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Speaker 1: real ship speaking to students. Oh man, that's like the
Speaker 1: perfect setup for the episode. But I mean, we can't
Speaker 1: even get into that right away, right, I guess we
Speaker 1: gotta like talk about the you know, being the show
Speaker 1: that we are. I think it's only right that we
Speaker 1: talk about or at least mentioned. Uh So, World War three? Uh,
Speaker 1: how's that? Well? Um? I mean this episode is not
Speaker 1: dedicated to that, so, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: speak out of pocket without you know, reading fully what's what?
Speaker 1: But more or less, uh Russia sent troops into the
Speaker 1: rebel controlled regions of Ukraine. Vladimir Crutain did like hour
Speaker 1: long speech and ship where he was pretty much justifying
Speaker 1: going in there. So they're doing it as a quote
Speaker 1: unquote peacekeeping mission to protect those uh new states that
Speaker 1: they've recognized, the sovereign nations. And uh, it's kind of
Speaker 1: everyone's saying it's like a pretext to war. What are
Speaker 1: your what are your thoughts on it? It seems like
Speaker 1: everyone was like really freaking out about it. But then
Speaker 1: as the day went on, I guess not. But I mean, well,
Speaker 1: it's not like, yeah, I felt like we're like loading
Speaker 1: up aircraft full of you know, college kids to go
Speaker 1: over there and drop them out of plane in parachutes. Today,
Speaker 1: you know, people started freaking out. But it remains to
Speaker 1: be seen how swiftly if any action will be taken.
Speaker 1: Particularly I guess um they're being pressure from you know, UK, NATO,
Speaker 1: other world UM leaders and allies of ours to see
Speaker 1: what happens with imposing sanctions. UM. So well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see how that plays out. I guess I give
Speaker 1: me some release relief as someone that identifies as anti
Speaker 1: war generally not really a big fan of them military
Speaker 1: industrial complex. So um, yeah, that's where we had. Well,
Speaker 1: those sanctions are definitely going to start flying like hot
Speaker 1: cakes all over that place, man, um, I think it.
Speaker 1: That's definitely gonna have an economic impact on the US.
Speaker 1: I would imagine we'd imagine with like iron and aluminum,
Speaker 1: maybe wheat and stuff like that. Even if not, they're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna say it is to explain why no one
Speaker 1: can afford anything. We need to talk about the inflation
Speaker 1: ship too. At some point when we need you to
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Georgia rent has increased in
Speaker 1: the last three years, what we need to talk about
Speaker 1: is the fact that wages are not keeping up with
Speaker 1: the natural rate of inflation in the first place. Like
Speaker 1: if we do talk about inflation, we need to become
Speaker 1: adding media narratives around the fact that it is to
Speaker 1: do with I don't know, workers getting fucking unemployment insurance
Speaker 1: or some ship and you know, actually take a look
Speaker 1: at the fact that the CEOs you know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, types and foods or whatever are getting huge
Speaker 1: bonuses right now there and they're the costs of their
Speaker 1: goods is going up. Now that's because of inflation, because
Speaker 1: they're just like paying officially because they have like all
Speaker 1: these corporations are having record profit years and ship some
Speaker 1: like a lot of this is they're doing to a
Speaker 1: large part, they're doing it. They're doing it. They're doing
Speaker 1: it to us. And then be like do you see peasants,
Speaker 1: you know, like this is what this is what you
Speaker 1: have wrought with your labor shortage. How they're all of
Speaker 1: you have a safe plantation down price of stakes on
Speaker 1: the real though, like do you think that there's some
Speaker 1: spite involved in it for all of the lab um
Speaker 1: do you like on the real though, do you think
Speaker 1: there might be some spike in it involved It's it's
Speaker 1: interesting to me to consider to what degree in various
Speaker 1: UM government policies are latently like forms of disciplining the populace,
Speaker 1: like cutting off on employment insurance to like force people
Speaker 1: back into an unsafely opened economy, etcetera. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked if that were a part
Speaker 1: of the calculus of like something like, oh, let's take okay,
Speaker 1: at least, like, let's take advantage of this moment everyone's
Speaker 1: talking about inflation, etcetera. You can probably just drive up
Speaker 1: the price of goods and no one will notice, and
Speaker 1: everyone will blame it on someone else. So let's get
Speaker 1: that bag babe manufactured consent with the mainstream media, and
Speaker 1: then you can kind of you know, um, So let's
Speaker 1: let's get into you know we we will definitely dedicate
Speaker 1: something to talking about that speci quickly coming up soon.
Speaker 1: But what are we talking about today? We are talking
Speaker 1: about higher learning. Yes, I had not. I was not
Speaker 1: familiar with this UM film before because I was old
Speaker 1: when it came out. Yeah, no, you hadn't seen it,
Speaker 1: like only Yeah, I mean all I knew of ice
Speaker 1: cube cinematic career was fucking Friday, And like, are we veryain?
