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Attorney Ken Harris wrote a controversial novel, "Dark Trades" - What if the South had won the Civil War? · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: He is handling a litigated personal entry and the author
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  Speaker 1: of a very popular novel, Dark Matters. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you why I've read this book. What what? What is
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  Speaker 1: the South? What if the South had won the Civil War?
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  Speaker 1: Dark Matters? What if the South had won the Civil War?
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  Speaker 1: That's a creative mind. Please work with the Money Making
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  Speaker 3: Sean, how were you doing, my friend, Ken?
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  Speaker 2: How did you? Okay? Now you're busy. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: to the busy part.
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  Speaker 1: But I got to I got to jump in this
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  Speaker 1: book because you know, we've been This book been in
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  Speaker 1: our lives for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Has been well reviewed online and various publications have talked
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  Speaker 1: about Dark matters.
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  Speaker 2: What if the South just give me a dark trade? Excuse me?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I apologize dark trades? What if the South had
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  Speaker 1: won the Civil War? Now, tell us about why you
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  Speaker 1: wrote the book.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Rushawan, as you know, I have a long
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  Speaker 3: history of advocate see related to the African American community.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my mentor is my big brother, Urban Magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: I've worked with and under mister Johnson for twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years now, and we've always had a concern about us
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  Speaker 3: in the African American community having the proper historical perspective.
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  Speaker 3: And I always thought, hey, do you know how close
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  Speaker 3: we came to losing the Civil War? You know, battles
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  Speaker 3: at Gettysburg and Vicksburg were very close contests. What if
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  Speaker 3: we had lost that war? What would it be like
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  Speaker 3: for the African American community now? Would slavery still exist?
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  Speaker 3: And if it still existed, would there be something inside
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  Speaker 3: the African American community and African Americans that would have
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  Speaker 3: allowed us to still overcome? And that was the inspiration
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  Speaker 3: for the book. The setting is the year twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: We're in Baltimore, and the story is about a slave
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  Speaker 3: journey to freedom despite the weight and heaviness of the
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  Speaker 3: oppression of slavery.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, let me ask you this because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I went to the Getty's Gettysburg. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing a session up there, and it was close. Man.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you go see the Battle of Gettysburg,
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  Speaker 1: you go it was close because they weren't that far
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  Speaker 1: from the White House. There was there was a couple
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  Speaker 1: of little mistakes, a couple of level degrees of arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let everybody know he was accidentally killed
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  Speaker 1: by his own men. If that guy, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you you need to learn your history. That's
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  Speaker 1: what this interview is about us understanding our historical perspective
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  Speaker 1: on the big what if, because guess what, we're living
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  Speaker 1: in a giant what if right now?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know, right now.
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  Speaker 1: You can call it politics, you can call it Trumpism,
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  Speaker 1: you can call it whatever you want. To talk is
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  Speaker 1: that we have to understand that history can repeat itself.
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  Speaker 1: It just designed in different ways. But when I went
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  Speaker 1: to the Gettysburg Gettysburg for that meeting, and I took
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  Speaker 1: that tour, Attorney Harris I was stunned, I can believe
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  Speaker 1: the information. Then I went home and watched the documentary
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, talk to us man.
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  Speaker 3: It was so close to the South winning the Civil War.
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  Speaker 3: It could have happened. The book Dark Trades assumes that
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  Speaker 3: the capital of the United States is now in Richmond. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: but if you really just about how the mechanism, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: the structure of slavery would have proliferated throughout the United
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  Speaker 3: States and grown and like a virus basically, but what
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  Speaker 3: would have also grown was this underlying strength of our
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  Speaker 3: community to still'll fight to overcome. The question is whether
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  Speaker 3: or not there would be enough strength to overcome slavery
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  Speaker 3: even in modern day times. And that's what the book
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  Speaker 3: is about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you really it does. It's everything's a timeline.
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  Speaker 1: You know, academics tied to HBCU started after slavery, where
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  Speaker 1: there was some there was a couple of HBCUs that started,
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  Speaker 1: you know, prior to slavery's you know, in Eradication of slavery.
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  Speaker 1: But basically HBCU started after that, and it was started
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just just just piggybacking on Dark Trades because
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  Speaker 1: what attorney Harris is saying is that, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: still had to create our own models for academics. Even
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  Speaker 1: when slavery was won by the North, we still had
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  Speaker 1: to create academic training for our people.
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  Speaker 2: So what if they.
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  Speaker 1: Would have won, what would that academic training it would
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  Speaker 1: have looked, like, Attorney Harris.
