Juneteenth & Generations of Culture

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good evening everyone. We're looking for we

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kind of lost our host, miss
Gray, and we just want to welcome

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you to the show. While we're
waiting. There she is, there,

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she is. I got your six, I got your six. And you

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open with prayer? Please you go
ahead to open with prayer. Please okay.

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Lord, we are so grateful and
thankful for this day that you have

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blessed us with. We thank you
for the strength and the energy you have

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given us for this day. And
Lord, we come to you. We

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declare and decree any evil forces that
want to interrupt your message. We render

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them powerless, we render them speechless, because Lord, your word is mightier

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than any word on this planet.
Lord, we do get behind the cross.

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We know that this is your show, your words, and Lord,

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we are your servants. And Lord, for those who are participating in our

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show today, we pray Lord that
your word will penetrate their hearts their minds

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to hear what you have to say. And we pray all this and the

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mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen, and amen,

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and thank you, powerful prayer,
powerful prayer, Thank you. Yes,

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the devil is stupid. What can
I say? He's stupid and he'll continue

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to do the same thing over and
over and over again. He'll just choose

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different devices, different people, but
it's the same thing. And he's trying

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to shut us up. He's trying
to make us this disappointed. He's trying

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to make us feel like we're not
going to get anywhere, and all kinds

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of nonsense. But we have the
victory. I had to remind him a

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few days ago. The book has
been written, the Word says, the

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Word says, it has been written, and we have the victory. We

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have the victory. We're doing what
God has told us to do. We're

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doing what God has told us to
do. We're doing what God has told

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us to bring forward, to make
aware, to bring to the forefront,

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to bring into the light. We're
being obedient. So of course we're going

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to be attacked, of course,
because that's the devil, that's his DNA.

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He has, He don't, he
don't. He can't help himself now,

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because you know his time is really
done. It's really done. Jesus

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is coming to take shut him down. For a minute. We prosper even

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more. We build up, we
get healed, we get strengthened. We

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have victory all over the place.
We're gonna have so many testimonies we can't

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even we can't even log them in
any where. And then the final battle,

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some of us will be here,
some of us won't. We take

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it home and we still get to
win. So I'm not gonna You can't

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stop me. You can't stop us. We'll do it from the car.

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We'll do it from the car.
We'll do it from the garage. We'll

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do it from wherever it is.
I turn. God has opened up these

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doors. So enough of that.
Yes, I'm you get me riled up

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when he when he comes after me, I'm old you go back me in

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the corner. I'll go to the
corner. It's when I turn around.

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It's when I turn around, and
I have turned around, So I'm coming

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for you. My God can show
you better than I can tell you.

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In Jesus' name. All right,
Well, we've got an exciting topic tonight,

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and I'm using a different device so
I may not see the folks that

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come in and say things. So
you guys can see it well pastor you

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can see it quicker, because I
believe Tay's gonna leave is out tonight.

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So I would like for you,
you know you too well, you know

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acknowledge the folks that are speaking.
I'm gonna silent myself. Tray take it

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away. Hello, good evening everyone. So a great day. As you

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see, I'm traveling just writing.
I'm a passenger, so I'm not driving.

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I am eight. I know people
have concerns about that. So but

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our topic is junetee and so what
I wanted to do is kind of start

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out with explaining where June teeth came
from. So actually June teenth came from.

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It's a celebration of the ending of
slavery. And so June nineteenth,

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eighteen sixty five is when enslaved people
of Africa, decent located in Galveston,

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Texas, finally learned that their freedom
from the slavery system in the United States.

