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Magatte Wade

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“See, so first it said we just have to give. So that was primarily, you know, the charity business. And you still have foreign aid business going on. So we just need to give. And then the social entrepreneurs came in place. But I'm like, the only person for this is business is good, is for Blake McCosty, you know, the founder of Tom Shoes. But other than that, I'm not sure really seeing who else is winning from this. And then so today, my whole thing is. We got a challenge. Have a mind for the poor, or to have a mind for the lesser fortunate, maybe in this country. It is easy and lesser fortunate because, you know, for anybody that you feel like is being trampled upon because of something. Maybe it's because of economic circumstances or maybe it's race in this case or whatever.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you have shoemakers. Each one of them hires at least five fifteen people. Do the math. Family businesses Guess what happens to them the day the Tom Shoe's truck shows up with a bunch of free shoes? Who can compete against free? Now, all of these people, little by little, are going to have They go out of business, and now instead of helping anybody, you actually send all the kids who depended on these adults working in these places. Now they have to join the rank of kids who need to be given shoes because you took their parents' ability to make money through their wages by themselves.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Only have we not effective, but they also backfire, and there are reports on all of us. And at the end of the day, it makes sense. Makes sense. So for me, I am very, very glad that people have developed an enlightenment about this. Very happy about that, very but let us not keep going for the easy perceived solution to problems. Again, they've done this to us, the poor people of Africa. They fought the solution was to give. It does not work. And then they say, oh, we're going to do a social entrepreneurship on you. Tom shoes, buy one pair of shoes and we give one pair of shoes to some people in poor countries. Then guess what happened to us? You know, in the town where we operate in Senegal, where I have my little manufacturing, we have 2,000 little mom and pop businesses. And guess what they happen to be in Lex.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, give it a person, teach a person how to fish and don't give them a fish. You put in your stupid signs on a lawn with Black Lives Matter and all that crap. Not helping. And when you're buying one more anti racism book or as a company financing one more DEI, if it's done along those lines, I think we've got a problem.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Turn me into somebody who's waiting for handouts. So I would encourage people to really those people who are really serious about wanting to be part of a solution. And I know there are many out there for the love of God and everything that's out there and we care about stop. It's about think about what's going to Unable people. Maybe the word is wrongly chosen, but know what I'm talking about.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you want help put some fuel behind them and let me take my flight, that's all I'm asking for. That's the only way for you to do part of a racism battle if that's what you think is the most important battle of our life. That's it. That's what I have to say about that. And so for me, I'm keeping my head very straight. It's about what enables black people to thrive. I don't need for you to be an activist on my behalf. No, because when you're doing that, you're doing exactly what you've been doing to us black people in Africa our whole life. I don't need your white savior complex because that's what anti-racism is. White savior complex. That stuff doesn't work. It only works to make you feel better about how superior you are to me, but it does nothing, absolutely nothing to change my everyday life. If it is not, if it is, at least in the African side, to actually even change my, you know.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. So help them make sure that they can take their kids out of these public schools that are doing horrendous things to them. You know, Miss Virginia, watch that movie. How could you not support black moms in this country to take the kids to safety when it comes to education? How come not? That's what I want to see happen and not like some let's go to some classrooms and everybody's white. You go over here, everybody's an exaint, you go over here and kids, let us tell you about this no, no, no, no. As a black person, I don't want you to do any of that crap. Let me grow my wings”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People to go for a life of redemption. This is happening right now. But what I find is they're not getting the bulk of the attention. But this is anybody who's serious about this is why how I would love to see people do anti-racism is help lift people up for real. Support school choice. Supports culture. Black mamas know what's going on. And when they tell you we want school choice, they know what they're talking about. They're not idiots.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What we have to do is to try to pull them up. And you cannot say you didn't pull them up because we're not seeing their head out yet, but how much progress have they made from the bottom to where they are now and keep going? So what I see these people doing, you see, I have so much I love and respect Glenn Lowry and Company, you know, and Ian Rove and all of those guys. I love them. I love a lot of the things that they say. You know, this whole concept of personal response, we don't know that. But I'm just like at some point, it also needs to be matched up with real action. And that's what the people, like Anton Lucky, urban specialists, Alice Johnson are doing. They're going where it's hard. Alice Johnson is getting people out of jail every single day, literally. And then people like Anton Lucky and his team are giving them the tools to leave the gang life, to be better.