WEBVTT - Preparing For High School 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.520 We got a high school of y'all, and I'm nervous 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:03.920 as hell. 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.840 I'm literally day by day fighting back tears. We're about 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.000 to have. Yeah, I look at Jackson and I want 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:18.080 to cry every day. I can't believe we're here. It's insane. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.560 It all started with real talk, unfiltered, honest and straight 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.599 from the heart. Since then, we've gone on to become 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.080 Webby Award winning podcasters in New York Times bestselling authors. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.640 Dead Ass was more than a podcast for us. It 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.879 was about our growth, a place where we could be vulnerable, be. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.960 Wraw or but most apportly be us. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.960 But as we know, life keeps evolving and so do we, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.640 and through it all, one thing has never changed. This 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.360 is because we got a lot to talk about. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.520 Story time. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.320 My oldest son is first of all, he's amazing. But 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.720 I'm gonna tell you something that happened to me the 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.920 other day. I'm gonna flash y'all back to yesterday because. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.320 It didn't happen that long ago. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.160 I get out the bedroom and I walk down to 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:13.200 where you're always standing there making breakfast, and this shadowy 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:18.600 figure comes over my shoulder while I'm hugging you, and 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.959 all I hear, is your chill? 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.200 Let my finish making breakfast. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.480 And I looked over and he was like looking at 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.479 me eye to eye with that curly frow, and then 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.679 put his hand on my shoulder and I was like, yo, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.720 you're like a little man, Like you're my size now. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.720 And it was in that moment that I realized, like, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.039 I have to start teaching my son what to be 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.360 prepared for walking out in the world as a young man, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.560 because people are gonna view him as a young man 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.720 now he's no longer a boy. And it hit me 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.840 like yesterday, like, first of all, he's gonna be taller 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.320 than me, which I'm excited about. Like the minute he's 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.720 talling at me, I'm gonna jump on his back and 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.000 tell him he got carry me everywhere. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.680 But that is insanity. For me, it was I don't 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.760 you don't really do story time. But for me, it 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.000 was taking him to get his permit. He turned fifteen, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.799 and he was like, Wow, I'm studying for my permit 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.520 and I was like, permission to do? What are you crazy? 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.639 And yeah. I took him to the DMV and gathered 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.240 all the paperwork I had to do a slide show 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.200 for his eighth grade promotion ceremony, pulling up baby pittures 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.480 and that there, and I'm about to get my period, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.920 so you know, my my emotions are on like a thousand. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.800 That right there is why these conversations need to be had. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.200 That driving being in high school with other kids that 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.359 are driving a lot of conversations that need to be had. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.440 All right, let me let me give me gather my 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.880 thoughts and my emotions. All right, karaoke time. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.040 This was very simple. We're still in that era of MJ. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.000 I know it's a little bit later on in the year, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.280 but this is an MJ summer. So once I start 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.400 this song, you already know what it's gonna be. Doom doom, doom, doom, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:10.080 doom doom doom, doom, doom doom doom doomdoom, damn dun damn. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.840 Pause your buddy's mine. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:17.280 You gotta pause that before you say that. You have 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.320 to because did you hear the story about why Prince 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.800 didn't do the song with Michael Jackson. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:23.920 I'm good. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.120 Prince said that it was presented to him that he 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.720 was supposed to be in the video, right, and then 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.200 he was cool with it. You know what, I'm saying 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.280 even though they had their little bit of a competitive 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.360 bet back in the day, but he said when he 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.560 heard the song, he said, well, who's saying that to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.480 Who are you saying that to me? Because I definitely 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.800 ain't saying that to you, And he backed down on it. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.200 So I knew if Prince had to pause song. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.520 Why did Prince pause? 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:50.520 Exactly? 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.200 That's why I had to preemptively positive Prince who walked 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.560 around with his butt cheeks. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.000 I was gonna pause that. I know, I gotta pause it. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.800 Walked around with his budgets. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.840 He did though. That was a part of his thing, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:04.760 was he had the cheeks out. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.400 I love it, you know, which kills me today, how 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.440 like older men will talk about this generation and be like, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.520 this generation do stuff that's questionable. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.119 Y'all all love Prince and Prince walked. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.680 Around with his cheeks out, but y'all talk about our 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.799 artists is questionable. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.280 And he was getting them chicks too. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.640 Prince was getting older. She do not leave your girl around, Prince. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.000 It is no longer your girl, they said. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:27.560 Don't let her. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.320 Don't let him look her in the eye or say 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.839 anything to her with that devoice. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:32.880 She's gone. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.560 You think Prince would have stolen you from me out 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.560 of what Prince size don't need to answer me and Prince. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.239 The biggest la skin fight ever. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.120 Took my belt off, been like Prince man like, listen, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.200 don't be looking at I'm sure you whos king. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.280 You're the prince, but I'm the King. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.960 All right, y'all, we're gonna take a break and we'll 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.680 be back with Op or no Op stick. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.960 Around all right, I got my pad already. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.400 Pads up, all right, Oper Nop. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.239 Something we have to talk about is how the Supreme 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.520 Court recently made changes to the nineteen sixty five Voting Act. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.000 And we got to. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.520 Be honest that they want slavery. They want to bring 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.360 back slavery. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.279 They're doing it. Little by little, they're finding way, they're 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:22.920 finding way. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.080 So recently what has happened is they made a change 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.720 to the Voting Right Act that weakens the law by 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.800 restricting the use of majority minority districts, which basically makes 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:43.440 it so that representation can actually represent like proportionately the 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:49.600 Demographics Act, that's what it's supposed to do. So now 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:56.960 they're calling that racial entitlement, whereas the real issue and 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.880 why that even had to be presented in a Voting 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.760 Rights Act. Is because districts would section off voting areas 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.240 to make it so that, you know, their candidates would win, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.720 so that they could uphold Jim Crow, so that they 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.360 could uphold discrimination. And this part of the Voting Right 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.640 Acts makes it more fair so that voting districts reflect 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.080 the actual population in that district. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.520 And now that can't be done. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.000 For example, in Louisiana, Louisiana, I think they're forty of 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:26.440 the population is black. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.040 But now in Louisiana they have like two congressmen. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.479 Yeah, and Louisiana is who brought this case to the 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.920 Supreme Court just nuts. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.480 Yeah. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.839 And they also want to make it so that private 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:48.280 plaintiffs can't bring lawsuits, so that they cannot what do 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.040 you call it, challenge laws like this. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:53.880 Get me out of here. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.760 This is my op. I'm gonna give you all a 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.320 little brief history lesson. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.000 Oh we love a history lesson. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:06.440 In eighteen sixty five, they announced that all blacks were free, right, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.600 eighteen sixty five, remember that right? In eighteen sixty seven 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.760 they enacted the Vagrancy Act. The Vagrancy Act meant that 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.120 if you couldn't read you couldn't write, you didn't own property. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.160 You are now property of the state and considered a 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.480 vagrant and were then used for convict leasing to private 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.240 places for ultimately slavery. So ultimately they said, hey, we're 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.320 going to free all the slaves, and then for the 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.720 past three hundred plus years, we're going to tell y'all 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.720 that it's illegal for you as a slave to read 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.000 or write or own property. Now we're going to free 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.480 you and then make it illegal that you don't know 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.640 how to read, write, or own property, and then put 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.720 you back into custody of the state. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.200 To where you have to work for free. This is America. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.040 The reason why I'm telling this story is because this 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:01.240 is what America has always done. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.600 Found a way to change the rules and the law so. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.040 They can continue to disenfranchise us as black people. We 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:11.960 saw York. It was two thousand and I believe twelve 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.800 when they decided they were trying to change the We 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.800 were in Crown Heights and they were rezoning everything in 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.720 Crown Heights when they were going through all the different 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.080 changes and how they were going to call Crown Heights 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.680 was going to be Remsen Village and Clinton Hills but 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.960 we started noticing, and this is when I started speaking 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.199 to my aldermen, that they were rezoning everything and all 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.640 of the finances were going to certain synagogues while finances 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.520 were being taken away from certain public housing in certain places. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.480 That Yeah, I remember, remember we had to go to 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:44.000 those meetings. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.560 We had to go to Yeah, that's why. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.040 It's so important to be involved in your local election 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.160 in the local government because and. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.400 When you ask the questions as to why the rezoning 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.920 is happening, they never give you a straightforward answer. And 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.599 so we had to do this because of this, this, that, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.360 And you go back and looking and you're like, wait, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.080 y'all took four million dollars from every public school that 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.480 was in that area, and now you have all of 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.840 us being rezoned to have to go to that public 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.360 school after you just took four million dollars annually. They've 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.560 always done this. This is not a surprise to me. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.160 Yeah. I remember when we were looking for schools for 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.880 Jackson when he was about to start school, and I 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.559 was like, so you're telling me I'm forced to have 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.400 to send my child to this school. So that's where 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.720 technically zoned there. We started looking for school yeah, around 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.400 twenty twelve, thirteen, because he was about two three. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.120 Yeah, it's infurial. I'm not gonna lie. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.959 It is infuriating that this always like this is always 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.400 the case and they playing our face. 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:41.320 Yeah. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.840 And the reason why any of this has happened is 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.320 because of the fear of losing white supremacy as the land, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.680 the law of the land, and that I feel like 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:58.040 the catalyst for that, this like increased fear was Barack 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.920 Obama being president for eight years because what we thought, voters, 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.160 I mean personally, what I thought Barack Obama would do, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.720 and obviously what white people thought Barack Obama would do 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:12.200 was to enact laws that help you know, black black people, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.040 and he didn't at all. He did not at all, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.560 And so then they took it upon themselves to do 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.840 exactly what they thought he was gonna do for themselves. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.440 So now they're doing they're making all of these crazy 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.160 changes to voting so that they can stay in power 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.320 because they realized their fear, like they came up with 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.719 a plan like, oh shit, if he does this, niggas, yes, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.600 but we if we do it, we can stay in power. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.760 It feels nefarious in that way, and I said this 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 before on the podcast, and you devaluely like, no, that's 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.400 not fair, and of course it's not fair. But I'm 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.040 hella mad at Barack, like you could have been a 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.680 black fanther in the White House and you chose to 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.640 be an actual Democrat, Like where was the niggas at? 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.559 You know what, I'm gonna be honest with you at 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.440 when when you first said it, I did say, like, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.559 this isn't like we can't put that on him because 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.120 he can't go in there and just do whatever you 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.640 want to do. But to watch this guy be in 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:07.839 there and just do whatever. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.440 You want to do, it's like he can but a question. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:12.640 That's what I was. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:15.480 Out. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.959 That's what I'm saying. Could have he couldn't do. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.880 You wore a khaki suit and they were in an 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.840 uproar that one time. He wore a tend right. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.160 But everybody's in an uproar. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.720 About doing this stuff because everybody's complicit with him. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.240 But everybody's in an uproa is complicent with him. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.040 Congress is in Congress is complicit. The powers that be 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.800 you know, on your side, are but the people are not. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.840 You know what I'm saying, Most of the people don't 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.360 agree with what is happening, and I feel like, I mean. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.120 Well, he disenfranchised the people too. You know, you hear 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.800 them saying right now that white people are the new niggas. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.679 Look at all of the stuff that white people are 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.040 upset about them. White people now. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.720 Upset a Trump for stuff that happening to black people 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.240 for centuries. That's that's why when they're just like, you know, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:02.520 black people, you're not saying much. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.280 Well, this this. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.840 America that y'all seeing, where he promised y'all he wouldn't 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.000 do things and are doing things to y'all, is something 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.400 that we've had to deal with. Yeah, we've survived it forever, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.040 so this don't feel much different. That's why I'm saying, 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.400 I went back to the black codes. You can go 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.120 back to mass incarceration. They free once again. After the 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.959 nineteen sixties, we had the civil rights movement. Oh, black people, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.960 everything's equal. Then here come the seventies and eighties and 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.040 mass incarceration and the war on drugs. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.720 They always find a way after they say we gave 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:31.400 y'all this. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.280 They always find a way to snatch it all back 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.680 and say, well, what we gave y'all wasn't fair. Yeah, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.040 you know what I'm saying, Like this has always been 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.679 the case. If you read w Eb the boy he 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.559 says the same thing. He says, there's a history with 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.000 white people and white supremacy in this country that they're 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.080 there's always a black savior quote unquote, and then after 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.720 the black savior comes, they punish all black people for 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.160 the black savior. So you think about Malcolm and Martin 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.600 and then they punish with mass incarceration. Then you have 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.559 Barack Obama, then you punish us again. You think about 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.679 eighteen sixty five and quote unquote Lincoln was supposed to 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.960 be that and WB the Boyce was there to help 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.640 usher in a new America. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.600 And then after that you get black codes and you 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:16.520 get lynchings. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.080 You know what I'm saying. He talked about it. This 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.320 is part of white supremacy. You give them a little bit, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.800 then you take a lot. So this doesn't surprise me. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.319 We as a people just have to be prepared because 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.160 we've lived through this. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:33.840 Yeah, there's a We had her on the show, Lenee Venet. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.560 Yes, she said something. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.120 I cannot remember exactly what she said, but basically it's 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.839 something that I've been thinking for a long time. It's 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.240 like racism is just the tool that they use in 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.280 order to get people on their side to stay in power. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.160 Like these people really don't care about raised body. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:49.680 They don't. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.240 But if you think about it, right before Trump's election, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.120 there was the Supreme Court challenge for. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:13:59.280 It. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:04.480 I first came up. What is it called college admissions. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:05.640 I'm trying to remember. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:06.480 The girl from. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.520 Texas took her case all the way to the Supreme 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.800 Court because she said she didn't get into the University 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.520 of Texas because she was a white Remember, And what 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.520 I learned about Clarence Thomas's career is that his career 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:25.440 started by lobbying against seat belt laws. And he worked 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.000 at the EEOC, which didn't have anything to do with 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.200 seatbelt laws, but there was a Republican person in power 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.120 who was trying to make it so that the seat 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.800 belt laws or seatbelt bills didn't go into law because 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.680 back in the day, you didn't have to wear a. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:40.520 Seat belt, I know. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.440 And so they got Clarence Thomas involved, and that's how 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.160 he became kind of a Republican. I think all all 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.000 the time before that he was kind of just nonpartisan 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.720 because as a judge or as a lawyer, that's how 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.320 you should be. But then he started working for the 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.720 right during this time, and they made him kind of 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.480 the face of this seat belt law thing. And so 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.600 if you think about it, it seems, oh, it seems 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.600 like innocuous that this stupid white girl went to the 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.200 Supreme Court with this dumb ass case. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:18.000 However, it does start to spark some. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.480 Division based on race, and so I feel like that 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.400 is purposefully done in all of these these cases that 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.720 go to the Supreme Court. It sparks division based on 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:34.760 some type of human difference, whether it is reproductive. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.520 Rights or gay rights or race. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.160 It's something that people with their moral high ground can 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.400 get behind while they're not paying attention to what else 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.760 is going on or how those things actually affect their 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.920 personal life or how that's going to carry it. All 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.000 they're trying to do is carry the you know, carry 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.320 the play. That's what she said. She said, like racism 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.520 is the tool. Something is the play. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.520 I can't remember what she said. I wish it was 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.000 real good. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:01.360 Yeah, she's so smart. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.760 Yeah, So all I know is is that I'm used 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.680 to this happening, Like I feel like there's always been 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.840 a point in my life where we've been fighting for something. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.440 So I kind of look at it now when yawn, because. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:13.360 I'm like, it's so predictable. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.400 It is. It's like when you when you see all 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.520 the stuff happening and you was like, Okay, theyll remember 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.720 when they started rolling back affirmative action, saw that happening, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.640 when they was rolling back DEI, when twenty twenty happened 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.600 and all the white guilt happened, and all of these 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.200 companies want to just throw money at black content and stuff. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.240 I always remember saying to myself, how long y'all think 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.360 this is going to last? Right before they just say, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.960 you know what, this is reverse racism, and now we're taking. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.120 It all back. It's I don't have I'm gonna be honest, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.560 but I don't have no hope for America. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:44.360 How could you? 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:45.840 I don't have no hope for America. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.160 Zero. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.920 That's the That is the app No hope is gone. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.520 Yeah, the hope is gone. We've been talking about it. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.440 We can wag him out and hopefully the people who 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.560 are pretty much the new niggas realize that your vote 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.560 is the re and while we're all in this situation 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.000 and y'all realize they take they duped y'all. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.040 Too so long to recover from the damage she's done. Yeah, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.920 probably it's gonna take forever. We're not going to see 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:11.360 it in our lifetime. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:11.600 Around the world. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.480 Yeah, it's probably not in time at all. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.320 One person came in here and dismantled so much it's 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:17.960 insane to watch. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.000 He didn't he didn't dismantle. He just uncovered what was 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.280 laid dormant. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.479 I mean, that is true, That is true. Who who 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.640 are these people in Congress too? 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:26.919 Like? 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.919 Are these people just sitting in there, like you know, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.240 these old folks that just sitting there that probably were 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.680 descendants of owners that are just still there. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.119 Aste. That's literally what it is. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:36.680 Christmas? 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:37.000 Right? 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.600 Oh snap? What movie is there from. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:41.320 Another? 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:41.600 Oh? 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.200 That's right, Christmas Adventures. That shit was so funny. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.119 I'm gonna point some out to. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.480 Think about all of the empires that that lasted two 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.720 hundred and fifty years. Two hundred and fifty years the 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.800 empires lasted, right, what year we in the matter? 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.320 To babe? I wonder if they're gonna have a real 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.720 big celebration on work this year. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.120 Definitely years. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.400 Gets everywhere. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.960 He's man, they're gonna do all sorts of things, those. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.080 Ram parts ramping. So I brought this up. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.240 I brought this situation up because something that we learned 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.159 more in depth in high school is about civics and 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:31.480 how the government works, and also how different tools have 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.680 been used for political gain. And something that we learned 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.159 about early on was during Jim Crow, how the I 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.640 forget his name, dude from Mississippi youth racism. He said, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.119 segregation to day, segregation, tomorrow, segregation. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.320 Trying to remember, and I think you lost. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.560 No, I was gonna say, it's a D it's a 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.000 D name. Hold on, let me look at that. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.840 Real quicknis young influencer. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:08.240 On probably David Duke George Wallace. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:09.040 Speech. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.800 That speech was actually written by an KKK leader. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:14.280 Does that surprise you? 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.720 But so George Wallace, I do believe that he did 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:22.520 not win that race, but it's important. That was one 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.600 of the most important lessons that I learned in history class. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.240 That's how I realized and my actual history teacher, mister Mileternal, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.119 actually taught us how racism is used and how just 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.639 moral arguments are. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:41.000 Used as ways to gain political power. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.840