Hard Knock Life

Welcome to today's conversation... TSA replaced by ICE! High quality Whites acknowledged!  DAMU U FAMU!  Afro man WINS! Jay-Z culture shifter or grifter? Worthy Women Entrepreneurial Instruction -- 6 Steps to Break Out of Self Sabotage.  Dorothy Height Honored. 

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Welcome to Latia in the Lead Podcast, a podcast where we lead meaningful conversations that intersect the block and the border. From pop culture to politics through ethical entrepreneurship, we are laying the groundwork for unity in our community. We're glad you're here. Enjoy the conversation. Good evening. Welcome to Latia and the Lee Podcast. My name is Latia and I'm your host. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode, guys. We are moving right along. How are you guys doing? I hope y'all are staying out the way. It is so much going on out here. These people are crazy. But I hope you all are doing well. I'm glad you decided to listen to another episode. Thank you so much. They're doing a lot of things, and we need to talk about it. So without further ado, y'all, we're gonna get right into the topics today. We're talking current events. So instead of these geriatric Senate Republicans taking up a vote that would pay the TSA workers, they decide what to send ice to the airports. I am not kidding, y'all. We are living in Twilight Zone, but listen, according to everything I've been studying and about history, this is the fall of what we know as the American Empire. These people are losing their minds. So ICE is at the airport. What is ICE at the airport doing? They're not winding you down, they're not checking your ID, they're not making sure you're in the right line, they're not checking your documents, they're not, they haven't opened up any additional lanes, they're not scanning your luggage, they're not scanning your luggage, they're not making you pour out your juice, they're not confiscating your perfume. What are they doing? They're doing absolutely nothing but standing around and walking around. So, what is the point? The point is intimidation, the point is for you to have to look at them if you are a brown person. The point is for you to feel anxiety every time that you see them, the point is for you to feel unstable in your safety, the point is tyranny. And this is absolutely disgraceful, and it's disgraceful on so many levels. The audacity of this country to call itself cracking down on immigrants when literally this country has thrived on the exploitation of immigrants since its inception. The fact that this country runs on immigrant labor that they have been exploiting for 250 years, and now you call yourselves cracking down on the very engine that runs this place is laughable to me. What you should be cracking down on is white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. That's who we should be rounding up. Why? Because they're committing all the mass shootings, they're committing all the white-collar crimes, they're committing all the crimes against animals. It's these people who are hideous and degenerate. And if we want to round up people, they should be the first ones to be rounded up. But no, this is a country that thrives and lives on white supremacy. And white supremacy will always be the foundation of this country, and so they think that a backlash on immigrants somehow is going to restore this, restore the white population. It's not going to happen. There is a browning of America that your white supremacist racist antics is not going to stop. It is happening. I mean, this is ludicrous. TSA workers have been working for five weeks without getting paid. And so they have started to massively call out sick, and I don't blame them. I don't blame them. Why are the workers always in the crosshairs of the political stuff? Meanwhile, these people sitting in the Senate, these people sitting in Congress, these people are getting paid and they're getting ready to go on a two-week break. I don't blame them. How do they expect these people to get to work if they're not being paid? This is an abomination of the worst kind. These people in government are playing around with the quality of life for people who just trying to make it. Call out every single day until they decide to pass a bill that says that you're going to get paid. I don't blame you one bit. For the rest of y'all, don't fly. Speaking of the airport, y'all, there was a fatal plane crash at LaGuardia Airport in New York. A plane coming from Canada flew 100 miles an hour into a fire truck that was in its landing space. Unfortunately, the pilot and the co-pilot both perished. 41 people were taken to the hospital, and it was, oh my God, had to be traumatic for everybody that was on the plane. The fire truck that was in the plane landing space was going to another incident involving another plane. Preliminary reports are saying there was only one person in the air traffic control tower directing the traffic of the truck and the plane. The NTSB hasn't concluded their report as of yet, so we don't really know what happened. But is it me or does it just seem like it seemed like the airways is not as safe as they used to be? When I look at the pictures from the plane crash, thank God there wasn't more fatalities because from the pictures, it looks like first class would have been a rap. Because the front of the plane was non-existent. So how no one else in the front of the plane, like in first class, how no one was hurt or injured or lost their lives was God. Because it absolutely looked like that would have been the case. But unfortunately, the pilot and the co-pilot did lose their lives, and other than that, everyone else, some people suffered some minor injuries, other people more serious, but um, yeah, scary. I don't know who is. I mean, with this administration, you never know who's in air traffic control. I mean, at this point, I think the consensus is we all can see that we have a bunch of derelicts running the country. I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of their little nephews doing the air traffic control. I'm just saying. But I pray for those families who lost loved