(Shakyra) Hey y'all, it's your girl Shakyra Mabone
(Jada) Jada Vasser
(Anthony) and Anthony Brinson and this is all shades of chocolate where we bring
(Shakyra) the sweetest
(Jada) the hottest
(All three) black culture MSU
(Anthony) so even though y'all want to see him in the episode, we have a special guest shout out Brad and the recording. Say hi, brainwave, brainwave and the camera break. So this week, we're gonna be talking about just the importance of black language and speaking in the way we speak and talking to others and like navigating throughout the world, and especially in college in this setting, and yeah, so, we're starting off, we start off a little lighthearted with we were thinking of like black acronyms, and we go, are we gonna censor ourselves? Are we gonna say the actual acronym? You're gonna censor it? Alright, so just the first example I asked Brad like, Okay, if I tell you be FFR what does that mean? He was like, be freaking for real. He didn't say freaking but you know. But me and me, Shakyra and Jada. Were watching the video of like, like, it was people on Tik Tok, who acts like the black acronyms. Did you write all of them down? Yes. All right, but so Shakyra Take four.
(Shakyra) All right, so the first one, you know, you your mama, you're talking you're arguing or whatever. And you know, you get a little height. You know, you thought you smelly yourself, as they will say, What did she say? She said this? Is i a OYLF. What did she say? Like? What did that mean? Go ahead. Take it away.
(Jada) You know, a phrase my mama said a lot. I didn't want to be a little friend. And that got me you know, and this was the first one as a kid you like, let's say this is my mom saying that to her and such. Like, am I such a such Mama? No, I'm your mom. I'm not one of your little friends and stuff like that.
(Shakyra) Oh, my God. Yeah, like, you know, you are done with your mama. Why can't go to a sleepover because that's your parent. That's a parent. This is the AV conversation. That's another sand and others. I'm thinking No, just alternative. I didn't want to friends. I am not Buddha food. Yes, I am not.
(Jada) I don't know who it is. But it's not my mom is
(Anthony) not to a previous episode where you've said I can't remember why. But
(Jada) I think we're talking about it briefly and I'll send an example. I don't know who it is, but I know who was
(Shakyra and Jada) not and then you know, yeah, black people in general. Were not the 123 so and they got the wrong one today. You got the wrong one and the right one today. Okay. You guys. Okay.
(Shakyra and Anthony) So another one that was like, you know, you're going to the store you and your mama and your siblings. What did she say before y'all get into the store? DAFNADTN Jada want to take this one again you I think we talked about this one off
(Jada) hold on like you said this is the this the don't ask for nothing. Don't touch nothing. Yeah. You know, when you go in the store UBC chips you're like, Oh my God, let me get a toy. Toy sister. So you know, it was double trouble meeting they'd be like, Oh, look at the snacks, Mama. Let's get some pop. They were like No, I told you before we came in. It's stolen so I want to leave you're in the car. Don't Ask Don't touch nothing because we come from one specific thing unless you could get a thing
(All three) did not get one that's another one. Maybe? They don't be lying. They can tell. A lie lies a curse. Word we can't I don't know why we couldn't say it but I mean, it was
(Jada) a lie. You You said on something like this? I got twin sister. We'd be arguing no Janae might know me she what? Would you think I caught her be worried I'm like she likes
(Anthony) You can say I'd say Right.
(Jada) Like they love they weren't you know they told the story. They don't know my character you know? Don't know what it is with that word but they will just like lie. Oh
(Shakyra) can I ask you a question? Well, y'all saw kick me personally. They have to force me to go so I was not put on me freaking with the outside I swear I was
(Jada) ya know me. I mean, I was independent who house I was over. So when I was younger, and I went to my great grandma house we call him mama house because everybody call her mom. Want to that's like the figure of my family? It was some kids who live like next door that was my age and it was a corner store in the corner so means neighbor walk you know meet up with some other kids my cousins live like a few blocks down so over there yeah it was outside. But you know I call my mom a big Vernet you know big brunette like to move around so as she moved around it wasn't really no kids so me to never be inside but if we went outside I guess it was me and her to have someone was like man you born let's go back inside and watch TV or play the Wii or something. So at home no but other people house Yeah, cuz it was more kids. So we could be outside and then they forced us outside because they like why are you on the planet the grown folks go
(Shakyra) stay in that child's place.
