Speaker 1: Cool media. Okay, so today's episode might be a little
Speaker 1: short but very powerful, Like my grandma, I want to
Speaker 1: preempt some arguments you're gonna have. I mean, and it's
Speaker 1: a good thing that like a lot of us are
Speaker 1: jumping out of X. You know, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and call it X cuz hey listen, like a good
Speaker 1: progressive if somebody changes their pronoun and I'm an hon
Speaker 1: or Day pronoun. So look, if Twitter is now X,
Speaker 1: it is now X, I'm a respect its name sing.
Speaker 1: That's tweeting now sing anyway, But whether you're talking to
Speaker 1: a bot or a blue check bro or some sort
Speaker 1: of elon sexual or just the like pseudo intellectual that's
Speaker 1: gonna try to like school you with the well, actually,
Speaker 1: maybe you got a cousin or uncle who just got
Speaker 1: out of prison. He been reading books. He been reading
Speaker 1: books without any guidance. You know, they just get out
Speaker 1: of prison. They doing nothing but reading that they know everything.
Speaker 1: You don't want to discourage them because they make it
Speaker 1: a change of they life. You gotta learn how to
Speaker 1: build with them. Anyway. So if you even if you're
Speaker 1: talking to your ex con family member and you just
Speaker 1: talking right about you talking about the death of democracy
Speaker 1: and are voting because of course it's going to be
Speaker 1: just chaos for our next election. So before somebody actually
Speaker 1: wearing up, I'm like, we're a democratic repub Black. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure and they know what they talk about, and
Speaker 1: I want to make sure you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to elementary school and let's plan
Speaker 1: and a school wide pizza party, ice cream, social hood politics, y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, for some of y'all, it's back to school season.
Speaker 1: For some of y'all who got kids, you know where
Speaker 1: your children are now out your house. You are not
Speaker 1: responsible for figuring out things for them to do all day,
Speaker 1: so you could possibly get stuff done and go have
Speaker 1: lunch during the day, not that your kids is gone.
Speaker 1: I think we all thought summer was the best time
Speaker 1: of the year, but that's because we were in school
Speaker 1: then and summer was our break. Now we understand that,
Speaker 1: especially as parents, summer's probably the hardest time. It's the
Speaker 1: most expensive. I gotta find camps. I can't get anything
Speaker 1: done five minutes. Can I have a snack? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: It is so much more work in the summer when
Speaker 1: you get anyway, So this is the most wonderful time
Speaker 1: of the year for parents. But I want to take
Speaker 1: you back to when you were an elementary school. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know the specifics of your elementary school. This
Speaker 1: is definitely any Hood USA scenario here. You know, at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, like if you guys did good,
Speaker 1: you'd get like a you know, pizza party or something,
Speaker 1: you know, ice cream. If let's get all perfect attendance,
Speaker 1: if no one gets in trouble, if nobody gets sent
Speaker 1: to the prisons, everybody, if we finished our test, you
Speaker 1: get your little pizza party, little ice cream party. I
Speaker 1: remember my elementary school if I can't remember what the
Speaker 1: carrot was that they dangled in front of us, But
Speaker 1: if we did something by the end of the year,
Speaker 1: maybe it was fundraising, I don't remember exactly what it was.
Speaker 1: We would get like a school wide like last day
Speaker 1: of school party, balloons, pizza, ice cream, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that once you cross thirty you can't eat no more.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, dust was the type of thing. And
Speaker 1: I know my demographic don't like like you could still
Speaker 1: eat cheese and ice cream and not it killed your belly.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to elementary school. End of the
Speaker 1: year celebration. You guys made it. I don't know, perfect attendance,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, whatever it was, this is your time.
Speaker 1: You get your pizza and ice cream, social, your water balloons,
Speaker 1: everything school wide. Right, But now you got to decide
Speaker 1: what kind of pizza, which kind of ice cream, what
Speaker 1: movie we're gonna watch. I mean, we want this thing
Speaker 1: to go up, right, So you got I mean, look
Speaker 1: y'all worked hard for this. You gotta get this right.
