WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.720 How do we build stronger community? 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.240 Because I will raise my hand and now will My 3 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:08.320 name is Bertie, and what I'm about to say is 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:10.279 the truth. Nothing but the truth will help me God. 5 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.279 When I come home, I want to for nobody after 6 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:17.719 thinking my low community. After you do all of that 7 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:19.000 throughout the day. 8 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:28.559 Oh saka fed Welcome to Unfiltered Lining Podcasts. Join us 9 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:33.560 as we reflect on our personal journeys and share our insights, experiences, 10 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:37.920 and stories. From food to music, language to customs. We 11 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.960 explore what it means to straddle to cultures and find 12 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.840 a sense of belonging in both. Whether you're a first 13 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:50.000 time generation Caribbean American, a seasoned veteran, or simply curious 14 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.359 about the rich tapestries of cultures that make up the 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:58.799 Caribbean diaspora, this podcast is for you. We are your host, Lisa, 16 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:04.120 the Dominica Diva, Furtied, the Hastien Sensation. No one's talking, 17 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:05.519 so let's get unfiltered. 18 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:10.959 Today's another wonderful day. 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.560 We are here with you all because we just appreciate 20 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.799 good conversation. We appreciate our Caribbean culture. We appreciate having 21 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.519 conversation about what makes us who we are. Stronger together 22 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.840 as a community. As we're building everything that we are 23 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.680 going through in the world, we just feel. 24 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.040 Like community is stronger together. 25 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.439 Let's discuss that we need I think also too, I 26 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:41.120 think we need community more than ever, yes, much more than. 27 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:43.680 How does that look like? Though? 28 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.879 It's one thing to say that we do need that, 29 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.159 but how does that look How do we go from 30 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.680 you know, saying it to putting into action to actually 31 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.959 applying it where we don't feel so overwhelmed. Let's let's 32 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.239 start with when you wake up in the morning, right, 33 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.400 you start your day with. 34 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:02.640 The best of intention. 35 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.040 Right, you start your day with Okay, I'm gonna wake up, 36 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.039 I'm gonna exercise, I'm gonna eat healthy, I'm gonna be 37 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:12.639 nice today. I'm gonna be kind. I'm gonna drink from 38 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.120 my Haitian people. I'm gonna drink some hot tea. You know, 39 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.400 say also see whatever you know ginger teas. We're gonna 40 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.439 maybe you know, go for a walk, exercise. 41 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.919 Then we're gonna go to work. That's one community. 42 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.479 We're gonna go to work and make the best out 43 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.080 of their work on nine to five to make the 44 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.840 money that we need. Then we're gonna come home. Then 45 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:33.919 if you have a family, gotta cook for your family. 46 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:35.840 If you got a dog like I do, you gotta 47 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.960 walk your dog. You gotta take care Susan. And doing 48 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:46.199 all of this stuff right day in and day out. 49 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.120 How do we build stronger community? Because I will raise 50 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.560 my hand and I will My name is Bertie, and 51 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:55.439 what I'm about to say is the truth. Nothing but 52 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.159 the truth will help me God. When I come home, 53 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:02.080 I wanna ask for nobody. I'm not thinking my little community. 54 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.199 After you do all of that throughout the day when 55 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.879 you come home or you. 56 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.319 Thinking about community? Are you thinking about. 57 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:11.439 Oh no, you don't. 58 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.159 So how do. 59 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:18.039 We and our every day with everything that we're trying 60 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:23.280 our best to live at the community, have ad stronger community, 61 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.439 have the conversation participate in when we can. So we 62 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.360 got to be honest with ourselves and ask the questions 63 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.520 to ourselves about how we do build these stronger communities. 64 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.639 And we're particularly going to focus on the women part. 65 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:37.120 Men. 66 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.520 We love you, Black men, we love you. Ain't we 67 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.319 ain't trying to not include you. But you know, these 68 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.360 conversations because we women, I can't identify as the black men. 69 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.199 I never had a penis. So I don't know, I've 70 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.840 never you know, I'm just saying I never have, so 71 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:54.800 certain stuff that we talk. 72 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.439 About if some more women's protective, So I just want 73 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:00.319 to be very clear about that. 74 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.280 That's that's that's correct, the woman's perspective. 75 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:04.199 You're a We. 76 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.919 All are welcoming different ideas, but again we are always 77 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:08.639 welcome to have. 78 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:09.159 You come on. 79 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.000 Yn't want one of these community builders want to come 80 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.560 on and give us a few insights. But how do 81 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.399 we how do we build those community how we struggle together? 