Speaker 1: Media. What up, y'all, Let me tap in with you
Speaker 1: right quick. This week's going to be a little meta,
Speaker 1: a little personal, because in a lot of ways, I
Speaker 1: take this personal. Last week a lieutenant governor, for which
Speaker 1: maybe two of y'all care about, but it's important for
Speaker 1: meta purposes. Micah Beckwick leaned up against his little desk
Speaker 1: and is strangely fitting Khakis to give a little debriefing
Speaker 1: following what had to have been quite the ownage by
Speaker 1: the Democratic senators in their state debate around Senate Bill
Speaker 1: two eighty nine, which is called the Unlawful Discrimination Bill
Speaker 1: for the State of Indiana. Apparently, somebody in that discussion
Speaker 1: that was clearly televised, somebody brought up the three fifths compromise,
Speaker 1: to which this man actually fixed his tiny little lips
Speaker 1: to make an argument that the three fits compromise was
Speaker 1: not about slavery. Oh, Dilbert looking ass already know this
Speaker 1: man's tender profile picture as him holding a fish within
Speaker 1: reflective sunglasses. I already know this man daughter cuss at
Speaker 1: him with her whole chest. Anyway, three fits compromise was
Speaker 1: not about slavery. Apparently, Now that's quite a take, a
Speaker 1: take for which no one at the time would have
Speaker 1: accepted as to be true, but nonetheless is being borrowed
Speaker 1: to try to defend this centin bill that is just
Speaker 1: so important to him. Now, obviously, anti discrimination can invoke
Speaker 1: a certain assumption about what it's about. But if you
Speaker 1: have been living in this country during this timeline, you
Speaker 1: would understand that a lot of these things that present
Speaker 1: themselves of anti discrimination are quite discriminatory. This one is
Speaker 1: a continuation of rolling back any sort of diversity or
Speaker 1: inclusion or consideration of differences when onboarding to a particular institution,
Speaker 1: whatever that institution may be. But that's not the point
Speaker 1: of this tap in. Now. If you want to go
Speaker 1: back to the Lost Cause series, or even me talking
Speaker 1: about the Electoral College and the Three Phish Compromise and
Speaker 1: what that had to do with voting rights, and still
Speaker 1: the idea that like African Americans who are enslaved are
Speaker 1: three fits humans because baked into the very concept of
Speaker 1: the Three Phish compromise myth that somehow Africans are subhuman.
Speaker 1: But let's set that aside for a second. Let me
Speaker 1: talk to you about this. If you've lived long enough,
Speaker 1: if it has not happened already, it's going to happen
Speaker 1: to you very soon. You're going to be faced with
Speaker 1: a moment where your lived experience with a person, or
Speaker 1: a community of people, or a part on the planet
Speaker 1: somehow or another, your lived experience which you are curly
Speaker 1: witnessing and experiencing, will come in stark contrast to the
Speaker 1: worldview for which you were taught, the way for which
Speaker 1: you understood physics work. When you're experiencing something or someone that,
Speaker 1: metaphorically speaking, according to the laws of physics that you
Speaker 1: were given or made to believe that governs the universe,
Speaker 1: this person, this experience should not exist. What do I
Speaker 1: mean by that? Like, maybe you were taught something about
Speaker 1: black people or the Latino community, or queer people or
Speaker 1: people other religions. You were taught that these people were
Speaker 1: the untouchables, or there was something particularly wrong with you,
Speaker 1: something particularly different from them, something for which that you
Speaker 1: needed to stay away from because it's going to pervert
Speaker 1: the perfection of the world you're trying to exist in.
Speaker 1: And then you meet one and they break all the rules,
Speaker 1: you realize, oh, yeah, they're regular people, just like just
Speaker 1: like you are. Or there's another situation where you may
Speaker 1: have been taught that I don't know, people are just
Speaker 1: generally good and things just work out, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you work hard. The meritocracy myth. You work hard,
Speaker 1: you do your best, you keep your nose clean, and
Speaker 1: everything works out. And then you grow up and you realize, oh, no,
Speaker 1: life is not fair at all. People hustle other people.
Speaker 1: Your face with a moment that I talked about in
Speaker 1: terror form in my poetry book Building a Liverabo World,
Speaker 1: where we talked about like the possibilities of reality is
Speaker 1: far crazier than you can imagine. There's a procrypal story
Speaker 1: about I don't know, some astrophysicist von Kleigan whatever, like's
Speaker 1: not his name's not the point He asked him about
Speaker 1: why Copernicus was so epic and life changing to everyone.
Speaker 1: Copernicus the guy who said that the Earth revolves around
Speaker 1: the sun. He asked one of his students, like, why
Speaker 1: was that so crazy? Because it's like, well, because it
Speaker 1: don't look like it when you look in the sky
Speaker 1: it looked like the sun is moving. Because that's crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: what would it look like if it looked like the
Speaker 1: Earth was revolving around the sun. An answer is this,
Speaker 1: it would look the way it does look. It's just
Speaker 1: you're faced with a dilemma. You either change. You either
Speaker 1: accept the reality of what you're looking at because it's
Speaker 1: what you're looking at, or you deny what you're looking
Speaker 1: at and you hold on to the way for which
Speaker 1: you thought about. The world works a lot of you,
Speaker 1: especially because I meet you out and about, whether it's
Speaker 1: through my music, my poetry, my books, or the podcast.
