1 00:01:13,60 --> 00:01:18,63 Welcome to being black This is our second show and we're working to make it 2 00:01:18,64 --> 00:01:21,58 a series and ultimately the format will evolve into 3 00:01:21,59 --> 00:01:26,51 a calling Study Group My name is my slave name is Richard W. 4 00:01:26,52 --> 00:01:26,84 Off 5 00:01:26,85 --> 00:01:33,65 a genuine better known as Ira today we have with us people from gang 6 00:01:33,66 --> 00:01:40,38 peace youth development program the founder and executive director Rodney Daly and 7 00:01:40,39 --> 00:01:47,33 a member of gang peace. During this segment we will consider the possibility 8 00:01:48,12 --> 00:01:54,12 before I finish that Ted or let's set some ground work. If we start with the false 9 00:01:54,13 --> 00:02:00,03 premise we will end up with false past policy Take for example the construction of 10 00:02:00,04 --> 00:02:04,99 a building the foundation is not laid properly the building could still be built 11 00:02:05,00 --> 00:02:11,51 and completed but will it stand the test of time will it weather the storm so now 12 00:02:11,79 --> 00:02:16,81 the topic of this show is consider the possibility that everything you've been 13 00:02:16,82 --> 00:02:22,75 taught is wrong not everything that you've learned but everything that you have 14 00:02:22,76 --> 00:02:27,47 been taught that made you distinction is that you can learn anything you want to 15 00:02:27,48 --> 00:02:27,88 learn 16 00:02:28,66 --> 00:02:35,55 a teacher can only teach what they want you to know or what they only teach you now 17 00:02:35,56 --> 00:02:41,67 I'm going to present some information you must draw your own conclusions OK my 18 00:02:41,68 --> 00:02:42,82 presentation may be 19 00:02:42,83 --> 00:02:48,30 a little strong and emotional because I'm adamant about certain conclusions I have 20 00:02:48,31 --> 00:02:52,12 drawn but don't let my FOR EVER allow you to dismiss 21 00:02:52,13 --> 00:02:57,40 a discard the information the first piece of information I'll deal with is how the 22 00:02:57,41 --> 00:03:02,64 world is perceived think about how difficult it is to map of severe on 23 00:03:02,65 --> 00:03:05,20 a flat piece of paper this is 24 00:03:05,21 --> 00:03:10,60 a sphere of low flat piece of paper now trying to. 25 00:03:11,78 --> 00:03:18,15 Get this would be accurate think about appealing in our image and once you have 26 00:03:18,16 --> 00:03:24,34 that one piece of peel try to lay it flat on the ground. Well late flat on 27 00:03:24,35 --> 00:03:29,11 a piece of paper you're going to have serious problems in doing that so we 28 00:03:29,12 --> 00:03:35,37 understand the problems that a map ologists mapmaker would have so let's take 29 00:03:35,38 --> 00:03:41,80 a look at how we are Prince how we perceive the world today this is the Acadia 30 00:03:41,81 --> 00:03:48,73 projection map. This is the Rand McNally cosmopolitan series of the 31 00:03:48,74 --> 00:03:54,54 world OK look at the map and this is how we're most familiar with it with the 32 00:03:54,55 --> 00:04:01,17 United States in the middle and. Notice where the equator is the 33 00:04:01,18 --> 00:04:07,45 equator. Is two thirds of the way down from the top so that means the majority of 34 00:04:07,46 --> 00:04:13,94 the way en masse the base is one squished down between one third of the book the 35 00:04:13,95 --> 00:04:16,39 lower half of the map and I'll take 36 00:04:16,40 --> 00:04:22,93 a look at the Petersen projection map Peter's projection map the equator is here 37 00:04:23,66 --> 00:04:28,11 this map was devised in one nine hundred seventy three by our or Peter's in one. 38 00:04:29,37 --> 00:04:34,11 Thousand nine hundred seventy three exactly this was devised in fifteen sixty nine 39 00:04:34,91 --> 00:04:40,54 cater. Now my cater in fifteen sixteen I why we still use in 40 00:04:40,55 --> 00:04:45,98 a matter of fifteen sixteen and it's going into the twenty first century it must be 41 00:04:45,99 --> 00:04:51,64 a political thing possibly to keep all of the Third World countries suppressed or 42 00:04:51,65 --> 00:04:58,62 not let you know actually how large Africa truly is you've heard that the United 43 00:04:58,63 --> 00:05:04,57 States fits into Africa three times let's look at some of the disparities. 44 00:05:06,04 --> 00:05:12,73 The size of Greenland is point eight million square miles. This is 45 00:05:12,74 --> 00:05:17,99 Greenland in actuality in comparison you see those around us doing. 46 00:05:19,20 --> 00:05:26,15 OK And. Now this here this third map I have presented the map man 47 00:05:26,16 --> 00:05:28,61 at the store told me this is 48 00:05:28,97 --> 00:05:35,52 a more politically correct map this is an equal area map this is just the Makita 49 00:05:35,53 --> 00:05:41,66 projection map for what use I have no idea. I don't know why the schools are 50 00:05:41,78 --> 00:05:48,49 teaching or using this particular map because this map represents. Equal 51 00:05:48,78 --> 00:05:49,27 and there's 52 00:05:49,31 --> 00:05:55,90 a fairness to all people equal positions the equator in the middle 53 00:05:56,82 --> 00:06:03,08 so that's one disparity one problem that we have in teaching We're using 54 00:06:03,27 --> 00:06:10,17 a wrong map thinking of that's how we picture ourselves. But 55 00:06:10,74 --> 00:06:13,29 also I want to make a point that Egypt is 56 00:06:13,30 --> 00:06:19,33 a part of Africa that's not tighten the school system school systems are trying to 57 00:06:19,34 --> 00:06:20,89 say that this is 58 00:06:20,90 --> 00:06:27,47 a European nation or. They are predominately white people that live in this area 59 00:06:27,85 --> 00:06:34,72 but they're not necessarily true people adapt to the environment. People 60 00:06:35,25 --> 00:06:37,87 let's say Africans have brown skin and 61 00:06:37,88 --> 00:06:44,38 a black skin because we're out in the sun or most mostly where black people live in 62 00:06:44,44 --> 00:06:51,21 Brazil South America Africa we adapt to our environment so the sun tans our 63 00:06:51,22 --> 00:06:57,74 skin now white people they come from I guess carcass mountains 64 00:06:57,85 --> 00:07:01,19 or they consider themselves Caucasian and this is 65 00:07:01,20 --> 00:07:08,03 a dark overcast environment and they adapt to the environment isn't 66 00:07:08,85 --> 00:07:13,54 not to say that one is better than any other God created us all of the Creator 67 00:07:13,55 --> 00:07:19,79 created us all so all. We adapt to our environment. 68 00:07:20,82 --> 00:07:27,75 We Africans have wide noses to take in more oxygen and more air 69 00:07:27,79 --> 00:07:34,44 because there's less air less oxygen in the air and humid climates Europeans have 70 00:07:34,45 --> 00:07:40,08 narrow noses or small nostrils to warm the air before it gets into their lungs. 