1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: There are a handful of things that black people have 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: mastered that probably have some sort of deeper long socio 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: cultural or geopolitical reason for or an origin story that 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: might have either came from I don't know, Africa, or 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: slave ships, general oppression, and have become tools of survival 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: that we have turned into an art form, like a mastery. 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: We've mastered being cool. We've mastered cuss words, like, you know, 8 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: nobody cussed like an old black man, old black woman, 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: Like nobody cuss like us. Like we make cuss words 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: sound like people say, e forty curs raps in cursive, 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like we make some old 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: heads they cuss and sound like it's cursive. Bill Burr 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: has this joke he did a while back about like 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: black men and cussing that they've mastered the motherfucker because 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: and you don't even notice that they do it, and 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: the way that white people cuss it just sounds racist. 17 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: And he's like, it's where you put the fuck. He 18 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: was like, you're an old black man, tall, you like, 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: hey man, how's at the start? Right? 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: You know? 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 1: Earlier and this age motherfucker told me, hey, age motherfucker 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: was talking to this like talking to this Mexican motherfucker. 23 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: It was just saying like, you know, blah blah blah 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: blah blah. Right, it's just a descriptor. He goes, a 25 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: white guy goes in there. I go, hey, I walk 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: in there, and this fucking Asian guy says, He's like, 27 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: it just sounds so much more racist the way I 28 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: said it, And it's really just because I put the 29 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 1: fuck before rather than after. He's like, I just said 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: exactly what that guy said. I've just why am I? Anyway, 31 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: it's an art form we've mastered that we have a 32 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: mastery in sort of protecting you by our sense of humor. 33 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: Like that's one of the ways that we sort of 34 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: protect each other and build community is through our sense 35 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: of humor. You know, if you're on the outs of 36 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: our community, Like what I told you before is when 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: you don't make our radar at all, Like if we 38 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: dragging you part of partially because we love you and 39 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: we know you could be better. So that's part of 40 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: just this is something we've mastered. You know, we've mastered 41 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: how to make something fashion. I don't care how hard 42 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: people try. We know how to make things cool. It's 43 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: just by our very presence. But what I want to 44 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: zero in on today is our mastery of and how 45 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: high of a value we place on mining your own business. Listen, 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: if something is not your business, I cannot tell you 47 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: how many phrases we have that are just really about 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: just mine your own business and I take care of mine. 49 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: I take care of my This is my business. That's 50 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: your business. You don't stay out of my business. I'm 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: gonna stay out of yours. I remember, listen all the 52 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: way back to the early eighties. Listen, my name is Bennett. 53 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: Black folks, finish it, Thank you very much. Ask your neighbor. 54 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 1: My name is we. That's that's a little more deep cut. 55 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: I ain't in this mess. You Listen. If I'm telling 56 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: you right now, you got co workers at your office, 57 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: black co workers, I'm pretty sure you don't know anything 58 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: about them, because that's their business. They know. Listen. They 59 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: not asking you about your children. It depends you know 60 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: how long you gotta work with somebody like that, work 61 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: with somebody like from our from our community, from our code. 62 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: How long you got to work with them before you 63 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: know anything about them outside of this job. We show up, 64 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: we do our job. No, I ain't going to get 65 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: drinks with you after No, I ain't hitting no happy hour. No, 66 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: I look, I'm y'all not my friends. I got friends. Well, listen, 67 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: do you know what the phrase no new friends? Listen? 68 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: That's about many your business like people that are in 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: my business. They in my business. This is my squad, 70 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: this is us. We done been through the trenches together. 71 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: I don't trust nobody else coming that's not your business. Something. Yeah, 72 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: now I think about somebody may be coming out of 73 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: like trust and you know in the FEDS bustle whatever. 74 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: Either way, my yeah, that's not your business. Let me 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: tell you something that your mama, your aunties. Every black 76 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: child has heard from some older black woman. Ay, that 77 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: is not your business. Stay out of grown folks business. 