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EP: 120 Men of color in America · Humanity Unplugged Podcast

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on, people?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good day to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Jameem McCrement and welcome to humanity on plug podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host today is March 12th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the Thursday and hopefully everyone is having a great day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bringing it to you late today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say first off, thank you to everyone that support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, as I would say, given on it to the most high who give us our strength with the monologues.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today is a special day because this is a special episode for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 120.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the topic is men of color in America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And today I'm going to go over 89 points or bulletins or
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[SPEAKER_00]: a paragraph that we need to focus on and what's going on in America with men of color.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for us to understand men of color and what's going on with the men of color in America, we need to know where we been and what happened to us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not going to get deep into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I'm probably going to give you 15 seconds of that because that is a bad, bad history
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we can talk about and we can express it without much emotion, but you cannot go over a blacksmith, a man of color history and don't get emotional, don't get angry, don't get confused, maybe even have hatred coming around you because of how people took advantage of us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not going to go too deep into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in reality, I'm going to start off with just letting you know some percentages and numbers and we're going to go from there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I will say this as I always say, sit back, take off your shoes, relax your feet, get you something cool and refreshing, maybe cold and refreshing, something hot and refreshing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you like to do, get your pin in pad ready, let's get busy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the first thing I want to read to you guys, I'm doing a lot of reading to you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to put some stats out to you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you guys to find it in your heart to do your due diligence, to do the research.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See if what I'm saying, I'm just talking to you or if this information,
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[SPEAKER_00]: accurate information.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm telling you that I did research, but who are you to believe me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Allegedly, I could just be a guy just talking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's best that you always confirm what anybody tell you and make sure what they're telling you is accurate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to read this
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[SPEAKER_00]: indicates that 46% of gang members are Hispanic and Latino.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 46% of gang members are Hispanic and Latino.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 35% are African American blacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Over 11% are white and 7%
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what that's telling you right there is 35% of men of color are incarcerated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the next thing I'm gonna tell you is incarceration and we're gonna see the numbers when it goes to incarceration, I already said 35% is incarcerated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the history guys that we look into gang banging
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before a young teen, a young man come off the porch as they would say, I'm gonna talk to you today guys, we gonna talk, we gonna talk today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to know this means a lot to me because I have three biological,
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[SPEAKER_00]: black boys that I make sure I try to reach and talk to and show them the light.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually reach out to one and three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have five total that I have put underneath my wing to say, I'm here for you if you allow me to oftentimes black kids for some weird reason, a young
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[SPEAKER_00]: interesting or where curious to do something different because what we're doing now it's not entertaining, it's not, it doesn't have a large following.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People or kids don't seem to draw that attention to that kid that has good grades that doesn't come off the porch, that listens to their parents and just go to school and mind his business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those kids are not
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[SPEAKER_00]: in today's society and in our everyday community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what hurts youth, our young black men.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have other kids that's out there and the outside late at night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: they are doing things or they're wearing a clothes a certain way, they're speaking a slang and they look intriguing, they look interesting to our young youth who's not into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So occasionally
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[SPEAKER_00]: they would tempt them to jump off the porch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when I say that meaning jump off the porch or come off the porch, I wanted to tell all my listeners what I'm saying to you is they're trying to invite them into a lifestyle they can't reverse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so easy to get in again, but it's so difficult to get out of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so easy to make that one choice that can change your life for the rest of your life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: then to just sit back and listen to people who's already here, who's guiding you through your everyday decisions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easier to say, I'm gonna do what he does because that looks interesting and looks intriguing, but yet it has no future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what happened to a lot of our youth in our communities, they decide to follow
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[SPEAKER_00]: a leader is not a person that will make you do decisions or choose decisions for you that will put you in harm's way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are young youth and you are listening to this message and you're hanging outside and you hanging with another person and they are trying to entice you or convince you to do something that you know is wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a leader.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A leader will not put you in
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[SPEAKER_00]: a leader will not cost you your freedom, a leader will not cost you to have problems later on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please be very aware of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can't
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[SPEAKER_00]: understand that there's always someone you could talk to, just to run the question by, you can go to a complete stranger that you see every day like a mailman, a parcel post, a UPS, someone at a barber shop, a beautician, a mother, a man at a gas station,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a kid of your age to do something that's illegal or wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if they give you, they tell you, yes, you need to run for NAS too, today, and we're 10 or anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just letting you know that, that's just my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, allegedly, you know, I could be wrong, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we all know the last thing that any parent wants to hear is that call that I kid is incarcerated or in trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just want you to understand, if you are around that type of environment or that type of person, you need to get away fast, before a decision is made for you that will cost you for the rest of your life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the next thing is, after we find out that, we know that 35% of African-American men are in gangs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at the percentage of African-American men
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it says this, you can also see the section of our best original research on this topic of our racial justice page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the key statistics percent of black Americans in the general United States population.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 13% percentage of people in prison are in jail.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A prison or in jail, who are black?
