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Speaker 1: Battleona Jesus sweetest that the girl and I've got the
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another edition of hood politics.
Speaker 1: While we all quarantined and losing our mind, Who's getting
Speaker 1: put on the hood today is who I would like
Speaker 1: to call my blood gang twin Atlanta counterpart Mr and
Speaker 1: Misho Baraka. Y'all make some noise for a me show.
Speaker 1: Say what's up? Show? Hey? What up? What out block?
Speaker 1: Cause I'm out here, I'm out here. I'm out here,
Speaker 1: set tripping homie. You out here Southwestern except not southwest,
Speaker 1: Southeastern Homie down in Atlanta, West Coast Atlanta. Homie out
Speaker 1: here just trying, you know what I'm saying. Keep the
Speaker 1: callie live out here in Georgia. You me and you
Speaker 1: ain't lost your accent. I love it because hey, you
Speaker 1: know it took. It takes a while for me to
Speaker 1: get in a groove of things. But first of all,
Speaker 1: let me say I'm excited, man, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure just to be able to pontificate
Speaker 1: the deep things of the world with you, bro, Yes,
Speaker 1: you are the then diagram of what makes this show tick.
Speaker 1: The idea is some of us have had the chance
Speaker 1: to traverse so many different sort of like educational levels,
Speaker 1: socioeconomic levels, like social stratifications. If you believe in these constructs,
Speaker 1: whether you believe it or not, there there you know. Um,
Speaker 1: but being able to say, look, this is where I
Speaker 1: come from, and in this I've gained an understanding of
Speaker 1: how the world sort of functions. And then you saw
Speaker 1: again the idea of where we got this from parallels
Speaker 1: when you go into sort of dominant culture spaces and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh word, that's just this right, and and
Speaker 1: the hope of this pod our listeners know. Uh, but again,
Speaker 1: since it's our first season, I want to keep reiterating, like, um,
Speaker 1: the idea is translating, right, is saying not whether this
Speaker 1: is good or bad. We're not giving commentary, We're not
Speaker 1: passing judgment on other stuff. We're just saying, here's a
Speaker 1: way to understand what you're looking at. Yeah. So, and
Speaker 1: as the show goes, we're gonna give our hood vocabulary.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have our discussion on what's happening in politics,
Speaker 1: and then sort of like Get shows take on our
Speaker 1: this particular episode, Get Shows take on what do you
Speaker 1: think about it? And how how we could work this out? Right,
Speaker 1: But all feuds that are expressed by Shobaraca are supported
Speaker 1: by propagandas. Want to put that up there. We are
Speaker 1: in one agreement, no matter what he says, no matter
Speaker 1: what I say. All right, let's go, let's test this car.
Speaker 1: Let's test this car. I know both of us, right,
Speaker 1: If I were to say secure the bag? What am
Speaker 1: I saying? Hey, what what decade am I end? So
Speaker 1: if it's if it's we're at this decade, if just
Speaker 1: get to make that money. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that's true. You know what I'm saying back in the
Speaker 1: day was get the gap, the cheese, get the chada, right,
Speaker 1: all of it. We're all saying the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh now we're gonna call it the bloomberg. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Get the bloomberg where you can burn
Speaker 1: money on stuff you know you're not gonna win. You
Speaker 1: just and it don't affect you at all. You're just like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I just wanted to try, right, off right.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do it. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: just shift the conversation just expir I have that much
Speaker 1: power and privilege. I just want to just just to
Speaker 1: to put a dent in time and just go forward,
Speaker 1: go back to my life. Yeah, because I ain't heard
Speaker 1: nothing from since the ROHNA came out, you know, six
Speaker 1: on a million dollars on some commercials. You could have
Speaker 1: cured this whole thing. A little cobba cup. He could
Speaker 1: have built a bubble. He could have built he probably
Speaker 1: already did anyway, So secure the bag, get to chat
Speaker 1: to get the guap we're talking about, like money, take
Speaker 1: care of the money in using your antennas. If we're
Speaker 1: gonna prioritize, we're gonna triage the priorities, uh, wrapping your hood,
Speaker 1: keeping it real, securing the bag, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Where do you think in the level of importance getting
Speaker 1: the chedda securing the bag is and in relation to
Speaker 1: all things you're asking me? If we're again we're talking hood,
Speaker 1: this is hood politics. We talk oh bro hood politics.
