B**** I'm From the Land: A History of Birthright Citizenship

our freeway's eye anything. It's the which the strong small piece of history is because our freeways weren't just numbers. They used to be locations. So the ten was the Santa Monica Freeway, the one ten was the Harbor Freeway, the sixty was the Pomona Freeway, so it was named after city, so you'd call it the Harbor, so like now it's the one ten. Anyway, you wouldn't know that because you're not from the land. What do we mean by the land. We're talking about the entire culture. It's

not just being born here. It's about embracing the territories and jurisdiction thereof, and all that comes with understanding our slang, our way of life and all that. And we have no problem naturalizing citizens. Obviously you got to put in some work. But what we love and respect is like even if you, even if you rep the land, even if you live here, you know where you're from. That can never be taken from you. And that's something that

we value. And if you know me, and also Sophie, you cut us open, we bleed Los Angeles and Sophie is you know, she's from the West Side, but the part of the West Side she's from is one that would never, ever, ever, ever, I would ever question her certification. Sophie a real one and although she may not live here now, nothing can take that away from her. But what makes somebody from where they from? I am from South Central but I was born at the Fox Hills

Hospital in Inglewood. But as many times as I've said in my music, I'm from the six to six. What does that even mean? Six to six is twenty minutes east. That's where I grew up. So as far as street terms, yeah, I went to high school in the Inland Empire, lived there for a little bit. You would say, are you from where you went to high school? No, because I that's not in my soil. It's part of my story I am from Los Angeles, can't take that. But how long do you have to be somewhere before you can

rep it? What do you have to embrace? Like what makes you from Why are we? As said in many lyrics, at least if I've said West Coast, we get defensive about our homeland. Listen, I admitted we are easily offended because out of our reputation comes from transplants. Like a lot of the stuff that people don't like about La is people that's not from la So that kind of bothers us sometimes because it's like, that's you not even

from here. Yeah, And if you're gonna come here and talk trash about it's like, have you even seen Los Angeles? You've seen Hollywood talking about the Palisades. You only know Alta Dina because it caught on fire. That's the only reason you know what that is. So we're very defensive about our homeland. But at the same time, if you were born here and left immediately your family packed up,

you can't help that. Your family packed up, moved to Colorado, you grew up there, And if I met you and you was Hella Granola, then I would be like, oh, you from Denver, and they'd say, well, I was born in La. Am I allowed to tell this person they not from la that's where they was. That's where you. I mean, you can't. That is an immutable unless I have a time machine. This fool's from La. Do they carry our culture? No, because they wasn't raised in it.

Their home was different. But I can't take that from you. It would be ridiculous to say that your citizenship has nothing to do with where you were born. We need to talk about the history of birthrights, citizenship, the politics, y'all. I love this. I love these times where I get to do something that I think can be a little more evergreen, if you will, meaning I can record this

at any time. Because of the way that our politics is set up, It's going to be relevant for a long time, right, and has been relevant for a long time. Because we're talking about the fourteenth Amendment. Now here is my premise as President Trump so brazenly suggested that we need to change the fourteenth Amendment that if your parents were here illegally, you are not a citizen no longer, no matter where you were born. And I made statements

about like you need to take this man serious. While most of you Internet constitutional scholars are like, it's gonna get shut down. It has to get of course they're going to shut it. It is a constitution. It's in the constitution. You can't you could just not have it in the constitution, to which I responded, take him serious, And some of my more you know, brunching liberal friends shout out, my dog in my group text, Uh, he's very calm about this and has evidence, and it did

happen that the Supreme Court shut it down. But I feel like we're dealing with a different animal, which is why I want to give you this history here, because his ever so young sidekick, mister J. D Vance is like, hey, listen, if the Supreme Court would tell a general what to do, none of us would take that serious, because that's not a jurisdiction. If a Supreme Court would tell the attorney general what they should prosecute, we would all be like,

that's an overstep of power. You're not supposed to do that. So why are we saying when the president has something to say the executive branch, why is that not an overstepping of bounds. Now, this logic is essentially a constitutional crisis, which we'll talk about later. But they what he's basically saying is why does the president have to listen to the courts? Now? I need you to pause for a second and think about what just came out of my mouth.

