Okay, here's the thing that shouldn't be laughing. Multiple things can be true at the same time, am I lion Eyron lion? Look, things can be both funny and tragic, right. The things are like that all the time. Sometimes you can use humor to understand tragedy or to process your your trauma. Sometimes you use it to hide it. Other times it's just the fact that multiple conflicting things are
both true. And today this is Friday, September eight, which is simultaneously the day the world lost historical icon and one of the greatest days on Twitter. Ever, this is up there with the Nigger Navy. So two things are true, multiple things are true. A elderly woman peacefully passed in her sleep who was loved by millions, a devoted wife. Uh. I don't know anything about her motherhood, but her kids seemed to love her grandkids, you know, though she had
great cand kids. She was loved by many and and was an integral part to a lot of people's lives. And I'm sure a lot of people really cared about her. She was also a symbol of national pride, or the longest living symbol that these people have had. And since she is the symbol of this monarch. By y'all's creation, she is the symbol of six hundred years of colonialism, of pain and suffering that has happened to the diaspora
of seasoned food people everywhere. And if you know anything about people that season the food, we're gonna get our jokes off. They are both true. Listen. The only queen we recognizes Queen Latifa, her politics. Y'all all right, So I'm gonna interrupt my normal flow of content that I usually try to stack in my my rule about waiting and not just dropping hot takes, but gathering information and
stuff like that. Uh, because there are some moments that are just so perfect and need to be spoken on immediately now for for this to make sense to you as to why this needs to be a whole episode. There are a few things you need to understand as your primary as your background information. One of those things is, Listen, I can't stress this enough. There are a few things that black people take very serious that you don't know. One thing you know about black people is we're gonna
roast you. If you need roasted, it's gonna happen. We take our music and our food very serious. We take our meals very serious. You need to make sure you cook that chicken, clean that chicken. We take our hygiene very serious. You know what I'm saying. Uh, they make babies wear hats because you're afraid they're gonna be cold. We love Queen Latifa and we love Princess Diana. I just I don't know. I don't make the rules. That's
just what it is. But you need to understand what actually happened and why that was so significant to all
of us across the world. You also need to understand black people, and you understand to understand the phenomenon of black Twitter when Okay, these things have to be understood to understand why I can't keep a straight faced right now, because this was one of the greatest days ever because it felt like Captain Planet, like it felt like Voltron of Jokes where black people, African, Indian, Irish, like Central and South American all got together and was just roasting
foods and it was like almost like in in competition as to how bad we could roast this lady. But here's what I hate is that it's not really about this lady. That's only the catalyst of it. So let's get into this to understand how we work, why we feel the way we feel, and why this is so important, why this is the actual news. Yea, already, let's go though.
Queen Elizabeth, the longest living monarch in the British Empire's history, ninety six years years old, kids, grandkids, great grandkids, great great grandkids. She didn't seen a plethora of presidents all the way back to Roosevelt. They said, the only president she ain't meet is Truman. So she's been around. Now. If you understand how the crown works out there in the UK, this is what I'm talking about. The Queen Elizabeth, the Queen of England. How that, how that monarchy works
is like there, it's all symbolic. They don't have actual power, the Prime Minister in the Parliament, they actually run the country. She is the symbolic figurehead, right are the royal family. So that's like Prince Charles. You know, lady died before she passed away, Charles and William Kate Middleton we married her, and of course the Duchess of Sussex. Nuck if you buckets, uh, Megan Markle, you know, um, the sister from Inglewood that
abdicated her and her her and Prince Harry advocated. But so this family, they're completely supported financially by the state. They don't work. They just do symbolic stuff. It's all diplomatic. It's all pomping circumstances. Now, that doesn't mean it's not important. Symbols are important, Like we understand that, and if you, I mean a lot of us may understand. It's like in our own families, right, Like you know, Granny may not have no actual say, but when Granny come in
the room, everybody respect her. Maybe she too old to have an actual say, you know what I'm saying, But her presence is that important, you feel me. So I'm not dragging them about that, Like I get it. Symbolic power, you know, versus is actual authority, you know, flying a flag like a bandanna, blue bandanna, red bandanna, Like it's a symbol. They don't have no actual power, you feel me.