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We go in urban inner city black inner city neighborhoods and block by block we change the culture. And they say it like that. It's their words. These are African American people who have as many rights as anybody else to talk about their own culture. And they will tell you we have to change the culture. I have some videos like that on my YouTube with Bishop Omar. What these people are doing is what we need to do. Bishop will explain in size. Sometimes people are... The feet and feet deep down in the mud.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Action to fight racism in my mind. Because what are you doing there? You're trying to get people out of jail who really have no business being there. And also when you have people like Bishop Omar and the people he passed away unfortunately, but today we have Anton Locke, Ang Tun Lucky, who was in jail for having killed his cousin. had started, I think he started the gang in South Dallas. So we're talking really tough guy who was really in the wrong side of the equation. And then in jail, literally, he found Plato, the cave and all that. So today these people, I'm like, why don't we hear more about them? The urban specialists. Because these people is not about the anti-racism crap of Kendo D'Angelo. I'll say it again until the cows come home, but it is about we go where help is needed. We go in her...”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Racism exists? Yes, it does. Is it going to stop me from doing anything I want to do? No. It's going to make it harder. But this is where for anybody who is serious about making sure about fighting racism. I think the only job you have to do is to make sure that people keep their sense of self-agency. And B, can you help provide people with the tools? Stand up. So, this is why I have so much respect for Van Jones. People like Van Jones, although I disagree with him on so many things, but people like Miss Alice Johnson, she was pardoned by President Trump through the work of people like Ven Jones and Kim Kardashian and others. They all joined forces. This is a case where people and those folks then went on to combine forces. Is a valid”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very different things and eventually happens the last step that happened naturally, making a true, real, genuine connection. And this is where friendships happen. This is where that's it. Tubais can go home now because it has been challenged with reality and understanding. And so for me, that is what I was after. But then the world was just like, we don't want to be told we're part of a problem. But I still reckon that it is the type of mindfulness, type of practice that's going to need to happen. And it's one that's very internal to you. It is not, and it happens everybody at their own pace. So all of this, I take it back to racism, the question you were asking me.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're making a connection, and then things start to change because now you're making, then you make cultural immersion. So this is where we had some people like this one woman. She was very quite feminist oriented. And she had an issue with women wearing the hijab. And because for her, it was like, how come you, how come, how come you just lower, you know, like how come you're accepting this demeaning of yourself, not understanding everything else that comes with it. But as she understood that she even had that bias, then she went on through all the different processes and then eventually when comes the next step, cultural immersion, she started going to the mosque during Ramadan when the Muslims are doing it, it's the holiday month of fasting and then we break at night. And she started understanding.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the thing. And so Lex, that's why the first step is bias awareness. So you get, you train yourself, oh, yeah, okay, that was one, or it's, you know, and it's about, it's in you. We're talking about you. And then from there, you're like, replace the bias, like bias replacement. When it is where you practice the empathy, you're like, gee, wow, I wonder how I would feel every day I walk into a store. And the guy thinks he should be following me because maybe I might steal something because I'm black. Because once you try that, to put yourself in the other person's shoes, all of a sudden something else starts to click. And then from there, you go on to... Making connect”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this gentleman is asking these two candidates. One of them is a woman, political candidates. If everyone is a man, I'm hearing him asking the lady a question that I know he's not going to ask the man and he didn't ask her. He said, how do you balance your race with family? Does a man not have a family? Right there, you see it's very subtle. But you see, but because now my mind is kind of trained to see things, I'm like, interesting. Or like when the media just says froze climate change issue on something without even the choice of words. So it's pretty much everywhere. You open the book everywhere.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't judge, and so, and you see it's at every level, you know, like I don't know, like there's even this one friend, she was like, you know, when I looked into the whole dating thing, I absolutely didn't want to have, you know, date the Asian man because her mind was into some stereotypes about the size of whatever. And she was like, no. But you see, once you start, because this whole thing of it's the five-step thing, bias awareness, basically at this level what you're doing is you're learning to spot the biases in our culture because that's where the cultural imprint comes from. You're watching this movie and you're realizing, like I said, wow, gee, I realize once again, the black person is portrayed like the fog of a movie or the Latina lady. This is how she's been portrayed. And you see it everywhere. Even the NPR, NPR is happening, like you're listening to something like NPR. You cannot be more liberal than that.