1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: You know, its entire countries that barely started testing for COVID. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Some of them still ain't even got vaccines, whole countries. 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: You know when something kind of feels on purpose, but 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: whenever you try to open your mouth to articulate it, 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: you feel like it kind of sound like you're just 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: totally in the conspiracy theory world. I was out with 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: my homeboy Thistle, out in the loop St. Louis. This 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: was like the calling, like the nipsey hustle of St. Louis, 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: Like he wanted to show me something. And we drove 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: down this street called Lyndell, and the wealth gap was startling. 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: It was like Beverly Hills mansions. I mean, these are 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: like multimillion dollar homes on one side of the street 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: and literally across the street County Housing Section eight hood. 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: And it was so jolting because it was like, it's 15 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: literally across the street. I mean, you saw in real 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: life redlining. I just can't shake that image. But it 17 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: feels on purpose, but you really don't want to say 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: nothing because either the data is so freakishly overwhelming You're 19 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: like I don't even know where to start to try 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: to like make it make sense. You'd have to back 21 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: up so many steps where it's like this is a 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: lifetime of experiences and knowledge and information that like I 23 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: don't even know where to jump in the waters or 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: the other way around, and where you're like, I just 25 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: it just feels like it, but I can't really tell 26 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: you what it is. Yeah, right there, that's today, Except 27 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: it did do some homework for you. I did gather 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: some receipts. Now, granted, this is only a thirty minute 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: show and people have given their entire lives to understanding 30 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to explain to you, So take that 31 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: for what it's worth. But when you look around own hoods, 32 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: you know, for colloquial and just how consistently with very 33 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: few variations, it just kind of seems like there's a 34 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: lot of the same problems, a lot of the same 35 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: people in situations. And whether you're talking Louisiana, l a Hell, 36 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: you might even be talking you know, the Sticks of Oklahoma. 37 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: You're just like, how are we all drawing the similar 38 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: conclusions about why we're here, how we got here, and 39 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: ways to get out? At the same time, man, you're 40 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: looking I know, I hear between the black and Latino neighborhoods. 41 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: You just like, this can't be a coincidence. I'm about 42 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: this feel purposeful. But if you suggest that, oh, you're 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: just complaining, You're you're being a victim. It feels the 44 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: same globally, I want to talk about the noble South. Look, politics, y'all, 45 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: how is so little right now? Politics? Y'all? So Trump 46 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: talked about ship whole countries, you know, Latin American, Central 47 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: American immigration, destabled governments, coups, cartels, nigga. Why that's the 48 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: global hood? People always asking like why when y'all just 49 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: gonna get your stuff together? I mean, the same thing 50 00:03:45,880 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: they say about our hoods. I want to unpack that today. 51 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: Let me say some stuff about to jump man. First 52 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: of all, this isn't a hit piece about capitalism, although 53 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: capitalism needs to really be critiqued because it's mostly responsible 54 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: for this imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, it's kind of it's kind 55 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: of why we are where we are. It's also not 56 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: some like Marxist stand or this like determinism that is 57 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: saying that it will always be this way because social 58 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: status are static. A matter of fact, is a big 59 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: difference between a class system and a caste system. When 60 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about class that has to do with socioeconomics 61 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: and the different systems you use to form those classes. 62 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: They are up for critique. And like I've said before, 63 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: capitalism is a moral it's not concerning morals at all. 64 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: It's concerned with markets, product supply chains. It's numbers. Now, 65 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: of course, there are many people that are much smarter 66 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: than me that disagree with that take. But the angle 67 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: I'm coming from is how you do capitalism, what you value, 68 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: how it's done is where I get to say you're 69 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: a monster or not. But uniquely in America, well not 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,559 Speaker 1: uniquely in America, but in just most like G seven 71 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: capitalistic countries. Like the idea that which is what we're 72 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: really going to handle heavily in this show, the idea 73 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: that the American dream, the meritocracy, myth that if you 74 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: just work