WEBVTT - Friends of Gadsden Creek 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:06.200 You are listening to waiting on reparations of production of 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:17.400 I Heart Radio. What's happened? What's happening? Yeah, it's dope. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.840 Knife in the house. That was a nice little that 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:24.000 was a little departure from what we usually do. It's like, yeah, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:29.280 you know, we're happy and we're seeing it in we're colored. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:38.280 Give me yeah, yeah, what's going on the knife? You 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.120 know what it is? You know what it is? Um, 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:45.559 how are you doing? Um? Like like I been swept 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.920 through I don't know, like the tumble tumbleweed, Like they're 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.800 rolling rolling across the country inside of a tumbleweed. Somewhat happen. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.680 You're still on the road, right, I'm on the road. Yep. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.600 I made it to New Orleans, got my last show 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.320 of the tour tonight, and then um, get back to 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:06.200 my adorable baby. I'm never doing this again. I'm so 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.319 much just dumb. It sounds like you're It sounds like 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.520 you're in a more comfortable place to record to today 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.240 because last time, last time, it sounded like you were 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.280 in a prison cap You're trying to be quiet about 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.080 the guards and ship like, yeah, that was my last 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.920 transmission before I was never again. We have to fight 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:29.160 for reparations. Oh no, they're coming in. Yeah, what's good 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.400 with you? I'm good. I have some North Carolina shows 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.440 over the weekend. Um, I had a St. Patty's Day 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.920 show here in Savannah. It was cool. It's cool. It's 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.880 a nice little weekend of performing and stuff like that. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.679 I'm starting to gear back up into it because I 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.280 just made the announcement yesterday that I'm actually doing like 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.640 a you know, pretty much like a full like five 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.880 six days or something like that in April. So I 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.480 thought that's what it is. Yeah, I was saying that, 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.800 and I was like, I'm shoot you out here, out here, Yeah, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.520 that's coming up soon. So I gotta start getting mentally 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.600 prepared for that grind. And she's like that, you know, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.920 when you when you just go do these little weekend runs, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.880 it's not even really like a thing like that, you know. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.720 So I don't even like a like, I don't even 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.600 know if I can do that anymore. I mean, granted, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.079 I've been gone for like nine days now, so this 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.680 is kind of like like, but I mean you can 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.360 work out like some sort of thing where you can 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.240 do that like every few months, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.280 That's pretty much what everybody else does anyway. So yeah, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.840 but I was like, but so we got showed together 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.680 in Savanna in April or but I'm trying to and 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.400 like I got a little or something sometimes soon I 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.600 don't know if I'm misquoted, but like I was looking 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.280 at my but see this is what I always do, 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.240 and I'm like, oh, I can do little weekends herever there, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.400 And then I booked like two whole months of weekends 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:46.160 on accident my life. We're doing that Savannah show, right, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.880 that's thet We're doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.960 excited to do that. So what's hilariously that is I'm 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.919 gonna be down there for the the Conference of Georgia 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.280 County Commissioners that they once a year, the annual conference 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.240 they have her County Inmstrs of Georgia today have it 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.760 everything in Savannah? Is that what was going on last 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.880 time that we didn't appreciate the last time I planted 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.880 show in Savannah, I was down here from this conference, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.360 is the mayor of Bathan's gonna pop in on us 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.040 night popping? He might pop in, yes he might. Um, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.200 you got some new commissioners on board might have them 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.359 roll up that's they can see the whole show bang, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.600 then they can see him. No joke, like this is 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.040 a real time job. Vii is, This is not a hobby. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.880 So we gotta So we got a dope show for 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.680 you today. We're gonna be talking with streamer and activists 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:46.280 Mika Gadson. I even feel weird describing her as just 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.560 that she does like I almost want to call historian too, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.280 like she knows about She's got all the receipts um 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.600 environmental justice like like can like intersections in her work 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.800 are just fascinating. So yeah, we got a lot um 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.840 a lot of love for me because came on. But 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.920 we'll talk to her in a little bit. Again. Before 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.480 we get into that, we got to talk about our 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.040 least favorite but most discussed subject just because he's in 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.160 the news. But we gotta gota we might have to 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:21.400 talk about Kanye West. Oh god, really, I mean, you 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.360 know when somebody came up to me the other day, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.919 like someone who is like a genuine fan of the podcast, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.080 and they were like, Kanya does a lot of stuff 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.600 that makes you guys have to talk about her. But 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:39.200 all right, so what's going on Kanye is just he's 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.599 divorced with with Kim Kardashian, YadA YadA, beef in with 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.479 a bunch of people. Because of the situation, he's pretty 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.320 much stocking her like online and public lea and ship. