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Speaker 1: All right, We're back once again, another week of politics
Speaker 1: and hip hop. What's going on in your world, dope knife, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've in recent weeks. I've hit that bug where I've
Speaker 1: just been working on a lot of rapidy rap raps,
Speaker 1: so I'll have some stuff for people listen too soon.
Speaker 1: But other than that, it's been hard to avoid keeping
Speaker 1: up with the election. As of when we're recording this,
Speaker 1: it's seven days away, but when you guys hear this,
Speaker 1: it should be five days before the election between Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Joe Biden. There's already been unprecedented early voting,
Speaker 1: so millions and millions of people have already voted. And
Speaker 1: at this point it's so close that you know, what
Speaker 1: else is there to say? How are you feeling about
Speaker 1: the whole thing? I'm good. I'm mostly looking ahead towards
Speaker 1: November four with regards to just like organizing for whatever
Speaker 1: aftermath of the election comes, knowing that best case scenario
Speaker 1: is still massive civil unrest either way, and so um
Speaker 1: just yeah, connecting with comrades and like Atlanta and like
Speaker 1: within like anarchists and anti fascist circles here in Athens.
Speaker 1: Regarding Mike, what are we gonna do? What I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, just in all fairness, we don't know that
Speaker 1: there's going to be civil unrest, you know, but it
Speaker 1: is always good to prepare for it. I mean, best
Speaker 1: case scenario, one of them could win decisively and no
Speaker 1: one's mad, and the demoralized, demoralized people uh ransack J C. Pennies,
Speaker 1: demoralized people crawl through broken plate glass windows to steal
Speaker 1: jewelry off a mannequins, Like, yeah, are you just thinking
Speaker 1: about this for the first time? I'm in No, of
Speaker 1: course not. But there's definitely like a Y two K
Speaker 1: sort of vibe to it where I don't want to
Speaker 1: be on the record saying that the end is coming
Speaker 1: and then it doesn't, you know. I mean, I'm old
Speaker 1: enough to remember when motherfucker's thought they were going to
Speaker 1: put people in FEMA camps. That never happened. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: cross their tru Yeah, we'll cross that bridge when we
Speaker 1: get there. How are you feeling about the outcome of
Speaker 1: the election or do you just are you completelytimistic? I mean,
Speaker 1: like I feel like either way, like the fight goes on.
Speaker 1: I would prefer Joe Biden as an enemy. I would
Speaker 1: prefer John ass Off as an enemy. I would prefer
Speaker 1: Raphael Warnock as an enemy. And so um. The fact
Speaker 1: that they are all doing well on the poles here
Speaker 1: in Georgia is a point of uplift for me. So
Speaker 1: as a question, not to get too off topic, but
Speaker 1: given given what the what the other side has to offer,
Speaker 1: what do you would you like? Do you would you
Speaker 1: consider John ass Off to be an enemy or we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to fight him to fight him for? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is there no difference between an enemy and opposition? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to fight either of these people for
Speaker 1: like basic rights to like healthcare and housing. I would
Speaker 1: much rather right John ausuf on it then David Purdue.
Speaker 1: And but I'm not saying there's no difference between that.
Speaker 1: I would I would prefer John Auto because there is
Speaker 1: a difference between these two sides. I don't see them
Speaker 1: as equally one size diametrically opposed. All that I stand
Speaker 1: with stand for the other I feel like just doesn't
Speaker 1: get it. So, you know, not to hate, you know,
Speaker 1: I voted for both of those cats. I voted for
Speaker 1: all these cats. Last week. UM went down down to
Speaker 1: vote on the first day of early voting, and the
Speaker 1: line was wrapped around the block, And so I took
Speaker 1: a time lapse video of the line, posting it online. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was actually chastised by fellow commissioner who said,
Speaker 1: with long lines become the story and depresses turn out
Speaker 1: like it was like a disservice I had done to
Speaker 1: the public to let people know that the lines along.
Speaker 1: Maybe pack a snack, maybe bring a friend, maybe loads
Speaker 1: some loads some episodes of Watchman onto your phone. Well,
Speaker 1: what's the suggestion that, like people just it's better for
Speaker 1: people to show up there and be surprised by a lot.
Speaker 1: They're more likely to walk away from that want of
Speaker 1: people to know where they're getting into. I want folks to,
Speaker 1: you know, bring change with the parking leader meter, get
Speaker 1: time off works, and the responsibility from their calendar for
Speaker 1: an hour or two if need be. There's no sense
Speaker 1: in denying the facts. A ton of people are trying
Speaker 1: to vote early, perhaps because of the scaremongering around mail
Speaker 1: and ballots and tamporary with the post office has gotten
Speaker 1: to people. I really think the right has won the
Speaker 1: discourse with regards to mail and voting. Well, the right
Speaker 1: definitely does propaganda way better than the left does, so
Speaker 1: you know, their messaging is just more on point, just
Speaker 1: in terms of how much they drone any particular thing
Speaker 1: that they want a message at a time, and I
Speaker 1: want to make one thing very clear. I feel like
Speaker 1: I told it like a very sin line between like,
Speaker 1: you know, I believe people should engage typically in every
Speaker 1: way they can, while recognizing some shit is disrect For example,
Speaker 1: Thomala Harris tweeted out something like vote and you can
Speaker 1: change two things. And I saw, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of leftist sounding off in the response that she had
Speaker 1: been appointed to the second highest position possible without ever
Speaker 1: having received a single ballot cast in her favor in
Speaker 1: the presidential primary. And so yes, some should have just rigged.
