Gigi, from Mississippi, on Black women, safety, and what matters most.

0:17BI’m not from Denver. I’m originally from Mississippi.

0:21MaceoOkay. And how do you think about Denver as compared to Mississippi?

0:23BThat’s a big question. I’ll give you my quick answer, but it’ll say a enough. Denver is livable. I’m speaking from a black woman’s perspective. Always. So Denver is livable to me as a black woman. I feel more safe here. But being in Mississippi, I feel like that gave me a better foundation for the type of person that I am. So I feel like this the type Denver is the type of place that you bring your persona to not kind of where you develop it. Does that make sense? So, yeah,

1:04Maceothank you.

1:06BThank you.

1:06MaceoI have another question. So the weekly like this weekly bounty system thing that I’m doing, it’s like in the crypto space. This guy, he puts up like $100 bounty every week and we’ve been encouraging people around the world to participate. So last week we had somebody in India, somebody in Kenya, somebody in Nigeria submit. And this week so far we have somebody in Las Vegas, somebody in New Jersey who are submitting, somebody in Nairobi and then myself as of yet. Well, each week we ask a different question and we’re trying to essentially get people around the world to get into a practice of going out and asking people questions.

1:06MaceoAnd then we come back and discuss what answers we got to that question.

1:45BI think that’s really amazing what you’re doing. Hearing people’s just thoughts on around us. I think that’s very beautiful.

1:53MaceoYeah, thank you. And so this week’s question is, what is the most important global issue today?

1:59BOh, man, I’m probably about to get attacked for this, but I’m I like to speak my mind. The most important, I mean, downright most important issue, globally, locally, globally, at any given time throughout history, unfortunately and fortunately, is black women.

2:24MaceoOkay, talk about it.

2:25BWe birthed, we are the mothers. We are mothers, even when we aren’t mothers, we are mothers. How we are is a reflection of everything. If you if you’re not taking care of us, nothing’s being taken care of. And that’s just what it is because we’re mom. My daughter that I that I speak of, she’s she’s my niece. I’ve never actually given birth, but I’ve raised her since she was she came out into my hands. Um, yeah, we are mothers.

3:07MaceoIs your sister? Is it your sister’s daughter? No, I’m not.

3:13BYes, so yes, black women are the most important thing

3:15MaceoWhat would you say to help us understand how you see the experiences of the black women who come before you in your family or in your life, maybe, right? The women you looked up to growing up Who are those black women? Who is taking care of them? How do you see those practices today versus then? Are we getting better? Are we doing worse? Are the things we’re not learning fast enough as black men Yes,

3:40Bthat’s so cute. I think within, I would say just within the last six months, I feel like black men and people are starting to become more aware of what the, what the foundation is of things. But I would say for me, I mean, the way I am is because of the black women I have met. I would say that my mother wasn’t the best mother, but there were so many other black women that I ran into out in a world that was such a mother figure to me um I know that how they are with me that it’s so many other black women out there just like pouring into people like they they’re their kids and they they don’t have no ties to these people most black women do this most of us um we come from families where we even when we are kids we are mothers and we just we keep doing it until we fall

4:40Maceoyeah so my sister was my babysitter

4:43Bwell see right so I don’t think people know the energy that goes into that until you start seeing things collapse but even when you see things collapse you still can’t put your figure on why these things are collapsing to me it’s because you’re not taking care of your women and your most important women your elders black women are the elders But I don’t care if they’re 12. If she black, she your elder. I’m not playing. You better treat her right. Don’t talk crazy to no black woman. I don’t care if she’s one. I don’t care if she’s 99. She is a mother in the making or already a mother.

4:46BSo be kind to her. and she’s gonna be the person that, you know, feed you, help you stretch your legs when you get your little hamstring, feed you, teach you how to flip over a poke chop and all these things, help teach you how to read a book and oh my god, just all the things, all the things.