ARE PRO-BLACK SOCIAL MEDIA GURUS HYPNOTIZING THE COMMUNITY? | THE SCURV PODCAST

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:14]Welcome back everyone. Lance scurve here on the wake up.

[00:00:21]For some reason I was up most of the night and I had so many thoughts hitting me. You know, as as usual, there's a lot of things that I want to talk about that I see out in the world.

[00:00:34]And one of the things that I want to speak on is is nothing that new that we haven't discussed in this world and especially in our community. And so this is why I titled this, "Are pro black social media gurus hypnotizing the community?"

[00:00:59]Why so many people fall for online black power scammers?

[00:01:05]I don't know what it is.

[00:01:07]I don't know whether it's a thirst for real leaders, but it seems like everybody in their mama who can get a microphone or a phone or on a computer wants to be this charismatic, revolutionary person who leads the way because they have the answers and they prop themselves up and upon further investigation You may not know it, but their lives are in shambles.

[00:01:45]I happen to see and observe one grow right in front of my very eyes.

[00:01:51]This brother talks about loving his sisters, but he can't keep his hands off of the cars.

[00:02:01]And you could see the narcissistic traits And it's it's just so obvious. And the funny thing about it is the secret on this particular individual has been getting out even though he probably doesn't realize it.

[00:02:18]I can't go out like that.

[00:02:21]You know, there is a dangerous sickness spreading through the black community for sure.

[00:02:31]And too many people are afraid to call it out. They are. They see it in their face and right in front of their eyes and they're afraid to call it out. But we're living in a time where smooth talkers, fake activists, hustlers, scammers, and emotional manipulators have learned how to turn black pain into business. And that's what it is.

[00:03:00]Our pain is very lucrative to some.

[00:03:07]They know exactly what to say, exactly how to say it, and exactly who to target.

[00:03:15]And it's usually single black women, honestly. And I'll break that down later on.

[00:03:22]They pray on the broken, the lonely, the frustrated, and the homeless.

[00:03:30]rightly so. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We going to do it more like this, too.

[00:03:37]They wrap themselves in the language of black empowerment, unity, revolution, healing, spirituality, and financial freedom.

[00:03:49]But behind closed doors, many of them are only chasing money, fame, attention, control, and tail.

[00:04:02]Tail. Yes, women. They're chasing women, too. That's one of the um benefits of being a charismatic fake black hotel guru.

[00:04:14]Haven't you seen social media? has become the perfect playground for these frauds.

[00:04:22]Years ago, a crooked preacher needed a church building to fool the people.

[00:04:31]Today, all a scammer needs is a phone camera, a ring light, a few emotional speeches, and a cash app link. Ain't that something? Hit the cash app. Hit the cash app. Hit the cash app. Who does that sound like?

[00:04:48]They know how to create emotional moments that touch wounded people deeply.

[00:04:55]They know how to speak in vague language that sounds powerful but says absolutely nothing.

[00:05:05]They know how to trigger emotions instead of teaching solutions.

[00:05:11]And sadly, too many people are so hungry for hope that they cannot recognize the manipulation taking place right in front of their very faces.

[00:05:28]Many people in our community are mentally exhausted from years of struggle, disappointment, rejection, poverty, trauma, racism, and emotional pain, as well as all the things that all people go through, we have it even more.

[00:05:48]So when someone comes along speaking confidently about power, success, healing or freedom, it feels like relief.

[00:06:00]It feels like somebody finally understands them.

[00:06:05]That emotional connection becomes dangerous because it lowers their ability to think clearly.

[00:06:13]Instead of asking questions, they surrender emotionally.

[00:06:20]Instead of examining the truth, they fall in love with the performance because that's all it is, a performance.

[00:06:31]That is exactly how cultlike thinking begins.

[00:06:36]The scammer creates an emotional dependency.

[00:06:41]The followers begin to feel that this person is special, chosen, enlightened, or somehow different from everyone else.

[00:06:53]Soon the followers defend this person no matter what happens.

[00:06:59]They ignore obvious lies.

[00:07:02]They overlook immoral behavior.

[00:07:06]They excuse greed.

[00:07:09]They attack anyone who questions a leader. They become emotionally trapped because admitting the truth would force them to admit they were manipulated from the very beginning. I wonder how that feels when you realize that who you revered and put on such a high pedestal was nothing but a fraud. A fraud. And you followed them and defended them.

[00:07:37]Most of these guys are narcissists and the people supporting them, the go-to term usually is flying monkeys.

[00:07:48]Meaning that the flying monkeys do the bidding of the narcissist fake leader.