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About everything. It's about everything. And you know, when I started on that journey and me and my friend back then built, you know, this practice of undoing your habit of unconscious bias. We had all types of people come and say, wow, I discovered what my bias against larger people. And I'm like, what do you mean? Well, I think I it seems to me like I felt that larger people maybe are dumb We heard things, and you know, and you don't judge.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you're a flight ability of a brain because bears over there start running and running fast, today we're the bears. Show me where they are. But we have kept this tendency to go for fear of flight. I don't know how they say it. And so we have this courtesan done by the stress triggers that back in the days we have a stress trigger we run and it's all expelled out. But today we get triggers and we don't know what to do with it because where do we run to? What do we do? The barrier is not even here. So same thing here with that. And so then you realize that this whole thing that is now what you understand is that this problem is not about anti-racism BS, but it is about can each one of us do the work with their work is needed, which is we look inside. Can we go for this work of deprogrammation? This concept of a mindful practice”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, it doesn't mean we can't transcend that function of a brain and that we should transcend it. Right? But I think it's very important because once you understand that, a little bit more peace is created among us because this is not about a black and white or a yellow or green issue. It's about we are human issue. And these are part of things we develop to stay around. Just like we no longer have to rely”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All of this information that we're getting from the Disney movies that you're reading telling you that damsels are to be saved by the prince and all of that stuff and girls wear pink and whatever, you know, you watch the movies and all the movies whenever you watch them, it's about Africa. They're talking to you about the blood diamonds or they're talking to you about slavery or they're talking to you about this. And then if wonder you walk away thinking that all the ills of Africa are caused because of resource extraction, the diamonds, or they're always fighting each other. Amin and the movie, you know, or slavery all the time, you walk away and this is it. And we all programmed along the same lines. See, that's the beauty of it. All of us are. Because even some black people who are going to claim that they didn't, this is not what they registered. Really? So the truth, so then when I learned all of this, I'm like, wow, this concept of if you've got the brain, you've got biases, it comes with the territory, that makes sense.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For a day, exactly. So then here you are needing to make sense of a world. And then the brain is your best ally in that. The way it's going to do it is for efficiency. Efficiency done through automation. So every time it thinks it's figured something out, it's never going to think about it again. So that's how you build all of these habits of unconscious bias because everything, so it somewhere along the line, you come up with the information that black man walking around with a hoodie equals danger. So later, what do you see It's Lex or my God, I'm walking in the dark alley. I see a black man with a hoodie. Maybe I'm gonna run away because I've been given that information. So the best way to think about it is the brain is the hardware and the software it runs on is, what do you call it, is cultural imprint.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't take me wrong. I'm sure there are some women who feel like that, but I'm not one of them, and I do think a majority of us are not whatever. But, you know, in the morning I'm waking up. I'm just like. Gee, can I get my tea? Oh, my dog is not looking okay today. You know, we've got, right?”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is no world in which you or I could ever be equal because you're black and I'm white, you're a woman and a man, this and that people like that, again 1% of psychopaths in our world, they're out there. Unfortunately, by the time they do nasty things, it's pretty horrible and that's what all we hear about. But I'm talking mostly about the rest of us. Remember when I told you that most of us are good people bumbling along, making it up as we're going. That's why I have compassion for human nature. But really, in the morning when I wake up, do you really think that I'm waking up and thinking, how am I going to go kill? How am I going to go kill Lex? That Lex guy needs to go down. He's a man.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Signs of bias, it's a habit. In general, it's a habit when they form two pathway. It's a habit. So if we're willing to talk about unconscious bias, because of course it's very different from somebody who tells me to my face.