Can We Talk ? Ep. 2

In this episode of "Can We Talk About It?," Diamond Shalom dives into deeply personal and community-centered issues. She stresses the importance of showing up for friends and loved ones, even when communication or circumstances aren't ideal. With vulnerability and rawness, she addresses her own experiences with racism and colorism, underscoring the ongoing struggle for representation and acceptance within the Black community. Shalom connects these social issues to her faith, reflecting on the responsibilities of being a “covenant child” and the significance of honoring one's parents. Alongside these themes, she openly reflects on her personal journey of growth, acknowledging her mistakes while embracing accountability as a tool for positive change.

Diamond Shalom brings authenticity and passion to this conversation, balancing personal experiences with societal reflections and aiming to connect with her audience in meaningful ways.

Main Topics from Diamond Shalom’s Perspective

1. Supporting friends and loved ones: The importance of being present for your community, even when communication is challenging.
2. Racism, colorism, and representation: Personal experiences of navigating racism and colorism in the Black community, with a focus on authenticity and healing.
3. Covenant children and faith: Understanding what it means to be a covenant child in Christ, including honoring parents and how faith guides decisions.
4. Personal growth and accountability: Reflecting on past mistakes, the journey of growth, and the role accountability plays in developing character.

Transcript

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Nah, but for real, though, Miss Nunn, I want to talk to you too, because I didn't miss saying I want to talk to tasiki and and Chris, Shawn and even Jayla, sometimes Scotty, with the body, you could come up in there too if you want to talk. Um, but really, I might need to talk to miss Nunn too. Okay, because I gotta know somebody put in the comments. And I mean, I just feel like sometimes we don't always see comments. I don't always see text messages. Okay, if you know me and have my number or my like ability to access my DMs, you know, I have never been like the best communicator as it relates to texting. However, one thing that all of my friends or people that encounter me can confidently and comfortably say, and I can confidently say, this is that when you need me, oh, I'm there. No, but I can't promise you that I will make every birthday party I can't promise you, I'ma make every gathering, social gathering. I can't promise you, I'm gonna always be able to just text you all day, 24/7, but what I can let you know is, is that if like, I will try my best, my very best, I will really give it my all to make sure that I can, as long as the Lord stay the same, I can be there for you when you need me, but I am human, and I fall short, but it's in my heart to be there for you. Okay, so it's like my friends know, but when they come to texting, no, sometimes you might have to pick up the phone and call me and be like, bro, I text you a couple days ago. You ain't see it. And I mean, I know you out here enjoying and embracing the life that God gave you, and you only human. Okay, I just need you to go here and answer this question for me, because it is actually that important. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stop doing whatever it is I'm doing. To answer your question, seriously, my homegirls, my homeboys, they know this all my keishas, my babies, they notice. I tell them straight out when I'm teaching, bro, listen, I'ma sit here and I'm explaining instructions to you, but if I see that you sitting there talking and laughing with your friend, guess what? While I'm trying to explain the instructions to you, when you come to that desk and ask me a question, because I know it's gonna happen. Okay, when you come there, you or you submit your work, wrong? Because some of y'all just don't care. We talk about real things in my classroom. Okay? This is why so many parents and teachers trust me with their kids, because I'ma address the real because guess what? It might not be right that your child said the F word. But let's be honest with you, sometimes it is just the EFF it moment, and I had to tell a parent that day, as long as he not cussing you out, okay, we gonna give him some grace, because let's be real. Let's look at the cards that he dealt. He don't have no father figure in his life. Okay? He ain't, never really had nobody pin it out for him, dawg. Let's talk about it. So he gonna fall short, because he trying. He not perfect, though, bro, if he was perfect, you'd be walking with our brother, which is Jesus, who was all God, all man. He did no wrong but us, baby. He tell you, already in the book, you fall short. And this baby's 15 years old, so he got testosterone going all throughout his body. He literally knows nothing about what to do with all his testosterone. And guess what, if we want to keep it a stack, I'm not saying it's right, but it's real. Guess what? He don't handle father figure in his life? Okay? He don't have it so his emotional side, that's all you see. And what happens when you put yourself in the shoes that this 15 year old baby has to fill with no father figure. It's like, what happens? You see things differently, bro. You start to expand your horizons and all I'm not my thing is this, we have to get to the point to where we understand that we don't need to be crabs in the bucket. No, if you're not from down south. I'm sure you probably like, bro, what is this southern? Dark skin, beautiful, melanated. I'm talking beautiful sister with nice, curly, voluptuous hair. I used to know this girl in high school, literally, we used to be cool at one point, right? And, you know, things happen. People just, you know, go their separate way. I can really tell y'all why me and this girl not friends right now, I'm gonna give y'all my business. Okay? We were not, we stopped being friends. If we go keep it a stat and I say diamond Shalom