Civic Cipher 081322 Midterm Voting is More Important than You Know! (Part 2)

of house music. So for those of you are fans of Calvin Harris and Vichi and Swedish house Mafia and all that sort of stuff, it looks like maybe Beyonce and Drake are encroaching on their territory. But I can assure you with one hundred percent certainly that is not the case. And I have known that for forever. But hopefully if you don't know that, you will know it after today. Now, first, and foremost, we're going to discuss how to become a better ally Baba. Today's Baba is

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of you know her state. But voting is still the best tool that we have for engaging in the system and changing the system it. You know, we can protest, and we can, you know, bring attention to matters. We can talk on this show all we want, but the fact is is that voting remains our most powerful So let's talk about that for a second now. As you know,

voting in the presidential election is incredibly important. That is the commander in chief and the position that dictates the cultural norms for a country, our country for four.

be conservatives. It's just a fact. The thing is, those conservatives they vote, they vote often, They make sure that their votes are counted, and then they run for office to make sure that their votes are counted in such a way that it disenfranchises the votes of folks with liberal views. It's particularly poor folks, particularly black.

participate and to get these outcomes that they desire. From the top down, some of the people from the bottom who are kind of under the thumb vote, vote, protest, march and speak out against their own best interest in support of this machine that they're a part of, because they feel that included, that important and that valuable two

said system. That's crazy. Meanwhile, the liberal side of it, sadly seems to cannibalize and eat its own criticize its own much more frequently, and you end up with a bunch of different voices who, even if they do all want the same thing, don't realize it, and they end up, yeah, pushing each other down or pushing each other out, and not finding a way to unite their voices and have the same direction, the same goal, or the same proportion, if you will. I'm glad you said that, because that's

where I'm going with this. I'm gonna share some crazy stuff with you now. I do want to add something to what you said that You mentioned the more conservative marketing, the way that they market their messages, and I want to make sure that I state that it's often not as much marketing as it is fear mongering. They are very good at scaring their base into thinking that Mexicans are coming over the border to ruin your life, you know, and whatever. Black people are all on welfare and that's

why taxes are high. And they don't.

folks tend to kind of go back and forth. So the reason why these midterms are very important is because, as you know, January sixth, twenty twenty one, the United States Capitol Building was breached by Trump supporters. These are facts, not going to debate them anymore. And when that happened, it was the result of Trump telling his base that the election was stolen from him, again baseless claim. He took it to court all over the country. I forget the number of court battles that he had, but it

was some crazy number and lost every one of them. Right, There was no substantial evidence of voter fraud enough to change any outcome of any election. There's been fraud, you know, minimal fraud in every elections since the beginning of elections in this country. But this election, this most recent presidential election cycle, was the most safest or the safest election on record.

you know what I mean. They came up with the cyber Ninjas and they came to you know, we live in Arizona. So they came to Phoenix to the fair grounds and you know, they blocked out the fairgrounds and the cyber Ninjas were there to recount the election results. And guess what the cyber Ninjas found out They weren't. He picked the cyber Ninjas that side, the Republicans side picked the cyber Ninjas, and they found it the same thing. Yeah, he kind of won Arizona, man like it was. It

was not close. So even the cyber Ninjas picked by them. After the fact that he lost, the lawsuits still confirmed the same thing. And yet this man still is maintaining that the election was stolen from him and that literally everybody is working against him, and he has a base that that makes it's logical to them, literally everybody is working against Donald Trump, rather than literally everybody voted.

that anyway. He's installing, or rather endorseeing people around the country that are election deniers like him, and the result of that is the next time he runs, when he inevitably gets less votes, as he's done for the past two elections that he's run, he can then say, oh, the election was stolen, and then he will have people all around the country in elected positions because you know, folks with more liberal beliefs did not engage in these

mid term elections. They will be installed and responsible for counting those votes. And people like where we live in Arizona, Carry Lake is a candidate that will have a degree of influence over how elections are tallied and what the final reporting will be. And at that point, as I mentioned earlier in the show, it doesn't matter how many votes we have how we turn out, you know what

I mean? If they just want to say, okay, well, you know this side one they already have shown based on their belief of Donald Trump blindly, not the results of sixty seven, sixty six court cases, what was it, sixty three court cases, not the results of the January sixth hearing committee, not the results of the fact that nobody has produced anything substantial, not even them.

the next ten years minimum. Where our votes if you have a more liberal philosophy, if you care about people, if you have love in your heart and empathy and you want to see us all kind of move together as brothers and sisters, again a more liberal philosophy, our votes count for nothing if this man wins all of these or of this side rather wins all of these Trump endorsed election candidates and all these places around the country. So it's very important to get out there and vote.

