Chapter 1: What themes are introduced at the beginning of this episode?
Yeah, yo. Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirtest soul with a dirty mouth. Might need orbit. Miss thing things on me like a nigga Norbit. Had to refuse them cause my bitch no rest future. Shit gorgeous. As I dab my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead.
Tell them we gonna get this money till my pockets morbid. Remember living in apartments. Now we playing
more again yeah it's like a meditative practice for me yeah that's how the shower is i'm like man i need a bigger shower bro like i ain't gonna hold you like my shower really shoulder to shoulder and everything like like i got a big ass tub but the shower is like in a corner yeah yeah you can't rotate like that like in order like i gotta move the shower head to really like do your thing like to to be like because i don't like like i don't
You know how like films, niggas will have to, they'll lather under the water. That is like, what are we doing that for? You don't even wash the car like that. Imagine washing the car and as you wash it, you rinse it off. That ain't even how that goes. You got to let that soap set in. You know what I mean? It's like when niggas walk around here musty. You just, whatever.
But the thing is, it's like, I was like, bro, I would have much, I would have traded out this whole tub. Yeah. No, I need the tub.
I mean, crisscross applesauce.
I ain't gonna lie, I done started really getting my tub back lately. You need the spiritual bath.
Spiritual bath. That's what, yeah.
I fucked around. You been having all types of herbs at the bottom. I done fucked around and didn't strain the herbs. And I was like, damn, this shit done got stopped up.
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Chapter 2: How does returning home impact personal growth?
That'll be our first little run.
No, that's fire. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. If you can come out to any of our shows, let me know.
For sure, yeah.
I'll let you know. So... You've been into the Patreon. How was that experience? First of all, When you came in there, it was like everybody who was a member just decided to be in there that day.
Everybody was so excited to have you in there. No, I was, one, just grateful to be welcomed with such open arms, especially just understanding like what we discussed our last episode. So just being accepted for me and just seeing the response was really, truly humbling. And I'm just extreme gratitude. But also like your viewership, intelligent people. Brilliant, loyal. And so I'm just grateful.
I'm really grateful for the people I've been able to connect with. Hopped on a couple of calls with some people. So it's been super dope just learning what people are doing, what they're into and how I can be of better service and how I can better support and provide resources for people, you know, on their different journeys. Absolutely.
Yeah. I was excited to see how like. not even receptive, but just like, they was like, what's that book list? Like, give me that list. And then when you get like, I could tell those people that are in the patron are very like proactive about you give us something, we're going to go deal.
So like I have a once a week where I post like a video essay, something that I'm watching or a sub stack that I thought was interesting. And it's like the discussions that come from around those things, I always like to kind of feed to the audience because even when we do our live shows, Taz knows this, but I ask them questions.
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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about the importance of community?
I bootlegged your first shit. Yeah, I did. I was 15. I was like, bro, it's Urban Legend, bro. I got that shit with Eminem. So I think it was doing a little two for 10, motherfucker. I had to get it. I had to get it. He said, hey, long as you listen to it. He's like, you bought the next shit.
I was like, for sure.
I definitely bought King.
There's a sacredness to that, too, in terms of like buying exchange of knowledge, art and divinity, really.
Well, I think this gives me to the idea of like colored people time. Where it's like professionalism is a thing of being adherent to other people's time or just adherent to an agreed upon time, right? But like for me, it's like 4.15 is still 4 o'clock.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, no, we have a circadian, whatever you want to call it, right? We have a way of interacting with nature. So we always have to go back to nature. Like ducks don't wear watches like and they know what time it is. They know when to go eat. They know when to go do what they got to do, like hunting, gather all the things. It's a natural rhythm of life.
And so understanding how do you get in tune with that and how time has disrupted that. And the only reason we really need it is like for professionalism to be here at this time, to do this at this time, to have a time to meet. And it's like, well, we need that. We need that. And it's like no other species on this planet has that. They don't need it.
They're literally cutting up. They're carving out our time. Like, like they're like rationing it out to us. Right. Because if you think about the commute, if you think about the so. The idea of a utopia, I seen a video today, this dude wrote this down, like the idea of having a peaceful moment doesn't mean peace is sustaining, right?
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift towards education and self-determination?
But if it's like, if there's a fire, I have nothing to put the fire on with. Like, I can't use myself to put it out. Sometimes that just, I mean, maybe this thing just need to fucking burn. You know what I mean? Like metaphorically, so to speak, right? But I think for me, one of the biggest struggles that
I was dealing with when I was young is just like kind of like naturally how I approach things is just like with this freedom. Like I'm just I'm just going to the situation. I don't know what the outcome is going to be, but I'm going to let it be what it is. Anytime I try to like control, be over controlling the outcome, it always kind of blow up in your face.
And so I think one of the things that. what we talked about last time about like religious psychosis and things like that. It took me a long time to be accepting of like that experience, those experiences, because I don't want to seem crazy, so to speak.
But then when we discussed it, like just as raw and open as we are, it's something that's come up a lot in the comments and like, and even just with people reaching out to me or shooting me emails, it's like, you don't realize like how these things you go through are, are going to like be like, paramount for people in the future, right? Like, I don't know what I'm going through at 21, 22.
I don't know we're going to have a conversation about this one day. But I also don't know that's going to give somebody the freedom to express their experience with this. And That is one of the one of the reoccurring themes of not only our last time sitting together, but the comment section is people like really embracing that part of it and destigmatizing it.
And I know that like that's one of the things that came back up, like how have you reflected on that since the last time we talked about it?
