Speaker 1: And listen. The country boys said, try this in a
Speaker 1: small town. I got, yall, small town cuz fade in
Speaker 1: the wild. Fade in the wild. Uh, black folks, fade
Speaker 1: in the wild. Lift every chair, y'all. I think we
Speaker 1: might have a new black holiday hood politics, y'all.
Speaker 2: Bade in the wild, Fade in the wild.
Speaker 1: All right. August sixth, twenty twenty three, We'll go down
Speaker 1: as the Boston Tea Party for black people, which, as
Speaker 1: a not so fun fact, you know, the first person
Speaker 1: to get shot that sparked the Boston Tea Party was
Speaker 1: Crispus Atticus, who was also a black man. We've been
Speaker 1: a part of this history the whole time, y'all. First, okay,
Speaker 1: so welcome to her politics. You may not know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I don't know why, because I waited
Speaker 1: a while before I started talking about this, and by
Speaker 1: waiting a while, I met I already had a lot
Speaker 1: of other episodes recorded. And you know, when you wait,
Speaker 1: you get more, you get more details and facts in
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk about the Montgomery rumble. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, The fade in the water. You feel me.
Speaker 1: But before I do, I'd like to apologize for my
Speaker 1: voice if I sound a little raspy. It's been a
Speaker 1: pretty crazy week, as you may or may not know,
Speaker 1: But I record on Mondays and on every first Sunday
Speaker 1: of the month, I host the club Real Ones out
Speaker 1: here in Long Beach, California, and this was just a
Speaker 1: really big one. So my voice is pretty hoarse because
Speaker 1: it was pretty epic. And then I had a coffee
Speaker 1: event right after that, and I actually got to perform
Speaker 1: to night. Anyway, I couldn't not record this even though
Speaker 1: I'm all, I'm all raspy. But anyway, for recap of
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, So on August sixth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: which I want you to remember for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life, on a doc in Montgomery, Alabama. Now, to
Speaker 1: color this and to understand why this is so specific,
Speaker 1: you have to as I'm telling the story, I'm also
Speaker 1: going to add sort of historical things to it, and
Speaker 1: then I'll move into the points I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: for the show. So Montgomery, Alabama was already played a big,
Speaker 1: humongous role in the civil rights movement, Like how many
Speaker 1: of the bus boycotts, you know what I'm saying, Almost
Speaker 1: all the most famous stories you know about doctor King
Speaker 1: took place down in Montgomery. Now remember he lived in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: of course, and you know where he got assassinated was
Speaker 1: in Memphis. But Montgomery was like headquarters. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's where you get the bus boycotts that
Speaker 1: you know, sort of sparked the civil rights movement in
Speaker 1: some ways. Like that's down there. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of history. This particular doc boat dock was. I mean,
Speaker 1: slaves were delivered here. This is a place that has
Speaker 1: many old souls and many of spirits and some horrible
Speaker 1: memories on there. Now fast forward to now it's a
Speaker 1: regular dock where people take their pontoons and riverboats and
Speaker 1: you go out on the river boat, go drink, go
Speaker 1: hang out. It's you know, it's hot as hale in Alabama.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever been down there. Hot
Speaker 1: as hal So getting out on the water is something
Speaker 1: that people do all the time. Now, I also want
Speaker 1: you to remember that there are schools, high schools down
Speaker 1: there in Alabama, maybe not Montgomery, because for Alabama, Montgomery, Birmingham, Biloxi,
Speaker 1: Mobile are the air quotes big cities, not big compared
Speaker 1: to where I'm from, but they're the big cities down there.
Speaker 1: But outside of those areas, there are high schools that
Speaker 1: didn't desegregate until two thy ten. Fam Like, there's a
Speaker 1: high school down there. I wrapped about it named Robert E.
Speaker 1: Lee High School. Like it's name after the Confederates. So
Speaker 1: it's almost like slavery ended last month for them, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. The civil rights movement just ended
Speaker 1: last week. Like, so there's that type of history down there. Now,
Speaker 1: this is not a slight to anyone that lives there.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this is just the culture. Like you
Speaker 1: can't just take no country road down there. It's they different,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Everybody everybody different down there.
