April 25, 2023
Bringing Our Elders And Youth Back Together
On this episode of Currently Under Construktion We look at the ongoing and growing issue of the divide between our youth and elders. And we pose the question of how we can mend that divide as a family and as a community. We also discuss our upcoming...
On this episode of Currently Under Construktion We look at the ongoing and growing issue of the divide between our youth and elders. And we pose the question of how we can mend that divide as a family and as a community. We also discuss our upcoming giveaway in May for our 3rd Birthday Celebration.
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Cousins and kind of folks, cousins
and kend folks. Welcome, Welcome,
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to
the nest episode of your favorite podcast,
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That Mine, Curly and the Construction. You already know who it is.
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Thank you so much for joining us
today. I know it's been a minute.
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It's been a good long minute.
We had a very lengthy hiatus.
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Step was like the seen It was
stepped on late, much much needed.
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So we're glad to be back with
you all. I missed you. I
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know you. I know y'all missed
me because I missed you all too.
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I missed twalking mints. It's nothing
like sitting down having a great conversation with
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my family. You all know you
my family, y'all know this. Man.
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It's just so good to be back
in the saddle. It's good to
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be back on the microphone. It's
good to be here with you all.
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Before I get into it, craziest
stay happen to be today, I just
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have to share with your craziest thing
happened to me to day. So,
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uh, my oldest daughter, who
is her father's child, she truly is.
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She got jokes and I mean she
got jokes. To the utmost cousins
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of kid of folks. She took
it upon herself too, with the joke
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along with it, sign your boy
up for a ARP and visit A little
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miss would to say, Okay,
Dad, it's official. Now you are
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old. Really really Alicia, Alicia
Roche Hubbard. Really, But you know
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what, that's okay because because guess
what, your buggle put those benefits to
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use, you know, all the
stuff that you could get through a ARP.
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Really, I had had a chance
to look to sit down and look
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at everything just yet. But just
the fact that she even went as far
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as to doing it. But I
love her forward, I love her dearly.
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I love her dearly. So I
know you're listening, Bennie. You
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got that. You got that.
You better not be trying to send me
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in a rocking chair, either you
or one of the or your sisters or
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my son in law trying to send
me no rocking chair. What am I
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doing with a rocking chair? Man? That is hilarious. But I gotta
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love you. Babies when they love
you like that and they love on you
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like that and they just want to
make sure that you're okay, you let
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them do that. Okay, You
becausins of kin. Folks, when you
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have a relationship with your children that's
to that particular level, it's what you
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want, it's your LISU. And
I'm grateful to the most high for the
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relationship that I have with my children. I haven't always been the best for
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dad, Um, I haven't always
been that present dad in their lives,
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but I've been there the best that
I could for the period that I was.
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But over the years that relationship has
gotten much better. We're in a
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very good place right now, and
I'm grateful for the relationship with my children.
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My daughters, they all know their
dad loves them more than I could
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ever put into words, and I'm
truly grateful for them. So, Um,
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cousins and king folks, what I
what I want you to do is,
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um, don't give up on your
babies. You hear me, don't
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give up on your babies. They're
there, they need you, They meet
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you in the worst way possible if
you whether you know what you don't you
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or who do you look to,
whether they admit it or not. So
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don't give up on them. Just
don't don't end up being like some that
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the relationship it's splintered and wait until
you are gone or one of them are
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gone, and then now it's too
late, because we never know when the
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when the Most High is going to
tell us a lot that they're gonna tap
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us on the shoulder and say,
hey, come onto the upper room,
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sound to go. We never know
when that they may be, So don't
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wait or don't sit there and feel
like, well, hey, I got
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time to fix this, I got
time to put this together because we never
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know when. We never know,
So continue to love on your babies,
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continue to cultivate your relationships with them, continue to do whatever you can if
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to ensure that you have that relationship
with them, and you give them their
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flowers so they can give you their
flowers so you can continue to pour into
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them. You feel me, that
wasn't how where I was. I was
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looking to God, cousins and ken
folks. I was actually looking to go
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into a topic today. It's something
a conversation I had with um a friend
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recently, and we were talking about
elderly people. We're talking about our elders,
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our elders that are still here and
our elders that are not. And
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over the last several generations respect the
admiration and the role of our elders has
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diminished, has changed, has converted, And I don't think it's dead.
