Exploring the complexities of African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

[bruce_anthony]: You open
[j__aundrea]: Ye,

[bruce_anthony]: your eyes up real wide like that. That's creepy

[j__aundrea]: Oh,

[bruce_anthony]: On today's episode Me and my Wow

[j__aundrea]: M, Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: Clip. that

[j__aundrea]: This taste pretty. pay pretty.

[j__aundrea]: made me laugh

[bruce_anthony]: Ah, on today's episode Me and my sister shooting
Brise. We're talking about a a V, and we're talking about Nazis

[bruce_anthony]: teaching school. But first things first,

[bruce_anthony]: What's uses? So you already corrected me.

[j__aundrea]: Already, do you?

[bruce_anthony]: Already corrected me. it's a a v. E. I don't
be knowing. it's

[j__aundrea]: It's
[bruce_anthony]: clear.

[j__aundrea]: a A. E. some people say African American English.
some people say African American vernacular English. It's the

[j__aundrea]: same thing,

[bruce_anthony]: The J, J, J, J, C. What's that?

[j__aundrea]: the vidojsic.

[bruce_anthony]: If you all don't get that, That's from Beverly
Hills Cop Three. But what Ubstansehow you doing?

[j__aundrea]: I'm good. How are you?

[bruce_anthony]: I'm feeling better. I'm no longer sick and I
got my voice back.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, I mean, you still sound a little stuffy, But
so do I. So that's fine

[bruce_anthony]: Well,
[j__aundrea]: now

[bruce_anthony]: you know what,

[j__aundrea]: Like siblings.

[bruce_anthony]: right? So the weather keeps changing right like
it.

[j__aundrea]: M

[bruce_anthony]: It was forty something degrees and then shot
up to like sixty five for two days, then shot down to forty.

[bruce_anthony]: And so you're going through this where in the
morning you're wearing like your full, puffy, triple fat goose

[bruce_anthony]: winter coat,

[j__aundrea]: You right?

[bruce_anthony]: and then in the afternoon you just wearing a
sweat suit Because I got to walk the dog, so I'm just wearng

[bruce_anthony]: a sweat suit and then in the evening again it's
not the big puffy coat, but it's still a winter coat. So you,

[bruce_anthony]: your body is going And down up and down

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: and some trees and some flowers and stuff was
like, Oh, it's time to come out. so it

[j__aundrea]: Right.

[bruce_anthony]: lit up my elegies and so my elegies was like,
Oh, I guess it's that time of year and I'm like, No, it's not.

[bruce_anthony]: It's
[j__aundrea]: You

[bruce_anthony]: not
[j__aundrea]: know,

[bruce_anthony]: time yet.

[j__aundrea]: it's not

[bruce_anthony]: It's not time, but my

[j__aundrea]: Yes.

[bruce_anthony]: body was like. No, it's about that time. Let
me give you some elegies. Just I'm just happy to

[j__aundrea]: Let
[bruce_anthony]: turn

[j__aundrea]: me
[bruce_anthony]: into

[j__aundrea]: just
[bruce_anthony]: a

[j__aundrea]: give.
[bruce_anthony]: sign is affection.

[j__aundrea]: Let me just give you some ology.

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah, let me just make you alert to everything
in the world

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, Just give me some ology.

[bruce_anthony]: So I know you're happy about. you know the Super
bowl. I know you're really excited about

[j__aundrea]: Oh,
[bruce_anthony]: that.

[j__aundrea]: listen Boy, oh boy, am I excited about that. I might
get two rings tattooed

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,
[j__aundrea]: for the. I already had a dream. We won

[bruce_anthony]: I really don't

[j__aundrea]: Philadelphia
[bruce_anthony]: think you should do that.

[j__aundrea]: Eagles. By the way, Uh, fly Eagles, fly. Um, If
you like, I could sing our fight song.

[bruce_anthony]: No, thank you.

[j__aundrea]: Okay, Well, I

[bruce_anthony]: You
[j__aundrea]: got.

[bruce_anthony]: know.
[j__aundrea]: I have

[bruce_anthony]: just

[j__aundrea]: it on deck.

[bruce_anthony]: okay. just don't do that.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah, thank

[j__aundrea]: it's
[bruce_anthony]: you

[j__aundrea]: available too.

[bruce_anthony]: now I'm good.

[j__aundrea]: You to the audience. Um, yeah, I'm very excited.
very excited to watch the Super Ball tonight.

[bruce_anthony]: It's still I know. in the finished product it's
still coming back in my head set. there's still an echo.

[j__aundrea]: Oh,

[bruce_anthony]: I don't know why.

[j__aundrea]: That's fine.

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah, I'll fix it post. hopefully, um, I'm just
happy black history month. We got to the first time in super

[bruce_anthony]: bold history. The starting quarter backs are
both black

[j__aundrea]: Yes, hey,

[bruce_anthony]: and it's a little somethin.

[j__aundrea]: hey Jalen.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, that's the case. I already know. Hit's like
twenty four.

[bruce_anthony]: Uh, yeah, he's a young man.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: I don't think that's a case, though,

[j__aundrea]: it feels like it, and that's enough for me.

[bruce_anthony]: M.

[j__aundrea]: It feels like it. That's enough. That's enough for
me.

[bruce_anthony]: I mean he is a handsome young man.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, and

[bruce_anthony]: Is
[j__aundrea]: I love his whole team is black women. his agent

[bruce_anthony]: Okay.

[j__aundrea]: A torn on everybody. the whole team black women.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay,

[j__aundrea]: I love it. I love it. you know, so shout out to
him.

[bruce_anthony]: All right, so let's let's let's get into this,
J. J. J, J. C. Because I sent you something earlier this week.

[j__aundrea]: Ah,

[bruce_anthony]: The A V.

[j__aundrea]: yes,

[bruce_anthony]: I sent you something earlier this week, and a
lot of people don't know about it. I just learned about it that

[j__aundrea]: M.
[bruce_anthony]: good bye is actually, God be with you

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: and it's been shortened.

[j__aundrea]: yes,

[bruce_anthony]: And of course you knew that and you like well,
Actually, because you love hitting

[j__aundrea]: I
[bruce_anthony]: the

[j__aundrea]: did. I
[bruce_anthony]: well.

[j__aundrea]: didn't

[bruce_anthony]: Actually,

[j__aundrea]: with a will. Actually,

[bruce_anthony]: you did Actually say those words, but in the
and in the way you responded, it was a well, actually response.

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: So so you had some really interesting insight
into the A v, E, j, j, j, j, C. So go ahead and break that down

[bruce_anthony]: for the people out there who don't understand
because you were an English major and you know all about this

[bruce_anthony]: stuff. I guess

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: I guess that's what the people say.

