Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 1974 release Black Christmas, and this is a most highly revered holiday horror movie and myself included with that because I quite quite quite enjoy this film. I had a great time doing the notes and rewatching this and I'm very excited to do this review. So when I am doing this review, it is still available for streaming on the Shutter streaming service but I actually watched it with the recent purchase I made of the Black Christmas Blu-ray that I got through Scream Factory, which by the way, they did a really good job with this. I have never seen the movie look as good as it does on this Blu-ray, and I know there are a lot of, you know, special features that look really awesome. I have not gotten into those yet. I'm very excited to. But I mean just the cover art on this looks really nice. Love it. Anyway, directed by Bob Clark. If people don't know, he's done other things such as children shouldn't play with dead things, death dream, breaking point, murder by decree, porkies, porkies to the next day, a Christmas story, yes, a Christmas story, baby geniuses, and super genius, or super babies, baby geniuses too. So kind of all over the place with his movies. The first film I ever saw by this individual by Clark was a Christmas story. It's probably the same situation for a lot of people. It is crazy to look at this film and look at a Christmas story and realize it's done by the same person. Very different. It's just nuts, but it's awesome. I mean, great filmmaker. The script for this was written by Roy Moore, who also wrote scripts for The Last Chase, as well as the Black Christmas 2006 remake, which is the very first iteration of Black Christmas I ever saw. I saw it in the theater. Didn't even know about the original at that point. I didn't know I was watching a remake. I was in about the film and I should probably revisit it just to just to see how I feel about it now. Probably not nearly as as well as the original. It was originally titled Stop Me and was originally released in the United States as Silent Night Evil Night. The reason for that was they didn't want to release it initially as Black Christmas because during that time there had been a bunch of Black exploitation films and they didn't want people to get confused and believe it to be a Black exploitation film. So Silent Night Evil Night actually is a good title, but I like Black Christmas more. The original script actually had gorier kills to it, but Clark thought that it would be much better if they played it kind of subtle, that it would actually have more impact that way. I think he may be right. I do like how it is played more subtle. I do like that the kills are very violent and it's insinuated that they're violent and the way that camera work is done insinuates that it's very violent and savage, but you're not seeing a lot of gore. You're not seeing a lot of the violence. You don't see anyone actually die like the life leave them. You see the bodies afterwards. I think your brain, if you haven't watched the film in a while, just kind of fills that stuff in, which actually happens with Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well. You don't actually see people get killed in that film a lot of the times. You just fill it in with your brain, just naturally does it. So people will be like, oh my gosh, it's so gory. It's so brutal, but it's not really that gory or brutal. So same type of thing. The phone call audio was added in post and the actresses, when they were doing the acting that is on film reacting to the phone calls, that was actually Bob Clark yelling things at them from off screen. So they were reacting to different things. They didn't know what the voice and the noises were actually going to sound like until after it was done. Carl Zitterer, who did the music for the film, said that he had tied forks, knives, and combs to piano wires to distort the music. He had also then replayed it and recorded it while putting stress on the recording, something like that to kind of mess it up, which it sounds great. Like the soundtrack for this is very good. It's very creepy. It really, I think, helps to maintain tension a lot of the time. Another thing to point out about noise-related things, Nick Mancuso, who's the person who was the killer, who ended up doing all the voice work for those phone calls and everything. He actually apparently, in order to get the sound and make it so kind of like guttural and disturbing and stressed, he apparently would stand on his head basically and have pressure put to like his abdomen area and kind of talk like that and do all of his acting that way. And that's kind of how he got that sound. Very interesting information. Malcolm McDowell was originally offered the role of Peter. That would have been very interesting. I love Malcolm McDowell. I think he's a great actor. Betty Davis was offered the role of Mrs. Mack. Also would have been interesting. And Gilda Radner was originally going to be Phyllis. She had actually signed on to be Phil, Phyllis, before she ended up having too many obligations with Saturday Night Live at the time and she had to drop out and then that was recast. Margot Kidder insisted on actually drinking real alcohol whenever her character Barb was drinking alcohol on screen. So I think that's a cool little tidbit to know when you're watching the film that every time she's cracking a beer or swinging on some booze, that's real. She's actually doing it. So that makes me wonder, was she actually drunk at times? Because you do multiple takes of scenes. So depending on how many multiple takes and what her alcohol tolerance was, she could have legitimately been sloshed during part of that. So maybe some of it was just acting drunk or maybe some of it was actually drunk. I don't know. Though you don't find out anything about Billy himself, the killer, Bob Clark did create a backstory for Billy. I found this very, very interesting when I was doing research. Okay, so this is the backstory that Bob Clark worked up for Billy. He was abused as a child, locked in the attic and eventually killed, ended up killing his parents. When he ends up referring to Agnes because he says the name Agnes a lot, he is referring to his little sister who he actually tried to kill, but ended up escaping.  And that's why he was going after just these women at the sorority house. So there you go. Now that backstory was actually used somewhat for the 2006 remake. So I found it very, very interesting that that backstory was available for the making of this film. Very, very interesting. So Bob kind of had a frame of reference and I'm sure he gave that to Mancuso as well to work with. I always find those things interesting when there's kind of like a secret story worked out for a character that you don't find out about until, you know, decades later. Clark was actually, Bob Clark apparently was actually working on a sequel to Black Christmas in 2007 when he died. He was actually hit by a drunk driver and killed, which really blows. I mean, it makes me sit around and wonder like what would he have done for a sequel to Black Christmas? And would it have involved the new year? Would it have been Black New Year? I don't know. Would have been interesting. Many involved with the film fought to change the ending, believe it or not, but Clark actually refused to change it at numerous times and even won many of them over when they finally saw the finished film. A lot of people didn't like the idea of it ending with Billy still being alive or actually the killer not being Peter, the killer being someone you don't really know and don't have the backstory for and still just up there in the attic. So he fought vehemently for that and kudos to him because I love the ending. I think the ending's great. They hit you with Christmas in this film very hard immediately with the Christmas music, with all the lights lit up at the sorority house, so you know it's definitely a Christmas film. The killer point of view, or I'll just call it POV shot from here on out. So the killer POV camera work is so effective at being unnerving and they use it very, very early on in the film, which I love. It just really sets the stage with how early it's used and how effective it is. Now a lot of people have said that this was kind of like the beginning of that kind of killer POV, but I know that a lot of Gialo films from Italy had actually done that prior. So in the United States maybe it was kind of the first time it was really being seen, but it had been done before. But very effective and I thought they did an excellent job of it in this film throughout. Actually seeing Billy climbing the lattice moves the tension up super fast.  So it's this interesting dichotomy then of a, you know, raucous awesome time happening on the main level and then upstairs some killer coming in the attic, coming down through the attic door and going, you don't know where at that point. And just knowing that he is around in the house. And as an audience member, you're like who's getting it?  Who's he going to kill? How many people is he going to kill? Is anyone going to be able to see him and stop him and how long is that going to take? So I really like the setup. The phone calls are very unsettling and unhinged. It gives the audience the idea this person has no rational side.   