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Deontay Kyle

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5481 total appearances

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

So I would say that's one way, but also depending on what your trade is and depending on how confident you are in your ability to do that on your own, you can go to a place where your people are

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And not only seek employment, but seek entrepreneurship so that you can provide these skill sets to people that look like you and people that don't look like you.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

You know, your business can be sustained by dealing with people that are middle and upper class.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

But, you know, find somewhere where you can go once or twice a month and spend time in community with people.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

Sometimes, especially in a place like Michigan, that may be some Somalian niggas.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

That may be some Indians.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

That may be some more of your Hispanic buddies or your black buddies.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

But you're going to have to find a space of getting away from whiteness in general.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

But you have to be around like-minded people who are not trying to assimilate to whiteness.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

Right?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

I understand what that struggle is, because when I was on the road and I was trucking, you're gonna get into some places where you're gonna spend a lot of time around white people.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

When I worked in Erie, Pennsylvania, I spent a lot of time around the whites.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

But the thing is, is that I don't do no code switching.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And you always, here's the thing, there's always gonna be one white boy, a white man, whatever the case may be, that you can kinda figure out, y'all got the similar banter.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

You know what I mean?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

It's always going to be the white boy that's a little racist.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

It's always going to be one trying to get their jokes off.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

You kind of got to go directly at them.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

I don't take no shit from white people.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

But it was this white dude named Leon, man.