Why does the president have to listen to the courts, Because it's the court's job to decide what is say it with me constitutional? So if the president decides he don't need to listen to the courts, and you saying I don't worry about birthfright citizenship because it's in the Constitution, I feel like, you know, paying attention, like you ain't been around for the past twenty sixteen and beyond. What I'm trying to say is this man is a different animal.

But in your defense and for your information, we've been here before. Allow me to introduce you to Wong Kim Hart. I love this stuff, y'all. Now, before I could take you back to San Francisco in May of eighteen ninety six, before I could do that, I gotta take you back to something that I've taught y'all before, which was the dread Scott case, which is where we get the fourteenth Amendment. There's gonna be a lot of reviewing here because I'm

still trying to teach y' all something. This is teacher prop you feel me, mister Petty, shout out all my old students that listen to this show. They grown now. But we've talked about how the Supreme Court works. But we also talked about specifically this dreg Scott case, and the dread Scot case was essentially a slave who got free. This was still this was during the separate but equal time. This was during the time that well, no, this is

for separate equal What am I talking about? This is during slavery, right, So during this era when the country was growing and if a new state came in, for every free state there had to be a slave state. For every slave state, there had to be a free state. For some reason, we have not learned a lesson that you cannot play kate racist. Still we ain't learned that.

But at the time, this is what was going on. Now, Remember, the argument, at least the front facing argument of the Confederate States, was that the states have rights and that the states rights should not be abridged by the federal rights. Don't we want a small federal government, y'all? Are just

there to make sure the paperwork gets pushed through. But we carry the rights that we have, and in my rights, in my stated segregation now segregation forevil like they you know, they trying to keep the they way of life going without the encroachment of those city northerners. Right. Well, one of these brothers escaped, Dred Scott, and he escaped North. Now, when a slave escapes, the owner gets to hire a slave hunter, which eventually becomes the police that evolved through

the police. I wish I was making this stuff up. But anyway, this brother gets to a free state. And again, since states have rights once you cross these borders, just like Mexico said, there's no slavery in Mexico. So if a slave gets to Mexico, look up the city of Vera Cruz. You know Richie Valens and bad bah Bah, go look up that area. Why is it so many black people there? Well, besides it being a part of the Transatlantic slave trade, if you got there, he was free.

We've had centuries of solidarity, despite what people may think, or even what some of these young folks might say, there's been centuries of solidarity among us. Anyway, So Dred Scott got got up north, started a business, became a family because in the state that he's living, he's free. He's been able to dodge these slave hunters. But one day the slave hunter found him and was like, hey, you're our property. We got to go back. And the state he was in was like, what are you talking about.

They're like, no, no, no, no, no, he escaped from our plantation. He is my property. They're like, the fuck he's not. This man ain't going nowhere. You whether they were anti racists or not, they was like, you don't get to tell me what to do in my house. Does that make sense. You've ever been in a situation where it's like it's not so much that I think you right or wrong. I just don't think you get to tell me what to do about it. This is what's happening.

They was like, you don't get to tell us who's a citizen and who's not. We have rights, And the Southern state was like, we also have rights. I've been hired by a person to do a job. This person has not been freed. They are still legally the property of somebody, saying hold on, hold on, hold hold up, hold on, hold on, let me stop you right there, chief, that's according to your state. This man don't live in your state. A man run a business here, you got family,

got you. This man live right there, we shop at his stove. He's a citizen of our state. It was like, no, he not, yes he is knowing not, yes, he is all the way to the Supreme Court. And like I told y'all before, it's a lot of times the Supreme Court is not really about the case itself. It's about the principle of the case. So the principalities the situation was who's state laws gets to trump who else's state law.

