The Marathon Continues: Post-Election Reflections

theology tone. And whether you come from Now or even come from like the FOI or you know, the Nation of Islam, the gods and the arts, the fire for centers, there is a resilience that exists inside of suffering people. But I'm gonna speak specifically as a black man, an African American slave descendant black man in America. You can add my socioeconomic to it, which obviously you know, intersections matter, so you which is why we should teach you critical

race theory and intersectionality. All that stuff matters. But at the end of the day, there's nothing more important than the program. Now that can be interpreted many ways depending on how much of your levels of the streets that you in. When they talk about the program, you know, oftentimes if you, I mean, if you cripping, they mean like the gang, Like what we are doing as a gang is the most important thing, more important your family,

your children, your everything. That's what they mean by the program. Sometimes we mean programming. Again, depending on how outside you are, you might be talking about like doing your uh burpies. You feel me like you outside, you know, making sure you take it care of yourself. You stay on the program, you out your programming, making sure you working out every day.

Nothing more important than the program. But it comes from a resilience that the profit of the Westside Roland sixties gave us, the stance that has continued to be a rallying cry that is really just again a continuation of our forefathers, our fore mothers. You know, whether it's soon our rise, we shall overcome. What he says is the marathon continues. Hood politics, y'all? All right, y'all post election thoughts now by this being Wednesday, meaning if you're listening

to this today, it dropped. It's been a whole week and a day since we found out that Donald Trump's getting his electric boogloo. And as him getting his electric boogaloo, I think that I can probably guess that there is of the listeners on this show, y'all probably fall into

what I'm guessing is one of three categories. One of you are deeply disappointed because you know you fell into the liberal or where we are as pretty much a team you know with cool zone either leftists or anarchists, or like where you know I'm personally at, which is like we need to go back to indigenous practices because at the end of the day, just putting a dude in charge has yet to work. I'm going, like, I'm going like terror for my fam like over because like

none of this shit works. I don't even think our borders make sense. Like that's see, I'm like way over there but us, but you know, ocean, you might as well swim. So so the fact that America decided to overlook all possible signs of toxicity, the fact that like none of the trade off was worth it for them, that the twice impeached thirty four felony convicted rapists. Do y'all hear all that? Y'all hear all them sirens and stuff? I live in the hood, Do y'all hear that it's

going wild outside? I don't know if y'all hear that, but I went to go check this ghetto bird just circling around the street next to mine. It is what it is. I don't know what to tell you, and what's dope about it is like people just outside mowing a lawn. It's Veterans Day, so we're just mowing our lawn and bring your trash cans back in. It's like just or hey, like hope you get awake us anyway, speaking of which I just don't know how well I do know how apparently the trade off don't matter that

none of it none. I can't even get the sentence out. None of it mattered. Like the court cases. The boy is not allowed to do business in New York. He is a felon. There are countries he's not allowed to go to. None of that matters. They eating the pets don't matter. None of it mattered. So some of y'all are either flabbergasted or like grieved this weekend. It's crazy walking around LA people was like grieving, like like somebody died,

and I tell you what died. I can and again you probably in this first bucket optimism, your hope and optimism died because especially you know, shout out again the faux black people and seven Filipinos and all the rest of the Latinos that is in this on this particular show, who we kind of knew to not get our hopes up. But we thought maybe maybe this time, maybe y'all got a code. Maybe this man is so ratchet that this would that this would shake you out of your stupord.

But nope. And speaking of code, this is another thing you know, you learn in our way of life, is that whether we're talking about the G code, like which you know kind of like in some ways is like the you know, sort of a dying art with some of these gangsters out there, and as we know, like you throw enough time at somebody you start talking about ten, fifteen, twenty years, just be like f the code, you know.

But I will say this, that translates to a type of manhood that for me, flies completely in the face of any of these like right wing blogosphere dudes that like clearly it created a pipeline for Trump to get into. Like strategy wise, I mean, I'm jumping ahead of myself because I want to talk about code, but strategy wise is real simple, Like where are young men at They at video games at jiu jitsus they're at mmas and guess who runs all those YouTube channels, all those blogs,

all those this. There's a great book you could read call Hate in the Homeland, and it's about the modern far right in the person who studied like the advance or the new growth of the modern far right movement in Western civilizations. And they're like yo, MMA and UFC. Shit is breeding grounds video game like like you know, message boards, they're breeding grounds. That's where they are, right. So of course you just you put put a Rando

in that pipeline. You're gonna make them a start because that's where all the boys are, right, but they feeding them a type of manhood that like, listen, I feel like for me. I'll even add Robert to that. We cisgendered heterosexual men. You know what I'm saying that, Like, you know, I like I beat the dog shit out of you, like if I need. Robert likes guns like I'm a dude, you feel me. I don't like fighting.