71 00:07:41,62 --> 00:07:48,62 We have thick lips to radiate the heat our hair is quickly in kink to radiate 72 00:07:48,63 --> 00:07:53,80 the heat off of our heads white people have straight matted hair to keep their 73 00:07:53,81 --> 00:07:54,69 heads warm in 74 00:07:54,70 --> 00:08:00,57 a cauldron environment if we understand who we are and where we come from then we 75 00:08:00,58 --> 00:08:05,64 would appreciate people was so in not have so much heat. 76 00:08:08,23 --> 00:08:14,62 That's one of the does Dinkins of problems I have with they decay from. The second 77 00:08:14,63 --> 00:08:20,100 one is dealing with. Students still being taught to Columbus discovered 78 00:08:21,01 --> 00:08:25,05 America. That's that's 79 00:08:25,06 --> 00:08:31,24 a problem Columbus did not discover America yet it's still being time we have books 80 00:08:31,25 --> 00:08:37,58 and information that refutes or. Talks about it it 81 00:08:38,46 --> 00:08:45,38 explains definitively what happened in way back when now when 82 00:08:45,39 --> 00:08:51,19 you say Columbus discovered America. That totally negates. 83 00:08:52,44 --> 00:08:59,28 The presence of the people that were there. When the so-called 84 00:08:59,32 --> 00:09:04,46 Indians as we know them in my estimation there were Africans you look at their 85 00:09:04,47 --> 00:09:11,10 cultures you look at the parallels between the life styles they 86 00:09:11,98 --> 00:09:18,75 they knew about architecture they built buildings. They were very. In 87 00:09:18,76 --> 00:09:23,16 tune with their environments they did rain dances to make it rain. 88 00:09:25,77 --> 00:09:31,83 They took care of themselves in the cold and they taught the Pilgrims or whoever 89 00:09:32,46 --> 00:09:37,84 they confronted they taught them what they knew and now these people they went 90 00:09:37,85 --> 00:09:44,23 ahead and totally negated everything that the Indians Africans had done 91 00:09:45,37 --> 00:09:45,85 so when 92 00:09:45,86 --> 00:09:51,81 a young child like Dionne who's twelve years old goes to school and he learns that 93 00:09:51,85 --> 00:09:57,39 home has discovered America yet the Indians taught him how to stay warm in feed 94 00:09:57,40 --> 00:10:03,62 themselves that makes him feel or make students I know it made me feel horrible as 95 00:10:03,63 --> 00:10:09,57 a child. To say. The Indians were here. 96 00:10:11,16 --> 00:10:16,60 Yet they're not given credit for it so that works on my self-esteem my self 97 00:10:16,61 --> 00:10:22,76 perception my self-confidence and that's still being played on today where 98 00:10:23,66 --> 00:10:29,30 the bottom line is we've been lied to we've been duped them booze old hoodwink line 99 00:10:29,31 --> 00:10:30,27 from Malcolm X. 100 00:10:30,28 --> 00:10:36,98 If you've seen it. And what are we going to do about it where can we go. 101 00:10:39,20 --> 00:10:40,08 Right and he started 102 00:10:40,09 --> 00:10:46,24 a gang piece two young brothers like Deon off the street and into 103 00:10:46,25 --> 00:10:52,17 a constructive environment and feed his self-esteem his confidence and the point of 104 00:10:52,18 --> 00:10:58,88 my last show the first show of being black. Was that we must take control. 105 00:11:00,21 --> 00:11:06,88 Of our own destiny we must. Teach our children what they need to 106 00:11:06,89 --> 00:11:13,17 know we must raise their self-esteem their confidence right me let me ask you. 107 00:11:14,88 --> 00:11:21,31 Why did you start gang piece How did it come about what was its who wish it would 108 00:11:21,32 --> 00:11:26,51 happen. Glad you asked me that. Glad to be 109 00:11:26,52 --> 00:11:30,63 a show glad you invited us here with you being here this is really on my name is 110 00:11:30,64 --> 00:11:37,43 Rodney Daly. Again peace was developed basically because it was my job my duty to 111 00:11:37,44 --> 00:11:41,49 continue to share what knowledge acquired from you live in an urban community with 112 00:11:41,82 --> 00:11:47,45 young people getting peace was developed because young black African males would 113 00:11:47,46 --> 00:11:53,95 die and and that I felt that it was my duty and anybody my age an older 114 00:11:54,06 --> 00:11:54,57 or 115 00:11:54,58 --> 00:12:00,26 a few steps under my age it was our duty to continue to share if you may share with 116 00:12:00,27 --> 00:12:02,45 you try to help them see that life is more than 117 00:12:02,46 --> 00:12:05,65 a drug game and that they are the problem solving techniques that they need to 118 00:12:05,66 --> 00:12:11,34 learn so that they can stop killing each other. You selling drugs in our urban 119 00:12:11,35 --> 00:12:17,92 communities today are selling drugs because they want money. Money money money 120 00:12:18,28 --> 00:12:22,09 bottom line there was sticks they cost twenty five dollars or ten dollars they'd be 121 00:12:22,10 --> 00:12:26,94 selling stakes. One of things we have to look at is the fact that there's 122 00:12:26,95 --> 00:12:31,65 a sixty nine percent dropout rate right now African-American males and females all 123 00:12:31,66 --> 00:12:36,15 across United States sixty nine percent dropout rate and they're not really the 124 00:12:36,16 --> 00:12:41,53 cause. And they're not really to blame for the dropout rate and exactly one of the 125 00:12:41,54 --> 00:12:46,25 things that we have to look at is the fact that the drug sales that are in urban 126 00:12:46,26 --> 00:12:48,98 communities all across the United States and there's drug sales in other 127 00:12:48,99 --> 00:12:52,69 communities but it's concentrated in every community all across the United States 128 00:12:52,99 --> 00:12:56,75 the biggest customer for them drugs are adults to live in a community and surround 129 00:12:56,76 --> 00:13:01,14 a community those adults of people's parents peoples all calls an Archon 130 00:13:01,15 --> 00:13:07,25 grandmothers and grandfathers white black Spanish Asian black and what happens is 131 00:13:07,37 --> 00:13:07,57 in 132 00:13:07,58 --> 00:13:14,04 a home you need to be taught how to learn you need to learn to learn so the discipline 133 00:13:14,05 --> 00:13:16,26 that's needed to be taught to them so they can sit in 134 00:13:16,27 --> 00:13:22,84 a disciplinary type of classroom to learn the old traditional disciplinary way is 135 00:13:22,85 --> 00:13:26,99 not being taught at home so they go to his classroom and schools know that I mean 136 00:13:27,00 --> 00:13:30,49 that the government knows that the city knows that the school department knows that 137 00:13:30,50 --> 00:13:35,34 this home is fragmented so rather than them modify educational ways or educational 138 00:13:35,35 --> 00:13:38,62 ways