Good evening and welcome to this tuesday edition of the angela ray show hope that you all have had a great day i know i have had a long day really glad to be here with you all this evening for all of my viewers who will be catching the broadcast
On the replay thank you so much for hanging out with the angela ratio for all of my live viewers thank you so much for tuning in live and being a part of the conversation we are in the midst of divine nine week last week we interviewed the sorority members of the divine nine
And this week it is all about the men last night we started off with a member of alpha phi alpha fraternity incorporated and tonight we move on to the omegas for those of you who may not be familiar with the term divine nine it is a term referring to the nine
Organizations that are part of the national panhellenic council they include alpha phi alpha alpha kappa alpha omega sci-fi kappa alpha psi delta sigma theta phi beta sigma zeta phi beta sigma gamma rho and of course the iotas so again thank you so much for tuning in for my
Live viewers whenever you get on the broadcast i want you to do me a favor tomorrow is national chicken wing day yes i did not know that the chicken wings had their own day but they do so when you get onto the broadcast go ahead and type into the comments your very favorite
Flavor of chicken wing i think mine is just the classic hot wing tonight i made some asian inspired wings and as i was detailing everything that i did to make my sauce on my insta stories i realized i forgot one very important ingredient but yes when you
Get into those comments make sure you go ahead and share your favorite flavor of chicken wing and guess what i would encourage you to go out if you if you like chicken wings i know everyone doesn’t like chicken but if you are a chicken wing lover go out and do
Some searches because there are a number of restaurants tomorrow that will be having specials in honor of that day all right we’re going to go ahead and get started with our ray of motivation moment and so for tonight’s ray of motivation moment i want to remind you that you network
To get work you network to get work and i’m using work to cover a number of things but networking i think oftentimes people misunderstand it i know i have been to a number of after-work events you know 5 p.m till about 7 p.m their chicken wings their meatballs
Their beverages and people are just busy working the room passing out their business cards and that is not networking oftentimes when i’ve left events like that i’ve looked at business cards and i have no idea who the person was because they didn’t even have a conversation
With me or better yet they offered me their business card when i didn’t even ask for it which i think is quite rude but networking is all about how you meet and all about how you greet the people that you come in contact with and so with that being said you don’t
Even have to be at what traditionally may be called a networking function you can network anywhere everywhere from the grocery store to the gas station now to be honest in these times that we are living in in the pandemic you may not be as comfortable talking to someone
For a long prolonged period of time in person up close someone that you don’t know that well and so i totally get that you can also do the networking online because i’ve definitely done that as well i’ve been introduced to people based on having some common a common denominator
Via facebook groups as well as instagram and then business transpired or even just community again i mentioned using work as a statement to encompass a lot of things but it’s not all about okay let me network so i can get a better job let me network so i can make more money
But it is really about relationship building because the last thing you want to do no matter how well you spoke with someone when you first met them is to wait two three six months before following up before checking in before finding out how you might be of service to them
And then asking for something it feels icky and having your hand out without giving a handout doesn’t make sense at all so for our ray of motivation moment tonight remember you want to network to get work all right so i just mentioned tonight that i am very excited to have a member of
Omega sci-fi fraternity incorporated as my special guest he is a native of florida he is a former college and professional athlete and at one time he found himself living out of a car that he paid a few hundred dollars for but hustled worked hard and moved on
Over to entertainment where he landed a role on all my children and the rest as they say is history please help me welcome jimmy gary jr jimmy thank you so much for being a part of the show tonight oh thank you so much angela i i really appreciate you having me
Well you know jimmy i’m just you know i don’t know this was on purpose and i didn’t even think about this before we went live but did you like dress with the wall so that you were showing your fraternity colors because it looks like you have on purple
Oh really you know you know you know in the basement the walls are gold anyway so i’m like you know i’m just throwing a purple shirt and it’s gonna go you know that was just yeah i was like wow it’s just happening you know you know when you
That’s how it is with omegas things just happens like that sometimes mm-hmm i bet you got on them gold boots too not nice not tonight not tonight you can’t see them anyway you know right i had them you couldn’t see them but that is so true now i’m just curious
I know that you’re based up in new york how have you spent this time i know that now in the last few weeks a lot of states around the country are somewhat getting i won’t say back to normal but they’re opening in phases how have you spent though the time