And I want to use an example. You got something to a well, Carrie Lake is an awesome example of what we've been talking about, let's go with that, we're talking about the marginalization of women of black women specifically. And then we have Carrie Lake endorsed by Donald Trump, and I'm sure that's something that she wears as a badge of honor, which is sick like, it's actually sickening.

The terrifying thing about what's happening with the political lands escape in our country is that once upon a time there were items, if you were trying to play the middle, that you could speak to to garner support from both sides of the aisle, if you will. There are no such things anymore. There is nothing that we as a country stand unified on at all that is insane because before we were a Democratic Republican, before we were black or white, even, we were just all human beings and

the human condition used to exist. Right. My mother didn't vote for Ronald Reagan. We knew people that did. They didn't hate us, and we didn't hate them. Even more recently, like George Bush, I was not a Bush supporter. I was actually someone that was very critical of the way he handled a lot of things. But I know people that met him, and even if they couldn't speak to

him being some scholar or some great politician. They said he was a nice person, and in instances where things happened, he came out in personal support of people across the aisle when they dealt with hardships because he at least wanted to appear to be and from the people that I've heard it from, I'll take their word for it, a genuinely kind person, even if his politics were so much, so extremely different from ours. So this is the first time in my lifetime that we've been so divided on things.

Sure that it's that it's it's like gangs. And it's kind of even worse than that, right, because there is no particular territory that we hold or own that we're fighting to uphold. It is literally just ideals, and they are so extreme, the opposite of one another. And in this case it's not there's good people on both sides. As you know, the Idiot in Chief once upon a time said, there's not the things that this group stands on and believes in are horrible, batter and deplorable and

obviously terrible things. The things that this side should stand

on and support are just different. Even the things that are political that are like flagrantly political that are in their own best political interest, aren't evil in their scope as the other side of the aisle, except for things like, you know, the often brought up during the presidential election crime bill that our current president spearheaded, and some of the ideals that he's starting to say out loud again that sound a little scary, scarily familiar so to the

things that he brought to the table back then. But you said Carry Lake's name in it. It was an emotional trigger because every time I see her picture in her face, because we've known Carry Lake for years, not as a politician, and she's a TV person out here, Yeah, she's a TV person. We do TV too, so we know the person out here that if you didn't know any better, you'd group in with us. You think you were looking at her photographs or if you'd watched her

on TV before. So the first time I saw a sign that said endorsed by Donald Trump and then some Republicans putting up another sign that says, but she donated money to Barack Obama, was like, Okay, the game that they're playing now is very, very different than anything I'd ever see.

scare lots of people. Oh you know, uh, but the statistics are are oftentimes a reflection of the people arrested for those crimes, not the people committing those crimes, which is the most unfair thing. Right, But if you just look at the statistics and it's not told to you in that way, you think black people are committing all of these crimes. No, just arrested for it. In other words, crime happens across the board.

employed to do it right now. But police don't get arrested for that. And as a result, if you look at domestic abuse cases, it doesn't say police or white men or you know, whatever makeup of the police police forces in this country is, it'll show you who's arrested for those crimes. And again that's suggested in such a way to where people think that black people are committing all the crimes and Hispanic people are committing all the crimes. So you know, you got to take even your statistics

with the grain of salt. But yeah, Joe Biden spearheaded this crime bill. Now watch this. What has either allowed or forced the Democrats to move away from the far left and now away from the center left and to really what historically would be viewed as republican territory is the fact that the right is moving so far right right, and you would think that by holding your ground. Allah, hey, Bernie Sanders is running, let's not you know, kick his

legs out from under him. Twice Let's let the people who are most enthusiastic actually vote for the man and his platform live and die on its merits, you know, based on how the country will receive it. What they've chosen to do, the Democratic establishment has chosen to do, is fund the far right Republican candidates, so that Carrie Lake signage that you were talking about endorsed by Donald Trump, the purse. The people rather who bought the donated carry

Lake donated to Obama signs were Democrats. And the reason that this is the Democratic thinking. If they help get the Republican kooks past the primaries to the general election, then the public that means the left and the center will be polarized by these kooks and they will choose the Democratic nominee by default.

