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Sinners movie 🎥 review/ the history of the Blues and FBA culture
We've been gone a long time. We back now. You twins, nah, we cousins. There are legends of people with the gift of making music. So true, it can conjure spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune. It can conjure spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune. Will somebody take me in your arms? But it also can pierce the veil between life and death. Listen here, this ain't no house party. Take me in your house party Shit. Y'all ready to drink, y'all ready to sweat till y'all stink. You want some?
Speaker 2:You keep dancing with the devil.
Speaker 1:Careful boy, You're gonna bite off more than you can chew Love you.
Speaker 2:One day he's gonna follow you home. You thought it was a problem, y'all.
Speaker 1:What the hell going on? Oh, we heard tale of a party. This world already left you for dead.
Speaker 2:I can save you from your fate.
Speaker 1:You don't need no saving. Yes, you do, and you are. I am your way out, don't cry he's all better now I don't believe in magic ghosts, demons. I don't believe in magic Ghosts, demons, just power. Somebody please take me, take me, take me. We gonna kill every last one of you. Hey, I didn't mean to scare you, thought y'all done forgot about me in here. Come on, open the door. Let me on out of here. Stay, it's you, of course, it's me. Open the door, that ain't your brother.
Speaker 2:Love to you. You know, it's me only thing. I think I shat myself. Yo, what's happening? Peace, peace and welcome back. Welcome back, freedman's Affairs, radio Freedman's Network, your host here, vaughn Black.
Speaker 2:Let me get these levels right and right out the gate. We want to thank you for tapping back in on today, april 29th 2025. Wisdom born, wisdom born family, and that brings about knowledge, knowledge, OK, so I'm here and we're going to get right into it. Of course, the hot topic is the Sinners movie, and I'm going to do my review up here, and I went to see it twice Because and I may go a third time because it was it was so many gems in the movie. In the movie, first of all, let's give a big, a big, big applause to Ryan Coogler for putting this together, producing this, and I think he directed it and it was distributed through Warner Brothers Studios. And also to Michael B Jordan, who was the principal actor in the film, who played two characters, smoke and Stack Twins. And also I want to give a big, big applause to, or a salute to, actor Delroy Lindo, who played Delta Slim in the movie. And this I'm when I'm telling you family, what I'm telling you is this one here. They got it right. They got it right, he got it right and it's shaking the, it's shaking Hollywood up.
Speaker 2:The first week, cause it was released on April 18th, the first week, I think it did 48 million. Second week turned right back around and did I'm I'm understanding it 45 million, right, and this was a 90. The budget for the film was 90 million dollars. That was the budget, right, and so far, domestically it has grossed domestically well. It has grossed 13 million and worldwide, worldwide, well, total the total, that's the, that's the domestic growth. The total gross, uh, domestically is 123 million. So they done made money off the film already. And worldwide check this out family worldwide the film has done $161 million gross worldwide.
Speaker 2:Now, we're not even talking about merchandise and you know posters and stuff like that. We're not even talking about that. And this movie is a relief. Like I said, under Warner Brothers in the United States it was in 3,000 theaters, 3,347 theaters nationwide, right, $90 million budget. It's the second week it's been released. It's the second week it's been released. It's 10 days now, well, 11 days, well, 11, 12 days now it's been released and this movie is doing great. Will it get Oscars from the Academy Awards? I don't know. I'm hoping so. I'm hoping so because the reason why it's hitting so right with me is because the movie was so cultural. It was depicted and it was about our culture, fba Foundation of Black American Freedmen culture that's what it was this movie was based in, I think it was 1932, a place called Clarksdale, mississippi, right, and this is right after emancipation.
Speaker 2:You know a little out of emancipation. You know this is during the Jim Crow era and I definitely can identify with the Jim Crow era because in my family my grandparents and great-grandparents were living during that time Jim Crow South, and that lasted. When did Jim Crow actually officially well, did it end? I don't have that in front of me. Let me see Can I pull that up, let me see Can I pull it up. I mean, let's go to it. Yeah, see, I was born. I was living doing Jim Crow because this is around the year I was born. I was living doing Jim Crow because this is around the year I was born. Jim Crow era officially ended in 1965 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, yeah, family, that Jim Crow South, this and this, what this was based on in a little town in Mississippi, clarksdale, and that's the Mississippi Delta down in there. And man, I got to tell you, boy, this movie hit home. It hit home really, really swell, it hit on all cylinders. And again, once again, salute to the producer of the film, ryan Coogler. I think he produced and filmed it, I believe directed it, produced and directed it Right, and very, very, oh, I can't. I'm trying to think of where could I begin. Hold on, let me get some music back in. Trying to think of where could we start other than, yes, it was Jim Crow crow, south clogsdale, mississippi. Two brothers, two twins, uh uh, smoking stack smokestack, the smokestack twins played by michael b jordan. Right, they were from that, that town in mississippi, that little town.
