Speaker 1: Girl, you seem to love me now if you love
Speaker 1: me if I was down and out, would you still
Speaker 1: have love for me? Girl? Rappers always worried about if
Speaker 1: that girl's gonna leave them when they're not up No
Speaker 1: mo At the end of two Pimper Butterfly, you had
Speaker 1: you know, Kendrick being like which one about girls? It
Speaker 1: was about the fan? He was like, when ship hits
Speaker 1: the fan will be a fan, you know, basically like again,
Speaker 1: I'm up right now, but if I'm not up, are
Speaker 1: you still gonna be down with me? Everybody's worried about
Speaker 1: that relationship always being transactional, like are you just here
Speaker 1: because what I can give you? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Is there really any love in the heart of the
Speaker 1: city you feel me? Are are you on some snoop?
Speaker 1: Like we don't love him house? You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: tell me if you really really about me? Are you
Speaker 1: really a writer? When it go down? If you can't
Speaker 1: get what you want from me in my disposable, in
Speaker 1: my interchangeable, all right? Is it? Is it some Beyonce
Speaker 1: situation where like don't you ever for second get the
Speaker 1: thinking he replace somebo you like how flat that mug
Speaker 1: was stick to rhyming and poetry problem and the podcast
Speaker 1: is pretty cool too, but please, man, you ain't hold
Speaker 1: that note, no paperbag? You feel me? Yeah? Anyway, joking
Speaker 1: around the point is the question is do y'all really
Speaker 1: love us? I want to give you a matrix to
Speaker 1: think about. Where the cast your most powerful weapon? You vote? Politics?
Speaker 1: Free game, free game, three games, free games, free games,
Speaker 1: three game. Yo. So y'all, this another one of them
Speaker 1: free game episodes where I'm just trying to put you
Speaker 1: on in a way that says like, look, here's a
Speaker 1: way to think about this, and what I want to
Speaker 1: talk about is yeah, like I'm, I'm this is like
Speaker 1: the fourth episode where I'm talking about mid term elections
Speaker 1: because it's that important right now? You feel me? Uh,
Speaker 1: what's always important? But I really want you to, like man,
Speaker 1: not not think about this. Most time people skip the midterms,
Speaker 1: and I hope you've been paying attention enough to understand that, Like,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what you can't afford to skip?
Speaker 1: You feel me? How many times have I said before,
Speaker 1: like it's really not these like the big four year
Speaker 1: presidential elections in a lot of ways that really affect
Speaker 1: you as much as you think it's these smaller ones,
Speaker 1: it's these more localized ones. It's these ones in between.
Speaker 1: You feel me, like, those are the ones that actually
Speaker 1: really have to do with in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: You know what, the way that the rubber meets the road.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Of course it's all connected.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm not saying I'm like every every election matters,
Speaker 1: I mean, down to your school board. But what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say is like, don't just pay attention to
Speaker 1: the big ones. You feel me? So this midterm is like,
Speaker 1: this isn't an abstract just news thing. This is like legit,
Speaker 1: like really close to your life. You with me? So
Speaker 1: I want to give you some things and ask you about, like, yo,
Speaker 1: do these people really love you? And I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: to a premise or a question I want you to
Speaker 1: ask yourself at the end, but I need to build
Speaker 1: a case to get there. Do y'all really love us?
Speaker 1: Is the question at hand. But first I want to
Speaker 1: talk about who the y'all is, right, and then how
Speaker 1: it works once you at the table, and then finally
Speaker 1: the ultimate question, which is the game I'm trying to
Speaker 1: give y'all but I don't want to. I want to
Speaker 1: make you listen to the end like you, I mean,
Speaker 1: skip what am I talking about? Whatever the point is,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do to reveal to them whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You don't use kids, so I say,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Sobody take your ball. You absolutely care anyway,
Speaker 1: way off topic. So look, obviously your boy leans left.
Speaker 1: I have never you ain't never heard come out of
Speaker 1: my mouth that I'm a part of any particular political party. Right. Clearly,
Speaker 1: my positions, I mean are relatively progressive, you know, but
Speaker 1: progressive according to who like what I think. I've made
Speaker 1: this point before, like in in relation to what right.
