1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Whether we're talk in world history, US history, neighborhood history. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Some of US ain't really have an option what flag 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: he was flying. There was people one day that woke 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: up in Arizona and realized this was Arizona, that it's 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: not Mexico no more. There was people that woke up 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: in Central Europe and realized they was in Germany. It 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: just they didn't move. I didn't know what happened. You 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: just started. There was a moment I woke up and 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: realized I lived with cripps. It's I didn't know. I 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: didn't get no flyers about it. There wasn't no recruiting. 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't at least I didn't know. I was too young. 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: Maybe there was some recruiting. I didn't know. I just 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: woke up one day and was like, oh, oh, we're crips. 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: At least my neighborhood was. I ain't signed up for this. 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: This is just where I live. And then don't mess 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: around and make a friend, because then you mess around 17 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: and make a friend. And if you and your friend 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: one day y'all walking home and somebody with some other 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: color shoelaces decide that they was gonna, you know, take 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: your bike right quick, and then that friend go tell 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: his big brother and then march you and y'all Homie 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: back over there to either squaw up you saying to 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: get your bike back, or he do it to guess what. 24 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: Guess what, Your shoelaces the same color as that big brother. 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: Now in the eyes of the other hood, this just you. 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: You wanted them now, Homie Bamboo was telling me when 27 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: I asked him how you got put on the hood, 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: he was like, look, it happened twice once. I was 29 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: just sitting outside with my uncles and they was like, Yo, 30 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: go fight this fool. Now I'm all of a sudden 31 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: it's like okay, and now I'm I just got jumped in. 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: I don't know just what happened. Of course, later on 33 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,559 Speaker 1: he made his conscious decision to be in the hood, 34 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: but that that first jump in, that was like, oh, 35 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: we just happened to be over here. The district lines 36 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: have been drawing money. This is where you at. Somebody 37 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: drew the districts. I had. Don't say then it might 38 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: get even worse, because you know, sometimes depending on who 39 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 1: go off to jail and who's able to hold down 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: the block, sometimes the neighborhood changes, I know, and a 41 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: lot of parts of Los Angeles just neighborhoods went from 42 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: black to Latino quick. Quick, of course is in air quotes. 43 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: But once they become Mexican, these ain't cripping blood neighborhoods 44 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: no more. This is all cold. And what if you 45 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: didn't move, guess what you hadn't been redistrict. I want 46 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: to talk to y'all about jerrymandering. Politics. It's so real 47 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: right now, Politics, y'all. Politics, All right, y'all, let me 48 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: tell you this little story from my life. So south 49 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, northeast of Compton City called Lynnwood borders 50 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: Compton Long Beaches in the South Bay in Wood. When 51 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: I was younger, you know, child middle school. Apparently I'm 52 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: what they call an old millennial black hood. It's I mean, 53 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: it's Watts, Compton Long Beach, Carson Like, they're all sort 54 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: of around. It's this corridor right now. What boarders up 55 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: to Lynnwood is this area called south Gate Huntington Park. 56 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: These are these other now south Gate and Huntington Park 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: have been as star as far as i've I've understood, 58 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: those were Latino, those were Mexican hoods. My wife is 59 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: from Huntington Park. Uh shout out doctor Alma. So if 60 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: y'all new here, you don't understand it preferred her by 61 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: her prefix. But my pH d wife used to gang bang. 62 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: But we're gonna leave that alone for now. Anyway, So 63 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: that area of town, Southgate, Huntington Park, Bell Gardens, these 64 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: areas were, like I said, predominantly Latino and so I 65 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: for sil Cyper Hills from this around this area, right, 66 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: So that's those. But Lynnwood, however, Lynnwood was like it 67 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: was like it was black, and a lot of areas 68 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: in this part of town where people who were able to, 69 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: you know, maybe leave South Central, maybe leave Watts who 70 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: were just such active hoods and kind of like you know, 71 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: maybe own a house, maybe start a family like these 72 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: people had. Like these were to income homes or families, 73 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like they were able 74 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: to afford something like this, But it didn't mean it 75 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: wasn't active. These were active areas that you didn't go 76 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: necessarily kicking in because I mean, you know, I'm a 77 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a child of of you know, a 78 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: young child of the heyday of this of nineties. You know, gangbanging. 