Speaker 1: You know, its entire countries that barely started testing for COVID.
Speaker 1: Some of them still ain't even got vaccines, whole countries.
Speaker 1: You know when something kind of feels on purpose, but
Speaker 1: whenever you try to open your mouth to articulate it,
Speaker 1: you feel like it kind of sound like you're just
Speaker 1: totally in the conspiracy theory world. I was out with
Speaker 1: my homeboy Thistle, out in the loop St. Louis. This
Speaker 1: was like the calling, like the nipsey hustle of St. Louis,
Speaker 1: Like he wanted to show me something. And we drove
Speaker 1: down this street called Lyndell, and the wealth gap was startling.
Speaker 1: It was like Beverly Hills mansions. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: like multimillion dollar homes on one side of the street
Speaker 1: and literally across the street County Housing Section eight hood.
Speaker 1: And it was so jolting because it was like, it's
Speaker 1: literally across the street. I mean, you saw in real
Speaker 1: life redlining. I just can't shake that image. But it
Speaker 1: feels on purpose, but you really don't want to say
Speaker 1: nothing because either the data is so freakishly overwhelming You're
Speaker 1: like I don't even know where to start to try
Speaker 1: to like make it make sense. You'd have to back
Speaker 1: up so many steps where it's like this is a
Speaker 1: lifetime of experiences and knowledge and information that like I
Speaker 1: don't even know where to jump in the waters or
Speaker 1: the other way around, and where you're like, I just
Speaker 1: it just feels like it, but I can't really tell
Speaker 1: you what it is. Yeah, right there, that's today, Except
Speaker 1: it did do some homework for you. I did gather
Speaker 1: some receipts. Now, granted, this is only a thirty minute
Speaker 1: show and people have given their entire lives to understanding
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to explain to you, So take that
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. But when you look around own hoods,
Speaker 1: you know, for colloquial and just how consistently with very
Speaker 1: few variations, it just kind of seems like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of the same problems, a lot of the same
Speaker 1: people in situations. And whether you're talking Louisiana, l a Hell,
Speaker 1: you might even be talking you know, the Sticks of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: You're just like, how are we all drawing the similar
Speaker 1: conclusions about why we're here, how we got here, and
Speaker 1: ways to get out? At the same time, man, you're
Speaker 1: looking I know, I hear between the black and Latino neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: You just like, this can't be a coincidence. I'm about
Speaker 1: this feel purposeful. But if you suggest that, oh, you're
Speaker 1: just complaining, You're you're being a victim. It feels the
Speaker 1: same globally, I want to talk about the noble South. Look, politics, y'all,
Speaker 1: how is so little right now? Politics? Y'all? So Trump
Speaker 1: talked about ship whole countries, you know, Latin American, Central
Speaker 1: American immigration, destabled governments, coups, cartels, nigga. Why that's the
Speaker 1: global hood? People always asking like why when y'all just
Speaker 1: gonna get your stuff together? I mean, the same thing
Speaker 1: they say about our hoods. I want to unpack that today.
Speaker 1: Let me say some stuff about to jump man. First
Speaker 1: of all, this isn't a hit piece about capitalism, although
Speaker 1: capitalism needs to really be critiqued because it's mostly responsible
Speaker 1: for this imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of why we are where we are. It's also not
Speaker 1: some like Marxist stand or this like determinism that is
Speaker 1: saying that it will always be this way because social
Speaker 1: status are static. A matter of fact, is a big
Speaker 1: difference between a class system and a caste system. When
Speaker 1: we're talking about class that has to do with socioeconomics
Speaker 1: and the different systems you use to form those classes.
Speaker 1: They are up for critique. And like I've said before,
Speaker 1: capitalism is a moral it's not concerning morals at all.