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I dare not say that, but
that's something that I feel that needs to
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be talked about. It needs to
be discussed, and the place that it
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definitely needs to start at is in
the home in our community. Because you
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see, when I was coming up, your elders garnered respect. I loved
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me personally. I loved being around
older people. Not that I was trying
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to get in grown folks business.
That wasn't the thing. I enjoy being
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around older people to learn because once
I get to the age and I realize,
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you know, the things that they've
seen and the wisdom that they can
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impart on me, then I begin
to do things to pick their brains because
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I'm just looking at the fact that
hey, they've been here, they've been
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my age, they know some of
what I'm going through or what I'm dealing
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with, maybe not the exact thing, but something very similar, and they
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can give me some advice or something
that I can do to help me along
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in this. But see, at
some point that has shifted to the point
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that our elders are not getting the
respect that they deserve. Our younger people
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are being very disrespectful toward our elders, and that's disturbing to me. Again,
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that starts at home and that starts
in the community. Now, it's
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not saying that our elders know everything, or that a lot of some of
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our elders do. They can't be
seen or deemed as being wrong because they're
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human. They're human, so they're
still fallible. No one's infallible, no
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one is above reproach when it comes
to making mistakes. So even our elders
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are capable of making miss stakes.
But I'm pretty sure they've gotten more right
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than they have wrong. I'm pretty
sure of that. I can be considered
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depending on how old you are,
or according to my children who are always
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telling me, I'm ancient and I'm
pretty a story. I can sort of
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sort of be putting that that that
that category, but not just it.
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I'm sort of a I'm sort of
an in between right now. Not that
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I don't consider myself an elder just
yet, but I may be an elder
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to some people. And that's why
I always try to do right by people
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the best I can. And that's
why, you know, talking to younger
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people and helping them to them.
That's a that's a huge thing for me.
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That's a huge part of who I
am. That's why I'm a huge
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advocate for you know, talking to
teens that try to help them to steer
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clear of that path that could lead
to so many ways of danger, because
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that's a path that I had been
on myself. Again, I'm not perfect,
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I'm far from that I've made.
I probably have gotten more wrong in
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my life than i've gotten right.
Yeah, you heard your you heard your
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cousin. Right. I've probably gotten
more wrong than I've gotten my life right.
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But I've gotten a whole lot right. Especially in recent I definitely have
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been my path getting a whole lot
of things in my life right. So
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we need to get back to listening
to our elders, giving them the respect
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that they're due. I've looked at
some posts recently, in some articles,
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some on social media that and I'm
listening to with some of these young people
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talk and they think, and I'm
just like, like, really, example
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the situation and I'm pretty sure a
lot of you have seen this, and
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if you haven't seen it, you've
heard about it. A situation with most
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recent teacher now there have been a
lot of things going on. Situations going
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on with students attacking teachers and things
of their particular she or just the situation
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is becoming violent. There have been
a lot of those happening recently, but
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I'm talking about this most recent one
that had a lot of people in an
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uproar from both sides. I'm saying
it's a generational thing. Some I'm saying
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that it shouldn't have happened. Or
the teacher put her hands on a girl
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first, so she had a right
to swing on their teacher. No,
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Now, I know what I'm about
to say is probably and I'm popular opinion.
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This is what I believe. This
is my belief the way I think.
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But I'm gonna say this and then
I'm gonna come back to my point.
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If you are a child and you
put yourself into an adult situation,
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I'm going to do everything I can't
diffuse it, talk to you like a
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person, and do my bestead of
diffuse. But if you continue on and
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again put yourself in a those situations
and make an executive decision to put your
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hands on me, then in term, you're going to get what you asked
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for. I'm not a violent person. I'm not a violent person in any
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shape form of fashion. Y'all know
that I said that. To come back
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to that is, we still don't
know all of the details of what was
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going on in that classroom. I
saw a lot of different conflicting situations and
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stories or whatever. But whatever the
reason was that this teacher took this child's
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phone, first of all, you're
in class. You shouldn't be at school.
