Karmia Berry & I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D.: Empowering the Global Leaders of Tomorrow | SWAY'S UNIVERSE
May 26, 2023
Education is the key to transformation. It opens doors of opportunities, enhances personal growth, and exposes individuals to new perspectives and cultures. However, not everyone has access to quality education, especially students of color in underprivileged communities. This is where non-profit organizations like I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. come in. The organization is dedicated to empowering high school youth of color by providing experiential learning, mentorship, and cultural experiences. Recently, Karmia Berry and the students of I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. paid a visit to Sway In The Morning to discuss the organization's mission, fundraising gala, and student development. Let's dive deeper into their conversation and learn more about how I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. is shaping the global leaders of tomorrow.
I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. understands the importance of providing real-world experiences to students, particularly those who may not have traveled outside their immediate community. The organization facilitates cultural immersion trips to places like Africa, Asia, and Europe, exposing students to the beauty, diversity, and history that exist beyond their borders. These trips also connect students with local leaders and entrepreneurs who offer valuable insights into global business and leadership opportunities. Such experiences instill confidence in students and encourage them to dream big and aim high.
Apart from cultural immersion trips, I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. is committed to helping students develop critical skills, such as public speaking, financial management, and entrepreneurship. The organization provides mentorship opportunities to connect students with professionals and entrepreneurs who share similar life experiences, creating a supportive network of like-minded individuals. These skills and experiences equip students to become innovative thinkers, problem-solvers, and leaders in their communities and beyond.
I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. is proud to have supported 200 students to date, all of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and various professional pursuits. To support the organization's mission and continued growth, I AM C.U.L.T.U.R.E.D. is hosting its fifth fundraising gala on June 8th, 2023 in Brooklyn, NY. The gala honor Arnie Weissman (Travel Weekly), Councilwoman Danielle Browne, Arielle Corbett (The Dreamville Foundation) and Nikki A. Bethel (The Emma Bowen Foundation)
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is a gentlemen I've been a supporter for
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quite some time all right one of the
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board members Reggie Hudson y'all know
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Reggie he's been up here before this man
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started my whole platform
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slavesuniverse.com approached me at a
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party one day and say hey man you need
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to do more with your digital space I
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said well what do you got in mind he
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said let me set this up for you and um
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and since then how many years ago was
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that Reggie
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15 13 years ago man me and this man been
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doing this thing for 13 years he's a
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Vanguard in the space he's a Pioneer in
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this space as many things that's
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happened in that digital real estate
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that was Architect by this man right
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here give it up for the one and only
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Reggie Hudson
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appreciate it
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that voice that you heard
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um on that trailer uh for this
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organization that we're going to talk
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about today that I am cultured
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organization which is a non-profit
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organization uh this person right here
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who's the founder is also someone who
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has worked in our industry before Tracy
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G if her face looks familiar maybe you
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saw her on Sesame Street because that's
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how far she goes back but she's been
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doing a lot um with this organization
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and she's been doing a lot in the field
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of entertainment as well and she's here
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with us today I want to make sure I say
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it right Carmina Berry is here
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[Applause]
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I mean I was nine so you believe
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anything at nine right wow that's an
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experience yeah good times and then and
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that led you to continue with your
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pursuit of this career right correct
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yeah what happened next tell us about
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the journey so really quickly on that
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Journey note I went off to continue back
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back in the day was more so of a hobby
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for me I wasn't really looking at it as
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a career and then when I was in high
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school I started performing in all the
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the shows and I was beneath the younger
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and raising in the sun okay my senior
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year and everyone in my yearbook had
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said oh we're gonna see on Broadway and
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you know we can't wait to see on the big
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screen and I was like okay well maybe
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this is something I should actually
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pursue and so um I didn't though I ended
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up going off to Hampton University proud
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graduate of an HBCU yeah shout out to my
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Pirates
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um out there but I went up to Hampton
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and I pursued a degree in Psychology
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because I knew that I always wanted to
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help people and be a part of like the
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healthy development of specifically
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young people but I still did have a love
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and a passion for the Performing Arts
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and so when I went up to Hampton I did
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do that I did pursue psychology but then
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I finished the semester early I
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graduated early yes and I I said I'm
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coming back to New York and I'm going to
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go ahead and pursue my acting career and
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that's when I ended up enrolling in
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seller Adler Studio the school for film
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and television and from they just
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started picking up again and getting
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involved in films Independent films
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mostly and one of my biggest roles
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actually came from a project a
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full-length feature film I was the lead
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actress in a project called the
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three-way
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um which was this was back in 2008 and
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um yeah it took me across the film
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festivals and so pretty much my journey
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has always been like this side to side
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alignment of like helping people you
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know the therapeutic world the clinical
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world but also the Performing Arts world
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but most recently though I am a part of
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a project called makeup and breakup it
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was actually on BET
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I'm really excited about that we've been
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doing this project for six years
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[Music]