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And so this is is when people
would, you know, we celebrate

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that. It is a holiday in
some places. I'm not sure if everybody

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celebrates the federal holiday, but it
is the time that most persons the color

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or slave presents from African descent celebrate
being free. So it's I don't want

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to say, our equivalent to life
or the kind disorder. And so there

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are different festivities that take place during
this time, uh empowerment festivities, community

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events, churches talk about it,
they based organizations, and so what else

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can I say about jute? But
I think it's an opportunity to recognize,

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you know, some of these strengths
and some of the attributes that were provided

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from people of African descent. And
so it also begins topics where people can

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discuss, you know, how far
they've come, some the challenges that we

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still face as persons of how but
come so far but yet still have as

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far as you go. Well,
that's interesting. I've heard about it for

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a few years. I did not
know President President put it into law to

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celebrate it, making it a national
holiday as well. So I was like,

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well, and then I happened to
come across a little documentary this weekend,

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and the young lady really just you
know, she was in Gapston and

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was talking to some key people who
made history who are still alive, and

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showed pictures and things like that.
So I love history and that. So

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it shows the strength, it shows
the reason why how it came about.

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Why are we celebrating that, you
know, and and celebrating the freedoms of

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different cultures as well, But this
one, this happens to be this round.

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I didn't know it was as intense
as it is. Like I said,

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because she's flown, she's got a
documentary. I think there's something happening

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here this week. You're right that
you're telling me I need to go out

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and get a T shirt because she's
got a client. Oh, I don't

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like I gotta go wear What if
I supposed to pick up it's gonna get

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me a head or a T shirt? I said, how many people gonna

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be out there? This is during
the week you know, so you know,

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the young people, I guess celebrate
that is celebrating this okay, but

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I mean this is that's lowls.
You said eighteen hundreds. Trey, actually

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eighteen sixty five days back to eighteen
sixty five when Jalveston, Texas actually found

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out that they were free. So
it was no in other parts, but

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people were still in slaves in Texas
during that time. And then to my

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understanding, this union soldiers went I
was in Texas to make sure that they

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upheld the law. Gotcha, gotcha. So with all of that, actually

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it actually started seven people free,
Okay. Actually it actually started on January

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first of eighteen sixty three, when
the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted after Abraham Lincoln

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signed the emancipation and then it took
two years for the news to get to

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Texas where it all began in Galveston. And I was reading a very interesting

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note that the army announced that there
were more than two hundred and fifty thousand

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enslaved black people in the state were
free by executive decree. So that was

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a huge number, two hundred and
fifty thousand. And while I was I

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studied it for a little bit because
I've heard of it, and Trey is

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correct. This is also considered a
second Independence Day for the African Americans because

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that's when they became free from slavery. So we definitely have to acknowledge that

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because these individuals were kept from they
were separated from their family, and because

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of the Proclamation, they had the
opportunity to be reunited with family. And

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I have to admit that's something that
I did not know about. I guess

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the first time I actually heard of
Juneteenth was a nineteen ninety That's the first

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time I heard about it, and
didn't really know a whole lot about it

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until I started getting involved more with
the people involved with Juneteenth, so I

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can be able to learn the culture
and the history behind it because it's very

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important. Well it's so that's why
we entitled tonight's show, you know,

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Juneteenth and generations of culture and how
it's evolved. But with this one piece

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of historical revelation and victory, they've
been able to still keep intact some of

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the housing in Gaveston where people went
and when they heard about about being free

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and the Freedom Act, and they
still have that place intact. I think

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it's now like a little cultural museum, historical museum. And then how to

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keep you know, they've got archives
and archives of papers and pictures and photographs

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and everything of all of that since
the eighteen sixty five, eighteen sixty three

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even and it's just amazing. I
said, well that for that reason,

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I'll go to Gabiston. But when
you look at the outskirts of it,

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you wonder, you know, just
like with freedom as a whole and victory

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and advancement as a whole, how
far have we come? And I think

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the powers that be sometimes it keeps
wants us to keep, you know,

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at base. Oh here, we've
given you this. You've got a holiday,

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now you got two holidays. You
know you should be happy. Well,

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no, no, we need to
get this into schools. We need

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to teach your kids and other kids
of diverse backgrounds why you're behaving, why

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they're seeing the violence, why they're
seeing you know. And it goes both

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ways. And we talked about this
on the show before. I mean,

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I know Black Americans unfortunately that do
not like white people and they raise their

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families like that. It's just that
hurt, the pain whatever that is.

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As well as I know of you
know, Caucasian people who don't like minorities

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period, and they've raised their families
the same way. But we've got history.

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It's in black and white. We've
got you know, faded photographs.