79 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: Like I'm a little young for it. But I was 80 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: a kid when all this was, like all the movies 81 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: was being made about what was happening in l A. 82 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: I was. I was a kid then, So you know, 83 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: you you didn't you ain't just venture in the neighborhoods. 84 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: You didn't know you know. I think I've I've made 85 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: this made this very clear. But the but the borders, 86 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: the lines, you had to be able to read the 87 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: Google map. You understand what I'm saying. But the map 88 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: was essentially it was fixed in the sense that as 89 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: a black neighborhood, you know what I'm saying. So you 90 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: knew you know, red blue, whatever you knew. You just 91 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: read the read the graffiti to figure out where you 92 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: are or know who know or know somebody over there. 93 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: You just know the deal. So lynn Wood's been like 94 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: that as far as I could remember. Now. When I 95 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: met my wife, when we first started dating, you know, 96 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: I was rounding out, you know, I was out of college. 97 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: I was rounding out in my twenties. She I'm starting 98 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: to like meet her family, and she tells me, yeah, 99 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: heard her brother and nephew live in Lynnwood. And I 100 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: was like, oh where, that's crazy. It's Mexican in Lynnwood. 101 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: And she looked at me like what and I was like, 102 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: what do you mean what She's all, we'll go visit them, y'all. 103 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: Now obviously this was some years back, but like when 104 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: we got off the freeway, I mean there was a Kodasa, 105 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: which if you don't know, that's like that's like a 106 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: Latino best Buy. So it's like if you're buying like 107 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: electronics and you don't speak no English, like you would 108 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: go there. You know. I've said, there's an l which 109 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: is like you know at a North Gate, which are 110 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 1: like Mexican grocery stores. I was like, ain't no sign 111 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: in English. It was the weird. I felt like I 112 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: was in an altered universe. I was like this, when 113 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: did this get When did this become Mexican? And she 114 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about? It always has 115 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: and I was like, no, no, no, it hasn't. She 116 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: was like, you're the Tweetie. Tweetie is a it's a 117 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: cholo like a like a vato like like gang over 118 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: there because it's a street called Tweetie. And she was like, yeah, 119 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: my my nephew lives over here, and I was like, oh, 120 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: it got the mug right, Wait what? And I was like, 121 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 1: but I still got home down here. I still got 122 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: friends who I never would and go visit because I 123 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: don't know, Like, look I'm not good down there. That 124 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: like that's dayhood. I thought I come see them in 125 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: neutral areas. I didn't know when did this become? So 126 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: this ain't they're not crimping down here. She was like, no, no, 127 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? The whole joint got redistrict. 128 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea. Now you may 129 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: have not whether you live you may have lived in 130 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: Livewood for thirty forty years, this where your grandma stayed 131 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: where Like all of a sudden, you gotta change your 132 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: shoelaces you didn't even know, like you know what I'm saying, 133 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: and and and obviously I'm talking about like us who 134 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: were civilians, Like who wasn't active? You feel me? When 135 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: you active? You can't change your shoelaces like nah, man, 136 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: like you it is what it is you feel me 137 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: like yo, we you are we right? I don't care 138 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: who like you know what I'm saying, Like when they 139 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: didn't redistrict your zone, It's like, no, that's not your hood. 140 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: No more homie like y'all. The the g I graphy 141 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: has changed. Now. This don't happen often, but when it 142 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: do happen, it's real stark. You didn't move, You ain't 143 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: change your location at all, but your affiliation has absolutely 144 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: changed right up under your feet. Okay, I want to 145 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: talk to you about jerry mandarin Now. Now the situation 146 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: I just explaining you had to do with a vast 147 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: number of so your economic and migratory and just changes 148 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: in the demographic of the city, you know, uh in 149 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: birth rates, all this good stuff. Like, there's a million 150 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: different things that make this jerrymandering is a lot more sinister. 151 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: To step back to explain jerry mandering. Let me talk 152 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: about why I want to talk about it. So check 153 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: this out. Merrick Garland, the head of the U. S. 154 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, is suing the state of Texas over districting. 