This indicates it's not just crazy ranting going on with this, but there's kind of a rational plan of violence to it. Because prior to saying that one line in a normal voice, it's kind of like these, like a crazy person's rantings and ravings and just like noises and people like, well, this person's not, they're unhinged. And you wouldn't really take someone like that seriously necessarily, but it shows some level of planning and some level of cognizance of what you're doing when it switches to that normal voice and says, I'm going to kill you. So I found that very chilling and effective for the film. The jump scare of Billy grabbing the first victim with the plastic garment is savage. Once again, this goes back to what I was saying about how it's shot in a very intense, savage, violent way, even though you're not really seeing the person die and it's not gory. So it's very effective. And a lot of that just comes down to the acting and the way they shot it, in my opinion. Plus, I just love the shots of the POV of Billy inside the closet looking through that garment bag. Very, very cool idea because it's all distorted, just looks good. Mrs. Mack, the boozehound, is an amazing character. I love that character in this. She adds such a level of levity to the film. And there are other things that add levity to the film. There are jokes kind of thrown in. There's actual humor that is kind of funny, but it does a great job of not messing up the overall atmosphere of kind of dread and tension and creepiness. So they work well together. I particularly like about Mrs. Mack when you're finding all her little hiding spots for her booze. My favorite one in particular, the one in the toilet tank, the back tank of the toilet. I love that one, which pulls up the string and there it is and just rinses her mouth out with it, basically. The cut to the dead body rocking in the attic chair is brilliant and they actually do that a few times. And especially with how long it's focused on so you can kind of take in the horror of the facial expression of the dead person. I think it's Claire is the one. Yeah, and they do that at the end as well, like really focusing on it. So you're seeing her dead expression. It's very unsettling. And that's just one of the things overall that's really done in this film are the feelings of like being unnerved and being being unsettled. Great, just really good. Mrs. Mack talks about how immoral she thinks the girls in the house are, which kind of shows their impurity that potentially leads to their targeting by Billy. And this kind of sets up what ends up coming later within the slasher genre of people who are impure, immoral, get killed. You know, this this is kind of laying those tracks for films to come, not intentionally, obviously. The whole abortion situation. Okay, I'm going to talk about the abortion situation in this film, but I'm going to kind of pretext this with the fact that during my research, it is reported in an interview that Bob Clark said that the abortion thing isn't wasn't put in there to to go either way to be to say anything about pro-abortion or anti-abortion, that he said it was just thrown in there as something for the characters to talk about. Now, I'm not sure if that's really true because the level that it's used in the film is, I mean, it's effective because it's kind of used as a, it's not just something to talk about, it ends up being used as kind of a thing that ties potentially Peter to being the killer. So I'll talk about that. The whole abortion situation is a way to cast suspicion on Peter as the killer. And later also, when he plays piano, the piece he plays is discordant and dark, which plays as an auditory expression of his emotions and potentially his mental state, at least a, you know, a peer appearance of that to the audience at the time. Then he goes even further and he destroys the piano showing a propensity potentially for violence. Then he shows up in the house without Jess knowing he was there and she tells him she won't marry him. So all these things kind of just build up, build up, build up throughout the film so that it totally seems to the audience, it's got to be Peter.  So I love that in the end it is not Peter because it is so mysterious. And it's one of those things that like much like in in other horror films like creature features, when you don't necessarily see the entire creature, your mind, your imagination creates something so much scarier, so much more shocking for you personally. And I think this film kind of does that, especially because there's no backstory to Billy. So you kind of just wonder like what happened to this person? Why are they doing this? What drove them to this? So I think it works really well for that. You don't see Mrs. Max's death, but the setup drives home that it's going to be very violent and gruesome.  The carolers that come about and distract Jess, I think is a was a cool little thing that they did that not only brought Jess away from Barb so that she could be killed with the glass unicorn, which that's my favorite kill, probably a lot of people's favorite kill in the film. But also it's the the fact that the carolers are making so much noise that when Barb makes some noise when she's being stabbed to death, she can't hear it. Jess can't hear it. And it's reasonable within that context that she would not hear it. So it works quite well. That's one of those things of integrating something into the script that when you see it in the film, it just makes sense and you don't question it. You're not like, oh, this just seems like it's in there for the convenience of moving the story where they want to.  Now, obviously they don't know this at the time, but you as the audience member do know this because the entire time Billy has just been sneaking around the house. I mean, I guess, well, I guess you might assume if you were believing that it was Peter on your first watch through, you may assume that he was kind of coming and going, but upon your second viewing and ever all the viewings after that, because let's be honest, if you watch Black Christmas once and liked it, you're going to watch it many more times. You do know that they're locking themselves in, which I find very interesting to kind of think about that while it's happening. You have to hand it to Jess. She's a badass going upstairs for Barb and Phil after she just found out that Billy is in the house. Literally when they say the call is coming from inside the house, which that's where all of that stuff started in this film because it's shown up in many other horror films since and some other films, I believe as well. So she gets that information and they're literally telling her like, get out, get out of the house.  She grabs the, I think it was the fireplace, the poker and goes upstairs and goes looking for her friends, knowing full well there is a killer, a confirmed killer inside the house. Badass. The shot of Billy's eye through the crack in the door when Jess is going into Barb's room and him whispering and he whispers this line, Agnes, don't tell what we did. It's unbelievably creepy. The sound of it, the way it was shot, it looks so good. It looks so scary, so creepy. Bob Clark, man. Bob Clark, so good. The discovery that the call was from inside the house is such a great moment. As a viewer, you felt tense the whole time, but at this moment, the characters become aware of what's going on as well. Love it, love it, love it. Plus, like I was saying, you know, on your first viewing, maybe that's the first time you're finding out that the killers never left, that they just keep calling from inside the house. Also note, real quick, note, because I didn't pick this up the first time I watched it, and maybe not even the second time I watched it. Graham, the one guy who was in there tapping the phones, when he was in there tapping the phones, he actually makes reference to another phone line in the house because they asked if he tapped everything and he said, well, I tapped, you know, this main phone line there. He said there is another phone line, but no phone calls have come into it. Now he says have come into it. He didn't say anything about calls going out. And so that kind of sets up already the premise that there is another line inside the house so that later when it's said the call is coming from inside the house, you can think back and say, oh, well, they've already actually said this. So yes, there is another line in the house. They laid the track for that. The ending, in my opinion, is pretty amazing. You think it was Peter and everything is resolved as he's dead laying on Jess's lap, but then the huge surprise and you believe the killing will probably continue. Unfortunately, we didn't get a sequel to this to find out about something like that, but Bob Clark was working on it and they got killed. It's terrible. The film has good humor, but doesn't let that throw off the scary and unsettling atmosphere surrounding the house. As it's known, Billy is lurking around at the whole time. I've kind of already touched on that a little bit, but it does bear repeating. Again, the kills are very violent, but they're very tastefully shot. That's one way to put it. Okay, so my final comment on Black Christmas. Jess is a strong female character who wants to live her life and fend off the relationship constraints. Peter is trying to force on her, while also, at the same time, physically battling a homicidal maniac. Now, what's the importance of this? Both are trying to take her life. Billy in the traditional sense of taking a life, and Peter by trying to relegate Jess to a mother and wife role against her wishes. So, if you consider this, it's really about Jess being assaulted in a way, one physically and one socio-economically, I guess. That's probably not the best term for it, but role in society-wise. So, here's a homicide killer literally trying to take her life from her, and here is Peter trying to take her life from her in a different way because she makes it very well known within the film that she wants to go on and do things. She doesn't want to have the baby, she wants an abortion because it's a mistake, and she wants to still be able to live the life that she wants to live, and if they have that baby, if they get married like he wants to, that all ends for her, and that takes her life away. So, just as Billy is trying to take her life, Peter is trying to take her life as well, and both of them are basically out of her life at the end, well, I guess we don't know for sure about Billy. At least we assume that Jess ends up leaving the house at least for a little bit, but that's where we needed that sequel. But Peter's done, we know that much. Anyway, what am I going to give this film out of five stars with half stars in play? I really, really like this film, so I'm actually between four and a half and five stars on this because I like it so much. I think it's really well done. I don't think it has all the trappings of being a perfect film in my opinion. I don't give five stars out extremely easily. I'm going to go four and a half stars on it. Yes, four and a half. I think four and a half is good. I definitely do. Now, I would love to hear other people's opinions on this. Obviously, put some comments down there. We're going to get really, really nerdy and know that if I did quarter stars, it'd be a 4.75 out of five stars, but love this. This is actually four and a half. It's like the highest I've given in a while on a movie review. Anyway, I really appreciate everyone checking this out. Do me a quick favor though. Hit that subscribe button. That is your best way to repay me. If you like this video or any video I have ever done, just know anytime someone subscribes, I get an email, I look at it, I look at who the subscriber is, and I say, thank you very much. That is an awesome person. Thank you to that person, because I'm really just trying to grow the community here. Also, if you're going to do that, hit the notification bell button because then you'll know whenever I'm putting new movie reviews, unboxings. I do some other stuff randomly here and there or a live stream or anything like that. Regardless, I do appreciate you taking the time to check this out. Until next time, keep it brutal.