At some reason, I don't know why these people did not think that this moment was coming, that one of these situations was gonna be like that where you have to decide between two states that have differing laws. Does that sound familiar to you? You ever heard of abortion? Are we not dealing with this right now? This is why we keep trying to say, Look, we need a federal law to calm all this stuff down. So this thing goes all the way to the Supreme Court. And

it's not so much about dread Scott himself. It's about huh, whose laws trump who's? And wait, a minute. But is a citizen then, because if this person's a citizen, they are entitled to certain inalienable rights. I love I love history. So the Supreme Court had to be like, oh, I don't know, and remember I told you how the Supreme Court works. It's a whole gang of what ifs. So they shot a ton of one ifs. Who I got stuff all in my beer, y'all, ain't say nothing. It's soap.

I promise I just showered because now I gotta do this stuff visually anyway. So they shot a whole lot of what ifs. All right, so what what if? This? What if this? And eventually the court decided, in typical American fashion, dred Scott's gotta go back, so we had to go back and be a slave again. So the Fourteenth Amendment, after the Civil War and reconstruction was designed to fix that, to say, this is absurd. Okay, if you are born here within the jurisdiction and territories of

the United States, you are in fact a citizen. So if you are a citizen, you have zero right to enslave another citizen. Can we just like, can we what are we like? What are we even talking about? That's the deal. Now, this is the basis of the conversation that we're talking about. Now. Obviously, if you racist, that

don't sit right with you. There's a part of you that feels like we know what we mean when we say American, an American citizen, and that feeling has not changed because it has traveled all the way through the twenty twenty five presidential election. They know what they mean when they just like the same thing. They know what they mean when they say DEI. And it's funny watching people saying, oh, man, one hundred and fifty people on

stage during Kendrick Lamar's performance and not a single white guy. Oh, you want diversity, equity and inclusion? Does that feel unfair to you. I've seen a picture of a Governor Abbott out of Texas in his wheelchair because apparently he hurt himself rolling into his office, and I'm like, I wonder if he used ramps that were installed because of diversity, equity and inclusion. But you know, it's the new hard art anyway. The dread Scott K says, this is the

fourteenth Amendments. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction. There are thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. One of those things where it's like, all right, clearly we have to stay this. So now we're saying it. But that's not what I want to talk about today. That's just that's your precursor. You feel me, that's your prequel. I want to talk about Wong kim arc after this.

All right, we're back. So wonkim arc a brother from the eighteen hundreds, clearly Chinese, born in San Francisco. As a matter of fact, we had an address, and I'm gonna tell you where the address is a little later. But why is he so special? Well, let me talk to you about him. So Wankim Park was, like I said, born in San Francisco. But he became the subject of what's called a test case in eighteen ninety six. What is this test case? It's a test case about the

fourteenth Amendment. Now, have you ever been the test case of something? It really don't feel good. You ever been in a situation where a bunch of y'all have done a bunch of things, but you're the one that gotten So they just want to see you feel me, right, Yeah,

it's just that that's awful. I've been the test case a few times where it's like, well, let me just let me see how serious we are about this a test case, right, And a lot of times it's the luck of the draw because you have to again remember that the Supreme Court is not dealing in their brain. It's not humans we talk about. We're talking about abstract concepts of the laws. So the persons involved in these things really are besides the point to them, which is

why they seem so heartless. But if you can find a Supreme Court justice that understands the humanity of it all, you win it. Anyway, I'm gonna tell you his whole narrative, but I'm gonna cut to the beginning of the scene because I think the scenes the movie should start with this moment. It's been a three month journey, no yeah, three months, yeah, no, no no, It takes about a month a month journey coming back from China. This brother is

a cook. He got it out the mud. He was back in China visiting his parents and his newly found wife. And like every every immigrant story, you know, you you grind away, you know, you send money back. You know what I'm saying, Try to support the family, try to support yourself, to try to make trying to make ends meet. Get your weight up, get your lady here, have a great life, right She his wife is from China, which

