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That doesn't mean that it needs to remain stagnant. Of course it should progress. You should also take pride. Good, healthy pride in what you have. So that's my two cent. I hope that you're having an amazing Independence Day. You take care. This is York from the Poetic Earthlings podcast
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:18
All men are created equal. But at the time you wrote that you held slaves. So you obviously didn't mean all men are created equal. You couldn't admit that because you held slaves at the time that you wrote it. I'm just really curious where you're getting your information from. And obviously you were raised in Canada. This. So that kind of gives me a little bit of insight, but, yeah, I just had to speak up on this R1 fast
William Jeffery
@CoachJeffery · 4:16
It was designed for the system to benefit all of us. And if any professional organization like football, I'm going to give that one. The NFL has benefited off of the black athletes, the Olympics and World Wars. It's not like the African American has not contributed it to the success of America, but that America's tenants. Although it's a great plan, it was not made for the African American at all
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 2:44
But this time, we need it to reflect the viewpoints and the opinions of everyone that's in the country now, as opposed to all the people that were in the country, which was just white men writing this stuff back in the 1000s, there was, what, 13, 20 million people back then, if that in this country now, there's over 300 million. So we need a new Constitution. We just need a whole new paradigm for everything and it's going to happen
William Jeffery
@CoachJeffery · 2:09
But I would hate to see it crash. I would hope that we all can get together and come up with a new system that was inclusive, not necessarily overhauled, because to be honest with you, it's a good system. It works. It's just exclusive of certain cultures and ethnic groups. And I think that if America went ahead and really tried to just straight up, make it right
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:49
We just March and sing songs and then get our a** kicked again, and then we March, and then we sing some more songs. Me myself. I don't subscribe to that turn the other cheap philosophy. I just don't. But this is the thing. Capitalism is the economic system that we use in this country in order for the system to be capitalism, it has to have two elements. It has to have haves and have nots
But living in America, I'll have to disagree with that as far as some of the things that I've seen and experienced myself personally, but you are entitled to your own opinion. I just don't know how you could say that. Me myself, I have never celebrated the 4 July just doesn't seem logical to me to do that. Especially like Mtwo. De Meila stated that during that time we were still slaves
William Jeffery
@CoachJeffery · 2:58
But those countries are unstable and specifically kept unstable so that they will not prosper. So the question is, what is other alternative to this? Celebrate the th of July simply because I have family members that have died for this country who believed in Dr. Marluta King saying that he has a dream or believe in Langston Hughes and all those other people who really put their time into trying to shape America. Ultimately, the 4 July or the founding of the country
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:14
If we want to have a country that's fair and not racist, we have to create that. We have to make that ourselves the same way America did. That's what the whole 4 July is about. They didn't want to live under Great Britain's rules. They didn't want to live under that. And they felt like they could make a better society. So they said, Well, we're going to just create it ourselves. And that's what they did
I think the alternative is for us to proactively change things now, what that means, that could mean different things. And I think that us as black people, we have to come come together with an agreement as to how it's going to happen. My father is Nigerian. Both my parents are Nigerian, and they came over from Nigeria to America. And then I was born, of course. But I look at myself as being African American
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:38
That's just my own point of view, because like I said, the only way you're going to get somebody definitely to stop hitting you is to hit them back. That's it. Otherwise you're just going to stand there and take a beating because you're telling him, oh, please stop hitting me. That's not the right thing to do. You're better than that the whole time his fist is going upside your head
York Campbell
@York · 0:17
Thank you for speaking up, my brother. You did a really good job, articulating everything you gave me a lot to think of. So thank you very much for that. For that education. Once again, this is York from The Poetic Earth of podcast
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