Speaker 1: So when we say things like right wing, left wing,
Speaker 1: you know, liberal, conservative, progressive, constitutionalists, like all these terms,
Speaker 1: and then sometimes you throw out terms like Marxists that
Speaker 1: like people are arguing like there's ain't nothing in America Marxists,
Speaker 1: like you ain't you need to do your homework, nothing
Speaker 1: about us is Marxist. That means you don't know Marxist anyway,
Speaker 1: these terms, I think it's important to understand it in
Speaker 1: this this this is the number one thing in the
Speaker 1: or not the most important, but the first thing in
Speaker 1: in the order of things I've trying to communicate. Do
Speaker 1: you is that these names are how do I say this?
Speaker 1: It's the cart before the horse, it's named after It's
Speaker 1: almost like you have all these particular issues, topics, whatever, views,
Speaker 1: and to be honest, every person and if you think
Speaker 1: about it, like who like, I'm not sure many of
Speaker 1: us neatly fit perfectly into any of these categories. It's
Speaker 1: because the categories were drawing after. If you if you
Speaker 1: could picture a whole scattered plot of like I don't know,
Speaker 1: pennies or marbles or coins, right scattered all over a table,
Speaker 1: and then someone takes a piece of string and just
Speaker 1: like strings circles around certain ones of those coins and
Speaker 1: then calls that something you're following me. So what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is the label is put on after. So if
Speaker 1: you like, I'm a progressive, well that means blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But if somebody but if you say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a progressive, and then they start laying out the
Speaker 1: progressive agenda and you're like, well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'll rock with all of this. Then you like, do
Speaker 1: I have to believe this? Because I'm calling myself. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to call yourself a progressive. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If you like, I actually do like
Speaker 1: kind of rock. I think institutions and traditions are important.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like, oh, well you're
Speaker 1: a conservative, and it's like, well, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I feel like reproductive rights is super important. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: you're not a conservative, you think because the name was
Speaker 1: put on after like we for some for for for
Speaker 1: organizational purposes, because of how our brain work, we feel
Speaker 1: like we need to put names to of course, because again,
Speaker 1: you gotta have something to check. You gotta have a
Speaker 1: box to check, right, they need to send you a ballot,
Speaker 1: so I mean I have to have a way to
Speaker 1: at least communicate. But the categories don't set the rules.
Speaker 1: The people in them set the rules, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to fit need And that's part of why, or
Speaker 1: that's mainly the main reason why you don't hear me
Speaker 1: ever say well I'm a Democrat or I'm a liberal,
Speaker 1: or I'm a socialist, or because it's like, yo, to me,
Speaker 1: this is a buffet like I could eat from. I'm
Speaker 1: the citizen and I could eat from the buffet. I
Speaker 1: want to something like. It's like it's like if you
Speaker 1: order something, it's like going like, let me see if
Speaker 1: I can think of another comparison. It's like going to
Speaker 1: a restaurant that don't allow substitutes. Who know, this is
Speaker 1: the way that the chef like, so you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna eat here with a chef, Like really,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna remember I went to this one restaurant and uh,
Speaker 1: was it Indianapolis? I think it was Indianapolis. What's the
Speaker 1: big city? It was Muncy. I was in Muncy, That's
Speaker 1: what it was. Was it Muncy? It might have been Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: I don't remember. That was a long pause. Matt puts
Speaker 1: some music right there, so it don't seem so bad anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: I went to this restaurant and it was like what
Speaker 1: reminded me of a two thousand fourteen hipster restaurants to
Speaker 1: where it's like maybe thirteen, where it's like y'all still
Speaker 1: like y'all still doing like this is a deep cat cut,
Speaker 1: you'll still doing komm X slow pour overs as if
Speaker 1: like coffee specialty coffee technology hasn't advanced since the kimas
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like it's like it's like
Speaker 1: that that first wave of third wave specialty coffee where
Speaker 1: they don't they don't have cream and sugar. If you
Speaker 1: come you come to the coffee shop, they're just like,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't have creaming sugar. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: you're undiscovered coffee, right apparent Okay, so you you invented
Speaker 1: especially you you you you you peris you feel me?
Speaker 1: It was it was like one of the one of
Speaker 1: them spots where there was a time out here in
Speaker 1: l A, like if you went to a little hipster spot.
Speaker 1: It was like that. Right. Since then we've relaxed, yea saying,
Speaker 1: but this restaurant was still there. And then I remember
Speaker 1: I I we we ordered this thing, and I was like,
Speaker 1: my wife asked, yo, can we substitute the potatoes for
Speaker 1: sweet potatoes? That man said, now, we was like excuse me?