[j__aundrea]: you know, I'm an English major while I'm in school.
Once I get the degree, I'm a linguist. I'm need you to like internalize

[j__aundrea]: that that you are when you are a history major While
you were in school. Now that you have the degree you are a historian.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay,

[j__aundrea]: Nternalize. that and really, like you know, feel
that in your spirit. Yeah, so you did

[bruce_anthony]: Okay,
[j__aundrea]: the work. You got the degree like clay.

[bruce_anthony]: barely

[j__aundrea]: I mean, but

[bruce_anthony]: barely,

[j__aundrea]: like my point is playing it. So you, you sent us
the thing about good bye being God, be with you, And I give you

[j__aundrea]: another example. How dy um being I guess shorten
version of how do you do It becomes Then how do then? how D,

[j__aundrea]: and then Given different, you know accents depending
on where you are And that's how it becomes like that, And this

[j__aundrea]: is a common linguistic feature not just in English
but in a lot of languages, But in English. in standard American

[j__aundrea]: English, this is a common thing. It's a common feature
of you know, standard British English or standard Australian

[j__aundrea]: English. things like that. But what's interesting
is while these things are common and accepted in standard American

[j__aundrea]: English, they're scene is get when we're talking
about them. in African American vernacular English, A lot of

[j__aundrea]: people look at a a v e as if it's bad English. It's
not bad English. It's a well. Some people call it a vernacular.

[j__aundrea]: Some people say it's a dialect. I personally think
it's a dialect. The difference being a vernacular just deals

[j__aundrea]: with language and grammar. dialect deals with language
grammar and your actual accent. And I think when we speak when

[j__aundrea]: I speak a V, which I'm not doing right now, I'm
speaking standard American English because we're on this podcast,

[j__aundrea]: But when I speak a V, I have a different accent
when Speak it. Then when I speak standard American English. When

[j__aundrea]: I speak standard American English, I kind of have
this mid Atlantic accent because that's where we're

[bruce_anthony]: Hm,

[j__aundrea]: from. We're from Maryland, Virginia, So we're goin,
have a mid Atlantic accent Um. but when I speak African American

[j__aundrea]: vernacular English, my accent does change, which
is why I find that it's a dialect. Um. but I mean the history

[j__aundrea]: of it is not. that is not that deep right when they
are bringing enslaved people over from West Africa. One, their

[j__aundrea]: mic Ing us up because they don't want us to be able
to

[bruce_anthony]: Communicate with

[j__aundrea]: communicate
[bruce_anthony]: each other

[j__aundrea]: with each other right,

[bruce_anthony]: right.

[j__aundrea]: so they're mixing up different tribes and different
people, different accents, different languages that are being

[j__aundrea]: spoken. So they're mixing us up number one and then
number two. A lot of times we're working alongside indentured

[j__aundrea]: servants from France from Ireland. Right who are
speaking a different diet Act of English? Yeah, they're still

[j__aundrea]: speaking English in Ireland, but it's very different
from. Great Britain is very different from other places, so we're

[j__aundrea]: learning English alongside the enslavers and the
indentured servants. So what you get out of that is not necessarily

[j__aundrea]: like what you find in the Coribian, which is like
a creole. Um, but that's where African American vernacular English

[j__aundrea]: is kind of born out of

[bruce_anthony]: Okay?

[j__aundrea]: Learning English in that way, and it's going to
create different ways of saying things because you're learning

[j__aundrea]: you're pulling English from different sources.

[bruce_anthony]: So basically what you're saying is is that the
quote Unquote get language

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: that people in this country love to put on black
people.

[j__aundrea]: You're doing a lot of air quotes for that that whole
sentence just now. For everybody who's listening to the podcast,

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,

[j__aundrea]: He only really needed to air quote, maybe one or
two ords, but he air quoted the entakand.

[bruce_anthony]: Oh,

[j__aundrea]: I really want to start getting on people who over
use air quotes like you don't have to do the whole sentence in

[j__aundrea]: air quotes.

[bruce_anthony]: You know, I'll be going back and looking

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: at the videos. I talked so much with my hands

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: like my hands. My hands don't be still that just.
but anyway, Back to my point, So the ghetto language that that

[bruce_anthony]: a lot of white Americans try to put on black
people, Guess what you need to put it on yourselves. Because

[bruce_anthony]: the majority of our language that we speak, even
when we decide to speak proper American English is still This

[bruce_anthony]: bastardized version of British English is

[j__aundrea]: No,
[bruce_anthony]: basicaly what you're saying.

[j__aundrea]: no, it's not bastardized because when you say that
it's bastardized you're kind of giving it this. It's falling

[j__aundrea]: into that implication of it being bad English. it's
not. It's just not standard American English. It's a different

[j__aundrea]: vernacular. It is a

[bruce_anthony]: You
[j__aundrea]: diffenestandard

[bruce_anthony]: mean standard British English. When

[j__aundrea]: American
[bruce_anthony]: I'm talking.

[j__aundrea]: English.

[bruce_anthony]: No, I'm not talking about what they used to call
it Ebonics. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the

[bruce_anthony]: English that we speak here in America,

[j__aundrea]: M.
[bruce_anthony]: compared to British English.

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: You're saying that that's not bascedaze is just
American English.

[j__aundrea]: It's just American English. it's just standard American
English. The same way it's standard Australian English or standard

[j__aundrea]: Irish, There is typically the standard English.
you're taught in schools wherever you are a right. And that's

[j__aundrea]: the standard American English that we learned when
we have language arts an elementary school. But then there's

[bruce_anthony]: Hm,

[j__aundrea]: also your regional dialect, your regional vernacular,
African American vernacular. These are not bastardize versions

[j__aundrea]: of them. They're not bad Versions or incorrect versions.
They're just different. They're just not.

[bruce_anthony]: M,

[j__aundrea]: It's just not standard American English. Standard
American English is not the only accepted English in the world.

[j__aundrea]: Like that Makes

[bruce_anthony]: Right,

[j__aundrea]: no sense. It's not even the original English. It's
only a couple of hundred years old. Is the? this place is not

[j__aundrea]: that old for Americans to really have this idea
in their heaheadcompared

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,

[j__aundrea]: to other countries. Like this place is not that
old, seventeen seventy six like it's Oh, like we're very young

[j__aundrea]: in terms of other nations, But we have this idea
in our head that what we do is correct. We don't have an accent.

