I'm Not Black I'm OJ

the imagination of America everywhere. This was the first like televised high speed chase. It was twenty four hour coverage of the O J. Simpson trial. Um because O J was such a darling. He was if you don't know how young you are, if you don't notice, I mean, it's like, let me just back up. Like O J. Simpson, USC Raider, football player, running back, Heisman Trophy winner, just in every commercial, every movie, every everything, just a huge star blood him some white girls though he was totally

under the white girls. And this look worst kept secret. As the young revolutionary Huey from Boondocks said, Yes, the government has conspired to put many innocent black men in prison, but I Kelly is not one of them. The episode was about har Kelly, but I'm saying another line he said in that was every nigga in jail, Aine Nelson, Man Della. So I'm not sure oh J is one of them. I think he really did kill that woman.

Uh so he killed his lady, Nicole Brown Simpson and that wasn't proven, but it I just I think he did it. Dog. But anyway, that's besides the point. The attitude he had. This is a quote he was like, well, I'm not black, I'm O J. Simpson, I'm oh J. And everybody around him. And then when and all of us heard that, and when nigga you think you different? I remember my black panther Pops was like, nah, he ain't really one of us. You really think you you

really think you different? Are you serious? You ain't black? You? Okay, let's get look hope say light nigga, dark, nigga, fuck, nigga, real, nigga, rich, nigga, pol nigga, house, nigga, field, nigga, still nigga, Light nigga, dark, nigga, fuck, nigga, real, nigga, rich, nigga, pol nigga, house nigga, field nigga, You're still a nigga. I don't know what made you think in the planet that we live on, in the nation, we in that somehow or another, the money you don't made, the fame

you didn't gather. Now, the badge you wearing, the uniform you in. Really, when it comes down to it, they don't see you nothing more than a well dressed nigga. Even listen, do you know the house nigger is? Now? Before I finished this, I'm not calling cops house niggas. Okay, that's terrible. I would never say that to another black man unless he needed it. House nigga usually were more fair skinns is from the slavery times. They were usually more fair skinned, right, and they were the help that

was inside the house. So these were like your major butlers. They were much more in the eyes of the Europeans, a little more attractive, little more fair skin. They were treated better because they were like these were prized possessions. You know, they ain't your paper plates, you know what I'm saying. These this is your fine china niggas, the field niggas, these are the ones outside were dark, were working in the sun. I say we because with my complexion,

I'd be a field nigga. You know I say that with no tongue in cheek. I say that factually I'm not fair, skin enough, my hair too nappy, but I

wouldn't be in the house. But if you're not careful because massing them treating you nicer because your clothes a little better than us, because you're bed a little more comfortable, because you're you're you're played a little more full than ours, it may lead you to believe, especially some of the mammies, like I'm saying mammies, I'm I'm saying this on purpose because you take care of their children, and their children love you. And maybe your daughter and their daughter maybe

play together because they're the same age. But you can't ever lose sight from the fact that you property. You gotta gonna ever be family. You're you're nice furniture, and a good number of our strong ancestors remembered that, and they kept their wits about him. Was like, Okay, I'm doing this job, but I'm never forgetting the place that I really hold with y'all. This ain't really family, rich nigga, pol Nigga house, Nigga field, nigga, you're still a nigga.

And I'm positive as officers out there who kept their wits about themselves too, they understand how crooked this system is. Hell My own daddy, after he kind of grew up from his his twenties revolutionary age, he decided to become a probation officer. He worked with under age offenders, worked with juveniles, and he said, in the whole thirty years

he was there, he never recommended jail time. His caseload was ginormous because he just wanted to keep these young black and brown kids under his care to try to protect them from the system. And of course he left that thing, you know, with some successes and some failures, but he remembered he told me plenty of times that officers were hell of racist to him, and he had to come out there and be like, nigg I'm from

the streets. I'll knock you out like you don't talk to me that way, and you're not going to treat this kid unfair, you know. But he left going like yo, the whole thing. I mean, I was only one person in a broken cop But you remembered I'm still a black man in America now, So for today, I want to get into the specifics of this January six Insurrection commission. Four more officers have died by suicide. These brothers is traumatized,

brothers and sisters is messed up. Now, Um, we're gonna talk about what that does to a person in a hood lens. And I want to ask a bigger question about being black or brown and working in the system. And I say this as someone that does in the sense that this I heart radio. It's corporate as hell. You think I don't know that, you hope said as someone who's had my own square's with the law and at the same time, I'm a product of interventions. It's complicated, y'all.