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: You listen, you take care of you, You worry about you, mama. 79 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: Where you going you will see. My daddy used to 80 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: say something like now, granted this might be a whole 81 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: different situation because he was doing outside activities, but I 82 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: would say, pop, where you going see a man about 83 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: a dog. But that basically meant, don't ask me. Don't 84 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: ask me, there's none of your business. I used to 85 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: ask my grandma. Grandma, Uh, what you're gonna do today? 86 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: She say, I'm gonna mind my business. So you just 87 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: you listen, Auntie, what are you doing right now? Mine 88 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: in my business? Same thing you should be doing somebody you, 89 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: you and the you in the office in the break room. Hey, 90 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: what you're doing after work? Mine in my business. I'm 91 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: that's not your business. Don't worry about it that Listen. 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: If you ain't signing my check or marinate no chicken, 93 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about your business. You need to not 94 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: be worried about mine. Let's talk about the Supreme Court today. Politics. Y'all. Hey, 95 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: welcome to another episode HUD Politics. Hopefully you hearing this 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: with all know ads because you're on the cooler zone media, 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: because trust me, I could use the financial support from 98 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: you dudes doing this anyway. Supreme Court's been in the 99 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: news a lot, and I think it's important for y'all 100 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: to understand, which is why I felt like I should 101 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: do this episode that like the amount of attention they're 102 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: getting in the past ten fifteen years is really not 103 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,119 Speaker 1: the way the Supreme Court was designed. Like this ain't 104 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 1: this has become normal, but it is not supposed to 105 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: be This ain't supposed to be normal, whether we were 106 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: talking about even the confirmation hearings, all the way back 107 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: to Clarence Thomas, who were going to talk about a 108 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: lot later, but all the way up to him, to 109 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: the Amy Cone Barretts, to the Brett Kavanaugh, and then 110 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: these absolutely bizarre reports about you know, Clarence Thomas, like 111 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: hanging with his billionaire friend Justice Alito out there partying, 112 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: you know, like this is so new. The only time 113 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court was supposed to make the news was 114 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: really just their writings, their opinions, their rulings. That's the 115 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: only time you suposted to know anything about them. And 116 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: I'm going to get into that design when things flipped 117 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: and kind of what we're talking about now, because a 118 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: lot of it really speaks to the way just American 119 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: politics and culture has shifted, almost in the same way 120 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: that the mob shifted when John Gotti became a thing, 121 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: because remembered them G's moved in silence. You wasn't supposed 122 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: to know who. Remember the rule about the mafia was, 123 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: there is no mafia. What are you talking about? You 124 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: move in silence, You ain't supposed to know anything. We're doing. 125 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: That's our business. You keep your business to yourself, but 126 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: you see the effects. But since the public don't sign 127 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: my check, y'all not marinated my chicken. I don't care 128 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: what you think. Your opinion don't matter to me. Let's 129 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: get here too. Y'all don't sign. 130 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: Y'all, don't sign should y'all don't sign shad shot, y'all, 131 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 2: don't sign sad y'all don't sign. 132 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: So some civics history here, which I think I may 133 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: have covered before. You know, you got the three branches 134 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: of government, the judicial, the legislative, and the executive, and 135 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: you're supposed to have these checks and balances, balances of 136 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: power to make sure that we don't become some sort 137 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: of monarchy that we ran from very reaction formation. Out 138 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: this mug just our country's foundation. Its origin story is 139 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: really a case study in Freudian defense mechanisms. But we 140 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: could talk about that later. Uh. The thing is, though, 141 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, if once you start getting into it, 142 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: you'd be surprised how little direction the Constitution gives us 143 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: about that. All the Constitution says is you should have one. 144 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: It don't say how many of them. It don't say 145 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: where they office should be. It don't really even say 146 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: they role. It just says you're supposed to have one. 147 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: That's really surprising to people because listen, let me tell 148 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: you why. You know what the Supreme Court function off 149 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: maya business. They ain't even had no office and it's origin. 