Welcome back to the second half of the grapevine.
You're picking some more grapes.
I'm your host, Manon Sabir.
I'm glad you're in the building with us because we just picked some grapes in the first half.
We talked about the young lady who was killed in Jackson, Mississippi.
Then we got a chance to talk to my brothers who I'm on a healing call with.
That's not all of them, though.
We got a whole boatload of brothers that are on the healing call.
So when I say my brothers, I literally mean my brothers.
That was beautiful.
We went through some breathing, we introduced the healing call to folks, and then what did we do?
We talked about black man healing, black man becoming superhuman.
That's what we need.
We need more of that.
We need more superhumans.
We talked about safe spaces, keeping our kids safe.
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And the judge.
It was a judge.
Y'all gotta listen to this Milwaukee, Milwaukee, not a Milwaukee judge, a Detroit judge, a Detroit area judge got caught on tape saying something super brazen, super brazen.
And I need y'all, I'm a, I'm a, let y'all know about this.
Like this ain't the first judge.
This is not the first judge talking about how racist she is.
A judge by the name of Kathleen Ryan.
Kathleen Ryan of Oakland County, Michigan, a probate judge, meaning she ruled on, you name it, guardianship, conservatorship, mental health, commitment cases, decisions that control whether a vulnerable person keeps their own autonomy or gets it handed back to somebody else.
Yes.
That's right.
On tape, September 2024, she called black people lazy.
She called in her own words, I'm not systemically racist.
I'm a new racist.
Let's play that video real quick.
That breaking news from the seven investigators.
The local judge accused of making racist and homophobic comments is vacating her position after being removed from her docket more than a year ago.
It's a story.
The seven investigators first broke in September of 2024.
Seven investigator Heather Cattalo is here with what she has learned.
This has been a long process.
You'll recall we revealed recordings of Judge Kathleen Ryan making some shocking statements.
Judge Ryan has essentially been on paid leave for 15 months and
once described herself in those recordings as untouchable.
The Judicial Ten-Year Commission has been investigating this for more than a year, but they did not take action against her.
Her lawyer is confirming to me late today that she is retiring, and the vacancy for her position has already been posted by the governor's office for potential candidates to apply for an appointment to the bench.
I can honestly say that, okay, I'm not systematically racist, I'm a new racist.
The seven investigators were the first to reveal the recordings that Oakland County officials say prompted Judge Kathleen.
I'm not this family racist.
I'm a new
race.
One more time.
Investigators for an
appointment to the bench.
I can honestly say that OK, I'm not this family racist.
I'm a new race.
The seven investigators were the first to reveal the recordings
that Black County
officials say prompted Judge Kathleen Ryan's removal from her docket in August of 2024.
on
Wednesday, a judici on the state bar websit
on the bench.
Yeah, Kathy, a Ryan presiding morning.
Ryan was a probate judge for 13 years until the Oakland County Probate Court administrator filed a complaint against her, alleging Ryan had been harassing him, calling him after hours for years and making racist and other inappropriate comments.
I've never met anybody that enjoys hurting people and brags about it the way she does or intimidating people, scaring people.
Hutton says his
complaint was not acted on for months, so he then sent the recordings of his calls with Judge Ryan to state and county officials.
I just want to make it right and I want the people in Oakland County that come to court to get a fair shake to have their day in court to have an unbiased tryer of a fact.
If you're black from any other country, you're doing way better.
If you're American black person, then you're f***ing lazy piece of s***.
Judge Ryan has been paid for the last 15 months while she was out of the courthouse and taxpayers have been footing the bill for visiting judges to handle her docket.
Now her lawyers say she is retiring and leaving the bench.
Judicial tenure commission investigations are not public unless they reach the point of the JTC filing formal charges again that did not happen in this case.
So the results of that will not be made public.
Now meanwhile I did speak with one of Judge Ryan's colleagues, Judge Daniel A. O'Brien.
He said Judge Ryan was a good judge and he expressed frustration that the court was left with visiting judges for so long while the JTC investigated saying that really left a lot of cases not having continuity.
So at least there's some resolution.
Retiring.
And my question was, and there's no Google search on judges being racist.
Like how many judges do we know have documented cases of this, of themselves being new racists or racist?
Like what, you know what the implications of a judge being racist in a.
in court cases that you probably try or maybe 60% minority.
That has to, you, man, the fallout has to be crazy.
The fallout has to be absolutely nuts.
Now, you know, whether or not she called criminal cases or, or not, that, that remains to be held in held up, but what she is.
is a person who has to judge without bias.
So she decides who is believed, who is considered competent, who controls another person's body, money, future.
This is crazy.
This is absolutely nuts.
The major implications are like guardianship and personal freedom that she should decide whether or not an elderly person
or someone with a disability is incapable of controlling their own life.
And this level of racial bias may have influenced whom she viewed as responsible.
If you look at family control and she ruled and disputes over who should care for vulnerable relatives, that her racism, her bias could affect whether
She trusted a black parent, sibling and or caregiver.
I mean, if, if you were in front of a, if you were in front of a judge and you, of course, you are not going to know whether or not there are not old races.
There are new races.
You're not going to know about that, but you dang sure can possibly test that theory out by showing up in court and.
Getting something that's obviously proven beyond a shadow without yours Your it's going to show your way is obtuse is is lean towards your way and the judge completely rules against it completely That is that is something that we'd have to think about that is something that we have to think about she probably ruled over due process violations and All that
uh, credibility, credibility decisions.
You know, like calling black people lazy raises the question of whether or not she believed in, in those credibility decisions, whether or not she believed black witnesses, attorneys and families as readily as white ones.
Wow.
This is absolutely amazing.
But we already, we know.
We know for, for, for our purview, we know what this is saying.
We know what this is saying.
He not only, it's crazy.
Cause the dude was like, the guy was like, man, she is a good, she is a good judge.
It's like he's, he's trying to save face for snitching, but, but he let the cat out the bag.
He, he told, he.
He probably witnessed and you can only imagine the level of conversations that he's heard that he got tired of hearing just because he wanted to save his job, but he could not.
He could not sit back and let it happen again.
I mean, you, he may be a white dude, but he actually told on the, on a, on a new racist.
So that's the craziest part.
How we.
How we have new races?
What is the definition of a new racist?
What is the definition of a new racist?
What is the gap?
What's the difference between an old racist and a new racist?
What is that?
Are we saying ourselves like these new racists, man?
They're into lynching again.
They're into lynching black people in Mississippi.
They're into hiding, hiding evidence in unsolved murders.
Are they, are they into all of that?
Those are the new races, right?
They, they use technology and the old races use, use flip phones or rotary phones.
What is the new races?
What does that mean?
Does that mean that you, you're ruling as a judge, you're ruling against every case that doesn't go in the favor of.
that goes against the favor of black people and everybody else.
What is that the new races?
Man, we have to demand.
I think in our, especially in our courts, we need, we need to demand better accountability for our judges and especially the ones who are new races.
We're going to come back.
We're going to come back.
We're gonna pick some more grapes on the truth.
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I'm your host, Manasseh Bill the grapevine.
We're
We're picking some more grapes in August 5th, 2023.
August 5th, 2020.
23 Montgomery, Alabama.
Hat goes up in the air.
Black America has never let that hat come back down.
That black America has never let that hat come back down.
Y'all can't let that hat has to stay in the air.
It's our back call.
It's our back call.
The Montgomery Riverfront Brawl.
It's the anniversary of the Montgomery Riverfront Brawl.
Three years since the back call.
And I, I'm a fighter myself, man.
They was getting at it.
They were getting at it.
We got that video.
I saw a good river.
So this guy, his name is a Damien Pickett.
He asked, he asked, so I'm going to set this up.
He asked a group of white boaters to move their pontoon boat.
out of the reserve dot.
Words, you know, got pitched back and forth.
Went to like a little shoving match and then pick it got jumped out of what he did.
But he threw that dang hat up in the air, man.
And it was a wrap.
It was a wrap.
The whole Internet saw it the next day.
I mean, they had.
You know, you already knew.
You already knew when that hat went in the air, he was out.
I'm trying to figure out why he threw the hat in the air and he just held his hand in the air like it was like it was a finger roll.
Like he was Earl de Pearl on the basketball court.
He just held his hand right there and the hat fell to the ground and he just got he got with it.
He started squabbling.
There
it is.
There
is.
It
After that, it was
16 year old dude, his name is Aaron.
He jumped off.
another riverboat and swim across.
He was swimming.
Swim across.
They could start calling him the Black Aquaman.
The Black Aquaman.
As soon as, when he came through, it was a wrap.
He came out of that.
He came out of that water.
He looked like he was soaked and he just went and, you know, it was a whole another, it was a whole another holiday.
It was a whole another holiday.
So he came out, somebody pulled out a folding chair.
I mean, the internet just had a field day.
The FBI actually got involved, if y'all don't remember, the FBI got involved and found no incidents like hate crime.
This was just, you know, I think a family of individuals that had a pontoon boat and didn't want to move, they boat.
And then they got into a fight with these folks.
Might have been drinking and whatever, but.
You know, it was one of those.
It was, it wasn't, it wasn't something that we, that the folks, especially the ones, the river boat, co-captain, and then also the, the kids who were a part of this, it wasn't, it wasn't the fact that they, uh, that they wanted to, to fight.
They went out there to fight, man.
It was out there to work, but the gentleman who, the gentleman.
You know, through a punch first.
And then once he threw that punch, it was a wrap.
You know, the guy started fighting.
He started, you know, the black dude started going into his, uh, he started going into his, his football mode.
So.
Yeah.
I, I mean, shout out to, shout out to the, the, the black, uh, the revolutionaries, the revolutionaries at the Alabama brawl and shout out to y'all for.
Defending yourselves man.
