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Ep. 22 - The Great Migration, Black Panthers, and America's Shifting Map · 4DAFAM

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  boy k g welcome to episode 22 of for the fam podcast double deuce double deuce a deuce deuce,
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  taking me back right.
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  So what's good bro how you feeling good man can't complain just uh a little
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  tired today Yeah, I hear you. I had to work, so yeah.
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  I'm a little tired of myself, man. You know I got to go out tonight.
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  Oh, wow, bro. I see that part.
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  I gave him Saturday and Sunday off.
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  I mean, it's only going to take me about 35 minutes to do what I got to do, but still.
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  I got to drive 30 damn miles to get where I need to go.
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  Yeah, I'm still feeling some after effects of that cold.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm maybe 93 percent.
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  Almost, almost feel like myself. I can I can still feel the cold lingering in my chest.
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  Yeah. But anyway, what do we want to get into today, bro? Today we are going
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  to discuss the Great Migration.
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  All right. That's what's up. When you talk about the Great Migration,
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  what migration are you talking about?
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  So we're talking about scores of black families that migrated from the South
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  back basically between the 1910s to the 1940s and the mid 40s,
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  either from from either of those states in the South, you know,
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  rather be Florida, Georgia,
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  Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, going up north where we're from.
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  Yeah, where our families decided to go. Yeah.
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  We're out west. Yeah. To the to the Bay Area and Southern California. OK. All right. Well.
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  How about you just focus on the Midwest and I can focus on the West Coast and
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  then we can just discuss it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Go ahead, bro. Oh, so I know for you and I, we know we we talked about this
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  a couple of weeks ago and I know you've spoken with your mother and I talk with my mother.
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  But, you know, my grandfather, my grandmother passed really young and my grandfather
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  just never really talked about it.
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  I wanted to talk about it, but I know that they migrated north to Hammond back
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  in 19, I think they bought that house that they're in right now, in 1943.
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  Oh, wow. They've been in that house on that corner since 1943. That's amazing.
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  Nope, I'm lying. They bought a house on Field Street in 1943.
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  They didn't move over to Drakert until, I think, the mid-50s.
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  Because I know my mother was already born.
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  Okay, okay. She was born in 50. Okay, that's what's up.
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  So, and I know the goal, which I mentioned to you several times,
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  was trying to find if there was more to the story as to why they moved north.
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  After doing a little more research, I answered my own question.
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  So, obviously it was for the mills, whether U.S.
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  Steel, Inland Steel, the oil refinery and whiting, which it was called a standard oil refinery.
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  And then they used to make the railroad cars right there off, I think, Summer Street.
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  What I didn't know is that they used to take the Defender, the Chicago newspaper,
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  put it on the trains and sneak it down south and hand them out to the barbershops
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  and the churches to coerce people.
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  Recruit. Yeah. Yeah. To come up north, which clearly, clearly it worked,
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  but that was pretty much the, what they, what they wanted to do.
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  And obviously, you know, sharecropping mean making what? 50 cent on a dollar.
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  Yeah. That way they come up north and then make all their own money and they
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  don't have to share this money with anyone else. So, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And basically the same thing applies to the Western migration or the second
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  migration, as it may be referred to in certain circles.
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  Basically, the people left from like Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
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  Arkansas, and migrated to the West Coast, Oakland, Richmond, L.A., Seattle.
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  And basically, they were also looking for a better standard of life.
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  So so they went to the shipyards.
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  And I think there was some aircraft manufacturing, Boeing manufacturing was out there.
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  So it was an economic opportunity, if you want to call it like a quote unquote
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  gold rush for the West. So black families could go out there and prosper.
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  There are some differences between the Western migration and the Midwest migration.
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  Absolutely. Where even though redlining and all of that stuff was still prevalent out west,
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  at least they were, it was more likely that you would move into a neighborhood
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  as opposed to the Midwest where you were probably getting into projects or some
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  type of apartment complex.
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  So there was there was that difference.
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  And the microaggressions, the micro racism,
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  which we're going to get into, I'm sure, which is another reason why a lot of
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  black families left the South because of the overt racism as far as the voter
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  suppression, as far as lynchings.
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  Even though, you know, they try and pretend like, oh, there weren't that many mentions.
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  Yeah, it was probably more prevalent than they care to admit and then more prevalent
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  than history wants to recognize.
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  Well, the Bay Area, especially that book I mentioned, the overwhelming majority
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  of that book is discussing West Coast migration.
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  And it talks about places like the Pullman District in San Francisco,
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  where they gave it to black folks because they didn't want them anywhere else.
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  And the only reason that they were able to give them to black folks is because
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  it was abandoned when all the Japanese were rounded up and put in internment
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  camps. So keep this in mind.
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  You stole the land where you pulled Japanese folk from their homes,
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  put them in internment camps, and then gave their homes to black people. Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah, it's amazing. I don't even want to get into those Japanese internment camps.
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  I mean, that's a whole nother podcast for a whole nother day,
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  but that is some truly horrific stuff that was done by the U.S.
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  Government, demonized a whole community of people.
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  All on a whim, by the way. No evidence to support anything that they were accusing them of.
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  But again, that's another podcast. Sorry, sorry. So the union battles pretty
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  much happened in the Midwest as well as the as the West.
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  Rather than just pinpointing exactly which unions
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  this happened because it happened across the board instead of
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  black folks migrating and being allowed to join the unions like the white co-workers
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  they were forced out of those particular unions and into other ones where the
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  union fees were like quadruple the amount and also,
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  Black folks were given some of the jobs for the, what did they call it?
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  It was called, see, I got notes all over the place.
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  What section is that? The hot jobs is what they called them.
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  So operating, they weren't allowed to operate cranes, mills, and machinery.
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  They would be working on the blast furnaces, what they call the coke ovens,
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  which would cause health issues, which I will mention a little bit later on.
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  But that's that's one of the biggest issues about migrating from the south to the north.
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  Although it seemed like it was all roses, Jim Crow just changed zip codes.
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  Is exactly what they talked about in centers, basically. It's the same as the
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  south, just with tall buildings.
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  Yeah. And it it truly did. I think that our relatives, based on where we were
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  located, centralized in those 13 blocks.
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  Now, when we were coming up, there were way more white families.
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  Especially on all my street we oh my my
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  block was predominantly white so two houses
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  down well you can you can count the avon lady and that old lady had all the
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  cats that had them out of house and then in the other end of the block it was
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  a majority white family and of course the white flight they slowly sure my way
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  out to merrillville shererville and place you know in parts of chicago Absolutely.
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  It's funny how the neighborhood changed as we got older.
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  I would say by the time we were probably, what, 16, 17, it was like rarely any.
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  White families left, as opposed to when we were small kids.
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  It was i mean especially like
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  from from what highland street
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  on east i guess that would be
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  yeah that it was it was all like white
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  people becker dracker eaton yeah
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  lions it's all like predominantly white
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  all the way down from calumet to
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  columbia you know and and even like yeah
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  bauer may street oh yeah
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  may street yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so it
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  it is interesting how the white flight did
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  change and how of course
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  the property values started to decrease etc etc
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  more police presence in the neighborhoods all
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  things that people will
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  tell you does not occur that
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  systemic racism doesn't exist but anyone
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  who's paying attention can easily
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  see if you want to see it you can easily see
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  none of this is is made
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  up these things happen these are facts the data supports it just got to read
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  it it's it's it's there and we don't have to read it because we lived we lived
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  it yeah we lived it and not to go we're not gonna go into full detail about
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  like that video i sent you earlier with that lady.
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  The ignorance. Correct. And she was so confident.
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  Willfully ignorant. In her ignorance. And look, to her credit,
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  which I can't believe I'm saying that.
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  There was a couple of times during the questioning where she was like,
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  she sounded like she was legitimately saying, like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah.
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  But you and I looking at it going, what? Yeah.
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  When was the last time you read a newspaper or watched the TV?
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  To be that old, too, because this was an older woman.
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  And it looked like she was being interviewed in D.C.