Speaker 1: But because some should have just rigged, it's necessary for
Speaker 1: us to push at every point of weakness in the
Speaker 1: system possible, including uh, spitting in the face of voter
Speaker 1: suppression by voting by any means necessary. Most of deff,
Speaker 1: I mean, if your vote didn't mean anything, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: be trying so hard to prevent you from voting. And
Speaker 1: make no mistake, they there there is a side that
Speaker 1: is actively trying to prevent people from voting black people, specifically,
Speaker 1: so you know, you should be a middle finger in
Speaker 1: their face because of that alone. Now is presidential election
Speaker 1: tumbles towards us with daily reports of bold face voter
Speaker 1: suppression by the way of ballot purging, mail tampering, and disinformation.
Speaker 1: This episode, we discuss America's uneven history with its citizens
Speaker 1: right to vote, as well as dive into what role,
Speaker 1: if any, hip hop has played in electoral politics. I
Speaker 1: want to just like frame this idea of voting around
Speaker 1: the idea of just like resisting ah voter suppression and
Speaker 1: just like really in this small way, but small but
Speaker 1: powerful way, like agitating against so many forces at play
Speaker 1: and that have been at play historically that I've tried
Speaker 1: to disenfranchise us from what through our really shitty civics
Speaker 1: education available to us in America is framed as like
Speaker 1: the highest form of participation in the government, Like oh go,
Speaker 1: you know, you do your you do your mock collections
Speaker 1: in your fourth grade class, and everyone puts your little
Speaker 1: you know, I remember putting my little Native vote in
Speaker 1: the ballot box, you know, and we tabulate, you know,
Speaker 1: and like it's seen as like this is how you participate,
Speaker 1: and that like marching and all these other things like
Speaker 1: are seen as like historical. Do you think it's Do
Speaker 1: you think it's because of the easiest form of participation,
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. That's what I'm trying. That's what
Speaker 1: I like to lay out today, that it's it's not
Speaker 1: even and because it's hard, it's it's worth doing. UM
Speaker 1: I'd say it's easier to go stand in the street
Speaker 1: and yell no justice, no peace for two hours and
Speaker 1: block traffic. I enjoyed, I personally enjoyed a great deal
Speaker 1: more than going to vote. But because it's hard is
Speaker 1: why it's so valuable to do. And so let's take
Speaker 1: a trip back through time, starting back in eighteen seventy,
Speaker 1: when the fifteenth Amendment was ratified. UM, I can look
Speaker 1: a little bit about the history of voter suppression in America.
Speaker 1: So back in the seventh decade of the eight hundreds,
Speaker 1: states were prohibited from disenfranchising voter is on a koind
Speaker 1: of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. However, it
Speaker 1: did not provide automatic writing voting rights for African Americans. UM,
Speaker 1: and Congress did not enforce a fifteen Amendment immediately. UM. Tennessee,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, was the last state to
Speaker 1: formally ratify the fifteen Amendment in guess what year, nineteen
Speaker 1: nine seven seven. I can only imagine how many obvious
Speaker 1: laws were passed like recently, I know, UM Alabama didn't
Speaker 1: make interracial marriage legal until two thousand and showed, oh no,
Speaker 1: our country is backwards. So by eighteen seventy twenty eight
Speaker 1: states that adopted a version of these laws prohibiting convicted
Speaker 1: felons the right to vote. According to the Journal of
Speaker 1: Criminal Law and Criminology, some states still enact these laws.
Speaker 1: Literacy tests were implemented to stop those who were uneducated
Speaker 1: from participating in the voting process. The tests were administered
Speaker 1: by those in charge of the voting red frustration and
Speaker 1: often discriminated against African Americans. You gotta remember that African
Speaker 1: Americans who took part in these tests for the descendants
Speaker 1: of slaves, who were not allowed to read or write
Speaker 1: in supple states to antiliteracy law. So like five years
Speaker 1: before the right like literally right before this, like it
Speaker 1: was illegal for them to read a write. Suddenly they
Speaker 1: have the right to vote. They're like, wow, you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to read a write. Bit So, according to
Speaker 1: the American Civil Liberties Union, only two states Vermont, you
Speaker 1: have everyone the uninhibited right to vote. UM Free States
Speaker 1: UM currently disenfranchised fells from voting permanently. Iowa, Kentucky, and Virginia.
Speaker 1: Poll taxes meant to prevent people of color from voting,
Speaker 1: continued into the twentieth century. Now, as of nineteen sixty four, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia,
Speaker 1: they all clung to the poll taxes. And that was
Speaker 1: reported in the New York Times. And that's all the
Speaker 1: way back in nineteen sixty four. Poll taxes were abolished
Speaker 1: in nine four with the Fourth Amendment, and literacy tests
Speaker 1: were outlawed under the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. However,
Speaker 1: Florida still makes formally in cautrate to people pay off
Speaker 1: their fines before being able to vote, which some have
Speaker 1: called a modern poll tax, which brings us to um
Speaker 1: the villain, the true villain. Like I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's like a comic book analog for like Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the true villain? Who is Michael Bloomberg and like
Speaker 1: the Marvel cinematic universe of presidential election. Now, you might
Speaker 1: have to give me some d C in that. Okay,
Speaker 1: gave me some of that. Well, Mike Bloomberg is kind
Speaker 1: of like Dark Knight returns Batman in a way. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's like he definitely thinks he's the
Speaker 1: good guy. So that's that would be a big difference
Speaker 1: between him and like, uh, you know, diabolical evil genius
Speaker 1: who knows that he's diabolical and evil. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: he promised to pour millions in new billions into this
Speaker 1: president election and pretty much hasn't shown up until quite
Speaker 1: recently to do such, raising more than sixteen million dollars
Speaker 1: to pay fines and restitution for convicted bellains in Florida's
Speaker 1: they're able to to vote ahead of election um, adding
Speaker 1: to the five million dollars that was raised by the
Speaker 1: nonpartisan voting rights advocacy group Florida Rights Restoration Correalition. Just
Speaker 1: a little bit of a clip. He has been um
Speaker 1: paying for a lot of ads for Biden, I think
Speaker 1: in Florida as well, but also might be elsewhere. So
Speaker 1: you know, good job for him, clap club. It just
Speaker 1: sucks that, you know, contributions like that can only come
Speaker 1: from as far left as Mike Bloomberg. You know, I
Speaker 1: imagine there are some rich, rich people whose politics are
Speaker 1: a bit more in line with mine than Mike Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: But you know, definitely the right has that sort of
Speaker 1: shipped on lock. I mean fucking Republicans they spend money
Speaker 1: on that on ship like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like the Republican billionaires and conservative billionaires, they fund think
Speaker 1: tanks and they on YouTube channels and failed comedians, infringe
Speaker 1: professors and whatever other little sneaky ship they can do
Speaker 1: to spread their ideology and their messaging and their propaganda
Speaker 1: and to actually get cold hard policy passed in their favor. So,
Speaker 1: you know, good for Bloomberg got to play the game.
