Speaker 1: Look, there's is no way in the world I'll be
Speaker 1: able to do this topic justice, apologizing up front that
Speaker 1: this is just it's just too much to cover. And
Speaker 1: that's said. You know where the world's diamonds come from.
Speaker 1: Russia's one of the biggest countries, followed by Botswana, Democratic
Speaker 1: Republic of Congo, Canada up there, Angola, South Africa, but
Speaker 1: mostly Africa, in a little bit in Brazil. You know
Speaker 1: where the world's gold comes from, mostly Canada and Russia,
Speaker 1: but really Peru, New Or most of the world's drugs
Speaker 1: come from Central in South America. You know where the
Speaker 1: world's coffee comes from. It only grows at the equator,
Speaker 1: in between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropica Capricorn. Now
Speaker 1: y'all know who live at the Tropic of Cancer and
Speaker 1: Tropic of Capricorn. You know, coffee has its own stock market.
Speaker 1: It's called the c market. Like it's it's one of
Speaker 1: the largest commodities really in the world. You know how
Speaker 1: cocaine and crack got to our streets because Reagan was
Speaker 1: afraid of the spread of communism. Yeah, let's see, I
Speaker 1: ran conscious scandal because he backed the rebel force with
Speaker 1: some money. He wasn't supposed to have that he got
Speaker 1: from selling weapons he wasn't supposed to sell in the
Speaker 1: first place by negotiating with folks he wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: be messing with anyway, which needs its own episode. One
Speaker 1: would think that if you are the plug, if you
Speaker 1: are the source and the workers for which pull the
Speaker 1: source out and sell it to the world, one would
Speaker 1: think you'd be sitting pretty lovely. How come in they
Speaker 1: like that, though? Why these regions that we get most
Speaker 1: of our stuff from stay in turmoil? Why are people
Speaker 1: leaving in droves Central America? Like? Is it really that bad?
Speaker 1: How did they even get like this? Is this some
Speaker 1: wild stuff going on in their hoods? Absolutely? Are they
Speaker 1: we mis corrupt? Absolutely? But yo, soul is ours, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But why does it feel like
Speaker 1: somehow they corrupt, somehow worse than our corrupt? Are we
Speaker 1: just we just natural? We're just racist? Like what it
Speaker 1: just seemed like just some really going down south for
Speaker 1: the equator And this affects you directly. You may not
Speaker 1: think so, you may not be able to see it
Speaker 1: off top, but like you have no idea how much
Speaker 1: other countries success have to do with your own but
Speaker 1: dang man, earth, what's really good? That's a good question
Speaker 1: and super low key. Don't it kind of sound like
Speaker 1: pop culture, jazz, hip hop, working class, you know, essential workers.
Speaker 1: It seemed like logging factories called industry. Don't it kind
Speaker 1: of seemed like all the areas that provide most of
Speaker 1: America with their comfort, most of America with their dances
Speaker 1: and they music, we don't seem to be able to
Speaker 1: ever really get hours together. Let me talk to you
Speaker 1: about the global hood. Politics. Politics. So this is a
Speaker 1: pretty heavy episode. I'm not gonna I ain't gonna cat
Speaker 1: like this was really heavy because it's just gonna take
Speaker 1: a lot to unpack. And again, like we said, an
Speaker 1: episode one, people have given their life's work to understanding
Speaker 1: the way that the modern nation state interacts with each
Speaker 1: other across the globe. You know, just global politics is.
Speaker 1: It's a lot because it's way too many moving parts.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what possessed me to take on
Speaker 1: this topic. Actually I do know what possessed me take
Speaker 1: this topic. It was the COVID response, according to the
Speaker 1: Human Rights Watch dot org. I'll put all the links
Speaker 1: in all this. I'm gonna quote this the vaccine rollout
Speaker 1: around the globe has been right with inequality. According to
Speaker 1: the research by the agents of France Press A right
Speaker 1: in high income nations such as the United States and
Speaker 1: members of the European Union have been getting much more
Speaker 1: than their fair share of vaccine doses, despite making up
Speaker 1: only of the global population. People in high income nations
Speaker 1: have gotten forty seven percent of all the vaccine doses.