155 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: As a lot going on here. So you got the 156 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: federal government suing a state you know so, and you like, 157 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: how can you do that? What's happening right now? Well, 158 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: every so often, around uh time for mid terms or 159 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: voting things, you have to set up your congressional district 160 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: and a congressional district is an area of town depending 161 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: on where you live. And in that district, there is 162 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: a representative that goes to the legislature. Um that is 163 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: supposed to represent your district. That's who you are voting for. 164 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: And again in the legislature you have the Senate and 165 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: then you have the House of Reps. Your district is 166 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: the person that's in the House of Reps or your 167 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: congress person. We're talking about Congress. There are every state 168 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: only gets two senators, right, so that's different. Right, your 169 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: district goes into the House. Now, how you decide who 170 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: that person is is you'll vote, you elect them, but 171 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: you vote based on your address because your address tells 172 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: you what district you in, and that district is gonna 173 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: put up somebody will run for Congress for your district 174 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: and you vote for. Well, how do you decide what 175 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: district you're a part of? Now? Why is my address 176 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: a part of a certain district and not a part 177 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: of another district. I live in the thirty fourth district 178 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and my Rep is Jimmy Gomez. He'd 179 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 1: been in this congressional district since July of two thousand, seventeen. 180 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: Is next election is next year, it's a Democrat, that's 181 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: my district. It's also important. I suggest there's a gov 182 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: Track dot us. Uh if you want to like find 183 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: your district like that. Stuff is super important because this 184 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: is how we're gonna see how this matters a little later. 185 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: That's why I'm doing this thing. Okay. Uh. You need 186 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: to know what flags somebody doesn't put on you as 187 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: you're walking around here, because sometimes imagine imagine walking through 188 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: a hood not knowing what flag you got, but everybody 189 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: else know. Nik is out here putting in work for 190 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: you and you don't know they're doing it. Nick is 191 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: making decisions on your behalf. You feel me deciding who 192 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: the OP is for you, my nigga. You just out 193 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: here trying to just buy some groceries. You're trying to 194 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: go get a taco. You feel me over at the 195 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: over at the Holy Moli and Long Beach niggas and 196 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: already decided, oh no, we know who you is. And 197 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: you're like, wait, what now I'm from? And they're like, no, 198 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: that's not that hood, that's that hood is this now? 199 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: And you're like, well, I think it. When did you 200 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: become an OP? When did I become the op you 201 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: better know your district. So districts are set up in 202 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: theory to be geographical, and that the idea of them 203 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: being geographical has to do with the thought that people 204 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: in share geographical spaces have similar concerns because people usually 205 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: cluster around people that they live similar lifestyles, to similar 206 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: socioeconomics and full of ways of life, YadA, YadA, YadA. Right, So, like, 207 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: you're not gonna have city folk in a farm, right, 208 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: You're gonna have farm folks in a farm. So you 209 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: just make that one district because they're going to have 210 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: similar needs and desires and similar things and things are 211 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: gonna ask for their rep Now us in you know, cities, 212 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: we're gonna have also similar things. Like we're all of 213 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: my district. We're all kind of concerned about, you know, 214 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: whether it's gentrification, whether it's clean streets, good sewage, good schools. 215 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: Like we're all concerned about the same stuff. Now, Long Beach, Okay, 216 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: that's a coast right, So uh, although we're both cities, 217 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: we have different needs. Right, one of their needs has 218 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: to do with the beach and with keeping the beach clean, 219 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: and their sewage system is different. You know, and it's 220 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: you've got more salt water in the air, so there 221 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: are certain things that they're going to be concerned about 222 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,599 Speaker 1: that even though we're both cities, we shouldn't be in 223 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: the same district because we have different needs. Does that 224 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: make sense, right? That's the way that districting is supposed 225 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: to in a in a type of democratic republic that 226 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: we have. That's that's the concept, right, But who gets 227 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: to decide what district? Well, not us. Somebody draws red 228 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: lines on a map. We'll talk about redlining one day, 229 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: which is a different type of districting, but yeah, you 230 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: just draw lines on a map. Another good parallel that 231 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: might help, Like if you're not really into the understanding, 232 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: is like what high school you're gonna go to? Like 233 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: your school district? You know, some of y'all may live 234 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: in an area where the high school closest to you 235 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 1: is actually out of district. You gotta go to one 236 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: different and it seems like that don't make sense, right, 237 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: But it's just how the things were drawn, and then 238 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: maybe next year it might be different all of a 239 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: sudden that schools in your district. It's just it's weird, right, 240 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's in a lot of ways, it 241 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: feels real colonial. Like now going into y'all's history, like 242 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: your global history. Uh, this is a freebee. You know, 243 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: a lot of of North or Saharan Africa or different 244 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: just Africa period. Once Europe got there and decided that 245 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: it belonged to them, they they decided to just like 246 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: divide the land and being like okay, you get this part, 247 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: you get this part used, and they just drew these lines. 248 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: And these lines might have gotten drawn right in between 249 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: your neighborhood, split your house and half. All of a sudden, Yo, 250 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: cousin across the street, who's the who's that's your blood? 251 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: We're the same tribe, we're the same everything. They're a 252 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: different country because somebody drew a line there. It's just 253 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: you're no longer and all of a sudden, they're like, 254 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, no, that's that you're this 255 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: you guys are different countries. What It's ridiculous, right, I mean, 256 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: but that's you know, in a lot of ways, like 257 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: that's some of the borders in Africa where you know, 258 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: we're like that like colonizers drew it. I mean, it's 259 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I've said in a poem before. If you 260 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: guys are familiar with my other work, I have a 261 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: poem called two Minutes and thirty Seconds. But I was like, yeah, 262 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: and once you get up into space, you know, you 263 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: look back down at the earth. You know, there's no 264 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: lines all over the ground. There's no word. The word 265 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: Florida isn't written across the ground. It doesn't look like 266 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: it's not because it's not real. Somebody drew a line, 267 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: you know, saying like and then you you we enforce them. 268 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: I guess you know what I'm saying, but like, they 269 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: don't occur, and there's no no force field at the 270 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: forty seven parallel that separates Canada from it's not a 271 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: there's no magical thing there, although it feels like it's sometimes, 272 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: but it's not like it's there's nothing there except that 273 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: we said it is parallels not real. It's because it's 274 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: because of globes. That's why we call it that, right. 275 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: So anyway, so back to this, So congressional districting is 276 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: decided by the state because if you can clump certain 277 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: people together for their shared needs and concerns, if you 278 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: get enough people that have the same shared needs and concerns, 279 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: then what do you have your power? Right, That's how 280 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: you can solidate power. That's how you get stuff past. 281 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: That's how you get stuff done if you have enough 282 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: people with the same shared interests and they all are agreeing. Yo, 283 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: this is our guy, this is who we want. We 284 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: all wanted to be like this. Boom, we got it right, 285 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: that's that district. I wonder if y'all can already see 286 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: how this can get weaponized in a white supremacist, horribly 287 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: racist system. If you have a bunch of black people 288 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: living in the same space and they become a district. 289 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: When you outnumber everybody else, guess what, you have the 290 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: most voting power. So if I draw a line around 291 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: this city and that city is comprised of black people, 292 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: guess who're gonna get to say? Because it's just more 293 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: of us. So if you're trying to consolidate power, what 294 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 1: do you do? You can re draw the lines. It's 295 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: pretty simple. You divide that if it let's just say, 296 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: let's just keep it real clean. You got black people, 297 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: and just for the sake of this argument, the other 298 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: twenty is white. Now, there's nowhere in California doesn't like that, right, 299 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: But let's just say that is, then what do you do? 300 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: You draw district around the white people and take ten 301 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: percent of the black people and make that one district. 