150 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: Matter of fact, it was important for them to not 151 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: have an office because they used to ride by a 152 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: horse buggy to all the different colin needs to make 153 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: sure that everybody was following, and they would ride into 154 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: your city. They would listen to the thing, listen to 155 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: your stories, listen to the court cases they would judge, 156 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: and then they would go back you wasn't supposed to centralize. 157 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: It wasn't until Marlbury versus Madison that there was non 158 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices and that they got the power that 159 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: we understand them as as we know it now. I 160 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: think I said I covered this before Marlborough versus Madison. 161 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: Y'all go ahead and google that, right. I'm teacher prop 162 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: putting my putting my hat, putting my hat on right 163 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: form the Supreme Court into the shape that we kind 164 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: of see it as today. But still it didn't. What 165 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: hasn't reached its final form. The form that it is 166 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: that it's in now until a case in Memphis, Tennessee, 167 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: which I'm gonna get into in a second. But before 168 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: I get into that case, I need to stress I 169 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: need you to understand why I'm talking about. You understand 170 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court if you understand what it means to 171 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: my own business. When you learned about the Supreme Court, 172 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: if you learned about the Supreme Court in school, what 173 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: did you learn exactly? You just learned that we have 174 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: one and that when there are cases that other courts 175 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: can't solve, you, it goes all the way up to them. 176 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: So you know the big stuff, you know the desegregation, 177 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: you know abortion, you know the big cases. You don't 178 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: know all the cases they've been adjudicating on. You know why, 179 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: because it's supposed to be boring. They were you know, 180 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: the Marvel series that went straight to Disney plus, like 181 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: the B and C characters in the comic book universe 182 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: that you got to really be into comic books to 183 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: know that that's what the Supreme Court was supposed to be. 184 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: This is supposed to be so boring, and they're supposed 185 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: to be so far removed from the public because they're 186 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: the one part of our government that you don't vote for. 187 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: They're chosen because they're supposed to be far from the 188 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: democratic process, because they're supposed to be unswayable by public opinion. 189 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: And I think in some ways the Supreme Court still 190 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: kind of takes that very serious. If you look at 191 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: these cases that we're going to get into a little later, 192 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: that you know, they voted on one end to make 193 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: sure that, like if you were adopting a Native American child, 194 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: that that tribe or a similar tribe had first adoption 195 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: rights to that Native child, which is like, damn, that's big, 196 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: And then at the same time told the Navajo they 197 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: can't have a water like you were, like, who do 198 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: you work for? Here? You got a man like David Suters, 199 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: who I'll probably brush on a little bit a little later, 200 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: but like one of the most like quiet, reclusive. He's 201 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: like the Kendrick Lamar of of Supreme Court justices. He's like, look, man, 202 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: I don't want y'all write no books on me. Kendrick 203 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: don't pop out, Like not in the sense that he's 204 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, but in the sense that 205 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: like Kendrick don't pop out, kenjo an't got on social media. 206 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: He got a little burner account where he cracks jokes 207 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: on but he don't be popping out. Don't like. I 208 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: don't want like. I don't want those spotlights. I don't 209 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: need to like. My work will speak for itself. And 210 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: even though he was appointed by Republicans, he rarely votes 211 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: along their party lines, or he rarely did because y'all 212 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: don't sign my check. Y'all ain't marinate my chicken. That 213 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: but that was the design. I'm not supposed to worry 214 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: about what the public think because y'all ain't put you 215 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: don't sign my check, y'all don't marinate my chicken. Don't 216 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: ask questions. I don't ask questions of you, yo, jih lick. 217 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: We come do our job. You spost come up here 218 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: and ask us what we think. We tell you what 219 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: we think, we interpreted law. We tell you what it is. 220 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: Stay on my business. That's why they're supposed to move. 221 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: And then you start. But then when you start saying, 222 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 1: I wonder what the rules are about Supreme Court, which 223 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: is how we got to the Justice of Leader in 224 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: the clar Thomas situation, where it's like, yo, can they 225 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: accept money, can y'all go on these like expensive trips. 226 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: What's the rules about them? Except like, can y'all just 227 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 1: accept brides? When does it become a bride? 