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HBCU 101, a popular series on AspireTV, is back with its eighth season and promises to be bigger and better than ever before. As the excitement continues to build for the Season 8 premiere on Sunday, September 17th, we were lucky enough to get some exclusive insights into the show from none other than its executive producer, Fred Whitaker. In a recent appearance on the Sway In The Morning show, Fred shared some exciting details about what viewers can expect from the show, the incredible line-up of special guests, and the impact it is making on the HBCU community.
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yo this is a brother Heather we talked
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earlier today when we was talking about
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the anniversary of hip-hop 50-year
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anniversary right and we were speaking
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about the different stories that have
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been covered when it comes to the legacy
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of this culture right and the ones that
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have not been covered the ones that have
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not been covered yeah the different
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people that we've been Recycling and
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it's fine we want everybody to be
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celebrated but there's people behind the
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scenes that have not been celebrated
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properly properly enough and I dare say
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my good friend uh that's come with us
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today Frederick Whittaker Jr is one of
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those people
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full government
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sway I don't think people know who that
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is
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right
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you got to make sure the legacy is on it
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one more time just for the record for
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the record brother you know but this man
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like I mentioned
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um Angela Simmons Angela Yee all these
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different people he's worked with Lala
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Anthony
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um uh Terence J who's been an actor uh
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EP uh super host he does it all I
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remember when Terence first signed his
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deal with bet and we were all in Arizona
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at a celebrity golf match
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Fred wit
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yeah
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remember that yeah and I tell this story
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and Terence and I sat down that's the
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first time we ever met and then our
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conversation was about buying real
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estate with the money you make
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absolutely no I mean you've always been
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a big brother to us you've always taken
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us under your wing you've always been
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like hey guys you know you know when you
1:35
come into business some people don't
1:36
open up their arms you but you were one
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of the ones that's like yeah come here
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let me talk to y'all yeah do this this
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way and do this this way these are the
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mistakes that I made I want to make sure
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that y'all don't make those mistakes so
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whenever sway calls me and if I gotta
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pick him up from the airport I'm gonna
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pick them up from the airport because I
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I owe sway like I wouldn't be here today
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if it wasn't for people like him to be
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in my life to like open up their arms to
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me and TJ crap man come on man that's
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beautiful I appreciate you for saying
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that but you're an amazing individual
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your contributions need to be recognized
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and you stood up for me when we was
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overseas in the south of France and
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almost got into a fight
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no somebody's about to get Molly
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never Heather
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how do they say pushing it Forward right
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and uh and you're bringing other people
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up to The Fray explain to me how you met
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this young man or other guy
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you know what's funny so
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um Jaleel and I are both in the same
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fraternity so we have a lot of uh mutual
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friends that know each other I'm with
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the North Carolina a t Jaleel went to
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Virginia state and Jalil reached out to
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me a few times like via social media
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like hey I want to get into the hosting
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space and my thing is to see how
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consistent you are because everybody
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wants to be a host until I can put that
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working learn and on a random Sunday in
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L.A All-Star Weekend oh it was awesome
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weekend
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um I was walking across this parking lot
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Jack In The Box and I had this um
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I had this one yet one young lady
