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0:00Hello, welcome to VPR Zanu Project
0:04Rethink. And I'm Frank Zano. And today,
0:06um, I I just woke up this morning since
0:102:00 a.m. to take down some notes
0:12because I had a private, uh, one-on-one
0:15with, uh, um, a certain group of people
0:18and, uh, the topic was quite interesting
0:21and the inspirations that came out of
0:23that topic. I thought there is no way,
0:26um, I would withhold that from uh, the
0:28rethink community. And so that is what I
0:31I'm about to share with you today. Uh
0:34this monologue is going to be maybe
0:36sometimes emotional but I will try to
0:38keep my cool and uh please allow me to
0:41refer to the notes because it's just
0:43fresh on my mind. I woke up in the
0:44middle of the night and I took down
0:46these notes and I thought it's something
0:48you should hear. Now why is this topic
0:51important? Well, you've taken a look at
0:53France recently, the UK and then Belgium
0:56and Albania and the list is just growing
1:00about the dis satisfaction and uh the
1:03lack of uh integration, adaptation,
1:06assimilation, whichever you call it that
1:09people who arrive from other places into
1:12new areas are now having problem with
1:15their host environment or turn it inward
1:19here in the United States of America.
1:22Go on Tik Tok, go on YouTube, go on
1:25Instagram. And when you if you continue
1:28to click two seconds, two seconds, two
1:29seconds, it's the bitterness, the pain
1:32that it's about somebody who is doing
1:35something to me and I can't take it
1:37anymore and I have to complain that we
1:40are not settling down at all to enjoy
1:43this short period life is offering us to
1:45be here on earth. Whether you are in the
1:47United States, in the Caribbean, in
1:49Africa, in Europe, whether you've
1:51migrated or not migrated,
1:55it's time to pause and rethink and ask
1:59ourselves
2:01the rhetorics coming out of our mouth,
2:03the stories we are telling to our young
2:04ones,
2:06the statements we are making, is it
2:09really helping us?
2:12What is it at all in one line can we say
2:17is wrong?
2:19Are we trying to say that oh we are
2:21these very arrogant but blessed people
2:24that nothing in this world that is
2:27negative should ever happen to me? Is
2:30that what I'm trying to claim? that
2:31whenever something goes wrong, I should
2:34believe strongly that this is about me
2:36and that this person designed it solely
2:38to make me unpleasant and that when I
2:41was born, I was I was guaranteed by God
2:44that nothing unpleasant would ever
2:46happen to me. Did you receive that
2:48guarantee
2:50even if you still remain in your own
2:52land?
2:54Is there hardships in Ghana? Yes. Is
2:58there hardship in Nigeria? Yes. Is there
3:02hardships in all the African country?
3:04Yes.
3:07Do they point to their family members or
3:10to their community
3:12as the source of their hardship?
3:15No, you don't.
3:18But as soon as you move from that
3:19country and live in another country,
3:21suddenly the same natural hardship that
3:24you encountered in your own motherland,
3:27suddenly you're saying no, it's not
3:30supposed to happen to me. Let me give
3:33you the three levels that I have
3:34observed.
3:36In each family, in each family, same
3:39mother, same father, siblings, uncles,
3:43same family,
3:45you would see some would just become
3:49wealthy and successful from the same
3:51family among siblings. If you have five
3:55siblings, two becomes extremely
3:57successful. You can't even tell how they
3:59did it
4:02or one become successful.
4:06But you see the remaining siblings don't
4:10wake up and point fingers at the ones
4:12who became successful as the source of
4:14their condition. No, you don't do that.
4:19Right? So in a family unit, some become
4:23successful,
4:24some not successful. Always is a
4:27minority that become successful.
4:31The remaining siblings not successful.
4:33meaning the level now it's not
4:35contentment they may be content with
4:37their status but I'm saying what we have
4:39defined as successful they may not reach
4:42that point but they don't point fingers
4:45at their siblings as the cause of their
4:49level of success
4:51you move from that family unit it
4:53becomes a tribe in each tribe few are
4:56successful
4:59the majority not successful again I mean
5:02the level of achievement
5:04but you don't point fingers at those who
5:06are successful in the tribe to say they
5:09are the reason you are not successful.
