While there is a joy and a fortitude that's unspeakable from growing up in inner cities as a black person in indigenous or a person of color,

there is a reality that you're kind of living most of the time in the red zone, which is kind of true for any sort of low income communities where you have to triage what's

information and issues are worth your energy. You're still trying to figure out food.

You're trying to figure out safety. And when you're black, you're trying to figure out the

boys in blue, you know. So if you notice our elders, unless they are highly educated or have a few financial

margins, they don't worry about stuff like therapy because we just don't want to have time

for that, especially when it talks about politics.

Like, you know, a lot of times, man, you ain't got time for that. You're like, what's going on right here? Things like foreign policy,

man, I ain't got time to worry about that. It's what's going on right here? We dying in the streets.

It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When I taught high school, it was one thing I used to teach them kids,

and I actually designed my

classroom around that. Quick primer, Naslo's hierarchy needs is just this like pyramid of things you got to

take care of. So your first part is like your basic needs, food, water, warmth, shelter, rest.

And then the next step above that, once that set, you start talking about safety and security.

And when you're in the hood that stuff

kind of blends right then you can deal with like emotional and psychological things like relationships

and friends and you know interpersonal skills and then you can start talking about esteem and prestige

and feeling accomplished of course it's not that linear in real life in anybody's life.

The point I'm trying to make is what I want to know about World War II if I don't know

where to food at. We're talking about algebra. Why would I go to school if my school cross

town where I got to cross a rivalhood state, especially time I'm out, let's go to this

after school YMCA program. Like, well, you know who live over there? I'm not good over there. I

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