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walking with me and I heard some guys
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say something slick okay so me me and
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Fred I'm like you know what it sounds
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like it's a bunch of them it's just me
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and this young lady I'm gonna take a l
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okay that's a w but I gotta stand up oh
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so I turned around I was like yo what
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y'all say hmm and kind of find out
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jaleel's like
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yo that's foreign
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I need to talk to you and I'm like
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it was like three or four of them I'm
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like I can't back down I'm in a Jack In
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The Box in L.A oh my God
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and then from there you know me and
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Jalil just you know we sat down we had
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several conversations and one thing I
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give I say about Julius he's he's
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consistent like the more you bother me
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the more I'm like all right let me
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figure out how I can help you so you can
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stop bothering me right but then it just
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kept coming with you know
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he he wanted to put the work in he
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wanted to learn like he had a thousand
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questions sometimes you have a question
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about yo I don't even know to answer
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that question let me get back to like
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when you're on the grind grind in the
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beginning you just want to figure it out
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and you just want to ask every question
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Under the Sun and the Moon and that's
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how Julia was man so he was super
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consistent and he's just been putting it
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work in he like I big bro uh what about
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this and I'm like I don't know about
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that then he'll be like I'm thinking
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okay I hear from him a week later next
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day all right well I I changed this I
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added this to do this what about we do
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this what if we reach out to this person
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and and people like that are people that
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I've seen in this business that survive
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because they want to put the work in if
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you don't look at me and be like what do
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you got for me what can you do for me
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you know what I'm saying it's one of
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those things like this is what I'm
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bringing to the table so what are you
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gonna do for it and I'm like well damn
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you're putting pressure on me I thought
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I was the mentor yeah like let me tell
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me let me step myself away
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his me and his relationship reminds me a
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lot of my relationship with Shaka Zulu
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like me and Shaka go back
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manager for Ludacris
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one of those things where uh reach out
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to me like well I just did this deal
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what are you doing and I'm like wait a
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minute I'm supposed to be the youngest
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you know what I'm saying so when Jalil
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does that it just reminds me of that
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grind and I just you know all of this
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HBC 101 was all Julius I did I'm just
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the guy in the background just making
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the phone calls and helping out where I
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can you know and I'm a big fan of you
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know what you put out there is what you
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get back in return so just a little had
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that good energy besides the time is
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gonna beat me up in the parking lot
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other than that we're good Chicago
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let's welcome to the show for the first
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time Jaleel Thurman is here
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post hvcu 101 I want to listen this is
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about education so we have we have a lot
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of conversations on this show about
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education if you tune in you're trying
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to think trying to select a school to go
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to a campus you haven't considered a
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HBCU yet you should definitely consider
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that we've seen a success that many
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people have have had that have come from
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hbcus yeah Julia welcome to the show
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thank you thank you good morning good
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morning man it's crazy to go from here
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and you on the radio to being it is
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surreal yeah yeah
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hbcus let's talk about it citizens if
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you went to one are you thinking about
