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Ep. 20 - Emancipation Unchained: What Lincoln Didn't Tell You · 4DAFAM

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  Welcome to episode 20 of For The Fam Podcast.
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  Sir. Let me start by sayin'.
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  I mean this, but I don't mean it. Happy Black History Month.
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  Now, if you've ever tuned in to any of my YouTube videos, you know I have a
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  video called Cancel Black History Month.
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  And I don't say that to diminish the importance of black history.
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  I say that to emphasize one point, and this is what I feel in my heart of hearts.
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  Every month is Black History Month. So I can care less about February.
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  Every month is Black History Month and the light, in my opinion, should always be shown.
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  I agree. So, so, so, with all of that being said, what you want to get into today, brother?
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  Today we are going to talk about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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  Damn, that got something to do with black history, don't I think so?
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  Even though it was signed in january correct
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  new year's day and god forgive
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  me i'm old i just drew a blank on the year 63
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  63 63 63 outlook i should have known this shit but yeah yeah so we want to we
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  want to talk about it get into some particulars some of the things that you
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  know we were taught in school or hell weren't taught in school weren't taught
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  exactly we we knew about the emancipation proclamation, but it was always.
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  What was it? Always brought up as a, hey, this is what freed the slaves and
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  it never really taught us anything else.
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  Right. It was always mentioned in the context. I wouldn't I wouldn't even say more of a black history.
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  It was more mentioned in the context of the great presidents when they would
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  talk about George Washington and Franklin and Jefferson. And they would know
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  Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
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  And we're going to get into all of that today and try and debunk or knock down
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  some of those myths about the Emancipation Proclamation and how and me and my
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  brother always say this,
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  how K through 12 curriculum as it relates to history is pretty much just white
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  supremacist propaganda at this point.
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  And we don't get taught about real black history.
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  It's basically been rinse and repeat for decades and decades.
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  Well, this is what we talk about. This is what we don't talk. Correct.
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  You know, occasionally you would have a teacher. You know, fortunately for us,
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  most of the teachers that we dealt with growing up were either from our community.
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  You know, we knew him personally.
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  We saw him outside of outside of school.
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  So, you know, they kept us kept us grounded. Made sure. Made sure.
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  For sure. Doing our work. For sure. Yeah. You know, they would always threaten
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  us that, uh, don't make me come knock on your door.
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  Like, oh man, knock it off. They know exactly where you need it. Right. Right.
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  Yeah. The good old days. Man. All right, bro. Well, let's, let's, let's get into it, man.
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  All right. So the way I kind of wrote some stuff down and did my research for it is, uh,
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  And I hate I hate to use pros and cons when it pertains to a,
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  you know, to a sure to an issue like this.
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  But I wanted to and you and I had a disagreement on something.
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  Yeah. And I did not elaborate well enough that day.
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  It's all good. We can get into that, too. So we're going to get into that.
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  What I meant by compromise.
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  Yeah. Yeah. I think I know what you meant, but just to clear the air. Yeah.
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  And during my research where I've done research over the years,
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  but I found out some more stuff that I just didn't realize.
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  And I'm sure some people listening might go, what do you mean you didn't know
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  that? But you don't know, you don't know.
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  So for me, I want to start with what some may consider the cons of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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  And I was going to come at this a different way, but I kind of want to list
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  these and go through. Yeah.
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  So pro number one, many people don't realize the Emancipation Proclamation kept
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  Europe on the sidelines.
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  So Britain and France wanted to help the South so that cotton can stay cheap. Correct.
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  And I didn't realize it was as close as it was for them getting involved. Correct.
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  Basically, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln made it political suicide
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  for any of them to intervene, because by signing the Emancipation Proclamation,
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  and I know people are going to be out there saying, see, see,
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  it wasn't all about slavery.
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  He made it about slavery with that, even though we already knew that's what it was about.
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  The caveat being for the European countries Like you were saying They were looking
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  at it from an economic standpoint But by him saying No,
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  this is about slavery It handcuffed
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  them to where they couldn't Because had they helped the South Then it would
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  mean that they were pro-slavery So that's where it comes into It was sort of
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  smart on his part To keep them from helping the Confederacy All right. Cool, cool, cool.
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  So number two, it opened the door for black soldiers.
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  Yes. So it basically allowed the union to recruit black soldiers,
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  200,000 to be exact, over 200,000.
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  Lincoln also admitted later himself that without the black soldiers,
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  they would have lost. Correct.
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  And of course, we'll talk about the 54th at some point today as well.
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  Number three, it gutted the Southern economy. So it gave enslaved people in
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  the South a signal to run.
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  Every person who put down their tools and ran the Union lines was one less worker
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  feeding the Confederate army.
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  So it was, as mentioned in number two, it was economic sabotage. Thing is this, too.
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  Not all Union soldiers agreed with this.
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  However, based on the Emancipation Proclamation, they had, if the Union was
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  present, the slaves were free. Air quote me.
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  That basically was the gist of it. Even though it was known that a lot of the
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  Union soldiers didn't agree with it.
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  For sure. And we'll we'll we'll touch on that when we start talking about the 54 as well.
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  So it shifted the framework, the legal framework of the war.
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  Union generals were legally returning slaves to their masters. Yep.
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  Because of the Fugitive Slave Act. Yep. If you got caught, you will return to slavery. Period. Yep.
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  This order legally turned the Union Army into a liberation force.
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  So which I just mentioned previously. So even if the soldiers were prejudiced
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  or racist, they still had to abide by it. Correct.
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  And of course, the all important 13th Amendment. Yes.
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  So for those that don't understand what a proclamation is, a proclamation had
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  Congress not acted and put forth the 13th Amendment.
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  As soon as the Civil War was over, black people were going back to slavery.
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  Yep. Because a proclamation was made during the war.
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  Yep. Wartime efforts That's the proclamation that was made.
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  After that, back to the slave camps, you go back to the cotton fields.
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  So Congress and that, you know, acted and we had the 13th Amendment.
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  So before I get into the cons, did you want to add something to that first part?
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  No, you you are you are hitting everything exactly the way it should be told.
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  And the main point I want everyone to take away from this, in my opinion, this is the main point.
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  Abraham Lincoln did not free the slaves.
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  That is a lie. That's the main takeaway that I want everyone to have is Abraham
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  Lincoln did not free the slaves.
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  Abraham Lincoln was not some progressive Republican that out of the kindness
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  of his heart thought that black people should be equal.
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  It was clearly a war strategy.
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  Point blank, period. All right, go ahead, my brother. Which takes me into number one of the cons.
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  This is where we had the disagreement, and I wasn't very good at articulating
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  what I meant by the compromise.
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  The border state hypocrisy. Yes.
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  So for those that don't know, these states were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation.
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  Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri.