82 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.439 What do you think it starts with yourselves? What do 83 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:26.680 you think that it starts within your family, with your friends? 84 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:28.079 Yeah, how do we start? 85 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.079 Yeah? I think it definitely starts number one with yourself 86 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.160 and you wanting to see change. We all want to 87 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:38.040 see change, right, So it becomes what can I contribute 88 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.199 to the change. So if I start with my family 89 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.040 and my friends, and then at that point when you 90 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.759 start there, it can eventually grow to be like an 91 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.120 octopus situation, and then the tentacles can reach out and 92 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:57.160 that's how we make communities larger. I definitely think, especially 93 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.399 in the Caribbean culture, we do a very good job 94 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:04.759 of I feel like we do a very good job 95 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.439 of coming together to have a FET. We do an 96 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.319 excellent job at that. With that being said, if we 97 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.199 can come together and FET with no problem, we need 98 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.519 to also in our strength and that community. Start from there. 99 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.519 What little things that we can do outside of our 100 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:28.040 everyday nine to five work, family, kids, whatever that we 101 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.199 can do to contribute, and it has to start. We 102 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.639 can start small, right, We just have to start. That's 103 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:41.519 the thing. And I think, without getting too heavy, one 104 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:46.920 thing with I'm gonna say twenty twenty five is teaching 105 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.800 us is that we need to do a better job 106 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:55.040 at it. As number one, women number two, as Caribbean 107 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.199 community number three, as Black people as a whole, we 108 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.639 need to do a better job. So if we can 109 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.040 start with these little things, and it could be something 110 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.480 simple as it could start with a conversation at a 111 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:12.279 kitchen table with the family, right. You know, when we 112 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.279 sit at those tables, a lot of times we talk 113 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:19.720 about the culture, things going on in the family, the 114 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.680 elders talking about reminiscing of things back in their time 115 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.560 and just trying to hold onto the culture. In that conversation, 116 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.680 with holding onto the culture, we also talk about what 117 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.560 can we do to pass that culture on, but also 118 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.800 what can we do differently? Right? But it could start 119 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:42.079 at someplace small as a kitchen table, you know, because 120 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.800 one thing we will do besides having a fet is 121 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.720 getting together in the kitchen to make some food, some 122 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:58.879 pelau and some you know my favorite, Yeah, my favorite. 123 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.439 That's been going and all that good stuff. 124 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.759 You just keep going, Yeah, we keep going now, brough, Yeah, 125 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.759 don't forget the broth. We're gonna talk about that. 126 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.199 Some people can't make broth, so thirty. 127 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.199 Bro Wait is it broth a broth? No, some people 128 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.759 can't make bro broth. Bro yeah, No, getting back to 129 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:19.439 the kitchen table. 130 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.360 I love people though, it's all I want people to know. 131 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:23.439 This is a conversation. 132 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:24.279 This is all. 133 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.279 With my heart. I don't know. 134 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.879 You still ain't safe, You still ain't well, at least 135 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.720 with me. You ain't safe with me. No one's safe. 136 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:38.759 I'm going to try to be not that person because 137 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.040 for a few seasons, no one will say I'm not 138 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.319 trying to be the We're switching off this season. 139 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.279 This is what's good about our community right here. 140 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.079 So we're gonna use ourselves on an example, the fact 141 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:55.040 that the podcast is a perfect example of stronger community 142 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.439 and building a community together. Right if you have followed 143 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.399 us and you are new to the main mission of 144 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.199 the podcast is to show that even though we're from 145 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:10.480 different islands and we have different upbringing, we're also the 146 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.319 same our household. Maybe the food was a little bit different, 147 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:16.600 maybe the tongue of what we were speaking was a 148 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.759 little bit different, but we were the same. We were like, well, 149 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.360 we want to build stronger relationship. We want to show 150 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.519 that even though yes, you may speak possible I seek Creole, 151 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.560 French or whatever, but our parents and their journey, our 152 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.399 mothers and their journey, our fathers and their journey is 153 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.720 just a different household, but we have a lot of similarities. 154 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.120 So I think for like you said, it starts out 155 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:44.600 at the kitchen table. But I remember back in I 156 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.200 don't know, a few years ago, where in me trying 157 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.960 to build a stronger community for my family. Then you 158 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.120 take it from the kitchen table right to the conversations 159 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:56.720 and all that, and then I was like, I want 160 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.679 to get to know them more. I want to learn 161 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.399 more about my culture. Because again, y'all, Haitiana gonna call 162 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:08.399 me bluh because I was born I have not been 163 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.159 to Haiti. I was not born in Haiti, so we 164 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.639 all called blah mouna did it all y'all know what 165 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:15.279 I'm talking about? 