1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: And listen. The country boys said, try this in a 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: small town. I got, yall, small town cuz fade in 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: the wild. Fade in the wild. Uh, black folks, fade 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: in the wild. Lift every chair, y'all. I think we 5 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: might have a new black holiday hood politics, y'all. 6 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 2: Bade in the wild, Fade in the wild. 7 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: All right. August sixth, twenty twenty three, We'll go down 8 00:00:53,880 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: as the Boston Tea Party for black people, which, as 9 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: a not so fun fact, you know, the first person 10 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: to get shot that sparked the Boston Tea Party was 11 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: Crispus Atticus, who was also a black man. We've been 12 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,919 Speaker 1: a part of this history the whole time, y'all. First, okay, 13 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: so welcome to her politics. You may not know what 14 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I don't know why, because I waited 15 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: a while before I started talking about this, and by 16 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: waiting a while, I met I already had a lot 17 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: of other episodes recorded. And you know, when you wait, 18 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: you get more, you get more details and facts in 19 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about the Montgomery rumble. You know 20 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, The fade in the water. You feel me. 21 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: But before I do, I'd like to apologize for my 22 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: voice if I sound a little raspy. It's been a 23 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: pretty crazy week, as you may or may not know, 24 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: But I record on Mondays and on every first Sunday 25 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: of the month, I host the club Real Ones out 26 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: here in Long Beach, California, and this was just a 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: really big one. So my voice is pretty hoarse because 28 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: it was pretty epic. And then I had a coffee 29 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: event right after that, and I actually got to perform 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: to night. Anyway, I couldn't not record this even though 31 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: I'm all, I'm all raspy. But anyway, for recap of 32 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, So on August sixth, twenty twenty three, 33 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: which I want you to remember for the rest of 34 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: your life, on a doc in Montgomery, Alabama. Now, to 35 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: color this and to understand why this is so specific, 36 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: you have to as I'm telling the story, I'm also 37 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: going to add sort of historical things to it, and 38 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: then I'll move into the points I'm trying to make 39 00:02:46,639 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: for the show. So Montgomery, Alabama was already played a big, 40 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: humongous role in the civil rights movement, Like how many 41 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: of the bus boycotts, you know what I'm saying, Almost 42 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: all the most famous stories you know about doctor King 43 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: took place down in Montgomery. Now remember he lived in Atlanta, 44 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: of course, and you know where he got assassinated was 45 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: in Memphis. But Montgomery was like headquarters. You know what 46 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's where you get the bus boycotts that 47 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, sort of sparked the civil rights movement in 48 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: some ways. Like that's down there. So there's a lot 49 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: of history. This particular doc boat dock was. I mean, 50 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: slaves were delivered here. This is a place that has 51 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: many old souls and many of spirits and some horrible 52 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: memories on there. Now fast forward to now it's a 53 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: regular dock where people take their pontoons and riverboats and 54 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: you go out on the river boat, go drink, go 55 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: hang out. It's you know, it's hot as hale in Alabama. 56 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever been down there. Hot 57 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: as hal So getting out on the water is something 58 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: that people do all the time. Now, I also want 59 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: you to remember that there are schools, high schools down 60 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: there in Alabama, maybe not Montgomery, because for Alabama, Montgomery, Birmingham, Biloxi, 61 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: Mobile are the air quotes big cities, not big compared 62 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: to where I'm from, but they're the big cities down there. 63 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: But outside of those areas, there are high schools that 64 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: didn't desegregate until two thy ten. Fam Like, there's a 65 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: high school down there. I wrapped about it named Robert E. 66 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: Lee High School. Like it's name after the Confederates. So 67 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: it's almost like slavery ended last month for them, you 68 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. The civil rights movement just ended 69 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: last week. Like, so there's that type of history down there. Now, 70 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: this is not a slight to anyone that lives there. 71 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this is just the culture. Like you 72 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: can't just take no country road down there. It's they different, 73 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Everybody everybody different down there. 74 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: It's real down there. Now that being said, you got 75 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: this riverboat right this dock where you had your little 76 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: pontoon boat. You know what I'm saying, it's the last 77 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: few weekends before people got to go back to school. 