[j__aundrea]: Everybody else does now,

[bruce_anthony]: No,

[j__aundrea]: jack ass there. there's a handful of accents just
on the East coast, Just the East coast alone. Somebody from New

[j__aundrea]: York sounds completely different from somebody in
North Carolina, which sounds completely different from somebody

[j__aundrea]: in Florida. So that alone, Let you know There's
no. I don't even really know what the standard American is what

[j__aundrea]: you're taught in school. I guess, but there isn't
any even a standard American accent, but no, a v, E, I say this

[j__aundrea]: all the time. It is a true dialect with hard and
fast grammatical rules. It is. there are rules to the way that

[j__aundrea]: we speak, which is why when we hear other people
who think of a v, s just slang Right and we

[bruce_anthony]: Hm,

[j__aundrea]: hear them speak it, We like you, don't even make
sense right now, But to them all there here and is, you ain't

[j__aundrea]: got to be out. and they're thinking that there aren't
actual rules to the way that we speak, grammatical and tactical

[j__aundrea]: rules to the way we speak, And that's why you all
sound so dum when you all diminished the way

[bruce_anthony]: Ye,

[j__aundrea]: we speak and act like a slang. Slang is temporary.
slang is ephemeral. Slang is always changing our language is

[j__aundrea]: not. I mean, language is not math. It's fluid, right.

[bruce_anthony]: Hm.

[j__aundrea]: It is what we say. it is, we say. Now that it's
good bye. We don't say God be with you any more. It's standard.

[bruce_anthony]: Some. Well, you say that church

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, I

[bruce_anthony]: you
[j__aundrea]: mean,

[bruce_anthony]: know
[j__aundrea]: you know because God is good

[bruce_anthony]: All the time,

[j__aundrea]: that we know that. I mean,

[bruce_anthony]: right, right

[j__aundrea]: but we've accepted that Google is the verb you use
when you're talking about searching for formation on the Internet.

[j__aundrea]: Right,

[bruce_anthony]: Or just, or just searching for information

[j__aundrea]: Just
[bruce_anthony]: and

[j__aundrea]: search
[bruce_anthony]: then even had

[j__aundrea]: information.
[bruce_anthony]: to Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: We've accepted that that's now a word within our
lexicon. So again, like language is not math. it's very fluid,

[j__aundrea]: so yeah, there is some fluidity in African American
vernacular English, but it has rules like. And the thing that

[j__aundrea]: I love so much about a V is it's contextual, So
that's also another part of it

[bruce_anthony]: Like, like the phrase You good.

[j__aundrea]: Right. It just depends on the con. It depends on
how we're saying it. It can't be written and understood by everybody.

[j__aundrea]: You can't write you good on a piece of paper and
people be like. I don't know. what is that. What context are

[j__aundrea]: you saying that Like

[bruce_anthony]: It can cause a problem through text message,

[j__aundrea]: it can't cause a problem. Speaking a V through text
message can cause a problem if you

[bruce_anthony]: Right,

[j__aundrea]: don't understand the context on which I'm saying
he's been over there Versus he been over there like there's no

[j__aundrea]: where to. You have

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,
[j__aundrea]: to capitalize the bend, so that you

[bruce_anthony]: Or
[j__aundrea]: know.

[bruce_anthony]: or or mis spelling by putting like multiple ease

[j__aundrea]: Yes,
[bruce_anthony]: in there. Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: Yes, so that I know which type of Ben you're talking
about using the habitual B, which is a very common feature in

[j__aundrea]: African American venacuala, English. The habitual
be like

[bruce_anthony]: What is that?

[j__aundrea]: the habitual B is when we use the word be to indicate
habitual action. So instead of you can say, he be at work, or

[j__aundrea]: he'd be at work like it's a different like he beat.
It's understood he's he worked, And versus he be working. it's

[j__aundrea]: understood that he be working. Is he's habitually
working, whereas

[bruce_anthony]: M

[j__aundrea]: he working where he. oh he working. He's just at
work right now

[bruce_anthony]: Sort of like he's doing the most

[j__aundrea]: Right

[bruce_anthony]: as compared to he'd be doing the most

[j__aundrea]: Right like right now, he's doing the most versus
he's always doing the most. And

[bruce_anthony]: I got you.

[j__aundrea]: so that's another part of a v. E is that we also
develop these speech patterns to confuse white people. We don't

[bruce_anthony]: M.

[j__aundrea]: necessarily want them to understand what we're saying,
and by a large it has worked. They don't understand what we're

[j__aundrea]: saying. It pisces them off. They try to use it,
They try to. We tell them. That doesn't really make sense the

[j__aundrea]: way you said it, because grammatically, there's
a different set of grammatical rules in a V. So grammatically

[j__aundrea]: what you just said doesn't make sense. Then it makes
the even more mad. And so they dismiss our language or our vernacular

[j__aundrea]: as something less than. But the point is we don't
want you all to be knowing what we're talking about half the

[j__aundrea]: time. Okay, that's why we speak with a lot of connected
species. Sometimes when you listen to us talk and just be running

[j__aundrea]: all together Oven. like what, Just say, you don't
need to know.

[bruce_anthony]: Could there be another term used instead of African
American vernacular English Because we do know other races that

[bruce_anthony]: speak a a v E fluently,

[j__aundrea]: Yes, Yes, so I mean, if you grow up in a black neighborhood,
but to do that is to

[bruce_anthony]: Or
[j__aundrea]: a

[bruce_anthony]: you
[j__aundrea]: race.

[bruce_anthony]: just hang out with a lot of black people,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, but to do that is to erase the history of
the vernacular how it came into being. To do that is to just

[j__aundrea]: dismiss which a lot of people would love us to do.
They don't. They would love to speak a v. E, but not have to

[j__aundrea]: acknowledge that it came from black people that
his is a language

[bruce_anthony]: M.

[j__aundrea]: and a vernacular that we built. We created it. we
took bits and pieces of the information that we're given and

[j__aundrea]: we decided these are the rules or how we're going
to speak.

[bruce_anthony]: So we must keep that label

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: for a v. just like they keep that label for English.
It's from

[j__aundrea]: Exactly
[bruce_anthony]: England,

[j__aundrea]: yes,
[bruce_anthony]: So okay, I get that

[j__aundrea]: yes,

[bruce_anthony]: everybody. you all learn something Today you

[j__aundrea]: yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: all learned about the A V, E, J, J, j, j, C.

[j__aundrea]: M. um, let me think another fun linguistic features
as reduplireduplication. So that's when you repeat a word right,

[j__aundrea]: so that it either M indicates the degree or severity
of something specificity, or to clarify the meaning of something.