5:12Let's go to the country now. The family
5:14level which is a unit of the tribe in
5:15the tribe and now of the country in each
5:18country on earth a few always a few in
5:22that country
5:24are successful and wealthy rich
5:28majority in the country not so let's
5:31take a place like Japan for example
5:33South Korea
5:35let's take a place like Poland Russia
5:39few are successful
5:42majority of the citizens not successful.
5:44But you see in Russia, in Poland, in
5:47South Korea, in Japan, in Singapore,
5:50the majority who are not successful do
5:52not point fingers to the few countrymen
5:55who are successful.
5:58Then you go to the world.
6:00Few countries are successful. Majority
6:04not successful.
6:06Ah, now there is a problem. Only at that
6:10point the unsuccessful countries begin
6:13to point fingers at the successful
6:15countries as the source of their
6:18unsuccessfulness.
6:21Let me repeat when it's on the family
6:24unit nobody points fingers at your
6:26siblings who are more successful than
6:28you. On the tribal level the same thing.
6:31In fact what we do as far as I remember
6:33and experience you show some s of
6:36admiration to the ones who have become
6:38successful
6:40and they in turn also know that yes we
6:42belong to the same community but you
6:44don't blame them for being the source of
6:47your unsuccessfulness right you move
6:49from the tribe to the country if you are
6:52all citizens of a particular country in
6:54Ghana for example few successful people
6:58the majority of Ghanaians don't go
6:59around every pointing fingers at the
7:02successful ones I don't mean politicians
7:04citizens and say because you're
7:06successful I'm not
7:09so if the level of accomplishment and
7:12success in a family level is always
7:15different never equal in a tribe always
7:18different in a country always different
7:21then of course
7:25it will be the same thing with countries
7:29then it becomes The same thing with
7:31continents.
7:33See some continents few are very very
7:36successful.
7:38The other continents are not successful
7:40as the other continents. Do you see it
7:43now? But why is it that when it becomes
7:46countries,
7:47it is only then the unsuccessful
7:50countries begin to point fingers at the
7:52successful countries and say you are the
7:54reason we are none. Oh, I forgot some of
7:56them are going to say because you came
7:57here and looted our natural resources. I
8:01have never seen a place where you stole
8:03one coconut and then the coconut tree
8:05got angry and refused to yield more
8:07coconuts.
8:09I have never seen a place because you
8:12took some palm trees and made a palm oil
8:14out of it and shipped it and made money
8:16and you didn't give me some of that
8:17money. Then all the palm trees became
8:20angry and do not yield palm nuts anymore
8:22in your land.
8:25That is the point I want you to think
8:26about.
8:28And these have happened over and over
8:31and over and over and it's hurting
8:33everyone to the point that the
8:36unsuccessful country citizens who move
8:38to quote the successful countries
8:40because they had this notion in their
8:42head before they moved there of course
8:44it won't just go away that's when when
8:47they arrive there they continue to say
8:50you are the reason at all I have to
8:51uproot myself from my natural
8:53environment to migrate to your country
8:56because you are the reason my country is
8:57poor in the first place.
9:00So that anger is eating you up.
9:04It will prevent you
9:07from being able to adapt which is
9:09necessary for you to do what God has
9:12given you to do. Your talent, your
9:14skills, your expertise, your
9:16determination,
9:18but that outsider is my source of my
9:23condition. You can never bypass it. It
9:26wouldn't even allow you to rethink.
9:30And then we start talking about it in
9:32the terms of, oh yes, that's why my
9:35forefathers were traumatized and that's
9:37why I'm traumatized.
9:40Dead people, dead people don't suffer
9:43trauma.
9:45Possessed people
9:48suffer disorientation.
9:51Those are the notes I put down
9:53yesterday.
9:55Dead people do not suffer trauma.
10:00Possessed people, they suffer
10:02disorientation which is far more
10:05dangerous
10:07than trauma.
10:09What is a possessed person? People are
10:12usually possessed by a political party
10:16and its ideology, simple ideologies. You
10:19are possessed by religious beliefs. You
10:21are possessed by tribal relationships.
10:25What is the difference between being
10:27possessed by these institutions or you
10:30possess them? This is the difference I
10:32wrote down. The difference is this. When
10:34you possess something, you can manage
10:38it, reorganize it and structured it to
10:42meet the times in which you see. So the
10:45restructuring is like rethinking because
10:48you possess it so you can manage it. You
10:51can organize it, reorganize it, and
10:54structure it continuously to meet the
10:56times.