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It's in it, you know.
So I want to segue now into you

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know, freedom in the Lord.
I was thinking about. I mean,

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I was having this open conversation and
open vision and earlier today, and I

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was like, you know, people
always talk about refer to God as a

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higher power. And God has a
name, Jesus has a name, the

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Holy Spirit has a name. He
can set you free if you trust him,

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if you lay it at his feet, if you confess I can't do

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this by myself. I cannot do
this. Lord, so help me.

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But higher powers are our governors,
missioners, our police officers are the pope.

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Okay, those are how empowers.
They can make some decisions, but

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they can't lay hands on They can't
speak life into you. They can't help

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you to get set free of the
demons that aren't you. Only God can

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do that. We could do so
much as therapists, as social workers,

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as case managers. We can lead
you to heaven. We can't keep you

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there. We can lead you to
Christ. I want you to be free

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in the Lord. And he is
you know, he's no respector of person.

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That's why we see people out there
who don't necessarily call him God.

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But they know how to give,
they know how to help, and they

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do it with the sincere heart.
And what you reap you so you put

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it out there is coming back to
you. That's just the law of living.

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That's the law of life. You
water your grass, you fertilize it,

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you pick the weeds out of it. It's gonna grow, It'll become

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healthy. Amen. Hate it's taught. We need to teach us to be

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kind to others. I know,
country see, but were so we keep

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you know, we say it,
we put laws out there, we try

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to make things better, but we
still have a segment of people that just

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will refuse. We got segments of
people that want everything to be pure,

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and in their eyes, pure is
white skin, not looking white, but

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you have to be white. We
are superior, we are better. I

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went to school with some of these
folks, and I know they were taught

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that because I'm looking at you,
you don't even make sense as the reason

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why you're you hate me because my
because you know I'm black, I haven't

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done anything to you. So freedom
and knowing where you come from knowing you,

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understanding your history, accepting your history. What can you do differently?

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And I want to go forward with
that. What can we do differently?

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Now? I mean the folks in
the eighteen sixties, they did their piece

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here in twenty twenty three, I
think it was when the president put it

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into made it a legal holiday.
I think I don't know what year he

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did, Biden, but you know, okay, So now what do I

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do? Uh huh? I think
too, what's twenty twenty one if I'm

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not twenty two? Something like that. I just wanted to kind of piggyback

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on what you were saying, Lisia. Which is important that we have discussions

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like this to bring the light to
different holidays and culturals and things like setting

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it straight on the show. And
then which is so important of why which

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disheartening that different books are being banned, because you need to know the history.

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Then then that way, if you
know history, then you can understand,

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you know, conversations that we're having
on this show. We're diverse,

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set a host here and we're having
a dialogue about this, which is great.

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So and then we're getting put input
from our audience members. So I

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think the more that we can do
that and other organizations and also people.

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Just even though there might be a
book band that you can't teach it in

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certain places, doesn't mean you can't
buy the book's person mode or create groups

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that can discuss it so that we
can understand each other more so there won't

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be this great division. And I
look at different things on Facebook and different

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reels, and when I see Caucasian
babies and Black babies hugging each other because

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they don't know that's innocent. That's
where you know, just like you see

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we're talking about hete is part.
It is not something that you're born with.

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And when I see two little babies
that don't know each other, that

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don't look alike, and they're embracing
each other, why because it's another baby

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or they think it's friendly or something. I love it. I love it.

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And so let's see we have to
yes, so much to learn from

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one Yes we do, but see, we do have a lot to learn

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from one another. And I'm we
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we can bring uh you know,
ce what other things are celebrated that we

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might not be familiar with. Yeah, and I want to know other cultures.

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I want to learn, you know, your struggles and stuff like that,

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because it will give me an idea
of what what you are holding on

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to. Diversity, prejudice, cast
systems. Uh, you know that's been

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around since Genesis. We got the
proof. Other other you know, people

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thought that they were better, you
know, and things like that. We

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got the proof. It's been since
mankind has existed. But where do we

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go from here? We know the
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here? And sometimes we've had great
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in different cultures, but then when
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And right now I don't know of
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doing something big and or has an
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And they could take it out of
their neighborhood. They could take it to

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the community, they could take it
to the school community, they could take

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it to the regional community, they
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we're still repeating the same things,
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historical things. And I appreciate that, but where where's the difference.

