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The Thin Line Between Activism and Opportunism · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on everybody what's going on my
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  Of whatever the whatever the hell is
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  a little bit of everything it has kind of a little social justice
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  political thing going on and we're
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  going to be talking about activism and we're going
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  to be talking about fake activism oh yeah so
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  if you're one of those people listening out there that that uh
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  how can i say describe themselves as an
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  activist hey this is a good one oh
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  so today we're talking about activism and what is activism.
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  What if, you know, those people that say I'm an activist and,
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  you know, just to give you a little kind of perspective, more clear through,
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  you know, let's say for those individuals out there in the time of a Black Lives
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  Matter, by all means, absolutely.
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  It's a lot of people that jump on board on the Black Lives Matter.
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  And, you know, we always want to.
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  How can I say to you? There's a difference. And I always have mentioned it's
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  a little different between what Black Lives Matter is versus what Black Lives
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  Matter, the organization.
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  And I think that by now there's a lot of people that kind of find out that the
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  organization in itself, which is kind of running a scheme to just get some money,
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  you know, real quick, quick, quick, rich scam.
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  And the rest is history. But we're not here to talk about that because there
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  is a thing of Black Lives Matter, you know, including things that happen in
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  our neighborhood, police brutality, poverty in New York City.
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  You know, a lot of our housing projects, sadly, you know, where,
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  where, where some of these poverty happens.
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  Some of these things happen in our neighborhood. You know, people of color,
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  black community, Puerto Rican, Mexican, all that put them all in between.
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  And there's people out there that, you know, when they become an activist,
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  you know, if something like what happened to George Floyd, sadly,
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  you know, people are going to get together.
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  There's people that just just say, you know what, let me just fight the fight.
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  It's my first time or there's people that just live life just doing that thing
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  of being there, supporting, fighting the system, whatever the case might be.
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  That's all fine and dandy.
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  But what I've realized, and me, I'm not a self-claim or whatever it is.
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  I want to say I'm not an activist. Because an activist, you have to be active.
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  If you want to fight the pigeons, feed the pigeons, by all means.
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  Hey, that's a thing, probably.
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  But what I'm just saying is that I can't say, hey, listen, I just fight the fight.
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  If I know something consciously that is bothering me, And there's people out
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  there that collectively believe that, hey, listen, let's say I'm just using
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  an example for two, you know, two weeks in a row.
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  We see this dark cloud that's hanging out there in the blue skies and this dark
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  cloud just beaming lightning.
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  And there are people that might say, you know what?
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  That was like a government experimentation gone wrong. Now we got to fight it.
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  We got to go in the streets, all that.
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  And I feel the same way. we're all going to gather in the streets in front of
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  whatever tower and we're going to say hey fight the sister that's killing us
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  etc and again and i'm going to do something that is genuinely heartfelt.
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  In me but what i always have
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  noticed and i got a lot of people that i follow a
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  lot of people that i love a lot of people that i respect who claim
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  to be activists sometimes it doesn't
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  seem that they fighting they out there in the streets talking
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  about black lives matter talking about uh safety pigeons and i'm trying to be
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  a little bit funny here but you know hey again could be a thing domestic violence
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  poverty abortion better education
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  anti-deportation that's the thing but i sometimes feel like people tend to,
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  Pick and choose what, you know, thing they want to fight, you know what I mean? Climate, whatever.
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  And I remember I was having a conversation, or at least it was a conversation
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  for sure, online on the socials or whatever it is, you know,
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  whatever, you know, we are doing, we are talking.
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  And we came across that the individual was basically saying,
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  well, look, you know, deconstructing, you know, you're a great person.
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  Oh, man, the way you think I love it. But you got to keep in mind that sometimes
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  the person that's fighting, let's say, police brutality might not be the same person that's there.
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  You know, domestic violence, you know, domestic violence is a situation.
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  Hey, you got the month of a beautiful woman. Oh, we're going to be talking about that for sure.
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  You know, domestic violence is a thing that happens in our community.
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  Black, you know, the black community, Latino community. That's high.
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  And I always say, look, I understand. You know, the person that's fighting climate
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  change might not be the same person that's doing the domestic violence things.
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  And I'm with that. But my thing is this, right, is that I always say that it's
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  a lot of people and, you know, and I'm going to call you up.
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  I know I got, you know, some white people in my audience that listen,
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  you know, legendary, you know, some legendary people that are listening.
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  That sometimes if you are in a space
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  of well-to-do and you got
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  the funds the monies and you say let me go to this march because i'm an activist
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  with money which that happens a lot black lives matter let me boom boom boom
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  boom support that money you know police brutality yo they phone the police all
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  that they phone the police you know all that good stuff you know what i mean.
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  But then, let's say, there haven't been, you know, let's say,
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  an unarmed black brother, sister, whatever it is.
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  Let's just say that we go months and years, nothing happened.
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  But at least now it's behaving good, right?
