1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Look, there's is no way in the world I'll be 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: able to do this topic justice, apologizing up front that 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: this is just it's just too much to cover. And 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: that's said. You know where the world's diamonds come from. 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: Russia's one of the biggest countries, followed by Botswana, Democratic 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Republic of Congo, Canada up there, Angola, South Africa, but 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: mostly Africa, in a little bit in Brazil. You know 8 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: where the world's gold comes from, mostly Canada and Russia, 9 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: but really Peru, New Or most of the world's drugs 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: come from Central in South America. You know where the 11 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: world's coffee comes from. It only grows at the equator, 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: in between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropica Capricorn. Now 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: y'all know who live at the Tropic of Cancer and 14 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: Tropic of Capricorn. You know, coffee has its own stock market. 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: It's called the c market. Like it's it's one of 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: the largest commodities really in the world. You know how 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: cocaine and crack got to our streets because Reagan was 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: afraid of the spread of communism. Yeah, let's see, I 19 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: ran conscious scandal because he backed the rebel force with 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: some money. He wasn't supposed to have that he got 21 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: from selling weapons he wasn't supposed to sell in the 22 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: first place by negotiating with folks he wasn't supposed to 23 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: be messing with anyway, which needs its own episode. One 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: would think that if you are the plug, if you 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: are the source and the workers for which pull the 26 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: source out and sell it to the world, one would 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: think you'd be sitting pretty lovely. How come in they 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: like that, though? Why these regions that we get most 29 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: of our stuff from stay in turmoil? Why are people 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: leaving in droves Central America? Like? Is it really that bad? 31 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: How did they even get like this? Is this some 32 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: wild stuff going on in their hoods? Absolutely? Are they 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: we mis corrupt? Absolutely? But yo, soul is ours, you 34 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But why does it feel like 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: somehow they corrupt, somehow worse than our corrupt? Are we 36 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: just we just natural? We're just racist? Like what it 37 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: just seemed like just some really going down south for 38 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: the equator And this affects you directly. You may not 39 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: think so, you may not be able to see it 40 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: off top, but like you have no idea how much 41 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: other countries success have to do with your own but 42 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: dang man, earth, what's really good? That's a good question 43 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: and super low key. Don't it kind of sound like 44 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: pop culture, jazz, hip hop, working class, you know, essential workers. 45 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: It seemed like logging factories called industry. Don't it kind 46 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: of seemed like all the areas that provide most of 47 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: America with their comfort, most of America with their dances 48 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: and they music, we don't seem to be able to 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: ever really get hours together. Let me talk to you 50 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: about the global hood. Politics. Politics. So this is a 51 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: pretty heavy episode. I'm not gonna I ain't gonna cat 52 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: like this was really heavy because it's just gonna take 53 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: a lot to unpack. And again, like we said, an 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: episode one, people have given their life's work to understanding 55 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: the way that the modern nation state interacts with each 56 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: other across the globe. You know, just global politics is. 57 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: It's a lot because it's way too many moving parts. 58 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: And I don't know what possessed me to take on 59 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: this topic. Actually I do know what possessed me take 60 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: this topic. It was the COVID response, according to the 61 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: Human Rights Watch dot org. I'll put all the links 62 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: in all this. I'm gonna quote this the vaccine rollout 63 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: around the globe has been right with inequality. According to 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: the research by the agents of France Press A right 65 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: in high income nations such as the United States and 66 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: members of the European Union have been getting much more 67 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: than their fair share of vaccine doses, despite making up 68 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: only of the global population. People in high income nations 69 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: have gotten forty seven percent of all the vaccine doses. 