N*ggas Be Wildin

I had a birthday over these yea happy birthday? Yeah, you know, birthday weekend. What can you do? You know you have to you gotta sell her. I don't usually celebrate the birthday like all out every year. You know what I'm saying that I guess, the older than I get, I feel like I'm mad. It's really only like a celebrate it like every like three or four birthday exactly. But I mean I didn't necessarily go all out. We

are still in the middle of a pandemic. But you know, just hung out with some friends, took it easy for the first time in a long time. Did anyone else important to have a birthday on Monday Saturday? I don't know if I would say important, but I mean, you know, like you know it could be you know certain certain you know great American figures have a birthday, possible holiday

inducing then you know rioters, degenerates. Yeah, we look people who get their messages, you know, kind of manipulated and through time and used by people who weren't necessarily on their side. Anybody who the FBI urged to kill themselves have a birthday. Recently, I get this weird feeling there was a guy, some kind of man. There's a starting to sound like the longest running dad joke that has ever been. You guys all know who the man the legend?

What did you do for your MLK day? I mean it is well from a mixture of just logistics, challenges of having a tiny human strapped to my soul, and as well calls from the king family themselves for no celebration until passage of voting reds Bill, I didn't really do much in terms of public appearances of any kind. I just kind of spent the day listening to some old speeches of his um and just kind of reflecting on,

really reflecting on how hated he was in his day. UM, Like you know, perusing political cartoons from the king archives from the time, you know, folks. You know, like there was one where he's like officiating a mixed marriage of like a white and black character with one of them hats on their back, like the anti war movement, and the other is like civil civil rights and it's supposed to be like, oh, like a interracial marriage with this

dirty scoundrel scalawag. Because another one where like he's sitting drinking at a bar and like this small child was grabbing his coat like come back, dad, and like, uh, the little child is like labeled as a civil rights movement, and then he's drinking out of the bottles of like anti Vietnam and like communism or something, and it's just like bra so many of the moderates, like he called it.

And the thing is about listening to speeches is he calls out bipartisan function like Democrats and Republicans being shitty, and you know, the whole letter from Birmingham jail kind out the white marlerates even like the moderate as bitches out here like the fucking Chuck Schumers of the world

would have reviled this man and vice versa. Yeah, but I mean, nobody would have reviled him more than the right wingers out there, who, more than anybody, claim his message to be their own, as if what Martin Luther King was actually to like as if like the dominating you know thing about Martin Luther King was, Hey, I don't see race, you know. You know, It's like I

find it hard to believe that. I think we've talked about this before, but I find it hard to believe that a twenty year old Martin Luther King right now would be if you would be hearing Ben Shapiro, you know what I'm saying, like name dropped their quote. It's not even hard to like learn about what he was about. Like I'm sure you could extrapolate whatever you want from like half listening to his speeches in the background while you worked like I was doing on Monday. But like, yeah,

there's so much more than you know. The color blinds like the single word they try to draw from, like you know, I have a dream or whatever. Like literally all it takes to turn on this thing. Okay, I got this really crazy thing called YouTube. Go on there and you google. In the YouTube, I hear the kids say for his name and it will give you a bunch of speeches where you can actually hear the ship. He said, It's like so like it's not even hard.

It's like zero intellectual curiosity from the like you don't even you don't even google it to see, like I don't. I don't think that. I don't think that it's like a lack of wanting to know or anything like that.

I think that's the point of it. I mean, it's a reason why you know, the conservatives are quick to drop the I have a dream speech, you know, from Martin Luther King, but then behind the scenes, you know, a lot of the you know, the components of these anti CRT I just lay is to make the letter from Birmingham like bann and that they can't teach that or teach any other aspect of what he said, you know, as if like all of Martin Luther King's involvement in

the civil rights movement was I think, you know, judge, judge somebody by the content of their character and not by the you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm pretty sure he said more and even even that, I'm sure there was like there was a context to it that I don't think a lot of these right wingers are using in good faith. But I mean, you're right, Martin Luther King was a brother who was giving it to everybody, and you know, I'm saying he was not having it.