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And what the brain is going to do is it's going to help you, and the way of a brain works is through it works with it's all wired for efficiency. And the way it goes for efficiency is through automation, meaning that every time it has computed, and you probably know these things way better than me, every time it has computed one algorithm, it doesn't want to do it again. It's almost like this, okay, got it, stored, stored, right? And then it adds maybe some little levels of complexity to it, but it has to be something new, meaning the new level of complexity for it to even be willing to reconsider. Otherwise, so then all of a sudden what you have is these neurons in the back of your head and they have created pathways, right? So, and every time neurons have created pathway among themselves because basically they're attached, and here is a pathway, well, this pathway in the world of”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can you determine if a situation or a person is good or bad for you? Failure, and you need to be able to do so ever so quickly. Because failure to be able to do that means that you might not be alive the next second. It's so wired in. So this process is starting to kick in. And at that point, your brain is going to be your best ally for that.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this part comes from the evolutionary biologist people They in a way tell you that right around age three, can happen sooner or later because, you know, we're all different. But you go from this person who has to rely on these other people, usually your parents, to stay alive, to be fed, to be housed, to even diaper change, all of that stuff, right? Now, something is kicking in. where you have to, in order for you to survive, and this is all wired in. So you don't even understand it consciously as I'm saying it now. Where, in order for you to survive, in order for you to go from this state of dependency to the next stage more and more and more, you're going to have to develop this ability to make sense of the world. And what's making sense of the world at its most basic level means is”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What am I up against, right? And so this is why, you know, spend all of this time on some of the work, and then eventually I understood that discrimination, if you wanted to understand it beyond the big lines of especially the clickbait lines would make it very black and white, then I had to really take a moment and I spent time, you know, with the world of brain scientists, with behavioral psychologists, with evolutionary biologists, to have all of this ecosystem, but together form what one might call the science of bias. And especially I came across the work of this team of scientists at the University of, I think it's Wisconsin, and they're only ones who made sense. The sea of nonsense back then. And this article wasn't political. And it was saying something that I could relate with. And eventually, what I learned was”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that sent me on a journey of understanding what discrimination is and bias is. And in a way, that's the reason why I started this company that I even called skinny skin. Where it came from. Again, criticized by creating. I needed to understand what discrimination was, how does it work? Is it true what Kendi is saying? Is it true what D'Angelo is saying? Is it true that it could be that your race is just because of the skin color? You happen to be born in? Is it true? Is it true? I needed to know because I was at a time of my life where at some point, you know, when those killings were happening, it was so hard for me being a black person in this country and wondering. What is this? And what do we do with this?”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're not changing anything when you're doing that. Nothing except that you're putting problems where there were no problems to start with. All we had to do was maybe go for a different route from there. Kids or kids. Kids are born kids. And this, I'm not sure if you want to get me going on to the whole science of bias because that's something I spent years of my life on. And my journey on the science of bias started with the days of Filando Castile, Eric Garner, that whole summer of 2016, when we had this horrendous, horrendous situation of black people being killed by the police where they shot before asking and people left to die in the most inhumane way for the rest of us to watch from the social media. That's when my George Floyd moment happened, not later four years ago in the whole world is like, you know.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it's going to stop me from doing anything I have to do? No. Might it make it harder, longer, maybe, but it will not stop me But for it not to stop me, I can't engage in victimhood mentality. I can't lose myself. I got to use all the agency that I have to fight back and fight beyond. See? It's just better to fight back. You fight back and you fight beyond. Because at some point, yeah, and it's this concept of yes and. So, this is why I have loved the job. So, when I have somebody who is like, oh, anti-racism is the way we're going to go and tell all the white kids that, you know, because we happen to be white, that they're really the oppressors and blah, blah, blah. And the black kids, because they're black, you know.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is where I am mad as heck against those who supposedly care and their idea of how to make sure that I don't become or stay a victim of racism is through all the things we talked about, the CRT, the anti-racism crap of Abram X candy. And what's her name? Robin D'Angelo. I mean, I'm shocked. The woman is making all of this money, supposedly fighting a war on our behalf. I'm like, lady, I hear you loud and clear that you are a true racist. I know, but you told me you are. And for you to think that your anti-racism makes you less racist. And that happens too. She comes from a racist background. Fine. She's saying it. It's true. But this idea that... Every walking person on earth belongs to one category or the other, depending on which skin color you came with. It's problematic at its root. So my point is. Does racism exist? Yes.