1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: Calls media. I guess it was a matter of time 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: because of how ridiculous the timeline we exist in is 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: that something that we talked about already would literally happen again, 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: almost exactly the same way. We got to talk about 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: jerry mandering, And as I was prepping to discuss jerry 6 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: mandering and the jerry mannering I'm talking about is happening 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: in Texas. What jerry mandering is what you will shortly 8 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: learn later, because apparently I don't already talked about. This 9 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: is the redrawing of congressional districts. And what's happening in 10 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: a fair and balanced world, big old air quotes, would 11 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: be as demographics change, as populations change, you have to 12 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: make sure the districts actually matches the needs of the 13 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: people that they are in and that they will be 14 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: in things that are what they would call competitive districts, 15 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: meaning that the areas are created in a way that 16 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: doesn't just consolidate power to one particular party, but one 17 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: that really represents the people for which they're supposed to 18 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: be representing. 19 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 2: Right, what an idealistic. 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: World, this is what would happen if these things were 21 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: done fairly. Now in California, we got rules around this. 22 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: The people who draw our districts, which again we're gonna 23 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: get into like what all this stuff means a little later, 24 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: But the people who draw the districts in California, it's 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: a third party, independent institution that draws those lines. Which 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: is why you don't hear a lot of us necessarily 27 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: complaining about our gerrymandering our districts because politicians don't have 28 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: the right to redraw the districts, and if the districts 29 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: are going to get redrawn, you have to vote on it, 30 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: like you can't just do it. 31 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: Texas, however, is different. Now. 32 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 1: You may have seen on the news a few days 33 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: ago when they ask President Trump, Hey, why are you 34 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: redrawing the districts? Why y'all trying to redraw the districts 35 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: in Texas? 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: He said. 37 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: The quiet part out loud without actually understanding that that's 38 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: the quiet part. He was like, Oh, we just need 39 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: four more congressional seats for the Republicans. 40 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 2: Like you what you. 41 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: That's the part you're not supposed to admit. If you're 42 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: a politician, you're supposed to do this rigamarole about oh, well, 43 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: the demographics are changing we're realizing that the people aren't 44 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: being represented the way that they should. He's like, no, nigga, 45 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep control of the House. I need 46 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: the power because midterms is coming and we're gonna lose. 47 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: So I'm just what he's doing is disenfranchising. That's what 48 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: he's and he just looked at the camera, is like, oh, 49 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: I'm disinfranchising voters. 50 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: It's what it's said. Now. 51 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: How I'm able to run all the way down to 52 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: that conclusion is what I want to talk about in 53 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: this episode. But apparently I didn't already talked about it 54 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: because in Texas they already tried to do this. 55 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one. 56 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: And what you what you do is if you are 57 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: the opposition party, is you just leave. So that's what 58 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: they did then, and that's what the Democrats is doing now. 59 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: Because time is a curling universe. So this episode in 60 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one on December fourteenth, called You Ride with 61 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: Us Now, is about Jerry manderin where that turn came 62 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: from and how sometimes you know, I know, you might 63 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: wake up in a whole different hood. You ain't even know, 64 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: you ain't even know all of a sudden y'all crips now, 65 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: Oh we crips. Now, that's kind to happen with me. 66 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: Apparently we crips now. Anyway, all this will make sense 67 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: because apparently I have already taught it. 68 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: So here's past me. 69 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: Talking about present day me in the past, not knowing 70 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: that future me was gonna have to talk about the 71 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: same thing. You right with us now, whether we talk 72 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: in world history, US history, neighborhood history, some of us 73 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: ain't really have an option what flag we was flying. 74 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: There was people one day that woke up in Arizona 75 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: and realized this was Arizona, that it's not Mexico no more. 76 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: There was people that woke up in Central Europe and 77 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: realized they was in Germany. It just they didn't move, 78 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: didn't know what happened. 79 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: You just are. 80 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: There was a moment I woke up and realized I 81 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: lived with crips. I didn't know. I didn't get no 82 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: flyers about it. There wasn't no recruiting. It wouldn't at 83 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: least I didn't know. I was too young. Maybe there 84 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: was some recruiting. I didn't know. I just woke up 85 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: one day and was like, oh, oh, we crips at 86 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: least my neighborhood was. 87 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: I ain't signed up for this. This is just where 88 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: I live. 89 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: And then don't mess around and make a friend, because 90 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: then you mess around and make a friend. 91 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: And if you and your friend one day y'all walking 92 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 2: home and. 93 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: Somebody with some other colored shoelaces decided that they was gonna, 94 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: you know, take your bike right quick, and then that 95 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: friend go tell his big brother and then march you 96 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: and y'all homie back over there to either squad job 97 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: up you up said get your bike back, or he 98 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: do it too. 99 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: Guess what. 100 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,559 Speaker 1: Guess what, your shoelaces the same color as that big brother. 