I really appreciate that sometimes you got to stand up for yourself because You know it takes it takes a lot especially in the in a in a state like Alabama in a state like Alabama where a lot of things have a Lot of injustices have happened for you to stand up and in and in fight and fight back and fight against a crime so
I think a few people got misdemeanors.
Some people got suspended services, suspended sentences, community service, but legally is not the same as culturally Milwaukee.
This became one of the, for us, it became one of the purest, funniest, proudest displays of black unity this country has seen in years.
I mean, people was coming from all different parts of
All different parts of that river riverfront like you had to do is I mean when When it just after the first fight first part of the fight when I do through the punch and them guys walked away and They banded up the white folk the white family had banded up and then black dude I don't know where his where his crew came from but they came they had shirts off Tees they was with it and they started running after these people
And then it was, it was on and popping.
It was on and popping.
Then you had the, the young guys, the young guys come through and they did their thing.
And the old, the older people, the older people, that one, that one guy had a folding chair and he was the other guy, his, his, might've been his brother was choking, choking another guy.
That was, that was a lot, man.
Here it is.
Look, there go Aquaman right there.
I call him Blockwell Man.
Blockwell Man was, he was swimming like Michael Phelps.
He kind of went there fast.
He wasn't tired cuz he came up here look 16 years old handling grown grown men See look at the little look that's that's the crew Man This is absolutely the the crazy part about this is like
I'm surprised that a lot of people that actually stayed dry.
Because me, I'm tossing people in the water.
They still like, I'm tossing people in the water.
You going ham.
You out.
Now here's the group of the young kids.
They got to pull their pants up.
All they shirts off.
All they shirts off.
Yeah We had to show the antithesis to you know to the hanging stuff like that you all can't this is what happens What happens when you mess with us?
You get a black woman Give you 21 right hands in the in the dome piece.
I Mean he had to do so many times Wow Y'all got a man
This right here is absolutely one of the, one of the things I wanted to discuss today because.
Look, we're watching it.
If you're on the radio, we're watching the entire video.
The video goes bananas.
The girl, the ladies, the ladies should never have jumped into this because they were part, they were collateral damage.
A part of this.
One guy gave her a left hook.
I don't think he wanted to, but it looked like for me.
As a fighter, we call that a check left hook.
Check, you know, you don't go all the way through, you just, you know, give them a little, we call it the side piece, call it the side piece.
And now, now you get the old men.
The old men are trying to prevent the other dudes, the old men are trying to prevent the other guys from, yeah.
So now,
You got two dudes and yellow and purple and they got the women fighting the women going after the women.
They giving them kicks and punches.
I'm not advocating for I don't advocate for unnecessary violence.
But I do.
Advocate for taking up for yourself.
And if it if it involves many others, there's there's the there's the folding chair.
He's folding.
He's folding people up.
They had to arrest him because he was the one he was the one that took a he didn't use his hands He actually used actual weapons.
So they had to give him they probably gave him a misdemeanor ain't really hurt because it was a plastic folding chair But they arrested ultimately they arrested all the white guys and a female I think two black dudes two or three black dudes.
So Yeah, I mean you guys look at it
You have to look at this.
This is fighting back is fighting back is okay.
So I want to connect this back to many things we talked about.
We talked about a tree in Jackson, Mississippi and the young lady, uh, losing her life, judge, hiding hate, hat in the air, an entire, an entire community not waiting for mission for permission.
They did it.
because they needed to do it.
So shout out to, shout out to the Alabama Braw folks down there.
We see y'all, we don't forget y'all.
August 5th, we'll never forget.
That's like, this almost like a John Brown's revolutionary, Nat Turner's revolution.
We see y'all.
So Milwaukee, y'all let me know.
What did y'all tell?
I'm gonna go to the chat.
Oh, yeah.
Jasmine West says, hey, y'all.
Maheub Dyer says, Dee, you talking about the brothers that were just on?
Maheub Dyer said, good job, brothers.
Chantel Bakker says, and they say we can't swim.
Yeah, we can swim.
Yes.
Yeah, we need an outro.
We need an outro for this segment.
And they say we can't swim.
Yeah, we can swim.
When it's time to swim, we're going to swim.
And we're going to swing chairs.
We'll be back in
three minutes, man
That chair going down in history.
And I'm really proud of y'all.
My Montgomery bra.
Not one but a mall.
Montgomery bra.
Shout out bro that could swim.
Montgomery bra.
Really all of them.
Montgomery bra.
Shout out hunk with the chair.
Montgomery bra.
Everybody that was there.
Montgomery bra.
Through the hat off at the start.
Montgomery bra.
Man shout out to the girl.
Montgomery bra.
Yeah this is real.
Good moment in history right now.
Let us all smile.
Hey y'all, listen up.
I'm your host, Manon Sibir, the grapevine, and thank you for tuning in, tuning in to the grapevine and picking some more grapes with you.
I got something to talk about.
I have something to talk about.
Black women, black women, I'm glad you guys are, I'm glad you guys are here, glad you guys are listening.
You don't know award-winning truth radio 1017, but we need to talk about something.
We gotta talk about you here.
We got to talk about your hair.
I know, I know, and I know, and I know.
And I'm not talking about swimming.
That's one thing I know to her.
The hair curls up as fast as it can.
We're not talking about swimming.
It's a product 70% of Black women wore in the past year.
Yes.
It has 169 chemicals.
169 chemicals.
It's really the same stuff in pipes, pesticides, floor tiles, sitting on your scalp for weeks.
Sitting on your scalp for weeks.
41 out of 43 products contained at least one hazardous chemical.
91% had a substance linked to cancer or reproductive harm.
10% had hormones disruptions.
That's right.
10% had hormone disruptors.
So why does it hit black women the hardest?
And this is not like, if you are wearing hair extensions, if you're wearing hair extensions and you just had them just one time, it's not a one time thing.
This is, this is a, you know, hair extensions you usually wear them for weeks or even months.
And then you kind of get them redone, whatever in between time.
But these are the, what is in the hair extensions are called PSAT PFAS or forever chemicals.
And a study by Consumer Reports in 2025 found carcinogens in all 10.
Hair braiding brands or 10 hair braiding brands.
So nine out of the 10 had lead.
I'm not.
Hey, look, I ain't got hair.
So I can talk about this, but I want to make sure that you all realize what is going on in your hair because I do care.
And this is, this is, this is related to the women who are wearing hair extensions.
for weeks up to months.
So if it has direct contact with your scalp, your neck, fumes can be heated.
And that's where the, that's where the researchers based a lot of their researchers research at.
So some people, some people can't even recall not.
having not seeing certain relatives without hair extensions.
And this is for us is chronic.
For us is really, really chronic.
So I'm going to play this.
I'm going to play.
Do we got that clip?
The clip is about this lady, these, uh, this lady that interviews, she was interviewing, uh, um, a think a doctor about the.
about the chemicals that go on women's hair.
We're not going to play all of it, but we're going to play enough of it so y'all can get an understanding of what she's talking about about your
health.
It's a story we've been tracking closely, potentially harmful chemicals making their way into braiding hair and extensions that are often marketed to black women.
By some estimates, over 70% of black women use hair extensions or weaves at least once a year.
Now, new data released this month is shining a light on the potential risks of these cosmetic products.
I spoke with the researchers behind these two new studies.
A style often deemed as protective for black women is now under scrutiny as two new studies warn of health risks in hair extensions.
On Tuesday, Consumer Reports revealing new findings that human synthetic and plant-based hair extensions from 30 brands have volatile organic compounds or heavy metals like lead.
Human hair.
by far had the most lead that we've ever seen in testing these products.
Orders of magnitude above synthetic hairs.
The study looked at three samples of each brand and there were some exceptions.
One product with no heavy metals, another with low heavy metals.
So that tells us that these manufacturers can make.
a safer product.
Nearly a year ago, we spoke with medical student Crystal Thomas, whose commentary on braiding hair led to Consumer Reports first analysis.
I noticed my hair was itching.
It was just difficult to breathe overall.
Now, research is expanding.
The Silent Spring Institute, a scientific research and nonprofit testing 43 hair extension products.
We found chemicals in these products that are associated with cancer, reproductive harm, and also birth defects.
The hair containing 169 chemicals, including flame retardants and pesticides.
We found
that all but two of the products that we looked at contained at least one of those hazard chemicals.
What substance has most alarmed you and
why?
The compounds that most alarmed me from this study were the organotin compounds.
Those are compounds that are typically not found in consumer products.
We know that they're associated with endocrine disruption in humans as well as cancer.
While both studies had small sample sizes, calls for more research and regulation are growing with New York and New Jersey introducing legislation to regulate or ban synthetic braiding hair in 2025.
The safer beauty bill package also reintroduced in
house last year.
There needs to be more efforts to uncover some of the products and their risks.
For more
on what these.
So if you want to, if you want to copy that, um, a copy of that video, you can just pretty much go to YouTube and, and, and look it up because a lot of a lot of this is not new, but, um, but enough of it is.
And now they're starting to do a lot more research, clinical research trials on the harmful chemicals that are found present.
But what they did not prove is that these extensions cause illness.
So more research is needed on long-term effects of the hair extensions.
but the straightener data is stronger.
So frequent use of more than double, of frequent use of straightener, more than double uterine cancer risk.
Yes.
So that's what they're, that's what they're really, really talking about.
And I want to, I want to know for stylists,
that are out there and we're going to talk about this some more, but for stylists has a client ever asked what's in the hair.
Do you actually take precautions when you are taking something out of a package?
Do you actually look at what the ingredients are inside of that particular package in relationship to the hair or you just take it out of the package and get to working on a woman's scalp?
Because
You know, we know that a lot of these styles are protective styles.
You know, like some women like to go swimming, some would like to work out, like these are protective styles.
And, you know, to do a black person's hair is, it's a lot of work, you know, because once that, once that water hits that hair, it's a wrap.
So, and then why does, why does a product.
Why does a product this widely you still have no ingredient label in 2026?
Like where is that?