Speaker 1: So Lebron James and his More Than a Vote group
Speaker 1: recently announced a partnership with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Speaker 1: to help Florida voters with past felony convictions. James team
Speaker 1: fellow NBA players Trey Young, Skylar Diggin Smith, and other
Speaker 1: black celebrities and athletes from the Voter Rights Organization with
Speaker 1: the goal to fight against voter suppression. And so all
Speaker 1: of this to me, I mean I feel like you
Speaker 1: here oftentimes like you know, vote because our our fore
Speaker 1: fathers and four mothers fought for the right. And it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: that's true, but I find it I'm more much more
Speaker 1: generative framing. It's a lot easier to do things out
Speaker 1: of younger than out of respect. Um. I think that
Speaker 1: has animated a lot of the like brunch liberal organizing
Speaker 1: against Trump, the resistance over the last four years, like
Speaker 1: they were sleep. As long as it was organized, it
Speaker 1: was animated by respect for people doing good. As soon
Speaker 1: as it was animated by disdain for those doing evil,
Speaker 1: it was like boom, everyone's a member of you know,
Speaker 1: Surge and whatever. You know, Black lives matter, signs of
Speaker 1: the yard. And so I just want this to anger you.
Speaker 1: I want I want the knowledge of like the poll
Speaker 1: taxes and the literacy tests and the way that the
Speaker 1: poll taxes are still alive today to hold back people
Speaker 1: who are living under the new gym. Crow to piss
Speaker 1: you the fuck off and get you so fired up
Speaker 1: to stick too, middle fingers up in the air to
Speaker 1: these assholes that want to ensure that we continue to
Speaker 1: have no say in our electoral process by fucking getting
Speaker 1: in that fucking line in the rain, And would you
Speaker 1: went rain boots on? Bring you know, stop at Chipotle,
Speaker 1: ber you or burrito, Like call up your homegirl you
Speaker 1: ain't talked to you know, how quick forty five minutes?
Speaker 1: Chat it fucking just go and wait in line of
Speaker 1: vote to say fuck you, but them to say fuck
Speaker 1: you to them. But I think something that's important, at
Speaker 1: least for me, and I don't want to be a
Speaker 1: centrist about this, is we gotta call a spade to Spain.
Speaker 1: There is a political party that is dedicated towards voter
Speaker 1: suppression right now. And for all of our complaints, it's
Speaker 1: not the Democrats, you know what I'm saying. So it's
Speaker 1: just let's just get that out there. Is that if
Speaker 1: the way that Republicans are going, if they had half
Speaker 1: a chance, they literally would be doing like literacy tests
Speaker 1: and ship like that. And I just want to do
Speaker 1: a quick side note. But like when I think about
Speaker 1: my work as an elected official here in Athens, I
Speaker 1: I even think about it as strengthening democracy because voter
Speaker 1: suppression also takes the form of of having to pay
Speaker 1: a dollar seventy five to ride the bus, a bus
Speaker 1: that only comes once an hour. It doesn't take you
Speaker 1: right to your to your destination. Voter suppression is also
Speaker 1: not having paid leave from work. Voter suppression is also
Speaker 1: not having access to affordable childcare. It's not having electually
Speaker 1: not being in a holiday it's uh, not having access
Speaker 1: to affordable healthcare so that you have chronic conditions that
Speaker 1: you know, make it so that you you know, just
Speaker 1: with reguards to the built environment, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: wheel your wheelchair up to the voting booth. You might
Speaker 1: decide not to go because it feels like too daunting,
Speaker 1: And so all of these policies I'm trying to pass
Speaker 1: on the local level, it's like, yes, to improve people's lives,
Speaker 1: but also the idea that like when we lower the
Speaker 1: barriers to to access to civic spaces for folks by
Speaker 1: making fair free, making public transit fair free, by like
Speaker 1: raising a way doesn't get in, mandating paid time off
Speaker 1: and make the election day holiday, and giving people access
Speaker 1: to healthcare and giving people access to sheld care where
Speaker 1: people will participate, and when more people participate, that's when
Speaker 1: should actually gets better. I don't think I can do
Speaker 1: a whole lot of ship, but I can do a
Speaker 1: whole lot more ship if all these barriers are lowered
Speaker 1: and there's a lot more people getting out and voting,
Speaker 1: a lot more people showing up at these town halls,
Speaker 1: a lot more people come in to city hall, a
Speaker 1: lot more people here canvasing and knocking on tours for
Speaker 1: initiatives that they believe in, and so like, uh, I
Speaker 1: think we need to think more broadly about what voter
Speaker 1: suppression means and like what we can accomplish when we
Speaker 1: combat it everywhere. It manifests in that project, and that
Speaker 1: project isn't just oh, you know Stacey Abrams organization like
Speaker 1: making sure there's pull watchers or whatever that is. That's
Speaker 1: the work that goes on year round with regards to
Speaker 1: agitating for policy, Like, that's fighting voters oppression as well.