101 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: Now in the eyes of the other hood, this you 102 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: wanted them, now, Homie Bamboo is telling me. When I 103 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: asked him how you got put on the hood, he 104 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: was like, look, it happened twice once. I was just 105 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: sitting outside with my uncles and they was like, yo, 106 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: go fight this fool. Now I'm all of a sudden, 107 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: it's like okay, and now I'm I just got jumped in. 108 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 2: I don't know just what happened. 109 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: Of course, later on he made his conscious decision to 110 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: be in the hood, but that first jump in nigga. 111 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: That was like, oh, we just happen to be over here. 112 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 2: The district lines have been drawing, My nigga, this is 113 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 2: where you at. Somebody drew the districts. I had no say. 114 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: Then it might get even worse, because you know, sometimes 115 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 1: depending on who go off to jail and who's able 116 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: to hold down the block, sometime the neighborhood changes. I 117 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: know in a lot of parts of Los Angeles, just 118 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: neighborhoods went from Black to Latino quick, quick of courses 119 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: in air quotes. But once they become Mexican, these ain't 120 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: cripping blood neighborhoods no more. 121 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: This is all cold and what if. 122 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: You didn't move, guess what you'dn't been redistrict. I want 123 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: to talk to y'all about jerry mandering, hood politics, how 124 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: you soul hood? Right now? 125 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: Little politics, y'all? Politics? 126 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: All right, y'all, let me tell you this little story 127 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: from my life. So south of Los Angeles, northeast of 128 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: Compton City called Lynnwood borders Compton Long Beach. It's in 129 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: the South Bay Lynnwood. When I was younger, you know, 130 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: child middle school. Apparently I'm what they call an old millennial. 131 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: It's black hood. 132 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's. 133 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: Watts Compton, Long Beach, Carson like they're all sort of around. 134 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: It's this corridor right now. 135 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: What borders up to Lynnwood is this area called Southgate 136 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: Huntington Park. These are these other now Southgate and Huntington 137 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: Park have been Astar as far as i've I've understood, 138 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: those were Latino. Those were Mexican hoods. My wife is 139 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: from Huntington Park. Uh shout out doctor Alma. So if 140 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: y'all knew here, you don't understand it preferred to her 141 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: by her prefix. But my pH d wife used to gangbang. 142 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: But we're gonna leave that alone for now. Anyway, So 143 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: that area of town, Southgate, Huntington Park, Bell Gardens, these 144 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: areas were, like I said, predominantly Latino and Cypress Hill. 145 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 1: Cypress Hill's from this around this area, right, So that's 146 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: those are. But Lynnwood, however, Lynwood was like it was 147 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: like it was black, and a lot of areas in 148 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: this part of town where people who were able to 149 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: you know, maybe leave South Central, maybe leave wads who 150 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: were just such activehoods to kind of like you know, 151 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: maybe own a house, maybe start a family. Like these 152 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: people had like these were two income homes or families, 153 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So like they were able 154 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: to afford something like this, But it didn't mean it 155 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: wasn't active. These were active areas that you didn't go 156 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,599 Speaker 1: necessarily kicking in because I mean, you know, I'm a 157 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: child of you know, a young child of the heyday 158 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: of this of nineties, you know, gangbanging, like I'm a 159 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: little young for it. But I was a kid when 160 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: all this was, like all the movies was being made 161 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: about what was happening in La I was. I was 162 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 1: a kid then, So you know, you didn't you ain't 163 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: just venture in the neighborhoods. 164 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 2: You didn't know you know. I think I've made this 165 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: made this very clear. 166 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: But the but the borders, the lines, you had to 167 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: be able to read the Google map, you understand what 168 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying. But the map was essentially it was fixed 169 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: in the sense that us a black neighborhood, you know 170 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you knew, you know, red blue, 171 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: whatever you knew. You just read read the graffiti to 172 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: figure out where you are or know who know or 173 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: knows somebody over there. 174 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 2: You just know the deal. 175 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: So Lynwood's been like that as far as I can 176 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: remember now, when I met my wife, when we first 177 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: started dating, you know, I was rounding out, you know, 178 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: I was out of college. 179 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 2: I was rounding out my twenties. 180 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: She I'm starting to like meet her family and she 181 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: tells me, yeah, I heard her brother and nephew live 182 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: in Lynnwood And I was like, oh, that's crazy. It's 183 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: Mexican's and Lynwood. 184 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 2: And she looked at me. 185 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 1: Like what And I was like, what do you mean 186 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: what She's all, We'll go visit them, y'all. Now obviously 187 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: this was some years back, but like when we got 188 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: off the freeway, I mean there was a Kudasal, which, 189 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: if you don't know, that's like that's like a Latino 190 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: best Buy. So it's like if you're buying like electronics 191 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: and you don't speak no English, like you would go there. 192 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. There's an l sup Bed, 193 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 2: which is. 194 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: Like you know, at a North Gate, which are like 195 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: Mexican grocery stores. I was like, ain't no sign in English. 