Speaker 1: Borda vita. You know what I means means for life.
Speaker 1: You know that's that's forever, right, and U me via loca.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, like my crazy life. Now
Speaker 1: if I don't nobody say that no more, like a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, your entrance to that may even be
Speaker 1: your age me v that. Look, I was a movie
Speaker 1: about uh l in Echo Park. Now, if you know
Speaker 1: anything about l A, it ain't al for miles in
Speaker 1: Echo Park. That's probably asked like our version of Williamsburg
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, where it's like it's been so freakishly gentrified
Speaker 1: that if I were to tell you about the Echo
Speaker 1: Park Echo Park I grew up in, it was like,
Speaker 1: oh now this is this is cholo Ville. You ain't
Speaker 1: win't kick it over there? Um or you only know
Speaker 1: as the Ricky Martin song She's Living the be By look,
Speaker 1: which is like if he was from the he was like, man,
Speaker 1: I just make it so much anyway. Uh Now again listen,
Speaker 1: nobody says that that's not a phrase people use, you know, um,
Speaker 1: but I use something that's like always resonated with me,
Speaker 1: which is from a song by a group called Dead Press.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's it's it's it's bigger than hip hop,
Speaker 1: so it goes it's bigger in hip hop, hip hop
Speaker 1: hip which don't sound as dope if you're not hearing
Speaker 1: the track. But uh, it's one of the hardest, Like,
Speaker 1: it's one of the hardest songs this dead Press. They
Speaker 1: landed a song that will go down in like wrapped
Speaker 1: specifically like backpacker history. You know, it's not specifically gangs.
Speaker 1: It's not West Coast. I mean it's gangster in the
Speaker 1: sense of like it's street, but it's not. It's a
Speaker 1: hip hop anthem, you know. Um. And the point it's
Speaker 1: trying to make is a point that I think in
Speaker 1: whatever like sub genre, subculture you in, there's a point
Speaker 1: to where you buy into the the myth making part
Speaker 1: of it, the the the the spirit, the soul of
Speaker 1: what something is, and then it becomes bigger than uh,
Speaker 1: the person or the persons that got you into it.
Speaker 1: You're following me, it's bigger than that, right, Like, it's
Speaker 1: the idea of the concept is bigger than theger than
Speaker 1: the And when something become bigger than that, then it's
Speaker 1: like can nobody tell you no different? And for that
Speaker 1: to fall apart in some way, has something has to
Speaker 1: be catastrophic to undo that. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about two years later, the big
Speaker 1: lie hood politics, y'all? How so little right now? Little
Speaker 1: politics y'all sood all right, Send your best anthropologists to
Speaker 1: any inner city. But the one I understand more is
Speaker 1: again Los Angeles created Los Angeles Area black and Latino
Speaker 1: gangs like send us, send your best anthropologists and someone
Speaker 1: can explain to you why someone would buy into something
Speaker 1: called gang banget I. And it's a thing that like,
Speaker 1: no matter how many times somebody tries to explain it
Speaker 1: to you, no matter how many books somebody right on it,
Speaker 1: Unless you was here, I don't think you could really
Speaker 1: appreciate it and really understand what was going on in
Speaker 1: our hearts and minds, you know, and calculations young men
Speaker 1: and young women made um as they were unknowingly signing
Speaker 1: themselves up to something that probably started off as these
Speaker 1: were just my friends, or this is my big brother,
Speaker 1: this is this, but you're signing up to something that
Speaker 1: is bigger than you. Right, there's a truth that you
Speaker 1: believe right that cascades infinitely into implications of how you
Speaker 1: carry your life. I'm not gonna talk about that. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about something that is very personal to me, which
Speaker 1: is hip hop. You know I it is. I say
Speaker 1: this when I always say I tell people, like to
Speaker 1: my d NA, like I'm brought in. I am this
Speaker 1: is what I am. Caras One had this thing about
Speaker 1: like he was trying to get hip hop to be
Speaker 1: a recognized ethnicity in the u N Like where you
Speaker 1: could put it on your birth certificate that like what
Speaker 1: is your child? My child as hip hop? You know.
Speaker 1: So there's some of y'all may think that's sounds stupid
Speaker 1: or hip hop is it's just wrapped like it's a
Speaker 1: style of music, and it's like, no, you're not brought in.