166 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:16.519 Which start with me? 167 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:18.960 Or you could call me, oh I may a kid 168 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:22.039 because you know, hey, I just have not been to Haiti. 169 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.000 So for me, it was important to learn about my 170 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.639 culture because I love my mother dearly. 171 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.360 They are very proud. But she didn't sit down and 172 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:34.519 teach me the history. 173 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:38.120 Did I have like her uncles, great uncles and different 174 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:39.759 people in the family talking about that. 175 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.200 Yeah, But at the point I didn't. 176 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.679 Know the significance of those stories because it was coming 177 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.120 from great uncles. 178 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.159 I was a kid. I was like, I ain't gonna 179 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:49.960 try to sit down. 180 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.320 Now I understand that those stories how important they were. 181 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.000 So when I got older, I took what the concept 182 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.639 of Lisa is saying at the kitchen table talking about this, 183 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:00.759 and I was like, we should do a thing family reunion. 184 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.720 So now you have a conversation. You start out with 185 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.919 the kitchen table. Then you take that concept and then 186 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.600 you do something if you can. If you cannot, that's fine. 187 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:12.559 Then you may partner. 188 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:16.360 Up with an organization. You may find different ways financially 189 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:17.200 or with. 190 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.399 Your time to contribute to the communities that you want 191 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:25.519 to contribute to. Right, so I took again Lisa's concept 192 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.519 is you start out the kitchen table because you see 193 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.080 your family, your friends or whatever, you have the conversation 194 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.320 you over dinner, and then you take that into something. 195 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.759 So for me, it was starting out my family reunion 196 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:40.200 because then I'm inviting others into that community to build 197 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:41.279 a stronger community. 198 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.879 I'm inviting other perspective, other stories about oh what can 199 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.759 we do now. I'm sorry to say that I no 200 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.480 longer participate in my family reunion, but it's because COVID happened. 201 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.879 COVID happened, and it just put a damsel things change, 202 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:57.879 and I'm going to leave it at. 203 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:59.360 That for now, because we never know. 204 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.559 But I knew for me the importance of doing the 205 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.799 family reunion, and I did it for five years. 206 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.600 What my main mission was, I wanted children from our 207 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.600 children to know and to know that one how. 208 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:17.960 Large our family was, and then also to know like 209 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.279 if I were to go somewhere or something happens to me, 210 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.159 my son could just be like, oh, I got family here, 211 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.200 I got family there, I got family here. I got 212 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.720 cousin people that are gonna look out for them, And 213 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:34.159 I think is the same way African Americans do sororities 214 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:34.840 in fraternity. 215 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:35.919 It's the same concept. 216 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.279 They have the network of people that you it doesn't 217 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.399 matter if you're a blood or not once you join 218 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.759 that organization your family, but they have a network of 219 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:49.159 people like if you need something, oh, okay, so and 220 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:53.000 so can help you in all areas of all types 221 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:58.919 of things. So I think as Caribbean, African American colored 222 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.799 people like however, minorities, I think we do have those 223 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.759 resources that there's so many organizations in so many ways 224 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.240 of building stronger community out there. You just gotta choose 225 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.159 what fits for you and you gotta see how you 226 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.919 could contribute that makes sense for you. We're not telling 227 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.080 you that, oh you need to because again, like I 228 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.799 begin the story, we wake up with a day that 229 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.759 already is consuming us with so much. Right, so you 230 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.320 gotta pick and choose and you gotta feel make it like, Okay, 231 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.600 if I have thirty minutes today to go sit with 232 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:35.039 an elder, that's. 233 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:35.519 What I'm gonna do. 234 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.519 And that's building a stronger community because you're gonna get stories, 235 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:41.399 you're gonna pass it down right if you're like, you 236 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:42.919 know what, that's not for me. 237 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:43.759 I don't like the. 238 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.039 Elders, but you want to play basketball with the kids 239 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:47.799 in the community. 240 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.320 You understood what I'm saying. You're teaching them like earn 241 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.360 your leisure for example. 