The voice of black man.. SMH

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This is the Raising Carter Podcast and I am your host, Ramon Weatherall Sr. And the Raising Carter Podcast is a podcast dedicated to fathers. Fathers with sons. Fathers with sons that want to be more of an integral part of their lives because you only got so much time. I heard somewhere that

You got the first 18 years, and then the rest of their life, you got one year. So you got 19 years to be a part of your kid's life. After that, it's a wrap. And my question to you today, fathers, is...

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Are you tired of other people speaking for you?

other men, women speaking for us.

saying what we want, what we mean.

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Do you think it's time for us to start speaking for ourselves and not allowing other people who don't.

Get down like us, speak for us. Speak for you, you can't speak for us.

And I bring all that up is because of a Tyler Perry interview that went viral. He probably knew it was. And what he said about men and women. And.

black men and black women making more money than black men and how black women should.

Look past that.

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So let's, I want to, I wanna.

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I want you to watch this video. And then for my friend, our representative, Tyler Perry, cause he thinks he can speak for us.

Let's see what he has to say.

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That's not true.

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What?

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I don't even think.

The woman interviewing him, believe this shit, she just is so, you know, on his team and don't wanna disagree. She just, you could tell how she saying, mm-hmm, yeah, she don't agree with that. She don't agree with that.

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Yeah.

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Yes

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He can't, you know, brother, you can't. I mean, first of all.

Black women don't make more than black men. And I have the data here to show you, but sometimes when someone is so popular, you get out of touch with us regular folks, okay? And I was listening to a morning radio show and she was like, well, I'm tired of.

men telling us that we need to settle for men that don't make, you know, for something and we shouldn't be ashamed for us making a lot of money. First, you out of touch too, because who are you talking about? Because on the average, black women don't make more money than black men. So who are you talking about, you? You talking about you? Okay. None of-

I'm not telling black women to settle. No brother I know is telling you to settle. Oh yeah, go settle for some dusty dude or some dude who can't do nothing for you. Nobody's telling you that. But what you can't do is have it both ways.

And you gonna hear me say that a lot, cause that's my saying, you can't have it both ways. You can't say I'm not gonna settle and then complain that there ain't enough brothers out here for you.

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because news flash, men don't care about how much money you make. The man that you want.

doesn't care how much money you make. He don't care, cause he got his own money.

How much you make don't make no difference to him. As long as you, okay, you got a job, you can take care of yourself, okay, cool.

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That's not gonna come up. Only some dusty dude that's, you know, who's thinking like a woman cares about how much money you make. So if you take money off the table, why you ain't got no man?

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Why you can't find nobody? Because number one, the man you want is probably already got a woman.

Somebody already done snatched him up.

Number two.

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He probably don't want no relationship. The man you talking about, he don't want no serious relationship. He doesn't want a serious relationship right now or ever. I don't know.

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He's just out here doing his thing, you know? Doing his thing. And number three.

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There's someone else, there's a woman from another race who he's dating. That's why you can't get him because he's dating someone, some other woman from another race. Or it could be four that he's.

not heterosexual, but we talking about heterosexual men. He's either got somebody.

doesn't wanna be in any type of serious relationship. So he's just doing his thing, moving around, going a few days here and there, have some fun. You know, he's concerned about himself. Or number three, he's off the board and he's with, he's off the playing field, he's off the board, he's with someone else, from another woman, from another race.

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How was that?

The black man's, how is that his fault?

What does that got to do with you going around talking about you shouldn't have to settle? And.

you know, perpetuating and...

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pushing this narrative that black women make more than black men, which is not the truth. And I have the data to show you that.

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Here it is, the average US income.

As of 2023, the average US income, this is broken down.

to the left too.

to the very last compound as they used to say. This is broken all the way down.

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Here is the table showing the complete data of the US medium income from 2024 till now.

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So this is what the average.

full-time worker.

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is making from 2024 to now. Right now is $56,940. So for all the women who say, I need a man who makes six figures, this is the average.

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This is the average. Some gonna be more than that. Some gonna be less than that. We gonna see. You gonna see.

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And this is broken down the annual income by state.

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all broken down my state, California's $109,260.

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It says Colorado $11,000. Good. Lord, that can't be true.

He must have left off a one or so, a zero or something. Hell no.

here in Wisconsin where I live, 91,000.

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But let's get to the real data that we wanna see since people keep saying the average U.S. income by gender. By gender.

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This is the annual income.

men for men in the United States since 2024. $61,000.

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So about 40 shy of six figures. All the, you know, for the hot girl summers and everybody like that who says they gotta have somebody making six figures or she can't mess with me.

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This is for women!

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61, 51.

Now I'm no mathematician, but that's 10 G short. This is all women and all men. This ain't even broken down by race yet.

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Now we got age.

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Cause a lot of people say, oh man, they would be on, you know, they on social media and they think, oh, I gotta be a millionaire. I got a son that's 28. The average income for someone who's 28 years old is between, is like 38,000 now.

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Or no, it's 52, $52,000, 52. And that's high.

But that's far from six figures.

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This is broken down by race.

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for white people. This is everybody. This is just white people.

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This is white men.

White men make more money than anybody. Are you surprised? I'm not.

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This is white women in different age groups. This is of April of 2023. This is now. This is.

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of black men broken down.

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This is Black Women.

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Now it's close. Whoa.