[00:07:56]So the more you defend them is the more the noose tightens around your neck. It's like a knot, right? The more you try to pull yourself out of this knot, the more it tightens up on you.

[00:08:13]And even when you see the truth about this scammer and manipulator who wears their costumes and props themselves up with the regular speeches online and the the comment sections amplify it because they glorify this guy or woman.

[00:08:32]But what makes this even more painful is that many of these victims are already struggling financially.

[00:08:42]Some are living paycheck to paycheck.

[00:08:46]Some are unemployed.

[00:08:48]Some are depressed.

[00:08:51]Some are carrying emotional wounds from childhood as most of us are more or less cuz those are the formative years.

[00:09:01]Yet they will still send money they cannot afford to lose because they believe they are investing into hope itself.

[00:09:11]The scammers understand this psychology well very well. They know desperate people are easier to control because desperate people want miracles more than they want facts.

[00:09:26]Isn't that sad?

[00:09:28]These frauds study human weakness whether they realize it consciously or not. They know people crave belonging.

[00:09:39]They know people want purpose.

[00:09:42]They know many black people are tired of feeling ignored, powerless, and disrespected by society.

[00:09:51]So the manipulator steps in and creates a fantasy world where the follower feels important and emotionally safe.

[00:10:02]They create an us versus them mentality where anybody outside the group becomes an enemy.

[00:10:13]And that's to protect that false leader because he can't have anybody coming around and whispering into the ears of his followers who give him money, who support him because he can't last that way. So he's got to tell you, leave those people alone. Don't talk to them. They're bad. Stay away from them only because they know the truth.

[00:10:40]One of the biggest weapons these scammers use is emotional stimulation.

[00:10:49]They know how to make people feel inspired for a short period of time.

[00:10:55]They speak with passion.

[00:10:57]They use dramatic phrases.

[00:11:00]They repeat catchy slogans.

[00:11:03]They present themselves as fearless truth tellers.

[00:11:08]But when you listen carefully, you realize there is often very little substance underneath all of the noise.

[00:11:18]The words sound deep, but they're empty.

[00:11:23]The followers are not reacting to truth.

[00:11:26]They're reacting to emotion.

[00:11:30]Another tactic is manufactured struggle. Many of these people constantly talk as if they are under attack from invisible enemies.

[00:11:42]They of they always claim someone is trying to silence them. They present themselves as victims even while collecting large amounts of money from supporters.

[00:11:55]This creates sympathy from the audience.

[00:11:58]The followers then feel responsible for financially rescuing the leader.

[00:12:05]It becomes emotional blackmail disguised as community support.

[00:12:11]These manipulators also know how to use guilt very effectively.

[00:12:17]They make followers feel guilty for not donating enough money.

[00:12:22]They imply that anybody who questions them is disloyal to the black community itself.

[00:12:31]They connect financial port support with morality.

[00:12:38]In other words, if you do not give them money, then somehow you are not down for the cause. See, this is psychological warfare against emotionally vulnerable people. And this is how they always they always work this way. I hope you can see it cuz many of the people who are going to hear this are under under the spell of these types of people.

[00:13:06]Social media makes the manipulation even stronger because people constantly see the content every single day.

[00:13:16]The fraud becomes part of the daily routine.

[00:13:20]The followers hear the same voice repeatedly until it starts to shape how they think.

[00:13:27]Repetition is powerful. If someone hears the same message enough times, eventually it begins to feel true even when it is built on lies.

[00:13:41]This is why many followers become almost hypnotized.

[00:13:45]They stop thinking independently and begin repeating the same talking points over and over like program machines.

[00:13:55]I've seen this in people just in normal situations.

[00:13:59]You hang around a person long enough and somebody very close to me was hanging around these people who I knew are really no good.

[00:14:10]And after maybe taking a trip through a shopping mall and eating a bit and talking, after several times, they started saying things just like the people they were hanging around.

[00:14:23]They started cussing like them, started saying things like them. Even took on the spirit and started coming against me.

[00:14:34]I ain't have nothing to do with it. I said, "Those people are no good. They're going to use you. You're going to see that one day." And they definitely don't like me because they know I can see right through them.

[00:14:44]And that's how cult leaders and manipulators and scammers in the black community when they see somebody who's not fallen for the game, they have to demonize them. They have to isolate them and keep them away from the flying monkey followers who will blindly defend them. And I've gone through this personally. Personally, the scammers also create fake images of success.

[00:15:16]They show expensive cars, vacations, designer clothes, luxury lifestyles, and large crowds of supporters. Very impressive.