10:59It's called adaptation
11:01because you possess it.
11:04If it's an ideology, if you possess it,
11:08you know that a certain part of this
11:10ideology was necessary a few years back
11:13just to meet the times. So you find it
11:16easy for you to reorganize it, rethink
11:18the ideology for the new times you live
11:21in. That is the only time I guarantee
11:23you, you are never going to have any
11:25depression, mental health,
11:26disorientation.
11:32If you are on the other hand, if you are
11:34possessed by an institution,
11:36it controls your thoughts, your
11:39movements and affiliation.
11:43If you are
11:45possessed by an institution
11:50then of course it possesses you.
11:54Anytime that institution's ideology, its
11:57agenda changes you change also because
12:00it possesses you.
12:02Whatever they say, you act it because it
12:05possesses you. Let's come to the two
12:07political parties of the United States
12:09of America, the Democrats and the
12:10Republicans. The question you need to
12:13ask yourself,
12:15I'm saying this today. This this topic
12:17is important.
12:20You can change it if you understand it
12:23for rethinking to happen. So there are
12:26two political parties in the United
12:28States.
12:30Neither is good or bad. No, not at all.
12:32There is nothing inherent in having an
12:35ideology by any political organization
12:38or institution or any institution for
12:41that matter. An agenda is useful
12:46as much as it can possess the people.
12:48All the people can possess it.
12:51Now when agenda possesses the people,
12:53you have chaos.
12:55When the people are trained and educated
12:57to know that the agenda was given to us
13:00to possess,
13:01you have order.
13:04So this is what you need to ask
13:06yourself. If you are a member of the
13:08Democratic Party, ask yourself, if you
13:11support it, if you're a member of it,
13:13are you possessed by the ideology of
13:16that party?
13:18Like Don Lemon and Joy Reed,
13:21the names are long. You can tell the
13:24anger with which they discuss simple
13:26things instead of them who claim they
13:27are journalists which they are not to
13:29discuss issues and present information
13:32and leave it for the public to use to
13:34rethink and to empower and to do things.
13:36No, no, no, no, no. You can see the
13:38anger on their face, the name calling,
13:40the fingerpointing that they are
13:42possessed by the ideology of the
13:44political organization.
13:48If you're a member of the Republican
13:49party, ask yourself, do you possess the
13:52ideology and the agenda of the party or
13:54it possesses you
13:57or you can tell? Just look at the way
14:00you talk about the other party. You know
14:02you are possessed. Look at the look at
14:04the way you beat your chest. Whenever
14:07somebody talks about the difference
14:09between their understanding and your
14:11understanding of the same ideology, you
14:13beat your chest, you clinch your teeth,
14:14you pull your hair, then you know you
14:17are possessed. Why? Of course. Have you
14:20seen people in a a voodoo uh uh um
14:25ritual? When we say the spirit possess
14:28people,
14:30they throw themselves on the ground,
14:32they shake violently,
14:35they foam at the mouth,
14:37and when they come around, they don't
14:40even know what happened or why they did
14:43it. That is possession. That's a
14:46spiritual possession.
14:48But I'm talking today for you to
14:50understand. As a human being, you are
14:53supposed to grow up after you are 18
14:55years old and you are called an adult.
14:56What is an adulthood anyway? It's now
14:59the ability to work and make money. That
15:01is not adulthood. Anybody can do that.
15:03We've seen kids as young as 12 in
15:05Vietnam and Africa working hard and
15:08taking care of siblings, but they're not
15:09adult. Not that is healthy.
15:12Adulthood is when you become a hero unto
15:15yourself. First and foremost,
15:18what is a hero unto yourself? meaning I
15:21make my own decisions. Meaning even when
15:24I have very strongly held opinions about
15:27things, I'm also very flexible to listen
15:30to the other people. And you know the
15:33best thing to do when you know you're a
15:34hero onto yourself that you pose
15:37questions to what they say instead of
15:40offering your own counter statements to
15:42what they say. Oh, that's when you have
15:44no result at all. statement, counter
15:46statement,
15:49cross-examination becomes our life.
15:53But if you are able to be so stoic and
15:58confident in what you know, what you
16:00hold on to, then when somebody comes
16:03with an opposing view, you don't share
16:06your views. You pose a question to their
16:09opposing views because you want to learn
16:13more or
16:15in the in the course of doing so you
16:19help them to rethink their position
16:21without you saying anything.