Speaker 1: That's crazy? I mean, I'm not saying I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you're crazy, but I'm just saying, like, it's it's sucking
Speaker 1: wild to take that in that. It's like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: there's like a whole bunch of motherfuckers don't remember like
Speaker 1: when the ice Cube and nice Tea first started being
Speaker 1: in movies and ship like that, and you know, they
Speaker 1: actually had some really good ones. But that was definitely
Speaker 1: one of ice cubes better. I want to say it's
Speaker 1: not really the star of it, but he's definitely one
Speaker 1: of his better films that I loved. I loved his
Speaker 1: his character, his acting in this. It was so dope. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get into high today. We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be doing kind of a kind of review slash analysis
Speaker 1: and you know, dig into the movie Higher Learning, directed
Speaker 1: by John Singleton, starring Omar Epps, ice Cube, Christie Swanson,
Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport, and Lawrence Fishburne. And if you look real close,
Speaker 1: you'll spot some cameos by a young Jennifer Connolly and
Speaker 1: a young Regina King and a young Buster Rhymes. It's
Speaker 1: pretty wild the way the way that is, I was
Speaker 1: um watching an interview with Michael Rappaport recently, and he
Speaker 1: was just talking about being on that set because like
Speaker 1: he's you know, bike a round for it's like hip
Speaker 1: hopped out, you know. Like so he was just saying,
Speaker 1: I was geeking being on like set with ice Cube
Speaker 1: and Buster Rhymes and show. So that that's that's cool.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna check it out. The movie is about
Speaker 1: just to give you a little oh yeah, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be spoilers in this, so we're giving a spoiler warning,
Speaker 1: but just to give you a brief rundown before we
Speaker 1: get into the jump. The story follows three students in
Speaker 1: their freshman year to a fictional college, California college called
Speaker 1: Columbus University. Uh. The film follows their differing struggles with
Speaker 1: identity and the real world, and their storylines you know,
Speaker 1: intermingled and intersect that it all comes to a climax
Speaker 1: that's pretty tragic, and you know, I guess the filmmakers
Speaker 1: are hoping that you get some lessons from it and
Speaker 1: it you know, the Mariah was five when it came out,
Speaker 1: but I was like twelve, I think, So we had
Speaker 1: Higher Learning dubbed on a VHS tape in between like
Speaker 1: Married with Children and three Company and Ship. So it
Speaker 1: was like a movie that I watched quite a bit
Speaker 1: when I was younger, which watching it now is kind
Speaker 1: of like, but hey, but yeah, it's a pretty heavy movie.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of heavy topics. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: going we're jumping all over the place from like race, sexuality, rape,
Speaker 1: white supremacy, the generation sheels, divide, class warfare. It's it's
Speaker 1: got a lot to it. So we're just gonna, we're gonna,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go down and give our thoughts and then
Speaker 1: dig into what this film is about and how it
Speaker 1: portrays like college life and also I think like youth activism, um,
Speaker 1: and how that differs from how things are now. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll be right back with that after the jump.
Speaker 1: All right, we are back. So, ladies and gentlemen, we
Speaker 1: are talking the film Higher Learning. If you guys haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, I mean we're gonna be spoiling the hell
Speaker 1: out of it. So maybe you want to check it
Speaker 1: out and come back and watch listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: But first going into it, I've seen it a bunch
Speaker 1: and I've got some thoughts, but this being your first
Speaker 1: time watching it, and then also for you, another thing
Speaker 1: to consider between the two of us that like, you're
Speaker 1: watching it for the first time as an adult. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, having a having done and been involved
Speaker 1: in the things that you've been involved in. So what's
Speaker 1: your takeaway from I mean, I felt like it was
Speaker 1: pretty blunt with like some of its themes, Like specifically,
Speaker 1: I think it's very well encapsulated in the scene where
Speaker 1: ice Cube and like all of the black students are
Speaker 1: chilling at the black hole and he's like, and there's
Speaker 1: the Mexicans and they're the Asians, et cetera, in a
Speaker 1: way that like today you might see more of a
Speaker 1: nuanced presentation, even if you're tackling the same themes of
Speaker 1: like you know, racism and um, the stuff like that
Speaker 1: on a college campus. But then there were some subtle
Speaker 1: elements to it that I thought were really interesting, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could speak to this probably knowing
Speaker 1: the director better than I. John, what else do you do?
Speaker 1: Actually wait to hold on a second so John Singleton
Speaker 1: directed Boys and directed Baby Boy. He directed that ill
Speaker 1: fated Schaft movie back in two thousand. Perhaps there was
Speaker 1: more of us in other films of his that I
Speaker 1: have seen, if I thought there was like a ton
Speaker 1: of like subtle justice. Yeah. So like from the scene
Speaker 1: where the white students are at the frat party and
Speaker 1: they're standing around and forcing a black girl to drink
Speaker 1: beer from a funnel with her feet in a bucket
Speaker 1: of ice, and the one dude, one white dude, pops
Speaker 1: out and yelled, let's go cap us. Like I was like,
Speaker 1: this is both subtle and not subtle about like some
Speaker 1: real ship about like I think, more broadly, the abuse
Speaker 1: of black people, uh, you know, stuff like that. Like
Speaker 1: this one character I think it was, was it Remy
Speaker 1: He had like a white zombie poster in his room
Speaker 1: and his in his norm was like white zombies. That's
Speaker 1: actually that's a that's a loaded that that whole scene
Speaker 1: actually because his Okay, you know what, well, here's a
Speaker 1: here's a good way to start this, right, how about
Speaker 1: we introduce everyone listening, give them a brief cap of
Speaker 1: the main characters the movie. Right, So you've got these
Speaker 1: three kids getting into college for their freshman year. So
Speaker 1: the first character is Malik, who's played by Omar Epps.
