WEBVTT - Conversation About Oppressors 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.760 God like a father. He has two children. He has 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.559 his he has Man, that's his son, and he has 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:14.280 Satan and that's his son. And Satan is a jealous brother. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.560 A jealous brother. It doesn't like like Satan doesn't like 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.079 the way God treats man. He's jealous of the relationship 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.400 between God and man. So what he does is he 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.880 goes about ways to show man ain't ship to God. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.639 He's setting him up right. It's like it's like if 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.800 it was a father and two kids, right to two sons. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.520 And you know, um, he said a knife right here, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.080 he told his little he stold. He told his brother, 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.440 stabbed a pillow, It's gonna make you feel better. And 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.680 then he stabbing a pillow, getting the stabbed a pillow. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.560 And when the dad walks in, he like, Dad, look, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.920 she I told you he ain't ship and you just 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:05.200 with the knife looking still. I genuinely believe intellect is 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.160 more than the ability to process. I think it's like vision, 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.839 even outside a quick wit, just vision, and you gotta 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.319 have vision pass what you can see. Um. But but 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.160 back to the I digress, right back to what we 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.680 were talking about. Um, like if you don't have the 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:32.319 economics so people like people from our community, right, like 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.360 people from where I'm from, they don't really genuinely believe 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.840 they could change their circumstances. That's the that's the trick, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.280 I mean, and from years and years of like and 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 I hate using that term systemic opression because it's being 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.120 thrown around by a whole bunch of oppressors right now. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:59.160 And racism was lost as many It's horrible. Um, I'm 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.080 talking about the real deal. You know, somebody being at 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:08.040 the bottom of the totem pole right where for whatever reason, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:15.400 you know, um, that group has really been ill afforded 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:22.720 opportunity to change circumstances. Um. So it's like water memory 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.720 of suffering, I mean, where it's like you already in 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.799 a hole because of just generations of being in the hole, right, 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.799 just literally just generations. I mean most people, like I said, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.560 why I grew up at right where I grew up at, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.919 they start off with bad credit. Yeah, so when they 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.560 when they turned eighteen, a motherfucker will have bad credit. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.600 Shout out to my man Tommy Soto Mayor, who does 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.919 a great job of talking about your mom and dad 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.400 putting the electric bill in your name when you were 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.600 five years old and you wake up one day with 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:04.200 your own credit that it's already destroyed. Yeah, so that's 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.960 happening for real. That's not that's not just an expression, right, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:13.840 that's a real thing. And so outside of just generations 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.920 of being pushed in the hole, right, as as a 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.840 black person in America, Um, you start off your own 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:28.560 life being put in the whole. And you know when 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.440 you grew up where we grew up at, right, there's 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.760 so many opportunities. There's just this lack of opportunities. And 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.840 like I said, if you and Watson Compton, there's these 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.280 are very much urban communities right that that really have 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.080 careers right in range like walking distance, there's careers and 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.680 walking distance where we're from, where you could pretty much 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.200 make a livable wage and take care of your family 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.040 and start your kids off with an extra opportunity to 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.280 even go further than you. But my whole life, I've 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.840 never met anybody that worked in those facilities on Alameter 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:14.800 all these you know, thousands of jobs that's available right there. Um, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.440 so we could talk like cryptocurrency, I knew I'd love 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.719 to have on to talk about this. A guy who 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.920 I bumped into a few times My first job out 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.600 of college was waste management on else A gundoing Alameter 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.880 Richard Sherman's dad was I met him. I would love 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.000 to get that guy in the podcast. Yeah, I met him. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.320 He's a dope though, and Russell Westbrook Pops is dope too. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.800 I don't know, um, But and I think what happens 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:50.840 amongst black people, right, I think there's a definitely a 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.920 a sentiment altogether that something is wrong. I think everybody 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:01.040 agrees that the treatment of people that are isn't correct 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.159 in America. But I think the issue is how they 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.760 all see it. So, like, I definitely know black people 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.880 that's been successful that feel like what's funny is like 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.080 you should feel you know, you gotta pull yourself up 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.919 by your bootstrap, as crazy as that's saying, Like it 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.840 is people in our community right that feel just like that, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:32.200 And that I think is the problem. Like I don't, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.200 I don't truly believe people get the real way to 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:42.479 oppress somebody is through economics. The brutality is nothing, Yeah 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.280 you know, I mean economics is the true way to 