1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Media. Hey, Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome to the Hood 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Politics tap In. These are going to be Friday drops 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: a little bit shorter. Just most of the time, they 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: gonna be somewhat of a grab bag, you know, stuff 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: that almost like the Hood Politics this week in the 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: show and on the news type beat that I do 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: on my socials. But it's also gonna be times where 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: maybe a story broke in between the recording and the 9 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: dropping of this week's episode, and it's something that maybe 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: doesn't warrant a full show, but we definitely need to 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: stop and talk about this one. Ain't gonna be no 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: good time because this one's about the Pope. Seeing as 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: how there's one point four billion Catholics, this particular pope, 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 1: Pope Francis, is pretty unique. Let me just take a 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: minute tap in with y'all and talk about why this 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: nigga was different. This episode is called we relatively speaking, 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: lost the real one. Tap in with me, baby, all right. 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: Pope Francis, he died at eighty eight. He's unique in 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: a lot of ways, one of which is the fact 20 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: that he's the first Latin American pope ever. Now, if 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: you wasn't going to any sort of mass, you just 22 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: regular church folk. You may be deceived into thinking that 23 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 1: Catholics ain't Christians, but you have to remember up until 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: the fifteen hundreds, all churches were Catholic. I'm referring to 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: the Protestant Reformation. But don't think you're not connected to this. 26 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: But even if you're not religious at all, you have 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: to appreciate a person that moves culture as powerfully as 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: a pope. But this ain't no theology. Course. We talking 29 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: about Pope Francis, Pope being sick. He was from Brana, 30 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: Saidrez Argentina. He don't come from money. That's one of 31 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: the reasons that makes him so unique. He don't really 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: come from money. That boy name is Jorge, Italian immigrant 33 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: family really just built different in relation to the rest 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: of the other posts that's being before him now. In 35 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: the same way that I say I come from the 36 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: church and Christian traditions, I come from a black and 37 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: urban church. I don't come from you know, trump loving, 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: evangelical power hungry. I don't come from that. I come 39 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: from a different tradition that built underground railroads and fought 40 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: for the civil rights movement. Pope Francicas can say the 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: same thing fratchscan ordered Jesuit. They are not like the 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Medici winniperisera power hungry. They built different, which is what 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: made him so different. That's not to say that just 44 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: like my tradition got his problems, his tradition got his problems. 45 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: And if we're grading on a curve in relation to 46 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: the two posts before him, this man a dog on 47 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: black Panther, Pope Benedict, Pope John Paul the Second considered 48 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: themselves a return to orthodoxy, very conservative, and a lot 49 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: of the reasons, why I believe it or not, people 50 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: had been leaving in droves the Catholic Church. I'm just 51 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: quoting stat y'all. So you have that high rich, incredibly 52 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: stick nef version. But then you have the version of 53 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: the desert Mothers and the Desert Fathers. If you get 54 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: a chance to read stuff like that, francescan order that 55 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: believed in aesthetics and that God's first incarnation of himself 56 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: was creation. And if you believe the first way that 57 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: God revealed himself as creation, therefore creation is holy, and 58 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: all of God's creatures are holy, including the earth. So 59 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: you already got somebody by just the strength of his name, 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: is going to support issues to mitigate climate change, and 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: is going to advocate for humans despite whatever faith they 62 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: got that's already out the name. This the tradition that 63 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: builds hospitals. The Claptom group that are the reason people 64 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: in jail have civil rights. You know the fact that 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: they get three meals a day. That's because of William 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: Wilberford's in the Clapton group, who of course has issues. 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: But again these are two different tracks. Pope Francis as 68 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: a Jesuit, who are known for their embracing of poverty, 69 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: supporting of the suffering and the downtrodden, and doing something 70 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: called descending into the particulars when it comes to the 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: things that are right or wrong. For example, is it 72 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: wrong to lie? I mean, yeah, it's one of the sins. However, 73 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: what if this is not Germany and there's some Jews 74 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: you're hiding under your house? Still wrong? They lie? Jesuits 75 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: descending into the particular. Now, having said that, so, Pope 76 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: Francis in a lot of ways symbolized a return to 77 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: in some ways the Catholic Church first Love, which was 78 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: service to the poor as an act of worship today God, 79 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: So because of that he was seen as too woke 80 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: by some of them, but also a lot of people 81 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: was like, man, this the faith. I fell in love 82 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: with this, the Jesus that I thought I were. Enter Jorge, 83 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: normal kid, actually wanted to be a scientist, gets his 84 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: epiphany whatever however apocryphal. That story is joins the priesthood. 85 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: Through a series of things they win, got time for 86 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: becomes the Bishop of Buenos Aires, which is a super 87 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: big deal if you've ever been to Argentina or just 88 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: understand South America and Catholics. But the picture that made 89 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: its rounds because his name started he you know, he 90 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: started buzzing around town because there was this picture that 91 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: went around of this man riding the bus and it's like, ooh, 92 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: he different, you different. So fast forward to twenty thirteen. 