Are you doing the countdown now, man? We've been in the show for almost eight minutes. But no, man, it wasn't that. We were having a discussion. And my understanding is because of some other professional obligations that Kuikou showed. Right, right. Yeah, but it wasn't now.
If Community Voice will get canceled, it will be because, as Michelle says, quality programming. I put quality in quotations, right? So, yeah, that would be the reason for it. But no, it wasn't because of the alcohol. Yeah, bro. That was hilarious, man. I can't call it until Al Sharpton, don't you?
Yeah, man. It went like he my daddy. Who's a daddy? You ain't my daddy? Like he's my daddy. So anyway, man, let me, I wanted to get that out there, you know, because we, we were having a conversation. You got a call? No, no. Okay. 414-444-525-0444, 445-250. Did anybody watch the fireworks Saturday? What? Dude.
Man, it was all over the city. I had to go to the lake. Huh? I had to go to the lake because I'm 20 up there in Keith. They was man, I'm telling you man. But you know what? I didn't hear fireworks. Normally it starts like on the second around here. But man, I didn't start hearing fireworks until the fourth. Man. Dot, they did it on the third. A little bit like it was. Yeah, it was like almost like it was like a little taste of what's come.
Yeah, I'm talking about community. He'd be popping over here, man. But it really didn't start until the evening. Sorry about that. The evening of the forest. And it went on all night, man. It's about 12, 12, 31. You know what? And I had the door open. You know what? It's supposed to be 250 years, you know, not that the people in the neighborhood understood that.
You know, it was. They understood it because they were letting them go. Oh, man, they let them go at the 249th anniversary. I mean, it's been, but I was surprised how quiet it was. It really was quiet. There was some fireworks last night, but I started watching the celebrations throughout the country. And what I'm gonna tell you, Michelle hit it on point, man. You ever see a dude
Just mess it up for everybody man. I mean, you know what should have been a celebration Where we come together and I look America's divided there is no We can't sugarcoat that America's divided but man, you know just it was just watch with first of all what they did to the mall and And and I don't know
I don't know if God is telling you something when you get the 107 degree heat and then you get these massive thunderstorms. And you know what kept crossing my mind? A few years back, Trump was still in office. We were in the throes of COVID. And he had that rally, this respectful rally on June 20th.
the day after Juneteenth in Tulsa, and the people who got sick from COVID and ended up dying. What's my guy, Kane, died. You know, he don't care about his folks, so he could care less about those folks who had to sit out there in the weather, right? Was forced inside, and then you show the hospitality tent that they set up there, this air conditioned catered. I mean, you know,
I'm with George. Sometimes you have to wonder, why do you still support this dude? But thank God, man, that there were other cities in the country. So let me start with New York. New York, man, that fireworks display. The crazy thing was, from the view that they had from the Empire State Building, you could see all these fireworks going off in the neighborhood. And then when the main show started, man, it was incredible. It was good. So let me shout out, New York.
Let me shout out Boston. Boston did the Boston Pops, Chance the Rapper performed with the Boston Pops. And then their fireworks, but they did fireworks and drone. And then Nashville, Nashville, man. First of all, the music was good. I think boys, the men performed in Nashville. But their fireworks was also with drones. And then CBS had John Baptiste.
And he performed, it was good to see the fireworks, which then gets us back to DC. And they said, technically, they were not July 4 fireworks in DC on the mall because it was so late, it went into July 5th. But it just looked like it didn't have the beauty of other places like they were trying to set this record for the most fireworks ever. And so then it just, it didn't.
Compared to other folks and if people watch the DC fireworks in the past, it's usually that great view. They should have right behind the Washington Monument. But then they did put that in blue. This dude, boy, I'm telling you, man, he can mess up a wet dream. This is just crazy, man. Yeah, I mean, it's just like, wow, it was. And you know, it's about him. It's not about the country. It's about him.
And because he has the platform, you know, we're just forced to have to deal with this, you know, it's like dear leader, man, man, that was just. So thank God for the other cities, you know, celebrations all over the country. Some cities had to cancel their parades and DC ended up canceling their parade. I mean, because the heat was what it was, man, people were out in that weather.
but you know I mean something and look for a lot of us as black folks first of all was so weird because the fourth was on a Saturday which really made it weird because your paid holiday is the third right right and uh so then you had the fourth that was did go to famous days though did go to famous days oh yeah oh yeah oh I love famous days man yeah man with the famous days those those ribs were good uh and some rip tips too
But yeah, man, that's crazy. And again, I was watching... I know the history. We all know the history of America. And I was watching the piece on the American Revolution and how... I think it was on John Adams and how...
that whole issue of enslavement came up even in the putting together the Declaration of Independence and because the Continental Congress was divided, they were divided over the issue of slavery. The northern folks who didn't depend as much on slavery for their county and then many of those folks for religious reasons had a problem with enslavement.
really pushed back with the Southern folks, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, who were slaveholders. And so that whole thing about what the economy, and even though I think it was 1809, America 1807, 1809 barred the importation of human beings to be enslaved, they did not outlaw enslavement.
right, enslavement still happened. And even when you hear the Star Spangled Banner and its support for enslavement, and then we work our way forward, our history in this country, black people have fought in every war this country has ever been in, starting with the Revolutionary War, even going before that. Now, I hate to use this term for the first nation, there is the Indian Wars. Black people have been
been part of that and then always then get full franchisement in terms of being able to vote. I told the story last week of how you had German POWs who were being held in the South who could ride in the front of the train and you had US soldiers who had fought in Europe and fought in Asia and they have to sit at the back of the train. So America is kind of hard when people
Then they did a poll that said that almost 87% of Republicans are feeling very patriotic and the numbers very low when it came to Democrats. Because people are not very happy with what they see that's going on in this country right now. And in spite of that, I don't know, people said we're the greatest, I don't know if we're the greatest nation ever in the history of mankind. Certainly militarily, we're the most powerful nation ever.
But that doesn't. And it seemed to me that there is righteousness exalts a nation. So there's this reproach that we want. And I hear all these people talking about America is a Christian nation. And I don't always sense that America is as Christian as she purports to be. Call her. Welcome to the program.
Good morning. Good morning, sir. How you doing? Good, sir. How are you? I'm blessed. I can't complain. Michelle got my coffee. She keep it hot. And my doughnut, I'm sitting here and I'll be fired up and ready. But when you get on the radio, man, my coffee get cold. My doughnut then got stale. I don't know who it is. I'm fired up and ready to go. Let's go. All right, don't let Michelle get you killed.