Where is the outrage for women who are facing especially black women who have to?
You know maneuver around hair care Where is the outrage for women in response to?
the ingredients that need to be placed on very harmful and harmful products.
I mean, from the research researchers perspective, I want to know they have a bill that's out.
They have a bill, a federal bill is a cosmetic, say cosmetic safety for communities of color and professional salon workers act.
So what they're aiming to do is.
They're aiming to put extensions.
I don't know if the bill passed.
I can, we can, we can find out, but they're aiming to put extensions under FDA for the first time.
Now, and I get it.
There, you may be the person who's like, man, I don't want, I don't want the FDA to regulate these hair extensions.
That means that there could be.
underground market in relationship to the hair extensions coming into America.
But man, I would rather, I would rather the FDA regulate and for what it, what it, what it matters, I'd rather the FDA regulate hair extensions than our women continue to wear them and be faced with 169 distinct.
chemicals in your hair that you don't even don't even know.
We barely know the amount of chemicals and ingredients that go into cake batter.
So we can just, I can just imagine the amount of chemicals that are in our hair.
Come on, y'all.
Let's think about this.
I want to know what you think.
Hit me up on the chat, YouTube chat or give me a shout, eight, three, three, two, one, two, one, zero, one, seven, eight, three, three, two, one, two, one, zero, one, seven.
I want to hear from you.
What do you think?
about hair and what's really in the hair extension, the chemicals and the forever chemicals that are in your hair because it's causing problems.
We'll be back in three minutes for the Great Vine.
This is the last piece, last piece of advice I'ma give y'all.
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My last piece of advice y'all and I'ma close with this one question When was the last time you looked at something your body wanted and told it?
No, you don't control me Not because you couldn't afford it Not because you couldn't afford it not because the store was closed Not because the the doctor frightened you But because you deliberately decided to
Exercise discipline.
Yes, you did.
You decided to exercise discipline.
Could I think I wonder if Black Milwaukee could fast together.
If
your baseball game to the next level, GRB Academy's annual top
Clicking every notification.
Answering.
every insult and buying everything that's advertised to us.
Because I think fasting isn't just an empty stomach.
However, I do know, I do know that fasting is a way to prepare and repair your body.
It's a way to what you call, we call that when you, when you fast, you enter into this state of autophagy.
where your body after 24 hours allows your body allows itself to repair itself.
It's like a, when a, when a, when a lion is attacked in, in the, in the wild and when that lion is attacking the wild or is hurt, then they're not going to go out and hunt.
They're going to, they're going to read, retreat and go back to where they, wherever their layer is and try to heal.
And I think for us.
I think for us, fasting is one of the ways in which we can, we can heal.
Fasting is one of the best ways in which we can heal.
Imagine this, imagine going for you, going 16 hours without eating.
And then the, the rest of the hours, the rest of the day, which is what?
Eight hours using, using those eight hours to eat.
So you're eating, let's say you wake up at in the morning, you don't eat.
And then at, I don't know, 10, 11, maybe you, you wind up eating for that, this period, that period of time, those eight hours, right?
So from 11 to 7, 11 a.m.
to 7 p.m., you're eating.
You're going back to bed, maybe around 9, 30, 10, 9, 10, 9, 30, 10 o'clock, and you're doing it again.
Within those eight hours, you can eat, you can drink, you know, do whatever.
But between, between 7 p.m.
and 11 a.m., you're fast and you're not doing anything.
What do y'all think about that?
Could you do it?
Could you actually do it?
Could that be a way to help you repair your body?
A lot of us don't feel like we can do it.
Because your body is really asking you.
Your body is asking you who's in control.
Your body is asking you who is in control.
And in reality, you have to tell your body that you are in control.
And this matters for us.
This matters for not just our body, but our families.
And also our community, our community is facing a real health emergency.
Nearly in, in, in, and this is in America, nearly six out of every 10 black adults in America have high blood pressure, hypertension, black, black adults have the highest hypertension, high blood pressure rate of any major.
racial group measured by the CDC and, you know, some of those other organizations, but I'm, but let's be responsible here.
Fasting is not a magical cure for hyper hypertension, high blood pressure.
So I'm not saying that or diabetes or obesity.
It doesn't, it doesn't replace going to the doctor, checking things out, making sure that.
You know, the, making sure that you are, you got to make sure that you are using the proper steps.
If you need medication, get the medication.
If you need movement, do movement.
If you need nutritious food, use, do the nutritious food or seek medical care, but remember, but remember that doing the right thing is for me, for me, it's fasting.
I'm going fast.
I'm going to fast.
Usually for me is every Monday and Thursday.
So I skip a couple of days and I, and I fast, I skip a couple, a couple more days and I fast.
Now, what does my fast include?
What if my fast include my fast is I eat nothing.
I eat air.
I don't eat anything on Mondays and Thursdays.
I'm not eating at all.
I'm waking up.
And I'm trying my best not to eat any food.
And what does that do to my, what does that do to my body?
My body, it takes a rest.
It takes a break from digestion.
My body takes a break from having to answer the call of digestion and, you know, urination and all the other stuff.
It takes a break and it's okay.
It's like.
It's like running your car across country and then parking your car knowing that it you, you pushed it at a hundred miles an hour.
The entire time you ran your car across country.
You got to stop.
You, you have to stop.
And a lot of us are, it's hard for, it's hard for us to stop.
So, you know, I'm not going to say power is starvation, but.
Power is creating a boundary between dinner and midnight snacking.
A power between a boundary between hunger and your habits.
A boundary between what the body needs and what an industry trained us to crave.
Fasting doesn't have to stop with food.
Fasting doesn't have to stop with food.
But what if we fasted from sugar, alcohol, social media, arguments?
What if we fasted from all of that?
And we just came into the realization that, shoot, man, we can do this.
We can do this.
We ain't gotta be angry.
I guarantee you, if you are angry, if you're angry with yourself and you start fasting,
Oh man, you'll probably be even more angry and they happy that you got food in your belly after you stop after you stop fast.
So freedom is possessing.
Here's my word of advice.
Freedom is possessing the discipline to say no.
Freedom is the discipline.
Freedom is the discipline to say no.
That is free.
Hey y'all.
That's the show.
That's the grapevine.
I'm glad you're here.
You were picking grapes with me.
Guess who's coming up next?
Jazz.
Jazz.
Tyler is up next.
Tap in with Jazz.
Stay tuned.
Don't go anywhere.
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you
Welcome back to the grapevine.
And Ray was on fire, man.
He said one, one bill pass.
I'm your host, Manon Sibir, the grapevine.
Who about to pick some more grapes?
And also you are on the award winning the Truth 1017.
And I'm glad you are here.
I'm glad you with me.
But we got a lot to discuss today because we got a lot to discuss.
A black woman, a black woman was found hanging from a tree.
in the back of her house, Mrs. Jackson, Mississippi, Monday night.
That's right.
And before anybody tells me, before anybody tells me what this looks like, I need you to know.
I need you to know that a black woman was found in the back of her house or back of a house in a tree.
This is not the first body Mississippi has found in the tree.
in years.
It is a consistent and a constant that there are more questions than there are answers.
And guess where her body is going?
I'm not going to even tell you where her body is going.
I'm going to tell you.
Her body is going right to right to the same corner that has to investigate Mr. Nolan Wells.
Yep, her body has to go right to the same corner.
Oh boy, a black woman, somebody that we're supposed to protect is found hanging in the tree in Mississippi.
So we're gonna start there.
Then we're gonna talk about how our kids, how to keep our kids safe.
How to keep our kids safe in the world that keeps handing us
Reasons to be afraid.
Reasons to be afraid.
Many conversations I've had in the last 24 hours in relationship to keeping our kids safe.
Many stories have been told to me.
Our kids need safe spaces, y'all.
They need safe spaces.
Plain and simple.
And at 230, I've got two men.
Virtually coming on brother Lou and brother Jamil Tyler.
Because we need to talk about what that those safe spaces actually look like.
What those safe spaces actually look like when black men show up and be super, not just for themselves, but for everybody else.
When black men show up, we the entire space changes.
So when we show up and we're honest with ourselves, that's what happens.
Then at the top of the hour, we're going to talk about a Detroit area judge.
This happened last year, but I had to tell you a lot of, a lot of the fallouts coming.
Called herself a new racist on tape.
She called herself a new racist on tape.
She resigned.
Yes, she did.
It was a judge, a Detroit judge called herself a new racist.
And I need you to understand what, what the fallout is.
I need you to understand what exactly who's.
lives she was ruling over while she felt that way.
She felt some type of way.
And Milwaukee today, I'm going to tell you today is the third anniversary of the hat toss.
Today is the third anniversary of the hat toss of the Montgomery Riverboat brawl.
Not the Montgomery, Alabama, not the, you know,
Not the anniversary of King crossing the bridge, whatever.
Nah.
The Montgomery, Alabama, River Boat Brawl.
I ain't wearing my shirt.
Hey, we need a shirt.
No, I already have one.
You got one?
Yeah.
That's why I ain't look.
You can have my hat.
I'm just going to toss it in the air.
Listen, the Montgomery, Alabama, River Boat Brawl with Blockwa man.
Uh the the coat the captain and then the old the old The old men I don't know what should we call them the bench riders?
Yeah, because they came with it the chokers I'm gonna call them the chokers because that's all they was doing is just choking people out So we're gonna close there we're gonna have some fun But first we're gonna have a little seriousness to trees truth and the bat signal.
That's what I'm gonna call it today
Trees, truth, and the bat signal.
I should talk about... I ain't gonna talk about it.
Let's get into it.
This is the great vine.
I'm glad y'all here, man.
Jackson, Mississippi.
A lady, young lady, I think 18, maybe 21 years old, was found on the third.
Police found her body in the back of a house in Jackson, Mississippi.
And she has not yet to be identified, but this isn't the first.
This is not the first time we walk.
Actually, it really happened.
