welcome to brothers build a show dedicated to discussing and constructing solutions from the voice of men in the community you are now watching brothers for the second edition of brothers f history of the country but more recently than that it's taking even more evil despicable route i really feel like it's almost like there's a whole lot of the surface of this isn't really fair enough people age where everything is recorded everything happens instantaneously so now we have an opportunity to hear about these things much faster and probably you know ten or fifteen years ago  i think it is definitely something that we need to start talking more about start talking about solutions and things that we can do to secure our community secure our women our children and and and start from an internal perspective of  so he was giving us a clear indication back in the nineteen fifties that where there wasn't any racism among law enforcement is coming so you had areas or segments in the community throughout america specific target well if you just look at our experience here in america and slavery they castrated the man in front of  the man was on a pedestal as being a provider the maintainer the protector the guardian the leader up there also you set up a circumstance where through a generational  conquer an area or conquered country the spoils of war is called the boot so after you've conquered a situation you go out to the spoils of war well our most valuable asset is our woman she's our most valuable asset so once you get in a man out of the picture then they go out that a woman so you see it in the media where's we've had our man has slammed all over the media social media public media whatever now we've been desensitized so there's no rallying cry to the level we're supposed to be when it comes to protecting our women and our children because one thing for certain as men were obligated to provide and maintain a protect our family and before we let anything happen to our women we go down for when i going down without a fight you know so we have to change that dynamic you know this is been going on generationally and what we have to do is police ourselves when you have an occupying force that enforcement in a community that they have no of vested interests and they wasn't born and raised in a community they don't know the neighbors you know their grandmothers and neighbors with the person across the street you know just the camaraderie that you have growing up in a neighborhood any time something happens of negative and you're desensitized because you don't have any a vested interest in the community so what has happened is that wherever law enforcement is going to be we must police ourselves  at you know in order to move to police in our sales i think with the breakdown of the family and african american community i think we have to start there because i know as a man story when a child thanks you can get away with something that it once that has energy when nobody's looking they're going to go get the cookie because nobody's present they don't think there's anything going to be any consequences then i take into consideration mommy have counted the cookies before she put them in a cookie jar so no system of accountability will fall and also some of your actions people are going to continue to get away news cameras to watch our foolishness you know any differences that we have behind closed doors and there's no problem they can't be so we just so i have to have a will and a willingness to soften so in a sense i hate to say it but as a right now a lot of us have been passed and the circumstances in the world that are dictating the affairs of these that continue to aggressive our community the way they are i going to force our hand so you're right so this is definitely something that a negative situation that can turn out to be something positive because a lot of the talking the conference saying the meetings you know sessions like this it helps but it hasn't really given us what we need to really have the force to unite because they're going to continue to do feel like there's no consequences or actions and there's a consequence coming black people were bring in another thirty billion dollars right here right now as forty five million black people some would say fifty million depending on who you ask but right now we bring  know the idea that you had about brooklyn center brooklyn park i really like that because of more of us that are there when you have a conglomerate or was a one city like that we can take total control of the city council whereas right now if we put our all of our attention in or minneapolis per se that's one seat on the city council so even if we have a strong united collective effort one side of town were for respect to change in policy changing laws that's one vote against another six seven or eight years you know so we got to have total control over governing our failures where we can really hold our elected officials accountable and if you notice any time something goes wrong you know as we're talking about the dollars any time something goes wrong it is writing that's about to take place that slogan protect us our from law enforcement they protect the interest of businesses but when we have our own community and our own businesses our own schools our own gas stations grocery stores while we have total control over our community we are invested to protect that which was  now unfortunately we don't have that but that's what it's going to take so when we talk about you know anyone i just sand we're all in agreement because none of us ever see everything that's impossible but have been a collective effort of self interest whereas we're going to have our own schools our own clinics hospitals own businesses while we have our own community we can do that and we've had that in the past but we didn't protect it we had talked so oklahoma but in an additional tulsa oklahoma we had sixty eight other black towns throughout the south coming up out of the reconstruction era but we did not protect them we were afraid of those who came in our communities to destroy our communities but this is a different that helps build more discussion around movies and movies that are depicted as a biopic that talks about issues in our community well i'm going to die and dive in and say for myself starting off i wasn't really too impressed with the movie i think the movie was a good piece of entertainment and i love the actors that was depicted with different folks different characters within it i think they did a phenomenal job with that but my opinion as far