Let me pre let me pre warn you because
You know, John gonna call back. He ain't done with that yet. So he should have been done. Michelle handled it so well this morning, man. I don't know what John be on, man. But, you know, this whole idea that John has a problem with Arabs. That's become apparent in the eight years that I've been talking with John. He does have a problem with that. But Michelle is correct. You cannot justify what happened to God. You can't justify it.
I'm sorry, 76,000 people lost their lives. That little stat that we're not hearing, we're not even talking about. I mean, that's just disproportionately what it meant. And so, and then we have all of these religious folks who are so supportive of Israel because of the Bible. I'm thinking, no, no, I can criticize Israel and not be anti-Semitic.
Because Israel is a nation state just like I can criticize Columbia or I can criticize America You know it and not brother. I'm sorry that the coffee got got got cold man because Hey, I'm next time I'm put on your cap. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have on your cap cold coffee. There you go, man. Hey man, a lot of people drink that iced coffee though Okay, buddy
All right, later. He said Michelle had it fired up and ready to go. But OK. You can run up that hill if you want to. You better be prepared for what's on top of that hill. But you run up that hill. But it used to be sometimes that I would come in, man. Michelle had everybody fired up, man. I mean, everybody fired up. And here I come in going like, hey, guys.
What's the problem? Hey, what's going on? Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. I hate to say this. I think a lot of these white nationalist Christians, I think they have low self-esteem. I think they're stupid. Because how are you going to be proud of a president who says I've been the best president at Israel?
And then on top of that, if you are a quote-unquote white European, he's going to put converted Europeans above you. Your kin folks has lost jobs, filed bankruptcy, lost jobs, and then it's in. And the converted Europeans left all the way to the bank.
Their kids get to go to school for free. You have to pay. And you are real European. And you're supposed to be real American white. And he's putting people who are converted above you. You are taking losses just so you can be racist. But the people he put before you,
make a mockery of your religion, bang up your quote-unquote, white Jesus. And you're going to stand there, and he's laughing all the way to the bank. And even when he told you to your face, I will vote for Republicans because they stupid. That's worse than crafting good food and all. You can't even put that on religion. That's just dumb. Because if I
whether European and trust me, I'm going to tell you right now, I am not nor do I want to be. If somebody says I'm proud of another country and my 10 folks who are real Europeans is taking losses, that will be a slap in my face. So when it comes to my ignorance and the low self esteem, I see why Israel is laughing all the way to the bank.
And they was kicked out of 109 countries. And you're taking losses in your own country. Boy, y'all, I can't even call y'all dumb monkeys. Y'all just dumb. But I'll call you that after you shave the monkey. Have yourself a good day. Happy Monday. And y'all don't got nothing to say about it? They've enjoyed your religion and your Jesus Christ and burst them in the head with a slouch apple.
like you've been drinking mad dog 2020 and being bad dope with nine hour crest up no dough oh y'all some food happy Monday bye bye fire all right you listen to community boys
I see you, I'm gonna grab you after the break and get the phone lines open 414-4445-250-414-4445-250, but take a quick break and we'll be right back.
I'm FM with your host, Keith Parris. Hi, welcome back. Caller, welcome to the program. Morning, Keith. Thanks for taking my call. How's your body doing? Better? It's getting better, man. I see the orthopedic today, so we'll see what happens after that. Excellent. I went through something similar and a whole bunch of problems for us.
My right leg is still wasted away from years ago. That's half my fault because I don't do enough. I'm still struggling. I'm bouncing back. Anyways, I'm glad to hear you're better. First of all, I don't defend, I'm prosecuting. It's like the book by Emile Zola, Jacques Hughes, after Captain Dreyfus was accused of selling out to the Germans because he was supposed to be, you know, a cosmopolitan Jew who's not committed to France. Remember that story?
Okay. Captain Dreyfus. So, Emile Zola wrote a paper saying, Jacques, excuse me, I accuse the French brass of scapegoating this man because they can't get over their losing their aristocratic power and they want to have a scapegoat, plus they themselves are responsible for any losses to their endless wars with Germany. Something to that effect. And so anyway, so I'm like, Emile Zola, I'm saying I accuse, I'm not defending anything.
What I'm doing is accusing progressive Blacks started with people like Stokely Carmichael, and Jews, of course, the Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, the whole radical progressive Jews included. Okay, I accuse Bernie. I'm going to use Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky, any of these guys. You know all those names. You know who our genes, history of America and all this stuff. So I accuse those communist Jews and radical Jews, Noam Chomsky,
Bernie Sanders and so forth, accuse them of not caring about Africa. So I'm going to do a Kendi X. If you're not with Africa, you're against Africa. But it's easy to talk about South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa,
And we've talked about South Africa forever. Now let's go 5,000 miles up north to Nubia. So you're making the argument that the emphasis should not be on what's happening in Israel, what's happening in just the Gulf we should be focusing in, what's happening on the northern Africa?
not that we should not pay attention to those other things, but they are the periphery. Not that they don't matter, but they have to be looked at through the lens of North Africa. Like you said about, you know, the, uh, the Arab Israeli war is peripheral to North Africa. The Iranian war is peripheral. So the issue is what you can interpret everything through the lens of what has.
Happened to Nubia and once you get that straight all of it all falls into play. No, no No, then explain Nubia. Why would I say that you think? No, they're not connected Other than their conflicts there. They are all they have their own lanes the issue with Israel has its own lane issue Israel goes back to 1947 just say I'm sorry I shouldn't interrupt go ahead. Sorry
So what I'm saying is that all these countries have their own lanes in terms of what especially is America, our geopolitical interest is. You know, like, like at this point, the only reason why Northern Africa was so significant to American foreign policy was this whole idea started with Nassar and this whole that, you know, bringing together all these African nations and then Gaddafi.
and then Qaddafi. But at this point, the northern part of Africa is not where the world is focused right now. The world is focused there in the Persian Gulf, right, and in Israel. Of course. OK. You said Nasser a minute ago. My phone's distorted. Maybe it's the echo from your way. You said Nasser? President Nasser? Nasser was one of the proponents of pan-Africanism.