228 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 2: Like? 229 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: When is there a conflict of interest? Are you allowed 230 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: to talk to lobbyists? How does any of this? Like? 231 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: How do what do you? 232 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: What do you like? 233 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: What's the rules around friends? You clearly have power and 234 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: authority over stuff, but you don't, but you don't have 235 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: to worry about being elected, so you kind of can 236 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 1: do what you want. What are the rule Who was 237 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: about that? Here's what you learned. They ain't none. I'm 238 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: gonna say it again, there's only norms. There's no rules. 239 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: I mean, if you can find them, tell me. There's 240 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: only Like it would suck if you it's a bad 241 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: look when you We prefer that you know, if you're 242 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: getting if you're getting gifts over a certain amount of 243 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: money and say, you know, we prefer that you tell us, 244 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: like just just be cool about it and disclose it. 245 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: Like nobody saying you can't have it. We're just saying, like, 246 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: just let us know, because it looks bad if you don't. 247 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: Nigga them ain't rules them? Is that's just a code. 248 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: They don't have rules, They just have a code. How 249 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: come you don't know that? Because that's not your business. 250 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: You don't sign a check. They ain't worried about what 251 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: you think. Listen. If you're a parent and you got 252 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: middle schoolers or high schoolers, this, please let them hear 253 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: this part. This is coming from a form a teacher. 254 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: I taught high school. I started off in the juvenile 255 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: correctional facilities in East Lake. I started off teaching there. 256 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: Then I taught in alternative education, and then finally I 257 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: taught at a charter high school for the arts. But 258 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: I did my student teaching at just straight up public schools, right, 259 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: But all of these schools were they were alternative, but 260 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: there were all public schools. Like I've never taught at 261 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: a private institution anyway. I used to tell my students, 262 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: who now are adults, so like it's a different story now. 263 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: But yet, if your child listen, if you listening right now, 264 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: little hommie, look it, leve Homie's a gender neutral so 265 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: accept it, right, So love hommy. If you're not doing 266 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: well in a class, you haven't behavioral issues, or you 267 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: just your grades aren't where they should look or where 268 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: they could look like you know you could do better 269 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: in this class, like don't look it. Don't look at 270 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: your mom, and don't look at your daddy, don't look 271 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: at your aunty, don't look I'm talking to you, like, 272 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: if you know you could do better than this and 273 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: nobody everybody know, nobody know but you, you know if 274 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: you really like if you half fass an it, like 275 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you don't cuss at your kids right now, 276 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: but I guarantee your kids cuss right so you know 277 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: you phoned it in. You know you not. You're not 278 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: giving them your egg game, you giving them your Sea game? 279 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: You know it. And your reason is the teacher don't 280 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: like me. The mean that woo don't like me. I 281 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: want you to think about this for a second. This 282 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: is coming from a teacher. Okay. I used to tell 283 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: my students it's not that I don't like you. I 284 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: don't think about you at all. I'm a grown man. 285 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: Look it. If class let out at three at three 286 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: oh two, I done forgot everything you said, everything that's 287 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: so important to you. I don't You can't even go 288 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: get a drink with me? Are you? We're not friends? Fam? 289 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: What you mean? Like you and why do you care 290 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: if I like you or not? You got your own friends? 291 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: What are you gonna call me to play Call of duty? 292 00:16:58,840 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 2: Like? 293 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: What are we gonna fortnitey? We're little mall like you 294 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: want me to go to six Flags with you? We're 295 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: not What do you care? What do you care? What 296 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: I think? And and you so mad at me for 297 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: how I feel about you? Knowing listen, in June we 298 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: never have to see each other again. What the hell 299 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: you care? I think we don't ever see each other 300 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: again in June. And to punish me for how you 301 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: think I feel about you, you gonna give yourself summer 302 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: school because if you so, because because you don't like 303 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: me and I don't like you, you gonna fail my 304 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: class and have to repeat it in summer school. And 305 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: guess what if I want to make a little extra money, 306 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: I might teach summer school. You have to see me again, 307 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: do you? It's ridiculous. Listen, I don't sign your check. 