as the entertainment value does not connect it been a biopic i think it was a week that's why i've been able to tell the story actual story a biographical form of what happened with the different people view way and i think it watered down and we framed the group into a different context that wasn't actually accurate in the events of history so i'm a start off with that i'm not a fan of it and i think the movie placed any deeper meaning or bio biopic value that we have to glean from from our community and make this extreme connection to how things were back then sure i generation appreciated it however i would never use them movie anything beyond its entertainment value other people to follow and now you have the conversation the no limit movie coming out or a cash money movie coming out which you know creates economics for them as black men and their fans i think  when you're young and you're rebellious you know if you're in a rebellious state or what have you you have anybody look at this movie and say these were some young men who didn't take no shit skews my language which just simply was like against all odds or against the threat of even the government imposing their will on them or against you know the police who threaten them  in into my life i'm must speak my mind regardless of the danger i'm going to stand amount to and i'm going to utilize my free speech and if you regardless of your perception of who i am you know i'm going to i'm going to present myself how i see fit and i'm not going to most of the fit into your work for instance like when the reporter came to visit cuba at his home and cuba checked him up out that was brilliant i thought that was beautiful up but that was an important piece or when he was on stage he said i didn't care about what the police had to say you know i'm going to perform a song you know and i think those are some important aspects of manhood to be able to stand on your own to and to have a police we have maybe one brother saying maybe ten brothers saying it but we don't have millions of people we don't have that one time now when someone gets shot by the police we have black people who come in with  negative things that you can say about those brothers but every biopic story every person in history has something negative but you can say about whether it's the malcolm x story or the black panther story would have us always something  always a major pieces left out is always a major piece this changed in the movie that because of the entertainment we can't forget that it is entertainment people have to be entertained to buy the ticket and i think they're we hold each other to a michel a year might have been big known or but she also got we should also make a life threats against drake so we can say that she's totally innocent in their situation because she put them as life in danger as well with her relationship so to me when i look at it it's everybody has a story to tell how they tell their story is not always one hundred percent true but we should accept a for what it is our generation we have valuable things that we need to pass on suburban lifestyles who want to be in the streets they want to be in a game then are ready for the next well we have so many young black men and black girls will be in gondor they're not prepared for their life but there's nobody older than me i'm telling you know this is not what you w imagery is that you are presenting as if it's a good marker or a good good tool to use to have those type of conversations and discussions so to to go to one point that was make that i really like what divine said about pulling those aspects of manhood it's a good i think we have a lot of other mediums and tools as far as movies that we can use for there but if we want to try to say que vision in every grey and dr dre and what they produce we should try to pull some value in it i will go do that to that extent and pull that piece out but i'm not going to criticize mel gibson with braveheart you know the whole conflict between the irish and scottish in the english that's not my experience my experiences with the black experience here so  obligated to sit up here and love ice cube dr dre and every a great enough to say hey this medium that you are put forth can we qualify it as a biopic or is this a creative narrative that is talking about something that happened in actual they have some actual elements and historical elements in it but is it really a biopic because then we do have to ask another question our we will into alter events in the past for monetary entertainment value and do we have if we have that much control over the institutions in the mediums that we put forth about our own narrative and experience and put it into a film and try to make money off of it do we have to be obligated to the images in the symbolic images that we put into the movie's expression when it comes to the depiction of women in the film let alone how we commit thirty four minutes to just the polls in w way into this political background like they was does voice against law enforcement and police brutality see that's the piece i didn't buy and let alone how they we framed in made a sing like that the record labels didn't have influence on the creative narrative of what the images they put out as in there be a way gangsters on these albums because these brothers was not their experience i think they did do did do a good job with that beginning intro piece where the brother got on the school bus and checked them because it just oppose them and their life to what was really happened so ice cube was right he was just a journalist talking about what was going on but these brothers tried to live it and try to say that this is what they was about so if we're going to have that much creative control over how we tell our narrative and try to get folks to buy that ticket shouldn't we be honest to our community that all questions is what rises to me because i already four minutes was committed to make it seem like in the b way was  because it was a part of the does right i'm comfortable if you took it too far and so i think when you look at this movie right and i'm a father so i can i can have no problem much out as a teenager allowing them to watch the movie because i can break certain things that you have to understand that children are attracted to certain things for certain reasons and when you're a child your mind isn't as developed as an adult so you have a rebellious rebellious nature there are things that you want to get into because your curiosity so that children of this generation will be more interested in a