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0:00Hello everyone and welcome to ZPR Zanu
0:03Project Rethink. I'm Frank Zano and uh a
0:08couple of things happened this week and
0:10I want to I I just thought I should put
0:13it into a monologue and this is going to
0:16be a different uh a different kind of
0:20monologue because um it's a little
0:22emotional. Uh it it has come to a time
0:26when I think I need to speak more
0:28plainly so people can understand where
0:31I'm coming from. People can understand
0:32why I say rethink. When I say rethink,
0:35I'm not asking you to change your
0:38mindset. I don't know the formula or the
0:40means by which people change mindset. I
0:42don't know. Uh and so here is it. This
0:47past week we had a heavy rain pour. So I
0:49took time off. I hosted uh a group of
0:52people. They are African-Americans,
0:55Africans, and some Caribbeans. I think
0:57about 35 people altogether. And um I
1:00allowed with a secret recording. I
1:02allowed them to talk about what is just
1:04simple.
1:06I threw the question in a form of a
1:08conversation. What is wrong with the
1:11with black? By that I mean the race. Now
1:15you can call yourself uh a black
1:17American. I'm not African. You can call
1:19yourself a Caribbean. I'm not African.
1:21Uh, I am saying the race. Are you going
1:23to say that if you are an FBA or black
1:25American or afroamerican or
1:27African-American or Caribbean Jamaican
1:29American that you are not of the black
1:32race? No, you are of the black race. So
1:35when I say black, I am talking about the
1:37race. So let's keep that in mind.
1:40Anyway, the conversation when I hosted
1:42these 35 people went on for about the
1:45first hour long
1:48and I was hearing everything they were
1:50saying about black and some of them
1:52sounded like uh HL Hugley who says that
1:54something wrong with black people or the
1:56Breakfast Club that insisted something
1:58is wrong with black people. PLO Lumumba
2:01of Kenya. every speech you hear uh he
2:04was invited all the way by politicians
2:06to Nigeria to come from Kenya to come
2:08and talk to Nigerian politicians. What
2:11is wrong with black people? Uh Ariana
2:14from Zimbabwe. What is wrong? She talks
2:16about what is wrong with black people.
2:18The list is long. If you're in the
2:20United States, there are podcasts
2:22devoted solely to talk about something
2:24is wrong with black people.
2:26Commentaries, conversations.
2:29Am I wrong? Please correct me.
2:32It seems not it seems it is that we are
2:35the only race of people where
2:37Thanksgiving, Christmas gathering in the
2:40club, dinner at your home or when you
2:42hosted a people. If we are not talking
2:45about women, shoes, cars, we are talking
2:49about the black race. What is wrong with
2:51us? What is wrong with us? What? Oh,
2:52there's something wrong with black
2:53people. That is what you hear. You can
2:55read it in writings, in poetry.
3:00that something is wrong with us.
3:03During this very conversation, it went
3:05on on and on and on
3:08and one thing became clear to me. Not a
3:12single person in that room that day
3:17said in one word
3:20what is wrong
3:23with the black race. Nope.
3:26Nobody could mention a could say a word
3:28to describe it.
3:30But you hear things like we must change
3:32our mindset. We must change. We must
3:35move forward. We must move on. We must
3:37grow as a people. We must unite as a
3:40people. This is what you keep hearing
3:42throughout the entire conversation.
3:44But nobody said one word that describes
3:48what is wrong.
3:51And number two to say when it was never
3:55wrong when it was never there that is it
3:58just started happening. Nobody said it
4:01but everybody in the room agreed within
4:04among to themselves out loud that there
4:08is something wrong with the black race.
4:12And so when it quiet down a little bit I
4:14clear my throat and I said huh I've been
4:17listening to the conversation seems very
4:19very interesting. So I want to ask each
4:21and every one of you a simple question.
4:24The first question is do you agree that
4:27you are black? They said yes I'm black.
4:30And I said is something wrong with you?
4:33No. Nothing is wrong with me. Do you
4:36need to change your mindset?
4:39He said no.
4:41Are you a bad black man? No. I asked the
4:45second person, the third person, the
4:46fourth person, the fifth person. In
4:48short,
4:49the entire room said nothing
4:51independently as a unit of the race.
4:54They said nothing is wrong with them.
4:58And then that what was when it hit me.
5:01So I thought if I take a microphone and
5:03hit the road now
5:05in New York, in London,
5:08in Johannesburg, in Lagos, in Ara, in
5:11Cotto, Benini and I ask each and every
5:14black person in Jamaica, Barbados,
5:18Antigga, Haiti, and I ask each
5:21individual black person, is there
5:23something wrong with you?