I'll talk about later. But he again was born in San Francisco, but he was going back and forth, so obviously he speaks the language, he understands the culture. He's doing a cancer and because he lives in Chinatown, a lot of his cultural sort of presentation, it's Chinese because of segregation. I'll talk about later. And while he was gone, something crazy happened in America, but he don't know that yet. He gets to the port, pulls out his papers and

he's like, all right, what's up y'all doing. I'm glad to be back. I've been gone for a while. I'm glad to be here. They was like, hold up, cuz where you going? And he was like, I'm going home. They was like, uh, are you a sit He's like, what the hell you talking about? Pulls out his papers, right, So he pulls out his papers and get this. About the papers, he kind of knew this was coming because you gotta go get it all notary republic, you know, to prove that you are who you say you are.

So just like a leftover from slavery, about three slaves had to show them them papers. Basically, if anybody that don't look American, wink wink, you need to carry papers. So he carrying papers, and those papers have to be certified by get this, three white witnesses, because that'll stand up in the court of law. That'll prove that he was born where he said, Yes, I grew up with homeboy. I've seen him over there. You know here it is,

I'm from here. But what was happening in the team the time that he left to go see his girl and came back with something called the Chinese Exclusion Act. Now, let me put you on some game. If you don't know what the Chinese Exclusion Act is, I'm gonna read from the National Archives. The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May sixth, eighteen eighty two. It was the first

significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of eighteen eighty two, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur Have you even heard of that? President? The act provided watch this an absolute ten year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating into the United States. For the first time, federal law prescribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.

This happened while he was gone. The government decided, let me tell you what's wrong wal racism. Back it up a little bit, because a few decades ago, y'all was loving the Chinese coming. Now why was they loving the Chinese coming? As we know, the Chinese were the people that ended up building our railroad, syst doing a lot of the hard work, opening up our laundries. They did all that good stuff. Now why you think that happened? Nigga?

They freed the niggers because, well, we can't make the niggers work, so we gotta find somebody else to work. It seemed to me like what I'm learning is because after this happened, Now, does this sound familiar to you? Because who're doing our work now? The Mexicans. Right, It seemed to me like Americans just don't like to work, Like y'all, Just why you keep bringing other people to do the work and then complaining you ain't got no

work because what happened. What had happened was America decided, Okay, it's too many of y'all. It's too many of y'all. Like I it's all like look at it, y'all gotta go, and don't be bringing no mo. Doug like, don't don't be bringing no mo Chinese. Chinese. My grandma used to say that. She used to say Chinese. I'll be like, Grandma, you can't. I mean she oh this heid obviously, but she was like, yes, I'm gonna go get Chinese food. Now, I'm like Grandma, She'd like what she give you that look?

And I'm like I can't correct her. Anyway, this happened while he was gone, So they looking at him like are you a laborer? He's like, yeah, I'm a laborer, but I'm a citizen. They was like, I don't know about that. Chief, wait right here. So he sat there and waited. Now, even though he had the paperwork, that basically is like, yo, who's man? Is this your boy? Hey? Who know? Cuz they have to ask white people, Hey do you know cus this is ridiculous, But this was

our laws people. They was like, we don't know if you're a citizen he like, I got the white boys to proprove it. I live I can see my house. I live right there. And not only do I live right there, fam I was born right there. I have never moved. I've never applied for no citizenship nowhere else. There's no confusion on no paperwork. My wife is still in China. I like, I don't understand what the problem is.

I say this to say, just because some'm in the constitution, don't think for one second that you really protected if you got a little Meloni is all I'm trying to say. This is why I'm bringing this up. We have been here before, the challenge of birthright citizenships. Now in this moment, this thing goes all the way to the Supreme Court. Now, why they picked this is because they're like, wait a minute, we need to we need to stress test this law.

