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00:0-1	Hey welcome to M . I . T . I'm
00:01	Quentin Macarthur the associate director of admissions . Uh but
00:05	I actually prefer the title Director of overall inspiration .
00:10	Are you ready for this my love . Yeah .
00:20	No . Yeah yeah I'm here with the great decks
00:40	Tina Booker from Brooklyn new york Brooklyn's finest . Who's
00:44	doing it all here at M . I . T
00:45	. Major in mechanical engineering , performing in bands .
00:49	You're rapping at the media lab , designing clothes ,
00:51	traveling around the world and just being all around .
00:54	Fantastic . Good to see you . Dex . It's
00:57	good to see you too . How are you doing
01:00	? I'm doing great . You're from Brooklyn . I'm
01:02	originally from bed stuy . My family moved around a
01:05	lot with in Brooklyn but I claim bed stuy home
01:08	of the greatest rappers . Do you have a rank
01:12	order of your favorite bed stuy rappers ? So I'm
01:15	just gonna go little kim kim . Yes she is
01:21	very talented . I don't think she gets the credit
01:23	that she deserves a shout out to little kim .
01:25	Yeah if you're out there , if you're watching little
01:27	kim shout out to you , right , And then
01:31	biggie , he's very , very talented . You know
01:34	, different things with hip hop . Take it to
01:36	a new place below kim will be the greatest of
01:38	all time in terms of like Brooklyn rappers , that's
01:42	nice . I went to the secondary school for law
01:46	um and because of a lot of budget cuts to
01:49	our programs , we didn't have very many courses ,
01:52	but the teachers there did the best with with what
01:55	they had . We got to send a big shout
01:56	out to Cosco was huge . Ceo is sponsors for
02:01	educational opportunity . The Scholars program specifically for high school
02:05	students in new york city . We had to really
02:07	immerse ourselves and opportunities that we didn't have at our
02:10	high schools because of the lack of funding . If
02:12	I didn't have s e o , I wouldn't have
02:14	even known about mitt all these like really good schools
02:18	that I had no idea existed because I just wasn't
02:21	exposed to that the Black Lives Matter stuff . Like
02:24	there were a lot of protests and demonstrations and activism
02:29	and discussions around you know the events in Ferguson and
02:33	Staten Island and just kind of more broadly uh black
02:36	lives matter . And I think that I found out
02:38	that you were involved in some of that stuff right
02:40	? Yeah . Yeah I was involved because it really
02:44	solidified this idea that it doesn't matter where you go
02:48	or or like what you do or whatever you think
02:50	your credentials are . There are still things that people
02:53	are going to believe about you because the color of
02:56	your skin or because of your gender or whatever it
02:58	is that's very on the surface being at M .
03:01	I . T . Doesn't protect me from that .
03:03	I'm still going to experience , you know , like
03:05	microaggressions or being followed around a store and I'm still
03:09	gonna experience those things . And so I can't just
03:11	say , oh I have to do this piece that
03:13	I can't worry about what's going on in the outside
03:15	world . Well , I have to say that I've
03:17	been very impressed by , you know , the student
03:19	activism here around this particular issue , because for me
03:23	, I don't think of M . I . T
03:24	. Is a particularly activist type of campus . You
03:26	know , it's a place where you've got students who
03:30	are ambitious and thoughtful and hardworking , but they're super
03:34	busy and like like you said , they're doing p
03:38	sets all the time . You know , there going
03:41	to classes , you know , they're still trying to
03:43	be engaged in whatever they're interested in . But you
03:49	know , activism requires that you invest yourself into something
03:53	bigger than yourself for a sustained period of time .
03:56	And I know that can be difficult for M .
03:59	I . T . Students . I think a lot
04:01	of times at M . I . T . People
04:02	think that we're too smart for racism or we're too
04:04	smart to be sexist or we're just we're just too
04:07	smart for those kind of things that happen here and
04:09	just ignoring that , that it may happen here like
04:14	that , that these kind of things do actually happen
04:17	is a part of what keeps them going . It's
04:20	it's kind of like this , this new age racism
04:23	where it's like I didn't physically do anything to you
04:26	or people are like , I mean I'm not in
04:28	the KKK , so I'm not racist , but like
04:30	that's not what racism is . It's not always about
04:33	burning crosses a lot of times . It's like your
04:35	professor telling you you don't belong here or being at
04:39	a frat party and someone calling you Lacresha . And
04:41	those are like my experiences like those literally happened .
04:45	Yeah , like not the cross burning the liquid to
04:47	, and the professor telling me like maybe you shouldn't
04:50	be an engineer . So Brooklyn's finest , you come
04:54	out of a great long tradition of great Brooklyn wrappers
04:58	. What's your inspiration for your rap lyrics ? So
05:02	the first time that I , I guess kind of
05:05	performed , it was spoken word . So I decided
05:09	that I was going to wrap my high school graduation
05:12	speech and it was like , yeah , I was
05:15	just , I just decided that that's what I was
05:17	gonna do and from then on it kind of just
05:20	was a thing that I did . And so I
05:22	do a lot of poetry and spoken word and whenever
05:26	you produce something like a , an article of clothing
05:29	or like a piece of art or whatever it is
05:31	, it's a snapshot of who you are at that
05:34	time . So I can really look at my own
05:37	personal evolution . The first time I performed at M
05:39	I . T . It was , what does it
05:41	feel like trailblazing ? It's like waves and physics and
05:43	phasing basically always trying to fit in in a foreign
05:45	location where I wasn't meant to win , always the
05:48	first to do it in my skin , but never
05:49	really achieving perfection . Too busy breaking down doors when
05:52	they won't let me in . We'll have fast ,
05:54	no longer cut it . Half past failure always causes
05:57	the what if like what if I were lighter ?
06:00	They're calling me a rebel when I'm just a fighter
06:01	who won't settle for my pockets to be lighter .
06:03	And that's like a part of like the only thing
06:05	I remember from bars , bars that was like ,
06:09	wait up , you know about that , What struck
06:16	me so that's cool . Yeah , right ? You're
06:19	strong . I'm very proud of you . Dex tina
06:22	, you've been doing your thing , you know ,
06:24	you and your creativity to , you know , using
06:27	your creativity to share your voice because these are powerful
06:31	messages that not just mitt needs to hear , but
06:34	a lot of different types of people need to hear
06:35	. So keep going , keep going , don't stop
06:40	. You can't stop . I won't stop , you
06:43	won't stop . No , she won't . Okay .

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