Speaker 1: It's concerned with markets, product supply chains. It's numbers. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, there are many people that are much smarter
Speaker 1: than me that disagree with that take. But the angle
Speaker 1: I'm coming from is how you do capitalism, what you value,
Speaker 1: how it's done is where I get to say you're
Speaker 1: a monster or not. But uniquely in America, well not
Speaker 1: uniquely in America, but in just most like G seven
Speaker 1: capitalistic countries. Like the idea that which is what we're
Speaker 1: really going to handle heavily in this show, the idea
Speaker 1: that the American dream, the meritocracy, myth that if you
Speaker 1: just work hard, you succeed, and if you're not succeeding,
Speaker 1: it's because you're not working hard enough or you just
Speaker 1: gave up early, which is oftentimes the lens that most
Speaker 1: objectors to some of the issues I'm gonna bring up
Speaker 1: with say it's like, well, everybody got you just gotta
Speaker 1: work hard. Everybody had it hard. Just just keep at it,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the dream. Just do the work to
Speaker 1: complaining about well, I'm gonna try to make a case
Speaker 1: that even doing the work is still couched in a
Speaker 1: system of laws and government that verifiably prefers certain people
Speaker 1: over others. And this is how you get a hood. Now,
Speaker 1: many people have studied, specifically in America, what makes a
Speaker 1: hood of hood? How we got here, and why it
Speaker 1: just don't seem like collectively things can change. You may
Speaker 1: see individual changes, some individual families, individual people make find
Speaker 1: their way out, But why as a collective do we
Speaker 1: still have this wealth gap that tend to fall on
Speaker 1: racial and ethnic lines. And remember I said in You
Speaker 1: Wasn't Outside episode, and a lot of times people have suggestions,
Speaker 1: but their suggestions suggests that they're really not a part
Speaker 1: of the culture. They're assuming certain things about how our
Speaker 1: system works. You're assuming certain things about capitalism as a concept.
Speaker 1: But some experts would argue that capitalism in its inception
Speaker 1: and it's designed, is built upon a working class, which
Speaker 1: now we're getting into Marxist ideas where it's like the
Speaker 1: wealth doesn't work you, you can't attain it unless you
Speaker 1: have a working force that you don't have to pay
Speaker 1: a lot. Therefore, the wealthy are incentivized to make sure
Speaker 1: that there is no upward mobility of the working masses.
Speaker 1: Now again getting into Marxist views that is in some
Speaker 1: places very legitimate, you know, but I'm not the type
Speaker 1: of person like I'm a smorges Borg of theory, Like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna eat from every table, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And I'm gonna spit out the bones after
Speaker 1: they say in the church, true to meet, spit out
Speaker 1: the bones. You know what I'm saying. When somebody say something,
Speaker 1: that part of that might be like, Yo, that's money,
Speaker 1: that's spout. On the rest of that is like, oh, nigga,
Speaker 1: you bug it. That's bullshit. You spit out the bullshit. Anyway,
Speaker 1: some would argue again that you need a poor because
Speaker 1: we don't have poor, then you have no workers. In
Speaker 1: the whole capitalism falls. That's one view. The easy way
Speaker 1: to think about this is like, Yo, how did America
Speaker 1: become a superpower so fast, faster than any other country? Well, Nikki,
Speaker 1: we didn't pay the workers for a whole hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years, and we didn't toil to land n we
Speaker 1: stole it, So I mean it's kind of a head start.
Speaker 1: Of course, capitalism gonna work like this if you don't
Speaker 1: pay the workers didn't. Again, it's a hundred percent profit, right.
Speaker 1: But it's also this idea that specifically how things fall
Speaker 1: among racial lines. It's this idea that there is something
Speaker 1: inherently inferior about black and brown people. Why can't y'all
Speaker 1: get your ship together, which we could say goes all
Speaker 1: the way back to doctrine of discovery, you know, and
Speaker 1: this idea of waging war, bringing the savage masses under
Speaker 1: the control of the crown and the Cross and somehow noble.
Speaker 1: So if you since they're somewhat less than human, not
Speaker 1: exactly image bearers, waging war against us is not a crime.
Speaker 1: It's not murdered because they're not necessarily image but there's
Speaker 1: actually doing them a favor. So it's this this horrible route.
Speaker 1: If you believe this, when you look across the table
Speaker 1: or across the park at a group of just kids,
Speaker 1: loud black kids, you know, and you make your assumptions
Speaker 1: about what their future is, what they desires, it might
Speaker 1: be coming from a lens, a determinism, lens that believes
Speaker 1: that there's just something inherently wrong with it. Therefore you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have super racist views about Thus, the problem
Speaker 1: of the hood is the same problem of the nations
Speaker 1: for which we all come from. Something just wrong with us.
