Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Disney's pop century resort and Disney's art of animation resort I love these resorts. They are so well themed and it's just such fun to come here and hang out They have amazing different themed areas and I'm gonna try to show you everything that I could and even check out the food And drink offerings, so let's go do this We are gonna start at the art of animation And I think that's why I love these resorts so much because if you end up staying at either pop century or art of animation You kind of get two resorts for the price of one because they were like walking distance between each other Say you're staying at like pop century and you're getting breakfast every single morning and they're like quick service location And then one day you decide you want to switch it up a little bit You just walk three minutes and you're at art of animation You can check out and see what they have because I do think they offer different food options in both of their quick service locations When I vacationed to Walt Disney World, I always stayed at pop century It's been a while since I've been back here. Actually, it's my first time since the parks reopened And I just love the smell. It is so amazing in here Out of all the resorts at Walt Disney World I have to say art of animation has probably the coolest looking check-in area It is so colorful and bright and I love it Just look at this fanciness It is so amazing. Isn't it and then on the other side Tons and tons of Disney artwork little mermaid lion king finding Nemo cars So many great classic characters. Oh even the laughing hyenas from the Lion King Ed It is almost the end of March in 2021 and they are redoing the big blue pool here This was one of the coolest pools on property and they're kind of doing a little refurbishment of it But they do have other pools available at the art of animation I'm gonna give you a look at the map to kind of give you a realistic view of how close things are As you can see we're walking in and we are right here This is the big blue pool and then right across our glass lake is pop sentry So we're gonna walk over there and actually explore pop sentry too But I want to actually walk around like the Lion King area because I love the Lion King area and the cars Areas really theme to I Also wouldn't mind getting something to eat and either one of the resorts both of the food courts have amazing food I remember actually getting little sausages and bread over at pop sentry to save money for breakfast And I used to eat them every single morning. It only cost like two bucks But now I kind of relate sausage and bread to the Disney isn't that crazy art of animation has the drop-off bar This is a really cool spot to come hang out by the pool get some special cocktails And they do have some like really unique cocktails here The big blue ocean kind of named after the pool in a big blue world They also have a good look charm milkshake Happy St. Patrick's Day because that just passed recently. Oh, this looks really good a little bit too creamy though for me. I Want to take a look at the big blue pool and then head on over to the Lion King section Just to see how the progress of the renovations going on Looks like they're working hard and it's almost done the pools actually filled a couple of workers there Look at those gigantic goggles sitting over there. This is a really cool themed area. I Asked the cast member and they said the big blue pool is set to open at the beginning of April So that's just a couple days away. That's really good news We will come back to the big blue pool a little bit later on right now I want to go into Pride Rock. Well, I can see Rafiki up there. Maybe he'll show me the way I love how all the different resort buildings just blend together to their theming Do you know what I mean? Like we're going into Lion King right here And you can just see all the green and the trees it fits perfectly and that's why I like these resorts so much I mean they put in a lot of effort. Oh Yeah, he is gonna show me the way and I think not only does the scenery change But the music changes as well. So as we're walking through the Lion King area We're gonna hear a Lion King music and it's just gonna fit perfectly Here he is The King Isn't that the coolest? Look at that. It's Pride Rock It makes me just want to sing Circle of Life From the day we arrived on the planets Oh Boy and it only gets better as we move along. I can see what's happening What and they don't have a clue who they'll fall in love and here's the bottom line Our trio's down to two. Whoa I love it. Look at this This is so fun Like I said earlier, there are four different themed like resort areas here. We have Finding Nemo, Cars Lion King and the Little Mermaid. Let me know in the comments What your favorite like little area is and then when we go over to Pop Century They're gonna be broken down by the decades and that one's hard to say but I mean I do love the 90s So either one let me know what your favorite movie section is or what your favorite decade section is because it's always nice to get Like feedback. I like to hear what you guys enjoy But of course before we actually go to the next area. We have to visit the elephant graveyard It's a must Even though it's beyond our borders and we must not go there can't resist the elephant graveyard Elephant graveyards are just too cool to resist. I love it. You can actually walk around underneath the tunnels there So many amazing photo opportunities over here as well. Plus we got Scar up there Next I think I'm gonna head on over to Radiator Springs. I really like it over there because it's like the closest I'm gonna get to Radiator Springs at Disney's California Adventure and it's actually themed like pretty well But we have to say goodbye To Simba? Is that Simba or Mufasa? Mufasa. Say it again. Mufasa I'm pretty sure that was Mufasa correct me if I'm wrong though because Simba was hanging out with Timon and Pumbaa unless that was Growing up Simba. I don't know Now we're coming up on Radiator Springs a happy place with a cozy cone motel This has to be one of the most amazingly themed areas right here look at it It's so immersive isn't it and wait till we get over by the pool That's where the other pool is the cozy cone motel pool And I think they have another pool over on the little mermaid sign. I Really really loved Radiator Springs over and DCA and I loved Luigi's ride and also the Radiator Springs racers those were two amazing attractions We can see the sign spinning there and look there's Luigi's over there. I love his little helper He's the best tons of photo opportunities with all the different cars from the movie. I love it here And of course we can't forget about our good friend Tomater over at Tomater towing and salvage This is the entrance to one of the buildings and I like this I would like to stay in this section or at Luigi's probably I don't know It's a tough one because I do like Tomater, but I like Luigi as well The lobby for the cozy cone motel acts as basically like the restrooms for the pool I'm gonna show you the pool as much as I can but if there are people swimming I don't like showing pools when there's actually people using it. Oh Yeah, it is super crowded over here because the big blue pool is closed So this is one of the only spots unless they cut through Lion King and go on the other side for the little mermaid But it's really cool because they have little cabanas that are first-come-first serve I believe that are cones, you know, I really like that little detail. So that's what I call it the cozy cone pool And I think I might change my mind I think I would want to stay at the wheel well motel over here with Lightning McQueen This one looks probably the coolest doesn't it huge buildings Fun fact about art of animation though. It is a Disney pet friendly resort I would love to take Gracie here and like spend a night also The cabins at Fort Wilderness that's like on my bucket list I really really want to take Gracie and spend a night in the woods with a fire But if not, I also I can come to Art of Animation and Yacht Club. Those are the three But let's make our way back on over to Finding Nemo and then we're gonna cross our glass lake into pop century Also check out the skyliner and gondola section It's so hard not to just start singing in a big blue world Every time I say the big blue pool Just take a look at how cool this is over here And even though the big blue pool is closed the splash pad is actually open so you can come over here and Play with all the different fishes. Nemo's swimming out to sea And take a look at crush up there. That's amazing. Oh and little Dory Dory's on crushes fin. I like it. I Think I'm gonna make my way over to pop century now and I want to get something Yeah, I'm actually a little hungry both of the food courts are mobile order So we'll see what they have and then explore the different decades and just see what fun things they have I love it. Like I said, I love just coming here and hanging out. So here is the Finding Nemo section Here is the directory. We're coming up on the bridge the skyliner and then that building right over there It looks like is that the 60s or the 70s? I see the yo-yo not too sure though, and that's pop century I'm pretty sure this bridge is called generation gap and Actually, art of animation was supposed to be a part of pop century and it got repurposed and rethemed It sat there abandoned for a long time and I'm glad they did especially with the skyliner and all because it makes It perfect sense now. I Love just seeing the skyliners come into station. This is also the only area where the Skyliners are above water compared to anywhere else Really interesting, isn't it? If you are a runner or jogger you can jog around all of our glass lake And I hear it's a really really nice little track and you can't park here But you can always catch the skyliner or just come over hang out enjoy all of these amazing like themed areas The only thing is you can't park here though. That's for resort guests only today I met up with a friend who is staying at Art of Animation We're able to get a drink and just relax and chit-chat and that's how I was able to park That's why I wanted to come out here and just show you around because I love exploring these resorts But now we're heading right on in to the pop century the hippie-dividy pool And you got Play-Doh on this side and Baloo Baloo from the Jungle Book you see him over there It's Mowli and Baloo. I love these statues. I love the ones over at the all-star resorts as well I can't wait to go see the Dalmatian over there. There's so many cool gigantic figurines.  