ones during the crash. So we have a high-quality white story. We actually have two. High quality whites are white people who do the right things, say the right things, and they're often on the right side of history, and they are willing to put themselves out there, which makes them quality white people. Historically, there has been high-quality white people that have stood on the side of us and stood on the right side of history and talked about the things as they were in truth and not how they may have been raised or the way they may have been indoctrinated. People like Jane Elliott, God bless her. They're white people who do the right thing because there's a right thing to do. And today we're talking about Miss Rachel because Miss Rachel is one of those people. Now, if y'all haven't heard of Miss Rachel, Miss Rachel is a little old white lady. Well, she's not old. Miss Rachel is a white woman who has a huge following on YouTube for teaching toddlers. She has this really appealing, childlike voice, and she wears this little jumpsuit and this little pink shirt, and she really cares about children. She has probably 18 million or more subscribers. Her platform is huge, and she was noted as being in support of the children of Gaza, as well as now children being detained in South Texas. She said this is not right, and it's not. And we need more people like Miss Rachel to come out and say that what we see happening, what we all are witnessing, is not right. And specifically white people. We need you all to come out in droves. We need you all to take your privilege, your platform, and your voice and go out into the streets. That is what we as Americans are calling for white people to do. Why? Because you all, particularly white women, you all have been the benefactors of all of the years that we have had to do it. And so I'm glad to see people like Miss Rachel, but she's just doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. They have now said that, oh, she's political, so of course the right is trying to smear her work. Of course, they're trying to mislabel her because she is standing up for children, and we all should be standing up for children. There's no one that should feel like it's okay to detain a four-year-old. She is out there loud and proud saying, no, this is wrong. And so we applaud Miss Rachel and support Miss Rachel and encourage you all to support Miss Rachel in her endeavor to care for kids. And while we're talking about high-quality whites, we have another high-quality white to highlight today. Tennessee Rutherford County Library Director Lewann James is defying a court order to remove LGBTQ books from the children's section, citing no, it's First Amendment rights. Right now, she is standing in the way of a vote that would remove 190 titles from the children's section. And at the same time, the board is determining whether or not they should fire her. And sometimes when white people take a stand, they are punished. However, they will always bounce back. White people will bounce back in a way that no one else could. Miss James will get another job if, God forbid, she is fired, simply because she is white. And that is the privilege that calls on them to be the voices in these times when there is a massive assault on anybody that's not white. We support Miss James. We don't want her to lose her job because she has proven herself to be a high-quality white. And she's doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. So we support Miss Rachel and we support Miss James in their endeavors to be on the right side of history. Okay, y'all. It is time for my favorite part of the show where we talk about us. We're talking culture. Oh my goodness. So y'all know our girl, Neilong, she has a stalker. Apparently, this woman by the name of Carrie McDonald has been stalking her for like two years. This woman has been sending her flowers, sending her letters, sending her cards. She has shown up at her house. The first time she came there, the cops gave her like a warning. But the second time she came there, she came in the middle of the night. She was actually arrested. This woman, according to Nia Long and the documents for the TRO she signed, this woman thinks that her and Nia Long are in some kind of relationship. And Nia Long is like, girl, I don't even know you. But it is scary. Stalker situations are very scary. I can attest to that, and that is all I'm going to say. Stalker situations are very, very scary because they make you uneasy. And I think that is the goal of the stalker for you to always feel uneasy, just never knowing when they're going to pop up. Well, the judge that her Nia's um appeal for a temporary restraining order denied it. And they are apparently having some kind of hearing in April. In my opinion, these things aren't taken seriously enough. We all know stories where the stalkers mine get the best of them and they do something crazy. And I would hate that for our girl, keep yourself safe. I know she's in California, so I can see where I'm pretty sure everybody has a stalker. And with the internet, you literally can Google whose ever home you want. Like it just populates, which is that's problematic in and of itself. But no one wants to be in their home and feel unsafe. Um, we and I feel like we just talked about this when we talked about this with Rihanna last week for the woman coming to her home, shooting up her home. So this is not, and you would think, you would think on the heels of what happened with Rihanna a couple of weeks ago, that judges would be taking this more seriously. I know if I'm a celebrity in Hollywood and some crazy woman just came and shot up Rihanna's house, like I'm like, yeah, somebody is now following, somebody is now stalking me, sending me unwanted correspondence. And yes, I need some protection. But this judge was like, no, black girl, uh, you don't need protection. Your life is not valuable. And I'm saying that, knowing pretty much that the judge was white, because that would not be um a priority to a white judge, because we know, and we're not gonna act like we don't, that our lives are not as valuable or seen as valuable in this