Speaker 1: And which games we're gonna play? All right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to explain to you what a republic it means with this,
Speaker 1: because this is what we do at Hood politics. Yes,
Speaker 1: bring the track in madness, all right, So here we go.
Speaker 1: You got, I don't know what, let's paint the picture.
Speaker 1: Here's what's our demographic, Like, Okay, if if we're on
Speaker 1: my side of town, we're predominantly Latino, sprinkled with equal
Speaker 1: parts Filipino and African American with a little pieces of salt,
Speaker 1: like a couple couple of white people in there that like,
Speaker 1: and so many white people actually are just Spaniards or
Speaker 1: they're Latinos that are very light skin, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. This our part of town, right, that's for that.
Speaker 1: Maybe your school is not. Maybe your school is super
Speaker 1: major versus just just as white as mayonnaise. I don't know, Pitt.
Speaker 1: Your elementary school, you know what you got, You got
Speaker 1: your there was I remember the early two thousands of
Speaker 1: a cartoon called Recess, which was spot on elementary school.
Speaker 1: Like y'all remember that cartoon. It was Disney Cartoons perfect.
Speaker 1: You had your av kid, which y'all don't really know
Speaker 1: nothing about nomore because uh, you don't need an audio
Speaker 1: visual kid. It's you have laptops. But you had your
Speaker 1: av kid. You had your hall monitor. You had your
Speaker 1: upside down girl. You're the monkey bar girl. You had
Speaker 1: you know, your bully. You had the girl that was
Speaker 1: always on the swings. You know, Yet every possible trope,
Speaker 1: the card collector, the one that just wants to play,
Speaker 1: whether it's Yu gi oh or or or Pokemon or
Speaker 1: just the collector, every possible elementary school trope, you can
Speaker 1: think of, the principal, the lady that had the lunch late,
Speaker 1: the janitor, the person that helped out at the recess.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, like all of all possible tropes.
Speaker 1: Please go look up that cartoon that cartoon was wonderful. Anyway, TJ. Dettwiler,
Speaker 1: he's the leader, the leader. They they they little crew. Anyway,
Speaker 1: elementary school, now you got your kindergartens, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, which are usually like fenced off in a
Speaker 1: whole other part like your preschool. In kindergartens, to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know, they have their own they have
Speaker 1: their own playground, and make sure y'all don't to hurt them.
Speaker 1: Then you got you know, I don't know I went
Speaker 1: to it since I'm from the inner city. We had
Speaker 1: a ginormous elementary school. So we had staggered lunches and
Speaker 1: recesses where the first through third graders were at one
Speaker 1: time and then the fourth through sixth graders were at
Speaker 1: the other time. Our lunches were similar. You had a
Speaker 1: staggered lunch, you know what I'm saying. Because of that, right,
Speaker 1: and we all remember lunch recess was the dopest, right.
Speaker 1: But as we're getting towards the end of the school year,
Speaker 1: like we are, right, you know, you had your little
Speaker 1: ASB group stuff like that. Now you've made friends, you
Speaker 1: got been in the same class. You know, in elementary school,
Speaker 1: you don't change a lot of you don't change classes.
Speaker 1: It's not like middle school where you got your seven
Speaker 1: different teachers, you know, spoken out like, which becomes more
Speaker 1: like high school. It's not like that. We're still in
Speaker 1: elementary school. And when you do your little as B stuff,
Speaker 1: we all know it's just a popularity contest. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, really the thing. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They're not like really qualified. They're just the cool kid,
Speaker 1: right or the kid that was willing to do the
Speaker 1: work now not so hot. Take I ain't gonna hold
Speaker 1: you that boy. Vivek reminds me of a kid just
Speaker 1: running for AsSb in elementary school and he's just trying
Speaker 1: to listen to whatever the cool kids say, and he's
Speaker 1: just trying to do that like the kid that's promising
Speaker 1: I'm would put kool aid into water fountain. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm outlawing homework. Yay. It's like bruh, shut up, man,
Speaker 1: Like everybody love him because he's like he's gonna outlaw homework.
