052723 Why is the GOP so Loyal to Trump? (Part B)

us good, and I will read. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, will host its second annual hip Hop block Party this August, featuring performances, interactive art, and focused exhibits celebrating fifty years of the genre. The block party will take place on Saturday, August twelfth, The museum announced recently. The event will be held at the intersection of Madison Drive north less than fourteenth Street northwest,

outside of the museum. This is in Washington, d C. For those that don't know, and it is worth it to make your way there. I know Q and I are going to be there. You and I have been there.

I'll keep reading. A full time lineup of artists and programming will be released in the coming months, according to the museum. The event will be free to attend, though tickets are required for entry, and will be available online in July. While the inaugural twenty twenty two celebration mark the one year anniversary of the Smithsonian's Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap, this summer's event will celebrate fifty years

of the Revolution and Innovation. In conjunction with the event, the museum will install an outdoor panel exhibition including artifacts from the museum's collection. The party also coincides with the museum's high profile Afrofuturism exhibit. So again, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

for sending this over, I'll read a bit. Trump's lead in the presumptive field of GOP presidential candidates has widened in most polling, even as he finds himself embroiled in high profile legal battles and as the party grapples with a worse than expected midterm election. That by itself is it shouldn't be surprising, and yet it still is. Now. You bring up this point quite a bit on the

show Cube. Once upon a time we had a video of a man who's running for president on a bus with a reporter or journal or something like that, and he says, you know, if you're famous, they let you do it. You can walk up to a woman if you're a celebrity and just grab them by the genitals.

I mean, I'm sure you know the word if you live in the same country as I do, because it was everywhere, And you make this point quite frequently, Q that that historically would have been enough to not only invalidate someone's presidential run and disqualify them from being the presumptive nominee or a major political party, but it would have kind of had them blacklisted from politics altogether and

from everything. Every Yeah, exactly exactly. And so when I say that this is it shouldn't be surprising, and yet it is. I mean that because this is, this behavior is still shocking. This man can be convicted, he can be determined to be guilty and liable and uh, what's the word where they indicted and charged? Criminally charged over and over and over again, and all his cronies over

and over and over again. And somehow on the right there's this narrative that Joe Biden is at the head of this like criminal family, the Joe Biden crime family. From what I understand, Joe Biden's son has had a problem with addiction, and see he's lived kind of a wild lifestyle. Joe Biden not a perfect man, none of

these people are. Indeed, I'm not either. But when you compare him to Donald Trump in terms of like integrity and quality of human being by any any measure, from any any standard that any human being has, any moral standard, pull it straight from the Bible, if you will, right, because many people do that there is no comparison. It is not even fair. It is so overtly, out loud, in front of your face, hypocritical, and as you mentioned, Q, people will see it right in front of their face

and be like, Nah, that isn't it. It's like, no, we see it. We're looking at it. Nah. And it's like I know they're not delusional. I know they're not in denial.

we've learned since, still becoming the president. Because then every other person that was pretending to be decent realized.

our lineage, et cetera. And you know that list goes on, and we are motivated to take action or corrective action by what we perceive as fear. And if we can be tricked, other people can be tricked. One of the things that helped me frame this is that when doctor King was alive. We talk about this quite a bit. When Doctor King was alive, he had a twenty percent of approval rating from black people, meaning eighty percent of Black people did not approve of doctor King, not as policies,

not as anything like that. We can be lost in the sauce too, Okay. So when I look on the right and I see, forgive me my brothers and sisters, When I look at police, when I look at that police officer that was messing with me last week, there has to be a part of me that says, this is my brother. He's lost and I'm older than he is, so it's more like this is my son. I'm from Africa to most ancient people, right, that's the spirit that

moves this body. So I have to look and say, okay, the love that has caused me to be here, I have to draw from that well in order to interact appropriately with my brother or my son. That might be lost. Now he might have a gun, they might have a political power to my you know this and the third But as a philosophy, as a person who studied doctor King and Malcolm X, it realizes that there was indeed a place for both of those philosophies. Trust me, I