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  Yeah. That looked like Washington Monument. Yeah. That was behind her. Yeah.
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  At that stage in your life, if you don't know, you just don't want to know or you're gaslighting.
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  Well, yeah, there's always that.
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  Excuse me, y'all. Yeah. So so I was I was when we were speaking about this,
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  I was telling you how this was going to tie to the movie we're going to review.
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  That link is the
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  movie we're going to review so as a
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  result of the unfair treatment that
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  the black families were getting out west there was a small group of guys called
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  the black panther party that developed to try and offset the overly aggressive
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  policing and they also i mean because it's not just, for those who don't know,
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  the Black Panthers were not just like a.
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  Black version of the KKK.
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  They actually did like community outreach and they actually had social programs
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  that helped the community. They had the free lunch programs and everything.
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  So they were not against white people. They were just about empowering Black people.
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  And the link is the chapter in Oakland or the West Coast, the chapter in Chicago and the Midwest.
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  That's the link that I was alluding to. Because it's funny when you said the
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  link, my mind started racing without looking up anything.
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  I was like, I'm not going to look up anything. He said, there's a link.
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  My mind is about to race. But the most simple thing that I could have found
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  of that, which is what you just said. Well, yeah, the two cities are linked.
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  It just wasn't registering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And this was all going on during the 60s and, you know, the civil rights movement, that era.
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  So the Great Migration probably started in what, like the 40s, 40s or 50s?
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  So out west, which like you said, is considered the second great migration,
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  was in the 40s because of the ship building, the plane building,
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  you know, just having people in places to help build things for the war.
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  Correct. Is what that was. Correct.
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  All right, brother. I think I don't have much more to talk about this.
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  Anything else you want to add to this?
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  Nah, not much. All right.
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  Actually, I am going to talk about something. So and we alluded to this when
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  we spoke about doing this topic and I was talking about another migration back to the South.
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  Oh, yeah. Yeah. And and this is not my idea.
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  I've been watching that docuseries on Peacock High Horse done by Jordan Peele
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  is actually great. It's about black cowboys.
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  Oh, man, it's really, really good.
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  But it will make you angry also.
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  But so so there is a stat. And I don't want to misquote it. So guys take this with a grain of salt.
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  But they mentioned a number and they say, like, this is how many acres of land
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  that have been stolen from black people.
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  Across the South, you know, during the 60s, whatever, whatever.
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  So they talk about a migration, excuse me, a migration back to the South,
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  which is why I brought up, you know, like if you got land in the South, keep it.
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  Don't get rid of it because eventually that land will be worth something.
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  And I know my parents, when they retired, moved back down South.
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  So I think it's just it's just it's just something.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's something that I think a lot of people may start looking
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  to, especially as these cities just get worse, more crime ridden and jobs become
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  more sparse and everything that people will start trying to return to the south.
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  I think there might be a reverse migration.
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  I know. I know. I know you don't feel it.
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  I think that, well, I guess for me, where my family originally comes from,
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  I mean, I know my great-great-grandfather was from South Carolina,
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  but the family I can trace back just in my head all came from Jackson,
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  Mississippi and Starkville, Mississippi.
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  My mother's side, Starkville, father's side, Jackson. Mm-hmm.
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  I don't want any of my family to go. And of course, my ex-wife,
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  her daddy's side, Jackson and Winona, Mississippi, and so on and so forth.
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  So I just think that maybe Mississippi would be a bad idea.
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  Parts most of Alabama, most of Louisiana would be a bad idea for us to return
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  to unless you already own land or have intentions on buying land.
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  Because I can tell you, someone who has driven through with the in-laws being
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  in the Grambling area, just driving down there,
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  taking the kids down and picking, you know, so on and so forth,
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  there ain't nothing in northern Louisiana.
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  Oh, I'm sure. Nothing. I'm sure. But that land belongs to somebody. Yeah.
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  Like, there are stretches when you go through these little small towns,
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  like in Arkansas, and then make it in Louisiana.
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  You don't even know you're in Louisiana. Yeah.
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  Until you start seeing Louisiana license plates. Yeah. Oh.
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  Yeah. I thought this was just one big desert with a road in the middle of it.
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  Oh, like there's no vegetation?
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  Well, trees and things like that. A house every once in a while.
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  But there's plenty of times where you're just driving and it's just trees.
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  Yeah. And then you'll see a light every once in a while in the middle of nowhere,
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  but like there's nothing out there to you,
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  expand on like you have that land if you're
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  not gonna do a farm usually what do you do you sell
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  it to corporations so they can build now we
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  i mean that that that is an option yes but i would i would prefer keeping the
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  land but yeah that's one way to come up but if you don't have the money to farm
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  and start a farm you're just holding on to a bunch of nothing unless you plan
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  on building to all that But something you just said, trees,
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  we look at trees as just being trees.
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  But if if if they're not just overgrown weeds, if they're actually like real
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  trees, that lumber is worth some.
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  Oh, no. Well, you know, you got that lumber, that lumber facility.
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  And I don't know exactly which town it is. I know it's almost to Ruston.
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  Yeah. But it's in between Arkansas and in Granville. Yeah. There is a logging. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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  And every time I go and I get behind one, I get in the left lane and punch it
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  because I don't seem destination, final destination too many.
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  Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. I don't even think about it.
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  But no, man, you'd be surprised how much one tree is worth, man.
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  I mean, you can't come up.
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  And then once you get the land clear, if you wanted to start farming,
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  et cetera, et cetera. I'm just saying there are options for for anyone who's
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  looking to do it. There are options.
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  Research it. Don't don't don't don't don't take my advice.
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  Research, get you a plan, get you a financial planner.
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  But there are if like you say, if you're planning to buy land or if you already
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  have land, your family already owns land, which mine does.
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  There are options there. You know, the point I'm really trying to make here is.
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  Don't sell the land because land is valuable, especially if you got acres. It's valuable.
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  I think one of the biggest issues in the South and the reason why I'm so skeptical,
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  the people that make the South what it is right now ain't going nowhere.
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  Oh, no, it's still racist, sure.
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  Mississippi is what? Probably the poorest state in the country.
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  Them, Arkansas. Poorest and what? Probably the worst education also.
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  Oklahoma's there too. I think Oklahoma's like 47, 48th or whatever.
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  We only know that because that idiot, the superintendent was doing all that stupid stuff.
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  But it's just like the people that,
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  write the checks down there just don't know
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  what they're doing and they keep getting reelected well
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  they're gonna make it tough for us for sure and they just keep getting
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  reelected but with the advancement of technology and there's ways around it
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  i mean did the race i mean yes they're gonna make it tough but it's only gonna
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  work for so long before i mean they did this isn't the 60s anymore.
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  So you're not just going to have a lynch mob come up and nah, those days over.
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  So if you got your paperwork in order, you got your documentation in order,
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  we're just going to fight this out.
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  That's your ass nowadays you roll up on the wall. Oh, for sure. What? Man, knock it off.
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  Burn the cross on my front yard if you want. Knock it off. Knock it off.
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  Alright, y'all. We gonna leave it there for now and we're gonna roll right into
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  our current events. You got a current event you want to address, my brother? I do.
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  So yesterday, the day before, whatever, days are running together now with this administration.
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  The Supreme Court got together. Six people, six against three.
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  Now, here's why I'm going to tell you it's three against three.
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  Because you got the same three that always vote on the side of the Constitution
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  and what's right for everybody. You got those three over there that voted no.
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  You're Clarence Thomases of the world. And then you got the three,
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  you know, Chief Justice and all that.
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  So the phonies, the phonies, all they did, they didn't say, hey,
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  Trump, you can't charge terrorists.
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  Told him, hey, that act that you're using, there's no wording specifically that
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  states that you can do this.
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  So what we're going to do is we're going to overturn it.
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  So I saw a lot of Democrats online praising those three that broke rank.
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  No praise. There's no praise.
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  You didn't break. You did what you were supposed to do.
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  Hey, the wording does not fit for you to be able to charge these tariffs.