Speaker 1: Getting it's probably up there man, you guys, So now
Speaker 1: this is interesting. I love the way this show is
Speaker 1: proposition and me to have to think not in the
Speaker 1: what am I trying to say? Not in a and
Speaker 1: like in my contemporary church, yeah not like now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, if I was still around my homies
Speaker 1: right now and I'm mature, but I didn't have the
Speaker 1: type of resources I would say the priority, would you know,
Speaker 1: would be one it's it's it's almost like one B
Speaker 1: one as family. It's it's should people, right, it should people.
Speaker 1: And then one B is like we're gonna get We're
Speaker 1: gonna get this money because and it's it's sometimes it's synonymous,
Speaker 1: like taking care of my family is to get the bag.
Speaker 1: You see, this is why we do this exactly it
Speaker 1: there's a weird sort of sort of one one and
Speaker 1: then one A exactly what you're saying to where it's
Speaker 1: just like there's sometimes these two things are synonymous. In
Speaker 1: the hood. For y'all listeners who've been following us for
Speaker 1: a while, I mean it's only been five shows, but
Speaker 1: if you've been following us for a while, five just
Speaker 1: Hood Politics shows. When Bamboo was talking about like what
Speaker 1: your hood means as far as like your identity and like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is really when we say this is our family,
Speaker 1: I don't think you understand this is our family, yea,
Speaker 1: and there is there is no difference, right, So this
Speaker 1: like individualism in the sense of like I'm getting rich
Speaker 1: from myself somewhere in the gangst the mentality is like
Speaker 1: me getting wealthy helps everyone, not absolutely yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's distorted and incorrect, but well it's and and I
Speaker 1: love the you know you you've always I think you've
Speaker 1: you've you've done a good job of using your you know,
Speaker 1: your your education and your art and exposing how certain
Speaker 1: concepts in one setting can be looked at is detrimental,
Speaker 1: but as as something that is um noble and another
Speaker 1: and this very thing, right is is sometimes applauded in
Speaker 1: the more corporate capitalistic frame um spaces, so because people
Speaker 1: will will do whatever it takes to get the money
Speaker 1: in those settings in a legal way, and they're applauded
Speaker 1: and they're promoted and they're giving board positions. But you
Speaker 1: take somebody who does the same activity and a context
Speaker 1: where they may have to partial perpetuate some illegal activities.
Speaker 1: Then their thugs and the gangsters and the criminals, right,
Speaker 1: and they're using the same principles. They're like they're using
Speaker 1: the same ethic work ethic. Right, they're saying that the
Speaker 1: only thing that's gonna stop me from getting this money
Speaker 1: is uh, well, nothing's gonna stop me from getting this money.
Speaker 1: And there's only a few people that I won't violate
Speaker 1: in order to support this this this goal. And in
Speaker 1: the same way, there are people who wear suits and
Speaker 1: ties and who makes some very important decisions in our
Speaker 1: country who will only consider not violating those people who
Speaker 1: are closest to them in order to shoot their go
Speaker 1: It's like you're reading my notes and I'm again I'm
Speaker 1: gonna remind everybody every guest comes in blind. They have
Speaker 1: no idea what I'm talking about. Yeah, show up, my lion.
Speaker 1: You had no idea, not no you. I said, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna talk about? He's like, nah, man. I
Speaker 1: was like, I need you to come in blind because
Speaker 1: it's proof of it's proof of concept. You already got it.
