WEBVTT - 052723 Why is the GOP so Loyal to Trump? (Part B) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:06.040 And now proper wat my mic back like that. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.040 Strike headquarters, it's behind. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.120 And those are you just tuning in the civic cyper. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.640 I'm your host, Ramsey's job job. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:25.400 I am frust I know left you, but I am 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:35.720 discouraged because of an earlier topic, heartbroken and uh less 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.680 and less hopeful. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.320 I got enough hope for the both of us. I 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.920 don't worry about that. Wow. Man, Well listen, this is 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.160 my partner q Ward and uh we do the show 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.040 for you every week. We appreciate your support and we 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.200 appreciate you listening for the next part of the show 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.680 because we've got more to talk about. We're gonna be 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:04.600 discussing why GOP voters are so loyal to Trump. It's 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.040 uh eluded me, and I think I have a little 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:07.679 bit more insight. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.039 It has not eluded me. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.760 Well, we're gonna talk about I'm gonna learn from you today, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.600 and we're also going to talk about some more cool stuff. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.639 But first and foremost, let's discuss becoming a better ally 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.919 Baba Baba. Today's Baba sponsored by Unknown Union, the fashion 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.840 house situated at the intersection of meaning, innovation and culture. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.760 More information check out unknownunion dot com. All right. Shout 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.839 out to the Smithsonian. We like those guys. They treat 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.520 us good, and I will read. The Smithsonian National Museum 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.280 of African American History and Culture, will host its second 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.120 annual hip Hop block Party this August, featuring performances, interactive art, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.560 and focused exhibits celebrating fifty years of the genre. The 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.680 block party will take place on Saturday, August twelfth, The 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.600 museum announced recently. The event will be held at the 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.560 intersection of Madison Drive north less than fourteenth Street northwest, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.000 outside of the museum. This is in Washington, d C. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.480 For those that don't know, and it is worth it 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.400 to make your way there. I know Q and I 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.160 are going to be there. You and I have been there. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.280 I can't wait to go back. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.560 Yes, and we have a lot of friends there and 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.680 supporters there, and it's just an awesome time, in a 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:22.160 life changing experience to have. We wouldn't say it if 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.400 it wasn't true. Man, even me who grew up with 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.919 all this beautiful history that is troubled and hard and 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.800 gorgeous and inspirational and all of everything in the middle man, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.600 it grew me up even more than I thought I 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.919 would experience in a museum like that. Please go all right, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.959 I'll keep reading. A full time lineup of artists and 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.680 programming will be released in the coming months, according to 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.120 the museum. The event will be free to attend, though 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.440 tickets are required for entry, and will be available online 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.160 in July. While the inaugural twenty twenty two celebration mark 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.959 the one year anniversary of the Smithsonian's Anthology of Hip 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.600 Hop and Rap, this summer's event will celebrate fifty years 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.640 of the Revolution and Innovation. In conjunction with the event, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.200 the museum will install an outdoor panel exhibition including artifacts 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.280 from the museum's collection. The party also coincides with the 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:16.079 museum's high profile Afrofuturism exhibit. So again, the Smithsonian National 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.440 Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:19.320 D C. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:27.400 Be there, all right? Why are GOP voters sol loyal 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.080 to Trump? I want to let you know that I 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.440 sourced a lot of our talking points from a conversation 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.960 from an article was published in The Hill and the 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.920 author was Caroline Vakil. So credit where it's due, because 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.640 these are some interesting things to think about. And of 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.520 course I want to shout out Yahoo News as well 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:58.480 for sending this over, I'll read a bit. Trump's lead 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.240 in the presumptive field of GOP presidential candidates has widened 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.000 in most polling, even as he finds himself embroiled in 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.320 high profile legal battles and as the party grapples with 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:22.160 a worse than expected midterm election. That by itself is 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.560 it shouldn't be surprising, and yet it still is. Now. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.320 You bring up this point quite a bit on the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.040 show Cube. Once upon a time we had a video 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.480 of a man who's running for president on a bus 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.600 with a reporter or journal or something like that, and 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.919 he says, you know, if you're famous, they let you 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.840 do it. You can walk up to a woman if 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:49.560 you're a celebrity and just grab them by the genitals. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.960 I mean, I'm sure you know the word if you 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.640 live in the same country as I do, because it 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.040 was everywhere, And you make this point quite frequently, Q 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.000 that that historically would have been enough to not only 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.159 invalidate someone's presidential run and disqualify them from being the 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.760 presumptive nominee or a major political party, but it would 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:18.080 have kind of had them blacklisted from politics altogether and 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:23.560 from everything. Every Yeah, exactly exactly. And so when I 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.360 say that this is it shouldn't be surprising, and yet 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.360 it is. I mean that because this is, this behavior 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:37.479 is still shocking. This man can be convicted, he can 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:45.920 be determined to be guilty and liable and uh, what's 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:51.880 the word where they indicted and charged? Criminally charged over 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.080 and over and over again, and all his cronies over 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.839 and over and over again. And somehow on the right 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.040 there's this narrative that Joe Biden is at the head 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.799 of this like criminal family, the Joe Biden crime family. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.279 From what I understand, Joe Biden's son has had a 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.560 problem with addiction, and see he's lived kind of a 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.479 wild lifestyle. Joe Biden not a perfect man, none of 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:22.240 these people are. Indeed, I'm not either. But when you 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.400 compare him to Donald Trump in terms of like integrity 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:33.480 and quality of human being by any any measure, from 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.560 any any standard that any human being has, any moral standard, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.560 pull it straight from the Bible, if you will, right, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.680 because many people do that there is no comparison. It 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.839 is not even fair. It is so overtly, out loud, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.240 in front of your face, hypocritical, and as you mentioned, Q, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.800 people will see it right in front of their face 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.040 and be like, Nah, that isn't it. It's like, no, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.080 we see it. We're looking at it. Nah. And it's 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.400 like I know they're not delusional. I know they're not 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:07.960 in denial. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:15.880 They used to. They used to say, Nah, that ain't it. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.600 They do not anymore. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.920 Okay, I see where you're going. They embrace it, they 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:30.240 used to say, because I guess we can be straightforward here. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:38.080 Capitalism would have once required them to deny it to 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:43.800 protect their bottom line. One of the scariest and lowest 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:50.040 points in my life was that man, with all that 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.880 we know about him, with all that we knew about 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.600 him prior to that video, but with all that we 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.880 knew about him prior with that video and all that 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:06.000 we've learned since, still becoming the president. Because then every 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.560 other person that was pretending to be decent realized. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.720 Oh, I don't have to do that no more. Let 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:14.880 me tell you how I really feel. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.520 I don't have to pretend to not be racist anymore. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.400 And not only can I still make money, I can 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.000 become the president of the United. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.720 States, and we see these other people, I can be. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:34.160 A racist, fascist, sexist, bigot, and everyone can know it, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.560 and I can still become president. And then even after 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.520 doing a horrible job at presidenting, even after making a 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.439 mockery of the office, even after inciting a riot. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.640 Hold on, even after running up twenty five percent of 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.840 our national debt that happened under Donald Trump's administration, I can. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.120 Still get the sixty million people to come out and 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:02.680 vote for me. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:03.360 How about that? 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.200 So why would I ever pretend to be anything other 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.880 than what I am? Actually, let me dig in a 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.760 little down, let me let me go a little bit harder, 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:22.120 because not only will I not be punished, I'll be exalted, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.440 I'll be lifted up. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:25.640 I'll be deified. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:31.560 Like trump Ism is almost a religion now, you know, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.640 after one of our shows, I had to show Rama's 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.920 a video of a woman telling her daughters that it 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.360 was okay for a man to grope them because she 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.360 just doubled down on her support of Donald Trump. So 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.040 rather than say, you know what, maybe I was tripping, Nope, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.720 he is who he is and who he is who 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:57.319 we believe in. So she turns to her daughters and 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:02.719 coaches them into saying it's no big deal for a 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.240 man to grope them and touch them unappropriate. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.040 It was it was really gross video to watch. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.480 So yeah, and this wasn't in private, This was on 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.400 a low news on television. It might have been national news. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:21.280 Cameras pointed at them, made her daughters humiliate themselves an 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.400 effort to stand in support of a man she's never met. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.520 It is really really scary and disturbing. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:38.440 So we need to figure out why, Well, these are 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.040 human beings, and we need to have the conversation. I 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.400 give what you're saying. I'm not trying to figure out why. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.560 Let me let me say that. I say I say 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:53.000 this with some frequency on the show. We started this show, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.800 and we knew that we were going to have to 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:01.120 love our way through some very challenging times, right, and. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.760 We though, and I don't I don't say that to 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.880 say that to knock us off track, but I think 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.880 at some point we figured that with love and with reason, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.520 we'd be met with to be able to get to 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.040 a common place. I do not think now such a 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.520 place exists anymore for. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:26.040 Me. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.160 None of this stuff that I do, not here, not anywhere, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.480 works without the belief that it is possible. Now here's 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:40.160 where I allow the space for this conversation and to 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.640 learn what is going through the minds of these people. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:53.120 Here's the point, Okay, I realized that human beings are imperfect. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.960 I realize that human beings, black people, we are the 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:05.559 first human being, and all people are susceptible, vulnerable to fear. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.400 We have a drive to protect our species, our posterity, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.120 our lineage, et cetera. And you know that list goes on, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.480 and we are motivated to take action or corrective action 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.920 by what we perceive as fear. And if we can 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.839 be tricked, other people can be tricked. One of the 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.960 things that helped me frame this is that when doctor 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.760 King was alive. We talk about this quite a bit. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.960 When Doctor King was alive, he had a twenty percent 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.080 of approval rating from black people, meaning eighty percent of 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.199 Black people did not approve of doctor King, not as policies, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.760 not as anything like that. We can be lost in 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.600 the sauce too, Okay. So when I look on the 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.479 right and I see, forgive me my brothers and sisters, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.800 When I look at police, when I look at that 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:01.560 police officer that was messing with me last week, there 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.280 has to be a part of me that says, this 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:12.040 is my brother. He's lost and I'm older than he is, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.160 so it's more like this is my son. I'm from 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.240 Africa to most ancient people, right, that's the spirit that 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.800 moves this body. So I have to look and say, okay, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.800 the love that has caused me to be here, I 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:33.240 have to draw from that well in order to interact 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.840 appropriately with my brother or my son. That might be lost. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.760 Now he might have a gun, they might have a 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.760 political power to my you know this and the third 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.839 But as a philosophy, as a person who studied doctor 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.080 King and Malcolm X, it realizes that there was indeed 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.040 a place for both of those philosophies. Trust me, I 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.480 be Malcolm X A lot of the time. I have 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:04.360 to realize that without love, a what's inside of me 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.720 doesn't really work. I was made out of love. My 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.439 mother and my father loved each other. That's where that's 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.360 why I exist. And then be I feel like you 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:22.440 can have a meaningful conversation based out of love, and 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.520 you can have a divisive, destructive conversation when you don't 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.320 have that, and it could get devolved, not even with 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.200 your intention, it could get devolved because they're on their 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.360 weird stuff. In other words, it's like interacting with a 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.960 little kid. If I meet a little kid where the 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.640 little kid is a little kid, don't know no better, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.040 and then I do, so that it's not gonna work. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.360 I have to have a little bit more patience. And 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.240 I don't mean no disrespect. Well, I kind of do 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.720 mean disrespect, because a lot of these people need to 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.040 grow up. But I don't mean it like they're beyond redemption. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.560 I mean that it's going to be along road. It 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.560 might not happen in my lifetime. And the conversation that 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:00.840 we're having right now. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.720 How many lifetimes? 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.280 That's an excellent question and a valid question. And I 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.520 don't know the answer, man, but I you and I 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.040 both know that, like, don't let you feel fuel you 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.000 ladies and gentlemen. Q has a heart big as his chest. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.360 She is a lover too. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.240 Okay, So Ramses has said that out loud, and it's true, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.680 and that it's part of the reason that there's callous Now, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.880 how long is my heart supposed to be exposed and 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.280 broken and stepped on and stabbed and shot and hang 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.880 and burned? How many cheeks do I have to turn? 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.360 How much time do we have? How many lifetimes? 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:39.960 Mine? 