Speaker 1: There's there's more to that, Like depending on the age
Speaker 1: group you in or or or in you kind of
Speaker 1: like signed up. You understand that there is an entire
Speaker 1: culture around this. Now, the backpackers of the world, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna tell you this four elements or five elements.
Speaker 1: You know, you got Djaye, breakdancing, m seeing you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, graffiti, and then you have like the
Speaker 1: philosophies or beatbox or whatever, like these are like, oh,
Speaker 1: heads would tell you all this stuff, right if you
Speaker 1: really believe in this, but think about like all that
Speaker 1: comes with it fashion, sports, right, Uh, you know, think
Speaker 1: about what a I was like ais and Allen Iverson.
Speaker 1: Allen Iverson truthfully is the one that merged hip hop
Speaker 1: with basketball. You know, Rappers were wearing Jordan's you know,
Speaker 1: wearing the starter jackets like foods. Like hip hop was
Speaker 1: like always carried like jerseys and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: Jordan they love hip hop like dang, oh this hell.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like he was not he
Speaker 1: was not ahead. You feel me? Alan Iverson yo, that
Speaker 1: he was one of us. You know, Mike vicken In
Speaker 1: of course he's problematic, but like think about what he
Speaker 1: did for Atlanta. You know what I'm saying with the
Speaker 1: throw with the you know, the the tall teas, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and the throwback jerseys like that's
Speaker 1: you know you feel me like what Nelly and like,
Speaker 1: uh you know the st lunatics like this merging of
Speaker 1: sports fashion, um, you know, and then what happened with
Speaker 1: l A with gangster life and street life. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, jay Z with the hustler like it
Speaker 1: it's this, there's an entire universe as a culture that's
Speaker 1: that rap is just one tiny small part of it. Right.
Speaker 1: So the person that taught you how to wrap, the
Speaker 1: first person to play for you, you know, a Biggie
Speaker 1: Small's tape, you know what I'm saying, or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. However you got in. If you love
Speaker 1: hip hop, it becomes so much more, so much bigger, right.
Speaker 1: And it's hard for me to really picture this because
Speaker 1: I'm not from that generation. But my manager, you know,
Speaker 1: shout at J King. I don't know if he's still
Speaker 1: listened to the show, but my manager is. He's a
Speaker 1: little older than me. You know, his partner is a
Speaker 1: little bit older than me. You know. They come from
Speaker 1: a generation where there was a time that like hip
Speaker 1: hop was never on the radio, and people were saying
Speaker 1: it wouldn't last, that it wasn't like a a viable
Speaker 1: I can't picture that, but that it wasn't a viable.
Speaker 1: So like rappers were all talking about like hip hop
Speaker 1: will never die, you know what I'm saying. It's like
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know, it's a international. The biggest
Speaker 1: stars in the world are like Drake is hip hop,
Speaker 1: like I don't know what do you mean? It's not
Speaker 1: gonna laugh, you know what I'm saying. Right, there was
Speaker 1: a time that like foods were gatekeeping in hip hop
Speaker 1: where you don't mix with R and B. Like I'm
Speaker 1: not an R and B single, Right, It's like that
Speaker 1: stuff is now is like we can't even picture it,
Speaker 1: Like it's that's silly, that's not what are you talking about? Blast?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? That l a do? He
Speaker 1: just got like a he's got a plaque for his
Speaker 1: last single, and it's like was it Like, wait, is
Speaker 1: he a rapper or singer? What is he paying? Is
Speaker 1: he paying a singer? Is he a rapper? What? Like?
Speaker 1: What is this? It's hip hop because it's bigger. You
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. You sign up to something bigger,
Speaker 1: puffy like didd he is that a Like? Is that
Speaker 1: a rapper? Like he's a mode? Like what it is?
Speaker 1: What is this? You know what I'm saying? Like you
Speaker 1: he don't do none of the elements except but it's
Speaker 1: bigger than that. Right, So once you buy in all
Speaker 1: of the the again I'm gonna using the term, the
Speaker 1: cascading implications become just a part of the experience. Now
Speaker 1: I'm using this example personally as something that is built
Speaker 1: up and become beautiful to me. Right even this even
Speaker 1: hood politics, my my podcast poetry. If you bought the
Speaker 1: Terraform book, you know what I'm saying, Like y'all know,
Speaker 1: like I look, I'm just I was just a battle rapper,
Speaker 1: you know, and all of the music that came out
Speaker 1: of that, that's propaganda, Like that was just an outpouring
Speaker 1: of me loving hip hop. And before I wrapped, like
Speaker 1: I say, all the time, I was clack clack clack
Speaker 1: clack six, I was doing GRAF. Before that, I was
Speaker 1: breakdancing like I was to my d N A A
Speaker 1: B Boy. You know, I was blessed enough to be
Speaker 1: in that beautiful age group to where I get to be.