And like I said, the way the Supreme Court works, when there is something on the books, you need to make sure I'm gonna stretch this as far and as absurdly as I possibly can, because I'll need to see where it breaks. I need to see the edges. Now, Conceptually, like I said, this is actually a great practice because that's how you know, if a law is written well or is good is once you start throwing absurdities at it, if it still stands, if you could take it, then

it's good. It's the same with people and rappers. Some rappers can't take the heat. They get on stage with fake bullet holes coming out their shirts. Oh man. So the Chinese Exclusion Act was like, look, man, you can't come if you're a laborer. He's like, Nigga, I was born here. They was like, you don't look like you was born here. You look like a Chinese. You talk like a Chinese, to which he could probably be like, I'm from Chinatown, But what the hell difference does that

have make? I'm born right there? Like, and when I say right there, I mean literally seven fifty one Sacramento Street in Chinatown. You can go now, it's a little school. Now. It's a little school now, but it's there's a plat like, it's right, you can go to it. I'm born right here. Now. These are not the only laws that existed at this time that were designed to make sure that nobody else

succeeds but white people. There was the Page Act, which barred Chinese win except for the wives of merchants from entering the United States, which is why this man's wife was still in China, so he can't even bring her here. Right. There's also the Geary Act, which required all Chinese immigrants to constantly walk with identification papers kind of like breed slaves,

kind of like immigrants and green cards. There is any of this sounding familiar to you, So anyway, let me give you a little more background of him, right, So that's where the camera starts right here, right, So here's

some background. So again, as he says, he was born on like the living room floor in what is now a school, but it used to be like a little store with an apartment on top of it, a store that his parents ran, right, seven to fifty one, Sacramento a f right, So so he was born there and just like that, like if your parents come from another country, every once in a while, y'all go back, right, So he goes back one time when he was a his

parents go back and they decide to stay. So then he comes back because again, can't stress this enough, he's an American. So he comes back to SF again, lived here, worked for his uncle. You know, al Vanas did what he had to do. He worked there did He had to do it till he was about twenty, in which case he was getting a little lonely. He needed him a trying to find him a lady. Friend. Now, because

of anti missigenation laws. You ever heard that word. It's because it used to be illegal to marry outside joe race. So because of anti misigenation laws. And you think this is just the eighteen hundreds, let me tell you something. It's only been the past sixty years, seventy years now. It's very recent the way I like to think of

it as like this. You know, Michael Jordan when he was in kindergarten, he couldn't marry a white lady anyway, since race mixing was illegal, and because Chinese women wasn't even allowed to come. It just wasn't a lot of Chinese girls here. Those are his only choices. It's slim pickings. So he has to cross the salt, you know, the ocean, another one month travel, which I honestly cannot imagine. I don't think I go anywhere. Took a month to get there.

I'm good anyway, finds a lady since she can't come because he's not a merchant, you know, he has to go back and forth sending money doing these You know, it's a hard life. I don't know if you know any immigrants, it's really a hard life. My own in laws like the choices that my mother in law, my swaged I had to make in reference to her own children. You know, my wife was It's in her book, So

I don't feel bad about saying this. But you know, she was born here literally Boyle Heights, you know, and then lived in Mexico and Acapoco till about fourth grade, and then one by one, her mom so for a long time she didn't live with her siblings. You know, she the siblings came one by one right back to America as her mom can afford it. She lived with her, like she lived with her grandma in Mexico, and then one by one her mom was able to bring her

and like, I just don't know. I honestly, I know I don't have a fortitude for that, to send my kids to go live. Nah, I'm good unless the situation back home is that desperate you feel me that, I'm like, I have to get my kids out of this life. I've been to where my wife's from. Now I'm going as someone who is from a fully developed first world country, even though I'm black. So there's that. But I'm looking at this place like this is a tropical paradise. It's

southern Mexico. It's right at the coast of Chica. Like it's freaking beautiful. Acapulco is be uta ful. But as you go, as you're there, you realize what is her best options If she stays here, run a grocery store, hold a have a cart on the beach, sell the tourist, like there's there's unless you're gonna go be one of your ancestors and exists in the forest. There's really no what do you I get it. You're like, there's nothing here,