was right in this situation. No, I I probably shared some wrong, okay, I probably had a little that I could've, you know, I'm saying that's just the real looking back as a mature adult. It's like when you think about it, bro, bro. We stopped being friends over some foolishness in my head. I stopped being friends with her because I judged her based off of who the company that she kept, and it's like, but I judged her based off of the company that she kept, based off of how they treated me well, really and truly. I never really try to put my friends in a situation where they got to choose between me or that person, because I you could be my friend, and you actually just be a genuine, like, good person, and just not like, be mean to them, just because they did some foul stuff to me, because not since out of 10, baby, Imma be real with you. I'm not even being mean to them for real, because I didn't learn something you. He not gonna ask me about you on judgment day. He gonna ask me about me. He gonna ask me why I didn't turn the other cheek when you struck the first one. No, he gonna ask me, was I kind to you knowing that you despitefully use me? That's what he gonna deal with me about. So I realized that really and truly, this walk that I got with him, it's all about me and him. If I keep my eyes, stay focused on light the sun. Let's talk about it, bro. If we could talk about it, click that link in my bio, because I'm tired of playing with y'all. I really am. I really am tired of playing with y'all, bro. And that's the thing. This is what I'm saying. I might need to talk to miss Nunn too, because I got some questions. Like, I really want to ask some questions, because sometimes the media does paint you to be bad, because really and truly, I learned something about ms Nunn just reading a comment, somebody in the comments under tusiki post, because I feel like tasiki, one of them, ones, right? Tasiki is a true Keisha. In my head, y'all about to be like Keisha? No, in my head, she a color. Some of y'all don't get like. My people that are of color, y'all gonna resonate with the fact that hearing Keisha, but my people, that's not of color, bruh, y'all gonna resonate with the fact that I might call her a Karen, because everybody know what a Karen is. You get what I'm saying, but everybody in the melanated community knows what a Keisha is. So I have to understand that we all speak a different like, it's real crazy, and this is why I'm like, I'm glad the Lord chose me to do what he asked me to do. But it's also like, man, it made me scared sometimes, because the way I can phrase things to get people to understand lets me know. Like, y'all gonna sit up here and call it preaching, y'all gonna sit up here and call it motivational speaking. Imma sit up here and just call I'm just doing a diamond thing, bro, literally, I'm doing a diamond thing. No, I'm really doing a God thing just in a dime. No, I'm doing a diamond thing, but I'm doing it in a god way. But then he already wrote the story and told you that that was going to happen. Y'all think we don't walk in that room with just a little bit of God like on us. Y'all sit up here and act afraid when people call themselves gods, but it's like they are gods, but they're Gods under one God, if that makes any sense, like we're not higher than our Creator, like you get what I'm saying, but it's like you gotta know you can sit there and call yourself a guy low key, and he said that he created you in his image. Put scripture on it, bro, go somewhere in the Bible. I give homework on my podcast. If you don't like it, may the Lord watch between you and Allah, we absent from one another, because, baby, I ain't got no problem with you. I promise you, I don't. I really don't have no problem with you. I might sit there and Imma have a little mess. I ain't gonna lie to you, I do talk a little mess, a little mess, okay, just a little bit, but I got a little mess in my life, though, so it's like, I'm cool with just being real about mine. Because, guess what, I'm working every day to try and not perfect mine, but literally take mine to the one who could or who can perfect mine. No, he literally make grape juice out of lemonade. Dog. No, I sit there and take the lemons. And I'm crazy enough to just be like, bro, make some lemonade out of this. If I don't like it in the lemon form, bro, I'm gonna make the lemon uncomfortable so I can get the purpose. Come here. Jakai McCart got a song where she describes the olive process to y'all, bruh, no, the olive has to go through the breaking, the crushing, the all of that just like a diamond. Let's talk about that. But see, I don't want to talk about that because y'all still hating from the eighth grade, literally, but y'all still calling people phone, playing on people's phone, just because your baby daddy can't get over the fact that I'm still dark chocolate, a melanated beauty. Y'all would say Barbie. Barbie's for my people. That's not a coloring you know what I'm saying? Y'all know how long it was before Barbie went without having a doll of color. And you know what I love about my mama, and I'ma tell and when I have babies one day, I promise I'm gonna do the same thing with my kids. No, y'all gonna have to see y'all are gonna have to see something that look like you? No, no, let's talk about it. My mama always tried to buy me dolls of color. I had a couple of non of color babies, like a couple Karens as baby dolls. I'm gonna be real with you, yeah, but once the babies of color started to be created, bro, I was that child that I think at one point I gotta ask my mama, I really do, but at one point, I think I fought it, but it's also like, I got to a point to where my mama never let up. It's like, bro, or maybe I liked it. I really can't remember. I feel like I liked it because I've always loved inclusivity, bro. If we're at a party and I see somebody in the corner by they self, before I go to the crowd where everybody turn up, look like they have fun, I'm about to go stand right next to the one that's in the corner by theyself, because Imma