In this topic, we are going to take a look at what is the situation of expatriate training in practice. Actually, what are the aspects of expatriate training? And in real life, what are the statistics of expatriate training? And how expatriate training is provided? So let's take a look. In the previous topics, we discussed it several times that most of the international selections, they are based on technical ability. And why that happens, this is something that we have discussed in the previous topics, why selections are based on technical ability. So when selections are based on technical ability, that means that people who are selected on the basis of technical ability already have that particular ability. So training is not required for that particular aspect. So usually, literature on expatriate training is mostly concerned with pre-departure training. And that also, that is mostly targeted towards cultural awareness training programs. So when people are sent on international assignments, most of the training that is focused on pre-departure training, particularly on cultural awareness training programs. Why do we need and why international training is mostly focused on intercultural training? That's because there are huge cultural differences. And if people make cultural wrong cultural choices, if they respond to cultural situations incorrectly, that can actually lead to a number of problems. This is something that we had discussed in previous topics as well. What are the costs of not being able to respond to cultural requirements? So intercultural training is something which helps people cope with unexpected events in a new culture. So when you train people for intercultural training, that helps them to behave in a way and to respond in a way which is conversant, which is familiar with that particular culture that they are going to. However, when we look at the data on how much training is provided to people who are going to international assignments, we see that previously, 30 years ago, 40 years ago, that was a very small amount of training which was provided to people who were going for international assignment. So for example, a study in 1982 found that US multinationals, they are most reluctant to provide even the basic pre-departure training to their expatriates. So you can see from data that US multinationals, only 32% of the multinationals, they were providing training to people going for international assignments. Whereas it is a little bit different in European and Japanese companies, European companies provided, most of the training was provided by European companies and that is 69%. And Japanese companies provided training to 57% of their expatriates. In 1997, a survey of European countries, it showed that only 13% they always provided training to people going on expatriate, to people going on international assignments going as expatriates. So only 13% always provided. But this was something which was complimented by the fact that 60% provided for culturally challenging postings. So where they were sending people to culturally challenging locations, they provided training 60% of the time. So the data was a little bit better in terms of positions which were culturally challenging. So this is the situation of one survey of 1982 and then of 1997. Then when we look at data from the Brookfield survey, the Brookfield Global Relocation Survey that calculates global trends in international assignments on a various different locations. And we have discussed statistics from various different aspects in previous topics as well. So this data is about cross-cultural training. So in 2009 and 2011, you can see that cross-cultural training was available to 81% and 74% of the people. It was provided to them. But cross-cultural training was provided to employees only. You can see that there is an increasing trend of cross-cultural training being provided to other members of the family as well. So cross-cultural training being provided to employee only was happening for only 7% of the times and 4% of the times in 2011. And cross-cultural training was being provided to employee and spouse in 32% of the times and 46% of the times and to whole family in 56% of and 49% of the times in 2009 and 2011 respectively. So from this data, you can see that the situation has improved a lot from previous numbers to the current numbers and quite a lot of companies and multinationals, they are providing cross-cultural training to people who are going for international assignments and something which is very much interesting and very much encouraging is that they also include the employees' spouses as well as their children for the cross-cultural training so that when people as a family they are moving from one place to the other, it's not just that the person who has been employed needs to be trained for the new culture. People who are accompanying them, the spouse and the children, they are also going to be exposed to the new culture and they also need to be behaving in the right way and they also need to be aware of the cultural differences and therefore cultural training is provided to the whole of the family in maximum of the cases. So this is something which we see that the trend of expatriate training particularly cross-cultural training is increasing these days. Another aspect of the statistics that are related with expatriate training is that the sector also makes a difference. So research shows that provision of training varies across sectors. So all sectors they do not provide training, cross-cultural training in the same way. So the data and research shows that chemical, pharmaceutical, healthcare and consumer firms they are most generous in providing cross-cultural training whereas IT firms they are least generous in providing cross-cultural training. So this topic discussed about the various different aspects of expatriate training which is being provided. What are the historical numbers, what are the recent numbers and how these numbers are changing and they are becoming more inclusive by including people from the rest of the family in the cross-cultural training of international assignees and then we also discussed that sector also plays a role in how training is provided to people going for international assignments. So this topic discussed about expatriate training aspects in practice.


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s it 17 was it 1744 or 1644 1744, I think. So anyway, she's then in Scotland, an English lady in Scotland.   So the storyline is phenomenal. So if you if you like that sort of thing, there is one storyline that I couldn't watch. I couldn't watch the I couldn't watch that again. I watched it once. I couldn't watch it again. The one where this guy is captain. Captain Jack Randall was an ancestor of Frank's.  Trapped Jamie and fell in love with Jamie. And basically, yeah, anyway, it's not nice to watch that wherever that was. So that's not good. Yeah, it is a true story of a time traveler. It's it is isn't it Sherry? It's a really, really good show. Yeah, she hears the voices in the stone. Yes, she does. Maybe only watch season one forever. Yeah. Yeah, couldn't watch the last season of season one. Yeah, it's a bit it's a bit much for me. Yeah. So it has male rape in it basically. And yes, not good. So anyway, Jamie, everyone falls in love with Jamie. Lovely. But yeah, there's a lot of sex in it. And it's not just a little bit of a scene. It's like, yeah, there's a lot of that in it. But but it's great. It's great. So if anybody does want to watch a good series, I would I would suggest that Greg won't watch it because it's violent. And there is violence in it because it's it's true history. It's history. That's what happened. That's how it used to be the English captains were horrible, nasty people. Not all of them, but you know. And the last season of five were with Claire. I can't remember that. But I think I do. But yeah, this is why I can watch it a second time and a third, because I don't remember these things. Yeah. Yeah, I love historical things. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, very good. So where I'm at at the moment, guys, because you'll know, they're building up to the Battle of Culloden. And obviously, Claire knows the history and knows that the Scotch the Scottish people, they didn't win that battle. And it was a complete slaughter of all of the of the clans, the Scottish clans, they all were wiped out, basically. And she knows this. So she's been trying to change history or trying to convince the the prince not to create an army of the Jacobites to go into war, because it's going to but she couldn't say why. So they had to in the background trying to anyway, they're building up for the Battle of Culloden. And I know she's going to go back through the stones back to her husband, so her other husband. Anyway, it's really good. It's really good. So yeah, so Gemini's. So the wheel of fortune changes, everything is moving on, everything is changing. Okay, you've got the strength card as well. Okay, the strength cards. This is about sometimes being strong, knowing when to be strong, but also you need to know when to have that softer side come out as well, when to allow yourself to be vulnerable or appear to be vulnerable. It's important. Okay. And I feel that this is going to be one of those times. Okay. There is, you've got three major arcana cards here so far, which is quite, quite important. So Gemini's is going to be very, very interesting. The beginning of the week, especially for you guys. You're going to be asked to make a decision. Okay, so it's like, which way are you going to go? Okay, are you going to go in this direction or this direction? It feels as if I've got to let go of something that I've got to let go emotionally. I've got to try and release my energy, because that isn't working for me or that's no good for me. And I really feel as if this is, this is something that is going to be very, there's a real need for it. Okay. Of letting go. It's going to allow you to move on. It's like going to catapult you to the future.  Suddenly you realize I've been holding on to that crap. I've been holding on to that anger. I've been holding on to that negative belief system that I'm not worthy of abundance or I'm not worthy of love or I'm not worthy of this. I've let go of all of those and I'm finally released from all of that pressure. This is why it's such a big thing.  All of that is going to start to change and I really feel it's going to be very soul searching the beginning of next week for Gemini's. That is the card at the end of that. So that's after you've let go of everything, the world. The world card is one of the best cards in the deck, the world and the sun. So this is saying all of that has been festering, all of that has been causing havoc and now there's a release. It's all gone.  Okay, all of that is now gone, but you are going to be walking away from anyone around you that you have to tippy toe around. You know when it's that awkward feeling, it's like that's now moving into the past or it could be that you finally are able to understand why it's been awkward and then be able to move on. I realized that it was awkward. I realized that this was going on and now we're done. So yeah, big stuff for that. There we go, another abundance card at the end of the next week, nine appendicles, financial structure, good stuff happening financially for you, good stuff happening with love. There may be a new love story here. This can be a celebration of love in the family, friendships, there's lots of wonderful energy. And this is you said to the universe, okay, I've dealt with that, now bring me, bring me something. Sorry, bring me something else, bring me what I need. Sorry, I've been talking for three and a half hours.  