"Support Black Colleges"

Corey introduced yourself, what's going on. I'm super excited to be here with my people's. My name is Corey Oranger and our service one of the CEOs of a company called Support Black Colleges. Okay, you ain't gotta be all professional and stuff. Okay, we're like to have fun, but you gotta be all of that. Okay, but let's just go ahead and get into it because I am familiar with you and the brand. Obviously I fell in love with the brand of the moment that I met you.

Funny story, just to kind of break the ice a little bit, Corey and I actually met through a scammer. Girl. I'm gonna tell y'all. So there was a in Atlanta. There was a throw of that later who was going around scamming people talking about she was selling Delta Companion passes and her and I were actually friends. So she she played me okay, just like she played everybody else. But she was supposed supposed to be booking a reservation for Corey's birthday at the brunch that I was doing

at the time on Saturdays. And he dems me and he was like, hey, our mutual friend almost said her name. Our mutual friend was supposed to make your birthday reservation at your brunch. I just wanted to check in on it. And at that time, the girl was already cut off and she hadn't told me anything about him. I had no idea who he was. I didn't know I was supposed to have a table for him, none of that. So made him work out and he came in. I made sure that he had a good time. I start

pumped his ass. I wanted her to see that me and this guy that she also played, we're being cool. And since then we've actually been like really good friends. I called my little brother, and I'm just super inspired to see, like what you have done. Your gass has been everywhere, Yes, but most recently, you guys have been a part of the ny All Start one in Atlanta. How the hell did you get to that? And then we'll go we'll go back in history a little bit.

But how did you get to n being all Start? Yeah, for sure, I think it's I mean, it's a it's a few things, but it starts with Chris Paul. It starts with Chris Paul. Chris Paul was a relationship that we have been able to build over the past years. All the basketball player, Yeah, the basketball player. Uh is there another Chris Paul. It's a couple of Chris Paul's, but I don't get into that. Yeah, Chris Paul, the basketball player. We grew a relationship with him, you know,

a little while ago. Um, just networking and you know, being at the right place at the right time. Um. He really liked the merchandise. And a lot of people don't know that his family, all of his family went to HBC US. So even though he went away for US, it's still really close to him because all his family went. So we began to build this relationship. It was super organic.

We were really cool with his stylus at first, and we just used to like give him gear merchandise, and he started this whole HBCU repping um the tour, but he was just highlighting different HBCUs and you know, putting on at the basketball game, getting other players involved, and so that's kind of how but that is because we provided value, because we were people who he saw valuable.

Then he was like, Hey, the NBA is gonna be uh in Atlanta for All Star this year, and y'all have to be a part of it because they want to highlight HBCUs. And so he connected me with a lady named Kelly who works for the NBA, and it was actually supposed to be something for the Players Association, which is different from the NBA. It's just where the players are. It's like their union, sentially their union. And so we completed that task I'm talking about like in

the day. They said they wanted this. We got in the day, and so he was like, man, I need to do something for All Star too. So it ended up, you know, we end up having this conversation and long story short, we ended up making these gift boxes for all the players, which included a few things. So one of the things was a custom candle. So what I wanted to do was I wanted to try to put

on as many black businesses as possible. So I just were just my friends that have black businesses that I felt like correlated what we were trying to do, and I made sure that they were involved. So we have these candles that we did, and I thought I have another one, but I don't. It was it was a candle with a person's name and face on it and a basketball on top, so it was like a custom candle for every single player. We did these custom hoodies, which I had right here. Here's here's my version of

the hoodie. But we did these custom hoodies. Were on the back, it had their name on it, so it said James and his number, but then on the side and had these sizes that what size is that? So this is you can't have, you know. So we did these customer Atlanta peach patches, and then we did like three point contests, dunk contests, and every player has their own individual you know, like patch on it. And so I don't know if you all saw, but Yannese actually

wore his to the game, which was awesome. That's why he wanted m v P. I don't know if y'all know, but he want MVP. But it was because he had our hoodie over before the game, and so it was just a really dope yeah, and we just made it happen a short time. But it's like when opportunity comes, we always make sure we made the most of it. So I always live in what we call right now, my boy, and Neil always says it right now, no

opportunity wasted. I don't let any opportunity go by me without giving them my best chance to to make it succeed because I think that you may never get these opportunities again, so it's important to make it up. I know the time, manc t usually goes second. I gotta cut in real quick. My favorite, and I know you guys said at the NBA All Star that was cool.