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:54.799 But so some comedians have waited on this. Trevor Noah waited, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.599 d L. Hughley has waited, and pretty much all of 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.679 them saying of him, saying pretty much reasonable things like, hey, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.560 this is stalking. If this dude wasn't a millionaire, billionaire, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:13.159 musical genius whatever y'all call them, cops would probably be involved, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.440 This could lead to abuse whatever whatever you know. Making 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.440 commentary on that won't leave her alone, blah blah blah, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.680 beefing with her her new boyfriend, Pete Davison, their exchange 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.680 of text messages. It's all really messy. It's all very 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:30.919 Jury Springer's funny, right. But in response to D. L. Hughley, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.600 so he says, this is all one sentence to it's 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.960 it doesn't doesn't break. So okay, let we start again. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.480 We go stop letting practicing drug addicts be used by 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.960 leftists to Willie Lynch our future. Black people with our 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.839 own opinion are not allowed to speak in public. I 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.320 am the glitch d L. God does not like you, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.159 You have no favor. Your family hates you. I would 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.839 hate to be related to someone who used to be famous. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.000 Now you're just known as a broke pond. At least 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.400 Oprah got billions quote allegedly, come on, leftist, y'all gotta 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.200 do better than d L. This. Yeah, bring the real smoke, baby, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.520 show your real face. Charmonne with Charlemagne the guy. Just 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.880 don't hit the same way, do he? Who you're going 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.400 to send? Now? God is with us? You send d 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.760 L against us. You've lost. No brilliant Hebrews will bow 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.520 to y'all no more. Only dumbass, drug addicted house niggers. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.080 Don't play with me, don't play with God. Anybody related 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.440 to d L called Chris like a bunch of Kanye 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.880 rambling stuff. But the thing that stuck out to me 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:38.840 was his use of the term leftists. And I noticed 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.960 because I'm punching myself in the face. I don't know 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.960 if you can hear that. I just wanted to transcribe, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.160 since this is an audio show, that I am myself 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.000 in the face right now. Okay, come on, please, all 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.000 of the expected preachers are obviously all out there now here, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.920 all of them are coming out and they're like, yes, Scott, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.960 tell those leftists, tell those that the like I would, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:06.640 I would dare him to like like define what I mean. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.720 That's that's that's applying too much rationality to it, I think, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.440 because like for me, it's not even necessarily paying attention 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.960 to Kanye, but looking at the right wings reaction to 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.280 him in this situation. And now, like I mean, obviously 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.200 Kanye he wore the MAGA hat, who visited with Trump, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.040 he did all that stuff. But really, if you think 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:31.360 about this situation, it's like they're finding solidarity solidarity with 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.800 this dude at this particular moment on the basis that 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.720 he's harassing his wife, you know what I mean, Like, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.040 that's that is that's the leftist attack. The leftist attack is, hey, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.040 don't like harass your wife and threatened to like kill 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.200 people online, which is why he got he got a 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.920 booted from the Grammys. He was supposed to perform and 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.520 they booted him because of he like he's making like 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.200 threats to d L and Trevor like I've got I 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.360 have enough money to get you hurt. I know where 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.280 you live like ship like that. Right, So they they 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.800 kicked them off the Grammys and that is now the 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:12.440 right wings they're canceling Kanye. Yeah, just just a further 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.040 demonstrate that this canceling woke, cancel culture ship that they're 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.240 talking about. It's like, really, it's rooted in are you 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.520 trying to be a decent person or not? Because if 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.920 you're trying to be a decent person, then that's well 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.200 that's bad, that's cancel culture. This really is reminiscent to me. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.240 I was learning yesterday that UM Josh Holly um LAEF 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.680 senator from Missouri. Is that correct? Um, it's endorsed herschel 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.720 Walker for Georgia Senate. UM. If you're not familiar, former 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:46.120 UM Georgia football player, very famous, UM some have some problems, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.160 might have like beat the ship out of several women, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.760 including his ex wife allegedly, and so, UM, so Holly's 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:57.160 out here talking about how this like democratic candidate for UM. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.280 Actually let me, I think Nicki Haley came down to 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.440 Georgia to campaign and raise some money with herschel Walker. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.080 That is Nicki Halleys. She was governor of South Carolina, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:14.920 CUM she was UM. I think Ambassador to the U 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:22.880 n But I mean before that, okay, I don't Oh yeah, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.320 I ain't even pressed. So Josh Holly, what did he 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:38.400 do besides accused the Supreme Court nominee of supporting pedophilia. Yeah, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.040 Josh Holly, They're like, look, man, the Republicans are now 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.760 in this new thing where the same way that Putin 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.479 is thrown around Nazi to justify or now the Republicans 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:55.440 are just like blanketly calling everybody a pedophile, like just everything, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.440 everybody for everything? Oh, is it like a Q and 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.720 on kind of thing, Like, well, not really see what 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.040 they're saying. So she had ah there was a case 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.680 or something that she was hearing where someone was making 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:12.760 an argument against like a mandatory sentencing for people who 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.280 I guess indulge in child pornography. And the person who 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.760 was arguing this was making the case that not everybody 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.160 who's involved in it is involved in it for that reason, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.120 like there's like a bunch of factors that go in. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.760 So they were explaining this this reasoning to her for 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.720 the sentencing, and she was hearing their reasoning and was 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.480 asking them questions. So they've like sniffed out the questions 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.360 that she was asking to say that this is what 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.800 she was supporting, that she has a history of doing. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.040 It's really ugly stuff, Like really it's like pretty much 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.560 demagoguery as close to it as you can get. But 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.000 it's a bad ship. But that that that seems to 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.760 be their new tactics. Just like at every level from 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:58.000 online Twitter discourse to now even politicians are just like, oh, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.520 we don't want this person to be nominated. Let's just 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:12.120 float out there uncircumstanced, circumstance, circumstantiator accusations. But I'm sorry 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.640 what we're saying about a drop. So there's a Democrat 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.679 running for something in Missouri I forgot about. But he's 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.920 got some he's got some like the Salt allegations against him, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.719 and he's like, if you if you beat your if 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.400 you put your hands on a woman, you should be 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.600 in handcuffs, not the Senate or you know whatever. Meanwhile, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:33.240 he's endorsed herschel Walker though, who like long history of 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.920 allegations of being shifted out of women. And so it's 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.840 like literally like they go they're like go to like 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.880 the bargain bin. Black people just like, oh, what do 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.360 you have? What do you have black Oh you don't 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.960 have Oh we're fresh out of uggar everestus. Oh we 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.280 ain't got no top knives. Uh. Well, I can't leave 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.679 empty handed because we look at real we look in 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.960 real sparks. If I don't, if I don't come home 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.800 with something, um. But actually I would say that, like, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.280 can we go back and talk about how we talked 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.800 about the Hebrew? Yeah? I mean what does that? Even 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.200 the whole the whole thing is not sensible? Like what 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.360 I don't you know what does this talking about? Well? 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.959 I learned recently. So when I was at south By Southwest, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.760 I encountered a group of like street preachers that were 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.080 these black dudes with like big old beards, wearing like 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.360 punk rocks, like studded jackets with like um stars of 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.800 David on it, who were claiming to be of the 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:33.160 Temple of the Israelites and um, talking about how they're 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.840 like like black people are the real Jews. Did anybody 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.040 body photography altogether? I hope no I photographed them. I 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.000 was like, what the fucking my witnessing right now? I 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.600 don't do not know what's going on, and like for 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.160 higher office, that picture is gonna come up with you 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:59.400 with them, like frank down, Like, what am I witnessing 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.600 right now? How I know that? Um no? So I 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.320 mean that that I was I was been learning about 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.959 how like in the A d O L like I 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.200 don't call you know, I don't know if you call 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.600 it a movement or like circles kind of hope happy 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.200 as like spiritual black people that are like, um, you 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.200 know kind of yeah, anyway, we'll get into a halt. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:19.640 We need to do a whole episode in a DUS 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.840 But anyway, but I didn't I didn't know. Apparently this 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.760 is really a thing where um like sounds kind of 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.520 like people think that black people are the real Jews 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.280 and like the real children of Gotten the way that 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.360 Juts are something like I don't know, well, I mean, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.880 you know, Ethiopian Jews or Black I'm not you know, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.240 I'm not too familiar with the history in terms of 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.319 like who was first or who wasn't. But back to 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.440 this Kanye thing, it definitely sounds like he is trying 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:51.960 to perfect like a merger of Hotep sentiment, you know, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:57.599 sentiment with like full on modern day right wing that 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.319 shittery and it's just, you know, it's curious curious because 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.560 like now if you're you know, you know, when you're 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.120 getting some discourse with these fan groups and stuff like that, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.800 and you know if you're like, oh man, I didn't 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.880 like track number three on Beyonce's last album, and then 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.720 you find yourself like taking it from all sides and 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.320 ship like that. Well, this Kanye discourse just like you know, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.760 like creeping through some comments sections and ship like that, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:26.160 a little little line between like some of these Kanye 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.360 fans and like a full on magal lunatic is starting 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:34.120 to get raise it at this point, raise it bizarre. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.000 I'm not an elected politician, so if you were, if 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.600 you if um, I came back to you of ten 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.240 years ago and it's in a little time uh time machine. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:46.920 I was like a time caps hope that's not right, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.800 um spaceship still wrong of time machine and told you 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:56.000 any years now Kanye West is going to I believe 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:04.600 he is um uh last by uh um it's leftist, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.080 and that he's threatening to murder d l Hughley and 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.600 um also slid slavery is fine. You know what a reason? 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.400 What would you think? Would you? Um call for help? 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.920 I'm glad you asked me that because you know, I 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.760 think we're gonna have to do an episode someday of 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.160 like criticizing hip hop from the left, you know what 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.400 I mean. But I I wouldn't if you told me that. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.800 I wouldn't be surprised personally, you know, not, not like 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.120 I have any sort of like one up on anybody 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.000 on knowledge or anything like that. But when I started 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.360 becoming just in my own mind, when I started becoming 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:54.080 more politically aware, like around you know, like post nine eleven, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.120 two thousand three ish, two thousand two ish, that sort 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.920 of errors, when I started having my own political weight 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.560 ging and developing my own political world view and ship 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.440 like that. Being that was around the time when I 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.400 first started like getting into wrapped and being a rapper, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.560 and then I was noticing, wait a minute, there's a 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.000 lot of right wing ship in this hip hop day 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.000 right now. It's kind of just going around undetected that 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.560 we're not even like paying attention to because of you know, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.960 I don't know why, like for for some reason, we've 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:32.600 got like this blind spot that it's like, yo, if 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.080 Kid Rock was saying this, we would all clearly see 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.080 what it is, you know what I mean. So there 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.640 were just aspects of in particular Kanye West personality as 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.400 a public figure and as an m C. Just to 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.600 be honest with you, where I was like, Oh, this 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.480 beat is dope, but this got something I don't know 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.160 if I really I don't know if I'm working with 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.000 this dude like that, you know. I mean that's just 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.720 me personally. So as time goes on, it's like one 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.280 way you could interpret it is be like, oh he's 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.320 a diva, or oh he's an asshole or a damn 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.320 Kanye is a real jerk, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.080 But if you're like one of those people who looks 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.560 at things through a political lens, it's like I think 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.359 it was this thing was the right winger, you know 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.920 what I mean? Yeah, I mean like ten years ago 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.440 is when like my Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy dropped and 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.959 even then he was like I had a reputation as 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.040 an asshole, even had that song Are you remind me 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.600 of it? When he said that this one's an asshole, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.359 you know, like and like there's that moment of redemption, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.640 was like, oh, maybe Kanye is okay. Like I remember, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.200 like you're like, I'm ship, Like I love Kanye a 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.400 getting all right, Yeah, maybe you have to go back 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.199 farther than that butt. When people tell you who they are, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.600 believe them. And we have kept this intro going way 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.239 too motherfucking log, so you wanted to real quickly there 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.920 was some uhmies want to shout it out before me 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.560 moving to oh, yes, you're right, you're right, you're right, yes, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:01.800 before you forget abou yo, I smoked my ball before 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.760 we started my memory or short term memories going all right, yeah, No, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.000 I just wanted to mention, you know, because we're in 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:13.280 this uh current news cycle where everybody is talking about 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.600 Ukraine and the situation there is definitely terrible and you know, 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.879 people are dying, the Russians are bombing cities, uh indiscriminately 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.880 killing kids and stuff like that. But I just want 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.600 to take it as the resident African on this show, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.440 just to remind people that there are currently like wild 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.960 coup's going on in Africa and refuge and refugee crisis 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.280 is of their own. Um. I think Burkina Faso just 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.960 had a military takeover. There was a failed one in 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.560 Guinea Basu, so I mean, you know what I mean, 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.000 there's