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:53.279 oppress somebody, to strip somebody of identity, opportunity. It creates monsters, right, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:06:01.680 So with that being said, no seilings, Gil Peter Us. Yeah, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.480 we just own some ship right now. So y'all just 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:11.560 chill funk with it. It's crazy. But I think that's 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.320 the problem. I think all the whole, like my whole, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.159 the whole black community is not on one accords. There's 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:27.000 too many conversations, right, there's conversations about justice, m right um, 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.560 their conversation. Like I was looking at the NBA last 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.239 year right in the playoffs, Like we're in the playoffs 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.360 this year, but last year they had all of these 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.440 things on their jerseys and it was like, oh, justice 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.200 or equality all this crazy ship, And I'm like, it's 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.000 hard to make it work when the wealth of the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:49.160 black community don't understand. The problem is economic and opportunity. Yeah. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.799 The reason, I genuinely believe the reason police treat black 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.840 people bad, it's because they are Humanity treats it's poor 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:04.400 bad historically. Yeah, you know, back in the day, it's 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:09.320 easy because poor people can't defend themselves. So in America, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.920 black people are the face of poor people. And I 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.120 think it's a problem, but I think it's a big 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.160 problem that I don't know what how would you describe 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:28.160 the term like leaders of black rhetoric play that card 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:33.320 all the time and project out that message to the 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.200 rest of the country all the time. Well it's a business, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.240 of course. Yeah, I'm just saying it's not helpful. Well 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.480 they weren't, I don't think. Remember we were just talking 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.400 about good and evil being like a really you know, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.720 fine line. I think they start off with like the 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.920 right intentions. I think they genuinely start off obviously to 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.280 help people, and they start off to be like, well, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.880 you know what, I can make a living helping people. Um. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.880 But I think along the lines, they start getting information 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.160 that makes them believe it's something they can't fix, and 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:18.000 then money becomes the main thing, Like it becomes a 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:24.040 real business, and you start to get some disincentivized factors 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.840 as far as fixing things, you know, because the reality 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.160 is it at some point, if the problem that is 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.560 your life's mission is no longer a problem, you've lost 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:43.480 the mission, you know, to some degree. Well yeah, but 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:50.120 but I think as you get in more doors, I 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.160 think you have these beliefs. I think most most most 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.680 brothers start off with a belief of what's going on, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:02.400 and they pit point it's so strong they pinpointed so 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:07.240 well that they believe this is literally the problem, right, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:13.959 They literally believe this is the problem. And once they 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.000 get through a couple of those economic and opportunity doors, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.320 that's not the problem. So then it becomes like, I 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.920 have no idea what's wrong. I just know something it's wrong, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.200 and I'm gonna give my money, but I'm gonna keep 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.600 saying something is wrong. And I think as a whole, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:39.040 like my community, can't really all come together and realize 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:44.960 the conversation is in economics and opportunity. That's the only problem. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.680 I don't give two funks about what no police motherfucker's doing. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.080 The problem is how people treat poor people. And in America, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.840 we are the face of poor people around the world, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.040 if you ask people, what's the face of poor people? 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.440 Is going to be an African person with a fly 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.160 on his eye, with a with a with a child 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:14.080 to inflate the stomach. And again, because people are so 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.640 horrible to each other, you know, they don't treat poor 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.880 people correctly. The fact that we have wealthy and poor 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.280 people is the biggest problem to me and humanity. And 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.240 I know that sounds crazy, but it's true because it 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.240 should never be somebody with dirty bedrooms and two kids, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.240 and some you know, uh with two kids in the 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.760 thirty bedroom house, and then somebody with thirty kids and 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:44.480 the two bedroom house. There's no being a The verb 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.199 of being a human being humane is literally just saying 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.040 the welfare you know of other people. And I think 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.720 we just do a horrible job at it as a 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.800 as a as a as a world. We don't do 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.160 great as we can. But I also think, because you know, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.240 back to the concept of capitalism, not the base, not 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.239 the base for him, right, that that that's the definition, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.560 but that extreme form that we all know what we're 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.720 talking about. I think you start believing everybody has the 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.559 same chance you had, and I think that's not true. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.160 And I think that's the one mistake human that's the 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.120 one fatal flaw of human beings. To believe that we 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.280 all are equal or we all started off the same, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.319 it's just not true. And so no matter what system 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.360 we're talking about, right, whether we're talking about courts, like 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.320 if I'm from where I'm from, right, and and we 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.000 grew up in this jungle, it's a real jungle, right, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.720 Watching comps is a real fucking jungle, And you know, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.800 it's a sense of justice. It's already a justice system. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.719 Funk with America's talking about these it's already rules and 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.040 least that come with real punishments. So America could have 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.679 his overall sense. Right. But just like there's a federal law, right, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.880 there's a state law. Well, there is a neighborhood law, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.800 there's a community laws. So I say that to say 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.280 when they say a jury of my peers, right, my 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:26.000 peer is not somebody who lived in Orange County, you know, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.439 in Buena Park. Yeah, that that person is not my peer. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.720 And I think the biggest issue of me to go 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.160 back to your route of economics. If you have the 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:44.920 economic means, you have legal counsel that will fight it 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.720 out over a motion of a change of venue exactly 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.839 whereas if you don't, you've got the phone and in 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.280 guy who's getting the same page check from the same 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.640 office every two weeks, like he does anything else for 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.240 a living, and it's not his fault. See the thing 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.240 about like back to the conversation we had about capitalism, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.240 who was talking about slavery. I don't believe it's the 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:14.280 white folk fault here that balls slaves. That sounds crazy 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.880 but I think if you give any human being the 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.640 opportunity to achieve or to to earn in a way 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.480 that at that time is socially accepted, they're gonna take 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.679 the opportunity. Like if like, if we had a society 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.480 full of like where prostitution was cool, like nobody frowned 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:37.920 upon it, right, everybody would be prostitutes, like women would 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.120 like right now even in our community, right, Um, being 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.360 a stripper, it's not a it's not a bad thing. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.200 It's literally has been washed out. It's not a bad thing, bro, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.600 It's it's generations of girls becoming strippers. It's generations of 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.680 girls dressing like strippers, you know what what I mean. So 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.520 I think that's where it's all being confused, that like 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:08.640 the true oppression is in economics. It's only in economics, Yeah, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.600 I mean, like the brutality portion is always gonna be 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.080 overrated no matter what, you know, if if if if 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.760 I pitched to Yo Pops or like somebody from you know, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.240 Newport Beach. Hey, man, the police are killing black people. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.480 You know what, They're gonna show me. They're gonna show 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.640 me how few was happening, because it's still only very little. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.440 I mean if it was three hundred motherfucker's get killed, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:42.360 that's very few. With billies and motherfucker's you gotta right. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.680 And they can show me crime statistics, which you know 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.880 you still can't kill criminals. But it's also the problem. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.800 It's less care for criminals unless you're a rich criminal. Yeah, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.280 it's it still goes back to poor and rich. So 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:06.640 the oppressor, right, is using economic and opportunity to oppress. Now, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.360 I don't genuinely think it's done. I mean, just like 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.120 with Satan, I don't think Satan thinks. Oh, I don't 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.960 think Satan is like I just don't like Man, so 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.880 I'm just gonna take it out on them. I think 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.520 Satan is jealous of God's affinity and relationship with Man, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.160 and he's trying to get a market share. Well, he's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.200 trying to enlarge his market share, right, He's like, why 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:37.040 you like them? They ain't ship and PEPSI wants a 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:45.880 foothold and and because no, no, so funny, So no, right, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.200 So I look at God like a father. He has 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.480 two children. He has his he has Man, that's his son, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.120 and he has Satan and that's his son. And Satan 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:05.280 is a of us brother, a jealous brother. It doesn't 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.200 like like Satan doesn't like the way God treats man. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.560 He's jealous of the relationship between God and man. So 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.200 what he does is he goes about ways to show 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:22.000 man ain't ship to God. He's setting him up right. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.680 It's like it's like if it was a father and 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.880 two kids, right to two sons, and you know, um, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.840 he said a knife right here, he told his little 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.960 he stold. He told his brother, stabbed a pillow, it's 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:39.080 gonna make you feel better. And then he stabbing a pillow, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.640 getting the stabbed a pillow, and when the dad walks in, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.840 he like, Dad, look, I told you he ain't ship, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.480 and you just with the knife looking stupid. But God 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.240 the whole time is like you got this boy the knife. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.800 So that's to me, the dynamic of it. Well, that's 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:05.320 what greed represents to me. It's like, you know, you know, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.200 people are like flawed, so like they already have their 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:14.360 own issues, So when you exploit their issues for your 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.520 own personal benefit, right, that's where it's sucked up. And 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.439 I think that's what's happening. You have a bunch of 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.840 people trying to have too much at the expense of 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.320 people not having enough. Now, that may have not been 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.200 their attention. I don't think nobody walked in like I'm 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.200 gonna get so much money that these niggas is gonna 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.200 be broke, right. I don't think that was their intentions. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.119 I don't think that's the oppressors of intentions. Initially. I 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.480 think it was like, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.440 trying to make sure i get God's glory. I'm trying 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.760 to get whatever the feeling I'm looking for. You feel me, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.240 and you know that's what I'm chasing because I don't 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.080 feel worthy. I feel inadequate anyway. So I'm trying to 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:00.280 be worthy. And then what happens along the way, right, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.960 just like with the people that run knows like black 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.600 lives matter, what happens along the way is um you. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:13.160 You you start dealing with what happens to anybody. As 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.480 you accumulate anything, you want too much of it, right, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:23.480 you start having problems. You start you start realizing it's 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:28.119 probably affecting other things not correctly. Right. It's like like 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.760 if you're a wealthy man and you realize, Okay, I'm 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.840 going to get money and as you're getting money, you 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.800 realize it's costing somebody else money. You start. Even as 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.600 a drug dealer, that used to be my mind state, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.040 Like I used to be like yo um. I used 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.240 to pride myself and selling the highest quality drug. Yeah, 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.960 I ain't stepped on my I ain't cut my serne 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.119 with no break fluid. Then I was only using and 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.359 drops and all either I was only using andy. I 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.040 was using the highest quality ship. I never had bad ship. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.000 I never cut it to make more money, and I 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.480 prided myself in it. And what I used to tell 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.399 myself us man, people was making a conscious choice to 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.719 come by. I'm just the person selling it to him, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.439 and I'm selling them the highest quality ship. What I 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.479 what I got lost with was once I realized they 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.400 wasn't making a conscious choice to buy, then I knew 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.040 it was wrong. And that's the time when human beings 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.360 just start making other decisions. Because I made other decisions, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.320 I was like, that ain't right, man, Like this girl 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.720 pregnant and I just sold her some shurn. Okay, that's 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.639 not a rational decision because now you're not making a 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.600 decision for yourself, You're making a decision for somebody that's 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:39.960 not even on earth yet, you know. I mean, that 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.000 hasn't even came into the world, that haven't came out 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:46.119 your womb. That's not rational. That day I knew, I 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.879 was like, this is different. When I was selling it 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.280 to us, I didn't mind selling it to a sixty 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.160 something year old lady in her fourty year old son. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.320 I thought that was rational. When when that pregnant lady 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:04.720 came and bought Concern, I was like, that day, is 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:09.520 it changed it. It's like, oh, they don't. This ain't rational. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.440 This is a real you know. Obviously I started reading 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.360 more and it became more chemical. I'm like, oh, that's 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.320 that chemically dependent, like like me with white sugar, like 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.760 refined sugar. I'm just as chemically dependent on it, maybe 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:28.560 even more. But that was the time I made a 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.040 decision to be humane. I made a decision to stop 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:36.280 being oppressor, being the oppressor, because I was an oppressor 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.400 at that point. No matter what a motherfucker say, as 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.680 a D boy, my mind, not every D boy, because 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.080 every D boy don't have the intellect to think what 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.000 I'm thinking. This is just how they make their living. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.800 They're not even It's like McDonald's like a chef and 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.960 McDonald's flipping the burger. He don't, he's just making a living. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:21:00.600 Glasses had the intellect and division to understand that I 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:06.880 became the oppressor and and once you know, now what's 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:11.280 up to you once you can understand. So back to 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.920 the point when we're talking oppressors and the reason a 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.200 motherfucker can't save no money. They're not making a livable 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.040 wage to even save money to change their circumstances. So 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:27.440 they consistently do things to make themselves look better than 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.560 they feel because they want you to treat them better. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.200 And it sounds crazy because you're like, well, you could 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.520 just change your own circumstances and you will feel better, 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.439 but they don't believe they can because of generations of 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:44.880 economic oppression, right for fun being slaves and being hung. 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.160 Let's say let's say a hundred thousand slaves was hung, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:54.280 could be more. It's millions of motherfucker's that wasn't paid 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:58.879 to work, millions of motherfucker's that wasn't paid to work. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.120 That's e can coonomic oppression. To be denied the opportunity 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.800 to vote on on things that change your economics, that's 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.280 economic oppression, not the opportunity to go buy property and 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.880 somebody else's bomb ass neighborhood that you know it's gonna 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:19.560 be worth something later. That's economic oppression. Fuck all the 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.320 bullshit niggas are talking about. Fuck that this group of 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:24.520 people that the NBA players are saying, Oh, you know, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.280 criminal justice for blah blah blah, police reform, man, don't 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:30.560 funk what you do to them. I don't gonna fun 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.680 how you reform. You can't reform the mind going into 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.720 the job. That's what you have to reform. You have 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:42.879 to stop. They have to stop seeing black people like 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.840 the bottom of the fucking earth. And to make that happen, 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.440 and to make that happen, they got to come up 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.000 because I don't give a funk with nobody say you 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.640 will never treat shock the way you treat little Boo Boo. 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.920 Now you put your motherfucking hands on Shack. I don't 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:06.200 get funk hot that nigga. Dark is the night that 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.760 that motherfucker's skin dark as the night. If you do 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:11.320 something to him, you have a world of ship as 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.440 a police officer, as a as a precinct. It's gonna 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:19.240 funk with your life because this man got it, and 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:23.919 the world sees his value. That's why Look, look what 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:26.320 happened with these with the with the whole Asian anti 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:30.080 Asian ship. That's because people don't see them as the 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:34.800 poorest people in America. They don't see them like that. 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:41.159 Until six weeks ago, the biggest systemic issue involving Asian 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.680 people was the fact that Harvard deliberately set a higher 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:49.119 bar for admission for Asian people. Exactly what's ship, and 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.879 they still jumped over that ship. It was funny, but 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:59.840 in fact, I'm saying, because they value their dollars, mm, 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:02.199 they don't have to do nothing for us because we 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:06.560 don't got no fucking money. And then once we get money, right, 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:09.840 we disconnect from the people who don't have money, because 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:11.960 we'd be like man e mother gonna run us broke, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.280 because really we'll be lying about how much money we 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.560 got in the first place. I think most of the 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.280 rap contracts is a damn lie. I think most of 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.000 the nigga is publishing the net worth is a damn lie. 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:24.119 I know it's a lie because I know how you 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:26.439 how you build up. Miss Charlotte Mayne argue about this 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:30.439 all the time. That's a lie and if it's not 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.720 a some assets that are not what they are commonly 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:42.520 perceived to be. So, but that's my point of this conversation. Though, sure, sure, sure, 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:51.400 so I was fired now I'm just think about it, though, 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:56.280 think about it like the way you really oppress human beings, 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:02.640 you deny them economic if that's is an opportunity entirely, 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:06.840 that's the only way there's there. And there are great examples, 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:12.000 I mean examples of people like I mean, I have 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.880 a you know, a fair number of interaction with with 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.160 people that I have known personally and whatnot. Who who 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.359 came here from communist China back in the seventies and 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:24.360 eighties when it was when it wasn't the communist China 0:25:24.359 --> 0:25:27.200 we're talking about today, the the fuzzy nights. Everybody's got 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:31.440 some much like honestly, this communist trying to low key 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.560 is worse. Nobody would ever say it. But if you, 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.400 if you oversane, what they do more dangerous. It is crazy. 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:40.280 Well I'll say this much though. I was actually when 0:25:40.320 --> 0:25:43.040 I was four, I was a ring bear in a 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:52.720 wedding between two people named Lee different spellings and um 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:57.639 the groom that it was like my dad's best friends 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.639 his dad fled mainland China to Hong Kong, to the 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:06.760 United States, and when the wow, what the funk? Not 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.679 the great recept but whatever the term was that I 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:13.119 think maw or his UH subsequent leader had put in 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:16.040 at that time was he's like, you got to see 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:17.760 the writing on the wall, They're gonna kill all of us. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:21.600 He fled literally with the clothes he had on, and 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.280 they killed his whole family. Like there's not a single 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:28.679 there's not a lead back there. So like but again 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:32.560 you come here different landscape. You look at the Baltic 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:36.240 States right now, they're doing very well, they're very free economically. 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:41.320 The former Soviet republics, you know, I mean thirty years 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:47.879 ago you're under the USSRS, Lithuania, Belarus, something like that. Yeah, 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:50.320 you know, not at all, not a thing at all. 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:55.360 But we live in a constant, a constantly evolving landscape. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:59.760 And and this is a every landscape and time is unique. 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:01.640 It's different from what was behind it, and what's coming 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:04.080 in front of it right now is different than that 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:06.479