[j__aundrea]: so I'm like, as opposed to saying you good. Are
you good good? Oh,

[bruce_anthony]: He
[j__aundrea]: you

[bruce_anthony]: be working. He'd be working. He'd be working
working

[j__aundrea]: Like he. Really, He really be working. or if somebody?
this is actually from content creator. What's good? English?

[j__aundrea]: I definitely suggest that you follow him. also a
content creator named Son Michel, but he said You know you offer

[j__aundrea]: somebody some some dorados. No, you ain't got no
chips chips. You know that what I'm talking about for chips chips,

[j__aundrea]: just regla chips.

[bruce_anthony]: Right.

[j__aundrea]: I want doridos. I just want some Chips. You know
what I'm saying,

[bruce_anthony]: Instead of saying Hey, you got some potato chips?

[j__aundrea]: Right?

[bruce_anthony]: We say

[j__aundrea]: No,
[bruce_anthony]: you got some chip chips.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, you got some chip chips like. Just like some
reglar chips. Some chips. you know, chip hips like that were

[j__aundrea]: also a zero popular language which I think other.

[bruce_anthony]: You know, using all these big words.

[j__aundrea]: I'm going to explain them,

[bruce_anthony]: Because look, you say these words and I'm just
like All right. I don't even understand what. That's what you

[bruce_anthony]: mean By that.

[j__aundrea]: But
[bruce_anthony]: In context,

[j__aundrea]: I said reduplification reduplication.

[bruce_anthony]: I
[j__aundrea]: I

[bruce_anthony]: got that.

[j__aundrea]: keep trying to say reduplification. I don't know.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't know why either, but I got that

[j__aundrea]: Yes. Okay, so zero copula means that we drop is
and are so

[bruce_anthony]: Is and are

[j__aundrea]: yes, Because
[bruce_anthony]: okay.

[j__aundrea]: if you think about it in certain sentences water
isn't are really doing so. Instead of saying we are swimming,

[j__aundrea]: we Say we swimming, Because what is our really doing
in that sentence That swimming? we swimming like? There is no

[j__aundrea]: reason to add R. It's unnecessary so well

[bruce_anthony]: Didn't we learn that there's a reason in language
arts an elementary school

[j__aundrea]: In standard American English, but in African American
vernacular English swimming is the verb and it's doing

[bruce_anthony]: Right,

[j__aundrea]: all the heavy lifting. And if we say we swimming
well who swimming we are. What are you doing? swimming like it's

[j__aundrea]: you don't Are is really not doing anything. The
only time we do not drop is Am we still use? Am, It retains a

[j__aundrea]: hundred percent of uses like I am going to the store.
You know what I'm saying, You can't say I'm going. No, I still

[j__aundrea]: said. Yeah, we're gonna use

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: is gonna stay you

[bruce_anthony]: am, or the, or the

[j__aundrea]: contraction.

[bruce_anthony]: contraction of it,

[j__aundrea]: Yes, we don't say I go into the store. Nobody

[bruce_anthony]: The
[j__aundrea]: said

[bruce_anthony]: contraction of it.

[j__aundrea]: Yes, The contraction you don't have to air quote

[bruce_anthony]: I know,

[j__aundrea]: is contract.
[bruce_anthony]: for those for those who are watching the video,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: I just did air quote, Just to be funny,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, you adding air quote. So it's a v. E needs
to start getting the respected deserves. There's a really great

[j__aundrea]: content creator on Youtube. His name on Outube is
Lang, focused, l, n g, focused right where, And he's got a great

[j__aundrea]: video on African American vernacular English. Um
that I suggest people watch. I got a lot of my information from

[j__aundrea]: there, But we, we built this and and it's ours.
It's food. boo.

[bruce_anthony]: We built this language.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, but I don't think we're not gate keeping it
for people who respect it. There are people out here and a lot

[j__aundrea]: of the argument is especially on social media today
that N z. their whole identity is just Um. Now, their identity

[j__aundrea]: is a bacatardization of a V. Right. Everything that
they say, their whole way of speaking is just this really bad

[j__aundrea]: form of a v. E. Um, so we gate keep in that sense
Because it's like you really don't even have respect for the

[j__aundrea]: way that we speak And you're out here using it for
cloud. And as if it's slang and it's not slang, it has real roots

[j__aundrea]: in America. It is a vernacular born out of American
history in American life,

[bruce_anthony]: Preach.

[j__aundrea]: and it deserves some damn respect and tides, kids
walking around speaking a bit and then we correct them and they're

[j__aundrea]: like. Whatever. It's just slang. It's not.

[bruce_anthony]: You said that, like the real Valley

[j__aundrea]: And
[bruce_anthony]: Girl.

[j__aundrea]: you know who, Because we know who I'm talking about.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay,

[j__aundrea]: There was a whole

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,

[j__aundrea]: fight against with the millennial with white milennials
and white genzears about who's cool and who's not cool and black,

[j__aundrea]: or just sitting back looking at like both all are
just pretending to be us, but not well,

[bruce_anthony]: Uh,
[j__aundrea]: So not the dumb argument.

[bruce_anthony]: uh.
[j__aundrea]: And that's my two sense on that.

[bruce_anthony]: All right with folks, you learn something. That's
what you come. That's what you come to this podcast for to learn.

[bruce_anthony]: Hopefully

[j__aundrea]: Learn something and what? what I didn't know and
I found out through my research and I'm just upset that I didn't

[j__aundrea]: know this February first is national non code switching
Day is a day you do not code switch February first first day

[j__aundrea]: of black history, Mother, We don't code switch,

[bruce_anthony]: Why

[j__aundrea]: Because

[j__aundrea]: So I don't know. I'm kind of on the fence about
code switching. I, as a linguist, understand that there's instances

[j__aundrea]: where you can speak formally and in formally Right,
And I think in order to be understood by everyone, you should

[j__aundrea]: speak a standard form of English, but I don't think
that speaking a a v E should, in the eyes of other people make

[j__aundrea]: you look less intelligent or Less competent. I don't
think that speaking a ve should deny you access to opportunities

[j__aundrea]: or resources.

[bruce_anthony]: You know we are a long way from that.

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: A
[j__aundrea]: so

[bruce_anthony]: long
[j__aundrea]: there's so

[bruce_anthony]: long

[j__aundrea]: having
[bruce_anthony]: way.

