1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: Okay, listen, it's time to get your bars up. The 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: news is already in your face all the time. You 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: already know Trump out here talking about nuck if you buck, 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, man, you know, pull 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: up on me then and bust a move. A matter 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: of fact, I'm gonna hire my guy to come and 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: look through all the stuff you got, Like, y'all get it. 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He facing a palcthora charges 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: everybody know that. You know what I'm saying. You know, 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and a like how it started? How is it 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: going over there? With the Taliban situation? Like, oh word, 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: like y'all was gonna be the new and improved Taliban, 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Come on, family, like you already knew that wasn't gonna 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: You already knew they was gonna be the same Taliban 15 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: they always was. You don't need me to to you know, 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: we're about to be in mid terms. You know what 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know, uh biting out here talking about 18 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: we need to fund the police. We expect them to 19 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: do everything. We expect them to be psychologists and psychiatrists 20 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: and counselors and therapists, which is all the reasons why 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: we're saying we need to defood because you're asking them 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: to do stuff they died trade and do. So, how 23 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: about you hire to train with professionals and fund them 24 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: to do that. Take the money you're taking it in. 25 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: It's just like you get his whole reason for funding 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: the police is the exact reason to defund them. It's 27 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: pretty funny. But you all need me to explain all 28 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: that you already you're already in there. I want to 29 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: take time today to give y'all some reading assignments or listening. 30 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: It's up to you either way. We're gonna get your 31 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: weight up today. You go get your bars up. I'm 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: gonna give you some book recommendations. Good politics, y'all. In 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: case you don't know, get your bars up is a 34 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: this is gonna. It's it's always weird to like explain 35 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: stuff that like you never had to like actually give 36 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: an actual definition to because it's like you didn't even 37 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: know where to start. It would be if you were 38 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: to make some sort of reference to like all the 39 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: forces strong with this one, like how many things you 40 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: have to unpack to give context for for that phrase 41 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: to make sense? Right? And then it it's almost not 42 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: as fun anymore. Getting your bars up is a rap phrase, right. 43 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: Bars are measurements of song, of sound, of lyrics like 44 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: you know, one to three one one two three two 45 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: one two three three bars right, and it became a 46 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: ubiquitous colloquialism for rapping, right. If you know, back in 47 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: the nineties he was like, y'all got sixteen bars. What 48 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: you're saying is like I have a verse, right, because 49 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: versus traditionally and during that time versus we're sixteen bars, 50 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: you do twelve, you do do an eight? Right. Pop 51 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: music is a little different. Pop music is usually eight 52 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: bar versus eight bar chorus, right, and then now the 53 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: whole phrase get to the chorus for you boris right? Uh. 54 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,839 Speaker 1: Then the second versus usually four bars into a four 55 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: bar bridge or four bars into a course again four 56 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: bar bridge or eight bar bridge, big finale a bar 57 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: ending pop music. Right. But if we're saying like y'all 58 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: get your bars up, like it would be something to 59 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: tell a person like man, you need to like practice 60 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: your wrapping. You need to get better at what you're doing. 61 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: And one of the untold things about hip hop music, 62 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: especially if you're gonna do it at a particular level 63 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: of excellence? Is it actually require er is a decent 64 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: amount of interdisciplinary like sort of Polly Maath knowledge of culture, right, 65 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it well, you'd be surprised at 66 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: how smart a lot of the best rappers are, Like 67 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: y'all know, two Chains went to Tuskegee, like like like 68 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: these a lot of these people are very, very very 69 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: smart people. It's the same with comedy, Like for comedy 70 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: to be really as sophisticated and funny as it can be, 71 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: you kind of gotta know what you're talking about and no, well, 72 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: what you're talking about to be able to point out 73 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: absurdities and and and satires and and and make the 74 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: jokes and make the connections, you have to know what 75 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: you're talking about. Of course there's slapstick and stuff like that, 76 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: but slapstick comedy also you kind of gotta know what 77 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: you're talking about to know to know how to make 78 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: fun of it. So for you know, foods making like 79 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: double and triple and quad druple and andres like, you 80 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: have to know what you're talking about. You have to 81 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: be able to make references from history, pop culture, science, 82 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: literature to bring it all together for this all it's 83 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: not just like got it out the mug. We're turning 84 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: up in the club, you know what I'm saying. It's 85 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: not just that even if, because you can only do 86 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: that for so many songs. Eventually you're turning up in 87 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: the club has to have some sort of similar to it, 88 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: like a something, and it can't be something you didn't 89 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: say it a million times or is corny right for 90 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: for the type of rapping I'm talking about. Of course, 91 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: there's something for everybody. You know, there's exceptions to this rule. 92 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: Some stuff is all vibe, some stuff is all feel. 93 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: And if we were making a comparison to politics, that 94 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: would be your Trump's of the world. This is all vibe. 95 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: Ain't no content, This is candy and the content he 96 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: given is ridiculous, right they he got no bars. It's 97 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: all styles. It's all cadence, right, Cadences uh in this 98 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: time era if pop, cadence is king. Cadence is like 99 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: the way you say your stuff. So that's why you 100 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: can remember how a song goes, but not the lyrics. 101 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: It's the cadence, you know. Sammonde Damond de Damond, Dan Damond, 102 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: You're dumb bo see something Zabama's Dedamina dud. That's the cadence. 103 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: And then you just drop words into it. Oh, hey, 104 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: who do you know rocking on Mike and I'm killing 105 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: that flow? Hey what do you see stepping the crowd 106 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: and I'm rocking? It's me. It's just cadence. I didn't 107 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: say anything. It's just the cadence. Right, But those are bars. 108 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: On the other hand, when you're all bars and no finesse, 109 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: this is backpack rapper. This is like there's no there's 110 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: nothing to lie latch onto. It's just rapid e raps 111 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: and a lot of the rapidi rap stuff, which is 112 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: what I came from. Right, You're not gonna bang it 113 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,559 Speaker 1: in the car, you know. It's like it's like headphone music. 114 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, it's not you ain't 115 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: gonna hear it in the club. This the the you know. 116 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: I spit similarlys ripped mikes and mentioned me, mentioned me. 117 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: I spit similarly top of them Brain Rick in Dye, 118 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: Rick and Shorty Border, Rick and Mortar, sort of bipolar 119 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: Ryan Thrower Rancher. You know what I'm saying, It's like, okay, 120 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: cool whatever I mean. I guess you know. But if 121 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: you could put Bars and Cadence together, you get Kendricks, 122 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: you get calls you know what I'm saying, and you 123 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: get certain elements of Drake right, you get greatness out 124 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: of your music when you could put the two together. 125 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: So as far as your knowledge of world history, politics, 126 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: and the world we're getting into and especially moving into 127 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: these mid terms, especially being able to have a decent 128 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: conversation about the air quotes, culture wars we have in 129 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: some people all Cadence, it's all live liberal shot now 130 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: a cave. I'm like, okay, well, what do you what 131 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: do you mean by that we kill the black people? 132 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter? Okay? What do you mean by nord 133 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: else is killing black people? I'm saying saturated fats, food, deserts. 134 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: Get your bars up. Do you know what we're talking 135 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: about here when we say all cops are bastard? Where 136 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: you know you're the fund the police? Okay? So why 137 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: with the mainstream media? Okay? What's wrong with mainstream un Okay? 138 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: Get your bars up. Well you know it's it's critical 139 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: race theory. Okay, what is it? Yeah, that's what I thought. 