Speaker 2:They was there, born and raised there, and they, as a story would happen, they end up killing their father. Their father used to abuse the twins and they end up killing them. And they went off and went away to Chicago and they got into the gangland thing in Chicago where they even encountered Al Capone. From what the story was saying, you know. Anyway, they 1932, they decide to go back to Mississippi. They made their money in Chicago and they said they were going to go back home and they went back and the plan was to which they did. They opened up a juke joint, as they were notoriously called juke joints. It was a place the juke joints were a place that you could go and just let your hair down and just be yourself. There was no judgment, unlike the church.
Speaker 2:The church was very judgmental and they touched on those things throughout the movie. They touched, they touched on on that, on the church thing throughout the movie and this is why there was a lot of christians. Well, not well, I don't know, but there was some christians that I saw online, you know, from the black church, and they were talking against the movie and they was advising people to not go see the movie because it was very offensive to the church. They did uh take swipes at the church, but I don't think it was. In my opinion it was nothing crazy or over the top. They just gave, they just spoke what, what the reality is. That's, that's what they spoke on in the movie. I don't think the brother was trying to to uh disrespect the church or this uh, or to try to undermine the church in any kind of way. I'm talking about the ryan coogle. I don't think he was trying to do that, but he was just telling the reality of what it is.
Speaker 2:The church was very judgmental during that time and they thought the blues were world music, it was worldly music. In other words, it was evil, devil, devil music, right, this is what they called it devil music. And they didn't want people of the church indulging in those kind of things in the worldly things. So there was a duality between the church, the black church, and the juke joints. See, the juke joint was very spiritual in its own right because that blues music they used to listen and dance to, that blues music was born out of the pain that foundational blacks and the freedmen were going through. They'd be out in the fields, and it even would touch out in the fields. They'd be out there humming Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, and that's what the blues were born out of. There was a little bit of gospel. Like I said, there was a duality between the two because the gospel music was part of our thing too. There was a lot of pain in that in the gospel. If was part of our thing too, and that was, there was a lot of pain in that in the gospel, if you listen to a lot of it, some of those early Mahalia Jackson recordings you know, unmistakably unmistakable. So anyway, yeah, so that's where people would go to the other side of the town. They'd cross the tracks over there to the juke joints or up the road to the juke joints and that's where people would go and let their hair down. They could go in there, they could cry, they could laugh, they could sing, they could dance, they could eat some food, drink some liquor and you know, we was drinking whiskey and stuff then whiskey and moonshine and drink them spirits and have a cold beer after working all day in that hot heat.
Speaker 2:And we talking about a time this is Jim Crow South, this is after emancipation. So we have a little more liberties, if you will, if after emancipation. So we have a little more liberties, if you will, if you can call it that. We had a little more liberties to do. Things weren't just relegated to the stay on the plantation. We could go to town after you work and pick your cotton, because they were still picking cotton, doing Jim Crow. They were still picking cotton because my mother and father picked cotton, picked it. I mean, they picked cotton, plenty of it. I tell you, my grandparents were sharecroppers. Well, on my father's side they were sharecroppers and they picked cotton. My mother picked cotton, my father picked cotton. And so these places were, you know, could, especially on friday, saturday, you could go and you know, get you some food, get you some nice hot fried fish and some chicken, a piece of chicken and, and you know, get your sandwich and play cards. They would have a little gambling going on in the joint in the back room or whatever. It was just a place you can just go, get down and just let it all out, and it was a lot of pain that they were letting out.
Speaker 2:This is how the blues music formed and a lot of the genres of music that came after. The blues came into creation because of the blues. That's why they call it that the blues Singing. The blues came into creation because of the blues. That's why they call it that the blues. Singing the blues, you're blue. What's bothering you so much, that got you so down, and those people were talking about that in the music. Muddy Waters and all of them guys, howlin' Wolf, you know, in fact, howlin' Wolf, you know in fact Howlin' Wolf made that song, smokestack Lightning, and that's what those two twins were, the Smokestack twins, and it was a great movie.