During the pandemic when we were all at home in the house uh in the basement just you know um reading you know just reflecting you know trying to understand like is this real you know one of those things you know and and also taking this time to really create
And to dig deep inside myself and uh you know fix some of the things that i felt i need to fix uh with myself for my overall personal joy so it was a really a reflective uh part for me um you know i got a chance to
Uh you know have a lot of zoom meetings a ton you know with fellow actors you know it’s it’s uh amazing how the artist community comes together and it was like you know i was having like two or three meetings a week just actors you know we read scripts and you know
We uh discuss the arts and try to understand you know what you know what the future is going to look like and uh you know that that really worked for me because at the time i had a surgery i had a minor surgery that i had to go to a short-term rehabilitation
Center for and i was there recovering and once i was inside the place the pademic head like it was there and it hit hard yeah and the day i was actually getting out i got i had a fever and so i was like i’m not going home to
My family i want to you know see what’s going on and so i went into isolation and that’s when you know a lot of artists uh just started coming through it’s like hey we’re having a zoom in we’re reading scripts we’re doing this and doing that
You know and so i just i just stayed involved um with uh you know just you know just staying active mentally active um because once this ends you know um then everybody’s really going to be crazy it’s like you know how a dog is tied up
To a tree for so long and once you let it go everybody’s just going to yeah my imagination is going to be like that so you know it’s just you know just taking that time out and really getting close to family and um you know it’s amazing how
You know you really don’t know much about your own kids sometimes because we’re running so much but once this epidemic happened and we were you know isolated in the house you know playing board games you know you find out uh little things that you would just overlook so you know it’s really great
For family time you know that time was well needed i believe for everyone i think everyone had the time to either create something get rid of negative stuff and just move you know yeah now before you got involved in entertainment you played ball what position did you play
And and how did playing ball kind of help you get into entertainment if at all oh well you know i play football runs it runs in my family um it’s like we’ve had about three or four guys from my family actually you know get an opportunity to play in the nfl
Let alone get division one scholarships and we have a crew of guys coming up right now you know um one of my nephews evan neil was like one of the top offensive linemans at alabama and very proud of him myself i played running back you know i was running back so
Uh you know i took a lot of hits everyone was after me gunning for me um and football kind of related to acting for me because you know it has the same values you know you on the football field you have a play in acting you have a play
So as a group you learn together you know you build camaraderie you know you build you you build friendships you get to know each other on a deeper level to where you know you don’t have a choice but to go fight for that person because you
Built such a strong bond over the over that course of time of rehearsing or practice you know like on the football field they say you know sweat blood and tears together and in the acting world it’s the same thing rehearsals are brutal like they’re very brutal you know and
You have to really want to be there in order to get through it and you have to actually love it you know so that transition was uh it was it was okay for me you know because i just took some of those same qualities you know and just transferred them over into
Television film and theater now one of your first major roles was landing on a soap opera as a matter of fact all my children and oh my goodness there are so many of us that love all my children i mean that even whether you watch all my children or not
Most people are definitely familiar with erica kane so i’m just curious how how does soap operas differ from prime time television or being on a film set you know there’s really no difference when it comes to acting because at the end of the day it’s about living
And even in soap operas these actors are living you know um things are probably shot differently you know whether it’s a three camera setup one camera two cameras set up but as far as for the artist standpoint it’s it’s the same you know you just want to bring your your true uh
Your true self to the character you know and bring that character to life so you can live truthfully um one thing i noticed about soap operas though is like like it’s it’s real brutal the lines may change like right before you know it’s your time you’re going in
They say oh um mr gary here’s a new pages she’s like new pages i haven’t even gotten the first pages down yet you know but it’s like that so you don’t have time to think you know it’s it’s it’s so fast-paced uh which television is the same day it’s the same
Way but it’s kind of laid back a little bit when i was on oranges in new black i was on that for three seasons i played uh ceo rykerson and i love the set i mean just being on set we had such a wonderful time you know um
You know you had your own space uh as far as trailers or you know uh they would put you when we were shooting in rockland county they would put us in like these little dormitory rooms and so we had our own space and um you know it was it was very relaxing
But you had to stay on point you know you really had to stay on point because anything can happen you know they move quickly television you know um film is a little more laid back you know you have it’s a longer process but the acting the the making of film television and um