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  So basically, Lincoln said, hey, slavery is wrong unless you're on my side. Mm hmm.
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  He was willing to trade black freedom for political loyalty as long as those states were exempt.
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  Mm hmm. Now, had he said, nah, it's all or nothing.
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  Man, I think we could pretty much say the North would have lost. Right.
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  Because once you add those states that I just mentioned, now what?
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  Right. It was all about holding the union together. Right. Nothing more.
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  And it didn't actually free anyone immediately. Mm-mm.
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  It only applied to the Lanyan Union didn't control.
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  And it was like the president signing a law for Canada, basically.
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  That's, it was like, well, it was like the U.S. trying to pass a law for Canada.
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  It, like, what? That ain't going to work.
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  Well, here's also something that people don't take into account.
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  The South didn't even respect it because they didn't consider him,
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  quote unquote, their president.
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  Yeah. So it didn't mean didn't be squat to them.
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  And in order for it to be enforced 100 percent, basically the union had to take
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  over a town 100 percent and free everybody. Correct.
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  Correct. Number three, it offered no plan for what came next.
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  No, sir. So it freed people bodily, but gave them zero economic footing,
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  no land, no money, no citizenship.
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  It basically created a class of free people with no way to survive,
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  which is how many became sharecroppers.
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  Reconstruction, baby.
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  Reconstruction. Number four, it was framed as a military necessity, not a human right.
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  Correct. The language of the document is dry and legal. It doesn't talk about
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  God-given rights. It talks about suppressing the rebellion.
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  It submitted the idea that black freedom was a tool for government,
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  not a moral obligation. Correct. In any way, shape, or form. Correct.
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  And last but not least, the least known, the least talked about,
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  it left the door open for Jim Crow.
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  So because it didn't grant citizenship or voting rights, it wasn't until the
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  14th and 15th amendments for those, it left a loophole for states to create
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  black codes, vagrancy laws, et cetera, et cetera.
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  And for those that don't understand and know, if you didn't have a job as a
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  black man in the South, that was a crime.
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  Got snatched up off the street and basically put back into slavery.
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  I want you all to hear me again. If you didn't have a job, you were treated
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  the same way as someone that robbed a damn bank.
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  Snatched up off the street and basically put back into slavery. Exactly.
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  Not slavery to the point where you were out there picking cotton,
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  a different type of slavery, which still continues today.
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  You basically got put in the system and worked on the chain gang,
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  et cetera. Just another form of slavery.
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  Absolutely. You just became a slave for the state instead of a slave for personal property.
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  And although I know I should have looked all of this up before I mentioned and
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  talk about it, there was so many laws put in place.
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  And this is not just two black black men talking and running our mouths about,
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  you know, this is this is this is historical. These are historical facts.
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  There were laws put in place for black folks in communities like when people
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  talk about sundown towns.
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  We don't say that to be funny. There were signs that told you to get your black
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  ass out of this town before the sun goes down. Correct. Or you're going to jail.
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  Correct. Like you can look these signs up online.
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  Don't let the sun. If any of you have ever watched Lovecraft Country when they
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  were sitting in that restaurant. That's right.
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  And was it a journey? Journey came running from the back. Get up. Go.
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  Let's get up. Get up. And them fools got up out that damn town so quick.
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  They knew exactly what she was talking about.
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  Like, nah, let's go. Yeah. So-
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  So the next time you're having a debate or discussion with someone about the
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  Confederacy and the South and they say that the war was over states' rights,
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  they're technically not incorrect.
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  Not because their states' right was slavery. That part right there.
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  What they won't tell you is that state was actually fighting to keep slavery legal.
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  So, yeah, they can tell you that it was about states rights.
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  They won't be lying, but you just got to push them. You got to know or you got
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  to ask them that next follow up question.
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  What rights were they actually fighting for? What were they against?
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  What were they protesting? It wasn't about whatever they were trying to tell
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  you. It was about slavery.
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  And it's just the dirty game. It was the business of slavery.
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  A lot of these fools just didn't, the ones who own slaves, because that's another
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  misnomer that, you know, most of the poor white people couldn't even afford
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  slaves. Basically, you were you were ten dollars richer than a slave.
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  But the people who could own slaves, that's what they were fighting for.
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  The right to own slaves so they can keep that free labor so they can continue
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  to profit off of that free labor.
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  That's exactly what the Civil War was about. Point blank period.
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  Full stop. So, you know how recently some people, I forget the lady's name that
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  runs her mouth on Fox News sometimes,
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  but she was talking about how only 13% of the American population during that
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  time were slave owners. How do you know how they like to bring that up?
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  But they failed to include that it was like 48% of people in the South owned slaves.
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  And 100% of black people were slaves.
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  So, what's your point?
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  It's like, well, yeah, 13% of the population were slave owners.
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  And I'm like, well, yeah, but you're counting the union states, too. Right. Exactly.
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  No, you got to count those bottom states. Exactly. And damn near half of those
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  people owned slaves. Yep.
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  Yep. And the ones, like I said, who couldn't afford to own slaves.
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  Still treated us like shit.
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  Treated you like that. And they worked as overseers.
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  Yep. They were the ones out there on the horse whipping you,
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  telling you to get back to work.
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  For those that need a Hollywood reference, the Brittle Brothers, for example. Correct.
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  From Django Unchained. I like the way you die, boy.
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  Those were the people that they hired to oversee. Correct.
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  The slaves and then treated them like shit, too. Correct.
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  Correct. But it's the same psychology that they use today for poor white people. Yeah.
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  I'm going to treat you bad, but. But you're still better than him.
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  That part. But you better than that nigga over there. Yep.
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  Don't ever forget that. And one day, if you work hard, you might be me.
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  No, you ain't. You ain't. He going to always keep his boot on your neck.
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  Yeah. And you, in return, going to always keep your boot on the black person's
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  neck or the Hispanic person's neck or whatever immigrant community you want to add.
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  And that's how they keep this silly racism thing going. It's all a psychological
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  mind trick that you white people just can't seem to understand for some reason.
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  You know something else too and i know this is like we're
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  bringing it a whole century later when i say this i saw a funny video of a brother
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  talking about how once they got their freedom at the sit-in with the diner and
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  they were able to sit there eating he he made a joke about how bad the food
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  was and you know ha ha ha one thing i thought about.
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  It is often said that we were trying to integrate with white folk. Correct.
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  No, we weren't. No. We just wanted to be able to shop wherever the hell we wanted
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  to shop. Equal treat. Eat whatever we wanted to eat.
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  We weren't trying to, hey, that's a nice ass house. It just so happens to be
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  in a white neighborhood. Right. But I can afford it.
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  I would still buy it if it was full of black folk or Mexican folk.
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  Right. Chinese folk. Right.
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  Nobody was trying to be you. And unfortunately, that is another thing that has been taught to us.
