The Tea Problem in Our Community

We Have a Common Enemy, RacismThere is an enemy That we need to address, yet We are attacking each other. Oppressed people should ban together and fight our common enemy. 0:07 Good evening and welcome to my humble podcast abode. I am Cocoa Griot, just a 50 something who enjoys sharing ideas about life, love, and a host of other topics. This is a truly exciting week because I launched my website. Please check me out at www cocoa griotscorner.com. You can find blog posts there, my micro cast there, and also you can pick yourself up some cocoa griot merch while you're there. So this weekend, I engaged in some very interesting research. The recent controversy involving Derrick Jackson, made me think about who is influencing whom in our society today. I watched a video by a former reality TV star, discussing the situation. She went on to mention different influencers on YouTube. So I thought I would check these people out. The result was catastrophic. I went down a rabbit hole that I was not expecting to, and I'm still scratching my head several days later, trying to figure out how do we get to the place where we have a tea problem. 1:21 Now in some social circles tea is a moniker for gossip. I was not prepared for the amount of people who actually make an entire living on posting videos and sharing tea. Now let me be clear, I'm not knocking anybody's hustle, but I was truly disturbed by what I found. There's a disruption in the t's that matter to me. In our community, because of this. Specifically, I'm concerned with a disruption of positivity, unity and loyalty. This is the kind of tea that matters to me. So I wanted to address each of these t's, and how our community has moved so far away from them to the point where we literally have beefs going on between people in our community, even though we have bigger issues looming than fighting with ourselves. 2:19 The first thing I want to talk about is unit, T. A common theme in most of these programs was alignment with one side or another, they would gather th