And that seems to be some plans that you're going to be making. There will be no communication with somebody who you would normally be talking to because I feel that you don't need to communicate with them anymore. You don't need to keep communicating with somebody who's clearly no good for you, who clearly has bad intentions or hasn't had your best interests at heart. And all of a sudden you're like, no, I'm not doing that. No, I'm not doing it. I've stopped talking to them. And then it's like I'm bored with all of that old stuff. Here's the new stuff. And there is going to be people from your past coming back into your life. But I feel as if these people are past life people. Okay, so watch out for past life people. Yeah, so big stuff German eyes for you. Okay, I'm excited for you. Okay, so so the storyline and love story make really make the dark parts worth it. Their connection is so beautiful. Absolutely. Sherry couldn't agree with you more. So Marejo also reading I needed to hear this on behalf of a several German eyes. Yes. And there are usually some some information that is for you as well for everybody. My guides have deliberately added in information in there on each level. Okay, it's important to know that. Libra. Okay, so this is my sexy gorgeous husband. And I've got Libra rising as well. So and this is a big leg. Oh, that's okay, Chris. Nice to say thank you. So Marejo, I'm on the cusp. So this is for me too. And Marejo's son is Libra. All right. Okay, so what major arcana card am I going to pull out? Have a guess. Have a guess what's left. What am I going to pull out for you? So Libra, Libra. This is the next card. This one. It is the judgment. Okay, so so sometimes this card doesn't connect with judgment for me. Look, if I didn't, if I just held that card up, would you actually say that's judgment card? I actually don't connect with the illustrator on this. I don't think it is. So I'm going to do a reading on both. So I'm just going to do a reading on what I see there. You know, this person is saying, I have always wanted to be a ballerina, or I have, and you're going to say I have always wanted to be, I don't know, a terror reader, or I've always wanted to be an air stewardess, or I've always wanted to be a bricklayer. Okay, what you're going to be doing is going, I have, I have always, I've never done it before, but I would want to do that. So sometimes we have to honour what it is that we need. Okay, what is that we're going to be doing? Okay, so this is about releasing your wishes. Okay, dreams. So it is, to me, I feel as if that's more like the start.  That looks like that. So regarding the judgment energy, the judgment, and that's not included in the picture that I'm seeing, so the judgment is about breaking free from restrictions, breaking free from anything that is stopping us from getting what it is that we want or what we deserve. And there's times that, that we hold ourself back because it's not, you know, we hold ourself back because it's not appropriate for everybody else. It would, it would upset other people, or, you know, I, I can't do it because, because, because, because. Okay, so, so I feel as if sometimes we have to, we have to say, I want to be my own or whatever it is. Okay. For Greg, he's able to do his rock star again. Okay, he's, he's starting his band. Well, he's joining somebody and doing his, his music. And actually the first Sunday that I am over there, I'm going to be his groupie. I'm going to be there watching him play his music with Chuck, with his friend Chuck. So it's going to be at this, this bar. So, so yeah, I'm going to be there. So I'm going to be watching him. So, and I can be more pleased for him. So he's able to do that.  Okay, it's, it's not, it's a country in Western, so it's not country music. So it's not really usually what he, what he usually likes, but he's playing music and you can see he loves it. So, so yeah. So this is going to be a message for you guys. Follow your dreams. Okay, look at this. Follow your dreams. What is it that makes you laugh? Okay, what is it? And go for it. What, what makes you laugh? What makes you sing? What makes you feel alive? What have you always wanted to do? You know, and they're saying, follow that, follow your dreams. Okay, follow your dreams. Okay, so all right. So stepping on to new grounds. Okay, there's going to be some learning energy around you this next week. Okay, the beginning of next week, Libras. So this to me says I'm going to be training in that or I'm going to be trying out this. I've never done it before, but that's what I want to do. It kind of goes with what we're picking up in the, in that card, which is like the star card, which is wishes, dreams and wishes. Okay, allowing your inner whatever that is to come out, taking control of that, taking, taking charge of, of that. It's like a, that mother in energy and allowing your inner child to fulfill the excitement of new beginnings, the excitement of, of new stuff. Okay, new experiences. So yeah, it just feels as if there is going to be a big chance to do that quite appropriately around the beginning of next week. I can see looking ahead, looking at the future, getting excited about the future because I feel as if this is going on into the future. It's not just going to be the beginning of next week. This seven of swords is that you can see clearly where you're going now. Okay, my mom always sings this to people when she gets this in a reading. She'll hold people's hands and she'll say, I can see clearly now the rain has gone. And she, she's so theatrical, my mom. So if you ever want a reading with my mom, I would definitely go for it. She's brilliant. So yeah, she likes to do face to face ones though. So, but she can do online. But yeah, so this to me says that sometimes we have to look further afield. Sometimes we have to plan further in advance. So it could be that you have to do some training for that thing that you want. Okay, I've always wanted to skydive. Okay, so I need to prep for myself and I need to have some lessons. I've always wanted to scuba dive, right? Okay, we've got to do some lessons for scuba diving so that I can then do that. So it just feels as if you're what you're going to be doing is yes, you're following your dreams, but you're doing it properly, okay, to make it the best experience that you can possibly make it. Okay, by the middle of the week, the middle of the week, I'm hearing a character who they are very enthusiastic one week. It's like, yes, yes, let's do this, let's do this. But by the next week or by the next day, it's like, well, I don't know if I can be bothered now. And then they let people down and they do it deliberately sometimes. They don't have any kind of remorse that they've promised you and got your hopes up and then nothing happens. Okay, but it feels as if there's an up and down energy with this particular person that could be that they've got either depression or it could be that there's a lot on their plate and one day, you know, they are free to make decisions and the next day they're not. But either way, I feel that you're going to be making a decision and not allowing this person's lack of lack of motivation sometimes, you know, change you, okay, and disappoint you. So with it's like taking it with a pinch of soul, it's like they say that we're going to do that, we might not, you know. So yeah, it's all about kind of like, you know, watching out for pitfalls, you know, problems within a certain person's personality. So I feel that you're going to be very clever now, okay, that's going to be very important to you, very clever. So we do have the star card now, okay, so Marejo was picking this up. So, you know, the star card, this is about your dreams and wishes, which is, you know, what I feel this card is really, it's more, it's more star card there. So this is about following your dreams all this week is following your dreams. There seems to be a character around you who's got a bit of a sting in their tail. I feel as if they can be very opinionated, very direct. They can be defensive. And I do feel as if this person's energy and, you know, yours is a bit clashy, okay, this week. But it does feel as if you are kind of just letting it wash over you. I can't see it affecting you in any way, especially this person who has been letting you down one minute, yes, they're, you know, they're going to do this and the next minute they change their mind. That person's energy, you've learned how to deal with it. This other person who's got a bit of a sting in their tail, you've also learned how to deal with it. You're not interested anymore because you are following your dreams, you're following your pathway, you're doing what makes you feel right, okay. And there's an excited energy around, can you make this stuff up? The end of the week, 10 of pentacles. I told you guys that this was going to be happening, okay, in every reading there has been a large pentacle card coming up in the end of the, end of the week next week. So this is good. That is a complicated love life situation or it's a, it's something that needs to be brought back together, okay. So I feel as if there's going to be getting back together with an ex or getting back together with a friend or a family member, okay. Suddenly we are backing in touch. Suddenly we are able to communicate. We're able to let the past go. We've done all of that now and this is what it's going to be. So this is going to be a lovely kind of flow of energy. I'm seeing financial abundance. I'm seeing money coming to you for no apparent reason just because. They also show me a flirtatious kind of energy around somebody who's being a bit flirty with you and you know when you're kind of thinking to yourself, did they mean it like that or like that? Was it innocent or did they, you know, so you're going to be second guessing what they're up to. It's like, so for some of you this will be an ex coming into your life where they are trying to make it clear to you that they may still be interested in a relationship with you. It doesn't mean to say that you are with them though, okay. You need to make that clear. It could be that you've been wanting this to come back to you but there is definitely this flirtation thing going on, okay. Now for others of you this could be a family member like I said but there is this or this person has, let's do it on the Facebook thing. So you've put a photograph up and you haven't heard from your family member for two or three years and then all of a sudden they put a like or a love heart next to a photograph and you think, I think they're reaching out to me or you know perhaps you do it back to them you know or yeah there just seems to be something going on because that makes sense back and forth with that and I feel that that is going to you know for some of you it will be family friendships but for some of you it will be love life, okay. There's going to be mischievous energy. It feels as if there's somebody who is trying to manipulate you I feel and you're going to need to kind of have your wits about you I would say Libra and it's around the end of next week. There may be words it may be that you have to make it very clear how you feel about the situation or how you feel about that person or you know don't try to pull the wall over my eyes because it's not going to happen. So I feel as if there's quite firm but fair communication back with somebody who's trying to manipulate you okay so yeah it takes a lot for you to