So definitely a lot of the moderates who who think that they're down with m okay probably wouldn't be now. But you know, I think it goes without saying that Martin Luther King, we're here to defend himself. Like there's no way that you know, the Laura Ingram's and Bill o' radley's of the world would think to to name drop of if he was here to get on the TV and be like, yo, don't don't don't met you by day. I'm not gonna say I like, it's you know, it's

funked up that he got assassinated as ship. But what I will say is that I have also been you know, y'all on the show here we talk a lot about like liberation movement history that I staid, And so I've recently been reading Elaine Brown's autobiography. She was the only female um like chairperson of the Black Panther Party and so in studying just like learning more about her and her role in the Black Panther Party and what she did afterwards. I watched some interviews with her recently, and

it's bad. She is not cool anymore. And then do you think about I mean, she's just like, well, first of all, there's no like ideological coherence to like the thing she says. Like. I saw this one interview where she was like, to fund the like no, literally, so she starts, she opens the interview say, back in the day, we used to talk about often the pigs and that

was a great slogan. Let's bring that back, okay, And then literally later on was critiquing I guess the young people she was talking to, saying to fund the police has gone too far, and y'all are like, y'all need to get out and talk to more black people because black people don't really want to fund the police. So it's just like and then she gets on this rant

about pronouns and it's like the language police. And so I said to say, a lot of our leaders who we still have today didn't really keep up with the radical spirit they engendered as young people, you know, talking about Aldredge clever, fucking I don't know even to a degree John Lewis with like, you know, didn't always hold it down for for quite everything, but uh so I feel like it would have been uh I don't know, it would be interesting to see what it was, what

it would be like if folks like mL Hey and Malcolm X were like here today, what positions they would hold today. Yeah, I mean, you're right, but I mean it's like again, I just I just know that they used to call the brother communists, you know, like even even before there was any they you know, they used to call him communists without even any understanding of whether or not he actually was a problem. That's never been true.

It's never not been the case. But I'm just saying, like again, with that said a twenty year old, a twenty year old race and socially conscious communists, you know what I'm saying, Like, there's no there's there's no way any of them are like or giving him any sort

of props for anything anything period. Well we give you and then oh I'm sorry, sorry, you know this this year was fell on m LK Day, but my birthday, I mean, because usually it doesn't, you know, I'm about to ask, like, how does it feel every single year was like it was a there was a point and there was like a point in time I remember where like whenever I would share with people like the other famous people who have my birthday, because there's a there's

a couple of other cats who do have a birthday. I think me and Michelle Obama share the same birthday. Jim Carey has the birthday. Um, I think like Kid Rock, Muhammad Ali or something like that, you know what I mean, Like I got I sure a birthday was you know, not Kid Rock, but I sure birthday with some cool cats.

There's some famous cats. And I remember for a long time there was a period whenever I would tell people that, like, oh, this famous person have my birthday, I would always just include M LK in that because I thought that his birthday was on my birthday. And then I think, I don't understand that Monday was not his birthday. I kind of that I've coped. I'm gonna lie to you. So what is it? It's like, what is the like what

the big third Monday in uh in January? Yeah, and so it's like near his birthday, but like they keep the date the same day. Okay, yeah, alright, that makes sense. Well, ship I mean, yeah, props to him, Pat myself. Happy birthday, bitch. I've fared when I was when I was a younger man, you know, when I wasn't expecting sorry, they weren't expecting black men to live past the sex. Look at you, you're almost older than Okay was when he got domed. Oh ship, I don't even want to think about that ship.

Oh God. Anyway, anyway, what are we getting into. We got a little bit everything. We're gonna talk a little bit about young Dolph uh and uh, a little bit of that um tragedy and controversy, Kanye doing Kanye Uh. We're gonna talk a little bit about going on Russia Ukraine. So a little bit of everything, and we will be right back with that after we take a little break. All right, So we are back. So what's the first story to um? So, I'm sure most listeners know about

the death of young Dolph? Um he how long ago was this that? Actually I should have pulled up pause, maybe like a month and a half pause and pull up actual some source on this, so I don't sunk up the details. It was November seventeen, alright, Okay, So, um So, Young Dolph uh was a was the Tennessee Bass I fucking forget everything. Yeah yeah, Memphis, let me try this game. So um, as I'm sure listeners are already aware, Memphis based rapper Young Dolf was shot and

killed on November seventeenth of last year. Um he you know, had peaked number thirty five on the Billboard Hot one hundred, was coming up in the game and struck down in his prime. But then last week his one of his suspected killer's who was wanted by the police, dropped a new song. On the day that he also announced that he would be turning himself into the authorities and was

later arrested. So this other Memphis rapper named straight Drop, also known as twenty three year old Justin Johnson dropping a music video for his new song track Hawk, and then the next day was apprehended by US Marshalls in Indiana and charged with first degree murder. The weekend prior, Straight Drop posted a message on his Instagram story on which he said he was gonna be turning himself on in on Monday. He was innocent and he'd be back soon.