Speaker 2:It's a great movie and I would advise those of you who tune in every week or who tune in periodically, I would advise to go see the movie Now. Can you take that? I think you could take kids there. There was, there's some cursing in it and there's some explicit overages in the movie, sexual overages, but there was nobody that took their clothes off. There was no nudity. There weren't a whole lot of twerking and all that going on and boochy popping all through the movie. It wasn't none of that. There was sexual overages in some of the language, but you didn't see any nudity and you didn't. There was a love making scene between Smoke and his.
Speaker 2:Well, let me not give it away. Let me not give it away. I don't want to give it for those of you who haven't seen the movie, I don't want to give up no spoilers here, but anyway, great film. It was very let me say this very symbolic. It was a lot of if you will, a lot of Easter eggs in it, a lot of symbolic things in it, and it was loaded. It was loaded with Easter eggs Loaded. When I say Easter eggs not that I believe in Easter, we talk about Easter egg hunt with the kids. You can find a lot of jewels. In other words, it was a lot of hidden jewels in it. Some of them were more overt than others, but it was a lot of jewels in it. Family. Now it's supposed to be like a, like a horror film.
Speaker 1:To me it wasn't.
Speaker 2:You know, it had vampires in it. The vampires, in how I perceived the movie, the vampires were representation of white supremacy. Now you had the Klan. They were there, they were, you know, they were in it. They didn't have on the robes and stuff, but the Klan they were a part of it and I would view them as like the Republicans, like most black people would perceive the Republican Party, and the vampires to me, me, the way I saw it, dave's side of white supremacy represented the Democrats because in the film it was the vampires they were. They were.
Speaker 2:I played the trailer in the very beginning, in the opening right, and the vampires were. They were obsessed with the one dude preacher, the preacher's son. They call him preacher and this kid could play. He was the twins, younger cousin and this kid could play that guitar like a something out of this world. He played that guitar and he could sing. Yeah, he had the vocals. And the vampire leader, remick I think his name was Remick or something like that. He was obsessed with this kid. He wanted the powers from this kid.
Speaker 2:Like the Democrats are always coming to us and they think was when they came to the spot they wanted to get in. They couldn't get in because we you know we was in those days we were very leery of white folks, unlike now where you got a lot of people, love sucking up to white folks and they want to be around them and want to be a part of them. You know, back then, in them days, we knew what it was and we stayed on one side of the track. They stayed on the other side. It was segregated like nothing else we ever seen and everybody stayed in their lane. So when we was in our juke joints or whatever, we stayed. They weren't allowed in, we weren't allowed in their places and they weren't welcoming ours. And this is how it went.
Speaker 2:But now, even as we see evidence of today how not just on the white society but with, uh, all other groups period are always concerned about what we're doing. When I say we, I'm talking about the foundational black americans, the fba freedmen, I'm talking about us from our lineage, people always worrying about what we thinking, what we think about this, what we doing. They're always looking what they doing over there. What y'all think about this, what y'all think about that, what y'all think about, um, the israel, palestine thing, what y'all think about this, what y'all think about. You're always asking. Everybody's always concerned about what we're doing and we lately we just been chilling like, listen, we cool, y'all go over there with that. We good over here. We, we on vacation right now. Family, we on vacation right now.
Speaker 2:From all of this madness, I mean we still got things we got to deal with, like the case down there in Texas with Camelo Anthony and that family. We still got to watch those things and different things, the Sonia Massey thing right Out there in Illinois. Right, we still keeping an eye on these things and we still lending our energy to it. But we all that other stuff we on vacation. Look, we sat the election out and you seen what happened. Listen, we chilling right now. We good, we relaxing right now.
Speaker 2:Y'all go out there and protest and do whatever y'all gonna do. We gonna stand behind the rope and just chill over here, don't worry about what we're doing. But you see, everybody's coming to us. They stay coming at us. Look at the spaces when you go on Tariq's X-Space, they all be calling up the whites, white people, people from the diaspora, people from the Caribbean, all calling up. Well, you know, worrying about what we're doing, we're not worrying about nobody, we're not sweating, nobody else. We on vacation, we taking a hiatus and we're focusing on our energy, on our concerns.
