Tap In: Imma Roast the Hell Out of Lt. Gov. Beckwith

meta purposes. Micah Beckwick leaned up against his little desk and is strangely fitting Khakis to give a little debriefing following what had to have been quite the ownage by the Democratic senators in their state debate around Senate Bill two eighty nine, which is called the Unlawful Discrimination Bill

for the State of Indiana. Apparently, somebody in that discussion that was clearly televised, somebody brought up the three fifths compromise, to which this man actually fixed his tiny little lips to make an argument that the three fits compromise was not about slavery. Oh, Dilbert looking ass already know this man's tender profile picture as him holding a fish within reflective sunglasses. I already know this man daughter cuss at him with her whole chest. Anyway, three fits compromise was

not about slavery. Apparently, Now that's quite a take, a take for which no one at the time would have accepted as to be true, but nonetheless is being borrowed to try to defend this centin bill that is just so important to him. Now, obviously, anti discrimination can invoke a certain assumption about what it's about. But if you have been living in this country during this timeline, you would understand that a lot of these things that present

themselves of anti discrimination are quite discriminatory. This one is a continuation of rolling back any sort of diversity or inclusion or consideration of differences when onboarding to a particular institution, whatever that institution may be. But that's not the point

of this tap in. Now. If you want to go back to the Lost Cause series, or even me talking about the Electoral College and the Three Phish Compromise and what that had to do with voting rights, and still the idea that like African Americans who are enslaved are three fits humans because baked into the very concept of the Three Phish compromise myth that somehow Africans are subhuman. But let's set that aside for a second. Let me

talk to you about this. If you've lived long enough, if it has not happened already, it's going to happen to you very soon. You're going to be faced with a moment where your lived experience with a person, or a community of people, or a part on the planet somehow or another, your lived experience which you are curly witnessing and experiencing, will come in stark contrast to the worldview for which you were taught, the way for which

you understood physics work. When you're experiencing something or someone that, metaphorically speaking, according to the laws of physics that you were given or made to believe that governs the universe, this person, this experience should not exist. What do I mean by that? Like, maybe you were taught something about black people or the Latino community, or queer people or

people other religions. You were taught that these people were the untouchables, or there was something particularly wrong with you, something particularly different from them, something for which that you needed to stay away from because it's going to pervert the perfection of the world you're trying to exist in. And then you meet one and they break all the rules, you realize, oh, yeah, they're regular people, just like just

like you are. Or there's another situation where you may have been taught that I don't know, people are just generally good and things just work out, and you know, if you work hard. The meritocracy myth. You work hard, you do your best, you keep your nose clean, and everything works out. And then you grow up and you realize, oh, no, life is not fair at all. People hustle other people.

Your face with a moment that I talked about in terror form in my poetry book Building a Liverabo World, where we talked about like the possibilities of reality is far crazier than you can imagine. There's a procrypal story about I don't know, some astrophysicist von Kleigan whatever, like's not his name's not the point He asked him about why Copernicus was so epic and life changing to everyone. Copernicus the guy who said that the Earth revolves around

the sun. He asked one of his students, like, why was that so crazy? Because it's like, well, because it don't look like it when you look in the sky it looked like the sun is moving. Because that's crazy. Well, what would it look like if it looked like the Earth was revolving around the sun. An answer is this, it would look the way it does look. It's just

you're faced with a dilemma. You either change. You either accept the reality of what you're looking at because it's what you're looking at, or you deny what you're looking at and you hold on to the way for which you thought about. The world works a lot of you, especially because I meet you out and about, whether it's through my music, my poetry, my books, or the podcast.

A lot of y'all come from faith based backgrounds, and you have made it clear to me how thankful you are to my music or my work because maybe my albums, maybe a line in a poem or interview was the first, like scratching the black paint that let light in that you really understood that, like maybe the world is far bigger than the cup for which you were given to contain. That world started you on this path of inclusion, you know, to think of the world differently, to experience the world

that you're actually experiencing. I've had those moments myself health growing up in a church, going Bible, believe in black home, and then you sit across the table, you go to dinner with a Muslim family, or you make some queer friends and you're like, well, I'll be damn, I thought about this all wrong. A lot of us respond different ways to that realization, to that moment in our lives.

And I know a lot of people that listen to this show in the Bastard Show or expangelical or deconstructed, etc. And You're like, what do I do with this frustration, with this misinformation? I was given rage, get angry. Yeah, I understand about I understand that I've done the same. I try to think about the intentions of those people who taught me these things. Some of them honestly didn't know better. Some of them thought they were doing the

best they could. They're speaking out of their own brokenness. But sometimes, oh they knew they was wrong. They knew what they was trying to do. This governor knows what the fuck he's doing. I don't believe this is your third grade teacher teaching you about column I been selling The Ocean Blue in fourteen ninety two. I don't think this is your summer camp who try to reenact the

first Thanksgiving. These are hundreds and hundreds of years later. Now, while these people are not exonerated, i e. They are perpetuating a institutional racism that is easily with the slightest of google could be fixed. They continue to perpetuate it. However, I still think it's different than what this governor is. But the people that invented those stories, they knew what the fuck they was doing. My brain goes to the fact that I hate that people have to unlearn anything.

Why couldn't we have just been given the truth wards and all maybe learn from our own mistakes. So me, I feel like part of my life's work, my calling, if you will, is I want to make sure, to the best of my ability that I limit the amount

of unlearning the next gen has to do. And sometimes that's me doing my due diligence, and other times that's me meeting these fools in the streets calling bullshit cap ass, bullshit cap when it's time to mocking and roasting with all the ability that the ancestors has passed down to me as a black man, I'm gonna roast the hell out of this government because sometimes I feel like, if you're don roast the hell out of these cornballs, if you don't meet them immediately, would let me stop you

right there, playboy? And maybe I'm not gonna convince everybody, but you gonna get this work then something like the three fisths compromise, which we all know clearly and there's time to fix this. That what he is saying is absolute bullshit. For the record, his argument was that it

was not discriminatory. It was an attempt to compromise between the colonies to make sure that everybody had a fair shake in the powers, in the legislative powers as they casted their vote, so that the North wouldn't always win because although the South had more people, the South didn't allow those people to vote. Those people, according to the Constitution, were three fifths. So just like how the Confederacy was about stage rights, the three fish Compromise is about fairness.

But his argument is that it's woke DEI that has taught you that the three fifths compromise is about racist slavery practices. Now, how wild as that sounds, right now, give it fifty years, give it one hundred years, Just like how wild the idea that Columbus in fourteen ninety two was the first European to get here. I don't understand how you could be the first person at a place that people already live at, and not only that it's already white people here then too, man, what the

hell is you talking about? It seems silly now, don't it. But also, like we said in the Lost Cause episodes, history is about the past, but memories about the future. We remember things wrong all the time. But when things are communicated to you so that you'll remember them wrongly, you have to ask yourself who gains from this re who loses from this reshaping? Because if you are trying to reshape and re remember the past in a way for which erases the warts, oh, then we're talking about

a zero sum situation. My encouragement to you all on this tap in is when these people are playing in your face, when they are trying to tell you that up is down and the sky is purple, roast the hell out of these people. Tap in, y'all,