It happens a lot.
One is enough.
It happened right here in Brookfield.
Like what, what, what makes a person, what makes a person pick a tree that's black, take a rope.
in themselves.
What, what makes a person, what makes a black person do that?
Right?
What makes that happen?
Why?
Her body is now headed to the, the coroner's office, quite possibly being investigated as a.
Murder investigation, possibly from different sources, possibly, because they don't want, they don't want the powder keg to blow up.
So, but this isn't the first time.
Last September, an 18 year old at Delta State University named Troy Trey Reed was found hanging from a tree in his own campus in Cleveland, Mississippi.
If you know where Cleveland, Mississippi is, you know what I'm talking about.
Officials, people rooted a suicide, but his family didn't really buy it, nor did the attorney, the attorney, of course, is Ben Crump.
And he helped get independent autopsy.
Mississippi got a lot, a lot of history, a lot of history of lynchings, covering up lots of murders and relationship to black people in their, in their state.
There's too many.
individuals that are going missing that are going missing in Mississippi by way.
Of what running into the woods or have been.
Just vanish or just vanishing.
And then there's too many hangings.
There's a there's enough hangings in Mississippi for investigators to.
conduct independent investigations.
Enough hangings.
That's too much.
This is too much, y'all.
Like, this same case, this same case, this case from yesterday, day before yesterday, is being sent to the medical examiner's office that is handling Nolan Wells' case.
the young man that went missing, missing off of Horn Island, Ocean Springs area on July 1st, July, in July, July 4th.
So I can't see here and prove that any of this is either a cover up or accidental.
But it's a deep coincidence that we have young black folks, young black men and women,
that are going missing and or and or being hung in suspicious manners.
This young lady, how it doesn't make sense.
This doesn't make sense.
So you're going to go out in the back of your house, take a rope and hang yourself.
None of this, none of this is makes sense.
None of it makes any sense.
But what can I say is this?
When the same state office has the final word on multiple suspicious deaths in the black community, in the same short window, we need to start asking hard, non-paranoia-based questions.
We need to be independent and thorough.
And this is paranoia, man.
We have to be independent and thorough.
I think what we call this is due diligence.
Due diligence is somebody needs to be watching how these cases get handled very closely and very publicly.
We need to watch how these cases are handled.
Too many of our young people are going missing.
Too many.
and somebody knows something.
Either, and we can look, think about this.
We got sex trafficking.
Too many young people go missing in relationship to that.
Then we have our young people who they claim are committing suicide, being found hung in a tree.
Multiple trees, regularly across the nation, they're just being hung in trees.
That doesn't make sense.
That
So Milwaukee, when you find, when you hear found hanging in your tree, hanging in a tree, found hanging, period.
What's your, what's, what's like your, your gut honest, gut level thought before anybody tells you what to think, before anybody tells you what to think.
Call in.
Let me know.
833-212-1017.
833-212-1017.
What's your, what's your honest take on if quote unquote found hanging those words in a tree?
Straight up.
And we got to talk about protecting those, those, the ones still here.
How do we actually keep our kids
Safe in a world that keeps handling us Handing us stories like this that we just passed How do we keep our kids safe because that's a kid 18 18 years old 21 years old that's a kid Straight up and we need to protect those people especially it's a woman Found hanging in the back of a tree on the back of her house and on a tree.
No
When we come back, y'all, we'll be back in three minutes.
When we come back, we're going to discuss keeping our kids safe.
It's prevention, not just prayer.
Milwaukee, welcome back.
That beat boy.
I don't know about that beat.
Oh, my gosh.
And they came out with that.
Some of y'all weren't even born.
Straight up.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
I'm your host, Manon Sevilla.
We're picking some more grapes and we're talking about keeping our kids safe.
Prevention, not just prayer.
A lot of us rely on the prayer, but we don't do the action.
We'll do the action.
The action you got to prevent the kids from being in places where they don't feel safe.
You got to keep them away from those non-safe places.
It's important.
It's highly important.
We have kids, a lot of times we have kids who are doing, they're making their own safe spaces.
They're gathering in places where they want their friends to be.
And so they make those spaces their own.
They have their own schedule.
They have their own activities within those safe spaces.
But our kids need safe spaces and they need our parents, our parents, you, they need you.
They need you to not be afraid.
They need you to not to be afraid.
So.
After a story like the one we just talked about where the young lady in Mississippi was hung I Want to I want to talk about she was young she was 18 18 years old from what they said or 18 and maybe 21 and And she was young she was a young lady who was found in the tree and and that got me thinking about keeping our kids extremely safe
Cause we're walking around and I know so many, so many individuals that have expressed to me that they're afraid, they're afraid of these kids.
Our kids walk around, they're all black.
They got Poo Shicey Mask.
They got, they got all black on a hundred degree day and wearing hoodies.
I get it though.
I understand that, that
piece.
I definitely know why.
Some kids, some kids go in and out of air conditioned buildings.
So they, they wear, they wear their, you know, the, the, the hoodies all day, all day, in and out of air conditioned buildings.
Sometimes they just feel comfortable in those, in the, in, in those clothes.
Some of them, some kids don't sweat as much.
So they gonna feel like, man, I'm, this is what I'm wearing.
All right, cool.
And it prior protects their skin.
They don't want to burn up, but you cannot be afraid of the kids.
You can't, you can't allow yourself to be afraid of the kids.
They walk past you.
You say something as, as adults.
So I, I'm always thinking like, I'm always thinking I want to leave, especially in this, in this segment, I want to leave y'all prepared.
Like I really want you to be prepared.
One thing about children is you have to know their routine.
You got to know their routine.
You got to know their schedule.
It was an accident.
It was an accident yesterday right outside my spot.
And it was a young man that was off of Layton.
And it was a young man that I heard the police.
Coming down the street had to been a chase about maybe two blocks and he ran a light and he hit somebody.
Car flips up, flips upside down.
He's in the car.
He's flipped up, up, turned upside down.
He's just, I mean, and you can look, he was hurt.
But then the other, the other gentleman, I think he was in a black Tesla was, was also, he was also hurt, but not as bad.
So.
But you could tell when they took this young man out of the car that he was young he was a young Young kid had to been if he looked for to meet he looked about 18 maybe 19 years old maybe even younger but If you don't know If you don't know where your kids are in in routine and also in schedule who they're who they're walking with who they're you know
what their route is, what time they are moving around.
If you don't have a built-in check-in system, even something as simple as a text message, when they arrive somewhere that it doesn't make them feel like they're being surveilled, but keeps you in the loop.
It keeps you in the loop.
That is quite possibly like the...
One of the best ways for for parents to do what they're supposed to do.
That's the best ways as parents to do what you're supposed to do and talk to them.
Really.
If I really think about it with this young man, he just he learned and it probably was a stolen car.
He probably had the ability to get, you know, to hack into the key fob system of this car.
The new, the new way to steal cars, they just not doing kids anymore.
They doing whatever they doing any, any car that got to push, they got to push start.
They.
Tapping into those cars.
So any car, any car that they are.
You know, jumping.
through this electrical system, this technological system, they're taking off with it.
They're using it.
But where were this young man's parents?
Where were his parents?
His parents had to have been somewhere.
Had to have been.
And as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, when
They started taking him away.
He had two groups of people that showed up.
It were there were two young men that were talking to the cops.
I think basically about about this incident, whoever their relationship is to the young man.
But then also they started talking to the mom.
It was the mom had to have been the mother shows up and she was holding her heart.
Holding her heart because this young man Stole that or had a car that almost killed somebody.
I mean, it was a big big crash.
So Talk to your kids honestly about the world without making them constantly afraid of it Like kids kids are kids understand and maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe y'all maybe y'all know some things I don't but
Kids understand real risk.
Kids understand real risk in age appropriate terms.
Make it, they make better decisions than kids who are either kept, either kept totally in the dark or overwhelmed with like complete fear.
Kids do, they do what the leaders are gonna do.
And if you a leader, man, in your household, get that done.
Have a, have a direct and clear and clean conversation with your child straight up, but then also teach them that their instincts are highly valid.
Teach them that their instincts are valid.
If a situation, a person, a vehicle feels wrong.
They don't need a reason good enough to satisfy an adult before they're allowed to leave, yell or run.
If your child does not feel comfortable and teach your children this, if your child does not feel comfortable at all, if your child does not feel like they are comfortable in a situation,
Even if you are there, listen to them.
Listen.
I know some of y'all know.
I know some of you have been in situations where you had to talk to your child like, man, calm down, man.
You know, we just go be here for you at an event.
You tell your child, man, we're going to be here for just a couple of minutes and we're going to leave your child like, no, I don't want to go.
I do not want to go in.
I do not want to be here.
All right, five minutes.
I'm going right, right to the car.
Those moments right there are, are, are family building moments.
Those are family building moments, moments where you know that your child has already said something about this.
And against their best judgment, you're, you're doing the opposite.
So please there's, I was, man.
A friend of mine told me about, told me about his daughter yesterday and things, you know, the things that he had to do in order to make sure that his daughter was protected in the situation.
It wound up involving the cops and he wound up, you know, proving himself right.
But it was, it was some things where, you know, she, you know, she was in trouble.
And he had to come to the rescue.
So Milwaukee.
Don't sleep on, don't sleep on the fact that your kids have real, valid truths that will keep them and you also safe.
Talk to them.
Give them a reason to give them a reason to open up.
Give them a reason to be in that safe space.
Give them a reason.
Don't make it punitive.
Open up.
Get off your phone.
All right, y'all.
Listen, we're going to shift a whole lot of energy here.
We're going to shift all the energy at 230.
I got two grown men.
Virtually in this in on this channel, the grapevine, we're picking some grapes with them.
We're going to talk about whether or not whether or not men have can access being superhuman.
for their community and for themselves.
When we come back, we're going to talk to brother Lou and Jamil Tyler, two black man healers.