70 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: That's in contrast to people in lower income nations, who 71 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: have just got point two percent of all vaccine doses 72 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: despite making up nine percent of the world's population. More 73 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administrated 74 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: worldwide less than five months after the first mass inoculation 75 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: programs began to roll out. According to the AFP tally, 76 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: at least one billion, two million, nine hundred and thirty 77 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: eight thousand, five hundred and forty dose have been administrated 78 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: in two hundred and seven countries and territories. According to 79 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: the tally compiled from official sources, more than half fifty 80 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: percent have been given to three countries. Listen to me, 81 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: more than half have been given to three countries United States, China, 82 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: and India. But check this out some countries. There's twelve 83 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: of them. They haven't even started vaccinating. Seven in Africa, Tanzania, Madagastar, Chad, Burundi, 84 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: Central Africa, republic A, Turia, Man, there's in Samoa, uh 85 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: there's one in Asia and Haiti haven't even started vaccinating 86 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: despite the troubles that have now quoting again, despite the 87 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: troubles that have plagued it since it was approved for use. 88 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: The vaccine, developed by Astra Zeneca and Oxford University, is 89 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: the most widely used so far and has been administrated 90 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: in three quarters of hundred and fifty six countries and 91 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: territories who have started vaccinating. Now. In terms of proportion 92 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: to population of who have been vaccinated, Israel is in 93 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: the league, nearly six out of every ten Israeli's is 94 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: fully inoculated. That's followed by the United Arab Emirates with 95 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: more than fifty one percent of the population that has 96 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: received at least one, Britain with US with forty two, 97 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: Chile with forty one, Uruguay with and in the EU 98 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: eight million doses have been administrated to of the population, 99 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: while majority of poor countries have also started the vaccine, 100 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: mainly thanks to the Kovacs program. Inoculation is still largely 101 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: a privilege of high income countries as defined by the 102 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: World Bank, which are home of six percent of the 103 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: world's population but have administered forties seven percent of the 104 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: vaccine doses. Now, all these numbers should seem pretty like well, 105 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: I mean, well, damn man, we bought it. You feel 106 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: me like, uh, we got the money for it, That's 107 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: why we got it. I mean, it just seems it 108 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: should seem like a one to one, right, Well, we 109 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: had we can afford more, so we got more. However, 110 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: if you do it by relation of population, it's like, well, 111 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: we got more than we need. Now, when the G 112 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: seven got together in their defense, Biden agreed to buy 113 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: fifty million doses to give to poor countries except for 114 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: Venezuela because they under exceptions. They are they under us sanctions, 115 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: n like, can you believe us, We're gonna buy it, 116 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: but give it to you, but not y'all. But like this, look, 117 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: this is wild and if anybody give to them, you 118 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: gotta deal with us, because like they on day on 119 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: the ship list right now, like god dog. But the 120 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: thing is, why can't the rest of the world afford it? 121 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: And the Why is what sparked this whole two part 122 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: episode like why man? How sway? How is the world's 123 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: richest one percent owned forty three point four percent of 124 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: the world's wealth? How? How did we even get here? Like? 125 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: What is? Do you kind of get the feeling in 126 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: the same way you look around? Are any cities and say, 127 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: is this? Did y'all do this all purpose? Is that? 128 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: Do you have some sort of is it is this? 129 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: Do this kind of feel like same ease to y'all? 130 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: Why is there a border crisis? What the hell going 131 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: on in Central America that y'all can't ever get your 132 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: ship together? Is that really the case they can't get 133 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: their shipped together? Is that really what's going on? You 134 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: ever heard of the Northern Triangle El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. 135 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: This whole migrant caravan? What the hell is a What 136 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: the hell is a border crisis? What we got to 137 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: do with it? While we got to answer this as Americans? 138 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: How did they even get there? Venezuela, Colombia? Like what? Why? 139 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: And what I'm gonna submit to you is it's a 140 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: very similar reason, maybe not a one to one, but 141 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: a very similar reason as to why our hoods look 142 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: the way they look. Okay, have you ever heard of 143 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: the word or the phrase third world country? We don't 144 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: use it no more because it's kind of like we've 145 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: just evolved past that phrase. But it's a line that 146 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: came from the Cold War. Uh. We would consider the 147 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: G seven nations, including ourselves, as first world, which is 148 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: so lame. They would call Russia somebody like the second 149 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: world to where it's like yah kind of middle class 150 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: and in everybody to f else is third world Now. 151 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: I'm a quote from the University of Virginia the Global 152 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: South Studies uh it says what or where is the 153 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: global South. The global South as a critical concept has 154 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: three primary definitions. First, it has been traditionally used within 155 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: inter governmental development organizations, primarily those that originated in the 156 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: Non Aligned movement, to refer to economically disadvantaged NASON states 157 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: as a post code war alternative to third World However, 158 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: in recent years, within a variety of fields, the global 159 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: South is employed in a post national sense to address 160 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: spaces and people negatively impacted by the contemporary capitalist globalization. 