196 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: It was the weird. I felt like I was in 197 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: an altered universe. I was like this, when did this 198 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: get When did this become Mexican and she was like, 199 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? It always has and I 200 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 1: was like, no, no, no, it hasn't. 201 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 2: She was like, you're the tweety. Tweety is a it's a. 202 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: Cholo like a like a vato, like like gang over there, 203 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: because it's a street called Tweety. And she was like, yeah, 204 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: my nephe, my nephew lives over here. And I was like, oh, 205 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: it got the mug right, Wait what? And I was like, 206 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: but I still got homies down here. I still got 207 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,599 Speaker 1: friends who I never would and go visit because I 208 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: don't know, like, look I'm not good down there that 209 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: like that's dayhood. I thought I come see them in 210 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: neutral areas. I didn't know when did this become so this? 211 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: Ain't they not cripping down here? She was like, noah, no, 212 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? The whole joint got redistrict. 213 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea. Now you may 214 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: have not. 215 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 2: Whether you live. 216 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: You may have lived in Liarwood for thirty forty years, 217 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: this where your grandma stayed. Like all of a sudden, 218 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: you gotta change your shoelaces. You didn't even know, like 219 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And obviously I'm talking about 220 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: like us who were civilians, Like who wasn't active? You 221 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: feel me when you active? You can't change your shoelaces 222 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,199 Speaker 1: moneyga like nah, man like you? It is what it is. 223 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: You feel me like Yo? 224 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: You are we right? I don't care who like you? 225 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying. 226 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 1: Like when they don't redistrict your zone, it's like, no, 227 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: that's not your hood. 228 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: No more homie like y'all. The geography has changed. 229 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: Now, this don't happen often, but when it do happen, 230 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: it's real stark. 231 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: You didn't move, You ain't change. 232 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: Your location at all, but your affiliation has absolutely changed 233 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: right up under your feet. Okay, I want to talk 234 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 1: to you all about jerry mandarin. Now the situation I 235 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 1: just explained that you had to do with a vast 236 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: number of socioeconomic and migratory and just changes in the 237 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: demographic of the city, you know. 238 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: In birth rates, all this good stuff. 239 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: Like there's a million different things that make this jerry 240 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: mandering is a lot more sinister. To step back to 241 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: explain jerry mandering, let me talk about why I want 242 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: to talk about it. 243 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: So check this out. 244 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, the head of the US Department of Justice 245 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: is suing the state of Texas over districting. 246 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 2: That's a lot going on here. 247 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: So you got the federal government suing a state you 248 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: know so, and you like, how can you do that? 249 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 2: What's happening right now? 250 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: Well, every so often around time for mid terms or 251 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: voting things, you have to set up your congressional district. 252 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: And a congressional district is an area of town depending 253 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: on where you live. And in that district, there is 254 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: a representative that goes to the legislature that is supposed 255 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: to represent your district. That's who you are voting for. 256 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: And again in the legislature, you have the Senate and 257 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: then you have the House of Reps. Your district is 258 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: the person that's in the House of Reps or you're congressperson. 259 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: We're talking about Congress. There are every state only gets 260 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: two senators, right, so that's different. Right, your district goes 261 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: into the House. Now, how you decide who that person 262 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: is is y'all vote, you elect them, but you vote 263 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: based on your address because your address tells you what 264 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: district you in, and that district's gonna put up somebody'll 265 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: run for Congress for your district. 266 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 2: And you vote for. Well, how do you decide what 267 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 2: district you're a part of? Now? 268 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: Why is my address a part of a certain district 269 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: and not a part of another district. I live in 270 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: the thirty fourth district in Los Angeles and my Rep 271 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: is Jimmy Gomez. He been in this congressional district since 272 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: July of twenty seventeen. His next election is next Year's 273 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: a Democrat. That's my district. It's also important. I suggest 274 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: there's a GovTrack dot US if you want to like 275 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: find your district like that. Stuff is super important because 276 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: this is how we're gonna see how this. 277 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: Matters a little later. That's why I'm doing this thing. 278 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: Okay, you need to know what flags somebody done put 279 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: on you as you're walking around here, because sometimes imagine 280 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: imagine walking through a hood not knowing what flag you got, 281 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: but everybody else know. Niggas out here putting in work 282 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: for you and you don't know they doing it. Niggas 283 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: making decisions on your behalf. You feel me deciding who 284 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: the op is for you, my nigga. You just out 285 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: here trying to just buy some groceries, You trying to 286 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: go get a taco. You feel me over at the 287 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: over at the Holy Molly in Long Beach niggas and 288 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: already decided, Oh, no, we know who you is. And 289 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: you like, wait, what now I'm from And they're like, no, 290 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: that's not that hood. That hood is this now, and 291 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: you're like, well, nigga, when did you become an OP? 292 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: When did I become the op? You better know your district. 