We'll see you in three on the grapevine.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
And we're going to do something different today.
We're going to do something different.
I'm glad we're picking some more grapes.
And we're picking these grapes because it's time.
It's time to confront our black men, right?
Milwaukee, please welcome
two men doing real healing work for our community.
Brother Lou of Just Breathe and Brother Jamil Tyler.
They're here virtually because that's what we do.
We move and we heal.
And so they're on the move healing our community right where it stands.
What's up my brothers?
Yes, yes, I'm glad you guys are here.
Um,
yeah, happy to be here, brother.
Yeah, you can.
All
Good.
Good.
I wanted to, I wanted to, um, before we get going, I wanted to make sure that our listeners know we have a, um, we're conducting a.
Black men's healing call series on the grapevine and we're picking some grapes in that way.
The goal is to introduce the group of brothers that I've been around in my entire life for close to 30 years and or longer.
And every Sunday we have a, we have a black men's healing call every Sunday.
uh, for two hours and we go through our healing modalities.
We've been meeting consistently for about three years now and we introduced the group last week.
So hopefully people can tune into that, that segment and get a little bit more information about what we do, but we're going to get into it.
We're going to talk about healing and what it means to be a black man, a black man healing right now.
So hang with us, participate, be ready to call in if you feel like it, and also communicate on our YouTube chat.
All right, my brother.
Brother Lou, brother Jamil, you got ready?
Can we get started?
Can we get
started with a prayer and then get into the breath work?
We're running just like we run it on the call, brother.
that all right with you?
Yep.
All right.
So.
We want to pray for the healing of our hearts and minds.
We want to pray and ask for protection for our children and for our community as a whole.
And we want to pray that today's segment and our time together is inspiration for men who, you know, are getting inspired to take their healing more seriously, as well as women to get together with your sisters.
and neighbors and coworkers and just women that you around man and commit to healing together.
So that is our prayer.
Amen.
Amen.
And I say,
We got you.
I hear you Lou Here you can we get you we got you Hello,
hello.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
My apologies.
Yeah.
Can
you hear me?
Yes, we got you.
Yes, we got you.
Wonderful wonderful wonderful brothers while we're here.
Why don't we take
a few deep breaths like we usually do together.
The first deep breath that we want to take, and the listeners can do this with us, whether you're in your car, wherever you are, whether you're in your car, whether you are at home, whether you are at your desk.
This will be the time for you to release some of that tension and that stress off your body.
So let's do this, brothers, with each other.
Let's take these first few deep breaths.
The first deep breath that we're going to take is for acceptance.
of everything that we brought today to this session.
Let's take a deep breath in and release exhale out.
And when we inhale, inhale through the nose and exhale audibly through the mouth to release that stress.
Second deep breath that we take is going to be for the awareness of our mind, our body, and our spirit, our mind, meeting those emotions, meeting our heart, meeting our will right now in the moment.
Everybody take a deep breath in.
Full of awareness and exhale out.
And then the final deep breath is going to be for the alignment of us here, all on this call here together, joining together as a collective.
Let's take a deep breath in.
And exhale out.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Here we go.
Gratitude.
Gratitude.
So to get started, just to, uh, just to run people in a, in a kind of format, we usually do this in a two hour period, but we're breaking this down into microscopic views.
So people understand what to do when they are either with their family and, or with family and friends.
So, uh, brother Jamil.
Yeah, so just to give the people, you know, some perspective and just a point of view, we have the Brothers Healing call, as you said, and the Brothers Healing call basically was a call for us to come together and start
taking
our killing seriously as a collective of men.
Each one of us had our own struggle, our own journey that we were on, difficulties that we were, you know, trying to work through on our own.
And so what we decided to do was come together and work together to help heal one another.
And so that's the reason for all of this, for the Brothers Island call.
We've made a commitment to be consistent with one another, to be accountable to one another.
And our goal here, coming together with you, Brother Manon, is to inspire others to get together with their brothers and sisters or family.
Whoever come together and commit to being consistent with healing.
I mean, we kick it together.
We travel together.
We family reunion.
We do a lot of things together, but we rarely come together with the focus of healing in mind.
possible.
That's on you.
Absolutely.
You know, we talk about healing as I was listening to you, brother Manon in the in the first segment.
You know, you were talking about the children and the youth specifically.
And I think about healing and I think about all of us, how we all kind of met each other in our teenage years, in our adolescence.
And we think about the things that we were susceptible to as well.
So I think about healing, even some of those wounds from us being teenagers ourselves or going through our own childhood wounds, and then us being healed and being able to raise
sons and daughters, you know, as healed people within community.
That's really a big deal, man.
So what I see outside now when you talk about the young people, I also see a role that we step into as men, as protectors, as keepers, as, you know, not gatekeepers, but as people who are also prioritizing our health, our mental health, our mental well-being.
and doing that through practices, like what we do on the healing call.
So, you know, Jameel, man, from your particular perspective, bro, how does that fit into where you are, you know, right now?
I'm just throwing that question back to you again.
That's good.
And this is what we do, like we support each other, each other's growth through challenging growth and asking each other essential questions that we have to really
reflect upon and look within and when I think about what healing means, it means becoming more aware of self, right?
Aware of, you know, things that were passed down to you from your mother's side or your father's side.
Things that weren't even yours, right?
You were just born into a set of conditions and things have been impressed upon you and over the years you pick these things up and all of the
different types of trauma.
Many of us on the call, many of the brothers grew up without our fathers, which left a significant childhood wound on us.
And that's the same thing that you see with a lot of the youngsters who, you know, you might be acting up in the community.
You know, it's fatherlessness, right?
The lack of having that solid, strong male to guide and protect and to provide, right?
Not having that example and demonstration of how we do this and
We grew up without that as well, right?
And so we had to figure out a lot of things out on our own.
But for me, healing is looking back at my little self and looking at all of the things that he had to deal with and basically loving him back to health, right?
Loving him back to health.
And I'm realizing that the more I do that work with them myself, it frees me up and opens me up to
be a better father to my own sons and be a better community leader, be a better mentor, all of the things that I am in community.
So my healing has a direct impact on the healing of the community as a whole.
And when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit more about healing and what it actually means to be superhuman.
And is it our birthright as Black men?
to be just that and how does our legacy play into the next movement of Black men?
When we come back, we'll be back in three on the grapevine.
Yes.
Welcome back.
Life.
I wonder.
Will it take us under?
We don't know yet.
We're going to put on our flotation devices.
Welcome back.
This is the grapevine.
I'm your host, Manon Sabir.
We're picking some more grapes with the brother's healing call that I'm a part of, that I'm a part of, been a part of it.
Man, I might as well just say I might as well been a part of it since I was born because that's how
we
For for real.
It's a number of us.
We all know killing calling.
I got brother Lou and brother Jamil Tyler on the award winning the truth one on one seven radio.
I'm glad you guys are here because we we're gonna we're gonna move we're gonna move into the next section.
We're gonna move into the next section.
I think the next section is quite possibly one of the more important sections.
It's a longer piece.
We started with we started with a prayer and also breathing and
Went into just an explanation of what black men should be doing in our community, but now I'm going to take a step back and this is a part of the the Conversation where I take a step back and I allow my brothers to to conduct the the orchestra So let me take a step back and I allow my one of my brothers to jump in and and do some healing with with all of us All right
I like the idea, man.
It's all aligned, as we always say, of the superhero, right?
I got my teacher's shirt on today, man.
What's the connection between your superhero powers and healing, brother?
We talk about
that a lot.
You all can hear me good.
I believe that the connection between my superhero power and what was the other piece, good brother?
And healing brother, how
does healing
unlock those
superhero powers?
So I'll be honest with you man, like coming back together with my brothers and doing what we do, that has unlocked a lot of my superhero powers from within myself.
What I noticed was there were things that we
I got stuck in, personally, I can say that, from childhood wounds, childhood trauma.
So unlocking some of my superhero powers just simply worked by getting involved in community with my brothers, really starting to become more vulnerable with my brothers, really being transparent about my journey and some of the things that I still was healing from, right, from childhood.
It helps to have a safe space in the container.
Manan talked a lot about the safe space in the first part of, you know, the show.
It's so important, man, that we build these safe spaces that are supportive of one another so that we can actually find our healing, find our superpowers.
My superpowers, man, have really developed into more compassionate listening.
The more that I get with my brothers, the more I find myself getting into this space of compassionate listening.
The other superpower that I find is to be present.
As I think about being present with you all every Sunday on the call, I also think about being more present with myself.
You know, I always tell people, man, whatever we want to give to other people, whether it be our children, whether it be our relationships, we have to be willing to give it to ourselves.
So being present, man, with myself as I am right now out in nature, that's been a big part of my healing and tapping into those superpowers.
What about you, good brother?
being with you guys and having these calls.
Some days you're like, man, you know, honestly, some days you look at the call, you're like, okay, all right, I got to talk to some people.
No matter who, I mean, no matter how close we are, it doesn't matter.
It was just me having to like gear up to expose my vulnerabilities in
response
I mean, we were going through writing exercises.
We did yoga on Zoom.
We did breathing exercises.
We were doing a lot of crying.
There was a lot of crying, a lot.
And brothers, you know, we know that, you know, black men don't cry.
And it was, this was, you know, for me, it was the most massive event for me in my life that of the things that I was going through.
This thing became even more universal.
Yeah, that's powerful.
What about you, brother Jamil?
For me, I think my biggest superpower that's been unlocked is my ability to connect with my brothers spiritually.
It's been a spiritual transformation for me in the sense that when I hear my brother speak, I can see myself in it.
It's like that reflection.
Then I can see how spirit is working to release us from things that have been, we've been tethered to that's been binding us up and holding us back.
individually and as we work together, because that's really what it is.