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  But we're not going to tell you they're unlawful. We're going to tell you you can't use this.
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  And then two hours from now, you can use something else.
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  Creating a path for him to get around the ruling, basically. Exactly.
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  Which obviously every administration needs to have someone in their camp that
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  can tell them like, hey, here's what you can do.
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  Here's what you can't. Now, obviously, this administration probably has some 23 year old idiot.
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  Sorry, 23 year olds, 23 year old idiot that doesn't know what the hell is going
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  on in the first place. So he then comes out with a 10 percent tariff.
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  And then this morning raised it to 15. But here's why I brought all of this up.
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  Who actually pays for tariffs?
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  The consumer. So we had this conversation. Correct. Way, way back.
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  So indulge me for a minute. I want to read some things verbatim.
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  Who actually pays for tariffs? There is a common misconception that the foreign
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  country producing the goods pays the tariff.
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  Reality, the important countries, businesses and consumers pay for it.
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  Here's how the cost trickles down.
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  The importer directly, when a shipment of goods, electronic,
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  steel, clothing, whatever, reaches the border, the domestic importing companies
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  such as national retail chain or a manufacturer buying raw materials must pay the tax. Correct.
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  Right there. Or it won't get released from customs. It won't get released.
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  I know. I used to do imports. I know this for a fact. You did that for what? Two decades. Yes. So...
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  Ultimately, it's the consumer because the importing business now faces higher
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  costs and they usually now I'm not going to sit here and say all companies do this. Correct.
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  They usually pass those costs directly to the consumer.
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  When you go to the store, that foreign made product now has a higher price.
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  So the foreign exporter, sometimes a foreign company will lower its own prices
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  to help offset. Now, you and I both know that's not likely to happen.
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  Very real. Nine times out of 10, that ain't happening. But obviously you'll
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  have like, I'll just use Walmart, for example.
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  Say Walmart has a partner that they deal with exclusively.
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  That partner wants to continue to get their product into the U.S.,
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  into the hands of Walmart.
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  So if Walmart tells that importer, exporter, yeah, we ain't paying you more.
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  Oh, yeah, no, no, no. If you start because of these tariffs,
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  we're not going to mess with you no more.
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  That company will likely negotiate with Walmart, lower their prices so Walmart
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  can then write the check and still pay the same amount of money.
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  But for those listening, you pay for the tariffs.
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  So this nonsense about we've raised whatever amount of money,
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  that's all fine and dandy. But you know who paid it?
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  Your local farmer paid it. Your local steel importer paid it.
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  That lumber that we get from Canada to buy houses. Correct.
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  And you know what happens when builders have to pay more money for lumber?
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  Houses cost more. Houses cost more. Correct.
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  This nonsense. like I'm 50 years old you 50 years old I've known what tariffs
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  are for 40 or 30 35 40 years mm-hmm.
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  There are rare and I mean, really, really rare occasions.
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  And I don't want to get bogged down into like incoterms, which if you've ever
• 26:19
  worked in logistics, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 26:21
  But there there is an instance where the exporter would pay duties,
• 26:29
  delivery, taxes, all of that. But it's very rare.
• 26:33
  And it's usually when they're trying to curry favor duty free with someone.
• 26:39
  So I want you to build a relationship with me. So I'm going to do this first shipment.
• 26:46
  Yeah, I'm going to pay for everything and let you see how it moves.
• 26:51
  And then if you like it, that that goes away. hey, this was just like a one-time
• 26:56
  offer just so you can see how productive or how marketable or profitable. Exactly.
• 27:05
  It's very rare that the exporter actually pays for the tax and stuff.
• 27:12
  We're not saying it doesn't happen, but it's rare. It's not happening for these farmers.
• 27:18
  So yes, you are correct. There are instances where it does occur, but it's very rare.
• 27:26
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A tariff is a tax. Point blank, period, end of story.
• 27:32
  And as far as the Supreme Court goes.
• 27:36
  Still have a lot of things on the docket. So this one ruling,
• 27:41
  don't break your arm patting yourself on the back because you still got voting
• 27:46
  rights that you got to deal with and a lot of other things.
• 27:49
  And at this point, I have no confidence in them.
• 27:54
  So yeah, I'm not, I'm again, like you said, you, you did what you were supposed to do.
• 28:00
  Hey, the wording doesn't, this, this act doesn't allow you to impose these tariffs
• 28:05
  based on what you're saying out loud.
• 28:08
  Yeah. You can't claim this one ruling makes the Supreme Court impartial because
• 28:15
  you would have to ignore all of the other bad rulings.
• 28:19
  This whole ICE thing, which I'm about to get into, it was Kavanaugh basically
• 28:25
  saying it's okay to stop and frisk.
• 28:27
  It's okay to racial profile, which basically gave ICE the green light to do all of this.
• 28:33
  So don't break your arm patting yourself on the back, Supreme Court,
• 28:36
  and people don't be so quick to pat them on the back. They truly do not deserve it.
• 28:41
  So I was going to say something, but I'm going to let you finish because I'm
• 28:45
  going to see what you say first, and then I'm going to base my question on what
• 28:50
  you say about us. Cool, cool, cool.
• 28:52
  All right. So my current event is something local.
• 28:58
  It may reach national attention, not because of the nature of the story, but because.
• 29:10
  Politicians and Republican politicians
• 29:12
  in particular love to politicize tragedy, and I am so sick of it.
• 29:19
  It makes me sick to my stomach.
• 29:24
  What am I talking about? There was an accident a couple of days ago right outside
• 29:30
  of Indianapolis where an Indian truck driver ran a red light and killed a 64-year-old
• 29:41
  white man or something like that.
• 29:44
  And he was white for sure. He was talking about the age. Okay.
• 29:48
  Okay. And immediately you got this idiot Jim Banks on TV who isn't domiciled
• 29:55
  anywhere around this area.
• 29:58
  He's immediately on TV talking about how this makes him sick and how how talking
• 30:06
  about how this is why we need ice in Indiana, et cetera, et cetera.
• 30:12
  The guy has a valid CDL. he's
• 30:17
  not an illegal immigrant that
• 30:20
  means he has a work visa nothing illegal yes he ran the red light that's illegal
• 30:27
  you handcuff him you put him in jail for that and you try him and you try him
• 30:31
  absolutely but do not introduce all of this illegal undocumented foreigner mess into the conversation.
• 30:40
  This is not a political issue.
• 30:42
  It's a guy who committed a traffic violation and killed someone. That's it. Period.
• 30:50
  Leave it there. Don't try and politicize this. It, it.
• 30:55
  Willing to bet dollars to donuts that he probably hasn't called this guy's family.
• 30:59
  I mean, Jim Banks, you know, and, and, and, you know, offered any type of condolences
• 31:04
  or anything, but you want to get on TV and grandstand about immigration and
• 31:10
  ice and all. And it's just like, man, knock it off.
• 31:13
  This is what makes me sick to my core about Republicans.
• 31:17
  They want to politicize tragedy so much.
• 31:21
  Every issue they want to try and make it a political issue, I mean,
• 31:26
  usually it's just something local that needs to be handled locally.
• 31:30
  It's not a big national story. It's not something that you should be politicizing.
• 31:36
  If you feel that bad, call the family, offer your condolences,
• 31:42
  say we're going to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law.
• 31:46
  All of this talk about deportation and you know this is why we need ICE and
• 31:52
  we need tougher migration law.
• 31:55
  Knock it off punk. Just stop.
• 31:58
  And I guess one thing for me that I don't understand it's do they honestly believe
• 32:05
  that Americans run this country?
• 32:09
  Like that is a legitimate question. Who the hell do you think is working in these hotels?
• 32:16
  That part. These fast food joints, these restaurant kitchens. Picking your crops.
• 32:22
  Yeah, picking your crops. Like, we work together as a unit, as people,
• 32:31
  as working human beings. Correct.
• 32:34
  So when I see, and let's be honest, let's be real too, this whole...