Speaker 1: Like come on, vam, this is not real anyway. We
Speaker 1: need to choose what kind of pizza we have and
Speaker 1: what kind of ice cream we're gonna serve. Games we're
Speaker 1: gonna play what movie we're gonna watch? Okay, who gets
Speaker 1: to choose that? What if they just go, well, the
Speaker 1: sixth graders are about to graduate, we're kind of celebrating
Speaker 1: them and everybody there, so we'll just let them choose, right,
Speaker 1: and then so they decide among themselves in whatever ways
Speaker 1: that they decide, and then they let the school the
Speaker 1: rest of the kids know. Now, unless you know, unless
Speaker 1: you're related to a sixth grader, unless you know any
Speaker 1: of them, you're not really gonna know like how they
Speaker 1: came to that conclusion. You're just like, if you're a
Speaker 1: third grader and you don't know any sixth graders, all
Speaker 1: you're doing is just open that they pick stuff you like.
Speaker 1: But y'all know access to them. They're six graders, you know,
Speaker 1: like some of them. Dudes got facial hair, a couple
Speaker 1: of the couple of girls have started, you know, they
Speaker 1: got they got boobs. Now, like they're a few of them,
Speaker 1: You're like, these are you're all you're practically adults. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're a third grader. The sixth graders might as
Speaker 1: well be able to drive, So you know, access to
Speaker 1: them unless you have a sibling that's a sixth grader.
Speaker 1: And then maybe you'll overhear them talking about a little
Speaker 1: bit of the cheesemaya as to how they came up
Speaker 1: with that. Maybe they're mad. Maybe you got a sixth
Speaker 1: grader brother or sister or they that is just extra nerdy,
Speaker 1: not involved. You got a D and D kid, you know.
Speaker 1: So when you say, hey, hey, hey, what are you
Speaker 1: guys gonna pick? You're the third grader, what are you
Speaker 1: guys gonna pick for the school? And they go, I
Speaker 1: don't know. He was like, damn where they go, I
Speaker 1: don't care. It's lame. You're like, well, okay, well I
Speaker 1: care because you're still a little third grader. You care.
Speaker 1: So in that scenario, the sixth graders, you could see
Speaker 1: that as an aristocracy, right. They are the noass the
Speaker 1: elite who wine and dine and wheel their power and authority.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know. For some reason, we are somehow,
Speaker 1: as descendants of Britain, obsessed with like Turn of the
Speaker 1: century style monarchy, European monarchies where you go to court
Speaker 1: and you're watching all the wheelings and dealings, like the
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones of it all. You know of people
Speaker 1: trying to like wheel and deal and get power and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. The people that get to go to court.
Speaker 1: That's your aristocracy, plutocracy, if you will, you use your
Speaker 1: elementary school is ran by a select few and powerful people.
Speaker 1: That would be one way they'd run it, and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully what they come up with is super dope. Now,
Speaker 1: let's just say the principle still allows the sixth graders
Speaker 1: to choose everything, right, But the principle has a sixth
Speaker 1: grade child, and ultimately the principle is going to decide
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'all work this out, but the principal
Speaker 1: going to decide who has the final say what they
Speaker 1: child wants. So when ay child comes up and says, hey,
Speaker 1: the sixth graders they all want Hawaiian pizza, we want
Speaker 1: to watch the Barbie movie, and we're gonna play Capture
Speaker 1: the Flag, the principal may or may not double check
Speaker 1: that information. Right. That's installing a puppet dictator, okay, which
Speaker 1: a lot of countries run off. Is it's a puppet dictator.
Speaker 1: Like the principle really is really making the decision, and
Speaker 1: you're just I just put you in there because I
Speaker 1: don't want it to be perceived as though I made
Speaker 1: the choice for you and using this metaphor, sometimes the
Speaker 1: principle in this story is a whole other country, you know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the principle is Russia, or as we know, often
Speaker 1: if you know anything about history, the principal is the
Speaker 1: United States of America. You don't say it's your choice.
Speaker 1: And the puppet leader is supposed to make it seem
Speaker 1: like this was discussed and everybody had power. That's what
Speaker 1: it made it seem like. Or that puppet dictator is
Speaker 1: supposed to take all the heat and just be considered
Speaker 1: the jerk that just made the choice. So everybody mad
Speaker 1: at the dictator and really don't understand why the dictator
Speaker 1: got so much power. But we know. But alas, our
Speaker 1: elementary school is a part of an experiment that is different.