Speaker 1: He said, well, we think we see food as art
Speaker 1: and our our chef is is the artist and he
Speaker 1: pieces things together. So no, you know, we we we
Speaker 1: don't allow substitutions because it's it's it's almost like offensive
Speaker 1: to the artist. Me and me and me and my
Speaker 1: wife looked at each other and it was like, fam,
Speaker 1: these as pancakes and waffles. This ain't a This ain't
Speaker 1: a Michelin Star restaurant. In which case we understand where
Speaker 1: there is no menu, there's you're giving a meal card
Speaker 1: that tells you your three courses. Okay, I understand that,
Speaker 1: But what is what? What in the two thousand twelve
Speaker 1: is this is you? Are you okay? All right? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like, yo, you got gluten free.
Speaker 1: You got gluten free buns? No, they're brioche again. It's
Speaker 1: a part of the It's like, all right, I apparently
Speaker 1: y'all still standing for that out here. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, You must be the only you must be
Speaker 1: the only spot in town because it is the most
Speaker 1: ridiculous shit I've ever heard in my life. Like you, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't subs okay whatever? Right, So I will all
Speaker 1: that to say, it's not like you can't substitute the
Speaker 1: fries for sweet potato fries when it comes to like
Speaker 1: your your political views, like if you like listen, dude,
Speaker 1: like I rock with all this, but I don't really
Speaker 1: feel that like you can do that, Like you can
Speaker 1: you can switch out for a gluten free bud. You can.
Speaker 1: You could go with a turkey burger rather than a
Speaker 1: beef like, you could do that. So if you like,
Speaker 1: you know, I like certain things that the left is saying,
Speaker 1: but some of this, some of this stuff is wold,
Speaker 1: then that's okay. Don't don't feel like you have to
Speaker 1: like follow the rules they're saying, Like, you can switch
Speaker 1: it out. So the categories came after, the names came after.
Speaker 1: The issues are the issues, right, Don't let none of
Speaker 1: these people you know, running for office or anything. Don't
Speaker 1: let them convince you that you're not a good A
Speaker 1: B or c. If you don't hold to these particular
Speaker 1: topics you allowed to hold or whatever you want. You
Speaker 1: ain't gotta fit nobody's category. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this really home as a black person,
Speaker 1: and it's the one that like I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: we still almost like I shouldn't share this with job
Speaker 1: because this is some like in house stuff. So if
Speaker 1: you're not black, don't listen to this part. Skip ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's probably well, I don't know, you'll probably got
Speaker 1: your own versions of this. But I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: it in terms of black people, the diaspora of everybody
Speaker 1: pronounces that word different, diaspora, diaspora, diaspora, diaspora, everybody do.
Speaker 1: The point is, we are a wide, very diverse group
Speaker 1: of people that we just call black. I mean, y'all
Speaker 1: watched in Canto, right. You see that little boy when
Speaker 1: he got his magic to see animals? He black as hell?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, trans Atlantic slave trade. We come Colombian too,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, like, we're a very
Speaker 1: diverse group of people, and oftentimes because of the uniqueness
Speaker 1: of the experience experience of the like black American slave descendant,
Speaker 1: we were robbed of so much of our cultural identify
Speaker 1: irs that in some ways part of the byproduct of
Speaker 1: that is we start policing each other around those experiences,
Speaker 1: Like we start putting rules around blackness. Right, Black people
Speaker 1: like certain sports. You know what I'm saying. You sound
Speaker 1: like this. You eat these kind of foods, you can
Speaker 1: you know which kind of like in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: You know, if you come here, you Haitian, you believe
Speaker 1: in what I'm saying. You got different. You got bolton
Speaker 1: on cheese. You know what I'm saying, and you're buil
Speaker 1: up that you eat you feel me. It's like you
Speaker 1: ain't never had a college green ever in your life.
Speaker 1: So you got here, you feel me? So like there's
Speaker 1: these a lot of times we have a way of
Speaker 1: putting rules around what it means to be black. Why
Speaker 1: it's hard to like look at like suburban black folks.