Speaker 1: That's in contrast to people in lower income nations, who
Speaker 1: have just got point two percent of all vaccine doses
Speaker 1: despite making up nine percent of the world's population. More
Speaker 1: than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administrated
Speaker 1: worldwide less than five months after the first mass inoculation
Speaker 1: programs began to roll out. According to the AFP tally,
Speaker 1: at least one billion, two million, nine hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: eight thousand, five hundred and forty dose have been administrated
Speaker 1: in two hundred and seven countries and territories. According to
Speaker 1: the tally compiled from official sources, more than half fifty
Speaker 1: percent have been given to three countries. Listen to me,
Speaker 1: more than half have been given to three countries United States, China,
Speaker 1: and India. But check this out some countries. There's twelve
Speaker 1: of them. They haven't even started vaccinating. Seven in Africa, Tanzania, Madagastar, Chad, Burundi,
Speaker 1: Central Africa, republic A, Turia, Man, there's in Samoa, uh
Speaker 1: there's one in Asia and Haiti haven't even started vaccinating
Speaker 1: despite the troubles that have now quoting again, despite the
Speaker 1: troubles that have plagued it since it was approved for use.
Speaker 1: The vaccine, developed by Astra Zeneca and Oxford University, is
Speaker 1: the most widely used so far and has been administrated
Speaker 1: in three quarters of hundred and fifty six countries and
Speaker 1: territories who have started vaccinating. Now. In terms of proportion
Speaker 1: to population of who have been vaccinated, Israel is in
Speaker 1: the league, nearly six out of every ten Israeli's is
Speaker 1: fully inoculated. That's followed by the United Arab Emirates with
Speaker 1: more than fifty one percent of the population that has
Speaker 1: received at least one, Britain with US with forty two,
Speaker 1: Chile with forty one, Uruguay with and in the EU
Speaker 1: eight million doses have been administrated to of the population,
Speaker 1: while majority of poor countries have also started the vaccine,
Speaker 1: mainly thanks to the Kovacs program. Inoculation is still largely
Speaker 1: a privilege of high income countries as defined by the
Speaker 1: World Bank, which are home of six percent of the
Speaker 1: world's population but have administered forties seven percent of the
Speaker 1: vaccine doses. Now, all these numbers should seem pretty like well,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, damn man, we bought it. You feel
Speaker 1: me like, uh, we got the money for it, That's
Speaker 1: why we got it. I mean, it just seems it
Speaker 1: should seem like a one to one, right, Well, we
Speaker 1: had we can afford more, so we got more. However,
Speaker 1: if you do it by relation of population, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: we got more than we need. Now, when the G
Speaker 1: seven got together in their defense, Biden agreed to buy
Speaker 1: fifty million doses to give to poor countries except for
Speaker 1: Venezuela because they under exceptions. They are they under us sanctions,
Speaker 1: n like, can you believe us, We're gonna buy it,
Speaker 1: but give it to you, but not y'all. But like this, look,
Speaker 1: this is wild and if anybody give to them, you
Speaker 1: gotta deal with us, because like they on day on
Speaker 1: the ship list right now, like god dog. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, why can't the rest of the world afford it?
Speaker 1: And the Why is what sparked this whole two part
Speaker 1: episode like why man? How sway? How is the world's
Speaker 1: richest one percent owned forty three point four percent of
Speaker 1: the world's wealth? How? How did we even get here? Like?
Speaker 1: What is? Do you kind of get the feeling in
Speaker 1: the same way you look around? Are any cities and say,
Speaker 1: is this? Did y'all do this all purpose? Is that?
Speaker 1: Do you have some sort of is it is this?
Speaker 1: Do this kind of feel like same ease to y'all?
Speaker 1: Why is there a border crisis? What the hell going
Speaker 1: on in Central America that y'all can't ever get your
Speaker 1: ship together? Is that really the case they can't get
Speaker 1: their shipped together? Is that really what's going on? You
Speaker 1: ever heard of the Northern Triangle El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Speaker 1: This whole migrant caravan? What the hell is a What
Speaker 1: the hell is a border crisis? What we got to
Speaker 1: do with it? While we got to answer this as Americans?
Speaker 1: How did they even get there? Venezuela, Colombia? Like what? Why?
Speaker 1: And what I'm gonna submit to you is it's a
Speaker 1: very similar reason, maybe not a one to one, but
Speaker 1: a very similar reason as to why our hoods look
Speaker 1: the way they look. Okay, have you ever heard of
Speaker 1: the word or the phrase third world country? We don't
Speaker 1: use it no more because it's kind of like we've
Speaker 1: just evolved past that phrase. But it's a line that
Speaker 1: came from the Cold War. Uh. We would consider the
Speaker 1: G seven nations, including ourselves, as first world, which is
Speaker 1: so lame. They would call Russia somebody like the second
Speaker 1: world to where it's like yah kind of middle class
Speaker 1: and in everybody to f else is third world Now.
