WEBVTT - Conversation Inspired by Juneteenth 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.960 My my my big issue with June teeth. It's my same 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.560 issue with Martin Luther King to Day as a federal holiday, 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.479 you can't be responsible for the act, and he didn't 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:21.160 get to celebrate it too. So I literally just had 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.840 a fucking two hour no no, no, no, no. That 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:26.760 was probably how long are you on the phone before 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.120 I got in here? Ten minutes, so it's three and 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:35.040 a half because I got in the nine twenties. So 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:40.199 it's about It started off about um, it started off 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.200 about just regular basketball. Ship We're talking about the Bucks 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:50.839 and against the Hawks, and I had epiphany. I was like, man, Yannice, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.520 we're asking Yannice to win right without I don't remember 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.280 the last time. I take that back. The last player 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.680 who won with the lease of mint of talent was 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.120 the Houston Rockets from four because there was spotty with 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.959 the All Stars, very few. Was that a Clyde team 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.640 or is that a not yet? That's so ninety four, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:20.160 which is crazy because Janice also as an m VP 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.520 of the Defensive Player of the Year. Now, he's not 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:28.320 the scoring threat as a La Juan right, He's not 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.720 as skilled of a score, but he's like so athletic 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:40.680 he's like shock mixed with like Vince Carter or some ship. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.640 I don't know, but what I was thinking right now. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.240 So I made a bet with a brother on there 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.559 about it, and I was like, yeah, he was talking 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.080 about the Hawks, and I'm like, the Hawks don't have 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.160 the defense, so you know, pray honest, don't get hurt, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.200 and you know he finally gets it done because I 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.880 feel like people have been tough on his legacy. So 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.040 it ended up being his dragout conversation and Lebron is 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:07.120 sets a polarizing figure. So anytime you reference Lebron, even 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.680 my homies, bro, they're going too automatic, feel like they 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.160 need to defend his legacy. More funniest is all your 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.720 people from l A thirty six months ago or motherfucker 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.400 was fuck him up and down and now it's He's 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.519 the greatest thing of all time and you can see 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.119 it coming. I was like, you can you can see 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.959 that one coming a mile away. It's it's just very bizarre. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.600 And I guess it's not that bizarre because I mean, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.640 you're gonna be a fan of your team, fan your team, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:45.280 but yeah, it's it's tough. It's well for me, it's 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:50.320 not really like, I don't have a problem with Lebron. Um, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.359 I think I don't know him to have a problem 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.679 with him. I wonder about him controlling the narrative and 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.519 always feeling like he needs to have positive spins on everything, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.560 but I guess that's a sign of the times. So 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.800 people it comes across like I don't like Lebron, but 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.160 in reality, I recognized Lebron is the best small forward, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.480 as the greatest small forward of all time at this point, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.840 which is tough because Larry Bird had that spot for years, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.560 but um, you know, Lebron has accomplished more rightfully. So 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.760 I hate his fans. His fans are the worst fans 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.360 in the history of stars to have fans. Yeah, that's 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.960 um true. Like Rihanna's navy is pretty bad, the bee 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:41.280 Hive is bad, um pretty bad. Eminem's group is pretty bad. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:47.400 But Lebrons group. So you spend those fans who are 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.160 man got some fans and fans lots of fans their 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:56.119 Mothercker's are gonna cut your throat. Yeah that's yeah, they're Yeah, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.640 they're a passionate the group. I can see that, but 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.040 I just from like, who, like, what type of parts 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:06.240 are going to be. I don't know. They're all there. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:12.200 The Bakersfield, California's, the Tulsa, Oklahoma's the all that training park, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:16.800 all that, and then the hip hop like the like 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.160 the like the people who who like drive around at 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.479 night with M F. Doom playing in the car eat 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.720 Sleeping Ship lyricism. Yeah yeah, m is tough though, but yeah, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.800 so long story short, that was the thing. How was 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.159 our weekend? Though? It was whatever? There wasn't anything to 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.159 it down. Didn't do shift. I don't I wouldn't have 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.039 done it anyway. So I'm coming home right, I'm in 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:49.840 the mirrow. Right, we're coming through the Murt Park. Oh man, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.240 it's yesterday. Bro. You weren't coming through the right park. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.040 You were going up to a point in Lamr Park, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:01.960 stopping and then circumventing an area much archer than Lamert Park. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:08.920 No sailings, g L. Peter Bias feel me. We're here 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.600 a little late, but we're here getting it done. It's 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:16.440 gonna get real done. We'll get it done. This June 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:22.680 teenth ship is fucked up. It is. It's it's interesting 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.719 like it stands on three pillars to me, and I 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.440 don't like two of them. So two thirds of June tenth. 