00:00You know, the way people think about arts is like it's an extracurricular activity because they've been defunded in schools and, you know, all kinds of stuff.
00:07And and I think for it makes sense if you're white, maybe, you know, because people for white people, art might be something really cool or just a pastime or whatever.
00:18For black people, a lot of the time what we're looking for, art is our expression.
00:23Art is our culture. Art is the way that we thrive.
00:26It's also what's extracted from our communities and profited from by other people.
00:31Right. It is a valuable commodity to them. Right.
00:35But then it's trivial when we want to get paid for it and when we want equal participation or, you know, you know, minimal participation, really, in those profits that they that they love so much.
00:49They demonize our culture.
00:51I mean, that's I mean, that's a really great point, because when we think about how we've used art as a people historically, like that was a part of our freedom.
00:59We use drums. Right.
01:01You know, we had these talking drums in order to communicate with each other.
01:06Art is not just about, you know, for art's sake.
01:09It's like, how do we survive these really troubling times?
01:12So that's a great point.
01:15Yeah, it's the way that we communicate beyond the language that's been forced on us.
01:19Right. You know what I'm saying on our people?
01:22It's it's the way that we provide resistance.
01:26It's the way that we communicated in the railroad, you know, putting in the braids that, you know, putting maps and different clues and signs for folks to follow in braids.
01:40You know, our culture.
01:43Eric Alexander was saying the other day that black people are natural futurists.
01:47I think you were there. You were there. Right.
01:51In Atlanta, Eric Alexander was saying that, you know, black people are natural futurists.
01:58And I had to think about it for a second.
01:59She's like, we are people were stolen.
02:02So we didn't they took our past from us and then they've been trying to lie about that forever.
02:07You know what I'm saying?
02:09And so we had to come here and create.
02:12We had to come here and create.
02:13We had to create what exists now.
02:16It wouldn't be done without us.
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