You know as far as soap operas uh tv shows and film the the filming of it probably differs in a way but as far as the creative process it’s all the same you know it’s all the same you know it was nothing like live theater
I love that with the passion uh yeah you so you work on on stage as well what’s been your favorite play that you’ve done thus far that’s a tough question that’s very tough because you know you know as an artist you know uh the play starts out and you’re
Thinking you’re the worst actor ever and you’re thinking that this play is going to be garbage you know uh but by the time you get through you know the middle of the rehearsal you’re like oh my god it’s coming together it’s coming together you know um excuse me i’ve played some some
Some characters i i think my favorite play it’s that’s hard for me because you know i did black wall street i did a soldier’s play you know i played peg leg and black wall street i played um in a i played cj memphis and with negro ensemble in the soldiers play
You know and the whale ship sx based on moby dick you know that that uh i i did that at the hudson guild theater you know uh i’ve done musical theaters i’ve done 40 sec uh i’ve taken but not 42nd street i’ve done oklahoma on singapore molly brown a christmas carol
I’ve done so much theater you know uh but i would say the darkest place i had to go as an actor to play a character which i would say which isn’t my favorite but i can say that because it you know actors want juicy stuff i played matt turner um
At ma alpha and uh you know being my father was a minister i’m a preacher’s kid you know and and having that that opportunity to step into a character like nick turner who was also a minister gave me a great excuse to read the bible again
You know like i have i gotta read it i have to know it i have to know what this man is talking about i have to know he’s thinking i have to know i have to know and you know i have to know why he made these decisions and so
I really that that play was a lot of work for me um internally because i had to you know pull up a lot of emotions and go places that i’ve i haven’t that i’ve never gone before but soldiers play cj memphis that character i had to teach myself how to play the guitar
And i wrote the music for the songs during the play which you know that was a big accomplishment so that’s a hard question but if i narrowed it down the tool to be matt turner and soldiers play and black wall street god that’s that’s difficult it’s challenging okay through you threw
Three together three together now three you also were a part of the landmark limited series when they see us as a matter of fact i remember when i got to your episode i was like oh there’s jimmy that that was a very um very moving um production
And so i’m just curious what was it like to be a part of something like that that’s based on a true story that changed those young men’s lives forever and the lives of their family you know i’m so grateful that’s all i can say the way it happened
I’m just so grateful uh to be a part of history to be some to be a part of something as iconic as when they see us ava duvernay is she’s a queen you know she she just is such good justice to those guys with this film uh but um
I had such a wonderful experience with when they see us and how all that came about i live in the bronx and they had some flyers going around about a movie coming and um i took the flyer and i was like okay well they’re looking for houses to
Shoot in i’m like okay then people in my neighborhood they know i’m an actor they’re like i see your tv and stuff so anything with films they’re bringing it to me jimmy look look you know just showing love and about two or three days later my
Agent called and was like i have an audition for you and so i went down to the audition and auditioned and uh he said okay you know good job the director’s coming in um next week so you know we want you to come back and you can audition with
The director so i’m like okay i had no idea what this film was i had i had no idea i walk into the audition and it’s ava david diminished there and you know i did my auditions and she was like wow wow you know she was like so tell me about
You jimmy she was like what tell me about yourself so you know i ran ran it down to her and i went home after that after i got in my car i was sitting down like wow what just happened you know it was like a dream you know
When you’re in it you like wow what just happened so i went home back to the bronx three hours later my doorbell rings i go to open my open my door is ava duvernay at your door at my door with the producers barry and the crew and everybody right and so she came
They knocked on the door and when i opened the door she was like didn’t i just see you a few hours ago i’m like yes you did she was like this is your house i’m like yeah she was like we want to shoot at your house we
Want a shoe there we want to film so and she was like and you got the part i just want to let you know you got the part did your agent call you yet so that was a crazy experience and it was just like divine because in my neighborhood i’m always telling
You know my community you know you know there’s opportunities out there you know i take pictures you know let me help you get into the game you know and into acting you can express yourself so it was great because a lot of a lot of the
The the young men and women you know they got a chance to be extras and and when they see us they’re going to be you know their images is going to live forever and they’re just so happy did a lot for the community and the production was amazing it was just an amazing
Experience for anyone especially for them to do that here in the bronx in the south bronx you know because i’m grateful that i work as an actor you know and i have an opportunity to work as an actor but there are people out here that you know they have backgrounds