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  So that activist that was doing the Black Lives Matter, they claim to say that,
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  you know, they're talking about that we're for the community,
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  we're for the black people, we're for the Puerto Ricans, all this.
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  But they just don't show up on any of
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  the issues that hit us so they just
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  say that those in that community whatever black
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  lives matter we decide you know what okay now let's
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  move on to other issues that affect us poverty that's a thing you know that's
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  definitely a thing in the united state i love united states of america but sadly
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  politicians you know they take advantage of the people and you know a lot of
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  that tax money goes somewhere that it's not to help the people you You know what I mean?
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  But then some people might say, hey, listen, how about these people?
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  They're just not working.
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  They're just feeding off the system, collecting food stamps or all that good stuff.
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  And I came from that area, you feel me? And I'm not one to say,
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  hey, you know, stuff happened.
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  People do scan the system, but there's a lot of people in our neighborhood in poverty.
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  So they don't necessarily, you know, how can I say? They don't feed themselves
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  or we don't feed them where they will have that energy to just prosper and make things happen.
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  So those activists out there with the wealth to do with having this type of
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  money, they wouldn't care about our issues.
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  And I bring out with the deportation situation going on, you know, I see a lot of activists.
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  I see a lot of in my socials, especially in my socials. And I've been calling
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  people out over there talking about, you know, you know, this current administration,
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  what's going on with the deportation.
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  And I also follow a lot of people that are independent, think alike and say, hey, listen,
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  we get it you know i'm not a fan of that deportation hey listen there's a lot of uh,
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  you know what they call illegal migrants here they you know been here for years
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  away listen they work they pay taxes by all means that is true but the thing is that.
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  We point out that listen so you're doing
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  this anti-deportation march you're going
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  on your social you're being an activist you know
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  deportation is a thing that happens every time whether it's
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  this current administration when i say this current
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  administration for those are listening out there in other countries we're
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  talking about the trump administration the current president of the
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  united states so biden under
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  joseph biden the previous administration barack obama
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  president twice eight years deportation happened in those years so that those
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  same people that are claiming to be anti-deportation wouldn't be on that anti-deportation
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  And even though the deportation by numbers have shown that under those presidents that I just mentioned,
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  Biden and Barack, that deportation was as high, even higher than what's going on now.
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  So now my activists, my so-called activists, people, brothers and sisters that's
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  going on out there, I'm over.
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  I was going to say, y'all more foes. But yeah, that's what I said.
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  You know, y'all guys are going out there talking about, yeah,
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  you know, all the quotation and they go on this, excuse me, tantrum.
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  But then the question is, where were you four years ago? What happened?
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  No, no, you know, it's just that there's other things. And that's when I say about activism.
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  When sometimes people get paid to be activists, they get paid.
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  I can't believe that there's a word provocateur.
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  So you got those people that are anti-activists that get paid to disrupt these nice marches.
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  As there is those people that are paid or agents, agent provocateurs as to where.
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  There are those people that are being paid to be activists, to do activist work.
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  I remember years ago, years ago, I remember the football player,
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  Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49.
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  You know, he's a brother out there I believe my understanding He's a half-brother,
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  And he has, you know I think a little bit of white Or he grew up in a white
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  household He was adopted,
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  And I'm just saying I'm just throwing it out there For those people to remember
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  On both sides of the aisle And he was doing the kneeling On the national anthem
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  and all that And I'd say, hey, listen All right, all right.
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  Whether you agree or not. And I was like, I was with him.
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  I think my issue with Cap was that, okay, Cap, what are you talking about here?
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  And I remember there was a former great legend, Jim Brown, football player,
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  who was a football player back in the 40s, 50s, something to that effect.
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  And he became an activist, you know?
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  And he was about that life, you feel me?
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  Oh he was about that life and you
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  know jim brown you know whatever in his 80s you
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  know he kind of was questioning cap like okay so what's
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  the solution here you know what i mean what what can we do i mean i understand
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  you did the reason why he was kneeling down was because of police brutality
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  and so on you know what was going on with you know police and the black community
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  it's Something that even Brother Malcolm X,
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  I mean, in the 60s, was very clear, you know.
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  But now as segregation ended and, you know, all this going on,
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  you know, then police brutality became a little bit more different.
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  It became a little bit more silent, if you will, not in front of you.
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  But, you know, with the situation with George Floyd, a little bit different.
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  There's, you know, people out here, Eric Garner, you know, we could go on and
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  on. So, again, the question is, when you're doing The Activist with Cap,
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  it's like, okay, so the masses is this, but what are you doing? You understand?
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  What can we do to further come out of this?
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  And, you know, the interesting thing with Cap and then that he signs with Nike,
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  you know, Nike is this sneaker company.
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  They make all these athlete companies, whatever, billion dollar company,
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  you know, and they're going to pretend, hey, let's give Cap $100 million,
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  something to that effect. And then what you become, you become what I call a
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  capitalist activist. You know what I mean?
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  You capitalize and make money off your activism, which that happens a lot.