get triggered because usually you're in your own head and you're kind of like dissecting it you know first before you kind of let it out but I feel as if there may be more of a yeah there's definitely going to be a need to do it okay to put this particular person straight on a certain energy so yeah so there you go guys that's what I see for the 12 signs so I hope hope you enjoyed it I'm sorry it was so long but the the guides wanted to give some free readings to you in the beginning with the dice so it did that and then then we did the readings and they were the long ones this time so sometimes they just want to give you a short and sweet and sometimes they want to do the long ones so today was one of them so I hope you enjoyed it share this video and please like the video or love the video and and yeah if you can subscribe on my youtube channel psychic alley that would be absolutely amazing so yeah and if you wanted to join the patreon like these people lovely people have um there is um details below on what sort of tears get what um so there are five five no they're I think six or seven tears now so yeah anyway take care everybody and my love to you all that's okay Leona fantastic to do to glad I could watch I'm glad you could join in and I love all your comments and if anybody wants to leave any comments um or you want to ask something from the dice uh please leave a message um underneath here and I'll try and keep checking back um or you can catch me if I don't answer and you really really want that then you can go to my website psychic alley dot net and contact me um or you can go to facebook and inbox me on either of the facebook pages psychic alley one to one or alice and jane's psychic alley okay you can message me either way all right um and you have to ask a question uh with the dice you can't just say um can you give me a message because it has to be an actual question okay anyway I love you all and um take care and thank you everybody um for the the donations they all mean so much to me um goes towards um the trip yeah so anyway take care bye oh thank you Tracy oh patreon is affordable and great these yeah I I believe so I believe I try and give give some fair fair bits back oh thank you all right okay take care bye


So it gives me great pleasure to introduce Aaron Reeder. Aaron Reeder, born and raised in Oakland, California, moved to Washington in 1997. At the high school, he attended Highlight College and transferred to St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he received his BA in Psychology and received his Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology at Argosy University, Seattle. Aaron has worked in higher education for the past 10 years. He is the Dean of Student Success at Rent Technical College. They stole him from us. Along with his working higher education, Aaron has a passion for poetry, his spoken word. He has been recognized as a local spoken word artist and has been a feature presenter at a number of state and regional conferences and workshops. Please welcome Highlight's favorite son, Back Home. Welcome to Ernie. I first just want to say, before I start, thank you for being back home. I want to take a moment to thank my wife, Lauren. Really, honestly, we're going to spend a lot of time talking about MLK, but there's a lot of women that have impacted the movement. That was alongside MLK. That was before MLK. So I just want to say thank you to her because she has really supported me through this process and without her, this wouldn't happen. So thank you. So how is everyone doing? Good, good. Well, I would like to begin by expressing my deepest gratitude to the MLK Planning Committee, Multicultural Affairs, the Center for Leadership and Service, Highline College, the students, faculty, staff, the administrators for just welcoming me back. And really, it feels good to be back in the place where I started my educational journey. And so I hope that many of you sitting in the audience will be able to find yourself completing a full circle at some point through your journey as well. I've been blessed to have the opportunity to speak and perform at a number of groups and a number of arenas, but this one I must say is a little bit quite different. When I was asked to provide a keynote address on the legacy of Dr. King, my initial thought was, who am I? Who am I to speak about such an amazing and iconic person that really moved nations, that helped shift our country? I'm just an inner city kid from Oakland, where a city that gave up on me when I was 18 years old. But after thinking it through, I realized that I represent Dr. King's dream. It's because of King that I'm able to stand here before you today. It's because of him that I've obtained a master's degree. It's because of him that I'm the dean of student success at Renton Technical College. It is because of him that I have the courage to stand up before you and perform spoken word poetry across the Pacific Northwest and really use my voice. So with that being said, it's my absolute privilege and an honor to share the legacy of a man that has impacted my life in so many ways, and I'm forever in debt to. And for all the folks that have helped be a part of that fight. So my question for you today is why are you here? That's the question. I would like, actually, for you all to turn to your neighbor, and I want you to spend about 30 seconds answering that question. Why are you here? This is a literal, not figurative, so please turn to your neighbor and answer that question. I asked you why you were here, not what you planned on doing this weekend. So for some of you, this is just a day away from work. It's a day out of class. For others, this is a day of reflection. For some of you, it's extra credit. I think I see a couple extra credits in here right now. I've seen some head nods. Well, this week, here at Highline and across the globe, I'm sure that you're going to hear all the highlights of MLK. You're going to hear that on January 15th he was born. You're going to hear that he attended Morehouse College. You might hear that he married Coretta. You might hear that he led the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. You might hear that he founded the SCLC. You might hear that he delivered the famous I Have a Dream speech. And you also may hear, or you should, that he was assassinated in 1968. Well, one thing you need to know is that Dr. King's holiday was signed into law in 1983. And it wasn't officially observed until about three years later. And then officially, by all the states, it wasn't observed until 2000. That's not long ago, people. And as we created this hero, we have somehow amplified certain parts of him and his narrative. But when you do that, you also forget some of those narratives and some of those parts. This has caused us to be so far removed from the history and the real struggle of the civil rights movement that some of you all don't understand it. Well, guess what?  Or talk about some of the things that you're going to hear year after year after year. I'm here to push you beyond your comfort zone.  I'm here to give you a wake-up call. I'm going to leave you short of breath.  And what I'm going to talk about, I hate to say it to you, is the uncomfortable and inconvenient reality of where we are today. So I want to ask you all, really briefly, what do you think the civil rights... Well, actually, when you think of civil rights, what comes to mind? So here's the question. When you think about civil rights, what comes to mind? Inequality. Women. Freedom. Pain. Hatred. Systemic racism. Justice. Anyone else? Resilience. We still fighting. Okay. So those are just a few. The interesting thing is that many people don't even know how. There's two reasons that come to mind for me as to why we don't know who MLK really is. One of those reasons is this idea that we romanticize him. Right? This idea that Dr. King was just peaceful. He was just nonviolent. He was a leader that had thought-provoking speeches. We rarely talk about how radical he was, which there are some instructors who say, I know they do that, but we rarely as a country talk about how radical Dr. King was. How unapologetic he was. How some of his calls to action hit people in the stomach, hit them in the gut. That if he was to call them same actions right now, some of you all would be uncomfortable. If Dr. King was here right now and said he's about to go to the Black Lives Matter march, I wonder how many of y'all would be uncomfortable. The last five years coming to an MLK celebration and now you're hit with an inconvenient reality. We don't talk about how hard it was to lead during a time where there was segregation. There was lynchings, bombings, racism that wasn't covert. It was in your face. It wasn't the Pacific Northwest passive-aggressive racism. It was in your face. There was institutional discrimination. Economic genocide. He was one of the most investigative people at one point. He was arrested. Stabbed. His house was bombed. He received threats on a daily basis. He was the face of a movement when possibility of you being killed, you being arrested or hung was a reality. How many of you would have been so fearless? I want you to think about that for a second. How many of you would have been so fearless to be able to do that in the face of all that? I hear folks all the time, young folks saying, if I was back in the 60s, I would have did this. And I would have done that.  Well, to be honest, some of y'all wouldn't be able to handle that. Would you really be able to handle somebody coming up into your face and it's calling you all kinds of names, in word, showing you pictures of people being hung, chasing you with burning crosses? That's not what you want. But a lot of y'all sitting here and say, oh yeah, if I was back in the 60s, that's what I would have did. But some of y'all can't even handle where we at right now. Number two is that he's been commercialized. Now's the time. I'm not going to say that, but I wonder how many other black folks get called during MLK week, during Black History Month. I think I was joking with a friend of mine and I was like, hey, you know what, if you want to see me speak, you got January and February. Because that's when they going to call me. We want you to talk during Black History Month and MLK. But the rest of the year, we'll get somebody else to do that. Right? This holiday has been extremely commercialized. We see images. We read the same quotes. We talk about how far we have come. People love that. How far have we come? His face is on shirts. It's on cups. Commercial ads. You hear it on the radio. Documentaries are being featured randomly on cable. If you got it.  