Speaker 1: And that's not just about casting about it's about making
Speaker 1: the lives of your neighbor is better. And that's something
Speaker 1: that's going to happen on November two. That's what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen on number four in November four, and like it's
Speaker 1: gonna keep going. Life is voter suppression, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? The whole thing is designed so that you
Speaker 1: feel discouraged from voting. Now, I'm gonna have to push
Speaker 1: back on that because I think the ultimate voter suppression
Speaker 1: is being dead. Being alive is it enables voting more
Speaker 1: so than really any other condition ontologically anything short of Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing short of of of being dead. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like with everything that people have
Speaker 1: to worry about in their day to day it does
Speaker 1: sometimes feel like, you know, the whole you know, rat
Speaker 1: rat race, chasing the cheese. It feels like everybody is
Speaker 1: in such a hustle that things like being involved in
Speaker 1: the election process can sometimes seem as like a second
Speaker 1: or third thought, especially in these times when you have
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that the voting is the way that it
Speaker 1: is when you have a pandemic and economic anxiety going on,
Speaker 1: real economic anxiety is there. There needs to be I
Speaker 1: think in America of a reconnection with like civics, you know,
Speaker 1: and just just so that the average person understands, at
Speaker 1: least in theory, how the government is supposed to work,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like that being more of a
Speaker 1: of a broader knowledge to people, even people who don't
Speaker 1: agree with anything that people like us have to say.
Speaker 1: I think based knowledge at a younger age of how
Speaker 1: American government is supposed to operate and function kind of
Speaker 1: disqualifies a lot of trump Ism type. I feel like
Speaker 1: the knowledge of how the government functions is only useful
Speaker 1: when paired with knowledge of how to intercept it. At
Speaker 1: various points collectively to get shipped done, which is what
Speaker 1: not what we're teaching kids in schools. Um, they're seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, people marching in the streets, but they don't
Speaker 1: understand what it takes to put together a rally. They're
Speaker 1: like seeing on the news, like you know, people marching
Speaker 1: on the capitol, but not understanding how those policy demands
Speaker 1: were settled upon by these organizations. And that's civics and
Speaker 1: that's what we need to start teaching you so that yes,
Speaker 1: they vote because they have a very robust repertoire of
Speaker 1: forms of civic engagement that they do year round. But
Speaker 1: do you think we need to teach that in schools?
Speaker 1: And I don't mean from a moral standpoint, I just
Speaker 1: mean from like do we really I mean, what type
Speaker 1: of what type of protests are you going to learn
Speaker 1: in school? Like officially? Like isn't that more something that
Speaker 1: you pick up like outside of the system, because that's
Speaker 1: how it has worked traditionally. But imagine if we taught
Speaker 1: like community organizing as a part of our civis education.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you remember learning about civics in school? Oh?
Speaker 1: I went to a series of international schools as a kid,
Speaker 1: so I definitely got a bit more of a robust
Speaker 1: education about how American government and politics operated when I
Speaker 1: was younger. Um, something that comes to mind that I
Speaker 1: guess kind of plays into what you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: remember in eighth grade, I think it was I had
Speaker 1: a teacher who off the books gave us a or
Speaker 1: I should say off the record, gave us a for
Speaker 1: class textbook that year was this book called Don't Know
Speaker 1: Much about American History, and it was just kind of
Speaker 1: like a debunking of all the traditional historic stories that
Speaker 1: you're told and then it gives you the you know,
Speaker 1: real hardcore truth about what happened in that particular incident.
Speaker 1: But that was like our whole textbook for history class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never I've never had a civics class. Um, I've
Speaker 1: only ever taken like social studies were like this is
Speaker 1: how a bill becomes a lot, but not like you know,
Speaker 1: if the Senate does this and that, you'll show up
Speaker 1: at d C with a hundred thousand of your homegirls
Speaker 1: and you know, fucking fight. Well, this is We're going
Speaker 1: to kind of get into this when we do the
Speaker 1: music discussion. But I feel like situations like that are
Speaker 1: where hip hop could easily fill in that gap where
Speaker 1: you know, motherfucker's just incorporating ship like that into their
Speaker 1: music so that people are at least picking up some
Speaker 1: knowledge and stuff, you know, some fucking schoolhouse rock type ship. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's move on and talk a little bit about modern
Speaker 1: forms of voter suppression. Definitely, so we're seeing again some
Speaker 1: of the Republicans frequently do right before an election, which
Speaker 1: is a launch of voter fraud investigations in order to
Speaker 1: suppress turn out. For example, this happened in two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen ahead of Alabama's special state election, when Republican Secretary
Speaker 1: of State John Merrow claimed that nearly seven people had
Speaker 1: illegally voted in the Republican primary. He wanted to prosecute
Speaker 1: the alleged offenders for felonies that would carry it prison
Speaker 1: sentimps up to ten years, but appropriate judges ultimately found
Speaker 1: that a hundred for people had voted in the Democratic
Speaker 1: primary then illegally voted in the Republican parties runoff. It's
Speaker 1: likely because of so called crossover voting, which was legal
Speaker 1: until the state legislature and made it a crime earlier
Speaker 1: that year. A change Merrold did very little to make
Speaker 1: the public aware of because it did not finis narrative. UM,
Speaker 1: so the judges recommended no cases for prosecution and the
Speaker 1: issue just ended just quietly. It was a non event.
Speaker 1: Even so, he made a huge deal of the voters oppression,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get them for felonies, and it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: they didn't realize they're breaking a law because previously you
Speaker 1: were totally allowed to vote a Democratic primary and then
Speaker 1: a Republican run off. UM. But it generated these scary
Speaker 1: headlines about voter fraud and felonies carrying ten years sentences
Speaker 1: and was effective in suppressing the turnout. It's all part
Speaker 1: of their narrative. In Georgia, in two thousand and eighteen,
Speaker 1: two days before the mid term, Secretary of State Brian
Speaker 1: Kemp he came out with an explosive announcement. So he
Speaker 1: said they were investigating the state Democratic Party for attempting
Speaker 1: to hack the state's voter registration system. At the time,
Speaker 1: Kemp was both the state's top election official and the
Speaker 1: Republican nominee for governor in a dead heat race against
Speaker 1: Democrat Stacey Abrams. Kemp had a history could have had
Speaker 1: a bad bitch. Kemp had a history of bogus voter
Speaker 1: fraud allegations against his political opponents, and many recognized this
Speaker 1: brazen tactic. At the time. Election law expert Rick Hanson
Speaker 1: called it perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration
Speaker 1: partisanship in the modern era. Just basically banana republic type stuff. Quote.
