Ashley Allison

You know what I'm saying?

Because of the lack of collaboration and the... You know, once you get so big that you're like a mega corporation...

You do need to kind of open the doors up because you have to expand.

But when you close the doors, it becomes very niche for people.

So like if you want to play specific to Nintendo games, then there's for you.

But like the expansiveness of things like Steam, Steam will allow you to play anything PC, PS5, Xbox.

So it's like when you're competing with people that kind of open the doors up, keeping your doors closed can seem a little like standoffish to people.

That's my talking point a lot of times on Pan-Africanism is like, I understand...

the need to preserve Black American culture.

I understand the need to identify Black American culture.

I'm proud to be Black American.

I know I have generations of family that have been here, tracing back way past my great grandmother.

I'm proud of the lineage.

I'm proud of the history.

I also understand that being an isolationist has a short run.

So if I cut myself off from all these people that share in these struggles, colonialism is a playbook.

So where you are is colonized too.

We're definitely having these arguments in English.

So it's like shutting myself off to you for one or two differences when there's so many cultural parallels and historical parallels.

It's silly to me because if you isolate