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We still can have people who are
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have hate out there at Paramount.
We've got people in high positions of you

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know, banning books, you know
of diversity, and it's not diversity,

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black books on historical people that made
this country that they could, you could.

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We can look at the flag and
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that's that stitch was done by that
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person with mostly through blood and through
death. So where do we go from

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here? Where do we go?
And Missy you said it, You've got

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to be willing to learn. You've
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okay, let me listen to this, let me listen, and then

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walk away, say okay, now
what do I do with this information?

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Lord? Because we're god fearing people, we're God fearing people on here and

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our audience as well, members of
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active members. So okay, Lord, I got it. Now, Okay,

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I get June teenth? Now okay, So what do I do?

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Where do I go with this now? And what all that I do?

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Where does trade go with this now? And all that she does up there

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in Virginia? Where does Pastor go? He's getting ready to be more missionary

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work. What does he do?
What is he going to be able to

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do with this information and impact lies
as he goes? Go ahead, Pastor,

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well, I I want to piggyback
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of you have said. And one
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society are making a mistake is wanting
to, uh, what you just touched

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on banning books. Why do we
feel that we have to ban books to

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erase history kind of cover up the
errors that were made. That's the whole

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point of teaching, you know,
and and and and here's a news flash.

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If we look in the Old Testament, the same mistakes that the Israelites

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made, guess who's making them now
we are. And that happened over two

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happened more than three four five thousand
years ago, and we're still making the

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same mistakes. So are we trying
to cover up the problem or are we

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wanting to find the solution? And
we can't find the solution by erasing a

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culture, erasing, erase, erasing
people, because that the truth of the

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matter is is showing pride and pride
is not and please hear me, clearly,

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pride is not a fruit of the
spirit. And because we feel that

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we're better than anybody, we're going
down the wrong rabbit hole. And this

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is where we have to say to
ourselves, it's great, she's my sister

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in Christ, Trey, She's my
sister in Christ. Everybody who's watching,

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we are brothers and sisters from the
Creator. We're all related. Because if

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we take our skin off and we're
seeing our spiritual nature, guess what,

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it's not a color. So this
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parents. My culture is from Cuba. And when I say people that I'm

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Cuban, they looked at me like, but you're white, and I'm like,

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yeah, oh, they're white and
black Cubans. So, but people

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from Africa went to Cuba. People
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to Puerto Rico, the Caribbean.
If really listen to the music in the

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Caribbean island cultures, it's got a
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this is where it all stems from. So here is where we have to

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open ourselves and make ourselves available to
learn what other people know. What.

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We're not the brightest crayon in the
box. There are other people and that's

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why we're intertwined, so we can
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individually. And that is so important
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was wrong. Having slaves is wrong. What do we do about it?

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Now? Guess what? Do you
know that there are more than three million

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slaves still active today and people don't
know that. They just think it just

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only happened here. No, it
happens worldwide. So what do we do

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about it? And if we can
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that's all we need because then the
word spreads out. Our actions dictate what

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we're supposed to do. Because what
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our hearts. And if we hold
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If we if we feel compassion,
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we're taught. And if that's something
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it to do it correctly? Amen
to that? Amen to that. So

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we make the difference just in learning. You may not be God may not

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tell you to go out there and
start a whole uh series on YouTube on

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culture diversity. That's okay, but
you should be comfortable enough to walk into

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a conversation well of people who don't
look like you and have a seat and

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say, I just want to learn. I just want to learn. I'm

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not the enemy. I'm not doing
anything else with it. I just want

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to learn. And you have to
do this. And the most important thing,

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I'm thinking of Cain and Abel.
I thought you were going to go

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that route faster, but I was
thinking of Kin and Abel. The boy,

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you know, jealous, kills his
brother and God's like, okay,

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where is he? And He's like, oh, am I my brother's keeper.