• 32:39
  Was that the the the tariffs shit that
• 32:42
  i was talking about a second ago as far as i think
• 32:45
  that's a stink butt as far as
• 32:48
  he's doing a lot of this stuff to prevent these people and these companies in
• 32:55
  the u.s importing goods from other countries to do it here why like dave chappelle
• 33:01
  says so an iphone could be nine thousand dollars correct because that's exactly what would happen,
• 33:07
  that's exactly because because no american is going
• 33:09
  to work at that level and they don't
• 33:12
  know no you want us to do these jobs
• 33:15
  you're going to have to pay us and which in turn going to make the company go
• 33:19
  okay well since we're going to pay you guys this amount this tv now costs this
• 33:24
  amount and the reason why it's never going to be a ceo lowering a price out
• 33:31
  of the kindness of their heart is because they have a board of directors.
• 33:35
  Yep. Which is a whole different conversation than I had the other day.
• 33:38
  Yep. They have shareholders. Yep.
• 33:41
  Who are only about profits. And irrelevant.
• 33:45
  A lot of times, you'll find like, I'll just throw him out there because he's
• 33:50
  in the news, like Bill Gates, sitting on a board of something that he knows nothing about. Mm-hmm.
• 33:56
  Just because he is. Mm-hmm. Or a shareholder.
• 34:00
  Mm-hmm. Bill Gates owns 30% of this company. Like, why does he hold 30 percent
• 34:05
  of a cake making company? What? What? What? Yeah.
• 34:08
  Money. And it's solely profit based.
• 34:12
  They don't care anything about immigration. They don't care anything about the
• 34:16
  workers. They don't care about politics.
• 34:19
  Where is my money? Yeah. That's all they care about in the end.
• 34:24
  Yeah. So that that's my that's my my my current event. and we're going to move
• 34:29
  right into our rant, our rant about a random topic.
• 34:34
  Yeah, I'm going to just keep this going because my rant definitely coincides
• 34:40
  with my current event. And.
• 34:44
  I want people to think about this. All of the immigration enforcers.
• 34:51
  I want you guys to think about a few things here.
• 34:56
  Your favorite baseball team is probably 50% immigrants. Shit more than that.
• 35:06
  Way more than that. I mean, like Major League Baseball has a very large Hispanic presence.
• 35:13
  The Asians and Japanese are starting to have a major presence in Major League Baseball. Yeah.
• 35:21
  But you're so hell-bent on getting immigrants out of here.
• 35:24
  Are you trying to get those guys out of here? I mean, because what's good for one is good for all.
• 35:30
  Do you see how idiotic your logic is? People were all enraged about Bad Bunny
• 35:37
  not speaking any English during the Super Bowl halftime performance.
• 35:43
  Do you guys not realize that there are Hispanic players in the NFL?
• 35:48
  Do you see how idiotic your logic is?
• 35:53
  We were just talking about cleaning your hotels, picking crops.
• 36:00
  Those things don't happen without an immigrant population.
• 36:06
  Your logic is so flawed. Get past your racism.
• 36:10
  Please open your eyes. Use your head.
• 36:15
  Get rid of your racism.
• 36:17
  We need these people here. We need them here.
• 36:21
  And they're not doing any more harm to the country than your average white asshole.
• 36:28
  Sorry to put it like that, but I'm just I'm fed up with the immigration talk.
• 36:35
  Let's just let's just knock it off, America. Knock it off.
• 36:40
  Judge people based on their actions.
• 36:44
  Stop demonizing whole groups of people. Is just dumb Not all people are one
• 36:52
  thing Not all white people are this Not all black people are that Not all Hispanic
• 36:58
  people Are this that and the other Just freaking stop.
• 37:03
  Someone that's an immigrant commits a crime then
• 37:06
  prosecute them don't say all immigrants
• 37:09
  did the damn crime yeah but you know it's
• 37:12
  for us we we used to that because you let somebody somebody
• 37:15
  black do something see man see that's that's what they do oh my god we're we're
• 37:21
  we're never going to progress if we keep this up it's so stupid it's just so
• 37:28
  it's it's it's such a fifth grade way of looking at the world, in my opinion.
• 37:33
  It's the same regurgitated nonsense that has been taught for generation after
• 37:38
  generation in some families.
• 37:40
  It's just true. Which is still dumb. Yeah, which is dumb as hell.
• 37:45
  I could tell you, point blank, period.
• 37:48
  My family, especially on my mother's side, is multifaceted, which I've mentioned before.
• 37:53
  It's why I look the I can trace and find somebody white in my family just two
• 38:00
  generations ago. You know what I mean?
• 38:03
  What would have happened if that person would have said, no,
• 38:07
  don't don't marry that black man that don't marry that black woman.
• 38:12
  Hell, I might not be sitting here. Yeah. Real talk.
• 38:15
  It's just, it's silly and it's stupid. And I am beyond thankful that my parents
• 38:21
  never, ever taught me to hate anybody.
• 38:26
  And when I say that, like, I feel sorry for kids who grew up with parents that
• 38:31
  preached any type of BS in their home.
• 38:35
  I can honestly say my mother and father didn't feel one way or another about they were equal.
• 38:42
  Like if you did something stupid, you were called out on it.
• 38:45
  Correct. And it didn't matter if you were black, white. It just was what it
• 38:48
  was. Correct. I'm not an idiot.
• 38:51
  I understood what the world had in store for me.
• 38:55
  But my parents never taught me. They taught me to be mindful of where I'm going,
• 39:01
  where I'm at, how to act if you got pulled over.
• 39:06
  Which is something that we definitely shouldn't have to talk about,
• 39:10
  but it is what it is. You've done it twice.
• 39:14
  I've done it four times. And guess what? You're going to do it again when your
• 39:18
  granddaughter gets older, and I'm going to do it when all my grandkids get older.
• 39:23
  It's insane. It really is insane.
• 39:27
  And in my opinion, it shows a lack of intelligence. It's 100 percent a low IQ
• 39:33
  individual who hates a group of people based on something they have no control over.
• 39:39
  It is the dumbest thing ever is like hating all people that's under five foot five.
• 39:47
  Well damn what i'm what i'm
• 39:50
  supposed to do i i i can't get taller or
• 39:54
  the fact that both of us are what five nine five between
• 39:57
  five eight and a half five nine the overwhelming majority of
• 40:00
  this country is five foot nine it's the average uh height it's the average height
• 40:05
  are you too short yeah because i can easily go find 200 people my height quicker
• 40:12
  than i could find 200 people well this is This is totally going into a totally
• 40:17
  different topic, but...
• 40:21
  Youtube page i did that video about robotics do you know what height they make
• 40:26
  them what five nine because it's optimal it's optimal for them to get the majority of jobs done,
• 40:35
  in warehouses and whatnot so they make those robots five foot nine if they made
• 40:41
  them too tall then they they have problems fitting into you know certain areas
• 40:46
  so five foot nine is the optimal hype.
• 40:50
  And you can Google that, whoever you are saying, man, forget y'all short dudes. You can Google that.
• 40:57
  Anyway, like I said, we got, we got.
• 41:00
  We totally got off. We ain't short, shit. Got off, yeah, we got off, we got off topic on that.
• 41:05
  Anyway, bro, that's my work, man, my bad. Go ahead, you got anything? Oh, yeah. Alright.
• 41:11
  So, a couple weeks ago, maybe a little longer, I mentioned to you,
• 41:14
  I saw an interview that Pete Davidson for Saturday Night Live did. Mm-hmm.
• 41:17
  And he was talking about TAC buckle up
• 41:20
  everybody because I'm about to piss you off so I did
• 41:23
  some research based on like digging deep
• 41:26
  instead of just googling what he said I dug
• 41:30
  deep and looked up there there are scientific studies to back up his data so
• 41:35
  he said that the reason he stopped smoking because he started experiencing psychosis
• 41:40
  now why would someone smoking weed start experiencing psychosis Here's why.
• 41:47
  I compared weed in the 90s from 1990 on up to today.
• 41:54
  So in the 90s, the average THC potency was between four and five percent. Mm hmm.