Speaker 1: It's real down there. Now that being said, you got
Speaker 1: this riverboat right this dock where you had your little
Speaker 1: pontoon boat. You know what I'm saying, it's the last
Speaker 1: few weekends before people got to go back to school.
Speaker 1: So you outside, you know what I'm saying, People got
Speaker 1: e drinking, you know what I'm saying, chilling, grabbing yourself
Speaker 1: a little ride on the riverboat. Right, But if you
Speaker 1: got your little pontune, you know what I'm saying, you
Speaker 1: and the homies take your little pontoon out. Perfectly acceptable
Speaker 1: thing for these you know, shirtless white folks to do.
Speaker 1: Drink they little I don't know what they drink now,
Speaker 1: because they don't drink bud light, because y'all mad at
Speaker 1: bud light, you know what I'm saying. But you drink
Speaker 1: your little drink, You drink your little beers. You go
Speaker 1: out there, you know what I'm saying, hang out, do
Speaker 1: your little white people thing on your pontoon boats. Black folks,
Speaker 1: we line up, we get on this river boat. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It takes you around. They playing
Speaker 1: music as DJs. You know what I'm saying. You're drinking,
Speaker 1: you're smoking, you're kicking it. It's a regular thing. And
Speaker 1: when the boat, when the riverboat comes down, comes back around,
Speaker 1: some people get off and a new group of people
Speaker 1: get on. But the boat has to dock. And if
Speaker 1: you live near any body's of water, you know that
Speaker 1: the dock is a shared space. And if it's a
Speaker 1: commercial one where it's not just like a private dock,
Speaker 1: then obviously a private dock is something that's like, well,
Speaker 1: you own this thing. You put your boat there as
Speaker 1: long as you want to be there, but there's an
Speaker 1: etiquette situation, right, There's only so much space. It's almost
Speaker 1: like being on the street with a semi truck. Look,
Speaker 1: maybe that show lane, but that semi eighteen wheeler, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta make way for it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he got these white folks. Then they pontoon
Speaker 1: and this big old riverboat is trying to dock. So
Speaker 1: the captain from the riverboat is like, you know, on
Speaker 1: a loudspeaker, like, yo, y'all gotta move, y'all pantune because
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta park here. They not moving, Like, yo,
Speaker 1: y'all gotta move. They not moving. So then the co
Speaker 1: captain Black Dude, takes a little smaller boat goes to
Speaker 1: the dock. While the riverboat's still sitting out there. It's
Speaker 1: people waiting to get on the boat, people waiting to
Speaker 1: get off, people waiting to get on. He go down
Speaker 1: to the dock and all this is filmed because it's
Speaker 1: like hundreds of people there. He go out to the dock,
Speaker 1: right and while they now Here's what makes it even funnier.
Speaker 1: The riverboat is playing ludicrous move bitch, get out the win,
Speaker 1: Get out the way. They all screaming it because like
Speaker 1: they can move, like what are you doing? Like it's
Speaker 1: relaxed man, So but they not moving. So the co
Speaker 1: captain gets out, gets on the dock. He walking up
Speaker 1: to them like, dog, just what are y'all doing? Just
Speaker 1: like slide over. Now you're watching these things ensue. And
Speaker 1: then eventually the white boy tries to throw hands on
Speaker 1: the brother, trying to tell him to move. The brother
Speaker 1: throw the hat in the air and he like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: if that's what we're doing, fades is requested, fhades will
Speaker 1: be given. So he start fading this white boy because
Speaker 1: the white boy attacked him. Then out of nowhere you
Speaker 1: see four five shirtless bubbas throwing their beers up, and
Speaker 1: they come and running and jumping in protecting their homeboy. Right,
Speaker 1: so now they jumping this black dude who was again
Speaker 1: trying to tell them, y'all just got to move. Now.
Speaker 1: We don't know what conversations what was happening. We weren't
Speaker 1: close enough to hear exactly what they were saying to
Speaker 1: each other, but you could tell by body language that
Speaker 1: both of them was like, nigga, you need to chill right,
Speaker 1: but I'm not chilling. You supposed to move right. So
Speaker 1: now this brother's getting the black dude's getting jumped. So
Speaker 1: he getting moped right, stomped out. They stomping his dude out.
