Ashley Allison

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

yourself from people, not only are you easier to exploit, you're easier to attack, you're easier to divide, but you also like lack the strengths of like collaboration.

Yeah.

And I'm telling you.

Right.

And I think that there's a difference between having a niche audience and a niche business practice.

Yes.

Like the business, so to speak, of race that most people operate in is a very tight knit business.

way of dealing with each other but if they cast a net wide with everybody yes and i think if we're gonna if we're gonna have a short cast on our net then our collaboration need to be wide yeah because then there's a vastness yes you know it's a spectrum of things and i um i you know because even to that analogy that you have if i if i'm like i only recruit on the east coast east coast has the best basketball players and then a draft wimby i'm gonna be like damn

Or just think about rap.

I wouldn't even think about Europe, Sean.