When I was a kid, and apparently this was just not my parents. Maybe it's our generation, maybe it's our color. Maybe it's good. I don't know, maybe it's sorry s s. I don't know, but I remember other kids used to talk about a thing called allowance and their parents. They would say how much do you get for your allowance? And they say you know, and they say, oh, I get tim bucks. I get twenty bucks and you know, oh, they mow the lawn and they give me twenty dollars.
I remember coming home and being like, how come I don't have an allowance? Some of y'all already know what my mama said to me. She said, I allow you to stay in my house. We'll get all allowance. The hell you're talking about nothing that you have is yours? I say, well, what about like day? My friends would be like, oh, you know, when I do my chores and I complete my chores and stuff that, you know, they give me five bucks for you know, like I said,
doing the dishes. More law. It's like my daddy was like, I'm not gonna pay you for stuff you're supposed to do. You live here, You lost it. You got chores because you live here. You clean the bathroom because you use the bathroom. You clean your room because you live in it. And I remember being like, but dad, it's my room.
Why Well, of course I'm not saying this out loud, but I'll be like, I don't understand why you're so worried about my room, to which case they remind you after a while that like, oh, so we just called it your room. It's attached to my house. The bill. The bill don't say your name on it. So your room ain't yours. It's that's my room that I let you live in. This ain't your house, son, We allow you to live in it. They look at you like like okay, you okay, So you're mad about something. You
don't even buy your own drawls. I remember once I tried to leave I gotta try to get bigger my mom, and she was like, all right, leave everything I bought. I was like, dang, all I bought was my bag
of Frido's. You ain't even buy your own draws. You're gonna call your friend on the phone on a cell phone that your mama bought for you using the Verizon wireless playing that they pay for, or oh my bad, you're gonna hit them via Instagram, or you're gonna do that on the Internet that your mama paid for then, and that ain't free. You are some you know what I'm saying. I put my daughter on blast too. Sometimes she'd be looking at her phone. She'd be like, I'll
be I'm on Netflix. I'm like, nigging, Netflix ain't free. She had a NERB one day to be like Internet to my right, and I was like, nigging, you're right. We pay for the internet. You know that ain't free. And if it's your right, then let me show you right down the street to Spectrum and you could set up your rights there. I'm like, you you using my log in to Netflix? What is you talking about? None of this is really yours. Allowance you pay for the
food in this fridge wator, it's not yours. You just have the illusion that is yours. And at any moment I can decide that the room you calling me yours is gonna be my office. You're talking about you want some now this now. I've tried to change this in my life at my house. But like you know, you slam the door, we just take the door off. The hinges. You don't get no privacy. Now maybe that's a black family thing or like, I don't know, but we don't
our kids. Your kids, you have no expectation of privacy. And like you did not not in the house. You don't pay for tim I'm knocking. My parents ain't knock like my house. That's my door. I dare you to lock it. You're only locking it because you're doing something you ain't supposed to be doing. That's what they said. Now I said, I'll be trying to I'll try to change that in my life. I'm giving. I'm a girl dad, and I think it's important that my children feel like
they have some sort of privacy. But I need you to know I don't knock. And again, I gotta she a teenage daughter now, so I'm like, you know I might see something I won't see. So I give her that that right and I told her, and it's something that's very difficult for me, but I told her, like, unless you give me a reason too, I'm not gonna search your stuff because I want to trust you again unless you give me a reason too. And I'm not a cop, like, I don't want to live like that.
I don't want to live as a cop that was not the pie I had. But I'm trying, Like I said, I'm trying to change the point I'm trying to make is like, don't ever actually think that your stuff? It's your stuff. I'd like to introduce you to something called emminent domain hood politics, y'all. Yes, So this is a shorter episode because it's more of a like the more or you know type situation. I'm just trying to give you know, free game. I'm just putting you on game.