Speaker 1: I got the best the tail end of one world
Speaker 1: and the beginning and and flourishing of another one. So
Speaker 1: I got to experience a very beautiful in my mind
Speaker 1: sort of best of both worlds of what it meant
Speaker 1: to be in l A and in because again, like man,
Speaker 1: when I was you know, third fourth fifth grade, like
Speaker 1: you could see Tony Hawk, like a twenty year old
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk. You know what I'm saying, like it was
Speaker 1: pretty dope, you know what I'm saying with the skating
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like Venice Beach spending on their heads,
Speaker 1: Like I bought into something so much bigger than any
Speaker 1: particular individual. Right, So people ask a question, who started
Speaker 1: hip hop? Who's the first hip hop? DJ cool Hirk
Speaker 1: is one of the people we consider as a from
Speaker 1: a historian perspective, you know, through the first parties and
Speaker 1: and the Bronx at the you know, Cedric Cab, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the Park jams from you know,
Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventy five, you know, the DJ cool Hirk,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then you got like, well,
Speaker 1: Curtis Blow was the first rapper? What was he? Like?
Speaker 1: I don't know, grand Master Cars and the Cold Crush Brothers,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like people say rappers Delight
Speaker 1: was the first rap single, and it's like, well, Rapper's
Speaker 1: Delight was a bite, you know, saying who wrote that?
Speaker 1: They did? Grand Master Cars wrote it? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, you don't know. The thing is, y'all
Speaker 1: don't know who I'm talking about m because it's bigger
Speaker 1: than them. Some things can last longer than the individuals
Speaker 1: that started them, which brings us to what I would
Speaker 1: consider the dark side of this, which is the big
Speaker 1: lie back after this break beat, break beat, get it
Speaker 1: because hip hop? All right, drop it on the mat.
Speaker 1: M Okay, this is gonna seem so partisan. Um, and
Speaker 1: I will be accused of being what I'm always accused
Speaker 1: of is like your progressive liberal you know, social justice
Speaker 1: win or they don't use that s JW no more
Speaker 1: do they? Right? Oh they switched that out for Oh,
Speaker 1: you're a woke warrior like man can't have nothing anyway. Um.
Speaker 1: And I'm not approaching this as such. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: my background professionally is in education, Like I am coming
Speaker 1: at this. Of course, I can't separate my personhood and
Speaker 1: my opinions about stuff, because I mean it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a podcast. What you want me to say, dog,
Speaker 1: like you're actually not in school right now? Podcast? Um.
Speaker 1: But I will say I am approaching this from an
Speaker 1: educational perspective to kind of help you empathize or understand
Speaker 1: at least what is even happening right now right and
Speaker 1: the implications again about what and possibly could look like
Speaker 1: using my antennas and what I understand about what it
Speaker 1: means to buy into something bigger than you. So former
Speaker 1: President Trump, Well, first of all, before I get into that,
Speaker 1: what is the big lie? The big lie is that
Speaker 1: Trump actually won the election. It has been repeatedly disproven.
Speaker 1: I just I uh in an absurd amount of court cases,
Speaker 1: losses attempts to like rewind the clock and make that
Speaker 1: be true. It's just it's just not true. Right now.
Speaker 1: What makes that lie huge, why we call it a
Speaker 1: big lie from a historical perspective, is that for that
Speaker 1: lie to be factual, for that to be the case,
Speaker 1: there is That is why I keep saying this a
Speaker 1: cascading amount of other things that have to be true
Speaker 1: for that one truth to be true. You're following me.