I don't like confrontation, but like you know, like like the prophet way and saying to killer, but don't push me. You feel me so and Tupac say it too. I'll quote quote all the quotables. But the point I'm making is like we live by these codes that you learn, whether streets or street adjacent, you just you just live by a code. Part of that is like all money ain't good money. There are lines that we draw like you don't some transactions the juice ain't worth the squeeze,

Like you know. One of those things is like shit. You learn it in little league. You take your beating like a man. If you lost, you hold your chin up, you valuate, you don't. You don't blame the refs. You don't call cheating, No, that's coward shit. I'm using your own terms, like be a man. Sometimes you gotta take it on the chin. You feel me. You don't make no excuses. You don't blame nobody else. It's you. The buck stop with you. You feel me. You man the

fuck up. You get the fuck up, and you shut up about stuff. We live by a code that how you do anything is how you do everything. You look at somebody and you like, man, you ain't. This man don't got no day ones around him, everybody around you just met your whole team. You only known him for like a year and a half. Like that's a red flag. To me, I'm like, oh, this man ain't got no code. You don't have no actual loyalty because you not a rider or die. You only want rider dies. And so

I'm like this, this man don't have no code. So I feel like we live by codes that you when the juice an't worth the squeeze, I back up. There is a line you have shown me how you care yourself. And I don't care how much money you're saying you're gonna give me. It's not worth it. So if your boy is mourning, I'm mourning the fact that, like I thought, y'all, I thought my code is. I know my code might be different than y'all's, but I thought you at least

had one. That that's to me, was like, oh, there's no line for y'all. There's no there's no trade off, like it's all that that made me sad. But it's not like I didn't know. Nope. So we running around here grieving dudes, people texting each other. Okay, let's go for a walk, let's go work out, make sure you take care of yourself, take a break. It's funny except that I be except I was one that was also grieving because I thought, maybe this time, maybe we found

a person so repugnant that you'd have a line. So people's just grieving. I know what I was grieving. I was grieving the fact that, like I thought, I thought there was a line. I thought that there was a point that the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. It's not even about him, per se. I mean it kind of is, but just the fact that like there's no there's no bottom, there's no bottom, like there's you're like completely mask off. Eggs cost too much. So I'll believe this dude that

said he can make eggs costs go down. I'll ignore everything else about this man. I thought maybe y'all's memories was longer because he keeps saying, well, Kamala is in charge, now, why is she not being able to do the thing. I'm like, well, nigga, you used to be in charge too, And nostalgia's a hell of a drug. I'm just saying, like I don't it didn't feel much better or worse to me. It is what it is. Anyway, you might be in that bucket, some of y'all might be in ah.

And I was talking to one of my little homeboys yesterday. That's almost in like the accelerationist bucket, but in reverse to where it's just like, yeah, let the please let this bull into the china shop. Please. I wish you would just break every just just just break it all, like so we can finally just let's just get it over with, right. Let the empire crash, let it burn? Can we fight like it's we're on our way. We're like, we're obvious on our way to destruction. At some point

in the holidays, we gotta run reruns. I'm going to try to run the Ray dally O one when he talks about the collapse of empires. We gotta run that one because, like I mean, we're on the brink of extinction as far as like if you understand global empires, it's just the world is reordering. So some of y'all might be absolute accelerations. And then maybe there's five of y'all that secretly didn't want to tell nobody but was

kind of like it was kind of my guy. And a lot of times in my experience, it's over maybe one or two issues. It's abortion, But I'm assuming if you listen to this show, it's the border stuff just didn't do it for you. You was just like, I mean, it's a scare tactic. But then again, things do cost a lot, so you probably ain't one of these three buckets. So today this is what I'm gonna do. You've probably had your feel of analysis, so I'm gonna give you a short version of mine and just remind you of

what work we continue to god to complete. Wow, that was a horrible sentence, but you feel me. The marathon continues. Let's go all right, obviously, don't need to drop a look. It's like this because we know it's like, first of all, shout out Kendrick for opening his mouth and getting every possible He's nominated for every category. Like what category is Kendrick not nominated? It? Like demand is goal? It's absurd anyway, Uh,

but let's get to it. Listen, here's some analysis. I'm gonna pull some of my own receipts here and pat myself on the back a little bit, and hopefully if you've been following along all year, these these are the blase black woofed, the whoops, These are the interpretations that Lick reads that had you been following with with me, you might have been a little more prepared for today, right when someone just gets the dog shit beat out of them, when somebody like, listen, the Democrats ain't lose.

