Sorry Doesn't Cut a Check: A Foundational Black American Response — Transcript

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1. 0:00He like the subway cuz he like to eat
2. 0:02fresh. I know where you was going. No,
3. 0:04he preferred booty on a plate.
4. 0:06Let my tether powers combine.
5. 0:08>> You were born and raised in a culture
6. 0:09that does not change your bloodline,
7. 0:10bro.
8. 0:12[music]
9. 0:16>> What your thoughts about you know cuz
10. 0:18people will use the regrouping black
11. 0:20culture so therefore X Y and what do you
12. 0:22think about non-black people or even
13. 0:23non-black Americans using the N-word?
14. 0:25>> How long do I have to be in your garage
15. 0:27before I become a car?
16. 0:29[laughter]
17. 0:30>> How long do you have to be in the
18. 0:31garage?
19. 0:31>> How long do I have to be in the garage
20. 0:33before I become before I become a lamp?
21. 0:36Never? No matter how long I sit next to
22. 0:38a car?
23. 0:38>> How do you come up with these [ __ ]
24. 0:40ideas?
25. 0:40>> Bro, like what the [ __ ]
26. 0:41>> The thing of it is, right? Just because
27. 0:43you got proximity to something doesn't
28. 0:44mean that it's yours.
29. 0:47You see what I mean? Legally, you have
30. 0:49the right to say whatever you want to.
31. 0:50You're taking a risk depending on who's
32. 0:52around and I mean that's your that's
33. 0:53your right to take that risk.
34. 0:55>> I'm with you on this. Sometimes it's
35. 0:57hard cuz sometimes it's just very well
36. 0:59placed. Like if you go watch the Antoine
37. 1:00Fisher story when Antoine Fisher goes
38. 1:02back to his foster family and she says
39. 1:07It's the way she says it.
40. 1:09[laughter] It's like man, nah. Like
41. 1:11>> It was very well delivered.
42. 1:13>> What's the definition in your context
43. 1:15and do you feel like a lot of black
44. 1:16Americans are using that word in more of
45. 1:19a offensive derogatory term when it
46. 1:21comes to black migrants?
47. 1:22>> People use the term [ __ ] as a defensive
48. 1:24derogatory term towards black people
49. 1:26they choose not to agree with. There are
50. 1:28people who can use any word and make it
51. 1:29bad. People can use any word and make it
52. 1:31good, my [ __ ]
53. 1:32Having said that, a tether is somebody
54. 1:34who cosplays as a foundational black
55. 1:36American when it benefits them and then
56. 1:38shuns us when it doesn't. They hide
57. 1:40behind their culture when it's negative
58. 1:42to be associated with foundational black
59. 1:43Americans but jump the line when it
60. 1:45comes to getting benefits. The majority
61. 1:47of people who are immigrants are not
62. 1:50tethers. A lot of people ride for us. A
63. 1:52lot of people respect the fact that we
64. 1:54delineate because they delineate. The
65. 1:56the time I've ever seen you tethery is
66. 1:57when old girl was like, "Yo, are they
67. 1:59black Americans?" That That was You had
68. 2:00a tethery moment cuz you was like, "But
69. 2:01she also said that everybody was dirty."
70. 2:03It was a tethery moment.
71. 2:04>> though. I told her she was wilding
72. 2:05though. I told her she
73. 2:06>> her she was wilding but you still gave
74. 2:08grace. You put on the You put on the
75. 2:09Captain Tether Cape. It's like you just
76. 2:11put your wing up. Let's my tether powers
77. 2:13combine.
78. 2:14>> You know what? I'm I will take
79. 2:15accountability.
80. 2:16>> Cuz I didn't hear you say, "I apologize
81. 2:17foundational black Americans. I let this
82. 2:20lace-front wearing tether disrespect
83. 2:22y'all and I kind of copped a little bit
84. 2:23of a plea." I didn't hear you say that.