there's nothing, like we've maxed out, there's nothing here. I don't want my kids to do what I did, which was nothing. Let's roll now. I don't mean that derogatory because she had one of her uncles that was a doctor, Like there are It's not like it's not like you couldn't go to college and you know what I'm saying,

but just the chances, the opportunities. I get it. Now, it's like, y'all, we gotta we gotta go and It's like, it's just my sister's there, so I'm going to go get it out the mud and bring my children here. You know, it's an amazing thing. My father in law, like he was selling little fruits in downtown, you know, Mexico City, little fruit cups, and as an eighth grader, fam this can't be it, Joe said, I get it,

you know what I mean. So anyway, he's send him back and forth, you know, making money, figuring it out, doing he got to do, going back and forth, seeing his lady come back. Because again, I don't know how else to say this, he's not a Chinese citizen. He's an American. He can't stay in China. He's an American. So this was his life. So he gets there. This situation tells me who he is. He's sitting there and

basically the answer was this. Now, if this ain't Dajavu, I don't know what is the basic argument as to why they won't let this man off this boat and he got to stay in this limbo is if your parents are not citizens, even if you were born in the US, you are not a citizen of the United States, and you are barred from entry or deported from the United States, does this This is the eighteen nineties. This is the eighteen nineties. So let me tell you what

happened after that. Next so we're back. So what's the situation. The man is just stuck on this boat. There ain't nothing he could do, right, he just he's just a he's just a cook, like he's not breaded up. But here's what happens. The word gets out because again I don't know how else to say this, it's from San Francisco. People were expecting him. So there's an entire community that is waiting to see their homeboy. I just why. I

don't understand what y'all don't understand about this. And one thing that segregationists do not understand is that when you force us to live together, we form bonds, we form solidarity, We learn to look out for each other. There's one thing that I would say that I in some ways envy an experience my parents had. Now, obviously the situation is much different, but my father went to an all

black high school. So with that, there is a certain type of solidarity among your community that while I am completely grateful, unbelievably grateful for the multicultural raising I've had. I feel like it's made me a global citizen in a way that a lot of people don't have. Stratification, the full experience of what it means to have a community that loves you and has shared your experience is

something that I don't have. Because if you go to a black school, that means you got a black principal, you got black teachers, the janitor, the mayor, everybody in your experience from every socio economics stratus is black. You seeing, you have full representation. You are seeing your world on display, educated, uneducated, right worker, white collar, blue collar. You're seeing it all

because you live. We were forced to do this right. Obviously, the situation is awful, but that meant that, Like, although I can remember moments where I'm like, oh yeah, you know, Ms Rose down the street, braid of my sister's hair, you know what I'm saying, You have a bunch of different parents. So the guy that runs the corner store, mister Johnson, when I see Missy, how you doing, mister Johnson?

You know what I'm saying, Like, there's a community that comes with and he understands what it's like to be a little black boy. My mother, my father. They had that. Now I had it in my own way, but it was like black and Latin, you know. Either way. The point I'm trying to make is when what segregation is still don't get is that this is how we organize against your system. Because organized they did. Think you think they just gonna lead a homeboy on that vote. You

think he don't know nobody with power. So the word gets out and six wealthy Chinese companies are like, oh no, we're gonna we're gonna fight for you. They pulled their money together and they got him a case and they took it to the courts. They was like, this man's a citizen. Now, why would they do that? Because when you live in solidarity and when you live with each other, you understand that if it could happen to him, it could happen to us, which is I'm hold my tongue here.

I just don't understand how anyone could vote against the best interests of their entire community in exchange for their own goodness. I just I don't get it, because again, if it can happen to them, it could happen to you. And on top of that, fuck y'all. That's my own boy. That's my dog. I don't even care if he's wrong. He with us? Who man's with this? He with us? You got a problem with it? I got the bread some of that's some street stuff too, Like y'all following me.

