1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: All media. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: This hood politics tapping in was so important to me, 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 2: I felt like I need to do it on video. Also, 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: I'm sure you know LA is under siege I don't 5 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: know how else to say it, by the Marines and 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: the National Guard in response to scattered protests against ICE 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 2: agents capturing about two thousand people, some of which are citizens, 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: some of which are not on some like oopsies and 9 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: just kind of throwing them in holding tanks. And if 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 2: you know anything about LA, won't play that. But I 11 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: want to talk about something particular, which is black love 12 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: and brown pride and some of the black community feeling 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,319 Speaker 2: like we should just sit this one out. I think 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: we need to talk about this type being with its 15 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 2: First of all, let me lay out the sentiment that 16 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: black people are saying right now with sitting this one out. 17 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: When Trump got re elected and we saw mass protests 18 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 2: around Tesla and the fascist takeover, the original sentiment came 19 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: from that, which is like, you know what we tried 20 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: to tell you, I'm gonna set this one out issue 21 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: your turn. Okay, We've been on the front lines for 22 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 2: a long time. By a long time, I mean the 23 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 2: whole time right now. Any knowledge of history knows that 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 2: we are not the only people who have fought for 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: civil rights, right. You have many of the queer commun 26 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: unity and some of those even in Los Angeles, you know. 27 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: But the thing that's been interesting about the Black experience 28 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: is our movement was never just about us. It was 29 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: always about humanizations. And even when they were just about us, 30 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 2: because we were taking the brunt of anti blackness, we 31 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: were the enslaved ones because we took so much on 32 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: It was not easier, but it was Our movements lended 33 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: itself to intersectionality. People joined our movements black. You have 34 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 2: the Black Panthers and then the brown berets, you know 35 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Labor movements, these movements that we have done, 36 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: the fighting that we have done, we find ourselves a 37 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: lot of times, and specifically like the Black Church being 38 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: sort of the conscious, the moral compass of the country, 39 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: you know, and we're the ones with the dogs released 40 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 2: on us. We were the ones with you know, the 41 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: fire hoses, did the sit ins, we did all that, 42 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: We got the schools integrated. 43 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: So there's this feeling. 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: That we're kind of tired, and especially because oftentimes we 45 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: find ourselves having to explain the smell of your boot 46 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: leather while it's on our neck. 47 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: Does that make sense? 48 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: We're actively being oppressed, But it's also our job to 49 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: educate everyone about oppression, about what it means, about how 50 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: this affects the rest of you, right that we are 51 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: fighting for the rights of all that's kind of been 52 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: in the stance. And then and then you get the 53 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: ab in a Trump and we're like, look, fam ninety two, 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: we did our part. We did not vote for this man. 55 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 2: We voted for the weird laugh Okay, we told y'all 56 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 2: this shit was going to happen, right, So the attitude 57 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 2: is like, dog like, you know what you all want 58 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: to listen to was we tried, We tried, We tried, 59 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: we tried. We told you this was a problem. We 60 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 2: told even this is I'm explaining the attitude. We told 61 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: even Asian and Latino communities that like what he doing 62 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 2: to us, they gonna do to you. You remember last 63 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 2: year when that Asian dude fought to end affirmative action, 64 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: We were like, these people don't love you, and what 65 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: we're trying to tell you is this is not gonna help. 66 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: So we felt like of all of our sacrifices, we 67 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 2: were also not considered. And then the Black Lives Matter 68 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: movement happened, and that was one of those moments. 69 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: Where it was really beautiful to see a lot of 70 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: the solidarity. 71 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: Sort of around around the country, only to have DEI 72 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 2: get attacked and people who had our back fold like 73 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 2: you put your little black square. 74 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: On your Instagram and then that was it. 75 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: Right, So there's this sentiment that, like, y'all take our 76 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: support for granted, and our work is never it feels 77 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 2: like it goes unappreciated or underappreciated. So now with these 78 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: ice raids and these immigration issues, the attitude has become 79 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 2: a this ain't our fight attitude, which, if you know me, 80 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: almost infuriates me, Like, what the hell are you talking about? 81 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 1: This ain't your fight? Now. 82 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: On one hand, I can understand the sentiment of we 83 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: need to sit this out because we've done our part. 84 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 2: We tried, we told y'all, and then to watch the 85 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 2: Latino community vote for Donald Trump, We're like, you can't 86 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 2: be serious, y'all asked for. This is a sentiment that 87 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 2: we're struggling with. But while I feel like it's a 88 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: shame that I have to even make this case, let 89 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 2: me make a case as to why the moves that 90 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: ICE are doing absolutely will affect black people. 