They got they ass beat like they whooped your ass. Now I don't okay, listen, yeah, you're gonna win some house seats. Grade you know, there was some local elections shout out, you know, Tussa Oklahoma hiring or acting they first black mayor. Like that's a beautiful thing. We got to finally got two black senators in at the same time, you feel me, we got a trance. There's a trans in Delaware, you know what I'm saying, Like, I mean, there's been some some like some like wow, this is

a big deal. You feel me. The people spoke. We appreciate that on the local level. But let's not okay, just because just because you scored forty points in the third quarter, it didn't mean that these people ain't beat your ass. Okay, the Republicans whooped your ass. So the easiest answers sometimes, although helpful, don't tell a full story, right, And you and me know, the easiest answer is America's racist.

Like I mean, I don't understand what the hell, what the hell is confusing about that motherfucker's racist, like we know that is you surprised people that you don't think is racist are actually racist. They are, of course they are. They just they just there's a different kind of racism. There's the like, you know, make America white again racist, and then there's the make America great again race. You understand what John to say, like nigga of course, like

what delusion is what you wonder? You know, So there's there's the easy answer, and sometimes, like I said, is helpful. But I think getting into the minutia because understanding that racism don't always play along color lines. Sometimes in internalized racism, sometimes a desire for whiteness, a desire for power. Because somebody got to get their brain around Latinos for Trump. Now we probably gonna do one on it could happen here.

I've been digging into that thing for a while. And also I'm saying that with the caveat that I am clearly not Latino. I'm from they hood, I'm married one. But that's just that just gives me, that just gives me a Delta sky Lounge pass. That don't mean I'm one of y'all. You understand I'm saying so like I'm gonna say that with that that sort of like caveat now. When we did the to the Boom Incorporated RNC, the one thing I told y'all that I was like, you know what dog respect due it is they told an

amazing story. I have a merch item on prop hipop dot com. It's called tell better stories because words build worlds. Right, that's another merch item I got tell better stories. And at the end of the day, now, is this story grotesque? Yes? Was this story deeply false? Absolutely? It was just a better story. It was cohesive. It brought you in, It gave you your exposition. You knew who the hero was, you knew who the villain was, and you knew what

the solution was supposed to be in this story. That story included a nostalgia, and we all know a nostalgia is so powerful. I mean, just if you are again within a ten mile radius of my age, go visit a high school. Feel the time warp you're sending in as you look at the clothes these kids is wearing. I mean they even they've even socially stratified themselves in the same way the skaters look the same and they all kick it in the same spot. It's the most bizarre. Like,

what like nostalgia? How many podcasts right now are rewatches of shows from your childhood? Nostalgia is so powerful? And here's the thing. Was it that great when you was living it? You don't remember? You know why, because that's how nostalgia works. Was it that bad? You know what? You don't remember because that's how nostalgia works. Nostalgia is not memory, it's feeling. Nostalgia ain't got nothing to do

with what actually happened. It happened to do with the warm, fuzzy It's the moment you was in, how the moment felt. Trump calling on a nostalgia that some of these people not only never existed in, but if they was alive, then wouldn't even be allowed in the room. Like that's the Who has Bewitched You? Part? That I really blow my mind. But nostalgia's powerful and it's a wonderful story, and who would not wish to be a part of it? You know? A Christmas story with the Red Rifle bb

gun Mon's Gonna Kill Ralphie? I love that movie? Do you know I wouldn't be allowed in that boy's house. I need you to like, like, this is what I mean by nostalgia. You'll shoot your eye out. Kid. I would not be allowed to play with him. That's a segregated community. What do any black kids have any business enjoying a movie like this. That's not my nostalgia. But I remember being a child watching the movie and thinking

that's fun. You're a shoot your rye ho ho. And I know the feeling of wanting something so bad on Christmas. Christmas morning listen. I'm California. I ain't never had no white Christmas. What nostalgia, But it's a powerful drug. That's what he did. It was better back then. And then he presented something that was so cohesive that I just I keep looking at the Democrats and I'm just like, I just don't understand why y'all couldn't do this. But like with truth, he would say, it's very simple. The