(Jada) You can't be with the grown folks and not know let them breed. The type of kid that wants to be bought by mama. Like I just wanted to be under the girl so like to be by my like,
(Shakyra) because I was raised by my grandma. Y'all know the story but when I was like when my grandma was like sitting outside on her porch she used to be on the phone gossiping my grandma. She is a biggest gossiper. I'm sorry, you know how older black women are? I mean, but when she had her sister my great Auntie God bless her so they used to be talking about everything like how it was back in the day everybody dirty laundry and me my cousin we just be like, okay.
(Jada) But then somebody noticed that you
(Shakyra) know, she was like, ah, get our grown folks now Go play somewhere this sort of stuff. And then Hara Junaid me outside people. I didn't literally seen them and I thought like this was a myth. I literally seen them dance in the rain when I tell you my mind was not that's what I did do whenever. I don't know why. Cameras My face is like I know they I know. Yeah.
(Jada) Yes. We lived when we lived in like the house before we started moving to apartments when it was snow like me and they were the kids that would go outside and try to
(Shakyra) make a snowman. Yeah, we made snow. Okay, so my my grandma ex boyfriend at the time he Okay, he was really fun. I liked him. But he used to like engaged in activities with us like to make nomads and stuff but I was not messing with us. No, I just couldn't
(Jada) it was fun. You know it was cold. But you see this make a snowman in our apartment with the little snow we danced in the rain me and my sister. rain or snow we're gonna be outside if we want to be
(Anthony) No, not at all. But when I was younger, we also had like sometimes my grandma so there was a point where we live like around the corner from my grandma. My grandma lived next to me the best when you live right down the street from your family. At my grandma's house it was in front of a park and the neighbors was around my sister's age so we would play with them or like I remember like I'd try and like learn how to ride a bike and all that but then as I got older I got into more like gaming and stuff so I wasn't like as outside Yeah, and then I would either like play basketball or like ride a bike so it was it became more 5050 and like my middle ages let's say 10 to 1617 and up I don't I don't like I was like never they have to force me to so it's weird because I like I grew to like nature like if I'm like sitting and like chillin by a tree or some I do that but like you will never catch me dancing in the rain making a snowman snowball at me we're going
(All three) some more black bands but yeah, so how long I was outside though that's that's the real question. If it's a vibe on I've pulled a couple of the pin yeah so so that means your mama didn't say it is d a winner sorry this is a long one GAITMFHBFIBYA
(Anthony) so while I don't know the acronym or I can't think of the acronym you know to rule the streetlights so it's don't come on that's what we get back is good show in the beach Oh
(Jada) get in this house before you I told you once and I gave you five more minutes now to five more minutes is up and you need to get back into Firefox
(Anthony) on I go in willingly after that like I don't like bugs at all not
(Jada) believe your eyes 10 million
(Shakyra) wait I want fireflies though
(Jada) bro fireflies is Chase today she killed one oh accident. It will be the night she was in Dortmund. You do and she like the fireflies are after me. She's like I stepped on one I said how see me in the air.
(Shakyra) was a little pricy too I mean you're kind of got that I do not like the outside not one of my student mosquitoes came out Yeah, I was like yes I'm gonna get this go hit that shower go eat dinner
yeah and then you know when you're not outside you're having a barbecue and stuff like that or party and stuff. You know? You've got to have your cousin's your onsies you know some other family members that probably don't even matter come over. So your mama say it is see why RWH see if I can take this one even though you said it off the mic. I'm probably not getting exactly what pretty much clean their room we haven't company Oh, and it's just a metal make no sense. They're not well, actually, what is my cousin's okay? I get it because my cousin's gonna be my room and we are about to play the game. But everybody why am I wrong in the first place?
(Anthony) At random baby under your covers you know, the party getting all along are grownups and went downstairs.
