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  1. “Yeah, because what happened back in those days is true. But to their credit, Communist socialists were fighting for equal rights. They were fighting for the rights of black people to have equal rights. So of course I could see why one could say, especially in those times. You've been lynch Bodies burnt. Body Showcase that window stores. Meanwhile, in Africa. Under colonization In your own country, in your own land. You have this group that's saying. We're fighting part of what we fight. Of course, you're going to say I side with you, especially if this is all happening at a time. Where, you know, so 1945, these guys who would be the liberators of various African nations, they're meeting with Garvey, with Wois.”

    2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “No, because just in case they're like, who are you talking about? That's who I'm talking about. So all those people got together in the UK. And with WEBOR and Marcus Garvey, big top African-American intellectuals of their times. WB Du Bois had so many things happen to him, you know, starting from the north, being more or less a liberal type guy, came to the south just to see at this time, you know, people, black people being lynched and some of the body parts being shown in store windows. I mean, just for a second, we put ourselves in his shoes. I put myself in his shoes. And that's when he started to become radicalized, right? Because at first it was like, oh, reforms reform. And I was like, god darn it. And his people, we don't talk to them. We force, you know. And eventually, little by little things going through.”

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  3. “A black Africans who would go on to really cement this concept of African emancipation and African liberation. And here I'm taking us back to 1945. They had four of them before that. But in 1945, Manchester, UK. Happen something that would become major for Africa and its future, especially sub-Saharan Africa. In Manchester, UK People like Blaze Jane of my country. Near array, Tanzan And overs and overs from different parts of a continent got together with Marcus Garvey and WEB Dubois. And I say Dubois because that's how we say it in French. He has a French name. French sound name at least. And Americans would say, so for Americans listening, I know you say Dubois.”

    2022-08-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Well, Black Lives Matter has been a very hard one for me because do Black Lives Matter, those three words together in that order, what they mean? Mean everything because black lives do matter. As any other lives do matter, but I know in this case why they say black lives matter because some of the contexts we have had. Now While I agree with the principles that Black Lives Matter, I have a big problem with the organization. What it stands for When I have an organization that pretends to want to stand for black lives to matter, yet you are self proclaimed Marxist socialist I Why? I paused and then I'm like, have we learned nothing Have we learned nothing? And the reason why I say that Lex is because. 60 some years ago. Started before even 60 some years ago. Black people, in this case, I'm talking about the African people. I'm talking about”

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  5. “But it is about trying not to stay there. And it's okay if it takes you years, but it is about trying, and I mean the word trying. It is about trying not to stay there.”

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  6. “Engage very different parts of your brain that's proven by the way by the brain scientists but you also can feel it in your body that you're engaging very different parts of your soul and so I try myself I'm not always good at it but it's a practice but I try to honor which is curiosity empathy and love”

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  7. “They will find, yeah, yeah. And you know, the other thing, too, Lex is, especially in these times we're walking in, it is to remind yourself, I think this is where we all are called to practice more courage. I call it courage. It's the courage to show up with curiosity, with empathy, and with love. To me, those three are the antidote to pretty much anything. Curiosity and love in the face of fear can you show up with curiosity in the face of hate? Can you say I'm going to engage with love, even if I'm scared to death and even if I'm pissed off to death by this? But can you do that? In the face of just like judgment or whatever, can you show up with empathy? And I had just found that when you try to do that, you...”

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  8. “So, no, but Carole, so this is it. This is what I'm saying, especially in these times when this country loves to dwell on your bed because you have this skin color. Here are people with a completely different skin color than mine, completely different faith in mine, yet embrace me, protected me, paid for my visa, you know, for my lawyer, for my H-1B, everything, and also played emotional support for me. no one no one asked them to do that they didn't have to do it they didn't so what i'm saying is and this has been the story of my life everywhere i go regardless of the hostility around me You bet you have that there's always, always going to be somebody who shows up for you and somebody who is at the extremes of at the antipods of where you are and who you are. And that tells me something.”