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Oh you're gonna get an attitude with
God. Now you get in an

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attitude with God. He knows what
you're doing. See, this is my

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whole. This is a big point
here. Here's the golden nugget. God

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knows exactly what we're gonna do and
when we're gonna do it. He knows

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everything. Whether you know him or
not, it doesn't matter. He knows

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you, and he knows. He's
going to keep his people safe. He's

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going to keep his remnant within the
remnant, his children who are really doing

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their best to work on their relationship
with him. He's keep us safe.

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So the higher powers. If you
want to go and take history out of

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books, that's really crazy. How
can you delete something that's already happened.

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How can you delete something that's already
been written about? How can you delete

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something that's already been on the movie
screens and on the documentaries and the historical

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the historical drama documentary documentaries. So
you know what, go right ahead?

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That makes you feel better. But
if I want to talk about Uncle Tom's

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cabin, if I want to talk
about history from eighteen sixty three to eighteen

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sixty five to now, guess what, I have enough information to do it.

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If I want to put it on
YouTube, if I want to do

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it all, I want to film
a documentary. I have enough people that

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we can get as actors and we
can play our whole thing out. You

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can't touch me, and you can't
stop me. You cannot, you cannot.

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I look at the books that I've
written that the Lord has blessed.

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They're my story. This next book
coming out, it's my story. I'm

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gonna name names, but it's my
story. There's something you could do about

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it, So you can't. So
I look at you know, we just

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have to be prayerful. If there's
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find a person that you can ask, but don't walk away. Well,

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you know, I'm not gonna ask
anybody. Na't nobody gonna answer me.

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I used to tell my students that
do not leave this semester either night in

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class. Do not leave me confused. Here's my email, here's my cell

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phone number. You call me if
you're still not getting something. But don't

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try to take an exam and you
don't know the answers, you don't get

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the material, you're confused, you
will fail and there's nothing I could do

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about it because I don't know you
have a problem at on. So we've

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got beautiful history, and I appreciate
it. There are other diverse cultures,

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there's other cultures I want to learn
about, just to know know what I'm

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walking into before I visit your country, you know, I just want to

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know. I just want to know
because I didn't take history like that.

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And when I taught on the college
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only taught one course on race relations. Makes no sense to me at all,

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But I only taught one course in
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school sector. One course. So
I had the students when they had to

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do their research papers and they had
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do not talk about African American,
do not talk about Hispanic American,

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do not talk about Native American.
You got to step outside those cultures and

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do not talk about White American.
Find another culture out there. They exist,

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Find another culture, report on them, and they would come back astonished.

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There are cultures out there. There
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living out in the Peru, in
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They're really there. The government knows
that they're there for the students to

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be able to get the documentation,
get the evidence, living in the woods,

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living under these trees, a whole
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twenty two dialects, twenty two dialects. I had a student that was from

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Guatemala and he did his thing,
and that's the first time I ever heard

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he said, there are twenty three
dialects in the Guatemalan culture. I said

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twenty three. He said, yes, ma'am, twenty three. He said,

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I know about six of them.
I was like, everybody just gave

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him a standing ovation because how he
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You know, get over you.
I don't know why you you have

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hate against another human being because of
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You need to get over it.
This is nothing new. And guess

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what, whether you go to Hell
or you go to Heaven. Right at

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the gate of Heaven, we don't
know about Hell because they dropped, you

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know. They Hell's gates are open
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time. Heaven on. You know, you stay at the gate. Once

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we make that transformation, our skeleton, the skin, the skeleton is left

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behind. Like Pastor said, we
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even know what that is. People
have reported it because they've gone, they

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died and gone to heaven. When
I went to Hell, they there were

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human beings and the rings of fire, but their clothing was burnt. Whatever

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they were buried in was burnt all
up and everything, Bible everything, because

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they tried to lift their head up
to look up, excuse me, and

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the ring of the fire would come
up and down. So I did see

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human beings in Hell. And when
I came back up, like God,

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when I went to the Hell,
what everybody get Jesus in the angels coming

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to escort and everything, why I
had to go to Hell, and he

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let me know then heaven won't be
tell my people that Heaven won't be crowded.