But we'll see about that as he is now in UH police custody and because clearly not really been taking this situation too seriously. Too seriously well, I mean, so I'm very curious as to what your reaction. Man, I really you know what I want of those people, as you know, again, listen to the show notes that always tries to find the systemic and underlying causes of a lot of just funked up ship that happens, because I think I ultimately have to uproot that in order to

change situations. Right, But I've been recently encountering a lot of examples where people just do dumb shit and like hal and I'm having to face the fact of first of all, like you can't evade discussions of public personal responsibility forever. Like this nigga decided, like you know, people was looking for him, and maybe he was like getting a little acclaimed. Those folks knew he was a suspect, and I wanted to ride that to like fucking news a video like I mean, look again, you know, going

off of the words of it. It's always weird with these stories because it's like, all right, so dudes being accused by the cops and I don't want to, you know, but I meanly allegedly shot allegedly, but again, you know, a lot of this it's it's it's consistent and it makes sense. I don't know if it's a generational thing or what. I don't know. It's a social media driven sort of thing. Again, I don't know, but God didn't

we want to talk about not having sources. I forget the name of the rapper, but just a couple of weeks ago, another you know, similar situation with a young New York rapper who they've got him on camera, you know, or allegedly I'll say, on camera it definitely looks like him, but committing a murder and then later on the same day, like flexing on Instagram in the same design, in the same designer gear that he just committed a murder that was in broad daylight in the middle of the street,

that like, you know, and it's almost as if there's like no like understanding that it's like, yo, I'm on camera and yeah, I mean I recently, I think I mentioned in a recent episode that I went and spoke at a bond hearing for a local rapper and friend, like loose friend that we've been was charged with the attempted murder and spoke on like the stuff he's done the community, for the kids, And then the prosecution in the cross examination purely focused on the fact that after

the shooting happened, like the next day, this cat dropped a music video called who Shot at Me? Where he's talking about I'm gonna find you and feel you and ship and like flashing guns in the video. And so was his bond hearing of like what should we at this guy back on the streets, And they were grilling me on like did you see this music video? Did you see him with like the gun? And the music video he said, did you hear the part where he

says he's gonna go shoot shoot these people? And I had to be like yeah, but like but ultimately like it doesn't I mean, I felt like it doesn't discredit what I have seen him do in the community. Also knowing that a lot of these people, like I talked to him all earlier today he was like, yo, if don cheatle like like directed a film that's all about this murder, this mass murder, and he's in the film murdering people. Can you put him on And then later

he murdered someone. Can you put him on the stand and say that, like oh you had the murder movie like that, Like, yo, you definitely did the murder Like no, it's art And that was his argument, like yo, like I had to like show up and look tough because I wasn't gonna people fun with me, etcetera. Like and that kind of makes sense. But I think to a different level, I want to agree with you though, it's like there is a certain sense of like, don't do

that what you do? Yeah, I mean it's yeah, it's like it's you know, there's I guess at some points that can kind of be a fine line between um, you know, we always want to look at the macro reasons for why things happen and for why people do the things that they do so well, you know, we want to like analyze the structures and stuff and understand that ship doesn't just like boil down as simple to

pull your bootstraps up. And you know what I mean personal responsibility not like not everything fits into that box, you know what I'm saying. So that there there's that on one hand, and then there's the also you know,

like man on like a common sense aspect. You know, there's there's right, and there's rob you know what I'm saying, and like, I don't I don't think that that there has to be like necessarily like a conflict in understanding one thing and like or like performing performing one of those like ways of a understanding the world and the other you know, I think that you can still like look at the bigger picture as to why people do the things that they do, and why people feel that

they're in the situations they're in and things like that, and then also recognize that people make choices. Yeah, people, And for me, it's really been casting me to reflect. A third thing that really got me thinking about this lately is that it's snowed here on Sunday. This snow hasn't been so it's down here on Sunday. Really really cuteby was posted and they agnore me picks with their dirty snow men and they're cute toddlers like snow Nancy um.

And so I worked with some like local like homeless advocates to like get some people some hotel rooms that were like sleeping outside, and that was great. Got a lot of people have a cold, great, So we were looking at extending their stays for like like past when the cold, you know, the past when the snow belts or whatever, because we had we had the fun to do so. But some of these cats got fucking kicked

out of the hotels smoking inside. So one of them brought a dog, and it was just like god, damn it fuck. But so it really it really caused me to pause and reflect on like because I often talk about like the roads to quote unquote collective liberation and how like the generations long struggle and like it's gonna outlast us. You know, it's gonna you know, the next

generation is gonna go and finish the job. But like that sounds really optimistic and rosie, but like that's the case because things are gonna keep sucking up on the way they're like you can get somebody stable shelter and they could get themselves kicked out because they're smoking. Because like if you have your whole life getting shipped on and beat down, like a single day of a kind act or even a year of like support to stop sucking up, like is not even enough to help someone

really really get out of it. Like you know that cat you saw in the video who like murder or the guy on camera, and then it was like wilding out, like a lot of stuff led him to that point, and it would require a whole whole whole lot of ship to like transform the underlying conditions that created to put him in a spot where he thought this was

a good fucking idea. Right, Like people are gonna like, we're gonna keep fighting and fighting and fighting, and people are kind of keep sucking up because it's gonna take a really like if we're really serious about like fixing a lot of problems in society, like it's he gonna take a real long time because the weird dealing with real, real bad ship. That's that's true. But again I'm gonna

