100% Good News? Nahhhh

I'm just saying, I was talking to the girls, you know, we don't put enough emphasis on the ladies sometimes.

You know, I was talking to the girls, she was talking about the ladies, they're all fast and they love, you know, she got a friend more than she does to me.

She doesn't dance like 9,200 songs back to back with anybody, you know, we try to find out what she feels and how she feels, you know, you know what she told me?

She told me, check it out.

Hey!

She said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

What she said?

Oh, oh, she said she wants some Marvin Gaye.

Hey!

Some Lutheran banjoes,

a little Aliyah.

What up, y'all?

Welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, seven-of-truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

It's your boy Ray Nitty, Prince of the City, holding it down.

DJ Brother Z got us with the production and sound.

He been vibing today, man.

I ain't gonna lie.

We need a Brother Z mix.

Oh my daddy!

Man, we need a Z-Mix, fam.

Not the V-Mix, tell him send the Z-Mix.

I like that one.

I like that one.

We want the Z-Mix, not the V-Mix.

We talking about being prepared, y'all.

Being prepared to receive the things that we asked for.

What the hell are you laughing at?

We're talking about being prepared for the things that you asked for.

Because they say when praises go up, what they say church, blessings come down.

Amen.

Are you ready for the blessings?

Are you ready for the blessings?

What will you do with the blessings that you asked for?

Because sometimes we don't get the things that we ask it for because the creator knows what we will do with it.

We will mishandle it.

We will misuse it.

We will mismanage it.

Because we not prepared.

What's talking about bow?

Came out 2009 Literally all we had to promote it was Facebook Literally as my I think Facebook might still have The original video from when we first I gotta see if I can find it now when we first Put the song I was so such bad quality is grainy

I am willing to bet the creator was like nah.

This one ain't ready for it yet.

Not this much.

Not this much, not this fast.

Not my baby boy.

But I'ma give you a little taste of it.

I'ma give you a little taste of it.

I'ma let you get a little bit so you can see.

When you ask for things and I deliver but you can see and be revealed to what comes With the blessings y'all because with the blessings comes trials.

I'm telling you Don't think that we just gonna get a blessing and not be tested You gonna get that new job and you gonna have so many people pulling at you now, let's go out

Let's go do this.

Let me buy this.

Man, go pay for this.

You should do this.

You're gonna be tested.

You're gonna have friends, family members, people that you love.

Look at you different because you received the blessing that you asked for.

Your loyalty gonna be tested.

Your patience is going to be tested.

Y'all not hearing me you're going to be tested That test gonna come in many forms y'all It's gonna come in some of the things we love You're gonna start getting even more access to things that you love things that may not be good for us

For some people it might be alcohol.

For some people it might be drugs, food, humans.

Okay?

Are you prepared?

Are you prepared to receive the things that you asked for?

And are you prepared to be tested?

Because not only are you going to be tested to see if you're ready to receive it, but are you disciplined enough to keep it?

Are you disciplined enough to protect the blessings that you ask for?

Are you disciplined enough?

Okay.

To be obedient.

I wasn't trying to preach to y'all today, but it's turning into a sermon But I don't got no Bible verses for y'all Are you ready?

Are you ready accent slipped out, excuse me Are you ready it's time for us to go

When your name is called When your name is called and it's time for the blessing are you ready to receive it or are you ill-prepared?

Imagine if I had tick tock All the reels Instagram Instagram wasn't even around Instagram had just formed

Twitter was barely a thing.

Vine was just getting started.

And think about Vine was just six second clips.

Snapchat wasn't around.

OK.

It wasn't around.

But here we are today.

Here we are today.

And guess what?

By was still around.

All these new technologies is still carrying.

The song, the new heights and it's still a blessing.

The blessing I asked for is still paying off today and it is at a pace now that is way more manageable and tolerable for my anxiety.

Sherwin asked me a question he was like nitty How does it feel when you you know people see your song come on and they're still dancing in the club and twerking and you know and He's like I know people are just like Ray and I had to tell I was like man So many people know the song and can't tell you what I look like and I loved that

And it's because I wasn't everywhere.

And it was also because we didn't have so much technology that would have just spread, I guess, my images all over the place.

You have to actually go listen to the song.

You have to actually DJs had to play the record.

Radio had to play the record.

You still had to pay to download it from Apple at these times.

But are we ready?

Are we ready for the change?

What will it take to clean up our image?

Clean up our perception of what's possible of what could happen in the city of Milwaukee because right now, the perception that is turning into truth, unfortunately, is we're about to lose

downtown Which folks say it's supposed to be the in that economical engine of the city of Milwaukee and all this development that was supposed to happen downtown and Tom Barrett promised us I was still in high school and all this north side development that was supposed to Sprint to the north side You know

All this development that Tom said it was gonna spread to the north side.

More people, I'm sorry.

Y'all gonna hate me for this one.

I don't understand how more people are mad at Chevy than Tom Baird.

I don't understand that.

Is it things Chevy could be doing better?

Absolutely.

But we let Tom sit for 18 years fam.

and told us for 18 years, don't worry, it's coming.

And we was cool with it.

We kept voting.

But are we ready to open our eyes and make the changes that is needed?

Are we ready to actually do the work and not just let somebody tell us work is on the way?

Your change is going to come.

No, you need to take your change and future into your own hands.