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  A lot. And one would question and we go back to the Black Lives Matter organization,
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  not the movement, but the organization.
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  There's black folks out there that are independent minded who ask the question.
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  So all that hoopla, you guys got 400 million dollar donations from all over
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  the world, whatever it is.
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  But then what came about it why is
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  not the black community different why are
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  there we still having the same issues right and
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  that's the thing that happens with my people's out there and i call it and sometimes
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  i go to the social and i call them out and like what are you doing so you know
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  with all the respect you you show so much energy you know going in trouble you
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  know deportation All that good stuff I get it,
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  But why you didn't do it under the previous administration You know Well because
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  what It's going to hurt to pocket You see that's another thing too,
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  It's a lot of people out there Look I got a donation by I don't know who's going
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  to donate There's people that donated And I know them A couple of random people Hey,
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  But my thing is this Those random people Or anonymous donations Or whatever the case might be.
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  I don't know who they are But then if they start donating And start kind of
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  like telling me Like hey here's a hundred dollars,
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  Can you not talk about this But let's focus on that That happens Especially
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  with those activists out there Hey by all means you got to get paid Hey I understood
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  cap And they say hey you got to get paid You know what I mean,
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  But that's why I always say Think about it this Why is there activists,
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  I thought by now we would have Be living in a better system Or we would think
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  that we would have better leaders,
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  Who claim to also be activists That are doing that work So that,
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  hey, listen Our communities could get out of poverty.
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  You know, what are we doing? You know, some people, you know,
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  government handouts, whatever it is.
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  And I want to say, look, listen, if somebody's struggling,
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  whether it's mentally, physically, whatever, and they stuck in this neighborhood
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  where there's a lot of poverty and with poverty comes crime and comes a lot
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  of things, you know, people forget that.
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  A lot of people just don't wake up to be criminals. A lot of people just sadly,
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  you know, in order to survive, there's other things.
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  And when you're not feeding your mind, your body, your soul,
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  sadly, you're going to make a lot of bad mistakes.
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  And crime is that thing. So I say to myself, you know, can we give these people
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  a little bit more, a little bit more extra on that, you know,
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  SNAP benefits, you know, food stamps.
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  Let's give them a little bit more. And let's also create a program that,
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  hey, let's motivate them spiritually, physically, mentally,
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  something, You know, just, I always said, like, listen, giving people money
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  or whatever it is, that's just one aspect of things that we shall do more. You know what I mean?
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  And that's the thing where activists, they fall short.
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  And they're not genuine. A lot of people, and you sense it, they're out there
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  talking about, yeah, activists, yeah, we're going to fight this.
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  Let's go. But I said, relax.
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  You don't sound genuine to me. You're not sounding like you're doing this fight
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  to really fight the fight. You're just trying to build a profile.
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  And how does activism and this fake activism hurt us, I said,
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  and especially fake activism, this manufacturing activism, it hurt us. It hurts our community.
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  Because, again, a lot of times it's just for sure.
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  Well, today's 90 News is brought to you by, you know, this situation where,
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  oh, my God, David, what's going on there?
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  Why don't we protesting? and what this march is all about, what's going on.
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  I'll grab that mic, boom, get out of here.
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  I'll tell you what this march is all about. It's a revolution.
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  It's not a revolution or the beginning of a revolution. It's a revolution that
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  should always continue.
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  If you're an activist out there that sometimes question yourself,
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  fight all the fights, all of it, even if one has nothing to do with the other.
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  Because in our neighborhood, in our communities, but there's poverty.
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  The poverty, there's crime, there's this, there's that.
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  Police the brutality. That's why sometimes police, you know,
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  they chomp on their teeth like, okay, you okay?
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  Man, you're about to stop a couple of black kids, Tyrone, Malibu,
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  you're about to stop Jose, Mario, Luisito, you know what I mean?
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  They chop on the tailgate, you know?
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  Start poking and prodding like, hey, and then, you know, sadly,
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  if you're in the hood, regardless of where you're at, on arm,
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  and they tell you to put their hands up, and your mind is like, oh, what did I do wrong?
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  Just standing here, and, you know, again, and that individual that,
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  you know, that's being prodded by these police it's like hungry
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  starving their parents you know either
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  they got hurt they can't work something there's always
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  something more than what they tell us and what
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  affects our community but if nobody's standing up and these activists are just
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  not showing up we're going to continue to have that same cycle all over again
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  and then something like sadly the george floyd thing would happen again and
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  again we're going to go to the same cycle it's whether the activists, they,
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  ooh, yeah, yeah, let's do money, boom, let's start this, let's start selling
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  that, let's do fires, let's do boom, boom, boom,
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  and other eye issues will be heard.
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  Well, I hope you enjoy this. We're making it happen. It's the legendary deconstructing topic.
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  is let's make it happen because if we
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  gonna fight the fight we also gotta
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  fight activism and fake activism because they
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  both cannot exist at the same time because we just need to go all out and be
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  active on the things that matters the most in our community let's make it happen
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