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  We were trying to integrate with them. Correct. No, we weren't. Correct.
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  We just wanted to be afforded the same equal opportunities, the same civil liberties
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  as everyone else. I didn't want to be you.
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  Nobody wanted to, you know, move to that neighborhood just because you were there.
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  Right oh that's a nice ass house i can
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  afford it i should be allowed to move there right and
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  guess what if you decide when i move there that your ass don't
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  want to be there see you yeah see you later but instead as you and i both know
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  a lot of laws were enacted oh yeah which i will talk about in to stop us from
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  moving into certain communities correct correct now we can talk about this for We could,
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  but I know you got anything else you want to add to this emancipation conversation?
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  At the moment, I think that's it for me. All right, cool.
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  So just a few follow-up things. So you were right that the Emancipation Proclamation
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  was originally drafted in 1863.
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  But another one of those myths that we're about to knock down.
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  Slaves actually didn't get freed until the 13th Amendment, which was actually in 1865.
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  So if you really want to talk about something freeing slaves,
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  it's the 13th Amendment and not the Emancipation Proclamation.
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  It may have opened the door, but the actual legislation was the 13th Amendment.
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  That freed the slaves, like I said, in 1865.
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  Now also and this is something that sticks in
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  my craw how we got juneteenth somebody
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  rolled up on slaves in texas hey what y'all doing because yeah
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  texas just was like forget that we don't
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  care about the 13th amendment the emancipation proclamation
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  y'all still slaves and it
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  wasn't until somebody rolled up after these people
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  were legally free and was
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  like hey y'all free what y'all doing that's
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  how we got juneteenth so this is literally how
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  it was no that yeah that's literally how it was which is
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  why i am always like i don't
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  care about juneteenth don't get me wrong i'm gonna take that day
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  off work with pay but i'm like so
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  will i so will i yeah i might screw juneteenth
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  because it shouldn't exist technically
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  juneteenth should not exist they were
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  already free which means somebody was breaking the law
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  which means somebody should have went to jail
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  but that stuff that's always left out of the history books and to be quite honest
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  bro i didn't even know about juneteenth until what probably 10 15 years ago
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  yeah yeah it was never taught in our school.
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  Somebody, somebody I was talking to was like, you don't celebrate Juneteenth?
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  I was like, what the hell is Juneteenth? What are you talking about?
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  That's when I started doing research. And that's when I got angry because I'm
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  just like, oh, this is this is trash.
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  But anyway. And for those listening, we are not agreeing with the likes of Candace
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  Owens about the vitriol that she has for Juneteenth.
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  Oh, no. vitriol she has and what we're talking about
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  are two different oh completely come come
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  come completely completely because i i
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  think it goes without saying that we are
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  pro-black all day every day
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  that also but that also doesn't
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  mean that we're anti-white no not at all or anti
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  anything else it just means that we're pro-black
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  which i'll touch on some pro-black things
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  later on in this podcast all right cool bro i think i think that's that's all
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  i got as far as the emancipation proclamation i think you did a great job going
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  through the pros and cons and i said uh any anybody who uh think we missed anything
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  get at us in the comments we'll we'll gladly uh have a discussion sensible discussion.
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  Like we always say, we're not just going to argue with yahoos.
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  You have to come with facts.
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  You have to come with real questions and not just looking for argument.
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  All right. With that being said, we're going to roll. We're going to roll. My gosh, my English.
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  We're going to roll right into current events.
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  I think we both want to talk about the same current event today.
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  Hey, you want me to start or you want to start with? I actually got two.
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  All right. All right. Well, the first one we're going to talk about is the one
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  that everyone's talking about.
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  And that is the extremely racist video, which I mean, did you see the whole thing, bro?
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  So I've seen that video before. The first part of the video is about voting machine. Yeah.
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  Which is already been debunked, which is just like, you know,
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  this is why Fox got sued by Dominion last time for these fools talking about
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  this machine was faulty.
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  And what did Fox say in court?
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  We're not a news. Yep. We're not a news network.
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  Yeah. Entertainment company. They're basically the WWE on Fox News.
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  So to put so to put these racist caricatures at the end of this video was just
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  kind of like it was like, I don't even get it.
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  Like these things have nothing to do with each other.
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  President Obama didn't have anything to do with the 2020 election.
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  What are you getting at, bro? What are you saying? So for everyone that's just
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  like, oh, it wasn't racist.
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  No, it was because in proper context, it was just something that you wanted to add.
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  Here's what's crazy to me outside of the fact of being racist.
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  This was done by a 79-year-old man.
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  A 79-year-old man. that's something one of my grandkids will post grandpa look what I saw but.
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  The fact that you used apes and then threw a damn staffer under the bus. Right.
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  Which to hell with that, whoever the staffer is too. Right. Because we know
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  that the ape racist trope goes back a long ways.
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  That's not something that I think these youngins know about today.
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  Well, no, they worship this dumbass. They worship him. Right.
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  So he can't do anything wrong.
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  Right. It's insane to me to worship any man, any woman. Correct.
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  Period. Correct. But just the pro-government stance that people who you and
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  I grew up despised government.
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  They would pick up their guns and go to war with the government.
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  Are now praising every single thing the government is doing.
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  Because you know why? Hasn't hit their community yet. Yeah, for real.
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  For real. And it's like, you know, as far as the staffer addressing the staffer,
• 26:14
  but it's like, bro, I thought you had total control over everything.
• 26:19
  I thought nothing moved without your say so.
• 26:23
  So you can't blame this staffer and say you didn't know about it because you
• 26:28
  spent the last 10 years telling us that nothing happens without your approval
• 26:33
  and you know everything that goes on.
• 26:37
  So stand up on it. Be a man and stand up on it. Don't kowtow.
• 26:43
  Don't. And listen, let me let me let me let me say this.
• 26:48
  To every black television show host, news anchor, I don't want to see any one of you on TV crying,
• 27:00
  talking about you need an apology and how hurt you are.
• 27:05
  No, no, no.
• 27:10
  Later for all of that. This is the time for anger. Take those tears, turn them into anger.
• 27:21
  All right.
• 27:22
  No more playing nice.
• 27:25
  And when I say that, I want to talk about my black MAGA people for a minute,
• 27:30
  if you would just indulge me to all of my black MAGA people.
• 27:37
  What will it take for all of the black MAGA people who thought Kamala Mama is
• 27:46
  Indian. She ain't black enough.
• 27:48
  Kamala married to a white man. She ain't black enough.
• 27:52
  Kamala was a prosecutor. She locked up black people, which was her job.
• 27:58
  And if you're not mad at the person who did the crime, I don't understand your logic.
• 28:03
  But to all of those people, what do you think now?
• 28:07
  What are you thinking now about Trump?
• 28:12
  Not just in regards to this video.