Speaker 1: But the allegation allowed Kemp to accuse his opponent and
Speaker 1: the opposition party of a serious crime, distracting from his
Speaker 1: own failures as Secretary of State. Kempt won a narrow
Speaker 1: victory by less than fifty five thousand votes. I remember that,
Speaker 1: should I remember that that I knew exactly what he
Speaker 1: was doing and knew exactly what he was trying to do.
Speaker 1: Didn't realize at the time. There's a part of a
Speaker 1: long standing Republican playbook, and here it is happening again
Speaker 1: with the Trump Justice Department successfully generating news about voter fraud. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a central strategy once again to the
Speaker 1: Trump campaign Republican National Committee to fight court battles, to
Speaker 1: make it harder to vote by a mail, and to
Speaker 1: prepare to contest absentee ballots after the election, and recently,
Speaker 1: UM in Wisconsin, they ruled the Wisconsin Supreme Court rule
Speaker 1: that I have to stop counting absentee ballots at midnight
Speaker 1: on election day, which I'm not sure about Wisconsin law,
Speaker 1: but most places, Georgie included, they can't even start counting
Speaker 1: absentee ballots until election day, which gives them like a
Speaker 1: twelve hour window in which to count what could be
Speaker 1: tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of absiditty ballots.
Speaker 1: And like you know, and the and the pressure that
Speaker 1: puts on the polling staff, the people that are in
Speaker 1: there counting these fucking ballots and ship like, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just like anyone that tries to say supreme courts
Speaker 1: of anything, our neutral entities, that just no, these niggas,
Speaker 1: it's sucking appointed by the Republicans, and they do their bidding,
Speaker 1: consume their narratives and get them the festers in their brains,
Speaker 1: like you know, damn black mold. Yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do something about these courts, just in terms of
Speaker 1: a strategy to get around them. There's something, but that's
Speaker 1: a topic for a whole another episode there. We've got
Speaker 1: what's going on in Texas. So Governor Abbott in October
Speaker 1: made a declaration that there be just one ballad drop
Speaker 1: box in each county. He said it would help curb
Speaker 1: legal voting, mirroring President Donald Trump's claims made without evidence,
Speaker 1: that postal voting is a major source of electoral fraud,
Speaker 1: despite Federal Election Commission rejecting these claims. But you know,
Speaker 1: there there there was a back and forth. At one
Speaker 1: point a judge ruled that he couldn't do it, But
Speaker 1: as of now of us recording it, another judge is
Speaker 1: ruled in his favor. So there is going to be
Speaker 1: only one ballad drop box. This this is ridiculous. This
Speaker 1: is And then in California you had Republicans setting up
Speaker 1: fake ballad drop boxes. Fucking fake drop boxes. Think about
Speaker 1: that ship. That's like a crime. Let this enrage you,
Speaker 1: Let this boil your blood and bring you near tears,
Speaker 1: and on the brink of tearing. Every fall a coal
Speaker 1: of hair from your scalp, and fucking blastsom goddamn R
Speaker 1: T J or whatever you listen to. Reel out in
Speaker 1: your car as you roll up and pop out, lock
Speaker 1: your doors and put a little bit of change in
Speaker 1: the meter. Get out, pop up your umbrella, if it's
Speaker 1: raining standing on my fucking line, vote early in person,
Speaker 1: because clearly they want these ballot boxes. Man, if I
Speaker 1: can win these ballot boxes, they're trying to make it
Speaker 1: so that they're gonna stop counting the ballots at midnight
Speaker 1: on election night, all this ship is going to be crazy,
Speaker 1: illegal battles on one step at a time. All we
Speaker 1: can do, we can do, we can control. All we
Speaker 1: can do is do and like, if you're going to participate,
Speaker 1: then just make sure you know how you're going to
Speaker 1: vote in the next five to seven days. Make sure
Speaker 1: you if you're gonna wait for election day, make sure
Speaker 1: you have your plan in place, bring a friend, bring
Speaker 1: a family member, and uh yeah, you know that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's all we can really do is to just you know,
Speaker 1: if you're paying attention, then you know what the stakes
Speaker 1: are so out there and do your part and be
Speaker 1: safe while you're doing it. So let's get into the
Speaker 1: music discussion. So as we uh, you know, as the
Speaker 1: election approaches. This being a hip hop show, we kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to delve in and talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about some examples of instances and time when rappers have
Speaker 1: perhaps expressed their opinions on this elect election system of
Speaker 1: ours or even tried to off directly. Yeah, both, you know,
Speaker 1: just through statements to the media as well as in
Speaker 1: their music. So recently Blue Face said, hell, nah, he's
Speaker 1: not voting, quoted in double excel as having said, I
Speaker 1: don't know, na I, I really I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just ain't in that stage in my life. And he's
Speaker 1: as look at my face, you think they give a
Speaker 1: funk who I vote for, which I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like he's not wrong in the sense that like when
Speaker 1: we when we think of black voters as a monolith,
Speaker 1: the're thinking about like black lower middle to middle class
Speaker 1: like folks that are not a part of Like no,
Speaker 1: they're not running in the underground economy, they're not aspiring rappers.