system's broken. That's a big old dove. It does not serve you. I have cracked the code, because you see, I'm on top of the world. I could crack that code for you. Here's how I'm gonna fix it. I'm gonna make America safe again. I'm gonna make America strong again. I'm gonna make America wealthy again. I'm gonna make America great again. The system don't serve you no more. And you know why I don't serve you, dim fools. Then Nigga gave you a bad guy. And you know who

the bad guy is. Everybody that's not them? What a simple story? If you not with us, you're what an easy story? That's an easy story to get around. Listen, I've used this example plenty of times. When when that drug dealer, when that hustle and that gangster come ben in that Kona and that a tray impalla, you feel me in that sixty four lo? Lo, you understand I'm saying with the eighteen inch rims right, he pop out, handout everybody a twenty dollars bill to come to go

get go, get some ice cream? You feel me? Yo, you need some school supplies? Hey, tell your mama, Tell your mama. If Chevin needs something like come holler at me man, that man come through, pay your pay your electric bill, put groceries in your house. It feel good and part of your brain turns off as to where that man got his money from. I get it it's powerful, but at some point you got to grow up and be like, all money isn't good money. But if you could tell me, this man could tell me, I'm gonna

go get your bread for you. This stuff costs to love it. Don't your food costs too much? She the problem, data problem. These people eating your pets, and you know what, you don't even like them that much anyway. Look, look if you black, telling you like, hey, what have they done for you? And the hard part is like but for black people, but most of us like gas lighters, cause they looking at they looking at the Republicans like, nigga, we know you racist, like we know y'all are I mean,

you mask off about the shit. But the Dems, I'm just keeping the basic basic story. They talk a good game, but like, what have y'all done for us? Are we better off? Now? Me as being a smarty y awt nigga, you know what I'm saying, Like, look me being the square You feel me the weird cuse that can run off all of the programs the head start nigga, like the free and reduced lunch programs, like are you kidding me? Bro?

You sit across tell you from your grandma and them, and she like, man, it's the cheapest my medicine has ever been. Like that feel good. This This man wanna wanna up the retirement age or by ten years while gutting the amount of money that goes into it. So I'm like you telling me my mom and them gonna have to your mom and them, she might your grandma might be ready to retire. She came for another ten years. She got a bad hip, she got a bad knee.

This nigga telling you that he's better for you. It's a good story. Nigga, You finna make my mama life harder. But you know what, though, what the DEM's done for me? Them head start programs like it's friends. It's people I'm friends with to this day because of those programs. Man, a lot of us ate like we had food in our bellies because of these programs. You trying to tell me that, like thems ain't done nothing for us. Now listen.

And then the part that gets frustrated about it is like when you try to get in this conversation, you be like, man, I can't believe I'm defending these democrats because like I don't y'all gaslight us. You know what I'm saying. I'm saying like I'm not. I'm not a fan of them. You feel me at least with Trump, you like, look, Trump draw a line. Everybody like a bad guy. He draw a line in the sand. He's like, look, you either get on. You either get down or get on.

This is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it. You roll with us or not. And sometimes that bad boy thing, I mean, shout out Diddy, what it seemed like they could offer you make you override and overlook stuff that in a normal situation because you're not in this heightened sense of need. You can't reason with somebody hungry. I'm gonna say this again for you. You can't reason with somebody hungry. I'm gonna say this one more time for

you. You can't reason with somebody hungry. When you hungry, you overlook a lot of stuff, especially when that person is spending an amazing tale and telling you that none of your problems are your fault. It's a good story. And then you could and then and then you take that whole thing and wrap it in the Chakaina glory that

is the Western Evangelical Church. You say stuff like God kept me alive to save this country, because at the end of the day, the most obvious question to ask is when you say make America great again, the obvious question is when was it great? What do you mean by that? And here's the thing he told us exactly what he meant by it. It's when the darkies new

they plays. Bill Burr had a great joke on SNL this past week when he was like, why it was they were doing a spoof about like Buffalo Wild Wings, where he was like, well, I would love to watch this game in my big mansion on the top of the hill. But what sucks for me? I was born white fifty years too late. So he's like, I gotta be with the poors because I ain't get all the privilege y'all talking about. But wouldn't it have been nice?