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  Speaker 3: It's so interesting because we have a national campaign to
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  Speaker 3: get people's thoughts on what would have had and had
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  Speaker 3: the South won the Civil War. Some people say that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, slavery continues in certain ways from a mental
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  Speaker 3: aspect and an emotional aspect related to how the African
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  Speaker 3: American has been treated. Some people say that had the
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  Speaker 3: South won the Civil War, slavery would at some point
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  Speaker 3: still have disappeared in the United States. But the vast
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  Speaker 3: majority of people that we talked to across the country
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  Speaker 3: say that had the South won the Civil War, slavery
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  Speaker 3: would still be an institution here in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: African Americans would still be brutally oppressed, yes, and it
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  Speaker 3: would be a situation that we would have to overcome
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  Speaker 3: even in today's world.
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  Speaker 1: So wow, we're talking to Attorney Ken Harris. He's based
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  Speaker 1: out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Went up there in Hungary
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  Speaker 1: with him a couple of times. Doc Trades is this
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  Speaker 1: book is a controversy historical fiction novel that discusses what
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  Speaker 1: if the South had won the Civil War. That's just
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  Speaker 1: part of your life. Part of your life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: former NBA and NFL agent. When you look at these salaries, now,
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  Speaker 3: And I got out of the game too early before
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  Speaker 2: Did you get out?
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  Speaker 3: I got? Maybe I got out when I did. But
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, when you look at some of
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  Speaker 3: these crazy salaries. You know, Michael Jordan's and I went
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  Speaker 3: point that kids now are being played paid for what
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  Speaker 3: they might become, not what for what they have done.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's the difference. When I was an agent,
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  Speaker 3: you still had to kind of earn it to get
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  Speaker 3: to that big salary. Nowadays, within I L and uh,
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  Speaker 3: get after your rookie salary. Uh, these are situations where
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  Speaker 3: definitely an interesting dynamic now I.
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  Speaker 1: Got to talk to you about this because you know
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  Speaker 1: when I see because you represented talent athletes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because you use so many stories, so many dramas about
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  Speaker 1: athletes who are file bankruptcy. You know that story dominates.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really do athletes really don't? Is it a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous or high rate of financial failure for professional athletes
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  Speaker 1: that we read about.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a rumor.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's true. And the problem is you could.
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  Speaker 2: Have slowed down with that. You just flew right there.
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  Speaker 3: And in shine that. The reality is athletes are focused
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  Speaker 3: on learning their trade as a professional athlete. Where is
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  Speaker 3: the master class or the money making conversation for an
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  Speaker 3: athlete about how to preserve and utilize their resources once
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  Speaker 3: they get money and they need a rushin McDonald, They
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  Speaker 3: need these types of conversations. We're still lacking. And it
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  Speaker 3: hasn't it gotten worse because with the proliferation of nil,
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  Speaker 3: the individuals or kids who are getting substantial amounts of
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  Speaker 3: money are getting younger, right, so they have even less
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  Speaker 3: then we've got a challenge in our community because our
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  Speaker 3: it is a very serious problem for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see this blows my mind. Let me just talk
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  Speaker 1: about justin Jefferson's contract here. Okay, it's one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty million dollars. One hundred and ten million dollars was guaranteed.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen to me, everybody, when he signs his contract,
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. Please help me, Attorney Harris to sit down
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  Speaker 1: contract like that?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Is it true? The requirement is that you have good attorneys,
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  Speaker 3: good investment advisors who are conservative. You have to have
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  Speaker 3: good accountants. But unfortunately that infrastructure does not exist around
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  Speaker 3: many players who get money like that, and so in
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  Speaker 3: the absence of that infrastructure, you substitute in other individuals
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  Speaker 3: who are less qualified to advise the player about what
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  Speaker 3: he should do or she should to do with their money.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the sad thing about it is, once
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  Speaker 3: that money is spent, Rushan is brutal because that money
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  Speaker 3: is gone. You don't get that back. There's no sympathy
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  Speaker 3: out there for someone who made fifty or sixty million
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  Speaker 3: dollars through out their career, right, and it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gone, just like Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Did you read about him filing bankruptcy? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: know he's done some crazy things on him last year,
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  Speaker 1: but he made almost roughly eighty million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And isn't it true that the tenure of a professional
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  Speaker 3: athlete is very short?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So the point you made earlier is very accurate. What
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you something I have on the
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  Speaker 1: My guess, Attorney Ken Harris is probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: the controversial historical and I say controversial in a good
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  Speaker 1: way because if it's a book that you want to
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  Speaker 1: pick up and read, it's a book that I would recommend.
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  Speaker 1: What if the South had won the Civil War? The
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  Speaker 1: name of the book is Dark Trades is written by
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Ken Harris now Ken Harris went to college with
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us man.
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  Speaker 3: when we have meetings, how prepared he is. There was
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  Speaker 3: a time, I don't know if you remember where Magic
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  Speaker 3: had the Rushan. You remember he had the.
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  Speaker 1: Theater and Los Angeles Beverly, absolutely right there off of Crenshaw.