It's a symbol. So she is for them, culturally speaking, the symbol of England the UK, like their their nationality, right. And why this is so important to Hammerhone is because I don't know if you remember the episode we did about like world powers in the New World Orders and stuff like that, like how great Britain was so on top for so long, right, and that there's a saying that said, you know, the sun never said on the
British Empire. You know how many colonies they have you know what I mean, places they've called y'all, there's only twenty two countries in the world that they haven't invaded. Like that's what you got. Listen to me that that's not two countries that's invaded. There's only twenty two left that they didn't invade. Like then little teeny Island took it upon itselves to say, hey, what's gonna be? I mean, like this is some marvel Villain type empire. British has
invaded of the country's on Earth. Like, are y'all listening to me? So? So when history says, you know, the sun never said on the British Empire, because listen, Canada is it? Do you understand that they under the crown? What are you talking about the whole No, it's a Canada is a British Are y'all listening to me? Now? Of course, as America we're wanting to talk. You know what I'm saying? They just have had a millennials worth
ahead start on us. But the point I'm trying to make is that that empire has touched, I mean, all every corner of the world, but it wasn't necessarily for good. Now that being said, uh, do we love a downtown abbey? Do we love a you know what I mean? A TV show set in Victorian you know, Britain where the monarchs talked together, and just do we love us? Are war and pieces? You know what I'm saying. Like, of course all the popping circumstance makes for great entertainment, you know.
And then the bizarro world one that had the black people and the colored people as British monarchs, that took over the Internet for a while, was at Bridgerton. Is that what that mug was called. I just couldn't I just I don't know. I just couldn't feel like I could go there and just kind of play dress up as the slave master. Now I'm not listen, this is just me. That's just the way I felt about I couldn't even watch Twelve Years of Slave I was like, the last thing I want to see on this television
in these movies is my people suffering. I just I don't. It's not entertaining. And listen, if you listen to the episode we did on Behind the Bastards about the potato plight in in Ireland, did you you know, I think you might understand what Irish Twitter is doing right now. Now, all that being said, it's not like Queen Elizabeth herself is at fault for any of these things. I mean,
of course not. She was a part of a much larger system, a generation of feelings and beliefs that you can just conquer lands you get on right, And it's not like she's the only one of that part of the world. You know, Spain, Portugal, France, everybody was getting invade on. You know, it was the age of imperialism. We all get it. So she's not singular in that she's not also at fault, just like you know, a little white kids saying, well, it wasn't my fault. I
never bought slaves of Okay, yeah, you're right. I don't
think anybody's saying you are. But when it comes to the slave thing, you you don't act like you're not benefiting from years of the system stacked in your favor, you know, like, let's not I mean, let's not be delusional about it, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, obviously in a on an individual standpoint, there's things why intersectionality is so important to understand that class and race and religion are intersectional things that you know, sometimes classism
and racism overlaps, sometimes they don't. They're not the same thing. Were told. I understand that why because I studied critical race theory anyway, So in the same way that, yeah, you're right, the royals and the immaterial concept and state of Great Britain has immensely benefit y'all. Like, okay, that Britain didn't they didn't season their food. You got spices from India, like y'all, you know what I'm saying. Like,
there's just everything about what y'all benefited from. Again, remember I'm talking the concept of Great bra I haven't even gotten to the people like you want to go to the Royal Museum, you know what I'm saying, Where it's just stuff from all over the world that you collected in a museum. I mean, not that's just you. You pillaged our villages, you know what I'm saying, and it put them in a museum and was like, hey, look
at these amazing things we found. You didn't find them, fam Okay, So anyway, it is not her herself that is responsible for all these things. However, according to y'all's words, you you can air quote my yaws, she is the symbol of the monarch. She is the figurehead of the tradition. We ain't make her that, no way us made her that y'all did. So it was almost like, if you don't notice, you inadvertently put all the way to the Hood and everything the Hood has done on that one person.
Y'all said that, not us. So you you made her. You made her to think, oh they so all this, that's that's you. The reason why, the reason why we our family and the Caribbeans, the reason why all of Central and South America looked the way and look, the reason why India and Pakistan is our two different countries. You know what I'm saying. The reason So you didn't put all this, y'all said, she was the symbol of it, all right, and this symbols so cold. They've been up
so much so that even Ireland got jokes. It's not just melonated folks, it's other white people got jokes. Because you said she was the symbol. Y'all made her that Again. I can't stress us enough. Two things can be true. Of course, it's tragic, but like we told you before, it could die every day. Let's take a break. Okay, now we're back. There's things you need to understand, not just about black people but in turn black twitter. One thing you need to know about black people is we
really loved Princess Diana White. We were old for her. Like I don't know if y'all understand how sad black people were when Princess Diana past, because she was a real one. She was a regular girl, you know what I'm saying. She was a girl of the people. When she pulled up to the city, it was very different the way she treated her that she was a humanitarian, she was environmentalist. She was really really trying to work out and undo a lot of the history that you know,
her in laws had done. She was like a real one. She married this prince who clearly ain't love her. He had a side checked the all time that was the real chick. And you know what, and we all knew her mom ain't like her. We knew that, we knew the queen and them name't like her. She was a commoner. We was like, well, we like her, she could we like her? So, Uh, if Twitter was a low life when Princess Diana passed, this would be a totally different story.