140 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: Get your bars up, Get bars and Cadence, know what 141 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 1: you're talking about, and know how to talk about what 142 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: you're talking about, because good lord, if you could put 143 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: those things together, Dang, you're bad Bunny Rihanna and Beyonce 144 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: and Kendrick wrapped in one. Could you imagine that? So, yeah, 145 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: this episode, it's a little different than normal in the 146 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: sense that I kind of want to give y'all some 147 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: like reading material. Some of the feedback we got over 148 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: this show is that you guys tend to enjoy the 149 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: educational aspect of the show. We talked about like how 150 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: something works and histories of things, and and I think 151 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: it might be because you know, we're kind of drowning 152 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: in news, like sometimes you kind of need to break 153 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: you feel me, like, so when we be dropping jokes 154 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: or making comparisons, but ultimately like kind of schooling you 155 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: on some like bigger picture stuff. It the feedback we're 156 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: getting is that's a lot more helpful. And you know, 157 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: we can't please everybody, so that might not be true 158 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: of you listening right now. You might like, you know, 159 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: the hot text about like current events, and I'm not 160 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: gonna stop doing that, but I do think a little 161 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: more content on like the educational side, Uh would do 162 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: a little good. I've been asked all the time, Hey, 163 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: what books are you reading? Hey? Where did you get that? 164 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 1: Where did you learn? This? Is so cool? You know, 165 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: I think today I'm just gonna lay out a couple 166 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: of things Jacker read in your own time and leisure. 167 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: But I'm also going to give you a couple of 168 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: you know, caveats and disclaimers. All right, so take notes 169 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: if you're up to it. If not, just you know, 170 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: save this here episode and you can come back to 171 00:10:40,320 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: this list work. All right, let's go. So, as you 172 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: know the premise of this show is the merging of 173 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: street knowledge with book knowledge. Right, you're urban outside experience 174 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: and using that to understand you're in the Ivory Tower experience. 175 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: And if you can merge the two, uh, the possibilities 176 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 1: are endless. That being said, you ain't got but so 177 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: much brain space, right, So I don't expect you, and 178 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: I'm not calling you to derail your hold trajectory and 179 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: read these super dense books. Yeah, in between trying to 180 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: make rents. That's not what I'm saying. But I do 181 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: want to give you a list of books that you 182 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 1: could possibly you know what I'm saying, kind of be 183 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: playing in the background, you feel me. Some of these 184 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: are very dense and very sort of edge you speech. 185 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,599 Speaker 1: Others are simpler reads, a little more narrative. And my 186 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: hope is again not to shame you, not to make 187 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: you feel like you don't know what you're talking about, 188 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: but just to give you some gems so that you 189 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: kind of have a baseline for when you're gonna drop 190 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 1: bars on folks about how you feel about things, that 191 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: you can actually be like, well, actually, here's this study, 192 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: here is this person, here is this thing. Here's what 193 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: I understand about how that works, so that nobody like 194 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, kind of sell you the 195 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: wolf tickets. Don't be selling me no wolf tickets, right. 196 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: But the list I can give you is on the 197 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: educational side, the street knowledge, the urban knowledge. I don't 198 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: it ain't in the books. That comes from lived experience, 199 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: and I think but ultimately, even whatever your lived experience is, 200 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: my hope is that you learn how to tap into 201 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: that to help you understand the world around you. I'm 202 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: getting a little deep here, anyway, Okay, here we go. 203 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: Let's start first with uh culture war stuff. First book. 204 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: I want to give you. First person I will introduce 205 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: you to is Dr Kimberly Crenshaw, Harvard Grad Law professor 206 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: at U c L, A certified g absolutely brilliant black woman. 207 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: And the thing about Dr Kimberly Crenshaw is the fact 208 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: that you've been hearing her words and people been putting 209 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: words in her mouth for the past eight years, which 210 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 1: is crazy because the words that we're putting in her 211 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 1: mouth she wrote many books about and you can just 212 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: see what she wrote. There needs to be no mystery 213 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: around the things that she came up with, and it 214 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: is the leading expert on Dr Kimberly Crenshaw is the 215 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: leading expert in critical race theory. We hear CRT. People 216 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: have been talking about it and the see this critical 217 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: race theory and uh wokeness has been merged together into 218 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: one thing, which is absurd. Dr Kimberly Crenshaw in critical 219 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: race theory is a law theory. Okay, now