78 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: So you outside, you know what I'm saying, People got 79 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: e drinking, you know what I'm saying, chilling, grabbing yourself 80 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: a little ride on the riverboat. Right, But if you 81 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: got your little pontune, you know what I'm saying, you 82 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: and the homies take your little pontoon out. Perfectly acceptable 83 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: thing for these you know, shirtless white folks to do. 84 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: Drink they little I don't know what they drink now, 85 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: because they don't drink bud light, because y'all mad at 86 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: bud light, you know what I'm saying. But you drink 87 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: your little drink, You drink your little beers. You go 88 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 1: out there, you know what I'm saying, hang out, do 89 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: your little white people thing on your pontoon boats. Black folks, 90 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: we line up, we get on this river boat. You 91 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It takes you around. They playing 92 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: music as DJs. You know what I'm saying. You're drinking, 93 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: you're smoking, you're kicking it. It's a regular thing. And 94 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: when the boat, when the riverboat comes down, comes back around, 95 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 1: some people get off and a new group of people 96 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: get on. But the boat has to dock. And if 97 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: you live near any body's of water, you know that 98 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: the dock is a shared space. And if it's a 99 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: commercial one where it's not just like a private dock, 100 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: then obviously a private dock is something that's like, well, 101 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: you own this thing. You put your boat there as 102 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: long as you want to be there, but there's an 103 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: etiquette situation, right, There's only so much space. It's almost 104 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: like being on the street with a semi truck. Look, 105 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: maybe that show lane, but that semi eighteen wheeler, you 106 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: gotta you gotta make way for it. 107 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: Right. 108 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: So anyway, he got these white folks. Then they pontoon 109 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: and this big old riverboat is trying to dock. So 110 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: the captain from the riverboat is like, you know, on 111 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: a loudspeaker, like, yo, y'all gotta move, y'all pantune because 112 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta park here. They not moving, Like, yo, 113 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: y'all gotta move. They not moving. So then the co 114 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: captain Black Dude, takes a little smaller boat goes to 115 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: the dock. While the riverboat's still sitting out there. It's 116 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: people waiting to get on the boat, people waiting to 117 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: get off, people waiting to get on. He go down 118 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: to the dock and all this is filmed because it's 119 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: like hundreds of people there. He go out to the dock, 120 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: right and while they now Here's what makes it even funnier. 121 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: The riverboat is playing ludicrous move bitch, get out the win, 122 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: Get out the way. They all screaming it because like 123 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: they can move, like what are you doing? Like it's 124 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: relaxed man, So but they not moving. So the co 125 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: captain gets out, gets on the dock. He walking up 126 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: to them like, dog, just what are y'all doing? Just 127 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: like slide over. Now you're watching these things ensue. And 128 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: then eventually the white boy tries to throw hands on 129 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: the brother, trying to tell him to move. The brother 130 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: throw the hat in the air and he like, all right, well, 131 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: if that's what we're doing, fades is requested, fhades will 132 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: be given. So he start fading this white boy because 133 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: the white boy attacked him. Then out of nowhere you 134 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: see four five shirtless bubbas throwing their beers up, and 135 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: they come and running and jumping in protecting their homeboy. Right, 136 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: so now they jumping this black dude who was again 137 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: trying to tell them, y'all just got to move. Now. 138 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: We don't know what conversations what was happening. We weren't 139 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: close enough to hear exactly what they were saying to 140 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: each other, but you could tell by body language that 141 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: both of them was like, nigga, you need to chill right, 142 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: but I'm not chilling. You supposed to move right. So 143 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: now this brother's getting the black dude's getting jumped. So 144 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: he getting moped right, stomped out. They stomping his dude out. 145 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: But you have to remember this is in front of 146 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: a lot of black people. Then you could see as 147 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: the frame gets wider, you see other black men running 148 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: as fast as they can towards the dock to come 149 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: down there. And as people are running to come help 150 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: this brother getting jumped, you also see young sixteen year 151 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: old hero swimming. He's swimming from the other side, swimming 152 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 1: over to the dock through the water. He's like, I'm 153 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: gonna get there. I'm helping my brother. He come swim, 154 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: come out the water, and then get his wop wop, 155 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: saying wo wop wop. Now by this time it's a brawl. 