161 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: In the second definition, the global South captures uh D 162 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: territorialized geography of capitalism's externalities and means to account for 163 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: the subjugated people's within borders of wealthier countries, such that 164 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: there are economic souths in the geographic north and north 165 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: in the geographic south. Y'all get that right. What they're 166 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: saying is rich countries have hoods, and hood countries got 167 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: rich folks, and the epitaph global is used to unhinge 168 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: the South from a one to one relation to geography. 169 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: In other words, what they're trying to say is, this 170 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: is the idea of the global haves and have not. 171 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: It's the idea that when you look at how capitalism 172 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: functions globally, who gets to work with who, who got 173 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: the lick, who got the bag, who got the sack? 174 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: Who you selling to how it's working? And then who 175 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: are the foot soldiers that make that happen, who's providing 176 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: the product? Right? That's what a capitalism externality is. It's 177 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: you don't get to sit at the table and negotiate 178 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: with the bosses. You just get to go be a 179 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: foot soldier. And like they said, it's not necessarily geographical 180 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: per se, But it started off as the idea of 181 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: such y'all following me. For example, South Africa is actually 182 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: a rather wealthy country and it's in the south, but 183 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: it also has remarkable amount of people you would consider 184 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: part of the global South. Following me. Now, it don't 185 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: take no rocket science to understand that those with extreme 186 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: wealth have opten accumulated their fortunes on the backs of 187 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: people around the world who work for poor wages under 188 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: dangerous conditions. Right, so the wealth divide is not one 189 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: that's like, Okay, this is not this ain't hard for 190 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: none of y'all. Y'all understand this. But I'd love to 191 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: step back and say, again, how do we even get here? 192 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: And the way I want to talk about how we 193 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: even got here is to just sort of drop a 194 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: pin in specifically Central America and talk about the idea 195 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 1: of destabilizing the nation. But the only way to understand 196 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: that is you have to understand global colonialism going all 197 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: the way back to sevent hundreds. The best way to 198 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: understand this is the game of thrones that Europe, the 199 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: game of empire has Europe been playing since the Roman Empire. 200 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: It's the world been playing a game of thrones for 201 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: a long time, pre the development of what we consider, 202 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: you know, modern nation states. The greatest lick to ever hit. Listen, 203 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: hear me hood, The greatest lique is land. That's the 204 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: hardest lick you could hit, because I ain't making no 205 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: more earth. Now. You might be, uh, some sort of 206 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: volcano in the middle of an ocean that's sprouting out 207 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: new magma and growing new earth. Yeah, okay, you got me, 208 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: the air geologists. But that's somebody probably already owned that. 209 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: Ain't that crazy? Somebody already owned earth that ain't been 210 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: made yet. Greatest lique in the world is land because 211 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: everything that comes with the land belong to you. Now. 212 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: The hard part is finding land that ain't nobody on 213 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: and if the land that they own, if they are there, 214 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: I gotta overpower them and take it for myself. This 215 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: game of thrones dog, and it's been going on for 216 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: a long time, but I'm gonna drop a pin into 217 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen sixteen hundreds talk about Portugal. This is post 218 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: like we talked about doctoring a discovery where you're supposed 219 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: to go expand the kingdoms for the Catholic Church, subdue 220 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: the nation's make disciples of all men. Just this weird 221 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: convolution of a faith that some of us hold dear 222 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: into this freaking conquering, war mongering, selfish empire building ship 223 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: that plex us to this day anyway, that was quite 224 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: a tangent because I just don't come from that tradition. 225 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: We're talking about this and introduced myself. I don't come 226 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: from that tradition. So it's just but it just sucks 227 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: because that tradition loud and wrong anyway, um, and I'm 228 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: using the term tradition rather than the person because that's 229 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: not what we're talking about. But again another tangent. Portugal 230 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: got down to Africa, North Africa for the intensive history. 