• 28:15
  Has your life gotten any better?
• 28:21
  Everything is still sky high.
• 28:25
  All of his policies are basically just culture issue policy. What policies?
• 28:32
  Well, true, but it's just all culture race baiting stuff.
• 28:37
  Take away DEI, make DEI illegal.
• 28:41
  You know what I'm saying? How how many times do this guy have to piss on you
• 28:46
  and tell you that is raining for you to see that he don't care about your black ass?
• 28:53
  I'm seriously don't understand.
• 28:57
  But let me say this, because in all honesty, do you?
• 29:02
  If you want to vote for Trump, do you?
• 29:05
  You want to vote Republican and just know because you don't just vote for Trump,
• 29:10
  you vote for all Republicans when you support Trump.
• 29:13
  So if you want to support all those races, do you?
• 29:16
  If it helps you sleep well at night, good.
• 29:21
  Get you a blanket, curl up, Have you some good sleep.
• 29:25
  But, you know, the one thing you cannot say to me is that you're pro-black period.
• 29:31
  So I want to just add something. And I think I've mentioned this before for people to understand.
• 29:40
  We didn't just start paying attention to Trump 10 years ago.
• 29:44
  Like these people that support him blindly. And then if you call him a racist,
• 29:48
  they say, give me one thing he's ever done racist. It was like,
• 29:51
  well, I can give you 20 or 30 different lawsuits easily from when I was a teenager, easily a teenager.
• 29:59
  He was accused of being racist before I was before you were.
• 30:02
  I would even even. Yeah, Jesus. With the with the with the unfair housing.
• 30:06
  With the unfair housing practices.
• 30:08
  Correct. This isn't new. The ad asking for the execution of the exonerated five
• 30:17
  before them boys had even went to trial. He wanted him right.
• 30:23
  He wanted him. He wanted him killed without any evidence that they had actually committed the crime.
• 30:28
  Or my favorite line of all time in front of Congress.
• 30:32
  They don't look Indian to me. Mm hmm.
• 30:35
  They shouldn't receive benefits for their casinos because they don't look Indian to him.
• 30:42
  And what did that senator say? Well, it's a good thing laws are not written
• 30:46
  and made based on what you think.
• 30:49
  And here we are, 35 to 40 years later, with us having to deal exactly with what
• 30:55
  that senator said back in 91 or 92. I know we were still in high school at the time.
• 31:00
  Laws being enforced literally based on how you look. And and and and how you
• 31:07
  look, you know, I mean, like we we did ice last week.
• 31:11
  So I don't know. I'm not going to circle back to that.
• 31:14
  But there is absolutely no way you can walk up to somebody.
• 31:19
  And based on the way that they look, the color of their skin determine whether
• 31:25
  or not they are a citizen is just boneheaded. Yeah.
• 31:31
  Simple as that boneheaded.
• 31:34
  Your other current event, bro. No, no. I'm going to say that one for my rarts.
• 31:39
  Okay. All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. Anything else you want to talk about as far as the video then?
• 31:44
  Nah, just that it took this to even get Big Gums, Tim Scott,
• 31:50
  to say this is the most racist thing to ever come out of the White House.
• 31:54
  And even that, sir, is a lie. That also is a lie.
• 31:58
  But you see now they're coming for his neck.
• 32:02
  Yeah. Yeah. The most racist thing that ever come out of the White House was
• 32:06
  in the 20s when they screened. What's the movie?
• 32:11
  Oh, Birth of a Nation. They screened Birth of a Nation.
• 32:15
  Birth of a Nation. My goodness. Yeah, we've already talked about that.
• 32:19
  Lord, have mercy, Jesus.
• 32:21
  All right, bro. Well, go ahead. Go ahead, man. Let's let's go into our rarts.
• 32:26
  Everyone's favorite segment Including mine Which is a rant About a random topic Look, I.
• 32:36
  I'm going to try and lighten things up because we've been getting kind of heavy.
• 32:39
  Well, let me do this one first. Okay. Well, you go ahead.
• 32:41
  You can bring it down. You go ahead and I'll bring the temperature back down.
• 32:44
  So I want to talk about something that happened about maybe a week,
• 32:48
  week and a half ago is when I first started hearing about it.
• 32:51
  It's a situation where it would be kind of like when we were growing up.
• 32:56
  If, say, our fathers bought something in the house and then got mad that that thing was in the house.
• 33:05
  Let me let me tell you what i mean by that yes please you ever seen anybody sue themselves,
• 33:10
  oh wow get into it bro i
• 33:13
  know exactly where you're going with this go ahead get into it so for
• 33:16
  those that don't know donald trump is suing the federal government for 10 billion
• 33:20
  with a b dollars and his kids well one of them is also on this lawsuit and basically
• 33:27
  what it is it's the whistleblower who released the tax returns correct whistleblowers
• 33:32
  already been punished for this.
• 33:34
  So it's not like this dude didn't say, yeah, I did it because he did.
• 33:38
  And I can't remember what's going on with him, but he's already being punished for it.
• 33:43
  So for those that don't understand this, if Donald Trump wins this $10 billion
• 33:47
  lawsuit against the executive branch, which is him.
• 33:51
  Suing himself. Suing himself with the people that he put in place. Correct.
• 33:56
  So he's going to sue himself and win with the people he put in place to make him win. Correct.
• 34:04
  $10 billion that he claims he's going to donate to charity.
• 34:10
  Yeah, we'll see about that. Which one? Because in New York City,
• 34:14
  you've been banned from running a charity.
• 34:16
  You've been banned from participating in charitable events in the entire state
• 34:21
  of New York. What was it? 10 or 15 years.
• 34:23
  But my thing is this. It comes from the treasury.
• 34:28
  That's your money. Tax dollars. That's my money. Yes, sir.
• 34:32
  Let me say it again. He's suing himself. Correct.
• 34:39
  He's basically about to steal $10 billion from the people.
• 34:43
  Because that's what it is. It's a theft. Yeah. And I want people to understand something.
• 34:48
  That when he goes, when he's out of office, for all of you guys who cry when
• 34:54
  this man walks in the room, for
• 34:56
  those who worship him and buy his merchandise, he's going to go to jail.
• 35:02
  Every other president in recent history has released their tax returns. This is not a big deal.
• 35:10
  Unless you got something to hide, which it was revealed that Donald Trump doesn't pay taxes.
• 35:21
  That's the whole kit and caboodle right there.
• 35:25
  But, you know, if, well, I shouldn't even say if, because I don't even think
• 35:30
  it's an if, it's a win. He is awarded this money.
• 35:35
  Should be demanded in that settlement who he has to get that money to.
• 35:40
  He should not get to choose. But that's exactly why he filed it in Florida.
• 35:46
  Yeah, she'll do whatever he says. Yeah.