16:25But this say it, let me say it
16:28is not for heroes. It's for victims.
16:31Because you think if I don't repeat
16:35the phrases, the opinions, the limited
16:39phrases and opinions of my institution,
16:42my party, then I don't stand on
16:45anything.
16:47I'm empty. Yeah. Because you're
16:49possessed.
16:54I have said you got you can you can know
16:57it now. You're not going to lie to me.
16:59You're not going to lie to yourself. You
17:01just have to sit by yourself in your
17:04living room, pour your favorite wine and
17:06ask yourself, "How do I feel?
17:11How do I feel when I see a white man?"
17:13If you're black, what comes into your
17:15head? What words? Where did you get
17:17those words from? Did you hear it from
17:18Don Lemon? Did you hear it from the
17:21view? Ask yourself, where did they get
17:24into my head? So when I see these
17:27people, how do I feel?
17:30Do I start sweating?
17:33Does hatred creep into my head?
17:37Was there any time at all I was able to
17:39speak in defense of them?
17:44If you are not able to answer these
17:46questions,
17:47it's not because the answers are not
17:49there. It's because you are refusing to
17:52pause to rethink
17:55those who are able to do that.
17:58Today, the insurance companies are
18:00paying more money than they have ever
18:02paid in our lives in the treatment of
18:05mental health. But you see as as with
18:08everything unless you belong to the
18:09rethink family nobody is asking what is
18:12the root cause of the sudden explosion
18:16of mental health suicide. You know the
18:19only one of the things the media doesn't
18:21report is suicide because it's done
18:24privately
18:26and the family will call the ambulance
18:28the person goes to the hospital.
18:30Sometimes the police will just
18:32investigate and and make a
18:34determination. This has no foul plays.
18:36It's self-inflicted. So that doesn't
18:38make the front pages. But homicide on
18:41the other hand makes the front pages. So
18:43many people think that oh there are too
18:45many killings homicide.
18:48But suicide is huge because of mental
18:50health in this country.
18:53But you see when a conversation comes
18:55up, nobody's asking what is the root
18:57cause of mental health among as young as
19:0112 years old, 8 years old
19:05after they've eaten their favorite
19:07pancake made by mom in the morning. They
19:09have to pop maybe three bottles of pills
19:11each one every morning just to function
19:13in the primary school. But nobody's
19:16asking what is the source of it.
19:20They are possessed
19:23by what mom and dad keep yelling at the
19:27channel on the screen in the living
19:29room.
19:31It depend who comes on it.
19:35Who comes on it? Is it Candace? Is it
19:38Don Lemon? Is it Joy Reed?
19:41What books have you bought?
19:43What movies have these people made to
19:45feed their own children about past
19:48history? something that happened to my
19:50great greatgrandfathers who were taken
19:52from the continent of Africa brought
19:53here as slaves
19:58in that discussion yesterday I had with
20:00the group the private discussion
20:02somebody was trying so hard it wasn't my
20:05words to show that no the black slavery
20:09was the only worst thing ever on the
20:11surface of the earth to any one group of
20:14people
20:15and then he went in to make a concern
20:17somebody asked
20:18So what happened to Jews in Germany
20:20wasn't bad.
20:23I wasn't part of that. I don't jump in
20:26such conversations.
20:29So I asked them, why don't you just
20:30define and describe slavery and then you
20:36describe and define persecution two
20:39different things. Slavery is not
20:41persecution.
20:45What happened in Germany which is modern
20:47history the Jews were persecuted
20:52and that is why professor
20:54Rubenstein
20:57wrote to bigotry there is no sanction
21:02I think his 1976 or 81 book that went
21:06quite very popular among the academics
21:08who talk about the holocaust
21:11Richard Rubenstein look him
21:13Professor Richard Rubenstein, formerly
21:16of the department of political science
21:19Talahasi campus in Florida and later
21:22became the president of the University
21:23of Bridgeport. He wrote, well, he was a
21:26Jew whose father
21:29was in Oswidge
21:32to bigotry, no sanction. Persecution is
21:35not slavery. Slavery is not persecution.
21:39There is no comparison between the two.
21:42absolute horrible condition for any
21:44human being to be in. No one who wants
21:46to wake up and find himself saying I'm a
21:49property of somebody else which means he
21:51tells me what to do.