(Shakyra) Oh, can we talk about that? They're like birthday parties. And then but yeah, I realize like, I know this is one of my long distance cousins now. But like, all up on my bed and a slob and all my pillows and stuff like that. And don't get me started when they wake up crying. 900 What am I supposed to do with this baby? Make sure they diaper queen. I'm not the parent, you know? But yeah, don't even get me started on the birthday party. So I know we talked about this the other day how? We was just talking about like, how was your birthday was looking when you're growing up? You know? Have y'all had it at the party? Me personally, I was I have house parties because I love my cousins. And they love meal fours. It was it was just like budget friendly to you know, I have a summer birthday is September 6. So you know we like Boston hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill and so getting you know, get the cake and you said you have a summer birthday? Birthday is September 6. Yeah, that was like literally my birthday. It was 85 degrees out there. Yeah, I think September. Well, it's my birthday. It depends on the year sometimes they'd be on Labor Day. Sometimes it'd be before after Yeah, usually September 6. I think school so I'm like, See, that was the only occasion along just the engine or the animal problem generation and it's fine. Anyways, yes, yeah, that was the only downside to my birthday. I mean, oh, I school grown up, but I was like, dang. Did you go to school? I guess you guys oh my god. You went to school? Yeah. Yeah, I wanted to be around. Oh, girls. He's I brought the balloon. Here's the thing. Here's the real question. Did you bring cupcakes for the class? not bring a whole bunch of grown teenagers to cupcakes.
(All three) I remember what it was. I think it was a birthday of mine. When it was very rare for me to be in school during my birthday and my birthday is May 14. Oh you don't want to end the school year? Yeah. I think it was more like my mom brought us some chicken up there for us. Yeah. Oh, that's blood guarantee tonight Listen, we brought chicken day somebody brought it wasn't like chicken and cupcakes are the chicken chicken in either chicken and cupcakes or like chicken and pizza. Okay, so don't miss a Mrs. princetown by first name, but she gets you get me. Oh yeah. You say Big Bird nebulae. No. Your mama. First of all, I do not call her big brunette to her friends. I'm still a little afraid we call her mom mommy when I will not call you mommy.
(Jada) I wrote us real Yeah. No column black people in a first name. Absolutely not in this the last name. Thank you, ma'am. Before you enter my house,
(Anthony) I'm glad you mentioned that specific point because there have been two people in my lifetime who did this and the second one was Stevie's older brother. So shout out Stevie and shout out brand. I finally met his older brother. Oh, yeah. He when I walked in and saw him I was like, because I was raised like Yes ma'am. No, ma'am. Yes, sir. No, sir. So I saw him I was like, Hey Sir How you doing? He's like don't call me sir. That always throws me off because that's how it was right so we're gonna get everything I was raised just black thing and it's just a polite manner manner. Like you also said like I'm speak to everybody like we walk in that was my mom wanna like not like puppies not pet puppies too but we've got like, commandment one speak to everybody in the room and to this day it's so weird when people don't do it. It's just like so rare like so you ain't gonna say hi to me or not even just my friend not even a family I don't walk in here I make sure I say you have like 100 people in your group
or less if somebody like an older person or a church give me some money currently you know let me know they'd be roaming or hold on me and use a tissue key don't let your mom know I gave a kid that under the table
(Jada) speaking there is so crazy that I should certainly commandment is kind of the right word though like it's just commandments of stuff that you had to do like speaking when you walked in anybody house was just that was the rule Yeah, but you had to do that like it's stuff that you abide by and you did it oh best believe that family was gonna talk you to two for now that you did not speak in the house. Yeah, you know you speak when they get in the house they little friends don't talk
(Anthony and Jada) it's like it's like Damn your family looked you they're talking to a woman because everybody man my grandma man. Why are you raising them wrong Dad Dad say some
(Jada) popular black opinion. I did not do weapons. That is the one thing bless my mama was one of the few that didn't believe in weapons.
(Shakyra) Really calm lady seemed like it.
(Jada) Oh I've seen a few glimpses Allah you mama she is she is really calm. She did a lot of parents and stuff that most black mothers and then just parental figures in general will find like different like weapons. It was a big thing with a lot of people in her family that she didn't want none of us. She didn't work jazz. She didn't work. She don't want to know he didn't want me. Like I don't know just her thing. And I always asked I was like, why don't you know what but she was like one year wasn't that bad? And then two she said what are they doing? And they'll still do the same thing you just whipped them so
(Shakyra) a lot of black parents they just got anger issues they just want to work on a Can we talk about oh especially the one that'd be like cussing up talk about it like oh you know they trying to figure out what who they are as a person they don't know like the basics or whatever. But like Yeah
(Jada) that's why I try to talk different to like my niece and nephew I talk about them all the time but they my children. They really my older sister kids, but they my kids. Now I will not lie. Sometimes kids will take you to they will. They do I was one of those. But I will say it does make a difference if you realize that they're taking you there and you'd be like, You know what, alright, and you just distance back away? Sometimes are he fine? Oh, he could talk now and you can understand. I'm arguing with a five year old contestants so hard but when I told him I'm
(Shakyra) 16 years old.