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: Pope Benedict the Second retires, which is something that don't 94 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: ever happen. Now, you have to remember the popes have 95 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: been Italian for thousands of years, and since Pope Benedict 96 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: was such a hall monitored rule following just not embracing modernity. 97 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: The idea that Francis followed up after this was a 98 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: big deal. This man only spoke Spanish. He refused to 99 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: do homilies in Latin because don't nobody speak Latin. Give 100 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: the word to the people. You can make your argument 101 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: about changing the system from within or burning it down 102 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: and starting over. I'm gonna let y'all flesh that out 103 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: in the comments. The way that Pope Francis did is 104 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: he like, well, if I'm in charge, remember, because he 105 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: comes from the bottom and his perception of how the 106 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: world works is one that says you should be near 107 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: to the broken hearted. So he went incredibly hard for refugees, 108 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: for the suffering, and just known for these grand gestures. 109 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: He ain't drive around in that Pope mobile. He even 110 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: said when he passes that he don't want no big 111 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: old orn ages put me in a wooden box. I 112 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: ain't with all that get the money to the kids. 113 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: He was more a return to the direction that the 114 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: church was already on its way to, and John Paul 115 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: and Pope Benedict were like two old school big Homie 116 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: has not held his tongue throughout most of our refugee crises, Syrian, 117 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: our border situation, this war in Gaza. He ain't held 118 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: his tongue, which is really cool to hear bare minimum 119 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: on the LGPTQ front, but at least he spoke up 120 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: and said something. I mean, it's a two thousand year 121 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: old institution with one point four billion people. It's really 122 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: hard to move an institution that large. You gotta do 123 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: small steps. I guess still on that celibate papalc with 124 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: all males, he still think if you got a vagina, 125 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: you can't be a priest. Now, like I said, grating 126 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,559 Speaker 1: on a curve is still something, but he was really 127 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: being about what he talked about. One of the quotes 128 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: is hypocrisy is to call yourself a Christian and chase 129 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is 130 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: hungry or is thirsty, tossed out someone who is in 131 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: need of my help. If I say I am a 132 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: Christian but do these things, I am a hypocrite. Good 133 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: for you. Pope Francis in his final homily, there is 134 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: something sort of poetic in passing away on Resurrection Sunday 135 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,119 Speaker 1: and giving these words. What he says is, I would 136 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: like us to renew our hope that peace is possible 137 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: from the Holy Sepulcher from the Church of Resurrection, where 138 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: this year's Easter is being celebrated. By Catholics and Orthodox 139 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: on the same day. May the light of peace radiate 140 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: through the Holy Land and the entire world. I express 141 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: my closeness to the sufferings of Christians in Palestine and Israel, 142 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: and to all the Israeli people and Palestinian people. The 143 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: growing climate of anti Semitism throughout the world is worrisome. 144 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: Yet in the same I think people of Gaza and 145 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: it's Christian community in particular, where the terrible conflict continues 146 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: to cause death and destruction and create a dramatic, deplorable 147 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: humanitarian situation. I appeal to the warring parties, call the 148 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: seas fire, release the hostages, come to the aid of 149 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: starring people that aspires for a future of peace. Grading 150 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: on a curve, he doing better than almost every popit 151 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: in our church, unless you're black. But we're gonna put 152 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: that on the side. And now the fun part. JD. Vance. 153 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: He the most memorable man on earth. Every time he 154 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: touched some break y'all see that man break the dog 155 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: Holt Championship trophy man. What the hell is wrong with 156 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: this man? Do you know what the story is? The 157 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: Pope ain't want to meet him, tell that he had 158 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: to send a cardinal out there to be like, tell 159 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: that man, just all I'm asking just be a little 160 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: you mean as fuck man. He didn't say fuck, He 161 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: just like you just mean. I'm just I'm not with it. 162 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: Even after meeting with JD's vance, He's called their deportation 163 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: plans a disgrace and not Christian, letting y'all know that's 164 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: what the man said. Hit go another Pope Burner. What 165 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: a great thirst for death, for killing we witness each 166 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,599 Speaker 1: day in many conflicts raging in different parts of the world. 167 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: How much violence we see directed towards women and children, 168 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: how much contempt is stirred up towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, 169 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: the migrants. On this day, I would like for us 170 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: to hope anew and to revise our trust in others, 171 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: including those who are different than ourselves, or whom come 172 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of ideas for 173 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: all of us, our children of God. Yeah, we lost 174 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: a relatively real one. Now who knows where we're going next. 175 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: Apparently Pope Francis selected one hundred and eight out of 176 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five cardinals, and what he did 177 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: this time was he got these cardinals from all over 178 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: the world, most of them from conflict regions, areas where 179 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: there's high diversity of religious beliefs. Because the pope believes 180 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: in DEI Lord, may God grant us another woke pope. 181 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: But I'll leave y'all with this, the question every black 182 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: person on Earth is asking, or at least every black 183 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: person in America is asking right now, who won't do 184 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: the body tap in with me?