21:55He feeds me dietaries that I don't like.
21:58He makes me wear clothes I didn't
22:00choose. No, not at all. But you see as
22:04you all know whether is
22:07child slavery or whichever form of
22:10slavery the first definition is somebody
22:13owns you and people don't destroy their
22:16own properties they don't and since then
22:18they describe slavery as having an
22:21ownership people don't describe don't
22:23destroy their own properties
22:26slavery was an investment as horrible as
22:28it it was people's fear
22:32their fear and their agenda to survive
22:36and make their place great, look good
22:41and even make external environments
22:44great have to rely on slavery.
22:47So they went and they got people
22:51to come and use their labor to make
22:54their place great to work their farms,
22:56their homes.
22:58So they are your property and you pray
23:00that your property stays longer because
23:03it's an investment. You don't want it to
23:05die. Yes, of course. Those who attempted
23:08to escape or put up a rebellion just as
23:11it happens in everything they face very
23:13harsh treatment because they attempted
23:16to rebel or to run away or to fight.
23:19Yes, the owner is going to put up
23:23a very stringent conditions to tame you.
23:27Another horrible condition you'll find
23:29yourself. Persecution on the other hand
23:32is the harsh punishment, cruelty,
23:36imprisonment.
23:38You are given or fed one meal per day.
23:42You are kept in concentration camps.
23:46You can count their rips. They leave
23:48witnessing their own death slowly.
23:51They witness the death of their
23:52children, their loved ones right in
23:54front of them. not sharp slow because
23:58persecution is to de dehumanize you and
24:02finally you are extinct we don't want
24:04you here that is persecution
24:07Rwanda
24:09that was persecution visited upon the
24:11toothies
24:14Bosnia
24:16ethnic cleansing that was persecution of
24:19a people
24:21the gulaks of Russia
24:24what we called
24:27long hard hard labor camps.
24:33Those are persecutions.
24:35The Japanese persecuted people. You
24:38never want to live twice.
24:41You live in persecution with trauma
24:43every day because of what you witness.
24:46You pray that you die because the dead
24:49do not suffer trauma.
24:53And we have to rethink.
24:55We have to rethink because that is the
24:57only process right now guys to bring
25:00some sunage to our lives and reduce
25:03mental health affliction. We can
25:07when you begin to say things to
25:10yourself.
25:16There is something I'm going to share
25:17with you. a line I wrote and even myself
25:20I couldn't believe it just came into my
25:22look if anyone wants to mess with your
25:25heart ah don't be afraid broken hearts
25:28always heal
25:32the lyrics said sometimes with time it
25:35will heal
25:37you need a brain to heal a broken heart
25:41so when somebody wants to mess with your
25:43your heart don't worry about that what
25:46should you worry about is a broken brain
25:50because once your brain is broken is
25:53messed up with an ideology.
25:56You can't use the broken brain to fix
25:58the broken brain. That one is permanent.
26:01You may become a killer.
26:04You may become a mass murderer. You may
26:07become a mass killer.
26:10You can persecute people without feeling
26:12anything
26:16because you need another brain to repair
26:17the broken brain. But you see, you can't
26:19buy a brain to repair your broken brain.
26:21With the heart, you can use your brain
26:23since it's still intact
26:26to heal it, to correct it. What do you
26:29do? You come back inside.
26:33me.
26:35Sometimes
26:37I even offer myself for some people to
26:40mess with my heart.
26:43H it's a little romantic.
26:47It's even when you look at it a little
26:49bit erotic. Why? Why do I not suffer
26:53yet? Because sometimes
26:56I expect that one day it's going to
26:59happen. Somebody's going to mess with my
27:00heart. Why? Because I am an emotional
27:03human being. Every human being is an
27:05emotional human being. An emotional
27:07animal if you wish.
27:10So as long as we believe and we describe
27:14ourselves as emotional thing beings but
27:17the emotion has got to do with the heart
27:21not the heart that pumps a blood. We
27:23call it heart. That is the emotional
27:25part of you.
27:27Okay. Then it means somebody can touch
27:31it.
27:36I allow it sometimes intentionally. Yes.
27:41Just to test the strength of my brain,
27:44how fast I can repair it.
27:50You see, when you do a certain push-ups,
27:53very often the muscle grows stronger.