156 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: They pulling people off. Now some of the white girls 157 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: getting out of they pontun They want some too, and 158 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: they like, now you're not finna beat up on my man. 159 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: So now girls coming in. So now the black women 160 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: coming down like, ah, hommy, no, y'all asked for this. 161 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: Now you see the security in the back kind of 162 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: looking like, well, I mean he did kind of ask 163 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: for it. They did jump that dude. I mean, y'all, yo, 164 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: you requested a fade. I mean you requested a fade. 165 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: So fade was given. Now it's getting crazy, it's getting crazy. 166 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: They mopping up the boat finally docks. It has to 167 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: find somewhere to dock. Now everybody on the dock. Everybody 168 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: on the boat saw this shit happen, so they got off, like, oh, nigga, 169 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: what's up? This shit ain't over. You can't jump the 170 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,439 Speaker 1: homie now, is he the homie? 171 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 2: No? 172 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: But he black, so therefore he the homie. So all 173 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: the brothers get off the boat. Nigga. They go run 174 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: up like, what's up? What's up? You're gonna jump the homeboy? 175 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: Now other people jumping in. Now the white folks jumping in. 176 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: Now it's a brawl. Then the whole thing go around 177 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: to another side of the dock. And this is where 178 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: some heroes just don't wear capes, but they carry folding chairs. 179 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 1: Now the police is trying to break the thing up, 180 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: but everybody jumping in, and you know how to go. 181 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: When people jump in, you can't like look, look, look, 182 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: you can't be hurting a hummy. Now, worred in white 183 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: boys on that boat. Racist. I don't know, I know 184 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: how it looked, but let me stop giving commentary first. 185 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: So some brother couldn't have been younger than sixty just 186 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: the old head right has a chair, a white folded 187 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: chair on some wwe hits this man over the head 188 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: with a folded chair. Then it gets punched drunk because 189 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: out the corner of his eye. It's a white lady 190 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: who gets pushed over by the cops telling her to 191 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: get out, get the hell out the way, right, because 192 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: the cops is trying to stop this thing, trying to 193 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: calm everything down, so they push her down. She fall 194 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: over her feet, break through her crocs, which is the 195 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: funniest thing I ever seen in my life. The brother 196 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: with the chair punch drunk while she down bow hits 197 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: her over the head with the chair, and at that 198 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: point everybody there is like, oh, that nigga going to jail, 199 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: and even the cops were like, oh, okay, okay, now 200 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: we gotta arrest you. So then the cops take the 201 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: chair from the brother arrest them, and it was like, 202 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you can listen, man, you can't hit the 203 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: lady washing down with a chair, cuz like we was 204 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: with you the whole time, but I mean, damn, we 205 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: gotta arrest you. And all the Black America was like, yeah, no, 206 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: you going to jail. Niggit, Like you can't hit the 207 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: lady washing down with a chair, nigga. Like there's so 208 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: at the end of it, three arrests, right, maybe some more, 209 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: and the brother with the chair, we all raising money 210 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: for his bail. But that sparked the most epic of 211 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: memes across Black Twitter where we having fun. I mean like, look, 212 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: people got folded chair earrings, brothers talking about having they 213 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: open carry license and they got chairs attached to their hips. 214 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: There's the meme of there's this one picture of a painting, 215 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: a famous painting of Harriet Tubman where she was reaching 216 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: down from the sky to free you, right because you 217 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: know she was the leader on underground Railroad, right, And 218 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: instead of just a hand, she got a folding chair. 219 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the ancestors handing you folding 220 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: chairs stuck. Look, start beating these crackers ass with these 221 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: photo chairs. And black aquaman who swam across the thing 222 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: to come get his licks in he dropped somebody. Now 223 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: we are all celebrating this brawl, writing new hymns, and 224 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 1: celebrating the violence that happened there. Now, let's unpack why 225 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: we celebrating violence in the history that's going on here 226 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: after this. All right, we're back. Now a lot to 227 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: unpack here. First of all, this was a very violent affair. 