The other part of that superpower is like the Avengers, man, when we come together, I just watched Spider-Man with my boys and, you know, just looking at how when you come together and you work together, you know, it ignites something in all of us, right?
there's a lot of mental telepathy that go on and you know telekinesis that are like all of these different special gifts just because we were connected in that way and I think when you're around people long enough going through the process of healing it just opens up so much within you that you feel greater than just yourself because you are connected to something bigger than
self.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's a powerful statement, man.
Manan, as I'm thinking about this show, man, like you talk about the grapevine, they say that the fruit is out there, man, but you got to go out on the vine to get it, right?
Yeah.
So a lot of times, man, that's where we are with our healing, man.
You just got to go out on the limb.
You got to go out on the limb to go get that grapefruit, man.
So I feel like that's...
Big part of what we do in this this this whole program is called the truth man.
It's like being willing to be exposed, right?
Yeah in front of
Others right and and to take that risk right but it has to be safety there right there has to be that safe space container there So I think that exposure is very important master.
I'm I'm excited to bring this kind of exposure to you know radio to your show to other listeners and I hope it benefits people to think about how they too can begin to have this Healing transformation in their world with a group of their friends or people that they feel safe with you know
Very much so.
Yeah, I know that, yeah.
I know we did this series on showing the shadows some love and we talked a lot about
You know how to do that.
You know, what does that mean?
It looks like you know looking inside of our judgments and our Opinions and our views of everyone and being able to see ourselves Reflected as my dear brother said in one another right so being able to look at your dear brother here going through a transformation of his own and being able to see your own reflection through his Experiences that was a big part of what we did and I think
many people could connect with others, man, just by simply having a lot of grace to what you see people going through and knowing that it could be an experience that you've had or something that you could go through too and just being able to humanize everything, man, on this journey.
yeah, that's been a big part of our collective as well, just showing that shadow some love and getting into that healing work as well.
black man's healing call.
We hope everybody that is tuned in and is tuning in can see how we are trying to relay a message in a short amount of time.
We're just testing this format out.
Before we go, we want to make sure that we leave out of our space with proper intention and proper purposefulness.
We'll have a prayer and also breathing to breathe this in, to breathe this out and also pray it's out and we can be done.
So.
Yes indeed.
ahead.
So why don't why don't we take those those deep breaths and I'll pass the mic over to my brother.
We'll
We'll take three deep breaths again, everyone here.
The first one just for the time that we've had today to refresh our mind and to renew our spirit, right?
And get a fresh perspective today.
So let's take a deep breath in for that refresh time and exhale out.
The second deep breath will be for the resetting of our nervous system, the time that we've had to reset our nervous system.
which is very grateful that we've done this for ourselves today.
I'm pretty sure to let some of that stress and that tension go.
Deep breath in for the reset and exhale out.
And the third deep breath will be for the restoration or the reconnection back to our peacefulness within.
Deep breath in and exhale out.
As we close in prayer, we ask that we were successful in inspiring people out here who are listening to take their healing serious.
We pray that we are protected and rightly guided.
We pray that we are healing just by having these kinds of conversations.
We pray that everybody
is an acceptance of where we are.
However, also looking forward to where we can be as we envision a world that's better for us all.
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Tune in to the brothers healing call next week to 30 to 30 on Wednesday.
We're going to come with some more healing because we need it in our communities.
Thank you, brothers.
Thank you everybody for tuning in.
We'll be back in three minutes.
Welcome back.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
And Ray was on fire, man.
He said, one.
One bill passed.
I'm your host, Manon Severe, the grapevine.
Who about to pick some more grapes?
And also, you are on the award winning The Truth 1017.
And I'm glad you are here.
I'm glad you're with me.
But we got a lot to discuss today because we got a lot to discuss.
A black woman.
A black woman was found hanging from a tree.
in the back of her house, Mrs. Jackson, Mississippi, Monday night.
That's right.
And before anybody tells me, before anybody tells me what this looks like, I need you to know.
I need you to know that a black woman was found in the back of her house or back of a house in a tree.
This is not the first body Mississippi has found in the tree.
in years.
It is a consistent and a constant that there are more questions than there are answers.
And guess where her body is going?
I'm not going to even tell you where her body is going.
I'm going to tell you.
Her body is going right to right to the same corner that has to investigate Mr. Nolan Wells.
Yep, her body has to go right to the same corner.
Oh boy, a black woman, somebody that we're supposed to protect is found hanging in a tree in Mississippi.
So we're going to start there.
Then we're going to talk about how our kids, how to keep our kids safe.
How to keep our kids safe in the world that keeps handing us
Reasons to be afraid.
Reasons to be afraid.
Many conversations I've had in the last 24 hours in relationship to keeping our kids safe.
Many stories have been told to me.
Our kids need safe spaces, y'all.
They need safe spaces.
Plain and simple.
And at 230, I've got two men.
Virtually coming on brother Lou and brother Jamil Tyler Because we need to talk about what that those safe spaces actually look like What those safe spaces actually look like when black men show up and Be super not just for themselves, but for everybody else When black men show up we the entire space changes So when we show up when we're honest with ourselves, that's what happens
Then at the top of the hour, we're going to talk about a Detroit area judge.
This happened last year, but I had to tell you a lot of it's a lot of the fallouts coming.
Called herself a new racist on tape.
She called herself a new racist on tape.
She resigned.
Yes, she did.
It was a judge, a Detroit judge called herself a new racist.
And I need you to understand what, what the fallout is.
I need you to understand what exactly who's.
lives she was ruling over while she felt that way.
She felt some type of way.
And Milwaukee today, I'm going to tell you today is the third anniversary of the hat toss.
Today is the third anniversary of the hat toss of the Montgomery Riverboat brawl.
Not the Montgomery, Alabama, not the, you know,
Not the anniversary of King crossing the bridge, whatever.
Nah.
The Montgomery, Alabama, River Boat Brawl.
I ain't wearing my shirt.
Hey, we need a shirt.
No, I already have one.
You got one?
Yeah.
That's why I ain't look.
You can have my hat.
I'm just going to toss it in the air.
Listen, the Montgomery, Alabama, River Boat Brawl with Blackwood Man.
Uh the the coat the captain and then the old the old The old men I don't know what should we call them the bench riders?
Yeah, because they came with it the chokers I'm gonna call them the chokers because that's all they was doing is just choking people out So we're gonna close there and we're gonna have some fun But first we're gonna have a little seriousness to Trees truth and the bat signal.
That's what I'm gonna call it today
Trees, truth and the bat signal.
I should talk about.
I ain't gonna talk about it.
Let's get into it.
This is the great vine.
I'm glad y'all here, man.
Jackson, Mississippi.
A lady, young lady, I think 18, maybe 21 years old was found on the third.
Police found her body in the back of a house in Jackson, Mississippi.
And she has not yet to be identified, but this isn't the first.
This is not the first time they walk.
Actually, really, it happened.
It happens a lot.
One is enough.
It happened right here in Brookfield.
Like what, what, what makes a person, what makes a person pick a tree that's black, take a rope.
in themselves.
What, what makes a person, what makes a black person do that?
Right?
What makes that happen?
Why?
Her body is now headed to the, the coroner's office, quite possibly being investigated as a.
Murder investigation, possibly from different sources, possibly, because they don't want, they don't want the powder keg to blow up.
So, but this isn't the first time.
Last September, an 18 year old at Delta State University named Troy Trey Reed was found hanging from a tree in his own campus in Cleveland, Mississippi.
If you know where Cleveland, Mississippi is, you know what I'm talking about.
Officials, people rooted a suicide, but his family didn't really buy it, nor did the attorney, the attorney, of course, is Ben Crump.
And he helped get independent autopsy.
Mississippi got a lot, a lot of history, a lot of history of lynchings, covering up lots of murders and relationship to black people in their, in their state.
There's too many.
individuals that are going missing that are going missing in Mississippi by way.
Of what running into the woods or have been.
Just vanish or just vanishing.
And then there's too many hangings.
There's a there's enough hangings in Mississippi for investigators to.
conduct independent investigations.
Enough hangings.
That's too much.
This is too much, y'all.
Like, this same case, this same case, this case from yesterday, day before yesterday, is being sent to the medical examiner's office that is handling Nolan Wells' case.
the young man that went missing, missing off of Horn Island, Ocean Springs area on July 1st, July in July, July 4th.
So I can't see here and prove that any of this is either a cover up or accidental.
But it's a deep coincidence that we have young black folks, young black men and women.
that are going missing and or and or being hung in suspicious manners.
This young lady, how it doesn't make sense.
This doesn't make sense.
So you're going to go out in the back of your house, take a rope and hang yourself.
None of this, none of this is makes sense.
None of it makes any sense.
But what can I say is this?
When the same state office has the final word on multiple suspicious deaths in the black community, in the same short window, we need to start asking hard, non-paranoia-based questions.
We need to be independent and thorough.
And this is paranoia, man.
We have to be independent and thorough.
I think what we call this is due diligence.
Due diligence is, you know, somebody needs to be watching how these cases get handled very closely and very publicly.
We need to watch how these cases are handled.
Too many of our young people are going missing.
Too many.
and somebody knows something.
Either, and we can look, think about this.
We got sex trafficking.
Too many young people go missing in relationship to that.
Then we have our young people who they claim are committing suicide, being found hung in a tree.
Multiple trees, regularly across the nation, they're just being hung in trees.
That doesn't make sense.
That doesn't make sense at all.
So Milwaukee, when you find, when you hear found hanging in your tree, hanging in a tree, found hanging, period.
What's your, what's, what's like your, your gut honest, gut level thought before anybody tells you what to think, before anybody tells you what to think.
Call in.
Let me know.
833-212-1017.
833-212-1017.
What's your, what's your honest take on if quote unquote found hanging those words in a tree?
Straight up.
And we got to talk about protecting those, those, the ones still here.
How do we actually keep our kids
Safe in a world that keeps handling us Handing us stories like this that we just passed How do we keep our kids safe because that's a kid 18 18 years old 21 years old that's a kid Straight up and we need to protect those people especially it's a woman Found hanging in the back of a tree on the back of her house and on a tree.