293 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: So, districts are set up in theory to be geographical, 294 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: and the idea of them being geographical has to do 295 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: with the thought that people in shared geographical spaces have 296 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 1: similar concerns because people usually cluster around people that they 297 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: live similar lifestyles too, similar socioeconomics and little ways. 298 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: Of life, YadA YadA, YadA. 299 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: Right, So like you're not gonna have city folk in 300 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: a farm, right, You're gonna have farm folk in a farm. 301 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: So you just make that one district because they're going 302 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: to have similar needs and desires and similar things and 303 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: things they're gonna ask for their rep Now, us in 304 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: you know, cities, we're gonna have also similar things, Like 305 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: we're all in my district, we're all kind of concerned about, 306 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: you know, whether it's gentrification, whether it's clean streets, good sewage, 307 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: good schools. Like, we're all concerned about the same stuff. Now, 308 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: Long Beach, Okay, that's a coast, right, So although we're 309 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: both cities, different needs, right. One of their needs has 310 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: to do with the beach and with keeping the beach clean, 311 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: and their sewage system is different, you know, and it's 312 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: you got more salt water in the air. So there 313 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: are certain things that they're gonna be concerned about that 314 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: even though we're both cities, we shouldn't be in the 315 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: same district because we have different needs. 316 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: Does that make sense, right? 317 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: That's the way that districting is supposed to in a 318 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: type of democratic republic that we have. That's that's the concept, right, 319 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: But who gets to decide what district? 320 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 2: Well, not us. Somebody draws red lines on a map. 321 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: We'll talk about redlining one day, which is a different 322 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: type of district scene. 323 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 2: But yeah, you just draw lines on a map. 324 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: Another good parallel that might help, Like, if you're not 325 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: really into the gang understanding is like what high school 326 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna go to? 327 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: Like your school district? 328 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: You know, some of y'all may live in an area 329 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: where the high school closest to you is actually out 330 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: of district you gotta go to one different and it 331 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: seems like that don't make sense, right, But it's just 332 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: how the things were drawn, and then maybe next year 333 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: it might be different. All of a sudden that schools 334 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: in your district. It's just it's weird, right, it's it's 335 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: it's it's in a lot of ways. It feels real colonial. 336 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: Like now going into y'all's history, like y'all global history. Uh, 337 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: this is a freebie. You know a lot of North 338 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: or Saharan Africa or different just Africa period. Once Europe 339 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: got there and decided that it belonged to them, they 340 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: they decided to just like divide the land in being 341 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: like okay, you get this part, you get this part, 342 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: and they. 343 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 2: Just drew these lines. 344 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: And these lines might have gotten drawn right in between 345 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: your neighborhood, split your house in half. All of a sudden, 346 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 1: your cousin across the street, who's this who that's your blood. 347 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: We're the same tribe, we're the same everything. They're a 348 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: different country because somebody drew a line there. It's just 349 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: you're no longer and all of a sudden, and they're 350 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: like oh no, no, no, no, no, that's that you're this. You 351 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: guys are different countries. What it's ridiculous, right, I mean, 352 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: but that's you know in a lot of ways, like 353 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: that's some of the borders in Africa where you know, 354 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: we're like that, like colonizers drew it. I mean, it's 355 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I've said in a poem before, if you 356 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: guys are familiar with my other work, I have a 357 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: poonem called two Minutes and thirty Seconds. But I was like, yeah, 358 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: once you get up into space, you know, you look 359 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: back down at the Earth. You know, there's no lines 360 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: all over the ground. There's no word. The word Florida 361 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: isn't written across the ground. It doesn't look like it's 362 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: not because it's not real. Somebody drew a line, you 363 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like and then you you we 364 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: enforce them. I guess you know what I'm saying, But 365 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: like they don't occur, and there's no no force field 366 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: at the forty seventh parallel that separates Canada from It's 367 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: not a there's no magical thing there, although it feels 368 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: like it sometimes, but it's not like it's there's nothing 369 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: there except that we said it is the forty seven parallels, 370 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: not real. 371 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 2: It's because of it's because of globes. That's why we 372 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: call it that, right. 373 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: So anyway, so back to this, So congressional districting is 374 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: decided by. 375 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: The state because. 376 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: If you can clump certain people together for their shared 377 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: needs and concerns, if you get enough people that have 378 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: the same shared needs and concerns, then what do you 379 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: have your power? 380 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: Right, That's how you consolidate power. That's how you get 381 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 2: stuff passed. 