Speaker 1: And one of those racist views that come out is
Speaker 1: like this, like white man's burden, that like, it's your
Speaker 1: job to elevate as the civilized communities, to elevate the
Speaker 1: uncivilized by giving them the joys of labor, of an
Speaker 1: honest day's pay, and if they just don't take to it,
Speaker 1: it's like we'll kick rocks. We gave you all a chance.
Speaker 1: These are remarkably bad takes. Or you have the more
Speaker 1: obvious take, which is send them back to Africa. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, that the the full Nazi joint.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You could go hold You
Speaker 1: could go a hold white supremacist Nazi and just be like, well,
Speaker 1: they're monkeys, they're savages, their beasts of prey, they'll never
Speaker 1: get better. They should we shouldn't even live among them.
Speaker 1: You could do that. That's obvious racism. But anyway, let's
Speaker 1: do some history here about how we even got to
Speaker 1: what some of us have identified as the hood, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna go from there and talk about what
Speaker 1: we mean by the global South and how the COVID
Speaker 1: response actually really exacerbates this issue that we're dealing with.
Speaker 1: You already, let's ride, okay, So here we go. We
Speaker 1: gotta go away far back, and I'm talking like the
Speaker 1: end of slavery. Back during reconstruction era, some of y'all
Speaker 1: may have heard of the phrase called sharecropping, which was
Speaker 1: essentially like this idea. I don't know if y'all know.
Speaker 1: This is a side note that after the slaves were freed,
Speaker 1: there was reparations paid. It was just paid to the owners,
Speaker 1: to the slave owners for a loss of revenue. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that they got reparations? The owners got reparations anyway,
Speaker 1: what they had to do was for for share cropping
Speaker 1: was like break up these big old land plots and
Speaker 1: now newly freed slaves who really didn't have nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: And it's not like the ending of slavery and racism, dug,
Speaker 1: but the owners would these big old plots of land,
Speaker 1: would break these plots of land into like subdivisions because
Speaker 1: it's not like they can afford to have these big
Speaker 1: old plots because now you ain't got nobody to work them. Right. So,
Speaker 1: but it's not like they was going to give up
Speaker 1: ownership of the land. You're crazy well that you work
Speaker 1: the land, but it's not slaves had any capital. So
Speaker 1: for the seed, for the tools, you could work there.
Speaker 1: You could work this land or whatever you grow there,
Speaker 1: but you got to pay the owner. Again, you don't
Speaker 1: own the land, and you gotta pay the owner of
Speaker 1: the land for all the tools, all the stuff that
Speaker 1: you need to be able to have a functioning farm.
Speaker 1: The thing is, you never really get out of debt.
Speaker 1: You never actually turn a profit because a you have
Speaker 1: to eat the fojiro it raised and then whatever is
Speaker 1: left you have to pay for seed, and you gotta
Speaker 1: go back to master to paycs who ain't mass and
Speaker 1: no more. He's just now becomes you are a member
Speaker 1: of the system of capitalism where you're not the widget anymore.
Speaker 1: And now you're just a member of it. And this
Speaker 1: is how it works. So they just kept kept black
Speaker 1: people in debt to this day. Some black folks was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this. And then there was what's called
Speaker 1: the Great Migration. This is where we in droves left
Speaker 1: the South, filling up Chicago, Detroit, you know, d C.
Speaker 1: And just all over the rest of America. Who was like, look, man,
Speaker 1: ain't no point in staying here. A lot of black people,
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all noticed, were cowboys, actually of
Speaker 1: the American Frontier cowboys, the cowboy that y'all all picture
Speaker 1: in moviescent what was black? Because it was a freeman's
Speaker 1: job and you ain't hand the owners. You was out
Speaker 1: all day just driving cattle from Texas up to Colorado
Speaker 1: to train station up there. It was great for a
Speaker 1: freed slave. Are you kidding me? This is the best. Also,
Speaker 1: here go another freebee. One of my favorite moments in
Speaker 1: history was this time because right after this happened. Get this,
Speaker 1: we started electing black officials all over municipalities and cities
Speaker 1: all over the South. Because there's so many of us,
Speaker 1: we started electing our own nigga. We was winning. And
Speaker 1: then guess what happened? Then called the black codes, the
Speaker 1: voter rights, the Pole Texas voter i D, the voter registrations.