27:58Now what I mean by some people to mess
28:00with me emotionally or my heart means
28:03even I drive myself to places I know
28:06they are going to have a problem with my
28:08way of thinking my thoughts and the way
28:10I think. Yes, they're going to have a
28:11problem with it or I see it on the
28:13comment section and those are the ones I
28:16respond to always quickly. I need them
28:18in the comment section otherwise the
28:21whole thing is boring and fruitless. So
28:23I needed those who have hurt me
28:26to attack me.
28:30So sometimes I offer myself to places
28:32where I know they're going to go for my
28:34emotion. They know that oh Don Lemon
28:37he's possessed. He lives on the
28:39emotional sleeves of his own doing
28:45and others who appear on the others and
28:49they they
28:52call you names for dating somebody
28:54outside your race. Those ones they
28:56possessed. You can see on their face
29:00they need something.
29:03So I was talking to a very dear friend
29:04of mine
29:07and she shared something with me that
29:10touched me greatly
29:15and
29:17it was right.
29:20Let me go through something I wrote here
29:22or she wrote and sent to me.
29:29Something that originates
29:32outside us becomes so deeply
29:37embedded within us that we no longer
29:40recognize where it came from.
29:47We begin to think and we begin to craft
29:50the the foundation for something that
29:53happened outside us. Outside us means
29:56you don't control the agenda of the
29:58person who did it. You didn't sign up on
30:01it. You didn't participate on it. You
30:04were not even informed that they're
30:05going to do it to you. So you have no
30:07hand in it. That's what I it means it
30:10happened outside you. He or she has his
30:12own agenda.
30:14priorities
30:16and it happened to you. So somebody
30:18asked
30:20then how do we move on?
30:26No, you don't move on.
30:28You move in.
30:32You move in. What is move on? Meaning
30:34what? You change locations and leave the
30:36experience behind? No,
30:39it just comes with you like an Amazon
30:41package delivered to your new address.
30:46So you don't move on. Move on is a
30:48pretend that if I stop thinking, you
30:50can't stop thinking about it.
30:53No, you can't stop thinking about it.
30:58You move in.
31:00Moving in means you ask yourself
31:07why
31:08do I come to the conclusion I have come
31:10to about something that happened from
31:12outside that I have no hands in why am I
31:14making conclusions about it because your
31:17conclusions you think would temporarily
31:21free you and make people pity you but
31:25the more they pity you they are
31:27repeating what happened
31:31the more you talk about it because
31:33you're looking for ways to move on.
31:34There is no moving on. But when you move
31:37in, you say why? Not what he did, but
31:41how did it become possible? Why did I
31:44make these conclusions about the event
31:45that I have no control over?
31:49That is internalizing it to understand
31:51it,
31:54not embedding it in your system,
31:56internalizing it. You see, you are now
31:59questioning an event that has eaten some
32:01other people and including you. But now
32:03you are rethinking
32:05Okay. So when you look at the event and
32:07you forget about how unpleasant it was
32:11but begin to examine but why did I
32:13respond this way as a conclusion to this
32:15event? You ask yourself again
32:20is or are my reactions every day to it
32:22is it changing anything?
32:25Well that is up to you to decide because
32:27you can actually take stock of your
32:30feeling. Do you see the way you become
32:32depressed and angry whenever you see
32:34something that resembles what you
32:35thought or who you thought did this to
32:37me or to my people?
32:42Do you see the result? You're not happy
32:45just by seeing a white person cross the
32:47street. You're not happy just by hearing
32:50Zanu not go after white people and
32:52chastise them and repeat their history.
32:54You're not happy that some of you who go
32:57into my comment section keep saying,
32:59"Yeah, Zanu, I agree with you, but why
33:01can't you just talk about what
33:02happened?"
33:05Yeah. Oh, yeah. I did ask
33:09talk about it to do what? Who the hell
33:12am I to think that my existence on earth
33:15nothing unpleasant should ever happen to
33:17me or to any of my family members of my
33:20lineage? Who the hell am I to do that?
33:22Was I guaranteed that when I was born
33:24that nothing is going to go wrong? Which
33:26government guaranteed it? Which
33:28institution guaranteed that? No.
33:32The day I was put here without my
33:35application, I knew I'm going to fight
33:38my elbow through people who have similar
33:41emotions like me.
33:45So when I became an adult,
33:47I decided to be a hero unto myself.
33:50Heroes don't complain.
