Propaganda

In today's episode, we discuss current affairs, propaganda, and the theory underlying evolving racism and segregation, tying this all to some of the debates surrounding the recent death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells.

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Welcome to the Art of Conversation. Your girl Alicia C. And we outcha recording live y'all. Happy Friday, everyone. Good morning. I hope you're feeling fantastic. This Friday. Amen. The weekend is here. Fabulous Friday. Flashback Friday. Factual Friday. How you guys feeling? How you living? How you feeling? How was your week? Hope it was productive. I hope you can chill out and reset this weekend. Time is flying. July is going. And then it's August. And then it's what? Back to school. August, September, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and 2027. Like each year, I feel like it just speeds up. It goes faster and faster and faster. It's frightening. Alright. It truly is. Um it just goes to show you that we don't have time to waste and stop leaving everything for later because sometimes there is no later, you know? Like you gotta thank God when you get to your destinations in one piece and wake up each morning, you know, the things that human beings we tend to take for granted. You know, whatever you refer to source as God, spirit, Allah, everyone has their names, source, you know, higher power, higher than us. And honestly, that's pretty much all you really got. Seriously, that's really all you got. So check this out, y'all. The word for today's episode is propaganda. According to Oxford, propaganda refers to the organized dissemination of partial, deceptive, or manipulative information aimed primarily at shaping public opinion, convictions, or behavior. See, you know, first I had to kind of go off on my little tangent first, because you know, you really gotta sometimes live life like you know you hate to say that and think about that, but it's like that's the reality. Like, it's so much stuff going on in the world, like it never stops, it never stops. Um, what continuously gets pushed out. Um, just I want this in your face. I want I want you to catch this message that we're giving you, even though there's no validity behind it, you know, or even if it's leading to somewhere else. Like it's it's a lot going on, and it's so easy to get caught up with everything that's going on. And you know, there's that word awareness again, and I know we discussed awareness in a previous episode. Being aware of what's going on, being aware of what you're being distracted from, being aware of what you're being triggered to do or influence, you know, there's a reactive abuse. Everything is a domino effect, everything from the top, you know, it trickles all the way down. And I always emphasize the importance of community and unity, right? So it's like if you're trying to build something or start something or do something, right? I never understood the concept of people up there who never experience communal life. Like you're not here, you know. You're not on the individual level of community. You wouldn't necessarily know what it is that the people need or what's best. You may have an idea of because you know, there's complaints, there's protests, there's laws, there's regulations, ah, you know. All of that good stuff, you know, people come to these committee meetings and board meetings, and they're advocating that's how you hear, or if you choose to willingly educate yourself, research, look it up, data, ah, right? Other than that, because you can't, it's just not about reading, because that's not what life is about, it's about experience. So, how can you tell me what's best for me and you have no idea what it is to be in my or our shoes? You're looking at it where you can benefit, and it is at whose expense, whose benefit. So we talk about propaganda, we hear about propaganda, this is time timeless, ongoing, right? It'll never stop. No time soon. Well, I'm optimistic, but you know, things have to get worse first and come crashing down, crumbling, and literally like just be destroyed in order for a new strong foundation to be built. So we're gonna be seeing a lot of things, and we've been seeing and experiencing a lot of things and a lot of things, and life has gone through numerous shifts. Our most recent was COVID-19. Um, that's the catalyst. And again, even though we're in 2026, we're still in recovery. There's been so much stuff happening for the past few years, months, as of this year. More things are happening, and it makes you question well, what's the agenda? What are you trying to, what, what, what, what, what's your goal? Like, what are you trying to accomplish here? What are you trying to start? What do you want? What comes from this? Blau, ta dou, watch out now. It's the lead the way and not pow pow. You like that? All right, so day in, day out, month, years, decades, ongoing, right? Propaganda within the United States, right? This involves communication. What kind of strategies are being used by both the government and non-government entities, you know, to influence public opinion? You know, we've heard about the boycotting and we've heard about the Black Lives Matter movement, and you know what I'm saying? Like, I can't even like in the moment right now, like it's so many. It's like those are the first two that popped to me just now. And just any like tragedy that involved race. So I'm gonna place that right there. We're gonna be right back. We know that historically the United States government has used various domestic propaganda bands, right? Modern legislative changes in digital media have significantly reshaped how information