Speaker 1: But you have to remember this is in front of
Speaker 1: a lot of black people. Then you could see as
Speaker 1: the frame gets wider, you see other black men running
Speaker 1: as fast as they can towards the dock to come
Speaker 1: down there. And as people are running to come help
Speaker 1: this brother getting jumped, you also see young sixteen year
Speaker 1: old hero swimming. He's swimming from the other side, swimming
Speaker 1: over to the dock through the water. He's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get there. I'm helping my brother. He come swim,
Speaker 1: come out the water, and then get his wop wop,
Speaker 1: saying wo wop wop. Now by this time it's a brawl.
Speaker 1: They pulling people off. Now some of the white girls
Speaker 1: getting out of they pontun They want some too, and
Speaker 1: they like, now you're not finna beat up on my man.
Speaker 1: So now girls coming in. So now the black women
Speaker 1: coming down like, ah, hommy, no, y'all asked for this.
Speaker 1: Now you see the security in the back kind of
Speaker 1: looking like, well, I mean he did kind of ask
Speaker 1: for it. They did jump that dude. I mean, y'all, yo,
Speaker 1: you requested a fade. I mean you requested a fade.
Speaker 1: So fade was given. Now it's getting crazy, it's getting crazy.
Speaker 1: They mopping up the boat finally docks. It has to
Speaker 1: find somewhere to dock. Now everybody on the dock. Everybody
Speaker 1: on the boat saw this shit happen, so they got off, like, oh, nigga,
Speaker 1: what's up? This shit ain't over. You can't jump the
Speaker 1: homie now, is he the homie?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But he black, so therefore he the homie. So all
Speaker 1: the brothers get off the boat. Nigga. They go run
Speaker 1: up like, what's up? What's up? You're gonna jump the homeboy?
Speaker 1: Now other people jumping in. Now the white folks jumping in.
Speaker 1: Now it's a brawl. Then the whole thing go around
Speaker 1: to another side of the dock. And this is where
Speaker 1: some heroes just don't wear capes, but they carry folding chairs.
Speaker 1: Now the police is trying to break the thing up,
Speaker 1: but everybody jumping in, and you know how to go.
Speaker 1: When people jump in, you can't like look, look, look,
Speaker 1: you can't be hurting a hummy. Now, worred in white
Speaker 1: boys on that boat. Racist. I don't know, I know
Speaker 1: how it looked, but let me stop giving commentary first.
Speaker 1: So some brother couldn't have been younger than sixty just
Speaker 1: the old head right has a chair, a white folded
Speaker 1: chair on some wwe hits this man over the head
Speaker 1: with a folded chair. Then it gets punched drunk because
Speaker 1: out the corner of his eye. It's a white lady
Speaker 1: who gets pushed over by the cops telling her to
Speaker 1: get out, get the hell out the way, right, because
Speaker 1: the cops is trying to stop this thing, trying to
Speaker 1: calm everything down, so they push her down. She fall
Speaker 1: over her feet, break through her crocs, which is the
Speaker 1: funniest thing I ever seen in my life. The brother
Speaker 1: with the chair punch drunk while she down bow hits
Speaker 1: her over the head with the chair, and at that
Speaker 1: point everybody there is like, oh, that nigga going to jail,
Speaker 1: and even the cops were like, oh, okay, okay, now
Speaker 1: we gotta arrest you. So then the cops take the
Speaker 1: chair from the brother arrest them, and it was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can listen, man, you can't hit the
Speaker 1: lady washing down with a chair, cuz like we was
Speaker 1: with you the whole time, but I mean, damn, we
Speaker 1: gotta arrest you. And all the Black America was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you going to jail. Niggit, Like you can't hit the
Speaker 1: lady washing down with a chair, nigga. Like there's so
Speaker 1: at the end of it, three arrests, right, maybe some more,
Speaker 1: and the brother with the chair, we all raising money
Speaker 1: for his bail. But that sparked the most epic of
Speaker 1: memes across Black Twitter where we having fun. I mean like, look,
Speaker 1: people got folded chair earrings, brothers talking about having they
Speaker 1: open carry license and they got chairs attached to their hips.
