Black people are more than entertainers

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What up, my good people? Thank you for tuning in to Run Your Mouth Podcast with your girl Key. As always, I'm back for another segment of Run Your Mouth Podcast, giving you news you can use, talking about everything and anything, but everything I talk about definitely has substance. I ain't gonna hold y'all. Like for real. Y'all know I get real lengthy. Sometimes I say I'm gonna be here for 20 minutes and I be here for an hour. But for real, for real, this is so simple, it ain't even gonna take long. We are in a time where we definitely have abused the phrase stay woke. Y'all see how I got right into it? I ain't even I ain't even hesitate to get right on into what I want to talk about. Because we have I've been in this world for five decades, and tonight's topic, today's topic, this morning's topic, whenever you decide to tune in, download, listen, whatever time it is for you, wherever you at and where you listen. And thank you, by the way, for those of you in the UK, um, different countries who are tuning in and listening to me. Because I promise you, I'm so inconsistent till it ain't real, but y'all sticking with me tells me that whatever I'm saying and whatever I'm doing, and whatever message I'm putting out to you, it's affecting someone, it's entering the ears and the hearts of someone because you keep tuning in and you keep listening. So thank you for that. And I hope that it's benefiting you in a positive way because let's not get it twisted. Nothing that I'm saying is to divide us as people, American people, human people on this earth, on you know, from one nation to another. Nothing I'm saying is to divide us, but it's to keep us awakened to the fact that two things happen. Some people gained on this earth by being who they are, and some people lost on this earth by being who they are. You you figure it out, pretty sure it's not that hard. So the topic today is it's time to start doing business. You know, we have so long for decades, black people done came out of oppression, we came out of slavery, we are fighters, we are we are the chosen people, indeed, no doubt, and we've entertained enough. It's time for business. Think about it, if you will. What are we known for? Yes, that's our culture in the black community, Africa. Uh, you go to Haiti, you go to Jamaica, you go to all these predominantly black African migrant areas, the Caribbeans, we celebrate. We like colors, we like music, we like dance, we like entertaining, we like celebration, but that's not all we are about. We are also innovators, inventors, creators, scholars, musicians, doctors, lawyers, all of the above. We we've been lumped in one category for so long, and it's time we get out of that category because why is it that? And this is gonna be so fast, y'all gonna it's gonna blow your mind. The message is so quick, it's gonna blow your mind. But take it with you. Take it with you, sit on it for a day or two, come back and revamp, and let me know what it did for you in the inside of your soul, what you thought about. So we've been around here for decades, for centuries, for hundreds of years, being class clowns and thinking it's cool to be a fool. We were brought from a country, a continent, enslaved, utilized for entertainment and serving purposes only, put us in circuses, danced like a clown, threw apples and balls at us and dumped us in the water. All this stuff started with the oppressors utilizing black people as entertainment. So when we finally get out of oppression and finally get out of that slave mentality, and we finally break loose and realize that we are the innovators and the inventors who created, built this country and many others off of our backs, the backs of our ancestors, the ancestors that they want us to forget, the ancestors that they want to oppress and omit out of our books and our texts and our children's mind for generations and generations. Want to forget, they want you to forget to tell your children bedtime stories about the people who came before them and paved the way for them to even be able to read that bedtime story. This is what our oppressors want us to forget. So we have stayed in the enslaved mindset that all we can do is entertain. We've turned the church into entertainment. You can't just go and get the word, you can't go and get the gospel, just go and get the gospel. Read the Bible, talk about the Bible, let me tell me about the text, let me soak it in without the tambourines, the trambones, the glitz, the confetti. Everybody gotta fall out, you gotta practice tongues, everybody gonna speak it. You gotta put on the big screen, you gotta do all the editing, you gotta do all this entertaining just to get the souls of people to pay attention and be still. Why? So then we go here. We go into our American, our Western culture, and everybody wants their sons and daughters to grow up to be football players, basketball players, rappers, strippers. Probably don't want you to be a stripper, but we we we we foster that attitude and and we give out that or that it's acceptable for us to use what we got to get what we want. That