242 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.240 You're gonna have y'all in there. 243 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:57.000 You started with financial education, now you're going to Ghana 244 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.799 to build Like that's building a community and they are 245 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.080 using the strength of financial education to do so. The 246 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.960 other example that I could use is Pah yeah us. 247 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.360 It's another example. 248 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.200 Because last year we gave out the first Caribbean Excellence 249 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.960 Scholarship to three individuals with with Caribbean culture and this 250 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.080 year we're looking to do well. Yes, so we're looking 251 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.480 to continue that moving forward. But that's one way we 252 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.759 feel like we're building a stronger community. And then we 253 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.159 do also reach out to other people, like when there 254 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.200 was what the hurricane that happened, we partner up with 255 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.000 I think she was soaka something on Instagram. 256 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.600 We need to find your once we find her name 257 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:39.320 with my Tiger and we donate that. 258 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.240 And then we donated what we could as a podcast 259 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:46.360 to this Realief Fund to be able to provide whatever 260 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.480 it was for this particular island. So there's ways that 261 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.399 you could build strong community, find the right people because 262 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:55.960 I know it's scary. That's the other thing too. We 263 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.440 gotta be realistic because I know that it's scary. It's 264 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.559 scared to trust people. It's scared you know who to 265 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.600 trust a lot of times because you have so many 266 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.000 I ain't on front for me in my scort fyol 267 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.080 list going not trusting anywhere and my stingers already on 268 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.120 see lisaid, lisays the Libra trying to balance it out. 269 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:15.759 I'm not. 270 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.039 I'm trying with like Yo, what I'd be like, wait, wait, 271 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.600 let's let's talk about this. Let's let's look at both sides. 272 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.720 Let's talk about this, like let's get a glass of wine. 273 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.799 Just now you feel we come be like what the 274 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.080 fuck do you want? Why you want my money? You 275 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.120 gotta give me x y Z what I need to 276 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.519 see everything. I ain't trying to balance with you, because. 277 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.480 But look at the little puppies and the little babies 278 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:40.000 over here. 279 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.919 See that's why we balance each other out, because I'd 280 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.480 be like, yo, no, I need I need your rap ship. 281 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.240 I need to I need to know where my money 282 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:48.919 is going. 283 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:53.919 Especially, so I do understand also the part about the 284 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.919 community of having the resources, who to trust and all 285 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:00.240 of that can be a little bit daunting at time, 286 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.320 but you still have If you don't trust anybody, start 287 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.679 your own. We're a very big advocate of starting your 288 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.519 own organization. The example I have is a and I 289 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.320 follow her on Instagram. We follow her on Instagram. Her 290 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.279 name is Bertrude Albert. She's with p H Global. She's 291 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:19.519 an Asian organization. 292 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:20.679 And I want to. 293 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:26.360 Start out with this young lady has a PhD. Is 294 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:34.919 that yeah, Yes, she's about her stuff. So again, PhD 295 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.240 shows that she has worked, she has dedicated herself to 296 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.480 get the education that she is. 297 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.799 So we got to give credit where credit is due. 298 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.879 Definitely organization. What I like about her is the fact 299 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:48.840 that she is. 300 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:51.919 A very proud Haitian, but not only that she has 301 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.840 put her mouth where her money is. 302 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:56.080 Her money where her mouth is. 303 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.519 You put her money where her mouth is. 304 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.360 Is that what it is? Yo? 305 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.519 I try to do the the American singers, and YO, 306 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:10.279 I'll be wrong all this time. Please every time y'all 307 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.279 know I'm doing an American singer wrong. 308 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.000 I have tough skin. 309 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:15.919 You could put it and say, yo, be why you 310 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:20.679 missing comments because y'all know I'll be put. 311 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:21.600 The money where your mouth is. You're like you put 312 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:23.480 the money. Put the mouth where the money is. 313 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:28.679 What But their organization, she is about education. She actually 314 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:32.200 lives in Haiti, she has been for a while now. 315 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:35.799 Their organization is one of those organizations she's strongly about education. 316 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:40.840 She's strongly about rebuilding the Haitian how people see Haitian people, 317 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:42.639 and living in Haiti. 318 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:43.360 And providing education. 