for people to learn instead of keep this old traditional classroom type of 139 00:13:38,63 --> 00:13:42,56 situation they're keeping the traditional classroom type situation and people are 140 00:13:42,57 --> 00:13:43,47 dropping out at 141 00:13:43,48 --> 00:13:48,55 a masterful alarming rate at sixty nine percent it was seventy percent last year 142 00:13:48,56 --> 00:13:49,87 someone got on that on the T.V. 143 00:13:49,88 --> 00:13:52,38 And said oh it's sixty nine percent so it's getting better I don't think it's 144 00:13:52,39 --> 00:13:57,02 better social nonsense not better you know and so what we have to do is continue to 145 00:13:57,03 --> 00:14:00,81 have programs like gang piece that can modify education let people learn from 146 00:14:00,82 --> 00:14:04,65 computers or interesting ways in which to learn so that they can go on and learn 147 00:14:04,66 --> 00:14:08,41 what they need to learn as well as to be able to decipher that that is real and 148 00:14:08,42 --> 00:14:12,19 that is not real and I think that one of things that you that you mentioned was 149 00:14:12,67 --> 00:14:16,27 Columbus discovered America. Columbus rode around on 150 00:14:16,28 --> 00:14:20,98 a boat and finally discovered that America was over here but America was already 151 00:14:20,99 --> 00:14:23,85 over here they're already people over here and so we discovered that there was 152 00:14:23,86 --> 00:14:27,20 people over here too but you just didn't say oh I discovered that America is all we 153 00:14:27,21 --> 00:14:31,48 have people are already living over here. And I discovered their culture and I just 154 00:14:31,49 --> 00:14:35,50 over the what they did to grow things and make things and buffaloes NALEO and stuff 155 00:14:35,51 --> 00:14:38,79 that he found out was over here they did use the word discover like 156 00:14:38,80 --> 00:14:42,29 a. Columbus Road around 157 00:14:42,30 --> 00:14:46,95 a map and found out that there was this new piece of land of the only new well this 158 00:14:46,96 --> 00:14:50,62 round was known to have Exactly and that's things that we have to look at the same 159 00:14:50,63 --> 00:14:54,48 way to put in the paper they put in books that our young people are lost this is 160 00:14:54,49 --> 00:15:00,46 a lost generation no they're not lost like Lost lost for good then lost like Lost 161 00:15:00,47 --> 00:15:03,99 in the woods and they need people like myself and you to help them find their way 162 00:15:04,00 --> 00:15:06,85 out of the woods if you notice in urban communities No not 163 00:15:06,86 --> 00:15:10,98 a whole lot of opportunities for you to take advantage of here where we are right 164 00:15:10,99 --> 00:15:14,59 now you have the Boston neighborhood network T.V. Came and cable T.V. 165 00:15:14,79 --> 00:15:19,49 People can come in and learn how to be editors for film and film and things that 166 00:15:19,50 --> 00:15:22,04 nature Well these are the kind of things that need to be available for you for an 167 00:15:22,05 --> 00:15:25,75 urban community so you're not just looking at the sidewalk looking at those 168 00:15:25,83 --> 00:15:28,86 barriers to stand between because so coaches are in communion 169 00:15:28,87 --> 00:15:34,33 a sort of coach Anglo-Saxon or Catholic society society community and say hey I 170 00:15:34,34 --> 00:15:36,17 don't fit in that but I fit in this and 171 00:15:36,18 --> 00:15:38,91 a barrier between that is looking up to that drug dealer looking up to 172 00:15:38,92 --> 00:15:41,73 a stick up artist looking up to that person who's making money that they can see 173 00:15:41,74 --> 00:15:45,34 and touch yet they want to be like my God can't touch my you know me but I can 174 00:15:45,35 --> 00:15:48,28 touch his drug dealer and he got big fat cash they can touch 175 00:15:48,29 --> 00:15:51,76 a stick of rock if you got a big fat cats touch his pen we got big fat cash in 176 00:15:51,77 --> 00:15:55,47 a big fat car and I can do that right away yeah you can do that can work for me 177 00:15:55,48 --> 00:16:00,31 right now so he can make us right now right there. Where you going to look at the 178 00:16:00,32 --> 00:16:04,35 television can't touch my Can't Touch My Body Johnson can't touch these things that 179 00:16:04,36 --> 00:16:07,54 you want to be like you know so they need to be organizations like game pieces 180 00:16:07,55 --> 00:16:11,00 variable so people can walk in those doors to find out how they can become involved 181 00:16:11,01 --> 00:16:12,42 in a career opportunity other than 182 00:16:12,43 --> 00:16:16,41 a drug game let's bring those who think that the on the on you know here is 183 00:16:16,42 --> 00:16:19,45 a prime example of. And I am too I'm 184 00:16:19,46 --> 00:16:22,41 a recovering addict and I've stopped using drugs the sun jugs and that kind of 185 00:16:22,42 --> 00:16:25,67 thing I've been clean for twelve years but the hands way younger than me I was 186 00:16:25,68 --> 00:16:30,88 twelve years old who did that to you stuff. What do you think what was it like 187 00:16:30,89 --> 00:16:31,89 growing up in 188 00:16:31,90 --> 00:16:37,70 a neighborhood that you grew up there. Those like Kandahar we grew up in the 189 00:16:37,71 --> 00:16:43,26 neighborhood and see people out there because young people see B.M.W. 190 00:16:43,27 --> 00:16:49,17 The drug is out there with those gold chains Jarius the four and that was that 191 00:16:49,18 --> 00:16:54,70 turns them on and they go back home with Stop looking at T.V.'s stuff like that and 192 00:16:54,71 --> 00:17:00,11 say well now go on the block and talk to this person you know act like I'm down on 193 00:17:00,12 --> 00:17:06,35 I down the villages kids involved would hang out there every day they'd drug 194 00:17:06,36 --> 00:17:12,90 dealers see you out there did they put you there the you down you locked up or 195 00:17:12,91 --> 00:17:14,13 whatever the you come back 196 00:17:14,14 --> 00:17:20,51 a couple years later police still on the block mugging lots of weekend Tom but it 197 00:17:20,52 --> 00:17:26,30 didn't you see you see that they play with your head tell you that they go look out 198 00:17:26,31 --> 00:17:31,59 for you they might be his choice of here but they never came and rode to cinching 199 00:17:31,60 --> 00:17:36,96 money like that so the same like this if you will do it do it the right way instead 200 00:17:36,97 --> 00:17:43,48 of proper Some I said SOME this and that but I tell young. Kids not 201 00:17:44,36 --> 00:17:48,89 sold drugs or stuff like that because I want them to end up being like the way I 202 00:17:48,90 --> 00:17:54,10 was when I was younger growing up stuff like their you know how were you what we 203 00:17:54,11 --> 00:17:59,65 were doing when you were younger lab rate if you will still like ours wait 204 00:17:59,66 --> 00:18:05,04 a minute stealing cars you're only twelve how do how do you feel a car. Still 205 00:18:05,05 --> 00:18:11,86 a god part trial someone taught you there's not I learned so you wanted. 