be Malcolm X A lot of the time. I have to realize that without love, a what's inside of me doesn't really work. I was made out of love. My mother and my father loved each other. That's where that's why I exist. And then be I feel like you can have a meaningful conversation based out of love, and you can have a divisive, destructive conversation when you don't have that, and it could get devolved, not even with your intention, it could get devolved because they're on their

weird stuff. In other words, it's like interacting with a little kid. If I meet a little kid where the little kid is a little kid, don't know no better, and then I do, so that it's not gonna work. I have to have a little bit more patience. And I don't mean no disrespect. Well, I kind of do mean disrespect, because a lot of these people need to grow up. But I don't mean it like they're beyond redemption. I mean that it's going to be along road. It

might not happen in my lifetime. And the conversation that we're having right now.

way that is terrifying. Sure, because the rest of us, they're leaning right meaning people, just meaning people, good intentioned people, are not united on anything. And the party that is united on racism and white.

bills were introduced. I said, this is scary, and they said to me out loud, there's no way that's going to happen. Why do you believe that? What evidence do you have that makes you think that there's no way it's going to happen.

of your constituents. It is white supremacy, racism, the word that they're making illegal out loud in front of everyone. And we have to keep hope alive.

are conversations we need to have. So I recognize that for me to paint with that broad a stroke might be inappropriate.

you're not wrong. But I realize that no matter what, this is a long road full of baby steps, and a long road means yes, several lifetimes for several people. I said in the beginning of this show, nobody deserves this, but here we are, and we have made progress. We have made progress and I believe that we will continue to make progress. The thing is, we are up against people like these loyalists who here I'll read this real quick.

Through the presidential debates and primaries, polsters and even some anti Trump Republicans point to the former president's recent indictment and is no hold bar no holds bar approach to his GOP rivals as being among the reasons that some of the party are still leaning toward the former president. They like the fact that he's a bully. They like the fact that he gets in trouble and breaks.

A lot of white people think that they're being replaced intentionally, and I think Donald Trump is their best chance to push back against the US that are controlling the media and the liberals that run the country deep state, we're trying to replace white voters and white people in this country, which is all unfounded. But if that's their reality, then

Trump is their guy. So we have to move on, unfortunately, because there's a lot more to talk about there, obviously, but it's time for the Way Black History Fact and today's Way Black History Fact sponsored by Underground Beach Club from the streets to the beach, the finest in beachware. Visit Underground Beach Club dot com and I'll be pulling from a couple of sources today in wyhistory dot org and Central parkyc dot org so you can go and

check out the full stories. We had to just kind of compile some stuff to share this with you today, but I'll read since eighteen fifty nine, millions of people have enjoyed the natural beauty of Central Park. What do you know about the origins of Central Park? Did you know that before the park existed, the land it lies

on was home to about sixteen hundred residents. One neighborhood that once lay within the boundaries of the park was called Seneca Village, although the residents may not have called it that So that's what we're talking about today for our way black history fact Seneca Village. All right. No photographs of Seneca Village survive, and no personal papers or living descendants of its residents have yet been found. So how do we know anything about it? What we do know,

and why should we care? An important story about this place emerges from newspaper articles, maps, census data, and other records of the day. Seneca Village deserves our attention as one of the first communities of free African American property owners and immigrants in pre Civil War New York. That's great, doesn't it. Well the story, the story gets a lot darker. So turn that brown upside now, all right, here we go. Here's what we know. Seneca Village existed between eighteen twenty

five and eighteen fifty seven. The boundaries of Seneca Village were roughly eighty second Street to eighty ninth Street, between Seventh Street and eighth Avenues for those that live in New York or have been to New York, basically where Central Park is or Central Parks a lot bigger than this, but it was right in the middle of Central Park. Initially, John and Elizabeth Whitehead, a white couple bought the land

that made up Seneca Village. They soon subdivided and sold it to Andrew Young Epiphany Davis, both African Americans, and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church out to the Amy Church. In the eighteen forties, Irish and German immigrants began moving in. All these groups may have enjoyed being far away from the dirty, crowded slums downtown Manhattan, where most Irish, German, and African people lived. The eighteen fifty five census reported

