Okay, it's showgirl Brandi Grayson, the hostess with the most is here on 92.7 FMW MDX.
You're tuned in to the black conversion show.
Oh my God, it's Saturday y'all.
And before the break, we talked a lot about what I always talk about, which is white supremacy,
which could feel a little icky for people, but I encourage you to listen with your heart.
I encourage all the people that were protesting no king to listen with your heart, understanding
that what we are facing and what we are, you know, what our biggest challenge is each
other, being, you know, bothered by each other and wanting to violently stop people from
speaking their truth and violently stop history from being told.
That's something to think about, isn't it?
So I encourage all of us to figure out how we can center in our hearts and our humanity,
all of that goodness.
So anyway, I also want to talk about before we run out of time here on the black conversion
show.
I want to do another clip because I like clips because I talk by myself and when I don't
have a co-host or a sad kid, then I just use clips because I know y'all get tired of
my opinion.
Okay.
Anyway, Luke, let's go ahead and play the short clip by Dr. Umar Johnson.
The Turner Commission.
I don't know if y'all read it.
I recommend you read it.
The Turner Commission was a presidential study commissioned by President Lyndon Bay Johnson
in 1967.
In 1967, it was over 100 race riots in America.
This is the year before they killed King and then when they killed King, it was more race
riots, right?
Right.
Lyndon Bay Johnson put together a commission that was headed by a Caucasian and Kurner.
So they called it the Kurner Commission.
It was a report on the civil disturbances.
Why were so many riots happening in America?
And you know what the Kurner Commission said?
Kurner Commission said, what black America will never forget what white America cannot
understand.
Is that white America is deeply implicated in the ghetto.
They created it.
They maintain it and they condone it.
And guess what?
Lyndon Bay Johnson was so mad at the results of the Kurner Commission.
He never spoke on it publicly.
And Dr. King was partly murdered because of the Kurner Commission because he got his
hands on this report.
The government agreeing with everything he'd been saying.
He would have been unstoppable.
So they had to kill Dr. King to make sure he didn't get to the Kurner Commission report
and add that to his repertoire of information against him.
So part of again, for the folks who are just tuning in to this black woman here on 92.7
FM WM DX, the black conversion show.
So that's Dr. Umar Johnson.
Look him up.
I don't agree with everything he says, but I wanted to let you hear this clip because sometimes
when the one thing I know systems like to do is collect data, don't they?
The truth.
How are these ghettos being formed?
How are black people being?
Why are they acting like that?
What is that about?
I want to remind y'all that for the lack of, I know I'm huffing and puffing up here.
It reminds me of the, anyway, I'm about to say, I'm going to stay focused y'all.
My brain is kind of like that.
I want to remind y'all in the best word that I have to describe our reality is a simulation.
That's the best word I have.
A matrix.
It's a program.
It's like building a app or a website, you put different commands in it and it does
different things.
You put equal sign, apprentices and the slash slash and a arrow and then some other command
and it, and it's something happens and it moves or you move the animation around a simulation.
Meaning that the things that we are prone to do is conditioned in us, right?
You heard James Baldwin talk about it.
You can look up bell hooks and you can read about it.
I mean, there's so many books out there.
I know we are not the most educated generation or country, but I'm going to ask if we're
going to fight this thing, there's no king thing, we should actually understand the context
of it.
Where is it coming from?
What is the root of it?
Because the thing about weeds, you can pull them up, but if you don't pull up the roots,
they keep growing.
They just keep going and going.
The next thing you know, your beautiful flowers are dead, your crops are dead and you
look like what happened?
You did not dig up the roots.
So shout out to all my people again out here marching, but I'm going to need you to understand
that we need to build analysis.
We need to know what it is that we are fighting against and is it a fight?
Because I don't even think it's a fight.
I think it's a spiritual war.
It's an age of evolution, of expansion, of centering humanity and doing it together.
Imagine if our next no king marches is a march rooted and going around the city and taking
care of the poor and vulnerable, knocking on living assistance, apartment complexes and
asking, how can we be of service to you?
Wouldn't that be powerful?
That's how we fight what's happening right now.
We do so by serving those who are most vulnerable because they're using them as a punching
bat.
And when they're done with them, my people, they're coming for you.
It's the same game plan from the Nazis to the holocaust to any switching of systems.
You start with one group.
You separate yourself from them and say, look at them.
Look at those people.
Look at those immigrants and then everybody goes along.
That was not me.
It's not showing up in my door.
It ain't got nothing to do with me.
And then when they're done with that level, right, then they come to your door.
Who's going to show up for you?
So I'm encouraging us no matter what your color is and no matter how you like me, dislike
me.
Agree with my rhetoric or not.
It's okay.
You don't have to.
I don't have to agree with you.
There's Republicans out there right now that's not in agreement with what's occurring.
We all need to take action.
Let's put down our labels.
Let's put down our ideas of red, blue.
Let's put down our ideas of what's black and white and let's just do the work that needs
to be done.
And that is protecting those who are most vulnerable because you will be that one day.
Okay.
That's my take.
That's what I believe.
I believe in humanists.
Humanity.
Pretty like being a human.
How about you, Luke?
You like being a human?
The only thing I've ever known.
Me too.
It's got something down.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
Challenges, you know what I mean?
The one thing that comes with human is being a human is you got to die one day and that's
hard to think about.
And it's hard to witness when you lose in people around you, especially with my wisdom
aging self, people are kind of dying around me.
I guess this is the time.
So that's also an encouragement to everybody to love the people you love and love them
loudly.
Be unapologetically you and become better than you were the day before.
That's what I think we need to do and take care of those who are most vulnerable.
We just got to.
We cannot end up like them.
We cannot end up repeating history.
So thank you again for joining me here on Urban triage.
Urban triage.
This is not urban drive for joining me in a black conversion show.
Remember today, a Saturday, there's a comedy show happening and I am doing stand up
today.
October 25th.
So come and join me.
Look it up on my Facebook.
Y'all know how to find me.
Y'all be stalking me and do not forget that we still are giving away produce all the
way to Thanksgiving according to our agriculture department.
They said come through.
We got the greens, the eggplants and all the other stuff pumpkins and squash at 2312
South Park Street.
Peace, love and hair grease y'all.