[00:15:29]This creates the illusion of power and credibility.

[00:15:33]Many people assume that because someone appears successful, they must also be honest or intelligent.

[00:15:44]But appearances can be manufactured very easily in the social media age.

[00:15:51]Some people are literally financing their fake lifestyle with the donations of poor followers who believe they are supporting a movement.

[00:16:01]That's the absolute truth. And you know what? It's going to happen again.

[00:16:06]There'll be more and more and more. And they're going to keep on blind side blind blindsiding you, excuse me, because of our need of looking for this person to burst through the clouds and save us. While other races of people get down, I'm not saying or put anybody above us, but other people don't fall like us. They do, but not like us.

[00:16:34]There's also another ugly truth that must be spoken.

[00:16:39]Some people are addicted to being emotionally deceived because the fantasy feels better than reality.

[00:16:46]See, reality requires patience, discipline, sacrifice, education, accountability, and long-term work.

[00:16:57]But the scammer offers emotional shortcuts a lot easier. The scammer offers magical thinking.

[00:17:06]The scammer tells people exactly what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

[00:17:16]Real empowerment is usually quiet, disciplined, and consistent.

[00:17:22]Real empowerment teaches ownership, education, financial responsibility, emotional healing, and critical thinking. Oh, you can't be a critical thinker. You'll figure this fraud out immediately.

[00:17:38]Real empowerment does not demand blind loyalty.

[00:17:42]Real empowerment does not pressure struggling people to keep giving money endlessly.

[00:17:49]Real empowerment creates independent thinkers, not emotional slaves.

[00:17:57]Many of these fake leaders can't survive around strong-minded people.

[00:18:04]They don't like them.

[00:18:06]That is why they target emotionally wounded individuals who are searching for direction.

[00:18:12]A person who asks too many questions becomes dangerous to them.

[00:18:18]A person who demands accountability becomes a threat.

[00:18:23]A person who refuses emotional manipulation exposes the entire scam.

[00:18:32]You understand?

[00:18:34]But the saddest part about all of this is how normalized it has become.

[00:18:40]We have entered an era where performance is valued more than integrity.

[00:18:48]Many people no longer care whether a message is true as long as it sounds powerful.

[00:18:56]We have confused loudness with wisdom.

[00:19:01]We have confused popularity with with leadership.

[00:19:06]We've confused emotional excitement with real progress.

[00:19:13]The cult mentality damages families, friendships, and communities.

[00:19:20]Followers become emotionally dependent on internet personalities they have never even met in real life.

[00:19:29]Some people will defend these scammers harder than they defend their own relatives.

[00:19:36]They become consumed by fantasy.

[00:19:40]Meanwhile, their real life continues falling apart financially, emotionally, and spiritually. Cuz it's not based on anything except blindly following this entity and giving them your hardearned cash that you really don't have much extra to spend. Extra shoot. So some folks are hardly making it and they still find a way to scratch the bottom of their pocketbook or their wallet to give.

[00:20:12]The manipulators understand one important truth.

[00:20:16]A wounded population is easier to control.

[00:20:20]People who lack self-worth often search for saviors outside of themselves.

[00:20:26]That's why emotional healing is so important.

[00:20:30]A healed mind is much harder to manipulate.

[00:20:35]A confident person does not need constant validation from fake leaders online.

[00:20:44]A mentally strong person can separate emotional performance from genuine truth.

[00:20:52]This is why our community must relearn critical thinking.

[00:20:57]We must stop worshiping personalities and start examining actions.

[00:21:02]We must stop allowing people to hide behind emotional speeches while exploiting the suffering of the people.

[00:21:11]We must stop rewarding manipulation with money and blind loyalty. We have to.

[00:21:18]There's nothing wrong with supporting people who genuinely help the community.

[00:21:24]But true leaders do not drain struggling people financially while living like celebrities.

[00:21:32]I think we got used to that with these pimp preachers.

[00:21:36]We just traded it in for a social media scammer.

[00:21:41]True leaders are transparent.

[00:21:44]True leaders teach people how to stand on their own feet.

[00:21:48]True leaders do not create dependency.

[00:21:51]They create strength.

[00:21:54]The black community cannot afford to keep falling for every smooth talking hustler with a microphone and a social media account with a cash app account. Also, too many people are suffering already.

[00:22:10]Too many people are emotionally broken already.

[00:22:14]We cannot continue allowing wolves to dress themselves in the language of empowerment while feeding off the pain of vulnerable people.

[00:22:25]We must teach our children how manipulation works. If you don't catch them young, they'll be susceptible to it as they get older.