two hundred and sixty four residents of Seneca Village. For African Americans, Seneca Village offered the opportunity to live in an autonomous community far from the densely populated downtown. Despite New York State's abolition of slavery in eighteen twenty seven, demest sorry discrimination was still prevalent throughout New York City and severely limited the lives of African Americans. Seneca Village's

remote location likely provided a refuge from this climate. It also would have provided an escape from the unhealthy and crowded conditions of the city and access to more space space both inside and outside of the home compared to other African Americans living in New York, residents of Seneca Village seemed to have been more stable and prosperous. By eighteen fifty five, approximately half of them owned their homes.

With property ownership came other rights not commonly held by African Americans in the city, namely the right to vote. In eighteen twenty one, New York State required African American men to own at least two hundred and fifty dollars in property and hold residency for at least three years to be able to vote. Of the one hundred Black New Yorkers eligible to vote in eighteen forty five, ten

lived in Seneca Village. The fact that many residents were property owners contradict some common mis perceptions during the mid nineteenth century that the people living on the land slated for the park were poor squad living in shanties. In other words, in order to take the land from them to build the park, they had to spread falsehoods about the black people living there, saying that they lived in squalor, when actually this was a prosperous neighborhood. We'll get there.

While some residents lived in shanties and in crowded conditions. Most lived into two story homes. Census records show that residents were employed, with African Americans typically employed as laborers and in service jobs, the main options for them at the time. Records also show that most children who lived in Seneca Village attended school. According to data, this community was comprised of mostly working class people and some rising

middle class folks. However, prejudice against African Americans and the Irish sometimes caused newspapers to report otherwise. One newspaper article compared African Americans and Seneca Village and Irish residents of a lower part of the park. It states that Seneca Village is a neat little settlement that presents a pleasing contrast to their habits and the appearance of their dwellings to the Celtic occupants in the lower part of the park.

If some of the hogs, goats and other inmates of the shanties in this vicinity do not die of the yellow fever this summer, it will only be because death himself hesitates to enter such dirty hovels. And that was something printed in the New York Daily Times on July ninth, eighteen fifty six. All right, other articles referred to the residents of Seneca Village as squatters, as though they were living illegally on public lands while they still own them.

In eighteen fifty three, the city government approved a plan to use something called imminent domain to take over all land in what is now Central Park during the eighth sorry. During the early eighteen fifties, the city began planning a large municipal park to counter unhealthful urban conditions and provide

space for recreation. In eighteen fifty three, the New York State legislature enacted a law that set aside seven hundred and seventy five acres of land in Manhattan from fifty nine to one hundred and six Street between Fifth and eighth Avenues to create the country's first major landscaped public park. Imminent domain is the state's power to take over private lands for public use. The government offered to pay owners what it claimed was their fair value for their land.

They offered nothing to families who rented property in Seneca Village. Many of the land owners believed the government was not valuing the land highly enough, which is likely true given the history of this country's treatment of black people, and at that time Irish people too, all right, African American landowners had more than just their property to lose with the destruction of Seneca Village. Again, at the time, African Americans could vote if they owned at least two hundred

and fifty dollars worth of property. Losing their homes meant losing the right to vote, a right that would not be protected by the US Constitution until the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in eighteen seventy. That was still not practiced for the next century. So again, you know, we talk about a lot on this show, A lot of a lot of what we would consider to be problematic in the black community stems from a lack of wealth,

lack of resources. And the reason for that lack of wealth and the lack of resources is immense, from everything to redlining black codes, the New Deal not being available to black people all the way to nowadays our houses being undervalued, us getting higher interest rate loans or the same sort of credit history and so forth. And that's a whole segment by itself, that's a whole show by itself, be honest, and we've done that show. So if you want to find out more, please go back and check

it out. But here's another example of the theft of black wealth. And you can show out a piece that I made for the Black Information Information that we're called should the free Market dictate social Outcomes, where I describe how black people don't participate in the free market to the degree that white people do because white people have more money. So that's it for us here on Civic Cipher. So once again, i'm your host, Rams's job. He is Ramsey's job.