Speaker 1: You already know what you already know. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: have to prep you because you already know. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: so this, yeah, this this like when when you look
Speaker 1: at the same principle in a different context. And and
Speaker 1: I'd even challenge the idea of like what is legal
Speaker 1: because that's fluid also, right, you know, and the type
Speaker 1: of legality, so you have like blue collar crimes, white
Speaker 1: collar crimes, and evasion is still a crime, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, right, finding corporate loopholes like and then
Speaker 1: there's then there's something that's interesting to me to where
Speaker 1: it's like maybe something is a isn't a crime, it
Speaker 1: just sucks right where it's just like that's just a
Speaker 1: whack thing to do. So for instance, uh, I was talking,
Speaker 1: So I have a podcast as well, which yes you do,
Speaker 1: which that plugable. Soon you'll be on uh that particular
Speaker 1: show are you You're on it, but we'll be releasing
Speaker 1: an episode either way. That's not the point. The point
Speaker 1: is yesterday my crew and I we were talking about um.
Speaker 1: Recently there were individuals who bought up eighteen thousand bottles
Speaker 1: of sanitizer in Tennessee and they tried to they bought
Speaker 1: it up and then they tried to resell it, but
Speaker 1: they were probably scalaging and they were selling it for
Speaker 1: like sixty to eighty dollars for a bottle of sanitizer.
Speaker 1: Now if we look at Amazon shut them down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Amazon was like no, because we're not having it now
Speaker 1: that's very legal. They can do what they can leave that,
Speaker 1: But to your point, like that sucks in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways because there are some people who are running
Speaker 1: around here who don't have eighty dollars of discretionary income
Speaker 1: to buy a bottle of sanitizer, right, and so for them,
Speaker 1: these are these are some folks who are left out
Speaker 1: of the market because somebody has monopolized the market. And
Speaker 1: what it's this, it's in a in a way, it's
Speaker 1: genius capitalism. And I think in some ways with folks
Speaker 1: like you and I have to begin to wrestle with
Speaker 1: if we believe that capitalism maybe one of the alternatives
Speaker 1: to alleviate poverty, we it can't be the capitalism in
Speaker 1: which we're operating in now, right. There has to be
Speaker 1: a more benevolent or more charitable capitalism, yes, that free
Speaker 1: market capitalism. See I always I've been saying I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for a while. I've been trying to put it,
Speaker 1: put words to it, but of force the sentiment. But
Speaker 1: I finally got words to it. It's like I would
Speaker 1: be a libertarian, like a left wing libertarian, if there
Speaker 1: was no such thing as racism or price couching, those
Speaker 1: those these things greed, I would be a libertarian, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, right because I can't think of because,
Speaker 1: like you said, the free market says supply and demand
Speaker 1: right where it's just like, yo, I'll charge what y'all
Speaker 1: will pay. You understand I'm saying, So like if you won't,
Speaker 1: I mean, am I wrong? If you're willing to pay
Speaker 1: for it, there's you need hand sanitizer. I got hand sanitizing.
Speaker 1: You'll pay what, you know what I'm saying. But all
Speaker 1: of us, intrinsically, like you said, you just we feel
Speaker 1: that whether that's legal or not, that sucks. You understand,
Speaker 1: we need this in that sense. A regulatory body that said,
Speaker 1: which was in this this scenario, Amazon was like, fat,
Speaker 1: you can't, like you can't do that right And I
Speaker 1: can't think of in case y'all don't know. Both of
Speaker 1: us on this pod are black, So I can't think
Speaker 1: of any right I have in my in this country
Speaker 1: that didn't come from government intervention. A regulatory force had
Speaker 1: to come in and say, hey, listen, African Africans are humans,
Speaker 1: right like you can't. So it's it's just like you said,
Speaker 1: like for us to just say, like this idea of
Speaker 1: just this free market economy, Like if humans were not
Speaker 1: falling individuals, I would be like hell yeah, but like
Speaker 1: we just can't. I just can't trust an unchecked economy
Speaker 1: to treat us fairly. I would be a total libertarian
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for racism. So you nailed it. So
Speaker 1: you nailed it. It's the idea that like secure in
Speaker 1: the bag, uh for me and mine, whether something is
Speaker 1: gray or grayly um illegal or explicitly illegal, or frowned
Speaker 1: upon or celebrated oftentimes depends on your social intersection and
Speaker 1: where you are in your position existing and living in
Speaker 1: that exact space with the rona. Bro, did you know
Speaker 1: that this is this is this is this is deep.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting time, my friend. Yes, here's so.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. First of all, you know, the
Speaker 1: World Health Organization had um plenty of test kids and
Speaker 1: we turned them down. Oh I did not know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could have had this uh weeks ago. We could
Speaker 1: have had all the test kids we needed weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So what was the reason, What was the reason for
Speaker 1: turning to down? It is just that they didn't think
Speaker 1: it was gonna be necessary or just like well, this
Speaker 1: is what I want to talk to you about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: take take a guess as to why anyone would turn
Speaker 1: down test kids. Well, all things that make no sense,
Speaker 1: all things that that befuddling to me and and and
Speaker 1: puzzling to me ultimately leads back to the our administration
Speaker 1: and the people who run our administration totally. So it
Speaker 1: has to be for some reason that our administration has
Speaker 1: some ridiculous reason to why it wasn't necessary. Maybe they
Speaker 1: felt it came from China. I don't know. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: What do you think we talked about right now? We
Speaker 1: talked about the you're in the bag money, There we
Speaker 1: go money, So here we go. That was a twelve
Speaker 1: week delay. Right now, there's a company called Oscar Health
Speaker 1: that's developing a test kit. Right guess who wants oscar health?