That's what comes with being a brown person out here. Are we always in a situation where we just have to swim in toxic waters, you know, like we talked about with um capitalism. It's like we're in the ocean. You might as well swim. What the hell I'm gonna do like America's capitalists. There's ads on these shows nigger, I sell albums. I sell well, you stream albums, but

I sell books in and T shirts. A coffee, like I sell things because we live in the capitalist even though I know capitalism in the way we do it is exploited. I don't, so what's the what's the basis? Do you try to get in there and do it as ethically as possible. Do you become a complete separatist and be like the whole things you don't never work out? You know. I follow a political party called the Black Party.

That's like, listen, you know, if this is our system, we need to be at the table and maybe rearrange the table right and then others, you know, which was where my father started. He's not where he ended, but it's where he started. Was like, we just need to burn the whole table down and start over again. It's I don't know the answer. Let's talk about it, though there's a bigger question to be asked, and I think that this moment really brings it out so doesn't need

to be readjudicated. January six insurrection. We didn't cover this a bunch of times. You've seen in all the news. I don't care what anybody says, because it's so damn obvious you clearly not being truthful. Trump inside of it, he told him, but he told him to go peacefully naked to what. Yeah, like you're being delusion or you're just trying to protect your boy, which I get's gang gang, but it is so obvious it was a green light. Everybody heard it. That's why they went and did it.

They wouldn't go go down there if he ain't. Say to everybody that spoke before him, talking real reckless like we all knew, they all followed suit, it was me is and all these capital officers were saying, No, ain't no delusions. This wasn't no secret Antifa. This wasn't no BLM like y'all trying to say, which is so crazy. Like listen, when you shoot, when you shoot, when you let that thing sing, this is hood rules. You let that thing sing, you don't no you, you don't blame

it on nobody else. Nigga, that was me. I did this. The hood needs to know that's that's like, that's the gang stuff. Like no, just now, of course you don't tell the police like you don't tell everybody else, but like among the among knows that signed up, niggy, you know who did this. You posted know like what you what you're doing? Shooting not like, that's ridiculous. So they was up there saying either. Then the officers were saying, yeah, Trump sent us this is our house. The many actors

they do what they was doing. They was riding for their boss. They was riding for their hood. And remember the calculation I was talking about later, when it becomes the Republican party, you either ride for the boss or ride for the set. They chose both because us it seems as though they still believe Trump got a death grip on the sets. Apparently apparently he's still in control

because he got the whole neighborhood. If if if if if the if, the IF, the set, if the set specifically are the Republicans and in the neighborhood are the people that lived there? Remember the sets supposed to represent the neighborhood. We're supposed to be protecting y'all from everything else, all the other enemies coming in here. Like we we you sent us out. We were your foot soldiers. We

are here fighting for you. And if you believe, if this is stuff you believe, then I'm gonna come in here and ride for you, and Big Homie can still get the whole hood active. Then nigger got the whole hood to pull up on your place of work off of suggestion. You know what I'm saying, Yo, you better get in there and you better follow that nigga lead start talking some unbelievably outlandish, reckless, clearly not true bullshit, just to make sure you can stay safe, to keep

your job. Now, it's not them, it was Pelosi, That's what they said. We're just like, it's so dub like, like do you hear yourself? You hear yourself and you know that's not what happened. Okay, so that don't need to be readjudicated. We know what the hell happened, and we know Trump could have stopped it his boss moves. We love you, you're nice guys. We've got a guy said go peace ofly, Nick, you knew what the hell you were saying, Like, come on, come on, fam, you

