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Nerds. It's a wealth building

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program that helps high achieving Black

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American youth get scholarships

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to attend HBCUs. They

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have secured over eight million dollars.

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That's since twenty sixteen. I believe eight

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million dollars in scholarships. Please

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welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass

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Douglas Fort Douglas. Is that number

1:19

correct? I don't want to underserve

1:22

you with a number that's incorrect, sir.

1:24

No, that's the number is correct,

1:26

and I'm proud of Yes, sir.

1:28

Well, you know something I'm telling you this

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week, I am taking nine

1:33

students who have a sickle

1:35

sale trade or sickle Selle. Disney

1:38

worked out a deal with them and they're going to go

1:40

to a college fair that's

1:43

in Orlando.

1:44

It will be about forty.

1:45

HBCUs there and it'll

1:48

be uh they All they got to do is bringing them you

1:50

know, the rope SAT scores

1:52

or ACT scores and high school transcript

1:55

and they can enroll on the spot and they

1:57

can qualify for scholarships full

2:00

half of tuition. So I'm

2:02

a fan of what you were doing. I just

2:04

wanted to get that a little out the way because that's

2:06

a proud moment for me. Man, because be able

2:08

to playing that out. So tell us

2:11

how you got involved, sir.

2:13

Well, I'm a blurred myself. I'm a black nerd,

2:15

but I didn't know no better growing up in the hood. It was

2:18

just you know, you have to mask. You

2:20

know, you had to compete with tupacs and the snoop dogs

2:22

at the time. So, you know,

2:25

when I got of age and got

2:27

into an argument with my actually one of my best

2:30

friends about our condition of

2:32

our community and

2:34

what we was talking about. We in our community,

2:36

we highlight the entertainer,

2:39

the athlete, and the misbehaved,

2:42

but all of us nerds, they don't pay no attention

2:44

to us. And so we was talking

2:47

amongst ourselves. If we created we had

2:49

this type of insight and information,

2:52

how much further will be as

2:54

young men being black

2:56

nerds in this environment. So we

2:59

created it and there are to both graduates

3:01

from a SBCUS. He went to Howard University. I

3:03

graduated from Jackson State University. And

3:07

we started off just trying to you

3:10

know, hey, where is the money at

3:13

right, And we went from there and was

3:15

able to build relationships

3:18

with the DAYSBCUS and get these

3:20

kids in. So that's how it started.

3:22

Well, you know, I want to say I'm a nerd

3:24

to my degree is in mathematics. Okay,

3:26

I'm a black nerd. So I'm

3:28

gonna claim it. I'm gonna claim it, Douglas, I'm

3:30

claiming it Douglas with two

3:33

esses.

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By the way, Douglass with two s's Douglas.

3:35

For you know, but the journey man.

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You know when I look at you

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know, the creating

3:43

change in young people. You

3:46

know, you know, I think your sister,

3:48

she's went through this program, correct, my

3:51

sister, the relative of yours?

3:53

Does anybody went through this program?

3:56

Niece?

3:56

Your niece? I apologize you niece went through this program.

3:59

And when you first started

4:01

out, you know, everybody

4:04

has doubts.

4:05

Everybody go, how.

4:06

Can you pull this off? I hear your dreams.

4:08

How did you overcome that part of a Douglas

4:11

out comes?

4:12

You know what I've learned about working in our

4:15

community is, you know, we

4:17

got to just put out outcomes. So what we did was

4:20

have that conversation, an intellectual conversation

4:23

with the parent and the child saying, hey, if

4:25

you get these certain numbers, we got a relationship with

4:28

Prayer of You, and you can

4:30

leave here debt free. Also,

4:32

Prayer View offers a one year master's degree

4:34

in engineering, so you can leave here

4:37

debt free, or a master's degree

4:39

in engineering and going into your

4:41

industry with noe debt. By the time

4:43

you're twenty five, you can buy your first pred by

4:46

the time you're twenty seven, you can buy your second one.

4:48

By twenty eight you could be married starting

4:50

with your children.

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And so what we've got some great timelines there,

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Douglas, there's a great timelines.

4:56

But what it is is that if you have the

4:59

plan, if you have schedule in place, instead

5:01

of we put this out there and we

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see all these outcomes, you know. So the

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way what the way it works is when

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you start seeing the success of all our blurs,

5:11

then you'll be like, oh, okay, that's how you beat

5:14

the nay sayers

5:16

was the outcomes, you know. So for

5:19

us, we really don't do a lot of talking. It's like you want

5:21

to go talk to a blur then they could tell you what's going on.