• 42:04
  2010s, 12 percent, 24 to 26, 15 to 28 percent.
• 42:12
  Concentrates, which are oils, waxes, so on and so forth, which didn't exist
• 42:17
  when we were kids, 60 to 95 percent.
• 42:23
  Here's why that's horrible. You know what else is coming down as THC goes up? CBD.
• 42:30
  Okay. So CBD was 10 to 1 in the 90s. So CBD acted as a buffer. Okay.
• 42:35
  To basically stop from the psychosis, from weed to cause those issues.
• 42:41
  Now it's 100 to 1.
• 42:44
  So CBD, because of the way that the weed is grown nowadays, it's basically being
• 42:50
  catered to how they grow it.
• 42:53
  So it's almost all THC for the most part. So the CBD has come down quite a bit.
• 43:00
  So one of the crazy things was, is I asked it to compare. And I know this,
• 43:06
  just listen and hear me out, people.
• 43:08
  I asked it to compare cocaine to weed today.
• 43:14
  Okay. Obviously, cocaine is still more potent, but the psychosis gap is closing.
• 43:20
  Interesting. Let me get. So cannabis induced psychosis.
• 43:25
  Heavy users of 20 percent plus THC have a four to five times higher risk of developing psychosis.
• 43:33
  Hallucinations and shit. Yeah. Because the CBD acted as a buffer and it's almost
• 43:39
  nonexistent in current strains of weed.
• 43:41
  And anyone that goes shopping in medicinal shops understands that,
• 43:47
  that if you just some of the THC in there, people our age and older are terrified
• 43:53
  of trying to weed today because it scares them based on what they did before.
• 43:58
  You and I knew plenty of functional weed smoke.
• 44:02
  Somebody smoke a blunt, go out and play basketball for three or four hours.
• 44:07
  None of these dudes can do that.
• 44:09
  They all seem like they're just out of it. So the cannabis today...
• 44:16
  Potency cannabis today increases heart attack risk by 25% shortly after use.
• 44:23
  That shit didn't happen in the 90s. Cocaine causes immediate vasoconstruction
• 44:30
  and extreme heart strain.
• 44:32
  Think about those two statements I just made. Yeah, one is a little more clear
• 44:36
  that cocaine can kill you.
• 44:38
  Either way, you're making the heart pump a lot faster than it needs to.
• 44:42
  Exactly. It the brain function for high potency cannabis today heavily impairs
• 44:47
  working memory and impulse control in 60 percent of current users.
• 44:54
  And obviously, this is based on the study, whereas cocaine improves short term
• 44:58
  focus, but destroys long term impulse control.
• 45:02
  Now, I got two more comparisons and I'm going to tell you why I'm comparing
• 45:06
  these two irritability, severe insomnia and brain fog that can last weeks. That's cannabis today.
• 45:14
  Brain fog. What? A couple of hours back in the day. Yeah.
• 45:19
  Intense crash, deep depression and physical craze. That's cocaine.
• 45:24
  Virtually zero risk of fatal overdose of weed. So that still stands.
• 45:29
  Zero risk of fatal overdose.
• 45:31
  And of course, cocaine has a has a high risk.
• 45:36
  That I'm even comparing these two is terrifying. Because if I would have even
• 45:41
  brought any of this up or even Googled any of this stuff 20 years ago,
• 45:45
  there would have been no studies.
• 45:47
  And people would have been like, dude, you're out of your mind.
• 45:50
  I smoked a half pound in three days.
• 45:54
  You smoke a half pound now, you're done. You might have to call off work for
• 45:57
  a week because of the risk of psychosis and the different things that it causes.
• 46:02
  But like I said, it says in the 90s, the THC was 10 to 1 and now it's 100 to
• 46:08
  1 so the THC is just basically gone it's just like,
• 46:13
  it's like drinking like grain alcohol straight,
• 46:17
  nowadays compared to back in the day like using a chaser like drinking strong
• 46:24
  liquor with orange juice or something like that yeah and I mean when you consider
• 46:28
  that your frontal cortex isn't fully developed until you're 25 years old,
• 46:35
  I mean, you're you're basically just damaging your your your mental capabilities at that point.
• 46:45
  Your decision making becomes incredibly impaired.
• 46:49
  And those are long lasting effects. I did some studying years ago.
• 46:56
  It takes years. You can. The brain does eventually recover.
• 47:01
  Like if you've been a weed smoker for the last 10 years and you decided to stop
• 47:06
  those negative effects, impacts that it has on the brain,
• 47:11
  on the frontal cortex, it would heal itself because that's what the brain does.
• 47:17
  But it's going to take a very long time for you to actually get over those effects.
• 47:24
  The only the only thing I'll
• 47:27
  say is the tolerance People do
• 47:31
  build up a tolerance So even though
• 47:34
  it's stronger I'm not disputing any of that data
• 47:37
  The fact that the body develops a tolerance And somewhat adapts Even though
• 47:44
  the internal effects are still there So and I'm trying to find the exact Because
• 47:50
  there was an exact sentence That I made sure to highlight it where it's stated that,
• 47:55
  yes, the body has a tendency to adjust.
• 47:59
  But you can't adjust to something that's four times stronger than it was just 25 years ago that fast.
• 48:06
  They said your body's just not designed to do that.
• 48:10
  Like, for example, if you drink grain alcohol, like, say, you know, weed smokers.
• 48:15
  Matter of fact, one of my neighbors stay high, stay zooted, and he worked midnights.
• 48:21
  So I don't know how the hell he functions.
• 48:23
  It would be like him drinking grain liquor every day all day.
• 48:26
  Eventually, he's going to crash.
• 48:28
  Yeah. Literally and physically.
• 48:30
  You know, it's your body's just not designed to.
• 48:35
  The way that it's manufactured now. It's kind of like that person that,
• 48:40
  yes, you got that person who snores cocaine for years and never has an issue.
• 48:45
  But if you do it every single day and it gets stronger and stronger,
• 48:48
  you're going to die on the cocaine that is.
• 48:52
  Interesting. But the fact that you, the increase, the psychosis is four to six times higher.
• 48:59
  Yeah. And I can hear people now say, man, we don't do this and don't do that.
• 49:02
  I'm like, understand, it's designed to be what it is now because it's legal in so many places.
• 49:10
  Capitalism. They're going to make it as strong as they can to make as much money as they can.
• 49:16
  They don't give a shit about how you feel or nothing.
• 49:20
  Correct. Because you know that these studies were not done by the cannabis industry. No, not at all.
• 49:27
  Not at all. No, I get you. I get you. It needs to be said, again,
• 49:33
  like I said, I mean, we know there are people who are just going to immediately
• 49:36
  say this is bullshit, but data is data.
• 49:41
  Whether you choose to accept it or not is on you, but data is data.
• 49:45
  But even if you are a weed smoker, and especially if you're someone our age,
• 49:49
  because we still know people our age that smoke.
• 49:52
  Stupid. You know that when you take three, four hits of this weed,
• 49:56
  it's a lot stronger than where it was back then.
• 49:59
  But just the fact that you can smell it from a car that drives by you in front.
• 50:05
  I be driving down the road like, good God.
• 50:08
  Yeah, that is amazing. Just like, or you can smell somebody,
• 50:14
  you know, that's 50 feet away from you. You're just like, damn, man.
• 50:19
  Well, my neighbor, he'll hot box, get out the truck, And I can always tell when
• 50:23
  he does, because the hallways are just saturated with it. Yeah.
• 50:29
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff, man. Good stuff. Anything else you want to add to that?
• 50:34
  All right. Cool. All right, y'all. With that being said, we're going to slide
• 50:38
  right into our five on the Black Hand Side movie review.
• 50:43
  And this movie, we kind of alluded to it earlier.
• 50:47
  It kind of correlates with what we were talking about in our main topic.
• 50:51
  And that movie is Judas and the Black Messiah. Take it away, my brother.
• 50:59
  So Judas and the Black Messiah is a movie released in 2021, directed by Shaka King.