Arabism and yeah, no, no, but it was also pan-Africanism Where he was trying to pull together not only the so-called Arab states and those folks who are in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia are not Arabs Right wait wait wait wait wait wait the Arabs conquered them and they're still no, but if you look at what they are in terms of indigenous
they are not that's exactly what i'm trying to talk about that's exactly what i've been trying to know man that is they they're part of africa and uh people who are conquered are africans then the arab's rule those african countries as minorities what i'm saying now is that it is and i don't know what it is in your mind and what it is to be arab uh but i'm saying that those folks were not considered arab those folks were and even though you have people like nasa
who again tried to pull together all these Arab states, but it wasn't just the so-called Arab states. It was also then African states. He was very, very, very supportive of people like Patrice Lumumba and all these folks, Joe Kenyatta, people like that who were leading. We're talking like Sub-Saharan Africans, right? In terms of their throwing off colonization. You said Sub-Saharan? You said Sub-Saharan? Yes. Did you say Sub-Saharan? Okay, now.
Did he support the noob? No, he in fact, he moved Nubians from what he created, Lake Nubia, which was actually the northern part, I think it is, Lake Nasser. Why did he move Nubians? So he could build a dam. So he displaced. Okay, where are you going with this, Jack? You're all talking about indigenous people. You just stated. No, no, where are you? But what is your whole general premise that you're trying to, are you trying to say?
that the issue is not Israel, the issue is Arabs. And whoever you include in that. Sorry, go ahead. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying there, like you said, there's a bunch of lanes, but the lanes are branches of the Arab Empire conquest. Okay, so the issue is not Israel, the issue is Arabs.
The issue is the Arab Empire has conquered Palestine first Syria second Iraq, Persia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania. Those countries are conquered by an Arab Empire. Those countries right now are currently the chief name with the exception of Iran. You didn't mention Iran because they're Persian, they're Asians. But I'm trying to get to the point. The issue with Israel
is not the question is Israel's foreign policy and really the internal policies because the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are in the territorial bounds of what is considered Israel. And they annex both these areas in 1947, right? These people were here. Now you argue back and forth about the Europeans who came in and how they might have roots there. All I'm saying is prior to them coming in and mass,
It was those people there that we call Palestinians, Arabs. So I don't know if you can blame this on the Arabs. The Arabs, those folks there, and there's been a certain co-op in the Arabs, right? Abraham Accords, where you bring in some of these Arab nations, they did that to blunt any kind of opposition they might pose towards Israel, right? And you see this play out now in terms of the countries that Iran is targeting.
you know, in terms of some of its attacks. So it is not Arabs. Okay, Palestine Arabs are Arabs. And Palestine Arabs have a paternal lineage about plurality, maybe half to Arabia. That's on their father's side. Just like in Sudan, the darker Arabs that people over here call black Arabs have a paternity and a huge percentage of plurality of Arabian peninsula sub-sub.
South of North Arabia, the core of the disease. What are you trying to say, man?
I'm saying the framework is that Africa and the Middle East, north of the 27th parallel in Arabia, all of those ancient people still exist. The Syrians who speak Aramaic, the Lebanese marinates still speak Aramaic. There was Jews living all across North Africa, the Middle East, the Berbers, the Coptics. Coptic means Egypt. I get all of that. You're talking in circles.
No, I'm making it a simple statement. The Arab Empire has subjugated Nubia. Can we start with Nubia? Okay, but that ain't an issue right now. Because you won't make it that way. Okay. You will never pay attention to Nubia, Mr. Africa. No, because no, I won't, because I look at that and I go like, the folks are having their own, and Somalia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Africa.
I mean, Congo, these folks have their own internal rivalries. Let me not race with you. Can we get rid of Israel and be done with it? No, no, no, we cannot because it's impacting our day to day. We're in a war right now that's causing this having collateral impact in America because of Israel.
Okay, can we finally finish Israel and wipe it off? No, because it has not been resolved. Intellectual, please, for intellectual discussion, just for a second. I'm going to have a discussion. No, John, I'm not going to do it. I appreciate you, man. No justice. I mean, right now, what the world is facing right now, where it has impact globally, is what's happening between Israel, the United States, and Iran.
Not what's going on in Nubia, not to say that that's not important, whatever you consider Nubia. Those folks have been fighting just like they've for thousands of years. They have ethnic rivalries. So we got all of that. But I'm just saying right now, the issue is Iran, Israel, and the United States. And the collateral impact is had on the world, primarily on the world's economy. I appreciate you, man. I got another call.
Yes, sir. Follow up to the program. Hello? Let me give this little stat why this is so important. I want to pull it up. It says the Gaza war that started in October 2023, right? According to figures compiled by the Gaza health ministry and independent researchers, the insular military campaign has resulted in the depth of 73,000
Palestinians with thousands more remaining missing or presumed dead under the rubble. Okay, 73,000. Those are numbers that are close if not would fall technically into genocide and the reason why they won't call it genocide is remember Michelle was talking about the rules of engagement but there's also this thing and when something's declared
genocide, what the world and how the world should respond. 73,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in the last three years. Caller, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. I have a big real issue that we've been brought into a war instead of handling our interior of the United States. Now,
Netanyahu has not been listening, but he has been getting American taxpayers money. And you also override what it was supposed to be paired with Trump in him of going, doing this war. It comes to this show, every time something happens, Netanyahu don't want to stop. I find that we are dealing with treasoners
that's insisting to help, uh, this, this distraction of what Donald Trump whole aim is to do, which is try to stay in power, uh, forever. Okay. And the only way that this war was initiated jump into is that he found out if he go to war or be, uh, uh, take us into war, he can bypass the mid trench. And this is the whole thing of a problem that we got.
is that if Netanyahu was supposed to be our ally, how come that Biden had a problem with him stopping before? Before Trump got in, Netanyahu took our money and it told Biden that he wasn't going to stop bombing him until they all did. When you have someone like that, that's not, that basically is over religion, okay? You cannot involve yourself into a war.
that's religion. Religion lives before we have, okay? It has been developed, okay? And that's what people believe in and believe to die for. So when we got ourselves into it, it was Trump that tried to make this a Christian country. This never been a Christian country. It's been a unilatable exception for all different culture of religion. Now all of a sudden, the Christian is not a friend away from
a massacre killer, playing in Christianity of the right to do whatever they're doing. First thing about it, never get involved with a religion war, okay? And we are not a religion country. We are multi-unilateral acceptance of all different cultures of religion. And to think about it, this man can't even recite
scriptures straight out of the Bible that actually relives the understanding. He verses everything like numbers, okay? And instead of as it read out of the Bible, he got people pulling things out to try to make it seem like he's religious. All of a sudden, Netanyahu gets this money from us, and then he turns his horns full red shock and told America.