Speaker 1: You might remember him from House or Um. Yeah, House,
Speaker 1: all right, I sus been a lot of stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm blanking out right now. But so
Speaker 1: Malik is kind of like an outcast, goes to his
Speaker 1: own pace. He's one of those characters. There's a cool
Speaker 1: there's there's a really on the nose scene to introduce him,
Speaker 1: where the entire schools giving like their school you know
Speaker 1: whatever hand gesture, like you know, like their schools sports
Speaker 1: team hand jesterre and he's walking in the opposite direction
Speaker 1: that everybody's standing, not giving the jester. And he's the
Speaker 1: only person in the frame who's not doing the same
Speaker 1: exact thing as everyone else. So to establish that he's
Speaker 1: against the grain, he moves at his own pace. But
Speaker 1: he's a star track athlete, and I guess you could
Speaker 1: say his arc or his struggle in the movie is
Speaker 1: he struggling with um being a scholarship athlete and having
Speaker 1: to study and trying to do good in school at
Speaker 1: the same time, as well as I feel gradually throughout
Speaker 1: the movie becoming more radicalized in in black revolutionary politics
Speaker 1: with the more things that he reads and the more
Speaker 1: people that he's exposed and that's generally yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And then like the remy guy is like getting radicalized
Speaker 1: into like Nazism. And then ah, the main white girl
Speaker 1: forgot her name, Christian Chris. Yeah, she's like getting into
Speaker 1: like feminism and so as I'll touch on later. It's
Speaker 1: interesting these themes and like what they mean about, um,
Speaker 1: the way folks have reacted to the um consciousness raising
Speaker 1: or quote or and or like radicalis and potential of
Speaker 1: higher education. Um, it's interesting to see those things play
Speaker 1: on this one. So um, okay, so let's talk about Malik, right,
Speaker 1: So I just think that, you know, just to sum
Speaker 1: up his art, it goes. It goes from him getting
Speaker 1: scolded by ice Cube's character, who will get into later,
Speaker 1: but it goes from him getting scolded by ice cubes
Speaker 1: character for wanting to read the autobiography of Frederick Douglas
Speaker 1: solely for a class to the last end scene he's
Speaker 1: wearing a black panther shirt and he's moved out of
Speaker 1: the dorms with he's you know what I mean, He's
Speaker 1: he's moved into an all black dorm and and and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. So like, what's your your initial
Speaker 1: like feelings on that character. Do you think that because
Speaker 1: every every character in this movie, every you know, character
Speaker 1: is like an archetype of something, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: kind of bothered me. But it's also like I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's you know what, it's not like
Speaker 1: I think if the movie was like an independent film
Speaker 1: or like you know, like an art house film, I
Speaker 1: think it probably would have been dealt with, like with
Speaker 1: more nuance and so. But John Singleton at the time
Speaker 1: was a big director. It was it was a pretty
Speaker 1: anticipated film as like his frollologue to Poetic Justice and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it was like a mainstream movie, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And I feel like some of some of
Speaker 1: those aspects of it, like some of the clunkiness of it,
Speaker 1: I kind of, you know, give it, give it the
Speaker 1: understanding that it's like a glossy movie, theater movie that
Speaker 1: they tried to like you know, ballsy, you know, dealing
Speaker 1: with the subject matter that they were dealing with. But
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a a diet version of some real ships.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, Yeah, Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's helpful to like with these
Speaker 1: archetypes then us see ourselves in the characters, you know, um,
Speaker 1: like be you know, being with like Molik in the
Speaker 1: elevator when like Kristin Line grabs her bag and pulls
Speaker 1: it closer her Like we've kind of all been in
Speaker 1: that sort of circumstance the professor, I mean, particularly in
Speaker 1: my experience of working as a writing tutor as an undergrad,
Speaker 1: like that whole encounter he has with the Lawrence Fishburn
Speaker 1: character of like well your grammar and ship, like you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't good enough so you got like anphoni paper
Speaker 1: or whatever, though the content was like really interesting. Is
Speaker 1: something that like is a very real struggle for people
Speaker 1: that like professors, people of like how you're learning, um,
Speaker 1: want of discredit people's knowledge based on the way they
Speaker 1: present themselves, UM, which I think is a huge theme
Speaker 1: of the movie, just like people discrediting each other based
Speaker 1: on what they seem like and how they communicate themselves
Speaker 1: and not necessarily like what the people know or who
Speaker 1: they are. What do you think about some of the
Speaker 1: back and forth between Laurence Fishburn's character and the lead
Speaker 1: because Laurence Fishburn's character is he's much more of a
Speaker 1: supporting role in this. I think he's only like five
Speaker 1: scenes or so, but he is a political science professor
Speaker 1: that several different you know characters in the movie. They
Speaker 1: attend this class and they have them as a teacher,
Speaker 1: and they have scenes where they're talking to him. But
Speaker 1: his main dialogue between Malik in him, I guess could
Speaker 1: be summed up as he's like from an older pull it,
Speaker 1: pull yourself up from by your bootstraps generation and Malik
Speaker 1: isn't like I think like Malik is like a gen
Speaker 1: X version of like how a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of young activism. Now it kind of feels I feels
Speaker 1: like he's like a precursor character character of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Malik is what Joe Rogan would call woke. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, really it's what's his name? Fudge? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so next next character is Fudge. That's all he goes by.
Speaker 1: There is no other there is no other Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I think calls him Mr White. Yeah. Yeah. Character ice
Speaker 1: Cube's character, he's like a super duper senior. He's been
Speaker 1: there for like six or seven years. He's got a
Speaker 1: giant afro. He's super pro black. You don't take no ship.