Wouldn't it been nice to be included in that? Oh, you poor Appalachian, You got to live up here with the poors, knowing full well that you could have been wouldn't that be nice? That's a great story. Hey, look, look, look, look, you Latino. You came in here. You fought too fanil to get to the city, to get to this country. You working hard, yo, Daddy worked night shifts. You work in sixteen seventeen hours a day. You get your kids

in a good school. They done lost their accent. They gonna go to like they go to a nice college. Just for your cousin, our Tuto to sneak through the border. Man, fuck are tuto? I feel it? Wouldn't it be nice? I mean, I get it. It's a great story. And listen across the world, y'all act like everybody be first a second generation. Some of these people be like fifth and six generations, Like I have no memory of Mexican. My grandma ain't from Mexico, Nigga, my grandma, my grandma

from Boiled Heights, like you know. So like just because just because they just because they Mexican, don't mean they got any connection in Mexico. Like somebody even be straight up Chicano, like' I don't got no connection to no kind of immigration. But look all over the world, incumbent's been losing, and theyve been losing because of the bread. The inflation too high. You just can't we can't talk about high and lofty concepts when you can't afford no

eggs it's a great story. System's not working for you. Here's why. I've clearly the code and I'm gonna fix it for you. Sign them up. It works. He was even able to separate himself from the extreme abortion positions because you even have conservatives that are like still believe that a woman's had a right to choose to which a Democrat would be like, well this nigga just removed it from you, And there could be like, well that

was the Republicans. He's like you heard him, he say not really, somehow you've demand just this gravity don't work around him. It just he bends gravity. It's like laws of physics. Just and you know what, they told a better story. The end of the day, Utility beats morality. And that's what we saw, just utility the media. Now on the Democrat side, everybody can start pointing fingers. That's the other thing that happens. After you get your ass beat.

You always point your finger at each other, everybody else on the team. Why didn't you hit that three pointer? Why ain't you? Everybody got reasons, There are a million reasons why, but the main reason is you got beat because they played better than you. That's just they played the game better. Like that's like, I just don't understand why these people not willing to admit that you just got outplayed. And look, they outplayed you with lies. And

of course sometimes lion is cheating because you lying. I just tell you what you want to hear. But you got y'all have facts on y'all side, and you ain't how to use it. Now. I don't want to contradict myself on the possibility that the Republicans did actually cheat, you do and me claiming cheating, But I mean there was some there was some burnt ballot boxes. I mean, it's just I'm just saying I don't put it past them. But a loss is a loss. Obviously, she Kamala came

in late. There's that they probably should have done an open primary so she'd have got the rust off it. Probably could have done that. Joe Biden probably could have stepped down earlier. Probably could have done that. She could have actually kind of been like the rock in the hard place that she was in, which is like throw

this nigga under the bus. I don't know why she didn't do it, Like she could have just thrown him under the bus in the most respectful way possible, be like I love Joe, I respect him, that's my OG, but I'm not him. I supported him because it was my job, Like that's all you had to do. They kept blaming administrative stuff on her, known full well she's the vice president. But that's a sticky situation too, because she can't be like, we know, the vice president ain't

got a real power, nigger, Like what do I do? Like, I'm not that I don't make the decisions he does. So when she had a chance to be like, yo, what would you do different she could have been like, look, I probably handle a lot of things differently. She could say, like, I mean, given an example, would obviously put her in a bad position because she still worked there, but acknowledge it to be like, listen, dude, it was my job.

It's my job to support him. There are things that we talk about behind closed doors that yeah, like I probably would have handled some things differently. It's a bad look. It would be like saying something like this, Yo, it's a bad look right now because the rest of the world's watching for me to, like, you know, undermine him at this point. But no, we don't. Of course, we

don't agree on everything. Of course we weren't. We weren't in you know, lockstep, you know, in my platform, you could see, you could see these are things that I would do differently. So rather than just saying he did this and I would do this, I'll say this, this is what I would do. You could run a gambit like that and people who would not respect her saying, look, I'm not gonna throw the homie under the bus. But yeah, we're not the same person. But nah. He kept being like,

y'all the same, and she couldn't counter that. She was on her back foot the whole time. And when you on your backfoot the whole time. When he was like, look, the system broken, here's how I'll fix it, the Democrat's response was, well, your plans are trash. I can't believe you have no respect for our institutions, which makes it