Speaker 2:And this is what was bothering most people and upset most people. You know what I'm saying. You understand what I'm talking about family. And this was what the thing was in this film the vampires. They came and tried to get in the club. Now the thing, uh, historically the the tale, the thing with the vampires is they can't come into your home unless you invite them. And see, there was a lesson in that for us. You know, we always and we've historically we've always invited people in because we wanted people to share in our joy and things we were doing. Come on in your family, come on in. Come to the cookout, come to the barbecue, come on in, we got a plate for you. Come in, you'll sit down, have a seat, take your hat and your coat off, get cozy, get comfortable. You're comfortable. And the same, the same people that we invite in and make them comfortable and cozy with us, is the ones to turn around and put their foot in our back. And we learned this, we learned this right. And now we're saying, nah, wait a minute, we ain't doing that. And all the the movie addressed. All of that was in it. It was crazy family.
Speaker 2:I don't want to give away too much, but it's the second week out, so people should have already seen this film by now. I've seen it twice and I think I'm going to go back for a third time, just for the hell of it, because I know you can't just look at it once. You have to, because there's so many hidden gems in it, things that I saw the second time that I missed. On the first one I caught. In the second one, in the second viewing, I caught it and I was like, oh wow, I didn't even notice that in the first one. And you come back and you listen to other people doing reviews on it and you go back, you see it again. You're like, ok, you pick up on that, and then you pick up on a little bit more. This is what happens. So now, right, I got a little more. Then I did the first time. So what I'm saying is how can I go back to it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, as long as they kept everything guarded and stayed with each other and stayed focused on their little community, they was fine. The minute you invite outside energies into our inner circle is when we start having problems. And there's a lesson in this Right, and this goes back to pre-civil rights. When we were segregated, we had all these businesses we had. Uh, we had everything we needed. In our own community we had everything we needed. And this is why they they burnt down all of the townships and black wall streets around the country because they seen we were self-sufficient, because we had no choice. We had no choice other than to support each other and depend on each other, and that's what we did, and we did it so well.
Speaker 2:You know, you go to any little black town around the country, because we had hundreds of them. You go to a little black town. They they had a tailor, they had a barber, they had restaurants, they had little hotels, they had churches, they had little schools. They had everything they needed. Then, in some of the bigger cities, like Winston-Salem, north Carolina, they had big cab companies, checkered cab companies. They had bus lines. I think Dr Claus said in Winston-Salem, north Carolina, it was like they had a bus fleet. They had a fleet of 500 buses and it didn't just service black areas. They service white areas as well, but they were based in black communities the minute we desegregated right the minute we did that.
Speaker 2:We lost all of that stuff just about damn near overnight. We lost those those things because we so called integrated. We never actually really integrated, we just desegregated because they never allowed us to integrate. They didn't want us integrating with them, they just made it where it was just a legislation passed where we could go, spend our money in their establishments and eat in the restaurants with them, which I didn't understand. When I look back at those things, I don't understand why that was so important for us, because that was it really a part of being equal, and we got to think this is this, is this is the thing that that to generate the newer generation, the younger generation, the Gen X and the Gen Zers because I'm Gen X and the Gen Zs and the millennials and the going down the line to the younger, this is what they're looking at.
Speaker 2:See now, like I said, the church some of the black church had a problem with this film. Right, and in the movie it even touched on that. It took a little subtle shots at the church because, um, and at some point I guess I guess this was a spoiler and I'm sorry I'm, but I gotta I gotta talk to you about it. At some point, when the vampires finally did get into the juke joints which the juke joint represented our community, right, when they finally got in and they that the leader of the vampire was going at the young preacher's son, right, he had him and he had a hold of him and the preacher's son, he started what is that? The Lord's Prayer. He started doing the verses how does that thing go? I forget it. He starts saying his prayer. Right, it's common in the church, in the black church, give us this day our daily bread, whatever that thing. You know what I'm talking about. I forget it.
Speaker 2:But anyway, the vampire had a hold on the vampire. It was like, yeah, you saying that to say what? Right, because it's not gonna keep me off of you, I'm gonna get you right. But see now, if you for when? You know, further back in the movie it was a. There was a girl, um, one of the twins, baby mother, uh, smoke, his, uh, this child's mother was. The child had died. In the movie, you know, the child was already dead and he went to visit the grave and he hooked back up with the, with the mother, but anyway, she was a, a root worker. She was a woman, a hoodoo woman, and that was another thing that the church took a offense to, that.