382 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: That's how you get stuff done if you have enough 383 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: people with the same shared interests and they all are agreeing. Yo, 384 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: this is our guy. This is who we want. We 385 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: all want it to be like this. Boom, we got 386 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: it right, that's that district. I wonder if y'all can 387 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: already see how this can get weaponized in a white supremacist, 388 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: horribly racist system. If you have have a bunch of 389 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,479 Speaker 1: black people living in the same space and they become 390 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 1: a district. When you outnumber everybody else, guess what you 391 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: have the most voting power. So if I draw a 392 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: line around this city and that city is comprised of 393 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: eighty percent black people, guess who gonna get to say? 394 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: Because it's just more of us. So if you're trying 395 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: to consolidate power. 396 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 2: What do you do? 397 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: You can redraw the lines. It's pretty simple. You divide that. 398 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: Let's just say, let's just keep it real clean. You 399 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: got eighty percent black people, and just for the sake 400 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: of this argument, the other twenty is white. Now there's 401 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: nowhere in California that's like that, right, but let's just 402 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: say that is. 403 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 2: Then what do you do. 404 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: You draw a district around the white people and take 405 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: ten percent of the black people and make that one district. 406 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: You take another part of that eighty percent black folks, 407 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: and now that's only seventy percent you draw. You go 408 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: into another district over here that's maybe predominantly Latino, and 409 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: you take ten percent of that Latinos added to another 410 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: ten percent of in white people. Right, so now this 411 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: new district is ninety percent white and ten percent Latino. 412 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: And then you take this other district. 413 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: So you just keep drawing lines that consolidate power for yourself. 414 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: That's why the district's shapes are ridiculous, because they're not 415 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: about shared interests. They're about power. Y'all following me. You 416 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: just draw lines around groups that make you more powerful, 417 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: so you might wake up one day in a brand 418 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: new district. 419 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 2: I'm looking around my neighborhood. 420 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: I live in a part of town that's like almost 421 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: one hundred percent Mexican. Like, I'm me and my daughter 422 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: holding down the black population in my neighborhood. 423 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: You feel me. So we're in this one district. 424 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: But what if they drew our lines a little different 425 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 1: where our house is now included in area called Monterey Park, 426 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: which is almost one hundred percent Agent, then the things 427 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: that have to do with my community, I'm not gonna 428 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: not gonna matter my representative, like I don't represent the 429 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: vast majority of my district no more. Let's cause the 430 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: guy wanted that wanted to get elected redrew the lines 431 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: to make sure he could make sure she could. So 432 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: Mayor Garland is suing Texas because Texas is in the 433 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: process of redistricting. Now, what is the basis of the 434 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: seuing is? The basis of the suing is Section two 435 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: of the Voter Rights Act. I talked about the Voting 436 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: Rights Act before, Right, y'all do your googles on exactly 437 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: what that is. But what happened was when that Voting 438 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: Rights Act came into power in twenty thirteen, it got gutted. 439 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 2: How did it get gutted? 440 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: Basically, one of the things that we were trying to 441 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: do with the Voting Rights Act was just this was 442 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 1: this idea of redistricting oftentimes was for the purpose to 443 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: follow me disenfranchised black and brown voices. 444 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 2: Because there's so much of us. 445 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,239 Speaker 1: And when you hear white supremacists, like the extreme right 446 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: talking about like white genocide, talking about the fabric of 447 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: our nation being changed, the you know, the way that 448 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: our society is working now, they feel like they're being outnumbered. 449 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: Nobody's caring about them no more. 450 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: This is a way to counteract that, because you're right, 451 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 1: if we're talking sheer numbers, there's more of us. So 452 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: why aren't we getting laws passed, Why aren't we being represented? 453 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 2: Well, you just redraw the maps. 454 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: Rather than letting us consolidate and stay together, you just 455 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: readouted districts. It's it's actually pretty brilliant. But that's what will 456 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: always happen. Let me go back to reconstruction time, back 457 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: to when the slaves were fully freed, When the slaves 458 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: were first freed and we got the right to start voting. 459 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: That's why they invented the black codes, is because We 460 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: was like, oh wait, we get to choose our elected officials. 461 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 2: Oh nigga, we choosing us, and we. 462 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: Was winning because just like, use your logic, us your antennas. 463 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 2: You got one slave owning family, it's. 464 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: Maybe five six of the m If they got twenty slaves, 465 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: you outnumbered one to four, right, five, ten, fifteen, twenty 466 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: one to four, you got it four to one. Okay, 467 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: a little bit of math, you out numbered one to 468 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: four to one. Right, you out number four to one. 469 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 2: Easy. 470 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: So that means if you let me choose what I'm vote, 471 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: who nigga is more of us, we gonna choose the 472 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: stuff that got to do it. 473 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: So, yeah, they invent the black codes. 474 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: That was to disenfranchise us on purpose because when you 475 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: when you set there and when we get to elected, 476 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: we gonna choose what makes it. 477 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 2: That's what you told me. That's what you told me. 478 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 2: How it works. 