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So anyway, any questions out there, anything else anybody wants to add,

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if I may add, last year, I had the privilege of going

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to Rome and I went to the
coliseum and this was an arena where they

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had games. And many Christians are
very ambivalent about the coliseum because this is

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where many Christians died in the games. But we don't see this is what

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again, this is where it shows
the mentality. You don't see a lot

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of Christians going to Rome saying knock
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how many Christians died during those games. No, it's part of history.

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It revealed what transpired. But I
bring up the Colosseum because there was something

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that I saw in there that really
revealed something that you don't read in the

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history books. And I took a
picture in one of the columns and someone

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actually drew a picture in one of
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crosses on there. So what that
revealed to me is that whoever did it,

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and it happened between one hundred to
three hundred AD. Okay, is

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a confirmation that what happened in Jerusalem
did happen. So someone took the time

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to spread the word in an arena
where there was so much death. But

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what it did was it provided the
hope that what actually happened. What we

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read in the Bible is confirmation that
we have a risen king. And that's

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why to me when I saw that, I was just like, that is

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so significant because that proves that it
happened and somebody was writing it as they

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were living it. And to me, that's why it's so important to even

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though it's not Sometimes it's not wonderful, sometimes it's not positive, sometimes it's

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just downright gut wrenching, but it's
just a reminder of the evil of sin,

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the cost of sin, and how
sin affects us in so many ways

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that all we have to do is
open that door sin walks in, and

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all of a sudden it creates a
absolute mess between culture, between people,

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between Christians, and that's what the
devil wants. He wants people to be

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conflicting because there's no all he wants
to do is destroy. That's all he

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wants to do is destroy. And
if we feed into that, with the

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hatred, with the racism, with
the prejudicem with the stereotyping, all we're

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doing is giving him credit when we
shouldn't even give him the time of day.

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Amen. Amen. And it's with
everything when you learn. The saying

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goes that you when you know better, you do better. Now that you

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know, what are you going to
do? Now that you know what are

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you going to do? Practice what
you Preadie? Maybe maybe one thing too

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is just pre a book club,
you know, a small book club amongst

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fears, you know, the people
that you're associated with other verse cultures,

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and start having dialogue about that.
You know what it means because I know

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when I was in Florida, we
were taking a cultural competency training which was

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provided by Children Services Council, and
so you know everybody, you know,

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they set the ground rules. But
getting people to understand the the the views

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of other people, you know,
not necessarily agree about them, but just

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he's creating the dialogue. And I
think here on setting it straight, it's

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allowing us to create dialogue in a
safe space. Yes, And you're safe

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here, and we pray for you. We pray for you, and we

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hope that you pray for us,
because we've not arrived. We won't arrive

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until we are at Heaven's gates,
when we still in the line to bleed

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our cause we haven't arrived. It's
what we know, is what we've practiced,

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and it's a lifestyle that we've taken
on that's been tried and true,

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and it continues to be tried.
It continues to be tried. But I

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know I'm victorious. Thank God for
the Bible, and thank God for the

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history, biblical history. And you
know, I wouldn't know that I had

427
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that power. I would not know
what authority I had because a man can't

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tell me. I mean, they're
like, oh, you're so smart,

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Oh god, you you know that
doesn't that goes only so far? That

430
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goes only so far. I appreciate
it. I went through a life of

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a lifetime of accolade. You know, it was important for somebody to pat

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me on the back and say I
was doing a good job, and it

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was it was important to me because
of how I was raised. That was

434
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adopted, and I just didn't want
to let people down. Now. I

435
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don't want to let God down,
and I'm not going to. I'm not

436
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going to. So whatever color your
skin is, you got an issue,

437
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and this is key. Now this
is just me. You got an issue

438
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with my color. We're good.
I've told supervisors we would never go out

439
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to lunch. Other people know everybody
likes you. They had this supervisor said,

440
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:27.519
why list I heard you you didn't
like me. I said, well,

441
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Suon, nobody like you, but
we'll never go to lunch. You

442
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.719
could never tell it. But I
would be the best team leader you got.