33:53Heroes don't point fingers. Heroes don't
33:56call names. Heroes don't repeat.
34:01They are unpleasant moments.
34:04Heroes are role models. How can a role
34:05model be complaining and calling people
34:07names and insulting people and yelling
34:09at people?
34:12And you're not a role model.
34:16Heroes are role models to themselves
34:17first and then to the larger community.
34:20So for that reason, no, I don't need to
34:23repeat
34:25the Japanese. Have you heard? Have you
34:27seen it? They do not celebrate Hiroshima
34:31and Nagasaki. They don't
34:35intelligent people, but it's a culture.
34:38They understand it in their cultural
34:39frame and worldview. You should not
34:42repeat it. Korea never celebrate
34:45independence of Japanese and how and
34:47make movies. Not a single movie. They
34:49would rather have a K-pop. Does that
34:51mean they haven't internalized it? They
34:54have. That is why now they have K-pop.
35:00You think Japan didn't internalize the
35:02dropping of atomic bomb on them? They
35:03did.
35:05But why haven't they maintained and
35:07polished and feed the animy? Because
35:10they have internalized it rather than
35:12attempting to move on.
35:16But my people, which means descendants
35:19of my great great greatgrandfathers who
35:21were harvested by force and cruel from
35:24Africa and made slaves on this place. We
35:27have kept
35:29the narrative alive through movies,
35:31through books, through organizations
35:34with fist pumping in the air.
35:37Black lives matter to continue feed and
35:41feed. So you see you're doing all these
35:43thinking I will move away because you
35:47live your life forever
35:49relying and waiting on an external
35:52system to feed a problem that you think
35:56belong to you solely. And that my
35:59friends
36:01is the extension
36:03of the suffering and what we are calling
36:06trauma.
36:10And boy,
36:1216 year olds can stab you and kill you.
36:18Oh boy, that you do not even have the
36:22right to choose who you want to love and
36:25marry if it's not from your the same
36:27race. You have betrayed us. You have
36:30betrayed us because you allow your heart
36:32to love somebody not based on their skin
36:35color. You have betrayed us. But what is
36:37funny is few years back we stormed this
36:41land raising our finger in the face of
36:43the white man telling him don't judge me
36:46based on the color of my skin but the
36:48content of my character
36:51but you were not satisfied because those
36:53were empty words because first and
36:56foremost they were not judging you based
36:58on the color of your skin. You see, so
37:00you didn't find any satisfaction
37:03in that statement you made
37:07because if you believe that one should
37:10never be judged by the content of his by
37:13the color of his skin, then why are you
37:15angry that I am dating a white woman,
37:18you are judging me now based on my love
37:21for a different skin color. So you
37:24actually are the one who is saying judge
37:28me by the skin color
37:34otherwise
37:36why did you follow MLK and his people to
37:40chant don't judge a man oh it became the
37:43most sweetest slogan and anthem the
37:45black person could ever sing.
37:49Don't judge me based on the color of my
37:50skin.
37:53If that were true and you believed it,
37:56you wouldn't be going around calling
37:57people snow bunnies and accusing them
38:00and demeaning them, almost making them
38:02to become a target of hate.
38:08You are saying things are judged to the
38:12point it is so ridiculous that we cry.
38:16The reason panafricanism is people are
38:18joining it is because we are saying
38:20blacks do not unite. Blacks are not
38:22united.
38:25But you see even though blacks know that
38:28they are not united
38:30but they are the most scared one to be
38:32different.
38:34So ask a black guy on camera do you like
38:37Trump?
38:39Oh yes, deep down he does or respect him
38:42or accept him as a president, but I
38:44can't say it because I'll be rejected.
38:47Well, there is no unity among the people
38:49in the first place. What what are they
38:50rejecting anyway? What are what are you
38:52afraid?
38:55So Nicki Mina simply went on a campaign
38:58trail and said, "We love Trump, a
39:01president of the United States, a
39:03citizen of the United States. She's a
39:06citizen of the United States." And she
39:08simply say if one becomes president and
39:10belongs to a certain ideology I identify
39:12with it I can say we love Trump.
39:16Oh my god the whole internet is burning.
39:23But if she had said
39:25we love Kamala Harris
39:29White attacked Nicki Minaj. How? Because
39:33they internalize everything
39:36and nobody would attack her for saying
39:39Nicki Mina says she loves Camela Harris.