5:23

So stuff like that. So that's how I got rid

5:25

of them, got rid of the next sayers. It's simply

5:27

putting out great outcomes.

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And that's really important because they sayers,

5:31

you know, they want to win, man, they want to win they and

5:33

they have no plan, brother, They says don't have plans,

5:36

man, they just have negative They have negativity

5:38

rules, you know, and their fingerpoinners.

5:40

And I told you so that's their quote.

5:42

I told you so. And uh, when

5:44

I look at organizations like yours, you know, because

5:47

their bootstep organizations, you know, they're they're

5:49

start with an idea, you have a vision,

5:52

and then but then you when you start

5:54

seeing results, your

5:56

wow. You know, I think about

5:58

it, man, I think about my life man when

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I look back on you know, started

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the mentoring cap with Steve Harvey

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way back in two thousand and seven. You know what I'm

6:07

saying, and and and and and

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and and then doing these HBCUs

6:11

and working with Steven A. Smith with

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his UH with HBCU week. You

6:16

know, you know what I'm saying, so so and realizing

6:18

the amount of scholarship dollars that are out

6:20

there available to students and parents

6:22

and they don't know how

6:25

can we can we help them because they don't

6:27

know, you know. And but these HBCUs

6:29

are sitting there, they kind of like aren't

6:32

promoted, they're underfunded, they don't

6:34

have the endowments. And then you turn

6:36

around and basically the government,

6:38

whether it's a president my fund

6:41

and I look at the fund they give the government, like I

6:43

think that the funds they gave HBCUs

6:46

were like one point three billion dollars or

6:48

something like that. And you look over the University

6:50

of Nebraska. Their endowment

6:52

along is one billion dollars. Yeah,

6:56

you know, and and and so and so when I went

6:58

so, I get frustrated a little bit. And so I've

7:01

heard about it naturally, but I heard about your

7:03

program. You know, I want to be able to

7:05

help you have a voice. And so let's talk

7:07

about how can people get in touch with your

7:09

organization. And then we're gonna talk about the qualification

7:12

because everybody goes, I got a kid with every kid

7:14

camp. Yeah, everybody

7:17

we talk aboutainst college trying to get your kid to

7:19

finish.

7:21

So there's two things. I'm glad you spoke about all

7:23

that, the funding and all the organizations

7:25

and all that. So let's break it down in all those categories.

7:27

So first off, you can reach us at You

7:30

can see all the work really in two different places.

7:32

One is our Instagram page and that's just the

7:34

blurred Academy or Black Nerds.

7:37

You'll see all the work there. All are blurts there.

7:39

You can need to follow us follow us on LinkedIn

7:41

as well. So those are kind of our two points

7:43

that you can see the work being done there

7:47

all right. Now, when it comes to funding, we

7:49

don't. We're not an organization like that where

7:52

me and my friend kind of did this in the front of a

7:54

philanthropis standpoint, because

7:56

we wanted to be undernied,

8:00

will lead and unequivocally black

8:04

empowered, you know. So

8:06

we wanted to not be someone

8:08

telling us what we can and cannot do by

8:10

just because they want to give us some dollars, not

8:13

saying we don't take any. But that was one of our original

8:15

things. So we created this, uh.

8:19

Call, this is what We're going to do it this way,

8:21

right, yeah, yeah.

8:23

Yeah, Because then then then we created something where

8:25

we always tell our blurs, just create

8:27

a small business to help fund your other business. So

8:29

we create a small business

8:31

called Proud Black Nerds where

8:35

you can buy our shirts, our

8:37

mugs, and that's how you give

8:39

to us. It's through creating

8:41

companies and small businesses.

8:44

And then we're showing our blurs. We're not talking

8:46

about it, we're being abouded by creating a small

8:48

business. So that's how your listeners anybody

8:50

else can support the BLURD Academy is

8:53

through the Proud Black Dirts ww dot

8:55

Proud Black Dierts dot com and to

8:57

get our merch and that's how you help us.

9:00

And so just

9:03

to just to go right into what you're saying

9:05

about getting them qualified.

9:08

So let's use an example. I'm gonna give you primise. I'm

9:10

gonna use my alma mater for an example. Is that Okay

9:12

University State right?

