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tried to tell you. We tried to tell you. I know I did, because I know how white this worked, and I understand our justice system. So I'm referring to your little young shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, who um ain't not guilty, And you know what what you want me to say? The boy got off, he got off. You know it's this little, a little crying session, you know what I'm saying a little, a little self defense. You feel me

like that mug worked. And I've been trying to tell y'all, of course it's gonna work because he knows something that I've been trying to tell y'all is they ain't gonna do ship this like y'all ain't gonna do it, ain't nothing gonna happen to it. And y'all know the victims was white people, right like. And it's funny. I don't don't hear y'all worried about no white on white crime, you know, saying you know how silly that sound? Now when you talk about black on black you see how

silly it sound. He he murdered two white people. And I see his supporters that are always doing about the What about the crime in Chicago? Why aren't you worried about young Dolph? Like, why don't you worried about white all white crime? Then it is. I say this so many times because I feel like y'all ain't appreciating, And I hope this little not guilty verdict helps you appreciate

what I'm trying to tell you. People broke into the Capitol building, set on elected officials desks with guns and and zip ties and moose heads and foods, just went home and went back to work like y'all not gonna do shit. And this is what I'm trying to That little boy turned them tears all. That was some of the most hilariously we all that. That was hilarious. I listen, I very rarely cry about people's pain. And I say rarely because sometimes I do. I'm sorry, I ain't all

the ways saved. That's that's another black another Black proverb. I ain't all always save. Lords still working on me. That's a terrible thing to say. But that little boy got on that stand and tried to squeeze out some tears, and I'm looking at it and I'm like, this is gonna work just like last week. I tell you some of these people and it's in this feeling froggy episode, they're gonna be able to actually get off in defending themselves because that's just that's just how it works. Now.

For this episode, it was very easy for me to turn this into just a venting session and just sort of like see see see, and just kind of work myself into a frenzy um. But I'm saving that for the group text this situation. Listen, I want to make a couple of cases for us and also want to put in perspective what could be going on in carts and minds is uh, some of the black people you may know, because it's it's what we keep trying to tell you white supremacy is not necessarily just about the color.

It's a system. It's not white people as much as it's whiteness. In this case is like this is well, this is what we're trying to say it it's a structure of power. Is you do you understand what we're trying to say, Like it protects itself. And I don't know if y'all getting it. Here's the thing. One would think that after hundreds of years and thousands of examples, thousands of cases, that something like this situation wouldn't be

so shocking. In case you don't know, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year at this young little seventeen year old boy had his mama follow me drive him down to Kenosha where there were some protests happening around the shooting of a black man who didn't die, but you know it was it was around their shooting. He was going down there too humongous air quotes, uh, protect businesses and to

according to him, offer medical aid. So he goes down there with his you know, salt semi automatic rifle, this big old gun strapped to his little teeny chest and went out there and was you know, defending property, and in the defense of property shot and killed two guys. Uh, and his defense was well self defense. I was down there doing good work and these guys attacked me. Whatever. Anyway, I don't want to adjudicate the case again. But situation again,

what a shocker. The kid got off not guilty, right, Uh. And obviously he's out of cop. This isn't a police officer, you know, So when these are officers involved shootings, obviously there's a there's a particular sort of standard where we would think that we would hold a police officer too, which you're right, it is not the same standard I would hold uh, common citizen too. However, to go out of your way to another city to quote unquote defend property with your weapon, it's it's I don't want to

adjudicate the case again. The point is a little boy got off. Also, as stated before, adding an interesting socio cultural wrinkle to this, although it shouldn't be a wrinkle at all, is that these aren't dead people of color. There dead white people. It's a it's different. It's the same, but it's different. It's kind of the No, it's different.