206 00:18:12,92 --> 00:18:16,25 What he learned but he learned you love the sea of people these are the things that 207 00:18:16,26 --> 00:18:19,44 I'm talking about that make up the subculture of the community you see this type of 208 00:18:19,45 --> 00:18:22,45 stuff you see career alcoholics on the corner drink drink drink you go if you want 209 00:18:22,46 --> 00:18:26,14 to drink drink drink now that you small you want to get the old bottle it's got 210 00:18:26,15 --> 00:18:30,65 a low corner and you drink dead you get the feeling you want and I plan you know I 211 00:18:30,66 --> 00:18:35,84 think Prada what what what we need to what it what it means to be black what it 212 00:18:35,85 --> 00:18:42,09 means to grow up and understand what black is black is intelligence black is smart 213 00:18:42,61 --> 00:18:46,80 one of the first successful open heart surgeries were completed by 214 00:18:46,81 --> 00:18:49,13 a black man stop light was invented by 215 00:18:49,14 --> 00:18:55,44 a black man people don't understand that when you have knowledge of what your race 216 00:18:55,45 --> 00:18:57,29 and culture has done it gives you 217 00:18:57,30 --> 00:19:01,16 a sense of pride and understanding to be able to stand up and know that you can do 218 00:19:01,17 --> 00:19:05,96 it to one of the things that happens is in every community all across the United 219 00:19:05,97 --> 00:19:11,01 States drug infested now drug is the first and all over the world but let me just 220 00:19:11,02 --> 00:19:11,81 say this if I make 221 00:19:11,82 --> 00:19:17,41 a suit I have to find some way to sell it the drug game is so huge and so large to 222 00:19:17,53 --> 00:19:21,97 the urban communities all across the United States have been targeted by the drug 223 00:19:21,98 --> 00:19:27,45 gangs as a consumer to consumer territory for drugs to be sold on at 224 00:19:27,46 --> 00:19:32,49 a massive rate if that urban community wasn't there then drug info strace and 225 00:19:32,53 --> 00:19:35,93 infestation even though it is another community but it's not like this in those 226 00:19:35,94 --> 00:19:39,68 urban communities would be all over the place so send their best interest for 227 00:19:39,69 --> 00:19:44,09 councilman and city councils and all of those type people not to fix those streets 228 00:19:44,23 --> 00:19:48,32 not to fix those sidewalks not to have economic development in every community 229 00:19:48,45 --> 00:19:52,51 because then you don't have the territory in the ground in which to sell consume 230 00:19:52,52 --> 00:19:55,79 consume sell drugs sales and the reason I'm leaning so hard on that is because 231 00:19:55,80 --> 00:19:56,28 there is not 232 00:19:56,29 --> 00:20:00,14 a war on drugs and when you look at the urban communities when you look at those 233 00:20:00,15 --> 00:20:04,84 around and urban set then you have to understand. In that there is 234 00:20:04,85 --> 00:20:10,33 a multi-billion dollar business that keeps that in the situation that is that it's 235 00:20:10,34 --> 00:20:15,54 in when it when the jurors continue to fill up with young black males and females 236 00:20:15,66 --> 00:20:22,15 when in fact we need more gang peace youth development programs. Cultural 237 00:20:22,30 --> 00:20:29,12 understanding in the schools more opportunities for you to become career career 238 00:20:29,13 --> 00:20:32,44 opportunities to exist in urban communities so they can become involved and you 239 00:20:32,45 --> 00:20:36,23 don't see that then you wonder why question Whose responsibility it's our 240 00:20:36,24 --> 00:20:37,92 responsibility to make sure as there was 241 00:20:37,93 --> 00:20:44,67 a day when I say our I mean black men black women Asian men 242 00:20:44,90 --> 00:20:51,36 Asian women Spanish men Spanish Woman It's time now for us not to blame people for 243 00:20:51,37 --> 00:20:56,98 our situation but to identify why our situation is the way it is and correct it now 244 00:20:56,99 --> 00:21:02,92 it's time for rich black America rich Spanish America not the government but rich 245 00:21:02,96 --> 00:21:07,78 wealthy black and Spanish America who have gotten wealthy and rich off of the sales 246 00:21:07,79 --> 00:21:12,86 of records movie theaters and so forth that we went and paid for to put it back not 247 00:21:12,87 --> 00:21:13,25 just through 248 00:21:13,26 --> 00:21:17,46 a foundation that they designed for people to apply to but to make sure that their 249 00:21:17,47 --> 00:21:21,96 money is targeted to organizations that are working desperately at the grassroots 250 00:21:21,97 --> 00:21:24,07 level in urban communities to help to save 251 00:21:24,08 --> 00:21:27,75 a young brother and sister's life that's what needs to happen today one nine 252 00:21:27,76 --> 00:21:32,87 hundred ninety three dealing with the economy do you know or realize I understand 253 00:21:33,03 --> 00:21:38,28 that there aren't black businesses to purchase the products that we like and enjoy 254 00:21:38,28 --> 00:21:45,27 . Recycling dollars back within the community we cannot do it we can do 255 00:21:45,28 --> 00:21:49,93 it we can ya black business is what he needs no debt now if you like even this is 256 00:21:50,39 --> 00:21:55,12 already united states and they have becoming very very well five and they have to 257 00:21:55,13 --> 00:21:59,35 be putting that because one of the things that we do is just like what you're 258 00:21:59,36 --> 00:22:02,03 fixing to descrive is we clown and want to talk about 259 00:22:02,04 --> 00:22:06,02 a mountain and they were up then instead of us put another individual up we're up 260 00:22:06,03 --> 00:22:08,12 there and we're like get up here I got them all you get 261 00:22:08,13 --> 00:22:12,96 a feeling you're all too that needs to stop you that need to see some OK white 262 00:22:12,97 --> 00:22:19,91 people recycle the dollars within their own communities for twenty one days. No 263 00:22:19,92 --> 00:22:23,66 actually say Asian folks that recycle the money in the communities for twenty one 264 00:22:23,67 --> 00:22:27,66 days white folks one thousand days black folks recycle the dollars in our own 265 00:22:27,67 --> 00:22:33,95 community for six hours we get paid it five o'clock on Friday night by twelve 266 00:22:33,96 --> 00:22:38,96 o'clock eleven o'clock Friday night their money is spent out of our community care 267 00:22:38,97 --> 00:22:43,06 need when things that you want to things you need you need to do is become