be real with you. Nobody go. Some people go join in and dance, bro. But. Some people have to be invited to be joined in, to want to join in to dance, and it's like, I can't sit here and be mad at you for one to feel special enough to where somebody comes up to you, bro, if you got a girl, what's wrong with sending your girl a text message asking her to go on a date? I know you've been kicking it with her for a minute, but what's wrong with texting her, just to keep it spicy, bro, y'all get to the point where y'all get comfortable. Y'all don't even try and call each other. No little pet names, no more. Y'all sit there and just, you know, just, if you I done, heard a lot of old people talk, and you know how they say they give you side booty. Okay, I didn't know what side booty was until somebody literally had to break it down for me so simple and plain. They said, think about it, diamond. Come on. Shalom. You being a little slow, but you worth waiting on. They said, bruh side booty. That's like, Oh, I really don't even want to do it, but because you asked me, like, Okay, I'm just gonna give you a little Woo. Woo. You know what I'm saying? That's this one might have to be marked for adult ages. But let's be for real people getting pregnant in middle school right now. So we need to be help teaching our babies understand some of this stuff. I had a Keisha. She older Keisha, she a seasoned Keisha, is what my pastor would say if he was calling them, Keisha, okay, season, meaning like you a little, you a little aged like you're not old, but you just aged right, which is really a good thing, because, bro, how many of you know, and I'm just gonna keep it a stack with you, when you old, that mean you're doing something right, which like you get. I'm saying, I mean, not that you're doing something right, but you living like you get. What I'm saying? Somebody told me one time they said, bro, being old means you living. I'm like, Oh, that was cold blooded. Like, you know I'm saying, I like when people drop bars. Because I'm like, bro, I'm really about to go home and go record this for y'all. Because really and truly, this, that splot, you know what I'm saying, this, that this, one of them was right. So, um, help me, Holy Ghost, it literally says you no but the crazy part about it is, was that was I supposed to sell it. The point of what I was about to say is I really want to talk to Ms Nunn, because I got so off topic, and so that's what she'll get on this podcast. Okay, it's not perfect. I'm not about to only sit up here and talk about one topic. This is the reason why it's called, can we talk about it? Can we talk about that's all I want to know, bro, if we could talk about it, we could talk that talk. Comment, Talk That Talk. Bruh, comment it. Bruh, yeah, you're not gonna lose anything. Like, that's the part I can understand. If I was asking for like, 10% of your check, which really ain't a lot, because that's all God want. He gave you the 100 but you too scared. You this man gave you $100 and he said, All I want is 10 of it so I can put me some gas in my tank for driving you to go pick up this $100 okay, this is the Lord. Okay, just pretend the man is the Lord, but you know, you get the point. Okay, you will get that man the gas money if he was a man, but if he told you to take that same 10% that he blessed you with, he gave it to you, whether it's through a job, whether it was through an angel, whether it was through your side chick or side future old head or old head. Listen, he gave you a source to where he provided that source to get you what you needed. So the point of the matter is, in some way, form or fashion, baby, he provided it. But you're gonna sit here and you're gonna want to hold that 10% because now you want to upgrade and get three bags of chips instead of two, just because you got more in this season. Let's be let's be real. Though, you cutting the one who gave it to you out that ain't how we do that. That's not how we do it. It don't maybe I might pull back and go on a fast from chips, literally for 30 days so I can save that money to make sure I pay my tithes if I don't pay nothing else. Let's talk. And I need some water. And if anybody likes and loves me, I love this water. I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly. But it's called evermore, e, v, A, M, O, R, it's kind of, I don't wanna say it's kind of expensive, but I love this alkaline. Is always so crisp, um, it's actually filtered out in Louisiana, and it's just so clean and bro, get you some. Get you some. Get you some. I promise you, that's what we own. 2024 Or can I tell y'all something? Miss Nunn, I gotta talk to you. Let's talk because sometimes media can't paint people to be bad people, or paint people to give you a certain perspective of who they are. When, in all actuality, what are those when, in all actuality, that's like 50 million wasps. Oh, my God, and they're just sitting there, camped up together. That's disgusting. But yeah, so it's like, really and truly, you do need to go watch that video. Y'all on YouTube called Natalie nur being problematic because, oh no, I just want to ask Natalie some questions, because it's like, the main question I'm asking you is, somebody put this in the comments. Somebody put this in the comments. Hold on. What's the thing to seek you? I was on to seek your page. Her outfit was banging, y'all, it was a little white Mini, I'm talking mini mini skirt to seek you won't play no games this. Y'all were heavy on the mini. Okay? And then she got like, this little, cute, little cropped shirt with like a Bejeweled Buster under it. And, bro, that's a look. I popped their look in the Caribbean a couple times. That's a look, I'm telling you. But, um, the skirt wasn't as mini though, but that's only good, you know, yeah. But no, I gotta ask Miss nun a question, because they got somebody in the question. It's like, cut, throw Barbie with 3e and two. Wait How long say two elevens. What? Cut? Throw Barbie with 3e and two, one. So the number 11, I made that more complicated. She said, Natalie, be