308 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: You don't sign my check. I feel show ain't marinating 309 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: your chicken, you ain't marinating mine. Don't listen. Don't fail 310 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: no class because you think the teacher don't like you. 311 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. If your teacher is thinking 312 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: about you when they get home, they need therapy. Now 313 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: I'm saying that to help you understand that, Like you 314 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: need to go in there take care of business for yourself. 315 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: This like, don't worry about me, mind your own business, 316 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: this your own future. What difference does it make what 317 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: any of your instructors think of you? You do you 318 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: there for you? Now? Of course I deeply cared about 319 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: my students, you know, so of course I thought about 320 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: them when I went home, you know what I mean, 321 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: And if anybody got under my skin. Here's what's crazy, 322 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: is like now that we're adults, Like it's because I 323 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: was such a young teacher at the time, Like we're 324 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: all friends, Like I adore you. I've had. One of 325 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: the biggest headaches in my class was this kid named 326 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: Jamal who's actually a rapper. Now. I don't know if 327 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,239 Speaker 1: you heard of Xavier Wolf, but his partner is doing 328 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: Eddie Baker. Like Eddie Baker was one of my students. 329 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: He was He's on Rolling Loud, right, he was on 330 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: the Rolling Loud Festival. I'm so proud of him. And 331 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: it's not that I didn't like I actually liked him 332 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: a lot. You know, he just he was just fourteen 333 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 1: and now like no, we talk all the time like 334 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: he's such a he's a great young man, you know 335 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it all works out and he's 336 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: even k I remember I ran into him at a 337 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter protest and he came to me. He 338 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm sorry I was being such a 339 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: knuckleet at school. I was like, bro, you were me Like, 340 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: you didn't get under my skin. Bro, I just I didn't. Obviously, 341 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: I just knew you. I knew you was vibrating lowered 342 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: than your potential. I just knew that, you know what 343 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And that's what was frustrating to me, is 344 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: like you vibrating lowered in your potential. You have a 345 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: higher vibration in this and he stepped into it. And 346 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of him, you know. But I mean 347 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: I've seen his nigas billboard, Like I'm so proud of 348 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: this fool. But he was he was one of the 349 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: was that thought he was hurting my feelings, you know 350 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like what time we even like when 351 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: he was a freshman, I battled him like, you know, 352 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: because I was rapping at the time too. I served 353 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: this little dude, and I served him because I knew 354 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: he was talented. You know what I'm saying, I'm like, listen, 355 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: man like you, you're more than this, you know anyway, 356 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: This how any healthy teacher would function is that we 357 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: have our own lives, we have our own friends, and 358 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: of course sometimes work and be hard. But I ain't. 359 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: I'm not losing sleep over no fifteen year old, over 360 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: no twelve year old. That's not my child. That means 361 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: that that child ain't my business. That's I'm gonna do 362 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: my job. I'm gonna do it well, and then I'm 363 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: gonna go home. Doesn't mean I don't care about your future. 364 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I won't want to do my job well, 365 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: you know, because again, a good teacher is obviously invested 366 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: in their students' future. But listen, man like y'all, whether 367 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: you behave or not, my check every two weeks, okay, don't, 368 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: you're not punishing me. You guys got it. So the 369 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, y'all write whatever thing pieces you want. You 370 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: could talk about, y'all say whatever y'all want about. Listen. 371 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: Politicians being like, oh, this is a activist Court. Oh 372 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 1: this guy, you cavin I ain't thinking about y'all. Amy, Connie, 373 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: she ain't. She ain't thinking about you at all, which 374 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: is why this season is so interesting. Let's keep going. 375 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: So I want to take y'all back now to this 376 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: case in Memphis that I wanted to bring up in 377 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: the sixties. It's where we get to term the political thicket. 378 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: This is the moment when, depending on who you asked, 379 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court stopped minding its own business. This is big. Now, 380 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: it's absurd to say that the courts have never been 381 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: in the political ticket, because even though they're not elected 382 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: or voted on, they're chosen and appointed by elected officials. 