Speaker 1: We are not a monarchy elementary school. We are not
Speaker 1: an aristocracy elementary school. We are a democratic elementary school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd say, hey, prop how would we be a democratic
Speaker 1: republic elementary school? Well, before I answer that, let me
Speaker 1: answer what a democratic elementary school would be. So this
Speaker 1: is what it would be. It would be like this
Speaker 1: principal would say, hey, you guys earned it. End of
Speaker 1: the year school party. These are the things we want
Speaker 1: to choose. You guys go vote, and everybody gets to
Speaker 1: say you guys, tell me what you like, and majority wins.
Speaker 1: Whoever whichever gets the most votes wins. Right, So every
Speaker 1: kid goes back to their home, to their room. They
Speaker 1: start thinking like, Okay, what kind of pizza do I like? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think we should do this. My vote would be pepperoni,
Speaker 1: This one, maam would be cheese, you know, and then
Speaker 1: everybody comes in. You tally all the votes, and whoever
Speaker 1: has the most, whichever things have the most, that's what
Speaker 1: we do. Now. In that scenario, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: variables that could come about. Right. You can have the
Speaker 1: kid that's lactose in tolerant, right. You can have the
Speaker 1: kid that doesn't really care. You can have the kid
Speaker 1: that didn't read the ballance, didn't do the questions, don't
Speaker 1: know where we going, what we're talking about, not really
Speaker 1: paying attention. And then you have the kid that just
Speaker 1: likes to sow chaos. That's just you know, the kid
Speaker 1: that just like farts. You know when you can't. When
Speaker 1: y'all are ready to go to recess and the teacher
Speaker 1: says not until everybody's quiet, and then the one kid
Speaker 1: who just thinks it's so funny, just so funny, and
Speaker 1: then your teacher goes, now, congratulations, Brad, you've ruined it
Speaker 1: for the rest of them. I don't know why his
Speaker 1: name's Brad, but he's Brad. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's just ruined it for the rest of them. Right,
Speaker 1: So now we all got to stay in the extra
Speaker 1: five minutes before recess because Brad thought it was funny
Speaker 1: to make a fart noise. Don't raise your hand, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's a good amount of y'all that
Speaker 1: are brad head asses listening to this thing. I can't
Speaker 1: stand you there, kids that just so chaos. You have
Speaker 1: kids that aren't even gonna eat anyway, They're just gonna
Speaker 1: run straight to the monkey bars. You have kids who
Speaker 1: have peanut allergies and probably can't come anyway. You got
Speaker 1: a kid that's not gonna be there that day. You
Speaker 1: have all these things happening. But everybody, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're informed. It's a nightmare. Some of y'all don't
Speaker 1: know how to spell. I can't even read what you're saying.
Speaker 1: None of this it's just so much. But you had
Speaker 1: a chance to make your voices heard. And if you
Speaker 1: didn't do it, if you didn't let your voice be heard,
Speaker 1: if you didn't if you weren't informed, if you didn't
Speaker 1: do what you were supposed to do, if you accidentally
Speaker 1: clicked the wrong thing, and then look that's on you.
Speaker 1: Everybody got a shot. Now you counting, Now, your little
Speaker 1: asb president has a lot of room for error because
Speaker 1: now this person got to count six hundred, seven hundred votes.
Speaker 1: Make sure that Tali's are good. Probably gotta count it again.
Speaker 1: Make sure and then throw out the ones that you
Speaker 1: don't know are serious. Because if some dudes like you know,
Speaker 1: peanut butter and anchovies, like, oh, that's a joke, Like
Speaker 1: what if it's not a joke? Now they mad because
Speaker 1: that wasn't a joke. I said what i'mant, that's what
Speaker 1: I want it. You just disenfranchised me. And then and
Speaker 1: then again, if the choices are what kind of pizza
Speaker 1: and which ice cream? And somebody put fried chicken on
Speaker 1: the ballot, it's like, nigga, did you read the question?