5:26They will say, no,
5:28nothing is wrong with me. Are you
5:30corrupt? The answer will be no. I'm not
5:33corrupt.
5:38But collectively,
5:41we believe something is wrong with us.
5:44But individually,
5:47everyone says nothing is wrong with him
5:49or her.
5:52Do you get where I'm going with this?
5:55You want to know from me right now? Your
5:57mind is raising. So, Zano, what do you
5:59think?
6:00What do I think?
6:02This is what I think or this is what I
6:06know.
6:07When you walk into the jungle,
6:11you would see a couple of four-legged
6:13mammals, the antelope,
6:16the gazelle,
6:17the zebra. How would you know that
6:20you've seen a zebra?
6:23Because the zebra has stripes, so you
6:26know it's a zebra.
6:30How would you know you've seen a
6:31giraffe?
6:33The sheer height of that animal makes it
6:36distinct from other animals.
6:39How do you know you've seen an elephant?
6:42The shape.
6:45Birds. Would you confuse
6:49a sparrow from a green eagle? Ballheaded
6:54eagle?
6:55No. If they ask you, "How do you know it
6:58was an eagle?" You will describe it. How
7:00about a hawk? The same thing.
7:06How about a dog from a pig? You will be
7:08able to describe why you believe what
7:10you saw was a dog.
7:14Now,
7:17why wouldn't that be applied to the
7:20human race?
7:23How do you know you met a black person?
7:25Would you say a skin color? No.
7:30But if anybody observes you for a
7:32certain number of hours or days, a
7:35darkkinned
7:37man from India, a dark-skinned man from
7:40Africa,
7:42a dark-skinned man from Pakistan,
7:47a dark-skinned man from Australia, Papa
7:49Newu Guini, New Zealand, all dark
7:53skinned. But you'll be able to tell the
7:55difference, wouldn't you?
7:59So, how do you know when you say, "I met
8:01a black man?" Yes. First, the obvious
8:04one with the eyes, skin color, isn't it?
8:08And when people are talking about the
8:09race collectively, they're not talking
8:11about skin color.
8:15You are rejecting what you are.
8:21And the most dangerous and sickening
8:23game ever played on a man is when he is
8:26convinced that there is something wrong
8:29with him or her as a group and yet
8:32nobody is able to identify that one
8:35thing that is wrong. But you see it's
8:37been repeated so many times. You
8:41actually believe that what you are is
8:43not what you are supposed to be.
8:48Can you imagine the psychological pain
8:50and damage that is? So you pass it on to
8:53your children.
8:56No wonder it is only among us that
8:59people use words like selfhate.
9:03Oh, they say because I don't sing the
9:06victim song along with them to blame
9:08somebody else for our problem. The
9:10problem that has no name.
9:13This is ladies and gentlemen all again
9:151920.
9:18The problem without a name, feminine
9:21mistake.
9:23That was what launched the women
9:26liberation movement.
9:31That is what we are dealing with.
9:35In the 1920s,
9:37housewives believe that there is
9:39something not right with us.
9:42And they were honest enough.
9:45Miss Wright when she wrote the book
9:46called it the feminine mystic.
9:49The feminine mystic the problem without
9:52a name.
9:55What is the problem with the black race?
9:58For those of you who claim there is a
10:00problem. What is that problem?
10:03Here are 35 people in my in my presence.
10:06Men, women from three different
10:07locations of the black race. The
10:09Caribbean, United States of America and
10:11Africa.
10:13They can go on with abstract terms and
10:15words
10:17about what they believe, not what they
10:19have seen and researched and come to a
10:22conclusion. No, what they grew up
10:23hearing there is something wrong with
10:25us.
10:28Self rejection,
10:30but you can't fix it and you can't teach
10:31anyone how to fix it either.
10:36It's like you are asking a doctor to
10:39cure a disease you never had.
10:44is depressing, frustrating,
10:48psychologically damaging.
10:51You yourself have repeated it so many
10:53times. All you have to do is to look at
10:55the social media in the United States,
10:57as I said earlier, and you will see
11:00individual black people all the way to
11:02Gotfree who just stopped being a
11:05comedian. White, Black, Yellow, used to
11:07come to see his show and listen to him.
11:10He retired. I believe he has a podcast
11:14and he joined the army to repeat that
11:17there is something wrong with the black
11:19race.
11:25Everybody is saying it. You go to the
11:27continent, you go to South Africa,
11:30everywhere I have traveled, I have
11:33mingled with many different people.
11:36Have you listening to me right now? Have
11:39you seen any other group of people from
11:41a different race, the Europeans, Asians,
11:44Middle East, sitting down and openly on
11:48podcast telling the world that there's
11:50something wrong with us. Yet when you
11:52ask them individually, they said no,
11:55nothing is wrong with me.