familiar 268 00:22:43,07 --> 00:22:48,39 with the fact that when in fact and this isn't to blame anyone but this is when you 269 00:22:48,40 --> 00:22:49,01 identify 270 00:22:49,02 --> 00:22:53,89 a problem then you identify how it can be corrected and that the problem is that 271 00:22:53,90 --> 00:22:58,26 the money isn't circulating in a community why number one if there is 272 00:22:58,27 --> 00:22:59,53 a says that needs to be in 273 00:22:59,54 --> 00:23:03,88 a community there are many black corporations many black successful businesses but 274 00:23:03,89 --> 00:23:05,44 in urban community a many 275 00:23:05,45 --> 00:23:11,40 a times Blagden this is do not survive based on the fact that that part of the 276 00:23:11,41 --> 00:23:15,29 communities in every state across the United States have been targeted to be to 277 00:23:15,30 --> 00:23:18,95 consume and consume a rundown beat up retore for 278 00:23:18,96 --> 00:23:24,33 a consumer of some of drug sales to be sold on so therefore the consumer when 279 00:23:24,34 --> 00:23:27,45 there's a store being put there by a black or 280 00:23:27,46 --> 00:23:30,22 a for consumer to buy from it only stays for 281 00:23:30,23 --> 00:23:35,43 a hot minute because engulfed by bass heads and drug addicts and drug sales and 282 00:23:35,44 --> 00:23:39,60 robberies and stick up some sort of soul for one of the things that has to happen 283 00:23:39,61 --> 00:23:44,15 along with that black taxpayer who wants to own his own business who wants to put 284 00:23:44,16 --> 00:23:47,82 a business in his community there needs to be the back up of the security they need 285 00:23:47,83 --> 00:23:50,57 to be the backup of the city council assistant to says well I'm 286 00:23:50,58 --> 00:23:53,71 a fix the sidewalks so that this place looks better don't you know that the 287 00:23:53,72 --> 00:23:57,76 subcultures not community helps to breed like when you don't you understand that 288 00:23:57,77 --> 00:24:01,34 the some cultures not communion in bigotry lots of the trash and last run up and 289 00:24:01,35 --> 00:24:05,19 down the street people getting shot prostitutes run up and down the street drugs 290 00:24:05,20 --> 00:24:05,99 being sold 291 00:24:06,83 --> 00:24:12,18 a stick up his parents' houses all of this is all the stuff that that urban 292 00:24:12,22 --> 00:24:16,80 community that's been targeted for drugs and drug sales is what makes up that 293 00:24:16,81 --> 00:24:18,77 massive. Hellhole that 294 00:24:18,78 --> 00:24:23,32 a youth has to grow up in so that business that wants to survive that business they 295 00:24:23,33 --> 00:24:25,49 get started in that community doesn't have 296 00:24:25,50 --> 00:24:29,81 a chance unless he gets the support from the city council to help straighten up 297 00:24:30,46 --> 00:24:30,78 parts of 298 00:24:30,79 --> 00:24:34,79 a subculture that community unless you get support of the police officers that 299 00:24:34,80 --> 00:24:37,46 don't come when the alarm go off because they know it's in 300 00:24:37,47 --> 00:24:40,79 a certain part of town which they would come more quick if it was been Brookline or 301 00:24:40,80 --> 00:24:44,88 Newton don't you know that that business owner needs the support from the rest of 302 00:24:44,89 --> 00:24:49,24 the city in order to have a viable business that's up and running or he needs 303 00:24:49,25 --> 00:24:50,28 a bunch of thugs protecting 304 00:24:50,29 --> 00:24:54,60 a form these are the kind of obstacles that stand in the way when we know that 305 00:24:54,61 --> 00:24:59,66 those obstacles that stand away then as on time to go down as I've been is to go 306 00:24:59,67 --> 00:25:03,96 down and not complain to the city council but replace individuals that are over 307 00:25:03,97 --> 00:25:08,65 wards that are directly responsible for what that war looks like and what happens 308 00:25:08,66 --> 00:25:09,82 in that war in that part 309 00:25:09,83 --> 00:25:14,49 a city I agree do you know that there are no Lichtenstein was. 310 00:25:16,81 --> 00:25:21,34 Or about those are Dry towns they have one big liquor store you go to it to get 311 00:25:21,35 --> 00:25:24,63 a shopping cart you bring it home you put in your private house in urban 312 00:25:24,64 --> 00:25:25,09 communities 313 00:25:25,10 --> 00:25:29,29 a liquor store on every corner because it goes along with the understanding that 314 00:25:29,30 --> 00:25:31,27 the urban community has been targeted as 315 00:25:31,28 --> 00:25:36,35 a consumer consumer sales of drugs all across the United States every urban 316 00:25:36,36 --> 00:25:41,43 community in every state all across the United States is infested with this problem 317 00:25:41,60 --> 00:25:45,95 because if you don't have this territory and wish to sell this consume the consumer 318 00:25:45,96 --> 00:25:49,47 that way then it spreads all over into those nice communities that you don't want 319 00:25:49,48 --> 00:25:53,07 to get all beat up and banged up yes there's drugs being sold in those nice 320 00:25:53,08 --> 00:25:57,70 community but not as concentrated as that platform that's been designated as to 321 00:25:57,71 --> 00:26:01,55 consume consume SALES When you understand this type of thing that's working on you 322 00:26:01,69 --> 00:26:05,08 then you prescribe prescriptions to the problem that works you don't sit back and 323 00:26:05,09 --> 00:26:08,44 continue to say as we used to say well this is why we're like this and this is 324 00:26:08,45 --> 00:26:15,17 where we blame not this is the problem here's the solution one of the problems that 325 00:26:15,18 --> 00:26:17,99 have always existed from the federal level for. Funding 326 00:26:18,00 --> 00:26:21,27 a program such as gang peace is that instead of funding 327 00:26:21,28 --> 00:26:25,21 a program that works such as gang peace the government will design 328 00:26:25,22 --> 00:26:30,11 a program that they think works from the level in which they sit and then end 329 00:26:30,12 --> 00:26:32,04 filtrate the money he's down and try to run 330 00:26:32,05 --> 00:26:36,60 a program that does not help what needs to happen is from the federal level 331 00:26:36,75 --> 00:26:41,48 demonstration grants of billions of dollars need to be given to grassroots 332 00:26:41,49 --> 00:26:46,67 organizations that are viable and that are working and that are credible in those 333 00:26:46,68 --> 00:26:51,73 communities so they can replicate and be effective that's what needs to happen in 334 00:26:51,74 --> 00:26:57,20 addition to that we need to have economic development where people have jobs I 335 00:26:57,21 --> 00:27:01,95 cannot cover this young man when he goes oh no now when he needs money in his 336 00:27:01,96 --> 00:27:06,53 pocket