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sending the kid to one or you're
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somebody's about to graduate go to
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college eight eight seven four two seven
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three three four five there you go thank
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you what school did you go to in Fred
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what school did you go to the
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illustrious Virginia State University
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Virginia state
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okay okay I'm with the North Carolina a
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T State University AKA g-hole University
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as well oh I gotta check yeah I'm gonna
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do some research on that room okay talk
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about that Pride because that's
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important to me what you see when you go
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to HBCU campuses I've been talking on
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campuses for years
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um and that's one of the things that I
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enjoy like even though I wasn't enrolled
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I enjoyed the pride and I enjoyed
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and this is going to sound crazy but I
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said this about when I landed to Ghana
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it was the first time I landed and
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didn't have to feel black yeah I don't
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know if that makes sense to you so talk
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about that pride and what it's like
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going to HBCU so for me it's crazy
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because I knew nothing about hbcus going
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into college you know my dad was like
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look you know go to HBCU go for the
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culture join a frag you know he really
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walked through my four years of college
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he was like man if you want to you know
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go anywhere after that do your thing but
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go there so I'm like all right cool and
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so I ended up getting to Virginia state
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and it was nothing I've ever seen before
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um I started going on college tours but
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it was the campus like you said you just
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you fit right in you fit in you just it
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was natural you know but the one thing I
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love about HBC is you talked about the
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pride but one thing I like is the
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different cultures right so when you go
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to an HBCU right so I'm from Chicago
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so we calling Jordans you know Jordans
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mics whatever you know we get we call it
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gym shoes I get to the east coast and
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sneakers yeah you know people wearing
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shoes yeah they wearing New Balances I
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never seen nobody wearing a 990 a day in
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my life is fashionable yeah that's crazy
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Uptown you know calling Air Force Ones
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flaves cause I'm in Virginia I'm like
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why y'all calling the flavors they're
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like because they come in different
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flavors and I'm like whatever you know
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but that's what I think you get the most
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is like it's like a Melting Pot of so
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many different cultures whether you're
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from East Coast West Coast or the
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Caribbeans because that's when I really
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got exposed to like outside of the
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United States and so to your point you
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just really just fit in and everybody
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accepts you for who you are uh we're
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talking about uh HBCU 101 this is a show
9:27
that's premiering Sunday September the
9:29
17th on Aspire TV we got the two
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executive producers that are here do you
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want to jump in yeah so do it all just
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for a correction he went to Shaw
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University
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um in Raleigh yeah
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I shouted you guys out last night on my
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show I'm happy I would have to be and
9:46
just made that audience aware that you
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guys were coming today and I'm just
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hearing the backstory with how you two
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met hearing both of y'alls hustle and
9:54
grinding the persistence to do it I want
9:56
to start with you Jay like what was it
9:59
that made you a person because you got
10:01
to walk a fine line there's a fine line
10:03
between being like a pest and then you
10:06
know just being like yo I really want to
10:08
make this persistent persistent like
10:10
because you you hear Jordan when he
10:12
spoke about Kobe was like yo this dude
10:15
was calling me all the time like you're
10:16
not one of my kids was good but like how
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did you walk that fine line
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um it's crazy so after me and Fred met
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and I'm gonna give Freddie's flowers
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right quick absolutely
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a lot of people exchange numbers
10:29
but a lot of people don't text you back
10:30
a lot of people don't call you back now
10:32
friend in the beginning wasn't texting
10:34
me back like immediately though right
