WEBVTT - 081223 Solidarity over Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ song (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:00.800 And now. 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:10.600 Watch my mic back like that, just striking from head 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:11.760 borders behind in. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.400 The just tuning into sitting cipher. I am your host, 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:16.239 Ramsey's job. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.240 He is job. I am q ward and I am 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.000 steel fing my best to do this one too with 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:22.520 this call. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:23.400 I appreciate it. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:23.600 Man. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.480 Yeah, you sound good. We'll stick around. We still got 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.760 a lot more show in store for you. We're gonna 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.560 circle back to that riverboat stuff for our way black 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.199 history fact. We're going to talk about the name of 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.479 the boat because I guess the name of that boat 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.599 was taken from a boat that used to transport slaves. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.680 And we're also going to talk about that part of 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.560 the Alabama Riverfront or whatever, because that used to be 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.960 a slave auction. And then we're going to talk about 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.280 the folding chair because we didn't get to it. Shout 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.840 out to Aquamane and Uncle Wiget here you you wouldn't 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.600 know if you've seen the video or whatever, but we're 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.880 gonna talk about that folding share and the fact that 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.920 a black person is the one who pattent did the 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.440 folding chair. And we're also going to talk about Jason 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.200 Aldean and his song try that in a small town 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.080 so stay tuned for all that. But first and foremost, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.600 we're going to discuss b A b A becoming a 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.080 better ally Baba. Today's Boba sponsored by Unknown Union, the 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.720 fashion house situated at the intersection of meaning, innovation and culture. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:29.440 For more info check Unknown Union dot com. And today 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:35.720 we're talking about this came from the South Africa Daily 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.440 and we're talking about The Rock, the actor Duane the 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.000 Rock Johnson. So I'll read. American actor Duane Johnson, best 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.800 known as The Rock, took time out of his business 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:53.680 schedule to recently surprise Demba to Goririmbo is zimbabwayan UFC 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.360 fighter who had recently relocated to the United States with 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.880 only seven dollars in his bank account and the aim 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.200 of pursuing his dream of the coming a UFC champion. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.240 Then bug Grimbo fought against Takashi Sato in May and 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.400 made his first win after falling after previously falling short 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.480 against aj Fletcher. MMA News reported during an interview after 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.240 the fight, he shared a devastating story about his childhood 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.440 back in Zimbabwe. Quote, I've almost died when I was 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.920 sixteen at the Diamond Fields. I saw heaven when I 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.640 was in the fields. I've been shot at in the 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.679 diamond fields. I've seen people die in front of me 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.359 at the diamond fields. I smuggled diamonds when I was sixteen, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.760 he said. According to The Rock, after Garimbo won his 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.720 first fight, he sold everything, including his fighting gear, on 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.760 the net and made seven thousand dollars, which he donated 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.320 to his village. And I saw the video. There's a 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.640 video documenting this is really special and if you have 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.760 a beating hearted, mi movie to tears. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.359 To get clean drinking water to his village. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.400 Yeah, so he spent all his prize money from his 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:57.320 fight to get his village some water, a clean water 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.799 pump or something, and then he came to the US 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.960 to try to become the champion so that you can 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.520 have more money to donate. Anyway, I finished, the former 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.480 WWE wrestler or decided to surprise Grimbo at a gym 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.480 in South Florida where he slept since he was homeless 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.160 in America with a new house. This is obviously The 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:18.240 Rock is black and Grimbo is black as well, but 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.400 black people can be allies to black people and people 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.880 in Africa. Money is a big deal in Africa because 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.239 there's even less of a there. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.400 Big deal everywhere, sure, and there's plenty there. They just 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.000 figure out how to keep it away from us. I 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.519 don't even want to start. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.400 That's a whole Listen. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.880 We haven't broached that money and resource in Africa therea. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.120 We haven't broached that subject because we try to deal 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.960 with things in the United States. But listen, the geopolitical 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.720 status of all the countries in Africa. Listen, We're not 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.600 born to be poor, we're not born to die, We're 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.800 not stupid, we're not all corrupted or not. You know, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.840 none of that stuff. There are divorces. We're directly working 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.720 to help eradicate that as well. Yeah, Q especially, this 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.400 is not a passive mission that we're all. We will 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.280 be on the continent later this year. I give you 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.160 guys up based on that. If I can convinced Ram 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.360 just to go back with me, oh yeah, both of 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.640 us will be there. We there. I love Africa anyway, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:13.320 all right, So let's talk about what solidarity looks like 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:20.440 on the opposite side. Okay, So this one is going 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.159 to be a little weird, because I think this gives 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:35.880 insight into how cooperative folks who whose beliefs are based 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.080 in hate and divisiveness. In my estimation, they probably would 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.279 not call it hate and divisiveness, but I know better. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.960 They just rebranded every few years is something different, but 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.240 we're calling it conserva, deep conservative conservativism, now right or 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:57.320 far right conservativism, but it's racism, that's full stop. We're 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.200 going to show how they stick together. And I want 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.120 to have this in content trust to that riverboat thing, 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.560 because this what we're talking about with this Jason Aldean thing, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.039 is this happens quite a bit, especially when it comes 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:14.120 to voting. These people vote, they get together, they get organized. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.120 I think Malcolm X has a quote that I think 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.000 works right here. He says, we were not out numbered, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.680 we're out organized. Right. So that's why that riverboat thing 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.200 was so special for black folks because it showed a 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.360 little bit of solidarity. We're going to rally around this 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.679 person and support him in his time of need. Well, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.320 the opposite of that is this Jason Aldean guy. So 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.760 I'm gonna do a little bit of reading from Rolling Stone, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.120 and I'm gonna tag Q in along the way just 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.400 to kind of help paint a picture, because I know 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.279 Q has been champing at the bit to try to 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:56.080 get this one. That's an inside well, I guess not 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.600 inside joke, because last week or two weeks ago, we're 0:05:58.640 --> 0:05:59.880 trying to figure out if it was Champion at the 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:01.760 bit chomping at the bit. It turns out it's both. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.880 But champing is not wrong, but Cusman champing at the 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.200 bit to get at this topic here. So I'll read 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.120 a bit, all right, This comes from Rolling Stone. Conservative 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.640 fans tried to push Jason Alden to number one. They 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.000 just missed. Jung Cook and Lotto prevail after streams and 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.920 sales for Try That in a Small Town skyrocketed thanks 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.479 to the controversy around the song and video. Okay, let 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.680 me read a bit. Conservatives hoping to drive Jason Alden's 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.400 controversial Try That in a Small Town to number one 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.720 on the charts following CMT's move to pull the music 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.680 video fell just short on Monday. Bear in mind, we're 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.680 reading this a little bit after it came out because 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.240 we couldn't get to it last week, So forgive me. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.840 The timeline might not sound as accurate, and you're hearing 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.160 us after we've recorded this. I'll go on as Jung 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:55.279 Cook and Lotto's seven Rain victorious. But the controversy clearly 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.560 stoked flames among MAGA circles, giving the song sales a 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.559 major boost last week and propelling the song to number 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.840 two on the chart. According to data service Illuminate, which 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.880 powers the Billboard charts, Try That in a Small Town 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.680 was garnering fewer than one thousand sales per week and 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.400 hovering just shy of a million streams per week in 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.480 the month prior to when al Dean released the song's 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:25.680 music video on July fourteenth. Immediately, al Dean faced swift backlash, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.920 as everyone from fellow artists like Sheryl Crow and Jason 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.120 Isbel to scholars of racial violence pointed out the parallels 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.840 to white nationalist narratives in al Dean's depiction a protest 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.680 as violent and lawless and his taunting refrain try that 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.400 in a small town, See how far you make it 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.840 down the road. CMT pulled the video within a few days, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.280 drawing a predictably furious outcry from the right wing and 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.760 vows to drive the song up the charts. So I'm 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:02.640 going to read a little bit more here, but short, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:08.480 this video pulled footage from the BLM protests. Now you'll 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.960 hear because we have to say his side of the story, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.760 but you'll hear him say that he didn't know that 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.880 it was that, and he you know whatever. I guess 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.000 he didn't have permission to use the footage anyway. But 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.360 those of us in the know realize that this is coded. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:32.680 This is like dog whistle musicianship right here, musicianship. He's 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:39.319 making a song two for those really entitled folks and 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.280 these folks that feel like America belongs to them and 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.400 the flag is theirs, and that you know, Donald Trump 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.160 is the second coming of Jesus Christ. It gives them 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.040 a rallying cry, reason to beat their chest. Right. That's 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:58.240 not to say that we haven't had songs to move 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.080 the culture forward on our side, and by our side, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.800 I mean the more I guess liberal side of things 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.360 or less conservative side of things. But this one is 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:14.480 a little different in that this song there's connections to 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:20.880 violence that are very realistic and very much based in 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:29.280 a real history. And so for this Jason Alden record, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.400 when the video comes out, they're showing like a courthouse 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.760 and that's where they used to do like public lynchings 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.560 of black people back in the day. And you know, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.480 obviously the footage of the protests really pits Jason Alden's 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.000 message of try that in a small town against the 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.599 messaging of the BLM protests of twenty twenty. In other words, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.240 it's a rallying cry that is like the lyrics don't 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.640 directly reference it, but when the video did, that's when 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.840 it blew up, because everyone's like, okay, clear, now you 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.920 can't even hide it anymore, Like we knew, but now 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.520 we know no, because you're literally showing us the video. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.000 So I'm going to turn it over to Q to 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.880 get his early thoughts, and then we'll get back to 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:15.800 reading a little bit more. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.959 About I guess the most frustrating part is that their 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:23.280 efforts did not fail. As of ten hours ago, story 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.959 released by Rolling Stone stated that the song last week 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.679 actually did make it to number one. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:28.200 Oh okay. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.800 However, what Rolling Stone also pointed out is that it 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.959 was clear that that was their effort. Now once it 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.760 got there, no one cared. The song dropped twenty four 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.880 spots on the charts the following week. It's no longer 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.079 in the top ten, Mike, as I'm looking now, it's 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.600 not in the top thirty. As I'm looking now, it's 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.800 not in the top forty. As I'm looking now, it's 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.400 not in the top fifty. That's all it's worth. I'm 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.520 looking now, it's not in the top sixty. I'm going 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.560 to scroll until I find it. Well, seventy, you can 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:07.040 talk ram this, So watch this eighty Donald Trump, ninety, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.520 go ahead. It's not in the top one hundred. I 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.080 won't scroll past that because I think my point is proven. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.960 It was a troll job by people that hate, just 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.880 like he intended them to get. Pretended he had no 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:25.080 idea when there's video of protest in Atlanta in his video. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.920 So it's intentionally insultingly deceitful. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.280 So watch this. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.080 Throw the rock and hydra hand is what my people 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:46.880 call that. Yeah, cowardice. So Donald Trump's what was that? 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.800 The choir, the January sixth choir, the people that were 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.559 in prison or whatever, they did a rendition of America, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.480 the Beautiful Pledge, allegiance to some some song, right, maybe 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.959 the national anthem, who knows, but. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.200 It was like January. The supporters of the January sixth 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.640 insurrection that it went to jail. That song ended up 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.720 going to number one, not necessarily because it was quality 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.040 music or it it slaps or it was you know 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.240 what it was. Even this song right here, we know 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.680 that it don't slap because it was getting a thousand, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.440 what was it, one thousand sales per week prior to 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.120 the controversy. People weren't checking for it. It's like you said, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.680 a troll job. So these things that the January sixth choired, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.240 this sort of thing and other things are kind of 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.640 an act of solidarity on that part. Their response to 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.680 the I'm a huge fan of wokeness. I'd rather be 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.760 woken in sleep Dog ten times out of ten for real. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.240 And I want to say this before you move on, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.800 but because I want to quote an actual source and 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.280 not just myself, Rolling Stone says the song felled twenty 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.720 four spots. That was earlier today. I don't see the song, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.199 but Rolling Stone does this for a living, so I'm 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.360 going to lead on them, okay, but it still makes 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.560 the point. Yeah, typically of song reaches number one, it'll 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.040 be there for longer than a week, and if it 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.480 does drop to five two, yeah, it drops to four, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:06.760 not twenty five. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:18.240 Yeah. So anyway, that's solidarity in that organization around And 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.600 the sad part is that they it's like almost like 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.679 these people know that it's hate. They know they're like, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.680 they'll call it frustration, the will call it fed up 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.640 and fed up with the you know whatever. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.120 But it's hate. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.920 It's all it is, right, we know that. But they 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.040 needed to be anything other than racism. That's why they 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.320 don't like that word, because that means that they've lost 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.080 the narrative. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.520 Right, you can't be you and they're a bad person, right, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.160 And they can't want to be perceived as bad people. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.920 They're just upset, Right, how can I best tired of 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:56.400 being marginalized? They're just acknowledging that racism towards white people 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.840 is a far worse problem than racism towards non whites 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:01.640 in this country. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.559 You should check out our check out our show from 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.040 last week. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.959 If you all they're trying to express, you want to 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.000 get you specifically to understand that, Yeah. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:18.880 Well, activities like this that push uh a hateful message, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:25.800 that fly in the face of what is simply an 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.360 affirmation that black lives have worth is on its face, 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:38.320 insulting and hurtful, and they will adopt any possible vantage 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.840 point other than that it's glaringly obvious vantage point to 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:42.720 make their case. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.560 It's the reason why the social constructs of black and 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.600 white were so brilliantly placed. Right all of you immigrants 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.720 that have come here that are not from Africa, rewind 0:14:55.040 --> 0:15:00.640 that don't look like you're from Africa, whose skin isn't dark, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:07.320 who lack melanin, can identify as white. And once we 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.760 do that, the drastic at that point, the drastic minority 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.840 of people will be identified as black. So even though 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.880 we're very very different. We're German, we're Irish, we're Australian. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:29.600 You know, we're French, we're Swiss, were Spanish or Portuguese, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:34.440 even we're white, all of us. And once I can 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.000 get all of you to identify as white, I can 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:42.400 then present white as superior and everything else as beneath 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.080 what you was talking about here is and then the 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.480 rest of your life without knowing it because it's an ideology. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:55.000 Now you have been indoctrinated to the idea of simple 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.200 self protection, self preservation. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.080 If you will. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:06.440 Kind well to do people, fight, vote, sing, march, and 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.680 organize to protect the social construct of white supremacy because 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.560 it is drastically beneficial to them. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.800 Right now, I need to fill in a gap here, please, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:25.400 So if you look throughout history until about maybe the 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:33.280 late fifteen hundreds, early sixteen hundreds, you won't notice white people. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.040 Of course, our modern interpretation of what white people is. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.000 Those people existed, but you won't find them. They're not 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.840 documented anywhere any more than black people existed prior to 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:55.840 this time. The term white people was created to delineate 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:02.160 the non slave class from the slave class. In other words, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.560 based on your appearance, you could tell a person's status 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:12.480 in a given society black because of the slave trade. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.760 So shout out to Great Britain, Britain, and the Spanish, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.320 and the Portuguese and the Americans. And let's not pretend 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.560 like the Middle East, those those countries and there didn't 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.520 have anything to do with it as well. And so 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.600 this is the origin story of black people as a 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.440 term and white people as a term. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.040 And even then, during your progressive movements, call those black 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.879 people African Americans and everyone else just American. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.720 Mmm. Now, let me let me take that a step further. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:52.920 So this country has used that white supremacy at several 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:58.440 points to let's let's say, after several points after slavery ended, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.040 to continue to benefit from the presence of black people, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:08.760 black bodies and to profit off of black labor. And 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.600 I'm not just talking about prisons. I'm talking about land theft. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:20.800 I'm talking about UH a series of aggressive acts, political 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:26.800 acts and uh fiscal acts, you know, laws enacted to 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:34.280 uphold a system that protects white interests and doesn't consider 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.440 black interests. And I'm not just talking about Jim Crow 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.280 and you know, the Black Codes, and I'm not just 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.800 talking about the GI Bill, and I'm not just talking 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:51.200 about redlining. It's it's so much deepail, Like like land theft, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.840 we could we could just start there, billions and billions 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.760 of dollars just just completely taken washed off of the record, 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.919 and then guess who ended up with that land? Right, So, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.679 so for many years, black people have borne the brunt 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:08.600 of a system that protects white interests. I'm not making 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.520 this stuff up either. Why would I do that. I 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.919 could be easily debunked. I just have happened to be 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.800 able to do so much research over the past few 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.080 years especially, and then now I'm condensing it into a conversation. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.479 So when we talk about this guy Jason Alden and 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:32.200 his song, and it's very pro white supremacist messaging, dog 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:37.640 whistle messaging, and then we see the solidarity around it. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.800 This is something that we all need to be made 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:44.720 aware of because, as Malcolm X said often enough. His 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:49.639 quote goes, we are not outnumbered, we are out organized, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:56.879 and we have to know that even though it's hate, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.679 it's very, very sophisticated hate. It's sophisticated at the polls. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:06.600 It's sophisticated to trick Billboard charts algorithms, right because they're 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.919 not increasing the amount of radio plays. So that's clicks, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.920 that's downloads, that streams, that's everything of people saying this 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:15.800 is the reality that I want to live in. I'm 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.119 going to do this a thousand times. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:24.000 Rolling Stone notes the songs drop from number one to 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.720 twenty one is among the biggest falls from the top 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.600 one hundred in the charts history. Yeah. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.399 Now I'm going to finish reading this article just so 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.560 I can finish painting the picture. But I have to 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.840 say his piece too, just to be fair or whatever. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.600 I guess, all right, just last week alone, So again 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.080 Ques reading more current from a more current source. I'm 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.960 reading the source that we built this segment around, So 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.679 mine is a little bit older than what Ques reading. Anyway, 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.440 just last week alone, Aldin's song earned about two hundred 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:01.040 and twenty eight twenty eight thousand digital songs sales and 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.960 eleven point six million streams. For reference, the song has 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.119 two hundred and thirty eight digital sales all time, meaning 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.400 that around ninety five percent of the sales came last 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.399 week after the controversy started. Fifty of its nearly twenty 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.960 one million all time streams came last week as well. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:25.479 Aldine faced diiff competition from bds's Jung Kook, who said, uh, well, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:26.960 I guess we don't need to read that anymore anyway. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.159 Regardless of where a small town landed on the chart, 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.919 the track has become yet another dog whistle for conservatives 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.920 how about that, who have bemoaned the critiques as examples 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.240 of so called cancel culture. Right wing entrepreneur and long 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:44.840 shot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, whoever that say we did 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:46.560 last one I know he is. I'm just being playing, 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.840 tweeted last week that he'd be playing the song at 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.200 rallies and encouraging followers to drive the song up the charts, 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.920 before doing his best to change the subject to hip hop. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:02.080 Ramaswammy eagerly echoed the song veil threatening tone quote, it'd 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.120 be a real shame if the song hits number one. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.280 Other accounts of referenced the bud Light boycott, some conservatives 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.040 tries to get off the ground after the beer brand 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:14.800 partnered with trans TikTok star Dylan mulvaney, or the campaign 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:19.720 to boost Qanana Jason thriller Sound of Freedom all Right, 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.560 now Here We Go. Aldine himself has repeatedly dismissed the backlash, 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.280 denying that try That in a Small Town is a 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.280 pro lynching song. He says, quote there's not a single 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.680 lyric in the song that references race or points to it. 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.560 He wrote on social media. Obviously the video told a 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.280 much different story. But you know this is what he's 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.199 hiding behind. Easy so they say, whats your chest if 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.840 you mean it otherwise, don't play with people. But you know, anyway, 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.679 let me finish read all right. On Friday night, Al 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:51.520 Dean addressed a controversy during a concert in Cincinnati, seeming 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.159 to applaud efforts to cash in on the song's notoriety. Quote, 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.760 you guys know how it is. It's cancel culture. It's 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.320 a thing. It's somehow where if people don't like what 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.800 you say, they try and make sure they can cancel you, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.320 which means they try to ruin your life, ruin everything. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:08.119 One thing I saw this week was a bunch of 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:09.960 country music fans that can see through a lot of 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.200 the bs. All Right, I saw country music fans rally 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.080 like I've never seen before, and that was pretty bad, 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.120 as in good. I gotta say thank you guys so much. 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.159 So this is his statement on the whole thing. Just 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.800 to be fair. Obviously, we know that it can only 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:29.679 be one of two things, what we believe it to be, 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:37.160 which is outright racism and you know, him taking advantage 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:39.720 of that and making music about that, which we don't 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:41.840 believe is kind at all. 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.400 Or and then there's the easy veil of just painting 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.000 that not as racism but as patriotism. 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:51.000 Or yeah that, but thinly veiled patriotism is or sorry, 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:52.879 thinly veiled racism is. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:56.600 Well, I guess it's one of the same. That's what 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:00.000 I'm trying to say. That's the part that's most terrified. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.480 So it's happened in the American flag, and it's okay. 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:08.879 So watch this. It's either him making a song about hate, 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:13.760 or it's him taking advantage of people who have hateful tendencies. 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:17.439 All right, time for the Way Black History Fact. Today's 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:20.120