Speaker 1: You or you just want fried that's not one of
Speaker 1: the options. That can't like why is this is a
Speaker 1: disaster everybody maybe, and I don't even know if everybody's
Speaker 1: turned they thing and it's just so much. But if
Speaker 1: you go to this school, you get a chance to
Speaker 1: say it is your inalienable rights, and no one gets
Speaker 1: to take it from you by virtue of your enrollment.
Speaker 1: Ain't no test on it. If you smart enough, if
Speaker 1: you know order, it don't matter. If you go here,
Speaker 1: you get a vote. That, my friend, would be a
Speaker 1: direct democracy. But we don't have that. We have things
Speaker 1: called districts representatives. Congressman, So let me help you understand
Speaker 1: what that means in Usin so, rather than every kid
Speaker 1: turning in these stupid little pieces of papers, some of
Speaker 1: them got snot on them, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: some of them filled out all wrong. Don't he can't
Speaker 1: even read half of them because you don't know how
Speaker 1: to speale pizza, you know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a joke, right whatever. Like,
Speaker 1: instead of that, what if every class says, you know what, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read this. What if you looked at
Speaker 1: the who in your class and your you know, twenty
Speaker 1: five thirty kids in your class that you know likes research,
Speaker 1: that's gonna read, that's gonna be informed, because you look,
Speaker 1: you are too busy, you're too busy keeping up with
Speaker 1: you are too busy watching your blue shows. I don't
Speaker 1: have time. And the kindergarteners, they don't even know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about anyway, except for one him kindergarteners who
Speaker 1: might be rather advanced. Maybe one of them kindergarteners has
Speaker 1: a second grade brother, or a second grade sister, or
Speaker 1: a second grade non binary, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: that one little kindergartener is very informed. And what if
Speaker 1: as a class you said, hey, this kid, can you
Speaker 1: do us a favor? Do the work for us? Be informed?
Speaker 1: Find out with Okay, so if we say, if we
Speaker 1: say we want pepperoni, what shop they gonna go to?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna go to that shop because I prefer
Speaker 1: this pizza spot. If but if it's gonna be pineapple,
Speaker 1: then can we find out if it's that way, if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be sausage, if it's gonna be if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm saying, so can you go do the
Speaker 1: homework to be like? Okay? So if I choose pizza,
Speaker 1: was and then if we say, okay, what kind of
Speaker 1: ice cream? Are there gonna be gluten free options? Are
Speaker 1: there gonna be dairy free options? Are there? Are there
Speaker 1: gonna be Srbert like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do that work. I want somebody class Let's choose what
Speaker 1: of us, someone we trust that's gonna get all the
Speaker 1: information we need, tell us so that we are informed
Speaker 1: and tell us the truth. And then we tell them
Speaker 1: as a collective, all right, as a class, as you
Speaker 1: know Miss Duncan's fourth grade class, we choose pepperonium mushroom.
Speaker 1: Maybe everybody didn't want it in our class right, but collectively,
Speaker 1: because we were informed, we have now sent a representative
Speaker 1: to represent our classroom at the senate of other classroom. Now,
Speaker 1: how y'all came to that choice inside your classroom. That's
Speaker 1: completely up to your classroom. Okay, every classroom may come
Speaker 1: today conclusions, may figure out how they tally they votes.
Speaker 1: That's something most of the time inside of the classroom,
Speaker 1: it is a direct democracy. We all choose, or maybe
Speaker 1: you break it up into caucuses or small groups inside
Speaker 1: of your classroom to decide what your classroom wants. That's
Speaker 1: up to you. We sent them to the republic of
Speaker 1: our elementary school. And if every class does that, guess what,
Speaker 1: you have a republic. It's not that we all didn't
Speaker 1: get to say. We all got to say, but our
Speaker 1: say was roped around into one thing. Right. So if
Speaker 1: in my classroom, Miss Duncan's third grade class, we had
Speaker 1: forty of us wanted cheese, five percent of us wanted Hawaiian,
Speaker 1: and forty five percent of us wanted pepperoni. Okay, now
Speaker 1: nobody's reached a super majority, but what got the most
Speaker 1: votes out of everybody was what did I just say?