[00:22:36]We must teach people how to ask questions before opening their wallets.

[00:22:41]We must teach people that passion alone does not equal truth.

[00:22:49]Anybody can memorize powerful words.

[00:22:53]Anybody can perform confidence online.

[00:22:58]But character always reveals itself over time. You can't last doing this forever.

[00:23:06]The greatest weapon against these scammers is awareness. Once people understand the tactics being used against them, the illusion begins to break.

[00:23:17]And some people take a little longer to understand this more than others.

[00:23:21]The spell loses power. The emotional fog starts to disappear.

[00:23:28]That is when people begin thinking for themselves again.

[00:23:33]The future of our community depends on emotional maturity, critical thinking, discipline, and real unity built on truth instead of performance.

[00:23:46]We need less celebrity worship and more accountability.

[00:23:50]We need less manipulation and more honesty.

[00:23:55]We need less emotional addiction and more mental strength.

[00:24:01]See, at some point we must finally ask ourselves a painful question.

[00:24:10]How many more times are we going to let people get rich by selling us empty words while our communities continue to suffer?

[00:24:20]Until we answer that question honestly, the scammers will continue smiling all the way to the bank while the people they fooled continue struggling in silence.

[00:24:40]But it and it will continue to go on because it seems like we don't want to do the work. We don't want to heal oursel. We don't want to take accountability from the fact that from our younger years we may have been traumatized and that leaves it open for us to be taken off by these scammers.

[00:25:05]I see it over and over and over and over again.

[00:25:12]And it's just amazing to me.

[00:25:16]It really is.

[00:25:18]Hope Rice, Sister Hope Rice, the wolf master. Yes, I'm glad you're here.

[00:25:25]Scrooge greedy in the house. Rightly so.

[00:25:31]Yes. Thank you so much. I'm surprised you all are up at this hour. It's 6:55 for me, so that means it's going on 3:00 on the East Coast.

[00:25:43]But yeah, and so many of these guys are good because they they they form themselves into the image of what they know will bedazzle you. They they they know the talk. They they they know the black struggle. You know what I mean? They know the combination to our emotional locks and they gonna keep coming because it feels too good. They getting money.

[00:26:11]They getting fame, status, notoriety, and all the women that they can sink their you know what into.

[00:26:20]As well as the love that comes from a woman when she believes that this man is a savior is sick. Listen, I'm not saying anybody in the chat room. I'm saying overall black people are sick and it doesn't seem as though we're getting well enough fast enough.

[00:26:43]It just seems like while we see progress in a spotty fashion overall, we're still falling behind. And see, we get fooled because we see some black people living in nice homes and they have good college degrees and they they're educated, but many of them are educated and not truly intelligent.

[00:27:08]So, we think, oh, this is progress.

[00:27:11]But some of these same people will support people that are using us and sucking us down. and they'll take their success and overlay it with the doctrine of the scammer. So, somebody gullible will say, "Oh my god, the scammer helped you get to this point." They won't ask that. But they put two and two together in the wrong way.

[00:27:37]So, I don't know. I really don't know.

[00:27:41]Are we Are we doing good? And thank you so much, Wolf Master. And um I'm just talking about these scammers. And please don't think people please don't think I'm out here scamming to get people's money. Any donation you give, look, I'm on a limited income and it goes right on back into the platform as I've been doing this for years. All right? Know that I don't have a vehicle. I'm I'm taking the van like anybody else, right?

[00:28:11]I live very frugally, right? But I place it where it needs to be. So, thank you so much. But I'm not out here um going to fool anybody. I am who I am. I enjoy what I do and I'm going to speak on things and I'm going to continue to do so because I've known some frauds personally and when they saw that I wasn't getting down with them, they never asked me to.

[00:28:40]But once I saw it and they saw that I wasn't really too pleased with what I saw, you know, oh, I was demonized, isolated, demonized. Some bad thing said about me. And the funny thing is the people believed it. They believed it.

[00:28:59]They ran with it. So I said, "Well, this too shall pass because it can't last forever because when that armor of the scammer begins to show cracks in that armor and they start to see certain things and they start coming around, Lance, you know, uh, I'm sorry, man. You know, I'm kind of seeing what what's going on, but what's cool is that you never said anything about it." I said, "No, I don't have to because after a while, it's going to reveal itself.

[00:29:31]You can't keep this up, but for so long." I just wish most of us would understand the tactics utilized and be able to see it coming from a mile away, but they don't. They don't. You see? So, it is what it is, you know.