Speaker 1: There's the meme of there's this one picture of a painting,
Speaker 1: a famous painting of Harriet Tubman where she was reaching
Speaker 1: down from the sky to free you, right because you
Speaker 1: know she was the leader on underground Railroad, right, And
Speaker 1: instead of just a hand, she got a folding chair.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the ancestors handing you folding
Speaker 1: chairs stuck. Look, start beating these crackers ass with these
Speaker 1: photo chairs. And black aquaman who swam across the thing
Speaker 1: to come get his licks in he dropped somebody. Now
Speaker 1: we are all celebrating this brawl, writing new hymns, and
Speaker 1: celebrating the violence that happened there. Now, let's unpack why
Speaker 1: we celebrating violence in the history that's going on here
Speaker 1: after this. All right, we're back. Now a lot to
Speaker 1: unpack here. First of all, this was a very violent affair.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. Are you asking me if I'm
Speaker 1: condoning violence? I mean, I guess Listen, you've never heard
Speaker 1: me say I was a pacifist. I don't choose violeviolence
Speaker 1: unless I need to. I don't condone violence unless we
Speaker 1: need to. I understand violence. I understand it completely. Also
Speaker 1: understand self defense. Listen, I'm not an anti gun dude.
Speaker 1: I believe in having them things on you. Why do
Speaker 1: I believe in that? Because we live in a violent
Speaker 1: police state. I mean, like our country, Listen, our country's violent.
Speaker 1: Our country was founded on violence. I'd like, let's not
Speaker 1: forget that. Like our origin story is violence. We like
Speaker 1: to act like we were built on this idea, the
Speaker 1: American experiment. Nigga, it was a war. We built on violence.
Speaker 1: You violently stole the land, violently threw off your oppressors,
Speaker 1: and then violently subdued a labor force. We're built on violence.
Speaker 1: Don't act like like we are a violent country. So
Speaker 1: when you in the ocean, you might as well swim.
Speaker 1: I don't love capitalism, but this where we are product
Speaker 1: Why because we in ocean when you might as well swim.
Speaker 1: If you a salt water if you're in a salt
Speaker 1: water ocean, you can't be a freshwater fish. You're gonna die.
Speaker 1: You gotta listen. You in ocean, you might as well swim.
Speaker 1: Now does that mean I need to make the ocean
Speaker 1: salty or no? Does that mean I need to pollute it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But I need to survive. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: We two plus two is four homi like we there's violence.
Speaker 1: But now let me put my teacher hat on and
Speaker 1: let's back up through some history here. Like I said, Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Alabama has been a place of you know, extreme violence
Speaker 1: towards black people and also a place of healing, a
Speaker 1: place of organizing, a place of resistance and resilience, because
Speaker 1: you can never take that away from a people who
Speaker 1: lived in a place like this and are still able
Speaker 1: to find joy, happiness, and humor. But now having said that,
Speaker 1: let's not act like because there was one thing, there
Speaker 1: was one little meme that was going around or hashtarg
Speaker 1: whatever that was going around black social media spaces essentially
Speaker 1: saying like, listen, we are not our ancestors, and what's
Speaker 1: that assuming is that we don't fight back or that
Speaker 1: our ancestors didn't fight back and they just were docile
Speaker 1: and sort of like allowed themselves to be enslaved. Now
Speaker 1: I knew what these people meant. What they were trying
Speaker 1: to say is like, look, we're done, we're done playing,
Speaker 1: We're done, we're done taking the shit. We fight back.
Speaker 1: But it's also important to remember as Black people and
Speaker 1: just as Americans that don't think our ancestors didn't fight back,
Speaker 1: don't think there weren't multiple slave uprisings and rebellions. History
Speaker 1: has a way, especially when you're trying to smash it
Speaker 1: into a semester and when you're learning it from the
Speaker 1: oppressor as a way of flattening a lot of the
Speaker 1: stories not at you know, we're rating it in a
Speaker 1: way that will eventually turn into what Florida trying to do,
Speaker 1: act like it really wasn't that bad and we actually
Speaker 1: gained a lot from being enslave, which is absurd, right.
