welcome to a very very very special segment of today my name is gloria i'm your host and i'm really really excited to be here really thankful to be here and looking forward to a great show and want to thank you for welcoming me into your home and all the support i get from throughout the community when i'm traveling about the bay area all the people who tell me they watch the show and who thank me and send me e mails and even call me on the phone you know i do appreciate you taking the time to reach out to me your support means the world to me and i value your support so i want to thank you very much i want to start the show with a moment of prayer prayer changes things and it doesn't matter what the thing is whether it's something big and beautiful or whether it's small and hurtful prayer changes things just doesn't matter what what it is where really is a valuable to that human beings can utilize to enrich and encourage and elevate their lives and to help others the lord jesus father got a gift thanks for the opportunity to pray to pray in  a vehicle that has the capabilities of traveling around the world this prayer this television show people all over the planet and so for that gift i say thank you for that resource essay thank you and i pray that this show will touch where the such a will will inspire where inspiration is needed and will be use for tin san francisco and when i was a little girl there was a lady who had a television show her name was jerry lange and i jest got the blessed opportunity to meet mr lang she was in the studio just before ladies like jerry lying and bill the davis really really really are the cornerstone of black women in baier e a media and if it were not for jerry langham bell the davis and others who walk through open doors and but not this walk through who were prepared and had done all the qana work that they needed to do so that when those doors opened that they would walk through that only did they walk through they kept those doors open they didn't just walk through and close the door behind them they didn't just walk through and make an appearance or do a few shows and walk off both of these women have decades of experience in media and they have decades of really make a difference and a change throughout the bay area for women who look like me women who are sitting in like i am right now and women who haven't even gotten here yet w experience doors open in media that would not be open today if a were not for women like jerry laying so i want to say to her thank you so very much it was maybe a divine intervention in ma behalf to meet you misplaying today because my show is focused on african american history and the beauty of being an african american woman being born into such a rich legacy in a rich history and my gift is i get to share that and pass that on to my children and my grandchildren and one day i have great grandchildren and i get a pass on to them so again thank you ms sherry lang thank you bill the davis for not like i said not just opening the door but keep in the door open so that one day i would show up and i just want to know in my heart of hearts i feel so proud that i was able to take a picture today and also if you know i'm sure most everybody know her son was the bartender on the love boat for many many many years i can't think of his name right now me but her son had a long television career he was on love boat he was on that's my mama  a lot of television shows and a lot of work in hollywood so the apple didn't fall far from the tree in her case and i'm very grateful for that so i love really really really love that i was blessed to be born african american i grew up not really understanding the gift that i was walking and the power that i walked just because i'm african american because i grew up at a time where that wasn't pronounced the title of today show at breezy and the reason that it's  amazing true story is because when anybody thinks about the conditions that african african people were captured in africa and the conditions that they lived in once captured and then taken to the slave dungeons and gone eventually in ghana in being held there against their will in the in the birth of all kind of violence and then once you survived that portion of the experience you were then loaded onto a ship and placed side by side with other human being shackled down in the bottom of the whole of the shi in rows and i can't remember now exactly how long that trip took from from ghana to the united states but sometimes those ships this is how difficult the process was the trip was sometimes the travel and the conditions of the ship were sold deplorable and such a horrific day that the shippers who were responsible for the enslavement of african people at that time poured gasoline in kerosene on the ships and just set them on fire while they were in the water they would ride out to the ship a few people who were able to get off the ship and so devastated of the horrific journey that they couldn't even be carried off so when i think of that and i put that into context it makes crystal clear that the even so that one day i would show up like it was not magic and it's not it's more there rocket science you know when things are hard people say it's not rocket science it's not rocket science it's more than rock and fly it it's bigger than rocket science that a human being one human being man or woman maybe it was a child that survived that trip in the history of mankind in my opinion now i would i would be partial i'm african american of course partial but i think a lot of people if they tell the truth feel the african american steve mcqueen that's the one who did the blob in the fifty's but or bullet but the gentleman who did the twelve years a slave he made th statement and i think it's probably one of the most astounding these statements i've ever heard and that is we have taken the process of the enslavement of african human beings far too lightly and i believe that's true because if we hadn't african american children or would know that if it wasn't for the milk and their great great great great grandmother's breast probably none of us would be sitting here if it wasn't for the labor of the men in the women in the children on tobacco plantations and cotton plantations and sugar plantations all over the south the bulk of us would not even be sitting here  to go and see twelve years a slave and i've done a lot of study in you know with regard to our history i have a bachelor's that i had a double major african american history and political science and i got to say that i used to read everything i could get my hands on about people because i was a sponge because i kept getting introduced to so much i didn't know and i didn't even tapped the surface of the world of history were african and african descent people are concerned i think it's still untapped but to so i knew a lot of what i would see in the movie and i wasn't surprised by a lot but i was just moved by his statement that we've taken the experience far too lightly and that's all true because the reality is that not only did our labor free labor at that make it possible for america to become the richest stolen country on the planet but it also  rejection of been slave process and our revolt against the process and our work later in the civil rights movement in our commitment to peaceful demonstration is really the in many cases the blueprint that other people all