Speaker 1: These are the folks that are like pretty much cast
Speaker 1: as disposable with regards to car salty like, oh, like
Speaker 1: any day now is Nick is gonna end up in
Speaker 1: prison and disenfranchise and can't vote anyway, So why would
Speaker 1: we like seek them out and seek their votes? And
Speaker 1: so like I can't I can't really be mad at
Speaker 1: him for feeling like they don't they don't give a
Speaker 1: funk who you vote for. A blue Face, especially as
Speaker 1: like a personal choice, and I don't mind that at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But interestingly, yeah, a Snoop Dogg said he'll be voting
Speaker 1: for the first time next this month. And see, Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg isn't that stage in his life. He's like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg is forty years old, He's in that stage
Speaker 1: of life. He's that demographic. He says, I ain't never
Speaker 1: voted a day in my life, but this year, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna get out and vote because I can't
Speaker 1: stand into this punkin office one more year, referring to Trump.
Speaker 1: For many years they had me brainwashing thing that you
Speaker 1: couldn't vote because you had a criminal record. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that my record has been expunged to now can vote,
Speaker 1: which is a very very real phenomena. And also, I
Speaker 1: gotta say in it's that's refreshing to hear a rapper
Speaker 1: that doesn't support Nazis. It's definitely a breath of fresh air,
Speaker 1: since that's a it's a hard thing from Motherfux to do. Now. Apparently,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget the story that one of my colleagues
Speaker 1: on the Commission told me of Canvas being in a
Speaker 1: black neighborhood and encounter a man who told her that
Speaker 1: he couldn't vote for her because he was a felon,
Speaker 1: And she explained to him that, you know, once you
Speaker 1: have served your promotion time, when you're off parole or whatever,
Speaker 1: when he's starting, you've painting all your fines, you can
Speaker 1: get your right to vote back. This man literally cried.
Speaker 1: He broke down and cried in front of her because
Speaker 1: he had been eligible to vote since Obama's uh first
Speaker 1: term in office, and he didn't realize and he cried
Speaker 1: knowing that he could have voted for the first black president.
Speaker 1: He did it didn't get a chance to ye. And
Speaker 1: so thinking about just what I mean, like fucking felons
Speaker 1: should be like, well you should everyone should be able
Speaker 1: to vote in jail. Well, I mean, but I will
Speaker 1: accept as a compromise automatic voter registration that includes folks
Speaker 1: that immediately upon your release. That's the whole that should be.
Speaker 1: The whole purpose of like going going in and serving
Speaker 1: your time is that you come out and you have
Speaker 1: of a second chance. I don't understand where even the
Speaker 1: concept of like, yo, somebody is going to go and
Speaker 1: do their bid and then come out and be less
Speaker 1: of a citizen than everybody else. It just doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense now. All the way back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, H. P. Diddy used his voice and platform
Speaker 1: to try to directly affect the two thousand four election
Speaker 1: between George Bush and John Kerry. UM Citizen Change was
Speaker 1: a nonpartisan political service group founded in two thousand four
Speaker 1: by P. Diddy. It was backed by Mary J. Blige,
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey, fifty cent, and others who started with the
Speaker 1: aim to get young people and minorities to vote. The
Speaker 1: endeavor had P. Diddy touring campuses around the country in
Speaker 1: a private jet dubbed Air Force Change, and they were
Speaker 1: pledging that voting was sexy and cool as the you know,
Speaker 1: Bush Kerry election approach. The slogan that they had plastered
Speaker 1: all over T shirts and TV and posters everywhere that
Speaker 1: whole summer was voter Die Now. Despite Diddy's best efforts
Speaker 1: and mt VS twenty million loud voter registration campaign UM
Speaker 1: young people. While they did turnout in record numbers, they
Speaker 1: pretty much made up the same percentage as they did
Speaker 1: overall in two thousand, so it didn't really make that
Speaker 1: much of a difference in the election. And George Bush won. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, some people have attributed the tone deafness and
Speaker 1: the corny nous as to why Citizen Change didn't really
Speaker 1: have that much of an impact on the election. Two
Speaker 1: of its main faces, Paris Hilton and fifty cent at
Speaker 1: the time, we're both publicly not even registered to vote
Speaker 1: at the time, and the irreverent nature of the slogan
Speaker 1: voter die was just you know, and got spoofed on
Speaker 1: South par Yeah, it's just like I mean, still I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out exactly what what voter die
Speaker 1: means at this point. You know, there's you could you
Speaker 1: could go and look up interviews of p did He
Speaker 1: explaining it, But um, I think you're still gonna be
Speaker 1: wondering what do you mean? What do you meant by it?
Speaker 1: Citizen Change would eventually come under fire from the conservative
Speaker 1: organization the National Legal Policy Center for violating election law
Speaker 1: and promoting Kerry and opposing Bush. Funk all that a
Speaker 1: decade later, though, back in did he had done a
Speaker 1: complete reversal and was of the opinion that voting was
Speaker 1: a scam and it wasn't something that you should participate in.
Speaker 1: But recently and as recently, as July, he's come around
Speaker 1: and he's said that, you know, Trump is a existential
Speaker 1: threat and we got to get rid of them, so
Speaker 1: people should vote to get rid of I can't even
Speaker 1: be mad at that either. I feel like when we
Speaker 1: talk about being strategic and being practical, it's also looking
Speaker 1: at the particular dynamics of a given election and uh,
Speaker 1: deciding whether or not it's I don't know where you
Speaker 1: want to put your efforts. Yeah, I mean, look, it's
Speaker 1: it's the same the same thing. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sound like a broken record everybody, but it's the same
Speaker 1: thing that I was saying last time. Every year that
Speaker 1: comes around, they tell you, hey, this is the most
Speaker 1: important election of your lifetime or ship like that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're if you know what there is to know,
Speaker 1: then you know that most of the times they say
Speaker 1: that it's bullshit. It's still kind of up to you
Speaker 1: to decide whether you feel that way about this election.