that hey stop selling drugs I can tell him all day to stop selling drugs 337 00:27:06,64 --> 00:27:08,96 start selling drugs and come over here and I will show you how to find 338 00:27:08,97 --> 00:27:12,42 a job I teach him how to find a job out of get a job at a given job to me as 339 00:27:12,43 --> 00:27:16,41 a way to lose a job but where is the job so we begin creating jobs we have 340 00:27:16,42 --> 00:27:18,89 a number of youth that are started business and I would tell you much about getting 341 00:27:18,90 --> 00:27:21,55 peace but we have a lot we're going to take 342 00:27:21,56 --> 00:27:28,45 a break we'll be right back I'm Richard Kaplan technical manager at 343 00:27:28,46 --> 00:27:32,01 Cambridge community television you're watching Channel nineteen community 344 00:27:32,02 --> 00:27:33,75 television in Cambridge 345 00:27:43,85 --> 00:27:50,57 Welcome back to being black. We had Rodney go in there he was on our 346 00:27:50,58 --> 00:27:56,71 all I want to try to bring this back to consider the possibility that everything 347 00:27:56,72 --> 00:28:03,35 we've been time is wrong that's the point and I think because of the 348 00:28:03,99 --> 00:28:10,32 miseducation that Runyon Lutie to and all of the quote unquote 349 00:28:10,34 --> 00:28:17,13 conspiracy of the establishment less say the drugs in the 350 00:28:17,41 --> 00:28:23,88 community the guns in the community. The Miseducation in our 351 00:28:23,89 --> 00:28:26,97 community. It's 352 00:28:26,98 --> 00:28:32,13 a problem what are we going to do about it and he said he once stated we have to 353 00:28:32,14 --> 00:28:39,02 take control of our own education. Knowledge information true knowledge is 354 00:28:39,03 --> 00:28:46,02 priceless and you really think it takes money to to resolve all of these 355 00:28:46,03 --> 00:28:52,84 situations or is it the values do we need to change and value 356 00:28:52,85 --> 00:28:58,38 system and stop using quote unquote the European value scale and we need to 357 00:28:58,39 --> 00:29:04,36 volunteer more of our own times and energies like on Saturdays I work within the 358 00:29:04,37 --> 00:29:09,87 boys' Academy I deal with their it through sixth grade is. Well let me answer your 359 00:29:09,88 --> 00:29:15,04 question because you said do I think it takes money I mean. Is it more than money. 360 00:29:16,46 --> 00:29:21,30 If I gave the impression that it was just all about money then I didn't mean to 361 00:29:21,31 --> 00:29:26,16 give that impression so if I did let me correct it what it is is economic 362 00:29:26,17 --> 00:29:31,49 development one when you got a poor family who goes to a poor school to get 363 00:29:31,50 --> 00:29:34,42 a poor education to come out to get a poor job to live in 364 00:29:34,43 --> 00:29:38,63 a poor neighborhood to live in a poor house. Then you have 365 00:29:38,64 --> 00:29:45,27 a poor kid. Who is poor goes. Then you have this 366 00:29:45,33 --> 00:29:50,28 poor type of economic development thing going on and many of people who don't have 367 00:29:50,29 --> 00:29:55,42 enough money to feed who don't have enough money to just make it my with certain 368 00:29:55,43 --> 00:30:00,71 families end up doing immoral things in which to make money so to teach our moral 369 00:30:00,72 --> 00:30:06,48 type of strong character type of productive and meaningful person type of 370 00:30:06,49 --> 00:30:12,20 individual. Then we need to lift that economic development person instead of the 371 00:30:12,21 --> 00:30:17,44 whole they have to be proud of what they do and how they do it no I don't think 372 00:30:17,45 --> 00:30:23,30 that we can spread blame all our problems on money because all our problems are 373 00:30:23,31 --> 00:30:29,24 money I mean once again we've got all these parents that are high. That should be 374 00:30:29,25 --> 00:30:35,38 teaching and training at home youth are growing up on their own like oh we 375 00:30:36,18 --> 00:30:41,20 use the grown up being taught lessons from the street how to survive it's like 376 00:30:41,21 --> 00:30:45,44 a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder you know so I mean if you don't if you mean 377 00:30:45,45 --> 00:30:48,58 if the streets raise and you then you get raised by the Street and Wall Street 378 00:30:48,59 --> 00:30:52,81 raise your street tell you how this not so things you know to me this is how you 379 00:30:52,82 --> 00:30:56,55 settle things this is how you eat this how you make money this is what's up close 380 00:30:57,86 --> 00:31:01,90 so that's all we got one of the things that's correct in that is there's 381 00:31:01,91 --> 00:31:06,12 a stronger part of the community there's never Holly talked about this never hardly 382 00:31:06,13 --> 00:31:11,48 filmed there's never hardly focused on and that part of the church is and people 383 00:31:11,49 --> 00:31:15,97 who don't have the morality people who do have the understanding people who do know 384 00:31:15,98 --> 00:31:20,02 what's right people who are sharing and giving information about what's right gang 385 00:31:20,03 --> 00:31:24,41 peace youth development programs or moral stance and understanding that life is 386 00:31:24,42 --> 00:31:24,78 more than 387 00:31:24,79 --> 00:31:28,62 a drug game getting you that's involved in art showing them how they can become 388 00:31:28,63 --> 00:31:33,54 engineers and join them how they can become involved in and lyric writing and 389 00:31:33,55 --> 00:31:38,03 producing and editing and movie and filming and and writing for newspapers and 390 00:31:38,04 --> 00:31:41,58 journalism and so on getting them involved in youth build so they can become carbon 391 00:31:41,59 --> 00:31:47,07 as an electrician's and engineers and so on and so forth and I think maybe P.R. 392 00:31:47,08 --> 00:31:52,39 Should tell us more about what gang piece does. You know because it's important. 