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like it might be a week three days it
10:38
was random when he texted me back but he
10:40
always text back and I can appreciate
10:43
that I want to give him his flowers
10:44
because if he never texts me back I
10:46
wouldn't even be here today right so our
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friend I'm gonna give you your flowers
10:49
on some appreciate you OG for that
10:51
um but the way that I was able to really
10:53
do that was I just didn't bother him I
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understand people's time is valuable so
10:58
if I'm gonna come to Fred I want to come
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with an idea something that makes sense
11:02
because he gave me access to him so let
11:05
me not abuse the access just because I
11:07
have his number and so I would come to
11:09
him with like he said earlier something
11:11
that was put together then he'll review
11:13
it and he'll be like ah okay cool let me
11:16
go back to the drawing boards and I'll
11:17
come back and then come back and then
11:18
honestly shout out to Usher
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um because who she is you know Fred's
11:22
line brother and but me with shea both
11:24
from Chicago we both been to the same
11:25
high school so me who she also was able
11:28
to develop a relationship and then it
11:29
was also another way of I didn't have to
11:31
always bother Freddie
11:34
it did not became like okay I'm sure it
11:38
would be like yo holla at me first
11:40
don't go to Fred with everything because
11:41
Fred got so much going on as you
11:43
mentioned earlier that's right so then
11:45
it would be insane so I would throw
11:47
things against the wall and see what's
11:48
stuck whatever stuck went to Fred but
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then it was like yo we just kept
11:53
literally just grinding ironing out
11:55
things and here we are now I love it I
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love it too
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um
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you you
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who's that Kalani I'm sorry even
12:03
Michelle you went to a HBCU yeah in it
12:06
so even the Publishers went to the HBCU
12:10
Kelly Kincaid who did your show
12:14
she wraps it like a gang banger
12:17
like Kelly Duke yeah on the episode she
12:21
calling shots out to everybody like you
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ain't Jackson State you ain't you're not
12:25
relevant can you talk about the
12:27
importance of
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hbcus the fellowship
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um the networking the HBCU alumni talk
12:36
about that because after you graduate
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you got a whole world of resources right
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yes so for me my my experience is very
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unique and and different because
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I'm coming up on 20 years of graduating
12:49
from college so congratulations I still
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do a lot of business with the people I
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was in undergrad with until this day and
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it's one of those things where instead
12:58
of us reaching up we reach across okay
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how can we help each other and you know
13:04
the prime example is me and Taryn Shay
13:05
like you know we was he was the SGA
13:07
president I'm the chief of staff he's
13:09
the host I was the DJ when we got into
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the business he was like
13:14
less bet on ourselves than betting on
13:16
somebody else to be his manager so when
13:19
we look back on it we can say we left it
13:20
all out on the field yeah yeah so but we
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learned that in college you know
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throwing jim jams doing uh fashion show
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step shows doing you know Riley's doing
13:32
marches like we did everything that
13:34
we're doing now we learned in college
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and it and it's amazing that when you
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graduate you know you think people just
13:41
go off into the real world and you lose
13:43
like connection no every year homecoming
13:46
comes homecoming is like Christmas yeah
13:47
it's like you go back to see your family
13:50
you go back to see okay how are you
13:52
doing how is life treating you how are
13:54
your kids doing you know what are you
13:56
working on now how can I help you a lot
13:58
a lot of people with me like a Fred how
13:59
can I support what you got going on I'm
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like well how can I support what you got
14:02
going on because we've seen each other
14:04
grow up in this this world together from
14:09
being you know most kids go to college
14:10
at 18 graduate 22-23 three then once you
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get into the real world you're trying to
14:16
find yourself but you always have that
14:18
HBCU support and alumni group that's
14:20
like you know what I know somebody that
14:23
work up there let me make a phone call
14:24
for you just because you graduated from
14:26
the same school or it could be the thing
14:28
where like yes Julia didn't graduate
14:29
from antique but he went to another HBC
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so I still want to see him win Circle
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I've had friends and I'm not gonna call
14:36
their names out I brought them to g-hole
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one year and they're from the West Coast
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they literally looked me in the face and
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Said Fred I've never seen this many
14:43
black people hanging out together and
14:46
nobody's fighting yeah everybody's like
14:48
what do you need oh you need some more
14:49
chicken on your plate you need a drink
14:51
like how they're helping each other they
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they were just sitting there just
14:55
looking like
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this is not real I'm like this was us in
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college because when you're in college
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and some people go away to college
15:03
think about those weekends where save
15:05
jalil's in Virginia he can't just get
15:06
back to Chicago like that so now he's in
15:09
Petersburg for the weekend so now him
15:11
and uh his dorm mates or roommates or
15:14
whoever else it is they're stuck there
15:17
too so now they got to figure out how
15:18
they gonna eat on the weekends I
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remember seeing sometimes while I
15:21
couldn't make it home for Thanksgiving
15:22
so me and my friends are like all right
15:23
we gonna go to Food Lion and we're gonna
15:25
figure out how we gonna have a
15:27
Thanksgiving together
15:28
and you know now that we're old and
15:31
mature and people are doing different
15:32
things in life it's like wow like we've
15:35
seen each other grow up so that that's
15:36
why to me HBCU pride and it's just it's
15:40
like an unspoken Bond yeah and then when
15:42
you throw the Frat on there it's
15:43
different oh my gosh Chinese am I in a
15:47
Frack I'm in the only one that really
15:49
matters which one is that my brother's a
15:52
sigma is that the one you're in that's
15:53
not what are we not talking about