That's what I feel we need to do.

We need to control our mind, control our thoughts, control our actions.

Organize.

18 years.

sat stagnant for 18 years.

A city where it's the worst place to raise black families.

Let somebody sit for 18 years.

Think about it.

Think about it.

The pension crisis.

Think of all the bad deals that we let happen over the course of 20 years maybe even more for some 25 plus years The hotel sales tax think about it so many bad deals

We could change the perception and the reality of Milwaukee, but we're gonna have to change some rules and some laws and the way things have been operating in this city.

Because there's money on the table, y'all.

Don't go anywhere.

When we come back, we're gonna get into some more conversation right here on the award winning one on one, seven of truth.

To the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth.

Hey, this I ain't gonna lie Kirk's Kirk and glow snap man Will you find this time?

Hey RIP shorty low man He's dead.

Yeah, you didn't know shorty low died he died in a car accident Wild story, bro.

We was in Indianapolis shorty low was supposed to be on that show with us And he passed away, bro

the day before.

Passed away the day before.

But.

833-212-1017 is the number to die.

Welcome back, y'all.

It's your boy Ray Needy on the award winning one on one, seven, the truth live from the American Family Insurance Studio.

We have in the conversation, y'all, about perception.

And changing.

What people's perception is not just of Milwaukee right of our community because It's a scientific thing that is happening and I got some examples Some you may have heard before right behind door number one today y'all we gonna be talking about the doll tests All right, you may have heard about it Two dolls one table It's 1940s

All right, setting the scene for y'all 1940s a black child three four five years old Sits at a table in front of her are two dolls Identical in every way except one is white and one is black A psychologist then asked

Pay attention y'all saw this I'm sure y'all saw this but for those that Have not seen it and now is just joining us Okay The psychologist asked which doll is nice Which doll is pretty?

Which one is smart?

Which one is good?

Then the psychiatrist acts which one is bad

And which one is ugly?

Kenneth and Mammy Clark.

Mammy Clark is wild.

Randy's test across the segregated south and in the north.

Kenneth, the first black PhD in psychology from Columbia, Mammy, her doctorate on black children's self image.

They weren't studying dolls.

They were studying what segregation does to a child's mind.

Okay?

A child's mind.

What did the children did?

What the children did?

A majority pointed to the white doll as the nice one, the pretty one, the good one, and the black doll as the bad one and the ugly one.

That's crazy.

They only even gave the Black Doll two choices.

Is your bad and ugly?

That's wild.

The White Doll got pretty, smart, good, nice.

They picked the Black Doll as the bad one and the ugly one.

Children who looked like the Black Doll chose the White Doll and rejected the ones that looked like themselves.

Some children even cried.

Some children even cried, y'all.

Some ran out of the room.

It was crazy as we saw this on video as well.

Some children cried and some children ran out of the room.

Being asked simple questions of what do they perceive of themselves?

Not are you violent?

Not are you you know on drugs?

That's simple questions.

Which doll is nice?

Which one is pretty which one is good which one is smart?

And two other questions which doll is ugly and which doll is bad?

All right Babies who had barely learned to read y'all

Had already learned which color was the good color and which color was the bad color?

Nobody sat them down and taught them that The picture taught it the billboards the books the screens the streets the the movies the commercials The ads the whole world is a teacher, okay And it's lesson

To our community was we are the black dolls.

We are the bad dolls And not just to our community but to our community and was taught to others as well So that's why when we talk about the perception of people outside of Milwaukee and what it looks like why is very important that media is responsible

with the images that they continuously decide to project of a community.

What does it look like?

We prioritize good.

We prioritize showing majority good images.

100% all good news week.

Why does that even sound like something that can't be done?

Why is that a bad thing?

100% all good news.

What's wrong with it?

Think rains will be down?

So why does this matter, y'all?

In 1954, right?

The Supreme Court cited the Clark's research in Brown versus the Board of Education.

Shout out to Urban Underground.

We had a whole protest, a whole... We was aware of what was going on.

But in 1954, the Supreme Court cited the Clark's research in Brown versus the Board of Education, footnote 11, as evidence that segregation inflicts psychic injury on black children.

Social science entered into constitutional law.

The dial test was the diagnosis.

Brown was the treatment.

The pitcher had built a legal regime.

Separate schools separate everything and black science proved the pitcher was the poison.

The clock showed.

The picture.

Gets installed before a child can spell her own name.

What pictures are being installed in black children right now?

We just had this conversation.

What pictures are being stored in black children right now?

And by what and by who?

The two dolls, one table, one question at a time.

What's the 2026 version of that?

What's the 2026 version of the doll test?

Is it the feed?

The filters?

The casting calls?

The promotions?

Hmm?

Hmm?

Sorry.

Callers.

I want to hear from you.

Black babies picking a white doll as the pretty one.

When did you first realize the picture of black people you'd been given wasn't drawn by us?

That's what I want to know.

When did we first realize that the picture

of black people that was given to us wasn't drawn by us.

Okay?

Call us up, 833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

We have this false image of ourselves that we have bought into as a community.

We on site, savages.

Nobody tell me none is TTG.

Hmm.

Behind door number two, y'all, we're going to get into something called the lab.

OK, the test that grades you before you pick up the pencil.

All right.

We're going to get into that.

Oh, we got like two minutes.