Speaker 1: I say pepperoni. Wait, let me pause this to scroll back.
Speaker 1: See what I just said. Yes, I said pepperoni. So
Speaker 1: forty five percent of Miss Duncan's room voted pepperoni. So
Speaker 1: if this were the electoral college, and our classroom was
Speaker 1: the state of California, and since we have a very
Speaker 1: large class, our bunch of thirty class, thirty kids in
Speaker 1: this class are sending a vote of pepperoni, but our
Speaker 1: vote counts as three ticks towards the pepperoni. That's the
Speaker 1: electoral college. Because of how many people are in our class.
Speaker 1: Now you have a class let's say you're in miss
Speaker 1: Rodriguez's second grade class. Your class just happens to be smaller. Okay,
Speaker 1: you just have a smaller class. Y'all picked. Y'all picked
Speaker 1: a little girl, Jessica Gonzalez. You know, she's just a
Speaker 1: smart kid. She's well spoken. She told us everything that
Speaker 1: she thought about it. She's willing to say her choice
Speaker 1: is this, but she'll she'll do whatever y'all ask. She'll
Speaker 1: tell them what your class says. And your class decides
Speaker 1: on cheese. Right, Well, there's only fifteen people in your class.
Speaker 1: But if ten of them said cheese, five of them
Speaker 1: didn't know what pizza meant. The choice was cheese. Right.
Speaker 1: So now those are two tick marks that you send
Speaker 1: to the Republic, that you say. Second graders want cheese.
Speaker 1: Third graders want pepperoni. Fourth graders do the same thing.
Speaker 1: They picked a kid, They said what they needed to say,
Speaker 1: figured it out. Fourth Graders wanted pineapple, wanted Hawaiian right.
Speaker 1: Fifth graders they were cool at whatever, but they had
Speaker 1: to vote. And if they had to vote, even though
Speaker 1: everybody was just like, now, we're good, but if we
Speaker 1: have to choose, I guess Peperoni's cool. Cool. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: two for Pepperoni, right, because remember it has to be pizza.
Speaker 1: You could write in chicken wings, but it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1: You could have a third party, doesn't matter. We are now,
Speaker 1: rather than counting five hundred votes, we have someone that
Speaker 1: represents us, who informed us of our choices, went to
Speaker 1: us and said what we asked them to say to
Speaker 1: this council, this republic, this congress of elementary school kids
Speaker 1: that have chosen I have the authority to say, I,
Speaker 1: as the representative of mister Tokeishi's fourth grade class, I
Speaker 1: have the power to say, we desire Pepperoni pizza and
Speaker 1: we hope to play red Rover. That's our vote. And
Speaker 1: I can say that because I have been entrusted with
Speaker 1: the authority by the rest of the fourth graders, because
Speaker 1: they chose me as their representative in this thing to
Speaker 1: tell the school what we want to have. That, my friends,
Speaker 1: is how a representative based democracy is supposed to work
Speaker 1: in theory. Now, how does it work? Well, how it
Speaker 1: works is the representative we just sent said what they
Speaker 1: wanted to say. And it's because some of the other
Speaker 1: kids paid them to say that, and they walked in
Speaker 1: it was just like, yeah, you told me to say this. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: How did you even get chosen to be our representative
Speaker 1: in the first place? I know I didn't choose you. Oh,
Speaker 1: I selected myself because my big brother is also a representative.
Speaker 1: So I get to be one. Wait, nigga, you get
Speaker 1: to be why well? Because I kind of tore down
Speaker 1: my signs to be the other representative in the class
Speaker 1: room was cooler than yours. I just happened to have
Speaker 1: more money. You ain't had no markers to be able
Speaker 1: to make your posters. I had all the markers. So
Speaker 1: that's why my poster is good. And I will vote
Speaker 1: for whichever one of y'all pay me. So you got
Speaker 1: pizza companies, You got Domino's Pizza down the street running
Speaker 1: up on this little fourth grader, Jessica. No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Jessica was the second gred. Okay, So the fourth grader,
Speaker 1: let's call it. Let's call it the fourth grader. What
Speaker 1: we go call a fourth grader? Give me a name.
Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Give me a name. I can't
Speaker 1: hear you. Derek. We gonna call him Derek. So the
Speaker 1: fourth grader, Derek, Derek, Derek got a text from Johnny's mama,
Speaker 1: who actually runs a pieza shop down the street, who
Speaker 1: offered him free sodas and candies for the next year
Speaker 1: if you vote for his pizza shop and his particular
Speaker 1: dough that he's trying to get the rest of the
Speaker 1: city to start using. Or how about this, I'm the
Speaker 1: representative because my big used to be a representative and
Speaker 1: his brother and my mama went to this school and
Speaker 1: she was a representative, So I get to be one.
Speaker 1: I hel I know the secretary. You want me to
Speaker 1: jump this metaphor even crazier, you want to jump in
Speaker 1: even crazier. What if the fifth grade class looked at
Speaker 1: the map of the school, peeked their head into some
Speaker 1: of the fourth grade classes, some of the second grade
Speaker 1: classes looked in there, and listen to the way that
Speaker 1: they was choosing. And what if that fifth grade class said,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the fourth graders are technically fifth graders,
Speaker 1: so we think part of that fourth grade class should
Speaker 1: be a part of the fifth grade vote. So I
Speaker 1: think you need to draw these lines a little different
Speaker 1: and say, actually, we really need to think about the
Speaker 1: way that we're organizing these grades, because what if this
Speaker 1: kid got held back. What if this We're like, no,
Speaker 1: this kid's actually our age. So we think the way
Speaker 1: that you're drawing these classrooms are not necessarily correct. We
Speaker 1: think that like, actually a part of that fourth grade
Speaker 1: class are actually fifth gradest. That's called Jered Mandy, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's Jerryman. That's when you redraw the district lines to
Speaker 1: make sure that your district is stronger than the other district. Right,
Speaker 1: you're just siphoning off votes for pizza. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what has become of our democracy, I mean our elementary school.
Speaker 1: You got fifth grader stealing fourth graders to make them
Speaker 1: fifth graders just for this, right. You got freaking Jessica
Speaker 1: in second grade being paid off by Byron's dad's ice
Speaker 1: cream parlor to make sure that he votes, make sure
Speaker 1: that Jessica votes for his ice cream only. And then
Speaker 1: we have this pizza party. We have this after school,
Speaker 1: last day of school party, and no one got what
Speaker 1: they wanted. Yuh, nobody won. Or let's just say what
Speaker 1: happens is, somehow, against all odds, Hawaiian pizza one but
Speaker 1: Pepperoni swore it was stolen from them, and that y'all
Speaker 1: counted these wrongs and the seventh graders cheated, for which
Speaker 1: we would say, there are no seventh graders at this school.
Speaker 1: How to hell could the seventh grader see no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. We saw you bring your brothers. Y'all added
Speaker 1: votes that kid don't go to this school. No more. No,
Speaker 1: this is not fair. It's like nigga, No, okay, don't
Speaker 1: you think we would spot a seventh grader. Don't you
Speaker 1: think that would be don't you think we could tell
Speaker 1: who the seventh grader is? Nope, it's not what happened. No,
Speaker 1: there was no seventh grad yes, there were all right, man,
Speaker 1: well we're in shambles. Eventually, the first graders are going
Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, this system don't work.
Speaker 1: I'm not We're not even next year when they do
Speaker 1: this when we're second graders. Let's just not. Let's just not.
Speaker 1: How about we just don't go. How about we just
Speaker 1: ask our mom to let us stay home because voting
Speaker 1: and being a part of this system continues to fail us. Well,
Speaker 1: that's our country, I mean, that's our elementary school. That's
Speaker 1: the republic. Y'all didn't get to choose. You chose a
Speaker 1: representative to represent your grade for which pizza we wanted
Speaker 1: and what games we wanted to play. We all voted,
Speaker 1: but our vote went as a block of votes to
Speaker 1: the legislature for which the choice was made. I may
Speaker 1: have confused you even more. Now take y'all. You know,
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