(Jada) I say go eat the juice and the apples I said I'll feed you that juice and eat that don't say anything? You know what I'm gonna get the dog and he's like no Andre I want peaches now. I say go eat them apples. You said you want to add I will peach you know what? Get out my you know Xena she three she likes to dress herself. She she tastes sometimes I don't met Xena know that we gotta change these clothes not gonna want to change I don't want to argue with kids today. Okay, you know that you really you know what? Go do it. Do it. Do it that make you happy?
(Shakyra) So Mama cousin mountain see she got two kids they live in Texas or whatever she like three four years old. Tell me a lot you know it's hot down there right it's like really hot y'all been in Texas y'all so y'all know easily that down in Texas this little girl wear a yellow rain boots all the time.
(Jada) That's a fashion statement.
(Shakyra) really iconic but no I was just like it just remind me of my little cousin like I don't know why do kids do that? I never did that before because me I was always conscious of how I used to like wear stuff and dress I don't know that's another thing that's like a key thing in the black community to like it's always God Dong fashion show at school or whatever.
(Jada) It was was this like We all don't want to be here. Why do we care so much?
(Shakyra) Especially when dress down days for those that had to wear uniforms for the most part I wore uniforms
(Jada) in 12th grade or uniform? Well gray I wear a uniform and for that reason alone I'm kind of glad I did because kids me bro like that bro like they are you know what people got going on but kids don't care
(Shakyra) advocate for no uniFLOW for more uniforms to school actually because it's just like everybody is trippy like everybody else and even then just financially unless they keep making you buy uniforms because China Park Academy How does Kiba color code certs and stuff. It was weird. I guess we really was not wrong. I'm telling you. I had the black side we had yellow I mean you know we're yellow shirts. Yeah. We have the bright yellow, navy blue. Gray and I was about in middle school we have orange. We had dark green and then the sixth graders they were like a light blue.
(All three) let y'all pick the colors that's what I'm conveying them no they pick wrong person picking orange for people to wear.
(Anthony and Shakyra) Remember Did you attend to your middle school hair by signing up for that? I think I asked my parents beforehand to make sure I was new
(Shakyra) I guess it was like a tradition Sep CPA is called Trailer Park Academy. But I was new I came there at eighth grade and my friend at the top well she still is my friend but we were just like really closer back then. She was like yeah, you know, we thought paper in the air and we did that. Why didn't do you were smart? Yeah. Find some good good. I'm in trouble. I'm having trouble. Oh, it was like you either get okay. So you know how at the end of school your activities do you have like the junior prom? Yeah. They said you either have to pick one junior prom or CJ Barrymore's and I was like CJ variables can go because I wanted to go to that junior prom because I never had that before whatever. But yeah, I got in trouble for letting people saw my shirts and stuff I got like a whole bunch of boys numbers at the time. And my granddad he was like hi you know if we're gonna give it to somebody else and I was like be through Well we all get my brother didn't go there. I mean, he didn't end up going there so who's gonna give it to I'm confused now that mine was a little differently because my little cousin ended up going to CPA so my parents really did give me like me talking about herself I love him so much oh my goodness another one talking about the neck yo behind me so funny when I
(All three) say manage Mellie yourself because now you're just yeah we just tuck it in don't let don't let you like not do some like go and watch this fall watch show by whoa I'm a play I'm gonna play out whoa oh my god oh my god.
(Jada) Oh my god it's definitely been so funny language growing up. Did you was that appropriate for you to say could you send it to me? No, maybe I could do it. Oh can you
(Shakyra) know because they were like why would you want to do that? Are you clearly like confessing to murder right now or attempted murder Ellie's don't threaten to call CPS even worse
(Jada) police on call to pull up and run away
(Anthony) ran away once I put like I have to like I had like it was a little nose. Sleeve. My parents don't like like I'm leaving letter and I had to go I got one out there. I'm like What am I gonna?