Speaker 1: All these things started happening. That's why now when we're
Speaker 1: talking about voter rights, it's reminiscent it is because we
Speaker 1: was winning election and these white people was like, no,
Speaker 1: we can't have that. And that was the birth of
Speaker 1: Jim Crow. Oh I'm giving your game. Look, look, look
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is on paper. If you work the system,
Speaker 1: the system works. We elected the people that was like
Speaker 1: invested in our commune because it was more of us.
Speaker 1: We voted, and what did they do tried to stop
Speaker 1: us and it worked. So the next time you start
Speaker 1: thinking about all this stuff about like hindering voting nigga,
Speaker 1: because it works. Now back to the Great Migration. We
Speaker 1: all ran into We're not ran, but we all moved
Speaker 1: up into different areas, the Great Migration up north and
Speaker 1: some of us went west. The problem was those were
Speaker 1: all filled with white people already, and those white people
Speaker 1: already had stratified classes. There was wealthy that was working
Speaker 1: and it was poor white people. Now, we talked about
Speaker 1: this before, about like the union busters and the Pinkerton's
Speaker 1: and Carnegie and the steel workers unions. When um, these
Speaker 1: poor white people stood up for their for their rights,
Speaker 1: and the owners of these companies, these steel companies just
Speaker 1: decided to hire freed slaves to come work for them.
Speaker 1: Just this this reignited a huge class war kind of
Speaker 1: turned to pour against each other because at least if
Speaker 1: you pour in white, you ain't a nigger. Though it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the low key what we're kind of
Speaker 1: saying right here, you know, Shad's rebellion, Divide and conquer,
Speaker 1: you feel me? So, so that's kind of happening right now.
Speaker 1: Then eventually these white people was like, we don't want
Speaker 1: to live around niggers. You heard me, right, And then
Speaker 1: there was a thing called white flight. This is the
Speaker 1: birth of the suburbs. These beautiful communities, the leave it
Speaker 1: to Beaver's perfectly manicured lawns, and these planned communities, and
Speaker 1: these planned communities had laws, and these planned communities that
Speaker 1: had laws and neighborhood associations. One of those laws is
Speaker 1: called redlining, and the name of it is pretty literal.
Speaker 1: You would take a map, put it on the wall
Speaker 1: at the city. You would draw a line around certain
Speaker 1: neighborhoods and say, just essentially, zoning laws do not permit
Speaker 1: unsightly things that bring down property value, i e. A
Speaker 1: power plant, a black family, Jewish family, a landfill, a
Speaker 1: Latin family. How could they do that? Well? Because they
Speaker 1: was the law. Now, guys were talking fifties and sixties,
Speaker 1: this is not that long ago. There were things built
Speaker 1: into neighborhood associations that said, when you move into this
Speaker 1: neighbors in Los Angeles, when you move into this neighborhood,
Speaker 1: the only condition about whether when you sell this house
Speaker 1: is that you can't sell to a black or Jewish family.
Speaker 1: There was law like you you're not allowed. There were
Speaker 1: banks that decided purposefully they would not give bank loans
Speaker 1: to black families two brown families, So they locked us
Speaker 1: out of the suburbs on purpose. And even if they
Speaker 1: just think about this from a practical standpoint, let's just
Speaker 1: say you stayed in the city and you use U
Speaker 1: was working on the on the on the Detroit Still
Speaker 1: Mill factory. You know what I'm saying. You've been there forever,
Speaker 1: as black dude been there forever. Let's just say he's
Speaker 1: better qualified than every white boy up in that mug.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll get promoted to manager? Of course not,
Speaker 1: Well why not, we'll practically speaking, because these white boys
Speaker 1: won't listen to you. It's not gonna they're not gonna
Speaker 1: listen to you. So what's left is when all of industry.