I hate playing Devil's advocate in these situations. But again, you know, if somebody wants to be like yo, young such and such rapper grabbed the bank and then was like flexing on Instagram and didn't understand the blah blah blah or like young whatever rapper got into a fight with some cops of blah blah blah blah blah, then I mean for me personally, it's like then I could, I guess can be more comfortable looking at it in

those terms. And ship like that, when we're talking about ship, like you shot somebody like a randy, you know, some rando outside of a vodega. It's like there's nothing like I don't feel that I'm like serving any community at large by like coverage someone like that, like funk that guy. Honestly, it's like, yeah, there's a level of personal responsibility to it, and so honestly unpopular take I have on these things

sometimes and I talked to other activists about this. I mean, it goes back to what Frederick Douglas said about it's easier to build strong children than repair broken men, and so want to talk about like transformer society. Honestly, I'm not only talking about helping that dude that like shot somebody on camera, Like when you get to that point,

Like I don't want to say people are irredeemable. I stually believe that with a significant investment of resources and time to help people like that, they can get better. But like, honestly, it's so like it would be probably be a lot easier just to make sure if people don't even end up there, Like let's get the kids. I focus so much on new development. Get the kids, get them healthy and like you know, ready for adulthood and making good choices and then in like twenty years,

we won't have these kind of problems. I mean, I just try to keep it consistent, you know, so for me personally, you know what I mean. So it's like if I'm looking at the news and it's like, yo, crazy white boy went crazy and took his gun and shot blah blah blah blah. You can give me whatever reasons you want. I don't care, you know what I mean. I don't. I don't. I don't care why I don't care.

Like there's there's nothing that anyone's gonna say that's gonna make me like, oh, you know, but I guess you know what I'm saying. So if you want to so, I'm just I'm not gonna like hear like YO, such and such rapper, you know, like shot just or gotten to a scuffle and thought or went to a don't you know, I mean like Young Dolph got shot in the back of the doing a shop. You know what I mean. By Google's acting like they were in a mob, you know what I mean, And like allegedly motherfucker's just

dropping singles like afterwards. So it's just like that whole thing. It's just like it's a level of fuckory that I personally feel like, you know, you know, like hey man, that there's no there's no place for that. There's really nothing to cover up. What's different between like my approach and maybe a lot of other people that have that reaction because also it's like, yeah, this person needs to help account held accountable. Our system for that right now

is jail. Sick you did it, and now you're going to jail. But like a sense of curiosity about how somebody got to that point, because even if it's like there's something we can do for you, we can learn from that of like how the fund do you end up at the point where you shoot somebody in the back of the doughnut shop? Yeah, And which is why I solely mean that. It's like like like I feel like it's a discussion like that. I feel like you can still look at the situation be like oh, such

and such, such and such. There is a lot, like you said, intellectual curiosity. There's a lot to be gained by understanding why that person was, you know what I mean in that situation. But like that's a conversation for like outside people to have, like people who are looking at it like from an intellectual, you know, analytical standpoint

and stuff. The people who are involved in the ship are gonna look at the ship like the people who are involved the ship like either you're directly involved, Hey my cousin, my my brother, my sister was killed, you know, or you know, I know the people who were the victim of that, and you're gonna react accordingly. So all I'm saying is it's like if there are people if if the d A's like, hey, such and such is accused of a crime, and then we have them on

tape talking about crimes. So of course they're going to use that at that is what I'm saying. It seems like they would, whether it's fair or unfair. I don't necessarily think that, like the don Cheatle example is like necessarily like fair because you've got to add some caveats into it. If it's like, oh Jane made a movie that was like if I had done it, you know what I'm saying, and then you and then they wanted to use that movie as evidence, I don't think I

would be saying no, you can't, you can't. I want to use example. Well, two things I want to say quick first to respond to that point and then respond

to earlier point. So, Luis c. K had jokes in his stand up about masturbating in front of people that didn't want to watch, and everybody laughed and once I was uncomfortable, and then they moved on, and then he actually later really did it, and so like y'all like so but that you know, but there's a disconnect and like, oh, you see something like that in a comedy special, you might think is a little weird, but you move on.

