This is Karen Hunter and're on the mend.

Black boys boast bravado not to seem broken and often so do black men.

I see you looking for clues searching for

some for cues, know what I'm not telling you, as if I'm hiding in plain view.

Even though I speak my truth,

for some it just doesn't seem to be enough.

But when red tables turn timidly, some say they tell too much when they talk. My most intimate

thoughts belong to me, like a woman's body when she says no. So I reserve the right to go as far as I'd like and though I live in the public eye, I don't subscribe to the dog and pony show. I've learned to discern who cannot accept all of me. I read the room before I speak because I find that folks flee from honesty

like we retreat from love. Vonerability can be a scary thing, even when we're on the mend.

Hm-hmm hiding in plain view.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the amazing voice.

Available now, go get it. It is the amazing voice available now go get it it is the one and only some of y'all

know m as theo I'm rocking with him right now is a j Austin on the resident that's

why do that's what I'm dr a j.J. Let me be very specific. Let me welcome the great though wonderful the amazing

Malcolm.

Jamar Warner. Hi. Thank you Karen. Thank you very much.

Oh, don't be covered in coquettish.

Talk about it.

I don't even know where to start because I'm a little bit like geeking out, you know,

not that I grew up with you because we're about the same age so it's like not

that you know but I did grow up watching you grow up with the garden the trail

shirt on and all you know it's like you know it's like you know you know what I'm saying.

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