Speaker 1: When all the jobs, when all the upward mobility for
Speaker 1: housing is taken and placed in a certain place, all
Speaker 1: that's left is what becomes our inner cities. And we
Speaker 1: all know what idle hands do, we all know what
Speaker 1: lack of opportunity do. And then what happens is you
Speaker 1: start criminalizing being poor. What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked what it means to criminalize being poor,
Speaker 1: because most crimes in the inner city are crimes, are survival. Now,
Speaker 1: I know we got murder rates. I know this gang
Speaker 1: like obviously, the things called hood politics, I'm not look
Speaker 1: every nick and jail ain't Nelson Mandelas. So you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, That's not what I'm saying. Is the
Speaker 1: hood absolutely filled with in fightings, corruption, uh, extortion, horrible
Speaker 1: problems that we inflict on each other. Absolutely, it's not
Speaker 1: at all what I'm saying. Are there people who have
Speaker 1: absolutely done all kinds of interventions to try to stop
Speaker 1: that things, the you know, anti anti gang marches and
Speaker 1: and after school programs. Again, I'm a product of some
Speaker 1: of them interventions. I'm a product of hood gang interventions
Speaker 1: from other gang members who cared about me. And said
Speaker 1: there's a better way to live. I'm not saying we
Speaker 1: ain't got problems, But what I'm saying is you have
Speaker 1: to understand really how sinister, purposeful, or built baked into
Speaker 1: the laws are these things that keep poor communities poor.
Speaker 1: You know that schools are funded by property tax, which
Speaker 1: comes from property values. So when the property value drops,
Speaker 1: then the taxes for the school's drop, which means you
Speaker 1: have underfunded schools. We'll just send your kids to private
Speaker 1: school to where to a city we've been red lined
Speaker 1: out of you build generational wealth? Well, how can you
Speaker 1: build generational wealth if we wasn't allowed into the wealth
Speaker 1: system until maybe sixty years ago. Have you heard of
Speaker 1: the Homestead Act? You know what I'm talking about when
Speaker 1: I say the Homestead Act. Well, Homestead Act was kind
Speaker 1: of like this after the Civil War. You know, we
Speaker 1: had this great frontier that was empty and broke. We
Speaker 1: handled money, but we have all this farmable land and
Speaker 1: everybody stuck in densely populated cities. So the government had
Speaker 1: this idea of saying, well, why don't we why don't
Speaker 1: we add these housing subsidies for families who would be
Speaker 1: willing to move. Now, when I say families. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Right, we're talking white people, but they're
Speaker 1: looking for families that are willing to move out into
Speaker 1: the Great Plains and start a farm. Now, if you
Speaker 1: don't know how to farm, it's all good. The governmental training,
Speaker 1: they'll pay for you to get training. You got any equipment,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Government will give you the equipment. This
Speaker 1: government handout, y'all. That sounds like bootstrapping to you. No,
Speaker 1: So this is the e t hunted. So if you
Speaker 1: got one of them hand outs a hundred years later,
Speaker 1: these the same people, these descendants, are the same people
Speaker 1: that are looking at people in the hood like why
Speaker 1: you need government handouts? Why are you always asking the
Speaker 1: government to help you? I'm like, what the government help
Speaker 1: y'all just a hundred years ago? Because it is how
Speaker 1: capitalism works. You gotta you gotta prime to pump. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. As a z f d R
Speaker 1: would say, sorry, I invoked f DR anyway, So the
Speaker 1: formation kind of happens like this. Now, what else is
Speaker 1: something that's very normal in the city is over policing. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull some data here from the Human Rights
Speaker 1: Watch uh dot org over policing. Check this out. Let
Speaker 1: me quote this for you. What we found in the
Speaker 1: data is that black people are subjected to physical force,
Speaker 1: including stunned guns, police, dog bites, pepper spray, punches, and
Speaker 1: kicks at the rate of two points seven times the
Speaker 1: time of white people. Some neighborhoods with larger populations of
Speaker 1: black people and poor people experience police stops more than
Speaker 1: ten times the rate of predominantly white or wealthier neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: What we're trying to say is it feels more like
Speaker 1: an overseer because because prisons are privatized, because war on drugs,
Speaker 1: we talked about that before. The eighteen and one law
Speaker 1: used to be a hundred of one law. What's the
Speaker 1: eighteen and one law. What it says is one ounce
Speaker 1: of crack gives you the same amount of jail time
Speaker 1: as eighteen ounces of cocaine and thede the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's this one is cut with vega zoda. One exists
Speaker 1: in the hood, the other exists in wealthy places. There's
Speaker 1: also a lot of money being made. This is what
Speaker 1: I mean by criminalizing being poor. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: money to be made. Now I'm gonna drop into Tulsa
Speaker 1: right now. Really, you could drop into any hood, USA,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna drop into Tulsa again. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the Human Rights Watch. Check this out. How is the
Speaker 1: issue of finds and fees play a role in this system?