228 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. Are you asking me if I'm 229 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: condoning violence? I mean, I guess Listen, you've never heard 230 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: me say I was a pacifist. I don't choose violeviolence 231 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: unless I need to. I don't condone violence unless we 232 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: need to. I understand violence. I understand it completely. Also 233 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: understand self defense. Listen, I'm not an anti gun dude. 234 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: I believe in having them things on you. Why do 235 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: I believe in that? Because we live in a violent 236 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: police state. I mean, like our country, Listen, our country's violent. 237 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: Our country was founded on violence. I'd like, let's not 238 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: forget that. Like our origin story is violence. We like 239 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: to act like we were built on this idea, the 240 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: American experiment. Nigga, it was a war. We built on violence. 241 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: You violently stole the land, violently threw off your oppressors, 242 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: and then violently subdued a labor force. We're built on violence. 243 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: Don't act like like we are a violent country. So 244 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: when you in the ocean, you might as well swim. 245 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: I don't love capitalism, but this where we are product 246 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: Why because we in ocean when you might as well swim. 247 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: If you a salt water if you're in a salt 248 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: water ocean, you can't be a freshwater fish. You're gonna die. 249 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: You gotta listen. You in ocean, you might as well swim. 250 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: Now does that mean I need to make the ocean 251 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: salty or no? Does that mean I need to pollute it? 252 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 2: No? 253 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: But I need to survive. It is what it is. 254 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: We two plus two is four homi like we there's violence. 255 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: But now let me put my teacher hat on and 256 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: let's back up through some history here. Like I said, Montgomery, 257 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: Alabama has been a place of you know, extreme violence 258 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: towards black people and also a place of healing, a 259 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: place of organizing, a place of resistance and resilience, because 260 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: you can never take that away from a people who 261 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: lived in a place like this and are still able 262 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: to find joy, happiness, and humor. But now having said that, 263 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: let's not act like because there was one thing, there 264 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: was one little meme that was going around or hashtarg 265 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: whatever that was going around black social media spaces essentially 266 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: saying like, listen, we are not our ancestors, and what's 267 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: that assuming is that we don't fight back or that 268 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: our ancestors didn't fight back and they just were docile 269 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: and sort of like allowed themselves to be enslaved. Now 270 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: I knew what these people meant. What they were trying 271 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: to say is like, look, we're done, we're done playing, 272 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: We're done, we're done taking the shit. We fight back. 273 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: But it's also important to remember as Black people and 274 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: just as Americans that don't think our ancestors didn't fight back, 275 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: don't think there weren't multiple slave uprisings and rebellions. History 276 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: has a way, especially when you're trying to smash it 277 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: into a semester and when you're learning it from the 278 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: oppressor as a way of flattening a lot of the 279 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: stories not at you know, we're rating it in a 280 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: way that will eventually turn into what Florida trying to do, 281 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: act like it really wasn't that bad and we actually 282 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: gained a lot from being enslave, which is absurd, right. 283 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: Let y'all tell the stories, but don't ever think that 284 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: we didn't fight. I'm gonna give you just three examples, 285 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: but you need to do your Google searches and learn 286 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: a little more about this. Number one, I'm gonna talk 287 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 1: about the Stono Rebellion in seventeen thirty nine. It was 288 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: the biggest and largest slavey volt ever stays in the 289 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: Thirteen Colonies. It was on Sunday, September ninth and seventeen 290 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: thirty nine. It was a day of free labor and 291 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: about twenty slaves under the leadership of a man named 292 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: Jeremy provided whites. Check this out. PBS has a dope 293 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: story on it. They provided whites with a painful lesson 294 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: and the African desire for liberty. You have to remember, 295 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: it's not like wars were not fought in Angola. It's 296 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: not like some of these people you captured weren't already soldiers, 297 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: that weren't already well trained, that don't