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[SPEAKER_00]: 37%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a black men are incarcerated and that's not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it ages from black men and women are in prison at higher rates compared to all other ages group with the highest rate being black men age 25 to 39.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are incarcerated guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have 37% of
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[SPEAKER_00]: to 39 incarcerated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That means there's a large percentage of men that's not there to provide for their families.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not there to talk to their male, the little sons and keep them out of being in trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's there to protect their youth from being getting staying out of trouble
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[SPEAKER_00]: go to school and play ball and just do the right things when his father is not there to show him that or his mother is not there to show him that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a generational curse that starts to implement itself into black men, men of color and goes down the pipeline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: Understanding this is somewhere down the line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have to change this somewhere down the line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have to reach out or be more involved in the communities to assist the single mothers who are raising these young black men of color to not turn into the streets and gang bang in order to try to help provide for their families.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because let's face it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These young men are not doing this just to do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some black men feel a young black men feel that they need to help assist their mother because she's struggling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not, but Uruza noodles on the table.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The electric is out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're burning candles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have Wi-Fi in their house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have,
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[SPEAKER_00]: are different types of food to choose from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All they have in the future rate is mayonnaise and some ball eggs because mama had to sell half of the food stamps last month to pay the rent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of you don't understand what some of the communities are going through because you ain't never been in that situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank God for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if I'm talking to someone and you understand, you can leave it in the comments that a lot of single mothers are struggling to raise these kids
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this causes a domino effect of trauma, a domino effect of gang violence, a domino effect of community violence within the community black on black crime and things are such because they just trying to feed themselves and yet they're living in a situation where is either you to pray.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or you are the food that they put on the table.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this happens and we need to understand that this is something that's been going on since before time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I bet if you did a deeper research since slavery, we have always been under the gun to provide and do what we need to do, but yet there's a lot of things that's been set in place to stop and to prevent us from doing that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as we get further into this, we're gonna learn a little bit more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna speed up a little bit and go into another area that I need to go over with you guys because I don't want
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[SPEAKER_00]: to let time elapse and I don't finish all the points I want to get through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me take a sip of this coffee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The third.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The third statistic on the third bulletin I want to go through is the statistic only continues to paint a grim picture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The national students clearance house report that black males undergraduate enrollment decreased by 14.3.
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[SPEAKER_00]: between March 20th, 2020 and March 20th, 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The United Negro College Fund, UNCF recently declared that black men have the lowest college completion rate at 40%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we need to stop right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just for a minute, we got to elaborate in today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to say that our youth are trying to do better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to better themselves and break this curse that's on us as men of color.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not having an education or not having a necessary skill set to provide for themselves and yet others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we are enrolling in college to get some type of trade or we're trying to get some type of education to better ourselves, but yet we're not completing
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[SPEAKER_00]: the task and at 40% that is very, very, very low, that's way below, you know, passing because 40% is horrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not finishing what we started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what will
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[SPEAKER_00]: prevent us from finishing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What will prevent a person from finishing an education?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a financial situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a family situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be health situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be providing for their family where they have to step out and they have to make the money because they have a newborn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be housing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be trauma.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a lot of different issues that play a factor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in that young man completing the objective, which is finishing college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we got to look at the community that he's in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have to look at what distracting him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He could be distracted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be some young Heidi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We like the party is around him and just pulling him from his books, pulling him from studying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be his party in a lack of focus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a number of reasons
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[SPEAKER_00]: why it could be mental could be some mental trauma there because he's the first of his kind doing what he's doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a lot of pressure put on him to excel in what he needs to excel in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have to look at these factors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Does he has a great support team?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a lot of different reasons on why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why the percentage is so low.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's look at this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So next one is about 27% of black United States adults age 25 and older have a bachelor degree or higher 27% age 25 and older have a bachelor degree or higher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of these 16% earned a bachelor degree, and 11% have an advanced degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As of 2023, roughly one third, 32% have completed some college, but not earned a degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's stop there right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's now saying, we are, we're still going, but we're not finishing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's important to finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you wash your car, you wash the inside of your car, you clean the inside and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you make sure you clean them tight as to when put a shine on your finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you get dressed from head to toe, you finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you shower, you wash, top the bottom, you finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you do, you finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you do, you finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to school, we find it hard for us to finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to refocus and re-evaluate what's important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And set aside, buying these new cars once we get a job, and complete the task ahead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need a car note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can get a car later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need to go out for dinner every Thursday and Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to finish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need to spend so much money and pressing this new girl for it that we picked up last week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to finish what we started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we lack the focus on completing the task at hand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is why we're coming up short.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read the rest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As of 2023, roughly one third, 32% how completed some college, but not earned a degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And 30% have that best graduated from a high school or earned equivalents like a GED.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we are getting some education accomplished.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're just not stepping into the next lane with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now, when you don't,