Maybe we could paint the scene real quick.

In 1995.

Psychologist Claude Steele and Joshua Arson.

Some of that we got to call.

Aronson are bothered by a gap.

Black students earning worse grades, dropping out more.

And the explanation on the offer is pernicious ideas that they're just less intelligent.

When we come back after this break, we're going to talk to Miss Sandra for a little bit and get her position on some of these things.

All right.

When we come back we gonna talk about this some more because we talking right now about 1995 Stanford All right and The idea that they're at that us that we are just less intelligent We gonna get into that all right right here on the award-winning one on one seven the truth don't go anywhere

What up y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American family insurance studios Says Milwaukee black talk How y'all feeling man, let's go talk to miss Sandra miss Sandra, how you doing?

I'm fine.

How are you doing?

I can't complain at all just up here doing my job.

Oh, that's okay

Because I did a lot of jobs, you know, when I was coming up, I mean, you could just put a job and put in another application and get it.

And be

straight right

back to work.

Yeah, I think that was because of, I guess I came in a good era where we were building up, please for black people to get ahead a little bit, you know, education, jobs, because like I said, my dad worked at America,

no.

American murders.

American murders, yeah.

He worked in American murders, and he worked at Apple Chessel.

That was a leather tannery where they kill cows or whatever, and you make the shoes or whatever leather stuff.

And we just came up in a good era, but I just remember being young.

My parents, they never spoke about racism, and they were straight from the South, but maybe it was a fear that was instilled in them that they couldn't talk about it.

But

then I didn't ever, I didn't ever, every dial I got was a white dial.

I can only remember getting two.

One was called a kissy dial and was a black dial.

And they had to do a white, but my mother never explained to us that they didn't make black dial.

And so, um, and so, uh, as I was coming up and got older, you know, I bought my, my, my daughter.

And that was the Barbie era, you know, but see a lot of things.

It's not as plain to us as we were kids.

Uh, even like now, I don't think I talked to my kids enough.

And then my kids don't want to talk about these.

My daughter, she cries.

She cries.

She actually cry.

And she locks up because she, she was screwed here, of course.

She finished college.

So what, you know, school, white people 11, she broke it.

And I never say anything ugly.

I just told you that we always got to be on guard a little bit, be aware of things, you know, so you won't.

Get

into something that you can't get out of it.

You can't buy yourself or something like that, what I'm saying.

But I mean, the people out there, even the young kids, they don't want to talk about it.

They don't know it was a big effort for us to fight for the jobs that we had to get French benefits.

See, we can't be like politicians.

They can make a mess up there.

They get a check.

They get French benefits.

They get to eat good.

They got islands offshore.

They bank their money offshore.

They live in riches.

So yeah, they can come back and call us the enemy, the welfare kings and queens.

They can jump on a black man in a hot pack and they say their rape is not on the Mexicans.

They rape and they're criminals.

Who can be the most criminal in the United States?

I'm sitting there watching them every day.

But yeah, they can sit up there and they can get laws legislated where we could be

the enemy and it works.

It's a concept that works to beat down people that don't have, because they don't have to fight you back.

So they do have.

And like I said, I saw where they were buying islands.

I said, buying islands.

How they gonna buy an island?

Here we over here fighting.

Honest guy.

You know, we put our money in everything.

We put our money in movies.

These people get rich off of movies that we put our money in.

We put our money in sports.

In fact,

We wear the sports.

We advertise for free if I wear a Nike shirt or whatever.

I'm advertising for free, but I bought the shirt.

So why are you hating on us?

Why are you hating on us?

We keeping you going.

You know, I want to say it just gets stupider and stupider every day.

I hate to hit my mind.

I said, I don't like to say it personally, uh, to our, you know, on the radio, but how could it be so goofy?

I don't understand it, but I, we, we're not stupid.

We're very intelligent.

That's what they don't write.

They don't want nobody to ever overpower them.

And you're not going to.

Because by the time you get there, they got the drones out.

They got the slot cameras.

They got that data center coming up.

They don't want to talk about chips in us and all this stuff.

They have every spy machine on us that they can spy because they will never lose their fortune off of pimping.

And that's what that's

what I had to say.

I appreciate you calling in, Miss Sandra.

Thank you for calling in to your award-winning 10170 Truth.

I feel you.

I feel it, man.

I feel it.

And, you know, a lot was said, a lot was said, but I want to go to the fact of what she was saying.

You know, her parents never talked about race.

Being in the deep south.

And why is it fair?

That's a good question.

I would I would like to know for folks who have parents that grew up in the South.

Where are they talking to you about race?

414-477-7800 that's up.

Don't that.

That's my damn phone.

A3 3212-1017.

is the number to dial a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial.

We're talking about.

Nineteen ninety five in Stanford.

All right.

The experiment more than a hundred black students, more than a hundred black and white students from Stanford.

Thirty different.

Whoa.

Thirty difficult verbal questions in 30 minutes.

Prior SAT scores controlled.

Everybody's matched.

All right.

Group one.

Group one is told.

This test measures your intellectual ability.

Group two is told.

This is just a problem solving exercise.

It doesn't measure anything about you.

The results told the test measured ability.

The black students underperformed their white peers.

Told it measured.

Nothing.

They performed equally.

Same kids, same test, different scores.

What change wasn't the student?

It was the room.