Speaker 1: Tell me Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner owns oh Oscar Health.
Speaker 1: So I don't need yourys because I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: up my secure the bag right now. Now. You can
Speaker 1: call that whatever you want. It depends on your social location.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's illegal, maybe that sucks, or maybe they
Speaker 1: just secure in the bag. I mean, and this so
Speaker 1: that this is where now, man, this is so I
Speaker 1: think for me, there's a difference. There's ethical business, there's
Speaker 1: ethical practices, and then there's there's there's securing the bag
Speaker 1: um in securing the bag, there's always people. Very seldomly
Speaker 1: will will people not consider their own selfish interest and
Speaker 1: taking advantage of opportunity right or or season and opportunity.
Speaker 1: I think we think about history, A lot of people
Speaker 1: have gotten rich during because of wars. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about those folks who are in wars. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about people who took advantage of property, took advantage
Speaker 1: of insurances policies, who have taken advantage of declining markets,
Speaker 1: and they had the capital to invest in something. When
Speaker 1: the markets began to stabilize, our wars began to cease,
Speaker 1: they made money off of those decisions they made. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, and so this is another kind of like
Speaker 1: wartime issue or scenario where it's like you know what
Speaker 1: things are going to Yeah, things are going to decline,
Speaker 1: people are gonna be hitting on falling on bad times.
Speaker 1: Those people with money, they seize an opportunity. It's like
Speaker 1: a wounded animal in the in the in the in
Speaker 1: the jungle, right, and this is where it takes. This
Speaker 1: is where it takes some sort of social apter. I
Speaker 1: just I just don't know, like it's religious foundations it
Speaker 1: could be, or it just an understanding of a common
Speaker 1: good to where it's like I just can't take advantage
Speaker 1: of the most vulnerable people in this situation from my
Speaker 1: own selfish benefit. Yes, common good. Yeah, that's not even
Speaker 1: it though, that's not even the main bag being secured
Speaker 1: right now. Oh gosh, you got more, gets worse, gets worse.
Speaker 1: So there's a company in Berlin, Okay, in Berlin, Germany
Speaker 1: name cure Vac, and they have the most promising coronavirus vaccine.
Speaker 1: You you're following me, I'm following you right, and if
Speaker 1: you if you've been following the news in any way,
Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical companies is no different than the narcotic companies.
Speaker 1: This is this is populo Escobar, y'all all, just Escobar.
Speaker 1: Just you know what I'm saying. Just some of y'all
Speaker 1: get the selling stores, others got the selling streets. This
Speaker 1: is just it's just drugs, right in the hope. With drugs. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: as far as the business side securing the bag is,
Speaker 1: you need more customers, right, and you need repeat customers, right.
Speaker 1: So that's just it's just it's it's drug dealing. So
Speaker 1: so cure Vac isn't is a firm in Germany and
Speaker 1: they had the most promising vaccine. Does that seem like,
Speaker 1: in a pandemic an unbelievable bag to secure, right if
Speaker 1: you got the most So our president was in the
Speaker 1: business of trying to persuade this German company to give
Speaker 1: exclusive rights to the United States to only sell this
Speaker 1: vaccine to the un United States, right, it's the global pandemic.