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, you say than done. And some among us need a little bit more help to not succumb for it than others do. And I've seen it, it might be harder for you if you're somewhere in a city black America. Maybe the environment might be a little bit tougher for you to try and get your act together and all of that stuff. And it's okay. But even in that situation, Need to, I think it's important that we still do not rob you of your agency.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Does racism exist? Yes, it does. But all forms of isms exist. Some people, it's about various forms of ableism. It's about size. And racism, yes, is one of them. Does it exist? Yes, it does. But is it what's going to stop anyone from manifesting their greatest potential? I say no. I say no. Many people in this country have showed it. Whether they're African Americans or African immigrant, I'm an African immigrant. Have African Americans like Oprah and others, and other people even before her. Who, despite the nastiness around them, were able to make it? So we do know, especially as black people, but I think it's humanity as a whole. And that's what I love about the human spirit, its resiliency. But resiliency only can happen if you don't allow yourself to be beaten down. To lose yourself of agency”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Prosperity is the only thing. And the way we do that, there is no just like all of us humans have to inhale oxygen and excel carbon dioxide. That's a human way of breathing. You bring me, but you want to be foolish and be like, oh, well, sorry, that's how white people breathe. So us black people, we're going to have to do something different. Well, good luck with that. Right? So this is here why I'm saying I have no patience for Black Lives Matter. They're making a mistake that was made sixty some plus years ago. Even more than that, maybe even a hundred, you know, when we were siding with a Marxist socialist because they're the ones who've been fighting for equal rights.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A common psyche will change even about black people. All of the stereotypes that they have of us is gonna melt away. And you may still not like us, but you will still respect us. Only economic power does that. It would be nice, of course, for us to respect people because they're people. It would be nice, but let us not kid ourselves. This is earth. And someone said, you know, nice people will make it to heaven, but not to Harvard necessarily. It's true.”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that all of these young people, young minds, can finally manifest their greatness that I know they have and that they're showing you us every day despite the obstacles. That's what we need. Senegal becomes rich, and Senegal can become and will be richer than France. Singapore did it. We can do it. Malle Rich Nigeria Witch functioning as well Malawi rich Tanzania rich Uganda rich Zimbabwe rich. Niger rich, everywhere rich, prosperous, as prosperous, if not more prosperous than Switzerland or Singapore, or the US or the Liechtenstein or Luxembourg, places that have no natural resources. We become rich and you watch the world having a very different relationship with us. That's the only time we will command any type of respect. That's when people even the”
2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So if you want for blacks to be respected anywhere in the world, you're going to have to be serious about black prosperity. En masse, not just a few people, Oprah over here and somebody over there. No. We as a group have to be a critical mass of prosperity across the board. And because we're talking critical mass of prosperity across the board, it means black people everywhere in the world. But guess what? We in Africa happen to represent 90% of our representatives of a black race. So you're going to be serious about Black Lives Matter without being serious for Africa. The one billion people in Africa that are black and for them to have access to the free markets and yes, fossil fuels so that they can rocket up prosperity-wise.”
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“Those ideologists, yeah, they're anti-free market, anti-capitalist, and we do know that you have to have the free markets in order to build prosperity. And prosperity means economic power. If you have economic power, no one messes with you. Or if they're going to do it, they're going to have to think twice. And when they do, they're going to have to pay consequences.”
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“I am also able to say because I got the benefit of 60 some years time and where you get to do a debrief and see what worked, what didn't work, what happened. We have had the 60 years to look back and to reflect. So yes, I can understand why they did what they did. I can understand why they sided with these people who on the surface, or at least some part of a fight with the same fight as them when it came to equal rights. I can excuse them But I will not excuse the BLM founders. Because that mistake was tolerable sixty some years ago. Today? No. The blacks of today. Cannot be serious about Black Life's mattering and saying in the same sentence And we're going to be socialist, Marxist socialist. It just doesn't work?”
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“And all over the continent more or less that's what you had. And on top of that, something else that the French don't know, the people don't know, is France with its colonies said you cannot not do, you have to keep the French civil law. So we're talking about the Napoleonic civil code. Are you kidding me? So that's what happened. So the reason why I go back to BLM is while I have all the respect in the world and all the compassion in the world for people like Krumer, for people like Nerewe, for people, all of those people of those times, the liberators of Africa, while I have so much love, compassion for them.”