You don't like go home and call the police, and like, hey, I think Louis K is like sexually harassing people, you know, like, but gets excused from it because there art is. You know, they're millionaires. And and I'm gonna keep it consistent and say that that shouldn't be the case, you know what I mean, Like, in my personal opinion, that shouldn't be the case if I don't and I don't necessarily know the full details of how it went down and shipped

like that. But if if person X is a Louis c. K fan and then somebody says, oh, Luisy K did X to me, even if you're a fan, you're like, oh, I don't believe that. I like Louis k and then you got him on tape talking about, oh I like to do this, I like to do this. I think it opens up you know. I mean I don't think that that that that that's like uh, you know, causing a factor or like oh that means that that person

did that. But I mean, if you want to bring that into the discussion, I don't see why not, you know what I mean, if somebody like Louisy Kay did this to me, look at these tapes where he's talking about it, maybe that was a great example, like you know, I know, but I don't know. I think I think it was a good example. All I'm saying is that I'm just and again I can only speak for myself.

It is like I agree with you. I just try to keep that energy because like I don't like asking people to do stuff that I know I wouldn't do, you know what I'm saying. So I know that if I were personally involved in some of these situations, I wouldn't be able to look at it outside of that personal you know, like like impact zone of how it

affects me and ship like that. So if it's my community if it's my my family member, my friend or something like that, I'm gonna have like more of a like I'm just not gonna be as understanding of these like bigger micro macro issues and like that. So I'm just I'm just more understanding when when people are The second thing I wanted to respond to is you said that that what I'm talking about is an intellectual exercise that is done by folks that aren't impacted by violence.

And I want to remind you the listeners that I like, I don't like, I don't mean to bring it to bring the energy down real quick, but like I like started thinking about the ship when my fucking I got murdered man, and like I was like everybody was like, oh she get the death penalty, da, And like I literally can look at my family and be like, I this mom, this dude's mom as bipolar disorders, addicted to crack.

Like he grew up in the middle of nowhere, only options go to military where he learned how to fucking use a bunch of fancy guns and grenades, and ship came out and of course he fucking killed somebody. And so I was like, oh, I could like see the background of this person's life that led them to become a murderer. And so I've been saying, like, you know,

it is probably rare. I mean, like my opinion is very very much not of the majority or whatever, but like there's a lot of people impacted by violence who who because they are they lose a loved one or you know, to incarceration or violence stuff whatever. I can see the backwards, like you know, the bread crumbs of like how it should ended up the way it was. And I definitely don't mean like it's it's only it's

reserved for people who aren't impacted by violence. I just meant, like on a case to case basis, based on how it like personally affects you as all. It's all I bad, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean, it's a it's a difficult it's a difficult conversation and it's definitely a difficult topic that everybody. Everybody's going to have a different reaction to. All I'm saying is I just I

just personally I understand it. I understand why not everybody tries to have or why everybody likes I understand why not everybody can easily jump into that proper analytical phase of talking about this. People know that people, people understand, people know what they're where all the time, understand but it's just hard to like then channel into like a direction where you understand what needs to change through it. Like,

so don't link all that together. But so I had a story that came up, um that I wanted to run by you. That's kind kind of related to, you know, changing systems and stuff like that. I don't know if you saw this viral video, but the Sunrise Police Department in Florida is probing a sergeant who allegedly I mean, I gotta say allegedly, right, but I mean the sis'll tape I saw that they could do anyway they had.

They had a suspect that was had a It was a you know, white officer, black male suspect was in the back seat of the patrol car handcuff. They're the this veteran officer of twenty one years, giant, big dude. He apparently came in the tape that was released. The sound and audio was was out, so you couldn't hear what was being said, but this was confirmed by the

police chief later on. He came into the scene. He escalated the situation and then he pulled out his pepper spray and was getting ready to spray the handcuffs suspect in the back seat, and a newer female officer like immediately grabbed him by the belt and pulled him away from the suspect, and he immediately grabbed her by the neck and slammed her and gets the car in front

of all of her colleague. Um, he's been he's been placed on i think nonpaid administrative leave and and in this, in this regards to, you know, the props of the chief, the chief of that particular precinct has come out and it has been like, yo, she did the right thing. This is a disgusting So I don't you know, I don't think they're but it's really it's really blatant and really obvious. I mean, he he grabbed like his first instinct is to grab her by her throat, you know

what I'm saying. And he's like a giant dude and she's like a regular sized woman. And it's just like it looked like he's kind of used to grabbing women by the people. And I always trying to tell me when like I'm on my ship, you know, I'm on one about shit. Like, oh well, people always use these like stories from other places to like say we need to make change here. We don't really have these problems here.