479 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: You said, I get to You said I get to 480 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: choose my elected officials, the government by the people, for 481 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: the people. 482 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 2: The people saying this is what we choose. 483 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: Say. It was like, oh, nigga, this this is working 484 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: too good. So they had to change the laws. The 485 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act was a way to say that you 486 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: can't just keep doing this because you're you're redrawing these 487 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: districts to make sure that our voices aren't heard. So 488 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: if you're going to redraw the districts, you got to 489 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: talk to the Supreme Court before you do it. That 490 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: was what was in the Voting Rights Act, to make 491 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: sure that you're not just being racist. Well, when it 492 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: got gutted and it was like, I said, this was 493 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: specifically because this is what was happening in the South. 494 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 1: It's just more, it's more, it's more people of color there. 495 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: So those who are in power were losing pacts, not 496 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: enough of them. In twenty thirteen, that part where you 497 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: had to check in with the Supreme Court got taken out. 498 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: So Texas was like, oh, well, we don't have to 499 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: when we have to check in, And what does the 500 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court know about us? Anyway? Y'all not down here. 501 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: You ain't out here, she wasn't outside. Y'all know what's 502 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: up down here? We draw on our own. So they 503 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: started drawing their own districts. Obviously, these are the Republicans 504 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: doing this because they they can feel the wind shifting. 505 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: How do they feel the wind shifting, nigga, because Austin, Dallas, 506 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: and Houston them is big cities, and them is big 507 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: and what happens in big cities, Nigga, they leen left 508 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: at least right now, That's what happens if if the 509 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: rest of Texas is ruled. Ain't nobody out there. It's 510 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: not enough people out there. So according to these Republicans, 511 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: they're not getting their voices hurt. These people outside not 512 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: getting their voices hurt. Right, So we need to draw 513 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: districts that make their voices in rural areas be just 514 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: as powerful as the ones in the city because the 515 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: city is getting too much. Hey, a lot of this, this, 516 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: a lot of this was some of the stuff that 517 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: was happening in California while California was talking about breaking up, 518 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: breaking it up as a state. Why in the hell 519 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: should Kerrent County? You know, Wyrika, California? You ever heard 520 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: of Wayrika? Exactly? Why they paying the same the same 521 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: taxes at San Francisco as La. It's like, nigga, why 522 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: are we paying what y'all gotta pay them? Prices is 523 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: for you? Like that's y'all's way of life. The rest 524 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: of Cali ain't like this, that's a good point. You 525 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: get up to Mount Shasta. Oh that's that's Trump Country 526 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: up there. It's I mean, it's like, it's crazy. It's 527 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: not you think California. This this bastion of leftists. No, nigga, 528 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: that's the cities. You get out the cities, bro. You 529 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: get down to u Kaipa. I'm naming cities that I know. 530 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: You gotta be from here to know. And I know 531 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: this is a national international pod. You don't know what 532 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But you get down to U Kaipa. 533 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: All nigga. You in Texas, you know what I'm saying, 534 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: Like they don't rural Texas. Cuse you know what I'm saying. 535 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: Because Austin becoming a lot like Portland. You feel me. Dallas, 536 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Dallas looking like Seattle these days. 537 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: You feel me like the cities is changing. So they 538 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: was like, oh no, bruh, we gotta we gotta, we 539 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: gotta fix this. They was they was they was doing, 540 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: they doing too much. So anyway, the Voting Rights Act 541 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: was saying, listen, you should be able to include not 542 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: just geographical but racial and linguistic interest right, Because that 543 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: at first wasn't a part of the districting process racial 544 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: and linguistics. So when you start adding racial and linguistic, 545 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: it's again, we have a burgeoning, you know, Spanish speaking 546 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: Latino commune that has very specific needs and nigga, if 547 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: you not looking around, they finill out number everybody, you 548 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But they don't have no say 549 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: how Well, this is how you make sure, if you empower, 550 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: how you stay in power. If you're the guy that 551 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: you're like, Yo, I'm finna lose this district because it's 552 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: a gang of you know whats that have been filling 553 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: up in my district. I'm about to lose this job. Well, 554 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: what's the answer. Do you try to convince these people 555 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: who know for a fact you racist and you're not 556 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: doing nothing for us. You're gonna try to convince them 557 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: that you are, especially when they brought up their own champion. 558 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, They got their own champion. 559 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: You're gonna convince them to go with another white boy. 560 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna convince this group, You're gonna convince this whole 561 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: city of multicolored faces that what they need is another 562 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: white boy. That's what you're gonna do. Nah, we just 563 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: go redraw the districts. You feel me? All your bloods now? Nah, 564 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,479 Speaker 1: Hey black practice practice, Hey bla practice, you got it. 565 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: You got it, da mud, you know what I'm saying. 566 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 2: You got it. Piru y'all, y'all bloods. 567 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: Now, you redraw the district Now you ain't got to 568 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: worry about it. How we become bloods I just drew 569 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: another line around content, So now we now we're blud 570 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: Now you're in a blood like it just happened right 571 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: under your feet. So this is what Texas is doing. 