My favorite was Dion Samer's Prime Time All the Time, your sir and I grew up as Sanders, So like just when I saw him wearing it, and I don't know, we saw you all, you guys on the TV, shoe was like about to cry in the studio. We saw you guys on TV. That was dope. But when I've seen Prime time Dion Sanders wearing his sweater all the time. That just let me know that you guys are on another level. But go ahead, O c T. I know you had. I know you got something over there. Everybody

were talking about support black college. It's a whole movement. Um, I just want to go back to when you and your partner met and Um, what HBCU did you actually attend and what was your experience? Like? Yeah, so I went to Howard University. Um, the number one HBCU in the nation, No matter what anybody else says, Howard University

has the best homecoming, the best academics, everything. So that's where I went, and that's where I actually met my business under justin Um, I was throwing parties at at how It was a friend who came to one of our parties. They were parties, parties like oh no, no, So just to give you and I told Sue this when I first met her, because you know, I wanted to get into the party team in Atlanta. Well I thought I wanted to. I wasn't really sure, but we

were throwing party, we were packing out. I mean, I'm sure if you've ever been to c b C. I know about park y'all know about Club Love. I mean we were putting five thousand people in it a night, and so you know, it was one of those things where we kind of controlled the college scene. So Georgetown, Howard,

American Trinity we did that. And so, uh, that's how I kind of knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur because I like the way it felt when I like to go home with money in my hand, like a stack of money, and it just felt good to me. So I always knew I was kind of entrepreneur. I had a guy named Justin what was my business partner. One day, I was still on his house party. It was pretty crazy. It was like one of those nights nothing was going on to be like, let's do a

house party. The random house party. So we did the party and I see this kid, He's just sitting on the sidewalk, just like sitting there, like and if he ever met Justin you it makes sense now. But he was like. I was like, and let me go check on this kid. He could have been drunk whatever. I didn't really know, but it was my responsibility because it was my party to make sure everything was okay. So

I went and talk to him. He was I'm like, hey, you straight what you're doing And he was like, I'm just checking out the scenes like I used to parties back in Houston. So I just wanted to see, you know, who runs and things for plugs all the money and something like a freshman like asking these questions. So it automatically intrigued me. So we ended up topping up for a little I might come and have a good time and let's take this conversation on after the party are

like another time, long story short. He ended up throwing parties with us and grew his own legs on his own and began to be one of the most popular people on campus. And that's kind of how he became partners. We we worked really well together. He's more quiet, analytical, data driven. I'm more creative, outspoken things like this, and so you know, that's kind of how I met him and how we're beginning work together. So how did you guys go from parties to close? Party name? Tell everybody

what his party name was? Whole nation, whole nation, And just to give y'all like a little like what that means is in Houston when you crack on somebody or like joking on somebody, it's like you holing them like it means you. It's like you don't. And so he would say, and then the Nation is like a group that they had called the Nation. So he was like he basically was really good at roasting people. So I

whole nation kind of just came out of that. But it took a different meaning when college came along, because you know, because it did. Now, when I got you, Cory, you were still bagging stuff up at the credit at the apartment. You know what I'm saying, shop parlet, you were still at the department. But now y'all got a whole ass huge warehouse that you're actually doing quite a few things with. And I'm not I'm not gonna say what they are unless you want to share them, you can.

But how would you say Atlanta really kind of helped you guys thrived because it's like once you came here, baby, yeah, Atlanta like any any young black entrepreneur, any entrepreneur in general, that's that's black, you need to be in Atlanta because Atlanta just provide so much opportunity. Um. I think the first I actually met Sue, probably the first few weeks I was out here, which was super integral to like

my development in Atlanta. And I always tell you this because you know, two things happened to me when I came to Leanna. I met Sue and I became a member of the gathering Spot. I became a member of the gathering spot because some of my guys from Howard we're all like members, and they're like, come here, network, you can work from here, things like things of that nature.

And at the time, I was working for the startup Bay side of New York um called Airtime that Sean Parker, one of the guys who created Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, was a part of. So I was working for him and just do a remote work. I didn't have to I didn't have to go in anywhere. And so as I began to be able to gasp, I begin to be more people. And after my birthday, because I think I moved there in November and my birthdays in January. So after my birthday munch time met Sue. I was

with her like all the time. And I mean, y'all know how to be with Sue. You know everybody in the city. And so I was able to meet so many different people, and that in turn made my business skyrocket. Because what happened was sitting at the bar at the Gathers Spart every day doing work. I started meeting people. And my first warehouse was with somebody that I met sitting at the bar. He said he knew about my clothing brand and he had a warehouse that he just

had too much space in. He was like, hey, bro, if you want to take a room in here, feel free. And that's kind of how it started. I took a room and then we expanded from there and then and then it just kind of wait, wait, but wait, what was taking work for right? I'm still trying to figure out how you went from parties to close? Where was the transition at? Yeah, so let me tell you this. All my life, I've been an entrepreneur, but I never knew what it meant like when you're when you're tem like,

