The Michael Berry show

61 years ago today in Terry town New York Vanessa Williams

It'd be interesting. You know you ask people if they know who someone is and if they know they know them from

different things different phases of their life you know Will Smith is an actor to my, you know, as a movie actor to my kids.

He was Fresh Principal Eric to me and a rapper to some or ice tea. I mean you know there be people who know him as as

You know on whatever that TV show is he's on as opposed to you know when I was growing up and the roles he played.

Vanessa Williams, I be curious to know what, when I say Vanessa Williams, what comes to mind?

She was Miss America, All right. Had she not been Miss America?

First, by the way, she was the first black woman to win Miss America.

That's a big deal. But if she had just been Miss America and by the

way the first black woman most people don't care about the first black this or that.

Jackie Robinson? Yeah. Do you know who the first black basketball player was? I bet you

don't. With first black NFL player, I bet you don't.

The public's perception and appreciation of many things depends a lot on who's telling the story

which is why storytellers are so important and and I will tell you Israel's got a real problem on their hands to go back to something we talked about earlier.

The storytellers are on the side of Gaza right now, are on the side of Hamas.

And they're making, they're retelling it in a story of Gaza and these people who are

repressed and by the way being repressed right now or oppressed is discriminated against and beaten down

That's very trendy right now that is that that brand is in. And in fact that's why a lot of

blacks are angry that all these people are appropriating this and and these groups are getting ahead of them.

There's a lot of pushback now among black politicians that the transgenders have moved ahead and the illegals have moved ahead.

Because they're better victims. They're presenting themselves as more deserving victims because being a victim is very important.

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