(Jada) You don't think about it. He was so mad at me.
(Shakyra) See, I used to be extremists. I actually went out the door and I didn't go nowhere. But I just like walked around the block. Got scared. Know, she knew better than
(Jada) I do. Wouldn't my room and angry row just punch in the air and uh, whoa, Linda Dorsalis
(All three) I was a little aihole when I was growing up. I used to stand up for them not because they used to be testing my patients like MLS, you know, they'd be testing my page. They used to test my faces so much like all that talking back I did it because it just like, Listen, you gotta hear me and you're gonna hear me today. I was one of those kids. It's another black thing of like, if you respond talking back, like now you
(Jada) may be like, Oh, you ain't got nothing to say. You say don't talk to you.
(Shakyra and Anthony) Oh my god that is PTSD. I'm so it's funny now but whenever like my I used to get in, like interrogated like by my dad when he did come around, because I used to get a trip with my grandma a lot. And he'd be like, asking me a question. But you know me, I'm like so irritated. I don't want to answer he'd be like, hello, hello, I'm talking to you. And I just be like, bro, goodbye. My daddy. That was woman I never played with like, he may not be around that much. But I knew I still know not to play with him. But yeah, and that could be a segue into like, the more serious aspect of this conversation. Jada was mentioned. If you remember the tweet that you were talking about of like, black people I might titled this episode is by the way, but just black people have accident. Black people I'm like, that's that maybe the chocolate chocolate? Chocolate? Chocolate. Oh, Spanish version. Okay.
(Jada) I saw a tweet. Like just you know, you'd be scrolling. You see some funny stuff? Haha. But I saw a tweet. It was like, Can we all talk about how black people have an accent? And people was like, What do you mean by what you mean? Like, somebody was like, I just be talking up to your kid understand? No, not be saying. And somebody was like, No, some stuff. I do not understand what you're saying. It sounds like you have an accent. So I was like, Huh. But then I dived into the question, because I like what do they mean? Like slang or like, the code switching when you you know how, you know, you see put on your white voice that you drop it. Maybe it's the sudden drop where people be like, Hi, what you say. But then I also know that's a real thing. Because I've had some non black people I talked to and they're like, What did you say? And I'm like, Oh, wait, did I say that? And they're like, oh, okay, I get it. And I'm like, that's crazy.
(Anthony) so I'm perfectly segue from that last statement, there was a situation where a friend, you know, a person, I'll even just say, just an individual who they were comparing myself and a white friend I had, and they turned to the white friend and was like, oh, yeah, like you do a good job and speaking, and they turned to me and pretty much say like, oh, you need to enunciate your words better, because I can't really understand you when you're talking. And that really, if as much as I'm trying to speak in code, if the person listen to this, they're gonna know what I'm talking about if they remember it. And that statement is really it made me feel very weird. Because for a more blunt perspective, black people never have trouble understanding how about enunciate my words. Now, if you know me, like personally, I can't talk very, very fast. And I catch myself starting to catch myself when I talk very fast. But the words I'm like, trying to speak and get a point across my even now I'm trying to make sure I enunciate as good as possible. So like I can be understood. And I ended up talking to another person about who ended up being white. And they were like, No, I understand you pretty clearly when you talk. So it was just weird to be in a position. By the way, the person who made that comment was wide. And it's weird to be in this I'm in a space to where people may not understand you, no matter how hard you try. And it makes you feel at least me like like closed off. Or like when Jada was mentioning close, which I do, I need to turn on my white voice when I'm around white people. And like, it just it becomes a safety issue. Unfortunately, like, if I don't talk where if I talk a certain way I'm going to be portrayed or portrayed or perceived a certain way.
(Shkayra) was going to ask, have you guys seen this movie called sorry to bother you?
(Jada) I think so.
(Shakyra) It's a good movie. It doesn't really tie into what we're talking about. But they've mentioned it in the movie. Because this this guy, the main character, he worked in, like a telemarketing business or whatever. And they were just talking about like, oh, you sound so white, and this and this and that. It was just, it just made me think of that movie. You should watch it. It's, it's gonna blow your mind because it's just like, okay, that's weird, but you should watch it. Yeah, but yeah, that's like really unfortunate. Like, I don't understand that. Yeah
(Jada) I feel like I'm black people. And then just like the language and the way that we talk has just been like, one is a big misconception. Yeah. And I feel like it's a misconception that instead of people want to debunk it, they want to join it. And they want to try to talk like AES to join the misconception, because you know, we all know AV is or hopefully we all know he used to call it vonix. like they used to call it Ebonics, you know?