Maybe we'll start in the 90s because that's my favorite They used to have a lot more offerings here But not so much and then I checked the Art of Animation one and same thing They definitely toned down a lot, but they've got burgers. They got chicken strips pop roast turkey sandwiches pizza Pastas chicken parm maybe or some pasta with meatballs And I don't know I haven't decided what I'm gonna get yet. Oh a barbecue burger That's a plant-based one as well, and then also they've got all the bakery items on here, too So you can get all of your morning fixtures like coffee cake and croissant and muffins all the fanciness I Think I'll go with the pot roast dinner I mean that seems like the appropriate thing becomes a mashed potatoes and green beans and then a red wine gravy Sounds pretty fancy Another thing I like to point out is in all of the different resort gift shops They sell it like bottles of liquor and wine So if you don't want to pay for the high-priced drinks at the pool You can just come in here and get like a bottle of Jack Daniels for 18 bucks You could probably make at least five drinks out of that and that's the price of one drink at the pool bar It's ready. So now you well just follow the prompts. It tells you go pick up at two So I'm gonna find two Everything is just set up for mobile order But they had some amazing food here and they were all different stations So you're looking at one two three four five different stations that had different stuff You know I mean like pasta pizza burgers like all all special And all of the different drink stations are closed down. I love the coffee here at Disney though I'd always get that refillable mug and I would drink it every single morning when I stayed here I am super hungry So I've been looking forward to this in a while when I decided I was gonna come meet up and hang out with a friend I was like, you know what?  And here is the pot roast and I try to open up the flaps a little bit. Well, look at that. It looks really good Yeah, this actually looks delicious. I'm very impressed with this I do miss the days when you can eat on a plate though See how this pot roast is get a little bit of mashed potato on there. Yes Very very soft and kind of just falls apart Pop roast here. Yeah, I get all that mashed potatoes in there The green beans are very delicious too. I kind of been on a green bean an asparagus kick recently Oh, also zucchini. I don't know what's happening like the other day. I was really really craving tapenitos Noodles like just the noodles and I was thinking if I could go there and just get the noodles I think I was at Epcot that day. I still haven't figured that out yet But I'm gonna try next time I'm there I'm just gonna be like, hey, can I order like noodles to go or anything like that? Because a lot of these restaurants on Disney probably do do to go food I'm just not sure about that one because it is a third-party spot I also do find it difficult to eat out of the box though. Like it's it's It is a little difficult to eat out of the box. I feel like it doesn't make a big mess though at least But now we got our food. I think it's time to move along and the pool is playing Stand out from a goofy movie. Oh, wow Oh, it's one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite movie soundtracks There is pedals and that is the little pool bar that they have here kind of like how the drop-off Was over at the big blue pool and the 50s and 60s are that way the 70s through the 90s are this way So I think that's the way we're gonna make we're gonna head on over to the 70s through the 90s That pop roast was surprisingly amazing. I really felt good I didn't get a dessert because if we do end up over at the art of animation Maybe we'll see what they have has a dessert in their food courts that way I can show you both of the food courts So many amazing memories though here. We got goofy with the corvette. I remember taking tons of photos here I talk about like as if this was a long time ago in my childhood But it wasn't like I was a grown adult staying here and I think it was in 2014 was the last time I stayed here So it was seven years ago. Wow Seven years ago fancy And I remember we stayed over here in this section and I loved it because they had the big wheel right there And then the gigantic foosball like court and of course The mickey mouse telephone. I actually had this telephone.  It really does like make you feel like You're like at somewhere special and that's what I loved about disney So you always felt like you were like some amazing place because it is an amazing place, but Really really captivate your imagination And this is all just the 70s section. They also have like different areas where you could play twister But I think that's not not available now because of you know touching so We'll see if they have them actually out anymore Oh, yeah, right here. Look at that. Oh, it's a little bit dirty and you could play it I mean it's not anything telling you you can't just got a spinner. I wonder if the spinner still works Oh, yeah Left. Oh, nope. Yep left hand red I don't know about that And I forgot about the cool potato head statues These were the absolute coolest I definitely took like a hundred photos standing in between them pretending like they were giving me a high five Another cool thing is as you're walking alongside the water They have little signs that give you a little bit like of trivia facts about the different Decades and I like that because some of the stuff I never knew In 1986 1.1 million dollars is paid for a one minute tv ad on the super bowl And the federal budget deficit reaches two trillion dollars Now I think we'll head into the 80s section here They have a pool over here and I think it's the 90s the pool is technically at But the 80s and the 90s are really close together The gigantic aerobics cube staircases. These are staircases that actually take you up to the different levels because there's First level second level third level fourth level and then you can see this is the pac-man building Hope I blocked it with the tree, but you'll be able to see the pac-man ghost over here Look it Isn't that awesome? I love it The only thing is is in the 90s section They always have these great iconic symbols for the decades and I feel like they missed the mark in the 90s section Just by a little bit You can see we have the sony walkman right here, which is Amazing and then this gigantic keyboard now the keyboard is kind of cool But it doesn't do anything and this is of a purpose. It's just there But roger rabbit on a big barrel of turpentine is amazing I'm gonna mop mop mop all day long Mop mop mop as I sing this song. I'm gonna wax that floor.  So it says mgm studios right there disney's mgm studios animal kingdom epcot magic kingdom Water parks very nifty. It's nice to see that mgm studios logo though And this is just a stack of floppy disk. I don't know what it says on top. It says game something I can't read the other side there Now I think we're gonna move along and head back on over to the main pool area pop century I like walking down this like walkways. These are right next to the rooms. I like the pink building. It's very Very nice. Look at that background It's very pretty isn't it and then that's the check-in area and also that's where you get the buses So if you are in the uh 80s and 90s, you have a quick walk to the front and that's actually not too bad Probably the most quiet area though out of all pop centuries right here on the back side of the 70s I believe there's like a little playground and there's literally it's so peaceful back here. I hear birds chirping It's in a nice wooded area Very quiet and it's beautiful actually There's the playground over there I really enjoy this just a quick walk to the lobby and the big pool Now I think we're gonna jump right into the 60s These are yellow buildings and I like the yellow too very vibrant colors And I think I showed these on the way in but they have the gigantic yo-yos for staircases and eight tracks I really just want to see what it's like to be inside a giant yo-yo. So we're gonna take a pit stop over here Look at this Isn't it so cool and these are the stairways. They just take you right up inside the yo-yo itself Gigantic And a little bit more of the cool trivia. I came across another sign that I think is pretty interesting In 1971 Walk Disney World Resort opens in Orlando, Florida and intel produces the first micro processor chip So many amazing things happen in 71 And just like that we are back at the skyliner I think the 50s and 60s are over on the other side. I don't know what they have But maybe we'll take a quick see. I just want to see what big structures they have In 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American appointed to the supreme court And disney's the jungle book swings into theaters So Mowgli and Baloo were for the 60s and then I think I see bowling pins over there Yeah, so that must have been for the 50s and that's a purple building But take a look at all of our glass lake from here and that's art of animation right over here Like I said, you were literally, uh, I would say, uh, like three minute walk So if you're looking for a building closer to the skyliner, I would stick to the 60s and 70s like you used to because literally right there This is the running trail that I was talking about you actually start off here at art of animation You run all the way around the lake and you go through the 80s and 70s and 60s and 50s And then little mermaid lion king and then right back to the big blue pool I took a look at the food or the desserts that they had Over at the landscape of flavors, which is what the food court is at art of animation here They didn't have anything that really stood out to me. So instead I think I'm gonna take you over to the little mermaid side because I think we skipped down the beginning But in order for us to get to the little mermaid section, we have to visit somewhere We must not go the elephant graveyard It's also important to point out that the little mermaid section is the farthest away Like little mermaid is basically on the whole entire other side of the resort So if you end up staying here, uh, and if you want to be close to everything I wouldn't suggest the little mermaid area It is gigantic though as you can see from here. I think it's the biggest, uh resort area Oh, well, no not really cars is kind of the biggest But as you can see like cars is right here or radiator springs Then the uh animation hall lion king and little mermaids all the way over here. So pretty far away But I saved the best for last because they have the coolest statues and figurines over here Like how I said now statues and figurines There is a gigantic dingle hopper right here. And I believe this is a snorlax I'm not too sure if if it's not a snorlax. Let me know what it is in the comments there I'm pretty sure it's a snorlax though And then it has three different statues and its own pool That probably is the best like I honestly I say the little mermaid is like the farthest away But I think this is the coolest area right up there with lion king because lion king is pretty cool But lion king doesn't have a pool A giant king triton over there and also a puppy. So this must be where the pets area is Oh, so if I bring Gracie here, we're going to be staying in the little mermaid section And then Ursula, look at that Ursula is one of my favorite villains. She's amazing and the animatronic for the little mermaid ride at magic kingdom is so impressive And then on the other side of the pool they have Ariel and flounder. So awesome, isn't it?  I hope you guys enjoyed this I absolutely love coming to the resort and just hanging out I feel like it's just as fun as coming to a park you get to see such amazing disney movie like Statues and just experience all the resort. It's so fun. Anyhoo, I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it make sure to let me know what your favorite area was and We'll see you next time. Bye