572 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: And uh, Mary Garland is like, I don't know, man, 573 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: this feel real. I mean, you saying is to protect 574 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: the rural community, but it feels a little I don't know, man, 575 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: it feels a little Uh feels a little like paragraph 576 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: feel a little like protecting, protecting your whiteness kind of 577 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: what it feels like. Because Nikka, y'all almost lost. Last 578 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: y'all almost lost. It is your state flipping, and uh, 579 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: it seemed like you're not representing the people, you representing yourself. 580 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 2: And just I don't know if y'all could do this. 581 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: Let's give you a little background history of like how 582 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: long people have been Jerry Mandarin and where we even 583 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: got that word. 584 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 2: Let's take a break. All right, we're back, y'all peak 585 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 2: that headlights yet did he drop it? 586 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: I don't know when this episode is coming out. He 587 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: better have dropped the album by now. If not, hit him. 588 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: Again, drop the album. I listened to it. 589 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: We don't help him put it in order. This fool 590 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: got slapstock. It's just good vibes. Like if you at 591 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: you know this the holidays, you know you kind of 592 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: tired of family. 593 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 2: Keep it real, Tell niggas go home. 594 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: You need something to chill out in, or even background 595 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: music while everybody there man throw on that head likes say, man, 596 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: it's good vibes. 597 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 2: You feel me anyway? 598 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: So Jerry Mandarin, all right, listen this mug go all 599 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: the way back to I mean the next day after 600 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: we became a nation, right like immediately you know what 601 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Thomas Hunter, he's a political scientist over professor 602 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 1: over there at the at the University of West Georgia, Right, 603 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean, like there's evidence in like Virginia, North Carolina, 604 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 1: South Carolina that they drew districts to benefit some candidates 605 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: over others. I'm talking like late eighteenth early nineteenth century. 606 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: They I mean, it wasn't called Jerry Mandarin then, but 607 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: nigga's been Jerry Mandarin the whole time, Right, it would 608 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: be called that a little later. I'm gonna quote him. 609 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: He's yeah, I'm gonna uote Thomas Hunter. He says, I 610 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: think that what they did in Massachusetts in eighteen twelve 611 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: really was on stere or is compared to what had 612 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: gone on before, said Hunter about Okay, I'm gonna get 613 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: to it now. 614 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 2: Check this out. 615 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 1: So eighteen twelve, the Boston Gazette, right, was this political 616 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: he ran this political cartoon with this like species. Is 617 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 1: the drawing of this like monster, right that they called 618 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: it the jerrymander. Right. It was this fourk tongue creature 619 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,879 Speaker 1: that looked like a almost like a dragon a little 620 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:29,240 Speaker 1: bit that was shaped like a contorted Massachusetts voting district 621 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: that the States Jeffersonian Republicans had drawn to benefit their 622 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: own party. So again, rather than drawing, you know, district 623 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: map that made sense, they drew this weird shape thing 624 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: around the side of Boston and they called that one district. 625 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,720 Speaker 1: And it's because they were just drawing circles around people 626 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: that would vote for a Jeffersonian Republican. So rather than 627 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: having a district and trying to win that district over, 628 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: you just drew a district, drew a circle around people 629 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,800 Speaker 1: that would vote for you. And now Homie who signed 630 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: off for this, became a future vice president Eldridge Gary right, 631 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: who signed off on his party's redistricting in February, unwittingly 632 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: submitting his place in the United States lexicon of underhanded 633 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: political tricks. So the Federalists reprinted it. That's a newspaper, 634 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: and so when they reprinted it, it was kind of like this. 635 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: It was because it was supposed to be a play 636 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: on words with a salamander, right, so they called it 637 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: a Jerry Mander, even though Jerry's name is pronounced Gary. 638 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: When we say it like Jerry, it's just whatever. This 639 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: is what happens when something's two hundred years old. So anyway, 640 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 1: he drew a district that did not make sense to 641 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: make sure that he could stay in power. Right, But 642 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: before that they used to call him a Rotten Boroughs, 643 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: which is, again, you make a district that would ensure 644 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: that these people in this room would vote for you. 645 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: So if you living in this in this area, your 646 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: neighborhood happens to get redrawn. My nigga, all of a sudden, 647 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: you're on the wrong side of town according to your 648 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: voting practices. Now, in a defense of redrawing districts, a 649 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,399 Speaker 1: defensive redrawing districts can in some ways be like my. 650 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 2: First example of lynn Wood, the. 651 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: Demographic changed, you know what I'm saying, Like the city is, 652 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: it's different, right, the the the borders are different. Using 653 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: a gang, using a gang analogy here, like when you 654 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: say you from Compton, we have to be like you 655 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: from east or West because one side is blood, one 656 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,280 Speaker 1: side is crip. You know, but maybe it wasn't always 657 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,799 Speaker 1: like that, because you know, there was a time that 658 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: bloods didn't exist, you feel me, right? So, uh, that 659 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,359 Speaker 1: means that the city needs to be who's representing y'all 660 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: needs to be y'all need to this needs to need 661 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: to redraw these districts because these two areas have very 662 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:09,600 Speaker 1: different interests, right, So because of that, you need different representatives. 