T S.A.

So this week, this week there's been a lot of chatter about the use of Philadelphia.

We talked about it on the show last week and we were all very

excited. By the end of the day, I had spoken to the brother who was in the videos and he,

I offered to come through when I'm in Philadelphia. He said that basically he's from Lansing, Michigan, and that he is who they send out

to start chapters for the Black Panther Party.

And he said that he is, I asked them, what would you, what are, what is a lesson that you all have learned this go

round that you, um, are applying? No, I say, what is a lesson that you have learned from the

past, uh, Panthers that you are applying to the present? And he said, well, our recruitment

takes longer. And, um, you, our recruitment takes longer.

And, you know, by the end of this conversation, what I had gathered was information.

And for me, I'm showing up to the conversation with a blank slate.

So I'm going to show up in kindness and I'm going to show up in openness.

And, you know, I also thought that they were legitimate. So I'm showing up

with the respect that they are the Panthers. I then slept on it. And by the next day, my intuition

started to say, actually, no, that night my intuition started to say that.

I couldn't even sleep.

And then I forced myself to go to sleep.

The next day, communication started coming to me that I hadn't even reached out for.

And it was letting me know that he had not been co-signed by the Panthers as a collective,

but by an individual Panther in Seattle and that that Panther had given him permission to use the

panther's name and use their likeness in the work that he's doing.

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