11:59Go around and add Gossrey if something
12:02is wrong with him. He will say no. Ask
12:04every single guest he brings on that
12:05show. Ask Ploa of Kenya if something is
12:09wrong with him. He will say no. But ask
12:11him, "Are you black?" He will say yes.
12:19If we continue this way,
12:21nobody has to do it for us and nobody
12:23has ever done it to us.
12:26We are the ones telling the world to
12:28stay away from us.
12:32Of course, they should. You believe so
12:34deeply that something is wrong with us.
12:36And yet when you step outside,
12:39you ask people to treat you as if you
12:42have no contagious disease. What are you
12:45saying? How do you say to people? I have
12:48CO.
12:51But when I come to your house, your
12:52store, your workplace, please don't stay
12:54away. Don't force me to wear a mask,
12:57but I have CO. How is that possible?
13:02You want me to hug you? How is that
13:04possible? You want to get on the same
13:05train with me, but you said you have CO.
13:08You want to come into my restaurant
13:10unmasked, but you said you have CO. So
13:12if you tell the world, black people have
13:14a problem and you say it so loud in your
13:16movies, in your writings, in your
13:19podcast,
13:21in your psych, you've passed it on to
13:23your children. Of course, even I will
13:26stay away from myself.
13:32That is why people are staying away.
13:33They didn't read any book about us.
13:38They didn't.
13:40You don't know.
13:43You just heard it when you were growing
13:44up. But the only reason we came to a
13:48conclusion that there's something wrong
13:49with us, you know where it came from. Is
13:52because we looked at other people.
13:56And for some strange reason, I don't
13:58know why we liked what we saw
14:03on the other side of the other people
14:05who are not like us. White, Asian, red,
14:08blue, Russian, Indian. We liked it
14:11because if we didn't like it, we
14:14wouldn't say that something is wrong
14:15with us.
14:18Can I prove it? Sure.
14:21In this country, the United States of
14:23America, even on the continent of
14:25Africa, whenever we claim that we have a
14:28problem,
14:29our next go to for solution is this. We
14:34have a problem because when we look at
14:35the right, the white group, we are not
14:39equally mixed up with them. So, welcome
14:42DEI.
14:44If we mix with them, our problem will go
14:46away. What does that mean? You have just
14:49simply said
14:51we have a problem.
14:54They don't have a problem. So they
14:56should welcome a certain number of us to
14:58be equal with them and hopefully it will
15:01rub on us.
15:04We are even asking this in private
15:06sectors.
15:08So, welcome DEI, welcome affirmative
15:11action, welcome integration.
15:15In the 20s and 30s
15:17or however long it was,
15:20there was segregation in this country
15:23pushed by white people in the south
15:26since we don't want black people to come
15:28to our schools. We don't want to drink
15:30from the same fountain with them. We
15:33don't want them to come to the same
15:35lunch counter or restaurants. We want to
15:38segregate.
15:39Do you know what the march was about?
15:41People got beaten, spit on.
15:45Not that the states in the south. Not
15:48that they didn't say we would not direct
15:51the water supply to blacks. No, there
15:54are fountains marked blacks only, white
15:58only. Water was coming out of both.
16:01But a black man woman would give himself
16:03to be bitten just so I can cross over
16:06and drink from your fountain.
16:08But no white person
16:11felt the need to say, "How dare you
16:13segregate your own fountain." Right?
16:16Think about it. People sat at a private
16:20lunch counter lunch and say, "I'm going
16:22to eat here. You're going to serve me
16:24whether you like it or not." It's not a
16:25public welfare lunch restaurant. No,
16:29private. They pour ketchup on them, spit
16:32on them, but they sat down there and
16:34took the humiliation.
16:38I want to integrate with you. Never. I'm
16:41inviting you to come integrate with us.
16:43No,
16:45I talk about him all the time. The
16:48baseball player,
16:50he took all the humiliation a human
16:52being can allow himself. But if I can
16:54play with you guys
16:58in South Africa, the whites said we are
17:01in this land. We came to settle. You
17:03have your own tribal land over there. We
17:05have and we want to settle where either
17:07we stole it, took it, conquered it. We
17:09just want to be separate.
17:13For decades, people went to jail and
17:15died.
17:17Just let me be what I am. But as long as
17:19I can come to your area,
17:23I have never met any other nationality
17:25of any other race that sit around on
17:28television, on radio and just inform the
17:31world,
17:33what is wrong with us Germans? We are
17:36too backward. What is wrong with us
17:38French people? We are too backward. No,
17:40never.