hard, you succeed, and if you're not succeeding, 75 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: it's because you're not working hard enough or you just 76 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: gave up early, which is oftentimes the lens that most 77 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: objectors to some of the issues I'm gonna bring up 78 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: with say it's like, well, everybody got you just gotta 79 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: work hard. Everybody had it hard. Just just keep at it, 80 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: you know, it's the dream. Just do the work to 81 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: complaining about well, I'm gonna try to make a case 82 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: that even doing the work is still couched in a 83 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: system of laws and government that verifiably prefers certain people 84 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: over others. And this is how you get a hood. Now, 85 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: many people have studied, specifically in America, what makes a 86 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: hood of hood? How we got here, and why it 87 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: just don't seem like collectively things can change. You may 88 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 1: see individual changes, some individual families, individual people make find 89 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: their way out, But why as a collective do we 90 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: still have this wealth gap that tend to fall on 91 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: racial and ethnic lines. And remember I said in You 92 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Wasn't Outside episode, and a lot of times people have suggestions, 93 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: but their suggestions suggests that they're really not a part 94 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: of the culture. They're assuming certain things about how our 95 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: system works. You're assuming certain things about capitalism as a concept. 96 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: But some experts would argue that capitalism in its inception 97 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: and it's designed, is built upon a working class, which 98 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: now we're getting into Marxist ideas where it's like the 99 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: wealth doesn't work you, you can't attain it unless you 100 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: have a working force that you don't have to pay 101 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: a lot. Therefore, the wealthy are incentivized to make sure 102 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: that there is no upward mobility of the working masses. 103 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: Now again getting into Marxist views that is in some 104 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: places very legitimate, you know, but I'm not the type 105 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: of person like I'm a smorges Borg of theory, Like 106 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna eat from every table, you know what 107 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: I'm saying, And I'm gonna spit out the bones after 108 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: they say in the church, true to meet, spit out 109 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: the bones. You know what I'm saying. When somebody say something, 110 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: that part of that might be like, Yo, that's money, 111 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: that's spout. On the rest of that is like, oh, nigga, 112 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,679 Speaker 1: you bug it. That's bullshit. You spit out the bullshit. Anyway, 113 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: some would argue again that you need a poor because 114 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: we don't have poor, then you have no workers. In 115 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: the whole capitalism falls. That's one view. The easy way 116 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: to think about this is like, Yo, how did America 117 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: become a superpower so fast, faster than any other country? Well, Nikki, 118 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: we didn't pay the workers for a whole hundred and 119 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: fifty years, and we didn't toil to land n we 120 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 1: stole it, So I mean it's kind of a head start. 121 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: Of course, capitalism gonna work like this if you don't 122 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: pay the workers didn't. Again, it's a hundred percent profit, right. 123 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: But it's also this idea that specifically how things fall 124 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: among racial lines. It's this idea that there is something 125 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: inherently inferior about black and brown people. Why can't y'all 126 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: get your ship together, which we could say goes all 127 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: the way back to doctrine of discovery, you know, and 128 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: this idea of waging war, bringing the savage masses under 129 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: the control of the crown and the Cross and somehow noble. 130 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: So if you since they're somewhat less than human, not 131 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: exactly image bearers, waging war against us is not a crime. 132 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: It's not murdered because they're not necessarily image but there's 133 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: actually doing them a favor. So it's this this horrible route. 134 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: If you believe this, when you look across the table 135 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: or across the park at a group of just kids, 136 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: loud black kids, you know, and you make your assumptions 137 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: about what their future is, what they desires, it might 138 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: be coming from a lens, a determinism, lens that believes 139 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: that there's just something inherently wrong with it. Therefore you're 140 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: probably gonna have super racist views about Thus, the problem 141 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: of the hood is the same problem of the nations 142 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: for which we all come from. Something just wrong with us. 143 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: And one of those racist views that come out is 144 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: like this, like white man's burden, that like, it's your 145 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: job to elevate as the civilized communities, to elevate the 146 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: uncivilized by giving them the joys of labor, of an 147 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: honest day's pay, and if they just don't take to it, 148 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: it's like we'll kick rocks. We gave you all a chance. 