302 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: You take another part of that black folks, and now 303 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: that's only you draw. You go into another district over 304 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: here that's maybe predominantly Latino, and you take ten percent 305 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: of that Latinos added to another ten percented in white people. Right, 306 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: so now this new district is white and ten percent Latino, 307 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: and then you take this other district. So you just 308 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: keep drawing lines that consolidate power for yourself. That's why 309 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: the district's shapes are ridiculous, because they're not about share 310 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: the interests. They're about power. Are y'all, y'all, y'all following me? 311 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: You just draw lines around groups that make you more powerful, 312 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: so you might wake up one day in a brand 313 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: new district. I'm looking around my neighborhood. I live in 314 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: a part of town that's like almost a percent Mexican. 315 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm me and my daughter holding down the 316 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: black population in my neighborhoo it you feel me? So 317 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: we're in this one district, But what if they drew 318 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: our lines a little different Where our house is now 319 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: included in area called Monterey Park, which is a almost 320 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: a percent agent. Then the things that have to do 321 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: in my community, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna matter 322 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: my representative, like I don't represent the vast majority of 323 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: my district no more. But because the guy wanted that 324 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: wanted to get elected, redrew the lines to make sure 325 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: he could make sure she could. So Mary Garland is 326 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: sue in Texas because Texas is in the process of redistricting. Now, 327 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: what is the basis of the suing is The basis 328 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: of the suing is Section two of the Voter Rights Act. 329 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: I talked about the Voting Rights Act before, right, Uh, 330 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: y'all do your google's on exactly what that is. But 331 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: what happened was when that Voting Rights Act came into 332 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: power in two thousand and thirteen, it got gutted. How 333 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: did it get gutted? Basically, one of the things that 334 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: we were trying to do with the Voting Rights Act 335 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: was just this was this idea of redistricting oftentime was 336 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: for the purpose to follow me, disenfranchise black and brown 337 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: voices because there's so much of us and when you 338 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 1: hear white supremacists like the extreme right, talking about like 339 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: white genocide, talking about the fabric of our nation being changed, 340 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: the you know, the way that our society is working. Now, 341 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: they feel like they're being outnumbered. Nobody's caring about them 342 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: no more. This is a way to counteract that, because 343 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: you're right, if we're talking sheer numbers, there's more of us. 344 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 1: So why aren't we getting laws passed? Why aren't we 345 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: being represented? Well, you just redraw the maps. Rather than 346 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: letting us consolidate and stay together, you just read all 347 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: the districts. It's it's actually pretty brilliant. But that's what 348 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: will always happened. Let me go back to reconstruction time, 349 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: back to when uh, the slaves were fully freed, When 350 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: the slaves were first freed and we got the right 351 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: to start voting. That's why they invented the black codes. 352 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: Is because we was like, oh wait, we get to 353 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 1: choose our electric official choose oh nigger, we're choosing us. 354 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,719 Speaker 1: And we was winning because just like you use your logic, 355 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: use your antennas. You got one slave owning family is 356 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: maybe five six of them. If they got twenty slaves, 357 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: you out numbered one the four right four You got 358 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: it for the one okay, a little bit of Matt. 359 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: You out numbered one to four, the one right, you 360 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: out number four the one easy. So that means if 361 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: you let me choose, what I'm gonna vote is more 362 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: of us. We're gonna choose the stuff that got to 363 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: do it. So, yeah, they invent the Black Coast. That 364 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: was to disenfranchise us on purpose, because when you when 365 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: you said it, when we get too elected, we're gonna 366 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: choose what makes it. That's what you told me. I said, 367 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: you told me how it works. You said, I get 368 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,959 Speaker 1: to said I get to choose my elected officials the government, 369 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: bother people for the people. The people saying this is 370 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: when we choose. They was like, oh, niket, is this 371 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: working too good? So they had to change the laws. 372 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: The Voting Rights Act was a way to say that 373 