231 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: They were the first of the European nations to attempt 232 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: to try to uh colonize Africa. They were interested in 233 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: the salt, Yeah, they were interested in the culture of 234 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: the arts and and a lot of the cultural exchanges 235 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: between Africa and Europe at first was are you look 236 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: at some old uh some of the Renaissance painters, and 237 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: you could see the North African influence, um, West African 238 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: influence also on patterns and abstractions, because Africa have been 239 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: really good at art for a long time. And then 240 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: somebody discovered naked gold, naked diamonds, and the most lucrative 241 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: of all free labor. And remember if you already have 242 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: this idea that the people for which you're working with 243 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: aren't necessarily people in their mind, they were clearly uncivilized, 244 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: like y'all still y'all still hunter gatherers, nigga, y'all still 245 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: y'all still hunt animals they held wrong with you, build 246 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: offense and put them in defense. You know, when you 247 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: when you you have these interactions, there's these like amazing 248 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: stories which are super interesting about like just the the 249 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: the mental capacity and understanding. When you had these post Renaissance, 250 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: you know, high European civilizations come in contact with people's 251 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: of other places that just didn't see the world the 252 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: way they saw the world. How like confusing it was 253 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: to both parties because check this out. The European thought 254 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: was like, the land is to do what I tell 255 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: it to. It's the animals are subjugated to us. So 256 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: what the hell you doing chasing around a buffalo? What 257 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: you know what I'm said it there's like why, why 258 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: why we used to do that? We don't anymore, therefore 259 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: you're behind us. That was the idea. There's a story 260 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: from some of the first settlers into the America's you know, 261 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: obviously that the narrative of like, oh yeah, they taught 262 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: him how to you know, grow corn, and obviously that's stupid, right, 263 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: But there are stories where these you know, certain families 264 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 1: interacted with other native families and it was like all right, okay, 265 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: well let's first of all, I don't understand why you 266 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: still why you're still hunting, but whatever. And then they 267 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: was like okay, we're gonna go get some vegetables. And 268 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: then the Europeans was like where and it was like 269 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: in the garden and there was like niggadasso forest, what 270 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: the hell you mean garden? Right? And then the natives 271 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: would go out into the garden what looked to the 272 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: European as so not organized. They was like, no, we 273 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: grow our crops in rows, the corn strawberries, Like what 274 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: are y'all doing? The natives were like, well, no, you 275 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: see this corn right here. Around that is that wild grass, 276 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: and under that are are some wild strawberries. I'm pulling 277 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: the fruits out of nowhere. But like, just follow the 278 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: story because it's kind of like how some of these 279 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: interactions worked. It was like, well, what the natives that 280 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: figured out because they've been there forever is that the 281 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: strawberries bring in animals that would eat their crops, so 282 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,719 Speaker 1: they would smell that, they would eat the wild grass, 283 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: get sick, and then learn that you ain't post to 284 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: mess with this plant. And that's how they would protect 285 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: their corn. They use earth to protect earth. To the Europeans, 286 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: they don't make no sense. That's why they was building 287 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: up pesticides and drawing fences and that because you didn't 288 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,719 Speaker 1: let the land just do what it does. So they 289 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: were just a fundamental misunderstanding of how both of this 290 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: ship works right, And to the conclusion of the European 291 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: settler was like, oh what they primitive in they mind. 292 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: They're like, yo, you're still sacrificing children and animals to 293 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: the gods for you know, crops, seeing themselves it's so advanced. Meanwhile, 294 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: they still ain't got a sewage system back in their 295 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: country and just disease running rapid because all you're doing 296 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: is just throwing trash out the window. Y'all gotta look 297 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: up the great uh stink of London. You know, you 298 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: know you ain't advances that you think you are. They 299 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, we you know, we're enlightened. We 300 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: know not to do that. So they was like, all right, well, 301 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: you know, maybe we can civilize them. And that's the 302 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: the white man's burden. I talked about it in the 303 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: first maybe we could civilize them these uh you know 304 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: there's justin the news, uh in Canada, this grave from 305 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: the Indian schools. Was this idea that they would have 306 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: like kill the Indians, save the man. It's the idea 307 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: of just essentially just like wiping them up. So you 308 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: send them to these schools to make them more civilized. 