Speaker 1: Let y'all tell the stories, but don't ever think that
Speaker 1: we didn't fight. I'm gonna give you just three examples,
Speaker 1: but you need to do your Google searches and learn
Speaker 1: a little more about this. Number one, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the Stono Rebellion in seventeen thirty nine. It was
Speaker 1: the biggest and largest slavey volt ever stays in the
Speaker 1: Thirteen Colonies. It was on Sunday, September ninth and seventeen
Speaker 1: thirty nine. It was a day of free labor and
Speaker 1: about twenty slaves under the leadership of a man named
Speaker 1: Jeremy provided whites. Check this out. PBS has a dope
Speaker 1: story on it. They provided whites with a painful lesson
Speaker 1: and the African desire for liberty. You have to remember,
Speaker 1: it's not like wars were not fought in Angola. It's
Speaker 1: not like some of these people you captured weren't already soldiers,
Speaker 1: that weren't already well trained, that don't already know how
Speaker 1: to organize. Sometimes you just gotta buy your time and
Speaker 1: you gotta wait for the right moment. There are many
Speaker 1: stories of slaving ships being overtaken, dudes being thrown off
Speaker 1: the side, Like don't think we didn't fight back, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. There was the New York Conspiracy
Speaker 1: of seventeen forty one, there was the German Coast uprising
Speaker 1: in eighteen eleven, and of course there's the famous Haitian one,
Speaker 1: the famous Haitian slave rebellion, which actually they won. They
Speaker 1: threw off there in Slavers. It actually worked. And of
Speaker 1: course a person who I wrote my seventh grade history
Speaker 1: report on about heroes. You were supposed to write a
Speaker 1: story about heroes. It's seventh grade turned it in its
Speaker 1: seventh grade project. Now by this time I had got
Speaker 1: shipped off to this suburban school and I wrote my
Speaker 1: book report or my history hero report on that turner.
Speaker 1: I came in that little, that little suburban school. I
Speaker 1: wrote my dumb bug on that turner. Let us say rebellion,
Speaker 1: let a massacre because he had the white people scared
Speaker 1: of me. So luck I can't thinking back now my
Speaker 1: little high top fade I'm walking in and my cross
Speaker 1: colors and my Malcolm X medallion. You feel me coming
Speaker 1: in here, straight from the city, shipped out to this school.
Speaker 1: They told me I'm supposed to write a story or
Speaker 1: write a book report on some on a historical figure.
Speaker 1: Nigga like me chose that Turner. Yes, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what miss Jackson. I had a white teacher named Miss Jackson.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Sorry, Miss Jackson, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Took on a whole different meaning. Wrote that
Speaker 1: mug on Nat Turner. So listen all that to say,
Speaker 1: don't you ever think we wasn't out here scrapping. Our
Speaker 1: ancestors did not just fold. They fought till the bitter end,
Speaker 1: and even in the end the Thirteenth Amendment, you know,
Speaker 1: ended the Civil War. We did that. We fought. Don't
Speaker 1: get don't think that the North gave us some sort
Speaker 1: of gift. They couldn't have won if we didn't fight
Speaker 1: with them. Okay, so again, know your history. Black people
Speaker 1: fought in the Civil War. We are a big reason
Speaker 1: why it was ended. And don't forget the influence that
Speaker 1: Frederick Douglass had on Abraham Lincoln. Because Frederick Douglass is
Speaker 1: why Abraham Lincoln became an abolitionist. Do your googles. Now,
Speaker 1: that's number one. Don't ever think we wouldn't willing to
Speaker 1: fight for our freedom. Now, number two is the point
Speaker 1: I want to make about This is, like I said before,
Speaker 1: America is just violent. This is how, no matter what
Speaker 1: you want to believe, how our problems are solved, how
Speaker 1: we get reckonings. I mean, you could just pick anything.
Speaker 1: It's violence, it's riots, it's war. What did it take
Speaker 1: for the Civil Rights Act to be passed? We took
Speaker 1: two assassinations and then riots across the country. I mean
Speaker 1: that's what that's what finally did it? How did you?
Speaker 1: I just don't know what to tell you, Like, don't
Speaker 1: believe your own lies. There is a deep seated lust
Speaker 1: for violence inside of America. I just don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. And that being said, I think all
Speaker 1: of us at some point have visualized or daydreamed about
Speaker 1: beaten the breaks off a fucking racist. I think all
Speaker 1: of us have about beating the shit out of a Nazi.
Speaker 1: You've you've you've imagined that moment. Don't lie to me. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: on the other side, I bet you every racist person
Speaker 1: in America has daydreamed and fantasized about jumping some minority.