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You shouldn't be having it anyway.
You shouldn't have your phone out.
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Put your phone up until you get
out of school, or until you go
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to lunch between classes, whatever the
case may be, to phone up,
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you know, but to be cussing
this teacher out the way that this this
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grown person out, the way that
you were doing. And to that point,
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yes, she had your phone.
And I saw a lot of of
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comments saying, well, she should
have just put it on, put the
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phone on the desk and walked off, of some saying that well she should
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have just called a resource off.
So well, from what I understand,
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that was done already, and this
little girl was already being disrespectful in a
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class anyway, and it just went
further than that. Now, I hate
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the whole situation happened because no adults
should be put in a position to make
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themselves feel like they had to defend
themselves. But I see how a lot
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of these these students and these kids
act, and my opinion, once again,
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her classmates was more worried about filming
it so they can go viral versus
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hey, look, going to get
their classmate. Hey, look, come
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on, you know, chill out, stop dead, chill out. Just
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wait to have the class and get
your phone back then, or she's gonna
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call you. Oh, let's look, come on, let's let's go out
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here. Let's call your mom so
your mom can come up here and get
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your phone. If these were her
real friends, that's what was going to
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happen. But it seemed more so
like she wanted to put on a show
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and they were there for the show. That has to stop. People,
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That has to stop. Cousins and
king folks. We are losing our children
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and they're supposed to be our future. Period they're supposed to be. But
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again it goes back to lack of
respect for the elders. Now, I'm
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not saying everything went right in that
situation, because there are things that I
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see that could may have been done
on both ends, but at the end
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of the day that teachers shouldn't have
had to come to the point of fighting
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a student who took it upon themselves
to want to call her all out of
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her name and then swing on her, and it seacher had to defend themselves.
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That shouldn't happen. That shouldn't happen. And again things like this started
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home. I'm popular opinion. I'm
probably going to get some flak for this,
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but that's okay. I can take
it. But that's how I feel.
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We have to get back to show
in respect and the first place that
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the children should be able to and
our younger generations should be able to show
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respect to themselves themselves. A lot
act like this because they have no respect
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for themselves. It has to start
with them. How can I show respect
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to somebody if I have no respect
for myself, So it has to start
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with me. The old saying goals
respect is earned and not given. In
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order for me to earn or give
anybody my respect, I have to be
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able to respect myself. So for
all my younger cousins and Kenny folks that
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are listening right now, you have
to respect yourself. You have to be
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able to respect yourself, love yourself
enough to respect you. You have so
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many advantages. God has given you
so many advantages, and you have all
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of your given faculties. Use them. But it starts with you. Younger
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cousins and kin folks, parents and
elders. We have to help them because
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again we are losing our children.
We are losing them and it goes back
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to them not having respect for themselves
or they're elders in the community. Elders.
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We have to do better in loving
own of our own, loving on
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our younger cousins and king folks.
You gotta gotta do better in loving on
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our nieces and nephews. We have
to do better. We have to do
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better in leading by example, because
a lot of times what they do,
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especially at a very young age,
they mimic what they see and they see
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us, and if they see us
at a young age run around saying that,
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well, we don't give a dang
about this, and we don't give
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a thing about that, and I
you this and that and all of the
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other foolishness. Guess what, they're
gonna have that same mentality, why,
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because they've seen us do that.