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but we're now we're now on all black I'm
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really excited about that and we're
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actually going to be screening during
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abff
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um
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well congratulations wow
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it's been an interesting Journey but
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again you know love for both and I've
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been really blessed to be able to still
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continue to do both along the way amen
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yeah so how did I am cultured come about
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so I'm cultured again shout out to just
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my my parents shout out to my mom my
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father passed away when I was 15. so if
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you hear me speak about just like my mom
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I don't want to discredit my father
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because it was definitely in my life but
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um he passed away when I was 15. uh but
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yeah same thing with like acting they
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just had me involved exposure was really
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important for my parents um growing up
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and so for me as as young as six months
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as soon as I was able to get all of my
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shots or whatever my mother was like
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we're on a plane and we're out so I was
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traveling from as early as six months
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and didn't really realize at that time
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this the value of travel I didn't get it
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I'm at 15 years old I had already
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traveled to at least 23 24 countries
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yeah so
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um again having these experiences being
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um you know the exposure was really
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really important to my parents when I
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was 11. I was a part of a student uh
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travel program again but but not
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realizing at that time I was wondering
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the students they know that that are
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here in the building with us today I was
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one of two people of color that was a
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part of that program and had a great
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time we went to Australia New Zealand
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and um but one thing I will say thinking
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back to that I don't really recall the
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mentorship piece and like the connection
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with the other peers but it was a good
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time being a young person at that age
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and exposure to travel was was awesome
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um from there I went off again went off
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to college and it wasn't until I got to
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Hampton and I realized that a lot of my
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peers had not traveled yet yeah at that
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time a lot of them didn't have passports
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and I didn't realize that for me
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something that was a part of my
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upbringing and my exposure and just part
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of who I was and made me who I was that
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it wasn't like that access just wasn't
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available to them whether it was lack of
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knowledge or lack of resource or just
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time their families weren't really
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prioritizing that for me and so the more
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I thought about it and then doing some
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more research and realizing that when it
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comes to travel that there are
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disparities in travel in the travel
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industry when it comes to people of
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color that I want to do something about
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that and I wanted to create an
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organization based off of Just knowing
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what traveled it for me at such a young
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age and who I am
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um you know all around socially just
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intellectually my mental well-being and
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those are the pillars for I am cultured
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that I wanted to be able to give that
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back to the young people of color and
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making that possible to them for them
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because that's not the case and travel
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shouldn't be necessarily a privilege
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everybody should have access to travel
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because of what it does for us and I
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think as adults us realizing what it
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does you know when we take that vacation
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you know we need that girls trip or that
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guy's trip just what it does for us
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therapeutically and I'm like imagine
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having that at our adult age but giving
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that to young people as early as you
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know 11 12 or 15 in high school years
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old and what that can do for them and
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their support you know developmentally
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because it's such a crucial age for them
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at this time of their lives as they're
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you know discovering or rediscovering
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who they are and why not you know give
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them that opportunity buy the exposure
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and stepping outside of your immediate
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four walls and outside of your community
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so that's how I'm cultured got started
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I'm so man I'm about to dig in my wallet
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right now give carmill some money
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tell people uh where can they find more
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information about the platform like
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right now we we're taking money today
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that's the money today we need folks to
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donate to this to this fantastic
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organization non-profit organization how
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could people do that yeah so we're
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available online
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iamcultured.org I am culture.org we're
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also on uh social media where I got
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Twitter
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um whatever Instagram Facebook at I am
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cultured Inc but yes if you want to make
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a donation yes you can go right ahead to
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iamcultured.org.org and you got these
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beautiful kids with you I don't even
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call them kids
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so let's get them on camera introducing
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themselves you got the camera ready okay
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cool all right now up first right here
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this man came I don't even know where he
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got the necklace from but he over here
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he dripping like Khalid over here say
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your name man my name Ricardo I'm in