that he's not going to stop. So this is the problem. We hadn't overlooked reparations and we got Donald Trump taking reparations that America bombed and destroyed many of countries that it became as a resolution to help repair what catastrophes have been done to the country. And I'm saying that no one is not calling out
that America is being overturned to 1700s in this 2026. 2000, we didn't even know we was going to survive as far as another year after 2000. And the thing is that once we did, it was a new aim to try to set a new enslavement of war order. Let me, if you go in, there's only one reference.
to deity in anything, whether it is the Declaration of Independence, whether it's the Articles of Federation. America is a secular country. Let me also say this. Israel is a secular country. Now, the religious right has enormous sway in Israel, but Israel will tell you that she is a secular nation, right? Zionism was not
is part of it, but that idea that it wasn't religion. And look, you can go in and people came to America because they had a problem with national religion. There are a lot of people who have left. What are you talking about Israel? When we got African descendants as here, that's not even giving respect or reparation. So to be jumping over to another culture and not facing what we have here in our endeavor,
that affected a whole country and a whole community of us that we cannot, and we do not have any connection with our own country, with kings and queens that have been distracted. And in all springs, kings and queens are living here in America untried. And we have not had gotten reparations. I do not want to hear nothing about America being great or about America being right.
America just showed that there are a lot and use us as Americans all called you to fight the war to resume the bad habits of racism against Caucasians and Blacks, okay? Because the tall whites is a whole different community. They are the elites. And this is the thing, the reason why Independent Day is respected to them.
Listen, tall white aliens have bred it secretly with humans, okay? And so therefore, what would you like to omit to give red and green blue LED lights of communication to the UFOs, okay? All right. See the UFOs behind you. I got you, bro. I got you. I got you, bro. Appreciate you. Please stop selling out, man. All right. Okay.
Can I get a damn? Yeah, you know what? You got three of them. So let's be clear. In spite of the movement here that they're trying to say America was founded as a Christian nation, America was not.
Most of the folks there didn't even have religious kind of affiliations. They were deists. And again, there were people who fled Europe because of the persecution of national religion, you know, either the Catholic Church or the Church of England. And so I think people need to understand the history and it makes us feel good because.
We're still trying to reconcile, and I'll be honest, here comes the controversy. See, we're still trying to reconcile as descendants of enslaved Africans where we fit in this whole Christian peace anyway, right? Because many of the slaveholders were Baptists and Methodists, right? So where's the religion then? Because as I've asked the question,
is, is enslavement moral? Most people, if not all said no, it is not moral. But then people use Christianity to justify, heard somebody talk about it last week, where they refer to anyone who was certain, certain non Europeans as being savages, right? Whether that was first nationers, whether that were people or descendants of Africans, that somehow you were not fully human. And that's what we're still struggling with today.
All right, I never even got to the whole World Cup, because I got a guest coming in at 10. All right, you're listening to Community Voice. Someone, let me ask this real question real quickly. Someone said, would it take an act of Congress to stop the cash flow as well? The answer to that question is yes. All right. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Welcome back to Community Voice, and we're joined in studio, I think, by I guess there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Juana Street or she is the Vice President of Development for United Negro College Fund. Oh, how are you? I'm well.
Good, good. Sorry, I'm not in the studio with you. I'm dealing with a little bit of some health issues, but good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for coming to me. Yeah, you're here to talk about the 42nd annual United Negro College Fund Walk and Run. Yes. Tell us a little bit about just for some folks after who don't know much about the United Negro College Fund. Tell us a little bit about that. Sure. Well, UNCF, we empower and sustain our 37 million.
HBCU member institutions and we ensure that students get to and through college over the past 82 years. We have raised $6 billion putting nearly 550,000 students to and through college. We provide scholarships, internships, professional development opportunities for students. So it's
We're not just putting them in college. We're ensuring that they are able to be productive members of the workforce. So when we think about this, locally in Milwaukee, how has the UNCF impacted our local students going on to HBCUs? Yeah. So in Milwaukee, we provide approximately 60
or so scholarships per year to students with the average scholarship being about $3,500. So go ahead. No, no. So we've been able to do that on an annual basis. So we've had a very strong presence in Milwaukee for years.
So what are we doing? Are we doing anything different this year or differently? I'm sorry. This year that we've been in the past. Nothing too different. We have our walkers, we have our rollers, we have our runners. We have a great MCs. Jaren Jordan and Deanna Gutierrez.
Gutierrez. And Jaren is a Howard University grad. We have our sponsors, Northwestern Mutual Rockwell Automation, SC Johnson, Brewer's Community Foundation, US Bank, and Vercity. And we also have a DJ who will be out there to help fire up the crowd, get them warmed up and prepared to go on their walk, run or roll. And then we'll have special award ceremony towards the end. And these are
all the things that we did last year, so nothing different. I won't come out the box with new things until next year, trying not to surprise people too much. What is the distance of this year's walk run? It's a 5K, so about 3.1 miles. 3.1 miles, and that's down Veterans Park? Yes, yes. So by the time you finish catching up with the gossip or what's going on with the bros, you'll be back.
Okay. I'm trying to remember now. Did you go to HBCU? I did not. I went to Illinois State University. Let me hold on. Let me see. Let me see. Redbirds? Redbirds. What? I am the proud mother of a HBCU student. Okay. And where are they at? My son, Alabama A&M. Okay. Okay.
Yeah, wow, how did I know that Illinois State was the red bird? Can't miss that. Can't miss that. Yeah. This becomes really important. We've seen how this has evolved over the years. I can remember you used to have a sponsor, right? And then people would sponsor you for the distance that you went with a certain amount of money. Now it's pretty much just people going in and their ability to
We use this as a day where people can actually make contributions, whether they walk or whether they participate in the walk. Right, right. Yeah, so there are various ways that you can support the walk. You can be a walker, runner.
You can create a team and people who join your team can help you raise that money. You can send it out. Once you create your profile, you get a beautiful webpage and you can send it out to your friends and family, co-workers, and they're able to contribute to your goal. You can also just make a general donation or you can become an in-kind sponsor or a
financial sponsor. And again, you know, I did all of this. We really should give the date. It is Saturday, August 1st, 2006, down at Veterans Park. So it's good. I noticed you mentioned there are organizations who put together teams. Yes. I think certain organizations now they're allowed to come out and set up their own tents as they have in the past.