Speaker 1: So for Trump to have one, that meant that there
Speaker 1: was a widespread conspiracy among local and national players within
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party who have all conspired together along with
Speaker 1: people from private companies right to make these things, along
Speaker 1: with local volunteers, in conjunction with the US Postal Service, right,
Speaker 1: all of these things, in conjunction with private media services, right,
Speaker 1: all conspiring to make sure that one thing would happen, right,
Speaker 1: And That means there has to be some sort of
Speaker 1: web of communication. That means that this deep state thing
Speaker 1: that they keep talking about has to be true. Right,
Speaker 1: So all of these little things had to have come
Speaker 1: into place, right, all the way down to just your
Speaker 1: local postman. He has to be in on it, right,
Speaker 1: All these things have to be true. So you'd have
Speaker 1: to ignore all your logic around other things that are
Speaker 1: like this is unlikely. You have to do. You have
Speaker 1: to ignore all that if you're going to maintain that
Speaker 1: the top lie is true. You're following me. Now, can
Speaker 1: that sustain by itself? I am of the belief that
Speaker 1: based on experts, right, I think through line has a
Speaker 1: dope uh interview with it with it with with some
Speaker 1: experts about this, uh that. I don't think this could
Speaker 1: have sustained when Trump kept saying they lying, they lie,
Speaker 1: no matter how big he is, without it catching on
Speaker 1: with other like Republican leaders jumping on like yeah they yeah,
Speaker 1: they stole it from you. Look see we homies, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like them trying to lock their
Speaker 1: brands with his because he see like because they saw
Speaker 1: he got the people's ear, right, I don't think it
Speaker 1: could have sustained with that. It couldn't have sustained without
Speaker 1: people like Fox News and these other things like perpetuating
Speaker 1: this thing. It's not gonna catch on. You can't just
Speaker 1: like as as dope and as mythical Trump is, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I say mythical, like I
Speaker 1: mean that because it's like he's created this myth that,
Speaker 1: like number one, he's always been a billionaire, when despite
Speaker 1: how many evidences of him being bankrupt, despite the fact that,
Speaker 1: like the people of The Apprentice said, they made up
Speaker 1: the myth of him being this mogul. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: he's not that, He's just a regular ass rich dude,
Speaker 1: Like no, we we built up this story, right, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that like talking about he has a perfect
Speaker 1: clean bill of health, like ni, that's not true, right,
Speaker 1: Like the fact that it's this idea that like he
Speaker 1: is completely untouchable by the law, like that's created this
Speaker 1: like demigod character about him that like, yo, he is untouchable,
Speaker 1: like like nothing everything watched, Boy, he's been impeached twice.
Speaker 1: You feel me, Like you know what I'm saying, like this,
Speaker 1: like and it's and it still ain't touching you. You
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying or brought not. He didn't get
Speaker 1: officially impeached twice. He got impeached in a half. You
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying, Like like nothing can touch him.
Speaker 1: So that's that like mythical you know, he's a DemoGod
Speaker 1: in their eyes. So despite all that, you still need
Speaker 1: people to catch on and catch fire with it, right,
Speaker 1: You can't sustain that type of stuff yourself. Somebody has
Speaker 1: to keep like riding for you. You understand I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's so you had So we had all these
Speaker 1: other sort of people that like that we're also had microphones,
Speaker 1: also had power, also had authority. He was able to
Speaker 1: buy in and affirm this thing and whatever their reasons
Speaker 1: for that, And I, in my opinion, was hell of selfish.
Speaker 1: Like I don't there's no way. I don't think that they.
Speaker 1: I think there's some people who really do believe that.
Speaker 1: But I think I think I've said this before, it's like, nah,
Speaker 1: when they go home, they notice, but they're just playing
Speaker 1: their game like hitting a leg, Like you're just trying
Speaker 1: to stay in good graces with the public. You feel
Speaker 1: me when people turn on you. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you take somebody like a Mike Pence
Speaker 1: that was like, look, Nie, you didn't gone too far,
Speaker 1: because you know, I believe that there are people out
Speaker 1: there that are like true believers in conservatism in the
Speaker 1: same way that like I bought in the hip hop,
Speaker 1: they brought into conservatism and it's like that's bigger than
Speaker 1: all of us. They believe in institutions. They believe in
Speaker 1: the traditions and the and our forefathers and their constitutionalists.
Speaker 1: Like so they are like, you know, behind closed doors,
Speaker 1: disgusted by somebody like a Trump that's like he I
Speaker 1: don't know what he is besides selfish, but like that,
Speaker 1: they're like, yo, he smells like a fascist. Like he's
Speaker 1: building up an empire in his fashion, in his form
Speaker 1: and his like in his likeness. Right that they're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's you're destroying our institutions. I believe that there are
Speaker 1: some that when they go home, that's the way they feel.