393 00:31:54,17 --> 00:31:54,44 You know 394 00:31:54,45 --> 00:32:01,75 a lot because. When I'm really. Lost control. Stuff 395 00:32:01,76 --> 00:32:08,58 like that you know if. Shooting 396 00:32:08,59 --> 00:32:10,22 guys yes you shot 397 00:32:10,23 --> 00:32:18,26 a gun. At somebody shooting guns. Like 398 00:32:18,26 --> 00:32:25,01 . Stuff like you know. My I don't think of an exaggeration but I'm 399 00:32:25,02 --> 00:32:31,54 not. I was selling drugs and nine he's always one of the first 400 00:32:31,86 --> 00:32:38,15 youngest arrested they were made the city of Boston. You know. 401 00:32:39,46 --> 00:32:45,17 Not the. Only stuff like that now. 402 00:32:46,35 --> 00:32:51,67 But right now he's doing much better than he's been clean from using drugs he's on 403 00:32:51,68 --> 00:32:55,11 his way back to getting back in school we've been doing workshops around to talk to 404 00:32:55,12 --> 00:32:58,41 him some stuff to do so that we can understand that there is something more 405 00:32:58,42 --> 00:33:01,06 powerful than the stuff that gets shown on T.V. 406 00:33:01,07 --> 00:33:03,38 About this when I shut down when I stab there's 407 00:33:03,39 --> 00:33:09,75 a greater peace that connects our brawn and understanding our presence of value 408 00:33:10,41 --> 00:33:16,01 for this young man's life let's get to the core who is who's responsible 409 00:33:16,95 --> 00:33:22,51 that alone we are two zero up so in such 410 00:33:22,52 --> 00:33:29,44 a way sometimes it's like. Those really you know what responsibility sometimes you 411 00:33:29,45 --> 00:33:36,30 us. I cancelled responsibility is so time the pillows are out they give you 412 00:33:36,31 --> 00:33:42,14 no drinkin Let me assert in the past responsibility that passes possibility most 413 00:33:42,15 --> 00:33:48,18 definitely I know if there is no purpose at all only first I was my grandma I was 414 00:33:48,19 --> 00:33:54,72 listening I would do a babe our rules laws to be out all day twelve hours 415 00:33:54,73 --> 00:33:56,28 a day thirteen O. 416 00:33:56,29 --> 00:34:00,51 The Day How did you and Rodney hook up so now Ryan needs an influence in your life 417 00:34:00,52 --> 00:34:01,61 right here you told me 418 00:34:01,62 --> 00:34:08,47 a lot how did you hook up how did the relationship began. I guess he said 419 00:34:08,48 --> 00:34:13,63 you did you were you searching for help did you realize you were out of control 420 00:34:13,64 --> 00:34:19,18 were you searching for assistance why did you write me say love I need to reach out 421 00:34:19,25 --> 00:34:25,40 and we do know how we how we bonded is. How We Do you know we got married on. 422 00:34:27,15 --> 00:34:33,45 The head you started the day be sorry existed then we met. But I forget was that it 423 00:34:33,46 --> 00:34:33,86 worked out 424 00:34:33,87 --> 00:34:39,25 a boy's club with any meaning on the street I think exactly where can you. Actually 425 00:34:40,04 --> 00:34:46,39 I think you seen your own before but allow you to open up to him just as he was 426 00:34:46,40 --> 00:34:52,16 another brother or it was time you can know what was it the no can you pushing for 427 00:34:52,17 --> 00:34:57,29 me to stop I guess you know stop things and I can remember you knew it was wrong 428 00:34:57,68 --> 00:34:59,32 and now you know when you get 429 00:34:59,33 --> 00:35:04,98 a little bit older you know I was wrong when I was younger when you were doing nine 430 00:35:04,99 --> 00:35:08,84 years old did you know you dealing cocaine is wrong Nah I just was 431 00:35:08,85 --> 00:35:14,45 a fast learner he was cold without water so the point was. Nine years old you 432 00:35:14,46 --> 00:35:19,76 needed money you wanted money here I want to. First. 433 00:35:22,34 --> 00:35:22,83 See that's 434 00:35:22,84 --> 00:35:28,26 a subculture again that is that you see there you see how you can get it you want 435 00:35:28,27 --> 00:35:32,51 to get it but now this is one nine hundred ninety three there's 436 00:35:32,52 --> 00:35:38,17 a new agenda and their gender doesn't blame someone else for our situation anymore 437 00:35:38,78 --> 00:35:45,04 it talks about what we're doing to correct what we what we what we have to correct 438 00:35:45,45 --> 00:35:51,86 it talks about what we're doing as young black men for young black men as young 439 00:35:51,87 --> 00:35:56,99 black men for young black women as young black women for young black women what we 440 00:35:57,00 --> 00:36:02,71 must do to correct the problem area and what we must do is allow for our young 441 00:36:02,72 --> 00:36:08,61 brothers and sisters to know that we must learn to learn people learn to learn you 442 00:36:08,62 --> 00:36:14,62 don't automatically know how to learn you may learn things that interest you but if 443 00:36:14,63 --> 00:36:18,74 you do not learn to learn and teach yourself to learn to learn and listen to 444 00:36:18,75 --> 00:36:22,20 someone else who teaches you to learn to learn then you won't learn anything so 445 00:36:22,21 --> 00:36:25,88 what it is that interests you whether it be street knowledge or whatever it is 446 00:36:25,96 --> 00:36:30,49 that's a good that's a good segue into learning to learn 447 00:36:30,70 --> 00:36:34,00 a lot of these books here I have on the table come from 448 00:36:34,38 --> 00:36:40,23 a store or an individual proprietor black woman who distributes African century 449 00:36:40,24 --> 00:36:46,84 clincher African source deals with books written by black people for black 450 00:36:46,85 --> 00:36:51,89 people about black people and there's a lot of factual or let's say there's 451 00:36:51,90 --> 00:36:56,17 a lot of information to allow you to make your own decisions and your own 452 00:36:56,18 --> 00:37:02,96 conclusions now this book here there and there are also other books written by nine 453 00:37:02,97 --> 00:37:09,21 black officers that assess the situation this book here. 454 00:37:10,23 --> 00:37:15,34 I just got hold of the recently it's called behold the pale behold 455 00:37:15,35 --> 00:37:19,50 a Pale Horse written by William Cooper if you come in and get 456 00:37:19,51 --> 00:37:21,50 a shot of William Cooper behold 457 00:37:21,51 --> 00:37:28,44 a Pale Horse now this he goes into describing in this how AIDS was 458 00:37:28,93 --> 00:37:33,57 synthetic disease would ever agree monkey he didn't come from 459 00:37:33,58 --> 00:37:40,02 a green monkey all those ranges and it was it was it is manufactured. It was 460 00:37:40,03 --> 00:37:45,89 manufactured in fair chemical warfare is manufactured in 461 00:37:45,90 --> 00:37:52,62 a lab by some doctors by some horology is in association with the United States 462 00:37:52,63 --> 00:37:58,41 government and so how did how did it get out get out. You have 463 00:37:58,91 --> 00:38:04,42 communication you know Lou to that point the then does it matter how it got out 464 00:38:04,90 --> 00:38:08,81 does it does it if you have if you want him out of sight gets out I think what 465 00:38:08,82 --> 00:38:14,24 matters is is that is running rampant in urban black communities right now and that 466 00:38:14,25 --> 00:38:20,27 blacks young black teenagers and young black are the number one right now 467 00:38:20,59 --> 00:38:25,69 transmitter of the AIDS virus and that we need to protect ourselves with education 468 00:38:26,10 --> 00:38:31,42 is done to standing is right. Needles unsafe sex blood transfusions will blood 469 00:38:31,43 --> 00:38:35,39 transfusion low skill nowadays testing the blood but he was on same sex as well so 470 00:38:35,40 --> 00:38:41,91 no one