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11th grade you're in 11th grade man what
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should what should you got dreams right
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now what's your dreams right now
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entrepreneurship talking here man
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entrepreneurship I got a clothing brand
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okay
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so clothing brand right here yeah
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insufficient yeah
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yeah so the meaning behind it is
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insufficient of course when you hit
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insufficient you think of the negative
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not enough yeah but me and my friend
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khalobi made the clothing brand as
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insufficient to inspire the youth to
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always go beyond their goal to not have
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a go so always go beyond it so
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insufficient
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[Applause]
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all right I like that y'all made hoodies
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too yes hoodies
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I'm aspiring to be a commercial pilot
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yeah a commercial pilot
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all right what size is your hoodie
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what's up
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switch all right cool man uh what's your
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name sir um my name is Tyler James I'm
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an aspiring actor and model singer
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dancer
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not aspiring he's doing it
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you know you doing it speak it you know
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we we laugh and joke all the time up
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here with that words but I tell Sway and
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Tracy and the people that listen to this
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show I'm a billionaire it's period and
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those that's based on the decisions that
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I make because that's where I'm going
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and so I think when you speak these
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words I'm an actor I'm a I'm a
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commercial pilot you'll go it'll help
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you change your decision making and
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everything because you know where you're
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going you're already there you're
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already there yeah that's the part of it
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it's the journey the journey is a part
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of the success words matter yeah the
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words matter somebody validate you with
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a title right you did it you're an actor
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I'm an actor
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that's what you do look at you you you
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shoot it look at you cause I would
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definitely if I saw y'all what do you do
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you're like you know that's what I'm
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going to ask you walk in that I used to
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wear my hair like that I do not remember
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and I've known you a long time
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hi I'm summer I'm 16. um oh yeah I'm
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graduating high school okay
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um my biggest goal of knife is to create
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a whole bunch of mental health clinics
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and underserved and underprivileged
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communities and my yeah my biggest goal
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in life is just to give back and I
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definitely want to do that through
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philanthropy and I feel like I am
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culture definitely opened doors for me
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because it's shown me how much of an
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impact I can have even at my age and
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yeah congratulations yay
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yes I like that citizens as you hear
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these beautiful young folks come up here
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and talk feel free to make some
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donations your money will not go to
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waste one more time make the donation at
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I am culture.org if you need to know how
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to spell cultured it is
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oh yes I am okay here we go
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c-u-l-t-u-r-e-d I am cultured
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spell
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hello good morning good morning
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my name is jahaira I'm going to become a
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model a really big one and I'm gonna go
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to my HBCU and major in Business
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Administration and maybe become a real
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estate consultant and then I see where I
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go for them definitely going to give
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back to communities like Colombia
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Cartagena you know everything so Jahira
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yes
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she's a philanthropist come on
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properties what's your name Queen hey my
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name is Leah and I'm going to be a well
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I am a senior and I'm gonna be a plastic
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surgeon and I'm going to Hamilton
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College and I'm going to major in
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biology and maybe physics and
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um biochemistry
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What attracted you to plastic surgery
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Beyond just like I know it pays a lot
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yeah it does pay a lot I'm trying to get
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that coin but um I just wanna I feel
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like girls nowadays like I feel they
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really like need
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um a better like look in life I don't
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know how to explain it like
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um I'm sorry I'm nervous but um yeah I
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just think that it's important to um
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help girls like you know see themselves
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in a better way whether it's mentally or
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physically and I just think
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um like you know a lot of girls today
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look at like you know like Nikki cardi
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um
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um the Kim Kardashian or whatever and
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they see like these bbls and they think
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it's all easy but um I want to be there
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to help them like get get more
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information and more like background
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information yeah yeah okay just let them
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know it is hey maybe you can help them
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with that the manicures too look at the
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nail game right there
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[Applause]
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so uh let's start with you Tyler um what
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what is it about this organization that
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you find works for you specifically
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um um
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I think I think like
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I think the um you want to hear yourself
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with the headphones no no
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I think like the biggest I think the
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biggest takeaway that like interests me