Speaker 1: Follow me now. One of the really horrible things I
Speaker 1: discovered is that Tulsa, the county it's in, and the
Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma raise money to pay their court system
Speaker 1: and their government agencies largely through fines and court costs
Speaker 1: that are imposed on those arrested and those who have
Speaker 1: to go to court. And it's a huge amount of money.
Speaker 1: It's an abusive practice that is very common throughout the US.
Speaker 1: Most arresting citations in Tulsa are relatively minor crimes. If
Speaker 1: you get ticketed for speeding or running a stop sign,
Speaker 1: you get these fees and fines. Poor people who are
Speaker 1: cited and arrested the most often can't afford to pay,
Speaker 1: so the court will issue an arrest warrant. Almost fort
Speaker 1: of arrests made by the Tulsa Department are just warrant arrests,
Speaker 1: and a large percentage of those are for failure to
Speaker 1: pay court debt. So you just you just couldn't afford it,
Speaker 1: So now you got a record. Court costs was the
Speaker 1: third most common booking charge in the county jail. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that again. Court costs was the third most
Speaker 1: common booking charge in the county jail. People can't get
Speaker 1: out of debt. The court is predominantly in poor black communities.
Speaker 1: I spoke with people who kept getting arrested for failure
Speaker 1: to pay it, would miss work and lose their jobs.
Speaker 1: I spoke to a man who couldn't retire because he
Speaker 1: had to make payments. The debt just keeps piling on. Already,
Speaker 1: don't make enough. I get a speeding ticket like everybody else.
Speaker 1: You charge me this enormous amount to do this, or
Speaker 1: I gotta miss it. I gotta go to court to
Speaker 1: try to fight it. I go to day to go
Speaker 1: to court to try to fight it. I just missed
Speaker 1: the day of work. I can't afford the court fees.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna throw me in jail because I can't
Speaker 1: afford it. Right, So now I'm missing more work, which
Speaker 1: means I'll never be able to afford it. Uh, y'all
Speaker 1: know why Eric Garner died because he sold loose cigarette. Lucy,
Speaker 1: it's a one, he sold one cigarette. He dead. Being
Speaker 1: poor as a crime in a lot of places in
Speaker 1: our country. Watto because there's a lot of money to
Speaker 1: be made, and you could keep hitting that lick because
Speaker 1: we could never get out now again. Like I said before,
Speaker 1: there are obvious exceptions to this rule. I am a
Speaker 1: product of it. I am part of a swing family.
Speaker 1: My family was the one that in my lifetime we
Speaker 1: went from hood to suburb. My parents went back to school.
Speaker 1: They was like three or four jobs between them. We
Speaker 1: all kicked in. I helped out. I had to pay
Speaker 1: some of the bills in our house. I had to pay.
Speaker 1: I paid part of the phone bill. I remember this.
Speaker 1: One day my mother sat me down and we was
Speaker 1: kind of doing all right. She she wrote down, I
Speaker 1: was mad about some basketball camp, and she wrote down,
Speaker 1: uh or she told me to write down. Split this
Speaker 1: paper in half, right down, this list of numbers on
Speaker 1: one side, and this list of numbers on the other side.
Speaker 1: And then she asked me what I noticed about these
Speaker 1: two lists. And I saw that one was three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars three dollars less than the other one. She says, son,
Speaker 1: I make three hundred dollars less than I need every month.
Speaker 1: This is why you can't go to no damn basketball camp.
Speaker 1: You just and we we got out, YO said. We
Speaker 1: weren't living above our means. We were living as best
Speaker 1: as we could. But you get locked in these things,
Speaker 1: things like predatory loans, like those payday loans and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, charging y'all seventy nine interest. You lock people
Speaker 1: in because it's a continual source of money. And if
Speaker 1: you ever get out of that, then guess what. Now
Speaker 1: I'm competing with these people in the job market. Now
Speaker 1: I'm competing with these people in the housing market. Right.
Speaker 1: It's just the system incentivizes, just by how the numbers work,
Speaker 1: to keep the hood the hood. Now, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people who in the black and brown community
Speaker 1: who have looked looked over to the Jewish community in
Speaker 1: the sense that like they keep their money within their
Speaker 1: own community, that money passes around the Jewish community, at
Speaker 1: least in California, or at least in l A dollars
Speaker 1: dollars circulate their community four and five and six and
Speaker 1: seven and eight times before it leaves their community. What
Speaker 1: do I mean by that? They they only use their
Speaker 1: own cleaners, their own car dealerships, their own schools, they
Speaker 1: their own lawyers, their own dentists, they own doctors. They
Speaker 1: go to a doctor that's from neighood, right, So the
Speaker 1: money stays in there and they were able to accumulate wealth.