383 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: So it's by nature a political process that gets you 384 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: on the courts. However, this moment I'm about to teach 385 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: y'all about almost makes the quiet thing come out loud 386 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: and again, pinning who you ask got the court stuck 387 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: in the in the muck and the mire that they 388 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: in now, and that case is the Baker versus Car case. Now, look, 389 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: it's nineteen sixty one. On the surface, it just seems 390 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: like a voter district, you know, run of the mill case. Right, 391 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: here's the situation Tennessee. In the city of Memphis, you know, 392 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: had never re drawn their districts. Now granted between nineteen 393 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: oho last on A Jude district was nineteen oh one. 394 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: Now it's nineteen sixty one, which means that obviously Democrats 395 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: have had changed. The cities are ginormous, right, there's way 396 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: more people. And as you know, districting works, you get 397 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: the amount of congressmen based on your population. You have 398 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: more population, you have more congress people. 399 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 2: Right. 400 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: You remember every state has two senators, but you have 401 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: but your congressmen are based on your your district's population. Right. 402 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: Jerry Mandering's a whole different thing. That's how you draw 403 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: the district lines. But what it's saying is like, yo, 404 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: we need to we need to redraw these districts because 405 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: we're not ruled no more. Like it's just the state's change. 406 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: Tennessee is like, I ain't redrawing shit right in the 407 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: City of Memphis is like, well, nigga, you have to. 408 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,199 Speaker 1: Here's how it breaks down. Think of it like a 409 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: twenty three to one ratio. So think of it like this. 410 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: If a rural area has one person, and for every 411 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: one person, there's twenty three people in the city, right, 412 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: that one person has all the power for voting that 413 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: it would take twenty three people in the city to 414 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: equal that one person's power. Think of that. So that 415 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: means that same power for that one vote is split 416 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: among twenty three people in the urban area because they 417 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: have the same amount of representatives despite having twenty three 418 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: more people. So it's like, if you live in a city, 419 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: you have one twenty third the power of a person 420 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: in the rural areas that but there's more of us, Like, 421 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: don't you think because there's more of us, we should 422 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: have more representation. And they was like, na, We're not 423 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: finna do that. Obviously, what's going on here? Black people 424 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: are in the city, Like so it's the Memphis is urban. 425 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: The rural districts are generally white. They're not trying to 426 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: lose their power. This, I mean is obvious. What's going on. 427 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: They trying to hold on today power. And that is 428 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: another way of like sort of disenfranchising African American votes. Right, 429 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: Poverty is not the issue right now because everybody poor, 430 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it's this disenfranchising African American votes. Right. 431 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: So that's that's the case that's in front of the 432 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. The hard part about the Supreme Court is 433 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: state legislative districting is generally none of their business. They've 434 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: never had to decide on how the districts are set 435 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: up or not set up. That's never That's that's what's 436 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: hard about being on a Supreme Court. If you're on 437 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, you're supposed to be looking at the cases 438 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: and judging what the law would stay about the cases. 439 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: But the problem is once it's at the Supreme Court, 440 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,479 Speaker 1: that means that there is no law. We don't know 441 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: what the law is. That's how I made it all 442 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: the way up here. We can't decide what the actual 443 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: law is, which is why sometimes you kind of have 444 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: to have an idea lague. You have to have a 445 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 1: philosophical position, which is why, even though it's not political, 446 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: it's very political. You have to see the world in 447 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: a certain way. So if you see the world from 448 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: a conservative lens, right, you're gonna have a way to 449 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 1: interpret a law that may not be there and what 450 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: law might should be, or the other way around. You 451 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: see the world in the liberal, liberal lens, you know, 452 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: progressive lens, you're gonna say, okay, well this might be 453 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: and say, well, what about the constitution? This are you 454 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: listening to me? The Constitution? Don't say nothing about it. 455 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: That's why I's in the court. Do you understand what 456 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean? So this is the situation that they face. 457 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: And now there's two Supreme Court justices that I want 458 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: you to meet right now. It's Justice Frank Footer. That's 459 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: that man's name. It's Justice Frankfooter, right wing, brilliant asshole. 