like if you can't beat them, join them. And so Natalie, I really want to ask you that question. Shout out to cutthroat Barbie 11, because I appreciate her for asking that question. No, really, because think about it. And once y'all go watch that video, Natalie knows being problematic for four minutes, I want y'all to then come back and re listen to this video, just so you can actually, like, understand why I would ask Natalie that question. Is that really what it means? Because if you can't beat them, join them. Yeah, so maybe this is the reason why you working for a black network. Let's talk about it. And you saying you the one and only baddie, because really and truly this is your platform, and I ain't mad at you for taking that seat, but let's not forget that it is black owned that is a black owned company. Let's talk about it. But these same people that you was talking about in the videos on YouTube, Natalie Nunn on Bad Girls Club back in the day, where it was cool to be public about not really accepting. And we get it because you biracial, but not really accepting that part of you, that African American side of you, it was easy to laugh at it. It was easier to draw on the African American girl's face, who probably was dealing with the fact that the world was only showing that she looked different, but you sitting there publicly making jokes about it online, but now you want to claim that you're the leader of so many of the same ones that look just like her. I need some I need some questions answered. Natalie, none. I just want to talk about it, I really do. Because you the type that's gonna sit there and fake for the for the videos and for the for the social media that you wanna you know I'm saying fight, but you really not trying to fight the ones that you know and take you down. This is maybe why you backed off of tasiki. Can we talk about it? Because this is what they saying in the comments. I genuinely just want to know, I feel like at the end of the day when, when it's on Judgment Day, when he said the last gonna be first, I don't feel like he was talking about race. I just genuinely don't feel like he was talking about race. Because now we can sit here and say, Oh, minority groups have it harder. But can I be honest with you, everybody's gonna feel like they're the black sheep of some part of their family. I got three my mama have three kids. Okay, let me say it like that, because y'all know, if you know, I love my daddy, but you know what I'm saying, he had outside children. But one of the things, and when I say outside children, people don't really know what that means. What it means is there's a thing between having children that's under the covenant and having children that are not under the covenant. And so it's not to say that he not, that God, not going to take care of the children that are under that are not under the covenant. It's just better to have a child under the covenant, because those are the ones that he really like. Yeah, then one of them, ones, okay? It typically refers like a covenant child. Typically refers to a person who was raised in a covenant or attending a covenant school, often runs by nuns or like religious sisters and stuff like that. So it's like this upbringing usually emphasize strong morality and religious education, discipline, community, major values, stuff like that, right? In a Biblical sense, being a covenant child can be viewed through the lens of a life that's dedicated to God and community, echoing things that's found in the Scripture. So really and truly, it's like, can't necessarily be mad when somebody say that they feel like they wanted them once. And it's not to say that you not want them once, because I feel like, God take care of all of his children. But what I will say is there is biblical support, biblical reference that one he going to take care of all of us because he got plans for us, plans to props for us. He wasn't just only talking about one group of people, his chosen, yes, but really and truly, if you want to be chosen, you really can be chosen. Let's talk about it. Because he got a promise to all of us, but outside of the promise that he has to all of us. He said, of those children that are made in the covenant, that are dedicated to me, that's the part when you have a child under the covenant of the Lord, you dedicating that baby to him. So then does that mean that when you Christen a baby, you dedicate that child, you have a dedication of that baby. Is that your way of covering children that are not made under the covenant? Are you getting on say, I need to ask my pastor that matter of fact. Imma, send my pastor this, this little snippet of my podcast, because you know what? My podcast, my really my pastor told me that he listened to podcasts when he have time. Okay, y'all heard me say on another episode, I had to laugh at him a little bit, but I just like the message, because he didn't capitalize the eye, and it's just like that bothered me. But that's only because my brain a little quirky, but it's also like when my pastor explained who he is, and you hear him tell his story, bro, like he, like, why would he want to capitalize the eye? Like he just, you know, said he probably don't even care, because he probably didn't even take school that serious. He literally tell you he he pledged, he crossed. He was out there enjoying the life that God gave him. He had to be embracing it, because he told us that he went bankruptcy multiple times like he real bold with his story. But can I tell you something? He tell you how a person that went from literally not having not being serious in school, almost getting kicked out of school, dropping out of school, something like that. I gotta check the story 100% I ain't really trying to get it wrong. He said, But now, oh boy, let's talk. I'm telling you. I Oh, I'm connected to some good people. Y'all, I used to pray that prayer to the Lord, though that's the answer prayer. Ain't nothing wrong with admitting that. The Lord answering prayers, bro, nothing wrong with that. He wants you