15:57
hey that concludes this interview
16:24
earlier before I mentioned and when you
16:26
talk about Network like my uh one of my
16:28
old roommates was my Pro fight and he
16:30
was like yo Fred get connected with Fred
16:32
he was the one who told me about Fred
16:33
because they both crossed the same year
16:35
and he was like I remember when Fred and
16:37
TJ
16:38
was driving up to do an interview they
16:40
didn't tell us what the interview was
16:41
for they just needed gas money
16:43
and he was like next thing you know it
16:45
was for 106 apart right and they just
16:48
been connected we still do business and
16:49
you know Fred news I'm talking about and
16:51
so shout out the deuce for that but when
16:53
you talk about a network yeah like
16:54
that's literally what it was like yo you
16:56
need to get with Fred bad okay and then
17:00
I'm Fred look you know my profile is you
17:01
know four you know I'm running down the
17:03
names he's like okay man cool so when
17:05
you talk about networking resources not
17:08
only do you get that as HBCU but in that
17:10
when you add the Frat into it yeah yeah
17:12
it is different Double Down
17:14
[Applause]
17:15
um I want to do a couple of things we
17:16
got some callers on the line and I I
17:19
wanted to have y'all on because I feel
17:21
like HBCU culture does not get enough
17:23
exposure yeah and we just you know Deion
17:27
Sanders was able to bring a lot of
17:28
attention to people learning with HBCU
17:30
meant because of him showing up at
17:32
Jackson State yeah and his success right
17:34
what he did for Jackson State can you
17:36
and I'm gonna take a caller but can you
17:38
name some of the people
17:41
prominent figures that have come from
17:42
hbcus I mean the list goes on you give
17:45
me 10.
17:49
willpower shout out to will Keisha
17:51
Knight Pulliam Lance Bros Terence J I'm
17:54
gonna get Fred his flowers okay uh DJ
17:57
Envy uh Dallas Martin Shaka Zulu uh who
18:02
else we got Fred it's so many it's so
18:04
many of them uh man uh uh uh that's good
18:07
that's good though I just want to show
18:09
like a lot of people have come from this
18:11
right in our culture and Industry for
18:13
sure and that's that broadens the like
18:15
the connections like they're talking
18:16
about you know like man I I didn't know
18:19
that many people graduated from HBO they
18:21
did a horrible job on naming everybody
18:25
yeah
18:33
to the the point of why we do HBC
18:36
one-on-one like we we appreciate those
18:39
big names but it's also about those
18:40
other people that behind the scenes that
18:42
you know everybody can't be sway but
18:45
everybody can be a producer to a sway
18:48
show and it provides more opportunity so
18:51
we like to tell yes we will tell sway
18:53
store but we would like to tell that
18:54
producer story as well too so so that
18:56
way that kid that's sitting in the
18:58
classroom you know he can look at him by
19:00
okay I don't have to be the face of
19:03
something and still be successful in
19:05
this world in this business and still
19:07
pursue my dreams and that was the whole
19:09
purpose of why we we really want to do
19:11
HBC one-on-one because if you look at
19:13
our our arrangement of guests it goes
19:16
from the Big Time celebrities that
19:17
everybody know then it goes to telling
19:19
people stories who has a Fortune 500
19:22
company but you would never know and
19:24
they graduated from an HBC yeah I love
19:27
it man Byron Byron is on the line he's
19:28
from Dallas B what up man hey Byron
19:32
hey family good morning to everybody and
19:35
God bless everybody that's on the panel
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today yes indeed thank you same to you
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I just wanted to let uh first time
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caller I have two daughters that
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graduated from a HBCU wow
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one of my daughters went to Howard okay
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got a communications degree my other
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daughter went to Clearview a m and got a
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terminology degree and then a military
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event I actually got accepted to Jackson
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State to place uh take my PhD
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well that's what so talk what would you
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say to other parents that may not
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consider hbcus
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uh first of all I actually my daughters
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actually chose the HBCU I didn't push
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them towards it they actually chose it
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and when I went up there to do the
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campus visits man it was a mind-blowing
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experience to see us
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walking around the campus just heads
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lifted chest stuck out just just proud
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to be uh getting a higher education and
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that just really blew my mind away and
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my uh my old my oldest daughter that
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went to uh Howard she's uh she's trying
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to do her uh she's actually running her
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Communication business from her house
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her husband went to her husband went to
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Howard as well and he's an architect
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okay so they killing it so yeah this
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looks like an HBCU Empire when they say
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speaking of Empire I want to say this to
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Fred I want to ask you this question um
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I see Will Packer a lot actually on ESPN
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and he's always like promoting Florida
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and the schools and happy and you can
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tell that he gives back and he reaches
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back and he donates and I've spoken to a
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lot of athletes who did not choose to go
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to a HBCU because it wasn't as pristine
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you know as say maybe going on a visit
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to the University of Michigan or going
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to their visit to Ohio State do you
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think would you argue sometimes that yes
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there's a lot of Pride with graduating
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from HBCU but maybe the graduates don't
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always go back and donate back and send
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money back to this campuses in the
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schools because we're here doing media
21:49