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  9. “And they said, but there's so much more for you, and we don't have it. So we want you to go and find out what it is. And that's eventually when I, you know, because something was brewing up in San Francisco, when I say I left my heart in San Francisco, because, you know, the man would become my husband. We went to the same business school in France, but then he was older than me. So he had come to San Francisco and started a business fair. And it just looked like there was something there. And Scarlet was like, you gotta go to San Francisco and find out with Emmanuel what's going on. So I went and I left my house.”

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  10. “That I found that I, black, young women, coming out of nowhere, found support. They all rallied around me. I didn't even come from the same faith as they are from. Yet their whole church rallied around me to find me an apartment. My host family found me got me a job, and it was not a pity job. They were like, we need, we are in serious needs of getting our accounting under control and our marketing and all of that. And I had to catch up years of accounting like 2% and come up with marketings, all of that. And I did it way faster than they thought I would ever be able to do that. At some point, they look at me and they're like, look, there is a future for you. And we are too small for that future. And now we could be selfish and keep you here with us and we would want nothing more than that because really they like my parents to this day. I just came back from seeing them.”

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  11. “Came as a tourist, but you had this amazing family who had business, a family business in Indiana, Columbus, Indiana, the Winces, Carolyn Elden Wentz, I owe them everything that I have in this country that I am in this country. They are Americans in Mid America from a place that most of our Americans would maybe look down on because, and some people would be like, oh, you're going to this place where they have more churches and cows than people, you know, that type of behavior. Because, you know, the elite, the coastal elites. But it is in Midwest, in the Midwest.”

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  12. “Yeah, right. Vet girl, I don't know what she was thinking. No, but what I'm trying to say, Lex, is I feel like I can go anywhere in the world, including some of the most unfriendly places in the world to someone like me, because there are places like that. And yet I know, I know that somehow somewhere, someone will take care of me. Someone will help me. When I first came to this country, I”

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  13. “Just makes you belong to the human family that you're part of. I am part of a human family. And I would have no problem going to Russia, for example. And be totally open.”

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  14. “I don't want for any of that. And she showed her words that I don't want for any of that to intimidate you. She said, you can be impressed by some of it if you want, but no intimidation. And she said, because the fact that they might be different from you, yeah, they're going to have a different skin color from you. But it is still human skin. You're human, they're human. And she said, this language you're going to speak, it's a different language from yours, but it is still a language that humans speak. You're human, they're human, therefore you can speak it. And lastly, they have gone to school is what little humans do. Little human, so you'll be just fine. And I went and grandma was right And Vet helped me. And I think when you internalize So early on.”

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  15. “Magat, you're about to go to this place where most people will not look like you. And most people speak a language that's going to be different from yours. And you're going to realize that all the kids are going to school and you've never been to school because, like I said, a free Rench kid and I was just living my life. And she said, but.”

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  16. “At the end, we are adding we are And when you come from, at the end we are, and also I think for me, if people can take anything from my story, it's at the end of the day, I am very clear about it and I'm all for harmony among people and among us peoples. If we can accept that, I know this sounds so cliche, but for me it's so true, that we're all humans, you know, when I left Senegal, when I was about to leave Senegal for the first time and to go to Europe to be reunited with my parents, because now they had emigrated and things were going to be fine, and I was going to things were stable for them now. They're like, it's time to be reunited with her. They brought me over, but before I left Senegal, my grandma sat me down. Actually, she lowered herself down to my level and she said”

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  17. “So I think it's funny because in that community, we're very much entrepreneurial, you know, left to our own devices, we're entrepreneurial. But then what happens is the minute people start going to, they're being educated through the education system, you know, like the French especially education system, but tend to breed more like, you know, the French bureaucrat mindset, then you can see all the entrepreneurial mindset kind of starting to dwindle down. So it's kind of very interesting. So in a way, America helped me reunite with that side of my roots, where America tells me reinforces that side of my roots and also gives me more tools to practice that side of my roots, if that makes any sense.”