9:15

Yes?

9:15

Jackson State? Yes? Uh so at

9:18

Jackson State University, your baby, I'm

9:20

talking to the kids where the kids need

9:22

to have a three point two five eleven

9:26

thirty SAT or twenty

9:29

three ACT and that would get you a

9:31

full tuition scholarship.

9:35

So that's number that's stage

9:38

one, Stage two. If

9:40

you got a three point two

9:42

five with

9:44

a twelve hundred SAT,

9:47

that's a full ride scholarship, room

9:51

board to you know all that. Then

9:53

if you got a three point five with

9:56

a twenty eight ACT or

9:59

a thirteen hundred SAT, it's a presidential

10:01

scholarship. That's room boards, books,

10:03

fees, everything. So

10:06

these are things that when you partnership with

10:08

these types of schools, they saying, hey, Dougie or

10:10

Dougie, that's my name, doug go get it, go

10:14

get If you got some babies like this, we got the brand

10:17

form because those type

10:19

of kids literally would go in especially if you in Georgia.

10:21

They say, Okay, I'd rather go to University of Georgia

10:23

or right, that's fine, that makes sense. I'm

10:25

not mad at you going to those what they would call

10:27

a higher branded schools. But I'm

10:30

just saying, look at our schools as as

10:32

an option, because I'd rather

10:34

you lead debt free at Jackson State than

10:36

being debt at Georgia University of Georgia,

10:39

because it just stops you from

10:42

and now stops you It just slows you down from

10:44

the economic sides, buying the home, all

10:46

these other things, starting a small business and all that.

10:49

So that is kind of a matrix on

10:51

is in one institution as an example

10:53

of how do you get money at HBCUs.

10:55

You know, it's really interesting. Now, Douglas,

10:59

you got it called with that. Dougie, Hey, Dougie,

11:01

what's up?

11:01

What's that?

11:02

What's that? What's up? Now?

11:03

You know you man, your your

11:05

your story, your backstory.

11:06

Now you was you got the streets.

11:09

Won the streets one when you know the

11:11

team.

11:11

You know, I look back on my life and

11:13

uh, I grew up in Fifth Ward in Houston,

11:15

Texas.

11:16

So when you say prayer view, there's this wrong hold.

11:18

You know that bail boy. He all in

11:20

my neighborhood, Preview in Houston, Texas.

11:23

And and I, you

11:25

know, my school, and and I didn't get

11:27

the HBCUs coming out of college.

11:29

You know how the high school, you know, they were there recruiting

11:32

me, and I wound up going to I

11:34

went to enrolled in the Southern University

11:36

in Baton Rouge, and then at the last minute opted

11:38

out and eventually got my degree

11:41

at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

11:44

But because I didn't understand, I wouldn't.

11:46

I didn't value what an

11:48

HBCU was and

11:50

didn't understand what it brought

11:53

to the table.

11:54

And you're talking about.

11:55

Tier one students, and that is the

11:58

most value student that

12:00

every college wants

12:03

in this situation. That doesn't mean you're a tier

12:05

one student at a predominant white

12:07

institution. You're going to get a scholarship. That

12:10

doesn't mean you're going to get a full ride.

12:12

And I was talking to a good friend of mine, doctor Sonya

12:14

Lewis how of Philadelphia, shaid reache on, I'm gona tell

12:16

you something. Student loans

12:20

are the only thing in college

12:23

now. If you try to get a student loan, and

12:26

you try and look at it for a house.

12:29

You have nothing to offer for

12:31

a student loan. But they don't really

12:33

check your credit. They don't ask you do you

12:35

have any equity, They don't ask you're gonna

12:37

put up any collateral.

12:39

They just give you the money.

12:41

She said, when you look at the hides works

12:44

out. It is the craziest

12:46

system in the world. And people are

12:48

driving up forty thousand and

12:51

fifty half a million dollars

12:53

worth of student loans.

12:55

Yes, sir, insane.