Speaker 1: I'm a quote from the University of Virginia the Global
Speaker 1: South Studies uh it says what or where is the
Speaker 1: global South. The global South as a critical concept has
Speaker 1: three primary definitions. First, it has been traditionally used within
Speaker 1: inter governmental development organizations, primarily those that originated in the
Speaker 1: Non Aligned movement, to refer to economically disadvantaged NASON states
Speaker 1: as a post code war alternative to third World However,
Speaker 1: in recent years, within a variety of fields, the global
Speaker 1: South is employed in a post national sense to address
Speaker 1: spaces and people negatively impacted by the contemporary capitalist globalization.
Speaker 1: In the second definition, the global South captures uh D
Speaker 1: territorialized geography of capitalism's externalities and means to account for
Speaker 1: the subjugated people's within borders of wealthier countries, such that
Speaker 1: there are economic souths in the geographic north and north
Speaker 1: in the geographic south. Y'all get that right. What they're
Speaker 1: saying is rich countries have hoods, and hood countries got
Speaker 1: rich folks, and the epitaph global is used to unhinge
Speaker 1: the South from a one to one relation to geography.
Speaker 1: In other words, what they're trying to say is, this
Speaker 1: is the idea of the global haves and have not.
Speaker 1: It's the idea that when you look at how capitalism
Speaker 1: functions globally, who gets to work with who, who got
Speaker 1: the lick, who got the bag, who got the sack?
Speaker 1: Who you selling to how it's working? And then who
Speaker 1: are the foot soldiers that make that happen, who's providing
Speaker 1: the product? Right? That's what a capitalism externality is. It's
Speaker 1: you don't get to sit at the table and negotiate
Speaker 1: with the bosses. You just get to go be a
Speaker 1: foot soldier. And like they said, it's not necessarily geographical
Speaker 1: per se, But it started off as the idea of
Speaker 1: such y'all following me. For example, South Africa is actually
Speaker 1: a rather wealthy country and it's in the south, but
Speaker 1: it also has remarkable amount of people you would consider
Speaker 1: part of the global South. Following me. Now, it don't
Speaker 1: take no rocket science to understand that those with extreme
Speaker 1: wealth have opten accumulated their fortunes on the backs of
Speaker 1: people around the world who work for poor wages under
Speaker 1: dangerous conditions. Right, so the wealth divide is not one
Speaker 1: that's like, Okay, this is not this ain't hard for
Speaker 1: none of y'all. Y'all understand this. But I'd love to
Speaker 1: step back and say, again, how do we even get here?
Speaker 1: And the way I want to talk about how we
Speaker 1: even got here is to just sort of drop a
Speaker 1: pin in specifically Central America and talk about the idea
Speaker 1: of destabilizing the nation. But the only way to understand
Speaker 1: that is you have to understand global colonialism going all
Speaker 1: the way back to sevent hundreds. The best way to
Speaker 1: understand this is the game of thrones that Europe, the
Speaker 1: game of empire has Europe been playing since the Roman Empire.
Speaker 1: It's the world been playing a game of thrones for
Speaker 1: a long time, pre the development of what we consider,
Speaker 1: you know, modern nation states. The greatest lick to ever hit. Listen,
Speaker 1: hear me hood, The greatest lique is land. That's the
Speaker 1: hardest lick you could hit, because I ain't making no
Speaker 1: more earth. Now. You might be, uh, some sort of
Speaker 1: volcano in the middle of an ocean that's sprouting out
Speaker 1: new magma and growing new earth. Yeah, okay, you got me,
Speaker 1: the air geologists. But that's somebody probably already owned that.
Speaker 1: Ain't that crazy? Somebody already owned earth that ain't been
Speaker 1: made yet. Greatest lique in the world is land because
Speaker 1: everything that comes with the land belong to you. Now.
Speaker 1: The hard part is finding land that ain't nobody on
Speaker 1: and if the land that they own, if they are there,
Speaker 1: I gotta overpower them and take it for myself. This
Speaker 1: game of thrones dog, and it's been going on for
Speaker 1: a long time, but I'm gonna drop a pin into
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen sixteen hundreds talk about Portugal. This is post
Speaker 1: like we talked about doctoring a discovery where you're supposed
Speaker 1: to go expand the kingdoms for the Catholic Church, subdue
Speaker 1: the nation's make disciples of all men. Just this weird
Speaker 1: convolution of a faith that some of us hold dear
Speaker 1: into this freaking conquering, war mongering, selfish empire building ship
Speaker 1: that plex us to this day anyway, that was quite
Speaker 1: a tangent because I just don't come from that tradition.
Speaker 1: We're talking about this and introduced myself. I don't come
Speaker 1: from that tradition. So it's just but it just sucks
Speaker 1: because that tradition loud and wrong anyway, um, and I'm
Speaker 1: using the term tradition rather than the person because that's
Speaker 1: not what we're talking about. But again another tangent. Portugal
Speaker 1: got down to Africa, North Africa for the intensive history.