Speaker 2:A lot of our people, even people that were in the church, they would practice, they were hoodoo practitioners and we come from a very agrarian culture talking about foundationals and freedmen. A lot of our family and people, our ancestors, were very spiritual and they connected with the spiritual world, with the spiritual world, and they used to do, they used to use different remedies and stuff medicine and they would dig up because I can remember my grandmother was one of those practitioners of that, of that hoodoo, of that, of that, um, root work. Because it's because all them a little different, you got, you got hoodoo, you have root work and you have a conjurer, a conjurer that you know they did a lot of times. People intertwine the three, but they all they. They're different in their own rights but it's all a part of our culture and I remember my grandmother used to use different rules.
Speaker 2:Somebody was feeling bad or something like that, or sick or whatever. They would go dig up some red clay from somewhere. If you had a swollen, you twist your ankle or something, your ankle was swollen, they used to get this red clay mud and put that on your ankle or your wrist. You twist your wrist or something like that and it'd swell up and they would put that on the joint to bring the swelling down and to relieve the pain. You know a day or two of that and you'd be like new again because we were agrarian people and those roots you know, down south they say roots. Because we were agrarian people and those roots, roots, you know, down south they say roots, them roots put a root on you boy. She put a root on that boy. That's what they used to say. She put a root on that boy. One guy in the back is silly like that. He ain't nothing wrong with him, but he got a root on him a spell.
Speaker 2:And those people were very connected to that spiritual realm. And I'm going to tell you this too when you do go into the history of that stuff, a lot of those white folks would come to these conjurers and these spiritual people for healing, because them white folks were afraid of that stuff. They didn't have the connection to it like we did. And, like I said, I can remember my grandmother using roots and stuff like that, or if somebody was sick with a cough or something, a fever or something like that. She would cut an onion and put it on your chest and you know that would bring the fever down. And they had all different kind of little things. Because, remember these people, they didn't have the resources to go to hospitals or to doctors as we do today. Right, we're talking about this was during early Jim Crow. They didn't have resources to go jump in the car and go see no doctor for a toothache or anything like that. They had to rely on their connection to nature in order to get right I should say right. So anyway, yeah, so there was a woman. She was in there and she was effective. She had made a little potion out of I think it was garlic and pickle juice or something, and some holy water and stuff like that, and she was hitting them vampires with it and they was backing up.
Speaker 2:But now, when the head vampire dude got a hold to the preacher's son and was telling him you know cause? He wanted his talent, he wanted that kid's power, that kid power, his guitar and his voice was like a power and it touched that in the film. It touched it because it touched, it encompassed the past music, our past, music, our present and the future. And it addressed all of that. I don't want to give that away to you, so I'm not, I'm almost a brother of war, but that was the obsession with this vampire, with this preacher's kid, right, and as he had a hold of him, so the preacher's kid, he didn't know nothing else but to rely on what he knew from his father, and that was the Bible, and started saying verses because he knew there was something evil in front of him that had a hold of him and he remembered what his father said If you, son, if you play with the devil too long, he eventually will follow you home. And he went to the Lord's prayer right away, right, and it wasn't working on a vampire.
Speaker 2:So this is why a lot of young Christian community took offense to the film because they felt like it downplayed the Bible and God's word and stuff like that. And that's not still the reality. And here's the reality White supremacy. Historically in this country, white supremacy was based in Christianity. They were Christian people. Those people would leave their church from a service, from hearing so-called God's word right Preaching God's word. They would leave out of a church and go hang a black woman and her children in a tree. These are Christian people we talking about Now.
Speaker 2:I'm not taking any pot shots at Christianity here. That's not what I'm doing. I'm talking about historical fact. The Bible was forced on us during slavery and it was a manuscript. The book was a manuscript. The kid, that King James Bible that they gave us and told us this is what your salvation is. This is what you believe in here. That book was a manuscript To enforce their evil. That's just a fact. Am I calling the faith itself evil? That's not my call to make. You have to determine that. What I'm saying here is a historical fact. They used that book that book was a manuscript for what they were doing and to justify and to keep us meek, humble and passive. Now you take that and do what you will with it. Maybe you don't want to listen to the program anymore. You feel offense to it.