I'm gonna 220 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: give you some books to read or at least to 221 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: listen to, or maybe even just to skim if you 222 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: if you don't feel like you could get all the 223 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: way into it, you can skim. You know what the 224 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: name of the one of the books you could read 225 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: that she wrote about critical race theory. It's called critical 226 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: Race Theory, the key writings that formed the movement. Yeah, 227 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: she wrote a book, y'all. There needs to be no 228 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: confusion as to what this means. And when you hearing 229 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: your little right wing politicians, your little conservative politicians talk 230 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: about how it's a scourge and we don't want to 231 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: teach our kids that, you could read what it is 232 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: and you could see that I, like almost every other 233 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: black person who grew up in the school system, the 234 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: American public school system, unless you was in an exceptional 235 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: school or had you an exceptional teacher, you ain't know 236 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: nothing about this. The extent of what you knew about 237 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: your race is that slavery happened, and then Dr Martin 238 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: Luther King. That's all we get taught. So for somebody 239 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: to tell you you learned critical race theory CD, I 240 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: nobody learned. I don't know what that was till college, 241 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: and that's because I was at Nick Studies major. It's 242 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: a LOWD theory. She has another book that is called 243 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: Identities and Inequalities, exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, 244 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: and sexuality. Now, this isn't Dr Kimberly Crenshaw. This is 245 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: by David Newman, and it's built on some of her work. 246 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is there needs to 247 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: be no mystery about what critical race theory is. There's 248 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: literally a book about it and multiple books that came 249 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: from that. It's like it's and y'all like listen, just 250 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: you know, audible, just listen to it. Now for that 251 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: book to make sense, you may have to step back 252 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: a little further and read something like called the sixteen 253 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: nineteen project. Right, um, the year sixteen nineteen. Why that's 254 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: so important is it's the the year that the first 255 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: African slave set foot in America. It was the essentially 256 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: like the beginning of the slave trade, you know what 257 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So there was this whole thing, you know, 258 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: when the New York Times tried to do a sixteen 259 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: nineteen project during two thousand nineteen, and then that's when 260 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: everybody was like, no, sev seventy six project, you know, 261 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: all reactionary. Whatever the case may be, at least know 262 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Here's another caveat. I'm not trying 263 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: to tell you that any of this stuff is factual 264 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: or true. Or the way you need to see the world. 265 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say, if everybody talking about the 266 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: dangers of critical race, they why don't you learn what 267 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: it is and then see maybe they don't know what 268 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: the hell they're talking about, which is why somebody like 269 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: me most times don't engage when somebody asked me about well, 270 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: that's just critical race theory, like, well, you don't know it, 271 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: you don't know what that is. So it's a it's 272 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: a law theory, a theory about the law. Okay, so 273 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: just go check it out. Dr Kimberly Crenshaw Devour everything 274 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: she writes. Another book I would recommend is The New 275 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: Gym Crow. It's by Michelle Alexander, and it's about, you know, 276 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: slave trade to mass incarceration and why mass incarceration is 277 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: a thing that the things that are sinister about it, 278 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 1: Like these things are like baselines. This is the background knowledge. 279 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: This is like these things when you when when you 280 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: hear me talk, right, Uh, these are the types of 281 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: things that it's it's almost like if you're watching Game 282 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: of Thrones and you've just accepted that dragons exist in 283 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: this universe. You're saying and you understand Valerian steal and 284 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: you know the Iron Throne, you know, and you just 285 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: already know the map, right, and you know the wild 286 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: wings in the North Wall. Like if you already know 287 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: all that stuff and you're just in the world. But 288 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: if somebody just drops in and you're just like, yo, 289 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: what the hell is a wildling? It's like I already 290 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: know the map, right, you know if I just dropped 291 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: you into like a talking story and I was like, oh, 292 