It's different. Now, my mama, don't listen to the show because I cuts too much in it, and I'm still still a little embarrassing cussing in front of my mama. Were black people? Um, she cuts in front of me though. Anyway, my grandma different story. She cutsing it out quick anyway, Um, she don't even know the topic. I just went over there and I was just talking to her, like, hey, mom, now that little white, that little cow he got off and she said, she said exactly what I said, Well,

what a shocker. I'm not surprised. And then she said, you know what they're doing right now, all them little they're out there locking it loading right now, and they hit little folks they feel to turn up. That's what my mom said, because she goes and because that's what this that's what this trial taught him, is like we all right. So in her own way, she just explained, y'all ain't gonna do ship, and what happened when y'all don't do ship is fools read it as a green light.

I don't even have to tell her that that's what I'm saying. We tried to tell you. The hood knows. My mama knew the topic. I didn't even have to explain that she already knew. They don't trying to tell you. We already knew. We tried to tell you. If y'all don't do ship, it's gonna keep happening. Here's why I say, what a shocker. We tried to tell you. It's because

we've seen these aces before. Oftentimes I'm gonna jump subjects here, oftentimes black people and maybe abroad, maybe in a broader sense, people of color. I can't speak to any specifics for them because that's not my situation. I'm only adjacent to that. But I know in our community where we're oftentimes juggling multiple crises. Right because, just two days ago from the day that I'm recording this, which is the day that Kyle got his his not guilty verdict, Young Dolf got murdered.

Young Dolph is an artist from Memphis who in a lot of ways carried that same sort of nipsey hustle spirit where he was. He did he never left his hood. He did good for his community. He was good out there. He by family man, you know, wife, two kids, by a probably of course, you know, music's ratchet, you know what I'm saying, But he ain't no more ratchet than you know, any of your country Western singers. You know

what I'm saying. But I'm not here again to argue over whether a man deserved to be murdered because his music is ratchet. That's not what we're here to talk about.

What I am here to talk about is a loss of life and that's happening within our own hoods, Things that we need to take care of, things that we are grieving within our own communities, about trying to amongst each other be better because we can't whenever somebody starts, um, you know, advancing and start thinking different, talking different, moving different somehow or another because of our situation. Listen, we

could talk about the criminal justice system. We could talk about capitalism, issues of poverty that pushes people of color into these environments who choose that like their only choices. Violence, why you know, the psychological effects of poverty and why gangs become what they are and why you feel like that person is your We can talk about all that.

At the end of the day, a black man murdered another black man and it is an absolute tragedy that we're still trying to untangle and figure out, and especially over some raps ship which is what makes it even more stupid. I think we're not aware of that, that we're not aware of black on black crime. You think

we don't know if and that it's you can't. This is why it's another reason why it's bullshit when you try to weaponize that phrase because people shoot who close to him like this, it's a it's an absurd statistic and we know it's disingenuous because exhibit A Kyle Rittenhouse. But yes, seeing ourselves shoot each other said is fucking ridiculous. We're tired of it all the way back to Tupac Biggie jam Master j Bigail. We're tired of this ship

Nipsey like, we're tired of it. We hate it. This all happening at the same time that our brother Julius Jones got removed from the death penalty, which is a moment of celebration. So you're like, Okay, there's this tragedy and then there's this celebration, But then the celebration is still kind of weird because he's just getting life in prison. When the parole board two times recommended we need to let this little boy go. He needs a new trial.

There was mad evidence that was withheld that showed that that little boy had a perfect alibi he supposedly committed to murder in that. I mean, the little boy wouldn't even there and he was about to be murdered. So it's weird how when you in in our situation, we have to celebrate every win we get, and this is the bare minimum. That little boy shouldn't be in jail period.

Little boy he had grown man now forty one years old, been in jail since he was seventeen for something he didn't even do, or at least they didn't prove he did, right you, So there's you're holding those two things. I haven't even got to the armad auvery case where that defense attorney was like, we don't want to know Black Pastor's coming down here. As another side note, I feel like black Church has been the conscious of our nation for years, maybe the whole time, because demand that was

outside leading some of the charges. Uh In advocating for Julius Jones. There was a black creature out there, tied himself up the chains. He was like, if you need a body, just take mind. You gotta kill somebody, kill me, Let that little boy go. Of course, it was an act of protest. Of course it's high drama, but that's the point of it. We're putting our bodies on the line.

