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Folks, You'll understand I've had three
bloopers from this. This is crazy.

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I've been recording a bunch of these
and I just can't seem to get it

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together. It's this fifty plus kids, just get to the other time.

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It is February twenty twenty four.
It is Black History Month. It is

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also Leap year, Leap Day,
Leap month. We have February twenty ninth

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this year. I'm so excited as
they plan on their so I bersually told

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my friends who is their birthday or
anniversaries or whatever. So I don't say

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unique for you guys. I'm fifty
plus and Black History Month hits me a

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certain way, and I don't hits
on a certain way, and I'm okay

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with it. I think Black history
is American history because we're talking about Black

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Americans and what their contributions are,
what things they have gone through. I

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know recently there has been this wave
of try to make slavery something that's not

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that wasn't that bad. It's perplexing
it was not because of there's a segment

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of folks who want to erase all
of that. Anyway, But America has

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an ugly history and has a wonderful
history. It has all kinds of history

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period, and I'm noticing as I
get my fifties, I'm much more in

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tune with that. I'm much more
like fine, I mean fine, meaning

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I accept all of it. It's
all part of our world. It's all

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part of what we went through,
is probably what our answertors went through.

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I hold them high in high regard
for, you know, surviving the things

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that I and doing the things that
I didn't have to do. I appreciate

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it more and more and more.
But to say so, I also get

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it as this part of life.
It's part of our history. You can't

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rewrite history. What happened has happened. So you know, my outrage is

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limited. You know, it's it's
purposeful. We're so that in your fifties,

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you you you on one end,
you get looser and just like I

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don't care to say what I want, I don't care. But in other

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parts, when you're your fifties,
you're very strategic. You're like, okay,

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cause you know outcomes, you see
a lot of things happen. By

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then, if you're even if you're
an extrovert, introvert, you still went

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through a few things you see it
and it used to have less time for

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bull crap. You know it's you
kind of like I just don't have tired

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to sit here and deal with this
bull crap. I want your business.

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So I been your fifties. Handling
adult stuff is a way to do it.

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At first, it was, or
it was you know, it's it's

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large of things top the open.
You know. I want I want to

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educate younger people. I want you
to do more when it comes to black

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history, of Black American history,
I wanna showcase, which I do us

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aether I get work in media,
as I get to do this, showcase

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certain people, certain things. I
have a show, I have a show

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called Have You Heard of Me?
Where I was showcased some really interesting Black

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Americans and shows and it's all so
it's all right right there. But I'm

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looking at other ways of activism because
when I was younger, as were idealistic

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about that way where I've been beating
down a little bit, but I still

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have some hope in there somewhere,
sparkle open there somewhere, So I'm always

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still try to see if something better
will come or something will happen. So

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I mean it's it's it's you know, you're always just you're hoping that the

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world will get a little better,
in a better place. I don't know

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a lot of folks who like to
demolish this. This month just the shortest

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month of the year and all that. But every culture has their cultural weaker

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months. In America, some get
more attention than others. Black and she

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well, of course, gets lots
of attention. I don't think it's necessary.

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I mean, it's it's it's it's
necessary and not necessary. It's like,

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it's it's American history. We have
to talk about it. I want

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to talk about it. I will
continue talking about it. I always talk

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about I bring up colorism and ageism
and say, I bring all this stuff,

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but should it be just really like
it's to February. It should be

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year long. Should were talking about
these issues all the time, breaking them

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down all time? We should be
doing it all the time. I don't

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understand why we're not, but but
it's such My views have started to change

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as I get older. With that, it's just kind of like, it's

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okay, I mean, it's a
grown up. These people are grown ups.

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Advice, We're all grown ups.
Everybody's grown up. Somebody has their

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feelings, and you can't manage people's
feelings. You can't manage people's likes.

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You can't make them drink the water
if they're thirsty, you know, all

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those things. You just to go, Okay, got it, just got

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it. I got it. It's
just it's it's it's Black History Month.

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It is what it is. I'm
always gonna highlight stuff I do a year

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long, but during the month I
do go extra extra mile because it's given

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to us. So I'm gonna utilize
it, which is a good thing.

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Can you less it for good?
So I don't buy. I think being

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fifty plus gives you a different unique
respect because we happen to through enough,

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we happen through some real some of
us have been through some real racism,

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which I have, and real segregation
which I have. So it's kind of

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you know, it's we get what
it is. As you get older,

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you just get what things are.
But I will continue to talk about and

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highlights issues to go with the African
American community all I always do that,

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always, always, always, We'll
continue talking about it. It was fifty

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plus. I'm James, I Junor
taught to you. Next time