17:42Even the poorest countries you would
17:44find in Eastern Europe,
17:46never. the poorest countries you would
17:49find in East Asia never.
17:54But as soon as you walk among black
17:56people, this becomes a repeated
18:00phrase and slogan
18:03and then they began to ask for things.
18:06because of what is wrong with me, you
18:07need to put me on your welfare system.
18:10In other countries that intentionally
18:12refuse because once somebody begin to
18:15receive things for free, you've killed
18:18the person's self-esteem.
18:20So many countries, they will set up the
18:23system in a way you will have to work at
18:26least the appearance of it to be able to
18:30receive services. And people will be so
18:32troubled that they will push hard to
18:34make sure the duration of remaining on
18:36that system is shorter so my children
18:38don't see it.
18:41But among us,
18:45first thing you start thinking is what
18:47are other ways and means can I stay on
18:49longer
18:52when other cultures do everything they
18:53can
18:55to not let you stay on it because it
18:57kills self-esteem. No, we will stay on
19:01it, broadcast it, tell the world.
19:08Why don't we accept? This is what
19:11interesting about humans. For example,
19:15the ADA, the American Disability Act
19:19was established because people said, "I
19:21am not well.
19:24I have certain challenges physically,
19:27psychologically, visually
19:31or with my hearing.
19:34The public didn't say, "Get away. We
19:36don't want you." The public came
19:37together
19:39and sympathize and said, "Yes, build
19:41ramps, have a braille, this and that.
19:44Enhance systems on the screen so these
19:47people can live with us even though they
19:51have solving problems." You see, we said
19:55we have no problem. You caused it.
19:59I can't defend myself. And you ask me to
20:02prove that I didn't cause it. Is the
20:04opposite.
20:06It's like in asking Saddam Hussein,
20:08prove you don't have weapons of mass
20:09destruction. What should I do? Shoot one
20:11of them.
20:13No, you have to prove that I have it.
20:16But we put the psychology on him
20:19because you told them they did this to
20:21you. They don't know what you said they
20:23did to you because you never say it.
20:26They never We never do.
20:31We never do. In Australia today as I
20:33speak with you, there is a Sudanese
20:36woman who moved to Australia instead of
20:38living with other people from other part
20:41of the world who've moved to Australia.
20:42No, she started refugee immigration
20:46advocacy
20:48saying that no, you got to review your
20:50immigration systems. in Ireland as I
20:53speak with you. There is a Nigerian
20:54woman paid by the Irish government to
20:57spew nonsense about how they the ones
21:01from outside don't feel like they belong
21:03and that they should pay her to teach
21:06people how to make room for the black
21:08man in Ireland including
21:13they should even allow the foreigners to
21:16inherit the country. That is her words,
21:17not my words. inherit and redefine and
21:20redesign the country. She said these are
21:23her words
21:29because she can only ask this
21:33if she didn't believe that there is
21:34something wrong with her.
21:37We ask the government to put in place
21:40services and welfare systems because
21:42first we have to believe something is
21:43wrong with us. We ask people to create
21:46room in their own community for us to
21:49fit in because first you have to agree
21:51something is wrong with you. Otherwise,
21:52why would you ask for DI?
21:55If you didn't believe something is wrong
21:57with you, why would you be asking for
21:58affirmative action?
22:02If you didn't believe something was
22:04wrong with you, why would you encourage
22:06the work culture that almost destroyed
22:08this country? For you to ask for
22:10something, for example, health care
22:12services, you must believe you are sick.
22:14Why would you walk into a doctor's
22:16office and ask for examination if you
22:18didn't think you were sick?
22:24And the more the doctor said, "San, you
22:26have no problem. You are racist."
22:29Oh, no. In this case, uh, you are what?
22:32Um, phobia, fear of human. How dare you
22:35tell me I don't have a problem?
22:40How else would you ask for
22:41transportation
22:44if you don't have a distance problem?
22:47So we are asking every time we ask
22:49anything like this from the government,
22:51we are informing the world that we have
22:54diagnosed ourselves and believe that we
22:56have a problem.
22:59You would call someone racist only when
23:01you believe you have a problem.
23:03Otherwise, you will simply describe his
23:05or her behavior as either, oh man, you
23:08have a bad attitude and that's all and
23:10walk on. He's not a current. She
23:14complained about something she believed
23:16was not right.
23:20But you have to call people names
23:23because you believe
23:26they are discriminating against a person
23:29with disability.
23:33And our children are hearing this. They
23:36are wearing t-shirts of it in schools.