Black people like Princess because she like sheer real with black people like queens. We just like Queen Latifa. So when you heard when we heard the news that the queen has passed, we thought it was Latifa, was like, Lord, say it ain't so why because she's a real one. Queen Latifa, a rider. Queen Latifa put on for our homies. Queen Latifa, put on for the ladies, put on for the city, put on for the culture. We love Queen Latifa. Living Singles one of the greatest shows. And you could
quote me on this. Uh, friends, that's just living single with white people. Quote me, quote me, friends is just living single with white people. You have to understand we lived in a lot of ways, especially which might have been by design. Our entertainment was in a whole other silo. The show came out on Hulu. Uh, Tommy and Pam,
we all thought you were talking about Martin. Were like, the thought didn't cross my mind that that was Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson until I said to myself, they're probably not making a show about Tommy and pam Like I'm just I'm just letting you into our psyche, and let you into our psyche. Also, listen, when something is funny, no matter how inappropriate it is, I don't know what
it is about us, we laugh. It's it doesn't we just we laugh at it's remember I told you about like dragging rights and like fear the clap back that like when when when you grow up in our culture, it's just are nobody's funnier than like our moms, our aunties. Like we get dragged, we get roasted, and you have to just clap back. You have to win to clap back. Who to clap back too? But you have to just you just take You have to laugh because it's funny.
Right Listen, Black people got this way too. That like I don't even if you succeeding, we're gonna tear you down to crack jokes. I don't know what it is about us. It's not it's not malicious, it's not mean. We understand it. You go buy a house. Look at you with your financial stable head ass. You know what I'm saying, then you got a raw thyro or some
ship nigga, Like, damn, look is nigga. You know what I'm saying, old old four oh one K having asked nigga, like you know what I'm saying, like like would you would you? You? You know them numbers, you're a little figurehead and like and it's like we're actually proud of you. That's actually great that you have before one K like like this, this is proud of you. It's just that's just how we talk. Like I don't I you. I don't know how it's to explain it to you. We
laugh at the most inappropriate things because they're funny. I don't know how. How how else do you deal with tragedy? You know? Like you since sixteen nineteen, we've been on the bottom of culture, like you know what I'm saying, So we have we try to figure out how to make joy, how to make treasure out of trash. And one of those things is we just laugh at stuff,
right and even at treasure out of trash. Why we gate keep so much about our phrases, our culture are things because it's like, damn, you're taking everything man white, we can have nothing Like there's certain phrases right now that I have to promise myself. I'm not gonna put on this podcast because I can't be having people listen.
This can't go the way of lit bet crunk, you know, woke swag, like it just get out of our It just get out of hand, and then we can't and thenn't meets something else like you're okay, y'all do that no more? Got dog? But anyway that community living the way that we understand and communicate and celebrating and drag each other and hold each other accountable. You know what I'm saying, even when you acting stupid, the way we
hold each other accountable. We're trying. We're doing this because it's like, you know, we all we got so I'm gonna make fun of you so you learn. You know what I'm saying, You don't do that no more once the end that it invented, we just do that online. That is black Twitter. Now let me step back for a second. You know why there's any other air quotes insert adjective twitter because of black Twitter, because that's what we do. We make stuff. The internet was not a
space for black people. We had Black Planet that was a that was like our MySpace. But when it's like we're not trying to silo ourselves, we're just not welcome. So we just create our own things. So it's like, all right, well I'm gonna follow the homies, this fool funny. We're gonna share our own ideas across the country, across the world, right because it's because that's what we would do if we was kicking it, If we was kicking it in real life, we would be cracking jokes and
compared notes and dragging fools. Girl, did you hear about Boyd? It's did you see this nigger head? Like you know, and we would just be getting jokes. This is where we get our news. If you really want to know what's really about to pop, you just it's black Twitter. There's no vitations. I don't like. It's not like y'a too colonial on the way that you think. Ain't no
entry points. It's just we know who we are. I don't like, I can't even tell you who to follow for you to be a part of, because this doesn't work that way. There's no like influencer, gatekeeper, like it's leader like it's just that's that's corny to us anyone and everyone. You know how sometimes the funniest person in your life is just your uncle, like he just funny. Imagine your funniest cousin just happen to have a Twitter account,
So everyone's funniest cousin, you know what I'm saying. It's just it's that it's like some people are like you know, political activists or like public figures and stuff like that. They stuff get in there, but that's not your access point. It's just we're just kicking it. And it's like and the gate keeping is collective, like you know when someone sucks or not, Like I just I know this is
the most ethereal, but we get it though. So when stuff go down, like when the Duchess of Sussex, uh, Megan Marco actually ended up, you know, marrying that white boy and doing it that, we was proud. I was like, ohhead on Inglewood, you know what I'm saying. And then they called her the Duchess of Sussex. So we thought, knock if you buck, and we just made it the thing knock g if you book, nook if you book you And it's like it just takes levels to understand
because we're immersed. We are already bicultural. We're immersed in our own culture, and we're immersed in dominant culture. Not just what comes with being and oppressed people. You just have to be. You just have to have a double consciousness. Now, this isn't unique to Black people. Eyesight Foods Gone Wild the one of the greatest meme accounts in the history of meme accounts. It's Chicano, it's Solo, it's it's Mexican. They created their own world and they know their own jokes.