So here's a kick in another version.

They didn't mention ability.

They just asked students to check a race box at the top of the test.

Same depressing effect, a check box.

That's all it takes to summon the pitcher.

What was the mechanism?

It's not about believing the stereotype.

You don't have to agree your group is less intelligent.

You just have to know the stereotype is in the room.

And part of your mind starts working a second job.

Don't confirm it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

The second job eats the working memory.

You need for the test.

So the threat isn't in your heart.

It's in your ram.

All right.

Hundreds of studies replicated it everywhere.

Women on math tests, poor kids on ability tests, even white men on math when compared against Asian peers.

It's a human glitch, not a black glitch.

Here's the cruelest details before we get to break.

The students who care the most get hits the hardest.

OK.

The ones most invested in succeeding are the most haunted by the picture.

Stereotype threat is nothing if not painfully ironic.

So they say it's the way out.

So way out.

They say this is also science.

Say, researchers found that short values of affirmation writing exercises under an hour done in real schools shrank achievement gaps and the effects lasted.

Says, name what matters to you in your own words and the picture loosens its grip.

The lab gibbeth and the lab take it the way, the same science that proved the damage proved the repair.

eight three three two on two ten seventeen is the number to dial y'all eight three three two on two ten seventeen is the number to dial.

Okay.

So we're going to say this with caution now.

The stereotype threat is one factor among many.

Okay.

In achievement gaps, not the whole explanation.

Some researchers debate how strongly lab results map onto real classrooms present.

Present the class findings it doesn't claim it explains everything All right So the checkbox a single box at the top of a test moved scores Where else in life is the checkbox?

Is it the tiny trigger that summons the picture?

What's the irony in all of this y'all?

The hardest workers get hit hardest.

Who in your life is carrying a second job nobody can see?

What's the repair?

They say under an hour of writing shrank the gap.

What does that say about how small the intervention can be and how big the damage was?

College.

The steel research proved the test starts before you pick up the pencil.

When's the time you felt the room grating you before you opened your mouth?

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

That's 833-212-1017.

That is the number to dial.

When's a time?

You felt the room was grading you Before you even opened your mouth.

Don't go anywhere.

Y'all when we come back We gonna close this thing out here on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth

Smooth like Sunday morning.

Baby, baby, baby.

From the time I saw you, even though you were past my mind.

Welcome back, y'all, to the award-winning 10170 Truth Live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

Welcome y'all welcome welcome welcome a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 that is the number to dial a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 that is the number to dial Some people don't know my name y'all still be calling me the wrong name.

It's all good though Hey

I wasn't going to go and take it high.

I just kept it mid, you know, alto.

How are y'all doing, y'all?

How y'all feeling?

A three, three, two, one, two, ten, seventeen is the number to dial.

Today we was talking about talking about a few things, actually, stereotypes, perception, reality, imaging.

Being responsible and being intentional about the energy we allow to penetrate our thoughts Whether you got a Job you going after idea or plan or something Say don't share your dreams too much there's too many people who's gone

Project their fears onto you They're gonna tell you how much you can't get it done Don't tell you how impossible it is how difficult it's going to be They're going to put up Every hurdle they can in a mind because they're projecting their fears onto you And now you become fearful But I'm here to tell you that the thought that the dream

that you had.

It was given to you by the creator.

OK.

We would like to think we thought about it ourselves, but it was planted in you by the creator and you are supposed to manifest these dreams.

You are supposed to manifest these thoughts.

OK.

We have a responsibility.

I saw the home in the street.

We have a responsibility, y'all.

What are we going to do with it?

What are we going to do with our responsibility to follow through?

To stick it out, to not give up, to not get distracted.

On this throwback Thursday, Thanksgiving Eve.

The weekend Eve.

Throwback Thursday, I want you to throw back to a thought that you had that you you You stuck in a corner something that you were very passionate about And you're not doing it right now But you was passion it could be simple simple as drawing Singing picking up a hobby Idea business a group you wanted to start maybe it was just a book club

Okay, I Want you to on this throwback Thursday think of That thing it may be one it may be two it may be a few but I want you to think of one thing that you set to decide Because we allowed other people's thoughts and fears to project on to our lives I Want you to think of what that one thing is then I want you to write it down

Y'all know we like to give homework.

Y'all don't really do your homework here on The Truth, but it's okay.

Write it down whatever that thing is, right?

Write it down.

If you got one thing that you set aside and you're like, ah, now ain't the time.

Ah, I'm gonna do it later.

Ah.

The economy's bad, right?

I don't have enough time.

I don't have this.

I don't have that.

Ain't nobody supporting me.

Ain't nobody.

Whatever that thing is, I want you to pick it up.

I want you to pick it up and write it down on a piece of paper.

And on that piece of paper or a notebook or in your cell phone, I want you to write three things.

Three steps that you are going to take to relight that spark.

for that idea, for that mission, for that journey, whatever it is.

And I'm gonna tell y'all my thing.

I got some homework too.

We have a good time here at Truth.

I share a lot of my personal life journeys with y'all.

I've shared my dietary journey.

We've started a few diets over together here on The Truth.

Okay?

So I'm saying to this with y'all, I'm gonna do the homework with y'all.

It's gonna be a few things I pick up them.

It's gonna be a few things I pick up.