• 51:05
  And it stars Daniel Kaluuya, who is the main character. Well.
• 51:11
  He's supposed to be the main character, but he won the Supporting Actor Oscar
• 51:15
  for playing Fred Hampton.
• 51:17
  Rightfully so. Lakeith Stanfield plays William O'Neill. Jesse Plemons,
• 51:22
  crazy ass, plays Agent Roy Mitchell.
• 51:24
  And Dominique Fishback plays Deborah Johnson.
• 51:28
  And I'm not. Lord, forgive me. I forget her name when she changed.
• 51:33
  I don't want to butcher it.
• 51:35
  Oh, I didn't know she changed her name. In real life. Not Fishback.
• 51:39
  Oh, OK, OK, OK. I'm sorry. But Fred Hampton's girlfriend. Yeah,
• 51:41
  it's like a Kia something.
• 51:45
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the plot of the movie is 1960s Chicago,
• 51:50
  and it follows William O'Neill.
• 51:52
  He was a petty criminal who got caught stealing the car while impersonating
• 51:55
  a federal officer. Correct.
• 51:57
  So to avoid a lengthy sentence, Roy Mitchell coerces him to become an informant.
• 52:03
  And his overall mission was to infiltrate the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther
• 52:09
  Party and keep tabs on Chairman Fred Hampton.
• 52:13
  So as O'Neill goes, rises through the ranks to become the chapter's head of
• 52:17
  security, he's starting to understand and respect Fred Hampton's goals and dreams
• 52:25
  of what he's trying to do.
• 52:26
  But at the same token, it's not it's not at the point where he's willing to
• 52:31
  abandon the FBI mission because he don't want to go to jail.
• 52:35
  The money was good. Yeah.
• 52:37
  And the fact that they had those five years hanging over his head. Yes.
• 52:41
  Which in the grand scheme of things, brother, should have just took the five. Yeah.
• 52:46
  Who knows what would have happened? Right. What what would have happened in Chicago behind that?
• 52:52
  I was telling you upon re-watch i
• 52:57
  never ever ever want to watch this
• 53:00
  movie again not because it's a
• 53:03
  bad movie but because this movie was absolutely infuriating to me the the the
• 53:11
  the the first thing the that that i just can't get over is the fact that these were kids children,
• 53:23
  barely 21 all of
• 53:26
  my kids are older exactly than these main
• 53:29
  kids exactly these were kids that were targeted by the united states government
• 53:39
  for what they didn't do any type of violence to anyone wine.
• 53:48
  All they wanted were equal rights and equal treatment, which every citizen is supposed to have.
• 53:58
  That's all they wanted. They weren't talking about executing anyone.
• 54:03
  They weren't burning crosses on people's yards.
• 54:06
  They weren't starting riots.
• 54:09
  They just wanted equal. They just wanted the United States to be what the United
• 54:14
  States is supposed to be.
• 54:16
  That I mean that that's that's all they
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  literally wanted but the government if
• 54:23
  you don't agree with their message these are the links that they will go through
• 54:29
  or go to to quiet you much hasn't changed by the way but but but but just to
• 54:38
  see it you know what I'm saying is is is oh lord have Mercy.
• 54:43
  I'm getting angry just thinking about it, man. But I will say this.
• 54:49
  First of all, rest in peace to Reverend Jesse Jackson, senior.
• 54:55
  We lost the legend this week.
• 54:59
  Jackson got the Rainbow Coalition from Fred Hampton. Yes, sir.
• 55:06
  Fred Hampton was the one who originated the idea of bringing in people from every race.
• 55:15
  The Panthers, the Lords, the Young Patriots, and a bunch of other street gangs,
• 55:20
  which I'm assuming is the Vice Lords, Peace Don't Rain is the song, so forth.
• 55:26
  And the core of his message was Let's go get the elites.
• 55:32
  Let's start a class war, not a racial war.
• 55:39
  All of us poor people are in the same boat.
• 55:43
  So let's all woke up and let's go get them, which coincides directly with our
• 55:50
  topic we had last week about the goddamn French Revolution.
• 55:54
  So I'm going to give you his direct quote that was left out of the movie because,
• 55:59
  I mean, obviously Hollywood is full of capitalism.
• 56:02
  Oh, for sure. And the last thing they want to do is say, we don't think you
• 56:05
  fight fire with fire best. We think you fight fire with water best.
• 56:10
  We're going to fight racism, not with racism, but we're going to fight it with solidarity.
• 56:15
  We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism.
• 56:18
  We're going to fight it with socialism.
• 56:20
  There you go. That was his exact quote. There you go.
• 56:24
  But all they do is tell you how bad socialism is, even though we already have
• 56:31
  implemented aspects of socialism into capitalism here in America. Yeah.
• 56:40
  It is. It's just it's it's.
• 56:45
  The sorcery propaganda works.
• 56:49
  If you tell the lie long enough, it replaces the truth.
• 56:55
  Yeah. And it's worked on all of us at some point. Exactly.
• 57:00
  Exactly. We all need to wait. This was the 1960s.
• 57:05
  Everything that man fought for is still prevalent today.
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  If there's been any improvement, it's minimal.
• 57:16
  Small increments. We're having the same fight today. Not much has changed.
• 57:22
  So, one of the things with this movie, obviously I love the movie.
• 57:26
  One of my favorite scenes of any movie ever is his speech.
• 57:30
  When he get out. When Jesse Plemons is in the crowd. Yeah.
• 57:35
  And his girlfriend sheds a tear about it. Basically when she found out,
• 57:38
  oh wow, I'm dating somebody who's important. Yeah.
• 57:43
  The way he delivers that speech is just magnificent.
• 57:47
  But it left out that quote that I just said.
• 57:51
  But one of the things about Fred Hampton that we'll never get from Hollywood
• 57:57
  is the true Fred Hampton.
• 58:00
  Fred Hampton was depicted in this movie as a civil rights leader.
• 58:05
  He was a communist revolutionary.
• 58:08
  On it go ahead bro i mean it just it is what it is he
• 58:11
  was a communist revolutionary so he
• 58:16
  didn't want to be viewed as just a civil rights leader he
• 58:19
  was a marxist he was a leninist now
• 58:23
  you and i might not agree with a lot of that bullshit idea
• 58:27
  ideology with with lenin
• 58:30
  and you know and whatnot maybe not the lenin part
• 58:33
  yeah yeah but marxism socialism
• 58:38
  communism and i did a video about
• 58:41
  this on my youtube page also y'all go go check
• 58:43
  it out if you get time which i'm gonna quote something you said okay okay go
• 58:48
  ahead there he believed that racism was a symptom and capitalism was the disease
• 58:53
  hollywood's not gonna put that in a movie because hollywood wants to make money
• 58:57
  And once you start putting that in movies and letting that marinate,
• 59:01
  letting that out of your marinate,
• 59:03
  that's going to cause problems.
• 59:05
  Now, you and I probably wouldn't care because we would have expected that to be in the movie.
• 59:10
  But, and I've got several things with him that were left out. The Little Red Book.
• 59:17
  So, the movie we see Hampton giving speeches and organizing community programs.
• 59:23
  But the reality, he was deeply influenced by anti-imperialists and imperialists,
• 59:29
  Karl Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara and Mao Zedong.
• 59:33
  Now, obviously, Lenin and Zedong, we do not in any way, shape or form want to
• 59:42
  promote them and what we're saying.
• 59:44
  So the Black Panthers funded themselves.
• 59:48
  They will buy copies of Mao's Little Red Book and sell them.
• 59:54
  In order to buy shotguns to. Yeah. Now, obviously, we know why that wasn't in the movie.
• 1:00:03
  Strips away anything that's anti the
• 1:00:06
  anti-imperialist context of the things
• 1:00:09
  that he said rainbow coalition so the
• 1:00:12
  film shows you know the young lords the puerto ricans and you know the young
• 1:00:16
  patriots which are a group from from the south yeah it plays out in racial harmony
• 1:00:22
  whereas the reality the rainbow coalition wasn't just let's stop racism it was
• 1:00:28
  class solidarity Correct. You've mentioned a bunch. Correct.