Speaker 1: They were the first of the European nations to attempt
Speaker 1: to try to uh colonize Africa. They were interested in
Speaker 1: the salt, Yeah, they were interested in the culture of
Speaker 1: the arts and and a lot of the cultural exchanges
Speaker 1: between Africa and Europe at first was are you look
Speaker 1: at some old uh some of the Renaissance painters, and
Speaker 1: you could see the North African influence, um, West African
Speaker 1: influence also on patterns and abstractions, because Africa have been
Speaker 1: really good at art for a long time. And then
Speaker 1: somebody discovered naked gold, naked diamonds, and the most lucrative
Speaker 1: of all free labor. And remember if you already have
Speaker 1: this idea that the people for which you're working with
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily people in their mind, they were clearly uncivilized,
Speaker 1: like y'all still y'all still hunter gatherers, nigga, y'all still
Speaker 1: y'all still hunt animals they held wrong with you, build
Speaker 1: offense and put them in defense. You know, when you
Speaker 1: when you you have these interactions, there's these like amazing
Speaker 1: stories which are super interesting about like just the the
Speaker 1: the mental capacity and understanding. When you had these post Renaissance,
Speaker 1: you know, high European civilizations come in contact with people's
Speaker 1: of other places that just didn't see the world the
Speaker 1: way they saw the world. How like confusing it was
Speaker 1: to both parties because check this out. The European thought
Speaker 1: was like, the land is to do what I tell
Speaker 1: it to. It's the animals are subjugated to us. So
Speaker 1: what the hell you doing chasing around a buffalo? What
Speaker 1: you know what I'm said it there's like why, why
Speaker 1: why we used to do that? We don't anymore, therefore
Speaker 1: you're behind us. That was the idea. There's a story
Speaker 1: from some of the first settlers into the America's you know,
Speaker 1: obviously that the narrative of like, oh yeah, they taught
Speaker 1: him how to you know, grow corn, and obviously that's stupid, right,
Speaker 1: But there are stories where these you know, certain families
Speaker 1: interacted with other native families and it was like all right, okay,
Speaker 1: well let's first of all, I don't understand why you
Speaker 1: still why you're still hunting, but whatever. And then they
Speaker 1: was like okay, we're gonna go get some vegetables. And
Speaker 1: then the Europeans was like where and it was like
Speaker 1: in the garden and there was like niggadasso forest, what
Speaker 1: the hell you mean garden? Right? And then the natives
Speaker 1: would go out into the garden what looked to the
Speaker 1: European as so not organized. They was like, no, we
Speaker 1: grow our crops in rows, the corn strawberries, Like what
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? The natives were like, well, no, you
Speaker 1: see this corn right here. Around that is that wild grass,
Speaker 1: and under that are are some wild strawberries. I'm pulling
Speaker 1: the fruits out of nowhere. But like, just follow the
Speaker 1: story because it's kind of like how some of these
Speaker 1: interactions worked. It was like, well, what the natives that
Speaker 1: figured out because they've been there forever is that the
Speaker 1: strawberries bring in animals that would eat their crops, so
Speaker 1: they would smell that, they would eat the wild grass,
Speaker 1: get sick, and then learn that you ain't post to
Speaker 1: mess with this plant. And that's how they would protect
Speaker 1: their corn. They use earth to protect earth. To the Europeans,
Speaker 1: they don't make no sense. That's why they was building
Speaker 1: up pesticides and drawing fences and that because you didn't
Speaker 1: let the land just do what it does. So they
Speaker 1: were just a fundamental misunderstanding of how both of this
Speaker 1: ship works right, And to the conclusion of the European
Speaker 1: settler was like, oh what they primitive in they mind.
Speaker 1: They're like, yo, you're still sacrificing children and animals to
Speaker 1: the gods for you know, crops, seeing themselves it's so advanced. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: they still ain't got a sewage system back in their
Speaker 1: country and just disease running rapid because all you're doing
Speaker 1: is just throwing trash out the window. Y'all gotta look
Speaker 1: up the great uh stink of London. You know, you
Speaker 1: know you ain't advances that you think you are. They
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, we you know, we're enlightened. We
Speaker 1: know not to do that. So they was like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we can civilize them. And that's the
Speaker 1: the white man's burden. I talked about it in the
Speaker 1: first maybe we could civilize them these uh you know
Speaker 1: there's justin the news, uh in Canada, this grave from
Speaker 1: the Indian schools. Was this idea that they would have
Speaker 1: like kill the Indians, save the man. It's the idea
Speaker 1: of just essentially just like wiping them up. So you
Speaker 1: send them to these schools to make them more civilized.