And I'm gonna share them with y'all tomorrow, but y'all have to do it too.

Write it down.

I don't care if it was just you wanting to learn how to speak another language.

Write it down.

Let's get back on track.

Let's get back focused.

Let's get back locked in.

Let's get back defying all the odds.

Let's get back going against all the stereotypes.

Let's get back going against all the negative things that they threw your way.

I believe in Milwaukee, man.

And I'm from St.

Thomas, the Virgin Islands.

I believe in Milwaukee.

I believe this city is small enough to do.

amazingly huge impactful things, but we have to organize.

We have to strategize.

We have to communicate.

We want another.

We have to be resourceful.

We want another.

We're going to have to lean on each other as a community.

Find your community.

Find your tribe.

Somebody that's gonna hold you accountable.

It's hard to do it by yourself.

I get it But you don't want people around that's going to feed you the wrong energy You want somebody that's gonna be like you could do this you got it What do you need for me?

How can I be an asset?

How can I help you get to the next level?

How can I help you get this thing?

Oh, I may know somebody We can no longer be

victims of our environment, our traumas, our situations.

Sure, they can strengthen us and they could fuel us.

They could fuel our drive.

But no longer are we accepting that our environment, our family, our neighborhoods, our lack of is now our handicaps.

We're not accepting that no more.

Not for me, not for my cousins on the truth, not for my colleagues.

Everybody has something amazing inside of them that is waiting to be awakened.

I truly believe everybody has something special in them that they are responsible for birthing and bringing to this world and contribute to society.

But.

The flow of life interrupts that path, that journey, whether it's bills, whether it's all these other things.

So this throwback Thursday, we getting back on track, y'all.

I used to want to go back to school.

I think that might be one that just get left out.

I wanted to go back to school.

You know what, let me not say it's gonna get left out.

We'll see.

But that's not one of the things that I really wanted to get back to.

But we'll see.

Pick it up, whatever it is, man.

Whatever you was discouraged to do.

Then I want you to think of everybody that was around you when you were working on that idea the first time.

Okay?

So we got a couple of things for homework.

We're going to write the thing down that we had gave up on or set aside.

Now, we're going to write three steps that we're going to take to move forward towards said thing that we set down.

Then I want us to think of all the people that was in our lives that you can remember.

So a lot of people come in our lives and go out of our lives, especially when you're a dreamer.

But I want you to think of all the people that showed up.

Think about the people that stayed.

Not the ones that left.

Not the ones that gave you negative feedback, not the ones that discouraged you, not the ones that said it wasn't going to happen.

Think about.

Yo strong supporters People that was pushing you even when it sounded insane Man, you go you gonna be big with this you need to do this think of those people write their names down Write three people that it might not even be three it might just be one because all you need is one good person in your corner.

Trust me

We think we be needing a whole crew a whole entourage To reach where we got to go and that's the furthest thing from truth Sometimes all the weight that we carry with us is what's holding us down Is what's slowing us up from getting to the finish line y'all so write it down it could be one person That one person that was instrumental in pushing you forward and then reach out to that person Don't ask for none just reach out

If you haven't reached out to him before, just say, man, thank you.

Just say thank you today.

You don't got to tell them you about to get back on the saddle.

Just say thank you for being a positive person in my life.

All right, y'all, that's my time.

I'm about to get up out of here.

Tap in with Jazz is up next, man, on the award-winning 10170 Truth.

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or what's going on in the city.

Because that's not it.

All right, when we come back, y'all will continue the conversation right here on the award-winning 10170

Truth.

What

up y'all welcome back to the award winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American family Insurance studios.

It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city This is black talk Milwaukee y'all Shouts out brother Z holding us down with the production and sound man I'm just holding it down for Aunt Viv man.

I'm just her nephew You feel me?

Now how are you auntie?

Out of town, you just take over the crib for a little bit.

You start having a little fun.

Just have a little fun till I'm Viv, get back, man.

Till I'm Viv, come check in.

October 12th, right?

That's when we started.

October 12th.

So I got 12 more days in The Truth with y'all.

Not just at The Truth, but in this segment, in this slide.

And it's going back to our regular schedule program.

All right?

Loran also says, do you know that if we do what we're supposed to do in everyday life, you're not supposed to be on the news.

The news is for extraordinary good or extraordinary bad, not in the middle.

Sure.

But what I'm saying is, it's way more extraordinary good happening in the north side of Milwaukee

and the city as a whole where we could prioritize telling the good stories, sharing the good stories.

Why must we always continue to share the fear?

Why?

I'm not saying don't acknowledge it.

I feel you, Rob.

Rob says sometimes you wish we could play the full songs.

We working on something, but we can't do that right now.

But we cooking something up.

OK.

We cooking something up because we do understand that is a huge music culture here.

But yeah, I'm saying.

We could prioritize.

Pushing the good, not the bad, not the negative.

And I get it, bad news travels way faster.

Sometimes good news is boring, I guess, right?

But what does that does?

What does it do?

What does that does?

It's crazy.

What does that do for somebody?

If you already feel away about your surroundings, your neighborhood, your environment, your situation, and then all of a sudden, every time you wake up, the first thing you see, the overwhelming thing that you see is just negative.

Breaking news.

Why the breaking news can't never be great news?

Why the breaking news always gotta be something tragic?

Why in the world that's already full of bad.