operates domestically, right? So July 2026. We're in 2026, so the propaganda landscape in the U.S. features domestic messaging surrounding the nation's 250th anniversary and intense foreign disinformation battles. So there was this whole big spiel of the 250th anniversary, and people saying more people are saying that they're not celebrating the 4th of July that just passed, and just it's just a lot, you know. I just gotta even pause myself because it's just like it's always something. And all right, so let me drop some statistics on you guys. The Small Wars Journal and Washington Post shares that the administration has rolled out aggressive recruitment campaigns for agencies like ICE that utilize patriotic and historical imagery linked by critics to extremist rhetoric. The United States State Department has instructed embassies to increase flag forward branding and combat foreign hostility by funding translated news and promoting uncensored. I wish I could put this in bold. Promoting uncensored free speech zones. Now that in particular, right? Social media, AI. I gotta pull TikTok aside separately, even though social media specifically, TikTok and the whole ban and blackout and certain things get violations immediately. You can't say this, can't do this, can't post that. Although it may seem uncensored, is it really uncensored, uh, excuse me, uncensored, and is it really free speech? That's why I had to like put that in bold, right? Let's take it a step further and check out the resurfacing of segregation. And we here and know racism has never stopped, never died, just morphed its form, so to speak. Racism still exists, and so does segregation. However, when we tie in and think about propaganda, there's some rage baiting and fiery controversial sparks triggered by current events such as the recent passing of the 18-year-old Mississippi, yeah, Mississippi teen, whose dead body was found, I think, following the 4th of July. So he went missing, I believe, as of the 4th of July. Um I believe his body was found like on like the Monday, Sunday, Monday, somewhere around there. So this was following a boat trip with his friends, African American male name is Nolan Wells. He was accompanied by three white male friends, and we already know where the conversations are going to go. History repeating itself. I mentioned resurfacing of segregation. We know that segregation is the act or process of separating people or things into distinct groups. We know that it's often based on race, class, gender, and other characteristics, race being the main one. And it can, I guess it can kind of be seen as a forced systematic separation within a country, a society, just everyday organizing of things. So why am I connecting all of these? Well, current events, what are we seeing resurface again? Another race war brewing. They don't want to say that. No, the United States is not experiencing a race war. Maybe one is brewing because look at everything that's been happening, right? Here's the word again awareness. There's that word. Awareness. Are you aware that the media, the government, picks and chooses what gets reported and what gets pushed to the front in your face all the time with the anticipation that it will trigger a reaction from you or groups of people? Are you aware? Are you aware? We have several mixed reviews on this story. Rest in peace to Nolan Wells. We keep like, and I don't even mean to like say it like that. I feel like it's so horrible to admit that, you know, as humans, Americans, like this is something that's so frequent that it happens so much, it it's causing people to become almost desensitized because it's like store the like we we hear about history repeating itself. We've seen it, right? But literally, we know how the story goes, starts, ends. We know, you know, when they first put out this story and alert, it was the picture of the four of them on the boat. He's the only African American. They're like, the friends came back, he's nowhere to be found. You already know what direction it's going in. And it's like we've heard this before, we've seen it, we've seen these cases go cold, we've seen no justice serve, we never actually find out what actually happened, it's just speculation, and it just keeps going and going and going, and nobody really gets too far, right? Sometimes, some cases, yes. Rare, but yes, needs to happen more frequently. All groups of people, all cultures, all races, all sexualities, all everyone, everyone, but we're not new to this, and the reason why I am tying these all in racism, evolved, segregation, evolved, propaganda, race wars brewing, international threats, all this stuff going on, all this stuff going on, lots getting hit all at once, the cost of living, rent freeze, some parasite spreading that makes you have explosive diarrhea. That's not what I was going to say. Basically, oh, you know, listen, we're having a conversation, right? You piss through your ass, basically. That's what's happening, and so it's a lot going on. And then here we go. Then it's hits, and then you know, with any story, especially with race involved, there's a clash of opinions. We have several mixed reviews on this story. The update as of today is that a second autopsy is being performed privately by the family. However, the first one is ruled a drowning. That's what we got right now. That's it. None of the boys talking, their families, nothing's being said, nothing's being posed, social media was taken down. They said some of the boys, or one of the boys, their parent, mother's a judge. So it's a, you know, you know. This we're not new to this. What are the controversies? Okay, well, you have some people, you have some vid videos, you