ain't fooling nobody. Well, maybe he fooling something. Now, I don't even think I don't even think he fooling nobody. I think everybody that's saying the opposite, no exactly what happened, Like y'all know we're just out here riding. It's gang gang. I ain't feel like no, you don't you know, snitch on the set, especially when the heat come. Why do you think if they tried to stop this investigation that's happening right now is because we know what is because

we know what happened. Like this ain't like this, ain't clandestined. The bug is easy. You know what the hell happened. We all know what happened. It's obvious got dog Man and some of the foods is so locked in that they like now it's bigger than Trump, homie this seventies, seventies six all over again. You just you was just the spark, my nigga. We're riding, and either you're riding or you're not riding. I don't care. I don't care if you was born, I don't care if you raised here.

You what the set or not? You know how I know because they had some gallows for Mike Fitz because they was like, Mike ain't putting their work that Mike. Look, I Mike got a reality check, homeboy. And what I think is why he's still not really opening his mouth and being like, I can't believe y'all tried to kill me, it's because I think he may have some sparkles in his eyes about running for president. At some point, he trying to think about a future leg I just don't

get it. Though Muri told you in the Uh, in the fear to clap back, that sometime pretended it is important. He supposed to pretend like we don't know, and it's for our old safety. They'd go right there, there's gonna pretend like you don't know. So anyway, Liz Cheney, the loan Republican that was willing to be on this thing, that was like, fuck your boss, and this is ridiculous. They tried to kill us. I'm gonna get to the

bottom of this. She making her calculations. Now I'm not at the table, so I don't understand the fullness of her calculations. But they taughtened her as a hero for just satan obvious. But that's how the hood worked. Though, like it's it's there, like the Democrats are like, that's not brave. That's what happened. It's like, well it kind of is, though, like it really is. She she got a lot, she putting herself in danger in this situation.

I get it, and I also get that, like somebody break into your house sell your TV, sew your PlayStation, and you know exactly who it is. At some point you like, nigga, you don't love y'all ain't here for me. No, NIGGI you did it. I want my give my damn PlayStation back, like I don't give no. It takes a

lot of bravery to do that. I ain't sign up for this ship listen, but somebody like myself that was more affiliated and not banging, and especially when we moved to these Latino communities back when I was out of when I was in La Pointe, when I was in Valinda, I'm standing there by myself and I'm like, no, that's y'all rules. If we're fighting, we're fighting, but like you're not feeling like, nah, homie, I don't play these games now.

I know the rules in the sense that I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sing to the cops man like because them they're a gang too. I don't care. You're just another set. I'm not worried about y'all. I'm talking about among us. You want me to pretend like playing these rules now, like these young niggers is wild, Like now you'd be like they got a whole list of words. You can't say no more like I can't say onions. I can't say onion rings because that's some sort of

like gag. I signed up for this, Like I get it for y'all. I get it. And if I was in y'all's life, I would be like, yeah, that's this respectful, and I'm not gonna say it to you because I'm like, that's your world. If I go into your world, I don't get to just act how I want. That's not fair. That's your world. If I'm trying to get into your world, then yes, I need to respect your rules, your household rules. But I'm in my own house. I'm an order on

your rings, I'll like okay. And I mean, like I said, there's a safety and playing the game, but there's also a bravery and being like I'm not gonna play this with y'all. And that's what Liz Chandey is doing now. I don't know. I don't know what her calculation is again because I'm not at the table, but I do know she's making a calculation. And you a legacy person like a Cheney, Yeah you probably uh, you're probably gonna be all right now, let's get to the specifics what

you heard in the testimony of these officers. I'm gonna speak specifically about Harry Dunn in his testimony, and then an overall kind of feeling about the whole thing. This overall feeling of course PTSD this like war. We thought we was gonna die, and that we did this for y'all, and y'all abandoned us. We rode for you, and you're not riding for us. We thought we was cool, not only from the Republican lawmaker, but to the people that stormed the room. You guys are the patriots, right, You