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  18. “You know, you have what we call a murid. I'm a murid. So, what it is is one of the four brotherhoods in Senegal, Muridism is the most influential of them and the biggest one. And us, it's all about entrepreneurship as well. I mean, of course, there's the whole religious part, but our mantra is pray as if you will die tomorrow and work as if you will never die. And the way we say somebody will say that somebody passed away, we say somebody has retired. Somebody has retired from their work, right?”

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  19. “To raise somebody with $32 million for my first business, never would have been able to do that in France. And it doesn't mean that French people are bad people or anything like that. It's just something that's just not so in the culture, right? Just like this whole concept of philanthropy, it's not that the French people don't do philanthropy. But philanthropy in America is very different from the level and also the magnitude of maybe what the French people do. And also they have this always like, oh, let's do it behind the scene. Money is suspicious, you know, success is suspicious. So at some point, my husband and I just felt like our friends actually were maybe thinking that maybe some drug dealer or something. So we just stopped because it just was not flowing anymore. And so yes, in America, I found this entrepreneurial spirit. But then I was able to link it with something that I'm very familiar with in my country. See, back home in Senegal, I'm part of this.”

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  20. “I mean, don't take me wrong. Do you have some entrepreneur people in France? Yeah, but to the level that you have it in the US, absolutely not. It's just, I mean, in France, it's still very much, you know, you're born in this area. You go to school in that area. Your parents live around. Eventually you'll marry and be where your parents are or maybe go to where your spouse's parents are and you buy your house and you buy it once and you're not going to do like the Americans two years later I sell my house I go somewhere else you don't have any what do you mean you know like just stopping from nowhere you're gonna do a bit you're gonna do what start a business and you have nothing to back you up or whatever oh and even this idea of you know going and fundraising this venture cap especially back in the days venture cap all of that is very american we take it for granted but it's very american who would have made a bet on me in france the same person i would not have found the same people i would never in france have been able”

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  21. “And I guess from America. The defining thing for me for America is it's the freedom and the entrepreneurial mindset. See, very quickly when I moved from France to the United States and I started becoming successful in the United States, I found myself, me and my husband, he was French, and my first husband, who passed away, we found ourselves at some point, we stopped talking to our friends in France who stayed in France. Because we were talking to them about things that were so outside of their comprehension. What do you mean? In your 20s, and you just raised, I don't know, a million dollars or two million dollars, especially from back in those days. Today, it's easy here and there.”

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  22. “Did you go? So maybe, okay, no, no, no, no. Okay, now here I have to defend them, although sometimes I'm the worst. No. Did you go to some Mishla store restaurant? Maybe that's That's why Because next time you go to France, I'll take you to the countryside or any French home. They will serve you multiple times. I mean, by the time you're done, even if it's the portions are smaller, they're smaller if you want to.”

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  23. “I must admit on that and that it is true, you would feel less that if you were with a group of Senegalese people per se. Or I would even say if a group of Spanish people, this is maybe the other side of it for the French people, they can be a little bit happy up there. And I think maybe that's what you're sensing there. If you don't have the codes, which is what you call the, you don't sing the music, then it's hard for you to be part of it. But I was speaking here from the standpoint of you're in.”

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  24. “Fashion, the food. I mean, there's something to be said about all of that, and it's very beautiful, and I love also even when I talk about fineness, it's like a meal is not about this big thing we put in front of you But you know, smaller portions enjoy what you're eating and spend time at the table like the eating time is not necessarily just this function of feeding yourself, which I understand it, but for this is something that they share with Senegalese culture is eating is a moment of communion. It's a moment of friendship, family. It's a precious moment to this day. And my husband is American, We eat our meals together all the time. I would not have it any other way. And there is a prep time, all of that stuff. It doesn't matter how busy I am, but we're doing it.”

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  25. “Exactly, exactly. And again, so that is something that I really enjoy, especially and something I'm very attached to to this day. And then from France, what I had to, what I really came to enjoy, of course, is all the fineness that one can find within French culture.”