309 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: Right then they found out what the natives like. Yo, nigga, 310 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: they're not They're not gonna work. They're not gonna do this. 311 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: Niggas fight back. Go check out a little big horn, 312 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. But another amazing resource 313 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: was the African slave. So you just take them everywhere 314 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: that your empire goes, because again, the slave was a 315 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: means to an end. The end was the land, and 316 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: the slave was just a beast of burden. That's the 317 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: way they see us. We're just beast of burden to 318 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: subdue to actual lique, which was the land and all 319 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: the resources that come out of it. Intracentral in South America, 320 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: nigga sugar. Europe got hooked because, like listen, Europe was like, 321 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: what is this? But it only grew over here in 322 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: the America's. It's too cold in Europe, so we need 323 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: all the land we can to grow this product. So 324 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: you start colonizing up and down the America's because it's 325 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: a lick. But you need somebody to work this land. 326 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: And that's where the slaves came in. So you started 327 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: working all this land on this other side of thing. 328 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: Because again it's the idea that like the land is 329 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: the lick, the slave is the cattle. A matter of fact, 330 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: they called us chattel. Now think about gentrification. The lands 331 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: the lick. You understand what I'm saying. You see them 332 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: billboard jelling cash for homes, gentrified, baby gentrified. The land 333 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: is the lick. Now, I just gave y'all not enough 334 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: information for to really do this justice. But I gotta 335 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: move on because it's only a thirty minute pot. Now 336 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: into the Cold War. The Cold War is where it 337 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: gets super psycho because remember the Cold War, proxy wars, 338 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: all that stuff had really nothing to do with the 339 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: people and the lands for which the wars were playing out. 340 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: It was at all times a pissing contest. It was 341 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: an idea war. The war was what they would say, 342 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: freedom and democracy versus communism in Russia. At the end 343 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: of the day, it was a pissing contest. You was 344 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's gonna be top of it, 345 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: who's king of the hill, whose ideas work, and ultimately 346 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: who get to run the table. Let's just look who 347 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: gonna run the table? Is the point? Y'all? Know? The 348 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: space race, the race to the race to get on 349 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: the moon, and has shipped to do with science or 350 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: the moon. Nigga, It was a flex. It's so obvious 351 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: if you pull back and think about it. Nigga, it 352 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: wasn't about getting to space. It was about I can 353 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: make bombs. You're flexing your technology if I can get 354 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: on the moon. What you think I could do if 355 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: I if you ever try to throw a bomb at us, 356 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: it's nuclear. You were showing your guns. I saw they 357 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: were doing. We're just trying to flex on Russia. That's it. 358 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: It's a X. As a matter of fact, let me 359 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: even put you even further. You know, the COVID response 360 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: a flex. This mug is bragging rights, follow me, totalitarian 361 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: authoritarian rules versus Western democracies. Who gonna get to the 362 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: solution first. It's a flex because it's all still these 363 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: are just modern games of thrones, that's all they are. 364 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: Now back to the Cold War, you know, North Korea, 365 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: South Korea just as a perfect example of this. That's 366 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: because at some point Russia decided, Russian America decided to 367 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: go haves on Korea right, and they would back Russia 368 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: wood back to North American and West would back to 369 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 1: South right, and that war is not over. It's just 370 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: an armatist I don't know if you know that. The 371 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: part of why North Korea is so always salty at 372 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: us is NIGGI. We still got warships off the thought 373 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: of the coast. It's a flex, that's all. It was 374 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: American Front, like we had never lost no war. You 375 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: know we still we still undefeated. But you know Vietnam 376 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 1: don't count because it's like, well technically what in our war? 377 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: Now they get you jumped in we lost that mug. 378 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: Do you ask any of Vietnam war vet especially by 379 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 1: how they was treated when they got home. They get 380 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: outsid l But it's a game of thrones. But the 381 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: fear was we can't let communism we as in America 382 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: take root in the America's because that's too close. Famious 383 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: Inglewood family in the nineties, Inglewood Saints like these are 384 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: Inglewood is pretty much all bloods that they are surrounded 385 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: on every side by Crypt gangs. They're like, look, man, 386 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: we can we can't have no other crypt take roote 387 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,479 Speaker 1: over here. Dog. It is getting crazy. But yeah, at 388 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's because we're afraid of Russia, Niga, Cuba, 389 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: the Bay of Pigs, autist ship. It's it's because we 390 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: were we were beefing and has it to do with 391 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: anybody on the land, because the lands the lick I 392 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: need that are we gonna get this sugar and r 393 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: t got dog. So now