91 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: So here we go. First of all, let's use some logic. 92 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 2: You mean to tell me the country that kidnapped your 93 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: ancestors and made them work fields would not give them 94 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 2: freedom until a war happened and you was gonna lose 95 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 2: the country for which we had to fight in and 96 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 2: then turned around and built an amendment that said that 97 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: even though you free, and we not allowed to make 98 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: you a. 99 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: Slave unless. 100 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 2: Unless you was in jail, and then invented redlining Jim 101 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: Crow in mass incarceration. 102 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: That country. 103 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 2: You telling me that country would not think twice about 104 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 2: sending Joe black ass to another country to go to jail. 105 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 2: Are you serious right now? You think it's truly just 106 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: about them? Do you understand that ICE has no jurisdiction 107 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: to arrest someone that's a citizen. They're not cops. So 108 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 2: the fact that they accidentally picking people up, you think 109 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 2: that ain't got nothing to do with black people? Like, 110 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: I don't understand where your head at. 111 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: How about this one? 112 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 2: How about an Alabama there's a proposed bill, what is 113 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: it called HB six eighteen that would allow Alabama to 114 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: send people incarcerated in their state to foreign prisons. 115 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: Let me read it right now. This theal dot Com. 116 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: It says this bill would authorize the Commissioner of the 117 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with foreign nations 118 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: to confine Alabama inmates in penal institutions or correctional facilities. 119 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: This is what the legislation states, because I quote, our 120 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 2: prisons aren't harsh enough. I and my last point I 121 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 2: want to make with you is you think ain't no 122 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: black people in Latin America. Many times if I said this, 123 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: we too often identified with where the boat dropped us off, 124 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 2: then where it picked us up. When you look at 125 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 2: a Cuban and you're like, damn, you look like you black, 126 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 2: it's because they are. I don't understand what you don't understand. 127 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 2: You know, we got dropped off all over the Americas. 128 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: They us. 129 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: I just I don't understand what you don't understand. Now listen, 130 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: I also come from the Inner City, and I have 131 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 2: watched the Latino community, the Asian community, and every other 132 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 2: community of the diaspora of people that seizing their chicken 133 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: and washed their legs. I've seen them practice a number 134 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 2: of anti blackness things I've seen. 135 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: I've heard all the racist. 136 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 2: Jokes coming from all them people, like I tell you 137 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: the Filipino one, what did the white goat say to 138 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 2: the black goat? 139 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: God? I know? Okay. 140 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: Having said that, I also know that the President was 141 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: looking for any reason to bring the Marines to our 142 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 2: streets and that man don't see no difference between us. 143 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 2: I can't stress this enough. The state of California didn't 144 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 2: call for a state of emergency. Trump just did it. 145 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 2: He just sent the National Guard. That's illegal. The fact 146 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 2: that the Marines are in our streets like this more 147 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 2: freaking fallojah. I don't know what else to tell you 148 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 2: how outlandishly illegal that is, Like, are you what the 149 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 2: hell you mean? 150 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: This ain't your fight? 151 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 2: You think these people they don't see no difference with us? 152 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: You understand it's jump out boys in our streets. Listen, 153 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 2: I think somebody said it on Twitter. Anytime the government 154 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 2: got jump out boys when people are hopping out the 155 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 2: van and snatching people. 156 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: That is a trillion percent black people business. How that what? 157 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 2: And finally, last, but definitely not least, and probably should 158 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: be first, your boy tried to end birthright citizenship I 159 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: don't understand how the conversation didn't stop with that one. 160 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: So for you to think that this ain't your fight, 161 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: I just listen. They selling you a wolf ticket. But again, 162 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 2: let me end with this, I shouldn't have to tell 163 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: you that. Maybe it's because I'm from LA that I 164 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 2: understand our lives. Black Latino, Filipino, any Asian, any immigrants, 165 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: our fates are connected. If you got a little bit 166 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,599 Speaker 2: the melanin in you, they coming. 167 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: For you too. But I don't have to have skin 168 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: in the game. 169 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 2: I love this city and I stand in solidarity with 170 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: suffering people everywhere. What's going on in Palestine, what's going 171 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 2: on where Ice, what's going on in Los Angeles. 172 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: It's one thing. It's one thing. Tap in with me.