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Speaker 1: Media. What up, y'all, Let me tap in with you

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Speaker 1: right quick. This week's going to be a little meta,

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Speaker 1: a little personal, because in a lot of ways, I

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Speaker 1: take this personal. Last week a lieutenant governor, for which

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Speaker 1: maybe two of y'all care about, but it's important for

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Speaker 1: meta purposes. Micah Beckwick leaned up against his little desk

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Speaker 1: and is strangely fitting Khakis to give a little debriefing

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Speaker 1: following what had to have been quite the ownage by

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Speaker 1: the Democratic senators in their state debate around Senate Bill

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Speaker 1: two eighty nine, which is called the Unlawful Discrimination Bill

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Speaker 1: for the State of Indiana. Apparently, somebody in that discussion

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Speaker 1: that was clearly televised, somebody brought up the three fifths compromise,

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Speaker 1: to which this man actually fixed his tiny little lips

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Speaker 1: to make an argument that the three fits compromise was

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Speaker 1: not about slavery. Oh, Dilbert looking ass already know this

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Speaker 1: man's tender profile picture as him holding a fish within

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Speaker 1: reflective sunglasses. I already know this man daughter cuss at

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Speaker 1: him with her whole chest. Anyway, three fits compromise was

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Speaker 1: not about slavery. Apparently, Now that's quite a take, a

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Speaker 1: take for which no one at the time would have

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Speaker 1: accepted as to be true, but nonetheless is being borrowed

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Speaker 1: to try to defend this centin bill that is just

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Speaker 1: so important to him. Now, obviously, anti discrimination can invoke

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Speaker 1: a certain assumption about what it's about. But if you

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Speaker 1: have been living in this country during this timeline, you

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Speaker 1: would understand that a lot of these things that present

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Speaker 1: themselves of anti discrimination are quite discriminatory. This one is

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Speaker 1: a continuation of rolling back any sort of diversity or

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Speaker 1: inclusion or consideration of differences when onboarding to a particular institution,

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Speaker 1: whatever that institution may be. But that's not the point

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Speaker 1: of this tap in. Now. If you want to go

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Speaker 1: back to the Lost Cause series, or even me talking

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Speaker 1: about the Electoral College and the Three Phish Compromise and

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Speaker 1: what that had to do with voting rights, and still

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Speaker 1: the idea that like African Americans who are enslaved are

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Speaker 1: three fits humans because baked into the very concept of

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Speaker 1: the Three Phish compromise myth that somehow Africans are subhuman.

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Speaker 1: But let's set that aside for a second. Let me

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Speaker 1: talk to you about this. If you've lived long enough,

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Speaker 1: if it has not happened already, it's going to happen

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Speaker 1: to you very soon. You're going to be faced with

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Speaker 1: a community of people, or a part on the planet

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Speaker 1: somehow or another, your lived experience which you are curly

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Speaker 1: witnessing and experiencing, will come in stark contrast to the

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Speaker 1: worldview for which you were taught, the way for which

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Speaker 1: you understood physics work. When you're experiencing something or someone that,

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Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking, according to the laws of physics that you

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Speaker 1: this person, this experience should not exist. What do I

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Speaker 1: mean by that? Like, maybe you were taught something about

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Speaker 1: black people or the Latino community, or queer people or

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Speaker 1: people other religions. You were taught that these people were

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Speaker 1: the untouchables, or there was something particularly wrong with you,

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Speaker 1: something particularly different from them, something for which that you

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Speaker 1: needed to stay away from because it's going to pervert

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Speaker 1: the perfection of the world you're trying to exist in.

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Speaker 1: And then you meet one and they break all the rules,

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Speaker 1: you realize, oh, yeah, they're regular people, just like just

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Speaker 1: have been taught that I don't know, people are just

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Speaker 1: if you work hard. The meritocracy myth. You work hard,

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Speaker 1: life is not fair at all. People hustle other people.

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Speaker 1: Your face with a moment that I talked about in

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Speaker 1: terror form in my poetry book Building a Liverabo World,

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Speaker 1: where we talked about like the possibilities of reality is

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Speaker 1: far crazier than you can imagine. There's a procrypal story

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Speaker 1: about I don't know, some astrophysicist von Kleigan whatever, like's

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Speaker 1: why Copernicus was so epic and life changing to everyone.