Speaker 1: But they're not gonna te don't nobody. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, you know, look right for the set
Speaker 1: on me. You know what I'm saying, wheels fall out
Speaker 1: right now to set believe you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so I believe that, you know what I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: then there are those that like truly do believe that
Speaker 1: are like na man, like our democracy is dying because
Speaker 1: an election was able to be stolen. So then the
Speaker 1: question becomes can a lie sustain itself beyond the liar?
Speaker 1: And I think we've seen that happen. And then the
Speaker 1: line starts taking on and enveloping other things. Why like
Speaker 1: sort of this whole ethos can absorb something like some
Speaker 1: Q and on stuff that like, you know, you're stopping
Speaker 1: some sort of widespread pedophile ring, and have co opted
Speaker 1: this like the cause of sex trafficking and enveloped it
Speaker 1: into this sort of mel you of conspiratorial things. This
Speaker 1: idea that like, yeah, that there's a pedophile ring with
Speaker 1: with Democrats. This uh that the Fauci vaccine, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, enveloped into them trying to put you know,
Speaker 1: computer chips inside of you. Right, you can envelope all
Speaker 1: of these things that they're hurting that you know, they're
Speaker 1: thinking out to her, like all of these other things.
Speaker 1: It starts to take on its own life so much
Speaker 1: so that again when Trump stand on stage and talks
Speaker 1: about nig I got my booster. You feel me. It's
Speaker 1: because the lie is bigger, right, it's taken on its
Speaker 1: own life. It's bigger than it's why if you think
Speaker 1: about it like this, it's why you take an O
Speaker 1: G that just got out of prison. You feel me why.
Speaker 1: Sometimes gang intervention stuff is actually more difficult than it
Speaker 1: seems one would think. When O G gets out of
Speaker 1: prison and he comes back to the hood and he's
Speaker 1: trying to tell kids like hey, abort mission, like turn
Speaker 1: around out it's not and it's and you're looking at
Speaker 1: the dude that was like, man, this yo, you put
Speaker 1: in mad work, Like we know your missions, like you're mythical.
Speaker 1: You feel me. People like you know Tookie Williams and
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, Monster Cody who just passed away. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, who were came back to the
Speaker 1: city and was like listen, like let me tell y'all
Speaker 1: my story. You know what I'm saying, Like this ain't
Speaker 1: it's not what you think it is. You ain't gotta
Speaker 1: make the same mistakes I do, right, Uh you know
Speaker 1: big you with his um you know the Crunchhaw football team,
Speaker 1: the Pop Warner football team, you know people doing these
Speaker 1: like things to try to like snatch kids off the
Speaker 1: streets and kind of like give them. You know they're
Speaker 1: coming in. It's like, oh, no, we are we certified,
Speaker 1: Like don't ever, don't you have a question? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I earned my stripes. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, We did our time and who I understand?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And they're and they're communicating
Speaker 1: in a in a in a way and in a
Speaker 1: language with with with skin in the game where they
Speaker 1: understand really what these foods is going through. Like a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, he's the O g s like these
Speaker 1: foods like they started these hoods. One would think yo
Speaker 1: saying if the dude that's started to set would come
Speaker 1: in and say, hey, you shouldn't do this like little
Speaker 1: dudes like oh y'all burnt out. You know what I'm saying. No,
Speaker 1: it's bigger than this. I appreciate your g full respect
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like I never respect. I'll do you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But we're out here, we outside.
Speaker 1: You can't talk everybody out of it because it's bigger
Speaker 1: than that. And that's what I'm saying that that's what
Speaker 1: they're trying to do. But that's the point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make. It takes on a life of itself. Right,
Speaker 1: how are we still dealing with Trump one signs? And
Speaker 1: why Republicans still not showing up at the you know,
Speaker 1: the anniversary of what would even lead somebody to do that? Again,
Speaker 1: it's the cascading imp occations of if you hold up
Speaker 1: the first thing, right, if you hold up that first,
Speaker 1: that first thing, that that means that every step after
Speaker 1: that is absolutely necessary. Because if it is true what
Speaker 1: you believe about this election, then of course you think
Speaker 1: that like democracy is, it's fallen. So our our only
Speaker 1: choices to storing the Capitol. Now, the problem with this
Speaker 1: storm and the capital is the fact that they had
Speaker 1: no other plan after that. Like, okay, so what was
Speaker 1: y'all doing? And and and your boy? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Who I mean, are y'all gonna y'all gonna
Speaker 1: put him back in office? Like all that's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the same, Oh dude saying new lines to you.