country, specifically under their system. So, Nia, keep yourself safe, girl. Keep yourself safe as best you can. I mean, you may want to invest in a firearm, but that may not even protect you without ramification because it really depends on what the laws of the state are. I know when I got my gun license in the state of New Jersey, I just can't go Rambo on somebody because they're in my house. They have to be posing an imminent threat to me. Their backs cannot be turned to me. The mere fact of them being in my home does not give me license to shoot them. I mean, there are a lot of things to take into consideration, but I mean, safety first, you gotta do what you gotta do. Protect yourself, girl. Moving right along. Oh, and I feel like we talked about this last episode also. Fam you. Now, fam you is a HBCU ranked number one in the country, and um they just got a contract with ICE. Yes, they just got a contract with ICE. Remember, I talked about this when I talked about Howard, I think it was last episode or the episode before last. These institutions get a lot of money from the federal government. Fam U is in Florida. We all know what's up with Florida. So, yes, of course, they're going to comply because the state itself is in support of the way in which they're carrying out the immigration processing. So, FAMU got a contract with ICE, and campus officers can hold, can otherwise assist and detain students who ICE is looking for. The fact that students don't feel safe at school is indicative of the hypocrisy of this country. We supposed to be this country of ideals. We uphold none of the ideals that we are supposed to be founded on. We go through other countries robbing, stealing, pillaging, murdering, raping, doing all the things. Yet we are supposed to be this country of aspiration. The hypocrisy of it all. The hypocrisy of it all, we are morally bankrupt. Those of us in America, we've been propagandized to the point to where when you start to look at this country's footprint and history in the rest of the world, y'all. Look, I'm not going into it right now, but I encourage y'all to start looking at media outside of US media, start tracing our imperialistic footprint in other countries. So the United States of America is in a decline. And neither party will save us, by the way. I need you all to understand that. Neither party is going to save us. 20 years from now, this country is going to be unrecognizable, y'all. For that reason, there's an all-out assault on anything that doesn't uphold white supremacy and what this country has been since its inception. And with that, this country isn't really fucking with anything that's not white at this time for the foreseeable future. And there's nothing we can do about it because it is a process that has to happen according to historical records. All empires fall, and we are witnessing the fall of this American empire. Y'all, so I love when we get our lick back. So have y'all been keeping up with the Afro Man case? Afro man Joseph Foreman is his name. He's a big brother with a big Afro that wears a flag suit all of the time. So in August of 2022, the Sheriff's County of Winchester, Ohio raided Afro Man's house allegedly for drug trafficking and kidnapping. They destroyed his house and ultimately seized $531. They broke down his door. They, you know, they they did what they do when they raid a person's house. And so in the end, they did not find what they was looking for. And so they just left. And so Afroman asked them, Well, are you going to fix the door? And he was met with basically a smirk, like, nigga, fix it yourself. Well, that did not sit well with him. And he did what we do when our backs are against the wall, and we want to get back at the system. We make art. After the money that they seized was returned to him, he was short $400. And he started making dis songs against the sheriff's department. Funny as diss songs about all of them. And eventually they sued him. They sued him for defamation. Well, the court said, mm-hmm yeah, no, it was his freedom of speech. And he just won that court case. Hilarious. He just won the court case. He did a whole album. Support his album, y'all. Just buy the damn album. Even if you don't like the music, just buy the album because he got his lick back. He got his lick back. And so we want him to be able to fix all the stuff that they broke and reset. I hope he sues them now. Because that is really the next step. I hope he sues the sheriff's department now so that he can reclaim some of what he lost. But go Afro Man. Y'all, do y'all watch Josh Johnson? Josh Johnson is a comedian. I found him on YouTube, but he has been writing for the Daily Show, I guess, for since like 2017. He is a brother. He's a young brother. I love his comedy. It is so smart. He talks about the atrocities of the world in a comedic way that teaches you something that. Shows the hypocrisy of these situations and he does it in such a genius way. I am super proud to see his evolution. He reminds me of a young Chappelle. But I mean, I have my problems with Dave Chappelle, so whatever. But he's an educational comedian. And I love that. I love I like my comedy smart. Teach me something. I mean, make me laugh, but teach me something. So he just got his first HBO special and it's premiering in May. Let's make sure we support him. Watch the special, download the special, do all the things because when young people are coming up and they're making a way for themselves, I think as a culture, as a community, we absolutely have to support them, y'all. So go, Josh. Congratulations on your new special with HBO. Last but not least, y'all are not going to like this. I can tell you that right now. But I don't care because it is true. It is true. And I think it's about time that we talk about it. So Jay-Z announces a tour. He's doing shows at Yankee Stadium in July, supposedly celebrating 25 and 30 years of the blueprint and whatever. I find this honestly appalling at this time. I have assigned Jay-Z the title of Grifter. I don't see where he's done anything for the culture profoundly other than sell y'all shit. I feel like people in his status should be talking about the things that are happening. I think that when you are a celebrity and you get to the level where he is, that you should be using your platform and your voice to do more than sellers shit. I've said this about other people on other pods, but I feel like at this point, in this day, in this time, to do a show or shows where tickets is upwards of a thousand dollars, there are going to be some of y'all that is going to not pay your rent to go to this man's show. He is a billionaire. And the way that you become a billionaire is by exploiting people that actually do the work. Because he stepped on a movement that was for everybody to do something that was only benefiting him. Y'all, Jay-Z having a contract or partnership with the NFL doesn't do anything for your household. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't do anything for the culture as a whole. What we get to be entertained to death, they want us entertained to death. They want us entertained to death. So we're not looking at the things that are important that are happening right under our noses because we're being entertained to death. I don't see where he sent a thousand kids to college from Marcy Projects. I see where he started a venture capital fund to push this rhetoric of financial literacy and investments. Come on, bro. What are we doing for real? You're not saying the obvious things. People are not going to reach millionaire and billionaire status, not because they're not working hard. Like you are being disingenuous. Not because they are not working hard. Because systemically, this system is not designed for them to. So that you can uphold the very systems that is oppressing everybody else. So, no, dog. No. Definitely won't be a concert for me. And my advice to you all is to do something with that ticket money to advance your own life. And not for nothing. I'm sorry, but this goes for his wife too. I'm sorry. It is what it is. And I think that we have to expect more. And we have to demand more. And y'all don't just get to sell us shit. Y'all have to stand on what you support. If you're for the culture, we the expectation is that you stand up for the culture. And it's too much going on right now for y'all to be sitting around saying nothing with these big platforms where y'all got millions and millions of followers. But you'll come out to sell a $2,000 night to people who can't afford it. You're a grifter. That's all I got. I'm sorry. Like. And this is, I'm going to say this, and I'm not going to elaborate. I'm just going to say this. I met Jay-Z before, and that interaction had a lasting effect. I will never say what happened in that interaction. I will never because honestly, I hope at some point in time I have an opportunity to have a conversation with him to talk about that interaction. Mind you, this is nothing I'm sure he will remember, but it's something I always remember. So that coupled with what he did to Kat and just how he's moved over these past 10 years or so. He just gives very selfish. Very, it's all about him and his. And there's nothing wrong with that until you start to hurt people who can't afford to be hurt. People like me, I'm not spending a thousand dollars to see him, to see none of them. I don't care that much. I don't revere celebrities in that way. Like I appreciate people for what they do. I appreciate their talent. I appreciate what they give to the culture, what they bring to the culture, I appreciate their gifts. I can do all of that for my living room. I'm not going out doing a lot for nobody. Because at the end of the day, these are people. They're entertainers. Their job is to entertain. And you all who barely have money to get to work, barely have three months of savings so that if you lost your job, you can actually pay your rent. Barely have a life insurance. I don't think that they should be taking advantage of you in that way. And I also think that there comes a point in time where we have to say enough is enough. And I just feel like enough is enough. That's all. Moving right along, we're talking entrepreneurship and anti-capitalism. So somebody sent me a it was actually, was it I think it was a DM because it was on Instagram, which I hardly ever go on Instagram. I'm not, I don't engage in social media in the way that most people do. But I did get this message. Well, the premise of her message was about self-sabotage. And I thought that that would be an interesting topic to do in the entrepreneurial segment today because I teach a whole seminar on self-sabotage because it is a real thing. And it's deeply rooted. A lot of times people sabotage themselves because of negative reinforcement that they have received in other areas of their lives. And a lot of times, not all the time, but a lot of times, this stuff really starts in childhood. And those messages start to take root in people's lives, and they start to believe them. I thought in this episode, I would do like a cliff notes version, a short version of my six. First and foremost, step number one, y'all. I need y'all to go deep with your higher power. We cannot exist in the world in which it is right now without believing in something. You have to believe in a power that's greater than yourself because the forces that are coming against you as a person are mighty. And if you don't find something spiritual to root yourself in, it can be easily overwhelming for most people. So going deep in your soul and in your spirit with your beliefs and your belief system is step one and it's very, very important. Because at the end of the day, you want to know that you don't have to bear the weight of all the world's pressures that's going to be on your back, specifically if you are a black person, and even more specifically, if you are a black woman, you need somewhere to lay your burdens down. And going deep within yourself, within your soul, and in your spiritual place is important. And that is why it's step one to this model. Step two, command your morning. Every day you get up, every day you open your eyes, you make a goal for that day. Every day is a new day. Every day you should have a new task. Every day you should have a new goal. What happens over