other there's other places where there's tensions on the 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.679 rise and stuff like that. So it's not even like 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.399 I understand, it's like I am not surprised that white 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.200 Western media is focusing on their white Western ship, you 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.399 know what I'm saying. But for people who aren't like 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.960 tunnel visions into that, you know what I'm saying, maybe 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.320 you should, you know, go and and and read about 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.080 some of the other things that are going on over 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.439 the world because this Ukraine ship, as bad as it is, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.760 it is going to take up twenty four hour news 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.600 coverage at least for like the next year and a 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.119 half maybe two years, so you guys probably won't be 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.000 hearing about much else. And I appreciate you framing it 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.520 that way because we either see like leftists making fun 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.480 of like libs about like how you don't care about 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.560 war when it's when it's brown people, and like libs 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.879 being like not, you know not now, like you know 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.760 why you gotta distract from like those issues those issues 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.800 are about too, But we're focused on Ukraine right now, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.800 like rather than people just having a genuine dialogue about this, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.719 instead of folks that have a more robust antipe war 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.199 stands where they are pretension you know, paying attention to 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.840 conflicts internet, like genuinely international, not general international, more like 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.680 a more broad of international conflicts. Can comment on that, 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.800 not just when the war is on white people, right, Um, 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.000 maybe read up on this, Maybe find out about this 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.880 rather than like poking fun at folks for not having known, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.600 because it's not I don't think it's just like the 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.280 regular average person's fault that they don't know about this. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.000 It's the meaning and then tell you on top of that, 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.520 on top of that, on top of that with like 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.760 some of these leftists who say ship like that, it's 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.320 like nigga, I don't never hear you talking about ship 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.000 that's going on until so, you know what I mean. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:36.160 It's like this opportunity to kind of be your point, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.000 but also why you have be like that, Like just 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.240 the point, the point is valid. I'm not hating on 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.240 the point, but it's just like you gotta you yourself, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.360 have to be consistent, you know what I mean. So 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.359 if I'm watching your ship, if I'm listening to you 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.360 and you're somebody that I listened to on the regular, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.800 and you weren't talking about fucking Brakino Fasso, you know 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.960 what I mean? Two months ago when the ship went down. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.119 Then don't be like, why are you talking about Ukraine? 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:00.840 Their stuff going on, and you know I don't don't 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:05.320 do that now, like yeah, everybody shows some humility, like 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.479 I just you know, I just found out about this. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.600 I want to raise some awareness about it. Oh thank 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.600 you French kidding me about that, rather than just like 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.200 being so stubborn about like I'm right, you're wrong. I'm 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.000 right about this thing. I found out about two weeks 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:22.200 ago about it. Today, I'll find links down the line. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:26.320 But there there are you know, there's there's YouTube channels 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.639 that cover African news and African politics and African occurrences, 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.440 tons of them. I mean there's fifty four fifty six 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.520 countries in Africa, so you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.199 there's there's people who are covering these things that you 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.440 can find if you look for it. I'm just saying again, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.760 I am not surprised that these things don't get covered 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.840 by people who don't have an you know, feel that 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:51.000 don't necessarily have an interest in it. I do. And 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.480 I'm just just spreading that out there for people who 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.320 also think that they might that there's a lot, there's 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.520 a lot of problems in the world, so many problems 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.440 in the world, so many Well, let's take a break 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.760 in and get into this interview with me. Guy, let's 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:13.480 do it, all right, We'll be right back after the job. Alright, alright, alright, 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.360 So today we are here with Mika Gaston. I don't 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.840 even know you wear so many hats, like like you 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.159 are Charleston. To me, I'm like, oh you mean you 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.640 mean Mika City, you know, like her queendom. I will 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.480 let you intro yourself for all our listeners this week, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.480 are no problem and thank you first and foremost. Talking 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.600 about wearing many hats. Uh, you do it all yourself. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.120 But yeah, I'm Mika Gadston. I'm based here in Charleston, 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.160 South Carolina. Um. I am the daughter of Jim Crow 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:50.080 refugees so are relocated to Charleston probably about eight years 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.360 or so ago. Um. But uh yeah, I'm a I'm 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.520 an activist, I'm an organizer, I'm a gad fly. Um. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.720 I pissed people off. I interrogate power and all that, 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.040