39:42Oh, but Cardi B could say she's fine.
39:46Think of it. That is where we are.
39:50Rethink is your medication.
39:57You have to
39:59you have to really rethink. So let me
40:01repeat from today when they say the name
40:05of a person Donald Trump, Kamala Harris,
40:09uh who else? Anybody just close your
40:13eyes and think when you see somebody
40:16wearing a MAGA hat, close your eyes and
40:19ask yourself what is happening inside
40:20you. When you see a white man crossing
40:23the street,
40:24immediately close your eyes, ask
40:26yourself. When you hear something that
40:28seems to be one of the agenda of the
40:31Republican party, close your eyes and
40:33ask, you would know if you are
40:35possessed.
40:38But when you can sit across a table and
40:40talk about two groups equally, you see
40:43good in the other one, you see good in
40:44this one.
40:48And if you don't see it at all, but you
40:51can sit and listen to it.
40:53And to make the person know that you're
40:55a hero onto yourself, you don't
40:58immediately
41:00present your own narrative.
41:02You make him or her feel empowered by
41:05throwing questions at the conclusions he
41:07or she has just shared with you. My
41:10friends, that is a rethinker. That is a
41:14man who is trying to level your mental
41:16health for your children and your loved
41:18one and your family and your community.
41:24If we can only if you can only determine
41:28are you possessed or do you possess
41:32because heroes they possess they don't
41:35hang on to it.
41:38They can organize it, manage it,
41:40reorganize it, always with the times.
41:44That is truly a liberal mind.
41:49When Bob Marley said, "Emmancipate
41:51yourself from mental slavery." Oh my
41:53god, did we love that? We love it. You
41:56know why we loved it? Because all of us
41:59thought he was talking about him, not
42:01me. And then he thought, "Oh, but Mali
42:03is talking about him, not me." So
42:05everybody, it's not me. He's talking
42:07about it's you because I've seen you and
42:10I disagree with the way you think. But
42:12nobody asks Bob Mali or the people who
42:15repeat these lyrics.
42:18How did he say you should do it? How did
42:21he tell you to emancipate? How did he
42:23tell you? Your brain is already broken
42:25as I said and you can't use a broken
42:27brain to fix itself. So did you ask Bob
42:30Mali how does one emancipate himself?
42:36How does it happen?
42:40I think you've seen the answer already
42:42in my previous discussions.
42:48There is no process to say, "Oh, today
42:52the question is are you going to attempt
42:54it because you truly believe that you
42:57have not emancipated yourself?" Then
42:59that is what you can say. What should I
43:01do to emancipate? Would you accept that
43:05you're a mental slave? No, you wouldn't.
43:09But you like the song. So, who is he
43:11talking about?
43:16Emancipating yourself is simple.
43:19You check to see how you respond to
43:21opposing views and opinions. You check
43:24to see how you react and respond. When
43:28you see people of a certain race, color
43:33that will tell you if you are possessed.
43:37And what he saying is
43:39try and become the possessor. That's all
43:43the emancipation simply means you know
43:45what I'm not going to leave the
43:47ideology. I'm not going to leave the
43:48Democratic party, but I'm going to
43:50possess the agenda. I'm going to possess
43:52the ideology which means I will
43:54understand it deeper than what just I
43:57heard
43:58and you can only do so my friend by
44:01crossing over to talk to people who have
44:03an opposing view.
44:09We have launched Patreon because
44:12majority of you asked that we move from
44:15the other to Patreon and we've launched
44:17it. I think we have two videos on it. I
44:20invite you all to check it out. In fact,
44:22I have reduced the price because what I
44:25want is I want to have people interact
44:27with me and ask more questions about
44:30topics like this and get more
44:33because I can do an uncut version right
44:36now and you can get more out of it and
44:39interact with me. That is the sole
44:41purpose for the Patreon. both the think
44:44tankers and the golden think tankers or
44:46the golden thinkers.
44:49It will give me money to be able to pay
44:51somebody an extra time to be managing
44:53the platforms. So if you really want to
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45:04coming next Sunday next live with you
45:09keep this topic
45:11the dead don't suffer trauma possessed
45:15people suffer disorientation which is
45:18far more dangerous than anything guys
45:20this is ZPR Zanu project rethink Frank
45:24Zanu with you again thank you all for
45:26being loyal followers and everything see
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