149 00:10:35,040 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: These are remarkably bad takes. Or you have the more 150 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: obvious take, which is send them back to Africa. You 151 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, that the the full Nazi joint. 152 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You could go hold You 153 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: could go a hold white supremacist Nazi and just be like, well, 154 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: they're monkeys, they're savages, their beasts of prey, they'll never 155 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: get better. They should we shouldn't even live among them. 156 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: You could do that. That's obvious racism. But anyway, let's 157 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: do some history here about how we even got to 158 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: what some of us have identified as the hood, and 159 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: then we're gonna go from there and talk about what 160 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: we mean by the global South and how the COVID 161 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: response actually really exacerbates this issue that we're dealing with. 162 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: You already, let's ride, okay, So here we go. We 163 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: gotta go away far back, and I'm talking like the 164 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: end of slavery. Back during reconstruction era, some of y'all 165 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: may have heard of the phrase called sharecropping, which was 166 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: essentially like this idea. I don't know if y'all know. 167 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: This is a side note that after the slaves were freed, 168 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: there was reparations paid. It was just paid to the owners, 169 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: to the slave owners for a loss of revenue. Can 170 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: you believe that they got reparations? The owners got reparations anyway, 171 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: what they had to do was for for share cropping 172 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: was like break up these big old land plots and 173 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: now newly freed slaves who really didn't have nowhere to go. 174 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: And it's not like the ending of slavery and racism, dug, 175 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: but the owners would these big old plots of land, 176 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 1: would break these plots of land into like subdivisions because 177 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: it's not like they can afford to have these big 178 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: old plots because now you ain't got nobody to work them. Right. So, 179 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: but it's not like they was going to give up 180 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: ownership of the land. You're crazy well that you work 181 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: the land, but it's not slaves had any capital. So 182 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: for the seed, for the tools, you could work there. 183 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: You could work this land or whatever you grow there, 184 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: but you got to pay the owner. Again, you don't 185 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: own the land, and you gotta pay the owner of 186 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: the land for all the tools, all the stuff that 187 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: you need to be able to have a functioning farm. 188 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: The thing is, you never really get out of debt. 189 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: You never actually turn a profit because a you have 190 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: to eat the fojiro it raised and then whatever is 191 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: left you have to pay for seed, and you gotta 192 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: go back to master to paycs who ain't mass and 193 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: no more. He's just now becomes you are a member 194 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: of the system of capitalism where you're not the widget anymore. 195 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: And now you're just a member of it. And this 196 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: is how it works. So they just kept kept black 197 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: people in debt to this day. Some black folks was like, 198 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. And then there was what's called 199 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: the Great Migration. This is where we in droves left 200 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: the South, filling up Chicago, Detroit, you know, d C. 201 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: And just all over the rest of America. Who was like, look, man, 202 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: ain't no point in staying here. A lot of black people, 203 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all noticed, were cowboys, actually of 204 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: the American Frontier cowboys, the cowboy that y'all all picture 205 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: in moviescent what was black? Because it was a freeman's 206 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: job and you ain't hand the owners. You was out 207 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: all day just driving cattle from Texas up to Colorado 208 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: to train station up there. It was great for a 209 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: freed slave. Are you kidding me? This is the best. Also, 210 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: here go another freebee. One of my favorite moments in 211 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: history was this time because right after this happened. Get this, 212 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: we started electing black officials all over municipalities and cities 213 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: all over the South. Because there's so many of us, 214 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: we started electing our own nigga. We was winning. And 215 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: then guess what happened? Then called the black codes, the 216 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: voter rights, the Pole Texas voter i D, the voter registrations. 