460 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: Like there's even stories to where like if you was 461 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: a clerk and you was bringing him papers, he would 462 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: let you come in there, drop the paper on the ground, 463 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: make you pick it up and hand it to him. 464 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: Because he was just an asshole. He was known for 465 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: like when it was tign for him to talk, he 466 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: would talk. They was, I mean talk ninety minutes to 467 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: two hours, three hours straight, just pontificating on the courts 468 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: because he was trying to prove his point because he 469 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: believed everybody's stupid. Justice Frankfurter. Then there's Justice William Douglas, 470 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: his equalent opposite, left wing. I mean we're talking liberal 471 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: mountain climber hunter, super forward thinker, absolute prick, just just 472 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: as arrogant and just these are two of some of 473 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: the most brilliant minds in the country at the time, 474 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: and their dickheads okay, like just absolute dickhead okay, but 475 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: they see the world differently, and apparently they had like 476 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for each other because they knew 477 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: each other was brilliant. They just disagreed fundamentally at a 478 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: philosophical level. You know why you never heard of this 479 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: because it's not your business, That's what I'm trying to 480 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: tell you. So then there's this third guy, right, Justice Whittaker. 481 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: Now Justice Whittaker is so interesting to me. He never 482 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: went to college. That nigga is self taught at that 483 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: great like Justice Whittaker was self taught. Fam he just outworked, out, 484 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: hustled just obviously you smart as a whip. But because 485 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: he didn't go to no formal university, he really ain't 486 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: had no like political ideology. He was like, yo, I mean, 487 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: I read the books. I just want to hear like, 488 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: I don't have no I don't have no leaning either way. 489 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,479 Speaker 1: I just I just think law is interesting. And so 490 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: if that's the case, if he's that dude, then guess 491 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: who everybody gunning for. Because he became what's called the 492 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: swing vote. Right, That's why our supreme courts have odd numbers. Right, 493 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: somebody need to be convinced to something else. He was 494 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: the one everybody convinced because, as we know, if you 495 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: already conservative, you're supposed to just vote an serve you 496 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: righty liberally supposed to vote liberal. Now sometimes things change, right, 497 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: but for the most point, he's the most valuable vote. 498 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: Now in this case, it was even known to say, like, like, 499 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: he's the type of dude that like, if he would 500 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: sit down and talk to you for thirty minutes, he 501 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: would listen to your case and be like, damn dude, 502 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: your argument were you're like, damn man, that fool got 503 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: a point. Then you go to the next office and 504 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: here the opposite side and be like, damn man, that 505 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: fool got a point. Like he was just so open 506 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: to hear what everybody say, because again he had come 507 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: from th like traditional sort of like route into the 508 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: Supreme Court anyway, So like, in a perfect world, that's 509 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: what you want from your judges, right, you want them 510 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: to be open minded, to at least understand the law 511 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: so well and be willing to despite whatever their positions. 512 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: You would hope that they would have no position right 513 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: that they would just honestly take the case by its merit. Clearly, 514 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: that don't exist, not in our world, because again, you 515 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: have to have a lens for a grid for which 516 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: you put the world through. I remember I suggested a 517 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: book called What is Justice? By Malcolm Sandow or Michael Sandow. 518 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: This is a good time to refer back to that 519 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: book because you have to what do you mean when 520 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: you say just right? That's the question that comes up, 521 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: especially when you're trying to interpret a law that ain't 522 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: even there. Your whole job is about gray areas, and 523 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: you would hope people would be fair and honest. But 524 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: we have somehow convinced ourselves that fair and honest means 525 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: a political and that's not the planet we exist on. 526 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: This case, it's groundbreaking because it actually like it killed 527 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 1: Justice Whitaker, do you hear me? Literally it killed him. 528 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: He had to take a leave of absence. He developed 529 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: like also because he just could not make a decision 530 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: in this case. It just it broke him. Now, why 531 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: couldn't he make this decision? Because scroll back a little 532 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: bit and hear the merit of the case, right, this 533 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: is clearly unjust. It is obviously a way to perpetuate racism. 