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand, Like, what was what was
Speaker 1: y'all's in game? You know what I'm saying, Uh. Then
Speaker 1: there's people that like like I keep talking about, like
Speaker 1: Matt Yates, like Mary Martin Taylor a who like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that the Santos who like I
Speaker 1: saw the righting on the wall was like, yo, I
Speaker 1: can link myself since it's bigger than Trump, I can
Speaker 1: link myself to this thing too, and like, go out
Speaker 1: there and maybe you know what I'm saying, hit my lip.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, give my power play because
Speaker 1: it's bigger than that. You feel me? Because if that
Speaker 1: lie again is true, then the implications are everybody inside
Speaker 1: of that building are frauds. We gotta ride. So don't
Speaker 1: let nobody ever tell you that this was some sort
Speaker 1: of like you know, protests that went out of control. No,
Speaker 1: they was rotting. Because you that's your only option if
Speaker 1: you believe lie number one, right, I got one more
Speaker 1: point after this? Or break yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of the phrase color mute terms? Color
Speaker 1: mute terms are I asked you a question, as if
Speaker 1: you can answer me. You know what I'm saying. Some
Speaker 1: of y'all are like, yeah, it's so stupid white people
Speaker 1: do that? Why I do? It's I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: rhetorical it's a rhetoric tool. Anyway, I'm off topic. Color
Speaker 1: mute are terms that you're not saying what you mean,
Speaker 1: You're just you in replacing where it's like urban, you
Speaker 1: know what the hell we mean when we say urban,
Speaker 1: When you say inner city, you know what the hell
Speaker 1: you meant, right, it's color mute, low income color mute.
Speaker 1: And of course why it's used so much is because
Speaker 1: there's there's a bit of ambiguity, like I mean, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, there's plenty of low income white people, right,
Speaker 1: you know, saying like come on, man, that's ridiculous. You
Speaker 1: know urban that could be I mean, hipsters are urban.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, right, So that's why you
Speaker 1: use those terms, right, because they're color mutes. So it's
Speaker 1: a way out of getting pinned down by what you mean.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's like you can use color mute terms
Speaker 1: because you are trying to use something else, which is
Speaker 1: an umbrella term, right, or a pan ethnic thing. So
Speaker 1: like when you say something like Asian, that's pan ethnic,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I mean, how different
Speaker 1: is Malaysia, Kimbo, the Philippines from Manchuria like it's Siberia,
Speaker 1: Like it's super different, you know what I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: you know African, like that's you kidne me like the
Speaker 1: second largest land mass on the planet, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like you can't possibly talking to
Speaker 1: be talking about all the same people, right panethnics. So
Speaker 1: sometimes you might be using an umbrella term uh, but
Speaker 1: maybe saying it with color mute words following me. I'm
Speaker 1: using that to say how one could from a macro
Speaker 1: perspective by into something like this, and why you would
Speaker 1: see things like, uh, Confederate flags, you know, seventeen seventy
Speaker 1: six calls, eighteen seventy seven calls like just which is
Speaker 1: crazy because eighteen seventy seven is like the basis the
Speaker 1: compromise of the basis of like black codes of like
Speaker 1: why we had so why it was so hard for
Speaker 1: us to vote? You know what I'm saying. Um, why
Speaker 1: you would see like Auschwitz T shirts and these people
Speaker 1: calling themselves patriots. Some people would say there was dog
Speaker 1: whistles happening. You know. Dog whistles is basically this idea
Speaker 1: that like if you don't know what that means, It's
Speaker 1: just this idea of like where only you blow it,
Speaker 1: and only you're not saying it, but people that needed
Speaker 1: to hear it here hurt it. He who have ears
Speaker 1: let him here, you know, and bye read a Bible awards,
Speaker 1: so to say things like the true America, you know,
Speaker 1: I lost all of the cities, all of the urban areas.
Speaker 1: But the true America, the true Americans, they know the truth.
Speaker 1: And it's that I won. I won by a landslide.
Speaker 1: What does he say, ain't well black people, brown folks,
Speaker 1: that's what he's saying, he said. And when I lost
Speaker 1: to the city, you talk about black you talk about
Speaker 1: people of color, that's what you talk about black people,
Speaker 1: you talk abou about you. What you're saying is and
Speaker 1: the true America's white people. That's what you're saying. They
Speaker 1: heard it. So you're stoking something you you you you
Speaker 1: tapping into something that again is bigger than themselves and
Speaker 1: make them feel like now they they're part of a cause.