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  Speaker 3: What you know what sent me strength concerning Magic was
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  Speaker 3: we were going to one of his theaters one day
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  Speaker 3: to do sort of well, we're gonna sit down watch
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  Speaker 3: a movie in talk business. And he was talking about
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  Speaker 3: the popcorn and how much popcorn was being sold in
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  Speaker 3: the theater. And I said, how in the world does
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  Speaker 3: Magic have time to be concerned about how much popcorn
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  Speaker 3: the theater is selling when we set up these Starbucks
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  Speaker 3: and Charlotte on Wilkinson Boulevard. If you live here in Charlotte, Sir.
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  Speaker 3: He was concerned about the menu, the not having scones.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to have sweet potato pie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Making sure that the store had commodities that were appropriate
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  Speaker 3: for the community. The demographic. Oh man, these gentlemen are
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: giants from a business standpoint. Uh And and I think
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  Speaker 3: that our community, he certainly has an obligation to recognize
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  Speaker 3: why they they are where they are, not give them
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  Speaker 3: any hype or recognition for what they achieved financially. I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: talking about the why of it all. Why are they
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  Speaker 3: where they are? That's where the learning is concerning magic
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  Speaker 3: and miss and all.
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  Speaker 2: And let me follow up this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, Texas, ladies and gentlemen, And nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: two is when I met Matthew Knows because he's from Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and I brought Destiny Child on stage at my comedic club,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: hip Hop Commics Stuff for the very first time. So
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I saw it in the beginning. I saw him when
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he was running around town trying to do every little
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  Speaker 1: talent show with these This is the original group, the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: original members of Destiny's Child. So I saw that what
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you were talking about, that desire, that love that passion
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that made all these individuals successful today. Then on Magic Johnson,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I'm men, just tell you everybody something about Magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: I moved to la in nineteen ninety, well sort of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: mager Steve Harve in two thousand. Magic Johnson. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever met him, if you ever shook shake his hand,
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  Speaker 1: he will act like you're the most important person that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: he's shaking his hand with. I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: ran in the magic when we did that event in
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte about a year and a half ago. I saw
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  Speaker 1: magic in like five years, Magic looked across the room RuSHA.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know I'm humble. I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know this Magic John's. It's always gonna be this
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: You know the thing about when you say this Magic
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  Speaker 1: john You're always gonna bow down a little bit because
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: this is Magic Johnson. When he walks in the room,
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  Speaker 1: I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen and Attorney Ken Harrison,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: back this up. I've never seen the talent walk in
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  Speaker 1: the room and people gravitate to them with love, black white, Hispanic,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: He will stop. He will stop.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with security and it's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: different type of way people come up to him. Because
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I've seen people come up to people. You gotta have security, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because they just come at you a different way. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: people come up to Magic Johnson with a sense of
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  Speaker 1: reverence like thank you, thank It's almost like a minister,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, appreciate you, bless you, bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Brother. Keep winning, keep doing this.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And that's the type of thing that you're referencing these individuals,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: especially Magic Johnson. This guy can do a masterclass man
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and just being humble but successful, being able to understand
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the value of relationship partnership. This is Magic Johnson. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you this, Ken, I know we're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: about to run out of time here, but you know this,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: we gotta come back in a couple of more weeks, man,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: because we gotta do the energy conversation that we need
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to let everybody know that you're involved in and we
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: gotta let everybody know about personal injury and litigation. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: gotta get your schedule cleared, man, because you came on
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: this interview a little bit late and I need every
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: minute with you.
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  Speaker 2: Ken. Man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready for it, man, and we can talk all
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: day about Magic, but I will give Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if I have a few seconds, but I did.
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  Speaker 3: This is one secret about Magic jumps. Yes, sir, this
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: is an exclusive on him. He has a photographic memory.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that is one of his secrets.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Magic can remember something from ten years ago and give
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you details on it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that. And like I tell I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: in action too many times. And that's the blessing. And
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I always tell this thing to everybody about Magic. John's
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  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. If he did not drive little basketball, know
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: this about him. He was going to be an entrepreneur.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: If he did not drivele little basketball. His goal was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: not to be a Hall of Fame basketball player. God
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: just gave him that talent. His goal was to be
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a business man. His goal was because that's the infrastructure
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that was built by his parents. Was that started there
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: in that home and so these are the great things
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: But I want to just tell.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You, Attorney Ken Harris, thank you for coming on Money
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• 24:56
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• 24:57
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• 25:00
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• 25:03
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• 25:05
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• 25:08
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• 25:11
  Speaker 1: talk about politics, talk about the community.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That's you. Can you be that person from my show?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Of course you do anything for you you know that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, We're gonna talk soon. This is doctor
• 25:22
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• 25:32
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  Speaker 3: Well appreciate it.
• 25:37
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• 25:40
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