around the planet who are protesting in jest this is in their countries and in their lands a lot of what we did people used as a blueprint you know peaceful demonstrations and nonviolent demonstrations really created a blueprint that allows me to have the love the somali heart today like we didn't go through killing up people and hang him people to prove our hurt we were injured we are we used to pay for all demonstrations and peaceful protests that actually encouraged love and encouraged partnerships with other people and encourage the partnership of other people to build and salt a lot of people have a lot of love in their hearts today because of what has been experienced by people of african descent and eventually the peace and freedom marches all through the south in the peaceful citizens and demonstrations people were violent against us and people attacked us but we stood up to sometimes it was death we stood up to death and protest and that peace is what i am blessed with today that commitment to my freedom and to the love and peace that i walked in today is my gift and that's what i get a pass on to my children and my grandchildren and so you know i get moved to tears when i think about the beauty of what it took to get me here and the beauty of the love death surrounds me in my life and in my heart and laughter and joy would be our lot and they were willing to die for it i mean what better gift can you give for your brother then to lay down your life for his good for his safety for his protection for his betterment there is no bigger prize there is no bigger prize that one could lay down there than when one lays down their life and all the people who participated whether it was in the seventy's an eighteen hundred that eventually became the civil rights movement whether it was then whether was eventually people in the fifty's in the sixty's who marched on washington who march through selman month gone worryin in lana who marched through tennessee can you most people cannot imagine the anguish and the hate and the harra that was a way a life to be living in the you were african american at that time texas louisiana oklahoma arkansas florida every single state south carolina north carolina byrd genya every single state painful reality and i understand why more people aren't willing to be perfectly honest about the process and the experience because of how much pain is involved and how much pain it takes to tell the truth about it and then to heal from it i can imagine that there are people especially at that time who felt like the pain was so horrific that it was just probably going to just take their lives and in many cases i'm sure did you know in many ways people died unnecessarily simply because of hate simple simply because of greed simply because of another group's self centered miss and so to have that be your historical backdrop and have that be the context that you view yourself is not a  cakewalk i'm an african american woman i am proud that my people kept live and i'm proud that they fought for me to get here but i can tell you firsthand experience the pain that historically we've experience yeah most people want us to shut up because really who is equipped to walk through it who's equipped to heal from it for real you know many cases people die of historical injuries and wounds just because they don't have the mechanisms that are necessary to move through and so you know i understand how difficult the process he is but i sit in the gift of the healing that's available i fit in the gift of the healing that's going to be necessary for us to pass on the future generations and i understand the people who are able to do it i really do black white either one  understand that it has got to be devastating to have to admit that your foremothers and forefathers were so greedy and so self centered and so violent that they would travel all the way to africa it appropriately and it's too soft a word but the enslavement of african human beings is a process that really is going to have to be dealt with with some point i don't know if it's if america's spiritually mature enough to deal with that today realistically and honestly she may not she hasn't been that mature yet but i don't know i've never knew i would see a black president so what do i know i don't know if think with regard to future and what may happen however i do know that as soon as we decide it's time and i can make i make that decision every day it's time so that i don't promote the injury of my life i make that decision every day that it's time that i pass on to my grandchildren a healthier view of themselves and a more well rounded view that america has not enough present in her history books and in her classrooms and just because she's not doesn't mean i don't have to be and so i encourage an honest description of the best of the country first off and then the enslavement of african human beings because they healing process has a lot to offer you know there's a whole world to shift and to change  to guy to a more livable place you know the safety of our planted is directly related to the safety of us as human beings  proven what violence can do we've proven what does and in massive distribution of drugs can do we've proved what unemployment can do we prove what incarceration can do it can not serve anybody it doesn't serve anybody can serve anybody and it will never serve anybody many states have gone broke trying to recreate plantations in the prison system many of them and those who haven't declared broke their get in there and so we've learned that a black mind is not an excuse to create a prison system to lock it down like it still won't work black people are still going to be born many young girls are not going to have abortions planned parenthood may go out of business but many people are going to be born into the world who are not going to be willing to live a life full of health and live a life full of violence and live a life full of inequality and still you know my my dreams and prayers and aspirations for the future are being like i think globally i think really that people don't have to go around the planet still and up everything and everybody and by i really do believe that i know that it's true it happens i know that it has happened but i don't believe it's a necessity i don't believe it has to happen and i know a lot of people feel like me  really really really excited about all the going on right here in the city of berkeley there's a big black history program next week on the next verities that at the berkeley community theater come out and all the people who have made a lot of electorial or political movement possible a lot of them will be berkeley at twenty twenty addison talk of the town is going to do their black history program and salvage has a huge black history celebration design with you and mine so please come out and support all the programs because one day you know who the inequality could be at your door could be directed at your family could be directed at you as a person as a human being so please come out and support programs that will benefit all of us i want to thank the entire staff everybody edman and all his team and and all the shirley all the people who are working on my show today i pray for your families and your health and your safety and i appreciate the support and the talent that you bring to the show and 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