Speaker 1: Right then they found out what the natives like. Yo, nigga,
Speaker 1: they're not They're not gonna work. They're not gonna do this.
Speaker 1: Niggas fight back. Go check out a little big horn,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. But another amazing resource
Speaker 1: was the African slave. So you just take them everywhere
Speaker 1: that your empire goes, because again, the slave was a
Speaker 1: means to an end. The end was the land, and
Speaker 1: the slave was just a beast of burden. That's the
Speaker 1: way they see us. We're just beast of burden to
Speaker 1: subdue to actual lique, which was the land and all
Speaker 1: the resources that come out of it. Intracentral in South America,
Speaker 1: nigga sugar. Europe got hooked because, like listen, Europe was like,
Speaker 1: what is this? But it only grew over here in
Speaker 1: the America's. It's too cold in Europe, so we need
Speaker 1: all the land we can to grow this product. So
Speaker 1: you start colonizing up and down the America's because it's
Speaker 1: a lick. But you need somebody to work this land.
Speaker 1: And that's where the slaves came in. So you started
Speaker 1: working all this land on this other side of thing.
Speaker 1: Because again it's the idea that like the land is
Speaker 1: the lick, the slave is the cattle. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: they called us chattel. Now think about gentrification. The lands
Speaker 1: the lick. You understand what I'm saying. You see them
Speaker 1: billboard jelling cash for homes, gentrified, baby gentrified. The land
Speaker 1: is the lick. Now, I just gave y'all not enough
Speaker 1: information for to really do this justice. But I gotta
Speaker 1: move on because it's only a thirty minute pot. Now
Speaker 1: into the Cold War. The Cold War is where it
Speaker 1: gets super psycho because remember the Cold War, proxy wars,
Speaker 1: all that stuff had really nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: people and the lands for which the wars were playing out.
Speaker 1: It was at all times a pissing contest. It was
Speaker 1: an idea war. The war was what they would say,
Speaker 1: freedom and democracy versus communism in Russia. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it was a pissing contest. You was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's gonna be top of it,
Speaker 1: who's king of the hill, whose ideas work, and ultimately
Speaker 1: who get to run the table. Let's just look who
Speaker 1: gonna run the table? Is the point? Y'all? Know? The
Speaker 1: space race, the race to the race to get on
Speaker 1: the moon, and has shipped to do with science or
Speaker 1: the moon. Nigga, It was a flex. It's so obvious
Speaker 1: if you pull back and think about it. Nigga, it
Speaker 1: wasn't about getting to space. It was about I can
Speaker 1: make bombs. You're flexing your technology if I can get
Speaker 1: on the moon. What you think I could do if
Speaker 1: I if you ever try to throw a bomb at us,
Speaker 1: it's nuclear. You were showing your guns. I saw they
Speaker 1: were doing. We're just trying to flex on Russia. That's it.
Speaker 1: It's a X. As a matter of fact, let me
Speaker 1: even put you even further. You know, the COVID response
Speaker 1: a flex. This mug is bragging rights, follow me, totalitarian
Speaker 1: authoritarian rules versus Western democracies. Who gonna get to the
Speaker 1: solution first. It's a flex because it's all still these
Speaker 1: are just modern games of thrones, that's all they are.
Speaker 1: Now back to the Cold War, you know, North Korea,
Speaker 1: South Korea just as a perfect example of this. That's
Speaker 1: because at some point Russia decided, Russian America decided to
Speaker 1: go haves on Korea right, and they would back Russia
Speaker 1: wood back to North American and West would back to
Speaker 1: South right, and that war is not over. It's just
Speaker 1: an armatist I don't know if you know that. The
Speaker 1: part of why North Korea is so always salty at
Speaker 1: us is NIGGI. We still got warships off the thought
Speaker 1: of the coast. It's a flex, that's all. It was
Speaker 1: American Front, like we had never lost no war. You
Speaker 1: know we still we still undefeated. But you know Vietnam
Speaker 1: don't count because it's like, well technically what in our war?
Speaker 1: Now they get you jumped in we lost that mug.
Speaker 1: Do you ask any of Vietnam war vet especially by
Speaker 1: how they was treated when they got home. They get
Speaker 1: outsid l But it's a game of thrones. But the
Speaker 1: fear was we can't let communism we as in America
Speaker 1: take root in the America's because that's too close. Famious
Speaker 1: Inglewood family in the nineties, Inglewood Saints like these are
Speaker 1: Inglewood is pretty much all bloods that they are surrounded
Speaker 1: on every side by Crypt gangs. They're like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we can we can't have no other crypt take roote
Speaker 1: over here. Dog. It is getting crazy. But yeah, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's because we're afraid of Russia, Niga, Cuba,
Speaker 1: the Bay of Pigs, autist ship. It's it's because we
Speaker 1: were we were beefing and has it to do with
Speaker 1: anybody on the land, because the lands the lick I
Speaker 1: need that are we gonna get this sugar and r
Speaker 1: t got dog. So now you're big bad America in
Speaker 1: the twentieth century. Nigga. You shine, and you shining hard.