23:41We cannot have something happened to
23:43anyone and say, "Oh, well, two American
23:45young American kids fought." No. If the
23:48one who failed in that encounter was
23:51black, then we highlight it. We
23:54highlight it. He's black. He's black.
23:57You see, because you believe something
23:59is wrong with you. The same way they say
24:00don't hit a woman, don't hit a child, we
24:03have included don't hit a black man.
24:07Unless you're black, then you can hit a
24:09black man until he or she is blue black.
24:14It's like allow two handicap people to
24:17fight in a wheelchair. Nothing is wrong
24:18with it.
24:20But if you are an upright able man,
24:23don't bend down and hit somebody in a
24:25wheelchair.
24:27So if white people do anything with
24:29black people, Asians do anything with
24:30black people,
24:32Middle Eastern people do anything with
24:34black people,
24:37and the outcome doesn't
24:41favor the black man. You are racist. How
24:45dare you hit a black man? Because there
24:49three things you don't hit in this
24:51world. Don't hit a child. Don't hit
24:54women. In fact, don't heat pets,
24:56animals, and we threw ourselves into it.
25:02Nolan Wells, may his soul rest in peace.
25:05I have never made a comment about that
25:06incident.
25:10How dare the one who died during the
25:11boat ride should be black. Think about
25:14it. Suddenly, Noah Nolan Wells was not
25:17an American.
25:20But America is a melting pot, right? No.
25:22Suddenly he's not just an American, he's
25:25black. Because the outcome of that trip
25:28did not favor him.
25:31Yeah.
25:34Yeah.
25:36The outcome didn't favor him.
25:40And it becomes like you've hit a
25:41handicap person. Oh, you're white. Your
25:44neighbor is playing music loud at 11
25:47p.m. Trash all the neighborhood. Don't
25:49call the police. How dare you? And they
25:52say it. Crown Ashton Joy Reed Don Lemon,
25:57they will say it.
26:00A white neighbor called the police on a
26:02black man.
26:05You see it? And everybody else in this
26:08country, I've had police call on them
26:11all the time. But when they call the
26:13police on you and you complain and play
26:16victim, the others, Asians and Middle
26:18East and Europeans who say, "Okay, these
26:20are very very
26:24delicate people.
26:27Who wants to touch a delicate thing? We
26:29have made ourselves to become too
26:31delicate people. Stay away." Then you
26:34call them racist. No, they are not
26:36racist.
26:37Even I, Zanu, I stay away.
26:44When is the time for you to say nothing
26:46is wrong?
26:49When you see something
26:52so common,
26:55constant and consistent with a certain
26:59group of people, why is it not sensible
27:01to say this is who they are?
27:06Hawaiians in the United States of
27:08America have a different body built. You
27:10can tell the color, the shape from other
27:14parts. Many
27:17Native Americans have a different build.
27:19You can tell
27:21you go to Australia, Aborigans have a
27:23different build. Everybody has something
27:25that makes people recognize you. You are
27:29just simple.
27:32But why did we think that what the other
27:35group and in the case of America it's
27:37white. Why do you think what they have
27:39in their neighborhood is better than
27:41what you have that will make you launch
27:43an integration or integrative
27:46charitable organization, the rainbow
27:48push and the action network for
27:52integration? Why? Why do you believe
27:53what they have there is better than
27:55yours? That's the first question you
27:56need to ask yourself.
27:59Why do you believe that your schools are
28:01better? Otherwise, you would not launch
28:04an activist movement to force the
28:06government
28:09to make a change.
28:12We have recognized others being better
28:14than us.
28:16When was the last time any group of
28:17people at all from any place who are in
28:19the United States or in Africa ever
28:22begged and marched and for activist
28:24groups to say blacks must allow us to
28:27come into their neighborhoods
28:29institutions when
28:33because they don't see anything wrong
28:34with them and they don't see anything
28:36you have that is better than what they
28:38have so they don't push for it.
28:42When was the last time you saw any
28:44non-black citizens of any country at all
28:46in this world sleeping at the embassies
28:49of black countries outside anywhere
28:51paying selling their grandmothers if
28:54they can just to get a visa to come to
28:57those black countries not that they
28:58don't on tourism on business they do
29:02because they don't believe anything is
29:04wrong with them that they need a result
29:05of the solution from your country but we
29:08would go on inflated inflated canons
29:11infl inflated boats, stolen ships,
29:15whatever through Libya. Libya will take
29:17half of us for slaves just so I can show
29:19up on the shores of Spain, Italy,
29:23London, Germany, as long as I can get in
29:26there.
29:27Isn't it because you see something good
29:29among them? Yes, you did. Who built it?
29:32They did. Why then go there and want to
29:35change the place?