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Rivendale, like what you know what 293 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, you gotta know the map already, So 294 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: these are things. At least just know the map. Again, 295 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 1: you ain't gotta believe all this stuff. At least know 296 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: the map. But these people got our receipts, so you 297 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: can at least have your bars up all right now, 298 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:07,120 Speaker 1: this is your These are your law books. Of course, 299 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: it's not complete or exhaustive. These are just some suggestions 300 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: and you ain't gotta take them all, just you can 301 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: pick a few. Next, I want to talk about some 302 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: culture books. Let's take a break. M m m all right, 303 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: culture books, culture and injustice, I think would be a 304 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: good way to put this. One thing you've heard me 305 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: mentioned this book before. I highly recommend it. It's called 306 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: Simply Justice by Michael Sandow. Okay, it is I think 307 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: very I Again, I've talked about this before, but let 308 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: me just rehash it. It really helps um frame conversations 309 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: when we're talking about what is justice, what is equality? 310 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: What is right? Right? And it's it's theoretical, like he 311 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: doesn't really take a stance. He just tries to give 312 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: you sort of buckets to put your understanding of things. 313 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: So he talks about like, if justice means um. I 314 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: think I've said this before, but again you need to 315 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: hear it. If justice means um the greatest amount of 316 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: good for the most amount of people. That's usually like 317 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: sort of the liberal and progressive thing to where it's 318 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: like you have these big programs that can help the 319 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: most people. It's not gonna help everybody because everybody don't 320 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: need help, but what is the greatest amount of goods 321 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: you could do for the most amount of people. That's 322 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: usually a liberal perspective. Then he has that is what's just. 323 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: Then he has the staining of like if justice is 324 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: like freedom to flourish, where it's like leave me alone, 325 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: let me make the right decisions and if I fail, 326 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: I fail, and if I succeed, I succeed. But don't 327 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: like putting nothing in my way. Just let me do 328 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: it right, let me make the right choices. That's more 329 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: of a libertarian approach, right, and then the idea of 330 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: of the more conservative approach is like justice is what 331 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: things ought to be, meaning there is a there is 332 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: a right and a wrong, and it's above us and 333 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: it is up to us to fit our lives into 334 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: whatever that thing is. You know, that's that is what's justice, 335 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: That is what's just You You have this idea of 336 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: there's a fixed idea of what the world should be, 337 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: and we need to submit ourselves to that rather than 338 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: we're creating the world that we're in. Right, So what 339 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: is justice? And he gives a lot of examples about 340 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: that um in this book. So I highly recommend that 341 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: So that because I'm telling you this will help you 342 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: understand at least the person sitting across from you why 343 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: they are outraged about what they're outrage, why they don't 344 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: understand when you say, well, I mean, don't send a 345 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: cop to a domestic violence thing, you know what I'm saying, 346 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: Like you know, or why they're like you know, trans 347 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: people shouldn't be in the military. You know, it's like, Okay, 348 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: I see why you're saying that. You know what I'm saying, 349 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: uh because of their idea of justice or they're just bigoted, 350 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, So that's what Another book is 351 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: called The Sacred Canopy. Now this one is freakishly dense, 352 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: but it's about the shaping and the creation of culture. 353 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: What even is culture? I think I talked about this 354 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: in the Culture Wars uh uh in the Ops episode right, 355 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: like what is it? Well? I mean, it's us and 356 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: how do you make it? It's very dense, but if 357 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: you can even if you can get through like the 358 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: first couple of chapters, like I'm telling you, you'll realize 359 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: like how silly we sound often everybody because we just 360 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: really don't understand our culture is made and where we're 361 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: getting our norms. That makes sense. And the last on 362 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: this tip is a book called A Different Mirror. It's 363 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: very old. I ain't gonna hold you very old, but 364 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: sometimes books that are old or out of dated or 365 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: some of the takes are kind of like just didn't 366 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: age well. It teaches us about culture, period. It teaches 367 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: us about where we were. You feel me? Um, can 368 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: I get crash with y'all because this is her politics. 