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.719 What it is right now, I don't like. The element 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.239 that I like is the historical element, the actual literal 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:48.560 historical element. Everything beyond that, to me is a lot 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:53.840 of bullshit. I'll be very honesty. What's the bullshit part 0:05:53.880 --> 0:06:00.479 of it? The bullshit part of it is it's kind 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.680 of like multi pronged, but you have one. It disappoints 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.520 like it's it's ridiculous that here we are yet again 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.880 with a whole lot of politicians glad handing, Oh, you know, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.720 we're gonna do We're gonna do something to that, We're 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.560 gonna give something to put a smile on black people's face. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.920 Don't cost us a red fucking sense. There's that, and 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.280 then there's all the black people who are just like 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.080 fuck yeah. It's like, god, damn it, could it be 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:36.720 like could you just I mean just gosh, they know 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.479 what's gonna work and and do nothing but prove it, right. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.520 And I hate that you're a white person acknowledging that 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.040 because you know, right, And that's the funk up part, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.720 like you know what, I'm so do nine other white senators. No, Okay, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.680 yeah that's true. But but that's the thing like they 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.680 understand when somebody is so broken, when the community is 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.880 so broken, all they have is hope. So when all 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.880 you have is hope, symbols is all you need to 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.920 give somebody. It's why the Black Church is probably the 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.800 most successful business in the Hood. The Black Church is 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:23.119 more successful for me than the Dope Spot. The Black 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:31.800 Church is more successful than Louisiana Fried Chicken, Popeye's Put Together. Um, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.000 So it's easy to give people, you know, the Brothers 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.280 hope instead of actual tangible good like, okay, do you 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.640 want to Black President ran on hope, on hope, change, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.760 but hope first, and they know it. I get mad 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.720 at a lot of my rap counterparts because I feel 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.760 like they sell hope. Like one of the worst lines 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.520 in the world to me is self made, Like how 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.600 then can anybody be self made? Yeah? Like your mom 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:08.400 at best, making at worst makes you. Yeah, self made 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:15.200 is challenging. It's it's impossible. It's a very interesting term. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.680 I mean, it's very very relative, it's very very contextual. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.640 It's more relative than contextual. Yeah, But back to the point. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:27.520 So I just hate the fact that again they just 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:32.839 deliver hope. Yeah, and you know what they're delivering hope 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.480 on the front end, while all that I'm doing for 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:42.200 the past hundred and twenty days is is backdoor manipulating 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:47.360 the complete eradication of school choice and urban neighborhoods with 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:54.240 black dance population communities from coast to motherfucking coast. All 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.080 you're talking about howaday controlling what they can teach? Now, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.520 not even that. I'm talking about the stranglehold that the 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:06.040 public sector teachers unions have over the d n C 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.360 at the at the local, state and federal level, where 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.920 you can't provide subsidized school choice for a kid in 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.520 a parent to go to a private school or a 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.440 charter school or god knows whatever else. It's like, we're 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.400 just gonna stick these guys out here on an island. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.199 You can only go to Jordan High School. What about 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.440 the charter school right over there? No no, no no, no, no, no, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.440 no, no no no no, they don't contribute to our campaign. Yeah, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.600 and it's like that is unbelievably damaging. But guess what 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.080 you can celebrate on Saturday for free? Funk out of here, 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:51.120 so funk out of here. Oh look feel this though, No, 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:58.360 how does how does slavers get a day off? So 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:03.360 if you make it a federal so like, so all 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:09.280 the descendants of the slaver's get a day off. Yeah, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.559 what was the day off? It was on Saturday? For 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.760 fox sake. It was like the fucking It was like 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.480 the joke about Black history about being the shortest month 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.720 of the year. Then we're gonna give you a holiday 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:27.959 on Saturday. I mean, what the like? You can't write 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.600 it up any better? The first year? How many years 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.040 did it take to vote it down before nineteen came 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.760 up on a Saturday? They voted down the previous six 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.920 years to make sure that they got the Saturday on 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:43.840 the first one day off as the holiday. There wasn't Friday, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.960 wasn't a close nothing closed on Friday. Nothing's closing tomorrow. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.040 It was a Saturday holiday. God damn. It was like 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:56.320 college football out of here, Like, what the funk are 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:02.760 we talking about? Bro? Who writes these jokes? People were 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.800 just happier and ship to have a Saturday. It's like, dude, 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.480 there's a food like, there's a farmer's market, creshaw, like 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.360 every Saturday. It was just Saturday, Bro, what's crazy? Is 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.280 Ive seen a lady on the news and she was 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.600 crying because they opened up the Merd Park and she 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.680 was like, we could finally come back home. And I 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.920 was like, damn, we're so happy that they opened the park. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.000 They opened the park on Wednesday. They didn't open the 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:40.360 park on Saturday. But who the funk cares? Like, And 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.599 this is my problem. We've talked about this and the 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.640 van late and shout out to nmy van. He's still 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:50.440 mad at me. But that's my problem with symbolism and 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:55.000 and conversations about you know, we're spending so much time, right, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.480 my my community is spending so much time trying to 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.960 get you know, like symbolic victories. Right. So the elite 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.200 right it is all talking about police brutality because they 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.760 saw what happened to George Floyd Recipes on the news. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.439 So they're like, oh, you know, police brutality. We need 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.280 to get justice and police brutality and and and and 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.800 what's that word they call it when you move the 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.960 money out defund the police and blah blah blah. And 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.640 I'm like, bro, y'all don't see all of these people 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:35.160 that's poor every day, Like and I'm starting to realize 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.440 the media doesn't show how poor people are. Like they 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.400 will do it if white people is involved. So like, right, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.480 they'll go to what's that park? Park? So it was 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.439 a park where everybody stayed at where the lake is 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.280 that off the Uh what's that the five O the 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.880 one on one, Yeah, the one to remember they had 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:03.360 all intents they shut all that ship down and like 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.680 that was on the news. But it's like all the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.280 elite from my community don't see that the problem with 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.680 the community. Right, I'm listening to people talk about gang 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.720 bang and they're like, oh man, you know the problem 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.200 with the bad community is gangbanging. Well, people on the 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.720 gang bang where they pour red like black people don't know. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.600 But that's not that's not even that's poor, even even 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.760 though as that's Los Angeles poor. Yeah, right, so what 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.000 I'm saying, that's a state of mind. But even the ass, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.480 it's not as bad as when you go to the dark. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.600 So the ass, that's the forty Avenue as my point 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.600 or not my point, but that's a point. It's not 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.000 I don't think particular, and I'm a little tor on 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.280 it's because I I will understand, like, if you're the 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.200 black community, you want to put your center of congregation 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.440 somewhere that's that's pretty cool, you know, Like, I think 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:01.439 it's unfortunate that like the Black Each is like right 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.440 underneath the runway of l a X. Every beach is public, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.680 and it was like, for some reason, the shittiest beach 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.959 you can find in southern California's the Black Beach unless 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.679 you were like jumping off of the Yeah I could, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:21.880 I was trying to stall. But the like the convenience 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.680 for l as a media city, the media in l 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.320 a always defers you hear about like like like Watts 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.360 is a is a is an idea. It's not a 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.480 place the media goes to crash all. The nicest place 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.400 Lamurt Park should be Magic Johnson Park. Sure, I agree, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.560 I agree that makes sense, But that's my point. So 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.320 I really am starting to blame the elite of of 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.800 of my community because it's like yo, because like Puff, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:15:00.680 like if Puff is not screaming about you know, opportunities, reparations, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:06.560 those conversations not necessarily one. But if it's not economic conversations, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.040 like I don't want to hear them talking about their 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:14.200 opportunities anymore. Oh man, we need to know these people 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:20.040 right who have never experienced I truly believe um when 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.520 you get a chance to earn or like prosper you 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.200 gained vision from it. Yeah, Like I had a homie 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.040 who who I've been knowing him this whole time he rapped. 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.080 He ain't really had no money, you know, he comes 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.000 from his neighborhood, ain't really having it. And over the E. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.640 D D and all that time PPP stuff, he came 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.280 up and just to listen to him talk now like 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.240 I could tell he's he's witnessed more. It opens door. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.840 Meant even in your mind you start believing things exist. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.800 Poverty isn't very much. Yeah, yeah, poverty exactly because you 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.520 have a little bit more freedom. You're not you're not 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.560 constrained to how my gonna eat or how am I 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.640 gonna pay my rent? And there's an incentive also to learn. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.320 I mean, anybody can just like go study god knows 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.920 what at any time. Who's really like it's not all 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.240 that practical idea, you know when it's like, oh, well 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:19.880 I got a stack of money and I would like 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:26.160 to not blow it, there's an an instantaneous incentive and 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.400 time sensitive I need to actually go and then learn 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.120 some ship and then you realize, whow I've learned this 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.200 look at all this stuff. You know, like you don't 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.360 even know it exists, but because you have an impetus 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.040 to learn that it is. This is different than just 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.520 casually just under questions. Um, I got an idea, I'm 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.240 gonna say before we get back to the point. But 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.720 I was trying to tell some of my people that 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.400 because they were under the impression, oh, you go to 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.560 college and you make money, and I'm like, no, you 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.600 go to college for education. Yeah. Like, and in my community, right, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.520 it's this big fabrication that college means more money, bigger 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.320 than your community. Specifically in my community right, because I 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.600 think like the white communities and white people the elite, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.600 it's more or less like parents to show off their kids. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.119 It's a lot of that. I think. I think that 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.880 there's and there are some kind of lost in transit 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.159 translation things between like white and Black America, and like 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.720 the nuance I think white people go to college is 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.919 a bit of a rite of passage and in a 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.960 luxury Black people go to college because they figure, well, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.520 if it's a rite of passage for them, it must 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.280 be a rite of passage for me. And it's not 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.880 quite the same passit And you know, I mean you 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.000 you can be like like, there's what three and a 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.840 half trillion dollars in student debt something like that. That's 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:52.600 everybody that's too big to belated. And I again, I 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:53.840 have to be for this. As I told you, I I 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.280 wanted to a whole podcast on the university one time. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:02.399 But to tighten it up, you can be Susie Q 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.359 from Irvine, you know, and why is the driven snow 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:11.680 and go to university and major and whatever the funk 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.919 like the most like the least monetizeable, biggest ways of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.640 time you can find and walk out with a big 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.040 old basket of debt, you know. But you did that 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.520 because it was a luxury. Because when you're done, you're 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.359 gonna go backpacking in Europe for the summer and whatever 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.680 the funk it is. That really your parents are gonna 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:35.080 be proud that parents gonna give you the business um opportunities. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.880 But I told my family, I was like, yeah, it's 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.000 for education. It's not about to make more money, it's 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.480 just to be educated. Specifically, further on the idea, it 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.840 can be like, for example, like when I lived in Oakland, Uh, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.360 this is a lot of years ago, but we had 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.240 a couple of girls stayed in this house with me 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.240 and my boy ran track on the pro level and 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.480 the girls were like Afro studies majors and all their 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.600 friends came around. It became like a house like people 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.520 hung out at and it was a lot of you know, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.480 it was this this girl, Erica Willis shout out to 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.560 her and her um congratulates to her husband. Just passed 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.800 the LAPD lieutenant test. So do you ever need an 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.240 officer to come on and talk? But they're watched people. 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.240 She went, well, she lives in Carson, but her dad 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.960 was like a coach at Lock, so she went to 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.879 Lock and um, you know, she was there. And the 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.240 girl in April was, you know, from Richmond. It was. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.000 It was a lot of the Watson and Richmonds in 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.199 the world who were there. And I'm like, all you 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:40.520 girls are shouldering you know, not a it's not USC 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.760 level debt money, but you're taking on intents at that 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:49.320 probably you know, fifty to walk out of there and 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.840 all of you, you know, your friends because you're in 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.119 the same classes and ship like that. But like literally 0:19:55.160 --> 0:20:00.359 all of you were walking out and an unmonetizable you 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:01.919 you can't walk in and be like I know an 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.840 awful lot about African American studies. I should be your 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:10.840 next accountant, you know, so you can. But but again 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.840 it's the same thing. So even if you're going to 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.520 be in the county, is to get further education on 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:21.320 the county exactly. So I think we just look at 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.080 the paper like, oh, well, if a person has a 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:24.919 degree and a person doesn't have an agree. I'm like, well, 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.520 if you go to McDonald's, well that person probably can 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.439 be an assistant manager. And I was telling there like, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.000 so you're gonna go get like fifty dollars worth of 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.560 debt to be an assistant manager. If you had worked 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.719 there for four years, you're gonna be an assistant manager. Yeah, Like, 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.880 you might as well work there too and just put 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.040 the work in. But so shout out to to my 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.760 cousin Nikki. I was telling her that, um, but she 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.720 thought I was crazy because you know, again black people, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.320 that's what we taught. Oh man, you go to college, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:56.520 get a better job. Um. My. My big issue with 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.680 June teeth it is my same issue with Luther King 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.960 to day as a federal holiday, you can't be responsible 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.800 for the act and didn't get to celebrate it too. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.600 Like June teeth should be like the word nigger, like nigga. Yeah, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.399 like you like Pete, you shouldn't be able to celebrate, bro, 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.359 it's your fucking fun. Yeah, not your fault because I 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.639 had I didn't have any friends. But you missed a 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:29.920 good point, right, it's your fault. Yeah, why the fuck? 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.320 Like I was looking at some ship on the news 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.440 where they was having a a thing that this Manhattan park. 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.159 I guess the context was it was belonged to a 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.520 black family. They took it and now they were trying 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:42.800 to give it back. Sure, I don't know about it, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.160 whatever it is, but they were all performing and these 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.360 white folks was just laid all up in the grass 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.800 and ship watching them like it's June teeth now, bitch, 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.800 it's your fault. What like Martin Luther King, Like you 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.399 can't knock off the person, you can't be responsible for 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.520 knocking off the person, and to celebrate his life. Well, 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.879 that brings up two very interesting points I think our 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:10.159 existential bedrock points in this conversation bigger than like the 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:16.959 Juneteenth discussion. First being it's like, just like just because 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.919 you play for the Lakers today doesn't mean you you know, 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.480 like Larry Bird and walking through that door like rape Pettino. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.119 You know that's different players from a different era. So 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.439 just because you're a Celtic today doesn't mean that you 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.240 want the rings Celtic. You a Celtic, but you don't 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.560 have If you don't have no eighteen rings, you're part 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.440 of the tradition. You stretched it because I should have 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.800 chose a different team, got a Celtic hot hot wires fair. 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.119 But there's that element too, And and then the second 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:56.199 one being like there's not and obviously like again, and 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:57.960 it just kind of goes to my first point, Like 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.800 the black community today is like forty million people over 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.040 the hundred some years. That's a quarter of a billion 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.000 people who have lived and died or whatever over you know, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:18.240 to make that number possible. So what is it? It's 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.240 not clearly, de fine, you can't clear to find something 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.040 where one person feels one way, another person feels the 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:23.680 other way. We will lump them all together by color. 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:28.320 It's not really how I get down. What is it 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.600 that the goal or the desire is, Like do you 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.080 want the separation? Do you want the assimilation? What is 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:39.880 it that you want? Do you want to have support? 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:44.040 From white America, do you not. So the tricky part 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.680 for me is is like, obviously, no one black person 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:52.359 can speak for all black people, right, So my particular 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:58.520 thing is the economic portion. I don't even want to 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.480 get into conversations. Don't think nobody should have to live 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.600 next to people if they don't want to, Like I'm 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.600 not necessarily for I don't want segregation, but separation is 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:10.720 not bad. Like, if you don't want to live next 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:13.199 to some black family, I don't think you should have to. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.840 I don't think I mean, you shouldn't block that person. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:19.359 But I don't like the fact that we want to 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:21.520 move in certain neighborhoods where they're in the first place. 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.600 But I understand the economic gang of that, you know, 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:28.720 buying property somewhere that's gonna have good value. And that's 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:32.800 one of my big old issues sure is like I 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:37.960 think it's tragic and incredibly damaging longer term bigger picture 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:43.760 that I mean, name a neighborhood anywhere, and I mean 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:48.320 anywhere that is a that is a or was a 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:53.080 has become a black quote unquote black neighborhood that got 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:57.159 comparatively better, you know. And there's two elements to that 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.159 one of us is because anybody who wants to make 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:00.919 their place better us and make it better there, they 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:04.520 just bounce. Yeah, you know. But on the other side 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:08.720 of it, the fact that you do bounce because you know, 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:10.880 I'm gonna be the only idiot who just invested two 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.560 thousand dollars to put a second story in a pool 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:15.520 or whatever on my house. I'm not gonna get the rye. 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.440 There's no one else in my block is gonna do it. 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:21.880 So there's a lack of kind of structure stood confidence 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:25.800 in your neighbors there and that and that bleeds net 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:29.000 worth and that's a big problem. But but not even 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:37.800 just net worth, but morale. Yeah, like where I'm from 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:40.919 and Watson Content, my mom was a nurse, so I 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:43.120 knew a nurse. Even though she was thugging and kind 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:49.040