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OK so Mama Trudy and I went to the Baldwin
Hills Overlook and it was really really
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cool, so here’s a little video of the
time that we spent.
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Three-quarters, three-quarters of the way
up. Alright. LAST LEG! LAST LEG! LAST LEG! YAYYY!!!
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Down at the bottom we finished. Mama Trudy: I said, “Aren’t we gonna do it another time!?”
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Fanshen: That’s my Mama. THAT is my Mama Trudy. And I said, “No. Hell. No.”
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OK. Let’s see I want to tell you about Friendship, Networking and Support that happened this week.
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So. Remember last week I told you about that play that I did? And I was saying the name of the author
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and I was like, “Keersten Greenidge”
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Well, it turns out – so today I was on Facebook and a friend of mine posted that, who I thought was “Keersten”
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but it’s actually “Kirsten” Greenidge, her play was chosen to be produced somewhere
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and she was saying congratulations, and I was like, “How cool . I just learned about this
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playwright last week. Well then another
friend of mine posted, “My cousin is doing this play, congratulations to my cousin!”
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So it turns out that she is actually the cousin, a family member of a good friend of
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mine that I grew up with so shout out to
the Greenidges of Cambridge, MA. Particularly
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Chip Greenidge – George Greenidge – that is so
cool and I’m so sorry that I mangled
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her name in the last video and also that
I didn’t learn more about her and didn’t
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put the connections together. I also had
lunch with a couple of wonderful women
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in my life. I had lunch with my friend
Sarah who is an editor and director
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and a producer, and she does
documentary film and she also has a
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distribution company. I’ll put links to her
company in the Description box. But she
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pitched me a couple of ideas for films
that she wants to do. One that she’s
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already definitely doing with a friend
and I was like, “I want to be involved.” So I’ll
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tell you more about it as soon as I
confirm that I’m actually going to be
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involved, and find out if it’s okay to
talk about it. I also had lunch with Mama
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Trudy and my good friend Katherine
today and we went
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for a long walk in Venice and that was really nice. And it’s always good to kind of just get my
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mind off of social media and get my mind
off of work and just go spend time with
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friends and that was lovely so – what do you do
when you need to get a break from social
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media? What are the ways that you get
away?
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Ok. A rant. So Jimmy Kimmel did this disgusting, racist,
bullshit, “sketch” today and I don’t even
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understand how you – now at this moment –
with all of the information that we have
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available to us, can possibly think that
something like this
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sketch would be funny to anybody who has
been oppressed by and hurt by this
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system that constantly ignores – willfully
ignores – the pain that Black and Brown and
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Native and Asian people are
expressing about not being represented
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in the media. I don’t know I
don’t even understand it, so I was
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incensed by that. Ok so now I want to talk
about the way that you can do this
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right – so first of all, Stephen Colbert
had DeRay McKesson on his show this
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week. This was another I think good step
in the right direction – like they
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actually openly talk about white
privilege. He switched seats with DeRay
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and and really let DeRay talk about
solutions he’s working on. Solutions
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about police brutality and that was
awesome. We still have so far to go, but
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but, hey: kudos – you’re doing the work. I’m putting a link to the video below. I had
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an audition this week for a Black
woman. I like that – when they call me in for a Black woman
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Now of course as I’m sitting in the waiting room, all of
the women have curly hair
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and are ‘lightskinned.’ That’s fine – at least we
are staying there are lots of
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representations of what a Black woman is. And it’s actually for a
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production company that is well
known for doing web series. And I think
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that’s cool. I think that’s another
solution. This is one of those
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companies that are like,”You know what? OK, if you’re never gonna represent us on TV
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and we have to beg you to have roles, and
you’re not going to do it? We’re gonna
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make our own. They are making their own
web series and I was proud to be there. I
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did not do the best job that I could
have in that audition. I did not memorize
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my lines well. I generally I like to use
my voice memo on my phone to
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record the other lines and then play
them back and I didn’t do that
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and so I need to do a better
job of that. I need to work on that. Alright
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I want to talk to you both JOY this
week. Mama Trudy and I went to the Martin
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Luther King Junior Day Parade and it was wonderful. One of the things
that I definitely wanted to do was to
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support Black-owned businesses because I
knew that after the parade there was a
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big area where there were
crafts and there were lots of people selling
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their own goods, and so I got…these earrings! They’re drops. They’re drops of LOVE! And also I got 2 pillows!
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Check these out. Aren’t they gorgeous!? Ok so for One Drop of Love is week, I
published the one-drop rule videos.
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I’m doing a series on, “How I
Learned about the One-Drop Rule” and the
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first one is my dear friend Mark who is
sharing the first time that he really
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understood what the rule was, and we
would love your submission – so if you
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want to share it
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email us at one drop of love @ gmail.com
and we’ll send you instructions and
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please share your story. OK last week I told
you that my goals were 1) to make a list of
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and organize my dream locations to take One Drop
of Love and I did that. Marin Luther King, Jr Day 2017
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in some city. I also really want to go
to the Bay Area. Everybody’s
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always said, “You have to take this to the
Bay Area,” so if you know people or you
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are in the Bay Area you know venues that
would be really cool and great and
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welcoming of One Drop of Love, let me know. The DMV area: my family lives in DC.
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I’ve wanted to bring it to DC,
Maryland, Virginia so that’s on the list
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of places to take it. So this week’s goal
around that is to now create emails and
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figure out how to go ahead and contact
people and organizations in those areas
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and get this show booked! Ok: shout outs to people who responded so beautifully to
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the videos.
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Jessica woods thank you for your email
thank you for watching. I really
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appreciate it.
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Tish. I’m putting links to her stuff on
the blog post today and below in the
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description and I’m encouraging you,
Sister: make that reel! We’re gonna make that
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reel happen, OK? And Peter: thank you for
commenting. I had some great comments
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from folks who were representing the
Latin American voice and I really
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appreciate that. I want us to exchange from
a wide variety of opinions. I may not agree
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with you and I may
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tell you I don’t agree with you,
but that’s cool that’s why we’re doing
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this – so keep those coming. Irvienne: you are always there. Thank YOU so much for watching the
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videos and commenting and continuing to
support my work. Please tell me how I can
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support you. Annnnd…Mama Trudy:
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’cause I know you’re watching my videos. Thank you so much for watching the videos Mama. OK! NEW GOALS! Alright for this week so first
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of all, now that I know we’ve got a list
of the places we want to take the show
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now it’s a matter of getting specific
about venues that are in those places
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and then creating emails to the people
that can help bring the shows – there so
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I’ll let you know how that goes. Oh!
Occidental College – remember
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I said about Oxy last week?
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Well, I didn’t do that goal. But I got to talk
to my writing partner who is coming on
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board for the Social Justice Theatre and Media
channel and we said it’s ok; we’re gonna
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be ok with ourselves that we’re moving a
little slowly with that, but I’m gonna add
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Oxy College to this week’s goal ’cause I didn’t get
it done and I want to get it done. And so I’ll share more on that with you
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this week. And finally I’m going to spend
a total of four hours transcribing and
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making notes on past Q&A videos that we
have for One Drop of Love because I want to
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put together kind of like a best of all
the Q&A videos that we’ve done because I
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think those are a really good way to show
people the kinds of dialogue of a kinds
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of conversations and even hopefully
actions that people are propelled to
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take after seeing the show.
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Alright. Thank you again so much for
watching. Please add your thoughts and
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comments and let’s keep working hard
as ARTIVISTS. Let’s put our creativity out
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there in the world.
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Let’s put our activism out there in the
world and let’s just keep making things
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better for as many people as we can.
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Alright bye bye!