I know people directly, my boy consciously, Miamie jb that worked tirelessly, Joshua Duke boys tirelessly on this Julius case. I'm so happy for him that that little boy alive, a grown man alive, but life in prison for something you can eat. He didn't even do it. So you got the arm on every case whatever. That man was murdered and we saw it. I listened to the testimonium of the white boys say, uh, he grabbed my gun

and I got scared. And I still, honestly don't understand that defense because I'm like, uh, I think he felt when you pulled it on it? Who you think was really scared? You feel? But that's again, I don't want this to be a venting session. I'm trying to set up something. These are things we're carrying all the time. Right My patron, Saint James Balden was talking about to be black in America is to be at a full constant rage just right under the surface, you know what

I'm saying. I guess it's just that's just like right under your cool, isn't is a tempest that's just always there. You feel me? Uh, My homeboy Kendrick says that niggas from l A always just randomly using big words and I just did it again. We're just like a tempest anyway. This is why we say our music and Black Boy Joy and Black Girl Fly and all this stuff is like it's part of our protest, because it's part of

our our rebellion. Because what's hovering under us is this impending dread and the years and years of receipts of looking at this Kyle rittenhouse case and going that little white boy gonna get off right and and listen, I'm gonna come back to the thing we tried to tell you. He's gonna get away with it. Now this on our case, I don't know. I feel like because of like the free Barrabbit's joint that uh, they may give us them and because that judges I'm getting ahead of myself with that.

Judges are different judges in this one. But uh, I don't know if I could call it for that one. I think you know, but this this Kyle one, Oh, I knew y'all ain't gonna do ship. I didn't told y'all this a number of times on this show. Don't nothing happen to them? You know that little boy raised upwards of a hundred and seventy five thousand, maybe even more on a on a go fund me when he got into legal troubles. That stay one. That's stay boy. That's the boy. Now, let me make a case for

all of us. Uh, I'm gonna make a case first to the hood, and then I want every It's like so cratic method. I'm talking to the inner circle, but I want the rest of us to really listen, especially if you're in a position of power or privilege, or you have access to things that us and inside of this circle and got access to. Let me break it down after this break who I did a I did a product break check me out? Yeah, all right, yo, check it. I'm sorry, I'm chewing rice. It's disgusting. Um,

I'm coping. I think it's important to remember when you're looking at these two particular cases, the Kyle Raynownce case and the I'm on Overy case, it's the behavior of the judges why I was absolutely convinced that cal Nnownce was going to get off was the judge, and all the way back to the beginning that the judge wouldn't let the two dead men be called victim because it's going to sway the jury. So you're telling me the two dudes that died aren't victims. Remember I told you before.

Most of the time, when it comes to cases like this, the shooter is not on trial, the victim is. Are they worthy to be called victims? Even when the victims ain't necessarily black or brown, because the power is protecting itself. Basically, these these these victims, they they sided with the wrong people. They didn't side with power. They sided with the marginalized, which I mean, according to the system, the power structure, you've become an OP. So I'm gonna treat you like

a OP. I'm gonna treat you how we treat the ops. Because again we're not talking about like people were talking about whiteness. Need please understand the difference, Like it's so important a lot to look this is a side note, but it's very important that you understand this. It's like when someone talks about privilege, specifically white privilege, your knee jerk reaction is like, well, I'm I come from poverty too, And I'm like, Okay, that's classism. Nobody is saying y'all

ain't came from some struggle. I know some real dirty, dirty gutter ratchet as hell white people who came from the mud, like more mud than I came from. That's not what I'm talking about. We're talking about a system. Oh I forgot. We're not allowed to teach this stuff because it makes white people feel bad. My bad said, I'm not gonna call him there. I'm gonna call them writers. I'm gonna call him protesters. I'm gonna call them We're