This is something you should know exists. Let's think about it for a second. All right, y'all. This is another free game, one that I'm probably dropping in because it's kind of timeless and I might possibly be on tour right now when this one drops. Uh check the website profit pop dot com check me out on tour anyway. So, there's a lot of laws on the books that you just you don't realize they're there until it happens to
you and you're like, wait, can y'all do that? There's a lot of laws on the books that we do know are absolutely unjust things that you may have thought were illegal, but they actually are very legal or has never really been fleshed out, for example, lynching being a federal crime, like that was this year and and and you're like, well it doesn't isn't that covered over under murder will Lynching is a very specific type of right
because that's a it's a racially charged hate crime. Like we don't act like you don't know that, but yeah, that was just till this year. June tenth being a national holiday. I know, it seems kind of petty to be talking about June tenth as a holiday, especially when it became a holiday during the George Floyd uprising, where it was like thanks. I guess the point is they had been working on it for a while. There's a lot of things on the books that just like you
just you just don't don't think about. There are a lot of funny laws too that it's like some some some states it's like illegal to spit out gum on a street. You know, there's some like stuff like that. Like it always catches me every time in like when I'm touring how certain states have laws about buying like you could buy beer and wine at a grocery store but not liquor. And I just don't understand why you
make that distinction. Like that, doesn't you know what I'm saying, Like a gas station and they stopped selling it at a certain time. Like those those are strange, Like well, I don't understand why it's like that, And it catches me every time because I'm a Californian and I can walk into a seven eleven and get whatever I need, you know what I'm saying, A CVS, a grocery store, and a lot of my friends when they traveled through through our city, they're like, damn, you can buy a
liquor at the grocery store. I'm like, yeah, why not, Like you know, you know what I'm saying. So it's just there's there are these strange laws that just kind of sit there that either are outdated or were for a particular reason out of particular of the time. But then there's other things that are just like a little bit jolting and egregious. And I think one of those laws that you may have heard in the background but didn't know this is what it is. And one of
them laws is imminent domain. Now, before I get into remember the movie up how they were building this thing around that old man's house and he wouldn't sell his house you remember that, Like that was that was acute acute, uh you know film that was not about imminent domain because imminent domain doesn't apply to private industries. Like if you want to build a mall. You know, if a city is rapidly gentrifying and you want to build a mall, you can't use the law of imminent domain to get
this person's house. Like if you refuse to buy, you refused to buy, you cannot be compelled to give up your private property two another private company. You can, however, and be forced to give up your property to the government. I don't know if you know this. They gotta pay you, but they can put you out. You could be like, well, I don't want your money, and they're like, well you gotta take the money or not take the money. You don't gass check, you don't want to, but you gotta go.
It's called him in the domain. I don't know if you maybe you knew this, maybe didn't, but like basically that's the same as your mama telling you that this house your room ain't really your room, your house ain't really your house, your land ain't really your land. That's not really yours. We can take you whenever we need it so. Legal definition of eminent domain. Eminent domain refers to the power of the government to take private property
and convert it into public use right. The Fifth Amendment provides that the government may only exercise this power if they provide just compensation to the property owners. Now, let me pause for a second. You hear me say the Fifth Amendment. Did you did you think that the Fifth Amendment was only about not incriminating yourself? You plead the fifth Oh man, you gotta you gotta read to the bottom. You want me to read to the bottom of the
Fifth Amendment. Look here. The Fifth Amendment of the U. S Constitution provides, quote, no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service, in time of war or public danger. Nor shall any person be subject, for the same offense to be twice put into jeopardy of life
or limb. Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property. Follow me without due process of law. Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. Y'ah, y'all hear what happened there. They can take it as long as they pay. And it's weird to tie them all together, right, but you gotta follow what's happening. So if you think of it like this, it's like the
the Amendment has basically five movements. It's like, listen, it's five rights actually being articulated in the Fifth Amendment. It's the right to indictment by grand jury before any criminal charges or felonist crimes, meaning like you have to have an indictment by a grand jury before we can bring any things. Right too, it's a prohibition on double jeopardy, meaning you can't be tried for the same crime twice. Right. Three,
