- I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes
ham, turkey, chicken, turkey
- [Both] You name it!
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- So a black card is essentially
a card that you're born with
that kind of
I guess I want to say validates your blackness.
- I feel like it may not always be revoked
'cause there are different categories
but yo black card can definitely go on time out.
- So I think I'm going to get a C+
I'ma be real.
I know a lot about a lot of things and I'm still learning.
You guys
teach me.
- I will say, Megan, I consider her a sister.
We're black girl magic.
This is the era of black girl magic.
So I'm not gonna say I'm gonna beat her
because we are
truly the one in the same, as far as I'm concerned.
But at the same time, I feel like
I'ma win
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- Yo mama.
I'm just kidding.
- Andre 3000, No. Baby better get Tyrone on that phone.
- You better call on
- [Both] Tyrone.
Call him.
- And you can't use her phone either.
- And you can't, you cannot use her phone
which I thought was a stroke of genius.
- Go to the payphone figure it out.
That's a trick question because I see
I feel like two of those
- There are two applicable answers
- Two of those would work
and we both are parents.
- Fix your attitude,
I mean what mom doesn't say that
when you have an attitude and slam the door.
- My mom was big on, you don't pay no rent,
you don't own no doors, - He probably right
- and until you get a key to stick in your own front door
then that's when you have some business.
- There is no might in fixing your attitude.
That is an option.
Whereas paying damn bills
that is the only way you can slam a door in my house.
'Cause you gonna have to be able to pay
to fix the goddamn door.
- Ah, you might be right about that.
- Dammit, already.
- It's okay, it's okay.
- My mama was Caribbean.
She just would she would have beat my ass
It wouldn't have been no talking.
No I'm just playing.
- See, but I want you to fix your attitude though
for you to come slamming stuff around.
- I don't want you to fix your attitude before
you slam the door. I want you to fix your attitude
so you don't slam a door.
- I'm, I'm scared, but I think I got it.
Okay - Yes
- I was like, you know what, - Harlem by Langston Hughes.
- My sixth grade teacher going to come with me
if I didn't get that one right.
- Yes. But at least I got that. I remember that, Paul.
- That one was kind of a given.
- Please make sure you get in there that
it is called "Harlem", not dream deferred
'cause people keep calling the poem
dream deferred and it is not called dream deferred.
He named it "Harlem".
It is titled "Harlem".
Please get the title right.
- That's that teacher right there. See that.
- Okay. Okay.
- I'm gonna say B cause I feel that
like my mom was on a segregated bus when she was little.
- I'ma go with A but that don't seem right.
That's the year after my mama was born.
- But see, - It might be later than that.
- And I know, look,
I know who it is.
I know what it is.
- Brown versus the Board of Education, right.
- Right, but here's the thing,
it feels like schools were not unsegregated
in 1954
regardless but the decision might've been made
and everybody just ignored it.
- I knew it.
My mom was born
in 56 and she said she was still on a segregated bus.
- That's crazy.
- So that's why I said B.
- Like they said to desegregate but
nobody did get desegregated.
- Right.
- It was a whole lot of marching left.
- They don't have the option to sue?
- Can I do B, C and D?
- All together.
- Right!
Like, can I be on LinkedIn, update my profile
while I tell her to mind her damn business
and then be like
but since you over here,
let me let you know a thing or two.
- I'm gonna go with D because you know, it's 2021.
And with everything going on, I think like now
would be an appropriate time to be able to educate people
who may not necessarily know
like the cultural and historical context
of like just hair in general.
- I had to do D.
- I will go with D as well because...
- I had to.
- you know, I got to keep my job.
- Well, hello.
This is how it comes out of my head.
Well maybe sometimes cause it's extensions
but still it's my culture.
- I can't remember.
I feel real bad about that.
I don't even remember.
- I apologized a million times.
- I got it, yeah
- I apologized a trillion times
I have to get through the whole course though.
- I think I'm in danger of losing my black card
'cause I don't even remember that part.
- Was it the fifth?
- Can I answer that with a caveat?
It didn't abolish slavery.
It just moved it to the prisons.
- Boom. Come on social justice. Educate it.
- It, it, slavery is not abolished.
It is very legal.
It was just moved.
It was misplaced.
It was shifted.
It was not abolished.
- The 13th amendment.
I had that actually - That's right.
- I had them mixed up.
- Ava DuVernay came out with the 13th because of that.
It moved.
- Yes.
- I'm just saying.
- I'm glad you said that.
- That is miswritten, sorry. Typo, misprint.
- People don't know.
- What! - What the what.
- What're those last two.
- Uh uh. You gotta go find some more.
- It's hard.
- I'm going to go with that one.
- Oh, it is both the answer.
- I am not one of your little friends.
- I feel like, I feel like it's both.
It is both boo boo the fool and
not one of your little friends.
- I aint one of your little friends
- Yeah
- I am not one of your little friends.
- I am not one of of your little friends.
- I am not of your little- yeah.
- I'll go with this one 'cause I use this one more.
Although I am also not boo boo the fool.
- Black history is American history.
And I think that we do both black people a disservice,
by not giving us the full breadth and,
width of our experience and share with black people.
But we also treat white people out of an experience
and Latinos and asian people out of it
because they don't really understand us.
The nuance of, of who we are as a culture.
- Black history is not something that I just wait
until February to kinda like stress
importance in the classroom.
Anytime I have an opportunity to,
'cause I identify as African-American and also Latino,
and teaching that demographic in the classroom.
Anytime that I have the opportunity to
teach and educate students about their culture
about their history, history, about where they come from.
Like, I can always see like a spark and a light bulb go off
in their head and that always gives me the satisfaction.
To let me know that I'm doing something right.
- That's amazing.
I have to clap for that.
- Thank you.
That's beautiful.
I think that's beautiful.
- So please, every day, every month, every year
teach somebody something you know about Black history
and go learn something you don't already know.
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