sexist mentality. Don't put on clothes, girl. Go and bust, go get you a bust down and look like a European because it's the only way you're pretty. Go and put on false eyelashes all the way up to your forehead because that's the only way that you're sexy, because yours don't grow enough, your hair isn't straight enough, it's not curly enough, your skin isn't light enough, your eyes aren't bright enough. It's always something to denounce who you are, what you were born to look like, and make you mimic something else. Put you in the entertainment business, you gotta look a certain way for us to cut a deal with you, you gotta carry yourself a certain way, you gotta change your image, and you gotta fit this image for us to put you on TV to make a fool out of yourself. All the housewives that ain't married, and I harp on that all the time because ain't none of them married. Like, why are you calling yourself a housewife and you're not married? All the reality TV, it portrays the black woman as this ignorant sex symbol, wanna be something she ain't type woman. Haven't we entertained long enough? Have we not forgotten the things that we built? Have we not forgotten that before we were encaptured, before we were traced across the sea, before the transatlantic slave trade, there was a continent of black people who survived and lived well off the land, mind you, fresh fruit, grow everything, vegetables, hunters, survivors, builders, carpenters, just like Jesus. But we've gotten into this mindset that all we know how to do is entertain and make a fool out of ourselves. Think about this. Why was it okay? Why was it accepted for the KKK to wear capes and call themselves an organization? But then you got your Crips, your bloods, your GDs, your Pirus, your Lords, your brothers and your sisters who hanging out. It made y'all believe you had to hate each other, kill each other, and fight the territory that you don't own anyway. Rather than band together and be strong. Picture me this, Sicily. Golden Girls is my favorite. Y'all know this is my favorite show. If you don't know, now you know. I love when I love when Sophia says, picture this, Sicily. So picture this, Sicily. Black men are incarcerated at a rate of 40% more than any other race in America. And the first thing they do when they get out, it can be something as simple as child support, back child support, traffic tickets, violation of parole, the parole you got because child support, traffic tickets. Um many are in there for a reason. You know, I'm not saying every black man or every person, period, that's not behind bars is not there for a reason. Of course, there are people who are evil and who commit crimes who should be punished by the by the greatest extent of the law, whether they be black, white, Puerto Rican, brown, green, everybody's just a criminal. No, but some are. But think about this: the black man who's incarcerated at such a higher rate than any other race in America. The first thing they do when they get out, they want to get their life together, they say. They want to work a job, they want to go to a factory, they want to be a citizen, be a be a be a good patron of America. You want to go out and live an upstanding life, you want to catch up on that high-behind child support that you had all while you were incarcerated, and mind you never stop because the child never stopped growing and they never stopped charging you. But why would they not stop charging you? Why would they not stop when you are incarcerated? How can you pay? How can you work? You're working for free now. It doesn't matter what you're incarcerated for, it just matters that it didn't stop. So it keeps going and going and going, so you come out in debt, right? You come out, even if that's not what you went in for, with a potential future charge. Because if you don't catch up, if you don't get that in good standing, now you're gonna lose your license, your passport if you have one, possibly the job that you worked so hard to get when you got out of prison. So while our black men are Hispanic men with DUIs, you know, they stay pulling them over and swearing every Mexican gotta be drunk, which that's such a stereotype. These men work hard, they go out and they they build and construct, and you look down your street and see how many county workers standing out on the road at any given time, any given day, in any given area, on your highways, your your your freeways, your your back roads, your junctions. You look and see who's standing out there in the hot sun, working on these frail roadways and building and constructing this country that we love so much. Who's doing it now? The only difference is they're not being forced to do it, it's just their way of the world, but kind of reminds you of how black people came and built things, right? For pennies on a dollar or free because they were made, held, held captive. Gunpoint, you gotta do this from sunup to sundown. So when you think about when men get out of prison and they go and seek these type jobs, um laborers, they're still laborers, they haven't looked any further. Many of them are convicted felons. So you come out a convicted felon, man or woman, speaking