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KEMPIRE: KING OF POP CULTURE

Black Stories Matter [Ep 3] | Know Better Do Better Live Better

KEMPIRE: KING OF POP CULTURE

KEMPIRE

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4.9928 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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With everything going on in the world, The Kempire shares his thoughts on the Black experience, his own Black experience and how we can heal from this. This episode also includes a affirmation segment. Support our network to keep this quality entertainment going. Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/kempireradio Support the Black Lives Matter movement here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 Follow RAII and Whitney here: @RAIIandWhitney Buy/Stream "Get Well Soon" here: https://linktr.ee/raiiandwhitney Follow our host on his social media: Facebook: The Kempire Twitter: @TheKempire IG: @TheKempire Follow Kempire Radio: Facebook: Kempire Radio Network Twitter: @KempireRadio IG: @KempireRadio

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0:00.0

You're listening to Know Better, Do Better, Live Better on the Kempai Radio Network.

0:13.0

Welcome to another episode of Know Better, Do Better, Live Better, here on the Kempire Radio Network.

0:19.3

I know this week has been such a trying...

0:23.6

I don't even have the word to describe what this week might have been for everyone.

0:31.1

But let this episode be an episode where you can find comfort, find healing.

0:40.3

One of the things that I did this week, and I had mentioned to you guys before, was that I was going to start doing random thoughts

0:48.3

that I would share on the Kempire Daily YouTube. And one of the thoughts that I had contemplated was telling the story of the first time that

0:59.7

I was called the N-word.

1:01.4

And that was not to feel pity for myself or be negative in any way.

1:10.4

It's because I had my own revelations reliving that story in my head

1:17.0

of being, who knows, 14, 15 years old and being called the inward for the very first time

1:24.2

in my life. But what I want everyone to take away from this story was that although I was called the N-word,

1:33.3

it never connected for me personally.

1:36.1

I never felt connected to that word.

1:39.5

I never felt, you know, less powerful because someone called me that word. And that's a credit to my

1:49.2

upbringing. It's a credit to whatever makes me mean. But I did have some realizations about

1:58.8

support and how much we have come, how far we have come, I should

2:08.1

say, in regards to the amount of support that we have from non-black people, from white people,

2:16.9

in regards to the black lives matter movement.

2:20.3

And it's my hope that this support does not fade after George Floyd's passing or another person's passing

2:31.3

because we have seen so many black men in the last couple of years,

2:36.3

even though this has been going on for many, many years, I'm hoping that we have reached

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