663 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 1: So there is a time that maybe it is important 664 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: to redraw lines. But then it's other times that it's 665 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 1: like when it's coming from the top down rather than 666 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: the bottom up. It's because y'all these fools is consolidating power. 667 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: So more of the story for all of us. What 668 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 1: do we need to know? Your homework is today. As 669 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 1: soon as you finish this pod, go figure out what 670 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: district you in, who your representative is. Then do your 671 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: google's on this dude, on this lake, on this food, 672 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 1: on cuz on blood? Do you do your Googles? What's 673 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,919 Speaker 1: this fool about? What they what they trying to do? 674 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: What's they vote in history? You know what I'm saying, 675 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 1: Pay attention like who who is this food? You know 676 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Know your district, know some of the 677 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: ballot measures that are in your district. And then after that, 678 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,399 Speaker 1: like look around as to like, yo, maybe somebody else 679 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: might be Maybe it's trying to start paying attention to 680 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: your local commercials about who was running for district, Like 681 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 1: see who, see who? See who were putting up when 682 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: you see what your district is, look at the way 683 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: it's drawn, and being like all right, uh you know 684 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 1: your hood better than me. Be like okay, this seems 685 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 1: this seemed real weird, Like why are we looped. 686 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 2: In with them and not with them? 687 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 1: That don't make no sense. I'll tell you why somebody 688 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: wanted to keep their jobs. You feel me so? And 689 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 1: then just you know, now that you have this information, 690 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: like the next time these ballots come around, you can 691 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 1: make a more educated guess as to like who you're 692 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: trying to send You feel me who you're trying to 693 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 1: send to the table to be representing y'all? Like who's 694 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:57,280 Speaker 1: your soldiers? Is this soldier? Is this soldier really interested 695 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: in our goods? See, there's a lot of things and 696 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: politics that are I feel you are so far away 697 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,280 Speaker 1: from us that it seems like it don't do nothing. 698 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: And those ones that are so far away from us 699 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 1: usually get the most shine. These local ones, they don't 700 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,759 Speaker 1: get a lot of shine. But that's the ones that 701 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: affect us the most. You know what I'm saying. Your 702 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: vote and your local one is one of a couple thousands. 703 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,800 Speaker 1: Your vote put in national ones a couple of millions. 704 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,919 Speaker 1: So I mean where you think your voice is gonna 705 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 1: have home or weight with a couple thousand or a 706 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 1: couple million. You know what I'm saying, Why not your district? 707 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 1: Why not what colored laces you've got? You know what 708 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Maybe you ain't hand nom say, but you 709 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:51,479 Speaker 1: do now the the politics, y'all? Okay, does that make sense? 710 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: So this is what's happening right now. Like I said, 711 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,399 Speaker 1: President Trump tried to do it a long time ago. 712 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: Mary Garland sou dude Texas for doing this, because it's like, 713 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,479 Speaker 1: my nigga, you can't just make up the lines because 714 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:09,279 Speaker 1: you lose it. The conclusion that anyone would draw from this, 715 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,719 Speaker 1: who got any logic is if y'all play fair, you're 716 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:18,640 Speaker 1: gonna lose. And then some would argue, well, well, why 717 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: is the board the way it's set now? 718 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 2: The fair way? 719 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,720 Speaker 1: You understand what I mean now because you just heard 720 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,319 Speaker 1: me talk thirty minutes about what I mean by all this. 721 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 2: Why is the board fair now? Or then? 722 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, like, why can't I change the board? Why is 723 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 1: this not fair? Why is it not fair to look 724 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: at what's happening right now and say, dude, like the 725 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 1: needs of my people are being underrepresented, so we need 726 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,240 Speaker 1: to change this, We need to change the districts. Well, 727 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: because you already told me that's not what you're doing. 728 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: You already told me you doing this just to make 729 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,799 Speaker 1: sure you stay at power. Your man said that we 730 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 1: just need five extra seats, So we're gonna redraw the 731 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: districts to make sure that anyone that is Democrat or 732 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: left leaning, or let's go ahead and give you a subtext, 733 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,920 Speaker 1: a person of color is not going to have power. 734 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 2: There. It is. Guys. What sucks about politics is. 735 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: You're not really gonna find much that hasn't already happened 736 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:29,400 Speaker 1: and has already proven to be quite detrimental to us. 737 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: But you know, here we are. So that's what's happening 738 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: in Texas. We'll see how it goes to the politics. 739 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,879 Speaker 1: All right, Now, don't you hit stop on this pod. 740 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,279 Speaker 1: You better listen to these credits. I need you to 741 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay, 742 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,759 Speaker 1: so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded 743 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,399 Speaker 1: in East Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap 744 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: in with me at prop hip hop dot com. 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The 754 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: Heat of Politics is a member of cool Zone Media, 755 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:56,280 Speaker 1: Executive produced by Sophie Lichterman, part of the iHeartMedia podcast network. 756 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 1: Your theme music and scoring is also by the one 757 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 1: and Oble Adolsowski. Still killing the beats softly, so listen. 758 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 1: Don't let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living, 759 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,920 Speaker 1: you understand politics. These people is not smarter than you. 760 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:25,440 Speaker 1: We'll see y'all next week.