mostly to the black man, because this is really, really, really affecting how they see things and how they move in this world. You come out as a black man, you have you are a convicted felon, you have a very hard time getting a job, even as a laborer, Amazon, Walmart, Target. A lot of these companies have started to hire convicted felons, but many of them still judge. Soon as your background check comes back, you gotta fill out the application, you gotta send a resume, you gotta do an assessment online, you gotta go in, you gotta talk to people, you gotta do a peer interview, you gotta pass a criminal background check, boom, background check comes back, your convicted felon. God forbid your felony was theft by receiving or taking. X is you out, right? X's you out, and in 15 minutes, I'm gonna tell you why y'all have been such fools. Why the hell were you out trying to become a laborer? An entertainer when we've been making a fool out of ourselves, entertaining for an industry that did not ever, ever, ever want to see us elevate in the first place. You get these rich ballers and rich actors and actresses in the black community, none of them have ever stepped outside of that box to be lawmakers, to make change. They just made money. They made change, all right, for them, but they didn't make any change in America for the black person. That's why we can't we can't pull nobody up by the bootstrap just because you went and you signed a $30 million contract as a football player. You still working for somebody running that ball for the billionaires in the the industry that you work for. You ain't making no change. You call yourself an influencer, but you're not really influencing nobody. You're influencing the people that look up to you to continue to buy what you sell, to continue to root for your entertainment purposes, and continue to put money in the hands of those who made you the class clown, the class act. But what you should have done, black man, go get your job at the White House. Go run in the Congress. Go run in the Senate. None of y'all never thought about stop chasing them jobs, them jobs that's acts asking for so much criteria from you that you absolutely positively don't have because you are a convicted felon. But nowhere in the Constitution does it says that you couldn't run for office and actually really make some change. And it makes some change on the side, make some change, like make a lifetime check. Who says? All of them did it, and they won't ever change it because if they change it, that means they gotta change who's in those houses, they gotta change who's in those seats, and they gotta leave their jobs because many of them are convicted felons too. Many of them have charges, many of them have wayward ways, back child support, DUIs, paying for prostitutes, rape, some even accused of alleged murders, charges, but they sitting in that house making laws and decisions for a country of people who are upstanding citizens, some of which who have never gotten in trouble, black or white, some of which get up and go to their jobs every day, and they can't make a difference, they have no say because they are being led by criminals with a criminal mind. And most criminals with criminal minds only think about one thing, themselves. So why, my boy, my girl, have you been chasing this American dream of entertainment but never thought about getting down to business? We have we have so saturated our minds with thinking that influencers and entertainers and athletes are the only means of income, the only way when they have no say. Look what Colin Carpernick. When he decided to open his mouth, look what happened. They incarcerated Mike Vick over some dogs. These same people who, for generations and generations before them, families have burned down homes and churches and children and rape people and hurt people and killed other white people for trying to help people of a different color, hurt your own just because those people had a heart and they wanted to see everybody win in this country that we share together. We share it together. So let's not be ignorant here, because there were there are many, still to the day, there are many white farmers who get up and farm their land early in the morning, late at night, by themselves, just their families. And they are good people, good to people. Make sure they take care of their neighbors and take care of people in their community. But it's a handful of bad seeds who have controlled this country for so long and put so many misconceptions in the heads of everybody. And ain't nothing but criminals. And we just sitting back acting like, oh, well, if your child doesn't get out and get a good job, what is that good job again? Why do you have to fill out an application, a resume, be scrutinized, be ran, background check, not to not to belittle anybody's career or anybody's job or because work is work, but why should you have to go through all that to go be a laborer? Why you gotta go through all that scrutiny and all those steps and all of that to go work at Dollar General? Why you gotta do all that to get a construction job out in the hot sun? Building, trying to make your country