• 35:50
  Yeah. Like, dude, when I tell you, and again, it's easy for us to say this is
• 35:55
  the most egregious thing we've
• 35:56
  ever seen presidents do when we have presidents who were slave owners.
• 35:59
  So it's not the most egregious thing. It's the most egregious thing we have
• 36:03
  seen personally in our lifetime.
• 36:07
  Right? But all I got to say is if his name was Barack Hussein Obama,
• 36:12
  he would have already been impeached and he would have already been brought up on charge. Correct.
• 36:17
  Already. Correct. If his name was Bill Clinton, hell, if his name was George,
• 36:22
  if George Bush would have done this stuff. Correct.
• 36:25
  Republicans would have been like, oh, nah, bro, we can't roll with you on this.
• 36:28
  But the reason they ride with Trump so much is because with Trump, it's all about power.
• 36:33
  And these people that are in office are thinking, holy shit,
• 36:37
  I can have and hold this power as long as this man is on my side.
• 36:42
  Not not. Yes, I agree with you.
• 36:46
  Excuse me. But it's not just that. It's also they're in on it.
• 36:50
  Well, yeah, yeah, there's all there. They're all eating.
• 36:53
  They're all eating off the government right now. They're all eating off the taxpayers.
• 36:59
  All of these fools are getting filthy rich.
• 37:03
  All of them, each member of
• 37:06
  his cabinet They are all profiting
• 37:09
  off of the government Not just Trump When this is all said and done If there
• 37:17
  is any type of justice system in America All of them should go to jail All of
• 37:24
  them So here's where it gets weird for the courtroom.
• 37:30
  The Department of Justice has to talk about how horrible he is and how crazy this lawsuit is.
• 37:38
  Can you think of any attorney in the Department of Justice that's going to get up there and argue?
• 37:42
  No, they're going to settle. And they'll settle for like $7.5 billion.
• 37:45
  That's exactly what's going to happen.
• 37:47
  Pam Bondi will just settle.
• 37:50
  She won't even try and make an argument. She'll just settle.
• 37:53
  Shit's insane. It is insane, bro. 100%.
• 37:59
  The corruption. It's next level. It is next level.
• 38:04
  It's simple, to be honest. I mean, because there's nothing sophisticated about the grift.
• 38:10
  Well, it shows how broken, how what we've been complaining about for centuries. Correct.
• 38:14
  Is now being exposed. Correct. It does show how weak and broken the system actually is.
• 38:22
  But at the same token, it
• 38:25
  also shows just what a
• 38:28
  dirtbag he is the reason why
• 38:31
  there are no guardrails in place for any of this
• 38:34
  kind of stuff because no one ever thought
• 38:37
  the president would stoop to this level yeah that's why yeah that's why there
• 38:43
  are no guardrails because everybody's like what the what he doing what what
• 38:47
  the yeah no president would have ever dared yeah exactly so so so no it's not
• 38:53
  that he's just some evil genius,
• 38:56
  it's just that he's a dirtbag that's literally taking advantage of the system
• 39:02
  and because we have a feckless,
• 39:07
  totally politicized Supreme Court.
• 39:10
  That's also why this is taking place. Had they just said it was illegal for
• 39:16
  him to run, we wouldn't be in this situation.
• 39:19
  After January 6th, he should have been banned from running or holding any office.
• 39:27
  He should have been the ultimate black sheep politician.
• 39:30
  Nobody will touch him. This falls directly at the feet of the Supreme Court. Those six.
• 39:37
  Because those three, they fight.
• 39:40
  And they they they yell but they're in
• 39:43
  the minority so those six all your
• 39:47
  fault democracy falls it's your
• 39:51
  fault history your name those six their names
• 39:54
  will be in the history books if democracy falls in this country yep
• 39:57
  and and and we are well on our
• 40:01
  way yep all right um i'm gonna try
• 40:04
  and lighten things up y'all because we we've been going a little hard
• 40:07
  so tuesday was ground
• 40:10
  hogs day if i'm not mistaken was it
• 40:13
  tuesday wednesday anyway monday monday whatever
• 40:17
  in the year of our lord 2026 can we please get rid of pucks a tiny feel it it's
• 40:30
  not even pseudoscience it's just downright idiotic at this point you know people
• 40:35
  out there to believe that shit.
• 40:38
  The groundhog runs in the hole because he sticks his head out and sees 200 freaking people.
• 40:46
  Of course, he's going back in the hole where it's safe.
• 40:49
  Not only that, but there's nothing
• 40:53
  like a meteorologist would tell you is scientific about the groundhog.
• 40:58
  Can we please just move off of this stupidity?
• 41:01
  Please, please, please, people, please.
• 41:04
  Look, I love Groundhog Day. It's a great movie. It's hilarious. Oh, my God. Absolutely.
• 41:10
  But past that, we need to stop with this groundhog mess.
• 41:14
  Stop having parades and festivals and all of that silly shit.
• 41:20
  The groundhog does not determine the weather, not one inkling. clean.
• 41:26
  Okay. It's been stupid and it's continuing to be stupid.
• 41:33
  It's dumb. Let it go. This year should be the last year that we ever talk about
• 41:40
  Puxatani Field and the Groundhog.
• 41:42
  And think about it like this.
• 41:45
  It only affects our region. You think they care about Groundhog's Day in California
• 41:50
  or Arizona or, you know, somewhere where they got nice.
• 41:54
  What do you think they give a damn about Groundhog's Day? Nope. Absolutely not.
• 41:59
  This is it, y'all. Let's take Groundhog's Day off the record books, please.
• 42:07
  That's my word. Go watch the movie, though.
• 42:10
  Go watch the movie. Great movie. You'll enjoy it.
• 42:14
  Really great movie. Anything you want to add to that, bro?
• 42:17
  The only thing I would add is outside of Groundhog's Day, for those that date
• 42:21
  and judge people based on Zodiac signs, go get help.
• 42:27
  That's all I got, bro. Oh, man. Yeah, go get some help.
• 42:33
  All right, cool. All right, y'all. Well, with that, we're going to slide right
• 42:37
  into our next segment called Five on the Blackhand Side.
• 42:43
  We talk about a black movie and
• 42:47
  basically give a review and the
• 42:49
  movie we chose is very apropos to the conversation
• 42:53
  that we've been having and that movie is
• 42:56
  glory go ahead my brother all right
• 42:59
  so glory is a movie
• 43:02
  about the 54th and we'll
• 43:05
  get in you know get more into it as we talk about the movie but the movie
• 43:08
  itself was from 1989 and it
• 43:11
  was directed by edward zwick who did blood
• 43:14
  diamond and the last samurai it had a budget of 18 million dollars it achieved
• 43:20
  27 million at the box office it was released in december of 1989 it stars matthew
• 43:27
  broderick denzel washington morgan freeman Andre Brouwer,
• 43:33
  Carrie Ells is that how you pronounce his last name?