Speaker 1: You like, come on that part of you. Every time
Speaker 1: you saw the cops, you know, kill an innocent man,
Speaker 1: you know, beating an innocent black person you were kind
Speaker 1: of like be kind of cool though, like don't you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't front and us people of color every
Speaker 1: time you saw it, every time you saw a cop,
Speaker 1: you know the Derek Show, and everytime you saw a
Speaker 1: copper or or you know the know nothing when you
Speaker 1: you know these poor people, poor black kid knocked on
Speaker 1: the door, just was at the wrong house and got shot.
Speaker 1: Tell me you didn't daydream about beating Aney. Tell me
Speaker 1: we haven't all thought about beating the brakes out of
Speaker 1: George Immaman. Well, we've all fantasized about getting our licks
Speaker 1: in in the and and about the perfect scenario where
Speaker 1: you could be righteous in your anger, where there was
Speaker 1: a way that it wasn't ambiguous, so that when you
Speaker 1: get your licks in you could still kind of be
Speaker 1: a hero. And of course we all watched WW. Of
Speaker 1: course you wanted to hit somebody with a chair. Of
Speaker 1: course listen. Of course you thought about slapping the shit
Speaker 1: out of a carrot. Don't like, Oh, come on, y'all,
Speaker 1: tell me you wait, Somewhere in your mind you thought
Speaker 1: about slapping the shit out of a Karen and hope
Speaker 1: for an opportunity to where it would be Okay, it's okay,
Speaker 1: you're not lying to me, all right, this hoo the politics.
Speaker 1: We're just telling the truth, all right. Again, the brother
Speaker 1: with the chair going to jail, Like you can even
Speaker 1: see across all of our social media, we all understand
Speaker 1: that that was too far right. And I bet you,
Speaker 1: as as an officer who might have been present, you've
Speaker 1: also participated in these fantasies to where you was like,
Speaker 1: I kind of wish like there was a moment where
Speaker 1: we could just let some asshole get their ass kicked, right,
Speaker 1: And especially if you watch that whole thing happen, if
Speaker 1: you're the officer there, you watch that whole thing happen,
Speaker 1: and you're like, that guy had to come in. Those
Speaker 1: dudes had to come in. They asked for it. And
Speaker 1: then when the guy hit the dude with the chair,
Speaker 1: you hit the lady with chair, you were like, fuck, okay,
Speaker 1: now I got to arrest you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Like they're probably like, dude, I'm sorry, man, she had
Speaker 1: a comment, but you can't. You can't hit her with
Speaker 1: a chair. Bro. So everybody donating to his bail fund
Speaker 1: because we all know you can't hit it with the chair.
Speaker 1: Now there's that baby and lastly or thirdly, why has
Speaker 1: this captured the hearts and the imaginations of black people
Speaker 1: across the country. And it's kind of because we just
Speaker 1: get tired of seeing our suffering and then nothing comes
Speaker 1: of it, like our sufferings on display all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, in your life, since I've done hood politics,
Speaker 1: We've just watched black people and people of color be
Speaker 1: beat or killed on our screens, just with no recourse.
Speaker 1: I mean, pick a hashtag. We just keep seeing it happen,
Speaker 1: and then justice maybe being served, maybe kind of being served.
Speaker 1: Just like just nothing ever comes of it. You just
Speaker 1: get tired of seeing it. You just want one day.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it not Batman's origin story? You just
Speaker 1: want one day for somebody to get their instant karma,
Speaker 1: for somebody to get their come uppins. I want a
Speaker 1: chance where we can finally witness ourselves stand up for ourselves.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell you this whole time, how
Speaker 1: collective identity works with the black community. Why it's so
Speaker 1: painful when we see our suffering on the screen because
Speaker 1: we feel like that person's one of us. So if
Speaker 1: you are actually present and you're watching a black man
Speaker 1: who you don't know, be jumped by a bunch of
Speaker 1: white dudes. You just he's being jumped and you're like,
Speaker 1: that could be me, and you would hope that somebody
Speaker 1: would come and help. And especially if you watch the
Speaker 1: whole thing off, because the brother was just doing his job.