So they are not allowed to set up their own tents per the Park District, but they are more than welcome to join us. We'll have several groups and our sponsors will be there under tents. Again, they'll be a DJ, so you can come out and set up your chairs, your tables, your grill if you want, and just enjoy the day with us.
It's all, it's all for a good cause. We are here to support students, raise money for students to get to and through college. Um, and what time does this start? I mean, registration and registration starts at 7am. And I believe we kick off at 9am. Okay. So it gives enough people enough time to get down there.
Absolutely. And we have onsite registration. So if you decide at the last minute that you want to come out and support us, register onsite. This year's event theme is light the way to education, run with a purpose. In difficult times like this, how important is it that we still spotlight education? Very important. Now more than ever.
dollars are needed to send students to school. In light of everything that's going on, we need to ensure that the resources, financial, the holistic support is provided to students. Mental health wellness is provided to students as they navigate in certain times of education.
It really is. And the fact that you have some of these corporate sponsors, that says a lot too. It says a lot. It reinvigorates our desire, our passion to ensure that we are hitting the streets. We are doing what we need to do. And I'm talking about the staff, that we are doing what we need to do to ensure
that the walk continues year after year to ensure that we are able to have a presence in Milwaukee because the students of Milwaukee deserve to have their next chapter provided to them the the support and resources that I talked about. They deserve that. Is there then over and beyond what's money is raised? Then what do the students do? How would they be able to apply for these scholarships?
is very easy. You go on UNCF.org, you go to the scholarship page, and you create a profile. It is important, and this is key, it is important that you check the website at least once a month, because we have over 400 scholarship programs. So we are constantly updating the website with new scholarship opportunities. So you just go and you apply.
to as many scholarships as you want. Make sure and don't get discouraged by the essay because that is what can set you apart from other students. So you want to talk about yourself and you want to talk about the topic or a topic that is important to you to set yourself to make yourself unique. So once they do that, they can apply to as many scholarships as they want.
you know and as I was thinking about this and you know the essays and I don't know if that was the case when you were matriculating at Illinois State but I know
at the mouth that people used to have to write essays as part of the requirement, right? That was the requirement when you're applying for a scholarship and when you're applying for college, you had to write an essay. So yeah, they've gotten away from that or they've gotten a little bit more savvier where you have to do a video essay or record yourself talking about yourself or a topic. So yeah.
Yeah, I think, but I think that you can stand out a lot of times, especially when people are coming in and they are probably situated the same way when it comes to GPA or when it comes to SATs or ACTs that your your essay will set you apart. Absolutely, especially if you don't have that 3.0. Right. You want.
to talk about some of the challenges or something that helped you navigate a challenge or an obstacle. I wasn't a 3.0 student growing up, but I was a great writer. I hated talking about my background. My mom was a teen mom, and she had two kids by the time she was 18. I hated talking about that.
But as I got older, I realized that that was a part of my story. And that was a part of what made me me and how I got to where I am. So it's what drives me. And I learned to talk about it more because it's the reason why I do what I do. Yeah. And thank you for that, because I think that a lot of times,
But those things that we might view as negative might also be fuel. Exactly. You know, to say where we are, how we got to, where we got to. Because your story becomes important. Your story becomes very important and to be able to do that. Again, the 42nd annual UNCF Milwaukee Walk Run, we held on August 1st.
Registration begins at 7am, the walk kicks off at 9, and then there's an after-run program. The location will be Veterans Park and the walk-in lakefront. And so people can register. You said you can't register on site. You can. You can register on site. So registration online will be cut off probably the week before, and I can double check that, but you'll be able to register on site the morning of.
And I had to ask this question. So are t-shirts included in this or? Yes, they are. Yes, they are. I know that's been the hot topic. Oh, yes, always the t-shirts we joke about. Don't show up at the family reunion with the family reunion t-shirt for three years ago. There's nothing wrong with showing up in an old t-shirt. T-shirts are expensive.
You showed up with that shirt. You showed up with the yellow t-shirt. We had three years ago, you know, and they want to be on the front row of the picture. Look at that. Look at that. I get it. I get it. I love all the people all over the world. You gotta love black people.
Thank you. Thank you for this again. What if people uh is there a website you can go to whether they want to register or just want to give to United Negro College fund? Yeah go directly to the website uncf.org forward slash events and you'll see Milwaukee pop up and they can go on and navigate the page make a donation make a donation make a donation or register as a walk participant.
register to join a team or create a team. I created a team, so me and my team will be out there. Excellent. Ms. Tawana Streeter, she's the Vice President of Development for United Negro College Fund. Talking about Milwaukee's 42nd annual United Negro College Fund Walk and Run, which will be held on August 1st here in the city. Always good talking with you. Sorry, couldn't be in studio. That's okay. You take care of yourself and thank you again for having me.
Hey, no problem. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. All right, Keith, we back.
All right, welcome back. Hold on. Let me get my little situation straight here. Hold on. Let me go full screen. Uh-oh. What did I do here? There we go. All right. We good? Yes, sir. What did you play for the music, man? I played Joe Jordan and Friends. Joe Jordan and Friends. Joe Jordan? I love you, Joe Jordan.
Joe Jordan in front. B, what up? Welcome back, man. Hey. Hey, welcome back wherever you are, man. Come on over here, man. Who that? This B right here, man. Oh, Byron. He back in town, man. Oh, what up, B? What's going on? What up, Kee? What's happening, man? Not much, man. Got to adjust back to real life.
Yeah, man, this cat came back looking like a pork and bean, man. He got a tan on it. Yeah, I was noticing, man. I ain't even know black folks. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, man, I was talking about the year, man. I was working at our avenues like 104 on that man. I got so toasty.
and then I got sunburned so again hey and I know we'll have the good folks on tomorrow from uh essentially talking about this but hey man you gotta watch the sun boy the sun will do some damage yeah we're good welcome back bro appreciate you all right man i'll be watching now please oh yeah yeah welcome back glad you made it
So wait, so welcome back Carter. It's not the same or not WKRP and Cincinnati. That was a totally different show. Yeah, that was totally different show. Yeah, it's just man those those theme songs man, they they sounded so good back in the day. It's like Cheers. Yeah. Now, you know Norm just passed away.