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about this organization and being a part
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of it is like the being that it's just
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like black owned and just black like
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black excellent Excellence at his finest
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you know just being part of like study
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abroad group with you know some of my
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peers and even meeting new people and
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like on top of that like the
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entrepreneurship like Summits in the
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classes and like the financial literacy
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you know things we learned that we don't
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learn and you know necessarily in the
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education like School of course but we
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should be learning especially like being
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that we're black you know we're not
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we're not you know learning or like
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going to school to be um workers we're
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learning this could be bosses and
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entrepreneurs and like you know
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different fields like you know I just I
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just got um accepted into NYU Tish
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because I'm an actor and you know
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you say that
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um you know being where I'm from like
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you know Harlem you know I'm saying like
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that's not really like a conventional
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like or you know a very like regular job
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and at first you know I had to like show
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people like instead of show them that
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I'm doing this you know and I performed
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at Radio City next year you know I'm in
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the Nutella for our campaign I'm doing
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these things and you know being a part
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of programs like this I can I can embark
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on that because I need some
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entrepreneurship because I want to be a
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billionaire I will be a billionaire what
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you said really talk baby Billy talk
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only and like learning you know even
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like personally with Miss Carmel like
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she has just been like such like a such
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like an amazing like second mom in my
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life like I text her like it was just
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like she's just so everybody in like the
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whole arm culture team you know
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traveling and being a part of that like
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I just take so much in and I'm able to
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like show that on my platform like
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social media and take everybody through
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my trip as well and like what it has
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done for like my friends you know and
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just being a part of this it's just like
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you could just never make this up you
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just got to be a part of it you're not
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on the way you got to be on the wave you
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know what I'm saying like you just gotta
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really like so being what I'm culture
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and just like being part of this black
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moving Excellency you know just for
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everybody it's just so so important I'm
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just so grateful and honored thank you
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phones out y'all need to be posting this
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moment right right
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attention
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we're going to film it don't worry so
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how has this helped you like why would
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why should other how would you convince
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your friends they should join this
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organization first of all the reason
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that I initially joined I am cultured
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was because of the fact that I felt like
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I wanted to travel and I feel like being
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part of the program not only has Miss
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Carmia showed me the importance of just
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showing up and being there she's given
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me so many just small gems I feel like
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especially through our financial
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literacy workshops just mentorships
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because when you join the program you
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have people who are in your field that
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you're planning on pursuing and you have
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conversations with them on what their
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their job looks like what their road to
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success was and kind of helping you
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career like map out what you and your
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goals look like and just being there oh
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I went to Cartagena
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he came back in April it was a beautiful
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experience and I feel like it taught me
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not only so much about myself but my
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peers and it helped me connect to the
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people who are around me who are
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literally in my face and I did not have
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international so I had to be there
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and I took a long break away from my
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phone because we were doing something
15:45
every second of the day and again I
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never stopped talking about our day of
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service where we went to an underserved
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community and we helped them paint a
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mural and we got to interact with kids
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and although there was a language
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barrier I felt like just being there and
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able to communicate with people who
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don't necessarily come from the same
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background as me has just taught me like
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this is exactly what I want to do
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because regardless of the language
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barrier we were able to share a common
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goal and we did it together and I love
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kids so it was great it was it was
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fantastic incredible yes I love this
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program so much and stop I brag about
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missing all the time because she's she's
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so inspirational to me because this
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literally started with just a dream and
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she's turned her dream into like actual
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reality and she's poured herself into so
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many children and yes oh and I'm going
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to Middlebury College in Vermont
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Middlebury
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um they have an amazing study abroad
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program and I feel like I know that I
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want to study abroad and I plan on every
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time that I do make a trip or just go on
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vacation I want to do something to give
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back to whatever Community I'm in