[00:29:56]Well, time of color. Yeah, many have turned skin color into religion, but there are truths that we have had to go through in history which is so obvious.

[00:30:11]So, we have to look at it both ways. The gullible people, they're hurting. They're open to be used. And the scammers are the ones that we should go after.

[00:30:24]Just the same way we have religious scammers who do it in such a low-key shrewd way and have us believing that somebody else that doesn't look like us is our savior.

[00:30:38]Or we have to sit around and wait to be saved while everybody else is creating their future, creating their new world through unity.

[00:30:50]And the minute many of us speak about unity amongst us, not hating on anybody else, but unifying to build ourselves up, many will label it as hate speech.

[00:31:04]See, so when you're sincerely, I would love to see us unified, but if I say it too strong, here come the naysayers or the people who want to dilute your message. Well, well, we all should unify. It's for all people. Yeah, we know that for the most part, but it's like triage.

[00:31:26]When you see three people suffering and you're the ambulance and you showed up, I've used this example before. You come into a house and there's a wooden steak that fell from the ceiling and went through this man's leg and he's in pain. Pull this thing out of my leg. But then you observe another man who fell and hit the ground and his skull is cracked and some of his brains are coming out and he looks like he's going through seizures.

[00:31:59]Then you see another man with a heart attack going through a heart attack. Who are you going to save first?

[00:32:07]But a person with their brains all over the ground, there's nothing you can do. What? You going to pack the brains back in the skull? Doesn't work that way. homeboy is dead already.

[00:32:17]The one having a heart attack is the one you can make a difference in because you can administer techniques to make sure that he'll be okay.

[00:32:28]The man with the steak in his leg, you can pull that out and he'll be okay.

[00:32:33]He'll be in a lot of pain, but we got to have a sense of urgency to go after what's most important in the community.

[00:32:41]And see, just as much as people think it's it's hate talk to say we unify, who is threatened by that?

[00:32:51]Who's threatened by that?

[00:32:54]Right?

[00:32:55]Because other people are unifying and doing their thing. I'm here in Africa, West Africa. I see the Chinese unified with all of their uh uh big box stores that sell just about everything.

[00:33:09]I don't see them driving around with cars with rims on it and blasting the music and trying to No, I don't see that.

[00:33:17]And these folks, they getting some money out here and they're just as frugal in their appearance because they're about their business.

[00:33:27]But the minute we say that we're about it, here come factions to break that up.

[00:33:35]We try to start a business. it can be done successfully, but there's a lot of factions, especially in America, that are put there loopholes and different they they they they move the goalposts and try to crush you.

[00:33:52]They make it damn nearly impossible to succeed, especially when it's with your own.

[00:33:58]Lots of times you open up a business in the black community as a black man or woman or couple or family.

[00:34:07]Why doesn't it do well? Why Why is our minds conditioned against supporting our own? We feel like I don't need Well, you going to give me the hookup?

[00:34:20]Well, you know, I ain't got all the money.

[00:34:23]But when the Chinese open up the Chinese restaurant takeout joint in the black neighborhood, we ain't got no We scraping up pennies. Well, you know, you can't go there with the less money. So, let me go in the penny jaw and see if I can get $5 worth of pennies to go pay these people. You go out of your way because you know they're about that business.

[00:34:45]But you don't think that they're going to have more than you. Because see, many of us think that other people are supposed to have more than us, that we can't capitalize on our unity, that we that that we that we that we are just perpetually downtrodden, you know, singing the blues and how bad things are and everything. And we gather on that until the scammer comes along.

[00:35:15]That's the only time we'll give because he'll cater to in the beginning our damaged mindset and it feels good that he understands how it is. You see what I mean?

[00:35:31]Them Indians come into the neighborhood, 7-Elevens and gas stations and hotels, you going to pay that money without a doubt.

[00:35:44]But let a black man or woman open up a business in our own communities.

[00:35:49]And and how dare they see black folks ain't going to really say that, right? But in the back of their mind, who you think you are opening up a business? I got to pass you by every day to go work for somebody who don't look like me and you going to sit right here in the neighborhood and have a business and you chilling.

[00:36:09]Do you know what it takes to start a business?

[00:36:12]You better be glad that brother or sister is trying to put it in the neighborhood so so you can reap the benefits that you have somebody there who looks like you and talks like you and can inspire you. And if you start a business, they'll support you, but they all of a sudden become the enemy and other people are not going to support it. So eventually it dies.

[00:36:39]their own family members are not going to support it. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do their part.

[00:36:45]No, I need to get more money. I've been working at this thing with you to get this business going on for two years and that's all you can pay me.