Criminal backgrounds where you know they want to do the right thing but they can’t because that’s holding them back you know is is is stopping them or it’s so hard they just don’t have the guidance so to introduce them to film and television i actually inspired a lot of them
They’re like into crew now you know they set design you know i was like here fine talk to this person they’ll give you the information you know they had like this uh article calling me the mayor i’m like nah i’m not the mayor of my haven i’m just showing love to my community
And giving back because uh you know i’m just grateful and that’s what we’re supposed to do you know now you speaking of community uh you mentioned that you live in the bronx i know the new york city area was hit really hard by the pandemic how has it been for you getting out
There you know now and being a part of the community have you been able to give back right now yes i have you know i just think that you know especially this time like i have masks i go out and i see someone without a mask
I give them up give them a mask and sometimes you know we we want to get back to normal so fast sometimes we forget so you know to wear a mask you get down the street and you’re like oh i forgot my mask and have to go back
You know and so i i don’t i don’t let it you know i put my mask on and i go out and keep my distance you know if somebody want to you know do an elbow hit or fist bump or something like that that’s fine you know
Um washing your hands and things like that but i you know i i don’t stop you know i go out there and i talk to those guys and you know see you know what’s on their mind you know um and and also you know share with them
Information that i find that i find out if a job or something comes up you know um helping them you know um i can’t stop my daddy was a preacher so i’m always gonna be out there and trying to help people you know now you are a member of the omega sci-fi
Fraternity incorporated how has brotherhood impacted your life you know everyone in this world want to feel like they have somebody that’s going to go with them anywhere they need to go and i just think that it’s it’s an amazing feeling to be part of an organization where we we we strive on building
You know building our communities you know um especially with the youth you know the things that the frat is is trying to uh accomplish in neighborhoods um um as far as myself also here in the bronx because i wear my nail you out and all the kids you know all the even the
Gang members like hey man i know they said hey you better watch that watch it watch it but you know but they they they show much respect and so it kind of gives it the the brotherhood gives me uh a voice a extra voice beside
My voice that i have now it’s just an extra layer of respect and you know in what i do and just knowing that at any moment you know uh one of your fraternity brothers is just a phone call away you know um whenever you need to come together for something
You know you can you can pull things together you know it’s a base you know um and i tell people all the time i’m like you know they say man black people they not together i’m like i don’t know what you thinking the way you’ve been living but
I know within the divine nine there’s a whole lot of black people that are together you know and it stretches across the world you know we have a a stretch you know definitely now i have a question for you know in in talking about some of the success that you’ve reached
It’s hard to reach the level of success that you have without overcoming obstacles you know and i mentioned that you know it was a struggle for you before you got your first job you were actually living in your car that you didn’t even pay a whole lot of money for and
I have i know as a kid about that cheap cars that we’ve had but how did you overcome that i look back on that and i’m like i was just so stupid but i guess that was just passion you know my passion um just buying a car for a hundred
Dollars just knowing i was gonna make it just knowing i’m gonna make it you know i just know it there’s no what kind of car was that you bought for a hundred dollars it was uh it was broken down on the side of the road and the guy didn’t want to deal with
It and so i i bought it for a hundred dollars and i had somebody to come out and fix it and it ran for like two days and it broke down again and it stayed there i don’t even know where the car is now actually i don’t even i don’t even remember after
I booked all my children that was enough to get me you know to another another level in life but um i would just tell people always believe in yourself you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else in this world because you you’re going to especially when you’re down that’s when you’re
Going to hear the you should just quit you should just stop or you should just you know go go do something else you’re good at this go through that or go through that you know people going to say that when they when you’re down because they don’t understand that
When you’re down that’s when the blessings is that’s when they come because that’s when you’re at your most humble that’s when you know you have to work harder that’s when you start to realize look this is survival now for me and so that’s that turning around point you know and
And we have to continue to self-motivate ourselves because we can be living in living in positive environments negative environments we can go to places that’s negative and it can stump your motivation down in a heartbeat oh yeah or if you’re sitting in your in your basement or sitting in your room
And you’re down and out because you got so much to do or you can’t work as diligent as you want to work on your craft because of life you know you sit down and you just dig deep into self-motivation that’s when you start directing yourself you start talking to yourself you know