It's kind of like we've been watching an action movie with eight sequels. And you know what happens when you watch eight sequels. You normalize it. You know exactly what the spec. You know the outcome. You know the plot. You know the twist. Companies have been capitalizing on this opportunity. That's what you all need to understand. Companies have been capitalizing. They're making money off of his face. Making money off of that quote, I have a dream. And this enables us to avoid the uncomfortable truth. It draws attention away from his legacy. And the impact that he had on this country far exceeds any sales that his name is being used in. So here we are 50 years later. So let's talk about how far we have not come. So my next question to you all is what are current civil rights issues right now? Yes. Still have to deal with racism. What else? Doctor. Other countries being called shitholes. Private prisons. Police brutality in the school to prison pipeline. Voter suppression. Jurymandering. Exactly. This list is going on and on. So we sit here and we talk about how far have we come. But it's been 50 years and this list right here is exactly the same list that it was 50 years ago. So it kills me when we talk about how far we come. We talk about how far we have not come. Right? Today social media is covered with racist comments and imagery. Segregation has hit our colleges. So some people will say well I don't understand. We're integrated. These colleges are diverse. Well, why don't you start looking at how many students of color or black students are in pre-college classes? Developmental classes. Right? How about you start looking at completion rates? Graduation rates. So when we start talking about segregation it's still here. We can look around the room and say yeah we're diverse but look around that room in that pre-college English in that pre-college math and let me know how diverse we are. There are more black men in prison today than there were in slaves in 1850. If you haven't seen the film 13th go do it. If you haven't read the new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander go do it. Gentrification continues to run rampant through the cities. We can look at housing right now.  If you live in Seattle you know. If you're from the C.D. you know. If you're from the south end you know. You know. Folks who live in Kent right now you're going to know. It's just moving. Gentrification is still happening. There's not much movement going on right now with poverty. Let's not talk about achievement gaps completion rates. There's this term called grit. Let's not use that term anymore. Grit is basically another way of saying resiliency which we know folks of color already have. We come equipped with resiliency. We have no choice but to be resilient. So when we start talking about grit well you know what students don't have that grit. What do you mean don't have that grit? They have the same resiliency. They sit in class and they're the only person that look like them in the class. They're trying to catch three buses just to get to class on time. So that looks like grit to me right? We have an administration that has given the green light to just be outwardly racist. People are justifying racist comments that might come from the president. Gender inequalities and harassment cover the news every single day. Every now and then you got to unplug and turn that off. People are still fighting for basic rights and there's millions of people still trapped in various forms of slavery. Not just the physical body ones trapped in slavery right here. Despite the tremendous progress our country has made since the Civil Rights you know what y'all we got a lot of work to do. We got a number of major protests that have happened in response to the election. Unarmed black men and women being killed by the hands of law enforcement unarmed confederate rallies black lives matter that's just to name a few. How many of y'all have been to a protest? I see a few folks they like this. If you've been to the protest say you've been to the protest. Right? Well why are we dealing with this in our society? Right? Why are we still going to protest? Why are we dealing with this? Because we got work to do. There was a speech that King delivered on August 31st 1967 in title Anybody know? The three evils of society. He talked about militarism capitalism and racism. He said that we've always kind of dealt with poverty but the difference now is we basically have the resources to end it but we don't use the money for it. Right? We got the resources. You look at the top 1%, 5% we got the resources. But yet we still choose not to do nothing about that. But how does this relate today? Well president is adamant about building a wall and if I can keep folks out don't let them in that's my pockets that's capitalism. Administration playing roulette with nuclear weapons militarism NFL players you can't even get an endorsement or get it renewed if you take a knee for expressing your right maybe racism. These ads and cartoons was back in the 1800s and yet over and over we continue to see these racist ads come out. H&M Pepsi What was that? Psychology today Dove, cosmetics it just happens left and right. We see military tanks show up when there's protesting Oh I'm sorry there's protests and then the protest turns into a riot and then it's civil unrest but there's tanks and army gear pulling up in a space where you're supposed to be able your legal right to be able to protest and we got military tanks showing up. How would y'all react if a tank drove up on campus right now? See we got to put it in perspective because some students are like yeah that was a tank I saw that tank way over there in Ferguson I'm going to tell you right now I've been on the campus and I'm not going to say names and a tank was on campus not because it was civil unrest but it was on campus and guess what people of color black folks it went around like wildfire hey you know there's a tank outside I'm not about to go over there by that tank and I saw some white students climbing on it taking selfies on the tank and I'm like I can't go over there because when I look on TV that's the same tank that if I was to climb on it when it was over there I wouldn't be standing here right now right so it's just the mindset that we got to get out of we got to wake up folks you got to start challenging and questioning everything and I can tell some folks right now are getting a little bit uncomfortable with my fault I'm supposed to give y'all the normal MLK celebration talk so I guess I'm going to have to probably like try to translate it for you some of you are far removed removed from a movement that was built on the backs of my ancestors who've experienced church bombs attack dogs, water hoses and wind chesters if you're the type to think that times have changed drastically then you need to change your trajectory you see perception is your enemy so quit sitting around waiting for change it just happened let me remind you you're not the statue of liberty literally this is a warning while you're creating new language be careful what you speak you know whips and chains and eyebrows on fleek but you see whips and chains been around longer than you think but I get it I get it this white movement was way before your time but if you make no change then that leaves problems for those who come behind and if you can look past my hoodie and my tattoos and you will see my accomplishments and degrees but the media tells you otherwise so that's not what you see I'm just another black man yelling out I can't breathe I can't breathe maybe just a statement for this poet but in thought it's a thought sure there's a cost for standing up to ignorance but the cost of that is so much more like a jury with no indictment history has repeated portions of its past just to keep you silent so marches was nonviolent protests we tried education without the truth that's kind of like solitary confinement with no words to define it slavery, segregation ISIS, foreign nations Paris, heavy armor that was Ferguson, then Ghana 1968, some say death to a martyr well that's why I stand harder and if we claim to be inclusive in a world so diverse then why did we write the Star Spangled Third Verse let that rest on your mind you'd be surprised what you can learn with a little free time but you see my days have been built on self-restraint from holding back tears that I can zip off this brown colored paint with both hands up I still gotta check my fate and since life is a game of privilege then like chess I guess that's checkmate and like the poets before me let my words be the callous of judgment this isn't about just us but justice like Dr. King said creative maladjustment click clap and this is a cry out to all the oppressed and allies don't let this be a dream deferred you see this dream we must grow it I was told that once you learn it you can't unknow it click clap oh yeah don't let me forget to mention some of y'all are real suspect when it comes to your social action and this time y'all fit the description click clap but the problem is that there's too many should be too many I should be studying I should be in class should be a better student better faculty better staff wait when the season went in it was blue Fridays we should be wearing our 12s but truth of the matter is that too many of y'all need to stop shooting on yourselves so now why are we here that is the question for those of you sitting here right now thank you for those of you sitting here right now thinking nah I don't really believe all that that you said I believe some of it well you know what I encourage you to go do your own research do your homework read how many of y'all actually read the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner wow but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of opinions about why NFL players are taking a knee instead of having a problem with why they're taking a knee in the first place you're more concerned about the kneeling don't choose to delegitimize you don't have a response to the message instead of criticizing I would say do your homework so now you would understand why players are taking knees here we are 50 years later and we still don't acknowledge how difficult it is for people of color to move around in spaces that are predominantly white and oppressive this is the stuff King would talk about it's 50 years later I don't even talk about how difficult it is to operate in those spaces like how hard it really is to work in an institution of higher education and I worked in a few, Highline has been one of them to be a student to be the only student of color in that classroom to be around organizations and systems that are built off of white ideologies the white belief of how it should be run how it should be taught what it should look like what text should you buy the structure of your classroom everybody sit in tables and face forward the consequences for calling out your instructors to be profiled followed to be mistaken as a student when you work at the college to be doubted be the spokesperson for your entire race to not be listened to to be resisted against to be responsible for the hidden work how many of y'all know what the hidden work is oh the hidden work let me give you an example the hidden work is I'm in a meeting and somebody says something that's racist or they say something that's offensive or oppressive and you know you leave that meeting and now all of a sudden you go back to your office and you sit in here like man I think some of this don't feel right and then somebody else come knock on your door hey you got a minute I want to talk to you about what happened in that meeting and y'all in there talking about what happened for 25 minutes the meeting has ended and we doing counseling in the office we doing counseling in the parking lot on the way to the car at 5.30 we doing counseling in the library students in the library meetings oh let me just tell you they didn't mean that well what should we do who should we go to that's the hidden work and we don't talk about the hidden work MLK had to do some hidden work the folks around MLK had to do some hidden work we're 50 years later and we still got to do hidden work or we don't talk about what it's like to be microaggress I mean I think some points we do sometimes we have a conversation about what a microaggression is but we don't be talking about it like that all the time because then too many people be uncomfortable up in here and folks start getting defensive some of that fragility starts kicking in you know those tears