George could yeah Cheers was uh And then I think friends had a nice one. I didn't watch friends. Yeah, I didn't either. Yeah friends had a nice Taxi taxi to this day. That's Bob James. Yeah, doc. I mean, you can actually play that in your car, man Man, do you know you said do you think about some of these or then some of it just iconic man? I could do the whole
Let me tell you about a story by a man named Jed. Poor buddy there. Rarely kept his family fed. But it's crazy how those songs back in the day, they was theme songs for shows. But now you look at the shows and the theme music, it's like nothing. But you know what? Rapper Sample. Rapper Sample. Because when Mays made his comeback, didn't he do, he did Walk Him Back? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, man. 414, 444, 525, 044, 444, 525, 0. You know, we was just, man, dude, dude, just be all up in the joint. You know, I've been, I've been following the World Cup. You know, I started being a, I don't, like I said, grew up playing soccer.
certainly have been sometimes a nominal fan, but when World Cup happens, man, you know, I just, I'm watching them. And I just want to, first of all, I was cheering for all the African teams. Okay, I was cheering for all of them. Shout out to Cape Verde. Cape Verde was, they considered it upset because the game was so close.
But man, let me... The drama. Mexico got upset. Oh, man. Well, you know, I don't know if that was an upset because... Well, one, it was an upset because it was in Mexico. Well, yeah. Yeah, but then they had what they had, the weather delay. Yeah. And then they went out. And interesting that one of the goals scored was by a African descendant.
Right contain kiosk. Yeah. Yeah, man. I mean so would you but let me let me boy. I hate let me hate on England Because the the the guy what's his name? Bellingham The brother. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you actually scored two Contestant goals. Yeah, right. Kane gets a penalty kick Yeah, you know, and then they have one play where he said look
He drew three people with him. Okay. The dude still had to put the ball in the net. He did it twice. He had a header and he put one in so But let's just talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Okay, everybody knows that This kid let me get his name ball again Let me do work up But
Now, first of all, let's talk about, let's talk about FIFA. FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world. Okay. One of the most corrupt organizations in the world. They talk about how Russia got a World Cup when Russia was like, because they had invaded Crimea. Well, this thing before that. And then they talked about how cutter.
But the amount of money the bribery that went on. So people may or may not know there is a young man who's real interesting because he doesn't he kind of plays into this whole thing. He would almost be considered an anchor baby. His mother came here. She was pregnant. She was too pregnant to fly home. So she ended up having him here.
Because of birthright citizenship, then he becomes a he's an automatic US citizen. Okay, so Against Bosnia against Bosnia He got a red card Now people understand yellow card is caution red card is disqualification and based on feeful rules if you receive a red card
Not only are you ejected from the game, if your team qualifies for another match, you cannot play in the next match. Now, there were people when I watched the play, a lot of us was watching it when it happened, and we wondered, did it really deserve a red card? He wasn't intentional. But what had happened was that there was another player who, I don't know if he was from England, he actually broke the leg of a player.
So he ends up not only getting a red card, he gets a five game suspension. All right. So we knew it was going to be tough for America. America is actually doing a whole lot better than a lot of people anticipated. If you just know our participation in the World Cup has been dismal. Some years we don't qualify. People are arguing that one of the reasons why we qualify this year is because as the host nation, you automatically gets in.
because Canada automatically qualified, Mexico automatically qualified, and America, the United States automatically qualified. So in this match, he receives a red card. A lot of people were saying whether or not, but it was made. What we find out yesterday that Donald Trump made a phone call to the president of FEMA, asking him to review the red card.
And then FIFA came up with something that most people who've been following football didn't understand where they suspended the suspension. So. Yeah, I saw that, but that was crazy. Yeah. So for Lynn, Ren, Baligan will be able to play tonight. Now look, the Americans had been, they had been training based on him not playing the Belgians probably trained based on him not playing because this guy is good. He's really good.
So Donald Trump makes a phone call and boom, he's back playing. I'm telling you, if you're talking about it, it's set off a blank storm throughout the world because people are saying, well, look, now look, we should be surprised that Donald Trump can even make the phone call. Cause I don't know if y'all remember FIFA, when they were doing the draw announcements at the Kennedy center, came up with this bogus of peace prize.
Yeah. Because Donald Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah. So we got to know. But again, FIFA is corrupt. I mean, it is corrupt. And so my question is, now will this diminish anything that the Americans do going forward? And here's the other thing. Last night, England lost the player to the red card. So can Prince Charles, I mean, I'm sorry, King Charles,
make a phone call to FIFA asking them to suspend that red car. I'm sure he probably could but they won't. And my understanding is that Belgium was allowed to appeal this decision but I think
It doesn't really mean anything. I think it and again Donald Trump is in there and get whether we thought the red card Was justified or not the rules are the rules and when people feel like you can put your thumb on the scale I think it no matter what America does going for it. It's gonna be diminished Because of what Donald Trump did caller or am I going to breakers that caller break time
Okay, we're gonna take a break and love to hear what you think four one four four four four five two five zero four one four four four four five two five zero Here's the crazy thing. There's been some incredible matches. I mean you you sit there as much see it's much sweet TV Yeah, even if you're not a soccer fan, you know You begin to pick it up and the atmosphere in Mexico City last night Was like crazy man, but you could just see all the air just got sucked out
Yeah, you know when they scored those three goals. So 414-444-525-0. We'll talk about it more when I get back from the break. You'll listen to Community Voice. We'll be right back.
AM and 106.5 FM with your host, Keith Parris. All right, welcome back. And again, the phone line is open 414-4444-5250-414-4444-5250. It looks like I certainly was talking about what's going on with the World Cup real quickly on the local level. I guess the trade is official today for Yanis and Bobby Porter's going to
Miami. Yeah, it's the official. Introduction for the players that was involved in that trade. So on the bucks in where and. Yacka shiakas, whatever his name is and all of those other guys and also the draft pick that. Miami drafted Nate Emmett. He would be introduced today as well.
Yeah, I did watch a little bit and I got to catch it again. I didn't catch. I caught the end of the Bucks in the summer league. Yeah, well, yeah, the California classic. Yeah, they played Saturday's game and they was they was balling man. Bogaloo put up 16 in the six rebounds and four assists. But the game yesterday when it looks so funny, man, they look so little.