sound like she don't think the institutions are broken. Now, if you sitting somewhere in the middle of America and you got to choose between paying for your medicine or paying for your rent, then you like the system's broken. You'd have been pumped full of this. Immigrants are your problem. Because he then told you that it's her fault that these doors is open. She need to be able to say, listen, you're right, the system is broken. Here's where his plan

will hurt you deeply. Here's where my plans will help you. Systems broken. I got solutions too, except my solutions are based on fact, science, research and not hate. He could she could have said listen. She could have said listen. It is deeply immature and irresponsible to blame all your problems on an entire swath of people. That's called a scapegoat. That is not taking responsibility for your actions, which clearly this man will never do. He will never take responsibility

for his actions. Here's where we've messed up as democrats. Here's what I'm modu different because I take responsibility for my actions. There were some things that we could have done better. This is why we did it. Then it was based on this It was based on this data. It turns out data is just data, and people are people, and sometimes they unpredictable, and sometimes you predict things and it just don't work out the way you want it

to work out. Here's my plan to change that. Who are absolutely right, your cost of living is too high, and that's on our watch. Here's what I would do different. Y'all remember that you can't argue with j cole fans episode. Obviously, I don't know how well that aged with, Like who knew that the Big Three was gonna happen? Like I was I supposed to know that was gonna happen. But the point was about how something feels. You can't tell me the economy is good if it don't feel like

it's good. What and Trump was able to do is tell you how it felt right. I used to tour with In two thousand and six, I had a chance to tour with karas One. It depends on how much you in the hip hop? Is that name matters? Like if you really in the hip hop, you should be really impressed by me. And one thing karas One said is a good rapper can tell you how he feels, but at MC can tell you how you feel. He used to get on stage and do this whole fuck

George Bush thing. He's like, I don't even sit about George Bush. That's how y'all feel. So the power is saying if it don't feel right, if it don't if I don't feel like you love me even no matter. So you running the evidence, You running the gambit of here's all my receipts that shows you that we've done good for you and for your economy. It don't feel like you did. So what you got to do is figure out how to say what they feel and make the listener feel like you hear them and that your

your solutions feel right. See that's what Trump do. Trump worried about how you feel because tariffs that he talking about verifiably don't work, but it feel like it do. So what Kamala sh ain't You ain't get into what it felt like. It feel like the system feeling it feel like your plans don't work well? You not. You not making me feel like you understand what we're going through. And that is why the Democrats come off as elite because it don't I feel like you don't. You don't

feel what we feeling. You just tell us we wrong for feeling this. This is why I don't run a campaign because I wouldn't know how to fix that except for saying it don't feel right. I just today I couldn't even finish this podcast because we had to stop and do a vocal session. Shout out to Homie. Lisa Gunger came through and did the oohs and odds on the new poetry album. There's a poetry album coming out in twenty twenty five. She did the oohs and odds on it, and some of the things she was saying.

It wasn't words. There was a few things where the timing was off, but it felt right. Some thing's gotta feel right, and some things just feel wrong. You gotta know how to harness that. And that's just Democrats didn't do it. It just didn't feel just didn't feel right. It feels like you don't feel like how we feel. But the two things that are clearly the most obvious that at cynical as you say this is I differ. I differ from Cody and Katie. I differ from Robert

probably in this one sense. She's a black woman and ain't no way in the world, y'all, we are ain't no way in the world. And part of me weeks because silly me for actually thinking that it was possible that at the end of the day, she got the most electoral points in the history of any other black woman. You know, fannyluhay Ran, you know walk so she can run like that's real. But y'all, listen, come here, come here, come here, listen. That's a black woman. This is still America.

I just you just you just gotta face it, y'all. I've said many times that anti blackness is global, and it just is. But you know what else is global patriarchy? It just I know how I know it feels like an oversimplification because it in some ways once you get into the minutia, Yeah, descend into the particulars. But guys, you're you gotta look at it, you know, political, political, pundits, political, we have a way of naval gazing. Ignore not obvious.

This is why you need black voices in the room. This is why you need people of color. Nigga, that's a black woman. It is what it is. But you know, the marathon continues just because it ain't happen now, don't mean it won't happen. Ever. That's the resilience of the ancestors that course through my veins. The marathon continues, all right, y'all. So, had we woke up to the first female black president, the war in guys are still happening, we still would

have needed to organize. Had we woke up with a black woman president, Houselessness would still be a crisis. Had we woke up with a black woman president, Flint still don't got water. The marathon can continues, y'all. Now, when you pull from a deep well of resistance, there's a few things that you know, one of which is the personal is political. Now, Audrey Lord said this, but also this girl named Carol Hannish, who was a second wave feminist.

