannot beat him giving, you could

569
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:08.559
do all you. Oh, I'm
gonna go and do this and I'm gonna

570
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:10.079
do that. Guy said, Okay, well, first of all, I

571
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:13.360
can't tell you people do that,
But okay, if you're gonna do it,

572
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:15.840
you know, and see what you're
gonna do. But then it should

573
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:21.400
you follow through God right there got
a blessing waiting for you. I promise

574
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:27.599
you that live that life. Live
that life anyway, that's our time.

575
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:30.519
Guys, ladies, thank you so
much for that information. You have made

576
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:35.480
me very educated tonight, and I
appreciate that. And I'm gonna do something

577
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.119
about that as well. I will. I hope everybody takes the challenge and

578
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:42.280
let me know what you did.
Let me let us know what you did

579
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.960
next week. You got a week
to do it, okay, anyway,

580
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.199
we'll see you next week, same
time, same station, y'all. Take

581
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.599
care night night By