Speaker 1: Now that's because they made a conscious decision to do it.
Speaker 1: And how nigga, Because they was facing the same ship
Speaker 1: from the Holocaust and all that, Nigga, they had to
Speaker 1: figure it out. They was like, we had to fair
Speaker 1: out with you. So a lot of people in the
Speaker 1: black and brown community was like, yo, we need to
Speaker 1: do the same, keep the money within our owns. People
Speaker 1: like jay Z, people like uh My Dog Chase Infinite
Speaker 1: over at har Rum Coffee and la Mer park I
Speaker 1: was actually on Taviss Miley Show for the Black Information
Speaker 1: Network UH which broadcasts on radio broadcast, and learned parks
Speaker 1: like we gotta keep it in our community because if
Speaker 1: we don't anybody praying for us, anybody looking for us,
Speaker 1: if you don't own the land that your businesses is
Speaker 1: sitting on, then nigga, you just share cropping like follow me. Look, look,
Speaker 1: look the new flex where music is to own your masters.
Speaker 1: You need to own these tracks, you need to own
Speaker 1: these albums because if not Nika, you nothing but an ox.
Speaker 1: You would just it's just an auction block. We will
Speaker 1: never get no better. All you're doing, all they're doing
Speaker 1: is making money off our work. We just stay where
Speaker 1: we are, keeping venting ship. But you stay there because
Speaker 1: they get your own the land. It's share cropping all
Speaker 1: over again. Man, I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting real
Speaker 1: hole tep on you all today. Look. According to the
Speaker 1: Survey of Consumer Finance data, the median black family has
Speaker 1: twenty will four thousand, one hundred dollars in wealth. This
Speaker 1: is just twelve point seven percent of the hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine thousand, one hundred dollars in wealth owned by
Speaker 1: a typical white family. The media and Latino family is
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand, fifty owns just nineteen only one percent
Speaker 1: of the wealth of the median white family. Listen, we
Speaker 1: don't own the ship. We see all of our talent,
Speaker 1: all of our resources, all of our abilities leave our communities.
Speaker 1: Right You ask any black TikTok influencer, TikTok creative, they
Speaker 1: y'all making money off our dances. This continues to happen
Speaker 1: because the system incentivizes us to either play just as dirty,
Speaker 1: or just stay where we are. So we come up
Speaker 1: with stuff like ghetto fabulous comes up and stuff like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, which is an old phrase.
Speaker 1: But like how we flex, it's not like we don't
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. It's not like we're not
Speaker 1: smart enough to do these things. It's not like we
Speaker 1: don't work hard. The meritocracy thing is a myth. You're
Speaker 1: telling me. You're telling me that toughest nails Latino man
Speaker 1: get up before all of us in mode five lawns
Speaker 1: before me, and you have drank off first cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: You're telling me he ain't working hard. You're telling me
Speaker 1: that lady that that that if you happen to come
Speaker 1: into a high rise building, you happen to be staying
Speaker 1: at some sort of hotel. You're telling me that Latina
Speaker 1: lady up there cleaning everyhow. You're telling me she ain't
Speaker 1: working hard. Come on, fam, it's more to it, it's
Speaker 1: more to it. What's the basis, what's our hope? Well,
Speaker 1: some people have some suggestions. Now, let me blow your
Speaker 1: mind right here. All this stuff is exacerbated and made
Speaker 1: even more clear by the COVID response, which is gonna
Speaker 1: lead us into us talking about the global South, which
Speaker 1: apparently this show is getting real long, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be a part two. But follow me here.
Speaker 1: This is from inequality dot org. It's about inequality. Uh.
Speaker 1: The early vaccine data shows that racial groups most at
Speaker 1: risk of the virus are not receiving the most shots.