gonna call them agitators. But we're not gonna call them victims. Hear how that hear how their lives, dignity was stripped from them and they already dead. They shouldn't have been running with the ops. That's how we treat the ops. Ops is in everybody that's not part of this power structure. I was like, holy, gonna get off. It is the dread of any black or brown person who's been caught in the system. Two run into a judge that has a complete implicit bias about you. The problem is the

bias about us is oftentimes against us. What we witnessed was an implicit bias, but in the favor of the defendant. Y'all ain't see that. Man, how dope would it? Could you imagine? I was texting some of the obviously is how dope would it be for you to be on trial? And the judge you walk in and the judges like judges like neighborhood? Like the judge did you know what

I'm saying? The judge like rapping the block? He looking at you like, hey, hommy, when all this is over, man, you got come over, Maybe play space, play some dominoes. You're good on me, you know what I'm saying. And then and then when you start showing some emotion, he like, hey, I think everybody should chill. Let them let the young homie gets like, how great would it be? You know what I'm saying if you walk in now? Instead we walk in the judges like pull up your pants, son,

So what gang are you from? What bad choices are you? Like? Man, First of all, we all do gang bang. Number one, you know what I'm saying. Number two you don't even know me. We ain't even made no case yet, you feel me? So we walk in with the opposite bias, that Kyle guy. But wouldn't it be nice. Here's the thing you want to say, Well, well you know your judges are are supposed to be impartial. Well they're humans, they're not this we we tried to tell you. It's

the system, the whole thing. So number one, the judge was like, you can't call them victims. I was like, oh, this case over that little boy. They have a little boyfriend to get off. Then he did the little water works and then his mama cried, and then they was like, I think we need to take a little break. And then man's is on his phone and it's funny watching like lawyer. If you know lawyers, like if you're friends with any at how weird it reflects that is, or

if you follow any on any social media. They're not surprised at all by this man. They like, listen, this is how it is, yo, yo, yo. Judge is a luck of a draw. That man got seventy two cases after this. That lady got nine and nine other cases after this. That lady, that man is a person. They live in a city. They got opinions. I don't know why y'all think. Of course they do This is what we mean by like, yo, the case was stacked against us.

We got an implicit bias. The justice system wasn't fair because the judge already decided, you're gonna look at that car rid Now's case. I think that judge the already know was he not stacking them cards in that boy favor? Just it was televised, we saw it. That man. That man said, hey, pick a name out of hat. You want to choose which one of these jurors stays that the defendant like, are y'all y'all homies? Like y'all really homies?

So here's my case. District judges they elected, well indirectly, let me let me impact this. Uh, District judges are appointed, but they're appointed by it's pretty convoluted, but they're appointed by our elected officials. So ultimately they're elected. But the way that the separation of powers is set up, we're not supposed to directly, they're not supposed to um campaign boom. But the people that put them in place are the ones that are campaigning, and we get to choose that.

So we gotta pay attention to our ballots, especially our local ones. Remember I told you to think about Mitch. The game Mitch was playing had a man's man's put too Hondo judges on benches, on lower benches all over the country. Now, I don't know who elected this man. I ain't do that much homework, but I tell you what, somebody we elected appointed that person, and look where it got us. That's what I'm saying. I'm gonna make that case. So yo, the voting of yet your local, your your

your Congress, it this way, it plays out. It plays out there, not just on the things you see on the news, plays out there. Does that you follow me? District attorneys, they're elected. What this means to me is in your legal case or not in your legal cases and your when your ballots come, when your local balants come, I'm asking you to do a little more homework on who is being elected to those to that bench, to

the school board. What this means to me is in your legal case or not in your legal cases when your ballots come, when your local balance come, I'm asking you to do a little more homework on who is being elected to those to that bench, to these school boards, to these district offices. We have a say that that type of implicit bias shouldn't exist somebody that can sway a case like that. You think that man ain't sway that case. So here, So so here's what I'm saying.