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[SPEAKER_00]: finish what you start with school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you have a lack of education, when you end gang banging, and when you're incarcerated, number five, our next pointer is obvious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read it to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black Americans income have long lag behind those of other Americans at the same time income inequality,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Among Black Americans were the second largest, largest of all demographic groups as of 2016.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That year, the highest earning Black Americans made nearly 10 times as much as the lowest earners.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Overall,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just 6% of black adults in your 90 states have earned has an annual earning of $100,000 or more in 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say that again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Overall, just 6% of black adults in your 90 states
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[SPEAKER_00]: had an annual earning of $100,000 or more in 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to our analytics of the Census Bureau and America Community Survey, this I'm not making this up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is what the research studies have done, have shown, this is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This shares an increase to 16%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: among those with at least a bachelor's degree or higher and a decrease to 2% among those with some college education or less.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what did just said was you have a higher projection to make six figures if you finish school then the 2% that doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the statistics, those are the numbers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't make this up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This ain't a legend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is hard facts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to understand that the statistics don't lie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People can tell you about the sky being purple, but you gotta look at that sky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People can tell you there's a Santa Claus until you see him, it's your parents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry if I offended anyone, I'm sorry if these these numbers are harsh, but it is what it is and we need to change up what we see so we can tolerate what's to come.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now when we've realized that you can't go nowhere if your mind ain't right and and your mind can't get right because you're not properly trained to provide for your family what jobs are left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: for you to choose from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's do the numbers again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're ready for number six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 40% of black men work full time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That right there is a bombination.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That right there is a sin, shame before God, that only 45% of black men work full time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are reasons why if you're a single father and you got to take care of your family, your kids, your raising, the young kid, you got to pick them up from school and maybe you can't find the right job to, you know, adequately support your family, you got to work part time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's a unique situation that you a single father and these are the struggles of a single father.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But how many men are not single fathers and they work, but we're not working full time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we reflect on them being incarcerated, maybe they have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jack is up on a jacket, whatever felony they can't find a job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know how hard it is for a person coming out in incarceration to find a job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you young old, once that's on your jacket, once that stands you and for those listeners that don't know what jacket means, mean once it's on your back that you've been incarcerated, you're not looked at as a normal person anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not that you a man of color, now you a man of color and you've been in jail.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you really ain't worth
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[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't hear it for me, that's just what they're going to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe that I believe that every person makes mistakes and you should be given a second chance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do tell you, you make it very hard for yourself to shoot around the eight ball once you keep putting yourself behind the eight ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's bad enough you're a man of color because people will scare you and they already
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[SPEAKER_00]: talking about you, without even stereotyping you, without even knowing you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now with statistics back up what they believe is even harder for you to get ahead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So now let's look at what it says about a black man who perhaps not even incarcerated, but not educated has the truth from when it comes to income.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So 45% of black men work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: full-time, only 45% a year-round compared to 51% of all men.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So 51% of all other men work full-time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The immediate full-time earnings were $51,266 dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is up from $49,398.21, I mean, $398.21, so that means the average
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's up from 49,398 dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is as of 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just tell you guys, if you make any of that, you struggling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you realize what that is, but that's not a lot of money when you have a family to raise and rent is $1900 a month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are struggling big time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're living in a household of four people and you're bringing in 51,000, it's rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can say what you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm giving you facts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You ain't got to like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do your research.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 34% had no earnings during the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: of 2021.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's saying in 2021, 34% of black men wasn't even working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it's said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not making this up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 34% had no earnings doing this during the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Similar to 35% of all men.
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[SPEAKER_00]: low levels, 54% of black men earn $50,000 or more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 54% of black men earned $50,000 or more compared to 57% of all men.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 28% earned $75,000 or more compared to 33% of men.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The largest group
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[SPEAKER_00]: and $49.99 a year to the largest group, a black man earned $24% earned $30,000 to $49.99 almost $50,000.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's very low guys, that is solo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, if you're not doing your numbers correctly, you need to regroup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is very, very low.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are struggling if you in a big city, if you're in California, you're Uruz in Uruz.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're New York, you're Uruz in Uruz.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are struggling because the cost of living is so high.
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[SPEAKER_00]: San Francisco, you're struggling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with some help in smaller areas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the cost of living is so high in the big cities and you're making that is rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This brings us to our seventh point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of jobs are these guys having at that as we reach 29% 29 minute mark?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of jobs do they have?
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[SPEAKER_00]: 42% work in a white college, such role, plus management, education in the office jobs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 38% held a blue college job, including construction, maintenance, and transportation, which is higher than 34% of national average.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 20% work in service jobs, including food service, security, and health care support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As we go to our eighth bulletin,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What percentage of lawyers are black?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Five percent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Five percent are black.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, the numbers of black lawyers have remained the same over the past decade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to the survey, black lawyers comprise a 5% professional and 2014 is still due in 2024.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is a significant lower than 13.7 of all black people in the United States population.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What percentage of doctors, the Association of America, medical colleges, AAMC
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though African America's make up 14% of the United States population, this is a part two part one series of two and I want you guys to know that I enjoy doing this type of research and if you like this research and like me to talk to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: more like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have no problem doing it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry again for coming to you guys late on Thursday, but my dad says better late than never get it in while you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we just have to wait on what comes to us because waiting don't mean that your last is mean you were selected.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're selected to do something, that means it's a lane for you to go through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stay safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Germaine McCrement from Manity Unplug.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Protect yourself at all times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.