Telling yourself you know you’ve been in tougher places than this come on get up you know i mean we we have to we have to become our own voice to ourselves and that’s the beginning of self motivation self motivating yourself to get back up and i think if any artist anybody remembers that
Nothing can stop them well we have a question from one of our loyal viewers edwin is on the screen are you able to see that yes okay what do you love about the community okay yeah you know i’ve lived in uh thank you edwin first first of all but i’ve i’ve
Lived in all the boroughs since i’ve been here in new york and i can tell you like this i absolutely love the bronx also i love it here you know i i just i love it and uh the community in in the bronx where i live is amazing i’m talking about it reminds
Me of i’m a country boy i grew up in okeechobee florida you know it’s like certain things you know that you do down south people southerners say don’t do that in new york don’t do that in new york because they’ll get you or they’ll do this and that
It’s just so false you know my whole neighborhood is family you know it’s like it’s family like if somebody hit my car somebody neighborhood gonna say look nope that’s jimmy carter you know and they do it for everybody you know um it’s just so much love here in the bronx
In the south bronx you know that i i wouldn’t want to leave this place you know the bronx is just it’s just still like that i get uh um anytime i even think about you know leaving new york city especially when this epidemic was happening you know what i’m saying
Everybody want to leave new york city you know but the you know the bronx is just a it’s a soft place in my heart for the bronx now you talk about the bronx being family speaking of family you have a family member who is a very well-known lawyer a gentleman that i’ve
Seen over the years i covered events in the raleigh durham area and that is mr willie gary so there is going to be a film coming up pretty soon that will deal with one of the cases that he tried some years ago talk a little bit about that whatever
You can share i know you can’t share that’s what i hear that’s what i hear i hear there’s a story i know it’s on imdb so y’all can go check it out if you want to but it’s it’s in the making the stories in the making i i you know i’ve been
Blessed to you know grow up in my life with some major major black leaders and men you know my father as a minister and my uncle willie as a a lawyer and you know michael freddy is top of his game in the insurance industry you know so as far as the business
Aspect of it and leadership i’ve been blessed with some powerful men in my family and and willie has just been i mean amazing in his field of study i uh i remember when i used to work at the law firm you know i would work at the law firm
During the summers and i would go to trials with him and things like that and one of the funniest stories it’s not funny now but it was i mean it’s funny now but it wasn’t back then we were in in trial and there there was a case and
Willie was arguing hit the case and the the uh the the other attorney had uh you know he object objected to something to willie and you know asked to talk to the judge and so the attorney’s like oh your honor you gonna let this boy bring this stuff
In there and willa was like boy you called you he called me boy i mean i put you out it got like that in the courtroom like it was it was like really really rounded up like i mean i i’m pretty sure if you uh try as many cases as willie
Uh a law firm being that successful you’ve probably seen some some crazy stuff in the courtroom but that’s when like i’m like whoa it’s real up in here i’m like a a lawyer called another lawyer black lawyer a boy you know like you gonna let this boy bring this in here
And the reason it happened i believe was because you know really i love about him because he works hard and he loves his toys and he loves things nice things really told the uh the judge he’s like your honor um i’d rather you know we finish this we
Can finish this now that’ll be good because i got to fly out somewhere you know uh tonight you know i’m getting normal you know i got a private jet so i’m gonna fly out so i i guess the other lawyer kind of got a little hot because of that
But then that whole altercation broke out but it was cool it was like bang bang bang on in the court all right in the court i mean those are just some amazing stories that’s how he fights like willie’s just he’s uh he’s such a winner in his per profession
And as far as the case what the movie is about um uh you know biloxi mississippi it’s about a a 500 million dollar case that woodley won for a wonderful man um may rest in peace jeremiah o’keefe was the former mayor of biloxi mississippi and uh basically uh you know jeremiah o’keefe and
A lawyer named howard dawkins called on willie the big dog to come in because some people out of uh canada funded by a company out of japan was trying to buy up all the funeral homes in america and monopolize the industry and the case was like really big like on
A federal level like other things like the case was so powerful that willie had to win this case because if he wouldn’t if he would have lost his case these people would have been able to sue the federal government it was something like that that deep and and willie just bought it
Home and got a 500 million dollar verdict you know and so and this is a black man somebody that’s you know sat down just like you and i looked in the book and studied this and you know so growing up with people like that you know my dad building two huge churches
Evergreen first baptist church in saint matthew so i grew up with leaders in my family you know and and i’m grateful for that and so i’m looking forward to this film coming out one day soon well i’ll be on the lookout too and maybe you know maybe i can i can