Speaker 1: You're stunning on everybody, but so as Russia. So you
Speaker 1: feel like your world's enemies are and you're really kind
Speaker 1: of like jumping, you know, in you in the hood
Speaker 1: and like maybe you had to you had a win,
Speaker 1: and it's like and the one one one thing can say,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, that's cool, Okay, now it's cool a.
Speaker 1: Now I don't tread full. You should trip, for sure,
Speaker 1: you better trip. So you're looking around, You're trying to
Speaker 1: watch everybody's moves, see what's going on, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to like set up shopping different places. Like we talked
Speaker 1: about another episode. You know, you're saying Fox five cause
Speaker 1: FO five moves to another city to get it cracking.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because you're expanding your resources.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get this ship cracking, right. But if
Speaker 1: you're American, you're watching because you know everybody else doing
Speaker 1: the same. So you're looking at like what's going on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Speaker 1: Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Public else, Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Perguay, Petu.
Speaker 1: Like you looking around and like, okay, what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Who they're putting in charge? What does that fool think? Like,
Speaker 1: is he gonna be cool with us? Are he gonna
Speaker 1: be cool with them? You're gonna you're gonna make it
Speaker 1: easy for us to like, you know, set up shop
Speaker 1: just in case y'all got some money, you're gonna sell
Speaker 1: with us. You're gonna be you're watching real close. You
Speaker 1: need to know who they mess with and who's messing
Speaker 1: with them and who don't mess with them and all
Speaker 1: that you need to know. You're seeing how they moving.
Speaker 1: Are they right wing? Are they left wing? Are they authoritarian?
Speaker 1: Are they democratic? That's Nicka Wagra Like this is what
Speaker 1: happened to Nikara again, Like I said, it's the crack
Speaker 1: attack this nickar Rock. You're watching real close, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and you're looking to see on the ground, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: who possibly could I tap? Like who can I You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Who can I recruit? You? Feel me? Right?
Speaker 1: Who out there? Just kind of early? The early is
Speaker 1: like a pimp slang. But we'll get into that later.
Speaker 1: Like basically you're too young to actually be on the corner,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna get you ready for it. That's called early.
Speaker 1: It's terrible anyway, Um, but you're looking around like all right,
Speaker 1: and if you see, man, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: these rebel forces. Right, if the rebel force is more
Speaker 1: right wing than left wing because you're afraid of them
Speaker 1: left wings because that's gonna mess up your money, then
Speaker 1: you might like low key like start like running down
Speaker 1: there and being like yo, we got you hold me.
Speaker 1: I like what y'all doing. Man, you're fighting for you
Speaker 1: fighting for this. But if they too far right, then
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, ship, this ain't no democracy. Okay, well
Speaker 1: let me back these other foods. Or sometimes like with
Speaker 1: mosta deck in Iran, you just you're back both sides.
Speaker 1: You just you're selling guns to folks because you're trying
Speaker 1: to set up your own ship. And then when it
Speaker 1: should get too wild, you send down their humanitarian efforts,
Speaker 1: right peace keeping, uh forces, your your you send your
Speaker 1: American military because oh, we're just down there trying to
Speaker 1: keep the peace. We don't want this. Oh don't it
Speaker 1: sound like the police and the Hood. Don't it sound
Speaker 1: like that, Oh, we're just keeping peace. You got to
Speaker 1: have so much violence out here. We just we just
Speaker 1: think you got should stop killing each other. Dog, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's the global hood. Now check this out.
Speaker 1: There's an entire phrase that encapsulates all this. It's called
Speaker 1: the Truman doctrine. It's this idea of President Harry Truman
Speaker 1: who developed this around and it was the idea of
Speaker 1: containing communist growth that was specifically in Greece and Turkey.
Speaker 1: But the idea is you step into civil wars and
Speaker 1: you try your best to contain the spread of communism.
Speaker 1: Now back to us, sowing of chaos, flipping over regimes,
Speaker 1: deposing dictators. A lot of times they create this narrative
Speaker 1: that you are the hero for the people if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it out loud, A lot of times you
Speaker 1: do it behind closed doors. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, for the wealth distribution to stay the way
Speaker 1: it is, you need workers, you need plantations, you need
Speaker 1: share croppers. Now I want to talk specifically about El Salvador, Guatemala,
Speaker 1: and Honduras because this is that northern triangle and has
Speaker 1: a direct connection to our border crisis right now. And
Speaker 1: these are like crude, crude. I am not doing these
Speaker 1: stories justice. They all need their own seven part series.