It's a circle, and we have to
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break that circle. Man the times
out of his rough cousins and kidding folks,
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it's rough out here. The stuff
that I see daily exists. It
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blows my mind, but at the
same time it hurts my heart. In
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the last few days, and not
that I look to see it, I've
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seen a couple of different murders in
my hometown, in my second home,
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senseless killings, and these were young
people. These are young people haven't even
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had a chance to live their life, have had a chance to really true
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to experience life. My children laugh
at me and they call me old,
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But guess what that is one of
my prayers that God allows me to be
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to grow old. A lot of
our children aren't getting the opportunity to do
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that old as we got. We
we got to step up. We have
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to help. We have to find
a way to get through to our younger
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cousins and ken folks and nieces and
nephews. We have to find a way.
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And we just can't say, oh, but I'm just gonna wait on
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the Lord. No, we have
to be able to put into work and
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do ours out. We can go
to God with it in prayer, true
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enough and ask him to help us
find a way and ask him to help
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sumplement us or or the our steps
to be able to do so. But
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in the event, if we want
him to move on our the ass,
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we have to do the work.
We got to do the work. We
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got to get out there and do
it. We have to try. We
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got to try, cousins and kN
folks, or if answer butts about it,
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we have to try. We have
to do our parts. We have
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to do our parts. And I
know we can. I know we can,
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and I know we will. So
cousins and ken and folks, help
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me. Help you help our younger
cousins and ken and folks and nieces and
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nephews so we can grow to become
a better community. We can do this.
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We have to do this, my
younger cousins and kin folks and my
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nieces and nephews. Listen to your
elders. If that elder is trying to
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do something or give you a bit
of advice that could benefit you, listen
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because they've been there, they've been
your age. They may if they've been
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through some of what you're going through. You never know who that elder may
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know or what they can do to
help you, or who they may know
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to connect you with. I had
a lot of wonderful older people in my
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life who connected me with others who
poured into me, who advice that they
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gave me, or things that they
showed me. I remember clearly. I
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still hold dear too, and they
are part of who I am. Pop
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Taylor, one of the wisest older
man I've ever known. He told me
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something one time. I didn't get
to quite get the meaning of it right
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now, but I understand it clearly
now. I used to tell me y'all
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the time, son, if you
remember nothing else, so I said,
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remember this, never let your right
hand see what your left hand is doing.
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And I'm like my Papa don't know, I don't. I have to
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use them together. Think about that, my younger cousins and king folks.
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If you don't know what that is, or if you've ever heard that before,
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or if you've ever heard one of
your uncles, your dad, grandpa
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say something like that, or if
you think they may know, go ask
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them, Go ask them what that
means. And I guarantee you it's something
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you'll never forget when you get older. Cousins, kin folks, I'd have
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healed. Y'all evels long enough,
but I'm just so glad to be back
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in with you all. Listen,
we are in our third year here,
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currently under construction, and I know
you all told me from the last broadcast
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and our actual birthday has passed.
But what I'm going to do is for
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the month of May, for the
month of May, I'm going to give
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not one, but two giveaways for
our third year here are currently under construction.
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You hurt me clearly, not one
but two giveaways for our birthday,
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one in the middle of the month, one at the end of the month.
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On our next broadcast, I will
give you all of the full details
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of what I giveaway it's going to
entail and how you can sign up or
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how can you There's no purchase necessary, there is no anything needs dramatic you
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need to do. It's always something
very simple for us here currently under construction,
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because we want to make it as
easy as possible for you to enter
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into our giveaways and to ensure that
you win. So be on a listen
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for our next broadcast, which is
Friday. It's coming Friday. Listen to
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that next listen to that episode,
and you will have all of the details.
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Make sure you tune in now and
we get all the details of our
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giveaway for our third year here Currently
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able to make it for three years? You? You are the reason we're
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still here. You are the reason
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When we started this thing three years
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are all the reason Current under Construction
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Current under Construction continues to still grow. You all are the reason that Currently
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under Construction is still here one hundred
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cousins of the Ken folks, I'm
gonna get on up out of here.
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I got some things to do and
I got some more work to do own
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that nine on my nine to five. But before I go, you all
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know what time it is, y'all. Come on, bring it in,
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get on in here with me.
We haven't said it in the while,
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so I'm excited say it with you
also. Come on end. Let's get
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it together because it takes a village
for us to make this thing happen.