Yeah, don't they they look so little But I mean it's the draft picks and how people draft it so I think what I got another week Well, no, no, no, no actually The um what they play one more game tonight and then they start the summer league Which I think they start that on either Tuesday or Wednesday. So what they play now? They play the California classic. Okay. Yeah, okay
Yeah, follow us up in 41444452504144445250 Oh Man what a man I kind of I kind of do I do miss being in the studio. Yeah, man. Don't we miss? Miss you been here man. That's almost like the Jetsons man like Like you on the screen and we hear
You know, it was almost like COVID. Like, you know how like, you know, during the COVID time, you were to see the doctor on the screen. And I never understood that because I'm like, well, how do like, I don't want to talk to a doctor on the screen. I want to talk to a doctor in person. Oh, now you want to be in person. Hey, man, I want to look you in your eyes. Well, you know, but what is amazed me though, is that it's still, I'm still connected.
You know, I mean, yeah, I don't feel like I think telephone is because you don't see the people Yeah, but no, I mean I still feel like you know, I'm there on so many different levels Yeah, I can't see all the stuff that's going on as we look at the window out the world. I haven't been out out You know the new pits mortuary and Deacon Michael Jones because I you know, I don't see that Yeah, but then I set up a thought like man if we would have got a real bad
rainstorm. There was no way I'm getting that building if we had lake in on these. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like you would. Yeah. Cause especially with how the water and how and how high that the water gets. So you trying to walk and fall down man. You're gonna drown man. You ain't gonna be able to get up. Yeah. You know uh and you know speaking of that uh the tragedy down on Lake Geneva. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I don't understand is
Now, normally when the storm is coming in, you see signs of it before the rain starts. So the clouds, the atmosphere change, you see that something is happening, you see that the storm is approaching. As a parent, I don't understand how do you not get your kids off the water knowing that a storm is coming. I can explain that to you.
I used to, uh, part of my job when I worked at camp was, you know, we'd have waterfront duty and they always told us that we should always look to the southwest because that's where the storms come from. Right. But my understanding what happened was that this came so quickly, it was like a hundred mile an hour wind that just whipped up on the lake. It sounded like they were trying to get off the lake, but it came in so quickly that there was nothing they could do. Really? Yeah.
yeah because you can you're right if you look to the southwest normally look to the west you can see it coming yeah but sometimes you can't anticipate how close it is i was listening to one of the meteorologists talk much and he was saying that if you're out underwater that you should have weather bands but to to areas southwest to you because usually that's where the storm is going unless it's kind of straight across
but normally some of those more violent storms are coming from the southwest. So they always told us when we were on the lake to look, you know, because we tried to get kids out as much as you could, but began to look. And because the real problem when you had kids out there in rowboats and canoes, they already struggling. So now we have to get out there and basically tow them in before the storm happens. But they said that it was like a hundred mile an hour wind and that just whipped up the lake and they couldn't get off quick enough. Wow.
And the kids then have worn life jackets, but I just think the waves were just so high. Yeah, and it just one of those real tragedies that happens when you're out there. Now, some people say, well, if you know a storm, why go out there, period? But sometimes, you know, you can have what is looking like outside right now. And then 15 minutes later, man, it darkens up, you get a cloud and bam, here you go.
you know so certainly shouting out and those folks are in our prayers that's that's difficult especially when it's kids and I just know even um I've known a couple of uh young folks that I know have drowned uh one actually drowned up in Geneva Lake so you know that's why it's important that we teach our kids how to swim I know you you worried about their hair but you know you never know when they're gonna go on a trip
and the ability to be able to swim becomes really important. I know Rhonda had the God kids, all the God kids in swimming because Rhonda's a swimmer. Because even when she did the triathlon, she's one of the few black people who actually swam. Some people had to run or bike a longer distance, but she was able to do all three. And she won't be doing that this year.
Watch her train and what she does to go and do what she does. It's impressive, you know. And I've learned this people talk about relationships. Learn how to be a cheerleader. You know, learn how to, you know, I want support. If I want support and I've been supported.
that I need to learn how to be supportive and not be a hater. I don't know why he's doing it. Because you know, folks who do that, a lot of times you try to do something and the hate you get from the people that love you sometimes is greater than people that don't even know you. You know, it's Eddie King Jr.'s daddy. So he ain't going to be that kind of, and that's real. I wish that that wasn't the case.
You know, but you know, that was the issue. I don't know people saw the play or saw the movie fences That was the issue that he's bitter about his disappointments and instead of encouraging his son Yeah, you know, he does everything he can to deflate any kind of hope of dreams that he has so you talk about the wonder what Denzel Washington, right? Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, but you know, wouldn't that be considered
You know like a generational curse like I wouldn't ask and he ain't gonna be asked so you pretty much passing that down the line Yeah, that's why I think we got to deal with When our internal issues, you know and I was listening I watched I think it was the documentary becoming With Michelle Obama. Oh, yeah, I had never seen it before but I was watching it some of the interviews that she had
I don't know if she's talking about a granddad or her dad and talked about how smart he was, how well ready he was. But on his jobs, he would see people who were not half as smart as him being promoted. And after a while, that could be depleting. I mean, that can mess with your pride. And so for a lot of, especially black men,
who were trying to do the right thing, right? And just obstacles in their way. So I cannot sit up and complain about my life, because I know that there were people who had it far more difficult than me. As a matter of fact, I'm standing on their shoulders, but the pain that people experience. And so I said, you know, I give older dudes passes. I mean, I kind of understand if he drank a little bit. I mean, because
How do you work through this madness? And in some instances, people are saying it's still the same thing, but not much has changed. But I could say for me anyway, the people who made the path before me made it far easier for me. And I'm very appreciative of that, all the words of encouragement I got. I've never had anyone try to crush my dreams.
If anything, I was, you know, if I always said this, look, my mom put all of us in the best position she could for us to be successful. So it really fell on us. If we, you know, whether our success or lack of success, then that really falls on us. But I know as much as she could, she put us in a good position to be able to succeed in this world. Now, how much I have succeeded,
But I do know that a lot of that, and not just my mom, but people around me, my grandmother, you know, family folks who, it was really supportive. Now, I can tell you, real talk, that there's some people who look at me and go like, wow, is that Keith?
So I don't know what they thought of me when I was young, but to be able to do it. So I think we should do that. I remember preaching the sermon, are your parents proud of you, right? And it's based on honor of thy mother and thy father and how we honor our parents by how well we live our lives, right? We honor the sacrifices they made, the investments that they made, everything they did to put us in a position
where we are now and so that's that's important to me I want my mom to be proud of me I could be you know 100% transparent and say that there have been times you know Michelle and I we always laugh about this because both my mama thought we should be PhDs right we laugh about it all the time but I hope that the fact that I'm not a PhD that my mom
is still proud of me. My mom and I were having a conversation. And I don't know how Vanita Lee came up. That's Oprah's mom. And we were just talking. And then she came up and my mom just went on and on about how proud. She said, I know how proud Vanita is of that. And she said, that girl, because she did this in the world. And my mom was just really blowing Oprah up. And the more she's blowing Oprah up, the quieter I got.