Speaker 1: Party is hard, but he hits the you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's knowledgeable in in in the things that you know
Speaker 1: he talks about. So what are your initial thoughts on
Speaker 1: ice cubes? I mean both, it was both an archetype
Speaker 1: and like handled pretty like definitely in that it seemed
Speaker 1: very real, like the moment when they're talking about Frederick
Speaker 1: Douglas and he's like, you've only ever read this for school,
Speaker 1: Like that's like a real conversation I can imagine someone
Speaker 1: engaging in, and like I think it's like a powerful
Speaker 1: lesson for the audience even like oh, like you can
Speaker 1: just learn. First of all, you just learned to learn
Speaker 1: on your own. Also like um, school won't teach you
Speaker 1: what you need into a too in a sense, like
Speaker 1: you know the importance of self study. I thought you
Speaker 1: have little gems like that. I was like, okay, already
Speaker 1: see you all right. So next character is going to
Speaker 1: be Christian. So Christian is kind of if higher learning
Speaker 1: where the matrix and the college is like you know,
Speaker 1: the whole real world rabbit hole ship, then the character
Speaker 1: Christian kind of serves as our neo. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. She's like the vessel by which this like
Speaker 1: real world quote unquote situation is explained. She's the fish
Speaker 1: out of water from Orange County. And she doesn't, you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to socially interact with people. It
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to get around all that sort of thing. Um,
Speaker 1: her character aren't I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 1: if it's I guess her character more than anybody else
Speaker 1: in the movie is the one who's I guess going
Speaker 1: through the identity crisis. Right. Um, So she gets sexually
Speaker 1: assaulted very early on in the movie, and that kind
Speaker 1: of sparks her into activism. But then she starts exploring
Speaker 1: her sexuality. It's not really it's not really dealt with
Speaker 1: I guess, like in In I mean, I think they
Speaker 1: could have gone in more on that storyline of her,
Speaker 1: you know, exploring her bisexuality. They have some fleeting lines,
Speaker 1: but there fleeting scenes between her and Regina King where
Speaker 1: you know Regina King kind of express How would you
Speaker 1: describe that, like as playful? Playful? Uh, playful, biggest you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, oh girl, you saw y'all
Speaker 1: holding hands and you know what I mean, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Um, what was what are you? What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Christian character? I mean I felt
Speaker 1: like that whole storyline was like problem sort of problematic
Speaker 1: and fucked up. Frankly, Like, first of all, I realized,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it goddamn fucking sexual salt scene, so
Speaker 1: that was super fun. And then like the implication that
Speaker 1: like speaking out against sexual solve will drive you into
Speaker 1: the arms of a lesbian like thing. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is pretty whack. Um. That's so that's how to
Speaker 1: speak someone of her character as much as like how
Speaker 1: the characters are written, because I presume they weren't written
Speaker 1: by women, so that in itself it's like, well, what
Speaker 1: do you expect? Like, Okay, I mean, that's that's totally fair.
Speaker 1: That was like I was watching it with my roommate
Speaker 1: who's also lesbian, and she had that same like from
Speaker 1: the moment, from the moment that Jennifer Connolly's character showed
Speaker 1: up to start consoling her, Like just the way that
Speaker 1: Jennifer Connolly's character was acting, my roommate was like, Oh, goddamnit,
Speaker 1: are they about to do what? I think the traumatized
Speaker 1: like sexual Salt Survivor, Like I don't know, that's all
Speaker 1: the films. In the film's defense, just I'm just I've
Speaker 1: watched the movie a bunch of times, and I watched
Speaker 1: it a few times leading up to now. So in
Speaker 1: the film's defense, they do try their best within their
Speaker 1: studio film run time to have that like play out
Speaker 1: and not be as you know what I mean, not
Speaker 1: to be so oh, I don't I still got to
Speaker 1: get sexual and now I'm a lesbian, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It didn't. It doesn't really go quite like
Speaker 1: that where it like dives into it like quite head on.
Speaker 1: But it is again clunky, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: for lack of better words. Um. The next character, and
Speaker 1: this is probably I mean just I don't know why
Speaker 1: I feel that this character is probably like the most
Speaker 1: interesting to me. But as the character portrayed by um
Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport, Remy, who is another fish out of water
Speaker 1: from Idaho, but he's much more on like the in
Speaker 1: cell you know, in cell type, and he he's pretty
Speaker 1: much the inciting incident of the movie. So I think
Speaker 1: in order to explain Remy, We're gonna kind of have
Speaker 1: to just you know, pretty much give you a layout
Speaker 1: of the movie. Right. So we've got all these different
Speaker 1: characters that come into the school. There's the culture clash,
Speaker 1: there's everyone trying to find their identity, and there's this character, Remy,
Speaker 1: with an inciting incident of him being ice Cube's roommate.
Speaker 1: To start the movie. He's Fudge's roommate and Fudge has
Speaker 1: a party. The party's raging. It's the first days class,
Speaker 1: so Remy calls the campus security to break up the party,
Speaker 1: and that you know, begins his ostracized ostracization from you know,
Speaker 1: his his dorm and he has to move out dorms,
Speaker 1: and then he ends up getting into fights with frat
Speaker 1: boys and finding himself walking alone at night, and he
Speaker 1: meets a group of neo Nazis and they bring him
Speaker 1: into their pack. Um Uh. Run in with Malik's character
Speaker 1: leads to him pulling a gun on the leak and
Speaker 1: then running away and dropping out of school, which leads
Speaker 1: to a fight off of campus between Malik and his
Speaker 1: boys in this small skin head click, and then a
Speaker 1: retaliation of Remy going to the rooftop of the of
Speaker 1: a building on campus and shooting into the crowd with
Speaker 1: a rifle mass so mass shooting before I guess even
Speaker 1: Coliban happened. Um, yeah, so he is the inciting incident
Speaker 1: or he causes the inciting incident of the movie. Um,
Speaker 1: what are your takeaway from that character? I mean, that's
Speaker 1: it's really spot I mean he's just like an awkward
Speaker 1: white boy, you know that like just doesn't have any
Speaker 1: social skills. Remember that the moment in the frat frat
Speaker 1: party where he's like John talked to this guy sitting
Speaker 1: next to him and he looks over again and the
Speaker 1: guy's gone, just sort of like social alienation, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll drive people to crazy extremes. I think the isolation
Speaker 1: of the pandemic has demonstrated that to puttit of the
Speaker 1: way that you and on, etcetera has like taken off
Speaker 1: because everybody been sitting in their houses as hell, Like
Speaker 1: perfectly normal regular people with social skills that just like
Speaker 1: didn't have any social interaction got drawn into like insane conspiracytion.