to admit it. He wants you to show them what it look like to be doing the right thing. Ain't nothing wrong with getting old. You're supposed to get old, and each generation is supposed to get better with time. The thing is, when he told you to honor your mother and your father Baby, what did you do? He said, honor your mother and your father so that your days may be long. This is one of the scriptures in the Bible where I love and I want you to go look it up. That's your second piece of your homework. I don't know what number I'm on, but I'm gonna call in number two. Okay, go look it up. Because I need you to be doing some active we're not just passively learning things, we actively learning things. So I'm gonna need you to sit there, and I'm gonna need you to do it right then and there. As I'm telling you, you got a tab right now on your phone, unless you're driving, if you're driving, don't do it, because you put in other people's life at risk. Okay, man, we talking to talk. We talking to talk. And I be honest with you, my podcast, it's my passion project, okay? It's what I love to do. Okay, I have to tell my grandma, like, My grandmama is the one that's like, she gonna tell me if it's just absolutely terrible, but then she gonna always be in my corner, because it's just like she got to the point to where she said, Listen, this is me. She says, I'm living what the Lord promised me. He showing it to me. And you know what I say, bro, it make me feel so good to see because I'm like, You know what? Man, God out here answering prayers, bro, that's the end all be all. He out here answering prayers. He's out here answering prayers. That's what he doing. That's what he's doing. You know you can love somebody and at the same time hold them accountable. Y'all know that just because they your best friend and you love them and you don't ever really like ever really want to be at odds with them, because you just have so much respect for them, you can love them enough to tell them the real you can love them enough to tell them. Oh, you ain't handled it the right way. Or you could love them enough to tell them, man, maybe you was down bad for that part, they still gonna love you. Can I tell you why? Because they gonna respect the fact that they won the Moors and that they are friend worth keeping. This is what I tell my babies when I'm tutoring and I'm mentoring them, baby. Now listen, you can tell when somebody is in your corner. Just because you failed at it don't mean you gotta. You gotta encourage me to to also make the same mistake. At what point are we gonna get tired of making the same mistake to where we gonna use our mistakes to be a blessing in somebody else's life? No, this is why I tell people my life is like an open book. I live my life like an open book. You sit there and ask me a question, I'ma answer it. I can't give you the answer. I can't promise you. Imma give you the answer that you want to hear. But imma give you an answer, even if it's so much ass I'm not ready to talk about that shit. You gonna get a response because I learned a principle in the Bible, and go find where it says in the Bible and it's your last piece of your homework, because I'm about to stop. Go find a piece in the Bible where it literally says when they ask for it, you supposed to give it to them. Now that don't mean be ready to square up with them every time, but I'm gonna be real enough to tell y'all and keep it a stack. Sometimes you gotta let people know straight up what it is. But more importantly, what what it ain't. I wanted to say what it's not, but I'm from down south, and I'm okay with speaking just a little bit improperly. Okay, I'm not trying to be a preacher. I'm not trying to be even though y'all say I'll be preaching. It's okay. I'm cool with being called a preacher, but I just want to let you know that's not my goal in life. I have an entirely different goal and plan, and really a few, only a few people that really know me know what that is. So it's gonna shock all of y'all, and it's okay, because I'm okay with being shocked. The Lord is shocking me every day, bro. I'm telling y'all some of these prayers. I'm throwing up. I'm seeing them answer too quick. And I ain't mad, don't get me wrong. And I ain't complaining, Lord, you know my heart. All I'm saying is, when he said name is 913, through 15, that it was gonna happen so quick that your head was gonna swim, baby, he's standing on that. I'm not about to tell you not to be throwing them prayers up, though. No, baby, you need to throw them prayers up. You better talk to listen. Ain't nobody mad but the devil. And I'ma stand on that. Ain't nobody mad out here but the devil. If you still mad in 24 baby, about something that happened in 2002 I'ma need you to boss up. Okay? I'm gonna need you to cry to tears, say a few cuss words if you gotta. But then I'm gonna need you to let it go. If that's in the form of writing it on a piece of paper and burning it. If that's in the form of literally writing on a piece of paper and ripping it, if that's in the form of literally just saying it out of your mouth, can we talk about it? We can talk about it. You know what you can do. Click that link in my bio for the ones that don't know. Okay, so guess what? Hey, so guess what? Click that link in my bio. So my thing is this, why do you go out of your way to do certain things if all it is is that one thing that's not that big, or that's not that particular, that's the part that's the problem. That's the part that becomes an issue at some point. Because it's like, why would you not? Man, sometimes, y'all, sometimes people just be telling you what they what you want to hear, and it's like you can't be mad at them for trying. But it's also like, I have a question, a genuine question, because I know a lot of people. People say, man, you know everybody, and I don't know why people say that, but I do know a lot of people. Um, but one of the things that I've always wondered, because I've dealt with trauma, not trauma, but problems in my relationship, because I don't let people down