29:40Because you think if you don't change
29:43the place and you remain the black man
29:45you are that you may stand out because
29:48every day in your head you've been told
29:50from childhood that something is not
29:52right and good about the black man. So
29:54you don't want to remain in Ireland or
29:56in Germany or in France and just be the
29:58black you are. You want to change the
30:00place so that your blackness that you've
30:02been told is wrong can disappear. That
30:04is why you try to do because you don't
30:06even think anymore.
30:08But if we have come to accept
30:11there is nothing
30:14and I mean it
30:17there is nothing wrong with us because
30:20this is what I've learned and I know
30:23you can never do what you are not.
30:28Do you trust your neighborhood? Yes.
30:30There's nothing wrong with it. It is
30:32your nature.
30:35But for me to accept and not use it to
30:38judge you, you have to accept it first
30:40and say listen it's my nature.
30:46That is the only time I know in the
30:49human existence people then start to do
30:51something about if they think things
30:53needs to change and if you can change it
30:55at all first is you got to accept
31:02if I'm your husband or you're my wife
31:06and by 12:00 noon you finish a bottle of
31:09vodka and you keep saying honey there is
31:12nothing wrong with me. Well, we have a
31:15problem. I can't help you.
31:18You're not admitting that you're
31:20biologically, psychologically, you have
31:22a problem. I can't help you. I'll
31:24therefore go for divorce or we both will
31:27be unhappy forever.
31:30But as soon as you call your wife or
31:31your husband and say, I think I have a
31:34problem. It's my nature to drink.
31:38I think I can tell you, ladies and
31:40gentlemen, you will agree with me. Nine
31:41out of 10, seven out of 10 people become
31:44very sympathetic that humans are
31:46compassionate and they would like to
31:48help the husband. Many have written
31:50books living with an alcoholic
31:53how I help my husband or my wife or my
31:55uncle because he first have to admit
31:58don't judge me this is my nature.
32:03We keep blaming other people
32:08for just what we are.
32:11Do you trash your neighborhoods? Yes.
32:13Slavery didn't make you trash your
32:15neighborhoods. Colonization didn't make
32:17you trash your neighborhoods.
32:20It's your nature. Nothing is wrong with
32:23it. The only time something is wrong
32:24with it is you keep saying that no, it's
32:26not me. Now, that is the simplest
32:29definition of a fool.
32:32Do you go to any meetings late?
32:36Tardiness is a Yes, I do. Are you tardy?
32:39No, I'm not tardy. Well, you are a fool.
32:42The other person will judge you as a
32:44fool. Why would you continue being tardy
32:47when you know you're not tardy?
32:50It means you are doing it intentionally.
32:52So, people will have to call you a fool.
32:58Do you speak over each other when you're
32:59having a conversation? Yes, we do.
33:03In Somalia, it's a joke, but I saw it
33:05when I was in Kenya. Three or five
33:07Somalians can be walking one mile. It
33:09happens also in my culture. Each one is
33:12telling a story of something that
33:13happened yesterday. The other one is
33:14telling a different story about his
33:15wife. The other one is talking about the
33:17animal he hunted yesterday. All at the
33:19same time, but they are hearing each
33:21other clearly. It's a culture
33:24polychronic.
33:27Now, if you go to Germany and there is a
33:29you become a member of the parliament or
33:32any group at all and you can't wait for
33:35the other person to finish speaking and
33:37when they try to correct you, you go
33:39bonkers on people. Well, you're a fool.
33:42The first thing you need to know is that
33:44I'm from a polychronic culture. In my
33:46place, we all speak three different
33:49topics at the same time and we are all
33:50hearing each other.
33:52But now I'm in Germany. They are
33:54monochronic. they can't do it.
33:58So you find a way. That is where
34:00integration comes in
34:03for the intelligent mind. You find a
34:05way.
34:09You see are are we not tardy people? We
34:13are. We have a nickname for it in the
34:15Caribbean, in Africa, and among
34:17African-Americans because we're black.
34:20We come from a polychronic culture. So
34:22why would you say you're not tardy?
34:26Every black person blame another for
34:29being tardy until it is his time to come
34:32to you, then he's tardy.
34:34That's what was happening at the
34:36grouping on Sunday. They all spent 30 or
34:41more minutes saying that there's
34:42something wrong with black people. When
34:43I asked them individually, "No, I'm not.
34:45I'm not. I'm not." Then who is that
34:48mystery black person you're talking
34:50about?
34:52Let the world hear it.