start falling I feel guilty I'm sorry let me just cry this out alright well here goes a tissue and when you finish drying them eyes let's get back to talking about this microaggression that you did right and those tears come back so we don't talk about how hard that is and not really want to cuss somebody out and swing out on somebody that's to be honest so we think about a time when MLK was around he had people overtly calling him names overtly throwing you know cocktails at him overtly taking shots do you know how hard it is that's a personal color to be in these spaces and do that and not cuss somebody out you know how hard it is if you're an administrator and you got students who start saying some stuff that you just like I just want to take my name tag off I get off working but you know you're not going to do that you can't do that because we love y'all we can't do that right but do you know how hard it really is to do that some of you can't even stand to get criticism we talk about how hard it is to be in these spaces and some folks can't stand criticism some of y'all can't even stand to see a group of employees or a group of teachers together laughing and giggling without you feeling some sort of way there was a lot of let alone let's start talking about coming to work the next day or coming to class and talking about what happened on the news with NFL players taking knees and things like that some of y'all can't stand that girls being killed by police so it's like think about it for a second we keep talking about how far we've come but some of y'all can't even stand to have those type of conversations folks are really uncomfortable right now when you sit up here I can see the squirming I see it which lets me know I'm doing my job but you know my fault my fault I'm supposed to give y'all the normal MLK celebration so I'm going to translate that for y'all because you know it's like folks get uncomfortable and I know okay I'm supposed to give you the we have a dream so I'm going to translate everything I just said for you all Martin Luther King once said that he had a dream but he somehow never seemed to sleep on us that is the right now a generation he never meet you see MLK to some folks these days commercialized as just another day in another name where rallies only seem to happen in high school gyms before tip-off and chains are placed on your brain you see no one has to lie about history because if we omit the facts then we don't have to place the blame but you see these days if you were to question history they would call you disruptive only to complicate what they can't accommodate which serves as a band day to be bleeding because if you read the truth behind history's pain then schools will become hospitals because the pages will be bleeding but y'all sleeping y'all sleep like 1968 wasn't just 50 years ago sleep like the butler movie was in the reality during Jim Crow sleep like Alabama state wasn't always known for its touchdowns because running back meant never stopping until you got home safely but y'all sleeping and the education system is built on repetition you know keeping you machine like otherwise you'd all be scholars carrying forward the work of Dr. King's life but half of y'all only seem to know two lines from the I Have a Dream speech now that should be the predictor that they frame in you trying to keep you boxed in so you don't see the bigger picture but picture this two points can come together full circle and not be concentric by far but you see control and 16 bars been around longer than Kendrick Lamar but y'all sleeping y'all sleeping and education is a safety belt to stop you from crashing into incompetence so don't let them fool you just be confident you were born to be smart but you got to speak up in class because teachers don't have to answer invisible question marks you see the question starts with how do we solve this problem well you can't solve a problem if you're in the same consciousness that created it so you need to change your stamp right now because you see Dr. King he post-dated it but y'all sleeping and Dr. King is much more radical than what you've been fed instead of learning y'all too busy instagraming because somehow you seem to have lost your Pinterest in school so now you just face books and never read them and the book is much deeper than that title on the spine so you need to be linked in like yesterday because I tell you right now you're better off going to school and coming out with debts to pay but the debate today is always around education or get paid and it's complex you see it's complex because it puts your reality of what identity is into context you see now's the time for real choices not false ones I mean look at how far we have not come Dr. King started the battle but the war was not won and if you don't know this then you ain't living because you should know the difference unless you're the type to hear and not listen but you see this poem was written with no one to spare because injustice to anyone like King said is a threat to justice everywhere so hopefully y'all not sleeping no more hopefully it's time for y'all to start waking up so on April 4th 1967 Dr. King also delivered the speech beyond Vietnam a time to break the silence this is one of King's most controversial species because when he delivered it he delivered it basically going against what everybody told him and advised him not to he was against the Vietnam war right this is probably one of the most one of the first times that someone publicly used that opportunity to be anti-war and King did that you might be thinking what does this matter 50 years later it matters because King was told not to speak up they tried to silence him right they tried to tell King you know what don't do it because you're going to shift the momentum we talk about civil rights don't start don't start messing with their money because you mess with their money and now all of a sudden the folks who was about non-violence and civil rights they're going to start backing off a lot of his followers chose not to stand behind him people challenged his point of view they basically said don't stand up for this well guess what King did his homework he educated himself on the issue he was confident he researched and he spoke about it he spoke the truth King realized that we were taking resources and money, bodies taking them outside of our country when we couldn't even take care of the war that was happening right here at home which is still happening to today the war that's happening on Highlines campus y'all students are here y'all know what the war is here I don't I can tell you what the war was when I was a student but y'all know what the war is here right so this is the time when King spoke about doing something when everybody all odds was against him how many of you have spoken up or been an accomplice we don't say ally we say accomplice because you're an ally you can be an ally Monday through Wednesday and then Thursday Friday and the weekend you can go back to you know when you're an accomplice especially me I grew up in East Oakland in the car and y'all driving to the store and somebody got something in the car and ain't supposed to be in the car and police stop you guess what all y'all going you an accomplice I don't have the choice of backing out this time no officer I'm a step out you go ahead and get them in the car I'm about to go inside the gas station no it don't work that way right so when is the last time that you have been an accomplice that's the question how many of you have spoken up through social media more hands going up how many of you have spoken up at a meeting we still got this happening right now y'all if you spoke up be proud that you spoke up how many of you have challenged the values in the belief system of your own families so we got some practice going in that's where you get that practice from and in those times how many of you all have actually educated yourself about what that issue was so we quick to really have conversations we're really quick to to hop on the bandwagon social media makes that real easy to do hop on the bandwagon say my little comment and you don't have to see my face people don't even know what they're talking about these days and the thing is we're teaching children we're teaching students and sometimes we don't even know what we're talking about so your words are powerful you have to be careful so as we keep talking about this 50 years later as we close I got one more question for you and that question really is what are you going to do now right you realize that 50 years later we have not come that far there's still issues happening what are you going to do later it's imperative that you stop being silent and you start calling out injustice silence is basically the same thing as condoning if you don't say nothing you're basically saying I'm okay with that I need you all to start speaking up in meetings speak up when you notice racism in the hiring process speak up when you see others are uncomfortable speak up when something just don't feel right take action protesting may not be your choice as an educator wouldn't teach your protest is to teach teach the truth if you're an artist you don't have to go marching use your art I'm a poet so it's my responsibility to write if you're a musician it's your responsibility to create to put it together there's been tons of musicians during multiple movements after Vietnam you had Marvin Gaye what's going on Nina Simone you had the Mississippi goddamn song Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Chuck Berry's Duck Walk Black and I'm proud Black Lives Matter you had formation Kendricks Lamar we going to be alright right the next thing you need to do is tell the truth in public too many of y'all call people out in meetings in public spaces and then when you're wrong or when you realize you made your mistake you go apologize in private you go apologize in private which is really detrimental because you've already made the impact some of y'all students you call people out in class and you apologize when class is over I need y'all to start apologizing in public if you're a faculty or staff member apologize in public white folks I need y'all to call out other white folks it is not the sole responsibility of people of color to call out when somebody is being oppressive or racist or doing a microaggression that's a part of being an accomplice I need you to start calling out other folks and understand that systemic racism is alive and well Jim Crow Mida crashed in 1965 but Jim Crow had children and grandchildren and cousins and friends who got jobs who became judges and lawyers presidents right so you need to be thinking about that okay so you see if we're gonna sit here and celebrate a week of events and honor Dr. King talk about his legacy talk about where we are 50 years later King said it best in his speech that basically many people said was his eulogy and he said it best in that where he's talking about trying harder being this drum major I want to play a small clip about three minutes I want you to hear what King talks about when he's talking about that drum major instinct about that day when we will be victimized by those common denominators that's something we call death we all think about it and every now and then I think about my own death and I think about my own funeral and I don't think I've been in a morbid sense every now and then I ask myself what is it that I would want to say and I leave the word to you this morning if any of you around meet my baby I don't want to long to deliver the eulogy tell him not to talk to you now tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize that is important tell him not to mention that I have 300 or 400 of awards that's not important tell him not to mention why I went to school I'd like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King Junior tried to give his life to my servant of us I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Junior tried to love somebody I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the one question I want you to be able to say that you need to hunger I want you to be able to say that day that I did try I want you to say on that day that I did try who were in prison I tried to love and serve humanity yes, if you want to say that I was a Trump major it will not matter I want him if I can do my duty as a Christian if I can bring some of my living will not be in vain Jesus, I want to be on your right or your left side I want to be on your right and I just want to be there in love we can make this whole world so as you see Dr. King is really talking about this idea of the Trump major instinct and I guess my question is kind of ending is what is your Trump major instinct do you have that instinct for peace and righteousness King said everybody has this innate pervasive ability to want to be number one but when that's not harnessed that ability turns into being the first person to hate greed exclusion oppression racism bigotry but when you harness that when you harness that need and that ends up becoming that desire to be number one when it comes to love or loving others number one when it comes to generosity being number one when it calls to go lend out that helping hand and someone else being number one when it comes to calling out racism calling out oppression that's the Trump major instinct and I don't know if you questioned your instinct before but I need you to be thinking when you leave out of here today what is your Trump major instinct that we all do but how are you using it but my fault my fault my fault y'all I'm not supposed to give y'all the normal MLK celebration speech so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna end with this final poem for you all and hopefully you're able to take away what we talked about today and that you have that Trump major instinct in you those things that you don't realize yes, we are 50 years later but we got work to do you see, we're not living in new times we just got new ways of showing what's been around for centuries capturing the last breath through our cell phones leaving stained images in our memories Philando Casteel that was the first time that facebook live actually stood still The truth is easy to retrieve it, it's difficult to see past deception when it's in spaces. Because racism hides behind the smiles of our friends and family faces, and let's face it, our faces aren't on U.S. currency, but our bodies have been treated like numerical transactions. Subtracted from the world using chokeholds and trigger-fingered reactions, it's almost as if we've been denied the right to secure and govern our own bodies, Ta-Nehisi Coates. And the system says that we're both free, yet trapped at the same time. Flawed but beautifully designed. W.E.B. Du Bois calls this a cognitive dissonance within the body and mind. It's like living in a body, but the body ain't mine. That's double consciousness. And when it comes to justice, it's like the Statue of Liberty has been bent. You see, America can care less about the impact because it's so focused on intent. And when bias is present, but the word threat has been mentioned, the only outcome to murder has been administrative leave and a pension. Why can't America be true to the paper? We have the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, but protesting has been lost in the vapor. To be honest, I'm feeling constitutional fatigue. Because I was told that America was a country that was founded upon creed, but somehow our civil liberties have now leaked over into the league. Athletes get cultural capital, just do as you're told. Reminds me of a time when being fast and strong got you sold. So as you see, this protest is music for us. It's rhythmic, like R&B. As our athletes have gone from boys to men by taking a bended knee, protesting police brutality will somehow offend in the military has become the new script.  And I'm nowhere prepared to have conversations as a father about how I can't stop racism from impacting my daughter.  And the education system is real. Don't be fooled. Oppression is not a delusion. It's embedded in every procedure and process and policy within every institution. And since it's not visible, that creates the confusion that students are the problem. So that's the illusion. Y'all not listening. I'm not listening. But you see, the education system has been hit with misdirection. Written falsely, repeated constantly without no correction. You see history called as villains, but we made America billions. From building all y'all buildings, then we're still looking through glass ceilings. So yeah, I feel some type of way. Because treatment like this, it don't just get wiped away. So I hope that y'all have heard all the words that I just spoke. I'm gonna end by saying, I'm a warrior scholar. Hashtag stay woke, thank you.


This is Stockmer 11119A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LML motor which bumps out 397 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Onyx Black is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen as they link to our website click that and check us out there. This one comes with fuel 20 inch painted and polished aluminum rims and it has open country Toyo 35 by 12 and a half R20 LT tires with a little under half the tread left. This one comes with a fabtech suspension lift kit on it. The frame and underbody is in nice shape. Driver side front fender is in pretty nice condition. Comes with the projector lamp headlamps, the LED running lights, factory fog lights, front bumper looks really good. Has front bumper parking sensors as well and you do get the chrome trimmed grille. The hood is in really nice shape. You can see any major dents or dings on there. Once again those headlight lenses nice and clear. Passengers side front fender no dents on there and the passengers side rim no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make a trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen in link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here all you got to do is drive the truck love it you'll be all set to go you can see it has brand new brakes in the back here we put those on in our safety inspection and no scuffs or scrapes on that back rim back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and the frame and under bodies in pretty nice shape does have all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way lower rockers all look really good and the body looks really clean underneath as we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in nice shape didn't see any major dents or dings on there does have the backup parking sensors in bumper steps and the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring the tailgate is in pretty nice shape as well and it comes with an X-Ting solid fold-up tonneau cover and that looks to be in pretty nice condition too. Locking tailgate backup camera shock down assist tailgate you have a swing case back here you also have a spring and bed liner if we can get my camera to focus there we go spring and bed liner back here you got that swing case and the bed itself is in really nice shape you do get led bed lighting up there and it's a really nice bed line kind of like a line x might even be a line x but nice condition tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as a passenger's side no dents or dings on the box and for full disclosure this back room is in excellent shape as well down the rest of the side the truck looks really good comes with the telescopic tow mirrors built in directional signals inside the all-terrain package gives you the black leather and it's kind of like a it's a rubber finish seats both of these front seats I believe are power and heated husky all-weather floor mats auto headlamps turned off four-wheel drive factory brake control you got tilt and telescopic steering wheel power windows power locks power mirrors memory driver's seat and we'll hop inside and take a look at the ignition here see that this one has 55,552 miles you get a digital speedometer compass display does have the power fold in mirrors which fold in like so I always like showing both sides so that you know both sides are working and you do have built in directional signals and those as well comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the left as well as heated steering wheel controls and bluetooth and information center controls on the right comes with the six speed allison transmission with the optional tap shift you get the gmc entello link system with am fmn serious xm radio capabilities as well as the factory navigation system this is also where your backup camera shows up cd player heated seats power pedals stability control that's for your cargo lamps that's also how you turn on your um bed lighting and your side mirror lights parking sensors downhill assist control and factory exhaust brake you do get three usb's two power points and then 110 volt 150 watt plug-in passenger side all-weather format and seat are in excellent condition as well no rips or tears on there smells very clean inside this truck and the headliner is in really nice shape it does come with the power sunroof up here you have your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems map lights power slide and rear window button and your sunroof controls on starin ss buttons in the rear view mirror and we'll take a quick look under the hood after we check out the back seats and then we'll start it up and everything back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips no tears back here latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have power sign rear window with the built-in rear to frost seats are in really nice shape a little scuff right there but they'll clean up and we have the husky all-weather floor mat that goes all the way across back here which keeps your carpeting looking great underneath get that kind of rubber finish carbon fiber looking finish to the back doors as well bottoms of the doors all look really good those are those led side lights i was telling you about on the mirrors and we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood also want to show you the backup camera that that's working and you can see no check engine lights or anything we'll check out under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this hd video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood we have the 6.6 liter duramax diesel lml motor 397 horsepower engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by your service staff as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and it has brand new brakes all the way around and this truck is 100 percent ready to go and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks scvs minivans wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it we got it go to our website right there www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com if you'd like to check out more hd videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel on your left a link to more gmc cr 2500 truck videos like this one on your right you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2015 gmc cr 2500 crew cab shortbox slt all terrain and onyx black thanks again for checking out the video