Juneteenth Special | Byron Allen: Don't Let White Media Define Black America!
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What does Juneteenth mean and why does Byron Allen call it 'the day they postponed telling us we were free'?
America's greatest deficit is the trade deficit between white America, white corporate America, and black America. They brought us here to build their wealth, not to compete with us. One America has access to opportunity, education, and economic inclusion. The other America does not. And two Americas will not survive. I tell everybody, Don, I'm a 65-year-old overnight sensation. In 100 years, we've never had a black person at 11 35 on abc nbc cbs we had our first black president where we had our first first black night black host at 11 35 and i had to buy the time period the biggest stars now in the world that are emerging they're coming off of youtube they're coming off of social media Now the game is wide open.
You know media.
You know what you're doing, Byron Allen. For Juneteenth, we are celebrating Black greatness. And today on this episode, Byron Allen, a comedian turned media mogul and founder of Allen Media Group, his career is rooted in Black ownership, media power, and controlling the narrative from the boardroom, not just the camera. Byron Allen, thank you so much for joining us. And having said that, my i believe that the the people or the person or the entity that writes the first draft writes the first draft of his draft of history and i think that you're doing that in so many ways and i'm appreciative of it oh first of all don thank you for having me on you know i'm a huge fan of yours and so it's just great to be here with you so thank you for having me on thank you what does juneteenth mean to you the day we were set free well the day that we were
You know, the day they postponed telling us we were set free. There you go. Yeah.
Right on.
How convenient. Oh, by the way, you're free. How convenient. I forgot to mention that, you know, means a lot. I mean, you know, when we think about, you know, slavery and enslavement and how this, you know, unfortunately, it's just been a part of history around the world since day one. And in this country, you know, especially and how long it lasted, how brutal and inhumane. And at the end of the day, all about money, the whole thing about money. It's never been about black. It's never been about white. It's been about green. It's been about we're going to bring you here. we're going to enslave you and you're going to help us build the greatest wealth on planet earth and after we built this wealth and end slavery against the wishes of many we're going to start the genocide the first order of business when slavery ended they actually went to frederick douglas and said here's a bunch of money convince black people to go back to africa
How convenient after building this enormous, phenomenal financial economy. And then when we did not accept that offer, that's when the genocide kicked in. That was, you know, that was, you know, when we were slaves, they looked at us as assets. We were assets. We built their wealth. And once we were freed, then the genocide kicked in. And next level of genocide, slavery was a form of genocide as well, but the next level, making sure we did not have access to a proper education, making sure we didn't have access to capital that wasn't predatory bank loans making sure we didn't have access to jobs on and equal justice on and on and on and here's your neighborhood and here's your zip code and enjoy uh all of the uh you know the horrible you know things that we're going to make sure rampant in your your community
But if you let me jump in here, I mean, because I can listen to you talk all day, but even when that happened, that said, and it was like, okay, it's going to be separate, and you go on. Once we started, meaning our ancestors, black folks, even started to thrive in that, it was like, oh, wait a minute. We have to destroy that. We have to tear those neighborhoods down. We can't let them get too much power, voting power. Because after Reconstruction, they were like, oh, wait. Well, no, no, no, no, no. This can't happen. And then they start burning down neighborhoods and then taking away the opportunity for Black people to become educated and to have generational wealth.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What does Juneteenth mean and why does Byron Allen call it 'the day they postponed telling us we were free'?
0:00–7:50
2
How does Byron Allen connect slavery and systemic economic exploitation to today's inequalities?
7:50–29:46
3
Why does Byron Allen argue resilience in Black America stems from 'bench pressing' enormous pressure?
29:46–47:35
Speakers
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