Speaker 1: A lot of y'all come from faith based backgrounds, and
Speaker 1: you have made it clear to me how thankful you
Speaker 1: are to my music or my work because maybe my albums,
Speaker 1: maybe a line in a poem or interview was the first,
Speaker 1: like scratching the black paint that let light in that
Speaker 1: you really understood that, like maybe the world is far
Speaker 1: bigger than the cup for which you were given to contain.
Speaker 1: That world started you on this path of inclusion, you know,
Speaker 1: to think of the world differently, to experience the world
Speaker 1: that you're actually experiencing. I've had those moments myself health
Speaker 1: growing up in a church, going Bible, believe in black home,
Speaker 1: and then you sit across the table, you go to
Speaker 1: dinner with a Muslim family, or you make some queer
Speaker 1: friends and you're like, well, I'll be damn, I thought
Speaker 1: about this all wrong. A lot of us respond different
Speaker 1: ways to that realization, to that moment in our lives.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people that listen to
Speaker 1: this show in the Bastard Show or expangelical or deconstructed, etc.
Speaker 1: And You're like, what do I do with this frustration,
Speaker 1: with this misinformation? I was given rage, get angry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand about I understand that I've done the same.
Speaker 1: I try to think about the intentions of those people
Speaker 1: who taught me these things. Some of them honestly didn't
Speaker 1: know better. Some of them thought they were doing the
Speaker 1: best they could. They're speaking out of their own brokenness.
Speaker 1: But sometimes, oh they knew they was wrong. They knew
Speaker 1: what they was trying to do. This governor knows what
Speaker 1: the fuck he's doing. I don't believe this is your
Speaker 1: third grade teacher teaching you about column I been selling
Speaker 1: The Ocean Blue in fourteen ninety two. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is your summer camp who try to reenact the
Speaker 1: first Thanksgiving. These are hundreds and hundreds of years later. Now,
Speaker 1: while these people are not exonerated, i e. They are
Speaker 1: perpetuating a institutional racism that is easily with the slightest
Speaker 1: of google could be fixed. They continue to perpetuate it. However,
Speaker 1: I still think it's different than what this governor is.
Speaker 1: But the people that invented those stories, they knew what
Speaker 1: the fuck they was doing. My brain goes to the
Speaker 1: fact that I hate that people have to unlearn anything.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't we have just been given the truth wards
Speaker 1: and all maybe learn from our own mistakes. So me,
Speaker 1: I feel like part of my life's work, my calling,
Speaker 1: if you will, is I want to make sure, to
Speaker 1: the best of my ability that I limit the amount
Speaker 1: of unlearning the next gen has to do. And sometimes
Speaker 1: that's me doing my due diligence, and other times that's
Speaker 1: me meeting these fools in the streets calling bullshit cap ass,
Speaker 1: bullshit cap when it's time to mocking and roasting with
Speaker 1: all the ability that the ancestors has passed down to
Speaker 1: me as a black man, I'm gonna roast the hell
Speaker 1: out of this government because sometimes I feel like, if
Speaker 1: you're don roast the hell out of these cornballs, if
Speaker 1: you don't meet them immediately, would let me stop you
Speaker 1: right there, playboy? And maybe I'm not gonna convince everybody,
Speaker 1: but you gonna get this work then something like the
Speaker 1: three fisths compromise, which we all know clearly and there's
Speaker 1: time to fix this. That what he is saying is
Speaker 1: absolute bullshit. For the record, his argument was that it
Speaker 1: was not discriminatory. It was an attempt to compromise between
Speaker 1: the colonies to make sure that everybody had a fair
Speaker 1: shake in the powers, in the legislative powers as they
Speaker 1: casted their vote, so that the North wouldn't always win
Speaker 1: because although the South had more people, the South didn't
Speaker 1: allow those people to vote. Those people, according to the Constitution,
Speaker 1: were three fifths. So just like how the Confederacy was
Speaker 1: about stage rights, the three fish Compromise is about fairness.
Speaker 1: But his argument is that it's woke DEI that has
Speaker 1: taught you that the three fifths compromise is about racist
Speaker 1: slavery practices. Now, how wild as that sounds, right now,
Speaker 1: give it fifty years, give it one hundred years, Just
Speaker 1: like how wild the idea that Columbus in fourteen ninety
Speaker 1: two was the first European to get here. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how you could be the first person at a
Speaker 1: place that people already live at, and not only that
Speaker 1: it's already white people here then too, man, what the
Speaker 1: hell is you talking about? It seems silly now, don't it.
Speaker 1: But also, like we said in the Lost Cause episodes,
Speaker 1: history is about the past, but memories about the future.
Speaker 1: We remember things wrong all the time. But when things
Speaker 1: are communicated to you so that you'll remember them wrongly,
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself who gains from this re
Speaker 1: who loses from this reshaping? Because if you are trying
Speaker 1: to reshape and re remember the past in a way
Speaker 1: for which erases the warts, oh, then we're talking about
Speaker 1: a zero sum situation. My encouragement to you all on
Speaker 1: this tap in is when these people are playing in
Speaker 1: your face, when they are trying to tell you that
Speaker 1: up is down and the sky is purple, roast the
Speaker 1: hell out of these people. Tap in, y'all,