Welcome to day two of Unity Through Diversity Week. We're all excited that you came out to spend some time with us and brother Benjamin. It is my honor to present brother Benjamin Shabazz. Brother Benjamin is a father of four and a grandfather of 12. He is a retired Vietnam War veteran, board member of the Islamic School of Seattle, a TV producer for public access program, W.D. Mohammed and Guess and the Community Issue Group. Brother Benjamin is also a radio program producer for the W.D. Mohammed and Guess and Imam, W.D. Mohammed and Guess, Imam of the Islamic Center of Seattle. So please join me in welcoming brother Benjamin to our community. Thank you. I want to say it's great honor to be here. I want to thank Powell for recognizing me one day at an interfaith meeting. And he came to me afterwards and asked me if I'd like to be a part of something like this. What was funny about the whole thing was that the church we were in, the subject came up about white Jesus. And being on the cross, you know, we see white Jesus on the cross a lot. And I told the people, I said, I was so relieved to find out that there were no white Jesuses on the crosses, it was just the plain cross.   So people thought that was kind of humorous. But the point of the matter was we were talking about how the mind can be manipulated, how people can be scapegoated, how this thing called Islamophobia is running rapid in the society. And we were talking about symbols, signs and symbols, and how important symbols are. And we were talking about balance. So I was trying to explain how my understanding of the cross that at one time it was promoted as being balanced. You know, multidirectional, universal sign. And then the concept of Jesus being put on the cross kind of took over that. And then when we see that symbol, we have a whole other narrative to relate to. Then the other part of that is that Jesus automatically became a Caucasian. And as we know through study, that that was impossible. But it's how the narrative is being presented to the majority of the people is the only thing that we have to go by. So the media is critical. And whoever controls the media, they know that. So we will hear all kind of messages about all kind of things. You notice how in the political arena, the candidates will tune in on a very sensitive area and just stay tuned into that.  The real issues never get really talked about. So you know, there's one guy, I forgot his name now, but he talks about, we're going to build a fence and make the Mexican government pay for it. And you keep hearing that over and over and over and over. I remember when President Barack Obama was running for president and they had him in this church with Reverend Wright. And one of these channels, I forget the name of it, kept playing one of Reverend Wright's speeches where Reverend Wright was saying, goddamn America. And he just kept playing that over and over and over and over and over. So you just forgot about the platform that the candidate was running on. So I'm saying all that to say that those of us that are in the media, we understand those techniques, that magic.  And the only way that we can be aware is to always keep our minds open and critical, critical thinking. So we're an institution that develops critical thinking. Am I right? All right, big man said so. It's got to be right. As being a Muslim, you know, Muslims follow the teachings of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. And what he said was that education is a must. He said education is a lost property of the believers. He said, seek education even if you have to go all the way to China. Now, 1,400 years ago, China was a far off place. It's still a far off place, but we can get there in a few hours now. But we're talking about people that's riding camels and boats. So he was saying the importance of education that we should search, make any effort in all efforts to receive an education. So I want to applaud the students here. If you have any problems or any kinks in what you're doing, stick with it. Because being able to know something from being in a situation where you don't know something can affect your life for the rest of your life. For example, if you look at a beautiful sunset on the water, doesn't the sun look like it's setting in the water? And if you don't know that the sun is not setting in the water, you will go back home and tell your kids and your neighbors I saw the sun set in the water.  But who is it that tells us the sun doesn't set in the water? It's the scientist. No, the sun doesn't set in the water. As a matter of fact, the sun doesn't really set. The earth is going around the sun. It just appears that way. So we, as educated people and those striving to get an education, have to understand the way things appear is not necessarily the way that it is. Now, speaking from grandma's wisdom, only believe what? Half of what you see and none of what you hear. Those people had life experiences to teach them that and never set foot. Some of them never set foot in an institution of higher learning. So what I'm supposed to talk about today is the media portrayal of Islamic faith continues to saturate negatively across media forums, causing misconceptions of its teachings and rich diversity. In this lecture, we will discuss the intersections of race, religion, media influence, and how we, as a global community, can begin to dismantle what is fabrication from reality. So speaking of the media, what we brought today was some newspapers called the Muslim Journal. I tried to bring enough copies so that everybody could take a look at them. They're all different issues. And if you notice, on the top, there's an American flag on one side and then a symbol of the Holy Quran on the other side. This paper has been in existence for over 50 years. It started out as the Mohammed Speaks. And then it graduated through different stages. But the reason why I brought these papers is because a lot of times, you hear in the media, well, where is the outrage against the terrorism that's taking place from the Muslim community?  But for some strange reason, mainstream media won't accent it. In my bio, the brother said that we have a TV program on public access. Public access, which is free in most situations, is a wonderful way to get your message across to society. We also have a radio program on KKNW, 1150 AM, comes on every Sunday between 5 and 6. So we are attempting to use the media to the best that we can to counter some of these things, this negativity that's being spread about the religion of Islam. So let's talk about race a little bit. Myself as an African-American, I became a Muslim through the influence of people that we all have heard about and know, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Elijah Muhammad. So how many have heard about Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali? So this is popular names. Dr. Martin Luther King at the same time was pushing his advocacy for justice and civil rights for those that were being oppressed. So you had Martin Luther King on one side and Malcolm X on the other side, both working for the same goal. Muhammad Ali was the voice of Black manhood. Malcolm X was the voice of Black manhood. I say that Black manhood in terms of the North. If you know anything about the difference between the racism in the North and the South, it was two different things. In the South, our people for decades couldn't vote, couldn't ride in the front of a bus, were getting cheated in their wages, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, being terrorized by the Klu Klux Klan, by the way whose full name is Christian Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. So Malcolm X wouldn't have lasted in the South because he was too bold. The mindset was different. So it took a Dr. Martin Luther King to come in in a passive way and advocate nonviolence. Muhammad Ali, every time you turn on the TV, you see the brother running his mouth. I am the greatest. I whip Sonny Liston. I'm the king of the world. And he was comical in a way, but he backed up everything that he said. And then he presented himself as a Muslim. Then he got into politics. I'm not going to Vietnam. Why should I go all the way over across the ocean to fight against some dark people who have never called me a nigger? So this popular attitude was all in the media. And everybody was all upset and excited. The Vietnam War was raging. But do you know what brought the Vietnam War to a halt? The media. The media. The media was showing pictures of the body bags coming back on the planes. The media was showing pictures of the Agent Orange being spread all over the place. The media was showing pictures of the atrocities that was being done that the war causes. And the average American sitting at home could see, this is terrible. We have reached the point of diminishing returns. Let's bring our boys home. Now you notice now the social engineers have got wise. So they don't show these things now. They show very selected things about the war. You have to go to alternative media to find out some of the nasty stuff that's going on. So James Brown made a record. I don't know if many of you remember this. It's called, Say It Loud. I'm Black and I'm Proud. Anybody remember that? Anybody remember that? OK. James Brown, you know James Brown was the man. Mr. Please, please, please. And he lost a lot of white support for making that record. But for a lot of us, it was a national anthem. Why is that? Because people didn't talk about Black. They said, yeah, I'm Black brother, I'm Black brother. But it was still a hesitancy. You were in the extreme. If you jumped out and started talking about Black, Black, Black. So James Brown made it mainstream. For African-Americans, color was a major problem. Color consciousness was a major problem. I know I look out in the audience, I see a lot of you are young. You don't probably have no idea what I'm talking about. But we used to have a saying, it was something like this. If you're white, you're all right. If you're brown, stick around. If you're yellow, you mellow. But if you're black, get back. This was something we would say amongst ourselves. I could tell you stories all day long about the color consciousness among Black people. So for James Brown to come out and make that statement and embolder people to not be ashamed of their color, not be ashamed of being dark. So here we have James Brown, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, all pushing for one thing, to have justice in this great country called America, for all of its citizens. So this is the race part. So politics, I don't have to tell anybody here. All politicians say what they need to say to get where they need to be. And what they do can be absolutely different. So I'm trying to say that in a way by not saying all politicians lie. It's part of the process. Because they don't see us as equal with them. They see us as fishing a pool. And how do you manipulate the fish in the pool?   That's why they say, you know, they take a pole. See how many people think this way? They take another pole. See how many people think that way? And hence you get the word politics, politics. But what they're saying is that we are sheep. We're not on the intellectual level that they are.  So for African-American Christianity, especially for young African-Americans, Christianity did not appear to address the issues of the day.  