ways in which we can acquire Immune Deficiency from. I feel that it is 471 00:38:41,92 --> 00:38:47,47 important to understand that it was manufactured and why it was manufactured it was 472 00:38:47,48 --> 00:38:48,25 done for as 473 00:38:48,26 --> 00:38:52,51 a population control measure and he got out to prove that So you believe you 474 00:38:52,52 --> 00:38:55,83 believe that it was manufactured more than likely what about the what about this 475 00:38:55,84 --> 00:38:59,55 green monkey trial but it was possible AIDS in this grey market it was when his 476 00:38:59,56 --> 00:39:02,72 mother called me mom who let me I want to have a green one 477 00:39:02,73 --> 00:39:07,57 a green monkey had AIDS bars and it didn't bother his immune system going to Hell 478 00:39:07,58 --> 00:39:14,52 it wasn't my go the virus to him he was just carrot it and then the. Man 479 00:39:14,53 --> 00:39:17,22 had a he jumped on this man's back from 480 00:39:17,23 --> 00:39:20,88 a tree and started scratching him up the story transferred it to there's been 481 00:39:20,89 --> 00:39:27,11 a lot of maggot hungriest not even some remote use. Some like that but this virus 482 00:39:27,12 --> 00:39:31,88 pasta been in these monkeys already I think to paint so you pretty much think it 483 00:39:31,89 --> 00:39:36,00 was designed I would out here reading some I am not going to read enough to read to 484 00:39:36,01 --> 00:39:41,15 pay to give it to you and I'm not going to read it now it's going to take take ten 485 00:39:41,16 --> 00:39:46,72 minutes to read virtually any sort of virus was but this is documentation and then 486 00:39:46,73 --> 00:39:51,88 there is the possibility of there being manufactured and such 487 00:39:51,89 --> 00:39:57,65 a not going to read it doesn't matter yes does it matter if in infamy if it goes 488 00:39:57,66 --> 00:40:01,36 right now I mean I think that's the biggest thing that matters right now you're I 489 00:40:01,37 --> 00:40:06,02 think there's a cure there is a cure is a cure Ron is a camera is 490 00:40:06,03 --> 00:40:09,56 a camera on and off you're on is possibly 491 00:40:09,57 --> 00:40:14,14 a few Q What about the easy it is that there is that so why what's that where is 492 00:40:14,15 --> 00:40:16,60 the cure why they hold it up exactly it's 493 00:40:16,61 --> 00:40:21,84 a conspiracy because it was manufactured and not enough people have died yet so I 494 00:40:21,85 --> 00:40:25,62 don't want to get into that I just wanted to bring that up and I'm running out of 495 00:40:25,63 --> 00:40:31,18 time here so we talked about consider the possibility that everything we talk about 496 00:40:31,46 --> 00:40:38,31 peace. Geared towards helping you do anything with machine 497 00:40:38,32 --> 00:40:41,06 guns we have a job training course that teaches you how to get 498 00:40:41,07 --> 00:40:42,58 a job he would job to make your way to lose 499 00:40:42,59 --> 00:40:47,21 a job before numbers four four two one nine one nine we are located in Boston we 500 00:40:47,22 --> 00:40:49,62 have a recording studio to help you put you demos together in 501 00:40:49,63 --> 00:40:53,05 a connected directly performance and we do workshops all around the city and 502 00:40:53,06 --> 00:40:57,50 recreation centers and high schools middle schools and so on and so forth we do 503 00:40:57,51 --> 00:41:01,97 mediation and outreach in the street to help you do anything besides you gone to 504 00:41:01,98 --> 00:41:02,46 try to save 505 00:41:02,47 --> 00:41:06,17 a life where right now we're doing something very special is called Celebration 506 00:41:06,18 --> 00:41:10,12 life peace quote and it's where people who have died from homicide are actually 507 00:41:10,13 --> 00:41:16,05 recognizing what. The individual who dies life was all about versus how they died 508 00:41:16,24 --> 00:41:16,99 and they put together 509 00:41:17,00 --> 00:41:20,07 a panel similar to the AIDS quilt and we invite you to come and be 510 00:41:20,08 --> 00:41:23,04 a part of that because the healing process because there's so much pain in our 511 00:41:23,05 --> 00:41:27,83 community and so with that where you go back to Richard because I guess you go up 512 00:41:27,84 --> 00:41:32,61 and yeah I did try to close out the show gang peace is 513 00:41:32,62 --> 00:41:39,16 a solution and one of the solutions to the problem of miseducation. 514 00:41:40,37 --> 00:41:47,15 Another solution is that we as parents or people in the community have to do 515 00:41:47,16 --> 00:41:51,08 more reading and studying and. There were there was 516 00:41:51,09 --> 00:41:57,66 a book here that refutes gravity as in and loneliness idea refutes 517 00:41:57,67 --> 00:42:01,36 Dahlan Islam which is still taught I didn't have 518 00:42:01,37 --> 00:42:03,64 a chance an opportunity to get in there for 519 00:42:03,65 --> 00:42:08,23 a judgment drug treatment drug treatment that are the problems drugs are heroes on 520 00:42:08,24 --> 00:42:09,00 drugs you have 521 00:42:09,01 --> 00:42:14,54 a very everybody is on drugs what we're talking about is trying to lift up the 522 00:42:14,55 --> 00:42:20,34 consciousness level of our community members so that we don't need drugs 523 00:42:21,20 --> 00:42:26,16 unless for medicinal purposes purposes as medicine and this should be the only 524 00:42:26,17 --> 00:42:32,52 purpose the reason for drugs so. In concluding the show 525 00:42:34,58 --> 00:42:40,82 consider the possibility that everything you've been taught is wrong OK now dealing 526 00:42:40,83 --> 00:42:45,46 with that premise we need to tear it down and build up 527 00:42:45,47 --> 00:42:50,60 a new community you and I we together and 528 00:42:51,98 --> 00:42:58,81 all of the world community of fairness to the people community and 529 00:42:58,82 --> 00:43:04,53 thank you for being black running on it thank you for spending time with me thank 530 00:43:04,54 --> 00:43:11,49 you we appreciate it and some of the things you were taught today was very. I just 531 00:43:11,50 --> 00:43:16,44 want to give my sincere appreciation and respect to my brother I know this one who 532 00:43:16,45 --> 00:43:20,44 is was kind of difficult for you because I don't give you any information but 533 00:43:20,96 --> 00:43:27,57 thanks for coming out and being here OK thank you for being black peace. 534 00:45:04,78 --> 00:45:05,39 We're going to take 535 00:45:05,40 --> 00:45:25,97 a break we'll be right back it's 536 00:45:25,98 --> 00:45:29,34 a Rowland's. That's 537 00:45:29,35 --> 00:45:39,25 a cut ups. Two clips. You 538 00:45:39,26 --> 00:45:45,88 can use here you. Like. 539 00:45:51,84 --> 00:45:52,02 This. 540 00:46:05,08 --> 00:46:05,33 One. 541 00:46:44,87 --> 00:46:51,48 So. I see you're coming to kiss.