[00:36:56]When that when that's underguarding your life, give of yourself self selflessly, not selfishly.

[00:37:09]within your own family circle. You coming home to the same home. You flicking on the same lights. You eating out of the same pot and you're going to complain about not making this big salary.

[00:37:25]You ain't going to go to the white man's job and demand that on his business.

[00:37:30]That's the problem with us. We don't see the overall but see the scammers come in and make you feel good for the way you feel instead of challenging you to stand on your own two feet and showing you how to do so. See, you ain't a scammer if you if you're doing the healing and helping the people to heal so they can stand up and be strong and independent.

[00:37:58]I wouldn't want to appear like any kind of scammer.

[00:38:02]I'll be transparent.

[00:38:04]That's the only way I know cuz it's a hell of a cost when people find out about you, you know. But like it was said, they'll re repackage themselves and and you know, come on back and, you know, just take people off again or relocate. They love doing that. And like the wolf master said, starting a business is extremely hard. They won't tell you those Asians and Indians are living in that business for 3 to 5 years before it turns to profit. Yes, I've seen it.

[00:38:43]I grew up in New York City, born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, but a city boy all the way through in all parts, all five burrows. I know that place so well.

[00:38:56]I lived there almost 40 years out of my 63 years. And next door to me, there were some Indians who bought the house.

[00:39:05]Well, they were Indians, but they were from Guyana, but they were Indians nonetheless.

[00:39:09]And they rented out the house, the top floor, the attic, the middle floor, right? And the bottom floor, which was the basement, which it wasn't really a floor, that's where they lived.

[00:39:25]And they had these daycare like uh mattresses, little thin mattresses that's like two inches tall. They had about 10 of them on the floor in the basement.

[00:39:39]At first it was concrete and these mats.

[00:39:43]They had a bathroom and they didn't have a kitchen. It was just a table with electric cooktop and a microwave, I believe.

[00:39:56]And they had to go to the side of the house cuz they didn't have any plumbing run down there. They had to go to the side of the house and wash their dishes off with the hose.

[00:40:06]But guess what? After about five years, they had three houses.

[00:40:12]And they would work jobs. They they they they got their money collectively when they came from Guyana. How do I know the inside? Because the window was right there, the basement window. And I, you know, I'm younger. I'm peeking. I'm like, man, it's like a slave ship down there. But they knew what they were doing. And so now they owned all of these houses now. And and the young teenagers that they were laying down on the mats, too.

[00:40:41]The other folks were getting older. They took over and they had businesses. Then they got commercial properties and the most expensive vehicle I saw them drive was a Honda Accord. That was a big thing for them. They had a brand new Honda Accord.

[00:40:59]And that Honda Accord was passed down and passed around to the family members who needed it. Everybody didn't even have a car, but they had, oh, I need the car to go out to Long Island today. I need a car.

[00:41:13]Yeah, they didn't have any financial worries.

[00:41:18]And this is what I don't understand about families, black families. Again, I'm not saying this is everybody because there are many examples that I know that were successful and started out humble or maybe got insurance money from one passing away, but that one who passed away long before said, "Listen, it's probably going to be me going and I don't want you all to sit here and go buy cars and outfits and and blow money partying.

[00:41:52]this is what you got to do. And it's not guaranteed that you're going to do it, but I'mma tell you anyway.

[00:41:59]Maybe twothirds of that family followed through and onethird fell off and came back apologizing.

[00:42:08]But those kind of habits that are destructive, you have to keep it away from you.

[00:42:13]But there are some successful black families. And there are a lot of people who talk black to get from black, but they're not really about black. You got to be about your community first. You got to be about where you're from first.

[00:42:30]Even if you move somewhere else, look, I'm not putting myself on a pedestal. I live in West Africa. Yes, I'm around African black people, many of whom have a different mindset because they don't understand America. But my heart and soul and my my spirit is still there.

[00:42:48]It'd be easy for me to say, "I ain't saying about no America. I got it made.

[00:42:51]I'm away from that place." But there's issues here.

[00:42:55]And there are many who are here who wouldn't understand me if I started speaking on the issues here because in their mind, I'm a foreigner.

[00:43:05]There are many who embrace me as a black brother. Welcome home. Welcome home.

[00:43:09]Yes, we have that. But many people more than not see me as a foreigner. So if I start speaking on the issues here, it may not be accepted as one who was born here locally and came up through the ranks.

[00:43:25]It's perception, y'all.

[00:43:28]And this is where we have to understand that no matter where we go in the world, we have the same enemies.