Well, young people, they were tired of that. They didn't want to necessarily hear that. So Islam had an influence to draw the young people who wanted to fight. They saw their parents work all their life, go to church every day, and yet end up disenfranchised, poor, broke down, sick, dying. So they wanted something different. So Islam came along and offered alternative. But it was Islam that came in the form of the nation of Islam under the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Because Mohammed Ali, they sprung from that source, that foundation, of Elijah Muhammad.    You're what? I'm what? I'm a god?  Well, hey, that explains everything. That explains all the oppression that we've been going through. The white man is a devil. Now, for some of us, we didn't take that literally. We took that symbolically, because we all had white friends that we knew we grew up with. Some of us were married to white spouses. So we knew we couldn't have been talking about the individual, but it was talking about an institution based on white supremacy. The white man is the devil. Now, in the nation of Islam, we got introduced to words like Allah. I don't know what that is. Allah who? Allah. We got introduced to this book called The Holy Quran. Elijah Muhammad used to tell us that this was the only pure book and to wrap it up and to put it high and somewhere high in your home. Very soon did he teach Allah the Holy Quran. And very soon did he teach us to study from the Holy Quran. He taught mostly from the Bible. But we're introduced to terms like Ramadan. Oh, that sounds nice and neat. What is that? The month of fasting for Muslims. We got introduced to words like Mecca and the Hajj. We were told that Mecca and Mecca, the streets were paved with gold. So our minds had been completely reduced to the level of those sheep. And Elijah Muhammad was trying to open up our minds, plant seeds, explode some of the lies that we've been talking about what life is all about. So again, it was your younger people who gravitated towards it. Didn't necessarily understand any of it. But they gravitated towards it because they knew it was a movement to step out and get some justice for black people in America. That was really the foundation and the emotional thrust behind the whole thing. Emmett Till, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and the list goes on and on and on. They all got eliminated violently. Now, here's the intersection between African-American Muslims and the immigrant Muslim community. All during this time that we were trying to find our way, we didn't see any immigrants, Muslims. Only time we saw our immigrant Muslim when they were trying to tell us that what we were practicing wasn't Islam. I'll never forget I was walking down the street selling my Mohammed Speaks. And I saw a brother.  And he said, brother, I don't follow that. I follow the Quran. And I started laughing, because I said, you follow the Quran and you smoke in the cigarette, something wrong with what you're doing? Because we don't smoke. We don't drink. We don't eat pork. So life is a process of growing and developing. So at some point when Elijah Muhammad passed away, his son took over. Imam Wallace D. Muhammad. And he stepped on the stage. You know, the nation of Islam had a military unit, paramilitary unit. He stepped on the stage with all these military people behind him. And he said, everything my father taught you was wrong. He was saying, what? He said, my father's role was to empty all the foolishness that had been put into you over the centuries, all the lies, all the misconceptions about yourself, about life, about the world. My father's role was to empty that vessel. And my role is to fill that vessel up with the truth. And then he started teaching us how to pray, how to prostrate when we pray. In the nation of Islam, we just put our hands up like this. And we said a prayer. We stood up and said a prayer, what's called a doer now.   Oh, that shook some people up. He said, you're not God. A law is God. And a law is not human. A law is the creator of creation. And human beings are part of creation. So there's creator and there's creation. And a law is God. So then we got drop down our disguise, back down to the earth. Is this a natural human being? And then the immigrant community started rushing. Oh, yes, brother, let me teach you this. Let me teach you that. Let me teach you this. Let me teach you that. We said, hey, wait a minute.  We didn't even see you. Matter of fact, I go in the store and it says, allow supermarket and you're selling pork and alcohol. And your name is Mohammed and you change it to Moe. So what you going to tell me now? But then there were some beautiful brothers and sisters who understood the situation of growth and development. And they sat down with us and they helped us understand more about the religion. But this is this intersection of international universal Islam with Islam springing up from America. So then through study, you find out that the immigrant Muslim community had a different agenda. They didn't come to America necessarily to convert people to Islam or even to teach Islam. They came to America to have a better lifestyle for themselves. So they would form their own communities. They'd build a mosque in their community. They'd stay amongst themselves just like many immigrants do. So we put too much pressure on them because they had a different agenda and we had a different agenda. But there's one thing in the agendas that runs through, that's common that runs through all of it, is that violence is forbidden. Violence is abhorred, is loathed. So out of all the different Muslim communities, now we have Farrakhan, which is going backwards into teaching with Elijah Muhammad talk. But still, between all these different agendas, there's no violence, there's no friction because we understand each other. We comment, we dialogue with each other and keep it moving. A lot of things I want to cover here today, one of the things I want to say quickly because we want to open it up for questioning and answers and we know some of the students have to leave, one of the things I want to introduce is that most movements that have a religious jacket on them are really based on politics and most politics is based on industry and labor, land, natural resources. The politicians are the ones that voice the sensitivities to the masses to get them to agree with what's going on. But it has nothing to do with religion. Basically, religion is not the foundation. I'll give you an example. How many of you here realize how Hawaii became part of the US? You know how Hawaii started off? It wasn't a, oh, hello, Hawaiians, how are you? You want to become part of the US? Hawaii was taken over, brutally taken over. Taken over, why? Because of the fruits, sugar cane. If you're not familiar with it, study it, you'll be surprised how it was done. Mexico, you know how much of America used to be Mexico? Now there's a little spot called Mexico. The Native Americans were decimated. You know, I was taking a class at Bellevue Community College. Instructor was talking about how Native Americans have a predisposition to alcohol, something in their blood when they drink.  And I'm sitting there and I'm boiling.  Because it's my house now. What kind of predisposition would you have if somebody told you, we're gonna sign a document where you're gonna leave this town and go to this town and you can set up shopping in? And then when you get to the next town, there's nothing there. And then they say, bye, see you. Have good luck. And there's all kind of situations how the Native Americans were lied to. Treaty after treaty was broken until you hear that saying where the Native Americans say, pale face speak with forked tongue. African slave trade. It wasn't about white people hating black people. It was about labor, free labor. There was a time when America was called, well, then it wasn't called. There was a term called cotton as king. America was exporting cotton all over the world. With free labor. Now just think for one second.  The workers got nothing. So there are mindless people who have their idea of who God is distorted that would accept that. But there were people who didn't accept that and they were called the abolitionists. They fought hard against the institution of slavery. But my point is that slavery was used, religion was used in slavery as it was a Christian concept to put people in slavery. Religion was used to decimate the Indians. They came up with a statement called manifest destiny, white man's burden and it goes on and on and on. So that's why when we think, we think critically but don't just accept what's on the surface. There's a lot more I wanna get into but I know some of you have to leave so we would like to ask you if anybody have any questions right now before you have to leave and I'll try to answer them. Just one question, I feel like you guys are helping me out here. Just give me one question. Okay, I'll ask the question. How many people have heard of a book by Howard Zinn called A People's History of American Empire? How many people have read it? I would like to mildly recommend that everyone read that book because he tells the truth about American history minus all the myths, all the lies and all the propaganda. Okay, any questions? If not, I'll keep moving but I know some have to leave might wanna ask a question. Now we passed those papers around so that you could see, oh excuse me, yes ma'am. I think we've made very many mistakes, I'm sorry. I think we've made strides in terms of overcoming race and diversity and all that but what would it take for people not to be judged by their color and be judged by the content of what they have because I think we've not reached even half of that up to now. Excellent question. Now that's the question I wanted you to ask too. This is a problem that's been reduced down to don't judge people by the color of their skin. So it's not about not judging people by the color of their skin, it's about respecting people for the color of their skin because every situation in the world you have different cultures. I've heard people say, well I don't see race. Well if you don't see race what I think I'm hearing you saying is that you don't see racial differences. You just see the human in the person but also what you're saying you might not even realize it is that you don't recognize me in my culture. I don't see race but I have a culture. Everybody, all the immigrants that come here they come from a culture and that culture should be respected. Certain cultures eat certain foods all the time. Certain cultures do certain dances, sing certain songs that's their culture, that's their way of living. They have a certain dialect that they speak, that's their culture. So to really get to the point where you respect people in Dr. Martin Luther King's ideology is that you look at a person and treat them the way you wanna be treated. It's just as simple as that.  It's a very basic thing, it's a very basic thing and that's hard to do when you don't know about a person's culture and you turn on the television and all you see is these people acting crazy. You don't have nothing to do with that. So you see a person that looks like who you saw on TV and you back up. That's just natural human activity.  