• 43:36
  Carrie Ells of course Matthew Broderick,
• 43:41
  was Colonel Robert Shaw Denzel was Private Trip which I have something you might
• 43:48
  disagree with with Denzel in this movie Morgan Freeman was John Rollins Carrie
• 43:53
  Ells was Major Cabot and Andre Brouwer was like Andre Brouwer Yeah, black.
• 44:00
  Educated brother from Massachusetts. Yeah.
• 44:04
  What did they call him?
• 44:07
  Gosh. Snowflake. Oh, that's what Denzel kept calling him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:13
  Snowflake. Especially when they were in that tent that first time. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:18
  So, you want to hear my controversial Denzel take before we get going?
• 44:21
  Yeah, let's get into it. He should not have won an Oscar.
• 44:25
  Agree with you on that morgan freeman should have won that oscar morgan freeman
• 44:29
  was the better character yeah everything about me
• 44:32
  he was the supporting character yeah denzel won
• 44:35
  you know why that tear nope what
• 44:39
  you think he won because he picked up the flag at
• 44:42
  the end that's why he won now here's my controversial take on denzel washington
• 44:48
  you took the hardest negro in the movie the hardest the negro who had just told
• 44:56
  you the scene before man ain't carrying your flag.
• 45:02
  Yeah when it when it when it when it when it came down to it he dropped his
• 45:07
  gun to pick up the flag come on and then get shot instantly man get this flag away from me with my gun,
• 45:16
  that's why he won because he became the
• 45:19
  token negro that's why
• 45:22
  he won i agree the tear was some good acting that's a good scene it was a good
• 45:28
  scene but it was because he picked up that flag and yelled come on is why he
• 45:34
  won that oscar in my opinion that's just that's just me i wouldn't have picked up shit.
• 45:42
  That flag would have been laying there, I'm just saying. Hey,
• 45:44
  I'd have been kneeled down behind other people's shoes. Right?
• 45:47
  Right? Right? Forget that.
• 45:49
  Alright. Anyway, let's get back into the movie.
• 45:54
  So, basically the movie is Matthew Broderick's character was given...
• 46:01
  The honor of putting together a cast of characters, black men,
• 46:08
  which the movie got wrong, actually.
• 46:10
  Most of those men were free men. Correct. They were not slaves.
• 46:13
  Correct. The overwhelming majority of these men volunteered to fight for the North.
• 46:18
  He put them together. They were put together as just basically a crew to do labor. That part.
• 46:26
  And Matthew Broderick's character, who, I mean, Robert Shaw was decorated.
• 46:31
  He was a hero he by all accounts history remembers him well he's not now was
• 46:38
  he probably a bigot probably most likely most likely he was but most white men
• 46:42
  at that time correct in the same way shape or form correct but by all accounts
• 46:47
  robert shaw was a great man and a great military guy,
• 46:51
  so he got this this band of characters together and
• 46:55
  he put put them in and and trained them properly there's a scene in the movie
• 47:00
  that drives me insane and i i feel like i'm jumping all over the place but the
• 47:04
  shoes you store them in the office and demand that you 600 pair of shoes,
• 47:13
  and who do you leave at the door right four slaves right.
• 47:18
  Who would have got shot instantly? Who would have got shot? Yeah.
• 47:21
  And then Morgan Freeman folds his arms like, I wish one of you might.
• 47:24
  Right. It would right now. Right. Man, y'all answers would have been killed
• 47:26
  so damn quick. Real quick.
• 47:29
  And they ain't even have weapons. No weapons.
• 47:34
  And then what does Matthew Broderick do when he comes out? He stares at Morgan
• 47:37
  Freeman. And smiles. And smiles. Yeah. And Morgan Freeman smiles. And they come back.
• 47:42
  I guess everybody wears sides of the left. Correct.
• 47:45
  Correct. Here's your shoes. Here's your shoes. Right. Now, the reason I'm bringing
• 47:48
  this up is because one thing Hollywood is good for is making it look like we
• 47:54
  were so fucking happy to get anything,
• 47:58
  to get anything about what was going on.
• 48:00
  We were excited to go fight in a war.
• 48:04
  And all you got to do is give us shoes. Right.
• 48:07
  We're going to do cartwheels for you. Right. Bullshit. Correct.
• 48:12
  Oh, fun fact. Many of the people in the reenactments of the Civil War,
• 48:18
  I mean, of the movie, those were
• 48:20
  all those people that get together and do reenactments of the Civil War.
• 48:23
  Those were actual people that actually run organizations where they reenactment
• 48:27
  the Civil Oh, interesting.
• 48:28
  Yeah, yeah. So let me finish what the movie was about. So eventually,
• 48:33
  they were called upon to...
• 48:37
  For the Battle of Fort Wagner. And they basically stormed into Fort Wagner.
• 48:42
  I mean, it was a suicide mission. Correct.
• 48:44
  And there were 600 plus of the 54th. And I believe 276 people died that day.
• 48:50
  Including Matthew Broderick's character during that time.
• 48:56
  Sorry, I got notes all over the place. No, it's cool. But you got it.
• 48:59
  And they never actually captured Fort Wagner. No, they did not.
• 49:04
  That's one of one of the few places that were actually never taken.
• 49:09
  So they were buried in a mass grave. Correct. Correct.
• 49:14
  So here's my thing with the movie.
• 49:18
  And this is why we were alluding to earlier that we would get back to some of
• 49:23
  this stuff as it relates to the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 49:26
  So black soldiers at that time were basically used as, quote unquote,
• 49:35
  slave labor for the military.
• 49:37
  Grave diggers, ditch diggers. They weren't actually allowed to fight.
• 49:43
  So that's that's the first thing that's really just kind of screwed up when
• 49:50
  you look at it in the big picture.
• 49:53
  You know, when they try and glorify Abraham Lincoln and all of these so-called progressive people.
• 50:00
  No, they really weren't that progressive. They still looked at blacks as second
• 50:06
  class citizens at that point. Here's something interesting.
• 50:11
  White soldiers actually got paid
• 50:14
  more than the black soldiers at 13 dollars 13 versus i think like like 10 or
• 50:22
  8 or something like that even though they were doing the same things according
• 50:28
  to the military you know they have seen it in yeah you have you have the same rank and.
• 50:34
  But as a private coming in as a white man, you immediately got more money.
• 50:38
  And I think the money was tax free. Yes.
• 50:42
  For the white soldiers, as opposed, I think, to the black soldiers having to
• 50:46
  actually pay taxes on it.
• 50:48
  So I think that reduced their pay a couple of more dollars.
• 50:52
  So it was probably more like 13 to 8 or 13 to 7.