[j__aundrea]: just one day where we don't code switch. I see this
funny, um video going around on Tik Tok, where it's a ladies,

[j__aundrea]: black ladies sitting at her desk with her head down
just shaking her head, And the caption is I told a meeting at

[j__aundrea]: work that some white people ship, And now I don't
know how to lie

[j__aundrea]: like You know, but there's also this instance. there
was a video of a gentleman. He made a video. I can't remember

[j__aundrea]: what the context of the video is about. but he was
just basically saying. I want to say it was like a female boxer

[j__aundrea]: or M, M. something he was talking about, and like
you know, you can't touch her, you can't even touch her. And

[j__aundrea]: a white woman got in his comments and started making
a bunch of videos about how he Talking about sexual assault will

[j__aundrea]: touch in our community is not, that's not. You

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,
[j__aundrea]: can't

[bruce_anthony]: it's
[j__aundrea]: touch

[bruce_anthony]: not
[j__aundrea]: her. I mean, you can't compete with her.

[bruce_anthony]: right.

[j__aundrea]: You know what I say, That's not. We don't mean touch
as in physical touch, but because people don't understand, they

[j__aundrea]: start

[bruce_anthony]: M

[j__aundrea]: getting into lanes that they're not. They're not
in that line. If he was talking about that, we would said something.

[j__aundrea]: We
[bruce_anthony]: Right.

[j__aundrea]: said something.

[bruce_anthony]: So should there be a class taught on a V. E

[j__aundrea]: I think

[bruce_anthony]: and

[j__aundrea]: yes,

[bruce_anthony]: public schools

[j__aundrea]: Yes, during Black History month. If you man to do
it like that,

[bruce_anthony]: Just during that month?

[j__aundrea]: If you want to do it like that. If you want to say
all right, we're going to talk about negroes for twenty eight

[j__aundrea]: days,

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: then okay, if you want to do it that way five. but
I also think you should, and a lot of teachers are doing this

[j__aundrea]: and this is great because we need more black teachers
doing this. We need more black teachers period, but we need more

[j__aundrea]: black teachers doing this.

[bruce_anthony]: Well, my black cast wasn't gonna be no teacher.

[j__aundrea]: We need more black male teachers too, but

[bruce_anthony]: No, no, this ain't appealimetry.

[j__aundrea]: especially in elementary, especially when they're
at that impressionable age and they need to see black males and

[j__aundrea]: black females and positions of leadership and power.
It's very important, so especially at that elementary school

[j__aundrea]: age, but a lot of teachers are in. Are Incorporate
are not correcting the students when they speak a a v E. they're

[j__aundrea]: incorporating it into their lessons to teach about
Subject, verb agreement and things like that, and

[bruce_anthony]: We're not in Florida.

[j__aundrea]: well, definitely not in Florida, and as we are seeing,
also not in Ohio, But we're gonna talk about at.

[bruce_anthony]: We go talk about that later, but no, not no,
No, we don't know about Ohio. We just know

[j__aundrea]: We don't
[bruce_anthony]: a

[j__aundrea]: know.
[bruce_anthony]: certain.

[j__aundrea]: we don't know if out Ohio

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah.
[j__aundrea]: large, but

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: I have some suspicions. I'll tell you that. I guess
it suspicion like, But we all right Ohio. You've been looking

[j__aundrea]: a little fuss over there, but we're gonna

[bruce_anthony]: We're gonna get into

[j__aundrea]: see where
[bruce_anthony]: that.

[j__aundrea]: it goes. but you

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,
[j__aundrea]: all

[bruce_anthony]: we
[j__aundrea]: look

[bruce_anthony]: go
[j__aundrea]: at us over there. Damn it

[bruce_anthony]: All right. Give me gonna put on my swetshrt.
I feel naked without it

[j__aundrea]: Well, you got a cool two shirt on Man of Steel.
That's cool. I think.

[j__aundrea]: Oh lad. got up.

[j__aundrea]: Do.

[bruce_anthony]: Figuring out the damn microphone and sounding
this thing is pissing me off like. seriously, like I

[j__aundrea]: Yeah?

[bruce_anthony]: can't. I can't ever just like get it right right,
spissing me off like for some reason today, as we're recording,

[bruce_anthony]: our sound is way up.

[j__aundrea]: Oh,

[bruce_anthony]: Well, my sound was real up, and I'm like you
know this like I haven't changed the settings. I think it's this

[bruce_anthony]: software and

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: I think this is going to be the last month we
use this day of software for real for real, because I'm starting

[bruce_anthony]: to get tired of it because it's just it's too
much. whatever.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: Let's get to the second part.

[j__aundrea]: all right,

[bruce_anthony]: Because you went on. I said I wanted to be on
here for an hour and fifteen minutes. and you just keep going

[bruce_anthony]: on and on or you be talking
[j__aundrea]: We haven't even hit the thirty minute mark.

[bruce_anthony]: This. This show has got

[j__aundrea]: We have.
[bruce_anthony]: to.

[j__aundrea]: We only have one other thing to talk about,

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah, you know that's true.

[j__aundrea]: So this might be forty five minutes.

[bruce_anthony]: Maybe are you ready,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: but you did really good. That was really good
information.

[j__aundrea]: Thank you,

[bruce_anthony]: You're welcome.

[bruce_anthony]: All right, Sis, you brought up, you brought up
Ohio, and I sent you a story.

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: It's the reason why you brought it up. So in
Ohio, The Lawrence sisters who have started the school that's

[bruce_anthony]: called the decadent hold on. it's called the

[j__aundrea]: Decadent home school.

[bruce_anthony]: The dissident home school. So there,

[j__aundrea]: now,

[bruce_anthony]: two sisters that started a home school kind of
system and they are also neonatsis, So they re literally teaching

[bruce_anthony]: races white supremacy

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: as a whole school coriculum.

[j__aundrea]: Hm,
[bruce_anthony]: So they were

[j__aundrea]: once again, once again and again I'm speaking politically.
We see you white women.

[bruce_anthony]: Well, I mean, obviously it's gonna be white women
right

[j__aundrea]: Obviously,

[bruce_anthony]: with tea about white supremacy.

[j__aundrea]: Obviously it will be them.

[bruce_anthony]: I mean, that's

[j__aundrea]: I mean,
[bruce_anthony]: what I'm thinking

[j__aundrea]: I don't think you're wrong.

[bruce_anthony]: right right. So the Ohio, the Ohio school administration
system and I'm messing at a hole up, But you know what I mean,

[bruce_anthony]: the Ohio

[j__aundrea]: Hm.
[bruce_anthony]: education department, so

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: there's literally nothing that they can do because
they are fulfilling the requirements of home schooling with the

[bruce_anthony]: basic principles of the correculum. As far as
you know, English, Mad Science, social

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: study is all that good stuff

[j__aundrea]: it's just
[bruce_anthony]: that

[j__aundrea]: an
[bruce_anthony]: they.