But like, first of all, these always different police departments get the same kind of go to the same kinds of conferences, get the same kinds of training. There we have we have, you know, the police, the police chief of one city will go to another city, or or a police officer get fired from one city and got

another city. A couple of years ago, we had this dude that like ran like a suspect over with his car, didn't even know if it was the right dude, and like got fired and just went to the next county over and he um and and they could fucking suit the county for wrongful dismissal and defamation for saying that he shouldn't have hit the guy and got like like

half a million dollars. But anyway, that's beside the point, although I do want to use that to explain that um the Athens Clark County police chief announced today that he is leaving and explains that I have no comment on the matter because I you know, how like okay, you know, how like you can't give a negative reference for an employee, like it's it's illegal. A lot of places like you either like just don't do it, or you have to say something positive or it's like defamation

or something. Yeah, so you can't. You your old boss can would be like so I'm just gonna say that and leave it at that. But anyway, so yeah, so you get like police officers that go to different precincts, go to different places. You get this these national trainings that all of them go to and come back to you. So it's like a like a national only systemic thing as well as the kind of people that want to get into law enforcement. And so that ship is wild.

That ship, that ship is just wild. I mean, that's crazy. Well, I mean we we were just talking about personal responsibility and people inexplicably doing things on camera and on social media that are like inexplicable. But I don't know, it must be you know, maybe maybe somebody way smarter than me is most likely analyzing this ship. But there's gotta be some sort of terminology for the phenomenon and still doing it. Anyway, First of all, too many fucking cops

do that ship? Too many teenagers do that ship. Let's keep it real. Too many girlfriends just going to not not paying attention to that. Um what else you got? The sucking the people who stormed the capitol? Do you know how many people storm the capital and the next day called the lost and found to say that they lost ship inside FBI? How can I help you? Oh you left your bear miss and Nancy Pelosi's checks are you real quick? And they put you on hold and

it's like knock, knock, knock, it's a swat team. It's thrown smoked maid in the house. And people are on live streams like in the middle of riding like, oh, dude, I just got in a fight with some cops. That ship was dope, son, Yeah, man, we bear mass this one cop. He's on the ground. He was bleeding as this is. That's and then like interested, they're like, oh, how did you guys catch me? Like I will also say that pretends to the earlier debate, Um, they didn't

touch fun. A lot of folks that do wild shit like this, not all of them, but particularly time where it's like a shot yesterday ha ha. Like even if they don't express it. They express a lot of bracketdocio. Yeah, and the ship. There is a mindset of disposability that people have where it's like my life doesn't mean ship anyway. No, Like everybody, fucking like the whole system thinks I'm worthless, So why don't not fucking shoot a guy on a camera?

Like everybody goes to jail, Like everyone thinks I'm gonna do something like that anyway. Fuck it. So back to that a little bit, not to excuse that not you know, it's personal, personal choice ultimately, but like another part of like understanding how we fucking get here in the first place, where you're shooting a cat in the back of the head and don't not shut well, I mean, what do you think of that? What do you what do you think about the notion of It's like, yeah, it's a

personal choice. It's just I don't think I think that we can have an opinion of whether or not it's a good choice or not, you know, I mean, or another or whether or another right choice. Like I mean, not that you're saying that we shouldn't, but you know that's why it's like I always I feel, I feel, I always feel like a sense of conflict on on these sort of topics just because you know, my father worked for the State Department when I was a kid.

I've yeah, I've got family and law enforcement and ship like that, so I know i'd always you don't want to give full disclosure, you know, I definitely have that sort of you know, connection or indirect connection or whatever you want to call it to these things. So it's like just to before we move on, just to stress. I just I always just try to like put myself in other people's shoes just for the merely for nothing other than just the exercise of understanding where other people

are coming from, you know what I mean. So it's like I understand why some people perhaps may have like a bit more lead more right on these certain issues than perhaps I do, you know personally, you know what I'm saying. And I just I just feel like like like having like having that understanding and not just necessarily assuming that it's because they're a ship, live or right wing or you know what I mean, is helpful in

the discose. Yeah, yeah, I would love to understand the underlying conditions that brought this cop in Sunrise, Florida to just like be so aggro that he not only bear Mason's handcuff suspect, but choked his visit fellow officer. Officer, Like, bro, how do you guess at that point, like it really looked like some you know, roid rage because he's like a jack up juice stuff. Do you know what I mean? It looked like some roid rage type of like unstable

ship for a twenty one year vet. So I mean, I'm just saying, public defenders, any case that this dude has worked, I need to read this. I'll need to re examine that ship, bro, Like tomorrow, it's gotta another story I think we got. I was gonna think you think we should just do one more? Yeah we can, Yeah, we can do this. So back to wondering how the fund did people get in the situation that they're in perpetual ship get in her Kanye West is going to