Cary Lake and a big fan of Donald Trump. If that's really how you feel, we'll let the numbers decide, And if the numbers really speak for where.

All the any music with the drum comes from Africa, right. The drum was the first instrument and the pattern, the drum pattern that we all feel most familiar with. The four over four account is based on the human heart beat, which is why it sounds comforting to us, and it sounds erratic when we hear a different type of swing to the music.

house become so white? As electronic music grew in popularity and started being adopted by international audiences in the nineteen nineties, white people slowly started to take ownership of it. But the full picture is much more nuanced than appropriation alone, the quiet erasure of black influence on the genre. This part was in part facilitated by white communities and their concerted efforts to shut down black nightlife venues. Sound familiar cute.

Artists such as daft Punk, Pete Tongue and Pete tong garnered incredible success from music that sampled black artists and became palatable inoffensive faces to reel in white audiences, and became sorry and became the palatable inoffensive faces to real in white audiences hooked on traditionally black sounds. I want to stop right there for a second. When you listen to even modern house music, you'll hear the roots of

house music. I'm gonna do a quick breakdown house music started with I think it was a rolling drum machine. I kind of know this because I'm a musician as well, so I think it was a rolling drum machine. I think it was Frankie Nuffs, founded in a pawn shop, and it was not a commercial success, so they ended up in punch. It's the same type of drum machine. Lots of folks around Chicago and other places. Stafford drum machine.

The default setting was twenty beats per minute, which is where you find a lot of house music songs where DJ so we talk like this, so just hear us out. Anyway, twenty beats per minute was the default sound. And what are these black children have in Chicago. Well, they have disco music and they have gospel music, and so what records can they sample into these drum machines, Big diva vocals from gospel and disco sounds. So that's why the remnants of house music today are these big vocals. It's

not these like quiet whispery songs. I mean, you'll find them here and there because obviously the genre is grown. But those big sing songy vocals think.

though not without exception. Today, the legacy of this separation is seen in white music bands's overidentification with a genre that was not built by them, and young black people under identifying with it, and the breadth of what black music can look like beyond R and B and hip hop. This tension is palpable in the electronic nightlife scene. Black promoters have spoken out about reportedly being shut out of

London's biggest nightclubs. In twenty fifteen, Black house producer Felix to Housecat accused Berlin's electronic epicenter Bergheim of racism after being denied entry, and Solange has shared her experiences of hostility and predominantly white spaces after having a lime thrown at her at a craft Work concert. Thankfully, initiatives have been formed to start championing the black history of these

pillars of music culture. In twenty twenty, black staff at the electronic music website Resident Advisor's Resident Advisor started to started a project to highlight one hundred and twenty prominent Black producers of the past twenty years after feeling the site had historically favored white producers, the Bristol based producer I faloa I think that's how I say that, created the digital archive for Underground Music to counter his feeling that the city so rich in black culture had largely

whitewashed its influence. Both echoed the sentiment too, that the fact that the history of black electronic music had not been written by black people meant it too often omitted key moments and details of it. Further afield, house producers, many hiling from South Africa, such as Uncle Waffles and the now veteran Black Coffee, have become aspirational black figureheads of the genre, selling out huge shows on the African

continent and beyond. Perhaps piggybacking on this trend, releases by Drake and Beyonce are important, and not because they they are a necessity, not because they're necessarily groundbreaking or brilliant. Whether you like house music or not doesn't matter. This renewed enthusiasm for house is less a matter of taste and more a way of regaining ownership of a genre

that has had its roots ripped from the soil. Seeing the world's biggest black stars start a conversation about the origins of house music will propel black fans to dig deeper into their history and show white people how to appreciate it.

black people very often. So at least there's an effort here to try to make sure that this is chronicled the right way, which we love, and that that is of course your way black history. Fact.

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