have some posts, you have some podcasts, blogs, you know, you you see mixed reviews. So you have one half that's blaming the mother. This is your fault. This is all of her fault. If she had just taught her son, he wouldn't have been the only black kid on that boat. There should have been others like him. Uh, like why, why you should have known who he was going on a boat with? Why, why, why, why is it that some black people move into white neighborhoods, predominantly black, uh, excuse me, predominantly white neighborhoods and automatically assume they'll be accepted, they trust them. This is all on the mother's fault. Her son shouldn't have been the only one on the boat, and what happened? Then the other half is sad, is tired, is very familiar with these types of stories where some black people are not safe in certain spaces, things are different, you have to operate and move differently when you are of another race or color. The knowing, the being able to protect your kids and tell them the world that they live in, and that unfortunately, you know, not everyone is going to see or think the same way that you do. Not everyone is going to look at you as their equal, not everyone, and it has nothing to do with you, it has all to do with what they're being taught, their parents, their culture. Ah, you know, effective parenting, of course. I understand. So you got two sides. You got one side that's focused on why are black people not comfortable in spaces, any spaces, because some are not comfortable in their own space. Like some black people are not comfortable in black spaces or accepted in black spaces, not comfortable or accepted in white, some white spaces, some Asian spaces. Uh, you know what I'm saying? The list goes on, you know, and it's vice versa, it's other races, not to point out, but why? Why? Why? There's been a video I seen of a white woman, right, saying. Saying that she has biracial children and she grew up in a black neighborhood and she never felt threatened. She always felt safe. Like everyone looked out for her. She has biracial kids, and she shared that she would never allow her kids to be the only one, the only black kid anywhere, and they're biracial. And she said that she would never leave her kids alone with like anyone on her side of the family. And again, this is a white, you know, Caucasian, um, whatever term you choose to use. And this is coming from her. She said she would not leave her kids alone with anyone on her side of the family. She wouldn't leave them with where they're just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're not just gonna be the only ones. Even though they're half, even though they're half white, but they're also half black. So it's just it's just crazy, you know. Take a look at the recent news, the not guilty rulings of homicides against black people, people of color, the slight uproar that sparked with Rick Child's verdict, and hear about the Kyle Randhouse, the Carmelo Anthony trial. It's like there's so much tension sparking from these unfortunate situations, and whether justice is really being served, some people are hoping that this case doesn't get brushed aside and turn cold like so many others. And I understand and I get it, and it's just crazy. Like I get I get I get both sides, I can see it from both sides, right? So obviously, yeah, you know, as an a black woman, I can think back on very, very few times that I did feel uncomfortable, or I just know not to go to certain spaces or places if I'm gonna be outnumbered. And it's just also comfortability. But I'm also someone that I don't know. I it it's hard to explain because I've when I when I really think about how much is resurfacing and how much time has changed, I think about all the places I've traveled to and all the events and things that I participated in and places I've gone and I was literally maybe the only black girl there, or maybe one of two. And it's crazy because I I can remember in those spaces I didn't feel uncomfortable, like it was a vibe. The few times that I I could count on one hand when I experienced some kind of prejudice and racism. One time was when I was in Bud I went to Budapest, this had to be like 2013, um, my homegirl at the time, and it it was not many of us out there, not many at all. We were in Budapest, had a good time, you know, was around the tourist area, but certain like areas that we went to, especially where they were doing like tours of the city or like ghost tours, and it's different tourists, and then it's people who you know like come on, like it's Budapest, like we're seeing historical monuments and all these places and historical marks, we see where uh Germans were shot into the water and they turned it into like a uh memorial monument, and it's crazy because you're in a country where so many oh, excuse me, I said Germans, I'm so sorry. Jews uh were shot in the water by Germans, and it's just crazy because I know when I was there and going on these tours, I was the only I remember like I remember when we went to the city part, it was mixed. I seen more of me, not too much, but more of me. But when I went to the tours and in town and these actual like we in the town, like mom and pop shops and we're all over these places. I remember I was the only black person, and me, I'm I have a I don't give a fuck attitude. I'm gonna vibe about, but I can definitely feel. So yeah, like they were just looking like, and I could tell some of them were looking like why is she here? What is she doing here? Never mind, like maybe I want to educate myself or where you know I'm saying you don't know who I am when I do, you don't know the purpose of the trip, but it's just the looking. I was like, I'm