Speaker 1: And he's like, yo, why don't you just sell that
Speaker 1: to us only? Right? And then the German government got
Speaker 1: involved and they was basically like, nigga, what the what
Speaker 1: nigga No, no, guys, we can't allow this. Okay, had
Speaker 1: a vaccine, Big Homie came in, Big Homie came through.
Speaker 1: Was like, nah, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta square
Speaker 1: to this LP right. Oh lord right. So so the
Speaker 1: US official, the US like ambassador to Germany, was like, listen, man,
Speaker 1: that story is not your your playing. It's widely overplayed.
Speaker 1: That's not what's happening, right, which, of course, of course
Speaker 1: that's what you should say, but a German Health ministry spokesman,
Speaker 1: confirming the quote of the newspaper that said, the German
Speaker 1: government is very interested in ensuring that the vaccines and
Speaker 1: active substances against the new coronavirus are developed in Germany
Speaker 1: and Europe, right and in in this regard, the government
Speaker 1: is in intensive exchange with the company of Kurevak, right,
Speaker 1: which they and they're basically and the owner of Curevak
Speaker 1: is like, look, dude, I'm trying to make this for everybody, right,
Speaker 1: like I y'all tripping right um, And the company says
Speaker 1: that they rejects the current rumors of like this accusition,
Speaker 1: like nobody's right, nobody's gonna buy us, okay, right, we
Speaker 1: want to help people not just uh, regionally, but across
Speaker 1: the whole world. And they said it would be glad
Speaker 1: if they could achieve this through my long term investments
Speaker 1: out of Germany. So essentially he's saying, full, I'm not
Speaker 1: finn to sell it just to you, but that don't
Speaker 1: mean I'm not for sale, right right, right, right, right right? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what what makes this so interesting to me is
Speaker 1: one would think in a global pandemic, like I don't
Speaker 1: how anybody's talking about money. Well, I hear you. I
Speaker 1: just I'm not as I'm not so naive to think
Speaker 1: that everybody is so is altruistic, right, I think about
Speaker 1: I think about I definitely think about activism. There are
Speaker 1: some people who are genuinely called to activism, and those
Speaker 1: folks are folks who are just willing to die there
Speaker 1: you know, folks who tend to not be wealthy. But
Speaker 1: I think what our problem is as folks who, as
Speaker 1: you said earlier in your introduction of me operating different
Speaker 1: ven diagrams, we have there's a piece of us who
Speaker 1: have activism is in US, and we have a bit
Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship in US, right, and we operate in entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: spaces with with hopefully most of the times, with the
Speaker 1: heart of altruism is like, yeah, i want to make
Speaker 1: as much money as possible, but also I'm not going
Speaker 1: to sell my soul. The thing that we have to
Speaker 1: understand is everybody doesn't operate like this. Is how people
Speaker 1: become extremely wealthy Black folks as well Black people too,
Speaker 1: for instance. And this is there's this is not apple
Speaker 1: to apples, but a couple of weeks ago, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you are up abreast on all the information about Within
Speaker 1: a week period, Calice wrought an opted about the Neptunes
Speaker 1: and how she felt like she was exploited through her
Speaker 1: record deal. Mace went on a Instagram rent about Patty Right,
Speaker 1: and then recently MEGANA. Stallion has talked about how she
Speaker 1: feels like her. This is interesting, right, because what we
Speaker 1: were constantly talking about as as African Americans are black
Speaker 1: folks in America is that there are systems in place
Speaker 1: that keep us from thriving and building wealth. But these
Speaker 1: are all black individuals who are and there, and the
Speaker 1: accusation is that these African Americans are creating oppressive structures
Speaker 1: that are keeping other black people down, other Black people down. Yes,
Speaker 1: the way that our process this is like it's it's
Speaker 1: not always family doesn't matter. It's when you begin to
Speaker 1: operating systems, it don't matter. Anybody can get it. Anybody
Speaker 1: will get it. That's the part that blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Anybody just get it. It's just when the when the
Speaker 1: bag is in danger, anybody ever and so and so
Speaker 1: the way I even think about this is like, man,
Speaker 1: it breaks my heart on a global level that yeah,
Speaker 1: these individuals are thinking about I have this product. I'm
Speaker 1: also willing to sell this product, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to be I don't want it to be monopolized. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's any different from us on a
Speaker 1: micro level. When we're thinking about samples, right, it's like,
Speaker 1: isn't music for everybody? But guess what I nigga come
Speaker 1: around trying to sample my music. I'm like, hold on,
Speaker 1: bro hold on, how many records? You say? Okay, exactly,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on you want to But
Speaker 1: I recognized it's not like a death situations, so it's
Speaker 1: not the same, you know. But yeah, but we also
Speaker 1: got to understand that even though um, everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: an expectation of currency and revenue that people expect to
Speaker 1: come into their house, You and I have a certain
Speaker 1: budget in order to make our house operate and function.