Why can't we prioritize uplift in the good?

Why can't we?

Prioritize suppressing the negativity.

I'm not saying ignore it.

I'm saying address it Focus on addressing it Ah now we talking brother Loran Now we talking All right

Fear gets the ratings Fear gets the ratings in every good show That has a fear aspect needs a good villain and who is I Was gonna say iron ironically enough I was gonna say

And who's the best supervillain in this country?

But the irony is we've had.

I'm not mistaken.

It was.

Good old Uncle Joe Biden.

Who at one point or was it Bill Clinton?

Don't get me wrong.

Fact check me family if I'm wrong.

One of them referred to us as a super predator.

Biden.

Biden.

Hmm.

A super predator.

Probably both of them matter.

Probably both.

I think Biden did it first.

Because then like Bill signed it into something into play or something like that.

I don't know.

Super predator, super villain.

Who are they talking about?

Fear gets ratings.

Who is.

The most polarizing person to talk about when it comes to fear in our Milwaukee news and everything.

Well, I say is to.

I say I'm going to say in black community for sure.

is the number one villain.

But secondly, I'm going to say politicians is the number two villain.

Right.

Why can't we prioritize suppressing the negative news?

Like it's so much going on in Milwaukee.

So many Milwaukee tech.

Month just like the Wisconsin Tech Month just like launched We could talk about that Domestic violence awareness month just launched we could talk about that All the resources we share about all the trauma and triggering situations that we talk about on this show we could share

Those resources, we could prioritize that.

Prioritize sharing the things people need.

That's what I feel healthy media would look like.

That's what I feel like productive media would look like.

We should turn it off.

Turn the TV off.

If anything is just constantly just pushing more negative down your throat after you've already lived in it and experienced it.

Now I got to come home and watch the news and hear about it.

I just drove past that car crash.

I just drove past that shooting.

I just drove past that car chase.

We can keep going.

It's a long list of all the negative things that is repeatedly highlighted.

But we don't take the opportunity to prioritize the good.

And I'm not saying outlets don't ever talk about the good things, right?

But what I have not seen is prioritizing to consistently only talk about the good.

And maybe that's too much of a fairytale and people need to hear the real things of what's happening.

But I personally believe if somebody living in one of the worst places to raise African-American families and then you turn on your news station and then you keep hearing it, then you keep seeing the actual physical examples of it.

Then people who don't even live in your city keep hearing it and keep seeing it.

Start to believe the stereotypes right start to spread it start to join in in the comments But do we help the stereotypes be perpetuated Are we giving people the ammunition to use against us

Absolutely.

A part of it is our own fault.

Yes.

A part of it is our own fault.

But what are we going to do?

We could keep sitting up here and talking about it every day.

On the award winning one on one seventh of truth, we could do that every day.

Or we could take action.

We could start by getting back to the basics.

Start with ourselves spreading good energy, love, be intentional about putting out positive energy.

Be intentional about not sitting around and just indulging in negative conversations.

When somebody brings a negative conversation, you pivot.

You change the energy in the conversation.

Let's talk about something uplifting.

Let's talk about something good.

Let's talk about something that's going to make both of us feel a lot better.

Because what we're talking about right now, it is not bringing you joy.

I could see your energy is changing.

You're getting more angry about it.

I want us to think about this before we go into this break, right?

We love stats.

We love facts.

We love to say how much stress

How much stress causes illnesses and sicknesses and diseases in our country and our community?

What do you think that's doing when we're living in it and seeing it every day, playing on our mental?

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

When we come back, we're gonna continue the conversation right here on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.

What up y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seventh of truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the City DJ brother Z holding us down with the production and sound man.

I Thought it was crazy that this was Eddie Murphy song, huh?

He has some slappers on the low

Speaking of party all the time and make sure y'all get down to St.

Kate today at 5 p.m.

for the official kickoff of the Wisconsin Tech Month having a happy hour, man.

So I might try might try pop out down there real quick if I could find a spot.

Wait a minute.

St.

Kate is like in walking distance from here, huh?

Not to shouldn't be too far.

But we talking about perception being greater than truth.

We talking about media, the role it plays in elevating all the negative stories.

We talking about the industry, whether it be the music industry or the movie industry.

The images that it constantly shows.

a representation of us in.

We're always the drug dealer.

We're always the one in the storyline where the dad is in jail.

You know, he's always, we always got the bad side storyline.

And people see that for years and decades and generations continuously see it so much so we rewrite it.

We keep rewriting the same damn story.

For our lives, for our community and show that over and over again.

As if that's the story that we came from as if that's our only.

Storyline.

Will we control what images we allow to be shown to us of ourselves?

Right.

Want to talk about.

You know.

How important.

Representation is.

On this throwback Thursday and people can say what they want, right?

About President Obama.

What did he do?

What he didn't do?

What he should have done more of all of these things, right?

That's a separate conversation that can be had.

But perpetuating.

The image.

You know that a black man, a black girl, a black family.

Could.

Achieve the highest office in this country as president.

The first family, the first black first family.

The I don't care what anybody says.

No matter what you felt he did or didn't do, it was something as a black person that you felt when he won that presidency.

Black mixed, I don't care, the whole country, it was something that you felt.

As black people, I know I was proud as hell.