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And you all all my village,
and we're going to continue to build this
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thing together, you and I step
by step, one break at a time.
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Currently under construction. I love you
all. Talk to your Friday.
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Remember to tune in and listen to
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you all, peace,
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Cousins and kind of folks, cousins
and kend folks. Welcome, Welcome,
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to
the nest episode of your favorite podcast,
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That Mine, Curly and the Construction. You already know who it is.
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Thank you so much for joining us
today. I know it's been a minute.
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It's been a good long minute.
We had a very lengthy hiatus.
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Step was like the seen It was
stepped on late, much much needed.
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So we're glad to be back with
you all. I missed you. I
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know you. I know y'all missed
me because I missed you all too.
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I missed twalking mints. It's nothing
like sitting down having a great conversation with
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my family. You all know you
my family, y'all know this. Man.
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It's just so good to be back
in the saddle. It's good to
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be back on the microphone. It's
good to be here with you all.
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Before I get into it, craziest
stay happen to be today, I just
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have to share with your craziest thing
happened to me to day. So,
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uh, my oldest daughter, who
is her father's child, she truly is.
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She got jokes and I mean she
got jokes. To the utmost cousins
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of kid of folks. She took
it upon herself too, with the joke
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along with it, sign your boy
up for a ARP and visit A little
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miss would to say, Okay,
Dad, it's official. Now you are
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old. Really really Alicia, Alicia
Roche Hubbard. Really, But you know
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what, that's okay because because guess
what, your buggle put those benefits to
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use, you know, all the
stuff that you could get through a ARP.
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Really, I had had a chance
to look to sit down and look
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at everything just yet. But just
the fact that she even went as far
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as to doing it. But I
love her forward, I love her dearly.
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I love her dearly. So I
know you're listening, Bennie. You
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got that. You got that.
You better not be trying to send me
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in a rocking chair, either you
or one of the or your sisters or
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my son in law trying to send
me no rocking chair. What am I
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doing with a rocking chair? Man? That is hilarious. But I gotta
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love you. Babies when they love
you like that and they love on you
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like that and they just want to
make sure that you're okay, you let
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them do that. Okay, You
becausins of kin. Folks, when you
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have a relationship with your children that's
to that particular level, it's what you
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want, it's your LISU. And
I'm grateful to the most high for the
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relationship that I have with my children. I haven't always been the best for
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dad, Um, I haven't always
been that present dad in their lives,
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but I've been there the best that
I could for the period that I was.
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But over the years that relationship has
gotten much better. We're in a
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very good place right now, and
I'm grateful for the relationship with my children.
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My daughters, they all know their
dad loves them more than I could
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ever put into words, and I'm
truly grateful for them. So, Um,
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cousins and king folks, what I
what I want you to do is,
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um, don't give up on your
babies. You hear me, don't
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give up on your babies. They're
there, they need you, They meet
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you in the worst way possible if
you whether you know what you don't you
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or who do you look to,
whether they admit it or not. So
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don't give up on them. Just
don't don't end up being like some that
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the relationship it's splintered and wait until
you are gone or one of them are
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gone, and then now it's too
late, because we never know when the
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when the Most High is going to
tell us a lot that they're gonna tap
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us on the shoulder and say,
hey, come onto the upper room,
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sound to go. We never know
when that they may be, So don't
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wait or don't sit there and feel
like, well, hey, I got
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time to fix this, I got
time to put this together because we never
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know when. We never know,
So continue to love on your babies,
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continue to cultivate your relationships with them, continue to do whatever you can if
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to ensure that you have that relationship
with them, and you give them their
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flowers so they can give you their
flowers so you can continue to pour into
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them. You feel me, that
wasn't how where I was. I was
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looking to God, cousins and ken
folks. I was actually looking to go
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into a topic today. It's something
a conversation I had with um a friend
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recently, and we were talking about
elderly people. We're talking about our elders,
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our elders that are still here and
our elders that are not. And
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over the last several generations respect the
admiration and the role of our elders has
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diminished, has changed, has converted, And I don't think it's dead.