(Anthony) And if you don't notice, sorry to cut you off, just, if you aren't familiar with the phrase is African American Vernacular English.
(Jada) Yes. Yeah. So Avi, and, you know, going to the school, the school we go to, I definitely had experiences where I have seen people outside of my race, tried to speak that way. But they don't do it in a way of, I don't know how you could do it and with endearment, but of course, I do it in a mocking tone. And they do it in the most exaggerated way possible that we don't even talk like that. And it's like, if you don't do it, at least do it the right way. Because now you're doing it in a way of somebody you saw on TV, which is not how somebody in real life act, you know. And so you know, your situation, I tell I told Anthony's off camera, I think your enunciation is very well, as someone who also speaks very fast and has a deeper voice for most females, I can, I can hear when my words clash together, and I cannot see it very well. But you cannot see it very well, you have a great podcast voice. So you know, bump that out. Okay, you can say it very well. But that ties into that we like you said, we have to realize that there are going to be some cases where we could talk as pristine and as clear as we think, but people are just not going to understand us. And it comes down to it's like, one, why don't you understand it? Because I'm talking just like my wife goes over here. But you say they're talking very, very well. And I'm not. So even if any of you say oh, you know, Dora, the person who said it like oh, you know, I didn't mean it like that, you know, I know you work you know you do such good work, we got to come down to the basics and the reality. And the reality of it is you may talk in specific Ebonics or in a specific cadence, then your white coat partner, that doesn't mean you talk wrong or different. It's just people don't, people don't want to understand the cadence in which black people talk. It's often fast. It's often mushed together to get our point across faster because we know people not gonna listen to us anyway. So we create these words, these shortened words, these acronyms to get our point across so people can understand when we say no nonsense out of 10 they still don't. But that's, I think, document explanation as to why some people don't get it. Or some people when they're listening to like, Oh, you don't enunciate your words. No, you enunciate. I'm just saying it differently than, you know.
(Shakyra) Yeah, that's like was slang to pike on Tik Tok when they were saying, um, yet wrong? Yeah. You gotta say like that. Yeah. But I was just like, No, no, she hasn't yet like, no.
(Anthony) Just, if unless y'all got something most to end it off. With that point. It's interesting to, like I said earlier to navigate and spaces to where you pretty much have to switch or flip how you act or how you talk and just to at least have a conversation. Because you will get sometimes like people just looking at your neighbors like, or just don't really understand what you're saying. Yeah. And then don't try and make a joke. That's like, we get but then if it's like outside to tell like, I'm a staff here what season me because he didn't know what, oh, my gosh, what context we were saying, but he was like season, I don't I don't get
(Jada) ya know, some stuff. You got to be black to not even not even know, like, segregation type type stuff. Yeah, but like stuff like that, ya know that the word is not stuff. But I gotta say stuff because I'm on the mic. But you know, some stuff you just wouldn't get, you know, unless you black. But I also think that's something I've kind of started trying to do, at least here at the State News, I'm trying to add as journalists, I feel like it's good to expose yourself to that different language. Because if you're a white reporter, you're not going to be meet all the black people who know that, okay, I can't say that slink as much as I would have or want to, just because they don't have a journalism background, or they just don't care. So you're gonna meet a black person who's going to talk the way that they want to talk, whether it's loud, whether it's how some people say, ghetto, or you know, it's not ghetto. It's just how they talk. It's how they were raised. It's the language they always heard. So that's why they speak that way. But you have to surround yourself with that, in order to know what to do with it, because then you can prepare a store where it's like, well, I could understand and she was saying they use in a blog reporter out there in LA, she was speaking last day. And what do you mean that too? Yeah. So it's like, you have to start surrounding yourself with people like that. Now, granted, at college, you probably won't meet that many people who would flip the switch off of their code switching because they know okay, I'm about to be recorded. I have to speak in a voice that's very people gonna listen to me and people gonna hear what I have to say. Now if you catch somebody on the weekend, like me, duty, duty, you know, I tried to keep a professional voice when I'm in the workplace, but sometimes it just slipped out. And you know, and that's not to say that I'm unprofessional that doesn't mean I don't care about my work. I don't care about my school. Brand and stuff like that. So tone of voice get tired in the voice school drop like me talking. Now. I will say that I'm still kind of close watching because I, you know, I can't say some words on the podcast, but I'm still talking. I'm talking still talking, like the way I will talk to y'all at the apartment, you know what I'm saying. But I just feel like that's the part people don't want to not even investigate, but just get into because people are just afraid of the unknown, you know, and the unknown is something that's always gonna scare people. But I think that's always the advantage you have being a black journalist, you're a part of the unknown. So you're gonna go find other unknowns to be like, unknown to you.
