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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the urban village where the old school house party, including me, is alive and well. Listen, this is just a brief intro to my open letter to Revotes Detavio Samuels. The black print, his interview with Kenya Barris. You know, I haven't been around a long time, a really long time, because I um am in a situation where I cannot comment. However, with this interview, I had to. I had to. I had to respond. There were so many inaccuracies. And I'm just saying, from a journalistic standpoint, uh, Mr. Samuels, are you two a gatekeeper? Where's the questioning? Um, or do we just destroy our own? It feels that way. I want to share with you a few things that I can share. Is that some of the information that pertains to my family and myself is unequivocally 125% not true. It is a lie. I don't understand why, but it is not true. And moreover, I have receipts. My parents, as anyone's parents, were not perfect, but what they were was committed to their children. And the stories that you may hear about them or have heard, they, for whatever reason, were created to really fulfill a false narrative of the exceptional Negro, the black man pulling himself up from the bootstraps in a dysfunctional family. I wonder where that narrative came from, because it totally wasn't my family. And I'm sorry that this has been put out. But one thing I'm not sorry about is finally speaking up and protecting my name, my family's name, and letting the truth be known. So will you join me today on the podcast? Listen up, and I'm gonna share. I had an amazing mother, I had an amazing father, so much so that they were used at the characters to frame Blackish as Pops and his mama. So they couldn't be that bad, and they're adorable and they were lovable. I remember Lawrence Fishburn just watching my father to study his ways. And even though my father has since transitioned, when I watch Mr. Fishburn, I see my father and Pops. I'm so disappointed. My family is hurt, I'm sad, my name has been rendered in a negative way. All the things that we are made blackish what it is. So I want you to take a listen to the podcast and stay supportive because there's more great things to come. The gatekeepers of the past, they will go. Remember, join me, Urban Village Podcast. And for now, remember the story is never told until the lion is a hunter, and the hunter is not. Join me on the village podcast. Bye bye.