[j__aundrea]: extra class

[bruce_anthony]: Well, I don't

[j__aundrea]: of
[bruce_anthony]: know if that's an extra

[j__aundrea]: white
[bruce_anthony]: class.

[j__aundrea]: supremacy one o one.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't know if it's an extra class Is just the
thing like they're not teaching.

[j__aundrea]: Okay,

[bruce_anthony]: If they're teaching slavery, then they're teaching
like it was a good thing if

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: they're not teaching civil rights. If they are
teaching civil rights. it was this bad thing that happened civil

[bruce_anthony]: rights like, And they're in doctrinating children

[j__aundrea]: M.

[bruce_anthony]: and it's not. It's not like a small thing in
Ohio. It's a group. It's

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: a group of nionancis, Um, that that are teaching
these kids. There's nothing that the government can do.

[j__aundrea]: No,

[bruce_anthony]: Uh, there's also this thing called the First
Amendment and Freedom of speech, and a lot of people often get

[bruce_anthony]: that confused because they're like they think
Freedom of speech means that you can say whatever you want and

[bruce_anthony]: it does, Freedom of speech means that the government
can't shut down your speech. You

[j__aundrea]: Right,
[bruce_anthony]: can get smacked in the mouth.

[j__aundrea]: you
[bruce_anthony]: if you're

[j__aundrea]: can,
[bruce_anthony]: walking down the street for

[j__aundrea]: you
[bruce_anthony]: saying

[j__aundrea]: can and you will.

[bruce_anthony]: Right, you can get fired for saying something

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: that's not the government. The government can't
restrict your speech, So the government. there's nothing that

[bruce_anthony]: the school system can do to shut this down. and
in a way I hate it. I hate it, but in a way under the first Amendment,

[bruce_anthony]: they have a right to spew whatever hat that they
want to spew and teach their kids whatever they want to teach

[bruce_anthony]: their kids, no matter how wrong it is. But for
people that say Oh, this country is a races. Here's another example

[bruce_anthony]: during Black history Month. Here's another

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: example of. And it's an offshoot of an American
institution. Right. it's an offshoot, but it's a way. it's it's

[bruce_anthony]: schooling. So home schooling is still an offshoot
of American institution that is building the next generation

[bruce_anthony]: of white supremise.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: So I just thought that was really interesting
in the fact that you can't do anything, And that makes sense

[bruce_anthony]: you can Do anything. As long as they are fulfilling
their requirements, they can teach their kids whatever they want

[bruce_anthony]: to teach their kids.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, part of me is like I understand the feeling
of saying well, they should start dictating what can be taught

[j__aundrea]: to children. But then

[bruce_anthony]: But
[j__aundrea]: when

[bruce_anthony]: they
[j__aundrea]: you

[bruce_anthony]: are doing
[j__aundrea]: are

[bruce_anthony]: that,

[j__aundrea]: having the, I mean, not that you can. Just when
your home school your child, you can pick your curriculum and

[j__aundrea]: you can make it a white supremacist, um informed
curriculum. Like that, No one's saying you can do that you can,

[j__aundrea]: And that's the problem, but also you don't necessarily
want the government deciding what's what's appropriate for children

[j__aundrea]: to learn.

[bruce_anthony]: But they are doing that. the government is absolutely
deciding with appropriate. We see it in Florida. We see it in

[bruce_anthony]: other states as the banning so many books

[j__aundrea]: No, I mean
[bruce_anthony]: there

[j__aundrea]: the
[bruce_anthony]: being

[j__aundrea]: federal
[bruce_anthony]: taught

[j__aundrea]: Gornmntno,
[bruce_anthony]: in the public school. Huh,

[j__aundrea]: I, m n the federal government.

[bruce_anthony]: okay, yes,

[j__aundrea]: We don't.
[bruce_anthony]: yeah,

[j__aundrea]: We don't want that kind of oversight. Um, I don't

[bruce_anthony]: We
[j__aundrea]: like.

[bruce_anthony]: don't

[j__aundrea]: I don't like when the state and local government
s doing either. I don't like what's going on in Florida. I don't

[j__aundrea]: like that there, straight up lying in that college
board is actually actually re designed the African, you know,

[j__aundrea]: the African American history. A P course. I don't
don't like that, I mean, but there's It's kind of like you don't

[j__aundrea]: want them deciding, But at a certain extent, like
some things, it should be universally understood that this is

[j__aundrea]: not okay, But then the fact that white supremacy
and anti semitism and races of is alive and well within the halls

[j__aundrea]: of our government

[bruce_anthony]: True
[j__aundrea]: within Congress itself.

[bruce_anthony]: facts.

[j__aundrea]: Um, it's kind of hard to say what everybody considers
to be right and okay for children to learn.

[bruce_anthony]: It's just I mean, Education and children are
such a tricky issue

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: because if you look at children when you start
elementary school, kids don't block themselves off.

[j__aundrea]: No,

[bruce_anthony]: They don't segregate themselves. Kids just play
with each other

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: based on interest

[j__aundrea]: yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: right like hey, I like to play baseball. I like
to play baseball too Well, don't know too many people like to

[bruce_anthony]: play baseball. But you get my general

[j__aundrea]: I get it.

[bruce_anthony]: just right. I like to play video games. I like
to play video games, too. it doesn't They. don't kids, don't

[bruce_anthony]: the young kids in Olmntryschool don't see race.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: They're taught. they're taught that,

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: or, or it's something that they get from their
parents at home and then they begin, But kids buying large. If

[bruce_anthony]: they're not influence, y're just gonna.

[j__aundrea]: They're
[bruce_anthony]: They're the

[j__aundrea]: pure.
[bruce_anthony]: purest form of honesty,

[j__aundrea]: They're pure beings.

[bruce_anthony]: right? they're

[j__aundrea]: Yes,
[bruce_anthony]: the purest form of honesty. Really

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: like, kids are brutally honest That they'll tell
you. He thinks you don't say that you don't say

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: that in place City,

[j__aundrea]: why
[bruce_anthony]: but

[j__aundrea]: your
[bruce_anthony]: kids,

[j__aundrea]: stufach look like that?

[bruce_anthony]: right,

[j__aundrea]: Wait a minute.

[bruce_anthony]: kids are, kids are honest and they're the pure.
They're the purest form of

[j__aundrea]: Oh
[bruce_anthony]: us because they're not corrupted yet until

[j__aundrea]: yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: we corrupt them,

[j__aundrea]: yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: And that tends to happen in middle school. You
see some segregation, but by high school you absolutely see it.

[j__aundrea]: Hm.