This is why counter media is so critical. This is why classes like this are critical, critically important, but mainly saying, now am I to believe everything that I hear on the news? That's the other thing. I give you an example of how those that control the media have an agenda. There was a meeting in Seattle on 23rd and Union had police escorts and everything. They blocked off the whole intersection and it was a protest about a pot shop being set up right next to a church. I mean right next to the church and a teen center across the street. So there was about 18 people that spoke at this protest and I was there and I sat and watched the whole thing. Then when I went home that evening, I turned on channel seven. I know they were going to do a spread on it. 15 seconds, lip protest 23rd and Union about the pot shop next to a church and they showed one of the brothers giving a speech and you didn't hear what he said or anything and it was over with. So it's like, why didn't you cover the story about the protest? Oh, we did. See, so they can't say that we didn't, we did, but there was no, there was no emphasis on it. There was no exaggeration of anything. There was no extended viewing, 15 seconds. So then we just got home from work, retired, we're having dinner, most of us don't have the energy to call up the state and say, hey, how come you didn't cover that story in more detail? We just do our daily routine, go to sleep and get ready for work the next day and that's most of us. But there's going to have to be some of us who're going to have to take that responsibility. Like Dr. King took a great responsibility. Like all those civil rights leaders who stood up, they took great responsibility and put their personal life in danger to stand up against the injustices. So I want to get to know my neighbor who's from Russia. I want to get to know my neighbor who's from Mexico. I want to get to know my neighbor who's from China. That's going to take a lot for me to extend my hand in friendship. It's going to take a lot for me because I'm told all the Russians or communists, all the Mexicans who want to do is rob and steal. All the Chinese do is want to take over America.  So I just go on about my business. If I bump into somebody and they say, oh, excuse me, I might say hello, I might not. This is the average one of us. But we've got to rise above that. If we don't rise above that, we fall into that pool of fish and we can be fed anything as a bait and then we get captured and eaten. But one thing Dr. Martin Luther King did say, he said, you can't legislate the heart but you can legislate the behavior. So we have to talk to our legislators. Whenever we see crazy stuff going on we have to find people that think like us. We have to put our money on the table. You know, a lot of times we can talk but if there's no resources involved, a lot of things don't get done. So for your young people here, it's a choice you have to make in life. I remember President Obama talked about how he could have worked for any of the top companies in America and been a billionaire by now. But he chose community activism. And when they were giving that as one of his attributes, running for president, he was a community activist. That sounds so limited, so local. Asalaamu alaykum sisters. But any of you who know anything about community activism, you know, that is one of the most trying, trying, trying jobs that you can ever have. Being a community activist, a community organizer, because you learn about people, you learn about attitudes, you learn about the differences of a person from Friday to Monday, you learn about so many things. And I accredit that history that he had in community organizing with the way that he's able to handle himself as a president.  You imagine how much strength that takes? Now it'd be different if you walked out to a crowd that you don't know anything about, a rowdy crowd, and they say, you lie and they start throwing tomatoes at you. That's one thing, but you're walking out amongst so-called civilized, intelligent, educated people. In the government, it takes a lot.  Just death threats, not because of his policies, but because of the color of his skin. Okay, give me another question. All right, by a show of hands, how many people know who Kim Elijah one is? Basketball player. Karim Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali. What about Bernard Hopkins? Two boxing fans, go ahead. Cat Stevens, there we go. Dave Chappelle, most deaf. All these people that I name are Muslims. These are people that we've seen in the media and that we've never ascertained from any of their actions or words that they were violent people. Matter of fact, we admire them, give them accolades. Janet Jackson, Tito Jackson, and it was said that Michael Jackson was leaning towards becoming a Muslim. Okay, what about the Philadelphia sound, Gamelin Huff, Teddy Pendergrass? Okay, we got one old school right over here. But Gamelin Huff, Muslim songwriters. Okay, here's one, what about Brother Ali, the rapper, underground rapper? Okay, there we go. I'm reluctant, but I'll say it, Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson's come a long way. I'm watching his progress, he's really come a long way. Muslims, popular Muslims. So being a Muslim is, I should say, it represents freedom from oppression of any kind, freedom from slavery of any kind. So for African-American, Islam was very appealing because we're the ones that are so sensitive to being oppressed and being put in slavery. Let me read something from our prophet, Prophet Muhammad. This was called his last sermon or his last big speech. And for the sake of time, I'll just excerpt some things. He says this, there's no superiority of a white over a black. And there's no superiority of a black over a white. Then he said, to take this message to those who are not here, perhaps they will take heed better than those who are here. So this message has been kept transmitting through generations, through generations, through generations. And it's finally ended up here in America. And some of your most active adherents to that message are those who come from the nation of Islam because we lived under a doctrine that said that the black man was superior to the white man, bringing us out of a doctrine that said the white man was superior to the black man. So we've experienced both sides of that coin.   The, let's see, the pleasing attitude in the sight of God is those who are the most righteous. So it has nothing to do with skin color. It has everything to do with what's in your heart. It has nothing to do with skin color. It has everything to do with what's in your heart. And who is it that sees the heart? Only God can see the heart. We can't see the heart. Only God can see the heart. So we're the new Muslims. What I mean by that is that we just got introduced to Islam proper in 1975. And how many of you in here are Christians? How many of you Christians have read the whole Bible? See, only one hand raised up. So when we think about Muslims, you think about Muslims that have been Muslims for hundreds of years. Their country is Muslim. Their family is Muslim. Everybody they know is Muslim. But if this energy is not kept alive, we can slide. We can slide. And a lot of them have slid to where they say, I'm a Muslim. Some of them have not read the Quran. Some are Muslim because their family's Muslim. And I'm not saying that anything is wrong with this. What I'm saying is how the laziness can come in to being anything. But no, for the new convert, man, he wants to know everything there is to know. He wants to know everybody that's a Muslim. He wants to read the Quran in the morning and the afternoon and the night. And then wake up in the middle of the night and read it some more. Because it's so exciting. It's brand new thing. And that's what you see in America. And I believe that it's going to be the Muslims in America and those who respect Islam in their heart that live in America, that's going to bring about a renaissance of Islam is gonna come from America. Because in my naivete, when I would hear about people from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, you know, these African countries, Indonesia, I was so excited. I run up to the people, hug them. Asalaamu alaykum brother, asalaamu alaykum sister. Tell me this, tell me this, tell me this, tell me this. And I find out there's a lot of oppression from the state against Muslims. Like every Friday, we have what we call the Juma prayer, the Friday prayer, the main day for Muslims. In some Muslim countries, the state writes the speech for the Imam and gives it to the Imam and then they stand guard at the door to make sure he delivers the speech the way it was written. So to make a long story short, America is really in my estimation and a lot of people agree with me. It's really the only real Muslim country. Oh, brother, how can you say that, man? Look what goes on in America. Look at the freedoms in America, the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly and what's that last one? The freedom of religion. We can be a Muslim in America. The police can't come into a group of Muslims and say you can't gather here. We're free to express ourselves the way we want to. The police can't bust in and say, you know, that's the wrong speech, you can't say that in here. So that's why I put on my resume, excuse me, my bio that I was a Vietnam veteran. You know, there was a huge thing about African-Americans not joining the military. So why should I join the military and not get the freedoms that every other citizen has that's guaranteed to all of us, but we don't get it? But understanding the freedoms in America, I encourage young people to go into military because we have an obligation to stand and defend this country. Now, I know some of you say, well, some of the military policy is not righteous. Some of the political policies are not righteous. So you can have a Muslim on the battlefield and have another individual right beside you, both fighting, but in your mind, you may not be fighting for the same objective they're fighting for. You're fighting for to preserve the freedoms of America. So when you go back home, you can stand tall and say, assalamu alaikum, and have invested your treasure and your life to keep this country functioning. Now, there's what we call America the beautiful and America the ugly.  We don't ever wanna see that in America again. And unfortunately, we see this Islamophobia taking over the media. So I wanna put this out there when people wanna talk about Islamic terrorism, we should lay a foundation. Who started World War I? Was it Muslims? Who started World War II? Was it Muslims? Who killed about 20 million Aboriginal people in Australia? Was it Muslims? Who sent the nuclear bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Was it Muslims? Who killed more than 50 million Indians in South America? Was it Muslims? Who killed more than 100 million Indians in North America? Was it Muslims? Who took about 180 million of African people as slaves whom 88% died and were thrown in the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage? Was it Muslims? And who oppressed the entire population of South Africa to work the gold and diamond mines? Was it Muslims? No, they weren't Muslims. First, we have to define terrorism properly. If a non-Muslim does something bad, it's a crime. But if a Muslim commits the same act, he is a terrorist. First, we move the double standard. Then we can move and come to the point. How much time we got? Can any of you remember about three, four years ago when Oprah Winfrey was talking about beef and the hazards of beef? Somebody came on our show and started talking about how beef causes cancer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And she said, wow, I don't think I'll ever eat another burger. Can any of you remember that? We got one. Anybody else remember that? Well, you know she got sued? She got sued by the beef industry? And I don't know what, I know she came out of court smiling, but I don't know if it was a settlement or what, but it was a long drawn out thing because they said her voice carried so much weight that people were gonna stop eating burgers and cut back on their profits and they sued her. Now, let's bring it up to this talk today. One of the things about Islam that people hate, big business hates, because one of the things we're told is to eat foods that are good and pure.  