time if you command your morning, you get up and you affirm yourself, command your morning, set out on a specific goal, set out to accomplish at least one thing, what that does over time is it gives you a sense of accomplishment. If every morning you start your day with an affirmation of yourself and you start with one goal for the day, if you kept that log, kept that journal for 30 days, you could now look back 30 days and see all that you've accomplished. That is a morale booster in and of itself. So command your mornings. Every morning is a new day, a new day for you to do it better than you did it the day before. And if God gives you the opportunity to have a new morning, I think that everything that happened the day before is null and void. So you look at every day as a fresh start. Step number three is important because a lot of us have a hard time doing this. And that is take conscious control of your life. You, the person, have to decide what you are giving energy to and what you are giving life to. You have to decide what direction you're going to take in your own life. Separate and aside from how you were brought up, what you've experienced, any adversity you've had to go through, what your deficits are, how much money you have. Separate and aside from that, you have to decide that you are taking specific and intentional measures as to how you are going to proceed in your life. That is a you choice. That's not a choice for anybody else. And so you have to be the person that decides where you want to go in your life, and that is a conscious decision. Because when you do, once you are laser focused in that way, there's nothing that will keep you from reaching the points that you want to reach. And as you start to laser in on what you want to see for your own life, the urge to sabotage that success gets weaker and weaker and weaker. And as you start to look back on all that you've accomplished as you were commanding your mornings and setting a daily goal, then that voice that's telling you to sabotage your success eventually disappears. Step number four. And this one is hard, and I understand why. But step number four is to practice the act of forgiveness. Forgiving other people for wronging you, forgiving other people for not living up to your ideals, not meeting the moment when you needed them to, not showing up in the way that you needed them to, forgiving them. And moving on. I don't even think amends is required in this step. Because forgiveness is for you. I don't even think the other person plays a factor. I think it's to lighten your burden and to ease up what you're feeling. And when you do that, and when you do that in a real way, it enables you to move forward in peace. Step number five, expect success. You gotta expect that good things are going to happen for you. Why? Because it starts with you understanding that you're deserving of good things happening for you. So you have to show up with confidence and expectation all the time, no matter what. Last but not least, step number six, clear your clutter. I mean, people, places, things, and ideas that don't align with who you want to be as a person, where you want your life to go, what you see for your life, you gotta clear your clutter. You gotta remove people with love. Sometimes those people will be related to you. Remove them with love so that you can go on to be the person that you were destined to be. That's it, y'all. That's all. We are at the end of the show. Moving right along, we're talking black facts. In today's segment of black facts, we're honoring Dorothy Irene Haidt, president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the National Council of Negro Women. Dorothy Irene Haidt was born on this day in 1912 in Richmond, Virginia. She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University. Serving as the national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, she became the fourth president of the National Council of Negro Women founded by Mary McLeod Bethune. On July 10, 1974, nearly 18,000 people, including Republican Shirley Chisholm, gathered at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. for the unveiling of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Monument. Haid's efforts marked the first time ever a black person had a monument erected on federal lands. She also served as vice president of the National Council of Women of the United States. During the Civil Rights Movement, she was a key organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington. Haidt also organized Wednesdays in Mississippi, which brought black and white women together from the North and South to travel to Mississippi to fight segregation. Highly respected, she was the seventh member of the Civil Rights Six, which included John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, and Dr. King. Named to the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Biobehavioral Research in 1974, Haidt helped publish the Belmont Report. This report publicly disclosed the horrors of the Tuskegee syphilis study when the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control between 1932 and 1972 injected black men with syphilis to study the natural evolution of the disease without treatment. Among her many awards is the Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the NAACP Springer Medal. On April 20th, 2010, Dorothy Irene Haidt joined Mary McLeod Bethune in the eternal patheon of great leaders. So that's it, y'all. That's today's show. Last but not least, takeaway. My takeaway today is this, y'all. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. And in doing so, we have to hold one another accountable. My commentary on Jay-Z is not meant to do any harm. It is meant to call that brother up because he is more of an influence than he knows. That's it. That's all. I love y'all. Thank y'all for listening. Thank y'all for watching. Thank y'all for downloading the podcast, sharing the podcast. Thank y'all for sharing space with me. Thank y'all. I appreciate the community we're building, and I'm having fun doing it. So, y'all take care of yourselves, and I will see y'all on the next show. Good night.