We need to pay more attention to that. Now, let me push you even further. Some of you young shooters who are activists now out here getting radicalized by cools on media. Let me ask you this, Hey, what's we're going to law school though? What if you got on that bench? What if that was your way of advocating. Now, if you listen to the episode me and Robert Evans I talked about, I understand how problematic that is. Like, I'm why would I jump into a seeking ship that

I already know sucks? Right, I'm saying, but in the meantime, niggas is still on trial, murders are still getting off. It's in the meantime before we could tear it all down, burn it all down. I mean, in the meantime, some of us got court cases. It'd be really dope to pull, you know what I'm saying, Jannicia Jackson as my judge. It'd be dope to pull Juan Carlo Perez as my judge. Because I'm gonna look at Wan Carlo Wan Carlo like oschool On from East Low's, I understand the nuances. Now

let me judge this case accordingly. Because Nick, if you wil and you wilding like the cake like I may have quoted this man before uh riley Um from Boondocks. Hey, listen, every nigga in jail a Nelson Mandela, some of y'all niggas broken the law. I cite the Young Dolf situation. Who's that who's that football player? We just saw that through his lady. What's that boy's name? I'm asking y'all

like you listening, don't go look at this video. But as a former Jet New York Jet Smack just ball baled is fist up and punched his lady and then threw her into a TV. That you need to put that nigga up under the jail. You wild like you broke the law. Like far be it from me to I'm not gonna again. Like I said, I don't slander black men in public. But wrong is wrong, my nigga. Like you you you bugging? Cause what you want me to say? You bugging them? Two little boys that shot

Young Dolf? They but what you what you want me to say, I understand the situation. Two can be the both can be true. I understand the situation and needsy to go to jail. That's a murder. It don't bring me joy. It sucks. I would love to see some more restorative justice. That's my hope. I'm trying to tear a form a new world. But until then, it would be really dope if we had better judges on the bench. My second case I want to make to you, I think I said it before, is jury summons is again.

I'm gonna reiterate this. I might be sitting in a place of privilege where I make my own schedule. Um, my income may a probably not be affected too bad if I had to like sit on a case um for like a week or two. I understand that that's unique. I also understand that the people that make time, that make time for this are the people that end up sitting on a case like kyle rittenhouse. They make time

for it. Could you imagine if if it was one of us that was in that in that deliberation, it was just like, I am not budging that little boy guilty. I looked at that, I looked at the evidence. He guilty. You're not gonna You're not you need a unanimous We're gonna stay here forever. I'm not gonna let that man. Like could you imagine, Like, can you imagine the type of freedom fighter you would be? Like nobody would know. But that's the beauty of like really being a freedom fighter.

Don't nobody know. Ain't no real case, ain't no real tags. You know what I'm saying, You get for for a lot of the lot of the work a lot of us do. Even as a side note, there's something that like I kind of stepped back a lot of ways from being an organizer in the sense that as I became more of a public figure, I didn't want nobody to just follow some sort of personality cult, Like don't

just be here because you're a fan of me. Be here because it's the right thing to do, you know, be here because this is the right cause, not just because you like my music. So I'm like, I had to learn how to push the line different ways, you know, because I don't want nobody to just be I here because I want them to be radicalized on their own. You feel me, let me just give you the nuggets and you find your place in there, But don't just show up because I'm here, because that won't last. You

feel me. I might get on your nerves one day. I may have a hot take one day, and then the movement suffers. You feel me, And that's not what I'm looking for. But what what I what I will do is I'm must I say yes to jury duty. I'm gonna show up because it's until we could of a system. It's the only one we got. So those are my two main cases. Like, yo, you know, three really a like pay attention to who we vote into the benches and then maybe even considered going into law.

And then three yo, get on the juries like yo, get on the jury's fam like I mean, and as much as you can, Yo, get on the juries, because listen when these people look at us breaking into the capitals, shooting people on something like I'm protecting business and then sit on sit on the stand like shut the funk, y'all ain't gonna do shit? What hey, hey, what we're doing after this? Looking at the judge like, yo, what we're doing. We're gonna barbecue, bro, We're gonna barbecue. We're

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