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: you just keep doing this because you're you're redrawing these 374 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: districts to make sure that our voices aren't heard. So 375 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: if you're going to redraw the districts, you gotta talk 376 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,479 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court before you do it. That was 377 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: what was in the Voting Rights Act to make sure 378 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: that you're not just being racist. Well, when it got 379 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: gutted and it was Like I said, this was specifically 380 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: because this is what was happening in the South. It's 381 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: just more, it's more, it's more people of color there, 382 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: so those who are in power and losing pacts, not 383 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: enough of them. In two thousand thirteen, that part where 384 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: you had to check in with the Supreme Court got 385 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,160 Speaker 1: taken out. So Texas was like, oh, well, we don't 386 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: have to when we have to check in, And what 387 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 1: does the Supreme Court know about us? Anyway? You're not 388 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: down here, You ain't out here. She wasn't outside. Y'all 389 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: know what's up down here. We draw on our own. 390 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: So they started drawing their own districts. Obviously, these are 391 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: the Republicans doing this because they they could feel the 392 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: wind shifting. How do they feel the wind shifting? NIGGD 393 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: because Austin, Dallas, in Houston, them is big cities and 394 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: them is big and what happens in big cities nigade 395 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: lean left at least right now, that's what happens if 396 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: if all that, if the rest of Texas is ruled, 397 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: ain't nobody out there. It's not enough people out there. 398 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: So according to these Republicans, they're not getting their voices hurt. 399 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: These people outside not getting their voices hurt, right, So 400 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: we need to draw districts that make their voices in 401 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: rural areas be just as powerful as the ones in 402 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: the city because the city is getting too much. A 403 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: lot of this, this, a lot of this was some 404 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: of the stuff that was happening in California. Why California 405 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: was talking about um breaking up, breaking it up as 406 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: a state. Why in the hell should Kerrent County? You know, 407 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: way Rika California. You ever heard of way Rika? Exactly? 408 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: Why they're paying the same the same taxes at San 409 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: Francisco as l A. It's like, why are we paying 410 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: what y'all gotta pay? Then? Prices is for you, Like 411 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: that's y'all's way of life. The rest of Cali ain't 412 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: like this. That's a good point. You get up to 413 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: Mount Shasta. Oh, that's that's Trump Country up there. It's 414 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, it's crazy. It's not you think 415 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: California this this bastion of leftist no nigga, that's the cities. 416 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: You get out the cities, bro, you get down to 417 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: u Kaiper. I'm naming cities that I know. You gotta 418 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: be from here to know and I know this is 419 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: a national international pod. You don't know what I'm talking about. 420 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: But you get down to ukaiper all, nigga. You in Texas, 421 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like they don't rural Texas 422 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: because y'all saying because Austin becoming a lot like Portland's. 423 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: You feel me, Dallas, you know what I'm saying, Dallas 424 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: looking like Seattle these days. You feel me like the 425 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 1: city's is changing. So they was like, oh no, bro, 426 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta, we gotta fix this. They wash, 427 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: they was they was doing. They're doing too much. So anyway, 428 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act was saying, listen, you should be 429 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: able to include not just geographical but racial in linguistic interests, 430 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: right because that at first wasn't a part of the 431 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: districting process, racial and linguistics. So when you start adding 432 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: racial and linguistic, it's again, we have a burgeoning, you know, 433 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: Spanish speaking Latino community that has very specific needs and 434 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: if you're not looking around, they find an outnumber. Everybody 435 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: you know saying, but they don't have no say how well, 436 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: this is how you make sure, if you empower, how 437 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: you stay in power, if you're the guy that you're like, Yo, 438 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose this district because it's a gang of 439 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: you know what's that have been filling up in my district. 440 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm about to lose this job. Well, what's the answer. 