No
When we come back, y'all, we'll be back in three minutes.
When we come back, we're going to discuss keeping our kids safe.
It's prevention, not just prayer.
Milwaukee, welcome back.
Oh, that beat boy.
I don't know about that beat.
Oh, my gosh.
And they came out with that.
Some of y'all weren't even born.
Straight up.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
I'm your host, Manon Severe.
We're picking some more grapes and we're talking about keeping our kids safe.
Prevention, not just prayer.
A lot of us rely on the prayer, but we don't do the action.
We'll do the action.
the action you got to prevent the kids from being in places where they don't feel safe.
You got to keep them away from those non-safe places.
It's important.
It's highly important.
We have kids, a lot of times we have kids who are doing, they're making their own safe spaces.
They're gathering in places where they want their friends to be.
And so they make those spaces their own.
They have their own schedule.
They have their own activities within those safe spaces.
But our kids need safe spaces and they need our parents, our parents, you, they need you.
They need you to not be afraid.
They need you to not to be afraid.
So.
After a story like the one we just talked about where the young lady in Mississippi was hung I Want to I want to talk about she was young she was 18 18 years old from what they said or 18 and maybe 21 and And she was young she was a young lady who was found in the tree and and that got me thinking about keeping our kids extremely safe
Cause we're walking around and I know so many, so many individuals that have expressed to me that they're afraid, they're afraid of these kids.
Our kids walk around, they're all black.
They got Poo Shicey Mask.
They got, they got all black on a hundred degree day and wearing hoodies.
I get it though.
I understand that, that piece.
I know why.
I definitely know why.
Some kids, some kids go in and out of air conditioned buildings.
So they, they wear, they wear their, you know, the, the, the hoodies all day, all day, in and out of air conditioned buildings.
Sometimes they just feel comfortable in those, in the, in, in those clothes.
Some of them, some kids don't sweat as much.
So they gonna feel like, man, I'm, this is what I'm wearing.
All right, cool.
And it prior protects their skin.
They don't want to burn up, but you cannot be afraid of the kids.
You can't, you can't allow yourself to be afraid of the kids.
They walk past you.
You say something as, as adults.
So I, I'm always thinking like, I'm always thinking I want to leave, especially in this, in this segment, I want to leave y'all prepared.
Like I really want you to be prepared.
One thing about children is you have to know their routine.
You got to know their routine.
You got to know their schedule.
It was an accident yesterday right outside my spot.
And it was a young man that was off of Layton.
And it was a young man that I heard the police.
Coming down the street had to been a chase about maybe two blocks and he ran a light and he hit somebody.
Car flips up, flips upside down.
He's in the car.
He's flipped up, up, turned upside down.
He's just, I mean, and you can look, he was hurt.
But then the other, the other gentleman, I think he was in a black Tesla was, was also, he was also hurt, but not as bad.
So.
But you could tell when they took this young man out of the car that he was young he was a young Young kid had to been he looked for to meet he looked about 18 maybe 19 years old maybe even younger but If you don't know If you don't know where your kids are in routine and also in schedule who they're who they're walking with who they're you know
what their route is, what time they are moving around.
If you don't have a built-in check-in system, even something as simple as a text message, when they arrive somewhere that it doesn't make them feel like they're being surveilled, but keeps you in the loop.
It keeps you in the loop.
That is quite possibly like the...
One of the best ways for for parents to do what they're supposed to do.
That's the best ways as parents to do what you're supposed to do and talk to them.
Really.
If I really think about it with this young man, he just he learned and it probably was a stolen car.
He probably had the ability to get, you know, to hack into the key fob system of this car.
The new, the new way to steal cars, they just not doing keys anymore.
They doing whatever they doing.
Any, any card I got to push, they got to push start.
They tapping into those cars.
So any car, any car that they are, you know, jumping,
through this electrical system, this technological system, they're taking off with it.
They're using it.
But where were this young man's parents?
Where were his parents?
His parents had to have been somewhere.
Had to have been.
And as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, when
They started taking him away.
He had two groups of people that showed up.
It were there were two young men that were talking to the cops.
I think basically about about this incident, whoever their relationship is to the young man.
But then also they started talking to the mom.
It was the mom had to have been the mother shows up and she was holding her heart.
Holding her heart because this young man Stole that or had a car that almost killed somebody.
I mean, it was a big big crash.
So Talk to your kids honestly about the world without making them constantly afraid of it Like kids kids are kids understand and maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe y'all maybe y'all know some things I don't but
Kids understand real risk.
Kids understand real risk in age appropriate terms.
Make it, they make better decisions than kids who are either kept, either kept totally in the dark or overwhelmed with like complete fear.
Kids do, they do what the leaders are gonna do.
And if you a leader, man, in your household, get that done.
Have a, have a direct and clear and clean conversation with your child straight up, but then also teach them that their instincts are highly valid.
Teach them that their instincts are valid.
If a situation, a person, a vehicle feels wrong.
They don't need a reason good enough to satisfy an adult before they're allowed to leave, yell or run.
If you don't feel, if your child does not feel comfortable and teach your children this, if your child does not feel comfortable at all, if your child does not feel like they are comfortable in a situation.
Even if you are there, listen to them.
Listen.
I know some of y'all know.
I know some of you have been in situations where you had to talk to your child like, man, calm down, man.
You know, we just go be here for you at an event.
You tell your child, man, we're going to be here for just a couple of minutes and we're going to leave your child like, no, I don't want to go.
I do not want to go in.
I do not want to be here.
All right, five minutes.
I'm going right, right to the car.
Those moments right there are, are, are family building moments.
Those are family building moments, moments where you know that your child has already said something about this and against their best judgment, you're, you're doing the opposite.
So please, there's, I was, man.
A friend of mine told me about, told me about his daughter yesterday and things, you know, the things that he had to do in order to make sure that his daughter was protected in the situation.
It wound up involving the cops and he wound up, you know, proving himself right.
But it was, it was some things where, you know, she, you know, she was in trouble.
And he had to come to the rescue.
So Milwaukee.
Don't sleep on, don't sleep on the fact that your kids have real, valid truths that will keep them and you also safe.
Talk to them.
Give them a reason to give them a reason to open up.
Give them a reason to be in that safe space.
Give them a reason.
Don't make it punitive.
Open up.
Get off your phone.
All right, y'all.
Listen, we're going to shift a whole lot of energy here.
We're going to shift all the energy at 230.
I got two grown men.
Virtually in this in on this channel, the grapevine, we're picking some grapes with them.
We're going to talk about whether or not whether or not men have can access being superhuman.
for their community and for themselves.
When we come back, we're going to talk to brother Lou and Jamil Tyler, two black man healers.
We'll see you in three on the grapevine.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
Welcome back to the grapevine.
And we're going to do something different today.
We're going to do something different.
I'm glad we're picking some more grapes.
And we're picking these grapes because it's time.
It's time to confront our black men, right?
Milwaukee, please welcome.
two men doing real healing work for our community.
Brother Lou of Just Breathe and Brother Jamil Tyler.
They're here virtually because that's what we do.
We move and we heal.
And so they're on the move healing our community right where it stands.
What's up my brothers?
Yes,
yeah, happy to be here, brother.
So let me, you guys can hear me.
Yeah, you're good.
All right.
Good.
Good.
I wanted to, I wanted to, um, before we get going, I wanted to make sure that our listeners know we have a, um, we're conducting a
Black men's healing call series on the grapevine and we're picking some grapes in that way.
The goal is to introduce the group of brothers that I've been around in my entire life for close to 30 years and or longer.
And every Sunday we have a, we have a black men's healing call every Sunday.
uh, for two hours and we go through our healing modalities.
We've been meeting consistently for about three years now and we introduced the group last week.
So hopefully people can tune into that, that segment and get a little bit more information about what we do, but we're going to get into it.
We're going to talk about healing and what it means to be a black man, a black man healing right now.
So hang with us, participate, be ready to call in if you feel like it, and also communicate on our YouTube chat.
All right, my brother.
Brother Lou, brother Jamil, you got ready?
Can we get started?
Can we get
started with a prayer and then get into the breath where we're running just like we run it on the call, brother?
Is that all right with you?
Yep.
All right.
So.
We want to pray for the
of our hearts and minds.
We want to pray and ask for protection for our children and for our community as a whole.
And we want to pray that today's segment and our time together is inspiration for men who, you know, are getting inspired to take their healing more seriously, as well as women to get together with your sisters.
These neighbors and co-workers and just women that you around man and commit to healing together.
So that is our prayer.
Amen.
Amen.
And I say.
Hello?
Yes, sir,
my apologies.
you hear me?
Yes, we got you.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, brothers.
Why don't we take
a few deep breaths like we usually do together.
The first deep breath that we want to take, and the listeners can do this with us, whether you're in your car, wherever you are, whether you're in your car, whether you are at home, whether you are at your desk.
This will be the time for you to release some of that tension and that stress off your body.
So let's do this, brothers, with each other.
Let's take these first few deep breaths.
The first deep breath that we're going to take is for acceptance.
of everything that we brought today to this session.
Let's take a deep breath in and release exhale out.
And when we inhale, inhale through the nose and exhale audibly through the mouth to release that stress.
Second deep breath that we take is going to be for the awareness of our mind, our body, and our spirit, our mind, meeting those emotions, meeting our heart, meeting our will right now in a moment.
Everybody take a deep breath in.
Full of awareness and exhale out.
And then the final deep breath is going to be for the alignment of us here, all on this call here together, joining together as a collective.
Let's take a deep breath in.
And exhale out.
All right, here we go.
Gratitude.
Gratitude.
Yeah,
just to give people, you know, some perspective and just a point of view, we have the Brothers Healing call, as you said, and the Brothers Healing call basically was a call for us to come together and start
our killing seriously as a collective of men.