So when they're getting jokes, they got their own version of hood politics that's specific to them. And it's funny. I tapped in with them, dudes, because I get it. I lived on that side of town, but that's their language. I'm tapped in because I know them. So they create their own world and they deal with things their own way, and when stuff gets out, if you don't know what
you're looking at, you may think wrongly about it. But black Twitter is a cultural phenomenon that I don't know if this will ever be repeated anywhere else this moment in time, because it's like it's the entire diaspora of black people are at one barbecue and we're just all
having fun. We're at the same spades, they were at the same dominoes and experiencing things in real time, and we're able to just you know how black people laugh, you know how we laugh, We loud, we extra like that's just it's just us and and it's that online. But why was this particular one so special? Coming up next? All right? Why this one was so special was because it was almost like avengers of melanated people plus the Irish. Why did we combine our powers like this is because
we've all been affected brutally by the British Empire. And like I said before, y'all made her the figurehead of colonialism. Somebody sent me a tweet and y'all go dragged this dude if you want to. This man said, Oh, it ain't gonna hurt him. No, it ain't gonna hurt him. Numb Trevine Wax. This man tweets said, the death of the Queen feels weighty because it marks the passing of not of a woman, but of a world. Bread I
mean your mouth to God's ears. I hope it is the ending of a world, the world that's been shaped by imperialism, that the global South has been raped and pillaged for its resources. Not only not only will come out the earth, but the human ones themselves, the Transatlantic slave trade. FAMI, Like, are you serious? Like, man, I hope it is. I hope it is the symbolic end. You know what I'm saying. We were having two different experiences. Listen, this is not just US India India Twitter jokes. You
know why India Pakistan are too different countries. Britain they just made a line like like you have to like just like follow me. Why why why the belief that people got tea time? Why do I use terms like commoner for the British joke said Listen, Entire tribes, civilizations, natives Caribbean, like the sugarcake, Like just where six hundred years and the planet was affected by y'all just pulling
up on spots and being like it's ours. Hundreds and thousands of people murdered, wiped out, having to deal paying taxes to something like listen, America special because we just fought them off like we just like but we I mean, our origin story is about how trash the British Empire is that's our riger story. Now let me read this quote coming out of Irish Twitter. Now it's credited to the Irish Times. I'm trying to find an article. I
can't find an article, but this is the screen the screenshot. Uh, but just understand the sentiment. Mh. It says having the monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbor who's really into clowns and has dotted their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window, and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it's like having a neighbor who's really into clowns and also your grandfather
was murdered by a clown. Good that's not funny, but that's funny. You see what I'm saying. Do you left by God? Like I said, two things are true. I'm sorry for that woman. I'm sorry for her family. It sucks to lose somebody. We told you and Nick's died Daily episode. Listen, that boy, that boy from that other hood. We probably went to the same head start you know what, you know, I probably knew we probably was in the ain't pop Warner. But it's very possible that that boy
killed at least three of my armies. So I'm like, I mean, I'm sorry for him. I I you don't want anyone to suffer, but you want me to come out here and share the tear because that's somebody Grandma. You wouldn't worry about my grandma. You wouldn't worry about the millions of people across the whole planet's grandma. Was you at it was you at day funeral? Did y'all seeing somebody down there? Y'all gotta like listen, man, it's like you don't know nobody who's been oppressed. Like it's
just you pick a country. I said again, it's only twenty two of them. They put colonies in. I just I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. We got history like Earth, like Earth got history with the British Empire like Earth like I just not, I don't just know what to tell you. So excuse us for not catching the vapors or nothing, you know, I mean singing God Save the King. I'm just trying to tell you, like we just like there's some feelings. We