Speaker 1: You feel me that, Like, well, y'all ain't come from
Speaker 1: the struggle. So it's like, I don't know how black
Speaker 1: you are. These are things that I feel And you know,
Speaker 1: again there's there's disagreement among this that I feel is
Speaker 1: like detrimental too, And it's like, and we're selling us
Speaker 1: self short. The black experience can be as diverse as
Speaker 1: the people in it, you know what I'm saying. So like, okay,
Speaker 1: so you come from the suburbs, you feel me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you and the anime, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: you ain't never played a sport the day in life?
Speaker 1: You just big on that nerd culture, You on that,
Speaker 1: you on your you're on your loope fiasco. You feel
Speaker 1: me like just nerdy as hell, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you could do that, you know or South Massacada.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the the you know o
Speaker 1: g like surfer snowboarder from like uh you know the
Speaker 1: X Games years. Like, I mean, he's a from Oceanside
Speaker 1: black surfer. You know what I mean? Does that make
Speaker 1: him any less black because he being the beach? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Well, clearly you never been a
Speaker 1: Madagas star. They surfers down there. You know I'm saying,
Speaker 1: clearly you ain't been in South Africa. Yeah, they surf
Speaker 1: down there. Uh. Now, on the other hand, I think
Speaker 1: there's something to be said about, Yeah, having a type
Speaker 1: of experience that makes you feel like you need to
Speaker 1: actively work against the rest of us or disassociate with
Speaker 1: the things that are verifiably black. That's a different story.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's that's some self hate
Speaker 1: type stuff. That's something different, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But if you just in the anime. You in the anime,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't need you to run around
Speaker 1: here saying well, like I don't bounce around like monkeys
Speaker 1: like like you other black guys, then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: NIGGI like time out, homie, Like that's dip. That's a
Speaker 1: different story. I probably shouldn't wade into these waters either
Speaker 1: because I'm thirteen years out of single and my wife
Speaker 1: is Latina. But I have a very hard time when
Speaker 1: I hear Black men say stuff like I don't date
Speaker 1: black women, I don't like black women, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, or like man I saw some of the
Speaker 1: most egregious like in this like Mano Sphere being like,
Speaker 1: don't mess with the schnique was I don't mess with
Speaker 1: the dark skin. I was like, Nigga, I'll bust you
Speaker 1: in your face. You know what I'm saying. Because that's
Speaker 1: that's different that self hate. If you're like I just
Speaker 1: I fell in love with who I fell in love with.
Speaker 1: That's one thing. You like this, But to say that
Speaker 1: you don't like your own it's like, nigga, like, what's
Speaker 1: going on with you? That's you're actively working against us.
Speaker 1: That's a different story. You ain't gotta tear down your
Speaker 1: sisters because you're into something else, Like man, that's fraudulent.
Speaker 1: What what what the homely consciously called it sucker solidarity.
Speaker 1: That's some sucker solidarity where it's niggas on some suckers
Speaker 1: ship need to get together and feel better about themselves.
Speaker 1: So they say sucker ship things like that. No, man,
Speaker 1: suckers ship, you can like have be you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, look, you married an Asian woman. You
Speaker 1: married an Asian ament. Okay, dope, but if you that's
Speaker 1: who you marry, that's who you fell low with. But
Speaker 1: on some like because I don't date black like, come on, fan,
Speaker 1: that's some self hate. That's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about self hate. I'm talking about a
Speaker 1: diversity of experiences. So all that to say, again, with
Speaker 1: your political categories, they were placed after you're allowed to
Speaker 1: eat from whatever table you want to eat from. That's
Speaker 1: point number one. Now let me tell you point number
Speaker 1: two after this break, all right, Kyle, welcome back. After
Speaker 1: I just paused for two seconds and you guys heard
Speaker 1: a ton of ads. Um, I don't oh no, man,
Speaker 1: I mean that's there's a lot of ads. But at
Speaker 1: least we're making my money back here. Come on, guys,
Speaker 1: smugg and free this show eight free. I mean really
Speaker 1: okay again, off topic? Uh, what's my next point? Okay?