217 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: All these things started happening. That's why now when we're 218 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: talking about voter rights, it's reminiscent it is because we 219 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: was winning election and these white people was like, no, 220 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: we can't have that. And that was the birth of 221 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: Jim Crow. Oh I'm giving your game. Look, look, look 222 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is on paper. If you work the system, 223 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: the system works. We elected the people that was like 224 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: invested in our commune because it was more of us. 225 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: We voted, and what did they do tried to stop 226 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: us and it worked. So the next time you start 227 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: thinking about all this stuff about like hindering voting nigga, 228 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: because it works. Now back to the Great Migration. We 229 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: all ran into We're not ran, but we all moved 230 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: up into different areas, the Great Migration up north and 231 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: some of us went west. The problem was those were 232 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: all filled with white people already, and those white people 233 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: already had stratified classes. There was wealthy that was working 234 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: and it was poor white people. Now, we talked about 235 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: this before, about like the union busters and the Pinkerton's 236 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: and Carnegie and the steel workers unions. When um, these 237 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: poor white people stood up for their for their rights, 238 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: and the owners of these companies, these steel companies just 239 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: decided to hire freed slaves to come work for them. 240 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: Just this this reignited a huge class war kind of 241 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: turned to pour against each other because at least if 242 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: you pour in white, you ain't a nigger. Though it's 243 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: kind of like the low key what we're kind of 244 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: saying right here, you know, Shad's rebellion, Divide and conquer, 245 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: you feel me? So, so that's kind of happening right now. 246 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: Then eventually these white people was like, we don't want 247 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: to live around niggers. You heard me, right, And then 248 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: there was a thing called white flight. This is the 249 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: birth of the suburbs. These beautiful communities, the leave it 250 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: to Beaver's perfectly manicured lawns, and these planned communities, and 251 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: these planned communities had laws, and these planned communities that 252 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: had laws and neighborhood associations. One of those laws is 253 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: called redlining, and the name of it is pretty literal. 254 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: You would take a map, put it on the wall 255 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,439 Speaker 1: at the city. You would draw a line around certain 256 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: neighborhoods and say, just essentially, zoning laws do not permit 257 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: unsightly things that bring down property value, i e. A 258 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: power plant, a black family, Jewish family, a landfill, a 259 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,479 Speaker 1: Latin family. How could they do that? Well? Because they 260 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: was the law. Now, guys were talking fifties and sixties, 261 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: this is not that long ago. There were things built 262 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: into neighborhood associations that said, when you move into this 263 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: neighbors in Los Angeles, when you move into this neighborhood, 264 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: the only condition about whether when you sell this house 265 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: is that you can't sell to a black or Jewish family. 266 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: There was law like you you're not allowed. There were 267 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: banks that decided purposefully they would not give bank loans 268 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,719 Speaker 1: to black families two brown families, So they locked us 269 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: out of the suburbs on purpose. And even if they 270 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: just think about this from a practical standpoint, let's just 271 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: say you stayed in the city and you use U 272 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: was working on the on the on the Detroit Still 273 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: Mill factory. You know what I'm saying. You've been there forever, 274 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: as black dude been there forever. Let's just say he's 275 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: better qualified than every white boy up in that mug. 276 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: Do you think you'll get promoted to manager? Of course not, 277 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: Well why not, we'll practically speaking, because these white boys 278 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: won't listen to you. It's not gonna they're not gonna 279 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: listen to you. So what's left is when all of industry. 280 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: When all the jobs, when all the upward mobility for 281 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: housing is taken and placed in a certain place, all 282 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: that's left is what becomes our inner cities. And we 283 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: all know what idle hands do, we all know what 284 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: lack of opportunity do. And then what happens is you 285 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: start criminalizing being poor. What do I mean by that? 286 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked what it means to criminalize being poor, 287 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 1: because most crimes in the inner city are crimes, are survival. Now, 288 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: I know we got murder rates. I know this gang 289 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: like obviously, the things called hood politics, I'm not look 290 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: every nick and jail ain't Nelson Mandelas. So you know 291 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, That's not what I'm saying. Is the 292 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: hood absolutely filled with in fightings, corruption, uh, extortion, horrible 293 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: problems that we inflict on each other. Absolutely, it's not 294 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: at all what I'm saying. Are there people who have 295 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,719 Speaker 1: absolutely done all kinds of interventions to try to stop 296 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: that things, the you know, anti anti gang marches and 297 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: and after school programs. Again, I'm a product of some 298 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: of them interventions. I'm a product of hood gang interventions 299 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: from other gang members who cared about me. And said 300 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: there's a better way to live. I'm not saying we 301 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: ain't got problems, But what I'm saying is you have 302 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: to understand really how sinister, purposeful, or built baked into 303 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: the laws are these things that keep poor communities poor. 304 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: You know that schools are funded by property tax, which 305 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: comes from property values. So when the property value drops, 306 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: then the taxes for the school's drop, which means you 307 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: have underfunded schools. We'll just send your kids to private 308 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: school to where to a city we've been red lined 309 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: out of you build generational wealth? Well, how can you 310 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: build generational wealth if we wasn't allowed into the wealth 311 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: system until maybe sixty years ago. Have you heard of 312 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: the Homestead Act? You know what I'm talking about when 313 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: I say the Homestead Act. Well, Homestead Act was kind 314 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: of like this after the Civil War. You know, we 315 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: had this great frontier that was empty and broke. We 316 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: handled money, but we have all this farmable land and 317 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: everybody stuck in densely populated cities. So the government had 318 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: this idea of saying, well, why don't we why don't 319 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: we add these housing subsidies for families who would be 320 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 1: willing to move. Now, when I say families. You know 321 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: what I mean. Right, we're talking white people, but they're 322 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: looking for families that are willing to move out into 323 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: the Great Plains and start a farm. Now, if you 324 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: don't know how to farm, it's all good. The governmental training, 325 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: they'll pay for you to get training. You got any equipment, 326 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: it's all good. Government will give you the equipment. This 327 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: government handout, y'all. That sounds like bootstrapping to you. No, 328 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: So this is the e t hunted. So if you 329 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: got one of them hand outs a hundred years later, 330 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: these the same people, these descendants, are the same people 331 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: that are looking at people in the hood like why 332 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: you need government handouts? Why are you always asking the 333 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: government to help you? I'm like, what the government help 334 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: y'all just a hundred years ago? Because it is how 335 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: capitalism works. You gotta you gotta prime to pump. You 336 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. As a z f d R 337 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: would say, sorry, I invoked f DR anyway, So the 338 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: formation kind of happens like this. Now, what else is 339 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: something that's very normal in the city is over policing. Now, 340 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull some data here from the Human Rights 341 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: Watch uh dot org over policing. Check this out. Let 342 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: me quote this for you. What we found in the 343 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: data is that black people are subjected to physical force, 344 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: including stunned guns, police, dog bites, pepper spray, punches, and 345 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: kicks at the rate of two points seven times the 346 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: time of white people. Some neighborhoods with larger populations of 347 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: black people and poor people experience police stops more than 348 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: ten times the rate of predominantly white or wealthier neighborhoods. 349 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 1: What we're trying to say is it feels more like 350 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: an overseer because because prisons are privatized, because war on drugs, 351 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: we talked about that before. The eighteen and one law 352 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: used to be a hundred of one law. What's the 353 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: eighteen and one law. What it says is one ounce 354 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 1: of crack gives you the same amount of jail time 355 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: as eighteen ounces of cocaine and thede the same thing. 356 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,479 Speaker 1: It's this one is cut with vega zoda. One exists 357 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: in the hood, the other exists in wealthy places. There's 358 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: also a lot of money being made. This is what 359 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: I mean by criminalizing being poor. There's a lot of 360 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: money to be made. Now I'm gonna drop into Tulsa 361 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: right now. Really, you could drop into any hood, USA, 362 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: but we're gonna drop into Tulsa again. I'm looking at 363 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: the Human Rights Watch. Check this out. How is the 364 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: issue of finds and fees play a role in this system? 