(Shakyra) So, but, oh, I just want to say like, I know, this is kind of like, similar to like what we were just talking about, but like, Have y'all ever like grown up in people uses like, tell your dad we talked so proper?
(Jada and Shakyraa) Yeah. Like, yeah, my mom's gonna get agree. And just be my voice. Now. Granted, I grew up in all black like schools. So I didn't really get as bad people honestly started as a joke, but I definitely have got it coming to Michigan State with some classmates, they're like, are you talking like me? Me that you talk like me? Like, really? I got some experiences being Oh, trying to live by trying to make the family proud, bro. I guess it come with the family back home. Are you telling me I'm like, Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna move my seat. All right. But it's like, why gotta be white to just talk how I talk
(Anthony) exactly. And add a bit of lore to the podcast. But since we're on camera, why, why? Why or why? Whether we try to make light hearted because at the end of the day, if we don't, we'll be mad every day, but just whether it's appearance speak, or even where we see. Okay, whether it's appearance, or how we speak or anything, or even where we're from, it can always be flipped a certain way and just confused from another person. And I like how Jada was mentioned in just in a way just we can do our best to educate on just how black people are going to interact, how to speak to a black person, how they're going to speak back to you. And it's just a work in progress. Like if someone who's not our race wants to learn about certain things. I mean, the person recording is literally a white person, and they're one of the coolest people I've ever personally met. And they're very understanding to just learn. Just learning about us as people like whether regardless of skin color, I know it's been as time went on when people say like, oh, I don't see color, some people feel some type of way about it, because the color is there, no matter whether you like it or not, but that's our reality. In the good sense. Just people don't always judge based off colors just based on interaction based on the experiences that we may share. We may not share and yeah, and that day that's really just what this podcast is about. Because we're the first all black podcast in a newsroom full of white people got a special message. Oh, yeah. I think we talked about it last episode.
(Jada) Yeah, we I think we mentioned that. You know, we said we were nominated for a really prestigious journal press award that you know if you're a student journalists or work for a news organization this is like the highest of the highest award
(Shakyra) it's almost like the Hearst award dang near
(Jada and Shakyra) place Yeah, award it I am I'm elated bro. I was over the moon when I first started about it. Like, we've like we kind of said last time we just started doing this in January of this year. It doesn't it doesn't feel it feels like it's been last year right? It was like I didn't work your last one. He came here last beginning of this year. And we've just done that show. We got movement like we're doing so much stuff bigger things that we can see now. So that's how I just know that we got to keep going you know, because I will still be doing something we just can't see it but I don't mean it's not happening for it.
(Anthony) And if you religious then wherever you believe in God did okay, all glory to God and just the fact that we're making such an impact where we have a platform to educate and have people come to us and talk about and just even learn ourselves when talking about our own experiences. And I mean, we've we've, it's just, it's wonderful. I couldn't ask for a better job at the moment. So unless you guys have anything else to say we can do off here.
(Shakyra) Oh, well, last acronym. Ended up with acronyms. So you know, your mom on the phone with her sister or cousin or anybody her friend and you write your her face when she said it is dy smo TP Again that is dy o CP and she goes sprinkle a little razzle dazzle after she said as to D wer s m s MOTPOTP
(Anthony) Walking imagine OTP is on the phone. So what's the phone?
(Shakyra) what is it? Don't you see me on the phone with that BSA
(Anthony) we go stay in the chocolate place where we have brought
(Shakyra) the sweetest
(Jada) the hottest
(All three) black culture to MSU
(Jada) y'all can see me this time so remember to stay sweet.
(All three) Bye