already know how 298 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: to organize. Sometimes you just gotta buy your time and 299 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: you gotta wait for the right moment. There are many 300 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: stories of slaving ships being overtaken, dudes being thrown off 301 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: the side, Like don't think we didn't fight back, you 302 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. There was the New York Conspiracy 303 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: of seventeen forty one, there was the German Coast uprising 304 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: in eighteen eleven, and of course there's the famous Haitian one, 305 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: the famous Haitian slave rebellion, which actually they won. They 306 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: threw off there in Slavers. It actually worked. And of 307 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,959 Speaker 1: course a person who I wrote my seventh grade history 308 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: report on about heroes. You were supposed to write a 309 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: story about heroes. It's seventh grade turned it in its 310 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: seventh grade project. Now by this time I had got 311 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: shipped off to this suburban school and I wrote my 312 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: book report or my history hero report on that turner. 313 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: I came in that little, that little suburban school. I 314 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: wrote my dumb bug on that turner. Let us say rebellion, 315 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: let a massacre because he had the white people scared 316 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: of me. So luck I can't thinking back now my 317 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: little high top fade I'm walking in and my cross 318 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: colors and my Malcolm X medallion. You feel me coming 319 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: in here, straight from the city, shipped out to this school. 320 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: They told me I'm supposed to write a story or 321 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: write a book report on some on a historical figure. 322 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Nigga like me chose that Turner. Yes, I can't imagine 323 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: what miss Jackson. I had a white teacher named Miss Jackson. 324 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Sorry, Miss Jackson, you know what 325 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Took on a whole different meaning. Wrote that 326 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: mug on Nat Turner. So listen all that to say, 327 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: don't you ever think we wasn't out here scrapping. Our 328 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: ancestors did not just fold. They fought till the bitter end, 329 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: and even in the end the Thirteenth Amendment, you know, 330 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: ended the Civil War. We did that. We fought. Don't 331 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: get don't think that the North gave us some sort 332 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: of gift. They couldn't have won if we didn't fight 333 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: with them. Okay, so again, know your history. Black people 334 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: fought in the Civil War. We are a big reason 335 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 1: why it was ended. And don't forget the influence that 336 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: Frederick Douglass had on Abraham Lincoln. Because Frederick Douglass is 337 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: why Abraham Lincoln became an abolitionist. Do your googles. Now, 338 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: that's number one. Don't ever think we wouldn't willing to 339 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 1: fight for our freedom. Now, number two is the point 340 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: I want to make about This is, like I said before, 341 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: America is just violent. This is how, no matter what 342 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: you want to believe, how our problems are solved, how 343 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: we get reckonings. I mean, you could just pick anything. 344 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: It's violence, it's riots, it's war. What did it take 345 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: for the Civil Rights Act to be passed? We took 346 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: two assassinations and then riots across the country. I mean 347 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: that's what that's what finally did it? How did you? 348 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: I just don't know what to tell you, Like, don't 349 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 1: believe your own lies. There is a deep seated lust 350 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: for violence inside of America. I just don't know what 351 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: to tell you. And that being said, I think all 352 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: of us at some point have visualized or daydreamed about 353 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: beaten the breaks off a fucking racist. I think all 354 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: of us have about beating the shit out of a Nazi. 355 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: You've you've you've imagined that moment. Don't lie to me. Okay. Now, 356 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: on the other side, I bet you every racist person 357 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: in America has daydreamed and fantasized about jumping some minority. 358 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: You like, come on that part of you. Every time 359 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: you saw the cops, you know, kill an innocent man, 360 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: you know, beating an innocent black person you were kind 361 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: of like be kind of cool though, like don't you know, 362 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: don't don't don't front and us people of color every 363 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: time you saw it, every time you saw a cop, 364 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: you know the Derek Show, and everytime you saw a 365 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: copper or or you know the know nothing when you 366 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: you know these poor people, poor black kid knocked on 367 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: the door, just was at the wrong house and got shot. 368 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: Tell me you didn't daydream about beating Aney. Tell me 369 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: we haven't all thought about beating the brakes out of 370 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: George Immaman. Well, we've all fantasized about getting our licks 371 