365 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: Follow me now. One of the really horrible things I 366 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: discovered is that Tulsa, the county it's in, and the 367 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma raise money to pay their court system 368 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: and their government agencies largely through fines and court costs 369 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: that are imposed on those arrested and those who have 370 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: to go to court. And it's a huge amount of money. 371 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: It's an abusive practice that is very common throughout the US. 372 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: Most arresting citations in Tulsa are relatively minor crimes. If 373 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: you get ticketed for speeding or running a stop sign, 374 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: you get these fees and fines. Poor people who are 375 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: cited and arrested the most often can't afford to pay, 376 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: so the court will issue an arrest warrant. Almost fort 377 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: of arrests made by the Tulsa Department are just warrant arrests, 378 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: and a large percentage of those are for failure to 379 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: pay court debt. So you just you just couldn't afford it, 380 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: So now you got a record. Court costs was the 381 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: third most common booking charge in the county jail. I'm 382 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: gonna say that again. Court costs was the third most 383 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: common booking charge in the county jail. People can't get 384 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: out of debt. The court is predominantly in poor black communities. 385 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: I spoke with people who kept getting arrested for failure 386 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: to pay it, would miss work and lose their jobs. 387 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: I spoke to a man who couldn't retire because he 388 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: had to make payments. The debt just keeps piling on. Already, 389 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: don't make enough. I get a speeding ticket like everybody else. 390 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: You charge me this enormous amount to do this, or 391 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: I gotta miss it. I gotta go to court to 392 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: try to fight it. I go to day to go 393 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: to court to try to fight it. I just missed 394 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: the day of work. I can't afford the court fees. 395 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: Now you're gonna throw me in jail because I can't 396 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: afford it. Right, So now I'm missing more work, which 397 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: means I'll never be able to afford it. Uh, y'all 398 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: know why Eric Garner died because he sold loose cigarette. Lucy, 399 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: it's a one, he sold one cigarette. He dead. Being 400 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: poor as a crime in a lot of places in 401 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: our country. Watto because there's a lot of money to 402 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: be made, and you could keep hitting that lick because 403 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: we could never get out now again. Like I said before, 404 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 1: there are obvious exceptions to this rule. I am a 405 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: product of it. I am part of a swing family. 406 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: My family was the one that in my lifetime we 407 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: went from hood to suburb. My parents went back to school. 408 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: They was like three or four jobs between them. We 409 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: all kicked in. I helped out. I had to pay 410 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: some of the bills in our house. I had to pay. 411 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: I paid part of the phone bill. I remember this. 412 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: One day my mother sat me down and we was 413 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: kind of doing all right. She she wrote down, I 414 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: was mad about some basketball camp, and she wrote down, 415 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: uh or she told me to write down. Split this 416 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: paper in half, right down, this list of numbers on 417 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: one side, and this list of numbers on the other side. 418 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: And then she asked me what I noticed about these 419 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: two lists. And I saw that one was three hundred 420 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: dollars three dollars less than the other one. She says, son, 421 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: I make three hundred dollars less than I need every month. 422 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: This is why you can't go to no damn basketball camp. 423 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 1: You just and we we got out, YO said. We 424 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: weren't living above our means. We were living as best 425 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: as we could. But you get locked in these things, 426 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: things like predatory loans, like those payday loans and stuff 427 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: like that, charging y'all seventy nine interest. You lock people 428 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: in because it's a continual source of money. And if 429 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: you ever get out of that, then guess what. Now 430 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: I'm competing with these people in the job market. Now 431 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: I'm competing with these people in the housing market. Right. 432 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: It's just the system incentivizes, just by how the numbers work, 433 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: to keep the hood the hood. Now, there are a 434 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: lot of people who in the black and brown community 435 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: who have looked looked over to the Jewish community in 436 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: the sense that like they keep their money within their 437 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: own community, that money passes around the Jewish community, at 438 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: least in California, or at least in l A dollars 439 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: dollars circulate their community four and five and six and 440 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: seven and eight times before it leaves their community. What 441 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: do I mean by that? They they only use their 442 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 1: own cleaners, their own car dealerships, their own schools, they 443 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: their own lawyers, their own dentists, they own doctors. They 444 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 1: go to a doctor that's from neighood, right, So the 445 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: money stays in there and they were able to accumulate wealth. 