it's a right against forced self incrimination. Yeah, you understand that. That's the one we all understand. And then for a guarantee that criminal defendants will have a fair trial. Right, that's what the Fifth Amendment is about. So it's all about trials, right, And then a guarantee that the government cannot seize private property without making do compensation at the market value of the property. It's so weird. Like, why is that part of it there? Well, let me tell
you why. Well, it's because of a thing called civil forfiture. Now this is a hold off from the War on drugs. Right. First of all, civil forfiture, I don't know if you notice, is really the biggest money maker for most of our police programs. Right when a crime boss whatever somebody is indicted for a crime. This nineteen eight four federal law guaranteed that a lot of the money police ce east
would end up going right back into their agency. Now the practice has been turned into a massive slush fund for local cops. Right, So, like there's this weird thing about it. But essentially basically is if you capture a drug cartel person, you could take their assets. It's called civil forfeiture. I mean, you don't have we don't am
We can just do whatever we want with it. And what they have been doing is like buying armored armored trucks and you know what I'm saying, whatever coke, you got, whatever, your house, all that, like they could take it because they're like, oh, well you got it illegally, so you know you got no rights over that. The civil forfeiture, Well that's different than eminent domain. Imminent domain is saying, okay, look, what if you're not a criminal, and what if we
just want your property? It has to do specifically with property, because we can take your assets, but as far as your property, oh, we gotta pay you for that. And even if you're nodded a criminal, even if you've got nothing to do with it. That's the part where it gets really twisted. If the government decides they want to build a park in your neighborhood on your house, all they got to do is look up the fair market.
But they can ask. You don't really have to ask, just like your mama can knock, but you don't really have to knock. They could say, hey, we want to build a park here. Would you be willing to sell your house? You're like, well nah, well okay, well here's the money for your house. You gotta go. I just start. I wasn't selling it. Now you don't understand according to
the Fifth Amendment, I can. I can prove to you here is the fair market amount of your of your house, and we are using this for the public good, which is a civil forfeiture because that's generally just photo police. This is government. Do you see what's happening here? Civil forfeiture, police, imminent domain. Government. But the government has to say, well, we're using this for the public good. Now you have to ask yourself what is the just compensation requirements? Not
check this out? So co versus United States, this is peep this the Supreme Court held that the government may seize property through the use of imminent domain as long as it appropriates just compensation for the owner of the property.
And then in Loretto versus uh Templatre Manhattan, right, this is the Supreme Court clarify that when the government engages in a taking and implements a permanent physical occupation of a property, it must provide the property owner with just compensation, even if the area is small and the government does not greatly affect the owner's economics interests. So you have
to ask yourself for what's the public use requirement? Right to Supreme Court in two thousand five held that general benefits which a community would enjoy from the furthering economic development is sufficiently qualified as public use. So you could buy out by a plot of land, invest everything you can in it. Just like look when you as a kid using your room, you could put all the posters you want, you could sound your closet. You know what I'm saying. You'd be like Daddy cannot paint my room.
You paint your room whatever color you won't you understand what I'm saying, lock your door, put a little thing. But listen, I need you to understand something that ain't your room, but you just told me it was. I just paid for all this stuff. Listen, it's not your room. This is like this. I need you all to know this is legal. Now again I can again, I can't stress. Is enough. A mall can't come take your house, but the city of can as long as they pay you.
And if you don't want the money, then I guess, don't cast the check. But that's that's theirs. Now. I know a lot of y'all aren't homeowners, and I hope a lot of y'all are not, you know, crying bosses to where you might get your your little stash taken and the government in the in the police by some new cars. Uh. But it's just one of those things to where it's like my encouragement to you is like, hey, you gotta like yo read the amendments, like don't guess
like read them. So when you're like, y'all can't do that, they like, uh, yes we can. So just like your mama and your daddy told you, listen, you just allowed to stay here. And hopefully your mama and daddy ain't as shady as our government to be like, hey, I'm gonna need that, I'm gonna need that room. Hopefully that's not your parents but your government. Hey, running the house
real quick, We're gonna build us a fountain thinking hood politics, y'all. Yeah, this is here thing was recorded by ME Propaganda in East Lows, boil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This smug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by Matt Osowski. I can totally say his name, guys, it was it was a stick. He's going by Matt now again because he got into some legal situations with the name Headlights. Y'all know, common used to be called common sense. You'll know tip t I was tipped Sometimes
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