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: in in the and and about the perfect scenario where 372 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:34,239 Speaker 1: you could be righteous in your anger, where there was 373 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: a way that it wasn't ambiguous, so that when you 374 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: get your licks in you could still kind of be 375 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 1: a hero. And of course we all watched WW. Of 376 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: course you wanted to hit somebody with a chair. Of 377 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: course listen. Of course you thought about slapping the shit 378 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: out of a carrot. Don't like, Oh, come on, y'all, 379 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: tell me you wait, Somewhere in your mind you thought 380 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: about slapping the shit out of a Karen and hope 381 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: for an opportunity to where it would be Okay, it's okay, 382 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: you're not lying to me, all right, this hoo the politics. 383 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: We're just telling the truth, all right. Again, the brother 384 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: with the chair going to jail, Like you can even 385 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: see across all of our social media, we all understand 386 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 1: that that was too far right. And I bet you, 387 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: as as an officer who might have been present, you've 388 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: also participated in these fantasies to where you was like, 389 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: I kind of wish like there was a moment where 390 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: we could just let some asshole get their ass kicked, right, 391 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: And especially if you watch that whole thing happen, if 392 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: you're the officer there, you watch that whole thing happen, 393 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: and you're like, that guy had to come in. Those 394 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: dudes had to come in. They asked for it. And 395 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: then when the guy hit the dude with the chair, 396 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: you hit the lady with chair, you were like, fuck, okay, 397 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: now I got to arrest you. 398 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 2: Man. 399 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: Like they're probably like, dude, I'm sorry, man, she had 400 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: a comment, but you can't. You can't hit her with 401 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 1: a chair. Bro. So everybody donating to his bail fund 402 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: because we all know you can't hit it with the chair. 403 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: Now there's that baby and lastly or thirdly, why has 404 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: this captured the hearts and the imaginations of black people 405 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: across the country. And it's kind of because we just 406 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: get tired of seeing our suffering and then nothing comes 407 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: of it, like our sufferings on display all the time. 408 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: I mean, in your life, since I've done hood politics, 409 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: We've just watched black people and people of color be 410 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: beat or killed on our screens, just with no recourse. 411 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: I mean, pick a hashtag. We just keep seeing it happen, 412 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: and then justice maybe being served, maybe kind of being served. 413 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: Just like just nothing ever comes of it. You just 414 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: get tired of seeing it. You just want one day. 415 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: I mean, is it not Batman's origin story? You just 416 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: want one day for somebody to get their instant karma, 417 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: for somebody to get their come uppins. I want a 418 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: chance where we can finally witness ourselves stand up for ourselves. 419 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell you this whole time, how 420 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: collective identity works with the black community. Why it's so 421 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: painful when we see our suffering on the screen because 422 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: we feel like that person's one of us. So if 423 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: you are actually present and you're watching a black man 424 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: who you don't know, be jumped by a bunch of 425 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: white dudes. You just he's being jumped and you're like, 426 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 1: that could be me, and you would hope that somebody 427 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: would come and help. And especially if you watch the 428 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: whole thing off, because the brother was just doing his job. 429 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: And again you place that in Montgomery, Alabama. I mean's 430 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: just there's just a place where if a man stood 431 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: up for himself and nobody else was around. You have 432 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: to remember, if no black people were around at that moment, 433 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: that man might have gotten thrown into the ocean and 434 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: we hadn never see his body again. He might have 435 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: got dragged into the woods and strung up on a tree. 436 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: That is a safe assumption to believe at that moment. 437 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: I don't know those white people, but I know Montgomery, Alabama. 438 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: People still get lynch down there, still get hung by 439 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,479 Speaker 1: a tree. In the year of Our Lord twenty twenty three. 