Speaker 1: And again you place that in Montgomery, Alabama. I mean's
Speaker 1: just there's just a place where if a man stood
Speaker 1: up for himself and nobody else was around. You have
Speaker 1: to remember, if no black people were around at that moment,
Speaker 1: that man might have gotten thrown into the ocean and
Speaker 1: we hadn never see his body again. He might have
Speaker 1: got dragged into the woods and strung up on a tree.
Speaker 1: That is a safe assumption to believe at that moment.
Speaker 1: I don't know those white people, but I know Montgomery, Alabama.
Speaker 1: People still get lynch down there, still get hung by
Speaker 1: a tree. In the year of Our Lord twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Black people still go missing and still get lynched. So
Speaker 1: it is a safe assumption playing the odds that that
Speaker 1: man could have got killed that day. So, yes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna jump the fuck in. Yes, I'm gonna hit you
Speaker 1: with a chair because I don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do to us. That man's life got saved because there
Speaker 1: was black people there, because we kind of get tired
Speaker 1: of watching ourselves not have any defense. So yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I condone violence in that scenario. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to tell you. Again, he shouldn't hit that lady
Speaker 1: with the chair. Now, why do I keep giggling about that? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm giggling about it the same way the rest of
Speaker 1: Black America is giggling about it. It's because we deal
Speaker 1: with trauma through humor. I feel like I've told you
Speaker 1: this before. We have a way of finding the funny
Speaker 1: in everything. Now, I'm married a Latina woman. So my
Speaker 1: wife is from Southern Mexico, first gen Mexican, which you
Speaker 1: know a lot, I've said a lot. My wife is
Speaker 1: has been as street as they come. Now she's now
Speaker 1: a PhD. But she from the block, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like she they grew up hard and in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, they grew up harder than I did.
Speaker 1: So she understands the street rules, she understand the hood
Speaker 1: parts of it. She certified, But her culture don't deal
Speaker 1: with trauma the way we deal with trauma. We deal
Speaker 1: with our trauma by making fun of everything. Like remember
Speaker 1: when we talked about the bartin Luther King's statue, the
Speaker 1: new sculpture that looked like a big old dick from
Speaker 1: a particular angle. Yes, that it was just funny. We
Speaker 1: make memes out of stuff because that's how we deal
Speaker 1: with trauma. I don't know what else to tell you,
Speaker 1: how else if not, we would be furious and throwing
Speaker 1: other white people and we would just be throwing white
Speaker 1: people off of cliffs every time we see them, just
Speaker 1: with no recourse or this is how we process stuff.
Speaker 1: We just we just make jokes out of it. It's
Speaker 1: how we keep each other in line. And like I
Speaker 1: said before, what you don't want if you're a member
Speaker 1: of our community, even when we make fun of you,
Speaker 1: these are acts of love. And my wife did not
Speaker 1: understand that when we got when I started making fun
Speaker 1: of my child, it's you like, this is this is
Speaker 1: how we deal with things, Okay, even when her and
Speaker 1: I were having marital problems, I make jokes. This is
Speaker 1: how we deal with trauma. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say, dude. We just it's
Speaker 1: how we deal with trauma, because if not, we would
Speaker 1: be viciously violent all the time either that are deeply,
Speaker 1: deeply depressed. All the time we have we've learned to
Speaker 1: find joy. Doesn't mean we're not taking as serious. But again,
Speaker 1: if you're in the black community, the worst part about
Speaker 1: us is being ignored, because if we ignore it, that
Speaker 1: mean you don't matter. I mean, we're done with you.
Speaker 1: You're not a part of our story. But if we
Speaker 1: drag you, it's because we're a part of our You're
Speaker 1: a part of our story. Now, this is a very
Speaker 1: important moment, I would say, lastly, because it's on the
Speaker 1: heels of January sixth too, also where the president is
Speaker 1: finally being in some ways held accountable for the violence
Speaker 1: that these white people did patriots based on a goddamn lie.
Speaker 1: And we all sat at home and we watch these
Speaker 1: white people storm the Capitol, all of us knowing full
Speaker 1: well we'd have been shot on sight. Y'all. Just y'all.