446 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: Now that's because they made a conscious decision to do it. 447 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: And how nigga, Because they was facing the same ship 448 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: from the Holocaust and all that, Nigga, they had to 449 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: figure it out. They was like, we had to fair 450 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: out with you. So a lot of people in the 451 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: black and brown community was like, yo, we need to 452 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: do the same, keep the money within our owns. People 453 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: like jay Z, people like uh My Dog Chase Infinite 454 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: over at har Rum Coffee and la Mer park I 455 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: was actually on Taviss Miley Show for the Black Information 456 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: Network UH which broadcasts on radio broadcast, and learned parks 457 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: like we gotta keep it in our community because if 458 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: we don't anybody praying for us, anybody looking for us, 459 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: if you don't own the land that your businesses is 460 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: sitting on, then nigga, you just share cropping like follow me. Look, look, 461 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: look the new flex where music is to own your masters. 462 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: You need to own these tracks, you need to own 463 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: these albums because if not Nika, you nothing but an ox. 464 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: You would just it's just an auction block. We will 465 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: never get no better. All you're doing, all they're doing 466 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: is making money off our work. We just stay where 467 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: we are, keeping venting ship. But you stay there because 468 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: they get your own the land. It's share cropping all 469 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: over again. Man, I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting real 470 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: hole tep on you all today. Look. According to the 471 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: Survey of Consumer Finance data, the median black family has 472 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: twenty will four thousand, one hundred dollars in wealth. This 473 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: is just twelve point seven percent of the hundred and 474 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,959 Speaker 1: eighty nine thousand, one hundred dollars in wealth owned by 475 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: a typical white family. The media and Latino family is 476 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: thirty six thousand, fifty owns just nineteen only one percent 477 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: of the wealth of the median white family. Listen, we 478 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: don't own the ship. We see all of our talent, 479 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: all of our resources, all of our abilities leave our communities. 480 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: Right You ask any black TikTok influencer, TikTok creative, they 481 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: y'all making money off our dances. This continues to happen 482 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: because the system incentivizes us to either play just as dirty, 483 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: or just stay where we are. So we come up 484 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: with stuff like ghetto fabulous comes up and stuff like 485 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, which is an old phrase. 486 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: But like how we flex, it's not like we don't 487 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. It's not like we're not 488 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: smart enough to do these things. It's not like we 489 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: don't work hard. The meritocracy thing is a myth. You're 490 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: telling me. You're telling me that toughest nails Latino man 491 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: get up before all of us in mode five lawns 492 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: before me, and you have drank off first cup of coffee. 493 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: You're telling me he ain't working hard. You're telling me 494 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: that lady that that that if you happen to come 495 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: into a high rise building, you happen to be staying 496 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: at some sort of hotel. You're telling me that Latina 497 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: lady up there cleaning everyhow. You're telling me she ain't 498 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: working hard. Come on, fam, it's more to it, it's 499 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: more to it. What's the basis, what's our hope? Well, 500 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: some people have some suggestions. Now, let me blow your 501 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: mind right here. All this stuff is exacerbated and made 502 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: even more clear by the COVID response, which is gonna 503 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: lead us into us talking about the global South, which 504 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: apparently this show is getting real long, so it's gonna 505 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: have to be a part two. But follow me here. 506 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: This is from inequality dot org. It's about inequality. Uh. 507 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: The early vaccine data shows that racial groups most at 508 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: risk of the virus are not receiving the most shots. 