Each one of us had our own struggle, our own journey that we were on, difficulties that we were, you know, trying to work through on our own.
And so what we decided to do was come together and work together to help heal one another.
And so that's the reason for all of this, for the Brothers Island call.
We've made a commitment to be consistent with one another, to be accountable to one another.
And our goal here, coming together with you, Brother Nunn, is to inspire others to get together with their brothers and sisters or family.
Whoever come together and commit to being consistent with healing.
I mean, we kick it together.
We travel together.
We family reunion.
We do a lot of things together, but we rarely come together with the focus of healing in mind.
possible.
Absolutely.
You know, we talk about healing as I was listening to you, brother Manon in the in the first segment.
You know, you were talking about the children and the youth specifically.
And I think about healing and I think about all of us, how we all kind of met each other in our teenage years, in our adolescence.
And we think about the things that we were susceptible to as well.
So I think about healing, even some of those wounds from us being teenagers ourselves or going through our own childhood wounds, and then us being healed and being able to raise
sons and daughters, you know, as healed people within community.
That's really a big deal, man.
So what I see outside now, when you talk about the young people, I also see a role that we step into as men, as protectors, as keepers, as, you know, not gatekeepers, but as people who are also prioritizing our health, our mental health, our mental well-being.
and doing that through practices, like what we do on the healing call.
So, you know, Jamil, man, from your particular perspective, bro, how does that fit into where you are, you know, right now?
I'm just throwing that question back to you again.
That's good.
And this is what we do, like we support each other, each other's growth through challenging growth and asking each other essential questions that we have to really
reflect upon and look within.
And when I think about what healing means, it means becoming more aware of self, right?
Aware of, you know, things that were passed down to you from your mother's side or your father's side.
Things that weren't even yours, right?
You were just born into a set of conditions and things have been impressed upon you and over the years you
pick these things up and all of the different types of trauma.
Many of us on the call, many of the brothers grew up without our fathers, which left a significant childhood wound on us.
And that's the same thing that you see with a lot of the youngsters who, you know, you might see acting up in the community.
You know, it's fatherlessness, right?
The lack of having that solid, strong male to died.
and to provide, right?
Not having that example and demonstration of how we do this.
And we grew up without that as well, right?
And so we had to figure out a lot of things out on our own.
But for me, helping is looking back at my little self and looking at all of the things that he had to deal with and basically loving him back.
to health, right?
Loving and back to health.
And I'm realizing that the more I do that work with them myself, it frees me up and opens me up to be a better father to my own sons and, you know, be a better, you know, community leader, be a better mentor, all of the things that I am in community.
So my healing has a direct impact on the healing of the community as a whole.
And when we come back, we're going to talk about, we're going to talk a little bit more about healing.
and what it actually means to be superhuman.
And is it is it our birthright?
Is it our birthright as black men to be just that?
And how does our legacy play into the next movement of black men?
When we come back, we'll be back in three on the Great Vine.
Yes.
Welcome back.
Life.
I wonder, will it take us under?
We don't know yet.
We're going to put on our flotation devices.
Welcome back.
This is the grapevine.
I'm your host, Manon Sabir.
We're picking some more grapes with the brother's healing call that I'm a part of.
That I'm a part of.
Been a part of it.
Man, I might as well just say I might as well been a part of it since I was born.
That's how we that's how we operate and move with all my brothers on our healing call.
For real, it's a number of us.
We on a killing call and I got brother Lou and brother Jamil Tyler on the award winning the truth.
One on one seven radio.
I'm glad you guys are here because we we're going to we're going to move.
We're going to move into the next section.
We're going to move into the next section.
I think the next section is quite possibly one of the more important sections.
It's a longer piece.
We started with.
We started with a prayer and also breathing and went into just the explanation of what black men should be doing in our community.
But now I'm going to take a step back.
And this is a part of the conversation where I take a step back and I allow my brothers to conduct the orchestra.
So let me take a step back and I allow one of my brothers to jump in and do some healing with.
with all of us.
All right.
You know, I like the idea, man.
It's all aligned, as we always say, of the superhero, right?
Yeah.
I got my teacher's shirt on today, man.
What's the connection between your superhero powers and healing, brother?
We talk about that a lot.
You all can hear me good, right?
you.
I believe that the connection between my superhero power and what was the other piece, good brother?
And healing, brother.
How
does healing
unlock those
superhero powers?
So I'll be honest with you, man.
Like coming back together with my brothers and doing what we do, that has unlocked a lot of my superhero powers from within myself.
What I noticed was there were things that we
I got stuck in personally, I can say that, from childhood wounds, childhood trauma.
So unlocking some of my superhero powers just simply worked by getting involved in community with my brothers.
Really starting to become more vulnerable with my brothers.
Really being transparent about my journey and some of the things that I still was healing from, right, from childhood.
it helps to have a safe space in the container.
Manan talked a lot about the safe space in the first part of, you know, the show.
It's so important, man, that we build these safe spaces that are supportive of one another so that we can actually find our healing, find our superpowers.
My superpowers, man, have really developed into more compassionate listening.
The more that I get with my brothers, the more I find myself getting into this space of compassionate listening.
The other superpower that I find is to be present.
As I think about being present with you all every Sunday on the call, I also think about being more present with myself.
You know, I always tell people, man, whatever we want to give to other people, whether it be our children, whether it be our relationships, we have to be willing to give it to ourselves.
So being present, man, with myself as I am right now out in nature, that's been a big part of my healing and tapping into those superpowers.
What about you, good brother?
Uh, being with you guys and having these calls, some days you, you're like, man, you know, honestly, some days you, you, you look at the call, you're like, okay, all right, I got to talk to some people.
No matter who, I mean, no matter how close we are, it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
It was just me having to like gear up to expose my vulnerable abilities in response to the questions that you guys were giving me and also these exercises you guys were.
I mean, we were going through writing exercises.
We did yoga on Zoom.
We did breathing exercises.
We were doing a lot of crying.
There was a lot of crying, a lot.
And brothers, you know, we know that, you know, black men don't cry.
And it was, this was, you know, for me, it was the most massive event for me in my life that of the things that I was going through.
This thing became even more universal.
Yeah, that's powerful.
What about you, brother Jamil?
For me, I think my biggest superpower that's been unlocked is my ability to connect with my brothers spiritually.
It's been a spiritual transformation for me in the sense that when I hear my brother speak, I can see myself in it.
It's like that reflection.
Then I can see how spirit is working to release us from things that have been, we've been tethered to that's been binding us up and holding us back.
individually and as we work together, because that's really what it is.
The other part of that superpower is like the Avengers, man.
When we come together, I just watched a Spider-Man with my boys and, you know, just looking at how when you come together and you work together, you know, it ignites something in all of us, right?
there's a lot of mental telepathy that go on and you know telekinesis that are like all of these different special gifts just because we were connected in that way and I think when you're around people long enough going through the process of healing it just opens up so much within you that you feel greater than just yourself because you are connected to something bigger than
self.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's a powerful statement, man.
Manan, as I'm thinking about this show, man, like you talk about the grapevine, they say that the fruit is out there, man, but you got to go out on the vine to get it, right?
So a lot of times, man, that's where we are with our healing, man.
You just got to go out on the limb, you know?
You got to go out on the limb to go get that grapefruit, man.
So I feel like that's...
Big part of what we do in this this this whole program is called the truth man.
It's like being willing to be exposed right in front of
Others right and and to take that risk right but it has to be safety there right there has to be that safe space container there So I think that exposure is very important man So I'm I'm excited to bring this kind of exposure to you know radio to your show to other listeners And I hope it benefits people to think about how they too can begin to have this Healing transformation in their world with a group of their friends or people that they feel safe with you know
Very much so.
Yeah, I know that, yeah.
I know we did this series on showing the shadows some love and we talked a lot about
You know how to do that.
You know, what does that mean?
It looks like you know looking inside of our judgments and our Opinions and our views of everyone and being able to see ourselves Reflected as my dear brother said in one another right so being able to look at your dear brother here going through a transformation of his own and being able to see your own reflection through his Experiences that was a big part of what we did and I think
Many people could connect with others, man, just by simply having a lot of grace to what you see people going through and knowing that it could be an experience that you've had or something that you could go through too and just being able to humanize everything, man, on this journey.
yeah, that's been a big part of our collective as well, just showing that shadow some love and getting into that healing work as well.
black man's healing call.
We hope everybody that is tuned in and is tuning in can see how we are trying to relay a message in a short amount of time and we're just testing this format out.
But before we go, we want to make sure that we leave out of our space with proper intention and proper purposefulness.
We'll have a prayer and also breathing to breathe this in to breathe this out and also prayers out and we can be done.
So,
yes, indeed.
ahead.
So why don't why don't we take those those deep breaths and I'll pass the mic over to my brother will.
We'll take three deep breaths again, everyone here.
The first one just for the time that we've had today to refresh our mind and to renew our spirit, right?
And get a fresh perspective today.
So let's take a deep breath in for that refresh time and exhale out.
The second deep breath will be for the resetting of our nervous system, the time that we've had to reset our nervous system.
which is very grateful that we've done this for ourselves today.
I'm pretty sure to let some of that stress and that tension go.
Deep breath in for the reset and exhale out.
And the third deep breath will be for the restoration or the reconnection back to our peacefulness within.
Deep breath in and exhale out.
As we close in prayer, we ask that we were successful in inspiring people out here who are listening to take their healing serious.
We pray that we are protected and rightly guided.
We pray that we are healing just by having these kinds of conversations.
We pray that everybody
is an acceptance of where we are.
However, also looking forward to where we can be as we envision a world that's better for us all.
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tune in to the brother's healing call next week to 30 to 30 on Wednesday.
We're going to come with some more healing because we need it in our communities.
Thank you, brothers.
Thank you everybody for tuning in.
We'll be back in three minutes.