Right. I just sent it. And so then I said, OK, mom, I'll talk to you later. My mother called me back 20 minutes later, and she goes, oh, I'm proud of you. Because I know she can feel it in that tone. Like, you know, I see the people going like, OK, I ain't Oprah, but you know, I ain't in jail either.
You know what? Call and welcome to the program. Good morning. Hello. I just wanted to hear that. Hey, he said you preach the message about our mother and that father. If it ain't been that long ago, maybe it's been a while back. How did you close that thing and wrap it up? How did you close? I don't even remember. Oh, OK. I can believe that. I just remembered this sentiment that I was saying was that
that how proud our parents of us in terms of, because my mother would never give me a compliment. Never. My mother never gave me a compliment. No, but now this is a sermon. So you was making the physical, the physical connection within the spiritual connection. No, I was saying that I didn't know this until, you know, when I started working for the county, there were people who work with my mother out at the hospital.
And when they would meet me, they would say, your mother bragged about you all the time. I was going, now this is Cliffy Paris, and I'm Keith, right? Because my mother never, I remember asking my mom one day, I guess she just got frustrated with me. No, I asked her, was she proud of me? And she said, I never told you that I wasn't. So I'm assuming, huh?
I'm trying to ask you how you close. I got the preliminary. I don't know how I close, man. This ain't a Mama Lily's class. That we should honor God. He should be first in our life. And is he proud of us? Are we making him proud to be playing at home like that? No, because I was being very specific. I was talking about our parents, and I was doing it in context. Right, but God is our parent. I did something like that, and I brought it home to where
God was, you know, he was the father, you know? And that's how I closed it. I just wanted to know if your closing was like that. So you just... No, man, it wasn't like that, man. I'm sorry. I think I was trying to get to this general thrust of not only, you know, we honor our ancestors for how we live our lives. So it was more that not so much is God proud of me. I mean, I don't know. I don't know how that works with God is proud of me.
but I do know more immediately. You don't know how that works, God the Father? No, I don't know how it works when God is proud of me. Instructions on how to pray, do you pray our Father? I don't, did you hear what I just said to you, man? I'm sorry, brother, I couldn't hear you. Okay, there you go. So I was saying, I don't know what it looks like when it says God is proud of me. I can get a sense of what it looks like when my mama or daddy is proud of me. Oh, okay.
Okay, all right. You just said it's heavy. So heavy, man. I can't even hold the phone to my ear. That's what I do. That's what I do, bitch. All right, man, I appreciate you. Right out is what I do, man.
How did I end it? I don't know how I ended it. We just, it just ended. It just ended. You know, I dropped the bike and I walked away. I don't know. No, but I, you know, I think if that was the sentiment, you know, like if I ask you brothers, you think your, your folks are proud of you? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, my parents, you know, tell me every day when I talk to them.
You know, son, how you doing, whatever, tell them doing great, whatever, whatever. All right, son, I'm proud of you. You know, because I tell my kids that, you know, they're not talking to them every day. Hey, son, I'm proud of you or I tell my daughter, hey, I'm proud of you, keep going. You know, just to, you know, give them that push. You know, because the fact that I'm even wearing this, this polo, I know my mom is real proud because look, I didn't want to be in radio. It was not an ambition.
but my mom used to drag me to her radio program on WGLB and it opened up an opportunity for me to be at WNLB. So a lot of that is, but you know what my mom was really proud of, which really kind of freaked me out was the work that I did with the fatherhood program. My mother, and I guess what happened was a couple of people had met
my mom and said they had met me through the fatherhood program. And my mother even, you know, so like she was very proud of me doing this. Now here, I'm not a dad. My dad wasn't in my life, but she was real proud of that. So I got that, that she did express that, you know, the good work that was done. So I just wanted to clerk your folks proud of you. My folks are gone. Okay.
So, but when they was, you know what? I never heard my daddy tell me not even proud of me. I think all my mother, but if I was with the church every day, I probably would have heard it from my mother a lot. Did you ever hear him tell, did you ever hear him tell her that they loved you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's something I heard my mama say that maybe four times in my whole life. Yeah. One time I never questioned if she loved me. I just didn't hear it.
Right, right. I heard it one time in my life. One time. Nobody loves you. I suck again. Yeah, I mean, but I think I heard Dr. Joy LeGru do this and DeGru. And she talked about how it was part of our culture that they never wanted.
Black parents never wanted their kids to get a big hit, right? And there was this whole idea of humility that they wanted you to have. If I came up and I did well in the message of people would come up to my mother, my mother would just say, pray for him. I mean, it wasn't one of those things where you were allowed to get out and toot your own horn. And there are people who are pushing back on that now saying that if you, which I think,
I know Kennedy's gotten, because Kennedy don't mind telling you how smart she is. You know, but I think, yeah, we did that for you. And maybe that was for our protection, you know, in terms of how white folks might respond to because look, man, I could tell you, and it had a whole different meaning when I heard white folks call me arrogant. And when I heard black folks call me arrogant, right?
I mean just the whole different thing and what did little Richard say? What did he say? I'm not confident. I'm right or something like that. You know that if you had a certain level of healthy self-esteem for some people that was threatening one of my late classmates at American Baptist.
I was walking campus one day, and Dennis Chapman came up and said, Keith Parris, I can't stand you. Oh, man, Dennis, what do I do to you? He said, because you walk around here like you somebody. I am. And this was before Jesse. Before Jesse. It was before Jesse. Yeah. You know, so I am. I mean, why wouldn't I? There was a certain level of confidence that you exude now.
I can tell you that in spite of what I might exude at times, there was also a certain level of insecurity. And I can tell you that those insecurities would overcome me where I would overcompensate. So it's trying to get perspective with yourself. It is, as Michael Jackson said, that I'm looking at the man in the mirror. And I'm not always comfortable when I see.
Alright, let me thank mr. One the streeter Clark Kent. Thank you. Thank you Apostle Jermaine. Thank you. There's some chairman of the board Hey man trying to make it happen captain. Hey y'all the good Lord will a quick note rise Hope to talk to you by tomorrow and as always go from this place in peace