glad I experienced that part of Europe, but baby, it's not on my revisit list. Trust and believe that. There's places I went to, I had a good time, but that will be the only time I will touch my foot in that country, right? But you can feel it, like they didn't attack or do anything or say anything, but you can just feel it, see it, the look, the feeling. I was like, ooh, baby. Another time I experienced that was when I was uh teen, pre-teen, teen, early teens. And so my parents, I was enrolled in a summer camp. My parents uh enrolled me in summer camp. So I was doing summer camp for like a good maybe three to five years. And the first I want to say one to two years, it was like I don't remember what state it was in, but I remember we were staying in cabins for like a week, two weeks. Like we legit like slept and stayed in cabins. It was fun. I'm not gonna front. It was fun. Um that was literally actually camp. Like we're we're in, we're making shmores, I we gotta leave the cabin, walk, the bathrooms are outside. Like it like it was legit camp. And then there was another time that I did camp, but it was a sleepaway camp. And I'm gonna leave that up. I'm gonna leave this like further elaboration for another episode because I feel like it'll deem like I deem it to fit, only because we're talking about protection, right? So times being different, and I just think about how my parents send me was so trusting to send me away to sleepaway camp, and you never met these people. You don't know. Anyway, I that was just when I think about it as an adult, I was just like, that's so risky and crazy, and I'm just glad that I was safe and around good people, uh, definitely different times. That sleepaway camp, this was in Connecticut, this was in New Canaan, and so lovely family, lovely family, Caucasian, very nice, welcomed me in. I didn't when I say they made me feel comfortable, awesome family. The daughter, she I don't even think it was, I don't even know. I don't really think because one of her close friends was black, so she didn't like me, but I it wasn't like like it was like a love hate, but it was like more so you're forcing each other to deal with each other because you know I'm saying it was weird, like I didn't really take to her too much, but I coexist with her. I had a better bond with the mother, she was mad cool. I don't know what it was as we got older. She wound up moving to like New Orleans to teach black kids, urban kids, urban youth. So I'm just like, hmm, maybe it's not even a thing of race, it was just maybe you were just threatened by me as a child and you were not cool, nice to me. But neither here or there. I was on a lot of teams when I was out there. And when I used to be on the swimming team, and so I remember that we had a swim meet, and I remember after it was over, chilling on the beach, and I'll never forget this because it was over, everybody was like eating, chilling, laughing, joking, talking about the meat, and just whatever, connecting, you know, after hours. And I was sitting there having ice cream, I was sitting on the white beach chair, and there was this white little boy sitting on the chair across from me, and I guess his family, and his family's talking, laughing, blah blah blah. And the kid is just piercing and staring at me, and then he turns to his mom and he's like, Why is she brown? And then I'm just sitting there looking because I'm like, Do you not like tell your kids that there's other people that exist in this world that doesn't look like them? So I was just sitting there like as a like early teen experiencing that. I was like, What the fuck? In my mind, of course. You know, I didn't say that, but I know I was taken back because I was like, What? And then the mom, the dad, and all those people that was talking stopped and started looking at me because now they're looking, wondering, oh, who am I here with? You know what I'm saying? Because they don't see any other black people, and they're looking, and it's just looking like I know y'all fascinated, like just staring. It's like, son, this is a kid. What the hell? And I'll never forget that because I was just like, yo, and you could just tell by how some of them the way they talk, and listen, as a preteen kids know, they know they can pick up when you're treating and speaking to them differently, and you know, and it's just crazy just knowing as a kid or a young teenager that the reason why you're talking and behaving and moving like that is because I'm black, right? So, and I've gotten turned down from opportunities because of being black. So I remember um and I'm gonna leave it at this last one, but I s I mentioned these experiences to say that although I've experienced racism or stereotype, like any kind of stereotype and anything like that, I have. And I've been in spaces where I've was like, oh, uncomfortable. I was like, I don't know how I feel about this. It's also about about reading the energy in these places too, right? And I was like, yeah, I'm out, and left. Like, I've definitely went to spots, oh, I'm the only one. Let me vibe, feel the energy, vibe out a little bit, anymore. Come in. All right, no, I'm out. Um, or if I do go with friends, and then it's just us, it at least it's us, you know what I'm saying? But I still am not fond of just us, right? Because maybe it's just just the two of us, right? You know what I'm saying? Like more than just us, me, or us. Like, it has to be some kind of mix, diversity. That's just the type of person I am. So I always like to gravitate towards those spaces. But I think it comes back to awareness too. You you can feel it. Like I said, there's only I can count on one hand how many times I felt felt and witnessed