534 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: You are disenfranchising voters, and you know it. You are 535 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: undermining constitutional rights, which was Justice William Douglas's position, like, 536 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: I don't understand what the problem is. This is clearly unfair, 537 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: this out of district's work. If there's more people, they 538 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: give more representatives. I don't understand what we talk about 539 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: here Tennessee. You trip it. You clearly need to fix this. 540 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: Justice Frankfurter was like, be that as it may. I 541 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: don't know if it's our place to correct that. What 542 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: it's like, dude, if we get into the political process, 543 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 1: and what's scary is fast forward to Bush v. Gore 544 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: to Trump. If we get in the middle of this shit, 545 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: the courts are gonna be asked to adjudicate things that 546 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: were supposed to be democratically voted on. We don't want 547 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: this smoke, even if we think it's wrong, the courts 548 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: are gonna be stuck. And by stuck, he uses that 549 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: word picture I said earlier, the political thicket. If you 550 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: know what the thicket is, it's almost like mangrols. It's 551 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: just winding, twisty plant roots and branches that you just 552 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: get stuck in and it's such an image. Dude, He's listen, 553 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: these people ain't marinate, not chicken. Like you don't want 554 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: to smoke. I don't want to be in this. Like 555 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: my name is Bennett, Niggat, stay out their business. This 556 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: shit gonna come get us. Stay out the tea. Don't 557 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: sip this tea, y'all deciding votes forever. We can't listen. 558 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: We don't want this smoke, y'all. I'm telling you principally, 559 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: if we do this, nigga, we gonna be doing this forever. 560 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: And they gonna blame elections on us. These politicians, these people, 561 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: they gonna come look for us when they don't like 562 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: the results. They gonna come make us beat a referee 563 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: on some shit that we not equipped to nor is 564 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: that our role, Like we're not even supposed to be 565 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: in this. This is not our business. That was his position. 566 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: And the other position, like I said, was like, we 567 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: have a moral obligation. You see this is wrong, And 568 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: how you gonna fast forward into the future to know 569 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: what the hell is gonna happen? How do you know 570 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: we are judging the case that's in front of us, 571 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: and the case in front one of us is clearly unjust. 572 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: Justice Whitaker was getting people at his house all the time, 573 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: walking in with the Pappy van Winkel and the dope cigars, 574 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: trying to convince this man what he needs to do 575 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: on this because the courts were split. And listen, he 576 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: never actually voted on it because he died before he could. 577 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 1: It literally broke his brain. He agonized over this, and 578 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: I think you guys know what happened if you live 579 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: in current times. The Supreme Court decided this was unjust, 580 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: and the courts have been in the political thicket ever since. 581 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: Ain't that crazy? That moment? It changed everything? 582 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 2: Yo? 583 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: Ain't that crazy? Doug? 584 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 2: Y'all don't sign by check should y'all don't sign by 585 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 2: shoot y'all, don't. 586 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: Sign by shad? 587 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 2: Shoot y'all, don't sign y'all don't. 588 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: Sign So all this prep make me realize I should 589 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: probably turn this into a part too, because I need 590 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: to talk about Clarence Thomas, his backstory and Justine Salita 591 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: and yeah, there's some specific characters before I can even 592 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: get to what the what the courts just actually decided, 593 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 1: got dog man, But listen, so we're gonna do a 594 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,239 Speaker 1: mind yo, goddamn business Part two, uh next week, But 595 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: until then, listen. If they ain't signing your check or 596 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: marinating your chicken, none of your business. The politics, y'all. 597 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of 598 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: this before, but you know you could use promo code 599 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: hood for fifteen percent off on terraform coolbrew dot com. 600 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: Like I forgot I own that company and this is 601 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: my pod, y'all, go ahead and punch it. Promo cold Hood. 602 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,439 Speaker 1: If you in the cold Brew, get you some cold Brew, 603 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: gonna get you some coffee. Yeah, Like, I can't believe 604 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: I ain't think of it. 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