Speaker 1: So do you do you take at all any issue
Speaker 1: with the with how the movie chose to Do you
Speaker 1: think the movie chose to depict him too sympathetically or
Speaker 1: do you think no, I think it's good to humanize
Speaker 1: that perspective because those are people and understanding how we
Speaker 1: how they get into that world. It's like a really
Speaker 1: important lesson for us because I don't know, I think
Speaker 1: it's really easy to Another interesting no, another interesting character
Speaker 1: that's related that that's related to Remy's character is the
Speaker 1: character Scott, who's the head of the Skinhead crew that
Speaker 1: brings them in, because he has this like I don't know,
Speaker 1: the way that I was reading it is he's got
Speaker 1: this sort of there's like this, at least for a
Speaker 1: certain portion of the movie, there's like this actual, like
Speaker 1: genuine care or concern that he has with like Remy's.
Speaker 1: Like he's he's upset when Remy drops out of school
Speaker 1: because he's like, damn, man, you shouldn't dropped that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you should have dropped out
Speaker 1: of school, and you did that. And he actually tries
Speaker 1: to like momentarily called the US prevent Reamy from going
Speaker 1: out and doing the shooting before ultimately giving him a
Speaker 1: gun and aiding and a betting up. So that's not
Speaker 1: a good but I just I just thought that there
Speaker 1: was something, there was something that wasn't cartoonish I guess
Speaker 1: about Remy's character and really all of the characters too,
Speaker 1: for that example, because as much as everyone was like
Speaker 1: an archetype, I don't think that anybody was a stereotype
Speaker 1: in the movie, you know. And and and for me,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like I I would have to probably
Speaker 1: think about it more because I didn't even think about
Speaker 1: this this like angle of it. But if I really
Speaker 1: sat down and assess, like just like how I formulated
Speaker 1: some of my you know, worldview just growing up as
Speaker 1: like a preteen and an adolescent in a teen you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure all of the media and all the things
Speaker 1: that I like read and saw, I'm sure all that
Speaker 1: influences influenced and built that net. And knowing how much
Speaker 1: I've seen this movie, I mean yeah, I mean like
Speaker 1: watching it, we rewatching it now recently, like as an
Speaker 1: adult and stuff, there is like a good amount of it.
Speaker 1: It's like, man like, that's oh, that's that's where I
Speaker 1: got that idea from him. That's that's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I I there's one thing, you know, I I
Speaker 1: grew up in a half African household, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So two, to put it nicely, like homosexuality,
Speaker 1: especially when I was a little kid, wasn't necessarily like
Speaker 1: the most accepted topic or things like that within our
Speaker 1: household and ship. But I remember being a kid and
Speaker 1: watching that movie, like watching it on my own, watching
Speaker 1: it with my parents, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: it's like like I remember, like like how it even
Speaker 1: affected them in shape, Like they're like I remember, like
Speaker 1: my mother like sneering at some of the lesbian sex
Speaker 1: scenes and then like crying out when the Nazis are
Speaker 1: beating up a gay couple, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like through the journey of the movie and the ship
Speaker 1: like that. So you know that's that's that's cool for
Speaker 1: some heartwarming points. Again, um so let's let's let's get
Speaker 1: into some of the like topics that the movie kind
Speaker 1: of touches on, because it's all over the place. For
Speaker 1: for film buffs and people who were really heavy on
Speaker 1: like story structure when they're watching movies and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: the movie is probably a mess, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because it is kind of all over the place in
Speaker 1: terms of the ideas. It's trying to communicate themes and
Speaker 1: all that ship. But we're gonna try to touch on
Speaker 1: a little bit of those first. So one of the
Speaker 1: things that Mariah had down that also was like compelling
Speaker 1: to me as one of the first real scenes that
Speaker 1: you really really breaks down everything. And that's when ice
Speaker 1: Cube is breaking down the different demographic clicks within the school.
Speaker 1: Like he's he's sitting on the yard and he's like,
Speaker 1: over there's Chinatown. It's where all the Asian students are.
Speaker 1: And he's like, over there's Disney World. That's where all
Speaker 1: the rich white kids are. He's over there south of
Speaker 1: the border. When where the black hole? You know? Um so,
Speaker 1: just so you being a professor, the statement that the
Speaker 1: movie made about self segregation and segregation segregated campuses and
Speaker 1: how you know, Remy makes the line about it seems
Speaker 1: like everybody's sticking to their own, everybody standing up for
Speaker 1: their own Like what are your thoughts? What are your thought?
Speaker 1: So well, I feel like self segregation on college campuses,
Speaker 1: first of all, I mean there's a degree to which
Speaker 1: it's not really it's compulsory based on just like the
Speaker 1: material conditions of various students, Like some students can't get
Speaker 1: in to frast some students can't um like afford to
Speaker 1: live off campus, or when they do, they live in
Speaker 1: like just not very nice places and so away in which,
Speaker 1: like the economics and vary varying socio economic status is
Speaker 1: of students on college campuses, segregates naturally. But then I
Speaker 1: would also say that, um self segregation is somewhat of
Speaker 1: a defense mechanism for certain groups when they try to
Speaker 1: venture out and you know, go to a frat party
Speaker 1: or go be involved in these predominantly white organizations or
Speaker 1: you know, experienced my fire aggressions in the classroom, the
Speaker 1: best way they have to defend themselves is to like
Speaker 1: group up and stick together. Um So, yeah, to add
Speaker 1: to that, so I told you all about the scene
Speaker 1: where Remy and Malik get into a fight and Remy
Speaker 1: pulls a gun on Malik before he runs away and
Speaker 1: drops out of school. So Malik ends up leaving his
Speaker 1: dorm you know in his roommates is a white kid.
Speaker 1: They band up, forming like a little friendship off off screen,
Speaker 1: like you never get to see that friendship really, but
Speaker 1: but apparently they're friends and ship. So when Malik is
Speaker 1: moving out, there's a scene where he's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not like that. I'm not a white supremacist.