85. 2:25>> I didn't see you do that.
86. 2:25>> Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I I take
87. 2:27accountability for that situation. I got
88. 2:28No, I mean, I'm Anybody that knows me
89. 2:30knows that I try not to be
90. 2:31confrontational. You know what I'm
91. 2:32saying? But
92. 2:32>> No, no, but I just I just I apologize
93. 2:34foundational black Americans.
94. 2:35>> I apologize to all the foundational
95. 2:37black Americans, you know what I'm
96. 2:38saying? I should have handled that
97. 2:38situation better.
98. 2:39>> It's simple. I'm simple. It's very
99. 2:41simple.
100. 2:41>> With that being said,
101. 2:43I don't believe I'm a I'm a tether.
102. 2:44>> I don't think you're a tether either. I
103. 2:45I I think you're a rider. Stop debating
104. 2:47people who are not on your level.
105. 2:51>> who want to question my blackness saying
106. 2:53I'm a tether because my father's
107. 2:55Jamaican. And I'm not going to
108. 2:56disrespect my heritage from my father's
109. 2:58side but to make anyone feel happy, "Oh,
110. 3:00if you not black American, we about to
111. 3:02stone him." You know what I'm saying?
112. 3:03It's It's a huge discomfort coming out
113. 3:05here where it's it's kind of like hate.
114. 3:07And I don't want us to have the hate
115. 3:09that these other people have with the
116. 3:10pale skin.
117. 3:11>> The other part of that is you know where
118. 3:13your heart is. You know what it is that
119. 3:15you are and what it is that you aren't.
120. 3:17If you're letting people who are not
121. 3:19feeding, [ __ ] or financing you
122. 3:21control how you feel, that is something
123. 3:23you need to take to your therapist.
124. 3:25>> Also, I can't please everybody. Like, I
125. 3:28got Godfrey to apologize and people was
126. 3:29like, "You ain't go hard enough on him."
127. 3:31So, now you want entertainment. You
128. 3:32don't want to understand it. You don't
129. 3:34want respect. Now you want
130. 3:36entertainment. You don't want atonement.
131. 3:38I'm not going to waste my time trying to
132. 3:40please everybody. The people who
133. 3:41understand what I'm doing, it's cool.
134. 3:43Well, such and such should have did it.
135. 3:44Well, then get such and such to call
136. 3:45Godfrey. But you didn't.
137. 3:47>> what does it take to truly build wealth?
138. 3:49I know you have a couple of courses,
139. 3:51things of that nature. Can you explain
140. 3:52the questions you have and then dive
141. 3:54into what it takes for black Americans
142. 3:55to truly build wealth in this country?
143. 3:57>> Mhm. My mother has a has a real estate
144. 3:59portfolio. You know what I'm saying?
145. 4:00Like my mother gave me generational
146. 4:01wealth. My mom gave me her house so I
147. 4:03could take my money and build my
148. 4:05business. And people look down on you.
149. 4:07You got your mom's Sure did. That's
150. 4:09what's called generational wealth.
151. 4:11Donald Trump got a million dollars from
152. 4:12his daddy and nobody batted an eye.
153. 4:14>> Mhm.
154. 4:14>> You mad cuz I got a house? We keep
155. 4:16believing this thing that it's so hard
156. 4:19to work for yourself and it is. You know
157. 4:22what else is hard? Working for a boss
158. 4:24that you're better than. So going to
159. 4:25your boss and having an end of year
160. 4:27review and them saying that you can't
161. 4:28even afford they can't even afford a
162. 4:30cost of living increase for you even
163. 4:32though you know you doubled your
164. 4:33numbers. But you do it. You watch what
165. 4:34you say on social media because you
166. 4:36don't want to be fired. Choose your
167. 4:37hard. It was hard being fat. It's hard
168. 4:39not overeating. I chose my hard. This is
169. 4:42extra large. I needed like five, six,
170. 4:45seven more of these X's. You know what I
171. 4:47mean? Like you got to choose your hard.