Yeah, like I said, I was grateful. I'm grateful for how it was received. But also, like you said, for the bravery of other people talking about their story, sharing their stories, the amount of people who, you know, felt comfortable sharing their story with me or just in the comments in general.
And actually the entry into your Patreon, just, you know, kind of seeing how people have been responding to it really prompted me to organize a spiritual awakening slash psychosis support group. And so we can meet every month and we can discuss what we could talk. We can normalize it. It's not therapy.
It's not a clinical setting, but it is a space to get comfortable sharing your story, talking about your story, understanding how we remain whole, how we remain sane and what that really looks like, you know, from a spiritual perspective and a physical perspective, because our spiritual and our physical health are, you know, they're they're very equal and you need them both.
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Chapter 5: What creative ideas does Dr. Cummings envision for her projects?
Yes. What I've learned is... I am also a person with a million ideas. Also, I can envision all of them. Like, I know what it takes for them to look great. This is why I want to get in the film, because the start of an idea to the end and all of the things that have to develop in the middle is very exciting to me. And I think that because I don't have anything established that most people...
either don't believe it or don't invest into it. Right. But it's like, I look at shit all the time. Like I know exactly how I could have, like that could have been better because my taste is concerned with reception. My, my taste is solely concerned with like what I know works well with people and what I know, like people can't stand, but also like, I don't control my, that perception.
I don't control that.
Chapter 6: How does Dr. Cummings address the impact of societal perceptions on creativity?
I have that pattern recognition. I've always had this since I was a kid, but it's like, okay, how do I put that in action? Well, the podcast is a big part of that. It's like, what I'm talking about, these themes are like patterns that I'm recognizing. And then also like, how do I consolidate this into something that people can really understand?
So when I wanted to do this subset thing, I wanted the first thing, the first thing I ever wrote about on there was like, propaganda, I think I sent it to you.
Yeah, it was fire. Yeah.
And then somebody told me like, the only thing you need to do is like plug this into Grammarly. So some of the grammatical things can be taken care of. But it was like, other than that, great read, right? I think it's a disruption to the system. You know, I just write how I talk. You know what I mean? But I found the second thing is like, hold on, I have it here.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of protecting one's oppressor?
I don't have to rush.
Oh yeah, you're good. You're making me think of a lot of things. I'm like, I should have my notebook.
I got to erase them down in here. I love that. I really do like, like one of the things that I enjoy more than anything is just like, like kind of like when I'm by myself, just like envisioning my ideas. I can do that shit for literally hours. But we live there sometimes.
Yeah. I got to get out of there. You know what I mean? That shit will keep me up at night.
But hold on. It's this. Okay. the desperation for white validation to cultural appropriation pipeline. I don't know even what, I know what that means in the words, but the things that I've envisioned around it, I see it so much that it's like, I know that a cookout invite is a desperation to be validated by these people, but the, what you're willing to trade in is crazy. Yeah.
You're selling your people out. You're selling out sacred tradition. You're selling out things. Think about this. Think about the idea of this. There's going to be aunties and uncles at your cookout that don't like white people. And you're prepared to be embarrassed by them instead of not inviting them.
Or introducing a potential threat.
You dig what I'm saying? Because there's a desperation, right? So this will be out by the time I discuss this.
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Chapter 8: How does Dr. Cummings propose to navigate race relations and community empowerment?
So I want to get into this discussion of... saving, protecting your oppressor. We've seen this with this young man who escorted Jeremy Lane to safety in Minneapolis. We saw this with a young woman, young black woman who protected this officer during the George Floyd protests with her literal body. And I want to think about what message is being sent
what message you fear being sent and the message that is ultimately being received the message that you fear is that these people are savages and look they just killed this man and and they're of course will feign ignorance and innocence and all these things but that's not the message that they're going to receive that's the message that they already have the message that they already have is that you're a savage yeah which is why they feel like they can come into your space and violate this is what they project anyway
But the message they receive by you protecting them is that no matter what we do to them, they'll keep us safe. The message that they receive, if you allow these people to beat this officer to death, if they beat Jeremy Lane to death, the message they receive, these people are willing to kill their oppressor.
That's the most important. That is important. When you said it, what came to my mind immediately was cop killers. And understanding how that's weaponized against our people as a derogatory thing, but understanding what the establishment represents and understanding what it really means to be free and to be liberated. And we're in war. We're in war. And so you really have to understand that.
And I think when we talk about the oppressor, it's not about individuals. I have my white professor was my advisor. Crazy, like so grateful. You know what I'm saying? So understanding what this looks like and what this means and understanding how to tap into humanity is important because at the end of the day, It is about humanity. It is about humanity.
So we have to really understand that and understanding this this illusion of duality as well, while at the same time understanding what we're operating within and understanding what that requires of us to to be free if that's truly what we want. But we but these patterns we're recognizing don't seem to we don't really want freedom.
We're interested in negotiating our rights and negotiating our freedom. And that's not what that looks like in terms of. Because they're not negotiating. Exactly. They're enforcing. Exactly.
So a death of Jeremy Lane doesn't represent a death of Jeremy Lane, the person, the individual. It's not the nigga. I don't know this nigga. Yeah, exactly. I don't know the person his mom knows. I know what he represents. I know what his language is. And I know what arm of the system he represents. And it's the arm of the system that's extremely oppressive through not only violence, but narrative.
And you came dressed for war. Mm-hmm. The only people that you're supposed to ensure get to safety in war are the people that are fighting with you. On your team. So by saving your opposition, you betray your battalion. You betray them. And I think that there is a fear around accepting the reality of what it is.
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