Speaker 1: Bla blah blah. You're you're treating me like like I'm
Speaker 1: that guy or something like that. And Malik makes the
Speaker 1: point of, you know, right now, I just feel more
Speaker 1: secure and safe and comfortable around my own people. Yeah, damn,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's kind of how it is, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think, I mean even thinking of
Speaker 1: like a contemporary and different context example, like you know,
Speaker 1: with regards to gentification, which I'm experiencing a great deal
Speaker 1: over in the community I represent, like the the quote
Speaker 1: unquote infiltration of white people makes the legacy residents feel
Speaker 1: less safe because of criminalization, they have wild parties, you know,
Speaker 1: changing even something as simple as the changing traffic patterns
Speaker 1: on the street making people feel less physically safe to
Speaker 1: ride their bikes with their kids, right, and so they
Speaker 1: just feel safer if we could just stay segregated and
Speaker 1: like not have white people live over here. Um, so
Speaker 1: do you think that best? Do you think? Like is what?
Speaker 1: Like what is that? Is it? Is that a good thing?
Speaker 1: That a bad thing? Is it? Just? Is it just
Speaker 1: a thing? Like? I mean, I think there's a degree
Speaker 1: to which, like, um, there's so many levels to this,
Speaker 1: but like I mean like going back select the initial
Speaker 1: form of integration, school integration, you know, even MLK identified
Speaker 1: it is like, oh, I'm not sure we should have
Speaker 1: fought for this, because it's like integrating our people into
Speaker 1: a burning house and so um. With regards to gentrification,
Speaker 1: for example, it's like, oh, our neighborhoods are becoming diverse
Speaker 1: and mixed income. It's like, well, not by choice, Like
Speaker 1: people are being forced to live in people and for
Speaker 1: with people and then forced out of their neighborhood by
Speaker 1: these people. And there's this I mean, I guess there's
Speaker 1: a sense to which like folks long for the good
Speaker 1: old days all the time, like, well, we just wish
Speaker 1: things could go back to the way they were before. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Part of it is not feeling safe, but part of
Speaker 1: it is because of criminalization. Part of it is awareness
Speaker 1: of the displacement that comes with um, new folks moving in. Um.
Speaker 1: There may be a way to which like white supremacies internalized,
Speaker 1: like what we want to stay segregated. The same thing
Speaker 1: with like like interracial relationships canna look down upon like
Speaker 1: oh you marry us outside, you're the race that it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: did people not fight for and when this like right,
Speaker 1: Like didn't they people enforce antimigenation laws as like a
Speaker 1: means of oppression, and so people internalized dogs have been
Speaker 1: a couple of people over that. Pretty pretty sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think it's it's a host of factors. It's
Speaker 1: like anachronistic just wanted to go back good old days,
Speaker 1: very real threats of like you know, small scale but
Speaker 1: very real like violence, and then some perhaps internalized webs
Speaker 1: from zine I don't know. So okay, so now jumping
Speaker 1: onto let's jump to another team that they hit. So
Speaker 1: this one happens even before the issue of segregation, so
Speaker 1: this is off the bat. Like to start the movie off,
Speaker 1: Laurence Fishburn's character calls up a volunteer, which happens to
Speaker 1: be the leak, and the leak goes and starts reading
Speaker 1: off marked names off of a piece of paper, one
Speaker 1: of the names being his and christians Man. And after
Speaker 1: he's done reading it, Laurence Fishburn informs everybody whose name
Speaker 1: was just read that they have their financial aid didn't
Speaker 1: go through and they hand them situated. Oh shit, Like
Speaker 1: just as a side story, my mom used to told me,
Speaker 1: like the graduation process in Liberia, you know, they make
Speaker 1: you do like like you don't know whether you graduate
Speaker 1: until the ceremony, you know, so like like you got
Speaker 1: like you gotta do like some like ceremony like walk
Speaker 1: and if you get there you didn't graduate, like go
Speaker 1: straight up tell your friend of like all your families
Speaker 1: and friends you did not graduate. You gotta go walk
Speaker 1: back and sit down. That's just rutal. But anyway, like
Speaker 1: the topic of financial aid and students struggling to make
Speaker 1: ends meet and go to school and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: that's again it's it's very loosely touched on a gank.
Speaker 1: The only resolution that you get out of it is, uh,
Speaker 1: like one of the financial aid ladies tells Christian that
Speaker 1: she needs to get a job. Look so in the
Speaker 1: night that you never see her get. In the n nineties,
Speaker 1: tuition at four your public colleges was like three thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars per year um. And so this is
Speaker 1: the time in which, like you could conceivably go get
Speaker 1: a job to like cover your expenses that weren't covered
Speaker 1: by your parents or financial aid or you know, student loans,
Speaker 1: which were still a relatively new phenomena at that time. Today,
Speaker 1: tuition had well I guess no, not even today. We're
Speaker 1: thinking like eleven years ago, tuition had risen two person
Speaker 1: sent so almost um to ten thousand dollars per year. Okay, well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm getting my day to mix up. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's ten thousand longars per year at two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: which is still far far outpasting inflation and wage increases.