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I dare not say that, but
that's something that I feel that needs to
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be talked about. It needs to
be discussed, and the place that it
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definitely needs to start at is in
the home in our community. Because you
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see, when I was coming up, your elders garnered respect. I loved
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me personally. I loved being around
older people. Not that I was trying
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to get in grown folks business.
That wasn't the thing. I enjoy being
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around older people to learn because once
I get to the age and I realize,
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you know, the things that they've
seen and the wisdom that they can
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impart on me, then I begin
to do things to pick their brains because
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I'm just looking at the fact that
hey, they've been here, they've been
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my age, they know some of
what I'm going through or what I'm dealing
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with, maybe not the exact thing, but something very similar, and they
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can give me some advice or something
that I can do to help me along
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in this. But see, at
some point that has shifted to the point
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that our elders are not getting the
respect that they deserve. Our younger people
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are being very disrespectful toward our elders, and that's disturbing to me. Again,
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that starts at home and that starts
in the community. Now, it's
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not saying that our elders know everything, or that a lot of some of
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our elders do. They can't be
seen or deemed as being wrong because they're
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human. They're human, so they're
still fallible. No one's infallible, no
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one is above reproach when it comes
to making mistakes. So even our elders
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are capable of making miss stakes.
But I'm pretty sure they've gotten more right
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than they have wrong. I'm pretty
sure of that. I can be considered
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depending on how old you are,
or according to my children who are always
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telling me, I'm ancient and I'm
pretty a story. I can sort of
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sort of be putting that that that
that category, but not just it.
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I'm sort of a I'm sort of
an in between right now. Not that
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I don't consider myself an elder just
yet, but I may be an elder
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to some people. And that's why
I always try to do right by people
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the best I can. And that's
why, you know, talking to younger
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people and helping them to them.
That's a that's a huge thing for me.
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That's a huge part of who I
am. That's why I'm a huge
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advocate for you know, talking to
teens that try to help them to steer
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clear of that path that could lead
to so many ways of danger, because
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that's a path that I had been
on myself. Again, I'm not perfect,
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I'm far from that I've made.
I probably have gotten more wrong in
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my life than i've gotten right.
Yeah, you heard your you heard your
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cousin. Right. I've probably gotten
more wrong than I've gotten my life right.
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But I've gotten a whole lot right. Especially in recent I definitely have
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been my path getting a whole lot
of things in my life right. So
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we need to get back to listening
to our elders, giving them the respect
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that they're due. I've looked at
some posts recently, in some articles,
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some on social media that and I'm
listening to with some of these young people
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talk and they think, and I'm
just like, like, really, example
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the situation and I'm pretty sure a
lot of you have seen this, and
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if you haven't seen it, you've
heard about it. A situation with most
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recent teacher now there have been a
lot of things going on. Situations going
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on with students attacking teachers and things
of their particular she or just the situation
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is becoming violent. There have been
a lot of those happening recently, but
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I'm talking about this most recent one
that had a lot of people in an
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uproar from both sides. I'm saying
it's a generational thing. Some I'm saying
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that it shouldn't have happened. Or
the teacher put her hands on a girl
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first, so she had a right
to swing on their teacher. No,
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Now, I know what I'm about
to say is probably and I'm popular opinion.
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This is what I believe. This
is my belief the way I think.
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But I'm gonna say this and then
I'm gonna come back to my point.
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If you are a child and you
put yourself into an adult situation,
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I'm going to do everything I can't
diffuse it, talk to you like a
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person, and do my bestead of
diffuse. But if you continue on and
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again put yourself in a those situations
and make an executive decision to put your
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hands on me, then in term, you're going to get what you asked
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for. I'm not a violent person. I'm not a violent person in any
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shape form of fashion. Y'all know
that I said that. To come back
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to that is, we still don't
know all of the details of what was
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going on in that classroom. I
saw a lot of different conflicting situations and
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stories or whatever. But whatever the
reason was that this teacher took this child's
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phone, first of all, you're
in class. You shouldn't be at school.