34:55We began to compare ourselves. Nobody
34:57told us to compare
34:59to the point some people on the
35:01continent, one of them is from Kenya, a
35:04young lady who claimed that she has the
35:06method to makes Africans become
35:08afroentric
35:11that she's going to lead a charge for us
35:13to have our own educational system. She
35:16hasn't said yet 42 languages in one
35:19country in Kenya. She hasn't said which
35:21language they going to use. She goes
35:23around with a bead and talks and talks
35:26and talks with tears in her eyes.
35:29She believes there's something wrong.
35:33There's nothing wrong.
35:35There is nothing wrong.
35:38When we want to be happy, we are the
35:41happiest.
35:43When African want to use a very humble
35:46food and meals as if it's Christmas, we
35:48are the best at it.
35:52When it comes to being
35:54compromising, we are the best at it.
35:59Yes.
36:01Who told you there is something wrong?
36:03When did you discover that thing that
36:05was wrong? You've not been able to build
36:08your countries to look like other
36:10countries? Why don't you simply
36:11understand just like other people from
36:14uh Eastern Europe and East Asia and
36:17other parts? They understand that what
36:20they have been able to build is based
36:22purely for now on the ability and their
36:25capabilities. Simple. Nothing is
36:28stopping you to clean your streets.
36:30Nothing. The government can beat you.
36:33And it did happen. You talk about 1979
36:36all the way to 1989.
36:39JJ Rollins of Ghana, you get whipped for
36:41not coming out on Saturdays to clean
36:43your street. And then Nigerian copied it
36:45in 1983. I believe it was called the war
36:48against in discipline. A military code
36:52decree was established that Nigerians
36:55must come out on Saturday to clean their
36:58streets.
37:01Why would that be possible? Now, as I
37:03speak with you, Ghana just started it.
37:07If the people by nature
37:10are very tidy
37:12and they discriminate how they dispose
37:16garbage. Nobody will whip anybody
37:19because they will just do it naturally.
37:23But foolish government
37:26who wants to play to social media camera
37:28are now going around and beating people
37:31up to come out and clean their
37:32neighborhoods because somebody is not
37:34thinking. First, if you recognize it as
37:37a nature of your people, that will help
37:39you find a certain means of how your
37:43streets and neighborhoods will be clean
37:46slowly with evolution. One day, maybe
37:49the third generation from today,
37:52something may change. I don't know or it
37:54may not change at all. But you got to
37:57recognize it that it is the nature of
38:00us. In fact, that stupid mayor mayor
38:02who's come out and trashing women to
38:04pick their leader, you go to his own
38:06neighborhood, I've been told and I was
38:08shown photos, he has three broken down
38:10cars parked on the public street in
38:13front of his house,
38:15but he's in another neighborhood telling
38:17people to sweep. It's all performance to
38:20the camera.
38:23Tardiness. Is it nature? Yes, it is.
38:26Yes, it is.
38:29If you recognize it, so you do something
38:32either flex time to allow people so that
38:35things can work. But first is to
38:38recognize
38:40but not to go around telling people that
38:42because of their interaction they made
38:45you a tardy person.
38:47Colonization made every black city in
38:50the world to trash their cities. Well,
38:52the person who colonized you has very
38:54tidy streets. Why didn't that rub on
38:57you? Oh, you were able to copy his dress
38:59mood, neck tie like me. Look at me.
39:02Fella would say this is colonial
39:03mentality.
39:05I'm not angry.
39:07You copied that very well. In fact,
39:08better than him. You copied his swag
39:11better than him. Your women copied her
39:14hair better than her. But you couldn't
39:16copy how to keep your streets straight
39:18and clean. You couldn't copy from him
39:20how to maintain your infrastructure
39:22ahead of time
39:25because it's nature.
39:28That is the only thing you couldn't
39:29shed. Clothing is not nature.
39:33Cosmetics is not nature. So those you
39:35were able to copy.
39:37But the one that is nature, you can't
39:39throw it away.
39:42The men who came to colonize you for
39:44years and build your school systems and
39:46your curriculum. They are very
39:47transparent and honest with each other
39:49in their culture. That is the number one
39:51thing you see when you go to the west.
39:54Kids just would turn blue when they lie.
39:59We we turn into angels when we lie
40:02because it's nature. So no conflict
40:04happens.
40:09We beat polygraph like we are pros.
40:14Why would you go around the world
40:16telling yourself and the whole world to
40:18hear that something is wrong with you
40:21through your podcast
40:23and I got called self-hating because I
40:27said there's nothing wrong and what
40:29really triggered me was not this weekend
40:32grouping that I had. There's a gentleman
40:34from Zimbabwe and I know he's going to
40:37hear this and please be honest and go to
40:41the comment section and say something.
40:44He wrote my manager kept reading it and
40:48saying don't read this, don't read this.