440 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: Black people still go missing and still get lynched. So 441 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: it is a safe assumption playing the odds that that 442 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: man could have got killed that day. So, yes, we're 443 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: gonna jump the fuck in. Yes, I'm gonna hit you 444 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: with a chair because I don't know what you're gonna 445 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: do to us. That man's life got saved because there 446 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: was black people there, because we kind of get tired 447 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: of watching ourselves not have any defense. So yes, yes, 448 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: I condone violence in that scenario. I don't know what 449 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: else to tell you. Again, he shouldn't hit that lady 450 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: with the chair. Now, why do I keep giggling about that? Well, 451 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: I'm giggling about it the same way the rest of 452 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: Black America is giggling about it. It's because we deal 453 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: with trauma through humor. I feel like I've told you 454 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: this before. We have a way of finding the funny 455 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: in everything. Now, I'm married a Latina woman. So my 456 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: wife is from Southern Mexico, first gen Mexican, which you 457 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: know a lot, I've said a lot. My wife is 458 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: has been as street as they come. Now she's now 459 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: a PhD. But she from the block, you know what 460 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like she they grew up hard and in 461 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: a lot of ways, they grew up harder than I did. 462 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: So she understands the street rules, she understand the hood 463 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: parts of it. She certified, But her culture don't deal 464 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: with trauma the way we deal with trauma. We deal 465 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: with our trauma by making fun of everything. Like remember 466 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: when we talked about the bartin Luther King's statue, the 467 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: new sculpture that looked like a big old dick from 468 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: a particular angle. Yes, that it was just funny. We 469 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: make memes out of stuff because that's how we deal 470 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: with trauma. I don't know what else to tell you, 471 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: how else if not, we would be furious and throwing 472 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: other white people and we would just be throwing white 473 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: people off of cliffs every time we see them, just 474 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: with no recourse or this is how we process stuff. 475 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: We just we just make jokes out of it. It's 476 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: how we keep each other in line. And like I 477 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: said before, what you don't want if you're a member 478 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: of our community, even when we make fun of you, 479 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: these are acts of love. And my wife did not 480 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: understand that when we got when I started making fun 481 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: of my child, it's you like, this is this is 482 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,239 Speaker 1: how we deal with things, Okay, even when her and 483 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: I were having marital problems, I make jokes. This is 484 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: how we deal with trauma. I don't know, I don't 485 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what to say, dude. We just it's 486 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: how we deal with trauma, because if not, we would 487 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: be viciously violent all the time either that are deeply, 488 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: deeply depressed. All the time we have we've learned to 489 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: find joy. Doesn't mean we're not taking as serious. But again, 490 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: if you're in the black community, the worst part about 491 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: us is being ignored, because if we ignore it, that 492 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: mean you don't matter. I mean, we're done with you. 493 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: You're not a part of our story. But if we 494 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: drag you, it's because we're a part of our You're 495 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: a part of our story. Now, this is a very 496 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: important moment, I would say, lastly, because it's on the 497 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: heels of January sixth too, also where the president is 498 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: finally being in some ways held accountable for the violence 499 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: that these white people did patriots based on a goddamn lie. 500 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: And we all sat at home and we watch these 501 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: white people storm the Capitol, all of us knowing full 502 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: well we'd have been shot on sight. Y'all. Just y'all. 503 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: White people just get away with stuff. Now, there's been indictments, 504 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. People have gone to jail, right, 505 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: Some have been held accountable. The founder of the Proud Boys, 506 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of them dudes, they've been 507 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: held accountable. Now it's funny. What's funny about that. To me, 508 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: is the dude that's going to jail at the Proud 509 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: Boys is the non white one. They even still found 510 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: a way to put to find a brown person and 511 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: put a bit jail. Dis absurd, But we have just 512 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,719 Speaker 1: watched for so long acts of violence towards black people 513 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,959 Speaker 1: and people of color, or just acts of violence committed 514 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: by white folks always have no consequence, which is why 515 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: we throw in the tie into the Jason al Dean song. 516 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: Try that in a small town. Now here's the thing. 