Speaker 1: But let me start with El Salvador. Right. So, there
Speaker 1: was a bunch of peasant workers uprisings in the country
Speaker 1: against this oligarchy and like this anti democratic governments, often
Speaker 1: under control of powerful American company interests like the United
Speaker 1: Fruit Company. I'm gonna get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: And with the appearance of figures like Marthe who led
Speaker 1: these civil revolts, they were violently crushed, and efforts to
Speaker 1: take power democratically were often thwarted by US intervention, and
Speaker 1: the Civil War started spreading, with the U s endorsed
Speaker 1: governments in Elf Salvador facing like guerilla fighters. Now let
Speaker 1: me go back to this United Fruit Company. Um, you
Speaker 1: ever heard of Chaquida Banana? You heard me right, the
Speaker 1: Chaquida Banana. You ever heard of the Banana Wars or
Speaker 1: the Banana Banana Republic? You have not the clothing store,
Speaker 1: but the idea of a banana republic. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Follow me. So the Chaquida Brands International. For some reason,
Speaker 1: the world got the taste of a banana and was like, nigga,
Speaker 1: we need these. But they only grew down there. It
Speaker 1: was an American corporation UH that traded tropical fruit right
Speaker 1: grown in Latin American plantations and sold in United States
Speaker 1: and Europe. The company was formed in eight and it
Speaker 1: flourished in the early twentieth century, and it became control
Speaker 1: of vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, Caribbean, Colombia,
Speaker 1: and the West and the West Indies. It was main
Speaker 1: competition was something that later became the Doll Company. For
Speaker 1: UH dominance in the international banana trade, and it maintained
Speaker 1: a virtual monopoly for certain regions which became called the
Speaker 1: banana republics, such as Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Listen,
Speaker 1: y'all remember the Homies. Smedley Butler, Me and Robert did
Speaker 1: a couple episodes about Homie. Listen, how he learned how
Speaker 1: to fight wars family he was in these banana wars.
Speaker 1: These are wars that are basically because as a corporation,
Speaker 1: American corporations want the money to keep flowing. You need
Speaker 1: a lot of land to grow bananas, and you also
Speaker 1: need a lot of people to do that, and you
Speaker 1: need a not a land to create trains to transport
Speaker 1: those bananas, which means you gotta buy up. What did
Speaker 1: I say at the beginning, The land is the lick.
Speaker 1: You gotta buy the whole thing up, and you gotta
Speaker 1: have people that work there. So if we in America
Speaker 1: are making a gang of money off of what this
Speaker 1: area is producing, and I'm seeing these uprisings from the
Speaker 1: people who are in your American imagination clearly getting their
Speaker 1: ideas from the communists, from the commies, or maybe they
Speaker 1: just want some rights. I have a vested interest into
Speaker 1: making sure that this company keep winning. And for this
Speaker 1: company to keep winning, I need a person in office
Speaker 1: that's gonna make sure at one you can quell an
Speaker 1: uprising peacefully. But if you can't, he go some guns. Now.
Speaker 1: Guatemala there was another civil war. Peasants and workers, mostly
Speaker 1: indigenous descent UH revolted on the first half of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century due to horrible, terrible living conditions UH and
Speaker 1: abuse from landlords in the government, supported by you guessed it,
Speaker 1: the United Fruit Company Chiquita Bananas, because again, you need
Speaker 1: land to make the money. And these revolts were like,
Speaker 1: I mean, brutally brutally brutally taken down. They had a
Speaker 1: situation where all of the country was basically controlled by
Speaker 1: one or two families and the rest of the country
Speaker 1: was like no niggative, sain't it. But it led to
Speaker 1: the democratic election of this guy named Jacobo Guzman yo Arbanez.
Speaker 1: My wife will kill me for not knowing how to
Speaker 1: pronounce that, but check this out. That fool was overthrown
Speaker 1: by a Coudeta nineteen fifty four, which led to an
Speaker 1: authoritarian government's endorsed by the United States and nearly forty
Speaker 1: years of civil war up in this mug. Forty years
Speaker 1: fam Now, Ronald Reagan, like I said before, who did
Speaker 1: not want the spread of communism to happen near the
Speaker 1: United States, officially met with a dictator and accused him
Speaker 1: of crimes against humanity. And then Honduras gave a strong
Speaker 1: support to his regime. So now Hon Doris chose a side,
Speaker 1: which means for America, it's fun Hondoras. Now you're messing
Speaker 1: with our money. I need you to just you need
Speaker 1: to keep sending this money up here. And I don't
Speaker 1: like the fact that y'all and chose somebody for yourself.