Because once you find out what's in fast foods, you don't wanna eat that. I tell my grandkids, they talk about McDonald's, I say, you mean McBoo-Boo? Said all fast foods is excrement with flavoring on it. Muslims don't eat pork. Now, there is hardly no food in the Western world that does not have pork products in it. Hardly no food. And you know how they promote bacon. I mean, bacon is the thing, bacon is in everything. They even got bacon and ice cream now. The other thing about Islam is that loan sharking is forbidden. Now, what am I talking about about loan sharking?  But when you go to buy one, you can't pay for it in cash and you don't have good credit. So where do you go to get your big screen TV? Payday loan. Rent a center. Rent a center will sell you a $2,000 big screen TV for $50 a week. And the average poor person is thinking in terms of $50 a week. Well, $50 is not that much money. That's $200 a month. But when you sign your name, what you don't read or realize is that you're paying $4,000 for that TV because your contract is extended for two or three years. But that's not important because you're getting your big screen TV the same day you walked in the store, you're gonna walk out with it at $50 a week. That's loan sharking. That's loan sharking. Rent a center, excuse me, payday loan. Same thing.  But you pay is often a long period of time.  So you're in a constant cycle of oppression and slavery, economic slavery. So that's forbidden in Islam. No gambling. Forbidden. Do you know how much people make in casinos? Can you imagine? And gambling is also, not only is it a sin, it's an addiction. There are people who quit gambling just like they can't quit using drugs. It's an addiction. And if you wanna know the truth, it's all rigged. You gotta listen to alternative TV, go on the internet. When you first walk into a casino, they take your picture, bam. Then they run it to see if you've been in there before. Then they run it to see if you've been in the ones in the area. So if you're brand new, they watch the machine you go to and they make sure you win something. Soon as you walk in, you can win two or $300 right off the bat, just pull in the little slots. Now they got you. They got you.    Now you're hooked. It's all a trap. It's all a trap. No drugs or alcohol. It's a big one. No drugs or alcohol. Now I just named these few things here. And these few things that I just named are multi-billion dollar industries. And so we're talking about Islam becoming popular in the West, these people are gonna lose too much money. But at the same time, out of all that we've talked about, Islam is still the fastest growing religion in the West. And why is that? Because people look at it from a critical thinking posture. And they see that it makes a lot of sense.  So holla. Well, yeah, but I did have a question. Oh, yes ma'am. Can you talk a little bit about the interfaith work that you do here in the Greater Seattle area in regards to working with other faith-based groups? Thank you. Thank you. There is a movement going on. It's called the Interfaith Movement. And it is strong all over the country. And in some of the papers that we passed around, you'll see some of that interfaith going on. And there's a Lutheran church, a pastor from the Lutheran church named Terry Kylo that I work with. I work with Jewish rabbis. We work with all types of Christian denominations and politicians to show that we all serve the same God. We just serve it from a different walk or a different persuasion. But we all serve the same God. Because in fact, there's only one God. There's not two or three or four or five different gods. There's only one God. And as Muslims, we believe that we believe in all the books, the Old Testament, the New Testament. We believe in all of the messengers and prophets that God sent to teach the people. As a matter of fact, one of the first interfaith movements during the time of the beginning of Islam was when the Muslims were under persecution, heavy persecution. So the prophet told some of his followers to go to Africa, to Abyssinia, Ethiopia, said there's a king there who's a just and fair ruler. And so they escaped the persecution and went to Africa. And the enemies came behind them and they all arrived there kind of like at the same time. And the king said, what's going on? So the oppressor said, these people are our subjects and they're causing problem in our kingdom. And they've escaped and we're trying to recapture them and bring them back. And the king said, I understand that. There are many times troublemakers are around. He said, certainly you can take them back. He said, but I have to hear what they have to say. And when they started speaking, they talked about all the corruption in the society, all the tribal wars in the society, all the disrespectful women in the society, all the disrespect for the working class in the society. And they said, when this one man came, when this Muhammad showed up and said, he said that he was receiving revelation from God and that all these things were forbidden. And we stopped walking around with our heads down. We stopped disrespecting our women. We stopped fighting at the drop of a hat and killing each other. We had trust amongst ourselves. We could leave our possessions with each other. And the king said, well, this doesn't sound too bad. He said, what's the problem here? So the oppressor said, oh, but they don't believe in Jesus. Now the king got really upset. He said, tell me about Jesus. Tell me about the baby. Jesus, our savior. And so now everybody was looking around. Well, how are we gonna handle this? So one of the Muslims, all he did was recite what the Lord had revealed to Muhammad about the virgin birth. And I can't recite it exactly, but he basically broke it down to where the angel came to marry and told her that God was gonna bless her with a word from him. And his name would be Jesus and how he would go out and do great works, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So he recited that to the king. And the king was sitting on his throne and he had a staff and he got up, walked down and he drew a line like that. And he said, what you believe and what we believe, there's no more difference than that line. He said, you can stay with us forever. I will never send you back. And he sent back the oppressors and they had brought great gifts hordes of gold and silver. He said, take your gifts back with you. And those Muslims stayed there and lived there in the society. That was the first great inner faith situation in Islamic and Christian history. So back to the question, the group that I work with, the particular group I work with is with Terry Kahlo with the Lutheran church and he travels all over the state with Christians, Muslims and Jews to show the solidarity between people who believe in God and how that we can work together. So that's kind of the answer to your question. How much time we got? Any more questions? Yes, sir. Okay, okay, okay.  And that is that in Spain, there was a civilization of Muslims, Christians and Jews who lived together in peace, in quiet, and in harmony and in intellectual transfer for over 800 years. And it's known as Muslim Spain. And if you Google it and look it up, you'll see that I talk about the coexistence. So when people really get serious about practicing their religion and believing in God, all that superficial stuff just falls away. So that's the one example. The other example is during the time of the Prophet when Islam got established in Mecca and Medina, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together. And it's something you can almost call a heaven on earth because there were travelers that used to come through there and during the time of prayer, all the shop owners would leave the shop and go to the mosque and make prayer. And one of the travelers came through there and he was looking around. And so one of the believers came up to him and said, are you new here? He said, yes, he said, what kind of city is this? He said, no one is guarding the door. No one is guarding the shops. He said, no, we're Muslims. We don't have need of any locks or guards. So there is something in the Christian prayer which talks about that kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. And this is what Islam represents, is that kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Now I must say that this is the ideal. Today we don't see it that much, but it did happen. There is a place of reference that we can look to because America is how old? 200 years, 400 years, how old is America? Spain was, we had coexistence, peaceful coexistence for over 800 years in Spain. So thank you for that question. You know, I had that down here to talk about but I kind of overlooked it, so thank you. Okay, we have a few more minutes, any more questions? Can anyone tell me what the word propaganda means? How it's defined? Just briefly, propaganda. Yes, sir. Okay, yeah, that's it, that's it. Yeah, I remember seeing those pictures. They would talk about the Jews and then show rats running in the sewer at the same time, things like that. And if you break that word down, syllable by syllable, you get pro-pagan, pro-pagan. So it's appeal, pro-pagan, propaganda. So it's appealing to the pagan inside of us. It's appealing to the inhumanity in us. And they're very skillful at it, like you said. They'll present a narrative, show a picture. Let's see, I want to wrap this up with a quote from the Holy Quran. This is chapter 49, al-Hujarat, the chambers. O mankind, we created you from a single soul of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other, not that you may despise each other.  And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted with all things. That's my closing quote. If you have any questions, I want to say in closing, I appreciate you guys' time and your patience to bear with me. I appreciate the sister, Doris, for working through this process of getting me here and big props to Brother Powell, Asma, yes, for inviting me here in one of the interfaith dialogues. So I hope that I have shared some things. I ask you all to keep those papers if you don't want them. Pass them on to somebody else. You will see on those papers an alternative to what the propaganda that we've been fed. And I want to say, Asalaamu alaikum to you all, which means peace be upon you and thank you. And I want to return this back over to Powell.