Speaker 1: Because how do you explain follow me, y'all, I'm again,
Speaker 1: I'm just teaching. How do you explain if factually speaking,
Speaker 1: the system has always worked for capital w white people. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if we're talking you know, economic issues, socio economic issues. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that's a different that's a different piece of intersectionality, which
Speaker 1: is something you don't want to talk about because you
Speaker 1: don't believe in critical rights theory. But that's another piece
Speaker 1: of intersectionality that we have talked about later, that that
Speaker 1: says that, Yeah, of course there are class issues that
Speaker 1: complicate what I'm trying to say, right, but that's why
Speaker 1: I say capital w white people, whiteness. The system has
Speaker 1: worked for you. The system has worked for whiteness because
Speaker 1: it was built for whiteness. This is all like you
Speaker 1: could even ask the all right, it was like yeah, no,
Speaker 1: like read the founding father's documents. This was made for us.
Speaker 1: It was designed so when it stops working for you,
Speaker 1: rather than looking at huge sweeping ideas that might possibly
Speaker 1: be the problem, like well, capitalism running unchecked. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like the removal of a social safety net,
Speaker 1: like the idea of like the idea of like a
Speaker 1: social health care, health care is unaffordable. The idea of
Speaker 1: social health care would actually help us all, especially low
Speaker 1: again intersectionality, low income white people can't afford it either,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying that coal miner who out there
Speaker 1: with that Filipino you know immigrant that like they're sharing
Speaker 1: U across junior freaking number four meal because you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, they boss like won't give them no raise.
Speaker 1: You feel me like they understand that intersectionality, you feel me, right,
Speaker 1: But he and would really appreciate the idea that like
Speaker 1: maybe if my health care wasn't tied to this job,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to keep going into this cold you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you're ignoring those sweeping ideas
Speaker 1: and just saying somebody else must have ruined it for me,
Speaker 1: just like somebody else stole this election. Somebody else stole
Speaker 1: my way of life. Well who is Well, who stole
Speaker 1: your way of life? Well? You got black people cutting
Speaker 1: in front of the line. You got all these immigrants
Speaker 1: stealing the jobs that he's good paying American jobs, right.
Speaker 1: You got these social elites, these democrats taking all the
Speaker 1: work and taking it over to other countries. Right, and
Speaker 1: then you got them, you know, uh, extremely wealthy people
Speaker 1: who are buying large liberal right and want to control
Speaker 1: your life systems not failing systems. Fine, it's been taken
Speaker 1: from you, so you need to go take it back, Nigga,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you ride to if that was all true? Wouldn't
Speaker 1: you be like, let's ride. So when something gets bigger
Speaker 1: than all of us, it becomes self sustaining. So again,
Speaker 1: what that means for I think it only collapses with
Speaker 1: a huge collapse. Trump gotta crash and burn for you
Speaker 1: to see that that man is not a DemoGod. I
Speaker 1: think number one, clearly, the facts don't matter, right because
Speaker 1: none of the stuff is true, right. I think somebody
Speaker 1: has to address y'all's grievances in a truthful, healthy manner.
Speaker 1: Somebody has to be able to speak your language and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: so what you're trying to take back here? This this
Speaker 1: actually solves the problems you need, You you asking for.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're not being heard, you feel like
Speaker 1: you're not being treated fairly. Okay, well check this out.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom, boom boom. Here's how we got here.
Speaker 1: Here's how to fix it. You know, what I'm saying
Speaker 1: in a way that they get to see is not
Speaker 1: just feeding their grievances. Now, how is that gonna happen?
Speaker 1: And I don't know because that's slow and hard. How
Speaker 1: to do that. What's quick, easy and get you back
Speaker 1: in power is you ride that way. But the part
Speaker 1: that's so strange to me is that if you're telling
Speaker 1: me the system is broken and flawed and terrible, why
Speaker 1: the hell would you run and have me vote for
Speaker 1: you if you don't believe voting works. I mean, they
Speaker 1: could turn and as black people the same thing. I
Speaker 1: ain't got to answer money. I think there are lessons
Speaker 1: we can learn from history. They're not one one to ones,
Speaker 1: but I think that things we can learn, some of
Speaker 1: which is grievance. Politics works, but only for so long
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Speaker 1: it descends into total meltdown, we'll survive, m y'all. This
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