12:58

And we use that matrix too. We used the

13:01

DTI the debt to income

13:03

racio analogy when

13:05

we say, yeah, you graduated from

13:08

Stanford with four

13:10

hundred thousand in debt, but I graduated from Jackson

13:12

State. But you go into the bank, your

13:14

debt to income ratio matters,

13:17

your credit matters. It comes

13:19

to the amount of money that you get from your

13:21

house. So I'm not knocking

13:23

those branded schools, of course, but if you didn't

13:25

get in and leave your undergrad but little

13:28

to no debt, that's the go for all the institutions,

13:30

especially Black Americans. So we

13:33

created this well building conversation to

13:36

have with those kids that actually qualify

13:38

for the Yales. The Princeton's the staffords

13:40

to say, hey, yeah you got in the Stanford, you

13:42

got any Yale, But those same numbers

13:45

are full rides at our institution, at the

13:47

Tuskegees, the Tennessee States.

13:50

So just consider these as an option, and

13:52

then whenever the financial aid come out, you can

13:54

determine as a family what is best

13:56

and also tell parents, hey, that same

13:58

amount of money you to pay for that brand, you can use

14:01

it on the back end to cover either graduate

14:03

school or get them a their startup condo

14:06

or house. So let's use our

14:08

money efficiently as we're trying

14:10

to make long term economic gains

14:12

for our children. I'd rather you spend that

14:15

one hundred thousand going to spend at these

14:17

other institutions on the back

14:19

end at for his starter home and

14:22

roll off North Carolina or outside of Atlanta

14:24

or somewhere you know in Houston, outside

14:27

of Houston where he can buy and own. Those

14:29

are life changing things. And so that's

14:31

what we leveraging our conversations when

14:33

we're talking about money. At the end of the day,

14:35

let's get this.

14:36

Money and let me throw some facts at the Douglas.

14:38

Okay, this is blacks who

14:40

attend HBCUs. Come

14:43

on, of the people

14:46

who are black that are

14:48

as they say is in stem come from HBCUs.

14:51

Seventy of the doctors who are black

14:54

come from HBCUs. Seventy percent of the dennists

14:57

who are black con from HBCUs. The

15:00

lawyers who are black come from HBCUs.

15:02

Seventy percent of the judges who are black

15:05

come from HBCUs. You see

15:07

where I'm going. Educational system, sixty

15:09

percent of the black teachers come

15:12

from HBCUs. So in

15:14

this conversation, what I'm just trying to tell everybody,

15:16

we're not just hyping. And I didn't go to an HBCU,

15:19

but I gotta talk. I gotta state the facts when I start

15:21

seeing the facts. And

15:24

the facts is that your

15:26

child can go to an HPCU. Your

15:28

child can walk out of there with a degree and

15:31

get hired, and you'll be competitive,

15:33

you get hired, and also

15:36

that free.

15:39

Come on that.

15:40

When we get back, we're gonna talk to more with Douglas

15:42

with two s is a dougie, like he likes to say, it

15:44

broke me down with the dougie Douglas

15:46

fort come back, man, this is great.

15:48

The black nerd I got them on my show money

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15:55

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15:59

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16:28

I am a black nerd.

16:29

I am not a member of the Blurred Academy

16:31

because it was founded after I

16:34

went to college Douglas.

16:36

After I went to college, it

16:39

was good.

16:40

Hey, I'm going to tell you some way

16:42

after cause I graduated seventy six. So you

16:45

you you have a long time

16:47

agold brother. But along the way, man,

16:49

I understood the value of HBCUs

16:51

and I'm an advocate.

16:53

I am an ambassador.

16:54

Wont could say that, you know, because of the fact that I

16:57

see the value as Hee Tier one students

17:00

see the quality

17:02

of it. I do my research, like like you said,

17:05

do your research. A lot of people don't do the research now

17:07

and when I was it was interviewing doctor

17:09

Sunny Lewis when she really broke it down about

17:12

how they just be passing out these student loans

17:14

and these people just be just accepting

17:17

and guess what you need them. But

17:19

then you don't know the consequences because they do

17:21

impact your lifestyle.

17:23

When you try to move on.

17:25

You can't.

17:26

True, it's true, and

17:29

you know.

17:29

But you came from California

17:32

and the streets almost swallowed you up.

17:34

And help us understand what

17:36

mentor saved you and how did you

17:38

make it to Jackson State.

17:41

Well, two things. I'm born and raised

17:44

in the city of East Palazzo, California,

17:48

predominantly black institution right under

17:50

South Plinch was right in the heart of Silicon

17:53

Valley. And at the time I grew up,

17:55

it was the middle of the crack apademic And

17:58

in nineteen ninety one I got shot in the face twice.

