You're listening to a throwback edition of What's Ray's saying, recorded during the early development of the show.

If it sounds different, well, I used to do this whole damn thing on my own.

I've got a bigger team now, but these early episodes were made with love and are absolutely worth listening to.

Enjoy the show.

So what happens when people get to choose their own leaders?

When people get to decide who makes the decisions?

What happens when people want to be leaders? What happens when people want to be leaders?

What happens when people similarly situated get together?

The basic principle of leadership.

Set the example.

What's racing? What's racing? Set the example. From the source of all black knowledge, archival records just busting with overwhelming, coma-inducing amounts of knowledge. Just smelling my brain after I read could make you smarter.

Snakes in the pond, chickens fine, fields of fire needing some clearing,

don't you ever put sugar in your damn grits.

Not ever.

You're listening to what's race saying?

The podcast.

Coming up, Black Leadership, Part 2, The Leadership Class. You know, The newly

The newly emerging black elite was a tiny, tiny fraction of all newly freed and previously freed blacks in America.

Now, they were often racially mixed.

While they were not always racially mixed, this is a reference to the common

and typical. But many of these blacks were former house slaves who shared ancestry with

their one-time owners or who had acquired some marketable skills such as cooking and tailoring.

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