Speaker 1: According to the data from twenty three states analyzed by
Speaker 1: the Kaiser Family Foundation, black infection and death rates are
Speaker 1: significantly higher than their vaccine rates. Louisian that has the
Speaker 1: widest gap, with black death rates twenty six percent points
Speaker 1: higher than black vaccination dates. The digital divide is one
Speaker 1: factor in the racial vaccine gap, since the lack of
Speaker 1: internet access makes it more difficult to secure appointments. NPR
Speaker 1: found that in many areas, vaccine sites are located outside
Speaker 1: of Black and Latino community surveys also indicate higher rates
Speaker 1: of vaccine hesitancy among people of color due to a
Speaker 1: long history of racial medical mistreatment, but the hesitancy has
Speaker 1: declined as the vaccine has rolled out. Now what are
Speaker 1: they talking about. They're talking about the Tuskegee experiment. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna let you. I'm not even gonna give
Speaker 1: y'all that y'all need to go look that up as
Speaker 1: to why black people is like, I ain't taking that shot. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get back to it. COVID nineteen pandemic has forced
Speaker 1: many workers into remote and telework office telework as offices
Speaker 1: have closed around the country, but not everyone has the
Speaker 1: same abit need to work from home. Most recent Bureau
Speaker 1: of Labor Statistics data on this are from two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen through eighteen. These pre pandemic figures indicate that only
Speaker 1: nineteen point seven percent of black and sixteen point two
Speaker 1: percent of Latino people work in jobs in which they
Speaker 1: are able to tell a work, compared to twenty nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of white and thirty seven point zero
Speaker 1: percent of Asian workers. This gap, combined with research documenting
Speaker 1: that black and Latino people now make up a disproportionate
Speaker 1: number of those jobs deemed essential, explains why people of
Speaker 1: color have been exposed to a greater virus risk. What
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is how interlocking systems work. When
Speaker 1: you put one thing in place, the rest of these
Speaker 1: dominoes fall into place. And I can't say that there's
Speaker 1: some big villains sitting around a board like like like,
Speaker 1: you know, like an evil Avengers. But can I say,
Speaker 1: But I can't say when you put the thing together,
Speaker 1: it just kind of feel on purpose because of how
Speaker 1: interlocking systems work. But that's critical race theory, so I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed to talk about that now. Also, according to
Speaker 1: inequality dot org, some of these things kind of happen
Speaker 1: because of just hiring inequalities and hiring quit and inequalities
Speaker 1: come from implicit bias. So, according to inequality dot org,
Speaker 1: racial discrimination in many forms, including education, hiring, and pay practices,
Speaker 1: contribute to the persistent earning gaps. As of the last
Speaker 1: quarter of the median white worker made sent more than
Speaker 1: the typical black worker in thirties six percent more than
Speaker 1: the media and Latino worker, according to the BLS data.
Speaker 1: The COVID nineteen pandemic again drastically raised unemployment in America,
Speaker 1: but that impact has not been felt across all racial groups.
Speaker 1: In December, as the recovery of the summer months started
Speaker 1: to fade, unemployment rate was nine point nine percent for
Speaker 1: Blacks and nine point three percent for Latinos, compared to
Speaker 1: six point zero percent of Whites and five point nine
Speaker 1: percent of Asians. In these rates, only count for those
Speaker 1: who are actively seeking work, leaving out those who have
Speaker 1: just given up on finding jobs. So to put it
Speaker 1: all together, you got a exiting and blocking out of
Speaker 1: nicer areas because of property value. Your property value drops,
Speaker 1: which means your property taxes are low, which means you
Speaker 1: now have failing schools. You couple this with the war
Speaker 1: on drugs, and couple it with over policing, right, and
Speaker 1: then you couple it with densely populations and without the
Speaker 1: lack of opportunity, because opportunity, because of implicit bias, which
Speaker 1: may have came all the way back to the founding
Speaker 1: of our country, makes us believe that people that are
Speaker 1: darker are just inferior. You put all that together and
Speaker 1: systemically allow for laws that undergird these racist views. You
Speaker 1: make a hood. And of course I am not a determinist,
Speaker 1: because I am again the product of someone who is
Speaker 1: found their way out. I've said it in the song
Speaker 1: Somehow to School the Prison Pipeline miss this. Now next
Speaker 1: week I'm gonna take this same motif and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show you what I mean by the global South. We
Speaker 1: used to call that the third World, but what COVID
Speaker 1: response has shown us is uh y'all treating this like
Speaker 1: a hood it should do seem on purpose her politics, y'all.
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