Speaker 1: These companies in some way, they have an excess of money,
Speaker 1: but some of them are thinking, like, the only way
Speaker 1: that we can function is by continuing to sell our product,
Speaker 1: and if we just give away everything, then we may
Speaker 1: not be able to operate in a way that we should.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not trying to say that with the decisions
Speaker 1: that they're making are legitimate. I'm just saying, like I
Speaker 1: do think we can't oversimplify things in a way, nor
Speaker 1: do we, nor can we the same social framework that
Speaker 1: we have on them. Yeah, not only that, there's a
Speaker 1: cost of goods, right, So when I think about, like
Speaker 1: why a shirt that I'm selling you, like, it's a
Speaker 1: T shirt, but why does it cost fifty dollars? Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ethics. I need to price my shirts,
Speaker 1: you do one because I moved away. I moved to
Speaker 1: ethnically sourced shirts, you know what I'm saying. So, like,
Speaker 1: so these shirts are ethnically sourced, right, I gotta pay
Speaker 1: my web brows, my web host, I gotta pay the
Speaker 1: shipping program, and I gotta make a little money. And
Speaker 1: the shirt itself costs more because it's ethnically sourced. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I would love to give you this shirt, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it cost me thirty dollars, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So there's a reality of like you blow that up
Speaker 1: to a corporation to where there's like, okay, there was
Speaker 1: this is like six hundred million dollars in research and
Speaker 1: staff and stuff like that, in patents and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that like yo, I mean, yeah, it's gonna save
Speaker 1: the world, but it also bankrupted me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, so there's yeah, there's like this weird
Speaker 1: like you know, dichotomy of this, which is just like
Speaker 1: the same reason why track was invented, because coach cost
Speaker 1: so much, You're said, I'm saying, right, So, so all
Speaker 1: I figured out a way to make to get that
Speaker 1: same product cheaper and make more for it and I
Speaker 1: get return customers. You understand what I'm saying. Did maybe
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think about it differently, right, absolutely, bro. I
Speaker 1: have a friend who works in AIDS research and she's, uh,
Speaker 1: she used to work with the cdd CDC and she
Speaker 1: did a lot of work in Ethiopia and South Africa.
Speaker 1: She was telling me about, um a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: how in South Africa they were and I'm and this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess up the story a little bit because
Speaker 1: you know, years ago, but basically South Africa they were
Speaker 1: using a drug that was copied written by a company
Speaker 1: in America, and so but this drug was saving lives
Speaker 1: of HIV patients in Africa, changing not only changing the
Speaker 1: lives of individuals, but decreasing the transmission rate of HIV
Speaker 1: and AIDS and changing not only a nation but a continent. Right, Basically,
Speaker 1: this company in America sued suit the good Lord to
Speaker 1: Lord the South African I think it was government or
Speaker 1: and saying you have to cease and desist in using
Speaker 1: our our our medicine. And I'm so wed to think
Speaker 1: about that's crazy to me. It's crazy to me to say, damn,
Speaker 1: like you guys don't see the benefit and and and
Speaker 1: and this product being used to change, to ship change
Speaker 1: and shape this uh, this particular nation to save lives
Speaker 1: because not even yeah, not even opportunity, Like I like
Speaker 1: the idea like obviously showing me well, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: me mean hell of progressive, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: uh in certain ways, right, So like the idea that like, okay,
Speaker 1: but there's an asterisk next to my progressiveness because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I I don't want to have this idea that like
Speaker 1: the problem of all of the world is them, so
Speaker 1: if you just fix them. Right, So for the progressive,
Speaker 1: the problem of the world is the corporation, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, but corporations are people. The part
Speaker 1: in me that blows my mind is like how did
Speaker 1: that corporation not why is there not a person on
Speaker 1: the other end of that phone that sent that season
Speaker 1: desist letter that says, hey, look guys, uh, okay, we
Speaker 1: do own this, but is there a way we can
Speaker 1: figure this out, because like, it cost us a lot
Speaker 1: to make this, so so let's like figure something out.