She was talking about abortion rights, right, that your personal choice is also a political choice. People say, well, abortion, that's a personal choice. Well, the personal is political. And that's been an organizing thought for me for a long time. In my song I like me, I start with that the personal is political. The revolution start at home. Your first protest should be your own choices you make personally, despite who in that office. Continues that marathon. When I

think of climate change choices, it sounds stupid. It's might sound but and I know it might be a drop in the bucket, but it's a political choice. I bought a bidet a little the tushy, you know that Cody and them was advertising, why it's just less paper. We don't buy paper towels. I went to home depot and I bought a whole hundred thousand pack of them, like little square cloth towels, and I just wash them on Saturdays. It's these are little choices that aren't making, that aren't

turning me in a homesteader. All of us, all of us can't be Robert in homestead like I look, we all can't do that. I still got to take my kids to school. One of the choices I made. LA's train station train system has gotten better. I drive less. That's me doing climate stuff. I focused a lot on our local elections, although the measure six not passing is bizarre, but you focus on what you could do locally. Really, there are certain positions you can get in your city

that aren't even elected. You can just you can join a school board, you join a city council, you can sit on an advisory board, and a lot of times it just be two hours a month, Like it don't even be that hard. Remember in the coffee one I did for it can happen here when I said there is a beauty in the fact that the solution still kind of remains community. What wakes people out of their stupor and also what gets people in stupors is community.

Your very presence, especially if you're a person of color. Obviously don't put yourself in danger, but your presence as a person of color is proof of concept that some of the shit they believe about your people is clearly false because you are a living and breathing example. I don't know where you stand politically, but when we was in the pickup lines, you know, picking up our third and fourth gradest, you see, I'm a regular ass dude picking up my child who gonna complain, just like your

child gonna complain that she don't like Dino Nuggies. No mo, nigga, I'm regular. The personal is political. You just being in community and a lot of times beat the start Robert talked about. You know, he could have totally became an in cel if it wasn't for him joining an online gaining group with some older, like twenty two year old girls who would call him on some shit. When he said, dumb shit, it's community, you're like, oh wait, what, you'd

be surprised. Palestine still ain't free. We still got protests to show up to an Another thing you could do is just share some game, right, give some game to people one of the things we do, and we gonna do that across all the cool zone. We're gonna give y'all game. Delete me. I use it, y'all don't know. Y'all can't find my address on the internet, monigga Like nah, that scrubbed off the internet? You feel me? James helping y'all. If you got immigrant family, immigrant folk, Look, they need

an address. You gotta live at a certain place for thirty days, and that'll at least shave off you know what I'm saying, the mass deportations. That could at least stall it till we could figure out what's going on. Look, you got people in your life like that, let them use your address, Let you know, put it, put it, put put the water bill in their name. I don't know, Just these are little things you could do. The marathon continues. What did doctor King say, I might not get there?

You're right, you ain't see this, My black panther father, man, it's this. There's things that I've been able to accomplish that he couldn't even imagined. You're part of a larger story, a longer story. You see that, You see that resilience. Man, You see people and you see these dudes doing parkour and buzzn't allis and kick flips over rubble in Gaza Dog. There's a resilience that's inside of us. The marathon continues, the fact that there is still a country called Germany.

The marathon continues. You do what you gotta do, organize, you take care of yourself. You'all teach your kids to not be weird. Those we get back to the program. But Yo, America, you ever see somebody walk in to like the bar or the club or something, and you like, you know, you're kind of low key a batty, like you know what I'm saying, Like it's I see it in there. And then you look at their partner and you like, really, that's your that's who you came with,

that's your boat. I must be missing something because I really feel like, no, America, this fault, this is really your boat. Okay, y'all really elected a convicted felon hood politics, y'all. Okay, wait, one more thing, one were thing when we're thing, I just want to calibrate for a second, in the sense that we all worried about our drift of fascism, which is partially because America don't be existing in the global community.

I feel like every other country can look at us and be like, oh, you having your first fascist dictator. Oh you haven't. You've never had a military coup. Oh is your You've never had a military queue. Oh hey, everybody, look, they're about to have their first military cue. The thing is America are toddlers. Okay, this is our first, but when you look at the rest of the no world, baby, they've been through this before. Okay, really the in now? All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.

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