441 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: Do you try to convince these people who know for 442 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: a fact you racist and you're not doing nothing for us. 443 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: You're gonna try to convince them that you are, especially 444 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: when they brought up their own champion. You know what 445 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying, They got their own champion. You're gonna convince 446 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: them to go with another white boy. You're gonna convince 447 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: this group. You're gonna convince this whole city of multi 448 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: colored faces that what they need is another white boy. 449 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: That's what you're gonna do. Now, we're just gonna redraw 450 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:13,479 Speaker 1: the districts. You feel me, y'all, y'r bloods now now 451 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: a blood practice, practice, a blood practice. You got it? 452 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: You got it, dam you know I'm saying you got it, Pyru, y'all, y'all, 453 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: bloods now, you redraw the district Now, you gotta worry 454 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: about it. How we become bloods So I just drew 455 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: another line around Compton. So now we now were bloods 456 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: now you're a blood like it just happened right under 457 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: your feet. So this is what Texas is doing, and 458 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: married Garland is like, I don't know, man, this feel real. 459 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you're saying this to protect the rural community, 460 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: but it feels a little I don't know, man, it 461 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: feels a little. Uh it's a little like paragraph feel 462 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: little like you're protecting protecting your whiteness kind of what 463 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: it feels like because Nikki, y'all almost lost last y'all 464 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: almost lost. It's just your your state flipping and uh, 465 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: it seems like you're not representing the people, you representing 466 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: yourself and just I don't know if y'all could do this. Um, 467 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: let's give you a little background history of like how 468 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: long people been jerrymandering and where we even got that word. 469 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: Let's take a break. All right, we're back, y'all. Peep 470 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: that headlights yet? Did he drop it? I don't know 471 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: when this episode is coming out. He better have dropped 472 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: the album by now, if not hit him again, dropped 473 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: the album. I listened to it. We don't help to 474 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: put it in in order. This fool got slapstock. It's 475 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: just good vibes, Like if you had. You know, this 476 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: is the holidays. You know you kind of tired a family. 477 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: Keep it real that, uh you need something to chill 478 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: out in, or even background music while everybody there. Man, 479 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: throw on that headlights tape. Man, it's good vibes. You 480 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: feel me anyway? So jerrymanderin All right, listen this mug 481 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: go all the way back to I mean, the next 482 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: day after we became a nation, right, like immediately you 483 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Thomas Hunter. He's a political scientist 484 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: over professor over there at the at the University of 485 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: West Georgia. Right, I mean, like there's evidence in like Virginia, 486 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: North Carolina, South Carolina that they drew districts to benefit 487 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: some candidates over others. I'm talking like late eighteenth early 488 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: nineteenth century there. I mean, it was called Jerry Mandarin then, 489 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: but nig has been Jerry Mandarin the whole time, right, 490 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: it would be called that a little later. I'm an 491 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: quote him. He's all, yeah, I'm a quote thomasonr. He says, 492 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: I think that what they did in Massachusetts in eighteen 493 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: twelve really was on steroids compared to what had gone 494 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: on before. Said Hunter. Um about okay, I'm gonna get 495 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: to it now. Check this out. So eighteen twelve, the 496 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: Boston Gazette, right, was this politically he ran this political 497 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: cartoon with this like species. Is the drawing of this 498 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: like monster right that they called it the Jerrymander. Right. 499 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: It was this fork tongue creature that looked like a 500 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: almost like a dragon, a little bit that was shaped 501 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: like a contorted Massachusetts voting district that the States Jeffersonian 502 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: Republicans had drawn to benefit their own party. So again, 503 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: rather than drawing, you know, district map that made sense, 504 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,719 Speaker 1: they drew this weird shaped thing around the side of 505 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: Boston and they called that one district. And it's because 506 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: they were just drawing circles around people that would vote 507 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: for a Jeffersonian Republican. So rather than having a district 508 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: and trying to win that district over, you just drew 509 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: a district, drew a circle around people that would vote 510 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: for you. And now Homie who signed off for this 511 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: became a future vice president. Eldredge Gary Right, who signed 512 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: off on his party's redistricting in February, unwittingly submitting his 513 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: place in the United States lexicon of underhanded political tricks. 