• 50:57
  Just let that sink in. so when you
• 51:00
  go back to society that white man
• 51:03
  already got way more cheese than you and y'all
• 51:06
  been doing the exact same thing yeah why
• 51:09
  just because he's white so as
• 51:13
  every generation there's always something that happens that
• 51:16
  prevents and it's sad history like
• 51:19
  this this is what prevented them from prospering then as
• 51:22
  you and i got older was our parents and grandparents got
• 51:25
  older it was the denial of home equity for sure
• 51:29
  that allow white for sure to get rich and for sure home ownership for sure absolutely
• 51:35
  because they weren't allowed to own homes goes back to what you were saying
• 51:39
  earlier about if i want to buy this house i should just be allowed to buy this
• 51:43
  house period versus you making me stay in a neighborhood that's not going to accrue.
• 51:49
  Any house is supposed to accrue value, not depreciate.
• 51:55
  But unfortunately, and this still happens today, is one of the core tenements of gentrification.
• 52:03
  Black communities' houses depreciate over time, which is really screwed up.
• 52:11
  Let that sink in, y'all. When you think about the American dream.
• 52:16
  So something I forgot to mention that when I mentioned about how we always have
• 52:22
  to look like we're so happy about something.
• 52:26
  Historically, Denzel's character and Morgan Freeman's character didn't exist.
• 52:32
  They were created for the movie. Dramatic effects. Sure. Makes sense.
• 52:37
  And I want you to understand the fictional character won the Oscar.
• 52:42
  The fictional character won the Oscar. I told you, man, because he picked up that flag.
• 52:49
  What was the point? You got 672 other people that you could have. Yeah.
• 52:56
  I mean, the 54th was the 54th. Yeah. But you had to add characters.
• 53:01
  And, I mean, let's be real. Denzel was an asshole.
• 53:04
  He was basically the villain in the movie, to be honest.
• 53:07
  Yeah, he was an asshole. Yeah, he was the villain. mad at
• 53:11
  thomas you know uh thomas because he was
• 53:14
  educated right just jealous i mean just just pure jealousy yeah yeah well let's
• 53:20
  whip him let's let's whip him why right that part that part it was like y'all
• 53:28
  gonna whip this dude like he a slave in the military yeah.
• 53:33
  Should have walked off oh yeah we out yep and
• 53:37
  the whole thing where he said where he came out
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  in the rain and he read the proclamation from anybody
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  caught will immediately be returned if not killed
• 53:47
  yeah and then next morning matthew broderick said well how many are still there
• 53:50
  and then they go out and everybody's there right historically most of these
• 53:55
  men were free men right yeah i'm just gonna go back home right it's gonna go
• 53:59
  back to my wife because y'all making me go dig ditches in the south Yeah,
• 54:03
  no, I'm just going to go back home.
• 54:04
  Yeah, yeah. Y'all putting me in a position to get kidnapped and return to slavery. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:14
  With all of that being said, y'all, we actually like this movie.
• 54:22
  Actually, I love this movie. It's a good movie.
• 54:26
  Go watch it. We just need to to to point out just some of the fallacies in it.
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  You know, it it it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for either sides.
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  You know, it wasn't the the white men training running the 54.
• 54:46
  I'm sure they probably didn't want to be there as well as a lot of the black
• 54:51
  soldiers didn't want to be there. But it was a means to an end.
• 54:56
  There was there was nothing else for them to do. This was a way for them to
• 55:02
  move up the social or socioeconomic ladder, for lack of a better term.
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  So I'm going to give you guys some some historical facts real fast about the 54th.
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  So Frederick Douglass, he was one of the key recruiters for the 54th.
• 55:19
  Two of his sons were the first people to enlist Lewis and Charles Douglas.
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  Unlike the movie, which depicts many soldiers as illiterate,
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  the 54th was the most literate regiment in the entire Union Army because many
• 55:32
  were free men from Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
• 55:35
  A large number were educated professionals.
• 55:37
  Governor John Andrew, he was the one who appointed Shaw to do this.
• 55:45
  The pay boycott was real. It lasted for 18 months with no pay,
• 55:51
  which is wild. When you think about they already had, well, some of them had nothing.
• 55:55
  Right. The Confederate threat was real. They definitely issued the proclamation. Correct.
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  And of the 600 men were in the 54th. 272 were killed, wounded, or captured.
• 56:06
  And Shaw did die on the initial run.
• 56:10
  Denzel's character. So the character of Trip is fake.
• 56:15
  But Sergeant William Carney is real. He's the one that actually picks up the
• 56:20
  flag. Oh, interesting. In real life. Okay.
• 56:24
  So yeah, when the color guard was shot, Carney grabbed the flag,
• 56:27
  was shot four times, but never let the flag touch the ground. Okay.
• 56:31
  He crawled. In real life, he crawled back to the camp.
• 56:36
  With the flag. With the flag. So he didn't die right there with the rest of them on the beach.
• 56:41
  And Carney was the first black man to be awarded the Medal of Honor for this action.
• 56:47
  Wow. Oh, so my question is, why create a character? Correct.
• 56:53
  Just make Denzel Sergeant William Carney? Correct.
• 56:56
  No, you know what you had to do? You had to make the villain.
• 56:59
  The villain couldn't be the slave owners. You had to make a villain on the union side of the arm.
• 57:06
  There's got to be a crazy black man in here somewhere.
• 57:08
  Not just the villain, but the toughest, the baddest black dude in the regiment.
• 57:17
  And what else do we see? Buck breaking.
• 57:20
  What else did we see, though? When they made Shaw and his men go with that other
• 57:25
  guy and they had them black men terrorizing that town?
• 57:29
  And then when that black man hit that woman shot he got shot yep shot him by his superior officer,
• 57:37
  yep shot him think anything happened him cold-blooded murder nope left his ass
• 57:42
  about right there in that town yep yep yeah it's oh man i still like the movie
• 57:52
  but what you just stated made me like it less.
• 57:56
  No, yeah, overall, I mean, yeah, there was some scenes where I felt.
• 58:02
  Happiness part like i i'm just being honest i hate that shit
• 58:05
  like i do i hate that shit i
• 58:08
  quit depicting these dudes and i mean yes we sang yes we we enjoy each other's
• 58:13
  camaraderie like the scene where everybody was praying and denzel got up and
• 58:17
  said i ain't much for praying that's a touching scene i believe stuff like that
• 58:21
  happened for sure because we i mean we have,
• 58:26
  historical context of things like that happening. For sure.
• 58:29
  But this whole, I be damned, they gave us some shoes, y'all. No. Right.
• 58:35
  Right. Y'all had to fight for something that y'all were supposed to get, uniforms.
• 58:41
  First off, y'all are free, educated men. Yeah. Man, fuck it. I'm going home. Yeah.