[bruce_anthony]: These kids are already segregating themselves
at a very young age.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: They don't even have a chance. That's the thing
that bothers me. They don't have a chance to make a choice for

[bruce_anthony]: themselves.

[j__aundrea]: Right,

[bruce_anthony]: Maybe when Become adults, they'll get the summer
awakening. But American history, as ain't based on no true story.

[bruce_anthony]: This
[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: ain't the movies

[j__aundrea]: no,
[bruce_anthony]: right. Like

[j__aundrea]: no,

[bruce_anthony]: these people, these people are fed hate from
the beginning. and if your force fed something over and over

[bruce_anthony]: and over again, you just tend to believe it.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: so you believe that that's the truth.

[j__aundrea]: But it's hard

[bruce_anthony]: So

[j__aundrea]: to say you know because You teach your kids what
you think is the right things for them to know. And if you believe

[j__aundrea]: in your heart that white people are the supreme
race and that we we should be, they should be standing above

[j__aundrea]: others and things like that. If you truly believe
that that is what is right and a lot of them godly

[bruce_anthony]: That's my. If you, if

[j__aundrea]: Definite,
[bruce_anthony]: you all

[j__aundrea]: legate,
[bruce_anthony]: are,

[j__aundrea]: Christian,

[bruce_anthony]: If you all are listening to this. She just made
a face.

[j__aundrea]: M.

[bruce_anthony]: If you all only listening to this, you all really
need to go into Youtube channel and watch the video Feet, Because

[bruce_anthony]: the video is hilarious,

[j__aundrea]: Oh,

[bruce_anthony]: but just are facial expressions and me constantly
talking with my hand. I'm talking with my hands right now. You

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: can't see it,

[j__aundrea]: yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: if you. because, because you're listening to
the audio, but if he's watching the video you can see Damn Bruce.

[bruce_anthony]: Be talking with his hands a lot. But anyway,
yeah, you know you're right. Those parents absolutely believe

[bruce_anthony]: it,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, so,

[bruce_anthony]: But they
[j__aundrea]: just

[bruce_anthony]: were

[j__aundrea]: just in the way that I believe that these institutions
are corrupted by white supremacy and that's what I'm going to

[j__aundrea]: teach my children that they need to be advocates
for themselves in a system that hates them but will

[bruce_anthony]: M.
[j__aundrea]: simultaneously commodify them if they could.

[bruce_anthony]: M.

[j__aundrea]: Right. because I believe that that's what's right.
Not that I'm siding with. I see no nati. but I can understand.

[j__aundrea]: You know what I'm saying that if

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah,

[j__aundrea]: while I believe that this is the right thing, they
believe that this is the right thing to teach their children,

[j__aundrea]: Know we're not equal. We are better, and here are
the reasons why we think that's the case now. even though you

[j__aundrea]: know, just two eyeballs Should show you that if
you

[bruce_anthony]: Not
[j__aundrea]: put

[bruce_anthony]: even to

[j__aundrea]: La Bron
[bruce_anthony]: one. All

[j__aundrea]: James
[bruce_anthony]: you need is one.

[j__aundrea]: and stand La Bron James next to, I don't know th
name a white person.

[bruce_anthony]: I don't understand where you're going with this
analogy.

[j__aundrea]: I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to make a point.
If

[bruce_anthony]: Just
[j__aundrea]: you

[bruce_anthony]: any white person or a white baskeall player.

[j__aundrea]: just any white person, it doesn't matter.

[bruce_anthony]: James Woods.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, if you put Labron James next to James Woods,
who you like? Which guy is better than the other one? We don't

[j__aundrea]: know. That's the point.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay, I was.

[j__aundrea]: There was no way

[bruce_anthony]: that
[j__aundrea]: to

[bruce_anthony]: was
[j__aundrea]: really.

[bruce_anthony]: a real roundabout way of getting to your point.
I was like

[j__aundrea]: But
[bruce_anthony]: what you

[j__aundrea]: sometimes
[bruce_anthony]: point your making here

[j__aundrea]: I need two eyeballs. If you watch what is the Detrellar
Park Boys and then you see Nil de Grass, Tyson. Talk about astro

[j__aundrea]: physics. I don't know how you say one is better
than the other. I don't know how you do that and

[bruce_anthony]: You just talking about. If you just putting them
side by side and just

[j__aundrea]: yes,

[bruce_anthony]: look at them without knowing any of her, without
knowing that there, the Trailer park brothers, and and Nildegrash,

[bruce_anthony]: Tyson's astrofisis, just standing side by side.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, how do you like?

[bruce_anthony]: Okay,

[j__aundrea]: Just use your eyeballs. Grab two random people off
the street. one black one. How can you look and say this? This

[j__aundrea]: person is better than this other person Is. Really
You can't do that.

[bruce_anthony]: But you
[j__aundrea]: So

[bruce_anthony]: know what they're doing right. They're taking
examples like you're going for face value. You're saying you

[bruce_anthony]: put these two people. You don't know anything
about them. How can you say one is better than the other, but

[bruce_anthony]: that's not what they're doing. They're

[j__aundrea]: No,

[bruce_anthony]: taking their distorted version of history and
saying Well, Obviously we're better than them.

[j__aundrea]: Okay. Well, then let's put it like this. So it's
what. Twenty twenty three.

[bruce_anthony]: Yes, that's what they say,

[j__aundrea]: That's what they say at

[bruce_anthony]: Which

[j__aundrea]: all right.
[bruce_anthony]: you're

[j__aundrea]: So
[bruce_anthony]: doing. Map.

[j__aundrea]: in the last hundred and fifty eight years, since
eighteen, sixty five,

[bruce_anthony]: Hm,

[j__aundrea]: we have gone from being enslaved to the President
of the United States

[bruce_anthony]: Yeah, that's that's what we did.

[j__aundrea]: in a hundred and fifty eight years. That's what,
Like two generations?

[bruce_anthony]: Hm.
[j__aundrea]: Okay, Where? In what way?

[bruce_anthony]: Wait, man, did you say a hundred and fifty eight
years, two

[j__aundrea]: O,
[bruce_anthony]: generations. That is not two generations.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah, seventy nine.

[bruce_anthony]: That's like three generations, maybe

[j__aundrea]: Well,
[bruce_anthony]: four.

[j__aundrea]: it's two seventy nine year old people living back
to back.

[bruce_anthony]: Okay, I guess, if you want to put it that way,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: I think it's me all right

[j__aundrea]: I mean born five. You lived eight years. You probably
had kid, your grand kids, and then somebody. maybe your grandchild

[j__aundrea]: was born and then, so as

[bruce_anthony]: Right so that's multiple generations

[j__aundrea]: My point is,

[bruce_anthony]: Get.