[00:43:35]And we can't be our own enemies on top of the enemies that we have outside. And the only reason why many of them seem like they're cooling out on us without being so obvious is because we're doing a good job destroying ourselves.

[00:43:52]You see, that's what it's all about. But many people can't see it.

[00:44:00]And realistically, as much as I talk this way and hope for the best and stuff, I'm not a doomsayer.

[00:44:09]But I know we going to be jacked up after I leave this earth to a point.

[00:44:13]It's not going to happen overnight.

[00:44:16]That's the problem we're all looking for, that we're going to have this one moment and it's all going to come together. No, it's not. A lot of us are messed up and it's not going to be all of us who change and save ourselves. A lot of us are on the trajectory to be doomed and it hurts.

[00:44:41]But then again, every sperm never hit the egg either, did it? You get that one sperm or two to hit the egg.

[00:44:52]All the other ones fell away by the wayside. Some of them swimming in the wrong direction.

[00:44:59]There's that one that knew exactly where it had to go and so many fell off. And when we look at our people, a lot of us fell off. We had problems and thought we could find the answer in the bottle. Alcoholism.

[00:45:17]We had problems and we would lash out in our own anger, which is righteously born, but we should have directed it in a different way. But it ended us in prison because we killed somebody or did something we shouldn't have done.

[00:45:32]A lot of us seek to douse our pain and pleasure.

[00:45:39]So you have these brothers who pay for the pleasure and eventually their bloodstream is compromised and they out of here.

[00:45:47]There's so many things that we can get into that make us fall by the wayside.

[00:45:55]And we have a better chance than sperm.

[00:45:59]This is only really that one sperm that's going to get it out of millions of sperm.

[00:46:05]It's not just one of us that that can make it, but we do it to ourselves.

[00:46:10]The main word to me is accountability.

[00:46:13]And even with the scammers, they know that we want to skirt accountability because we know the pain that we're through.

[00:46:21]Some of us say, "You know what? I'm going to look at I'm I'mma face this thing. I'mma heal myself. I'mma take accountability for what I've been doing against progress and I'm going to make it." And some don't want to face it.

[00:46:36]They put their heads in the sand.

[00:46:38]But we still have to elevate their minds and let them know why things are the way it is. That's our job as people who are conscious people who understand that at least I'm not going to use it against you to benefit me. I just want to let you know what the deal is and where your pain is coming from.

[00:46:58]And what little I know, I'll share it and help you because people have helped me.

[00:47:06]So whatever wisdom we have, we need to share it.

[00:47:11]But too many of us get to a certain point of consciousness and we put our ass on our shoulders.

[00:47:18]Look at that [ __ ] He he on his own, man. I didn't mind. He He got to get his a something.

[00:47:25]And somebody helped you, right? I don't understand.

[00:47:32]But it's something I'm always going to talk about. No matter what topic I talk about, it's always going to come around to that.

[00:47:39]I can't be quiet.

[00:47:42]I can't. It hurts me. I'm on social media a lot. I I make stuff and create stuff. I'm a creator. I make make stuff, but I have to monitor what's out there.

[00:47:53]And I see and I'm going to talk about it.

[00:47:57]I'm not going to be quiet about it. I'm not going to let it happen and not do something about it.

[00:48:04]and actually live it.

[00:48:07]What do I do? This is what I do. I take care of myself. I take my walks. I go into town. I live a very peaceful, frugal life. And I'm not going to say that. Oh, because of that, you know. No, I have energy now more so to focus on what I need to focus on. And I like to speak on these issues. So, I'm not if I reach 10 million people, fine. But that's not the goal. If somebody hears this two years after I'm dead, I still did my job. You see what I mean? Because I'm all right. I'm not trying to take more than what I need.

[00:48:46]I'm not trying to get more out of ego.

[00:48:50]Yeah. I'm put this outfit on, man. I'm going to walk down to the club. Walk down the street. They going to see, man.

[00:48:54]I'm going to get that jewelry and I'm What the?

[00:48:59]I get off on being free and not trapped from the the materialistic foolishness that's out there.

[00:49:09]Yes, this is a sizable home and it ain't done yet.

[00:49:14]We took what we had, sold it, and came out here. Sister Hope Rice has been inside my home.

[00:49:23]See, face to face. We know each other several times. She's my sister. If and all of you all my brothers and sisters, you don't want to come out here, come out here. I got some people coming out here soon.

[00:49:38]Blood, sweat, and tears. We designed it, put it together, whatever. Whatever.

[00:49:42]That's it.