517 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: I don't know Jason Aldan's I've been made aware of 518 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: his politics recently because of all this shit that's going 519 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: down with his song. But I also have friends, believe 520 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: it or not, that are country singers. One of them 521 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: is very close. I would name drop here, but I don't. 522 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: I mean, he wouldn't give a fuck. He talks like this. 523 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: So I was about us, but go out name John 524 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 1: my own boy, Chase Rice. So I asked him what 525 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: he thought, you know, and he was interested on the 526 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: way I think about this. So I think I'm not 527 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: gonna say what he thinks because he's got records to 528 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: sell and that's my dog, and he'd be trying to 529 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: stay out all that shit, right. But anyway, it's interesting 530 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 1: to think, like why this song struck such a chord 531 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: because white people have been romanticizing the country, you know, 532 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: the small town all through country music. That's what y'all do. 533 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: Y'all romanticize essentially Dixie. You know that you're you're, you're, you're, 534 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: you're essentially romanticizing that time, that genteel southern Dixie small town. 535 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: I get it. It was a way of life, it 536 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,439 Speaker 1: was a time, and it's a symbol of a time 537 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:31,479 Speaker 1: that you romanticized. It's like it's like England romanticizing Turn 538 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,359 Speaker 1: of the century monarchs. You know, all your little limit 539 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 1: little women books and shit, like as if y'all had 540 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: running water back then, and everybody didn't. Everybody wasn't incestuous 541 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: and smelled like armpit sweat and shit all the time, 542 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: like that's how the royals smelled and sound. But y'all 543 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: romanticized that time. I get it, you know what I'm saying. 544 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: It's when you layer this idea of saying stuff like 545 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: them country boys that were raised right are gonna teach 546 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:14,760 Speaker 1: you manners. You're clearly invoking it's I mean it's obvious 547 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: what you're invoking. I don't need to I need to 548 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: lay it out. You know what I'm saying, and which 549 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: might have been fine if you didn't add the video. 550 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: And once you add the video, the video is of 551 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: people standing up for their rights of protesting things right 552 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: that were unjust, which is what you're saying is when 553 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: stuff is unjust, we're gonna stand up and fight against it. 554 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,960 Speaker 1: I don't understand. So we're doing the same thing we're 555 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: standing up against injustice. You just don't think what we're 556 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: saying is. And you have this idea that the big 557 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: city is this bastion of evil, right, that's that's the idea. 558 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,760 Speaker 1: That's that's the romantic idea that that you're saying, which 559 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: is fine. Live in your fantasy, in your worldview. It's okay, 560 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,919 Speaker 1: you can live in that, right, But for the rest 561 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: of us, we know that small towns are a place 562 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: of terror. That's where we get strong of and nobody 563 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 1: comes and finds our bodies. Right, Your crime rates are 564 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,319 Speaker 1: actually way higher if we're talking per capita, right, crime 565 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: rates are way higher. There's just more people in a city, right, 566 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, I feel way safer 567 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: in big cities because there's recourse. Something's gonna happen. They 568 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: will find my body, you know what I'm saying, right, 569 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:55,399 Speaker 1: someone might see it happen. Now. Also, the stuff you're 570 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: talking about, like the Euvaldi shooting, Evalde is not a 571 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: big city right now. That being said, the tying is, 572 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 1: these black people just did everything you celebrating in the song. 573 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: You get out of line. Them boys that'll raise right 574 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:18,399 Speaker 1: might swim across the river. Dudes might come from out 575 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 1: the deck and they gonna teach you some man, that's 576 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,719 Speaker 1: big homie. I'm just saying, we just did what your 577 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: song said. Or you're condonting vigilanti violence, am I? I mean? 578 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 1: Is it that what seventeen seventy six is politics? Y'all? 579 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,759 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of 580 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,120 Speaker 1: this before, but you know you could use promo code 581 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: hood for fifteen percent off on terraform coolbrew dot com. 582 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 1: Like I forgot I own that company and this is 583 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: my pod, y'all, go ahead and punch it. 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Man, 592 00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 1: and thank you for everybody who continue to tap in 593 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: with us. Make sure you leaving reviews and five star 594 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 1: ratings and sharing it with the homies so we could 595 00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: get this thing pushed up in the algorithm and listen. 596 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 1: I just want to remind you these people is not 597 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: smarter than you. If you understand city living, you understand politics. 598 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.