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Speaker 1: Media. All right, a follow up tap in here, which

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Speaker 1: is some last thoughts about the state of the blackness

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Speaker 1: and the two things I want to discuss which didn't

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Speaker 1: make the cut on the first ones but still feels

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Speaker 1: like one day I ain't realize until after I was

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Speaker 1: done recording, and two are very significant and they are

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Speaker 1: a discussion about what's up with our elder statesman and

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Speaker 1: the two elder statesmen that I am going to give

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Speaker 1: you a compare contrast about. Is Nicki Minaj and Dave

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Speaker 1: Chappelle tapping with me? Okay, So continuing with the oddest

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Speaker 1: timeline in the world where we see the fall of

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Speaker 1: Drake from glory. Now, keep in mind, before y'all start

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Speaker 1: punching me, Drake is fine. He will continue to be

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Speaker 1: a megastar. But how to hell Nicki Minaj show up

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Speaker 1: at turning Point, USA? What in the hell is going

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Speaker 1: on now? Like we said before, we can stand for

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Speaker 1: a lot of positions and opinions and views. You know,

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Speaker 1: we black folks oftentimes, like I said, you know, we

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Speaker 1: church folk. Now, not all black people are church folk.

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Speaker 1: I got corrected a time or two about that, which

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Speaker 1: I appreciate them sending that correction. To me, because that

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Speaker 1: is a gross assumption that all of us as church folk.

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Speaker 1: But that being said, you believing in in you know,

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Speaker 1: Christian values. We are generally as a culture not very progressive.

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Speaker 1: We are pragmatic, We are more concerned about our safety

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Speaker 1: and survival, right, and sometimes our conclusions might be very different.

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Speaker 1: But generally speaking, we see our politics as transactional, and

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Speaker 1: because we are oftentimes coming from a position of faith

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Speaker 1: or religion, we usually kind of have in some ways

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Speaker 1: pretty conservative views around trans and unfortunately queer as a whole.

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Speaker 1: Now most now, as we know, black queer rules the world.

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Speaker 1: But generally speaking, our views around such shenanigans are pretty

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Speaker 1: relatively center right. So it's not weird for me to

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Speaker 1: see a black conservative. What's weird for me to see

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Speaker 1: a black conservative on the stage at Turning Point USA?

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Speaker 1: And of all the people, Nicki mother freaking minage God,

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Speaker 1: what the hell? Now? One thing she did that we

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Speaker 1: know of that like really took notice was when she

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Speaker 1: spoke to the UN about Christians being persecuted in Nigeria.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, right, There's a song in twenty twelve when

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Speaker 1: she kind of jokingly endorses the GOP on like a

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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne song. She was like, I'm a Republican voting

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Speaker 1: for Mick Rodney, you lazy bitch as a fucking up

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Speaker 1: the economy, you know, okay, bars whatever? Right again, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times in the hood, people be voting for

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Speaker 1: the dudes that get to the money. That's why you

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Speaker 1: see sometimes a lot of these street dudes be kind

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Speaker 1: of in the Trump train. Now, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: there's her in twenty nineteen criticizing Trump's family separation policy,

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Speaker 1: where she was like, yoa, I came into this country

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Speaker 1: as an ill when I was illegal immigrant. I was

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Speaker 1: five years old. But then on twenty twenty one, she

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Speaker 1: got all COVID weird on us and was talking about

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Speaker 1: that she opposes the COVID vaccine because of her cousin's

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Speaker 1: friends testicles. Y'all remember that. What is going on with sisterhood?

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Speaker 1: And then now all of a sudden, she on the

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Speaker 1: stage with Charlie Kirk's widow. She's sitting up there praising jd.

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Speaker 1: Vance and Trump as like models for young men. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I just don't I don't understand. But hey, she's still black,

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Speaker 1: She's still one of us. Now you go ahead sing

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Speaker 1: for Jesus' baby, I don't know. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle dropped his special. Now, this one's a tough

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Speaker 1: one for us as someone who obviously wants to stand

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Speaker 1: with all of the trans community. This is where critical

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Speaker 1: race theory and intersectionality really comes to a head for me,

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Speaker 1: because there are parts of me that are deeply disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Is me personally deeply disappointed with the trans continuing the

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Speaker 1: trans jokes, And then there's part of me that is

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Speaker 1: always proud of the way that he finds his way

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Speaker 1: to stand against tyranny and racism. And he's also just

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Speaker 1: he's just one of our heroes. So he did the

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia thing, He did the yes butt thing where

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Speaker 1: he was like, you know, the murder of Koshogi is

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Speaker 1: a very awful thing, and Israel has killed two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty journalists and counting. Right. There was a moment

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Speaker 1: where he checks one of the people in Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: when he was being heckled because he was talking about

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Speaker 1: the genocide in Gaza, and they was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: shut the fuck up. He goes, no, you don't get

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Speaker 1: you don't get to take ten billion dollars from our

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Speaker 1: country to do war crimes against an innocent people and

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Speaker 1: then say that I have to shut the fuck up.

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Speaker 1: You gonna get these jokes right, And then he ends

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Speaker 1: with one of the funniest lines ever when he talks

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Speaker 1: about being afraid to be co opted, and he was like, listen,

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Speaker 1: if I ever been co opted where they have used

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Speaker 1: me as a mouthpiece for something, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a code word. Now, I don't want to ruin the

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Speaker 1: ending for you, but I'm sure you've part of the blackness.

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Speaker 1: You've seen this where well, even before I get to that,

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Speaker 1: he talks about the comparison of Charlie Kirk and Martin

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Speaker 1: Luther King, and he was like, no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 1: They both died heinously being shot in the neck. But

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Speaker 1: that's where the comparisons end, right. He talks about the

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Speaker 1: absurdity of trying to make this a national holiday his death.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, he ends with saying there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a code word that if you hear me say this,

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Speaker 1: don't listen to anything I say after this, and it

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Speaker 1: is I stand with, it is real. Then he tosses

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Speaker 1: the mic. So he's in a lot of ways he's

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Speaker 1: saying that he has never abandoned his core values and

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Speaker 1: core morals really very much in the vein of you know,

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Speaker 1: modern day panthers, it's blackness and still stands ten to's

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Speaker 1: on making trans people the punching back. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to tell you. We contain multitudes, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's very important to say, moving into twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: that you can't never predict which way we gonna go,

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? But what do we do

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Speaker 1: with our ogs? Do we expect them to be on

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Speaker 1: a progressive train that we are? Do we expect them

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Speaker 1: to just become elder statesmen and put us on and

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Speaker 1: let us teach them how to do things? Or do

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Speaker 1: we listen to them, or we just let them be themselves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, whatever it is, I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: All blackness