Man Like, even if my little homy mouth full, like I said, you don't get to tell me what to do. It's the same prime even if he wrong, y'all don't get to say it. And look, I got the education, I got the bread. You ain't finna look at I'm off this boat. I don't care how bad. I don't care how bad my accent is either. That's what I love about this moment. These are wealthy Chinese people, so they probably speak with a heavy accident. But that man,

that's just working the borders. You just pole, little white boy. So you may't have these things you saying about them, But these men is like, listen, he can't go all right. Bet so he posts a two hundred fifty dollars bill, which clearly didn't have and they thought at that time that's like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Them ridged Chinese folks, was like, you need a check. I love it I love it. So this mug goes to the courts, goes all the way to the Supreme Court, and guess

what happens. I ain't gonna tell you. I'm just kidding, of course, I'm gonna tell you. So we in the courts, and he fought it based on the Fourteenth Amendment. Because you just said, according to you, would you like me to scroll up on my notes, you could see me scroll up on my notes to read to you the fourteenth Amendment again, I'm gonna do that for you. The Fourteenth Amendment all persons born and naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction thereof is, citizens of

the United States and the state for which they reside. Fool, that's your law. That's what they fought on. I don't understand what you're talking about. Where was this man born in San Francisco? What is your argument? What are we talking about here? Did he win? I don't know. I'm gonna tell you in a minute. But the court went crazy. It lasted for a while, There was many appeals, which is the okay, that's the reveal. He won, But he didn't get to get off the boat yet. The only

reason he was off. The boat was because he made bail. But case wasn't over because for some reason about white people, especially white races, they don't take too well for losing. I feel like they still why is Obama still get brought up because they still mad that a nigger was in the office. Like, I don't understand why y'all still talk about that man, that man with zero scandals, a husband or one wife, with extremely successful children. What is

your problem with him? I think we know? So how could the courts have any leg to stand on to say that this man's born here, he's not a citizen. How could that make sense in any way all the way to the Supreme Court? And why would the Supreme Court take this case? It's because they have a chance to be like again, Okay, now, actually this is interesting. Your argument is, well, his parents aren't born here, so he's not Okay, we got time talk to me nice now.

None of this mattered until white people got involved. As far as at the k of course, the court level right and what the argument against him went like this, The fourteenth Amendment has some caveats, and the caveat one is about Native Americans. Obviously, because none of this can count towards them. They're clearly here, you were here before us, right, But it kind of works like this, this where the

race has got to dance. Actually in the brief, this is from the brief that like the fourteenth Amendment argues guarantees the citizens to all of those born in the United States. But it's got an asterisk. It's got a caveat, right, and the caveat is those who are born in the United States who are subject to it. It's jurisdiction, born here and subject to its jurisdiction. Well, what he's saying is jurisdiction can be two types. Your authority what like, who do you who is your og of? What range

do you exist on? Let me talk to y'all. Let me talk to y'all LA folk about Pomona's Pomona in La or the Inland Empire? What jurisdiction where you're like, Well, it's La County. It's the last city in La County. No Claremont. Is is it l A or is it i E? Well it's the nine on nine. Well, the nine on nine is the IE. What's what's what is it subject to its jurisdiction? What is its culture? It's culture is very LA. But then again, so is Ontario. But Ontario is the ie. Nobody questions if Ontario is

the I E. What is jurisdiction territorial and political? Let me translate this for you. You was born in La, but you act on New Yorky you real easty. Well that's because you was born here, but your mama from the Bronx, so you talk like yo mama. Or you was born here, but you packed up and moved to New York, so you got a real easty year son. You walk around here at Thames, we like LA won't wear tams oh Man. I was raised in New York and I'm like, so, then you not from La. He's like, no,