better. Hard labor. I gotta go through all these hard labor, but I can be a convicted felon and I can go and run the White House, and I can go and be a lawmaker, I can be a legislature, I can be a representative, I can be in the Senate, I can run for Congress, I can be your local mayor council person and all this stuff, all these important jobs that make decisions for our country. I can do that, and I don't have to go through all of that because the Constitution says so. Because the Constitution was written by people who knew they was gonna be making bad decisions, knew they were gonna be selfish, and knew they were not good people, and knew they didn't like everybody, and knew they was gonna let greed control them, and knew they were gonna be criminals, who raised criminals, who continued for generations over generations over generations to produce evil-minded criminals, and yet we sit back and we applaud and work hard to be crabs in the bucket. Anyway, that's my time. Y'all do it or what you will, but think about it. We've entertained enough, and I'm so so sick of what's going on in the prison. What y'all fighting for? What you killing each other for and recording, and you think it's so cool because you're banging. What are you doing? People have done 20, 30 years peacefully, reformed, minimized recidivism, never went back because they hate that life. Why would you fall in love with that life and call yourself a leader? That's not leadership. That's fullazzi. That's foolishness for real. That is not leadership, guys and girls. Please think about what you're doing. Think about your future. Think about the generations behind you and think about the fight. 400 years. We've been talking about it's time. It's time for us to wake up, stay woke, do this, do that. What are we doing though? The same thing over and over and over. Because we are conditioned. We are conditioned and institutionalized in our own head to not know better. And I think it's comfortable and easier for some people to just not fight and not know better and not want to know better because it's it's just it's it's it's simple and it's comfortable. It's complacent. But it's never gonna create change. Complacency is just never ever gonna produce change. How can it? Anything stays the same, stays the same. Anything stays the same, stays the same. Get comfortable where you are. You will never ever want to go anywhere else. Move your feed, people. Move your mind, move your feet, listen to your heart, listen to your spirit, do something different with your life, do something different with your time. Look at each other in a different light. The people who look like you and don't look like you are not your enemy. Your neighbor is probably not your enemy. Whether they be black, white, Hispanic, Asian, even the ones who are spewing this nonsense about black Americans in the Asian community. Um that's just a few people. That's just a few. Don't judge all of them by a few social media posts and a few people who think that way and have that embedded in their head because they've been conditioned as well. Um it's time for us to start looking within and really thinking about goals and thinking about positivity. Too many young people are dying, too many people are incarcerated. The jails are at an influx of gang violence when you should be calling yourself partners, not gangbangers, but affiliates, allies, because only strong survive. You know, when we were kids and we played tug of war, you know, you try to even it out, and and you put the strongest person at the end, and because they're gonna pull all the weight and they gonna they're gonna handle when when the when the ones in the front get a little weak. That's how life has to be. Inside, outside. That's how you have to be with one another. You have to be able to put your best foot forward, have the weight of others when they are weak. Not not push them in, don't push them in the mud. Pull together, band together, tie your knots, double tie your knots. Stop looking over there and thinking, oh well, this is my enemy, and I I gotta take him out because he threw up a different sign or she she wore a different color or this, that, or the third. What are you doing? What are you doing? You were conditioned to believe this nonsense. That division makes you stronger. No, it just makes the grave full. That's all. It's just filling up the grave one by one, uh desensitizing us from our race of people and our struggle, turning us into monsters to hate one another and eliminate one another, slowly but surely. That's all it's doing. So, y'all think about that, and um, I hope this helped somebody. If it didn't, um pray about it. That's all I can say. Pray about it. Maybe one day you'll see that the person you look at in the mirror may have been the problem. Um, and the solution was not violence, it's not hatred. It's knowledge, strength, wisdom, courage, and change. That's the recipe. Thank y'all for tuning in to Run Your Mouth Podcast. Join me for another episode when I drop one. Hit that notification button so that you don't miss one because you never know when I'm popping in with the business. Y'all have a good one. Until next time. I'm out.