• 1:00:32
  What we're going through now in this country. Correct. Is a class war. Correct.
• 1:00:37
  And it's been that way for a very long time, which he recognized at 20 years old. Correct.
• 1:00:45
  Well, he was 21 when he passed. Yeah. But when he was doing all of this stuff.
• 1:00:49
  Well, just think, bro, he did what? Two years in the joint. Yes, he also did two years.
• 1:00:54
  So he was probably 19 when he started. 17.
• 1:00:58
  Jeez, OP. When he started organizing, he was 17, 18 years old,
• 1:01:02
  somewhere around there. And then he did the two years.
• 1:01:06
  And then, of course, the quote. And that's, you know what? I want to mention
• 1:01:10
  something. Larry Hoover.
• 1:01:13
  Larry Hoover, Jesus Christ. Lord, forgive me. J. Edgar Hoover.
• 1:01:18
  But the Larry Hoover thing tracks. Jesus Christ. Being that they were in the city. Right, right.
• 1:01:23
  The Larry Hoover thing tracks. And he was around. Yeah, yeah. I get it.
• 1:01:29
  The Quintel Pro program in general.
• 1:01:35
  When you look back at some of the things that the FBI did, the files they kept
• 1:01:39
  on celebrities and it on everyone.
• 1:01:43
  Hoover kept files on everyone.
• 1:01:45
  But he should have been arrested. He really should.
• 1:01:47
  He's the traitor to America. He's the real traitor.
• 1:01:52
  Like, you had FBI files on Lucille Ball. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:01:58
  Like some of the things that that the FBI was allowed to get away with during
• 1:02:02
  this time is mind boggling.
• 1:02:04
  And with the help of the Chicago PD at this time for, you know,
• 1:02:08
  spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen the movie, they assassinated him.
• 1:02:12
  100 percent. But they assassinated King. And I lied on it and lied about it for what?
• 1:02:18
  40 plus years until somebody recreated everything, took those sticks where it
• 1:02:24
  shows the trajectory of bullets and realized that the Black Panthers fired one bullet.
• 1:02:31
  One bullet. Fred Hampton was asleep because he was full of barbiturates.
• 1:02:37
  It reminds me, and I guess what happened to Fred Hampton and those guys happened first in the 60s,
• 1:02:47
  but it also definitely resembles the move movement in Philadelphia when basically those police.
• 1:02:58
  They bombed the whole block. Bomb the whole block, killed all those people.
• 1:03:02
  Shot fired the first shot and then try and say they were fired upon and just lit that building up.
• 1:03:10
  And it was like, no, they fired back at y'all in self-defense.
• 1:03:16
  Y'all shot at them first. And all these people wanted to be left alone to be left alone.
• 1:03:22
  Because there were, you know, obviously there were neighbors complaining,
• 1:03:26
  black and white at the time, because of the way they looked,
• 1:03:29
  the way they smelled, the loud noises.
• 1:03:33
  But it was a commune, for lack of a better term.
• 1:03:37
  And then the city basically stepped in and was like, nah, you know,
• 1:03:40
  you got kids and they're not going to school.
• 1:03:42
  Nobody's got, you know, valid health care.
• 1:03:45
  We need to come in. You guys need to go. And then when they fall back,
• 1:03:50
  somewhere along the night, somebody decided...
• 1:03:53
  Are building up. Yeah. It's crazy. Which is what they did. They ended up blowing up the whole block.
• 1:03:58
  Yeah. And for those who need to look it up, just look up the MOVE Act,
• 1:04:02
  the movement, the move The MOVE movement.
• 1:04:05
  Movement in Philadelphia and just click images.
• 1:04:08
  Don't read a single article. Just click images and you will see an entire city block on fire. Yeah.
• 1:04:16
  During, during, and it started during the day. During the day.
• 1:04:19
  Two o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah. I listened to a podcast about it one time.
• 1:04:22
  Two o'clock in the afternoon. Unbelievable.
• 1:04:25
  Bystanders out there, they luckily didn't shoot any bystanders,
• 1:04:29
  could have shot bystanders.
• 1:04:31
  I think they said there were almost 20 kids in that house. They were shooting and kids were there.
• 1:04:34
  It's amazing, bro. It's amazing the lengths that the government will go to to hurt black people.
• 1:04:44
  Why do I say it like that? What happened with those Bundy people out in Oregon
• 1:04:49
  a few years back? They had those guns out there like government come get us.
• 1:04:55
  Nothing happened to their neighbors showed up.
• 1:04:59
  People from around the country had rifles trained on federal agents and nothing
• 1:05:04
  happened to them. Nothing.
• 1:05:06
  What about David Koresh and them down there in Texas and Waco?
• 1:05:11
  Nothing happened to him. But well, black.
• 1:05:15
  Well, you will. Yeah. At first, nothing first. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:05:19
  We're talking 45 days of negotiating correct.
• 1:05:24
  But when you're black it's jumping off it's jumping off it took a couple days
• 1:05:29
  yeah we gotta get these fools up to get back to the movie,
• 1:05:36
  Yeah, we were talking about the movie. Yeah. Apologies, y'all. Yeah.
• 1:05:40
  I did like the scene when your boy went to the rally, the FBI agent.
• 1:05:46
  Yeah, Jesse. Went to the rally. That was absolutely terrifying.
• 1:05:50
  Just like, wow, these people are diabolical. I'm right here. Yeah.
• 1:05:56
  Cheering in the crowd. They don't even know. And he said in the speech,
• 1:06:00
  like, some of y'all might be pigs in here. Yeah, they were.
• 1:06:06
  Had his beanie on and he curled up like everybody else did? Yeah, they were.
• 1:06:10
  And I'm just like, man, these people will, they will stop at nothing to achieve
• 1:06:17
  the goal to silence black solidarity.
• 1:06:23
  It's just like you're that afraid. But I'm going to tell you what they're so afraid of, bro. Yeah.
• 1:06:30
  They've done so much harm and evil to
• 1:06:33
  everyone else that they think that
• 1:06:36
  if they were ever out of power that their ass is gonna be out there picking
• 1:06:40
  cotton and shit like that that's what they're afraid of bro is everything that
• 1:06:45
  they've done they think will come back on them it ain't gonna happen we don't
• 1:06:50
  even get down like that no we don't care yeah and as far as fred hampton goes I mean,
• 1:06:55
  it was one of those things where anyone who can unite scores of impoverished people,
• 1:07:01
  black, white, Puerto Rican, Mexican,
• 1:07:04
  and like the young patriots would now today be considered conservatives.
• 1:07:11
  Without a doubt. They fought on the side of Fred Hampton. They showed up and
• 1:07:17
  was like, we're with you.
• 1:07:18
  Because money talks. But you know what else, too?
• 1:07:21
  Back in those days, and we've talked about this previously as well.
• 1:07:24
  Whatever happened to those people who said that the government could not overwrite?
• 1:07:29
  Right. Right. That's what the young patriots were. The real young patriots.
• 1:07:32
  Right. In the 60s. These ones now are all for government. Yeah.
• 1:07:36
  They're not. They're not there. You're right.
• 1:07:39
  Right now, at this very moment, they're all for government. But what they're
• 1:07:44
  really for is just about oppression.
• 1:07:46
  They just don't want to see anyone else rise up.
• 1:07:50
  That's what they're really about if obama
• 1:07:53
  was president they wouldn't be all about government oh they
• 1:07:56
  ain't they ain't all about government they really just a bunch of freaking racists
• 1:08:00
  can't believe he want to do this to do yeah yeah even if it benefits them directly
• 1:08:05
  yeah yeah they're just anti everyone else at this point i mean bro we talked
• 1:08:10
  about it years ago remember the cheerios commercial oh.
• 1:08:15
  You and I laughed. It meant nothing. Because we were just like.
• 1:08:19
  It was cute. That's cute. Yeah, it was cute.