I can change this by just putting love in there, not changing by all of them. And let's do what they did to us. But no, let me love them and show them how to love. That's how you change the game.


That's, that's cool, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for heart season two, episode 17, this episode. God damn, this episode's still really good. Is it a bit dramatic? Is it a bit like kind of a soap opera, which they in fact make fun of? Yeah, but this is like watching a Grey's Anatomy, like a premium Grey's Anatomy, but it's supernatural. And I'm going to explain what I mean in a second. This episode has the brothers hunting down a werewolf in a city in San Francisco. This big rich boss guy is ripped up, which admittedly actually has some pretty good prosthetic effects in terms of FX, like actual like makeup and whatnot. They talked to his assistant, who was the last person in some life, which is Madison. She tells them about a stalker and they kind of think maybe that guy's the werewolf. One guy goes out and watches him, which being Dean, after losing in a game of rock paper scissors. And then Sam stays with Madison for the night. Turns out that in fact, her stalker is not actually the werewolf. Madison is in fact, first really good little twist. The other really good part about this episode is the relationship between Sam and Madison. This kind of relationship writing has never been this good in this show. It got close. It got close. In terms of all of the romantic characters that Sam is known, sure Ruby is probably the most interesting one, but Madison is the best one. This girl has left such an impression on us all after just one episode. And to see what she did in this episode with Sam after he finds out that she's a werewolf, he changes completely. He goes into work mode. He starts to treat her like a monster. And that connection between the two of them that had been established earlier, like when they were watching the soap opera episode, which by the way, small little pause here. Relationship removed. That is exactly like one of my roommates and I when she's watching Grey's Anatomy. It's trash. It's such goddamn trash, but I can't stop watching it. If it's on, go watch it. It's drivel, drivel. Obviously things aren't good. Madison thinks that Sam is crazy while Sam is trying to figure out a way to not kill this girl, even though he just met her. Dean is right ready to blow her away, but they want to try something for Sam's sake, prove that they can possibly destroy the bloodline, that maybe by doing that, they'll save her.  That's still one of the worst rep cons this show ever did. And you want to know why this episode matters so much because it showed that the brothers could fail. Not just in terms of saving the world, but even just saving one person. It makes their job so much harder when they can't just save one. It made stakes. It created tension. It made you care. That night, Sam's able to slam her in the closet and keep her in there, even though she tears up all the walls, which by the way is a great production design reveal. Really good for doing visual storytelling. And then Dean goes and kills the original werewolf, who is her neighbor, who is the only bad part about this episode. I have a feeling that there might have been a story note. When Dean kills Greg and he's like, ooh, where am I? Who am I? He should have just gotten the same exact kind of feeling that Madison's going through. Madison doesn't know she's turning into a werewolf. Why does Greg not know? They kind of make a point of trying to cover this with a primal note, like him being a primal thought to be with Madison.  We haven't saved her. And it makes that little story nugget even more ripe. Then they find out that they can't do anything.  That's the way we gotta do it. And Sam doesn't want to and he walks into the kitchen. The shooting's so good. Great use of shadows and lighting work in this episode. Really harkens back to a few episodes from season one. The emotion between the two. Yes, it's dramatic. Yes, it's soap operaic, but it's so good. Music's a great choice for the background. Dean giving him the gun. Sam having this one last look of outer pain in much shorter time than you would think, because when he fires that gunshot, the music even cuts and the episode ends. This episode is really good. I really enjoy it. However, it's a bit over dramatic. And then the whole Greg kind of story part that I feel wasn't allowed into the episode, it prevents me from giving this episode the rating that I think it deserves. I can't, I can't because it's just soap opera. And if I do it, I'm gonna just feel guilty about it considering the class of what I put sevens at. So in the end, I'm gonna give Hart a six out of seven. It's one of my favorite episodes of the show. I'm not gonna deny it. That's probably the most supernatural squee I've ever admitted in all of my reviews. And like always, and I asked you guys what your comments were on Hart. So here are the best ones I could find from what you guys told me. I love Hart for a variety of reasons. Sam always winning rock paper scissors until season six is hilarious. The effects of the werewolf were simple without all the hair. If it was your typical werewolf of all the hair, I don't think the audience would have felt attached to Madison. This is also the first time we see one of the brothers having to put down a monster that they were close to and go through it all. Definitely one of the best episodes of show romantic tension. The end scene shoots my heart every time. I'll see myself out now. Definitely the emotional tension to Madison definitely really cemented that emotional heartbreak that the end of the episode ends with. One of the better things about the earlier seasons was that the monster felt like a threat and that they felt important to compared to now. Hart I remember made me cry when I first saw it cause I felt super bad and even worse when they discovered that the cure to help Claire not to be a werewolf or was a vampirism. I felt that Sam had good chemistry with the actress who was also on Smallville with Jensen, LOL Vancouver actor life. I feel episodes like this made us the audience. If not the character wonder if all the monsters were evil because are before they just assumed that they were. This one and the vampire intro episode. I wonder if it occurred to Sam that she was in purgatory when she went there in later seasons. That is a good point actually. She would definitely be in purgatory. I'm happy that they didn't bring her back when they went to purgatory because of all the actors who have a one episode lineage on this show, she has one of the best ones and I don't want that tarnished. Honestly, this is an episode I initially forgot about but after rewatching it, damn. Ah, the good old days where not everything had an out and emotional loss actually kept me invested. I thought this episode was an excellent way to parallel Sam's difficulty killing Madison with Dean's own decision to kill his brother. The last scene was really well done from the brother's talk, Jared's tears to the off-screen gunshot and Jensen's own winch slash tear. Obviously the threat level wasn't huge.  But unlike more recent episodes where nothing seems like a big deal anymore, at least this episode makes up for the easy hunt with a solid moral dilemma showing us not all monsters are evil and character building that actually made me a little teary at the end. And yes, that does relate to my kind of, my one criticism of this episode is how easy it is for them to find the werewolf. Like my God, can you imagine actually trying to do this in a city? This would be so hard to do. Maybe I'm alone on this one but I don't love hard as much as everyone else does. Anytime a relationship or any kind of romance occurs in the show or a movie I watch, I tend to check out because it just gets in the way of what the protagonist should be doing. For example, in the Thor movies, Natalie Portman's character is just there to be the love address and prevents Thor from being Thor. But in Ragnarok, he's allowed to just be Thor because he's not in a relationship. Sam and Madison clearly have an attraction towards each other, but I truly couldn't care less. However, with saying all that, hard is a really good episode. The end scene where Sam has to kill Madison is very emotional and still makes me tear it up a bit but not only is Madison being submissive but there's just no other option. I see where you're coming from with the Thor comment. However, this is not like that. This isn't a romance for romance sake. This is an episode that actually creates some attention, creates some form of mortal ground and then they snatch it away. Something I forgot to say during my review is that he sees her as another Jess. He sees her as a chance to redeem himself and the fact that he has to put her down again immediately after, he's like, man, I just lost Jess, now I lose Madison, everyone I love dies.  Next episode is Hollywood Babylon, an episode that was shot at Northridge Studios which I worked at for a couple of months. Tell you guys about that area as well as the episode itself. So make sure to give me your comments about that episode and I'll choose the best comments and read them in that episode. That's all from me guys. If you enjoyed this video, leave a like and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Anyway, stay safe, wash your hands. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Knitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show, Undergrads. 