Audition for it too you got a question from from a store out of my email baby what are some advice that you give people who want to have a career change i would say uh thank you cassandra i would say just go with it you know you never know if it’s for
You or if it’s not for you unless you try it and go with it you know they say you you there’s two things in life you know they say you work to make your money and then you do something you love for your soul and so eventually what you’re doing for your
Soul will take the place of the money that you’re making on a job that you’re working to make money long story short you’re going to start making more money than you can never imagine when you find out what your love and passion is and you start doing it because it nourishes your soul
So jump on it go with it and if you fall get back up and keep going uh now i’m gonna ask a follow-up question to cassandra’s question thanks for being on the broadcast tonight cassandra um how did you know when you pivoted from professional athlete to acting how
Did you know acting was for you because i played baby jesus when i was little in the community play and you know i played baby jesus my mama my sister was married she still tried to act like she my mama my sister she’s like boy i played your mom in the
Baby jesus played community play and it was my first time right my first time ever doing a play or anything like that even though i grew up with a big family it was six of us and we had instruments and we had a lot of fun you
Know it was departures family at one point you know trying to do so we’ve done it all and uh we had a community play and i played the role of baby jesus and the director was like go around and touch this person and they’re gonna get up
And do this and that person is going to do something then stand in the middle of the stage and open your arms up wide and i did that and everyone went crazy they just clapped and i was like i love this i love it i love it i love it you know
And that’s why i was bit by the bug and my sister still has that program and so every now and then she would yeah yeah it was hanging on the closet door for years probably 40 something a lot of years just been hanging out now um all right edwin has another question
For you edwin is one of our loyal viewers as well uh edwin thank you um production is starting back yeah and i’m ready to go i think we i think we’re in the right time right now for our stories our stories need to be told i think that in order to understand the
African-american people you have to see our stories you have to hear them you have to see them you have to try to understand us because as artists that’s what we do we go out and create work to change people so they can see things like like i was
Sitting here thinking like uh i don’t know if you’re familiar with you’re probably just familiar with flying west by pericleage right like i did that play in college so we recently had a reading of it a zoom reading so i had like a white lady playing you know uh miss leah
And to for her to read that you know we were just reading it for her to read that she couldn’t help but attach to those emotions and it totally changed her because she couldn’t believe that that’s what these that’s what our ancestors went through like she felt that
And that’s what she told me afterwards like to read to go through these emotions and she was just like oh my god oh my god you know and so i think that uh you know we could change lives with with with art you know change people’s souls oh definitely got another question from
Edwin edwards say say something floyd my gator fan edwin oh i i do not dislike the gators but you know this is my my top three first of all i have to go to west virginia because that’s what i play for right that’s my ammo model right there second i have to go
With right now alabama because my nephew is playing there and i have a cousin playing at virginia tech but as far as florida schools i would say my top choice is universal miami because my family are big my hurricane fans and i almost went to i would have i
Could have went to miami but i chose to go to west virginia they recruited me and you know it’s a lot of fun in miami my cousin cleveland gary played there for the hurricanes my brother-in-law jimmy jones played there so you know uh sorry but i’m not that big
On the gators i like gate is my third chip third pick roll tide now as we as we wind this down i do have a question for you in terms of what you think this particular time you know you were saying you know now is a time for our stories to be told
You know in addition to the pandemic you know we had this this amazing display of uh people standing up for racial equality in the wake of the death of george floyd so what do you think the long-term legacy eats especially for our members of the divine nine
Well i i think the long i think it really it really doesn’t change i think you know it it’s just evolved so you know we have to evolve you know i think it’s for the better you know i think we can reach more people but with this i mean there’s so many zoom
Meetings going on out i mean if you think of um communicating with people like you know you can talk to a mass amount of people just through a zoom meeting or through a phone conference uh as far as with you know the divine nine i would say
One thing that i feel that the divine knives should strive more towards is working together i feel like we all you know got into fraternities and sororities for community and you know and and to help build the community and i see a lot of projects where it’s just separate it’s separate fingers working
On one hand and i would like to see that whole hand come together at some point and and we all work together uh towards our goals because at the end of the day we have to go back and and and and really take a deep look at why fraternities and sororities were created