straight outta compton as opposed to a movie about public enemy and that's just being honest and so whatever they have presented in front of them if you as an elder or father  are around these children you have the responsibility and the ability to point them in the right direction to guide them it's a to make an example out of what's wrong with this movie and then feed them also certain things that may be right with the movie or certain things that you can take from or certain exacts so i think i think it's important to not just make it seem like life is this the so called a great thing where nothing bad happens you use the bad examples in life to teach your children  the right way to go eighty's when i group came out there was almost immediate change across the country in regards to the house community and how it's changed now whether you whether you take some of the positives and negatives out of the group i think those are both there i do other songs that they had on the side and exultantly had come out that because of a lot of the things that was going on internally in our community and all again going back now to the breakdown of the family those things spread like wildfire and overnight community he keeps us distracted from worldly affairs that's one of the reasons why he attacked martin luther king because he went from our local issues in our community to going to the government about and you hear in some of the segments as a live concert from london as a young black male a black neighborhood to hear that these brothers thousands of people atonement reconciliation or responsibility so we have issues in our community where men are being the providers and the beating then i've been responsible human beings and i've been a father son his children and i being productive members of society not all of us of course for some of us but even those of us who are doing some good we can all do better so what the minister was doing was bringing all of us to washington d c for one that we can stand before a creator and it's only fair for you for  wrong that we have done and that we can atone with one another as brothers so the end result of the march despite all of the opposition of the miners we still had close to two million black men show up and from those to me a of organization as working in your community you know get involved in politics look at the orphans look at that old who are foster care they're also the who need to be adopted and there was a major increase and adoption a major anchor we sent our foster care in double a soviet urban league their membership skyrocketed at that a march over one million black men get registered to vote and crime dropped all over america now clinton tried to take credit for  you consider every movement every demonstration every march every protest there we have done it has yielded a little to no results map that our efforts are in the right spirit but as far as the effect that it has had with our oppressors we're getting an answer to our problems we're getting our issues resolved you know for the most part some of our activities like spending on hamster wills you know we're making moves would make a motion we're doing things but in the results that we really need and part of the reason is because those who are part of the problem we're going to them to help resolve our solutions you know what i mean by that is who pays the piper calls to tell you can't really give a strong voice on what's going on in your community if you're asking your oppressor to finance your movement and the one thing that separated the million man march from the other movement is we didn't have a white facilities and five dollars donated on mars we paid our own way we paid our own way we had brothers all over the country given ten fifteen twenty fifty dollars we didn't do it on the weekend we did it on a monday which never happened in history before so you have almost to me a black man should want to been d c on a weekday when he didn't go to work they didn't go to school and they paid their own way now any othe and justice obviously what we've done thus far has not worked and the reason being is because there's no consequence for the actions of our press so minister farrakhan the honorable minister louis far an has taken us back to d c and he's led them now this time around it's justice or else because we've tried everything else that you can imagine we've said and we've la we've stood in the middle of a highway we protest we've picketed we've tried everything there's nothing else left wants to do what are you trying to force our as if we're going to be man or fight for ourselves and to defend our community definitely seeing how what what what type of solutions or what type of thing comes out of this million man march you know the other million man marches that have as if it before i've never been a part of most of them i think i was younger and i really didn't you know have any guidance to lead me to say ok well this is something that you can evolve so at this point when i have a family and i have you know two young boys growing up in my home and a young lady there now i'm much more invested into my community so i'm interested in seeing and you know what can come about and what some of the changes are can be created out of this march so i'm definitely in three and moving forward about martin luther king's last speech when he was dealing with the strikers the garbageman m f is about redistributing the pain that's one thing that we intend to do we state our case and we're not begging we're not asking we're demanding this is an ultimatum when i go on air quality we're going to stand this man as he has asked for ten thousand fearless in our community to come and represent us just in case one aspect that or whatever they may be you know but the thing is if we're going to stand as me and we're going to redistribute the pain dr king was saying in his last speech about supporting some of their businesses you know pulling our dollars back in our community so to it at things that are on the agenda i want to say it all now but i won't go ahead of our minister but to what it things that are on the agenda we will campaign nationwide to boycott black friday well drop a black dollar from black friday because black friday thanksgiving christmas even know somebody things were celebrated they didn't make it a so we're going to boycott black friday we're going to have a nationwide boycott and we don't want to take our people away from celebrating christmas but if you are a christian december twenty fifth 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