• 1:08:22
  Yeah. Y'all always trying to put black ideology in commercials,
• 1:08:26
  so we can't have no black people in commercials. That's what you're saying.
• 1:08:29
  Dude, not just in commercials, not in video games, not in comic book movies.
• 1:08:37
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:08:39
  Nowhere, unless you the sidekick. But here's why.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah I don't I don't even want to revisit that here's here's why I say what
• 1:08:49
  I said earlier you know how,
• 1:08:51
  I almost said something you're supposed to say do you know how crazy,
• 1:08:56
  and misguided you have to be in your life to
• 1:08:59
  rule that it's okay to look
• 1:09:03
  at someone and decide whether or not
• 1:09:06
  they're a citizen bonkers like
• 1:09:10
  for any human being bonkers you me black
• 1:09:13
  man white man it doesn't matter to be
• 1:09:17
  in a position of authority if that's even
• 1:09:20
  brought up in a room everyone in the supreme court
• 1:09:23
  should look at each other and go well absolutely not right of course you would
• 1:09:27
  never write to anybody right but especially considering you got a couple people
• 1:09:32
  from the south in there but one in particular that's why i'm like you you You
• 1:09:38
  can't praise these fools because they allowed that foolishness to pass.
• 1:09:43
  That's why you can't praise them in this moment. I'm sorry you just can't.
• 1:09:49
  Lord have mercy.
• 1:09:52
  Five for me, even though I don't ever need to watch it again.
• 1:09:57
  This is a five. I love these type of movies that expose real history,
• 1:10:04
  real historical facts, and expose just how nasty the government can be.
• 1:10:10
  For all the systemic racism, people don't exist.
• 1:10:15
  Like we were saying earlier in the podcast, just open your eyes to evidence,
• 1:10:19
  to data. It's all right there.
• 1:10:22
  I'm sure there are some moments for dramatic effect, but this is largely a true story.
• 1:10:31
  These things happened.
• 1:10:34
  But I'm a you say five. Oh, yeah.
• 1:10:38
  All right. Five. Five for me also. But I want to I want to I want to I want
• 1:10:41
  to I want to just scramble your mind with something real quick.
• 1:10:46
  So this movie is called Judas and the Black Messiah, which is an oxymoron in my opinion.
• 1:10:56
  People can make the connection that Bill is Judas. Fred Hampton is the Jesus character.
• 1:11:05
  Here's the mind scramble.
• 1:11:08
  If Jesus had to die, it was predetermined. It was his destiny.
• 1:11:16
  So everything that Judas did had to happen in order for Jesus to get crucified.
• 1:11:25
  Did judas have a choice in this matter so is judas really a bad guy or was he
• 1:11:32
  just playing his role was he just doing his role yeah yeah,
• 1:11:37
  i i i i'm i'm just saying well the term obviously messiah we we know where that
• 1:11:44
  comes from but the black messiah is something that jerry hoover used in private
• 1:11:49
  saying that we we don't want another We don't want another black Messiah.
• 1:11:54
  So that's how they ended up. Yeah. But no. Yeah.
• 1:12:00
  Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's just something that, you know, sometimes I'll be
• 1:12:05
  sitting along with my thoughts and just like, wait a minute.
• 1:12:09
  Judas had to. The story had to go that way in order for salvation to take place.
• 1:12:17
  So why does history demonize him?
• 1:12:22
  He kind of did his job If that was his destiny from birth And I know the Bible
• 1:12:31
  say that he's going to suffer But if that was his destiny from birth Then he
• 1:12:36
  did exactly what he was supposed to do.
• 1:12:40
  Just saying, the guy kind of got a bad rap. I mean, it's kind of like,
• 1:12:44
  what was I supposed to do?
• 1:12:49
  Just my thoughts. Just something to think about. All right, y'all.
• 1:12:53
  So this is a five for me as well. But I also want to mention one thing.
• 1:12:57
  For those who don't know, their son survived the shooting.
• 1:13:02
  So Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. still runs the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party.
• 1:13:08
  Look him up on Instagram. He does a lot of things. If you're in the Chicago
• 1:13:11
  area or just around the country, he visits a lot of places. He does a lot of things.
• 1:13:15
  So they still have different links. You can donate time, donate money to go
• 1:13:20
  help feed kids and just help out the community.
• 1:13:23
  So look him up on Instagram, Chairman Fred Hampton.
• 1:13:27
  All right, cool. That's what's up. All right, y'all. Now we're going to go into our closing monologue.
• 1:13:34
  You ready, my brother? Yeah. All right. Take it away.
• 1:13:39
  All right. So today I want to talk about where we're from.
• 1:13:43
  So up in Hammond. Now, this all kind of goes coincides with the book recommendation
• 1:13:50
  I gave last week, as well as some of the things we talked about today.
• 1:13:54
  So when we left Hammond, our families 25 years ago, whatever,
• 1:14:00
  we were not running from the air quality looking for a future.
• 1:14:04
  We didn't realize back then that the haze that was in the, you know,
• 1:14:07
  it was a choice someone else made for us.
• 1:14:10
  You look at the history and you see it wasn't an accident.
• 1:14:14
  Those industrial zones in the region weren't just picked at random.
• 1:14:18
  They were carved out right in the middle of black neighborhoods.
• 1:14:23
  Or we were forced into those areas because redlining meant that there was nowhere
• 1:14:27
  else for us to go. We were boxed in by the mills and told to be grateful for
• 1:14:32
  the work while our health was being traded away for someone else's profit.
• 1:14:38
  A lot of people I grew up with, I headed to Indy, which a lot of people we grew up with are here now.
• 1:14:45
  We were looking for a fresh start, a way to build something better.
• 1:14:48
  And as we got older, we started doing research, realizing the shadow,
• 1:14:52
  excuse me, I realized the shadow just changed its shape.
• 1:14:56
  You look at the maps here in Indy and you see the same fingerprints.
• 1:15:00
  You see how the interstates were cut right through the heart of black life on
• 1:15:04
  the West side and the Martindale Brightwood communities and how the factories
• 1:15:08
  were zoned into our backyards.
• 1:15:10
  And the cost is right there in the numbers. You see the lung cancer rates here
• 1:15:15
  in Indy, 40% higher in our neighborhoods than the rest of Indiana.
• 1:15:20
  It hits you pretty hard when you realize that for a lot of us,
• 1:15:23
  the move didn't actually change the states.
• 1:15:26
  Whether it's the steel dust back home or the industrial ghosts and highway exhausts
• 1:15:31
  here in Indy, the highway risks, excuse me, the highest risks always seem to land on our doorsteps.
• 1:15:39
  We moved for opportunity, but the map was already drawn.
• 1:15:43
  We aren't just a cancer cluster or a data point. We're families who have been
• 1:15:48
  forced to breathe in a history we didn't ask for.
• 1:15:51
  And we're tired of the place we call home being the very thing that makes us sick.
• 1:15:57
  Excellent. Just makes me think about 465.
• 1:16:02
  Circle. Yep. Enclosed. Yep.
• 1:16:06
  Interesting. All right, brother. That was very, very good.
• 1:16:09
  All right, y'all. That's going to conclude this episode of For the Fam podcast.
• 1:16:15
  We got a little housekeeping, I guess, if you want to call it that, that we need to do.
• 1:16:22
  We want to take this moment to shout out Some foreign listeners that we have. What is it?
• 1:16:29
  Yeah Germany Hong Kong Ireland
• 1:16:33
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• 1:16:37
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• 1:16:40
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• 1:16:50
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• 1:16:55
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• 1:16:58
  better we can do anything you want to add
• 1:17:01
  to that brother nah you said it right we know we apologize
• 1:17:04
  we meant to mention it a couple weeks ago but then
• 1:17:07
  i i noticed a couple days ago this the increase like
• 1:17:11
  okay yeah we we definitely need to yeah to mention yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
• 1:17:15
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• 1:17:19
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• 1:17:33
  My gosh, I can't speak all of a sudden.
• 1:17:35
  All right. So with that being said, y'all, we'll holler at y'all next time. Peace.