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birthday edition. it s victor blackwell s big birthday! thank you guys. this is so exciting. so this cake is from me and christie paul outdoes me and sends the beautiful cupcakes from atlanta for you. well, thank you guys. thank you, alisyn, thank you, christie. confections. my favorite things. how are you feeling? this is a very big milestone. am i supposed to blow all over this stuff? great point. let me make a wish. do not do that. okay. wow, that was good. wow. that s so great. we ve got a backup. this is a milestone birthday. i don t know how you re so young, but you are. moisturize. beautiful. and how are you feeling? i am looking forward to my 40s. my 30s were better than my 20s. i hope my 40s are better than my
had an opportunity to watch that entire segment this morning. and i will tell you that that, first of all, didn t surprise me at all. i mean that s the story of me as a black person growing up in fort worth, texas. oftentimes people forget i m a gen xor. i m in my 40s. we were the first generation of kids to go k through 12 in the dallas independent school district and the fort worth independent school district which i went through. we were the first kids to actually go through that school system completely integrated k through 12. oftentimes in school kids would use the n-word over and over again and say oh, it s not that big of a deal, you re overreacting, you re too sensitive. you call each other that all time. the fact women are repeating what i heard in school is not that big of a surprise to me, first of all. that s actually pretty normal thought amongst a lot of white people in the dallas-ft. worth
there is depression and there is, like, a high rate of suicide and those things, you know what i mean? because society is judging you. well, i went through a period where i drank real heavily, and there was depression, and even prior to coming out, i was to the point where, unfortunately, and if i told you i hadn t considered suicide more than once, i d be lying, because i did. i thought this might be easier than going through it. the only person i was outed to at 17 was my father. my dad and i were super close up to that point. that drove a wedge between my my father and me. mmm-hmm. and that lasted until i was in my 40s, until i found out that my dad never i thought my dad had shared all that information. my dad kept that a secret until a confronted him with my therapist at age 44. and i wasted all those years having this resentment towards my dad, who i loved and adored,
did. i thought this might be easier than going through it. the only person i was outed to at 17 was my father. my dad and i were super close up until that point. that drove a wedge between my father and me and that lasted until i was in my 40s, until i found out that my dad never i thought my dad shared all that information. my dad kept that a secret until i confronted him with my therapist at age 44. and i wasted all those years having this resentment towards my dad, who i loved and adored and it s hard and that hurts. that s a regret. sorry. don t be sorry, don t be sorry. i m sorry to bring this up. no, it s my story and i m happy to share it. well, i think it s i just hope nobody else has