Speaker 1: It's great that people are coming alive at the same time,
Speaker 1: like Loki, like I'm in the whole seven seven million
Speaker 1: dollars see what I'm saying, so and part yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: excellent point. And to get even more nuanced, let's just hypothetically,
Speaker 1: let's say that there was somebody, let's say that the
Speaker 1: company on multiple times, was like, we're gonna be lenient,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be lenient with you guys, and uh, but
Speaker 1: they've reached out to this you know whoever. These individuals
Speaker 1: were in South Africa and they were like, hey, we've
Speaker 1: tried to work out something and you guys are just
Speaker 1: blatantly disrespecting our agreement and so now we have to
Speaker 1: cease and desist the situation, and so now we look
Speaker 1: like the bad guy, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: so these are these are the situations that you know,
Speaker 1: it depending on who tells the story or spends it,
Speaker 1: it looks it looks unfavorable to a certain particular party,
Speaker 1: and so these are it's just man, this is why
Speaker 1: business right, this is why business and transaction is murky
Speaker 1: in the first place. And uh, I'm no communists, but
Speaker 1: I also recognize no matter what institution we were, like
Speaker 1: whatever whatever structure we institute within our our society to
Speaker 1: your point, where individuals who have selfish interests and we're
Speaker 1: going to figure out a way to corrupt that thing. Yes, so,
Speaker 1: but this is why. So it's just gangbanging. Like at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm just like, this is
Speaker 1: just like absolutely, that's why it makes sense. That's why
Speaker 1: it makes sense to me. That's why I'm like, I
Speaker 1: know what I'm looking at, y'all. A gangbanging bang is
Speaker 1: good on so many levels. Gangbanging in the less on
Speaker 1: a community level. When you think about p T A.
Speaker 1: S and school like school like that's a gang banging too.
Speaker 1: Like you got a bunch of mothers who walking in
Speaker 1: a space and say, hey, we need this or somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna lose their job. It's like work, y'all just came
Speaker 1: in here like you've been a fix this playground exactly,
Speaker 1: or you're losing your job, or I don't like the
Speaker 1: fact that this is a real situation. I know of
Speaker 1: a school. Um, there's a gentleman who gives a lot
Speaker 1: of money to a particular school. His son is a
Speaker 1: quarterback of the team. His son is not even nowhere
Speaker 1: near the best quarterback on that particular team. But guess who.
Speaker 1: Guess who gets Guess who start? Guess who gets who?
Speaker 1: You don't start, but guess who gets a lot of
Speaker 1: playing time on this particular team with another kid whose
Speaker 1: son or another kid who happens to be African American
Speaker 1: and his parents aren't his wealthy. But the moment this
Speaker 1: this kid stops getting snaps, guess whose money probably gonna
Speaker 1: stop flip funding this particular school. You gotta get that
Speaker 1: bad back. And so this is what I'm saying. This
Speaker 1: gang banging happens on so many different levels. You yeah,
Speaker 1: strong on, folks, right, and uh money speaks and into
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Speaker 1: It's at the point it's like, how do we take
Speaker 1: the power and the resources that we have and not
Speaker 1: just say what's most beneficial for me, But how can
Speaker 1: I help other folks as well? You wrapped it up gloriously.
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