18:00

The bullet is still in my neck by well, one of the bullets

18:02

is still in my neck. And how

18:06

I transitioned. I was always a nerd.

18:08

It was just that environment turns. You have to

18:10

become something to defend it, to

18:12

make it in that environment. Did

18:15

a lot of fighting growing up and doing

18:17

these things, and so how

18:20

I got to the journey, how I got to Jackson

18:22

State is very interesting because I remember

18:25

in nineteen ninety five, our crack house got

18:27

raided. It's just a true story, y'all.

18:29

This is what happened. And I

18:32

remember one of the homies that one of

18:34

the homies that was one of my big homies

18:36

at the time, he went to the penitentiary.

18:38

So that house was shut down. And

18:41

I'm walking down the street and I ran into

18:43

another big homy of mine. He like my nickname

18:45

from the neighborhood's called Fresh that they call me Fresh

18:48

Friends getting the car and

18:50

he like, what you up to? And I'm like nothing, man, I'm just trying

18:52

to get this money because I was rocked in my pocket. I'm about to go

18:54

hustle at the park at Jackville Park at the time. And

18:57

he's like, hey man, what you got going. I'm like none,

18:59

Like you think you think about going to school. I'm

19:01

like, nah, bro, I'm making too much money

19:04

out here. And my old g told

19:06

me this. He said this, and he said, look,

19:08

promise me this. You go off to college

19:11

and you put the same energy putting into this block

19:14

and if it don't work out, you can come home. It

19:17

is what it is. So

19:19

my old gene told

19:22

me, you need to go off to college, and that's when

19:24

I met. I went. I went, and I never

19:26

looked back because I put the same energy I putting in the

19:28

hustling into the into

19:30

college and I became an honor student. I'm an honors

19:32

college graduate from jack State Magnum pumilati

19:35

uh. And that's how I got to

19:37

Jack State University.

19:39

You know.

19:39

The sad part of that story is

19:41

he knews. He knew what he was doing

19:44

was a dead end. And

19:47

I always talk about people get to a point

19:49

in life where they think that's all they

19:52

can do, or they go, this is me and

19:54

that's not true.

19:55

I don't care what you do. We're getting out of jail.

19:57

That does mean that it's the end of the row when

19:59

you get in jail or living it, because

20:01

dude, I lived.

20:04

I look at it my life today and I go,

20:06

yeah, it's probably three times in my life. I honestly

20:09

couldn't tell you. I probably should be dead,

20:12

but at least three times. Yeah, at least

20:14

three times. And I think

20:16

about it and I tell people

20:19

when I wake up in the morning, you

20:21

know, there's an earnest to me waking

20:23

up because I have to accomplish

20:25

something, to have to do something, Douglas. And

20:27

when I heard that you was coming on my show and I

20:29

heard your backstory, you know, it almost

20:32

brought me to tears because I

20:34

knew somebody pushed

20:36

you out the door, but didn't push himself

20:39

out the door.

20:40

Yeah, and his.

20:42

Story is a sad story because

20:44

it ain't gonna aint good because he stayed.

20:48

Yeah.

20:48

Yeah, I mean I think that if

20:50

you add it, you know, coming back and forth

20:53

to school and just growing, you know, when

20:55

it would really changed the whole thing. When I

20:57

started my first company when I was twenty years old,

20:59

when I got to that was one of the things that really

21:01

changed my life. When I gave my life over to Jesus

21:03

Christ in nineteen ninety eight and I created

21:05

a nonprofit Call for Youth by Youth that

21:08

was a reentry in youth development and healing

21:10

traumas and trauma program in

21:12

the CITV S Palalato and I ran that for twelve

21:15

years and I've done so much great

21:17

work in that thing. So it was more or less Jackson

21:20

State allowed me to be in

21:22

a safe place to grow my spirituality

21:24

and my friendships and my black love, and

21:27

it allowed me to go back. It's like an Incebaker

21:29

that they created for me there where

21:31

I could be completely myself there

21:34

and I was able to take that those teachings

21:36

and those friendships and all that through Christmas,

21:39

Cruse safe for Christ and come on back home and

21:42

really trying to rebuild my whole community, like you

21:44

know I created. I helped launch a program

21:46

called Living Peace. I helped launch another program

21:49

called the East Palato Greyhounds that got a bunch

21:51

of NFL players. I even helped

21:53

through one of the peace treaties I did in the neighborhood.