got feelings about this. Now that's me being serious, but again I feel sorry for that woman. Now let me read some of the tweets, just just just to prove to you what I'm talking about. Like listen, again, I'm not telling you it's appropriate. I'm just saying it's funny. Like this's just how we deal with stuff. One of them is the guy uh at the will Choy. He says, Nations, Everyone in England is distracted. It's the perfect time to get your stuff back from the British Museum. Uh. Bryan
Ken at Ryan Underscore Ken Underscore Access. The seasoned food diaspora are really cutting up on here today. I laughed with you, my beloved legwashing community. That is listen, let me tell you something. This stuff is so funny to me. Uh Queen Latifa started trending because black people thought she died instead of the Queen of England. I just this stuff is. You can't make this stuff up. And my favorite tweet is from one of my favorite accounts. It's
Philip Lewis, phil Underscore Lewis. He said, someone that informs Stacy Dash. Now, now I I know I'm sorry that I'm pretty sure some of y'all don't understand why this is so funny. And this is what I mean about, like why black twitter is so important to culture, why it's so brilliant. So you have to remember Stacy Dash, you know, the girl from Clueless that was in the All Falls Down video with Kanye went full maga, she went full right wing, she went full all Lives Matter.
And it was weird to us because it was like, what what is you doing, Stacy Dash, the girl from Clueless, Sharon talking about all lives matter being back in the blue, that girl, the girl from All Falls Down video, So she didn't already went so we was already like, I don't understand what's going on with her? So I guess, well, if that she chose, she chose, she chose the line in the sand. That's what she said. That's what she want to do. Okay, alright, deuces then, so we didn't
know she hadn't already been kicked off the barbecue. She out the group text, but a few weeks ago, a TikTok of hers goes viral of her. Just Solva climpsed so distraught, emotional lead and she was like y'all forgive my lay pass like forgive me and just was so emotional about DMX dying, just just about how kind he was and I was sweet, and just how drugs like, oh man, please check on your friends. D MX died almost two years ago. We did. Do you know what?
He's been dead for over a year. What did you talking about, Stacy Dash? Is you that unplugged? Is you that mac? Is you that out of the circle? That's your dough And then to get on your phone, to open your phone, to open that app and do this whole Rigamarow is like, girl, you was what, this is funny even if it's sad, it's I don't know what
to tell you, it's funny. So then fulfilled to be like, hey, somebody tells Stacy Dash, I was like, okay, okay, we are undefeated because it's just well, we can't have her showing up two years later talking about she's so sad about the queen. You have to understand the level. There is levels to this. It's levels to this. And lastly, is the is I want to I can't stress enough the importance the cultural importance of what of what black
Twitter is. It's actually real, realty. We are way more informed than people give us credit for, way more versed in multiple cultures, in multiple spheres, and it shows up in black Twitter, but it shows up our way. And today was so special because that united with Ireland, with
India and with South America. It was like the Captain planet rings came together and we just had the dopest barbecue with like uh we had, I mean, with the most amazing Guinness beer, with some incredibly seasoned chicken and some wonderful cevich and some curry. It was just the dopest party that who knew what would unite the masses is the death of Queen Elizabeth. So to reiterate, two things can be true at once. Rest in peace to the Queen. I hope her family is okay, and I
hope the thing survives. And we saw how you treated lady died, We saw how you treated Megan Marco and sent you the symbol of all the imperialism I mean, uh autin prayers, naked but arresting peace. But the only queen we recognizes Latifa who politics, y'all? Yeah? This is his thing was recorded by ME Propaganda and Eastlow Spoiled Heights, Los Angeles, California. This bug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by Matt Osowski. I can totally say his name. Guys,
it was it was a stick. He's won by Matt now again because he got into some legal situations with the name Headlights. You know, common used to be called common sense. You know, Tip t I was tipped Sometimes it happens. Executive produced by the one and only Sophie Lichtman for Cool Zone Media and the the music by the one and only Gold Tips, Gold Tips the Jay Shawn p So y'all just remember listen every time you check in. If you understand city living, you understand politics.
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