I'm from La. Nigga, know you not? You are not subject to its territorial and political jurisdiction. You chose Drake my nigga. You ain't from no La. How you from La. You ain't being below the ten. You are not subject to its jurisdiction. So their argument is these people, his family and in turn him, clearly are subject to the jurisdiction of the Chinese emperor. This man is culturally Chinese, he dressed like it. He sound like you look like a Chinese. So no matter where he was born, he

is not also subject to our jurisdiction. He is politically and culturally Chinese. Therefore he is Chinese. So we can't so yeah, like he I can't call him a citizen according to the fourtheen Amendment because the fourteenth Amendment has a caveat. So what is he saying? You know what he's saying? He don't act white. You don't act white. You don't act like us. You know, you ain't never crip walked, You ain't never you you ain't like us, you got accent. Therefore you can't possibly be Is this

sundy familiar? He is subject to the jurisdiction and the territorial allegiance to the Chinese. Therefore he cannot possibly be an American. We obviously don't own a time machine and have not. This is an interesting part. We can't move back in time and prove that he was not born here because, like I said, three white people agreed that he was born here. So I can't argue that one. But I can argue he's not subject to our jurisdiction.

And now it was Wong's lawyer's terms. And do you know what they said in defense when it translated to you, for you who are not watching but are listening, I just put my hand, you know, when you put your finger. You know when when your significant other is obviously lying and you just want to hear the rest of the story,

so you put your finger. You know, you kind of got a ball fist with a thumb up under your chin and your finger on the side, and you're just looking at him, just about like trying to figure out if this person knows how dumb they sound like if you and you're just like, I can't believe you said that with a straight face. You are dead serious, ain't you? Their defense? Was this the dumbest shit ever heard in my life? Is their defense? What are you talking about?

We went through this with the black codes when y'all said a person can't vote unless they grandparents could vote. Do you think the States did the course didn't understand what you were saying. This is ridiculous. And furthermore, they said, do you know how many Europeans got here? Hell, we haven't even got to the future of the Homestead Act, which brought a bunch of Europeans here to fill out

the West. I've already did an episode on a Homestead Act when the government was giving handouts to poor white people. Government and handouts so that they could build wealth. I'm telling you, I can't make this shit up. So if this is the case, if the sons and daughters of Chinese citizens are not citizens, what of the sons and daughters of the English, the Irish, the Germans, the French, the people have come to the United States. If he

ain't a citizen, they ain't a citizen. If that man ain't a citizen according to your laws, George Washington, ain't a citizen. What the hell are you talking about? And let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Do it start with your mama? Okay, So if my parents weren't citizens, then that means I'm not okay. What about my grandparents? Well, if my grandparents weren't citizens, then that would mean that my parents ain't citizens, which would mean that even though they was born here, I'm not

a citizen. Now check this out. What if it was my great grandparents, what are immigrants? Then that would mean to them two non citizens gave a birth to a non citizen, who gave birth to a non citizen who gave birth to me? What are you talking about? That means that no one's a citizen? Dumbass was the argument that Chinese made. The fuck are you talking about? Well, if you got here illegally and you're a child, your parents got here illegally and they gave birth and neither

of you are citizens, what the okay? Then I need you to dig up every relative, every ancestory you had. I need you. And if you find a single person, then that means that all of the descendants ain't citizens either. You gonna go You're gonna do that? How many people getting how many people getting deported? Do you not gonna

do that? Have a tall glass of horse shot? The fuck up, oh man, And guess what the court said, touche, you are absolutely correct, and birthright citizenship stood that stress test. Now that was eighteen ninety six. Now, that pole man, that poor man Wan kim Ark was on that boat for four months till he was finally able to just go back home. And what did he go back home? To? Poverty?

His wife still in China. And I don't know enough of the story to know if he continued to go visit his wife, because like most immigrants, be scared to leave because apparently the system hasn't figured out who's protected and who's not. So yeah, Trump's talking about birthright citizenship right now. We've been here before, and praise the Lord God Almighty, Hallelujah, the highest praise Shondo it worked or we stood the stress test. I just don't know if

we're gonna stand it again. Betch I'm from the land. Don't say you hey la if you ain't been below the ten all right now, don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need you to finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded in e slows Boil Heights by your boy Propaganda Tap in with me at prop hip hop dot com. If you're in the Coldbrew coffee we got

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