Speaker 1: Point number two is okay, the categories are for organizational purposes.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that you can't substitute the sweet potato fries
Speaker 1: for the regular fries. You know, you can't switch out
Speaker 1: a bun for pretzel to brios. You know, you can
Speaker 1: have your your different opinions. But once you get into
Speaker 1: position you voted your guy in, you said, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: there's I agree enough about this person their platforms. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody ain't perfect, you know what I'm saying, and but
Speaker 1: I agree enough generally that like your your general I
Speaker 1: think that the general moral compass of this particular group
Speaker 1: is probably something that I would rock with. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if that's that's your position, cool, You know, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. It's the only system we got until
Speaker 1: we can think of another one that's the best one
Speaker 1: we got. Or maybe not the best one is the
Speaker 1: only one we got, but either way, we hear, it's
Speaker 1: time to now do the act of governing in the
Speaker 1: art of politics, you know, getting legislation passed and things
Speaker 1: on the books and checks cut, you know, just doing
Speaker 1: the actual work. One would believe and hear how I'm
Speaker 1: phrasing this that you have to compromise because you have
Speaker 1: multiple views, like you're representing the entire so everybody obviously
Speaker 1: don't agree. You have to compromise somewhere. Man, one of
Speaker 1: the saddest stories I think coming out right now is Man,
Speaker 1: He's like, they're superintendents that like across this country that
Speaker 1: are thinking about killing themselves, like contemplated suicide because you
Speaker 1: just can't make everyone happy. People think like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you send these kids home, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a death wish. You know what I'm saying, You're
Speaker 1: you're you're folding, I'm gonna you're you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like people so like willing to lay their life down
Speaker 1: on the fact that like these kids have to be
Speaker 1: in class with no masks. Either that or I'm you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Food's getting death you know, death
Speaker 1: threat of their house or the other way around, being
Speaker 1: like you're literally killed my child if you made them
Speaker 1: go to school, and then you got school, you got
Speaker 1: the school, the teacher's orgs striking, you're in a like
Speaker 1: it's a no win. Foods are like, I can't make
Speaker 1: anyone happy. You have to compromise. There has to be
Speaker 1: a place somewhere if you're going if you are in charge.
Speaker 1: I just wrote a blog about some of my other work.
Speaker 1: It's called I did a difficult thing. I'm on the
Speaker 1: board of directors for a nonprofit that I can't get
Speaker 1: into the specifics of about the particular situation, but I
Speaker 1: had to do something I didn't want to do. And
Speaker 1: part of that blog is expressing the weight you feel
Speaker 1: when you actually hold the levels of power, when you
Speaker 1: actually have that iss. Look, man, it's one thing for
Speaker 1: us to yell from outside, but when you actually sitting
Speaker 1: there and you know there's a body count no matter
Speaker 1: what you decide, and one of them, one of them
Speaker 1: numbers in that body count might be your own, either
Speaker 1: literally or your career, whatever the case. Maybe there's a
Speaker 1: body count no matter what you decide. You think real
Speaker 1: differently about how you choose. What if it's even possible
Speaker 1: to compromise. I guess that's the point. The point I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make for point number two is compromises necessary
Speaker 1: until you meet somebody that won't. There are if you
Speaker 1: ain't been paying attention, there's some people that just they're
Speaker 1: not compromising. This is what we won't. And sometimes look
Speaker 1: when you when you're the one that's willing to be
Speaker 1: for lack of better term logical at least like reasonable
Speaker 1: about something. Sometimes you're the loser because if the person
Speaker 1: across the table ain't reasonable. Listen, I'm from the city.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you about how many times I'm standing
Speaker 1: in front of these vatos and like the only way
Speaker 1: to communicate with this hot head is to tell him
Speaker 1: I will die for my backpack. Of course, I'm I
Speaker 1: gotta die from that's ridiculous. And this fool really don't
Speaker 1: want my backpack. There's nothing in it except for a
Speaker 1: US history book, a couple of spray cands, a half
Speaker 1: eaten sandwich. I got nothing, like you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: but it's the principality to the situation. I should go
Speaker 1: to walk down this guy a meet out. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, this is me Vidio, Like, look
Speaker 1: when you grow out and take something, man, some niggas
Speaker 1: is unreasonable and I'm like, look, bro, look it's your world.