Speaker 1: But I definitely feel that way about this election. So
Speaker 1: with that, I definitely don't I do not judge anybody
Speaker 1: who is voting with like like a sense of survival.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like looking into some of the songs
Speaker 1: that in which folks have addressed voting, voting in elections
Speaker 1: and stuff. All right, yeah, so two of these songs
Speaker 1: have a pretty um strong video component that's kind of
Speaker 1: important to the overall message. First up, we got the
Speaker 1: Eminem song mash off his two thousand four album Encore
Speaker 1: Now in the set the same two thousand and four election. Uh,
Speaker 1: As the summer came to a close, you had Michael
Speaker 1: Moore's Fahrenheit nine eleven come out, and a bunch of
Speaker 1: celebrities started making a lot more overtly political statements and
Speaker 1: you know, being you know, making their anti war, anti
Speaker 1: Bush stance is a lot more obvious, and this would
Speaker 1: be Eminem's contribution to that. So let's check this out
Speaker 1: on videos animated and has a little documentation of a
Speaker 1: cartoon character going to Iraq and protesting, mass protesting in
Speaker 1: the streets, things of that nature. It's definitely one of
Speaker 1: those songs where you know, he has a fun Bush
Speaker 1: line in there in the imagery and the video, but
Speaker 1: the song itself is not necessarily laser focused on bashing Bush.
Speaker 1: I have a song kind of goes hard. It's a
Speaker 1: dope song, and you know what it's for me? It's
Speaker 1: definitely one of the songs where it was better when
Speaker 1: I was younger. It's not it's not prescriptive in terms
Speaker 1: of like how to engage. He's like articulating like let's
Speaker 1: let's band together, everybody in the middle and the sides,
Speaker 1: let's all grew up, let's march, let's be together, but
Speaker 1: not like marching to the polling booth to like and
Speaker 1: that like kind of quartified voted away. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: feel you, And I don't want to speak for Eminem,
Speaker 1: but I feel like through this song, in the publicity
Speaker 1: that they made around it, in around it being an
Speaker 1: anti Bush song, I just more so think this is
Speaker 1: like a cultural play where it's just bringing into awareness. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm the most popular rapper on the planet, and I'm
Speaker 1: saying fuck Bush. You know what I'm saying. I think
Speaker 1: that was I think he felt that was an important
Speaker 1: message to get out there or an important stance that
Speaker 1: his fans know that he has. This is an industry
Speaker 1: protest song. Whereas same artist, Eminem, same general time period.
Speaker 1: Two on his album The Eminem Show, he had a
Speaker 1: song called white America that has a verse on there
Speaker 1: that is pretty, you know, vividly anti Bush. It's it's
Speaker 1: like two years before this election took place, but I
Speaker 1: think it illustrates more of his views on like the
Speaker 1: administration and just his views on the war. I think
Speaker 1: it did a lot of that better than this song.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure those are like the only two lines,
Speaker 1: the fun Bush part and tie it to that real
Speaker 1: to the actual to the contection video is much more
Speaker 1: a statement against the Bush administration than I the song is.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's a really interesting tendency in
Speaker 1: hip hop that like it makes me think it like
Speaker 1: this as America or like EMM and Fans point Rain,
Speaker 1: where like the visual adds this dimension of context to
Speaker 1: the lyrics that like makes it more pointedly political. Um um. Next,
Speaker 1: we have so the legendary group Black Sheep. Drezz from
Speaker 1: Black Sheep. Around two thousand eight, he decided to go
Speaker 1: all in for Obama and he made a reworking of
Speaker 1: their classic song the Choice is Yours. You know, you
Speaker 1: can go with this, you can go with that, you
Speaker 1: can go with this, and he made like, you know,
Speaker 1: a whole redo of the song while working with Austin
Speaker 1: based production house Um House Voodoo Cowboy Entertainment. That's the name,
Speaker 1: and they made this pro Obama track Choices Yours remix.
Speaker 1: What I feel sads with me. He's got my back
Speaker 1: to night. You know what I'm saying, people, you need
Speaker 1: to catch it. Okay, uh, please, this is two thousand eight.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep things in proper perspective. Please. I understand
Speaker 1: that forty year old black rapper in two thousand its
Speaker 1: excited enough about Obama to make a rap song about it.
Speaker 1: I do not begrudge him of that. Like, it's not
Speaker 1: like Barack Obama was running for abice, Like I am
Speaker 1: going to be really centrist. I promise I won't change much,
Speaker 1: but you can hope. Yeah, I would have. Now. This
Speaker 1: song definitely has more lines in it that are relevant
Speaker 1: to the election, but um, the video still does come
Speaker 1: into play heavily. There's imagery of Sarah Palin John McCain
Speaker 1: US stock exchange crashing to illustrate the recession going on
Speaker 1: at the time, and then naturally when they get to
Speaker 1: the hook, they're saying, you can get with this, so
Speaker 1: you can get with that, showing you the choice between
Speaker 1: Obama and McCain. The choice is yours. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm unoffended by that I I I was old
Speaker 1: enough to know that or to remember like the excitement
Speaker 1: about Obama. Then I get it. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: you know? Yeah? And I mean, even in crafting the
Speaker 1: wraps for this week's episode, thinking about having to wrap
Speaker 1: about voting, I feel fucking lamb of shit. There's just
Speaker 1: not a way to make it cool other than well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to make a vote because fuck them.
Speaker 1: Let me give everybody a little insight into how things
Speaker 1: are made. Right. So, the the only real rule that
Speaker 1: we really give ourselves for when we're coming up with
Speaker 1: some of these verses for the rap part is it's
Speaker 1: just generally rapping about the subject. But we can go
Speaker 1: whatever direction we go with it. We can go with that.
Speaker 1: Can you go with this? All right? Days by I'm sorry, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so yellow paints my vote don't count. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: a little bit of this. It was three branches of
Speaker 1: the government. We forgot it when we got o. It's
Speaker 1: the judicial, the legislative, and executive governor and the president.