you're big bad America in 394 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: the twentieth century. Nigga. You shine, and you shining hard. 395 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: You're stunning on everybody, but so as Russia. So you 396 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: feel like your world's enemies are and you're really kind 397 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: of like jumping, you know, in you in the hood 398 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: and like maybe you had to you had a win, 399 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: and it's like and the one one one thing can say, 400 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: all right, all right, that's cool, Okay, now it's cool a. 401 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: Now I don't tread full. You should trip, for sure, 402 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: you better trip. So you're looking around, You're trying to 403 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: watch everybody's moves, see what's going on, and you're trying 404 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: to like set up shopping different places. Like we talked 405 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: about another episode. You know, you're saying Fox five cause 406 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: FO five moves to another city to get it cracking. 407 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because you're expanding your resources. 408 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: You're trying to get this ship cracking, right. But if 409 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: you're American, you're watching because you know everybody else doing 410 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: the same. So you're looking at like what's going on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, 411 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Public else, Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Perguay, Petu. 412 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 1: Like you looking around and like, okay, what they're doing. 413 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: Who they're putting in charge? What does that fool think? Like, 414 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: is he gonna be cool with us? Are he gonna 415 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: be cool with them? You're gonna you're gonna make it 416 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: easy for us to like, you know, set up shop 417 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: just in case y'all got some money, you're gonna sell 418 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: with us. You're gonna be you're watching real close. You 419 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: need to know who they mess with and who's messing 420 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: with them and who don't mess with them and all 421 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: that you need to know. You're seeing how they moving. 422 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: Are they right wing? Are they left wing? Are they authoritarian? 423 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: Are they democratic? That's Nicka Wagra Like this is what 424 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: happened to Nikara again, Like I said, it's the crack 425 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: attack this nickar Rock. You're watching real close, you know 426 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and you're looking to see on the ground, like, Okay, 427 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: who possibly could I tap? Like who can I You 428 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Who can I recruit? You? Feel me? Right? 429 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: Who out there? Just kind of early? The early is 430 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: like a pimp slang. But we'll get into that later. 431 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: Like basically you're too young to actually be on the corner, 432 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna get you ready for it. That's called early. 433 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 1: It's terrible anyway, Um, but you're looking around like all right, 434 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: and if you see, man, you know what I'm saying, 435 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: these rebel forces. Right, if the rebel force is more 436 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: right wing than left wing because you're afraid of them 437 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: left wings because that's gonna mess up your money, then 438 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: you might like low key like start like running down 439 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: there and being like yo, we got you hold me. 440 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: I like what y'all doing. Man, you're fighting for you 441 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: fighting for this. But if they too far right, then 442 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, ship, this ain't no democracy. Okay, well 443 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: let me back these other foods. Or sometimes like with 444 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: mosta deck in Iran, you just you're back both sides. 445 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: You just you're selling guns to folks because you're trying 446 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: to set up your own ship. And then when it 447 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: should get too wild, you send down their humanitarian efforts, 448 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: right peace keeping, uh forces, your your you send your 449 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: American military because oh, we're just down there trying to 450 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: keep the peace. We don't want this. Oh don't it 451 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: sound like the police and the Hood. Don't it sound 452 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: like that, Oh, we're just keeping peace. You got to 453 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 1: have so much violence out here. We just we just 454 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: think you got should stop killing each other. Dog, I'm 455 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: telling you it's the global hood. Now check this out. 456 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: There's an entire phrase that encapsulates all this. It's called 457 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: the Truman doctrine. It's this idea of President Harry Truman 458 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: who developed this around and it was the idea of 459 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: containing communist growth that was specifically in Greece and Turkey. 460 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: But the idea is you step into civil wars and 461 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: you try your best to contain the spread of communism. 462 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: Now back to us, sowing of chaos, flipping over regimes, 463 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: deposing dictators. A lot of times they create this narrative 464 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: that you are the hero for the people if you're 465 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: gonna do it out loud, A lot of times you 466 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: do it behind closed doors. But at the end of 467 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: the day, for the wealth distribution to stay the way 468 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: it is, you need workers, you need plantations, you need 469 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: share croppers. Now I want to talk specifically about El Salvador, Guatemala, 470 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: and Honduras because this is that northern triangle and has 471 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: a direct connection to our border crisis right now. And 472 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: these are like crude, crude. I am not doing these 473 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: stories justice. They all need their own seven part series. 