in a very harsh or hard way. So if somebody tries to step to me or tries to talk to me, I'm just going, I might smile, but I'ma let you know, like, hey, you know, like, you know, I'm not interested, or I'm in a relationship or something like that, but I'm not just gonna I'm not gonna lie and lead you on, but I'm also gonna keep it a stack with you, because when you're when someone's feelings are involved, bro, I've been on the other side of not getting my feelings like protected and cared for, and they don't feel good, and so it's just like I don't want to inflict that on somebody else, just because somebody done did it to me, because I'm telling you, the Lord gonna ask you about the stuff that you done inflicted on people, bro and you out here really doing dirt, like I'm you out here playing with your life, like you don't have to have a second life. And that's the part I don't understand about our younger generation. Nobody gonna tell you they're real, though. No, I had to tell somebody, a young Keisha, and y'all go talk about me for it, but you just got to get over it, because when I have children one day, I'm letting you know, like the reality of all of this is I'm not going to let my child grow up and just get bullied, but Imma make sure they grow up and they're not a bully. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it, let's talk about it. Because I had a little young Keisha, and I said, bro, I'm gonna talk about you on my podcast. They said, for real, for real. I said, yeah, no, you're not. I said, I am, and I'ma have you on that one day, really, when I get what I need to be done, I'ma have you on there one day. Oh my God, for real. I. Okay, boom, so, man, we talking. So I called them. They now, their mother told me that they had a fight at school. I told them they wanted me to like I liked box, right? So they wanted me to teach them how to box. And I said, You know what? I ain't teaching you how to box. I said, Because Don't you know that if you fight hard enough, when your hands get registered girl, that's a crime. You know what I'm saying? She's like, No, yes, it is. Bruh, if somebody has registered hands as a boxer and they get caught in the street fight and something happened, the reason why that's a crime, and you could go to jail for that, or get like, literally do time behind that, is because it's a registered boxer. You know exactly what to do and how hard to hit, probably don't even know your strength, because nobody really knows their strength 100% I do believe, until you put into a point or position where you're forced to use all of your strengths, you never really know how hard you can go, until all like going hard is all you really got at that point, it says y'all gonna give up or imma go hard like that's the mindset. I ain't giving up because I ain't no punk. And y'all can sit there and y'all can talk about it because it don't sound good, but I love y'all enough to keep it real. Love me to know that I don't mean no harm by staying punk. But I'm being honest with you, I'm not a sucker, bro. I'm not just gonna throw in the towel. You're not about to see it. No, when I have kids that give up on two step problems, you know what I'm gonna do? No, you gonna come back and we gonna work through it? Because I know that you can do it. No, literally, so a Man Thinketh so is he. Let's talk about it. I have a story, literally, about a young Keisha, really, I'm gonna say a young Karen, because she's not of color, a young Karen, bro dyslexic, like all get out I'm talking bad, like I didn't even realize it until something told me, in my spirit, to go back and research and look at everybody's everybody's homework. I mean, not homework classwork, because it was just something in my stomach that made me feel like, uh, y'all don't finish this work too quick. And I know this teacher did not, no, I know it's not that easy, but it's supposed to be like, you can do it because that means that we're doing something correctly, right. But it's also like, you ain't supposed to do it that quick. That means I'm not challenging you enough, and I was the kid who got in trouble for always talking to my friends, because once I finished my work quickly, it's like my brain just I had to be doing something else, because it was like my brain was going a mile a minute. So it's just like, you gotta give me something that's gonna make me sit there to where it's gonna confuse me so much. So I gotta use all my brain power to be like, like, I overthink things, bro. This is the thing that I got so pissed off in med school about. Multiple choice tests are not something that I like. It don't make me happy, and I'm okay with admitting that. Bro, I multiple choice testing. It was so challenging for me, bro, I had to take the SAT because the SAT was more writing base than just choosing than like the A, C, T, but I took both, but I did better on the s, a T, because I was able to explain, I was able to write, I was able to get out of my brain, and I just do better with that, because I like to talk bruh, but just sitting there, choosing between A or D is never just gonna be a or D. I'm telling you, it's never a or D. I don't know who that's for, who probably got a test coming up, bro, if you down the last two choices or last three choices, and A and D are both included. I'm telling you, it's never gonna be a or D. I'm just playing. I really I'm just playing, but I'm being funny at the same time, but I'm being serious at the same time you never know. You really never know. What I will tell you is, though, we got some work to do in this world, y'all and I love you guys, and Miss Nunn. I want to talk to you because I really want to know this, what's what's really T I want to know what it is, because people ask us some good questions in these comments. But I go lie just because to seek you, I feel like to seek you one of them, ones and she taking a pic pick with you. Imma go ahead and ask to talk to you. Natalie nun, because really and truly, I want to know, because it's kind of hard when you don't know that