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  26. “I was formed by those three. I have to say that. I enjoy from my Senegalese roots are Our commitment to peace, love, and tolerance very much And Teranga, obviously. And I like that it's a culture that's very much about reverence. We're big on reverence. I don't think you could ever hear me tell an older person, especially not my parent or my grandma or anybody like that, for us to be able to tell an older person that's not true or you're lying would never cross my mind because that's the most disrespectful thing you can think of, the most irreverent thing you can think of. It doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that's said. There's a way to disagree. There's a way to push back. That doesn't have to rob this person who happens to be older than you especially from the dignity of that older age normally provides.”

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  27. “That's a very interesting question because Been a long time, I haven't asked myself What I have found is I think who I am today has been for sure shaped by, I call it Dakar Paris-San Francisco, Dakar's Senegal, Paris France, and San Francisco primarily. And now, yeah, I think I might want to ask if there's a little bit of taxon in there.”

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  28. “People have a freedom to enterprise. And look, Lex, when we allow for that to happen, have you looked around lately and look at the level of niche that has happened in this country? I mean, you have clubs where you have places where people are into guitar strengths, you know, like some of the, like it's all about guitar strengths and others, it's all about this best cupcakes. And others, it's all about this new crypto thing over here. And overs like hair, best way. It's when you allow us because Seven billion geniuses each one of us, I believe, came to this world with something, something that only he or her possesses, and that is the genius and it is their contribution to the human problem.”

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  29. “Exactly because here we will lipfrog and let's, I'm not crazy, this is going to happen. You mark my words, but it's going to happen if as many people hear what we're talking about today. Because at some point, the solution is not going to come. It's not me. It's not going to come from the wisdom of a crowd. This is why I love the crowd. There's no better wisdom than the crowd. And that's also why I believe in the free markets. This concept of emergence order. There's no way. There's no central planning that is smart enough, that has the level of intel, that treat level people have. Trying to create something. It's just, we just have to be humble. There's just something at the bottom of a pyramid that just bubbles up and happens. They're the best person.”

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  30. “Bitcoin is all of ours to take. Bitcoin is not the white man's thing so therefore, oh, come on, you know, because, you know, we have a misguided pride. We're not going to use Bitcoin because it's white man's stuff. Bitcoin is Matthew, idiot. Math is universal, so it belongs to all of us.”

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  31. “And at stand the test of time. Those we have to keep and on top add the new things we learn from our times and from life. So that's what I want them to know. Learn new facts, be empowered empowered, and then look around, think and look to see where the best practices are around the world because the world is yours. You might be African, but the world is yours. So stop this nonsense of, oh, well, it's done by white people, so we're not going to do it. Get the best that exists in humanity for what you're trying to solve. And on top of that, put your own twist.”

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  32. “People don't necessarily be left behind or anything like that. We're in 2022 for Christ's sake. We don't have to do entrepreneurship the same way maybe was done 50 years ago, a hundred years ago when as a community, as a people, we were maybe less enlightened because of our times, right? We can update this thing and move forward, but update is definitely not build back, what do they call it, build back new or whatever they're calling it, the WF, you know, like whatever nonsense and stuff they're smoking over there. It's not that. There are some principles that are universal.”

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  33. “In this case, I like to use that word. Facts will empower you and they will even furthermore, they will power you. Empower and power you because empower is like inside and power is like I push you forward and up. So that's what it does to know the facts. And then go on and look around you. Where are the best practices of this? Who is at the cutting edge of a free market? We're starting away there”

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  34. “Each one of them, they have to pay attention to this discourse we just had. I don't ask anybody to agree with me on face value. Go back, do like I had to do. I come very much from the left of the left, if you can believe that. But I had to have my own intellectual journey. And in this case, my intellectual journey was very much complemented by my own life having to build these companies on two separate continents and having to, I had front row seat of the differences. At first, I thought it was this way just because we're poor and therefore we messed up and therefore it's like this. But eventually I learned that no, we're poor because we lack economic freedom and if a country allows its citizens the economic freedom to enterprise then they become rich. So yeah, I had it upside down, you see. And so it's important for people to know that. So number one, know your facts because your facts will empower you.”