369 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: And there was a time in hip hop where rappers 370 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: would brag about how they don't go down on girls, 371 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: that they don't they don't eat the couchie. I know 372 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: that's crass. I just need to make a point that 373 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: it was considered not hard, not manly. Boy has times changed? YO, 374 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: saying like Yo, that take a age? Well, Fam, you 375 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, uh because uh man listen anyway. Um, 376 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is it gives you 377 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: a window into what was going on back then. I 378 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: remember the time where rappers will talk about how they 379 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: didn't listen to R and B and they don't do 380 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: R and B. It's like, oh, y'all niggas don't sing, 381 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: y'all don't like girls. Fam, that's what's going on right now. No, 382 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: we're hard. I'm like, okay, all right, I guess you 383 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Enter Drake one of the biggest 384 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: artists in the world. He like R and B. You 385 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: feel me? So. So the point is, even with some 386 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: of these books that I'm giving you again, like I 387 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: keep saying, you ain't gotta take it all. I'm not 388 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: saying all of this is like this ain't gospel, you 389 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: feel me, But it is any any piece of content 390 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: like this is a window into who we are as 391 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: a species at that moment of time. It's a snapshot. 392 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: It's a polaroid of the way we were thinking about things. 393 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Again, you don't have to 394 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 1: agree with none of the takes. I'm just saying, get 395 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: your bars up. So A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki Um. 396 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: It's a book about all of the different sort of 397 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: immigrations of all the other ethnic minorities into the America's 398 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: it's their stories. It's not just the pilgrims, you know 399 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's just a window into all 400 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: these different experiences of people immigrating to America from all 401 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: over the world. It's just a good window, you know 402 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Um. And again, it's very old, so 403 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: some of the content is dated, but it it's a 404 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: good it's a good anchor snapshot. Another book you could 405 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: check out is um, Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's about colonization. 406 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: It's asking the question like, Okay, why did Europe go 407 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,239 Speaker 1: and conquer all these other places rather than the other 408 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: places coming and conquering your were the Spanish concase the 409 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: doors a more advanced society. Did they really overpower them? 410 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: Was it? It? Was it? Some other stuff? Could it 411 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: have been? Maybe something else? So it's a it's an 412 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: examination of that. Now again this this book has very 413 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: mixed reviews, and it again is also dated. But it's 414 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: a good window again into like asking that because I 415 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: was a question I asked a bunch of times too. 416 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: I was like, man, why why I go this way? 417 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: Why Europe going? What? What? What? What was in y'all 418 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: that made y'all think you should do this? Is there 419 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: such thing as a superior culture? What is what is 420 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: high culture? And why would we even use that term? 421 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: Goes into stuff like that. And lastly, which is the 422 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: probably the most shockingly scary one, is a book called 423 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: The Death of Democracy. Now, if you're a fan of 424 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: the Bastard's Pod, this book has been used before. And 425 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: this book is about the time between uh World War 426 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 1: One and World War Two. It's Vonemar Germany, and it 427 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: talks about the trajectory of going from this freakishly progressive 428 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: ahead of its time country, but of course it's problems, 429 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: but it was way ahead of its time. Vonemar Germany 430 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: with with kaiserville Helm in there and there you can 431 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: say whatever you want, but do sent into Nazism and 432 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: like like, man, what you know what I'm saying that? 433 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: And it just examines that. And what sucks is it 434 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: looks like, you know, somebody holding a mirror in front 435 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: of us. It's pretty freaky. Um, So it's a little scary, 436 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: but I'd say take a peek. And last is a 437 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: book I just finished listening to. It's a it's a 438 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: fiction piece, but it's called Invisible Things. It's