were the thin blue line people. You were the support our cops, support our troops. People. Now you're talking about beating them with their own guns. You're talking about we're the traders and you're gonna come in here and threaten our lives and overrun us. But I thought you were the ones that supported the officers. And then y'all who we protected, Joe live Ef, we protected your life. You out here telling me I ain't see what I know I saw. I'm out here ride for you'll your soldier

were your soldiers. You ain't gonna ride for us. There's a lesson. Nope, because you ain't got no power, my nigga, I don't. Here's the sucky lesson. They don't owe you ship. They only owe the people that voted for them to make it into that position. You ain't the hood, you ain't the set. You the help y'all. Niggas don't matter. Y'all mattered in the sense that it helped me get elected. Niggas don't matter this um. I mean, it's the only logical conclusion you can come with. But we we we

pull triggers for you, and thanks. You're not advantageous no more. And you you not. You ain't gang. They are set. They gonna keep me employed. You you just work here. It's a cold deal. I think that was one of the hardest lessons. You thought you was different, You thought that badge made you different, and maybe for a lot of people to do. And here's what this trial is saying. No, I don't now. Harry Dunne, he was talking about get

the nigger, get the nigger. He was like, I've never been called a nigger while I've had my badge on, And I just thought to myself, you probably just never heard it. Because I'm positive You've been called nigger multiple times, just either under their breath or not in your presence. I'm positive it's been other black people that's judged you, other brown people that judged you for taking that job. I mean, somebody probably did call you a house nigger

for doing this. I mean, I don't know. I just think man rich nigga, po nigga, fuck nigga, real nigga, I mean, badge nigga, gang nigga, like still nigked. One of the other officers that testified, he was saying that these people were trying to recruit the white officers today's side. The racial element of this is so obvious and it's laughable how anyone would try to strug that away. Like these people was there, they were outside, They know exactly

what happened. It was racial epitaphs going everywhere. And then one of the one of the most interesting statements one of these officers made was like, hey, listen, when I was in the field, when a hit man or when a hit man does it hit the shooter and the guy that called the shot, y'all should both be on trial right now. The guy that called the shot sitting real lovely nobody want to talk to him about the problem.

A matter of fact, he just raised eighty two million dollars and I feel like this is another one of those we're all just pretending things. Mitch. All that like you holding the line, and the hood in me respects it. That it's like it's gang gang at all costs. The consistency don't matter, the facts of the story don't matter, the obvious don't matter. N this is what we said, and this is my statement. The hood in me respects it. The black in me is like, Okay, this man gotta go.

How do we get rid of these people? How what do I need to do? Who do we need to put empower? That got the same type of gnas you feel me? That would just that that I could put some on fiancea in you feel me that's gonna stand up there and look him in the face and be like, look, Homi, for whatever energy you got, we got, y'all take one, We take five. That got that type of energy. I

don't know who that is. It ain't the Democrats. I don't know who they're putting up that's gonna have that type of like backbone to be like, Naomi, this is what we're talking about. But back to the subject. At the end of the day, this investigation is designed to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, how do we get here, and how do we stop it from

happening again. That's that's what they're trying to get to, right And I think getting to the bottom of this is going to find something that, again is so obvious. We already know what the hell happened, and we already know how we can stop it. It's so easy, easy in the sense of we know what it is now. It's not easy to actually solve this problem because you have disinformation, misinformation. There's too much money to be made

in disinformation. There's you know, if you tie it all to the Q and on stuff, or blame right wing media, or blame the internet, blame it. I don't know, you can blame a million different things. There's too much. There's too many moving parts, which sucks. And in anybody that understands and loves history understands that, like it's not like it's like we've a civilization has never been here before, but it's like it just doesn't end with one side winning.

It usually ends with all of us losing. But that's not what I'm trying to say here. What I think the ultimate lesson we earned here and what this is really going to do is further enforce the idea that the public are the enemy. If you're the officer, it's that we are all we have. We are all we got because look, this political party didn't ride for us when it wasn't politically expedient for them. These people were supposed to quote unquote protect and serve turned on us.