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Speaker 1: Copernicus the guy who said that the Earth revolves around

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Speaker 1: was that so crazy? Because it's like, well, because it

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Speaker 1: Earth was revolving around the sun. An answer is this,

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Speaker 1: especially because I meet you out and about, whether it's

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Speaker 1: through my music, my poetry, my books, or the podcast.

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Speaker 1: A lot of y'all come from faith based backgrounds, and

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Speaker 1: you have made it clear to me how thankful you

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Speaker 1: are to my music or my work because maybe my albums,

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Speaker 1: maybe a line in a poem or interview was the first,

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Speaker 1: like scratching the black paint that let light in that

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Speaker 1: bigger than the cup for which you were given to contain.

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Speaker 1: That world started you on this path of inclusion, you know,

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Speaker 1: growing up in a church, going Bible, believe in black home,

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Speaker 1: friends and you're like, well, I'll be damn, I thought

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Speaker 1: about this all wrong. A lot of us respond different

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Speaker 1: ways to that realization, to that moment in our lives.

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Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people that listen to

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Speaker 1: this show in the Bastard Show or expangelical or deconstructed, etc.

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Speaker 1: And You're like, what do I do with this frustration,

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Speaker 1: with this misinformation? I was given rage, get angry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I understand about I understand that I've done the same.

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Speaker 1: I try to think about the intentions of those people

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Speaker 1: best they could. They're speaking out of their own brokenness.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes, oh they knew they was wrong. They knew

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Speaker 1: what they was trying to do. This governor knows what

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Speaker 1: the fuck he's doing. I don't believe this is your

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Speaker 1: third grade teacher teaching you about column I been selling

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Speaker 1: The Ocean Blue in fourteen ninety two. I don't think

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Speaker 1: first Thanksgiving. These are hundreds and hundreds of years later. Now,

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Speaker 1: perpetuating a institutional racism that is easily with the slightest

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Speaker 1: of google could be fixed. They continue to perpetuate it. However,

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Speaker 1: I still think it's different than what this governor is.

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Speaker 1: But the people that invented those stories, they knew what

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Speaker 1: the fuck they was doing. My brain goes to the

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Speaker 1: fact that I hate that people have to unlearn anything.

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't we have just been given the truth wards

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Speaker 1: I feel like part of my life's work, my calling,

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Speaker 1: that's me doing my due diligence, and other times that's

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Speaker 1: me meeting these fools in the streets calling bullshit cap ass,

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Speaker 1: all the ability that the ancestors has passed down to

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Speaker 1: me as a black man, I'm gonna roast the hell

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Speaker 1: you're don roast the hell out of these cornballs, if

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Speaker 1: right there, playboy? And maybe I'm not gonna convince everybody,

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Speaker 1: but you gonna get this work then something like the

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Speaker 1: three fisths compromise, which we all know clearly and there's

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Speaker 1: time to fix this. That what he is saying is

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Speaker 1: absolute bullshit. For the record, his argument was that it

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Speaker 1: was not discriminatory. It was an attempt to compromise between

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Speaker 1: because although the South had more people, the South didn't

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Speaker 1: allow those people to vote. Those people, according to the Constitution,

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Speaker 1: But his argument is that it's woke DEI that has

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Speaker 1: taught you that the three fifths compromise is about racist

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Speaker 1: slavery practices. Now, how wild as that sounds, right now,

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Speaker 1: give it fifty years, give it one hundred years, Just

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Speaker 1: like how wild the idea that Columbus in fourteen ninety

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Speaker 1: understand how you could be the first person at a

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Speaker 1: place that people already live at, and not only that

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Speaker 1: it's already white people here then too, man, what the

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Speaker 1: hell is you talking about? It seems silly now, don't it.

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Speaker 1: But also, like we said in the Lost Cause episodes,

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Speaker 1: history is about the past, but memories about the future.

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Speaker 1: We remember things wrong all the time. But when things

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Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself who gains from this re

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Speaker 1: who loses from this reshaping? Because if you are trying

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Speaker 1: for which erases the warts, oh, then we're talking about

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Speaker 1: a zero sum situation. My encouragement to you all on

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Speaker 1: this tap in is when these people are playing in

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Speaker 1: your face, when they are trying to tell you that

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