Above 55 isn't really close, but the other two between 54 and 16 is close, but you still don't make more money than black men. So where are you getting this from, Tyler Perry? Where are you getting this from, Morning Host in Milwaukee? Where are you getting this from?

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But this thing, but this breaks it down even better.

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even more. Now this is by ethnicity. This is the average income of a person that's white, black, Hispanic, I mean Asian and Hispanic.

Look at this, $76,000. Asians make more money than anybody.

Now this is the women.

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Black women only make more money than Hispanic women. You don't make more money than white women or Asian women. These are the people you competing with. This is who you should, and let me just say this, black women, if I'm not mistaken, have more education than anybody. So why are you getting smoked by Asian women and white women?

and Hispanic women are on your tail. But you got all this smoke for the brothers. You saying you make more money than us, but these women that you have more education than make more money than you. Makes no sense to me. That's who you should be getting at, but you wanna be friends with them. You wanna go out to dinner with them. You know, white girls, they have more fun and all this and all that. All your...

All your smoke is for us, telling us that, saying we making you settle. We not making you settle, but these people, these women.

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Make more money than you and you got more education than them.

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Now here's the man, 47,268, 44,824. This is of April, 2023. You don't make more money than black men on the average. You don't.

You don't.

You have more education than anybody.

and you don't make more money than black men. Is that right? I'm not saying it's right. And I'm not telling you to settle. But stop saying stuff that's not true and stop putting us, using us an excuse for the reason why you don't have a man. Because it's like making it seem like it's a bunch of dusty brothers out here who don't wanna work and you don't wanna settle for it. No, that's not it.

That's not it.

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I mean...

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I think it even goes into education by, they don't do, let me see, man, they don't do by ethnicity. But I prove my point. I think I prove my point. And if you want...

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I can put the link for this.

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blog or this post, this blog post or this information in the podcast description because I'm not, this is not something I'm saying. I'm just tired of people saying stuff that's not true. Deal with the real issues, like I said before. Either he's got a woman.

He doesn't want to be in any type of relationship or he's in a relationship with a woman who isn't black. None of that.

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has anything to do with how much money you make. Nothing.

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I wanna show this last video because I think this is telling.

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This is this.

A lot of women saw this video and like, not me, I'm not doing all that. But.

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Fathers

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School your sons on relationships and the type of woman that he needs to pick.

The woman he needs to pick is the woman that's going to give him the best life.

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And here we go. Check it out.

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Yes, sir!

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Now, if any man was given the choice,

to have.

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that as a woman, I'm willing to bet.

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Nine out of 10 are gonna say yes. Now there's always some dusty dudes and some scrubs that will get with a woman like that and mess it up. Hell, you never even know. Maybe even Cam Newton might mess it up. I don't know, but.

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that.

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is what?

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any man will want and will run through a brick wall to get her whatever she wants and whatever she needs.

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Men want respect.

Women want attention. That's how you spell love. To men, it's respect.

Women is a titch.

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Men stop letting other men who don't really understand what it is that we're going through to represent us. Don't do it. Tyler Perry talking about he went out with Oprah Winfrey and Tina Turner and Gayle. This is who he hangs with, women.

You can't speak for us, bruh.

Oprah Winfrey invited the cast of

the barbershop, the movie, onto her set and didn't invite Ice Cube. He couldn't come. But this who Tyler Perry hanging out with. I wanna hang out with Ice Cube. I'm sure a lot of y'all wanna hang out with Ice Cube.

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You can't speak for us, Bruh? And women, you can't speak for us either. If you having trouble finding someone, that's on you. Maybe it's the things that you doing.

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That don't got nothing to do with us. A lot of women don't know what a real man looks like. I'm gonna end it with this, a story, real quick. I was in a grocery store one day. I just got off work. I worked third shift.

And I think I worked late, I worked like extra hours, 10, 12 hours or something. And I was going to the store to get something, to eat or something. And it was some like little girl in there, she was, you know how they have different like businesses and they're trying to sell some of it, a cell phone cable or something. I don't know what she was in there. And.

Like I overheard she like, I don't wanna be here. And I just seen this one dude, he just walked by, looked like he was a bump. And she was talking about me. She was talking about me.

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Look girl, I just came from work, making probably more money in one day than you make in two or three. But that's how there's so many young women and women, they don't even know what a real man look like. They don't know a real man who works.

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who got maybe steel-toed boots on and steel-toed shoes on.

opposed to a bum on the street.

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Mic drop, that's all I gotta say. This was episode.

This is the Raising Karter Podcast. I'm your host, Ramon Weatherall Senior, and fathers, do not let other people who do not represent you the best way tell you.

who you are and what you are. I'm telling that to you, and I want you to tell that to your sons. Even if you don't have a son, you just a young man, a man. You follow, listen to, align yourself with people, with other men who have the same ideals and morals that you do. Because there are a lot of people out here.

like Tyler Perry and these other people, just because he has money, that don't mean nothing.

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That don't mean nothing. You don't speak for us, bruh. You speak, your audience is women. That's why you was on that woman's podcast.

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It's not us. You can't speak for us. We're not telling women to settle. I wouldn't tell my daughter to be with some man who can only pay the light bill. If one job ain't enough, go get two. And that is this episode of the Raising the Karter Podcast. If you liked this episode, share it. Tell your friends about this podcast because this podcast is for you, fellas. This podcast is for you, sons.

and I'm outta here, peace.