You've Got to THINK Like A GENERAL! - Dame Dash Live Motivation

Dame Dash @damedashstudios www.damedashstudios.com Follow him at   / duskopoppington   First 5 Minutes of Automated Transcript: 00:00 where our traumas come from from 00:01 thinking god is white 00:03 from thinking we're number two when 00:04 we're number one from being taught the 00:06 wrong education 00:07 and from always being in debt 00:11 so we have to understand that as well 00:14 so you know and then it's economic 00:15 empowerment 00:17 bottom line they keep you broke so that 00:19 you're worried and you're blaming other 00:21 people and we fighting each other 00:23 but if we understand that we own this 00:24 culture so we should be the ones to 00:26 provide the culture to them 00:28 not us give it to them to provide it to 00:29 us that's crazy 00:32 so we have to control that narrative and 00:34 i think those are the fundamentals that 00:36 just need to change and also we have to 00:38 know how to get a law change 00:39 we got to know how to lobby instead of 00:41 talking about [ __ ] nothing changes 00:43 legally unless the law gets passed 00:45 so you got to understand exactly who 00:46 you're electing why you elected 00:48 and what you expect them to do and if 00:50 they don't you have the power and the 00:52 voice to lobby for something 00:54 so that a law gets passed i've had 00:56 conversations with senator eddie milton 00:58 and i've seen him pass a law based on 01:00 our conversations i talk to the 01:01 congressman carson 01:03 and i see him lobby for things based on 01:05 what he sees 01:07 and then also prison reform needs to 01:08 change too so 01:10 all our soldiers go to [ __ ] prison 01:12 base because of all the trauma 01:14 and what are they feeding a bunch of 01:15 disgusting food what do they have 01:17 available for them in commissary snicker 01:19 bars and sardines 01:21 so they work out but they come up with 01:22 high cholesterol diabetes and heart 01:24 problems 01:26 so all these things need to change our 01:27 rehabilitation needs to change 01:30 but again they're not going to change it 01:33 we got to change it and we got the power 01:34 to do so 01:35 so think like a general because in the 01:37 war general wins the soldier waits to be 01:40 told what to do 01:41 but the people i know that have been 01:42 thriving pay attention have been the 01:44 generals the soldiers haven't been doing 01:46 [ __ ] 01:47 they just been sitting around scared 01:49 i've been waiting for war 01:50 i've been training for it this war the 01:52 right wall 01:53 i haven't internalized racism i haven't 01:56 had the [ __ ] let some white man 01:57 tell me what to do 01:58 you know what i do to a white man when 02:00 he makes me mad i buy his house i kick 02:02 him out 02:02 period you don't want to hire my people 02:04 i buy your company or i put you out of 02:06 business 02:07 but i'm not expecting you to do anything 02:08 for me don't even be polite 02:10 it makes it easier for me to do what i 02:12 got to do and that's my attitude 02:16 now when you look at that as a ceo 02:20 those who are saying today they gotta 02:22 understand that they're not here to feed 02:24 us 02:25 you know you can't wait for them to feed 02:27 you 02:28 what is it that we need to understand 02:29 about feeding ourselves that we still 02:31 are not getting 02:32 we gotta pull our skirt up and we a man 02:34 be a man men don't want to be given 02:36 nothing 02:37 they want to earn it we got nuts for a 02:39 reason testosterone builds muscle and 02:41 ego 02:41 you should be ashamed of yourself if you 02:43 want another man to take care of you 02:44 and you want your girl to see another 02:46 man take care of you 02:48 that's not a man period so we have to 02:51 understand what being a real man is 02:52 our our job is to provide for the people 02:54 that we love by all means necessary not 02:57 for us 02:57 our job ain't to get a two-seater is to 02:59 get a family van 03:01 it's to get a house with a backyard so 03:02 you don't have to go outside 03:04 you make enough money to feed your 03:06 family good food that's another thing 03:07 and the food is disgusting that's 03:08 available to us as well we got to 03:10 understand this meat is killing us 03:12 that the number one cause of diabetes 03:14 heart cancer 03:15 meat period all the gmo [ __ ] that's 03:18 what's killing us 03:19 i got a lot of tough friends that are 03:20 dying for natural causes i can't believe 03:22 it 03:22 and it breaks my heart that they survive 03:24 this [ __ ] and go with that 03:26 that a cheeseburger put you in the grave 03:28 so we also have to understand that fried 03:29 chicken 03:30 and all that other [ __ ] with that gmo 03:32 and all that stuff that they make 03:33 available to us 03:35 conveniently that they make money it's 03:37 easier for us to grow it's cheaper 03:39 and it's safer it's not like it was 100 03:42 years ago