that. Like, and there's other times where I've been the only one or one of very few and felt comfortable and welcomed. So I don't, I'm, I'm a lot of these situations, I'm usually gray area because I can see it from both lenses, because I understand and see where both are coming from. And I'm thinking about also my own personal experience. Like, yes, I know what that feels like to be in a space and they all looking at you to see if you're gonna steal or following you, or you know, overcharging you is another thing. Um, saying that they don't have something when they do just to get you out. Like, I've experienced that. And it's not on, you know what I'm saying? It's not maybe they do this to every single, you know what I'm saying? Like, when I say like firsthand, like blatant, I could count on one hand. Um, this last uh example, this experience, I uh what was it? I think this was my first year of entrepreneurship. This was my first year, so I'm getting things rolling. I'm pushing out pilot programs, running dance programs every week, um, two different locations. So I was trying to, so okay, yes. So I used to be a case manager back in uh graduate school, and one of my clients, um, I told my client about what I do, right? Because I think her daughter needed like occupational therapy or something of that nature. She's like, Oh, they need movement out here. And this was in Staten Island, so this is before I really fully knew about Staten Island. I've worked in Staten Island several times, different parts. So this specific part was new to me. Now she knows the person because her daughter used to go to their yoga, whatever they used to do, like during the summer. She tells her about me, expertise, background, blah, blah, blah. Asked for, you know, you got a website, flyers I can send to her, blah, blah, blah. Gave it to her. Told the woman, the woman was like, she sounds perfect because she's looking for a dance instructor, choreographer, blah, blah, blah. Her, she, her, so sends it to her. She's like, have her contact me. So we exchanged numbers. Now we've spoken briefly, and this was just the intro connect, and we set a date to meet in person. So, you know, she asked me for like a resume, all that information, told her about background. She's like, Yes, that's what we need. Uh, you sound perfect, and because the the parent I work with gave me a good recommendation as well, because we have rapport, she knows my quality of work. So the lady's like, Oh, yeah, this would be perfect. She's already talking about the rate, she's already talking about the days. She's like, Oh, I want you to come in person so I can have you sign up some stuff. Um, let me show you the space. You'll be using the space. We just remodeled it, blah, blah, blah. I mean, basically have it, right? Giving me the number, the email, all of that. So when I get in person, I just basically put finish in touch. Fast forward, I get there, I parked and the door was open. So I happened to look and I seen her sitting at the front. So I caught that first look when I was reversing the car, and I looked, and I know just from there, I was like, this is a racist bitch. And I was like, let me just pull it together. I was like, just by the look, I was like, she didn't expect me to be black. Let me see what fuck shit she gonna put me through. So I did what I had to do, kept it professional, and walked. That's why I said that it's hard sometimes to fully, fully um like dissect these kind of situations because it it's it's like you know what I'm saying? It's a feel it is not only because like I I even though it's a bad history repeats itself, it's a bad rap sheet. This tends to happen frequently. Y'all ain't beating these allegations, right? Certain people are just not welcome in certain spaces at glance, and that's not just black people, that's all races, because there's certain spaces Asians are not welcome, Hispanics, the list goes on. So, and also certain types of white people are not welcome in certain spaces, like you know how this goes. So there's that, but there's also when you remove race, remove race and just being around entities and other people and feeling the energy of someone hating your guts and not liking you. Pull the race out and just envision a person or an entity that hasn't really seen like at random and just you get that just nasty feeling from the look, the feeling the hell with the race. Not about race, physicality no more, spiritual shit, these people, the spirits is no damn good. Just people in general. I'm not again, I remove race. So I'm saying this again to go back to what I just said about the look she gave when she looked and saw a black person pulling up to the building. She did not expect me to be black based on my credentials and how we when we spoke. She didn't, and then the parent, this is a Caucasian family. She's not thinking a Caucasian family in Staten Island is recommending a black person to, you know what I'm saying? When you have this mindset, this is what you're thinking. So at default, she thought I was white. So when she saw me pull up, I seen the look. So that set the temperature for the rest of whatever that was. But of course, you know they can't make it obvious and they gotta play it off. So I seen it already. Parked the car, walked up. She's sitting there. I still she still has the look because she just can't believe I'm black. But then as I get closer, she turns it around. That snarl becomes a fake smile. Hi, how you doing? Reach out her hand, blah blah blah. We talk, showed her some dance videos. Oh, this is great. She walked me and showed me around the space. It was a cool space, small, but a nice, cute little space, but cute for them. So I already