Speaker 1: So every time follow me, every time I'm just dropping
Speaker 1: into two countries, the hood figure out something to try
Speaker 1: to take care of themselves. There's a vested interest into
Speaker 1: making sure that they can't. And what happens when you're
Speaker 1: in civil war, what happens when you're in destabilized areas?
Speaker 1: What happens nigga crying? People start figuring out their own
Speaker 1: ways to make their Money's numerous ways to make funds.
Speaker 1: And if you've wiped out all of your land just
Speaker 1: to grow bananas, nigga, you didn't terraformed for the worst.
Speaker 1: You didn't set yourself up for some serious climate crisis. Now, Nigga,
Speaker 1: we can't grow food. It ain't no jobs, ain't no
Speaker 1: stable government. You remember when we talked about a long time,
Speaker 1: this was pre I heeart that an unstable government fux
Speaker 1: up the money. They can't get the bag right. And
Speaker 1: if you just Guatemalan, you like Nigga, I'm out you
Speaker 1: like civilians in the hood. It's like, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm running from these cribs, I'm running from these bloods.
Speaker 1: I'm running from these essays and the police they get
Speaker 1: kicked rocks. You ever seen what I'm saying. It just
Speaker 1: sucks that you run into the same people that caused
Speaker 1: the problem in the first place. I'm telling you this
Speaker 1: ship run deep, dog. Just there's a financial benefit of
Speaker 1: keeping these hoods hoods, because do we really want them?
Speaker 1: Sitting at that table, do you want the G seven
Speaker 1: to be G nineteen? Oh? Man? Do you really want
Speaker 1: criminal reform? Criminal justice reform? You really want to compete
Speaker 1: for these high paying jobs with two people or twelve people?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying this. People sitting around
Speaker 1: a big old table deciding all this ship. I am
Speaker 1: saying the system is set up to incentifize those empower
Speaker 1: to fight to stay in power. Now I could. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you man, I could go on and on
Speaker 1: about America's history of regime change and destabilization in Central
Speaker 1: and South America. Um the hand, we have the idea
Speaker 1: that like we allowed American corporations really too moving and
Speaker 1: just continue to make problems in their governments. Now, like
Speaker 1: I said, in the hood, American hoods, do we have problems?
Speaker 1: Abs so lutely do they have serious problems? Absolutely? Did
Speaker 1: it happen in the vacuum, of course not? Of course
Speaker 1: not so when people run into the borders, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a reason for it. Niggas ain't lazy, they're not inept.
Speaker 1: Just like if you from the hood, nigg you ain't lazy, man.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all niggas are just like some of them are,
Speaker 1: but not the ones that got up, got out and
Speaker 1: did something, are trying to What was you doing in
Speaker 1: the hood. You just trying to make a better life
Speaker 1: for yourself, nigga, That's what they're doing. Was half the
Speaker 1: problems in your hood. Not your fault, Nikki exactly. Just
Speaker 1: like them. Does it have a lot to do with
Speaker 1: powerful regimes trying to protect their power? NIGGI, Yes, this
Speaker 1: is why it's real weird and why like it rubbed
Speaker 1: me the wrong way when you know, Aunti Kamala went
Speaker 1: down there and was like, listen, I know you're thinking
Speaker 1: about coming, but let me tell you something. Don't come.
Speaker 1: And I understand what she was trying to say in
Speaker 1: the sense that like, yo, let us get our stuff together,
Speaker 1: like we're not ready, like we're not ready yet, like
Speaker 1: come on, but I gotta tell you, man, when it's
Speaker 1: coming from uh, a regime that is partially responsible for
Speaker 1: the problem. I hear it like hood ship. It sounds
Speaker 1: to me like, no, we don't want the riff raff
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. It sounded me like the west side
Speaker 1: saying y'all just stay on the east side. It's it
Speaker 1: just we're not ready for you. We don't have enough housing.
Speaker 1: There's not enough houses. We gotta we gotta build infrastructure.
Speaker 1: We're just not ready. Like really, that's what you're saying. Word, Well, here,
Speaker 1: you guys, why don't you invest in your own schools?
Speaker 1: Why don't you invest in your own community? Word that's
Speaker 1: why I sound real weird. When Auntie Kamla got up
Speaker 1: there and said that, I was like, Auntie, You're still
Speaker 1: a cop, ain't you. Why ain't these people got their
Speaker 1: It's a global pandemic, man, Why ain't they got their vaccines?
Speaker 1: Niked because the land is the lick, y'all. This mug
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