person, like, even, like, even after asking certain questions, I just want to ask questions to certain people, because I feel like, one day I want to do it to Jesus, but people be like, he ain't gonna be answering no questions. He just go, why he ain't gonna answer no questions? Tell me how you know he ain't gonna answer no questions. It's because you ain't never sat there and thought about a question to ask Jesus, because it ain't gonna be no sadness in heaven. Bruh, think about it, and then let's talk about it. And click that link in my bio, Father, God. In the name of Jesus, I just thank you for the person that's on the other side of this phone, God, thank you. They had a moment to just sit here and laugh, God. Talk about some good things. Talk about God, just some, some not. The pretty truth. God, I just thank you, God, that you've just given us a plan, God and a purpose for our lives. God, you say in Jeremiah 2911 that you know the plan that you have for us, God and his plans to prosper us. God, to give us of hope. God, we just thank You that You've given us the spirit of love, power and the sound mind, God, and not the spirit of fear. God, even though we might be facing some crazy, big things and big battles in our lives, God help us to just cast our cares on you. God help us to just know that, God, in the end, that you are the Alpha and the Omega. God, you're the beginning and the end, and God, you know everything that lies in between. So God we thank you for what you've done in our lives. God, we thank you for everything that's on the way. And God, we're crazy enough to just believe that in Amos three, in Amos nine, verses 13 through 15. God, we just thank You that You said that it's going to happen quickly, God, and it's going to happen quickly. God is going to happen so quick that our heads are going to be on swivels. God we thank you that we can live our life. God walking in expectancy of knowing that God you are bringing our abundance. God our abundance is on the way. God we of everything we could ever think about God, everything that's in our hearts, God, God the dreams that we may have not even told people. God, we know that you're covering those because you said to guard our hearts. God, because everything flows from it. God, we just thank you. God, that for that child that's on the other side of this phone. God who was able to just sit there and laugh and talk about me and talk about you Lord God, and talk about the celebrities and other people and other things that are happening in today's society. God, we just thank you for everything that you're doing. God, we thank you that it's on the way. God we thank you that it's on the way. God. We don't know what it is, but God, we just walking because we know, like you're about to do something and you're about to do something big. God, we thank you that it's on the way, God, because you said that you was going to mount us on the Wings of Eagles. So God, we are sitting and standing and working and trusting and walking. God, knowing that it's on the way. God help us to walk by faith and not by sight, God, because you told us to not lean to our own understanding, but in all of our ways. God, to acknowledge you. So right now, God, we're acknowledging you because you said that when two or three are gathered in your name, God, you right there. So we, thank you for being in the midst, God. We, thank you for the nights where nobody God. We, thank you for the nice God, where the phone call stop God. We thank you for the nice God, but we didn't know how we was going to pay the bill for tomorrow. God. We thank you right now, God for the things. God that we didn't even know what's going to happen. God that it looked like the enemy meant it for bad. But God, we just thank you, God that you worked it out for our good. God, you said in Romans eight and 28 that it gotta work together for our good so God help us to see that in the midnight hour, God help us to know that God, even though we might not, even though we may feel like we're staggering, God help us to know that when you said that our steps, that the steps of a good man, God, are ordered by the Lord. Help us to know that God, even if we feel like we wobbling, God help us to know. Help us to not grow weary in well doing, but to know that the race is not given to the swift nor the strong, but the one who endures forever. And God is in Jesus name, and we pray amen y'all. If y'all don't do nothing else to me, y'all better get outside and enjoy life that God has given to you. No, every day that he give you on this face of this planet, baby, I need you to wake up speaking that. I need you to wake up talking and talk over your life. No, you remind yourself, you the head and not the tail. You above and not beneath. No, you a lender and not a borrower. No, Imma. Need you to remind yourself of that in 24 that though he slay me yet, will I trust him? Will you trust that, baby? It can't be in your baby daddy, I promise you, if she get too hot, let's talk about it. Y'all not ready to talk though, because that requires you to be too real about your baby daddy and your decisions, and you too scared of it. But guess what? We healed over here. We healed over here. And if we're not healed, we're in the process of healing, but we're still speaking that we're healed. No, so a Man Thinketh So is he why we not thinking the good baby, why I'm sitting here thinking bad. Why I'm sitting here saying, oh my god, he left me. Oh my god, he didn't do this. Oh my god, he cheated. Why we doing that? Oh my god, she switched up on me. Oh my god, she had a baby on why are we doing that? You know, how many people take care of other people's kids for whatever reasons in this world? A. Season, a season Keisha likes to do is to watch paternity court. And I see some of these people come on this paternity court. First of all, women, if we go be real how you don't know who your baby daddy is. And I'm not trying to pass no judgment, because everybody got certain situations. All I'm saying because some people like traumatic reasons. So I'm not even