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You shouldn't be having it anyway.
You shouldn't have your phone out.
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Put your phone up until you get
out of school, or until you go
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to lunch between classes, whatever the
case may be, to phone up,
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you know, but to be cussing
this teacher out the way that this this
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grown person out, the way that
you were doing. And to that point,
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yes, she had your phone.
And I saw a lot of of
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comments saying, well, she should
have just put it on, put the
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phone on the desk and walked off, of some saying that well she should
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have just called a resource off.
So well, from what I understand,
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that was done already, and this
little girl was already being disrespectful in a
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class anyway, and it just went
further than that. Now, I hate
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the whole situation happened because no adults
should be put in a position to make
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themselves feel like they had to defend
themselves. But I see how a lot
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of these these students and these kids
act, and my opinion, once again,
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her classmates was more worried about filming
it so they can go viral versus
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hey, look, going to get
their classmate. Hey, look, come
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on, you know, chill out, stop dead, chill out. Just
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wait to have the class and get
your phone back then, or she's gonna
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call you. Oh, let's look, come on, let's let's go out
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here. Let's call your mom so
your mom can come up here and get
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your phone. If these were her
real friends, that's what was going to
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happen. But it seemed more so
like she wanted to put on a show
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and they were there for the show. That has to stop. People,
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That has to stop. Cousins and
king folks. We are losing our children
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and they're supposed to be our future. Period they're supposed to be. But
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again it goes back to lack of
respect for the elders. Now, I'm
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not saying everything went right in that
situation, because there are things that I
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see that could may have been done
on both ends, but at the end
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of the day that teachers shouldn't have
had to come to the point of fighting
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a student who took it upon themselves
to want to call her all out of
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her name and then swing on her, and it seacher had to defend themselves.
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That shouldn't happen. That shouldn't happen. And again things like this started
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home. I'm popular opinion. I'm
probably going to get some flak for this,
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but that's okay. I can take
it. But that's how I feel.
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We have to get back to show
in respect and the first place that
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the children should be able to and
our younger generations should be able to show
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respect to themselves themselves. A lot
act like this because they have no respect
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for themselves. It has to start
with them. How can I show respect
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to somebody if I have no respect
for myself, So it has to start
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with me. The old saying goals
respect is earned and not given. In
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order for me to earn or give
anybody my respect, I have to be
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able to respect myself. So for
all my younger cousins and Kenny folks that
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are listening right now, you have
to respect yourself. You have to be
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able to respect yourself, love yourself
enough to respect you. You have so
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many advantages. God has given you
so many advantages, and you have all
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of your given faculties. Use them. But it starts with you. Younger
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cousins and kin folks, parents and
elders. We have to help them because
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again we are losing our children.
We are losing them and it goes back
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to them not having respect for themselves
or they're elders in the community. Elders.
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We have to do better in loving
own of our own, loving on
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our younger cousins and king folks.
You gotta gotta do better in loving on
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our nieces and nephews. We have
to do better. We have to do
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better in leading by example, because
a lot of times what they do,
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especially at a very young age,
they mimic what they see and they see
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us, and if they see us
at a young age run around saying that,
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well, we don't give a dang
about this, and we don't give
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a thing about that, and I
you this and that and all of the
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other foolishness. Guess what, they're
gonna have that same mentality, why,
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because they've seen us do that.
It's a circle, and we have to
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break that circle. Man the times
out of his rough cousins and kidding folks,
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it's rough out here. The stuff
that I see daily exists. It
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blows my mind, but at the
same time it hurts my heart. In
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the last few days, and not
that I look to see it, I've
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seen a couple of different murders in
my hometown, in my second home,
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senseless killings, and these were young
people. These are young people haven't even
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had a chance to live their life, have had a chance to really true
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to experience life. My children laugh
at me and they call me old,
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But guess what that is one of
my prayers that God allows me to be
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to grow old. A lot of
our children aren't getting the opportunity to do
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that old as we got. We
we got to step up. We have
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to help. We have to find
a way to get through to our younger
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cousins and ken folks and nieces and
nephews. We have to find a way.