To see that image to be able to say it's possible in this country a Black man a black family could be in the White House And they they did it well Michelle did it well There we go if my rims a tool

How many of us played this song?

I was working at Time Warner Cable when this song came out.

I was working in the suburbs at that too.

I had just got moved from Northside, riding through Mekwan, Germantown, Walkershaw, banging.

My president is black out the cable truck window.

We felt something in this moment.

We saw what was possible.

We saw our power.

We saw what happened when we came together as a voting block.

We saw what it felt like.

You can't tell me you didn't feel something.

My Lambo's blue and I'll be, if my rims ain't too.

Appreciate Brother Z for taking me down memory lane.

This is actually a great throwback Thursday song, by the way.

What did you feel on this day?

I still got the paper printed up, actually.

I have four newspapers from that day.

Say what you want.

Say what you want, man.

But you felt something.

You felt something.

Maybe some people didn't give a damn.

But deep down, I felt like black people all across the world, all across the country was like, whoa, it was a jolt to our core of hope, possibility.

What else can we do?

But then we got comfortable.

Let's go talk to cousin Wes on the line.

Cousin Wes, how you feeling?

Oh, yeah, especially living in Milwaukee.

So every day gets.

And yeah, I totally agree with you.

Life is all about perspective and, you know, depending how you look at it.

I mean, there's a lot of bad things that go on, but it's, you know, I don't pay attention to it because I stay busy looking for the good and other people's lives.

You know, just like a road trip, sometimes people take the wrong turn.

No problem.

You know, our job.

Especially if you're doing good things, is to put up the right road signs in your own personal life for them to see and then get back on the right path.

Sometimes I find myself thinking about negative things that are going on and just letting me know the Bible is true.

What you seek, you will find.

Sometimes if you just find yourself always thinking about negative things, you gotta ask yourself, why am I doing this?

I don't have to think about this and I can think about positive things.

So like, like you said before, turn off the TV, right?

Tell anybody that's talking, you know, bad stuff to you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

And, uh, you know, it is tough.

Life is tough.

Sometimes you got to get gritty, but that's why I listen to you, Nanny.

I'm one on one person in the truth.

Oh, man, I appreciate it, man.

Shout out to Cousin West, man.

That was a beautiful car.

And I agree, man.

At some point.

At some point we have to.

And I'm not saying it's easy.

I'm not saying it's easy, right?

I've been.

Depressed I've been in dark places where negative thoughts consumed my mind whether it was about my career or people I felt wronged me in deals or Man, I should have did this.

I shouldn't have let the label spent this money here or management shouldn't whatever and I sat and I thought about these things over and over again for a while so much so I just

Went into this dark place Resentment Feeling betrayed feeling like I should have trusted myself more I should have trusted my word more Thinking about the what ifs I Always say if we can change our minds

We can change our lives y'all.

Thoughts become things.

What we think about every day we will surely become.

What we think about constantly every day we will surely become.

Our mental space and our physical life is a representation of each other.

I'll simplify it to, for me, I keep my car be junky.

Junky as ever, my basement space, just...

Socks everywhere.

Because you're always rushing.

Oh man, just take this off.

Oh man, I was reading this.

Then put this back.

Now it's just clutter.

So much so I feel like I couldn't think.

And then when I start to clean up the spaces, when you start to clean up the spaces that you frequent the most, you start to feel like,

My god, I could breathe again.

I could think again when my studio is messy.

I'm not creating.

I'm not even going to the studio When the basement is that's why I think that's why I get my thoughts that when the basement is just I am not creating I'm not thinking I'm doing everything else because clutter is everywhere when we come back y'all will

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We're talking about perception being greater than truth and cleaning up our thought processes.

Thoughts become things.

What people think they are they become I Always say our physical life is a manifestation of our thoughts You ever do you ever had a friend have you ever had a friend or associate or just somebody

Hey, you can just see somebody online that you follow and they always it's just something negative going on.

Just something negative.

This person did this to me.

This person did that to me.

It's just misery.

When they say misery loves what company?

That is a true statement.

Hmm.

You ever try to encourage somebody who is just.

deliberately making themselves miserable and no matter what you try to infuse or inject and they just constantly go against it because misery, not the person.

OK, misery is what wants to company.

Because I I want to believe that that person doesn't want to sit in misery.

But the misery itself the energy of misery looks for other Miserable peoples so that becomes one big ball of negative energy and now it's impacting so much around it, but when we choose When you choose to be stronger than your mind and control your thoughts and the things that I think about that I will manifest it will be greatness

It will be positivity.

It would be transformative.

Okay.

It takes a strong person.

It takes a strong mind to go against the grain and say, I'm going to eliminate all negative thoughts from my thought process and replace them with healthy ones.

You have to be diligent about protecting your peace.

Yo, balance.

You have to be diligent.

You have to be unwavering.

You have to be militant almost.

Like I've gotten to the point where I don't, don't call my phone if you just call in the gossip, argue, beat like.

I could be there for folks that are just having a bad day.

Absolutely.

But if I am trying to insert, like, positive energy and you just keep going against it, like, you do that.

Nah, nah, nah.

Well, you know, I'm just like, all right.

Well, I want you to be healthier.

And, you know, right now, I don't think what I'm saying or what I'm trying to offer is what you're looking for.