Russia to me with Vladimir Putin so UM. On Tuesday, January Levin, Billboard reported that Yea I planned on going to Moscow to meet with the Russian President and hold multiple Sunday services UM as its first ever shows in

the country of Russia. As ultimate purpose for the trip, Um was to begin expanding his businesses overseas, and an advisor to Kanye told Billboard that um Russia is going to be a second home for Kanye, which I'm sure the libs are absolutely losing their mind about, or they or I could see if the white people, if the white ones even knew this was happening, they probably don't

follow music news. If they found out, they probably completely lose their minds because of Russia Gate, Wold Trump Russia ship, Uh that people still, you know, I think frequently, and I believe I've discussed this on the show before, whether the Russia Gate hysteria opened the door for challenging election integrity and ultimately what happened on January six, I don't think. I mean, I hate, I can get another topic that's going to force me to be so one on the

side of the lives. But I don't know. I'm not necessarily I would not classify myself as being in on Russia Gate hysteria or whatever whatever, but I tend to be. You know, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's a damn duck, you know what I mean. So like, if if motherfucker's is like having clandestine meetings and hotels and this and that, and wild motherfucker's is going to jail for lying to this

and lying to that. And then every time they're accused, their number one thing is you don't have the evidence to prove that, as opposed to saying no, I didn't do it. I'm just not inclined to think that they're innocent, you know. So that that's just that's just the basis of how I going Now, however else this wants to manifest. You know, I don't necessarily think having that view means that you want world War three with Russia tomorrow, you know.

But with the Kanye situation, it's just interesting because it's like, you know, there's there's like some pretty fucked up homophobic laws that are like in the book in Russia. Bro. Yeah, the U. S. Department like they currently lest Russia with like a level four do not travel advisory given terrorism, harassment by Russian government security officials, arbitrary enforcement of local laws you and Russia's on the brink of invading or like. So yeah, it's just yeah, it's just like I I um, yeah,

the whole that's weird. It's again it's it's Kanye, So you know, weird goes in the book with it. But it's just another addition onto this like right wing drift in this like plausibly deniable right wing fascist ship culturally that's going on in this country that I think, you know,

wittingly or unwittingly, sir, celebrity figures are playing into. And I think that's what this is because because to me, it's like that's always you know, for the last like five six, seven years, that's always been like my suspicion of what the Republican infatuation is with Russia. Now, you know what I'm saying, which is why I just I don't care what lives are saying. Yeah, I really don't. I'm looking at what Republicans are doing and what they're

saying themselves, you know what I mean. So if if when I if like when I was in like early college, if Republicans were like itching at the bit, like we hate Russia, we hate it, we hate it, we hate it, and then all of a sudden they're like, oh, no, we love Russia and Russia is awesome. No, it's great, we love it. Yeah, No, Putin would be a better president than an American president blah blah, we love it.

I don't know, I'm just not inclined to look at that and be like mm hmm, I can't stand Hill reclap like no, no, I mean, like I'm I just feel like there has to be a line somewhere because like I mean, I've seen this one left. We talk

about this in the to Turn this election. You see this to this day with like Bernie Sanders supporters said the election was stolen, like when you let that, like, I feel like sometimes when narratives like that are allowed to flourish, like they are taken up and when even when they are legitimate and but people kind of run away with them, like it does open up like this grounds on which you can contest any kind of flaw, you know, like actually any sort of working of democracy

as such that you don't whose outcomes you don't like. But do you think that this is not similar to the like argument about the you know, the filibuster thinks exactly the Republicans saying the Democrats loved the filibuster, butant we were in power now they hate it, and it's like, yeah, well fuck you got. I don't know, they like if you don't have some consistency, they'll call you out. But I think again, it's just a matter of like whether

you think Republicans are operating in good faith or not. So, you know, I mean, and like, so for somebody who doesn't believe so, for somebody who genuinely believes that, hey, Republicans would not be talking about the election is stolen. The election is stolen if people hadn't brought up Russia Gate and that hadn't been a big story. If somebody believes that, then I understand totally why you know, you would look at like Russia Gate with this like skeptical

like sort of thing. I don't believe that. I think the Republicans are gonna like link between Russia Gate and January six. I'm saying, like over and over again, there's there are these competing tensions between factions where like when you lose, you say they cheated, Like no one ever fucking just loses because they sucked. They just lose because

the other people cheated. Um, and so like I don't know, I mean, also coming from someone that thinks that the Left needs to play dirtier because other motherfucker's area are willing to cheat. Yeah, it's like like the Republicans are just they are willing to do what they feel they need to do to attain power, and they are not concerned with what Democrats are going to do or not do. This is what I'm saying. You know what I mean. I here's here's what I'm saying. If the Democrats don't

break the filibuster, the Republicans will the same way. We're like pussyfooting about with the Supreme Court. No, we don't know if we want to do the Supreme Court. No, maybe I should. We shouldn't push this issue for this person to retire so that their slack can get filled, because oh, we don't know. That's all assuming that the Republicans aren't gonna be craving when they get the opportunity

