Wyclef Jean On How The African Diaspora Can Overcome World Superpowers
Market Mondays
EYL Network
5.0 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this clip of Market Mondays, Wyclef Jean shares insights on building a new diaspora, facing geopolitical threats, and embracing technology. The conversation delves into the challenges of making advancements amidst global racism, world bank influences, and changing rules. Wyclef Jean discusses the need for the new diaspora to focus on natural resources, economies, and trade in order to become a significant player on the world stage.
Moreover, the discussion touches on the importance of the diaspora having individuals in positions such as judges, lawyers, and policy advocates to drive change and influence policies. Wyclef emphasizes the need for the new diaspora to become a force for policy investment and economic growth, providing leverage to stand on the world stage.
Furthermore, the conversation shifts towards technology and the concerns and excitements surrounding it. Wyclef highlights the fear of uncontrollable AI and the impact of technology on the job market. He stresses the significance of human creativity and invention, emphasizing that machine intelligence can never surpass human innovation. Additionally, he expresses enthusiasm for cultural relevancy and the potential for innovation in technology, particularly highlighting the value of data mining and platforms that empower individuals to monetize their data.
The conversation also addresses the future of the music industry and the blueprint for success, with Wyclef Jean emphasizing the power of owning publishing and catalogs. He shares insights on the business side of the music industry, highlighting the importance of owning intellectual property and the long-term benefits of maintaining control over one's work.
Overall, this conversation with Wyclef Jean provides valuable perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in building a new diaspora, navigating geopolitical threats, embracing technology, and achieving success in the music industry.
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| 0:00.0 | How do we build a new diaspora while we have to face World Bank global racism? |
| 0:09.6 | All these geopolitical threats because it seems like whenever we make any advancements, the rules change or |
| 0:15.5 | attacks happen. We're seeing Haiti go through it now. Even Rasho saying that that finance the Iph Tower that's crazy to me I didn't know that |
| 0:26.0 | But how do we make change without becoming targets for |
| 0:30.5 | the system? Well the way that, that's a good point, the way that we make change, I keep saying that we have to be on the world stage. |
| 0:41.0 | And in order to do that, we have to have trade for trade. We have to |
| 0:46.7 | focus on our natural resources, our economies, like let's start to build things that we know that the rest of the |
| 0:55.8 | world is going to need right so that we could become a player of the world and I |
| 1:00.4 | think that this conversation that we're having now is bigger than a conversation. |
| 1:05.8 | So with the new diaspora, we have judges, we have lawyers, right? |
| 1:11.6 | We have people who want to shape policies and want to see a different, right? |
| 1:17.0 | We have people in the World Bank that even if they don't talk, Like they want people want to, |
| 1:23.0 | there's still the groups of people |
| 1:25.0 | that want to see the difference. |
| 1:26.6 | How do you face to not be a target towards anyone? |
| 1:30.7 | They have to be a need, right? |
| 1:32.6 | Because if it's not a need, all you're going to do |
| 1:34.6 | is be a casualty of war. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think that Haiti has so much to offer the rest of the world. |
| 1:41.2 | And I think that focusing on the policies, focusing on the |
| 1:44.3 | industry, building the new diaspora as a force of policy, investment force for |
| 1:51.2 | economic force will give us a |
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