[j__aundrea]: a lot of us have great grandparents. A lot of us
have great grandparents that were enslaved.

[j__aundrea]: Great grandparents. I said,

[bruce_anthony]: I heard you said. I'm trying to do the math.
I don't because we knew our great great grandmother.

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: People in our family just happen to have children

[j__aundrea]: Children
[bruce_anthony]: young

[j__aundrea]: very
[bruce_anthony]: except

[j__aundrea]: young.
[bruce_anthony]: for us.

[j__aundrea]: Yes,

[bruce_anthony]: But okay, Yes, I understand what you're saying

[j__aundrea]: My
[bruce_anthony]: like

[j__aundrea]: point is, it ain't been that damn long. It's

[bruce_anthony]: it
[j__aundrea]: been

[bruce_anthony]: hasn't been that long. Okay,

[j__aundrea]: eight years. we have. We have not even hit our second
centennial of being free. Okay, we

[bruce_anthony]: Damn
[j__aundrea]: have

[bruce_anthony]: it,
[j__aundrea]: not.

[bruce_anthony]: that's a really good point. So I, at my last
episode I equated it because the argument that a lot of people

[bruce_anthony]: will give is that everything is equal now and
I'm like, No, it's not equal. Because if if me and you were on

[bruce_anthony]: a race track and we had to run four laps to get
to a mile. If you got a three lap head start, there's no way,

[bruce_anthony]: then I'm going to catch you,

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: And that's essentially what Happened throughout
the generations. You know, we were held back in that race, so

[bruce_anthony]: it doesn't matter if you give us rights during
certain generations. Yeah, we might close in on some of these

[bruce_anthony]: laps,
[j__aundrea]: And we will do. we

[bruce_anthony]: but
[j__aundrea]: will

[bruce_anthony]: it's
[j__aundrea]: do

[bruce_anthony]: going
[j__aundrea]: that.

[bruce_anthony]: to take. It's going to take multiple. multiple
generations of two hundred years Still ain't enough.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: Two hundred years is still not enough When we
were enslaved for how long?

[bruce_anthony]: Right?

[j__aundrea]: The six, sixteen, What sixteen? we first got on

[bruce_anthony]: No, I mean no, we got here in fourteen. Like
no wind was the

[j__aundrea]: No
[bruce_anthony]: first.

[j__aundrea]: Africa, sixteen hundred, early, sixteen and is like,
sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, and something like that.

[bruce_anthony]: So we were in. I think we were slain for like
two hundred and fifty years, or three hundred

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: years or something like that.

[j__aundrea]: Some.
[bruce_anthony]: I think it was fifteen hundred.

[j__aundrea]: yeah, I don't know. Somebody will correct us or

[bruce_anthony]: Somebody
[j__aundrea]: will

[bruce_anthony]: will live and take something, and somebody absolutely
will

[j__aundrea]: M
[bruce_anthony]: use, Because

[j__aundrea]: sixteen,
[bruce_anthony]: I be gitting

[j__aundrea]: sixteen, nineteen, twenty to thirty enslaved africans
arrived at Port Comfort, Um in Hampton, Virginia,

[bruce_anthony]: So two hundred fifty years, two hundred fifty
years, U. S. two hundred fifty years, So we still got a hundred

[bruce_anthony]: years ago before we even matched the amount of
time that we were enslaved.

[j__aundrea]: Right,

[bruce_anthony]: Get out of here

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: and on top of all that, on top of all of that
is gonna take us another hundred years to even get close to being

[bruce_anthony]: caught up in the race, but we still keep getting
tripped up, because there are generations out there teaching

[bruce_anthony]: their children white supremacy, so white supremacy
will continue on. So even though we're in that race and were

[bruce_anthony]: slowly but surely catching up, were constantly
being tripped up by rocks or pebbles that are being thrown in

[bruce_anthony]: that Race track that are causing us to fall the
slip, and we had to get back up a

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: tart and continue on with the race. It's not
a clean race, so that's that's the point that we're bringing

[bruce_anthony]: this up, especially during Black history Month
where I guarantee you that ain't teach no black history, The

[bruce_anthony]: black history that should be taught.

[j__aundrea]: No,

[bruce_anthony]: So yeah, that's that's the whole reason why we're
bringing this up, and that's the beauty and the devil of this

[bruce_anthony]: country, the beauty in the ugly, The devil, the
beauty and the ugly in this country, we have a right to say and

[bruce_anthony]: teach what we want to say and teach.

[j__aundrea]: Hm,

[bruce_anthony]: But everybody has that right to say and teach
what they want, O say and teach. And while there are people out

[bruce_anthony]: there that say hey, we want equality and equal
for all, there's a bunch of people out there saying no, we don't.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: We want all the power. We're going to maintain
all the power by storming the capital because we don't The election.

[j__aundrea]: You ain't told a lot yet,

[bruce_anthony]: I mean, I told some lies in my life, but not
not what

[j__aundrea]: Not
[bruce_anthony]: I was

[j__aundrea]: in
[bruce_anthony]: just

[j__aundrea]: this
[bruce_anthony]: saying.

[j__aundrea]: segment,

[j__aundrea]: Not in a segment.

[bruce_anthony]: All right. Well, that's all I got to Ben about
on the day's episode. Well, for those of you out there that are

[bruce_anthony]: listening and watching this is the tamed episode.
This is the one that we put out there for free. but there's one

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[j__aundrea]: Hm,
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[bruce_anthony]: Plus we be cussing right,

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: So you got to put that behind the pale. You

[j__aundrea]: yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: tube will let you cuss,

[j__aundrea]: it will.

[bruce_anthony]: but Not really really

[j__aundrea]: Still.
[bruce_anthony]: kind of soda.

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: So that's

[j__aundrea]: If
[bruce_anthony]: the thing.

[j__aundrea]: we were our real selves the way we are behind the
pay wall, all of our videos will get taken down.

[bruce_anthony]: Well, I don't know if all of them get taken down,
but the majority,

[j__aundrea]: A vast majority

[bruce_anthony]: then the majority,
[j__aundrea]: will get taken down.

[bruce_anthony]: the majority, so join the patroon page to get
that we're all real. J. I'm going to ask you like I always do.

[j__aundrea]: Hm.
[bruce_anthony]: Ou've had time you talk

[j__aundrea]: Yeah,
[bruce_anthony]: to friends.

[j__aundrea]: yeah,

[bruce_anthony]: What do you want to say to the people?

[j__aundrea]: I told you this month it's going to be the same
happy black history Mont.

[bruce_anthony]: And on that note I'll hallo.