474 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: But let me start with El Salvador. Right. So, there 475 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: was a bunch of peasant workers uprisings in the country 476 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: against this oligarchy and like this anti democratic governments, often 477 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: under control of powerful American company interests like the United 478 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: Fruit Company. I'm gonna get to that in a second. 479 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: And with the appearance of figures like Marthe who led 480 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: these civil revolts, they were violently crushed, and efforts to 481 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: take power democratically were often thwarted by US intervention, and 482 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: the Civil War started spreading, with the U s endorsed 483 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: governments in Elf Salvador facing like guerilla fighters. Now let 484 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: me go back to this United Fruit Company. Um, you 485 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: ever heard of Chaquida Banana? You heard me right, the 486 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: Chaquida Banana. You ever heard of the Banana Wars or 487 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: the Banana Banana Republic? You have not the clothing store, 488 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: but the idea of a banana republic. Check this out. 489 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: Follow me. So the Chaquida Brands International. For some reason, 490 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: the world got the taste of a banana and was like, nigga, 491 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: we need these. But they only grew down there. It 492 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: was an American corporation UH that traded tropical fruit right 493 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: grown in Latin American plantations and sold in United States 494 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: and Europe. The company was formed in eight and it 495 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: flourished in the early twentieth century, and it became control 496 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: of vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, Caribbean, Colombia, 497 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: and the West and the West Indies. It was main 498 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: competition was something that later became the Doll Company. For 499 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: UH dominance in the international banana trade, and it maintained 500 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: a virtual monopoly for certain regions which became called the 501 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: banana republics, such as Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Listen, 502 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: y'all remember the Homies. Smedley Butler, Me and Robert did 503 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: a couple episodes about Homie. Listen, how he learned how 504 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: to fight wars family he was in these banana wars. 505 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: These are wars that are basically because as a corporation, 506 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: American corporations want the money to keep flowing. You need 507 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: a lot of land to grow bananas, and you also 508 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: need a lot of people to do that, and you 509 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: need a not a land to create trains to transport 510 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: those bananas, which means you gotta buy up. What did 511 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: I say at the beginning, The land is the lick. 512 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: You gotta buy the whole thing up, and you gotta 513 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: have people that work there. So if we in America 514 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: are making a gang of money off of what this 515 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: area is producing, and I'm seeing these uprisings from the 516 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: people who are in your American imagination clearly getting their 517 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: ideas from the communists, from the commies, or maybe they 518 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: just want some rights. I have a vested interest into 519 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: making sure that this company keep winning. And for this 520 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: company to keep winning, I need a person in office 521 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: that's gonna make sure at one you can quell an 522 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: uprising peacefully. But if you can't, he go some guns. Now. 523 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: Guatemala there was another civil war. Peasants and workers, mostly 524 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: indigenous descent UH revolted on the first half of the 525 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: twentieth century due to horrible, terrible living conditions UH and 526 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: abuse from landlords in the government, supported by you guessed it, 527 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: the United Fruit Company Chiquita Bananas, because again, you need 528 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: land to make the money. And these revolts were like, 529 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: I mean, brutally brutally brutally taken down. They had a 530 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: situation where all of the country was basically controlled by 531 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,719 Speaker 1: one or two families and the rest of the country 532 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: was like no niggative, sain't it. But it led to 533 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: the democratic election of this guy named Jacobo Guzman yo Arbanez. 534 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: My wife will kill me for not knowing how to 535 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: pronounce that, but check this out. That fool was overthrown 536 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: by a Coudeta nineteen fifty four, which led to an 537 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: authoritarian government's endorsed by the United States and nearly forty 538 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: years of civil war up in this mug. Forty years 539 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,919 Speaker 1: fam Now, Ronald Reagan, like I said before, who did 540 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: not want the spread of communism to happen near the 541 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: United States, officially met with a dictator and accused him 542 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: of crimes against humanity. And then Honduras gave a strong 543 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:40,320 Speaker 1: support to his regime. So now Hon Doris chose a side, 544 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,760 Speaker 1: which means for America, it's fun Hondoras. Now you're messing 545 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: with our money. I need you to just you need 546 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: to keep sending this money up here. And I don't 547 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: like the fact that y'all and chose somebody for yourself. 