That make me happy too. Why music make you happy? Here on 92.7 FM, you're tuned into the
black convergence show with your girl Brandon Grayson, the hostess with the
most of the woman people love to hate and hate to love. Anyway, so prior to break,
we were just talking about me being accountable and what that means and I had a
couple of piffinies talking to one of my favorite white boys, Luke, my producer.
And one of the things that came up is like, hey, it's actually based on your
environment, how you see the world and how you see men and women relationship,
and the impact on what you attract. So anyway, we're gonna conclude that because
we can talk about that all day, every day as we often do here on the black
convergence show. Y'all know, black love is one of my biggest things. And also I
mentioned some of the trauma that was happening in my life and my daddy issues
and all that stuff. So I had to just, I gotta get back into therapy, y'all, because
even when I was in my relationship, I stopped going to therapy because I didn't
want to be accountable for my decisions because I knew what I was doing, but I
didn't want to admit it. Anyway, moving on. So let's move on. Let's move on to some news,
y'all. Like one of the things I wanted to address is this race theory, the band
won race theory. So recently in Arkansas, oh my goodness, I just want y'all to know,
I have a, I found I just don't like it. But anyway, I can't, it just keeps doing
stuff like I'm trying to get to my notes and it just shut off. Anyway, so I'm
talking about the race theory. So Arkansas has been approved to enforce the
band of critical race theory in classroom per the federal court, right? And if
you don't know, critical race theory is an academic framework. It goes back
all the way to the 70s that centers the idea that racism is embedded in the
nation's institutions. It's, you know, that it's true. Like it's in everything.
It's in everything we breathe, it experienced all people activities. And as
people known as black and other races, we know that it's true. But it has been
banned. And the federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Arkansas can enforce
the ban in classrooms. They ruled that the first amendment doesn't give
students the right to compel the state to offer its instructions in public
schools, which I think is weird. What's your thoughts on that look?
This is a made up solution, or this is a solution to a made up problem
because critical race theory was not being taught in elementary, middle, or
high school classrooms. Yeah, at least not in the ones that I attended.
No, you didn't even learn black history. No, the like you learned Rosa Parks
and Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X and Malcolm X. Wait, not really, Malcolm Mark.
I would say more Martin Luther King Jr. Little like Malcolm was referenced at
least, but you didn't learn a whole lot about him. Yeah. And that was pretty
much the extent of it. Yeah. And then you learned that slaves were happy.
I mean, we loved. Yeah. It was a lot of just broad strokes. All like
none of critical race theory was never taught in a classroom. It is a like
college level, graduate level course, like approach to looking at the way
that our nation was founded and the institutions that we have. And that
we see in everyday life still today. Yeah. And there are people out there
that are mad. Yes. That there are some college classrooms that have
discussions like that. Yeah. And they made it sound like this was something
that was being talked to third graders about. Right. And it just wasn't.
And it wasn't. And I think it should. And I think that's what they were afraid
of. So it was a problem that was not yet there, but they wanted to make sure
that it never never got there. Because imagine us really teaching our
children in second, third grade, fourth, fifth grade, the foundation of our
country. What white supremacy is how it is and how to recognize it.
It goes back to the conversations around relationships. When you teach
children how to be in the world and they approach the world differently,
right? Then you will see black people differently. You will understand the
dynamics differently. If we were taught the language, the words and the
history, the real history, it will actually make us more human, right?
To know, right? If black people can grow up, if we can take all black
children and put them in healthy households where all their needs are met,
when they have moms and dads or two parent households, I do believe two
parent households are important, y'all. I'm not a traditional woman, but I
understand as a mother, the dynamics and the things I cannot teach my
black son, right? His dad is in prison, y'all. Like, so I am a living
walking billboard for the struggles of black people in the system of white
supremacy. And in my son's father was a great father. He was a terrible
partner because like I told y'all, I attract people that's not too good for me.
But as a father, you could never take that away from him. He was a great
father. He's still a great father. The brother is in prison and he calls his son
every single day. He plays games with them every single day. But I know that
my son is missing his dad and he's missing his family. So I'm not a traditional
type of person, but I do believe in two parent households. I think it's, it's
so important, y'all. I don't care if it's a man, man, woman, woman, woman, man,
unidentified. We just need two people doing the work. You know what I mean?
Because it is a lot of work to raise these children. But I think it goes back
until we, what we were talking about, like when we can give people the language
and the healthy environment, they turn out different. And in other news,
there is a national protest, um, flaring up against Trump in honor of
civil rights leader John Lewis protest against controversial policies such as
mass deportations, cuts to Medicaid care planned at more than 1600 locations
around the country. Um, today, is that today? Cause it's Thursday.
This was a couple of weeks ago now. Oh, I'm late. No, no, no. Well, we're
talking about it here on Saturday. So it's, it's, it's about 10 days ago.
Never mind. Never mind. We haven't had one of these. This is a little wild.
We haven't, I've been doing really good, but I keep forgetting that. Yeah.
Okay. Anyway, so let's just say it happened and we'll talk about it like the
good trouble protest. We'll recap it in the future. Yeah, yeah, in the future.
Cause we're always living in the future. Okay. Amen. Here are the black
emergency. But when we talk about the Medicaid cuts, y'all, it is really
scary. And I don't know if you guys know, but like my mother, who's retired,
I have. So when I say my mother, my biological mother's passed away,
but my adopted mother Rita, dear, she's, you know, she's older.
She lives on fixed income or her retirement. Medicare is super important for
her. She's going to lose all kinds of services, all kind of, you know,
what they call prescription drugs. And they already high costs for a lot of
our elders and the work that we do in our community, one of the things that
we're responding to a lot is helping people get their medicine and
paying the co-payment for their medicine. That's not already covered.
That's going to be cut, right? And we already have issues.
We also know that a lot of our clinic and hospitals are funded through
Medicare. So what will that look like for research and doctors?
So the impact will be huge, y'all. So I'm hoping in print that we get
a miracle. I don't know what that means because I don't really know how
political systems work. I just know people with money, they can't pay,
they lobby, they get what they want. Poor people don't get what we want
because we ain't got the lobby money, the power, the infrastructure.
We also know that that's based in capitalism. Money rules the world,
I guess. But we as people, we do have the power as individuals to do
something, right? So do something, write someone, show up, take care of
people, be kind to people. You just never know what people aren't going
through. So that's my reminder to you guys here on the black conversion
show. You're tuned into 92.7 FM W MDX. Until next week, hopefully I have
something better to talk about other than myself, but I actually don't
mind talking about myself, but I do want to bring you better news.
So until next time, see you later here on the black conversion show.