You know and we have to stick to that foundation of what all of our founders sat in those rooms and created these organizations why they did that we can’t lose focus for the hype we can’t use them to benefit ourselves and and you know we have to really stick to the course
And i think we have a better opportunity to do that because we have you know it’s a new normal now and new technologies are coming out we just have to utilize it those technologies you have another question from leslie leslie is an author please work do you have any book in mind
By any author that you like to see a movie or play you know what i’m glad you said that because and i just read uh flying west with pearl cleese like she’s so underrated like it’s crazy like her work is just so so underrated i would like to see flying west made
Into a movie um flying west yeah because they deal with issues that are now especially with women you know these are strong powerful women and you know it’s got domestic violence in it it’s got it’s got women sticking together rituals in it you know it’s got strong men in it also
You know it’s got it’s got characters in it who deal with the fact that they are mulattos uh trying to you know wave on each side black and white and and and you know feel like like they’re they’re received or wanted you know and so it has a lot of elements in it
And at the end of the day it also has the the justice system in it the court you know the leadership of the women one of the characters you know she’s writing laws for the city trying to build the city and i think i really think like flying west is kind of a
For me it’s like a foundation it’s like before black wall street it was flying west you know it was there it’s kind of it’s kind of like one of those things uh where i understand it you know from reading flying west it’s like the beginning
Of the the you know the major city that you know these african-americans and indians built out west that was thriving like flying west is like the blueprint of one of these cities being built starting with one of the characters who’s writing the blueprint why while the perpetrators uh not the perpetrators
But i forgot what they called them but basically gentrification happening they want to come in to borrow the land up where they trying to build a city for the black community so i would love to see pericles in the film your story is very inspirational and you
Have a very positive spirit thank you for sharing your stories you’re welcome you’re very welcome you know um wherever we go we have to shed light light beats darkness all the time so you know i’m really uh appreciative of your comments and uh i’m happy to be on this show you know
Well i am happy that you took the time out of your schedule to hang out with us here at the angela ray show jimmy i am looking forward to this movie now i got to go do some more research too i know do your research everybody
Go look up read read about this film i mean it’s articles out there the new yorker the guardian you know this case was big people just don’t know it was big big case about a film somebody said something i didn’t read it but something about the film version
But um yeah check it out check the case out you know just read it’s the o’keefe uh um jeremiah o’keefe is the case yeah yeah and i’ll have to go uh versus the low income okay because if it depends on the way i’m driving to new orleans sometimes i actually go
Through biloxi because i think when i was coming back from new orleans working on queen sugar i’d stopped in biloxi didn’t realize how close the interstate was to the ocean it just took a chance i was like it says the ocean is close and i got off oh my gosh
This is absolutely beautiful just the part of the car for a few minutes taking the ocean to get it right and it’s like less than 10 minutes the ocean front is right there on the interstate in biloxi yeah i’m gonna do some research on that one and find out like
Where they might be filming it if they’re filming it new orleans mississippi atlanta probably gonna be filmed in the south somewhere yeah somewhere i wonder how they’re going you know it’s like it’s new restrictions going so you know oh yeah it’s gonna be yeah we don’t know what can happen now like
Right really we don’t know you know i guess we’ll find out when we all receive it at the same time yeah yeah all right jimmy well thank you again for taking the time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us your instagram is is at the bottom of the
Screen is there another way that you would like people to connect with you well instagram is fine at jimmy gary jr or you can um facebook j gary new york on facebook and you know you can follow me and you know what go to imdb follow me on imdb
International movie database you know uh jimmy gary jr you can see all my projects all the work that i’ve done and all the work that’s gonna happen you know uh and projects that i’m working on now and um i it’s just warms me that uh you know i can
Come out here share some love and just really be a positive voice amongst all the other stuff that’s going on you know because it’s a lot what’s your friend is everything oceanfront is everything that it is all right jimmy yo i love it you know i love the water i’m a scorpio
Yeah got it well again thank you for being on the show and enjoy the rest of your evening angela thank you and i’ll see you soon yes you will all right good night all right good night well that’s it for this tuesday edition of the angela ray show as always i would
Like to remind you of ray of motivation number 54. cleaning a mirror does not change the person who is reflected in it until next time i encourage you all to go out and be the change have a great evening
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