But if is there any other way that you think that I could help you then please let me know and nine times out of ten to be like I just call you Misery wants the company of other misery folks so they will reject as much as the good as you want to bring as possible But you got to be strong-minded

Anybody chasing a dream, a job, an idea, it takes so much to go from thought of an idea to physical manifestation.

So much goes into place.

And that's why they say, be careful who you share your dreams and thoughts with.

They'll say it just because it sound good because once you allow the wrong thoughts to interfere or Embed or implant themselves into your mind and your dream now you have doubt now you have that fear Now there's the I don't know if I gotta do enough time anymore now is the

You know what?

That person was right.

It's gonna take a lot of money to do this and I just don't have it right now.

Protect your mind, protect your energy.

You have to protect your mind and you have to protect your energy.

I saw somebody say it yesterday.

We cannot pour into others cups if ourselves are empty.

It is impossible to fill somebody up from a place of emptiness.

Fix the holes in our baskets, fix the holes in our pales.

So when it's time for us to be replenished or filled up, we could carry the good energy and then pour into other people.

It's so easy to just have and hold on to a negative thought.

Man, I still, I might still do it a little bit today.

I argue with people in my head that I, arguments from years ago too, you ever just running back, just spin the block in your head about an argument like I should, and I ain't even get to say this cuss word in this scenario.

So you argue with him again in your head whether you drive it Do you know what's that doing to the soul the corrosion?

Let it go we got to let it go y'all We got to let it go we got to have

Stronger thoughts are stronger thoughts positive thoughts.

It has to be stronger than our fears Because as soon as we let fear lead that is the devil That is the devil soon as we let fear in That is the devil what they say an idle mind is the devil's playground

Lock in Get focused you got a dream write it down You got goals write it down You got a plan map it out Don't just think it because thinking is the first thing You got to write it down then you got to speak it you got to literally ask the creator

Be direct.

People may say that's prayer.

Be direct in your ass.

Know the plan.

Know what you're working for.

Know what you want in return.

And then when you ask, you have to be prepared to receive.

That's the part we leave out a lot.

Because we know the saying they say to whom much is given much is what?

expected I'm sure a lot of us ain't asking for small dreams.

We ask it for huge life altering dreams.

And we got to be prepared to receive that.

I always.

Sit and think about I ain't gonna say always often I sit and think about The year bow came out Came out 2009 I look at the climate of the world back in 2009 and today Technology most importantly is what I'm talking about The means that you had to promote music and I'm like, you know what?

God knew the creator knew That 2009 is when nitty is gonna put this song out because He's not ready For if he puts it out in 2012 The anxiety that would have came with how fast Bob blew up fast

I'm just saying, I was talking to the girls, you know, we don't put enough emphasis on the ladies sometimes, you know, I was talking to the girls, she was talking about the ladies all fast and the love, you know, she got very involved, she comes to, she doesn't dance like 9,200 songs back to back with anybody, you know, we try to find out what she feels and how she feels, you know, you know what she told me?

She told me, check it out.

Hey!

She said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh.

What she

said?

Oh, oh, she said she wants some Marvin Gaye.

Hey!

Some Lutheran banjoes,

a little Aliyah.

What up, y'all?

Welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, seven-of-truth live from the American Family Assurance Studios.

It's your boy Ray Nitty, Prince of the City, holding it down.

DJ Brother Z got us with the production and sound.

He been vibing today, man.

I ain't gonna lie.

We need a Brother Z mix.

Oh my daddy!

Man, we need a Z-Mix, fam.

Not the V-Mix, tell him send the Z-Mix.

I like that one.

I like that one.

We want the Z-Mix, not the V-Mix.

We talking about being prepared, y'all.

Being prepared to receive the things that we asked for.

What the hell are you laughing at?

We're talking about being prepared for the things that you asked for.

Because they say when praises go up, what they say church, blessings come down.

Amen.

Are you ready for the blessings?

Are you ready for the blessings?

What will you do with the blessings that you asked for?

Because sometimes we don't get the things that we ask it for because the creator knows what we will do with it.

We will mishandle it.

We will misuse it.

We will mismanage it.

Because we not prepared.

What's talking about bow?

Came out 2009 Literally all we had to promote it was Facebook Literally as my I think Facebook might still have The original video from when we first I gotta see if I can find it now when we first Put the song I was so such bad quality is grainy

I am willing to bet the creator was like nah.

This one ain't ready for it yet.

Not this much.

Not this much, not this fast.

Not my baby boy.

But I'ma give you a little taste of it.

I'ma give you a little taste of it.

I'ma let you get a little bit so you can see.

When you ask for things and I deliver but you can see and be revealed to what comes With the blessings y'all because with the blessings comes trials.

I'm telling you Don't think that we just gonna get a blessing and not be tested You gonna get that new job and you gonna have so many people pulling at you now, let's go out

Let's go do this.

Let me buy this.

Man, go pay for this.

You should do this.

You're gonna be tested.

You're gonna have friends, family members, people that you love.

Look at you different because you received the blessing that you asked for.

Your loyalty gonna be tested.

Your patience is going to be tested.

Y'all not hearing me you're going to be tested That test gonna come in many forms y'all It's gonna come in some of the things we love You're gonna start getting even more access to things that you love things that may not be good for us

For some people it might be alcohol.

For some people it might be drugs, food, humans.

Okay?

Are you prepared?

Are you prepared to receive the things that you asked for?