Speaker 2:If you're christian, I have nothing. I was just speaking in it. I was just on um, this brother, he, he's a christian brother, a youtuber. Uh, his name of his podcast is the uh, righteous perspective, and he's he's, uh, his name is wise, heeous Perspective, and his name is Wise. He hosts that space and I was just on a panel discussion with him and some other Christian people and I seen them as my family, they foundational people. That's my family, christians or whatever. I have nothing against that. I have nothing against that. I have nothing against islam or the hebrew. I got one of my great friends. Hebrew is like we argue all the time, but between me and him I wouldn't get up here and try to go at the hebrews, but we we go at it all the time. Good friend of mine, I don't listen. If that is what you need to get you to be better, so be it. I've practiced religion. I was raised up as a Christian. As a child, you know, we weren't religious, christian religious like going to church every Sunday. That wasn't.
Speaker 2:My mother didn't make us do that because she didn't go to church every Sunday, you know, and I think because she's seen some of the hypocrisy in it or whatever and same with my father. He didn't make us go to church. If you know, my mother went from. She did go sometimes. She went. She didn't go every Sunday and she didn't make us go Now. We went occasionally, we went when she would go. She would, uh, yeah, come on, I'm going to church, so we gotta go with her. You know, we kids, so we would go, but as far as every Sunday and Bible study.
Speaker 2:And now I wasn't raised up like that and well, all we would do doing church is laugh, because we was laughing at the preacher, you know, would be up there doing all that howling and yelling and carrying on. We would just be laughing. So it never. The church never took hold of me like that, where I was like you know, I was never into it like that and I always felt me personally. I always felt it was. I was more and I was a Malcolm X type of Black Panther type of guy kid growing, you know I was rebellious, I was. My mother said that. She said, son, I knew you was going to be a problem because you was rebellious from the time you was in the crib. You was rebellious from birth. I saw it, I saw it in you, so that's, that's where I always been at with it, but you know, but I'm veering off a little bit and we are going to stay.
Speaker 2:I just want to come up here and do the review on the movie this week and talk about that, but anyway, yeah, back to the movie. It was so serious, man, and then it was, uh, there was some, you know, because during that time there were, there were asian people in the south at that time, or in mississippi, there, and there was an asian family there that had a like a little store, general store that they would, because during those times they were like the neutral class group between whites and blacks. They would service white, the white community, and they would service also the black community because, remember we talking about Jim Crow we couldn't go, we weren't allowed to go in in white stores and stuff like that, and they wouldn't patronize our businesses. But anyway, the Chinese people were like a neutral thing, so they were Chinese there and there was a family in this movie and then the husband and wife they were helpful with the juke joint, wife, they were helpful with the juke joint. But again, when the vampires can't come in unless you invite them in, then it was a part where she got all hysterical because, um, there was a girl in there and I forget her name. I should have wrote it down and had it, because she's actually her father in real life. She's an actor, her father is black and she played like a tragic mulatto in the film and when the vampires first tried to come and get in, get into the club, and you know because, because the twins came to the door, because the bouncer told, told, told her, told him, go, go, go, get the twins and tell them come in, you got a problem at the door because these vampires were trying to get in. They looked at funny and they, they came in peace at first, like, oh, we just, we put we musicians and we want to come in and play and have a good old time and spend some money with y'all. That's the democrats, we all just one big family, right? Remind you of the democrats, right? But anyway, so they, they go and everybody's coming to the door.
Speaker 2:Now smoke, I mean, uh, stacks had a relationship with this, uh, mulatto woman. She was half black, half white and she comes to the door and she's you know, she's there with stack and his brother and a couple other people to conjure a woman. They all at the door and they looking at these vampires, like what y'all want here? So the vampires say, oh, we can't come here. Oh, because our skin is white. And I think one of the vampires said well, what's she doing in there? She's white. So the conjurer woman says to her but she's family, that's why she's in here.
Speaker 2:The woman was, she was part black and she had her mother, had helped give birth to the twins when they were born. She um, helped their mother out with the labor and stuff like that. She partially raised the twins. The mulatto woman Her mother partially raised the twins. So they were like a family. And, like I said, this woman, she could pass for white. She was actually black but she could pass for white and that was what they would call the tragic mulatto.