what does the entre prenewer like? I'm like, you want to be a doctor of this, this or this? And I always wanted to work in sports. I actually wanted to be a sports broadcast, which a lot of people don't know. I love basketball, I love sports. But so it came from like when I was a child, I used to step snacks when they used to take all the like they did this whole transition where they took all the healthy snacks out of the vendom machines to put I mean, all the good snacks and put healthy

snacks in. And so I basically went to dollar Tree, but all of the stuff that it took out, and I used to sell it for like to meet sent a dollar, and my teachers used to allow it. And I used to touch money. When everything I touch money, it does something to me. And so I've been an entrepreneur all my life. Howard, I was the president of the club called North Carolina Club and a few are the organizations. And I used to like design and stuff for our clubs. But it was just like it wasn't

like I was. I was just having fun, like you know, messing around on the computer. And I designed this one baseball jersey that people loved, and so people that weren't in my club, we're asking to buy it. And then I was like, okay, cool, So I started selling people that wasn't in the club. Then another club, which is the Texas Club, which Justin was the president of. He was like a you make guard stuff. So I made

that other people wanted to buy it. So I made this shirt for the d n B Club DC, marril Lyn, Virginia for people who who know, and it was like the shape of DC, the shape of Maryland and the shape of Virginia, but it said d n D how are you University? D ND Club and wile had actually got one of those. How I still to this day have no clue how while I got it, but when I saw the response of it, I was like, hey, this is crazy. There's something in clothing. So I just

made a general Howard shirt. It was like very general and regular Howard shirt, and then went crazy. I'm talking about like I was like literally getting them printed from like a local like T shirt shop, getting taxed because I didn't know what I was doing, and I just started like realizing there was money to be made, so I started working smarter. And so I was like, well, if I buy you know, ten of him ahead of time, it will cost me this versus buying one by one

by one. Then my friendsman ants, I mean, and so I'm like, I'm just gonna make a general HBC shirt And that's kind how it got started was I was like, all right, let me just know about this right exactly. You explained the log though, explain it. So what we did was we tried to integrate. Like Martin Fresh Princes, they used to use these colors, the reds, the greens, the oranges, all of that, and then these squiggly lines.

If you look at the Martin like the show Martin the Low, they had the squidly and said, we wanted to make sure that black was bold because we wanted to be a statement black. No matter what you see, you're gonna see black. You might not see support, you

might not see college, but you're gonna see black. And we wanted that to be big and bold, and so we kind of just added colors, made it like a little shield almost, and it was a very simple process, Like it wasn't I didn't know it was gonna be the stamp that it is today when it wasn't initially created. I feel strong when this man or something about the shirt that I have on support black Lives. Where did this come? So that shirt actually man and that that

people don't know. That's one of our most profitable products ever. And they came with we released at her in twenty four hours of making it. So after that everything happened with George Floyd Black Lives Matter movement, it was like going crazy. So we're like, we're a brand, this is our direct audience. How do we support these efforts? How do we like be a part of this? You know, everybody is not a protester. Everybody wasn't you know doing

Everybody has their role that they play. So I knew that we had an audience on social media that would be willing to listen and support something we had to do. So what we did was that was the first time we had actually ever altered this logo. That's the first time we ever did it. And so we wanted to change the word collogists two lives because we felt like support black lives would be just as powerful. So we did that. We did a mock up and on the

back as a quote from Desmond to two UM. And so what we did was we made sure that going around soon can you turn around? I need to see the quote. Let's see the quote, and it says, basically, if you're new was fruelling situation of injustice the hair you're part of the problem essentially, So we actually just

mocked up the shirt. We did a hot quality mock up and we did some really cool graphics and we we released that shirt within twenty four hours, and we made a hundred thousand dollars and literally twenty four hours with no shirts, like literally just the mock up. And what we did was we donated proceeds, part of the proceeds to Black Lives Matter movement and people who were doing stuff in the fields, people who were helping people

get dead out of jail, things of that nature. And so we thought that was really important because it showed people that we were more than just a clothing brand that talks about HBC, but we're really for the culture and for our people, Ladies and gentle we're talking to Corey Average are about support black colleges. We're gonna take a quick break from the Bather Alert Show, but we'll be right back with more after this. We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're listening

to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. What's going on is Corey Arangers, CEO support Black colleges And I'm sitting here with the ball Alert Show podcast. This is an amazing experience. Thank you all. We are still sitting with CEO core Are of Support Black Colleges Cord. Can we get into the details of the warehouse, because the last thing you said was, you know, being a