And it's it was the side that was supposed to be defending us. Y'all turned on us. So what it says is you've just turned them into jeez, you turned him into gangs. It turns him into this is how someone gets turned to. He was like, you know what, manhood, all I got, this set, this block, this all I got. An nobody praying for me, anybody coming from me. So I'm an ride on the ops and all y'all are officially ops. We keep trying to tell y'all in the

inner city the police is another gang. And I'm saying, you're watching, this is how it happens. Like, I mean, we all we got, We did a job to protect y'all and look what y'all did. You were supposed to be on our side. Oh we just oh it's like that, Oh we are just niggas. Then, okay, okay, bet there's a gang inside of the l A County Sheriff's Department, like they're they are a gang. I don't know what

else to tell you. They even called themselves that the militarization, the idea that you treat the public as like this is a war zone and I'm using military tactics. Nigger do I mean if you if you're looking at it like this, you walk away. You got these people saying, you got the Republicans saying y'all made this up and it wasn't the people. You got these people saying, y'all traders, you got this, And it's like, well, damn nigga. All

we got is other officers. I guess the wonder they don't snitch on each other the one that they defend each other no won day, even when somebody do something wrong, don't nobody stand up and be like that dude's wrong, Because look, man, ain't nobody praying for us? I feel like that's what I just watched happen. They had that lightbulb that like, oh, okay, you ain't got us. We still niggas huh rich nigga po nigga. Okay, it's bad. You ain't make no difference, alright, bet I think that's

a dangerous place to go. I think that's a dangerous precedence. Also, just think. I mean, in a lot of ways, this was the same process a lot of my own boys. You just get this feeling that like, okay, y'all little only this the only people got my back everybody else's ops. I've seen that firsthand. So what's the solution. You got sister Corey Bush sitting outside, sleeping outside of the Capitol building, trying to get this um legislative body to finally understand

that y'all are trying to suppress voters. I don't know what it's gonna do. But then she hires private security to protect herself while she out there. I love that action. But she's also the one saying that we need to defund the police. And a lot of like ops would be like, well, you can't have both. You're gonna pay this personal thing to protect you, but you also want to defund the police. It's like, not you don't understand what we mean by defund What she's trying to say

is I shouldn't have to hire private security. I don't trust the police. The police see me as an op day their own game, so I don't trust I've had to do this. So what she's trying to say is this can't be the way forward that makes sense to me. I mean, does that our option? Do we just continue to like, try to put it in everybody's face? Do you parachute out, try to build your own nation for the black nationalists? Correct? Do you do you keep coming

to the table, keep finding this? I think in a lot of ways we can take a page from that. Right when conservatism move that go back all the way to finish slappily in the in the sixties and seventies. Who was just like it just takes a long time, you just gotta flood the board. There's enough of us in these positions who are willing to continue to push forward the things that they know are not necessarily expedient but will really help the constituents for which they've been

put in power to serve. Then overall, over time you see ecremental change where we got now. I ain't have an overnight. It took a long time. Maybe it's just that patience. I mean, I don't know. I don't have an answer to moving forward, but I do know again, if I'm in the ocean, I'm gonna swim this the system you gave me. So I'm gonna continue to check

the boxes where I can. I'm gonna continue to call my congressman, call my people what I'm saying, continue to like get behind people running that I think are like serving our community is better. I'm gonna push for laws, I'm gonna advocate. I'm gonna ma cause them to do what I can from my position. I'm gonna keep making pods like this from my position. But I think if there's one thing this trial shows us, it's that if it whatever position you get in, you need to remember

who you're dealing with. You need to remember how this thing see you because if not, Oh man, that fantasy gets that fantasy bubble, it gets popped in some of the most grossest, in ugly ways. Man, I tell you what, man, When I got when I got pressed, when I got hood checked by dudes. I grew up with people. We was in daycare together, niggas, we went to youth camp. It was a youth camp. I member almost got jumped in the bathroom at youth camp, Like what was all

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