[00:49:45]Man, you ain't driving, man. You should be rolling. I don't I don't need to right now. I need my structure the way I need it.

[00:49:54]Very efficient.

[00:49:57]I got my supermarket in the backyard. I want to get my solar power soon. I want to be totally independent off the grid.

[00:50:08]Got a bore hole, pull water out the ground, right?

[00:50:16]Got to think ahead of time. So now, what do I have to spend on when I have everything in place?

[00:50:24]I got some equipment that I had from years ago in Orlando. If it's working, I'm going to keep working it.

[00:50:33]I'm not into trying to impress anybody cuz they going to think they they going to think lower you anyway.

[00:50:39]I'm not performing for nobody. I'm sorry. I can't do it.

[00:50:45]No, it's not how I get down.

[00:50:50]So anyway, I think this this morning I got up and like I said, I had to speak on this. It's 7:20 in the morning here in West Africa, Eastern region of Ghana.

[00:51:08]It's a beautiful view that I'm looking at right now. And it's so soothing, so healing is what I needed. And um American society can really run a game on you. And kudos to all that are still strong, that are still there. Doesn't mean you have to leave because you can find peace from within.

[00:51:30]I just kind of like it where I am cuz I have been through so many traumatic experiences from the day I was born and that white doctor smacked me in the head at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on 168th in Broadway on April 8th, 1963, 4:30 5:34 in the morning. I said, "Whoa, it's going to be a rough ride over here."

[00:51:56]And later on, Malcolm X was shot right across the street. And that's the hospital that they wheeled him to that. It's about a mile away as a young kid.

[00:52:07]It's something how life is when you think about it. So many degrees of separation.

[00:52:14]And um we're all we're all connected and don't realize it. Somehow someway we're all connected. I'll tell you a story, a quick one.

[00:52:25]There's a young lady that I connected with online and she grew up with an old girlfriend of mine that passed away a couple years ago. What's the chance of that happening? And now we've become good friends online.

[00:52:42]You know, you just never know.

[00:52:45]That's why you got to be careful how you carry yourself. You don't know.

[00:52:51]Yeah. A lot of people do dirt in different times of their life. I understand that. But face it and move on.

[00:53:00]Don't be a fraud.

[00:53:02]Don't be fake.

[00:53:06]The facade, there's always somebody seeing it. You know, when you have a when when you're utilizing a facade in your life and you doing stuff and it doesn't mean everybody has to be holy or perfect. You aim for perfection knowing you're not going to be perfect, right?

[00:53:23]But having a facade and thinking you're fooling people is like wearing a hospital robe that doesn't cover your backside. You know them little ro the little cheap robes they give you. You got the string to pull behind you but the crack of your behind is out. Well don't think that nobody's going to not see the crack of your behind. That nobody's not going to see what you're trying to hide behind the facade.

[00:53:45]There's always somebody that's going to see it.

[00:53:51]trust and believe.

[00:53:54]Like that pastor that was seeing the older sister of one of my old girlfriends. We were sitting up there at 3:00 in the morning in the front porch and here he comes Saturday night to go upstairs on the second floor with her sister for an hour or two to go home and get some rest to go preach the sermon in the morning time. and he was in shock when he saw me. Not knowing real good before.

[00:54:24]Somebody's going to see it. Somebody's going to know it. There's always going to be a way it's revealed. Own up to it.

[00:54:32]Heal. Do what you got to do. Make yourself better because this life is not super long at all.

[00:54:41]It's like I was 25 years old and blink my eyes. Now I'm 63.

[00:54:46]But it's all right. I know that we're energy. We continue on. But as long as you make your energy a better energy, everything is going to be all right.

[00:54:55]Listen, when you were born, you came from somewhere. You were crying. You didn't know what the hell was going on, but you came from somewhere. You didn't want to leave where you were. You were in the womb. Before that, where were you?

[00:55:09]We going somewhere.

[00:55:12]Let's gain as much wisdom as we can and inner peace and healing so we don't take the same crap and trauma to the next level. Especially if it's something that is self-inflicted that we're doing.

[00:55:26]That's a whole other different topic.

[00:55:31]Anyway, I'm probably going to wrap this down right now and just want to let you know that I appreciate you and thank you for, you know, being here through my little rant, but I what to talk about and I'm always open to other topics, let me know. I can do it on a whim. I do have time to do it.

[00:55:53]It's not a problem. There's any interviews you want or somebody that you need to have interviewed, send them my number. My number's here. My number is all over the place. There's no excuse not to reach out to me on WhatsApp. So anyway, much love to you all. Thank you so much. Lance scurve out. Peace.

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