All right, your girl is back.
Your two dents at 92.7 FM WM DX, you're listening to the black conversion show with Brandy Grayson.
And prior to break, we were talking about the harvesting of black people organs happening
right now in 2025.
The clip was from the young Turks.
The incident happened in 2023 and they discovered her body in 2024 eyes missing skin gone.
I was given perspective from historical context that this is nothing new white people have
done this to black people since the beginning of time, since our time here and what we known
as America's as slaves because as I often say to y'all, we came before slavery.
I know that peace people off, but you know, black people are the beginning of time.
And it's not me saying it is actually white science and white history.
So check it out.
And what we were talking about prior to break is how black bodies have been used in science
for experimental issues or experiments forever.
There was a Henrietta lax.
I can't remember the date, but her cells and her body was taken and used and her cells
were found to be extraordinary.
Like they were doing things that other cells have was never known to do.
Please look her up in the history of Henrietta, Harry Henrietta lax.
And her cells are still being used today.
And there's been a lot of conversations about, you know, why they never paid her family.
It's been used in to develop cures for cancer, all kind of stuff.
It's amazing what her cells were doing.
But then it brings us to question what is it about black bodies that people need, right?
It's not just anybody's like black bodies from grave robbing people rob graves and take
black bodies to take organs, whether you had permission or not.
And this has been happening since the beginning of time.
So anyway, y'all.
And it currently happens here.
I had a young lady I was talking to and I won't give her information, but she went in
for a procedure and they removed all her fallopian tubes without her permission.
And then told her she couldn't have them because she's like, you're going to remove them,
then give it to me.
And they was like, no, there was nothing she could do.
It was terrible.
Because sometimes you don't have the resources or the money to do anything.
And when black people and specifically black women listen, y'all, I mean, speak, y'all
don't listen anyway, y'all, y'all, y'all translate our words.
You do all kind of stuff, especially in Dane County, but Dane County is a microcosm of
what's happening in our world period in which has always happened with black women.
But before we get out of here, go ahead and play a clip for me, Luke, let's give some
history, some positive black history.
I'm not positive, but let's just give some black history real quick before we get out
of here.
I remember that rumor that was going around about the founders of Sears being actually
black and it was being hidden, well, actually that rumor was started because white store
owners were mad at the founders of Sears who actually had to provide photos of themselves
multiple times to prove that they were not black because they were providing products
in shopping access to black people.
Let's get started and learn something new because I will always talk about it.
Backed up to the early 1900s and catalog shopping started becoming super popular.
Now, Sears was the first or the second to offer catalog shopping, but they were the
first to offer catalog shopping with credit, which changed everything, especially for
black people.
Now, catalog shopping is basically what we do on Amazon, but before the internet.
Now, catalog shopping would mean you could order anything from this huge book of products.
I mean, home appliances, clothes, shoes, accessories, houses, farming equipment, harvesting
equipment, farming clothes, anything you could think of.
At the same time that these catalogs started coming out, Jim Crow was well underway and Jim
Crow not only took away political rights, but also consumer rights.
And it wasn't just standing behind a white person in line waiting to be serviced.
It was also a matter of buying items on credit.
Farmers both white and black depended on credit to survive until the harvest.
Credit came through the small general stores that were white owned and the shopkeeper decided
what you could buy.
Black sharecroppers would often be in perpetual debt to a store, which was often owned
by their landlord and employer.
The credit price for goods higher than the cash price always managed to leave sharecroppers
a little in the red, even after they were paid for their crops.
This debt system bound black farmers to the land in an almost futile fashion.
Adding insult to injury, black people were often even not allowed to purchase the same
quality clothes as white people.
And this is where Sears came in.
Before to why the white store owners got mad and they started that rumor that Sears was
black owned, thinking that was going to affect their business, and also started burning
Sears catalogs and offering prizes for it.
Now, 1891 comes the catalogs go out, black people start purchasing from the Sears catalogs
and using Sears credit.
And so they don't have to need the landlords, they no longer need the store owners, and
of course that takes away their power.
They could buy the same overalls, hats, farming equipment, home appliances, and buy their
own homes and build them themselves.
And the prices were lower too, which was the kicker.
And the catalog was successful in part because it brought low prices to the countryside.
And for sharecroppers and farmers, they didn't have to go to the city.
They can flip through that catalog and be like, they sharpened it down time.
Could you imagine being able to buy everything from a catalog from your clothes to your
farming equipment to your actual house, and it being cheaper, and then them being very,
they remind me of Costco during the time, the DEI time, like the present time, right?
Like them being like, no, we're standing on it.
We're going to stand with our DEI initiatives and it is what it is.
And then target losing because they removed their DEI initiatives and people mad like,
no, you need to stand against the DEI.
And Sears, my grandmother loves Sears.
And for black people, y'all know, my black listeners, Sears was no game.
We had to go to Sears every week.
It was just this thing that we did.
And for me to find out the history of Sears and how they stood with black people, it makes
me really happy that my grandmother shopped there.
And it made me really happy to hear how all these white people were so, so mad.
And they were burning their catalogs.
But the funny thing is, is that they really burnt themselves because that's what usually
happens.
Like, this is the place to shop.
Sears was the Walmart of the day, okay?
You can get anything from Sears, even your house, your freaking house?
Oh my God, that's so dope.
I don't know.
I thought it was a good black history, a little note.
So y'all remember that.
There are people out here, whether they're white, black, or whatever, is support black
people.
And I think for me over the last month, I've been the people that I thought that would
show up to support me to give me love, to just send me words of encouragement.
People who call themselves my friends were nowhere to be found.
The people that were on the outskirts, they reached out, they brought me flowers.
They just send me lots of love.
Black men that I don't really talk to, calling me, checking on me.
I share that to say that sometimes it's not the people that's closest to you, that are
your biggest supporters or the folks that's rooting for you.
And I think Sears stood for that for black people.
So shout out to all the Sears people.
I'm sure y'all had some slave owners too, but we're gonna focus on the positive, okay?
We're just gonna focus on the positive.
So anyway, it was a joy today to be with you guys in studio.
And I look forward to next week.
Don't forget to check out our Harvest Fest September 6th, put it on your calendar.
We doing so much that we're even providing transportation to the farm from Park Street.
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I am out into next week.
Thank you for tuning in to 92.7 FM WMDX, The Black Conversion Show.