Sentientism Hip Hop is Going Green - Keith Tucker of Hip Hop is Green - Sentientism 197
Keith Tucker is founder and Executive Director of Hip Hop is Green, a nonprofit organization on a mission to support holistic wellness and transform urban communities environmentally. He has been a visionary and social entrepreneur for over 30 years. He has worked with hundreds of businesses, youth groups and community organizations and many icons in the entertainment business as a creative promoter and an ambassador for the culture of hip hop.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?”
Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
00:00 Clips!
01:19 Welcome
02:44 Keith's Intro
- Founder and ED of Hip Hop is Green
- "I'm a father, a brother, a friend, a husband and currently I'm a human being living on earth"
03:19 What's Real?
- Growing up in Seattle, raised by mother, grandmother and grandfather
- Religious grandparents
- Going to #baptist church
- Attending strict #catholic school, taught by nuns "I remember sister Sheila - boy she was mean"
- Catholic high school in California
- "Some rough times." Drugs (from 13 yrs old), street-life "in with the wrong crowd"
- Grandmother and mother "I'm so blessed and fortunate to have had them in my life... gave me a great foundation of morals and values and patience and determination"
- Lending a bike and having it stolen "I'm a very giving and nice person... I have to beware... trust has its limits"
- 31 years clean & sober now
- "My values who I am today were actually both shaped by good things that happened to me and bad things that happened to me"
- "Just really good people", not because of their religion...
- "...spiritual as well... my grandmother used to call it motherwit... I still have that today... I just get a feeling... it's always 100% right every time... everybody has it to... some people listen to their motherwit more than others"
- "Back in the early '70s it was a different world... in school they could paddle you in class... in front of everyone... there was no such thing as non-bullying"
- Being taught the Bible "I never really questioned anything... absorbed it into who I am... although I wasn't following most of the Bible to be honest at that point... I was more interested in having fun and partying... not really focusing on why I'm here, who I am and what my purpose is"
- Last time used drugs. Motherwit voice spoke very loud "you may not live through this." Attending a treatment centre, guided by the motherwit voice "it's not luck"
- April 7 1992 "I need to change my life... I kept that commitment all the way through to today... the weight had been lifted off me."
- Finishing treatment, moving to the Texas countryside - Starting to figure out "who is Keith Tucker... what is my purpose?... Baptism through fire."
- "I am not Christian or religious today.... but I am very spiritual and I believe in god."
- "I walk in my purpose and in god's purpose every single day... helping people and serving people is what my purpose is"
- "The people that were enslaved... were introduced to the Bible... as a system to keep their minds enslaved."
- "Using religion to chain people's minds"
29:30 What Matters?
47:30 Who Matters?
01:05:40 A Better World?
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