21:56

The director of the US Marshalls right now,

21:58

doctor Rona Davis,

22:03

we did some work together in the neighborhood and he's

22:05

where he's acted some of the work we did in the neighborhood. So

22:08

God has put our hands on all these people I just named

22:10

through the Worker for Youth by Youth and

22:12

what I did in our neighborhood. So I'm

22:15

excited about all the things that I

22:18

was able to put my hands on. And it's pretty

22:20

much leave it back to what God has put on my heart to do,

22:22

right, I.

22:23

Want to have a quote that I have of

22:25

yours, Douglas. This

22:27

is a spiritual calling. My mission

22:30

is to rebuild our community, and it starts

22:32

with young men because they're the

22:34

ones who will be the providers for

22:36

their families. We exist

22:38

as an organization to build a healthy community

22:40

that is black, educated, resourceful,

22:43

and determined. And we're doing it

22:47

as black nerds are blurred.

22:49

At a time.

22:51

That's my quote.

22:53

I'm gonna tell you something, brother. I

22:56

don't get too emotional on this show, but

22:59

you get me there because it almost

23:01

makes me feel like I'm not doing enough. And

23:06

you know, you know what I'm saying. You know, you know it. You've

23:08

seen it, man. You know when you grew because

23:10

a lot of people don't know when you grow up in the hood. Man,

23:13

you go back, brother, it ain't it ain't got it

23:15

hadn't gotten better, It hadn't gotten better.

23:18

You know, it might be Hispanic now, it might be Hispanic,

23:20

Like my hood is e Hispanic now.

23:22

You know what I'm saying. You

23:25

know what I'm talking about.

23:26

It's like they moved out and I don't know where black people

23:28

went, but they ain't in my hood no more.

23:30

Okay, you

23:32

know, And uh and so.

23:34

But but but I won't stop, man,

23:37

I won't stop, dougs, I can't stop. But I

23:39

love the fact that you encourage your

23:42

students to buy property. I

23:44

love the fact that you tell them to secure that

23:46

bag of money through graduate school. There's

23:49

not there's more to your academy

23:51

than just education. It's a story

23:53

about life. As we wrap up, just

23:55

tell everybody what drives you.

23:57

What's your vision for the future for

24:00

the blur academy.

24:04

Calling, you know, to rebuild our community, one

24:06

blurred at the time. And

24:09

my goal is to make all these blurres be happily

24:12

married and wealthy, to build each black

24:14

family. I've seen it growing up in these

24:16

palanza before crack hit. I've

24:19

seen a vision of a healthy black family. And

24:21

so for me, that's my mission is

24:24

to see black men be

24:26

provider males so

24:28

they can leave their families, uh to the

24:30

next next to the next thing. So that's

24:33

my mission.

24:34

Well, bro, brother, if you don't

24:36

have my sell numb, I'm gonna give it to you. And

24:38

if you ever need me, uh, you know,

24:41

to say, Rashwan, could you you know, break me off

24:43

some of us. I'll go talk to the wife's and wife.

24:46

The nerds, the black nerds need me, baby,

24:48

they need to proud black Just.

24:50

Go to Look you can, like I said, proud

24:53

of your crew. Look, go to w W dot.

24:55

Buy some of that, Buy some of that swag, some of

24:57

that, some of the cups and T shirts, you

25:00

know. And also, man, I want to sit down. Man

25:02

if I can help you with a sponsor,

25:04

you know that understands what you're trying to do,

25:07

because you got history.

25:08

You know what I'm saying.

25:09

And uh, there are a lot of corporations

25:11

out there, you know, despite their rhetoric

25:13

out there by diversity, equity, inclusion,

25:16

understand the value of diversity, understand

25:19

the value of educating, and understanding

25:22

by creating qualified student citizens

25:24

who want to vote, they're paying they taxes.

25:27

And so I want to sit down and talk

25:29

to you about it. So yeah, you know what I'm saying,

25:31

that's the game. But more importantly, Man,

25:34

I'm glad you took the time to

25:36

call in my show so we can hear the story

25:39

of Douglas Ford. Man, you're a powerful brother,

25:41

and uh, I'm happy I'm able to share my

25:43

story over my airways and it's

25:46

pretty big airways. My brother and uh,

25:48

I appreciate it, and again thank you for calling

25:50

money Making Conversations massic class.

25:52

My brother.

25:52

We talked soon, all right, peace

25:54

brother.

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