Speaker 1: And so imagine what that conversation would be for Chris
Speaker 1: kristen orm league today at the Financial Aid office, be
Speaker 1: like she should out of luck, bud, like they got
Speaker 1: a loan. I don't know the movie. In the movie
Speaker 1: when they show that screw, they show like the scream
Speaker 1: of the financial aid lady screen of how much money
Speaker 1: molikos and it's like three gs. I'm like, yo, best
Speaker 1: can we takes three grand to be in one class
Speaker 1: at the University of Georgia right now? One class? No,
Speaker 1: not even one class. Its it cost me three grand
Speaker 1: to be listed as working on my dissertation. So I'm
Speaker 1: not even in class. It's just like to qualify that
Speaker 1: to like tell the school that I am writing in
Speaker 1: my own time. I mean the financial aid situations, why,
Speaker 1: I you know, Unfortunately, dropped out of college. You know,
Speaker 1: my father wanted to try to pay for school, like
Speaker 1: out of pocket. Then he started getting sick and he
Speaker 1: wasn't able to so I had to apply for student
Speaker 1: loans like mid going to school, and I had to
Speaker 1: get a job, and it was just you know, I was,
Speaker 1: I was, I was working, I was going to school,
Speaker 1: and I started, you know, I started doing things outside
Speaker 1: there were of actual interest to me. So you know
Speaker 1: that's kind of alright. So next theme that we are
Speaker 1: going to jump to that they talk about. So okay,
Speaker 1: so you mentioned, you know, I should have probably given
Speaker 1: you a trigger warning, not for real, like about the
Speaker 1: rape scene. I should have seen it popped up on
Speaker 1: the screen like in the beginning, like all the different
Speaker 1: like you know warning, but like I didn't really until
Speaker 1: it happened. I was like skip skip skip skip. So
Speaker 1: but I mean, um, just like the you know, I know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the the aspect of the fallout being the
Speaker 1: the lesbian relationship that aside, like the initial her getting raped,
Speaker 1: her roommate Regina King finding out about it, the incident
Speaker 1: between her and the rapists on the telephone where he
Speaker 1: calls Regina King a black bitch, which then gets all
Speaker 1: the black students to go over to the you know,
Speaker 1: the frat house and and and pull him out and
Speaker 1: rough him up. What was your like, how do you
Speaker 1: feel felt that that went down? Because it definitely I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: So I will say that that was an interesting moment
Speaker 1: that like really underscored the power of like intersectional solidarity.
Speaker 1: So this guy that is arguing with softness because he
Speaker 1: just committed fucking, you know, sexual crime, is also demeaning
Speaker 1: to a black woman that he doesn't even know on
Speaker 1: the phone. And so the homies rolled up and Pete's
Speaker 1: ass because he was demeaning you know, a black queen.
Speaker 1: It sound her. And so I was like, okay, so
Speaker 1: you got this white girl, you got this black woman,
Speaker 1: you got these black dudes. Like y'all come together and
Speaker 1: sure they didn't end up addressing like what happened to Kristen,
Speaker 1: but like together they could like take like take action
Speaker 1: and funk this guy up that was disrespecting all of them.
Speaker 1: That they didn't but you know they didn't know that, right, No,
Speaker 1: they didn't know that, but like like they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't know that she got raped. I know that I
Speaker 1: know that, Yes, yes, I know that so um but
Speaker 1: they all but like, oh, so all, y'all are getting
Speaker 1: shopped on by these kinds of people. You might not
Speaker 1: even be aware of the ways in which some people
Speaker 1: are getting shoot on, but you recognize it's not cool
Speaker 1: because maybe in a peripheral ray, someone in your group
Speaker 1: has been impacted, like the Regina King character, so you
Speaker 1: roll up and fucking with his ass and like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish there would have been more justice for Christen,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, that is actually one of the best
Speaker 1: scenes in the movie too. It's it's a good mixture
Speaker 1: of like, it's you know, it's it's like a good
Speaker 1: dramatic serious within all. So it's got you know, there's
Speaker 1: an element to it that's really satisfying to see the
Speaker 1: rapist guy get roughed up by Buster Rymes and ice
Speaker 1: Cube that I can't I didn't ship. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just said at the sentence, I just said, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta you want to see this ship. So okay,
Speaker 1: So the you know, there's no way that we can
Speaker 1: touch on every single of the little loose threads that
Speaker 1: they leave in this movie. But the last bit that
Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on is a theme that's ongoing.
Speaker 1: I mentioned to y'all how Malik and Laurence Fishburn's professor
Speaker 1: character they have a back and forth several times throughout
Speaker 1: the movie, and for me, it seems to be like
Speaker 1: the the main through line for that storyline between those
Speaker 1: two is I'm having a hard time articulating this, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, is is our issue economic or
Speaker 1: is it racial? With Malik feeling that it's a racial issue,
Speaker 1: and I guess Laurence Fishburn being the older character kind
Speaker 1: of you know what I mean, more so encouraging the
Speaker 1: idea that it's an economic class struggle that's going on.
Speaker 1: And it seems to be seems to be like those
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's both. I mean, it just seems
Speaker 1: to be like those two philosophies between those two characters
Speaker 1: are the ones that are budding head. It never gets
Speaker 1: a resolution, but at the end of it never gets
Speaker 1: a resolution. But another cool thing that they did with
Speaker 1: it is they don't make it like one way or
Speaker 1: the other, where Laurence Fishburn enlightens of Malik onto you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, onto the class struggle, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't end with Malik showing Lawrence Fishburn, No, it's actually
Speaker 1: a racial thing. They go away from the movie with
Speaker 1: all the things that happened in the movie still believing
Speaker 1: what they believe, know what I mean, and just having
Speaker 1: argued it out throughout the movie. But Malik, Laurence Fishburn
Speaker 1: is reading Malik's paper that he's been working on trying
Speaker 1: to perfect throughout the movie and ship like that. But
Speaker 1: he gets to this passage that Laurence Fishburn, while still disagreeing,
Speaker 1: he like nods with it, you know, happy that Malik
Speaker 1: is able to express, like what is like the ideology
Speaker 1: that he has a ship like that? And Malik says
Speaker 1: this passage that are wants run by Maran says it
Speaker 1: is it is. It is my belief that the dread
Speaker 1: Scott decision, if was retried in contemporary American courts, the
Speaker 1: decision would remain the same, meaning that a black man,
Speaker 1: no matter what his class status, would still have no
Speaker 1: no rights that a white man, by law, would be
Speaker 1: bound in respect. The result would be the same, no
Speaker 1: matter what the law of the land states, because it
Speaker 1: was not written for the benefit of or by African Americans.