172. 4:49The other part of that is when I was
173. 4:51selling home security systems, I made
174. 4:54friends with every local pizza joint. I
175. 4:55made friends with every cable installer.
176. 4:58I made friends with every apartment
177. 4:59manager. I made friends with every
178. 5:00property manager because they would give
179. 5:02me leads. And I in turn would give them
180. 5:04leads. It's a symbiotic cyclical mutual
181. 5:08beneficial relationship. See how that
182. 5:11works, Pan-Africans? Okay. So if we
183. 5:13start looking for people who specialize
184. 5:16in what it is that you lack that can
185. 5:17complement what it is that you have. So
186. 5:19for example, if you manufacture hoodies
187. 5:23and somebody else manufactures hats,
188. 5:25there's synergy there. How many like
189. 5:27what's your banker's name?
190. 5:29Thank you. How How many do do you have a
191. 5:31bank account in any black banks? No. No.
192. 5:34Not a No. Again, you were asking me
193. 5:36about generational wealth?
194. 5:37>> They did. Stop putting us on the spot.
195. 5:38You're making us look bad.
196. 5:38>> You asked the question.
197. 5:40You asked the question.
198. 5:41>> True.
199. 5:42>> Everybody says this. How many times have
200. 5:43you said, "I'mma start a t-shirt line."
201. 5:45You don't have an [screaming] audience.
202. 5:47>> Mhm.
203. 5:47>> You got learn how to build an audience
204. 5:49first.
205. 5:49>> Mhm. And then people are like, "Well, I
206. 5:50got a website and I got this." I said,
207. 5:51"So, what's your marketing plan?" Well,
208. 5:52I got social media. You and 5 billion
209. 5:54other people. I'm teaching you how to
210. 5:57not put the cart before the horse. If
211. 5:59you build the audience and you create a
212. 6:01fandom, then you sell t-shirts. Were
213. 6:03y'all selling t-shirts on day one?
214. 6:04>> No.
215. 6:05>> Why not?
216. 6:06>> We had an audience.
217. 6:07>> I must be psychic. Do you like
218. 6:08sandwiches, Eli?
219. 6:10>> Mhm.
220. 6:10>> What's your favorite sandwich?
221. 6:12>> Y'all are I was I thought they joked
222. 6:14like it was like
223. 6:15>> Not the ass sandwich. Aside from that,
224. 6:17cuz I know that's where they're going.
225. 6:17They're immature. I'm here for you.
226. 6:19>> I don't know what
227. 6:20>> I'm here for you. I already know. Like,
228. 6:21no.
229. 6:21>> I'm going to say nothing.
230. 6:22>> No, you wasn't. I know you He like the
231. 6:24Subway cuz he like to eat fresh. I know
232. 6:26where you was going. No.
233. 6:27>> He preferred booty on the plate.
234. 6:30>> I tried I tried I tried real hard. I I
235. 6:33was trying real
236. 6:34Uh and
237. 6:35>> You can never have a full conversation
238. 6:36>> I'm making a point.
239. 6:38>> Okay.
240. 6:38>> What's your favorite sandwich?
241. 6:40>> Turkey sandwich. Let's go with turkey
242. 6:41sandwich. I like it.
243. 6:42>> How do you make it?
244. 6:43>> Lettuce, tomatoes,
245. 6:44uh oil and vinegar. Uh
246. 6:46>> What else? What's the first thing?
247. 6:47>> The bread.
248. 6:48>> Exactly. So, no matter what you doing,
249. 6:49the bread comes first. [laughter]
250. 6:52>> He got me overthinking this [ __ ]
251. 6:54>> Like uh lettuce and tomato, little oil,
252. 6:56uh like some I like some Mediterranean
253. 6:58oregano. It's a It's a six, but it's
254. 7:00Italian.