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“When it comes to the economic nonsense, no way, we should not have thrown the baby out with the bathwater, but that's what we did. And that's when we made the fatal mistake. So then we became free, all of these nations, and most of them started with socialist or communist leaders, my country socialist. Leopold Sedasangar, he was a socialist. And they stayed in power for forty years. The first forty years of our freedom years.”
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“Marxist socialists, I put the name that's what you wear. So you in the world where it was the normal thing, it was just mainstream acceptance. So not only you have that force, but at the same time, if these two forces are fighting one another, it turns out that the one representing capitalism and freedom, well, sorry, but isn't it you who enslaved us and colonized us? And you're fighting with the people who represented people who are saying that who had been fighting for equal rights for us for the longest time. These are our friends. And that's when we made a fatal mistake. Because while, yes, they were maybe good things to agree on with Marxist socialists of the times, especially equal rights for all people and all of that. That's the only thing we should have, among the only things we should have agreed upon. There are violent revolution tendencies? No way.”
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“Represented by freedom and economic, what do you call it, the economic system they were using is capitalism. And these are represented by the Western nations facing off with Eastern Bloc, practicing various forms of statism, socialism, communism, various forms of statism. And these two are fighting for influence. So, and we're also happy, it's also not so, two things there. One is we are at a time where, remember, the free market concept was almost dead. Almost dead. So almost every intellectual at that time was social Marxist.”
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“Now, most of his liberators are their nations, become the president of a nations. But remember what I told you? Most of them have drunken the socialist, Marxist socialism Kool-Aid. So has these African nations become independent with their first independent governments and presidents, most of them, most of them are socialists, various forms of statist type of government. And this is because at that point we had made a fatal mistake of going of saying we are Marxist socialists because you guys fight for equal rights. So in this case, there should be no colonialism or anything like that. So not only you have that going on and the people, so right now you had this battle of ideology going on on one end.”
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“Under the leadership because he was the wise eldest man, Dubois was. He was in his 70s back in the day. So he's older than them, you know, and he's coming with all of his ideas and everything. So they're like, ooh. So there we are. Now we're in the late 50s, early 60s. We're starting to make progress with independences. You know, India has gone there before. So all of that is starting to happen. And at that time, remember, they already were being introduced to the concept of socialism, Marxism, all of that way before by some of these black African-American intellectuals of their time who were very socialist Marxists by that time. So now they're becoming independent because I do independent like this because I reckon that there's still neocolonism going on. Now this is happening becoming free. But then you look around what do you see?”
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“Because people today ask me why do you think, because even now, when they understand, oh, you're right, it makes sense. If you have no economic freedom, you're going to be poor. But why? Why did they go for this? Why did they go for this? And then they don't understand. So that's what happened. Beginning of times, pre colonial Africans were free marketeers, free enterprise, it's pretty well recorded by someone like Georgia. That's where I got the cheat, I think, from, and Ghanaian economist, and then slavery happened, colonialism happened, and then the independent late 50s, early 60s for most African, most sub-Saharan African countries. So there, what you have is, but then what happened there? So I told you in 45, 5th Pan-African Congress in the UK with the liberators of Africa.”
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“Then later, so that's how all of his movements started to happen. And from there, Gandhi was already making some progress with India, getting them out of British rule and all of that. So all of this was happening and really like this whole thing was bubbling, bubbling, bubbling. There's like a new force going on. And then we arrive in the late 50s. And, you know, Krumah with them with the British as well, they might manage to become to become their colonization is over. They're the first one to go in 57. Then from there, it's what we call the independences. That's what most sub-Saharan African nations are getting their independences, different dates, mine, April 4th, 1960. So all over. So this is happening. But now think about it. You're talking 57, you're talking 60. We're like at these time now with the middle of the Cold War because we have to put things in context if we want to understand what's going on.”
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“And that's where this music is very important. It's the fifth Pan-African Congress meeting. It's very important. It's going to be the last one, but it's the most important one because that's when they formed their plans and really the rallied around this concept of African emancipation and African liberation. We're going to liberate our countries.”
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