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.440 My father's his fathers, his fathers, his fathers, his father Like, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.600 at some point this road is long, sure, but if 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.280 we're both walking that way, then we'll get there. If 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.360 the other person has either stopped or started walking the 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.720 opposite direction, then what are we doing? 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:58.760 Yeah? 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:03.160 Right, because this double down has gotten to be ridiculous 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.240 at this point, Like I said, there is no longer 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.440 a denial of the racism. There's no longer aim to 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.040 see this twer is no longer a pretending to be 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.600 ignorant anymore. There is no longer a requirement for them 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.920 to be righteous or just. They are singular in this 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.120 idea of white supremacy. I don't We don't have to 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.680 dance around us and unite it on it in a 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.680 way that is terrifying. Sure, because the rest of us, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:42.040 they're leaning right meaning people, just meaning people, good intentioned people, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.640 are not united on anything. And the party that is 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.560 united on racism and white. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.560 Supremacy is very united. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.000 They're very united, and they're all going to show up 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.200 and vote. So they're not just Florida, not just Texas, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:02.280 not just Kansas, but everywhere can start to adopt and 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.040 vote on laws that make it illegal for us to 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.560 exist so let me say this. We don't get to 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.960 have history in some of these states right now. This 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.240 is not something that's mythological or that might happen, or 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.000 that was introduced and perceived to be ridiculous. Because I 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.480 have friends that argue with me when some of those 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.200 bills were introduced. I said, this is scary, and they 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.080 said to me out loud, there's no way that's going 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:31.359 to happen. Why do you believe that? What evidence do 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.280 you have that makes you think that there's no way 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.040 it's going to happen. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.840 Donald Trump won, that happened. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.760 That happened. He's the person most likely to win again. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.840 And you can say the first time caught you off guard. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.680 You thought they was just playing. You thought there was 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.600 no chance he will went okay, now that he has 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.800 back in the front again and the people on the 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.400 other side are not even pretending to be decent, keep 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.240 wanting to meet in the middle, and they keep standing 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:10.320 right justified. So again, so meeting in the middle means 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:11.360 meeting on the right. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.560 On their side. I understand this. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.000 And only we want to meet in the middle. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:17.879 They have no interest. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.200 You guys, come over here or not. Everything that you're 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.200 trying to do that's actually for the people we cool 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.240 on that we're not letting it happen. No so, and 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.840 the people you're trying to do it for are going 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.200 to sour because you didn't deliver on any of those promises. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.879 They're going to stop voting our people. Are you not 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.560 on any single front. It is not about policy, It 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.639 is not even about doing what's in the best interest 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.080 of your constituents. It is white supremacy, racism, the word 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.440 that they're making illegal out loud in front of everyone. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.200 And we have to keep hope alive. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:19:03.640 Yes on what Yes, yes, absolutely so. Now I said 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:10.600 something earlier in the show. I said that we are 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:17.919 a liberal country. We are a liberal plant planet. Now 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.919 I don't want to say that that means that everybody's 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.200 a liberal is good and everybody who's conservative is bad. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.399 Is that's pain with two broader strokes. And it's not 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:28.760 entirely accurate. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.679 Used to not be accurate, it's still not entirely conservative 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:37.240 in this country. It's almost synonymous with that. And well 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.040 here's very very negative. Just so let me so, let 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.160 me add let me add to that, let me add 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:49.960 to that. I happen to know that even this show 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.920 where we're sharing these ideas and these thoughts right now 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.359 with our listeners. This would not be on the radio 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:04.760 in certain cities had it not been for white men 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:11.160 who were admittedly conservative saying this program is necessary. These 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:16.880 are conversations we need to have. So I recognize that 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.560 for me to paint with that broad a stroke might 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.200 be inappropriate. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:29.480 Are there huge problems that are affecting our people and 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.879 our brothers and sisters who are also minorities in this 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.880 country that stem from that wing of the government. 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.320 Absolutely, how you're voting, who you support, means more than 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.960 even the opportunity that you extend to me to talk 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:43.760 about this stuff. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.560 Okay, Okay, I realize that, But it is also possible 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:53.359 for a person to vote a certain way and shut 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:58.199 the door in our face. And half of something is 0:20:58.240 --> 0:20:59.399 better than all of nothing. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.439 So as long as you pay for me to go 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.280 to college, it's fine that you've abused me my whole life. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.080 See how ridiculous it sounds, No, So sure a person 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.639 could double down on it, But I don't get to 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.160 pretend like you didn't abuse me because you pay for college. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.520 If after you know better, if after you say yeah, 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.160 you guys do need to talk about that. If that's 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.040 still how you think and still how you vote and 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.640 stell who you support, then I don't care. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.960 So let me say this again. There's there's a. 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.560 Because you no longer have the plausable and not belie. 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.960 That's my point. I know as people, they're no longer 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.160 pretending to even here's here's. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.560 Here's what I'm saying you you're not wrong. I can't 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.200 say that you're wrong. What I can say is that 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.960 there's always a way that I have found to be 0:21:54.080 --> 0:22:00.520 hopeful in the outcomes that shape the world that I 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.280 would like to see my sons and my grandchildren and 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.840 great grandchildren grow up in. And to look at a 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:14.280 person who abused me, who then paid for me to 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.879 go to college, It's an awful reality to have to 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:24.879 deal with. It's awful reality, especially if they're still abusing you. Sure, sure, sure, 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.840 you're not wrong. But I realize that no matter what, 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:36.199 this is a long road full of baby steps, and 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.639 a long road means yes, several lifetimes for several people. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.080 I said in the beginning of this show, nobody deserves this, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.080 but here we are, and we have made progress. We 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.560 have made progress and I believe that we will continue 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.120 to make progress. The thing is, we are up against 0:22:55.119 --> 0:23:01.240 people like these loyalists who here I'll read this real quick. 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:07.840 Through the presidential debates and primaries, polsters and even some 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.240 anti Trump Republicans point to the former president's recent indictment 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.800 and is no hold bar no holds bar approach to 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:17.600 his GOP rivals as being among the reasons that some 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.200 of the party are still leaning toward the former president. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.520 They like the fact that he's a bully. They like 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.200 the fact that he gets in trouble and breaks. 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:27.960 The rules everything about him. 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.000 They like the fact that he uses nicknames. They call 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.960 him a giga chad. This is a term that they use. 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.320 It's like the ultimate buff white guy that doesn't take 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.120 any mess and gets all the girls and the sort 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.480 of thing. It's like an internet meme, really gross, cartoonish 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.359 looking thing, like something off Abuts and b Head, But 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:48.000 it exists. And a lot of people think that he's 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.960 their greatest chance at fighting back against the great replacement theory. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.919 A lot of white people think that they're being replaced intentionally, 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.280 and I think Donald Trump is their best chance to 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.439 push back against the US that are controlling the media 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:05.040 and the liberals that run the country deep state, we're 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.720 trying to replace white voters and white people in this country, 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.000 which is all unfounded. But if that's their reality, then 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:16.600 Trump is their guy. So we have to move on, unfortunately, 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:18.800 because there's a lot more to talk about there, obviously, 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:22.439 but it's time for the Way Black History Fact and 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.640 today's Way Black History Fact sponsored by Underground Beach Club 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:28.959 from the streets to the beach, the finest in beachware. 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:33.080 Visit Underground Beach Club dot com and I'll be pulling 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:37.840 from a couple of sources today in wyhistory dot org 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.080 and Central parkyc dot org so you can go and 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.240 check out the full stories. We had to just kind 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:46.000 of compile some stuff to share this with you today, 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:51.520 but I'll read since eighteen fifty nine, millions of people 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:55.879 have enjoyed the natural beauty of Central Park. What do 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:58.199 you know about the origins of Central Park? Did you 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:00.760 know that before the park existed, the land it lies 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:04.639 on was home to about sixteen hundred residents. One neighborhood 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.960 that once lay within the boundaries of the park was 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.240 called Seneca Village, although the residents may not have called 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.040 it that So that's what we're talking about today for 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:16.679 our way black history fact Seneca Village. All right. No 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:19.960 photographs of Seneca Village survive, and no personal papers or 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:22.800 living descendants of its residents have yet been found. So 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:24.919