Speaker 1: Hold me, like, fam I'm not a part of none
Speaker 1: of this. I ain't repping no like, I'm not a
Speaker 1: part of this. I remember one dude yelled out the window,
Speaker 1: Hey are you from me? God? You know It's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I live right here. It's just if I reasonably tell
Speaker 1: you know, nigked, like you know the rules. If you
Speaker 1: ask me where I'm from and I don't bang and
Speaker 1: I don't bang my hood, not only do you lose
Speaker 1: respect for and I actually am from the set you,
Speaker 1: not only do you lose respect. So this faith I'm
Speaker 1: about to get is like merciless. As soon as I
Speaker 1: get back to the block, I'm gonna catch another faith
Speaker 1: from my own block. So you know, if I don't
Speaker 1: stack on you immediately, it's because I'm honestly it's civiliar,
Speaker 1: Like I don't like they could be reasonable. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but if you're talking to somebody that's not reasonable,
Speaker 1: guess who in In some situations, the unreasonable one gets
Speaker 1: its way. Y'are acting like y'all like Donald Trump was reasonable?
Speaker 1: That is not reasonable? You feel me. He's still trying
Speaker 1: to give people to adjudicate the election. He trying to say,
Speaker 1: if you, if you, if that's not your platform for
Speaker 1: your two mid term niggad and I'm not riding for you.
Speaker 1: And you could see some of these Republicans squirming over this,
Speaker 1: like uh, some of them squirming him. Someone was like whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes they put on for the city. YEA,
Speaker 1: saying like you you might run into somebody that is
Speaker 1: unreasonable or that just will not compromise. And when you
Speaker 1: run into somebody that will even in politics, if you
Speaker 1: run into somebody that's like, yo, I thank the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I burned the whole ship down. It's not happening. And
Speaker 1: then what do you do? Which brings me to this
Speaker 1: third point, like it's we're living through it right now
Speaker 1: with the Voting Rights Act, Foods is willing to tank
Speaker 1: the in the Democratic Party, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 1: Within the party. It's Foods that are like, I'm just
Speaker 1: not I'm not doing it, so it's compromised. Do you
Speaker 1: have to compromise in politics? I mean no, if you're
Speaker 1: willing to tank at all, if you're that's serious about
Speaker 1: your position, even the people that put you in back
Speaker 1: like it. There are some people that just will not bend.
Speaker 1: Now why they won't bend, I mean, that's all different story.
Speaker 1: It might be because there's some bad securings going on there.
Speaker 1: That again that's who business. We wasn't a part of
Speaker 1: that discussion, but you know they didn't they didn't made
Speaker 1: a deal off the table with somebody else or somebody
Speaker 1: got some dirt on them. Now I want to come out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So there's a reason why
Speaker 1: they may not bend. But the point is some people
Speaker 1: don't bend. And I'm asking you this is your game.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you like, yeah, I mean, are you cool
Speaker 1: with that? Like? Is that somebody you won't represent you
Speaker 1: that's not willing to compromise at all? Well, it depends on,
Speaker 1: which brings me to my third point, what they're willing
Speaker 1: to bend on. Let's take another break. So this last
Speaker 1: point I want to bring up, I think is specifically specially.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any other adjective. It's so crucial,
Speaker 1: so important for I'm gonna say, because I can only
Speaker 1: speak from my own scan, I'm gonna say black voters
Speaker 1: because of what we're going through with this filibuster and
Speaker 1: this John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Now I've done an
Speaker 1: episode about filibuster. You know, filibuster whose the history of filipbustering, right,
Speaker 1: and what particularly this Voters Act is kind of coming from.
Speaker 1: And Republicans are astute in their in their chest to
Speaker 1: say that the Democrats are tying this to the January
Speaker 1: six insurrection, and that's a bad faith comparison because not
Speaker 1: They're like, yo, that's not fair. You you're trying to
Speaker 1: manufacture rage. And the Democrats are like, okay, let me
Speaker 1: explain this logic to you. They believed the election was
Speaker 1: fraudulent because of a big lie like talked about last week,
Speaker 1: and therefore asked all of their representative to change the
Speaker 1: voting laws because these are the things that made the
Speaker 1: selection fraudulent. So the so, while they might be absolutely
Speaker 1: correct that you're tying this to rage, the Democrats are like, well, nigger,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean follow the logic, like this is
Speaker 1: what this is how we got here. Y'all thought, y'all
Speaker 1: trying to change our rights for voting because you think
Speaker 1: that's how we cheated, despite again any evidence otherwise. That's
Speaker 1: what that's what y'all believe. So of course we're tying
Speaker 1: it to this. So the question you have to ask
Speaker 1: yourself now here go to game, like, Yo, this message
Speaker 1: is so important. Whoever you brought to the two, whoever
Speaker 1: you voted for it to come to the table. When
Speaker 1: you choose that person, your most powerful thing is you
Speaker 1: check in that box to the person or the people
Speaker 1: you wanted to go off this, Why, here's your game.
Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself, if comp if you want
Speaker 1: somebody reasonable, and if compromises so important, who are what
Speaker 1: are they willing to put on the altar for the
Speaker 1: sake of compromise? For so for if I take Biden's
Speaker 1: entire platform, the legacy of his presidency, and I asked
Speaker 1: myself him and everybody that comes with his party, of
Speaker 1: all the things that you told me you were going
Speaker 1: to do on the campaign trail, of all the things
Speaker 1: you said you was gonna do. Right, if you run
Speaker 1: into somebody that's not willing to ben, not willing to compromise,
Speaker 1: who are you going to throw on the altar first?
Speaker 1: Who you gonna sacrifice first? Are you gonna sacrifice Black people?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna sacrifice the things that we asked you
Speaker 1: to do for the sake of compromise so that you
Speaker 1: can get your other things together? You're following me. You
Speaker 1: just wanted to be the president that brought everybody together,
Speaker 1: the Party of reason, the Party of justice. So now
Speaker 1: that it comes down to, okay, here's what I'm asking
Speaker 1: of you about protection for our voting rights. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna link some some some pages for you to understand
Speaker 1: exactly what's in the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which
Speaker 1: has to do with you know, mail in ballots, uh,
Speaker 1: felons being able to vote, like and as a side
Speaker 1: note about felons being able to vote, the fact that
Speaker 1: they can't is proof that our justice is m doesn't
Speaker 1: believe in rehabilitation. Because if you believed in rehabilitation, once
Speaker 1: you do your time, I should be able to get
Speaker 1: my rights back. But you don't believe in that clearly,
Speaker 1: or you let felons vote. So that's a justice issue.
Speaker 1: And we all know it's black and brown people for
Speaker 1: the most part affected by these things, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So all that to say, once you look
Speaker 1: into those things, what are you willing to let go?
Speaker 1: What are you like, I this is a nonstarter. We're
Speaker 1: getting this. Is it climate? Yeah, that's important. Is it
Speaker 1: your infrastructure? Yeah, that's important. Is it the things that
Speaker 1: the black community asked of you? Are you gonna bend
Speaker 1: on that? I need to know when ship hits the fan,
Speaker 1: are you gonna sacrifice my issues, our issues on the
Speaker 1: altar of compromise? For the sake of your overall legacy.
Speaker 1: Because what I'm what I'm getting at is that's usually
Speaker 1: what happens there's black issues. Democrats are walking around here
Speaker 1: like they got the moral high ground out this mug
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we really need you guys to
Speaker 1: come out to vote. We like, Nigga, we came, we went,
Speaker 1: we did vote, and we're like all right, but like
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do though, And they're like, well, we
Speaker 1: can't have you know, these hate mongering right wing in here.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, no, yeah, okay, but cool. But what
Speaker 1: are y'all gonna do? And they're like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: black lives matter. It's like, nigga know, okay, so but
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do though, That's what I'm like, you
Speaker 1: got you gotta keep keeping on their neck, like what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do though? You can't just keep riding on
Speaker 1: these sayings. You know what I'm saying, Your platform can't
Speaker 1: be we not them, you know, saying like put in work,
Speaker 1: put on now, I will never you will never hear
Speaker 1: me ever in my whole life ever, pit struggling minorities,
Speaker 1: you know, poor bipoc people against each other. I will
Speaker 1: never ever do that because that's self defeating. I'm not that. Like.