514 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: So the Federalists reprinted it. That's a newspaper, and so 515 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: when they reprinted it, it it was kind of like this. 516 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: It was because it was supposed to be a play 517 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: on words with a salamander, right, so they called it 518 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: a jerrymander, even though Jerry's name is pronounced Gary. What 519 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: we say it like Jerry, It's just whatever. It's just 520 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: this is what happens when something's two hundred years old. 521 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: So anyway, he drew a district that did not make 522 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: sense to make sure that he could stay in power. Right, 523 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: But before that they used to call him a rotten 524 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: boroughs um, which is, again, you make a district that 525 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: would ensure that these people in this room would vote 526 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: for you. So if you're living in this in this area, 527 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: your neighborhood happens to get redrawn. My nig, all of 528 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: a sudden, you're on the wrong side of town according 529 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: to you're voting practices. Now, in a defense of redrawing districts, 530 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: a defensive redrawing districts can in some ways be like 531 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: my first example of Lynnwood, the demographic changed, you know 532 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like the city is it's different, right, 533 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: the the the borders are different. Um using a gang. 534 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: Using the gang analogy here, like when you say you 535 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: from Compton, we have to be like you from east 536 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: or west because one side is blood, one side is crip. 537 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: You know, but maybe it wasn't always like that, because 538 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, there was a time that bloods didn't exist, 539 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: you feel me, right? So uh, that means that the 540 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: city needs to be who's representing y'all needs to be 541 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: y'all need to this needs to We need to redraw 542 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: these districts because these two areas have very different interests, right, 543 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: So because of that, you need different representatives. So there 544 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: is a time that maybe it is important to re 545 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: draw lines. But then it's other times that it's like 546 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: when it's coming from the top down rather than the 547 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: bottom up. It's because y'all, these fools is consolidating power. 548 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: So more of the story for all of us. What 549 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: do we need to know? Your homework is today? As 550 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: soon as you finished this pod, go figure out what 551 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: district you in, who your representative is. Didn't do your 552 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: googles on this? Dude on this lefe on this food 553 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: on cuse blood? Do do do do your do your google? 554 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: What's this fool about what they what they're trying to do? 555 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: What's they vote in history? You know what I'm saying, 556 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: pay attention like who who is this fool? You know 557 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Know your district, Know some of the 558 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: ballot measures that are in your district. And then after that, 559 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: like look around as to like, yo, maybe somebody else 560 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: might be maybe he's trying to start paying attention to 561 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: your local commercials about who's running for district, Like see who, 562 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: see who? See who we're putting up? When you see 563 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: what your district is, look at the way it's drawn 564 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: and being like all right, uh, you know your hood 565 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: better than me, be like okay, this seems it seems 566 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: real weird, Like why why are we looped in with 567 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: them and not with them? That don't make no sense. 568 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why somebody wanted to keep their gobs. 569 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: You feel me so um And then just you know, 570 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: now that you have this information, like the next time 571 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: you's Alice come around, you can make a more educated 572 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: guess as to like who you're trying to send you 573 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: feel me, who are you trying to send to the 574 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,879 Speaker 1: table to be representing y'all? Like who's your soldier. Does 575 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: this soldier Is this soldier really interested in our goods? See, 576 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: there's a lot of things in politics that are I 577 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: feel you are so far away from us that it 578 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: seems like it don't do nothing. And those ones that 579 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,720 Speaker 1: are so far away from us usually get the most shine. 580 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: These local ones, they don't get a lot of shine, 581 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: But that's the ones that affect us the most. You 582 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Your vote in your local one 583 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 1: is one of a couple of thousands. Your vote for 584 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: them national ones um a couple of millions. So I 585 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: mean where you think your voice gonna have problem more 586 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: weight with a couple of thousands or a couple of million. 587 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Why not talk district on 588 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: out what color places you've got? You know what I'm saying, 589 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: Maybe you ain't handle say what you do now the 590 00:34:51,520 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: politics y'all, y'all, This smug was recorded and edited by 591 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: me Propaganda right here in East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles. 592 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: Y'all cauld follow me at prop hip Hop on all 593 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 1: the socials. 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