WEBVTT - Y'all Don't Sign My Check Or Marinate My Chicken, pt 1 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:03.960 There are a handful of things that black people have 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:09.280 mastered that probably have some sort of deeper long socio 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:14.280 cultural or geopolitical reason for or an origin story that 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.239 might have either came from I don't know, Africa, or 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:25.720 slave ships, general oppression, and have become tools of survival 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.720 that we have turned into an art form, like a mastery. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.600 We've mastered being cool. We've mastered cuss words, like, you know, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.320 nobody cussed like an old black man, old black woman, 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Like nobody cuss like us. Like we make cuss words 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.839 sound like people say, e forty curs raps in cursive, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.519 you know what I'm saying. Like we make some old 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.280 heads they cuss and sound like it's cursive. Bill Burr 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.400 has this joke he did a while back about like 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.880 black men and cussing that they've mastered the motherfucker because 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.440 and you don't even notice that they do it, and 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.480 the way that white people cuss it just sounds racist. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.039 And he's like, it's where you put the fuck. He 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.240 was like, you're an old black man, tall, you like, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.400 hey man, how's at the start? Right? 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:10.640 You know? 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.839 Earlier and this age motherfucker told me, hey, age motherfucker 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.680 was talking to this like talking to this Mexican motherfucker. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.600 It was just saying like, you know, blah blah blah 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.920 blah blah. Right, it's just a descriptor. He goes, a 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.200 white guy goes in there. I go, hey, I walk 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.800 in there, and this fucking Asian guy says, He's like, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.280 it just sounds so much more racist the way I 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.280 said it, And it's really just because I put the 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.559 fuck before rather than after. He's like, I just said 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.560 exactly what that guy said. I've just why am I? Anyway, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.040 it's an art form we've mastered that we have a 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.360 mastery in sort of protecting you by our sense of humor. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.880 Like that's one of the ways that we sort of 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.200 protect each other and build community is through our sense 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.480 of humor. You know, if you're on the outs of 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.520 our community, Like what I told you before is when 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.000 you don't make our radar at all, Like if we 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.200 dragging you part of partially because we love you and 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.520 we know you could be better. So that's part of 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.800 just this is something we've mastered. You know, we've mastered 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.560 how to make something fashion. I don't care how hard 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.320 people try. We know how to make things cool. It's 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.239 just by our very presence. But what I want to 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:21.240 zero in on today is our mastery of and how 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:29.640 high of a value we place on mining your own business. Listen, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.040 if something is not your business, I cannot tell you 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.840 how many phrases we have that are just really about 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.919 just mine your own business and I take care of mine. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.000 I take care of my This is my business. That's 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.560 your business. You don't stay out of my business. I'm 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.120 gonna stay out of yours. I remember, listen all the 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.600 way back to the early eighties. Listen, my name is Bennett. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.880 Black folks, finish it, Thank you very much. Ask your neighbor. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.239 My name is we. That's that's a little more deep cut. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.160 I ain't in this mess. You Listen. If I'm telling 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.240 you right now, you got co workers at your office, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.560 black co workers, I'm pretty sure you don't know anything 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.000 about them, because that's their business. They know. Listen. They 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.520 not asking you about your children. It depends you know 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.040 how long you gotta work with somebody like that, work 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.800 with somebody like from our from our community, from our code. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.880 How long you got to work with them before you 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.360 know anything about them outside of this job. We show up, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.760 we do our job. No, I ain't going to get 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.480 drinks with you after No, I ain't hitting no happy hour. No, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.840 I look, I'm y'all not my friends. I got friends. Well, listen, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.600 do you know what the phrase no new friends? Listen? 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.960 That's about many your business like people that are in 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.360 my business. They in my business. This is my squad, 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.120 this is us. We done been through the trenches together. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.640 I don't trust nobody else coming that's not your business. Something. Yeah, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.280 now I think about somebody may be coming out of 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.000 like trust and you know in the FEDS bustle whatever. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.960 Either way, my yeah, that's not your business. Let me 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.920 tell you something that your mama, your aunties. Every black 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.200 child has heard from some older black woman. Ay, that 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.600 is not your business. Stay out of grown folks business. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.520 You listen, you take care of you, You worry about you, mama. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.520 Where you going you will see. My daddy used to 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.440 say something like now, granted this might be a whole 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:25.080 different situation because he was doing outside activities, but I 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.120 would say, pop, where you going see a man about 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.280 a dog. But that basically meant, don't ask me. Don't 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.120 ask me, there's none of your business. I used to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.880 ask my grandma. Grandma, Uh, what you're gonna do today? 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.839 She say, I'm gonna mind my business. So you just 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.920 you listen, Auntie, what are you doing right now? Mine 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.240 in my business? Same thing you should be doing somebody you, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.320 you and the you in the office in the break room. Hey, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:57.440 what you're doing after work? Mine in my business. I'm 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.440 that's not your business. Don't worry about it that Listen. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.360 If you ain't signing my check or marinate no chicken, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.159 I'm not worried about your business. You need to not 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:31.159 be worried about mine. Let's talk about the Supreme Court today. Politics. Y'all. Hey, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:36.160 welcome to another episode HUD Politics. Hopefully you hearing this 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.719 with all know ads because you're on the cooler zone media, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:44.200 because trust me, I could use the financial support from 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:49.400 you dudes doing this anyway. Supreme Court's been in the 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:57.320 news a lot, and I think it's important for y'all 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.080 to understand, which is why I felt like I should 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.200 do this episode that like the amount of attention they're 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.560 getting in the past ten fifteen years is really not 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.119 the way the Supreme Court was designed. Like this ain't 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.840 this has become normal, but it is not supposed to 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.320 be This ain't supposed to be normal, whether we were 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.680 talking about even the confirmation hearings, all the way back 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.400 to Clarence Thomas, who were going to talk about a 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.760 lot later, but all the way up to him, to 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.599 the Amy Cone Barretts, to the Brett Kavanaugh, and then 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:38.680 these absolutely bizarre reports about you know, Clarence Thomas, like 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.280 hanging with his billionaire friend Justice Alito out there partying, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.960 you know, like this is so new. The only time 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.839 the Supreme Court was supposed to make the news was 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.120 really just their writings, their opinions, their rulings. That's the 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.159 only time you suposted to know anything about them. And 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.719 I'm going to get into that design when things flipped 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.599 and kind of what we're talking about now, because a 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:15.040 lot of it really speaks to the way just American 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.880 politics and culture has shifted, almost in the same way 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.520 that the mob shifted when John Gotti became a thing, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:30.480 because remembered them G's moved in silence. You wasn't supposed 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.080 to know who. Remember the rule about the mafia was, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.360 there is no mafia. What are you talking about? You 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.200 move in silence, You ain't supposed to know anything. We're doing. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:46.080 That's our business. You keep your business to yourself, but 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:51.480 you see the effects. But since the public don't sign 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:56.120 my check, y'all not marinated my chicken. I don't care 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.680 what you think. Your opinion don't matter to me. Let's 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.720 get here too. Y'all don't sign. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:09.040 Y'all, don't sign should y'all don't sign shad shot, y'all, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.200 don't sign sad y'all don't sign. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.240 So some civics history here, which I think I may 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.120 have covered before. You know, you got the three branches 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.120 of government, the judicial, the legislative, and the executive, and 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.240 you're supposed to have these checks and balances, balances of 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.120 power to make sure that we don't become some sort 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.560 of monarchy that we ran from very reaction formation. Out 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:51.720 this mug just our country's foundation. Its origin story is 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.040 really a case study in Freudian defense mechanisms. But we 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.480 could talk about that later. Uh. The thing is, though, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.920 the Supreme Court, if once you start getting into it, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:11.160 you'd be surprised how little direction the Constitution gives us 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.760 about that. All the Constitution says is you should have one. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.280 It don't say how many of them. It don't say 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.880 where they office should be. It don't really even say 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.280 they role. It just says you're supposed to have one. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.680 That's really surprising to people because listen, let me tell 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.000 you why. You know what the Supreme Court function off 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:36.080 maya business. They ain't even had no office and it's origin. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.000 Matter of fact, it was important for them to not 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.880 have an office because they used to ride by a 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.160 horse buggy to all the different colin needs to make 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.400 sure that everybody was following, and they would ride into 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.960 your city. They would listen to the thing, listen to 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.520 your stories, listen to the court cases they would judge, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.880 and then they would go back you wasn't supposed to centralize. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.840 It wasn't until Marlbury versus Madison that there was non 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.360 Supreme Court justices and that they got the power that 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.400 we understand them as as we know it now. I 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.480 think I said I covered this before Marlborough versus Madison. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.079 Y'all go ahead and google that, right. I'm teacher prop 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.360 putting my putting my hat, putting my hat on right 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.079 form the Supreme Court into the shape that we kind 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.280 of see it as today. But still it didn't. What 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.400 hasn't reached its final form. The form that it is 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.400 that it's in now until a case in Memphis, Tennessee, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.199 which I'm gonna get into in a second. But before 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.120 I get into that case, I need to stress I 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.280 need you to understand why I'm talking about. You understand 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.160 the Supreme Court if you understand what it means to 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:40.160 my own business. When you learned about the Supreme Court, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.080 if you learned about the Supreme Court in school, what 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:49.920 did you learn exactly? You just learned that we have 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:55.040 one and that when there are cases that other courts 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.880 can't solve, you, it goes all the way up to them. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.199 So you know the big stuff, you know the desegregation, 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.240 you know abortion, you know the big cases. You don't 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.200 know all the cases they've been adjudicating on. You know why, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.800 because it's supposed to be boring. They were you know, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.320 the Marvel series that went straight to Disney plus, like 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.280 the B and C characters in the comic book universe 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.680 that you got to really be into comic books to 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.480 know that that's what the Supreme Court was supposed to be. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.439 This is supposed to be so boring, and they're supposed 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.120 to be so far removed from the public because they're 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.559 the one part of our government that you don't vote for. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.720 They're chosen because they're supposed to be far from the 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:46.640 democratic process, because they're supposed to be unswayable by public opinion. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.080 And I think in some ways the Supreme Court still 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.120 kind of takes that very serious. If you look at 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.000 these cases that we're going to get into a little later, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.920 that you know, they voted on one end to make 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.120 sure that, like if you were adopting a Native American child, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.720 that that tribe or a similar tribe had first adoption 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:08.720 rights to that Native child, which is like, damn, that's big, 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.560 And then at the same time told the Navajo they 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.160 can't have a water like you were, like, who do 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.120 you work for? Here? You got a man like David Suters, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.800 who I'll probably brush on a little bit a little later, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.040 but like one of the most like quiet, reclusive. He's 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:30.559 like the Kendrick Lamar of of Supreme Court justices. He's like, look, man, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.760 I don't want y'all write no books on me. Kendrick 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.000 don't pop out, Like not in the sense that he's 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.640 the greatest of all time, but in the sense that 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.880 like Kendrick don't pop out, kenjo an't got on social media. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.960 He got a little burner account where he cracks jokes 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.000 on but he don't be popping out. Don't like. I 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.680 don't want like. I don't want those spotlights. I don't 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.440 need to like. My work will speak for itself. And 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:56.840 even though he was appointed by Republicans, he rarely votes 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:02.440 along their party lines, or he rarely did because y'all 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.360 don't sign my check. Y'all ain't marinate my chicken. That 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.240 but that was the design. I'm not supposed to worry 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.520 about what the public think because y'all ain't put you 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.319 don't sign my check, y'all don't marinate my chicken. Don't 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.240 ask questions. I don't ask questions of you, yo, jih lick. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.120 We come do our job. You spost come up here 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.640 and ask us what we think. We tell you what 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.559 we think, we interpreted law. We tell you what it is. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.920 Stay on my business. That's why they're supposed to move. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.120 And then you start. But then when you start saying, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.199 I wonder what the rules are about Supreme Court, which 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.439 is how we got to the Justice of Leader in 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.880 the clar Thomas situation, where it's like, yo, can they 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.600 accept money, can y'all go on these like expensive trips. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.040 What's the rules about them? Except like, can y'all just 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.319 accept brides? When does it become a bride? 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:45.640 Like? 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.040 When is there a conflict of interest? Are you allowed 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.679 to talk to lobbyists? How does any of this? Like? 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.000 How do what do you? 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:52.800 What do you like? 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.360 What's the rules around friends? You clearly have power and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.319 authority over stuff, but you don't, but you don't have 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.080 to worry about being elected, so you kind of can 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.199 do what you want. What are the rule Who was 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.360 about that? Here's what you learned. They ain't none. I'm 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:09.640 gonna say it again, there's only norms. There's no rules. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.240 I mean, if you can find them, tell me. There's 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.920 only Like it would suck if you it's a bad 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:23.360 look when you We prefer that you know, if you're 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.560 getting if you're getting gifts over a certain amount of 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.520 money and say, you know, we prefer that you tell us, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.360 like just just be cool about it and disclose it. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.320 Like nobody saying you can't have it. We're just saying, like, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.560 just let us know, because it looks bad if you don't. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.560 Nigga them ain't rules them? Is that's just a code. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.680 They don't have rules, They just have a code. How 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.200 come you don't know that? Because that's not your business. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.000 You don't sign a check. They ain't worried about what 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.960 you think. Listen. If you're a parent and you got 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.600 middle schoolers or high schoolers, this, please let them hear 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.640 this part. This is coming from a form a teacher. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.000 I taught high school. I started off in the juvenile 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.720 correctional facilities in East Lake. I started off teaching there. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:11.240 Then I taught in alternative education, and then finally I 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.280 taught at a charter high school for the arts. But 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.960 I did my student teaching at just straight up public schools, right, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.240 But all of these schools were they were alternative, but 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.320 there were all public schools. Like I've never taught at 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.480 a private institution anyway. I used to tell my students, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.440 who now are adults, so like it's a different story now. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.360 But yet, if your child listen, if you listening right now, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.720 little hommie, look it, leve Homie's a gender neutral so 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.680 accept it, right, So love hommy. If you're not doing 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.640 well in a class, you haven't behavioral issues, or you 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.360 just your grades aren't where they should look or where 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.160 they could look like you know you could do better 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.000 in this class, like don't look it. Don't look at 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.560 your mom, and don't look at your daddy, don't look 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.120 at your aunty, don't look I'm talking to you, like, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.800 if you know you could do better than this and 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.720 nobody everybody know, nobody know but you, you know if 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.480 you really like if you half fass an it, like 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.520 I'm sorry if you don't cuss at your kids right now, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.160 but I guarantee your kids cuss right so you know 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.200 you phoned it in. You know you not. You're not 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.360 giving them your egg game, you giving them your Sea game? 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.520 You know it. And your reason is the teacher don't 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.560 like me. The mean that woo don't like me. I 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.960 want you to think about this for a second. This 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.320 is coming from a teacher. Okay. I used to tell 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:29.280 my students it's not that I don't like you. I 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:34.040 don't think about you at all. I'm a grown man. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.560 Look it. If class let out at three at three 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.160 oh two, I done forgot everything you said, everything that's 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.760 so important to you. I don't You can't even go 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:50.200 get a drink with me? Are you? We're not friends? Fam? 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.360 What you mean? Like you and why do you care 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.920 if I like you or not? You got your own friends? 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.760 What are you gonna call me to play Call of duty? 0:16:58.840 --> 0:16:58.920 Like? 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.360 What are we gonna fortnitey? We're little mall like you 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.280 want me to go to six Flags with you? We're 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.480 not What do you care? What do you care? What 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.359 I think? And and you so mad at me for 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.800 how I feel about you? Knowing listen, in June we 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.359 never have to see each other again. What the hell 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.080 you care? I think we don't ever see each other 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.720 again in June. And to punish me for how you 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.600 think I feel about you, you gonna give yourself summer 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:31.679 school because if you so, because because you don't like 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.359 me and I don't like you, you gonna fail my 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.359 class and have to repeat it in summer school. And 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.120 guess what if I want to make a little extra money, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.520 I might teach summer school. You have to see me again, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.800 do you? It's ridiculous. Listen, I don't sign your check. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.960 You don't sign my check. I feel show ain't marinating 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:57.880 your chicken, you ain't marinating mine. Don't listen. Don't fail 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.080 no class because you think the teacher don't like you. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.399 Let me tell you something. If your teacher is thinking 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:12.800 about you when they get home, they need therapy. Now 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.720 I'm saying that to help you understand that, Like you 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.040 need to go in there take care of business for yourself. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.240 This like, don't worry about me, mind your own business, 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.399 this your own future. What difference does it make what 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.080 any of your instructors think of you? You do you 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.720 there for you? Now? Of course I deeply cared about 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.920 my students, you know, so of course I thought about 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.480 them when I went home, you know what I mean, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.240 And if anybody got under my skin. Here's what's crazy, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.679 is like now that we're adults, Like it's because I 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.240 was such a young teacher at the time, Like we're 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.760 all friends, Like I adore you. I've had. One of 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.200 the biggest headaches in my class was this kid named 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.000 Jamal who's actually a rapper. Now. I don't know if 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.239 you heard of Xavier Wolf, but his partner is doing 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.720 Eddie Baker. Like Eddie Baker was one of my students. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.639 He was He's on Rolling Loud, right, he was on 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.959 the Rolling Loud Festival. I'm so proud of him. And 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.160 it's not that I didn't like I actually liked him 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.800 a lot. You know, he just he was just fourteen 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.439 and now like no, we talk all the time like 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.280 he's such a he's a great young man, you know 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.400 what I'm saying, Like it all works out and he's 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.159 even k I remember I ran into him at a 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.840 Black Lives Matter protest and he came to me. He 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:29.240 was like, man, I'm sorry I was being such a 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.040 knuckleet at school. I was like, bro, you were me Like, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.640 you didn't get under my skin. Bro, I just I didn't. Obviously, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.200 I just knew you. I knew you was vibrating lowered 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.560 than your potential. I just knew that, you know what 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.359 I'm saying. And that's what was frustrating to me, is 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.560 like you vibrating lowered in your potential. You have a 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.800 higher vibration in this and he stepped into it. And 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:54.840 I'm very proud of him, you know. But I mean 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.439 I've seen his nigas billboard, Like I'm so proud of 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.840 this fool. But he was he was one of the 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.240 was that thought he was hurting my feelings, you know 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.120 what I'm saying, Like what time we even like when 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.240 he was a freshman, I battled him like, you know, 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.080 because I was rapping at the time too. I served 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.680 this little dude, and I served him because I knew 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.679 he was talented. You know what I'm saying, I'm like, listen, 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.880 man like you, you're more than this, you know anyway, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.639 This how any healthy teacher would function is that we 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.639 have our own lives, we have our own friends, and 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.680 of course sometimes work and be hard. But I ain't. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.240 I'm not losing sleep over no fifteen year old, over 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.440 no twelve year old. That's not my child. That means 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:39.000 that that child ain't my business. That's I'm gonna do 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.520 my job. I'm gonna do it well, and then I'm 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.560 gonna go home. Doesn't mean I don't care about your future. 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.480 Doesn't mean I won't want to do my job well, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.960 you know, because again, a good teacher is obviously invested 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:57.560 in their students' future. But listen, man like y'all, whether 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:04.000 you behave or not, my check every two weeks, okay, don't, 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:09.760 you're not punishing me. You guys got it. So the 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:14.159 Supreme Court, y'all write whatever thing pieces you want. You 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.800 could talk about, y'all say whatever y'all want about. Listen. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.760 Politicians being like, oh, this is a activist Court. Oh 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:28.719 this guy, you cavin I ain't thinking about y'all. Amy, Connie, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.720 she ain't. She ain't thinking about you at all, which 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:50.159 is why this season is so interesting. Let's keep going. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.440 So I want to take y'all back now to this 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.720 case in Memphis that I wanted to bring up in 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:19.040 the sixties. It's where we get to term the political thicket. 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:24.359 This is the moment when, depending on who you asked, 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:33.200 the Supreme Court stopped minding its own business. This is big. Now, 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.920 it's absurd to say that the courts have never been 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.480 in the political ticket, because even though they're not elected 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:45.639 or voted on, they're chosen and appointed by elected officials. 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.000 So it's by nature a political process that gets you 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:53.400 on the courts. However, this moment I'm about to teach 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:58.119 y'all about almost makes the quiet thing come out loud 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:02.919 and again, pinning who you ask got the court stuck 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:04.600 in the in the muck and the mire that they 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:09.080 in now, and that case is the Baker versus Car case. Now, look, 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.439 it's nineteen sixty one. On the surface, it just seems 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:17.520 like a voter district, you know, run of the mill case. Right, 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:23.560 here's the situation Tennessee. In the city of Memphis, you know, 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:29.000 had never re drawn their districts. Now granted between nineteen 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:31.360 oho last on A Jude district was nineteen oh one. 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.840 Now it's nineteen sixty one, which means that obviously Democrats 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:39.560 have had changed. The cities are ginormous, right, there's way 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.440 more people. And as you know, districting works, you get 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:44.919 the amount of congressmen based on your population. You have 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.920 more population, you have more congress people. 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:48.440 Right. 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:51.000 You remember every state has two senators, but you have 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:55.520