Wayne Swanson

So, but that's just, it's important to network, but also to build it.

Like, I don't want to sit at nobody's table.

We got everything we need to build all the tables we need to build.

This Atlanta, this is Wakanda.

This is the center of the black universe.

And I tell people that a hundred years from now, they're going to talk about this time in Atlanta.

Like we talk about the Harlem Renaissance.

That's how I feel about the time that we are in now.

yeah and i think that's why atlanta coming come up under so much scrutiny it's like that is rooted in anti-blackness anytime i hear somebody talking bad about atlanta i'm like yeah you just don't like the idea of black people thriving you know how real that is yeah i was in wyoming at a conference right i'm speaking i have my part i'm speaking then afterwards we talking and you know a lot of people from the south have run to like montana wyoming south dakota north dakota

I guess there ain't a whole lot of us out there or people, I don't know why.

So.

I'm telling you Yellowstone bro, I'm telling you bro.

Yeah.

So the guy looks at me, he was like, you're from Atlanta, huh?

But it wasn't a compliment.

I was like, yeah, I'm from Atlanta.

He was like, yeah.

And we just, when you're here, you don't understand how much

freedom it is to be black, but you're not being black, you're just being you.

But when you go other places where you're not allowed to keep your head up.