and me ok all right so brother to food to we've asked you to be a guest on the show because we know that you are one of the powerhouses in the community in terms of education to search for lisa means and lightman and they represent some more samaritan i am the sixth child out of eight i grew up in long beach california and my parents have always been involved very involved in  what is my purpose was my identity where my going from here so when you get an education is like gaining knowledge getting under information getting understanding what i can do with my intrinsic talents and qualities that i can offer for myself for my family and my community a lot of times here in america they have often talked about us just think about ourselves go get an education go get the home go get the car whatever else that's very individualistic and so when we begin to gain your society and also the world and then you can make changes to make this a more equitable society because right now we recognize this is not very equitable people are treated equally people are treated in theory as  beings and so we have to say when you get knowledge and information that china was agree civilization africa's great civilization other places in the world have done great things we can bring something to the table as an equal because we'd never want to say that people back into experience coming over here from from africa so we show the comparison of those two people that we asked well who was the perpetrator of indigenous people also the africans in america and we see again and again sad to say but the europeans still speak with forked tongue you know who sell so you know what's interesting about that the prediction is that the native american made about the pipeline that they were going to child i never learned about those things that you talking about what i learned about was a jewish holocaust i mean there was it there were only people who suffered in the world you know like right and so i had  you bring that up also i mean people have suffered all around the world however people of african descent have not suffered more than have suffered more than anyone else because what has happened is they need to take away our land in our and our money whatever else but it took away our our identity our culture our education our respect for self because after beating us over and over again and raping us and this educating us we became a different kind of human being you know so we almost became less than human and that's why softer there's a quote a history says a more us history have more human you are and they will often say that well you haven't done anything on thing you have done in life is be a cotton picker and one thing you have done in life is wash my is a group of people telling someone else that they're less than human that their value what is it in their their sight their mind that they have to treat another human being in inferior way is that a lot of times people treat someone like that because you are suffering some kind of psychological damage yourself you don't feel complete you don't feel human and we have never put people down people back into sin a very loving very kind and if you look at society in individual thing it was about communing you family community in the celebrate together this work together isn't have to be about me i have mine i will be on you because you don't have anything no you don't have anything on the sheer on the show you how to do a new concept you know it's all really i really don't know that i really understand how the these people understood the stars you know a thousand years before the europeans down the telescope you know it's all just an people back in the senate often the president entertainment sports and things like that and we haven't been using our mind as much as we should because people are pushed aside if way they said were useful labor instead of our intellect but as we see over and over here we're just geniuses were brilliant deny someone else however here in america we have been denied our history so we have to do research we have to talk with each other and seek that that understanding the information is there now the internet's there  people are the have a lot of wise elders so there should be no reason we should not be saying i don't know because information is here and we can replicate that we can duplicate it whatever else is necessary so the greatness is is within our and we can play golf he goes to the top i used to be a runner when i was back in high school and so forth and i was a small guy so most of the runners were people your pain is set and so forth but tommy got to college and so forth we saw these africans coming out of kenya and they start running the marathons and winning year after year after year and i remember when the first african from kenya won right they focused on a second place when i was a year pain instead of first the first place canyon because it was just a shock and then after that next to fifteen years even today the kenyan runners in the marathon the york marathon bottom marathon of the marathon they're first place first second third easily and so when we put our minds to and we can do  debates you know we have different debates regarding uniform to say for example you know why should somebody were uniform i should wear uniforms so looking at different perspectives you know who are the powers that be that hasn't forced certain things so really trying to challenge the young people to become critical thinkers you know and almost going back like two years why why why why you know why is this happening who told me to think like this you know if we're doing things that are detrimental to our own health to our community and so forth why would i continuously perpetuate that so we have to say you know something that can be changed yes i want to try to uphold the customs and traditions so forth so those that are productive and positive for me i need to continue but bring a concrete argument with that and so we're trying to really make the people think that because there are changes of tomorrow so yes we want to get tradition but the same time how can we take the next steps into the future are asking questions you're thinking they're creating and if we look at history you know a lot of movements start of young people you know ten years all of years of fifteen years or so so we give them opportunity to think and create would be surprised with what they come up with and if the elders can give them assistance and guidance you know and package that i mean there's nothing that we cannot do and it's about it's about people working together and it's about young people listening to show exactly the thing about maybe two years and opportunity were meant to come together every friday and we can discuss what's going on with our ourself our family our job and so forth and so it's almost like a i'm in support group ms min therapy you know i'm in of afghanistan because there's a lot of hail that we're catching every single day in this society this is a very racist society very prejudicial society is so he doesn't wind up on the six o'clock news and i think a lot of us come because when i see one of them is hard to lose just because so upset because the pressure continuously bombards us you know getting a job just speaking our mind being ourselves brilliant minds women use our whole self on use our mind body and soul and so people need to recognise that here in america we're stepping up moving out and doing great things moving on this move and so can you put th and then right across from there this is big church is right over holgate martin luther king and his big church i forget the name of but i'm trying to put a picture in the minds of people so they know this is not this is not far away as w you're going to going north on m l k and you get to hold it you make a left at that big church you make a left soon as you make the left in the building that we're talking about the t h s community address and then you can come in come in join us now we're going to put a phone number up at the end of the show and you were put to get that phone number and you can call in probably yes there were questions about it past in order that you can secure a future because you don't know what has happened in your past very difficult to know where you are where you need to do what you need to pursue in the future so that the past gives us a foundation to let us know what has occurred what needs to occur you know what the deficiencies were what the surpluses were and we continuously grow and grow upon that and do better and better yes always recognize your past regularly pas your parents your grandparents your ancestors you know so well when we do that it just makes us a richer person richer and richer individual a richer community because we're honoring those who came before us they paid the way for us they died for say but there's divisions even in the black community is often light skinned black dark skin and so forth and in this case here it was mainly a dark skinned people dark if you were african descent which is really good because a lot of times you know they often show skin african americans and they were the heroes and they were the she rolls and so forth and they were strong they were intelligent they were entrepreneurs they had all the technology different inventions so kind of stuff is just  t just inspiring it's almost like when barack obama former rock bomb became the president it was like possibilities are endless we can do whatever we put our minds to and and also when i saw him to make me think that africa is the second largest continent in the world people need to recognize that america can fit inside africa three times so a lot of people project africa some small place and people are not doing things but africa second large third and next africa is the riches khan resources so a lot of times your people say why are you going after i'm going after the savages over there for the first place europeans go they go to they go to africa when i go on need to build our cars to better our houses to build these new phones whatever else is all there africa but they will tell us that africa's backward you should go to africa because they don't want us to gather together work together and go over there and say you know what  african brothers and get these resources to start building things and then we have to go through us but as long as they can keep us dumb about information about africa they continue see rape africa for its resources and rape the people but they have done us years and years and queens and so forth you know running africa the minds of color is asian is still implanted into their psyche and so just as we have to we educate ourselves we have different views and values they have to do the same thing because some of the information from so we are a little over a minute word to ask you did you have any parting words do you like to leave us with well the first law of nature is a self preservation learn to take care of yourself because what you take yourself then you have the opportunity to help others and so i'd like to share with everybody when you wake up in the morning meditate pray so you affirmations get yourself together build up your build your armor that will when