trying to be funny when I say that. But if it's like and I'm gonna talk to my Keisha, 100% straight to the point real, if it's just because you out here just enjoying your life too much, and you just out here popping and twerking that nooky thing, come here. Jackie Neal, well, don't come here because she passed away. God bless the dead, or God bless the angel. You gotta be you gotta be careful about what you saying. No. Jackie Neal, stay where you at. Okay, but seriously, though, my thing is this, y'all know what I'm gonna say. It might not be right, but it's for sure real. So guess what? We just gonna take this head up. We taking every day that started us how it is okay. And we gotta know walk trust and love, knowing that he called us for such a time as this probably got off topic, but I used to, I just got confirmation. I used to like the dolls. I used to like when I used to get dolls of color, because she probably was spending like $200 on my dolls, like collector's dolls, and I think I had, like one white or one baby doll that was not of color or aka white, whatever y'all want to call it. I think I had like, one, but that was really for diversity, just because, because I think I had, like, Indian collective dolls. I actually still have them. They're like, really, really, my mama freaked out over them, but I actually do like the dolls, like they used to remind me of babies, like, actual babies. It wasn't no fake, like, Baby Alive, like, hard. It was, like, literally, like, it was soft, like a real baby. But she used to spend too much money on it, but that's because she wanted me to be such a girly girl. And it's like, the crazy part about it is I used to love dirt bike, not dirt bikes, but four wheelers, motorcycles. I grew up with brothers and my dad, so all I spent time was, doing crazy activities. Like, you know, I was a tough girl though. Like, literally, I got ran over by a go kart with my dad, and it was literally, like, a half of an inch under my rib cage, but it's okay. I call myself a cat, you know. Yeah, whatever we're gonna talk about the end of the time. I just was really, really tomboyish, and I can't help it, but there is a time and a place for everything mental health in the black community is not protected enough. I tell my babies, well, I'm just going I tell my parents, because I think the main problem is sometimes people don't want to address the fact that there is a difference. I can sit here and say that that is a non fruit Baron tree, and that's a fruit bearing tree. He told me, I can rightfully judge. I can rightfully judge, or whatever that's in the Scripture. So go look it up, right? And my thing is, I could sit here and say, bruh, you had a silver spoon in your mouth the whole time you get I'm saying certain areas of your life you had a silver spoon in your mouth. Maybe it's in finances, maybe it's in both of your parents were attractive and you just got the good looks, but your brother really did it. Like, you get what I'm saying maybe, maybe it's like, physically, no, I'm saying like your mama wasn't on drugs with you, but she was on drugs with your baby brother. Like, it could be a lot of different reasons. There's a broad spectrum in this world. You never know. So everybody, to a certain extent, can see their life as them being the black sheep of their family. Because we all got different shoes we have to fill. The problem is you got to take that same acknowledgement that you could do for what you don't have and do it for what you do have. Now, let's talk about the promises that God gave us. Can we talk about it? Can we talk about it? He promises us His presence. He promises to always be with you, bro, put scripture on it. That's in Matthew 28 you go find a verse, and if you don't know how the Bible is set up, it's always the book of the Bible, because I literally got followers that they like. At some point they just didn't believe in Christianity. They never knew anything about the Lord. So I just am willing enough to just keep it a stack with y'all, because I'm just gonna break it down to where it's like, so elementary that you feel comfortable, to where you can literally, like, you don't say I got babies listening to my podcast. One of my young Keisha, is literally, she, like, seven. You know what I'm saying? Like, she asked me, have you uploaded your podcast yet? Have you uploaded your podcast yet? Like, I send her the link every time, all she gotta do is click it. She gonna go searching and typing and all of that. Send it or send a mama link, that's it. God promises present, bro, I'm gonna do that another week. I ain't doing it today. I had to pray this out. I love you guys. Share this with somebody that you love. Share with your baby daddy. Share with your homegirl baby daddy. Because listen, whether he white, black, blue, green, orange or purple, I'm gonna be real with you. Ain't nothing like a Southern belle. That's just that. Is literally buttermilk, dark chocolate, smooth skin. Ain't nothing like that. There's nothing like that. And it's just go, you got to get over that. Okay, like that, man, that's the battle. I'm glad the Lord didn't give me the fight, because, literally, he gave me dark chocolate skin, and it's smooth, like, buttermilk, literally, sofa is a sofa. Like, that's literally what is, what I'm on. Like, look at it. It's like buttermilk. The sun literally make my skin pop a little bit harder, and I get darker, and it's real hot. So literally, this dark skin is melanated skin. Guess what? Oh, y'all ever heard somebody say when somebody is super, super dark, like jet black, I'm asking another day, because the old people used to say that that means that people were evil. And I don't know if that's just a cellular thing or if it's like a real life thing, but it's like, I had to ask her, Oh, hey, if they believed in both of them said, Yeah. And when you think about it, like if you have black poop or black stool, that means you there's a sign of bleeding somewhere in your body, aka, I mean, Oh, I gotta go. There's too much to talk about. Bye, Leo, you.