40:49I'm responding to him
40:53and he said I unlike him he works every
40:58day to uplift black people globally.
41:02Those are his words. I have published
41:04books and I write books because I think
41:06I want to uplift my people.
41:11You Zano otherwise
41:13on the other hand everything you say
41:16you're putting black people down.
41:19Then he went on to say that from his
41:22conclusions I say that the white man is
41:25superior and the black man is inferior.
41:29My manager asked him to pick any one
41:32video where I have said anything not
41:36even directly but along those lines. He
41:38sent a video back which is what changed
41:42my today's monologue to this one that
41:44there was a video I said what that is a
41:47question word isn't it? What have your
41:50ancestors left behind? Two young Gen Z's
41:53came on my show. This is a good
41:56thought-provoking question you should
41:57ask young people and see it might
41:59refresh their memory. If they can
42:01remember something
42:04was a question I asked. I never in that
42:07video insinuated you didn't. I gave you
42:09the opportunity. He said that video
42:11indicates that I said white is superior.
42:15But this man never saw the follow-up
42:19video,
42:22the second part two, where I said my
42:25answer, what made me proud of my
42:27ancestors. He never saw that video.
42:32He insulted the entire race by saying he
42:35has a god-given ability to uplift
42:39black people. Do you know where he's
42:41writing from? Zimbabwe.
42:46I never said in my bio that I, Frank
42:48Zano, I have what it takes to uplift a
42:51race of people. No.
42:55Yeah. My level of arrogance. No, that
42:58didn't go that far.
43:01I first have to know that you are down.
43:05Why would I say my people
43:10that they are down zero and I have
43:13[snorts] what it takes to uplift? That
43:15is what this Zimbabwe man is telling
43:16black people and he call me a black
43:19hater. You see them as low and down and
43:22out and they waiting for you to uplift
43:24them. I'm saying there's nothing wrong
43:26with them. They come as they are and I
43:29accept them as they are. I'm a thought
43:30provoker.
43:32So, I will ask questions regardless of
43:34race. But I'm a social commentator who
43:38happen to like to talk about and
43:40challenge people who look like me
43:44because I respect that they have brains
43:47and they can talk back and debate like
43:49it happened in the era of the Greece,
43:51the Greeks
43:54and the Romans and the Germans and Cars
43:58and Nopenhau.
44:03Nobody said that because they wrote
44:06philosophical thinking to question the
44:08status of their being that they are
44:09putting their people down. Only the man
44:12who has been told since childhood that
44:14something is wrong with him. So as soon
44:16as he hears Zano and I'm not quing some
44:19white man or Asian for what you've done
44:20to us or some Jew, therefore I'm putting
44:23my people down.
44:26Listen to me, buddy. I'm not in the
44:27business of pampering black people as if
44:31they are babies.
44:35But I think if you're a Gen Z, a young
44:38person listening to this message, start
44:40right now. If you care about your people
44:42and you respect them,
44:49you kill people's self-esteem if you
44:51keep telling them something is wrong.
44:54and all 90% of your charitable
44:56organization activist group is to beg
44:58other people to change who they are so
45:01you can be who you are. That must end in
45:042026.
45:06There is nothing wrong with the black
45:08man. What you see is what we are on our
45:13own terms. Our country the way it is
45:16nothing, not a corrupt politician, no
45:19not colonization, no slavery. Otherwise
45:22it will not be uniform
45:25on earth.
45:27I ask South Africans for your anger to
45:30go away. This is the very important
45:32part. Climb the tallest mountain in
45:35South Africa and look at the remaining
45:3753 countries in Africa. Look at the 10
45:40black countries in Asia. Look at the
45:43black neighborhoods and communities in
45:44the UK, in Australia, in China, in the
45:46United States. If any of these black
45:49places I've mentioned, South Africans
45:52is any different
45:55or looks the way you wish your country
45:58would look, then definitely something is
46:00going on affecting you. But if they all
46:03look, in fact, to tell you the truth,
46:05all of them, including Nigeria, looks
46:07worse than your country, South Africa.
46:12Let me repeat. A sensible person would
46:15climb the tallest mountain in South
46:16Africa. Look at the remaining 53
46:18countries in that one continent. Then
46:20take a look at the ones who moved their
46:22way to the Caribbean, Australia, New
46:24Zealand, Papa Newu Guinea, the groups
46:27that are in America, in the UK, and tell
46:29me what is different about those black
46:32people
46:34from you.
46:37If you see anything you can point to and
46:40say that is what we want to become then
46:42I can say something a path I real did
46:44something to you.
46:46Nothing happened my friend.
46:50And that is my monologue for today.
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