super fun. 439 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's also supposed to be a mirror 440 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: to us. But essentially the premises there's a terrari um 441 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: like a a human colony fish bowl that's the size 442 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: of an American city and its surrounding suburbs living inside 443 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: the dome on the moon of on a moon in 444 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: Jupiter on Europa, and nobody knows how it got there 445 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: and why it's there and how to leave. It's it's 446 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: pretty dope because it's and it's like and the the 447 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: city and there is just a regular ass American City. 448 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: So yeah, I highly recommend that's. Again, it's fiction, but 449 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: it's it's supposed to be like a little allegorical for us. 450 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: In the biographies, I suggest Frederick Douglas is Frederick Douglas 451 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: is a slave who was born a slave and basically 452 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: saved America. You think I'm playing. He became super cool 453 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: friends with Abraham Lincoln. And the more you understand about 454 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas and his life, the more you might see that, like, yo, 455 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: this man was in Abraham Lincoln's ear who essentially taught 456 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: him that the abolition of slavery is the only cause. 457 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: Joe said like that, that this is a moral issue 458 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: because if you follow Abraham Lincoln's trajectory, he's you know, 459 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: he's a dynamic character too, that he was. He didn't 460 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: jump on. He's trying to say to you and your money. 461 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,959 Speaker 1: He had to be convinced, and he grew and uh 462 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: and a lot of his growth was Frederick Douglas. So 463 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: I'd say, I'd say, peep that out now. I'm pretty 464 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: sure y'all got a list of books too that would 465 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: really really help. Oh, I forgot this one. I can't 466 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: believe I forgot this one. This one's a biggie. It's 467 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: a biggie because it's probably what you might think would 468 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: be the opposite of where my stances are. Uh, and 469 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: I am with it. Okay. This book is called My 470 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: Grandmother's Hands Okay, and it's a book about the privilege 471 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: and trauma carried in white bodies. You heard me, white bodies. 472 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: This person, this author had been actually giving like trauma 473 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: informed therapy to cops and about what's going on in 474 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: their bodies and in their their hearts and how if 475 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: you are Another therapy book is like if it's called 476 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: The Body, Keep Score, um, which is something as a 477 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: side note i'd also recommend to. But this this book 478 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: is like he's an interviewing cops. Mama told you before 479 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: all cops a cab. Okay, well let's let's get in 480 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: their brains. I'm gonna leave y'all with this one, because Yo, 481 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna walk away from that thing, like you know, 482 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: the meme of a black dude with his mind blown 483 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: leaning back like, oh, that's what this one is. I 484 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: was very it. I was shook. Okay. My wife recommended 485 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: this one and then she, uh, we did a little 486 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: talk on our Patreon about it, and like I'm telling you, dude, 487 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: you'd be You'd be surprised how much empathy would grow 488 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: in you after you you really understand, um, really, how 489 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: how trauma is carried in the body, and also how 490 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: the white supremacy project doesn't just hurt non white people, 491 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: how it really hurts white people too, and but that 492 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the book. I want 493 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: you all to get into yourself. So here's a bunch 494 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: of things. I'll link them in the show notes and yeah, 495 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: get your bars up. I know it's a different episode. 496 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: But oh, one more book. Read Oliver North's book. Oh yeah, 497 00:33:46,600 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: read his book, all right, y'all Little politics. Yeah, it's here. 498 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: Thing was recorded by me Propaganda and he slow Spoil Heights, 499 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. This smug was mixed, edited, mastered, and 500 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: scored by Matt Ososki. I can totally say his name, guys, 501 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: it was it was a stick. He's going by Matt 502 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: now again because he got to legal situations with the 503 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: name headlights. You know, common used to be called common sense. 504 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 1: You know tip t I was tipped Sometimes it happens. 505 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 1: Executive produced by the One and Only Sophie Lichtman or 506 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,839 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media, and the theme music by the one 507 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: and only Gold Tips Gold Tips d J Shawn p 508 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: So y'all just remember listening every time you check in. 509 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,439 Speaker 1: If you understand city living, you understand politics. We'll see 510 00:34:48,440 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 1: how next week eight