319 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.799 So her organization is one that I would say, And 320 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:47.879 then she's been involved in a lot of different what 321 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.600 do they call it, different missions around Haiti where she 322 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.639 is currently. Their garbage system is working, also the canal, 323 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.039 she's been a big part of that and helping and 324 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.759 maybe that you know, there's water coming in, and then 325 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.120 that the you know, they train teachers to make sure 326 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.960 that they're providing education. But the other part that I 327 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:08.759 like about her and how I discovered on Instagram was 328 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.960 the fact that again I wanted to learn about the 329 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.440 true history of Haiti, and she covers that. She covers 330 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.599 the true history of Haiti, and then I got into oh, 331 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.640 she has an organization, so sometime you meet people for 332 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.440 one reason, or you seek out things and then you 333 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:29.960 find out, oh it's really cool and Ertrude, I'm gonna tag. 334 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:30.200 You on here. 335 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.720 I would love for you to come on this podcast 336 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:34.480 or I would love to partner up with you for 337 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:39.680 you to talk to the people on our platform. But yeah, 338 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.640 so pH four Global is one not if you're looking 339 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.920 to again build a stronger community and you're looking to 340 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.599 partner up with something or looking to donate or looking 341 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.880 for ways to support the Haitian people, that would be 342 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:55.119 one that I would. 343 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.039 Say to do also. 344 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:01.400 And then for Dominika, there's also visit with Dominica has 345 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:02.440 a Visitors. 346 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.640 You know what I'm saying. 347 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.079 That you could go on there and they do a 348 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.319 lot of community things in Dominika. 349 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.759 And you know, teaching a history about Dominico. Two I 350 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.119 want to add on with community also too, is that 351 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.480 we want the we call our followers a d Linemen crew. 352 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:22.559 We want them to know that this is a safe 353 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.640 haven also too, and that this is a community if 354 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.519 you feel like you need to reach out and you 355 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:31.759 need to talk to someone as well. Definitely, we're creating 356 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.720 a community of first generations to just have a place 357 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.240 to come and chat. So at any point you could 358 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:41.559 drop you in a comment, or if you want to 359 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.240 share something private, you can also DM us to that 360 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:47.319 will be private. And then if you want to come 361 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.960 on and talk about communities that you're sharing or community 362 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.079 you want to be a part of, or maybe a 363 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:58.480 community idea that you want backing. Also to feel free 364 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:00.759 to reach out to us to because a lot of 365 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.640 times people feel like they just want a safe space, 366 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.440 as you mentioned, and that's one thing that we can 367 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.559 reassure that we're a safe space. We do crack a 368 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.519 lot of jokes, yes, but. 369 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.640 That but that's the Caribbean way. 370 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.440 Like if yeah, we can help out joking or. 371 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:19.279 Cracking joke, you gotta have some and we understand, you know, 372 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:22.359 the younger generation, we want everybody to be welcome. And 373 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.839 like I said, that's when I was younger. You know, 374 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:27.319 the great uncles were telling the stories but I didn't know. 375 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.400 So I want to We want to be able to 376 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:33.119 also reach that gap that the next generation doesn't fill 377 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:34.079 out of touch. 378 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:35.480 With our story and with our culture. 379 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:39.240 Because if we are feeling proud, because I would say 380 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.519 again nothing with my parents, they did a beautiful job, 381 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.400 but there's a gap that I had to go and 382 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:49.640 seek out a lot of my community and identity. 383 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:50.400 Even though I was around it. 384 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:55.359 Being around something doesn't always mean you understand that thing. 385 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.079 Yes, talking about it. 386 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.119 You have to answer question, you have to show me. Okay, 387 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:06.400 we're Haitian, we're proud people. Why especially like I understand 388 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.920 the ones born in Haiti understanding And I think I've 389 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.400 mentioned that before my cousins were born because they go 390 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.079 to school and they learn about their true history, like 391 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.200 m certain places, but they learn about that, so they 392 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:21.200 come here with the mindset yo, I'm Haitian, we are 393 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:26.079 the firm, don't blah blah blah, and where that they believe? 394 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.720 Proud, proud, But then yeah, and the same thing in 395 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:33.440 Dominica too, they teach about the Dominikan history. But then 396 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.119 also too, and again this is no fault of their 397 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.599 own because our parents came to this country. They're trying 398 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.839 to survive themselves and acclimate themselves to a new culture 399 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.160 and country. So a lot of times, some of I'm 400 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:52.960 gonna say, the bad habits came with them where children 401 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:55.799