fret we read the stories oh my gosh the
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dorms at this place there's rats there's
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leaks there's holes you don't
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necessarily hear that at the other
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universities which may deter athletes
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from attending those schools I mean you
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know
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in order for these programs in schools
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to be successful a lot of them are state
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funded so that was a different
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conversations within the state and then
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a lot of it's just alumni giving back
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money and that's why you know they try
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as much as they can but
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you can't you can't want your school to
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be highlighted in a certain way if
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you're not giving back it's just it's
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just the gods honest truth come on
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there's no way around it like these
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bigger Michigan's and Chapel Hills and
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Dukes like they donate uh what did
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Colorado do for Deanda the alumni yeah
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you see what I'm saying facts so it's
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just one of those things where we have
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to step up and give back and sometimes
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it's challenging where people will come
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graduate and don't give back and then
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there are people that do get back but
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it's just not enough to be like I'm
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gonna go to this HBCU so I can make it
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to the league because at the end of the
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day you need the proper equipment you
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need the proper training you need the
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proper training staff now there are some
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people that have broke that mobile one
23:04
of my profiles did it he was the North
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Carolina team then he made it to the
23:07
league play for the Giants Shannon sharp
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did like there are people that that have
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done it but you know it's a slim few but
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we as a community have to give back to
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these hbcus to support and that's why
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it's very important to give back to the
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schools that you graduated from on that
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note man get that prayer with us here
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man
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I know Paul she wanted to say something
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real quick she's in Memphis go ahead
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Paulette
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absolutely good morning you guys good
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morning good morning go for it real
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quick all right real quick Mr Whitaker
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let me first send you some Coleman love
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I attended Tennessee State University
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and I love what you're doing for the
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culture and what you're doing for us you
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cannot experience being black until you
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go to an HBCU it's a different mind
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amen
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let's go to Tara in California Tara what
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you want to say real quick
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hey I just want to say how excited I am
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about this conversation I attended the
24:05
mecca Howard University I've Loved for
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all of my HBP
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my daddy my my mom
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that's all right we're about to wrap you
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up
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and don't forget we have an HP ECU
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channel here at SiriusXM channel 142.
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okay and shout out to black the black
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leadership advisory committee for really
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pushing that initiative here at a Sirius
24:29
XM listen um I want to say thank you uh
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Jalil Thurman you are the truth you are
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the now yes
24:36
congratulations on your work ethics you
24:39
know your vision you know your tenacity
24:41
man I really enjoy your energy too
24:43
you're great at what you do you carry
24:46
great energy and great Charisma so keep
24:48
it up and you with the right team yeah
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you got the bionic manager over here
24:54
super TJ all these different
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yeah
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Michelle over here who's incredible you
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know so I want to thank y'all and I want
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everybody to make sure you support and I
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want to invite you back up here yeah
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let's continue these conversations let's
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do a series of these conversations all
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right all right to promote the series
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all right September 17th Sunday 12 p.m
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Eastern Aspire TV HBC 101 tune in we got
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DJ Trauma coming through the set this
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Sunday okay so make sure y'all tune in
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representative yeah
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yep
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hey man this is
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