443
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:39.960
I got the job, got the
position. And she said, well,

444
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:42.679
she would try to make a little
joke. Well, Lesia, I

445
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.159
know we're not going to lunch.
Nobody would laugh because she didn't have you

446
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:49.039
know, nobody would We just ignore
her. But I did my job,

447
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and I had a sixteen assistant living
facility made up of people with physical disorders,

448
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psychiatric disorders, developmental disorders. I
had them all together. Everybody ate

449
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everybody if you could go out of
work or you go to day treatment,

450
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but nobody stays home anymore. And
it wasn't about what the color of their

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skin. It was about your capability. You don't need to be here,

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go to day treatment. You don't
want a job, go to day treatment.

453
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But nobody stays here and disturbs my
staff. I'll see you at four

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o'clock. See you so, And
I said, and my mom, my

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mother, bless her heart, excuse
me. She she was afraid of white

456
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people. She was afraid of them. And I can understand, you know,

457
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the years and she came her era. I understood. But they put

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me in They accidentally put me in
private school. And I'm like, ma,

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those people believe red blood like we
do. And she's like, oh

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my god, my baby's just go
your mouth. I said, yeah,

461
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well, I had no idea that
I would be in this racial speaker,

462
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a college professor, an actor,
and don't say, speak my mind,

463
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but God holds me. She didn't
know, yes, But I think too.

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You know, every every person's experience
is different. You know, when

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when I moved to Florida from Virginia, I encountered people who did not have

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great experiences from from white people,
called kan people, and that was I

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00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:37.440
didn't understand it because I grew up
with a diverse population because my dad was

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military and so we were in different
communities. So but I think to introduced

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it's starting to have a dialogue.
You can't hold a whole race accountable for

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what a few people do. And
I think once, you know, I

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would present that because I was,
you know, living in the glades and

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I know, glazed part of Parmys
County. There were some challenges there and

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you know, or some problems county. That's what I knew, But I

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knew in other areas there were you
know, there were challenges. But from

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that that particular area, which were
migrant farmers, you know, persons of

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color that that migrated from different places
to work in the fields and work you

477
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know, the agriculture, and so
they might not have had the greatest experiences.

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But what my role was, or
what I felt compelled to do,

479
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was teaching you can't hold a group
of folks, a whole race, accountable

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for what a couple of people do. And I think that's what it is

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with ours, you know other things. You know, you can't hold a

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whole group of black folks accountable for
what a few people have done. And

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I met that before. It was
a neighbor that used to live in years

484
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:59.119
ago, and E didn't like black
people just because of what one person did

485
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:02.239
in his family. And so when
you start doing that and kicking folks apart,

486
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you're not gonna like anybody because you're
gonna start finding fault with everyone.

487
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.360
You can't do that, And I
think that's where Pastor was saying that stereotype,

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00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:16.119
you know, stereo stereotypical thing.
You can't do that. You know,

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hold that person responsible, not the
race, not the ethnicity, not

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the religion, not the you know, your preference. You can't do that.

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And I think once we start peeling
back that that's a start. I'm

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not saying that's the answer, but
that's a start getting to know the person

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00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:45.599
and not what you think their beliefs
or race or religion is. I'll say

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with my generation, it's a huge
issue. I agree with exactly what you

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00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.920
said because we're very i can say, hard headed on that issue because we

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00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.760
see a lot of you know,
Caucasians attacking African Americans and stuff like that.

497
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.400
Although we all have our own separate
issues and different races and different cultures,

498
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I feel like my generation like it's
harder for us to understand and get

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00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:13.880
past people, you know, other
races doing things to us due to the

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00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:17.280
history that we have because Honestly,
I never knew about Juneteenth until, like

501
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.039
I think around George Floyd, like
that issue and stuff. I didn't know

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00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.960
about it. They didn't teach us
this in high school, elementary, they

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00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:28.519
didn't teach us at all. So
it was new to me, and I

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00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:30.679
was excited because I'm like, you
know, I'm going to every event.