Speaker 1: White people just get away with stuff. Now, there's been indictments,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. People have gone to jail, right,
Speaker 1: Some have been held accountable. The founder of the Proud Boys,
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of them dudes, they've been
Speaker 1: held accountable. Now it's funny. What's funny about that. To me,
Speaker 1: is the dude that's going to jail at the Proud
Speaker 1: Boys is the non white one. They even still found
Speaker 1: a way to put to find a brown person and
Speaker 1: put a bit jail. Dis absurd, But we have just
Speaker 1: watched for so long acts of violence towards black people
Speaker 1: and people of color, or just acts of violence committed
Speaker 1: by white folks always have no consequence, which is why
Speaker 1: we throw in the tie into the Jason al Dean song.
Speaker 1: Try that in a small town. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know Jason Aldan's I've been made aware of
Speaker 1: his politics recently because of all this shit that's going
Speaker 1: down with his song. But I also have friends, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, that are country singers. One of them
Speaker 1: is very close. I would name drop here, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, he wouldn't give a fuck. He talks like this.
Speaker 1: So I was about us, but go out name John
Speaker 1: my own boy, Chase Rice. So I asked him what
Speaker 1: he thought, you know, and he was interested on the
Speaker 1: way I think about this. So I think I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say what he thinks because he's got records to
Speaker 1: sell and that's my dog, and he'd be trying to
Speaker 1: stay out all that shit, right. But anyway, it's interesting
Speaker 1: to think, like why this song struck such a chord
Speaker 1: because white people have been romanticizing the country, you know,
Speaker 1: the small town all through country music. That's what y'all do.
Speaker 1: Y'all romanticize essentially Dixie. You know that you're you're, you're, you're,
Speaker 1: you're essentially romanticizing that time, that genteel southern Dixie small town.
Speaker 1: I get it. It was a way of life, it
Speaker 1: was a time, and it's a symbol of a time
Speaker 1: that you romanticized. It's like it's like England romanticizing Turn
Speaker 1: of the century monarchs. You know, all your little limit
Speaker 1: little women books and shit, like as if y'all had
Speaker 1: running water back then, and everybody didn't. Everybody wasn't incestuous
Speaker 1: and smelled like armpit sweat and shit all the time,
Speaker 1: like that's how the royals smelled and sound. But y'all
Speaker 1: romanticized that time. I get it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's when you layer this idea of saying stuff like
Speaker 1: them country boys that were raised right are gonna teach
Speaker 1: you manners. You're clearly invoking it's I mean it's obvious
Speaker 1: what you're invoking. I don't need to I need to
Speaker 1: lay it out. You know what I'm saying, and which
Speaker 1: might have been fine if you didn't add the video.
Speaker 1: And once you add the video, the video is of
Speaker 1: people standing up for their rights of protesting things right
Speaker 1: that were unjust, which is what you're saying is when
Speaker 1: stuff is unjust, we're gonna stand up and fight against it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. So we're doing the same thing we're
Speaker 1: standing up against injustice. You just don't think what we're
Speaker 1: saying is. And you have this idea that the big
Speaker 1: city is this bastion of evil, right, that's that's the idea.
Speaker 1: That's that's the romantic idea that that you're saying, which
Speaker 1: is fine. Live in your fantasy, in your worldview. It's okay,
Speaker 1: you can live in that, right, But for the rest
Speaker 1: of us, we know that small towns are a place
Speaker 1: of terror. That's where we get strong of and nobody
Speaker 1: comes and finds our bodies. Right, Your crime rates are
Speaker 1: actually way higher if we're talking per capita, right, crime
Speaker 1: rates are way higher. There's just more people in a city, right,
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, I feel way safer
Speaker 1: in big cities because there's recourse. Something's gonna happen. They
Speaker 1: will find my body, you know what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 1: someone might see it happen. Now. Also, the stuff you're
Speaker 1: talking about, like the Euvaldi shooting, Evalde is not a
Speaker 1: big city right now. That being said, the tying is,
Speaker 1: these black people just did everything you celebrating in the song.
Speaker 1: You get out of line. Them boys that'll raise right
Speaker 1: might swim across the river. Dudes might come from out
Speaker 1: the deck and they gonna teach you some man, that's
Speaker 1: big homie. I'm just saying, we just did what your
Speaker 1: song said. Or you're condonting vigilanti violence, am I? I mean?
Speaker 1: Is it that what seventeen seventy six is politics? Y'all?
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