Speaker 2:But anyway, when they turned the vampires away from from the club or whatever, they went on down the road and she went down there, she, she told stack that, um, let me go because they're gonna tell me more than they're gonna tell you, because they think I'm white. So they're going. They're gonna talk to me more than they would talk to you. She went down there talk to them and found out they was. They was on some other kind of thing and she. She tried to bounce and they ended up biting her and she got in, got infected, she became one of them, but she went back to the club and walked in because they let her in, because she, she, she had been there all night, so they let her in and that's where the infestation started with her.
Speaker 2:That's right there. And, and you get the gist of it. As the movie goes on, you'll get it. Why we should not? We should always gatekeep. And Delroy Lindo let me say this before we depart because I'm getting to get out of here Delroy Lindo was was doing an interview and somebody asked him a question about his thoughts on the movie and he said you know, when he was doing research for the character for Delta Slim, he did an excellent role.
Speaker 2:Delroy Lindo is an excellent actor. He's a London, united, uh, united kingdom, born, but he's his, his background. He's come from a jamaican ancestry, his, his family is jamaican, but he's an excellent actor and he's always shown, uh, the utmost respect for our culture and our community. Let me say that, and I rocks with del delroy lindo. He's an. I even met him in person and he was, he was good, good brother, man, good brother, and I love his acting. I will, I will go see anything he's a part of, I will go see it and support it, and I love him as an actor and and he seems like a wonderful human being, let me say say that. But he says something very important that we should all take here too, and that is know your history. Talking about foundationals, friedman, our lineage, know your history, know the value of your history. This is why I get up here on this microphone every week and do what I do, because I'm trying to bring out and express the value and the greatness and the richness we come from. Every community should do that. Every whether you white, black, brown, red, yellow, green every people of every ethnicity should do that. People of every ethnicity should do that. Know your history and understand the value of your history. Because we have a very we come from a very rich, valuable history in this nation. If it wasn't for us, this nation wouldn't be what it is now the great superpower and rich, big, beautiful place that everybody's trying to get to. Beautiful country. I love this place. Also to gatekeep and protect your history.
Speaker 2:You see how they're trying to erase everything now. You see how they're trying to erase everything. They want to take things out of schools, know history books and stuff and don't want to talk about the slavery and things like that. We have to preserve their cats already out the back, so it's too late for that. So we have to reserve these things. We have to support institutions like the schomburg research center here in new york city, which we know it as the Schomburg Library, but it's actually an institution and it has our history in it. The brother has the place down there in Los Angeles. The Hidden History Museum, with all without everything, is dedicated to our history. We have to protect and gatekeep that.
Speaker 2:You see what they're trying to do with these feder, federally um sponsored institutions, these black history museums. They're trying to close them or trying to defund them and different things. So we can't rely on anyone else to do that. We have to do that. We have to get up here, research the history and come on these microphones and tell them. Get on these YouTube channels and tell our history, broadcast them on these online TV and radio networks and tell our story, very important history, because they tried they will erase it and we've seen evidence of that with the hip hop thing. They tried to take the hip hop, the creation of it, away and say all these other people were responsible for it and that's where it was going, and another 20, if we'd have let that go in another 20 years or so, they'd be like yo, I didn't have nothing to do with hip hop. That came from Latinos and Jamaicans and Caribbean people. Black Americans ain't had nothing to do with hip hop. That's where it would have eventually gone. But we put a stop to it right away. We got on it and killed it. And then the brother did the documentary the microphone check documentary right, and, yeah, family.
Speaker 2:But we're going to get ready to get out of here. That's my review. That's my review and I got more to talk about. It's just the time. The time will not allow it, and but we're going to part. We're going to come back next week and hopefully talk about some more stuff and it should all be good. It should all be good. But anyway, man, we're going to get ready to blow out of here. We're going to get ready to blow out of here. We're going to leave you with a little something. Probably. We're gonna get ready to blow out of here.
Speaker 1:We're gonna get ready to blow out of here. We're gonna leave you with a little something. Papa's here, papa's here what you come back for? You throwing a big event tonight. Your money come with blood. All money come with blood. All money come with blood. Baby, listen here, this ain't no house party. Y'all ready to drink? Y'all ready to sweat?
Speaker 2:till y'all stink.
Speaker 1:You want some? That's what I'm saying. You keep dancing with the devil. One day he's gonna follow you home. I wanna See what I hear Crickets do. I Wanna See. I wanna Still hurts coming back. Why you here? Smoke, smoke. Why you here? Why you're here, smoke, smoke. Why you're here. Our daddy was an evil man and he passed that evil down to us.