kind of wrote the place off, but I said, let me just see. Because sometimes it's funny when you already know something, it's like, let me see how you're gonna behave in my presence since I know it bothers your ass so much. Like a mosquito, a flies, z bees, orchestra shit. She tried to keep her composure and keep it together. She was trying so hard not to seem like, oh, I like black, like you can tell, right? But she just one couldn't believe it, and two, and then she also know she then she tried to play it off and say that she has to talk. Now remember our initial conversation, right? I came to basically finalize it. And now you're telling me, okay, now you gotta talk to your co-partner and let them know um that we met and all the day. I was like, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. And I just kept it moving. She already knew by how I looked at her and just smirked. I was like, yeah, and brushed it off that yeah, nah, hell to the no. Now, two days later, she texted, not even called, text me, that the studio, right, that I just visited two days ago, is under repair and she doesn't know when they're gonna reopen because it flooded. Um, and even though they just renovated it, they're gonna have to go back through. Yaza, yazza, yazza, yaza, all right. They don't know when they're gonna reopen, blah, blah, blah, blah. I tell the parent that recommended me to her, and I told her she's prejudiced. She asked me how'd the meeting go. I said, She's prejudiced, and I explained it to her. She's apologized a million times. I'm so sorry. She said, I'm not gonna send my daughter back there. I had no idea. She was like, honestly, you probably wouldn't even fit there with them. Just now that she's like, now that I'm seeing that and hearing what they're saying, because she's like, she's thinking about how, you know what I'm saying, the kids could benefit. And she's like, she didn't know they were like that. And she said that, you know what, they can't handle you. She said it's all right. I was like, it's all right. I'm not even tripping. I just don't like the fact that she was like, and she's a liar because we didn't get any, like the parents, we didn't get any notifications of it being closed and we have to wait months to find out. She was like, that's so she was like, I'm not sending my daughter back there. I'm like, I like I appreciate that. It was fucked up, left them a bad review, kiss my ass. But I've experienced very some few blatant experiences like that. But then I've also been in spaces where I felt so comfortable and welcomed, even a little bit more welcome and comfortable than my own spaces. Hate to say it, it's like a combination. You take the good for the bad, and I've spoken with others who agreed, and I'm like, I know you guys hate to hear that shit, but it's the truth. The truth hurts. I like to go to spaces where Where I feel welcomed, appreciated, and seen. And that's that. It doesn't matter what color or race it is. Why, why, why y'all always gotta pull that card? A reason why I'm connecting these two is because listen, they know what they're doing, how frequent it gets pushed out. We have AI that's also destroying people's reality because there's a combination of what media is tampering and sending out, and then there's also what AI is being, you know, used to generate and send out. And sometimes people can't decipher the the difference between like the truth, what's false, and what's real. We always see in these situations about race wars, race, race, race. Like, what do you think is gonna come from this? You got people saying, hey, listen, stay on this case. This happens too much. No, stay on it. They don't want this to get brushed aside, not this time. So we'll see how this plays out. Rest in peace to Nolan Wells, nevertheless. It's always awful when you hear about situations like that and you think about, you reflect on yourself and other people you may know. Like, damn, anything could have happened, but thank God it didn't. This is a cue to hey, pay attention to your surroundings, pay attention, you know. Clean it up, clean it up, wax it up, get it popping, stay 10 steps ahead. Pay attention, folks, pay attention to what's happening around you and pay attention to how you yourself react to it, but also how others respond. Rage baiting, the tension between the conflicting parties. It's the mother's fault. No, it's just society. Some people say it's white people's fault. Nobody is comfortable in your space, especially black people. Why do you hate black people? Not everybody, not all white people. You gotta be careful how you speak. Not all black people, not all Asian, not all Jewish, not all gays, not all straits, not all Muslims, not all Hispanics, not all like come on, come on now. Don't get fooled. Don't get fooled. You can learn a lot by just listening sometimes. Just sit back, listen, watch. Pay attention to what's going on around you, what's going on in the world and how it may affect your living, your lifestyle. Just because it happens in another state doesn't mean you can't get affected. It can happen anywhere in the US, it can happen anywhere in the country, in the world, wherever, wherever, wherever, wherever, wherever, wherever mantle better, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I just had a moment in my inner teenager. It's just I don't know. I just who would have thought, like, from like childhood to teenage years, and then you grow into adulthood, nobody would have ever thought like things were way more safer. Like nobody was thinking and really pushing this. Like, we always knew, but it wasn't just like this. Like, there's a rise in hate crimes. Be safe, y'all. Stay prayed and peace out.