Speaker 1: If you know me, like I believe deeply in the
Speaker 1: realities and the necessity of intersectionality. I absolutely but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm you call me what you want. I believe that
Speaker 1: that is cornerstone to all of our survival. So having
Speaker 1: said that, the Asian Hate Crime Bill went through, we
Speaker 1: still didn't get to George, Florida through. We were sacrificed
Speaker 1: that ain't no this to the Asian community. They understood
Speaker 1: the assignment and got the ship done. That first Native
Speaker 1: American senator, that sisterhood that got the the monument in
Speaker 1: you talk protected and covered, she understood the assignment. That's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to get to
Speaker 1: the table, put on for yours, get your issues taken
Speaker 1: care of. I'm not dissing them. They understood the assignment.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about us. We know where we stand with
Speaker 1: conservatives because Mitch McConnell got on that thing and said
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with your voting rights and nobody taking that
Speaker 1: from you. I don't understand what this laws for. It's like, Okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: I know where you wanted, I know where you stand
Speaker 1: the homies in Atlanta when Cliff all Right, he's and
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm saying the homies just as
Speaker 1: a general thing. But Cliff all Bright, he's he's from
Speaker 1: Black voters matter down there in Atlanta. When the President
Speaker 1: and the Vice President went down to Atlanta to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, do some speeches about this act and about
Speaker 1: changing the laws as filibus. So they was like, don't
Speaker 1: come here. You ain't good out here. Don't come here
Speaker 1: if you ain't got a plan, Nigga, don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear nothing out your mouth unless it's one
Speaker 1: two and three. Nigga, you're gonna break this filibuster. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get this law passed or not. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear nothing that you down to do that you
Speaker 1: open to, nigga, get the ship done. If you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get it done, don't come. And in my mind,
Speaker 1: that's the type of energy I feel like this this alright,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the type of energy we gotta have.
Speaker 1: We put you on. I'm speaking specifically right now to
Speaker 1: the black community. They get ask us we did this.
Speaker 1: We can't keep getting sacrificed on the altar of compromise,
Speaker 1: like our it's our communities issues. And then you know
Speaker 1: what they give us. They give us a quarter. They
Speaker 1: they oh, they give us my Angelo on the quarter.
Speaker 1: This ain't no shade to my Angelo. She's an icon.
Speaker 1: Am I happy to see a black woman on the quarter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what I'd love to see, though, serious talk
Speaker 1: about reparations. I'd love to see a serious talk about
Speaker 1: our writes to vote, about prison reform, about allowing felons that,
Speaker 1: I mean, thanks making Juneteenth the national holiday, Nikki, we
Speaker 1: celebrated it already. I mean, thank you, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: And it's no shade to the to the black people
Speaker 1: at the table. I've been trying to get this past
Speaker 1: for a long time. Cool, thank you. You know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll be telling my daughter, hey, baby, I need you
Speaker 1: to do the dishes by nine o'clock. That's your chores,
Speaker 1: all right, do the dishes by nine o'clock. I walk
Speaker 1: in the house is nine thirty dishes ain't done, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell, baby, And she's like, I
Speaker 1: cleaned my room and I'm like, great, well, look I
Speaker 1: swept the floor. Awesome, Hey, I vacuumed amazing. Great, and
Speaker 1: she all disappointed that I'm not happy that she did
Speaker 1: those other things. And I'm like, fam, do the dishes
Speaker 1: by nine, and that's like I don't understand. I mean,
Speaker 1: artists is great, thank you. I sent you there to
Speaker 1: do the dishes and do the damn this what why
Speaker 1: you want me to be happy about this? And sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like you gotta treat these politicians the same
Speaker 1: way I treat my child. We have to say, baby, listen,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for cleaning your room. I am
Speaker 1: proud of you for taking this initiative. And I need
Speaker 1: you to do what I ask you to do. There's
Speaker 1: a reason why I asked you to do that specifically.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you going above and beyond, but I need
Speaker 1: you to do what I asked you to do. So
Speaker 1: here's my game, guys, here's the I think right now
Speaker 1: going into the mid terms, be willing to look for
Speaker 1: deep cut candidates because sometimes them deep cut candidates really
Speaker 1: just shift the conversation. It makes those like um more
Speaker 1: big name candidates have to talk that talk, have to
Speaker 1: do the stuff because we're like, listen, you don't we
Speaker 1: don't have to send you the office. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't have to. I'm gonna use a white boy reference here.
Speaker 1: You know, in Momford and Sons one Autumn Grammys, they
Speaker 1: were on an independent label. They weren't. They weren't on
Speaker 1: a major and that was a wake up call to
Speaker 1: the major labels because it was like, Oh, you mean
Speaker 1: somebody don't have to be with us too, when no,
Speaker 1: they don't. So you need to ask yourself, are my
Speaker 1: issues going to be what you sacrifice for the sake
Speaker 1: of getting the job done? And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can stand for that, but I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: could let that ship ride. Hood politics, y'all. It's so
Speaker 1: hood right now, book politics, y'all. So hood yeah. This
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