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And we just can't say, oh, but I'm just gonna wait on
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the Lord. No, we have
to be able to put into work and
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do ours out. We can go
to God with it in prayer, true
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enough and ask him to help us
find a way and ask him to help
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sumplement us or or the our steps
to be able to do so. But
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in the event, if we want
him to move on our the ass,
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we have to do the work.
We got to do the work. We
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got to get out there and do
it. We have to try. We
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got to try, cousins and kN
folks, or if answer butts about it,
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we have to try. We have
to do our parts. We have
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to do our parts. And I
know we can. I know we can,
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and I know we will. So
cousins and ken and folks, help
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me. Help you help our younger
cousins and ken and folks and nieces and
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nephews so we can grow to become
a better community. We can do this.
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We have to do this, my
younger cousins and kin folks and my
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nieces and nephews. Listen to your
elders. If that elder is trying to
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do something or give you a bit
of advice that could benefit you, listen
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because they've been there, they've been
your age. They may if they've been
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through some of what you're going through. You never know who that elder may
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know or what they can do to
help you, or who they may know
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to connect you with. I had
a lot of wonderful older people in my
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life who connected me with others who
poured into me, who advice that they
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gave me, or things that they
showed me. I remember clearly. I
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still hold dear too, and they
are part of who I am. Pop
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Taylor, one of the wisest older
man I've ever known. He told me
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something one time. I didn't get
to quite get the meaning of it right
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now, but I understand it clearly
now. I used to tell me y'all
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the time, son, if you
remember nothing else, so I said,
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remember this, never let your right
hand see what your left hand is doing.
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And I'm like my Papa don't know, I don't. I have to
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use them together. Think about that, my younger cousins and king folks.
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If you don't know what that is, or if you've ever heard that before,
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or if you've ever heard one of
your uncles, your dad, grandpa
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say something like that, or if
you think they may know, go ask
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them, Go ask them what that
means. And I guarantee you it's something
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you'll never forget when you get older. Cousins, kin folks, I'd have
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healed. Y'all evels long enough,
but I'm just so glad to be back
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in with you all. Listen,
we are in our third year here,
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currently under construction, and I know
you all told me from the last broadcast
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and our actual birthday has passed.
But what I'm going to do is for
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the month of May, for the
month of May, I'm going to give
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not one, but two giveaways for
our third year here are currently under construction.
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You hurt me clearly, not one
but two giveaways for our birthday,
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one in the middle of the month, one at the end of the month.
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On our next broadcast, I will
give you all of the full details
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of what I giveaway it's going to
entail and how you can sign up or
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how can you There's no purchase necessary, there is no anything needs dramatic you
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need to do. It's always something
very simple for us here currently under construction,
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because we want to make it as
easy as possible for you to enter
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into our giveaways and to ensure that
you win. So be on a listen
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for our next broadcast, which is
Friday. It's coming Friday. Listen to
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that next listen to that episode,
and you will have all of the details.
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Make sure you tune in now and
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giveaway for our third year here Currently
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able to make it for three years? You? You are the reason we're
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still here. You are the reason
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When we started this thing three years
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are all the reason Current under Construction
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Current under Construction continues to still grow. You all are the reason that Currently
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under Construction is still here one hundred
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and Kent folks. I couldn't do
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cousins of the Ken folks, I'm
gonna get on up out of here.
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I got some things to do and
I got some more work to do own
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that nine on my nine to five. But before I go, you all
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know what time it is, y'all. Come on, bring it in,
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get on in here with me.
We haven't said it in the while,
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so I'm excited say it with you
also. Come on end. Let's get
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it together because it takes a village
for us to make this thing happen.
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And you all all my village,
and we're going to continue to build this
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thing together, you and I step
by step, one break at a time.
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Currently under construction. I love you
all. Talk to your Friday.
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Remember to tune in and listen to
get those details. I'm out, Love
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you all, peace,