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  35. “No, I get that, but then we cannot be stifling their efforts. By putting these artificially made regulations and laws that stand in the way and clip their wings. So that's why when you were saying, what advice do you give to them? The advice I give to them is.”

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  36. “It is still time, but for that to happen, like I said, we need to know what we just talked about today because that is not what the mainstream keeps us abreast with. When you go to the World Bank, they don't necessarily work along these lines. When you go to universities, I will ask you, MIT, the MIT econ department, or even most of our professors, are they free market oriented? We find that oftentimes in academia there is a strong anti-capitalist bias. There is a strong anti-free market bias. So this is a problem. This is a problem.”

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  37. “Example free, yes, because Scandinavian, they do have Subsidized welfare system that's what a more socialized welfare system. But the way they make their money is very, very much the way of the free markets. So there is how you make your money. And then there's how you maybe decide. My job and my goal is for every single African, young and old. What I have come to learn. We are not doomed. It's not over for us. We will never catch up. The time for catch up is gone. But guess what? We've got a strong, strong possibility and chance to leapfrog. And Lipfrog, we will.”

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  38. “Exactly. So that's why for me, the message is very clear is what we talked about today. The reason why Africa is the poorest region in the world is because it happens to be the most over-regulated region in the world. And for some people who might be, you know, put off by it because they're like, oh, she's talking about laissez-faire. No. Let me put it maybe in a way that you can understand. Do you think that it should be as easy for any person in Africa, for any entrepreneur in Africa to enterprise, than it is for any person in Scandinavia to enterprise? If your answer is yes, which I would hope it is, then you have a moral obligation to work with me to make my country and as a whole my continent more free markets. It's that simple. At that point, there's no like yes, but on the other hand, uh-uh, no. And for me, on the question, and I yet have to find somebody who”

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  39. “Right is right, but Ekor outcomes is not right. But I am with them all the way to equal rights, but this is where the two paths go this way. And also, the fact that they have no issue with violent revolution, people get killed. People get put in gunags and people get, that's not right. So what you just said here just give me goosebumps because there is revolution in the framework, but that's a type of revolution we want, the revolution that comes from people creating, criticizing by creating. It's one of the best forms of revolution. If you ask me, that's the most sexy way of revolution. Criticize by creating. But what? You're going to go shoot people or be like, what's his name? Vichuevara, who tells you, I love, it's in writing. I love nothing more than to fry the brain of a man with his gun. Really”

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  40. “Exactly, exactly. But violent revolution is never the answer. But that's what they went for in 1789 in France, in other French Revolution. And then Marx and Engels, you know, they're promoting these ideas that usually for them justifies violent revolution, Lenin, all of these people. I am with them when they say that they want to see equal rights for people. Of course, I don't agree with therefore we need to push for equal outcomes.”

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  41. “No, you said there's something revolutionary. In that. Because you know how young people are attached to a revolution and how I understand. Look, look like, I understand, and I am willing to give the benefits of a doubt to some of these socialists who came to it because they had to witness some of the horrors of their times, you know,”

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  42. “Small space. Exactly. And by the way, you said something. Oh, say that again because I want to tell you what I'm hearing in that because something's really cool. Say it again. Come on, Lex.”