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because this was dope yeah yeah
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I'm interested in the future pilot uh
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standing behind Tyler because I I think
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it's so beautiful when I heard you say
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that I was like wow yes what made you
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want to pursue uh that field and are
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your parents excited your siblings
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excited are you excited what introduced
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you to that world
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go ahead yeah move out your seat sway
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he's a big guy
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Carl in the morning he doesn't give up
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that off the call sit down see what
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it feels like to sit in sways I have to
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cap this chair get used to it
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[Applause]
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um since a little kid I always like just
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love the the thought of Aeronautics I
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just thought it was so cool how like
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science could get millions and trillions
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of pounds of metal flying in the air
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um and of course I think I am cultured
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greatly for even giving me the
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opportunity to travel
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um
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mentorship it was a really big thing for
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me I always had a like a struggle
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getting out of my bubble talking to
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people especially people that um are
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like in the same field that I enjoy you
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know and thank you to Carmina and I'm
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cultured I got to meet plenty of people
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that are in the um aviation industry and
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um currently I study at uh Danny Wiseman
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flight school yeah
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I'm still looking into college but um I
18:30
have applied for ATP Flight School to uh
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get my pilot private private pilot's
18:35
license and get my cfis and multi-engine
18:37
ratings let's go
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um so yeah I hope to fly all my friends
18:47
sees this interview I just saw him on
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social media the other day flying and
18:51
playing I was like what did what and you
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know he's
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I hope he sees this because I just see
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you like talking to him one day I don't
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know why don't do that
19:04
I do not have Tyler Perry's number if I
19:06
did I would text it was like you have to
19:08
meet this young man Carl this is
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beautiful like I'm so inspired by all of
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you guys but to hear you say this as a
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young man and you pursuing this is so
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beautiful like and you stepped outside
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of your your bubble in your comfort zone
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and I think that's the first step so
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many of us hide our dreams and our ideas
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and because we're scared and we're
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worried about people thinking we're
19:30
crazy and we don't know if people are
19:31
going to support you but God put
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something on your heart spirit that
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nobody could take away from you so I'm
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so glad that you you sharing this with
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us it's beautiful
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take my chair away
19:46
I can't wait to get on a flight and see
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you there
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um
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you know wait a minute give it up for
19:59
Reggie huh
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today man that's about them right
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um so June 8th we have our annual
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fundraising Gala um we call it uh party
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with a purpose we honor four change
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makers in the industry not even in the
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industry in in our communities that
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have done things whether they be with I
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am cultured or things that we see that
20:24
you know make the most sense for
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building up our communities so
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um our honorees this year are going to
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be Arnie Weissman from travel weekly uh
20:33
councilwoman Daniel Brown okay uh
20:37
the dreamville foundation shout out to J
20:39
Cole
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the J Cole song Ready
20:44
J Cole and um his team they did a great
20:48
job in partnering with us they actually
20:49
flew the kids down to the dreamville
20:51
Fest back in yeah
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um and Nikki Bethel from the Emma Bowen
21:09
foundation so we're gonna come together
21:10
we're gonna have a good time in Brooklyn
21:12
um at the Williamsburg hotel and you
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know party with a purpose and raise some
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money for us to continue to go on these
21:19
trips okay now if people like I want to
21:22
continue because a lot of our citizens
21:24
donate to worthy causes and this is one
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I stand behind and I want the citizens
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to donate money once again you got to
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see these amazing young folks right here
21:33
I mean the energy they have right now
21:34
full of light Full of Life full of
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information full of vigor if you want to
21:39
invest in this we spend our money on a
21:43
lot of different things we buy belts we
21:45
buy trips Recreation we do a whole lot
21:48
of things but we wait tickets we gamble
21:50
this isn't a gamble invest in this and
21:53
you're going to get a return or eye on
21:56
your investment that's going to be
21:57
amazing because every one of these
21:58
people have talked about pursuing their
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dreams and then giving back to the
22:03
community so once again Carmia what can
22:05
they invest you can invest in
22:07
iamculture.org and I just wanted to say
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that all of our young people that are
22:10
here in this room and those that are
22:11
represented in our cohort this year and
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in the past a lot of our young people
22:14
have just traveled for the first time
22:15
okay organization wow um you know when
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you when you do donate yes for summer
22:19
it's her first time um these young
22:20
people in the room here they've traveled
22:22
to uh Colombia Cartagena
22:24
yes to Ghana I went to Ghana in January
22:28
you go to Ghana every year
22:29
every little trip for us every February
22:32
we go to Ghana and we started doing that
22:34
in 2019 with the year of return that
22:36
campaign that got started and we just
22:37
saw the benefits truly the benefits of
22:39
of taking our young people
22:40
um back to the continent so that is an
22:43
annual trip for us again donations uh do
22:46
benefit young people getting a passport
22:47
it does cover our travel expenses our
22:50
young people pay little to no cost to
22:52
travel with us so and um yeah so just
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know that it goes a long way whatever
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you give today tomorrow just know that
22:57
it lasts truly a lifetime as you can
22:58
hear from these young people speaking
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today so it's greatly appreciated for
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sure all right cool man y'all can hang
23:03
out for a little bit I got a group out
23:04
of Toronto that's about to come up I'm
23:07
not that familiar with them so maybe
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y'all can help do the interview
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[Applause]
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future journalistic
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so uh we're gonna have them come up Let
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Them Sit down I'm gonna pick through a
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little bit and then as y'all listen to
23:22
them no you don't know them I'll give
23:24
you the information you can look them up
23:25
uh you can just ask questions okay all
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right y'all with that okay
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okay cool all right give it up for I am
23:35
culture one more time make sure you
23:38
donate
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