548 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,280 Speaker 1: So every time follow me, every time I'm just dropping 549 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: into two countries, the hood figure out something to try 550 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: to take care of themselves. There's a vested interest into 551 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: making sure that they can't. And what happens when you're 552 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: in civil war, what happens when you're in destabilized areas? 553 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 1: What happens nigga crying? People start figuring out their own 554 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 1: ways to make their Money's numerous ways to make funds. 555 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 1: And if you've wiped out all of your land just 556 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: to grow bananas, nigga, you didn't terraformed for the worst. 557 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,800 Speaker 1: You didn't set yourself up for some serious climate crisis. Now, Nigga, 558 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: we can't grow food. It ain't no jobs, ain't no 559 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: stable government. You remember when we talked about a long time, 560 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 1: this was pre I heeart that an unstable government fux 561 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: up the money. They can't get the bag right. And 562 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: if you just Guatemalan, you like Nigga, I'm out you 563 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: like civilians in the hood. It's like, man, I mean, 564 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm running from these cribs, I'm running from these bloods. 565 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: I'm running from these essays and the police they get 566 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: kicked rocks. You ever seen what I'm saying. It just 567 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: sucks that you run into the same people that caused 568 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: the problem in the first place. I'm telling you this 569 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: ship run deep, dog. Just there's a financial benefit of 570 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: keeping these hoods hoods, because do we really want them? 571 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: Sitting at that table, do you want the G seven 572 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: to be G nineteen? Oh? Man? Do you really want 573 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: criminal reform? Criminal justice reform? You really want to compete 574 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: for these high paying jobs with two people or twelve people? 575 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying this. People sitting around 576 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,399 Speaker 1: a big old table deciding all this ship. I am 577 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: saying the system is set up to incentifize those empower 578 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: to fight to stay in power. Now I could. I mean, 579 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: I'm telling you man, I could go on and on 580 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: about America's history of regime change and destabilization in Central 581 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: and South America. Um the hand, we have the idea 582 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:58,839 Speaker 1: that like we allowed American corporations really too moving and 583 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 1: just continue to make problems in their governments. Now, like 584 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 1: I said, in the hood, American hoods, do we have problems? 585 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: Abs so lutely do they have serious problems? Absolutely? Did 586 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 1: it happen in the vacuum, of course not? Of course 587 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: not so when people run into the borders, there's a 588 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: there's a reason for it. Niggas ain't lazy, they're not inept. 589 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: Just like if you from the hood, nigg you ain't lazy, man. 590 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,359 Speaker 1: Some of y'all niggas are just like some of them are, 591 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: but not the ones that got up, got out and 592 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: did something, are trying to What was you doing in 593 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: the hood. You just trying to make a better life 594 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: for yourself, nigga, That's what they're doing. Was half the 595 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: problems in your hood. Not your fault, Nikki exactly. Just 596 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,720 Speaker 1: like them. Does it have a lot to do with 597 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,880 Speaker 1: powerful regimes trying to protect their power? NIGGI, Yes, this 598 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: is why it's real weird and why like it rubbed 599 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 1: me the wrong way when you know, Aunti Kamala went 600 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: down there and was like, listen, I know you're thinking 601 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: about coming, but let me tell you something. Don't come. 602 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 1: And I understand what she was trying to say in 603 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,720 Speaker 1: the sense that like, yo, let us get our stuff together, 604 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 1: like we're not ready, like we're not ready yet, like 605 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: come on, but I gotta tell you, man, when it's 606 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 1: coming from uh, a regime that is partially responsible for 607 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: the problem. I hear it like hood ship. It sounds 608 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 1: to me like, no, we don't want the riff raff 609 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,439 Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. It sounded me like the west side 610 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,239 Speaker 1: saying y'all just stay on the east side. It's it 611 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,959 Speaker 1: just we're not ready for you. We don't have enough housing. 612 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: There's not enough houses. We gotta we gotta build infrastructure. 613 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:59,160 Speaker 1: We're just not ready. Like really, that's what you're saying. Word, Well, here, 614 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,240 Speaker 1: you guys, why don't you invest in your own schools? 615 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 1: Why don't you invest in your own community? Word that's 616 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: why I sound real weird. When Auntie Kamla got up 617 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 1: there and said that, I was like, Auntie, You're still 618 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: a cop, ain't you. Why ain't these people got their 619 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,279 Speaker 1: It's a global pandemic, man, Why ain't they got their vaccines? 620 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 1: Niked because the land is the lick, y'all. This mug 621 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: was recorded and edited by Me Propaganda right here in 622 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,080 Speaker 1: East low'st boil Heights, Los Angeles. Y'all can follow me 623 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,680 Speaker 1: at prop hip Hop on all the socials. 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