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  43. “Starving and dying of averbs, but oh no, you know, I mean, Durante was telling the world that, oh no, no, everything is going well. Nobody's dying when we know now and getting police prices based on this stuff. But then the world went on believing that, oh no, capitalism failed. crash that you had in the stock market is proof this is what listage capitalism produces you guys always have your big ups and downs but by that time it was so hard on people that they're like we're done with this and at the same time we're told the lies coming out of the soviet union that supposedly the communism was doing just fine and you're at the point where the free market concept almost died and it's the you know the the asian tigers who kind of helped you know bring that idea back to life right uh their success having used the free markets and so for me we gotta have we gotta make a new”

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  44. “Number two, what do we do about that? We've got to become serious about reforms, economic reforms, so that we can become beacons of free markets, just like the Asian tigers. That's what the Asian tigers did. They had to become serious. Singapore, Taiwan, you know, South Korea, those guys had to become serious about the free markets. Li Kwang Wu, you know, when he's just like, we got to do something. And he looked around and he realized at some point we got to make these reforms. And he went on to that journey of reforms, making his country one of the most free market countries in the world. And voila, the magic happened back in the 30s, the stock market crash and the Great Depression and everything, the world and with all the lies that were told to the world coming from the Soviet Union, Stalin, while they were.”

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  45. “I noticed that unconsciously it starts with slavery. But you're like, no, we weren't there before white men ever set foot. Who were we? What were we doing in our diversity? What economic systems were we running on? And then you realize that for most of them, they were free marketeers and they were very much on the free trade, on the free enterprise side. So even that is a reinforcement. This is the place where we do not understand our history. So proper diagnosis, Africa is a poor.”

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  46. “Young people just for them to run to run with their ideas, to start businesses or to start initiative. It doesn't have to be for profit all the time, right? But it is this thing that gets you to get up and go and do something criticized by creating young people are naturally wired to want to criticize by creating. They're not sitting around waiting or complaining usually unless you put them in a tiny box and they have no other way to go. And in this situation, what they do, let's talk about pre colonial Africa of four favors before slavery ever happened. There were black people on the continent. You see, when we talk about the story of black people and black people in Africa, for most of us, even me.”

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  47. “Of a natural resources, diversity in land, people, cultures, languages, everything that make for great ingredient for awesomeness. Despite all of that, we are the poorest region in the world. People need to know that the reason why that is, it's because we also happen to be the most over-regulated region in the world. At the end of the day, what Africa, and I dare to say Africa here and treat it as one, we are 54 countries, 55 depending on how you count yet we almost for a tiny minority of these countries, we almost all lack one of the most crucial freedoms that there are if you're serious about prosperity building, we lack economic freedom.”

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  48. “So, all of that is happening. So, for me, the thing is, we, the world, simply right now, does not have the right diagnosis as to why this continent right now, despite all of its riches, because Lord knows it's got riches, starting with its young population. 75% of the population in my country is below the age of 25 years old. So when we're talking, I know we're talking about repopulation is important. We're going to have to go for that. Maybe you'll get me going about climate change. I don't know, but anyway, so here my point is, A, we need the right diagnosis as to why this continent is the poorest continent in the world, despite its richest starting with its young people.”

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  49. “So, for me, don't stay in that place that steals and robs you of your agency. So I think it's important for people to, A, get the right diagnosis as to why we are where we are. Because what you and I just talked about, the mainstream does not talk about this when they even talk about Africa in terms that, you know, are not the usual suspect of, oh, feminine is building over there, war is building over here, oh, we're having Ebola is coming, all of that stuff. Even when they were talking about the monkeypox, which at first, you know, in this wave, it started with white people in Europe. Well, even in many newspapers you pull out, it's black people with monkeypox on their skin. I'm like, wait a second, this time around, it did not start with us. So why are we always showing us when it's right now happening to white people?”

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  50. “I feel invested with such the mission of I have been afforded the truth So it is my moral duty to try to take it around. I know I sound people sometimes say when I listen to you I feel like I'm talking to a priest and I'm like because the gospel I receive the gospel so anyway but the thing is Lex who tells you these things to this day when they talk about the poverty of Africa what do they talk about they sit in there telling you oh yeah it's because of colonialism it's because of racism it's because of imperialism it's because they're stealing you know raw material blah blah blah is is any of those you know like guilty to some level of where we are today one of maybe part of a reason where we are today maybe maybe is that the only reason or the other is that insurmountable absolutely not”

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