part of the culture, of being for the culture. You're doing quite a bit with your warehouse that actually extends to the culture in more ways than just making clothes and shipping them. So, are there any exclusive details you

want to share with ball Over about what you've got along? Yeah, I think I think one thing that's really important is miam employ all black style, and so it's mostly HbCO alumni, people who went to hbc U. S Um, it's really important for us to get back and be able to provide jobs to people who look like us in the community. So you know, people come with us and say I need to make some money. Um. If the interview process

is honestly not even that hard. Along, it's like, do you want to job in the opportunity We're gonna give you that chance, no matter what your background is, no matter what you've been through. It's all about giving the opportunity to people who may not have had an opportunity. So, um, that's one thing we're doing the where else, and I'm

really proud of we're actually in our backspace. We're gonna build a basketball court and so everybody knows that we're really connected with the NBIA and tapped in with a lot of players. So I want to space for players. Not only not only we can use obviously for fun

networking things to that nature. The players can come and train on the off season or when they're in town, somewhere private that no one knows that they are, that they are, and then they also gives us a chance to like interview them and give them close and it's just an opportunity for us to just you know, expand our reach and so definitely wanna tap into that. We're also doing a pop up shop. Um actually, Sue, I thought Sue about it and gave me this amazing my

hats to the side. Man. Listen, we're gonna do a soft launch first and then we're gonna do a real launch today. So so I'll extend that invitation to you all. But we're gonna open it up. We're gonna give two minutes a minute, thirty two minutes for people to come in here, old bags up with cloths and we're gonna make it a community thing. We'll have Slutty Began truck out here, We'll have some of our guys out fronts that have businesses, and we're gonna just really make it

a whole thing on on April March April three. So we're planning. We're in the process of planning that. Now we're gonna have my girls to hosting and get get some of my favorite DJs out there. Um and so yeah, I mean, I think the thing is really important for us. Get out there, come on now, that's the easy and we're gonna really just try to tap in with the community.

I think for us, a lot of people don't know where in Atlanta, and that's what's crazy, because you know when people are you in Atlanta, I'm like, yeah, I mean normally I'm behind the scenes. But I think it's the time for us to really start putting our foot down and saying, look, we're here and we're here to help. We want to provide the community. We're not trying to take away. We're trying to provide and be an asset to this community because this community has really helped us

take our business to the next level. You mentioned us Slutty began. And that's one thing that I will say is I feel like some of these black businesses are doing such a good job at working across right um. I think Easter Ray kind of said it the best. It's like, listen, if you're at this level, you think Oprah gonna open your email, you think Oprea cares about

collaborating with you. But what happens is in Atlanta especially, we're seeing a lot of successful black owned businesses and businesses that are on the rise really support each other, collaborating, sharing their resources. And I think that's something really dope that you guys have done along with Studdy Being. So I'm super excited to see that that relationship has grown the way that it has. Plus, I can't wait to get my Sluddy Being burger when I come to the

popub Okay. I have a short and I think it's important collaboration over competition. I mean, like, it's no, it's no competition, Like you're trying to do something great. I'm trying to do something great. How can we both utilize our audiences to do something great together? And that's what it's all about. I look up to thinking, I look up to Ryan and take care. They got inspired. I look up to you all like I'm looking up to people who are doing the basic meaning in their space, respectively.

How can I help you? How can we help How can we help each other? How can we build together the overall health the Atlantic community and the Black community in general. Now, before we get into a balling, but I want to ask your thoughts on this. So the Kendrick Johnson case, UM, that is the South Georgia teenager who was founded Inside the World up Jim Matt back in January two thirteen, that has actually been reopened. UM. There was a lot of suspicion around the case when

it came out. What do you think about this case being reopen? What do you hope to see from this?

Obviously just being served. I mean, it's it's so hard because you you look at things that happened years and years ago, and we're still trying to rectify some of the things you know that that have been we've been done wrong, and and it's one of those things where you know, you want to see just the search and the best ability to today, which doesn't you know, excuse the fact that you know, we went all these years

without it. So I think one thing that we've been doing in Atlanta's especially is voting and making sure the right people are in office so that when things like this happened, we executed the right way. I'm glad it's being reopened, but I'm mather that it took this long, Like why did it take us to vote this way and do all this extra stuff? Just I mean, come on, it was clearly injustice, and so I think it's one of those things. I'm glad that it's happening now, but

next time, let's not wait. Let's make sure it happens when when that time is coming, Serve your justice now, do your time, whatever that may be. We need to make sure that we're holding our people accountable that we're putting in the office and the court system. And you know, even though the systems weren't made for us, we have a chance in the opportunity to use our voice to speak up and make change facts. Facts. If you can see any celebrity living or not in support black colleges,

who would it be easy? Easy, far fetch? That's not far fetch. That's so we we calls listen man if it if she does happen, to wear. Don't don't charge a hundred dollars of hoodie. No, people, I know you wouldn't be out to mail. Let us know where we can support black college. Yeah, so you can find us on our Instagram which is recently verified at the Blue Checks Gag. Yeah, I supported by colleges or our website www dot support Black Colleges dot org. Core average everybody.

