33:29Yes.
42:01Okay.
45:52Алексей Booth 1-остyle Estoyizанд Warwick hiation line-upй good.
45:54And they'll be exactly the same part.
45:58It's a part of the issue is a lot of times people just try to blame it on.
46:03it being a HBCU and that in itself irritates me like we cannot continue to just oh you're at
46:15HBCU you know okay we are HBC U and we deserve luxury like the rest.
46:19we need to just let us let us let us rock you feel me um but yeah
46:25well i think that the college residential housing crisis speaks to a larger housing crisis that we
46:34have in our country i mean where i'm from i'm from west orange new jersey and there's like tons of
46:39fancy fancy apartment buildings that people that are basically completely empty that people
46:43can't afford and there's a lot of issues of being able to not find space because people are
46:48interested in taking lower uh lower income communities adding nicer housing pushing up
46:53the prices so the people that live there can't live there anymore and then we lose the actual
46:57physical space for people that are being displaced to live in so when it comes to the context of
47:01college campuses and particularly the conversation between hbcus and pwis is that hbcus and most even
47:09even state colleges do not have large enough endowments and we're not given large enough
47:13land grants to have enough space for the amount of people that they're supposed to teach and to train
47:18so if you have a spellman and you have a cau they the rockefellers um gave the the gave spellman the
47:24plot of land and they didn't give enough land for all the all the people that come in through that
47:27school they simply did not give enough resources and it's the fact that it's a century-old white
47:33billionaire family that provided the resources development and not within our own community
47:37that leads to these tensions that we see in today's times so when the school was founded there was
47:42enough space for what they imagined of a university but today we don't see enough space because
47:47as a state and as a country as a county atlanta's not given enough resources to provide and to train
47:52the next generation uh the most illustrious of the hbcus and they're not given those resources so i think
47:59that it was it reflects a larger environmental challenge of us losing space in our country
48:03especially in metropolitan areas it reflects the student debt crisis people not being able to have
48:08enough financial freedom they are swallowed in debt and paying for rent on top of school on top of
48:13all these things and it reflects the dynamics between endowments so harvard people stay on
48:19campus all four years at harvard it's a very common thing you're not supposed to leave campus but i'm
48:23paying a ridiculous amount of money in one of the most expensive cities in the country to do that
48:27and it's incredibly financially disempowering so what we need to do is get money back into the hands
48:31of students we need to get money back into the hands of the people that own these lands and we need
48:35to stop building and building up our country for places that people cannot actually live
48:40so that's my thoughts that's my thoughts on it yes yes absolutely well before we get started and
48:50you know take questions from our lovely beautiful audience i want to close this out by just asking
48:55you guys what are you most excited for when it comes to just giving back to the community when it
49:01comes to education and i'll start with you kamari uh for me i think i was doing i think it was like
49:08the little picture thing outside oh no it was the speed mentoring and somebody said just paying it
49:13forward and just not forgetting like where you came from there's this bird called a sankofa bird
49:18and it's like something that i live my favorite my actual favorite thing ever yes and i just try to
49:23like live like that just you you like literally looking back and not forgetting where you came from
49:27i cherish where i come from so hard i'm from south central los angeles and you know everybody hear
49:33stuff about la all these movies is ghetto is this and third but for me it's just like it's a diamond
49:38in the rough and you just cannot forget where you came from and just remember to pay it forward so
49:43that's my biggest thing um just paying it forward yes jay yes i would have to say making sure that we
49:53are breaking those glass ceilings we are shaking the table if they do not give us a seat at the table we
49:58will bring a folding chair and we will be there so i just feel like that's what i'm most excited for
50:03making sure that there's a space for us and if there's not one we will make it and truly live in
50:08my i gotta say it again find a way or make one that motto just speaks to me it's something that i will
50:13continue to pour out and pour into other people because i feel like that's not something we are
50:17always told we're told oh sit straight stand up cross your legs do this do that but what if i don't
50:23want to what if i want what if i want to be different you know and that's what i'm gonna do and
50:27that's the message that i continue to share and promote period absolutely beautiful responses
50:33out of both of you i can't speak anymore to the principle of sankofa and how much that means to my
50:37life but i think going on that thing i would really just like to be the reason why somebody else does
50:42a good thing i would just really really appreciate appreciate that i think the work i do it touches a
50:47lot of kids that are now just coming to be like 16 17 when i versus when i started my campaign at
50:5310 and i really am excited and feel encouraged by the new generation of people that want to make
50:59change and i guess just through that i want to advise them very heavily to follow the principles
51:03of sankofa and remember that us as examples we are standing on someone else's shoulders who are
51:09standing on someone else's shoulders who are standing on someone else's shoulders who are standing
51:11on someone else's shoulders and if we don't look back to those fifth or sixth shoulders we will not
51:15be able to find the solution for the problem that we're seeing today so i'm not solely the answer
51:19and i can't solely be the inspiration because i've been inspired by so many people but like i want
51:25everyone to know who ida b wells is and i want everyone to read her pieces on lynching because
51:29she is the first original black journalist and black female journalist and like people don't read that
51:33so i really want to be the reason why other people do good things and i want to encourage them down a
51:37path of curiosity that leads them to realize that you don't know everything but you can certainly try
51:42absolutely all right anybody have any questions that they want to ask our lovely disruptors on stage
51:50yes yes no yes ma'am
51:53okay so this is a question for kamari so you go to spellman and you said you got a full ride so i know
52:06someone that's also trying to go to spellman if you don't mind would you delve into how you were
52:11able to get a full ride things that they might need to do as a non-traditional student and yeah just
52:18any advice for sure um so i got my i got my full ride through uncf uh jordan wings so first of all just
52:27tap into uncf there's like so many hidden scholarships that not a lot of students know about
52:33um i still apply like to scholarships to this day even if i do have a full ride um but just
52:39for sure like logging just go to uncf.org that's like the biggest advice i can like probably give
52:46you um but yeah there's like tons of money that a lot of students just miss out on just because
52:51they don't know to go to uncf.org so for sure that's
52:55hi my name is zaria i am a sophomore at spelman college period and i am here today on behalf of the
53:05therapy for black girls podcast i interned there so i was wondering if each of you could share one
53:11affirmation you have for other black women who want to be change makers and community organizers
53:16like the zankofa bird i look to my past so that i can be my best today and every day ashe
53:25the biggest one that i tell myself every day is you are enough i feel like a lot of people say it but
53:33they don't believe it and so that's something i wake up i wash my face i look in the mirror i say
53:37you are enough you can do it you can keep thriving and that's just the affirmations i continue to say
53:42over and over and i believe it and i want everyone else to for me stand on business and stand on it
53:48hard here like hard like hard like what tim's on like yeah just stand on business that's yeah
53:56that's i'm standing on business 10 toes down hand toes thank you guys so much period well thank you
54:03guys so so much again like y'all are all disruptors and y'all own right i think so are you thank you i
54:09thank you guys so much you guys are really doing it you guys are really doing it and you know
54:14continue to just guide the next generation continue to be that voice and again thank you so much
54:20everyone for watching and we will see you guys for the next segment so you guys stay tuned and let us
54:25know where we can follow you so we can stay connected i am marley dyess on x or instagram
54:31on all social media platforms jay simone that's j-s-i-double-m-o-n-e um i have two instagram
54:40pages my first one is i am kamari brown and the second one is just kamari period well thank you
54:47guys so so much again we appreciate you guys thank you for coming to g summit and i am kenyatta victoria
54:53from essence girls united thank you thank y'all
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