Speaker 1: Just keeping it real. God damn, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of um there's a lot of people who could probably
Speaker 1: learn a lot from that song. Yo, I'm about to
Speaker 1: put that in my service classes when I get out
Speaker 1: its PhD though straight up? That define all right? You know,
Speaker 1: like these judges run uncontested. The state house races are uncontested.
Speaker 1: We don't know who our congress people are. We don't
Speaker 1: see them out in our communities, but they're the ones
Speaker 1: that are putting the fucking legislation on the executive branches
Speaker 1: desk to vote to a firm a vitao. And it's simple.
Speaker 1: It's just like putting the message out there. It's civics.
Speaker 1: There's no difference between what he just did in like
Speaker 1: some schoolhouse rock ship when like my little my older brother,
Speaker 1: like my dad were like younger and ship. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill,
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting here on Capitol. He'll come on, somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody out there has to remember that ship too. It's
Speaker 1: using the power of hip hop to inform people some ship,
Speaker 1: but making it fresh, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it's like we was both bump into it like we
Speaker 1: were hearing the new trapped banger in the nightclub. So
Speaker 1: it's like that that's how you get those messages out there,
Speaker 1: like that and the framing the framing the song is
Speaker 1: called My Vote Don't Count and talking about its own
Speaker 1: personal disillusionment with the system. And yet through it he
Speaker 1: builds an argument for why we've been looking at it
Speaker 1: all the wrong way and actually we need to pay
Speaker 1: more attention than ever because it's not about and that's
Speaker 1: good and it goes back specifics and how and our
Speaker 1: civic imagination. As a country, we view the executive friend
Speaker 1: to the federal government as this pinnacle of where decisions
Speaker 1: get made, whereas the truth is that the judges, your
Speaker 1: superior court, your municipal court, your magistrate court, your sheriff,
Speaker 1: your state housepresentatives, your congress people like those are the
Speaker 1: folks that are gonna be putting legislation on the president's desk.
Speaker 1: Those are the folks that are going to determine whether
Speaker 1: or not you can get your kids back, um you know,
Speaker 1: when you get out of jail, or whether or not
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to wear an ankle monitor, and it's
Speaker 1: going to constrain whether or not you can leave your
Speaker 1: fucking house. All these quality of life issues come down
Speaker 1: to all these other elected positions that they don't they
Speaker 1: don't know how to make important to children in school
Speaker 1: and and and as the adults we don't care about them.
Speaker 1: They well when we say vote and we focus on
Speaker 1: the importance of voting, you know, I think the best
Speaker 1: way to go about doing that without feeling like we're
Speaker 1: just resigning to you know, feeding people more fluff about oh,
Speaker 1: the president, vote for president. That's the most important thing
Speaker 1: is to just, yeah, is to encourage people to vote
Speaker 1: all the time, to actively be engaged for sheriff, Actively
Speaker 1: be engaged with your democracy and like make make put
Speaker 1: the people that you want in charge in charge. But
Speaker 1: don't just don't just do it for the big one
Speaker 1: every four years. Engage with all of them and like
Speaker 1: make tangible change in your community that you're in right now.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, we're gonna get into some wrap
Speaker 1: things in a second. But you know, by the time
Speaker 1: you guys hear this, we are either going to be
Speaker 1: preserving the status quo for another four years or we're
Speaker 1: gonna be getting to some real, some real foul gangs
Speaker 1: and ship And I hope that it's the status quo
Speaker 1: for another four years. And we'll fight that when we
Speaker 1: get there. But that's just me. But all of y'all
Speaker 1: out there, be safe, good luck and you know, fight
Speaker 1: the power. Let's get a beat. Yeah yeah, we're waiting
Speaker 1: on reprobations. Yo. Hey, yo, so take my name to
Speaker 1: your local vallet box to give this information so they
Speaker 1: hope you have forgotten taken from the city streets up
Speaker 1: to the mountain tops. They consider you with threats, so
Speaker 1: your vote they have to stop. Give you obstacles in life.
Speaker 1: They've got lots of those. Can make you feel like
Speaker 1: this vote and ship is kind of impossible, but not
Speaker 1: so though. I ain't with the games in a shame
Speaker 1: if it's not for Joe, but I ain't fucking with you.
Speaker 1: So you guys to go all just trying to block
Speaker 1: and vote. Pull watch tops, approach, find out where it's
Speaker 1: going down and the flocking droves. I sent the absolute
Speaker 1: You don't know what the god is, so do it
Speaker 1: all in person. Don't trust this mail boxes, yo, I
Speaker 1: called myself. They're gonna stop mail if we all go out,
Speaker 1: and we will all not fail. If they steal ship,
Speaker 1: get the Molotov cocktails. Don't marry. You're fifty one to
Speaker 1: try to solve Ross well with a chain ship only
Speaker 1: relatively best pass fascism with a new president of let
Speaker 1: you're ready to fight whoever wins, and know so in
Speaker 1: my middle fingers. In the year streaming voting president election
Speaker 1: is upon us and set up in the making election
Speaker 1: the opposite ain't just about the president, It's also about
Speaker 1: the Senate and the sheep in the corner. Who the
Speaker 1: fund you voting for? Down a ballet candidates they matter
Speaker 1: just much. But most people cast a ballots without looking
Speaker 1: them up. That ship is rookie stoff. They get voted
Speaker 1: and without even working hard, and they fat cat friends
Speaker 1: stay ready in the cookie jot. So looking here, everybody
Speaker 1: knows that's been a cookie here. But on November, Betacy,
Speaker 1: you're playing hookie, joining us in the streets, demanding the
Speaker 1: vote to county, because when we come together, we are
Speaker 1: bigger than our ballots. Bars bars, bars, bars bars. Get
Speaker 1: out of voting out the streets in November for us. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm dope knife Franca. We are waiting. Hurry up. Follow
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