We appreciate you for joining the Bottle of L Show, but we got bottler men we want to do around. All right, We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of the Baller Alert Show. What's going on? Is Corey Oranger CEO support Black Colleges and I'm sitting here with a Baller Alert Show podcast. This is an amazing experience. Thank you all. Message okay it this time for baller mail and support Black colleges

is here. Oh man, uh hey, Rory. I'm a love of two men. I called my ex cheating because the city was shut down last year because of COVID. He was dealing with me and his co worker at his job. I was regnant but lost the baby before I caught him cheating on me. I still love him, but I'll never trust him. The problem I have about it is I worked with him too, so I see him every day. He is so attractive, Rory. That's one issue. The new The new issue is I'm currently in a relationship with

a great guy and I love it here. His only issue is the bedroom. I hate it there. I wish I could swap my exit sex game with my new man because the sex is trash, but everything else is perfect. It has me missing my ex and his body and his sex. I'm gonna let you go first, sir. What advice would you give this young lady? Wow, I didn't know it's gonna come like that. Crazy. I think that is just one of those things where you have to

figure out what's important to you. You know, if it's all about this, it's for you that you need to focus on that. If it's all about the relationship, you to focus on that. Because you can help someone and got someone to be better at something you can always teach and help learn. Now, if you don't have the patience of the wounds to do that, that might not be the person for you. And if you're you know, still if your mind is someone else seems like her mom,

maybe a little bit everywhere. So she has to figure out, you know, what she wants for herself. First evaluate the situation, whether it's pros and cons, news and dunce whatever that looks like, and then figure out what's gonna work best for her, because at the end of the day, if she doesn't make the right decision for her, it's always gonna be an issue no matter what the other two guys are doing. Go ahead, so that that that was a great HDCU answered, Now, this is what I'm gonna say. Okay,

it means it to me? Is now a lot of times we want to believe that we can teach a man to have better sex, because sometimes he just ain't got exists. Okay, he just ain't got it, or two he doesn't have a desire to want to learn, because a lot of times y'all know y'all got bad sex. And if you know it's bad, why haven't you taken the time to learn to do better? Why haven't you taken the time to figure out what toys or what

areas or y'all know y'all got bad sex. So if that man hadn't taken the initiative to fix it, I would just say we're all I mean, you could bring it up and if he don't seem to want to try just being the over relationship, just have your cake and eat it too, because that's what you're supposed to do with cake anyway. Okay, that's all I got. Listen to him, baby, it looked like you got two headaches on your hand, and you need to pick which damn

headache you want to deal with. Do you want to wake up and not having no orgasms every day or once a week or twice a week, have but or you want to get you your head round in the pillowcase, but then be worried about this guy cheating on your ass with your coworker or your sister or your friend. Boo. You need to figure out what the hell you want. Or you could do like what sou said and be

able to open that their relationship. But guess what the guy is gonna be in the open relationships also, so uh, just be prepared for whatever type of headache you're trying to deal with. And like my guy said, so to support black colleges. If it ain't right with you, it

ain't gonna be right at all. Okay, So if you're having flashbacks in your head getting rammed in the pillowcase and uh, you know you're jumping off the dresser, y'all playing helicopter man at night with a good sex guy, but he ain't ship you know, you just I don't know if you want that headache, because that trust headache is a bad headache. To have the bad sex headache,

but everything else is good. It's a minor headache. You can take two leaves when you wake up in the morning and you'll be back to normal because you're gonna have all the fields paid and everything else is gonna be laid out for you, and y'all can just enhanced. Lets tell him to toss your sally there and what's in a while? Tell them do something. I mean, ain't nothing wrong with the with the with the mouth carrier, you know what I'm saying. Let's go ahead and go

down and how you go all crazy? So at least you pop off one, you know, if it's motion, ain't even goddamn working. You know, Hey man, there's some other things you need to worry about. You worry about the wrong thing. How about that God, y'all just love to suppress women when it comes to good sex. Well, God, we appreciate that. Baller mail is always Ferrari Simmons. We thank you so much, Corey Averger from Supporting Black Colleges

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