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00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:36.280
But going back to my generation and
those behind us and stuff like that,

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I just feel like it's just being
harder for us to understand. I understand,

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00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.960
and it's still hard for me too, because like you go in the

508
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:45.599
store and you know, people look
at yourself type of way because of your

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00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.079
skin color. They think you're gonna
still, they think you're gonna do this,

510
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:51.880
they think you're rowdy, et cetera, et cetera. But you know,

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I don't let it, of course
get to me. But I feel

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like, well, I wish a
lot of people I know knew had role

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00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.199
models to help to help them understand
the issue and get through that of thinking,

514
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:07.639
you know, okay, everybody's the
same. Of course we all bleed

515
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.000
the same blood and everything like that, but it's a target. You know,

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00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:15.760
it's constant on social media, African
Americans getting beat down, whether it's

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the police, whether it's random people
like and it's just hard like honestly,

518
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but I definitely agree with you know, starting and opening that up to people,

519
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:30.000
like having groups meetings and stuff like
that, especially people around my age

520
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:37.880
meet doing that possibly to help because
you know, we'll just never understand and

521
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:42.519
just figgetback and a great observation,
is kay. But I just want to

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piggyback on that because people don't realize
too during the Civil Rights movement and prior

523
00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:52.280
to civil rights movement and even if
you're going back to slavery time, the

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Underground Railroad. That's why the key
issue is understanding history. The Underground Railroad

525
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:06.119
wouldn't have been as successful if it
had not been for some white people who

526
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:10.039
were willing to help. And so
we can't can't, like I said,

527
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you can't put everybody in the box. The history behind the Underground Railroad were

528
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:21.719
to help people of color to freedom, and it took people of white folks,

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00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:27.679
white people, Caucasian people to assist
with that movement. They played a

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00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.760
big part in that, you know, whether to hiding folks or making sure

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00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.519
that they get from point A to
point B, you know, participating and

532
00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:40.719
recognizing what was a friendly house to
go to if you need a shelter,

533
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:45.960
if you needed food. The civil
rights movement, if you look at pictures,

534
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:51.519
you see people white people walking with
doctor King and other civil rights activists,

535
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:58.840
you know, protesting the prejudice and
the racism and the discrimination that was

536
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:02.159
occurring. So this is the important
part too. But if you don't know

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00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:07.559
your history, if people don't know
understand or no history, just see the

538
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:12.320
one side of things. And yes, George Floyd issue was was horrible.

539
00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.559
But let me tell you, I
know some great law enforcement officers, you

540
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:20.159
know what I mean, And so
it's unfortunate at that time. You know,

541
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:27.239
it's unfortunate that a few people who
chose their their their their their position

542
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.320
to to to do wrong. And
so that's what I wanted. But great

543
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:37.960
observation was pay Yeah, it's yeah
and this and again it's history repeating itself.

544
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:44.320
It's just different people. It may
be a different state, but it's

545
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:47.039
it's the same thing. It's just
repeating itself. And that's what the devil

546
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:52.880
does. So always look at that
and be a way, uh, yes,

547
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.760
exactly, because you don't see,
oh wait a minute, it's just

548
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.480
the same issue. I had at
the other job. Wait a minute,

549
00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:01.960
this, Why do I keep getting
into relationships with these type of people?

550
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:06.440
Oh my, wait a minute,
this is I'm just doing a cycle here,

551
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.559
or my daughter is picking up the
same habits that I did. Wait

552
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:17.559
a minute now, same situation,
same scenario, same threat, same content,

553
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.719
same narratives as people want to use
content and narrative and backstory now as

554
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:30.039
buzzwords. But guess what, it's
the same thing, and you've got to

555
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:36.280
rise above that, recognize it for
what it is, rise above it.

556
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.880
God will help you lead you right
on out of that and give you peace

557
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:49.679
and be determined not to pass on
things, negative things to the next generation.

558
00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:53.559
You can stop it today. Just
have a family meeting, just have

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00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:59.159
a book club. You can stop
it right today. In the name of

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Jesus, pray that you will be
safe. We pray that you all love

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each other, love yourself, forgive
yourself, and forgive others. We're gonna

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see you next week, same time, same station. Night night, good night.