255. 7:01>> language without the bread. Like, that's
256. 7:01why I just a sandwich bread is just you
257. 7:03know what I mean?
258. 7:03>> Exactly. What is a sandwich without the
259. 7:05bread? We got to prioritize making the
260. 7:06money first. You got to prioritize
261. 7:08building the audience so that you can
262. 7:09make the money. Non-traditional revenue,
263. 7:11monthly monthly recurring revenue. Like,
264. 7:13we got to have those conversations.
265. 7:14>> we don't control that infrastructure.
266. 7:16So, again, the infrastructure is deeper
267. 7:18than just you you controlling your own
268. 7:20like, you know, social media. It goes to
269. 7:22we don't control damn near the internet
270. 7:23at this point like or whatever the case
271. 7:24is. Like, so how do we get to the point
272. 7:26where we start to control the
273. 7:27infrastructure? Cuz right now we're
274. 7:28borrowing everybody else's
275. 7:29infrastructure to build our own
276. 7:31platforms or whatever the case
277. 7:32>> Stop making everything sexy a priority.
278. 7:36Like, there's a lot of jobs when it
279. 7:38comes to content creation. There's a lot
280. 7:40of jobs when it comes to social media.
281. 7:42Somebody got to run them cameras.
282. 7:43>> Mhm.
283. 7:44>> Somebody got to do the editing.
284. 7:45>> Mhm.
285. 7:45>> My editor makes a lot of money.
286. 7:47>> You know what it is.
287. 7:49>> See, but that's not sexy.
288. 7:50>> Mhm.
289. 7:51>> Cuz you don't get to shine, but your
290. 7:52people do, right? Because if you're the
291. 7:55editor, you control what your people
292. 7:56see. Who says that you can't get a bunch
293. 7:59of cloud servers and own them yourself?
294. 8:01Is there a law against that? There is
295. 8:02not.
296. 8:03>> Mhm.
297. 8:03>> You want to talk about infrastructure,
298. 8:05make every single part of what it takes
299. 8:09to put a show like this on sexy.
300. 8:10>> Not just no book of just Eli.
301. 8:13>> You know what I mean? Like it's just
302. 8:14there has to be more conversation about
303. 8:16what that looks like because now I need
304. 8:18my children to know who they are. If I
305. 8:20were to tell my youngest daughter right
306. 8:21now, Devlin, you are a what? She'll say,
307. 8:23"I'm a beautiful black queen." Because I
308. 8:25drilled that in her.
309. 8:26>> Mhm.
310. 8:26>> Self-esteem for our babies is extremely
311. 8:29important. And seeing your people up on
312. 8:31a big screen, and they're not running
313. 8:33with a ball, they're not nobody's drug
314. 8:35dealer, they ain't nobody's pimp, they
315. 8:36ain't nobody's hustler, they ain't
316. 8:37nobody's slacker, they ain't nobody's
317. 8:39idiot or doofus, and they ain't nobody's
318. 8:41sellout.
319. 8:41>> Facts.
320. 8:42>> is extremely important. Real business is
321. 8:44ugly, real business is quiet, and I'm
322. 8:47here to teach you real business, not the
323. 8:49sexy [ __ ] We can get to the sexy [ __ ]
324. 8:51after we get the foundational down. If
325. 8:52you don't know what I have, you don't
326. 8:55know what to attack. So, again, by the
327. 8:57time they know it's happening, it's too
328. 9:01late. I have as many times as I've done
329. 9:03this show, I've never made an
330. 9:04announcement that it wasn't too late.
331. 9:06You understand what I'm saying? Like
332. 9:07it's already done. If I'm talking about
333. 9:08it, it's done.
334. 9:09>> It's done.
335. 9:10>> Mhm.
336. 9:10>> Follow me on all social media platforms
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341. 9:19Please come through. It's It's going to
342. 9:20be absolutely awesome. I'm very excited
343. 9:21about that. And then, oh, link in my bio
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