509 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: According to the data from twenty three states analyzed by 510 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: the Kaiser Family Foundation, black infection and death rates are 511 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: significantly higher than their vaccine rates. Louisian that has the 512 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: widest gap, with black death rates twenty six percent points 513 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: higher than black vaccination dates. The digital divide is one 514 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: factor in the racial vaccine gap, since the lack of 515 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: internet access makes it more difficult to secure appointments. NPR 516 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: found that in many areas, vaccine sites are located outside 517 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: of Black and Latino community surveys also indicate higher rates 518 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: of vaccine hesitancy among people of color due to a 519 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: long history of racial medical mistreatment, but the hesitancy has 520 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,479 Speaker 1: declined as the vaccine has rolled out. Now what are 521 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: they talking about. They're talking about the Tuskegee experiment. I'm 522 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: not even gonna let you. I'm not even gonna give 523 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: y'all that y'all need to go look that up as 524 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: to why black people is like, I ain't taking that shot. Now, 525 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: let's get back to it. COVID nineteen pandemic has forced 526 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: many workers into remote and telework office telework as offices 527 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: have closed around the country, but not everyone has the 528 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: same abit need to work from home. Most recent Bureau 529 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,479 Speaker 1: of Labor Statistics data on this are from two thousand 530 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: seventeen through eighteen. These pre pandemic figures indicate that only 531 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: nineteen point seven percent of black and sixteen point two 532 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: percent of Latino people work in jobs in which they 533 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: are able to tell a work, compared to twenty nine 534 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: point nine percent of white and thirty seven point zero 535 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: percent of Asian workers. This gap, combined with research documenting 536 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: that black and Latino people now make up a disproportionate 537 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: number of those jobs deemed essential, explains why people of 538 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: color have been exposed to a greater virus risk. What 539 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is how interlocking systems work. When 540 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: you put one thing in place, the rest of these 541 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: dominoes fall into place. And I can't say that there's 542 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: some big villains sitting around a board like like like, 543 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: you know, like an evil Avengers. But can I say, 544 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: But I can't say when you put the thing together, 545 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: it just kind of feel on purpose because of how 546 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: interlocking systems work. But that's critical race theory, so I'm 547 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: not allowed to talk about that now. Also, according to 548 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,240 Speaker 1: inequality dot org, some of these things kind of happen 549 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: because of just hiring inequalities and hiring quit and inequalities 550 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: come from implicit bias. So, according to inequality dot org, 551 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: racial discrimination in many forms, including education, hiring, and pay practices, 552 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,760 Speaker 1: contribute to the persistent earning gaps. As of the last 553 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,759 Speaker 1: quarter of the median white worker made sent more than 554 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: the typical black worker in thirties six percent more than 555 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 1: the media and Latino worker, according to the BLS data. 556 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: The COVID nineteen pandemic again drastically raised unemployment in America, 557 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 1: but that impact has not been felt across all racial groups. 558 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: In December, as the recovery of the summer months started 559 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: to fade, unemployment rate was nine point nine percent for 560 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: Blacks and nine point three percent for Latinos, compared to 561 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: six point zero percent of Whites and five point nine 562 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: percent of Asians. In these rates, only count for those 563 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: who are actively seeking work, leaving out those who have 564 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: just given up on finding jobs. So to put it 565 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:48,760 Speaker 1: all together, you got a exiting and blocking out of 566 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: nicer areas because of property value. Your property value drops, 567 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: which means your property taxes are low, which means you 568 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: now have failing schools. You couple this with the war 569 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: on drugs, and couple it with over policing, right, and 570 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: then you couple it with densely populations and without the 571 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: lack of opportunity, because opportunity, because of implicit bias, which 572 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: may have came all the way back to the founding 573 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 1: of our country, makes us believe that people that are 574 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 1: darker are just inferior. You put all that together and 575 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 1: systemically allow for laws that undergird these racist views. You 576 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: make a hood. And of course I am not a determinist, 577 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 1: because I am again the product of someone who is 578 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 1: found their way out. I've said it in the song 579 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: Somehow to School the Prison Pipeline miss this. Now next 580 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: week I'm gonna take this same motif and I'm gonna 581 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 1: show you what I mean by the global South. We 582 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: used to call that the third World, but what COVID 583 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 1: response has shown us is uh y'all treating this like 584 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: a hood it should do seem on purpose her politics, y'all. 585 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: This mug was recorded and edited by Me Propaganda right 586 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: here in East low'st boil Heights, Los Angeles. 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