This is Past the Mike Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another

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Mr. Bluecheck verified himself Dr. Jamar Tisby was going on brother. I'd like to welcome you all

to the latest episode of Past the Mike yeah okay we have our NPR audio filter on. No we're not doing

no NPR audio filter. The bow is bow is bow just quit bow just quit we need we're looking for a new

executive producer so please put your I had to do something to lighten it up we we we talking heavy

today yes we are talking very heavy today we have been talking about a lot of difficult heavy

things over the past few years and especially this year and still that will continue and one of

the things that I was led to talk about and we've been having a discussion about privately

is a tweet it actually was inspired by a tweet by a good friend of Kemeny Uwan the host of

truth's table the award winning we have to recognize them the award winning podcast we love love

love our sisters Dr. Christina Edmisson the Kemeny Uwan Pastor Michelle Higgins we love you all so

much shout out to them shout out to them and immediately after the untimely tragic death

of Michael K Williams the actor Michael K Williams is is probably best known for his role as Omar

Little in the wire and he's also known as as his role chalky white in boardwalk empire just most

recently he played in lovecraft country all kinds of different movies and television shows

and she tweeted something that really grabbed me and it was not in a question it was in an

affirmative statement a declarative statement that black men should grow old black men should grow old

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