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another destiny video hello what's your name DC menu are you doing yes but today what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try and to attempt to solo this week's weekly nightfall which is Valor's tatata tatata tatata TAAAHHHHH!! but I don't know have I done this this week I don't know I have to be honest I don't know how hard it is and there's no burns on this week I'll show you the burns in a second well the modifiers in a second but there's no actual burns on so yeah it could be a bit iffy later on let me just get up to here and I'll show you guys what's out on this week if you don't know already active modifiers you have epic berserk first troops airborne and catapult and so yeah now I don't think I'm going to have to get through this room on my spine I'm gonna try and run through which probably won't go well to be honest now if you guys would like to interact with me more than just on YouTube why not like my Facebook page or follow me on Twitter and Instagram now I haven't really been that active on Instagram or Facebook to be honest but I'm actually changing that so yes be sure to follow me the links are in that video description so do check it out oh dear dear dear now I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually give away a couple beta codes on my Facebook page as well so yes make sure you check down that which will be linked down below in that video description and as always guys drop a comment and I like on this video to be with a chance of winning my weekly beta code for destiny to or my resurrection emblem giveaway which I'm gonna do you the winner can choose between either it's up to them I wish you so full auto this wounded actually show you guys I'm sure you guys must classic about so I'm obviously using my warlock and I'm using self erase so I'll get a second chance I'm using my wounding which I've not long got icebreaker because it's the icebreaker and the hunger of quarter and just just over tier 11 gear with myself what I'm using right here and if you didn't know thing is on so yes I do even check I kind of catapult so yes more grenades more often is what you want so yeah this is gonna be pretty difficult it really is my controllers playing up as well now what it was I meant to say this in the video the other day I get like a lot of people messaging me about the controller noise my analogs make when I'm playing which is fair enough they do when I watch back at the videos they make a lot of noise and is honestly it's annoying but I found a fix I've actually got a fix and I'll show you guys once I've got this guy down now I looked everywhere for fix to stop the noise or something like that but I couldn't find anything eBay Amazon all these gaming living websites none of them sold a product that would help assist me in canceling that noise which my controller made so what I did was I went to my local pound shop and I bought some robot foam sticky circle things and I cut them out and I stuck them to my controller and I mean the noise now there's nothing there I mean like compared to what it was you can't hear it which is incredible it really is so yeah cheap fix now what I'm gonna do is I might get in contact with scoff you show them my design see what they say you know you're gonna tell me to do one and then you know next year this new scoff gaming controller made perfect for streamers and youtubers who when I can't slack sand and the controllers I know it's gonna have like rubber foam things just like my controller you know it you know it well these guys taking some damage man just shame burning on you can see me I'm so used to the report I'm not used to the repellent icebreaker so I'm like I'm pulling my controller well my analog stick way back or way far too down to dance way too far down even speaking English DPJ okay so let's get rid of this dude and there's two on the left which are a few pain in the butts and but yeah next week as well people we get the destiny to reveal not actually being invited out by Bungie if you did not know already I've actually invited me out to go and record and play which is just amazing courtesy of Activision and Bungie as well oh dear I don't think this is gonna go down too well right here don't think it is up there screw me over there screw me over but yeah courtesy of Activision and Bungie I've been invited out to play the game which is just incredible and it's obviously thanks to you guys for the support and let you show me on my channel I mean like it is amazing I'm so done for here I'm so done for hey yay so get more damage out everyone's on and for that about that so I'll have to jump in my icebreaker but yeah can't wait no I don't know what to expect from destiny from destiny to honestly I just don't know what to expect I mean like we had like leaks yesterday about why not leaks like rumors and speculation about animal subclasses and this that and the other I mean there's amazing as that sounds I still don't think it's gonna actually happen now you guys if you watched my video yesterday I talked about it spoke about it and had the coincidences and all this that and the other but yeah we might have animals associated with our subclasses that's fair enough but I just think if anything it will be animations to our abilities supers and that will probably see like a flash of a snake on something along them lines I don't think it's gonna be anything more to be honest if it is a pick up through to get it right though I just can't see I seriously can't see it it's just crazy come on come on yeah mate oh it is quite hard to actually be careful yeah I think I'm super too and so first if I do mess up I'm sure I probably will know in me as a guy to my left shooting me oh god I'm super now let's go back down there just in case I do die I can oh did it die I must have had a ship's coming in now we must run away because this thing is full of all beastly's there we go it's actually scary ain't you oh my life what hit me then what hit me then the absolutely destroyed me it really did where you went what is that is that the ship that's got a bit of ship any Jesus that was doing some damage that was ridiculous absolutely ridiculous I don't know what you think you're doing mate you're going down so I quit them then Green Age regendo because the catapult that's craziness that is craziness the other big guys up there here with all these small guys first big guys coming out over there this is quite a difficult strike to be honest especially to soul and nightful I mean burns on yeah fair enough it'll be a ways yeah but yeah now what are you guys most looking forward to seeing from destiny to I mean like I just I don't know seriously don't know I don't know what to expect honestly I mean the way I'm hoping I'm hoping it plays like this but then I'm hoping it evolves somehow I just don't know the mechanics evolves somehow hopefully what we get but I know I got a few heavy use these and these dudes because they're a bit of a pain in the arse to be honest well you don't want to be much better wow nothing oh my dear dear you sure as the wall I got that perk I'm I just imagining things where if you you have with me there let me have a look oh yes what I mean again don't really need a catapult and do I really let's see if this works so if I oh yeah even do much damage though well if I hit them it probably would to be honest is it doing any more damage you want to know I'm not even sure it is to be honest I'm not sure it is this is gonna be hard oh you have to move it yeah sneak I'm not having it sling me across map I've had that happen to me before quite a few times to be honest actually just do more damage with that I think it did it seems to be doing it makes sense using that to guys really does it really does now while I'm in a la courtesy of one unit division which I again can't thank you guys enough for I made a couple of vlogs while I'm there what do you guys you what do you want to see that would you guys like to see that I mean don't tell me it's that big guy oh it is and it it's that big fella it's that big fella the one I hate but you would you guys like to see some V-LOG to all of that I mean there's quite a few big over youtubers going actually massive content creators going more console my name is by Datto all and all of them are going streamers as well which should be pretty cool to meet someone oh my life I'm sitting back here whoa hey is that him there is that one boy oh I do like the icebreaker though it's a bit it's a problem when he's invisible you can't see him so I can't see me he moved I was just going down there and he didn't get from this angle should be better there he is I see you now come on I'm getting shot from every angle yeah you fell off that's good jump and use my thing seems to work what are you doing behind me you little cheat you little cheat I thought about all these and they thought about all these little scamming spots where do you go oh you sucker didn't really want to use that jump and see if you know he's doing more damage I keep thinking my my sky it's fully all totally in isn't which is a bit annoying you're going down boy oh dear me oh big guy you got things attached to you now I'll do it oh so good I can still get you I'm so dead I am so dead look at my house there's nothing there nothing all right this is dangerous man I wish it was a tank to be honest yeah I really do you're spawning behind me again you're spawning on top of me if you are mates it's got no half left so it's not a bad thing he's almost down where you going I am watching my radar on my pole I mean I'm not doing as much damage as I can because it's got them little minions attached to my belief but still you down boy who I'm just gonna try and get my vehicle and get through all these but you might be pretty hard but let's go do do do do do do do do do do do do do oh we're basically out Vallas now up can you fit I get yeah whoo yep they should be it should be okay for me I'm just gonna sit in that glitch but you know I ain't fighting in one-on-one dream of all his little minions man be ridiculous I'm going to that glitch but that's what I'm doing that's what I'm doing I'll probably switch sniper as well to be honest because I think the X machiner is a better or and well we are speaking any regions so and I'm I don't why it's no comparison I was gonna use an exotic primer but let's see okay so we're through here. Now do you reckon I could run through this room?