Speaker 1: The credo of justice and liberty for all is a
Speaker 1: falsehood I would say that. I mean, the thing that
Speaker 1: strikes me about this quote, this passage is that if
Speaker 1: dread Scott okay, so are you saying if it was
Speaker 1: retried in contemporary American courts? I mean ship Supreme Court today,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to day. He might be fucking right.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Um. I mean I think the um,
Speaker 1: I think that the decision remains the same in practice, right, Um,
Speaker 1: no matter what the law of the land states, as
Speaker 1: he says, Um, because it was not written for and
Speaker 1: by African Americans. It's a falsehood. Um, the Fredo of justice,
Speaker 1: of liberty and justice and liberty for all of fawsood.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that rings that that feels true
Speaker 1: to a degree today. What do you think about just
Speaker 1: the broader struggle between class or race? I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a fundamental struggle in ideological ideology today. The divide and
Speaker 1: conquered mindset of folks that only want to focus on
Speaker 1: class and folks that only want to focus on race
Speaker 1: is beneficial to the folks that benefit from both race
Speaker 1: and class oppression. Um. That the that you know, working
Speaker 1: class white people see, you know, Mexicans and Niggers as
Speaker 1: their enemies rather than the fact that like, none of
Speaker 1: y'all make it any money because the CEO of Tyson
Speaker 1: Foods is jacking up the price of steaks or whatever
Speaker 1: eight percent, blaming inflation and buying another yacht. Um. So
Speaker 1: I think that, yeah, that's that central tension is still
Speaker 1: with us today in the way that people argue about
Speaker 1: what is wrong with society. It is both racism and
Speaker 1: classism and often intertwined um, as seen in the character
Speaker 1: of Laurence Fishburne, where it's like, if you have a
Speaker 1: certain class privilege, your race doesn't matter as much anymore.
Speaker 1: In fact, you might emphasize um, your bootstrapping this as
Speaker 1: a way of distancing yourself from the people that are oppressed,
Speaker 1: so that you were like, oh, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: like them, I'm you know, I'm a self made man, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're still Do you think there's uh, do
Speaker 1: you think there's anything being communicated by Laurence Fishburne's character
Speaker 1: being of obvious West Indian immigrant. No. I wondered what degree,
Speaker 1: like white people that aren't very familiar with the ways
Speaker 1: that a pressure to assimilate will sometimes produce like right
Speaker 1: wing thinking. Right wing thinking in some immigrants, um I
Speaker 1: mean and something I mean then not to like essentialize
Speaker 1: their experience. Some folks that immigrate from Cuba, Venezuela, etcetera
Speaker 1: might just be like, Yo, I saw like leftis unveil.
Speaker 1: I don't want nothing to do with that ship. But
Speaker 1: then for a lot of people, it's like you, like
Speaker 1: you must live the American dream, like definitely gets some
Speaker 1: people's head that like, fun, I have to be like
Speaker 1: hyper capitalists and like ascend the ladder and put my
Speaker 1: foot on the boot on the necks of everyone below
Speaker 1: me in order to like fit in and have made
Speaker 1: it in society. I think that, I mean, it could
Speaker 1: be true for like a variety of racial groups as well.
Speaker 1: But I want to say that like his character was
Speaker 1: an archetype of a certain kind of um immigrant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you nailed it on the head about the
Speaker 1: you know, racing classes. It's obviously both. But I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, yo, I I really you know, you know
Speaker 1: how like you have that like you know, how like
Speaker 1: you got like that racism radar when like some shifts
Speaker 1: going off and you're like it's like it's not obviously
Speaker 1: like some racist ship and you kind of have an
Speaker 1: inkling in the back of your head, like, man, I
Speaker 1: think the ship might be racist, yet I know something
Speaker 1: about like this new breed of like white leftists. Oh
Speaker 1: that's like, hey, the only thing that matters is class.
Speaker 1: Nothing else matters, nothing else is of important. Don't bring
Speaker 1: identity politics, don't bring it up. Don't bring it up
Speaker 1: that it shouldn't be about racist. That shipped to me
Speaker 1: seems weird. I don't know. It rubs me wrong and
Speaker 1: I don't funk with it, Like, but what do you think? Like,
Speaker 1: am i am? I just is that like me just
Speaker 1: like not really having a full grasp on the issues
Speaker 1: or is there something to that this It just feels weird,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like when yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the so called leftists that are like Joe Rogan's awesome,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That's well yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, I mean you know what I'm working about.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, well, where we are we should we
Speaker 1: should we close it up? Yeah, let's wrap it up,
Speaker 1: Let's wrap it up. You know what, Just we're just briefly,
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't really gonna be a music discussion.
Speaker 1: They just briefly I'll mention the soundtrack for Higher Learning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I gotta give my honest opinion, it stinks. It's
Speaker 1: not good. I'm giving up the title song by ice
Speaker 1: Cube Higher Learning. It's I like it, you know, the
Speaker 1: Rafael Sadique joined on there's pretty flying. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know one thing I will give the soundtrack props for
Speaker 1: is that it definitely tries to capture the eclectic flavor
Speaker 1: of the movie, because, like we're talking, we're going from
Speaker 1: ice Cube and Raffael Sadiq to Tory Amos doing R E.
Speaker 1: M covers and Liz Fair. I even think Tory Amos
Speaker 1: got two songs on that fucking thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But all in all, it's it's not really
Speaker 1: that good at the soundtrack. I mean, we we've discussed
Speaker 1: some movies before and some movie soundtracks, but just given
Speaker 1: it to you real like we we can't. We can't
Speaker 1: cue that music discussion beat to talk about the Higher
Speaker 1: Alerting soundtrack. It don't it don't have enough gun. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's I guess that's it for this week. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I I just want to plug I got a new
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Speaker 1: just came out too, for that song so nine one
Speaker 1: two that I can remember. Yeah, just dropped a new
Speaker 1: video for that, so y'all check that out. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, I guess get your earbuds ready and
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