to you know. So it's all projections. So if if we if we funk around, like not believing them when they say the ship that they're gonna that they're gonna do, and the ship that they're into, like the election, you know, election to disputes. I think that that was coming regardless because they were disputing the election in before any like before anybody was really talking about Russia before the elect before election even happened, they were talking saying, oh, it's stolen,

you know. So I I look at that sort of thing that was always going to be a part of their playbook, and that they don't need any excuse, you know, you know what I mean, like us being like like people who are on the left being like, oh, man, the January six writers need to be held accountable. The state needs to come after the We can have whatever objections that we have with it, but I don't think

that one of those objections should be. Man, you know what if we keep pushing for the state to go after the January six rioters, then the Republicans are gonna come after us the next time that we have a BLF march, like like they're gonna, you know, like the minute that they get the minute again. They had unmarked black van snatching people off the streets, but they had power. I don't think you need you even need to say

more about that. There was no conservative voice, there was no speed free speech warrior, none of them had any objection to it. You didn't hear Joe rogan sation about oh, why are they snatching these protesters off the street with fucking ice agents from Texas that were in Portland for some strange reason. Why is that happening? Why Why are unidentified a jack booted thugs snatching demonstrated on the street.

They didn't give a funk about that ship when it was happening, the Antifa guys, so they're they're ready there with the ships. They're ready to use the state to crush, to crush the scent, you know what I mean. And if if if Democrats keep going with ship, assuming whether it's Democrats or whether it's like people who are more radical, you know what I mean, If you assume that the Republicans are playing the game the way that we are, I just think that's how we lose. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I'm sorry. I didn't mean. You just got me thinking about using the state to crush people. Perhaps closing, I will circle back around to this particular quote that stuck out to me from an MLK speech I listened to on Monday. It was the speech at the National Conference on New Politics in Chicago, and MLK said, I think it might be a little flight paraphrase, but more or less, um is poverty and unemployment rages in the black ghetto. The bipartisan responses, an anti riot bill instead of an

anti poverty program. And it just really hit me because literally last week I was talking about the police chief quick this week, well last week it was mentioned last episode I had some choice awards for him at the meeting where I was like, I don't really want to

talk to you. I don't really trust you, you know, bah bah bah, because in that meeting, you know, in response for a year, for years now, decades now, even you know, the black community has been calling for investment in our people, and you know BLM, you know, the uprising was all about that, all about that, and here we are about a year and a half later, and their responses, Well, people didn't like that we use tear gas on the protesters, so we bought a sound cannon

to blow their ear drums out and give them permanent neurological damage. Um oh, and can we also give every police officer a tactical rifle? So like literally today we're still doing it. And like this is the bipartisan response. It's not just like the right wing. Note like I don't even say, like I don't even want to say like democrats like want to use the state to crush

the scent, but like they certainly let it happen. Like there's Democrats sitting in this commission meeting, like tactical rifles forever bloy not blest, sound cannon blow out people's ear drums. I well, you know, okay, sure, I don't know, like why not? So yeah, I know you're oncent correct about that ship. I don't know what it's gonna take, but we gotta snap out of it somehow, Like you know, it's it's really disappointing to hear that everything. You didn't

tell that story. You told that story last week, and it was disappointing to hear because it's like the thing after all of that marching and all of that demonstrating and organizing, that a year and a half later, we're talking about tear gas and chow colds. You know what I'm saying. That's that's that's the change, that's the that's the that's the that's the that's the systemic you know, issues that were like you can't not like nothing gets done.

Just that's not like oh, politicians are just inspired and go fight for ship. They fight for ship. They realized they gotta do ship. They're forced to do ship by like the masses of people organized and so like a lot of people woke the funk up and they're like, oh, ship changinging, make me like light bulbs going off everywhere, and like that's not going, that's not you can't put

that cab back in the bag. And so yes, we have not seen like in a substantive way, all of that organizing and marching and getting you know, thrown to the ground and Mason shipped like bear fruit. But those people, those millions of people like dy an't go that cat ain't going back in the bag. Tell you some now, that's what's gonna get interesting. But you know, here we are today. All we can do is um, keep hope alive and spit bars. I was gonna try to make

it rhyme and make a bar out of it. I was gonna say, like, keep hope alive and slap it on the black hand side or something like that. I don't know. Let's get you some real beats, real bars, Joe Mariah said, piece and bars like go hard in the paint and my roots is far Jeff Jarrett on these rappers like a cheap guitar. I came up in the flames and I keep the scars, but don't Missy exceptly just one year old. They've been nice with the flow sest the day kissed roll Up, but it got

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