• 58:45
  I'm about to sit here and mess up myself. Y'all won't give us no shoes.
• 58:49
  Right. Basically, some church boots, too. Right. Right.
• 58:54
  Sneaking off to get something to eat Even though I'm sure y'all was getting fed,
• 58:58
  Y'all in the military But y'all gotta sneak off and get stuff to eat Well no
• 59:02
  Morgan Freeman remember he told him He was sneaking off to get some shoes That's
• 59:06
  what he told him but But we know what he said So you telling me the man with feet that look like,
• 59:13
  Somebody been carving his feet up Right Is about to leave And go what what did
• 59:18
  he say was three miles Something like that He tried to get old boy to go with him Yeah.
• 59:24
  Yeah i did yeah yeah to me his
• 59:27
  his his character was just an example of buck breaking that
• 59:30
  that's that's all you know that's him grabbing the flag and
• 59:33
  him saying come on at the end and then he gets shot instantly and then they
• 59:37
  end up burying him right next to his antagonist shaw you know they on dead on
• 59:44
  top of each other throw his ass in that grave yeah and it's just like man nah yeah that.
• 59:53
  Was about the only thing that i i mean i said
• 59:57
  you just brought some things to my attention that now
• 1:00:00
  looking back at it i'm just like oh maybe i shouldn't have liked this
• 1:00:02
  movie as much as i did but that was like the thing that i didn't like was the
• 1:00:07
  whole picking up the flag and come on thing other than that i'm just like man
• 1:00:10
  i i really enjoyed this movie so much but but yeah maybe i'm gonna take it down
• 1:00:16
  a couple points now that you uh brought those other issues out well remember
• 1:00:19
  But like when I rewatched this,
• 1:00:21
  it was the first time I had seen the movie in probably like 20 years.
• 1:00:25
  So watching it, like I enjoy watching it. I didn't think to myself,
• 1:00:29
  man, let me let me forward past this scene.
• 1:00:31
  I enjoy it. I mean, I watched every scene. It's just those little things that
• 1:00:35
  now that we're older and we look at these things, I go, why does it always have to be so?
• 1:00:43
  We're happy that the that the white man actually gave like, oh, man. Right. No.
• 1:00:49
  Right. That's not how this was.
• 1:00:51
  Right. These men were as free as Matthew Broderick's character. Right.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah. And you know, the craziest thing to me is the whole begging to fight.
• 1:01:06
  Yeah. I'm a soldier and I got a big to fight. I'm out.
• 1:01:12
  Well, I'm like, look, I don't want to get killed. So, yeah, go ahead. Stand on the front line.
• 1:01:18
  Go ahead and fight. Be my guest. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:01:22
  Oh, you want to go storm that? Go ahead. Go ahead and storm that bankhead.
• 1:01:27
  But it was even known that even Lincoln, when they started recruiting black
• 1:01:31
  soldiers, Lincoln was like, they can't fight. What about them that has basically
• 1:01:36
  built the country at that point? Right.
• 1:01:41
  So our ancestors were strong enough and smart enough to build for you.
• 1:01:46
  Right. Raise and nurse your children.
• 1:01:49
  But all of a sudden they can't fight? It's prestige.
• 1:01:53
  It was the prestige of actually being treated like an American soldier.
• 1:01:59
  Which is why i don't
• 1:02:02
  i i could not be an enlisted
• 1:02:05
  man hell no today hell no
• 1:02:08
  just just just knowing what i know is like there's absolutely
• 1:02:11
  no way i could ever enlist just and
• 1:02:14
  not not no no no diss to anyone my brother
• 1:02:18
  was in the military for years i come from basically
• 1:02:21
  a military yeah so so no diss to anyone that
• 1:02:23
  that that's not what i'm saying if that's what you
• 1:02:26
  choose to do that's what you choose to do but me
• 1:02:29
  personally i could not do it
• 1:02:32
  no my grandfather when he died he
• 1:02:34
  was buried with you know military arms flagged the whole shebang you know my
• 1:02:39
  father you know was in vietnam well he never made it to vietnam he made it as
• 1:02:44
  far as germany but he was drafted in 68 you know the twins best friend who basically
• 1:02:51
  grew up as my fifth child he's in he's in the service.
• 1:02:54
  I think he's in Poland right now. Oh, you were telling me about him. Italy somewhere.
• 1:02:59
  But, you know, it's many people do it for different reasons.
• 1:03:05
  Personally, just myself, if some if some shit jumped off that involves our freedom,
• 1:03:11
  I'm gonna be fighting right here on the home front. Right.
• 1:03:15
  Right. And it is just the the message.
• 1:03:21
  Right. I mean, how how could you go fight for someone like Trump?
• 1:03:28
  Just how could you? Well, people will then say, well, you're fighting for the.
• 1:03:32
  It's like, I hear you. I understand where you're coming from wholeheartedly.
• 1:03:36
  But right now, the head of the country is that dude. Correct.
• 1:03:40
  Correct. I'm supposed to fight for a country that doesn't support me,
• 1:03:45
  that that treats me like a second class, just like they did when they came back
• 1:03:50
  from World War One and World War Two and they were still treated as second class citizens.
• 1:03:55
  I'm supposed to go fight for that. No, I'm good.
• 1:03:59
  I'm good. You can't tell me that I should go be a hero and go fight.
• 1:04:06
  And then when the war is over, you call me a nigga as soon as I come back. No, I'm good.
• 1:04:12
  Even when I was in my uniform. Right. You know this is why I hate the Red Tails movie? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:20
  I hate that Disney version. I know we're getting way off, Lord.
• 1:04:24
  I hate that Disney version because like, you know, damn well,
• 1:04:30
  they were calling them black pilots, niggas and stuff.
• 1:04:33
  I don't think they said nigga one time in the whole movie. Nope.
• 1:04:36
  I'm like, man, get out of here with that. Disney whitewashed.
• 1:04:43
  That's our movie y'all glory because i was about to go off on a tangent i had to catch myself,
• 1:04:49
  like i said bro you you you kind of made me look at this in a different way now so,
• 1:04:54
  i mean i was gonna give this like an eight out of ten but i i think maybe i
• 1:04:59
  got to bring it down to a well wait stop five is our i knew you were gonna catch it i went on something.
• 1:05:10
  I was going to give this like a four and a half out of five.
• 1:05:16
  But since you brought those other things to light, I'm going to give this a three.
• 1:05:22
  I'm going to do three and a half. All right. All right. Cool.
• 1:05:25
  I can do three and a half. Yeah, I would say three and a half. Like it doesn't.
• 1:05:30
  I mean, the movie is the movie. The subject of the movie, of course, is the 54th.
• 1:05:36
  Well that's what it's made out to be but at the end of the day it's
• 1:05:39
  it's it's a slave movie it's still it's still
• 1:05:43
  worth watching and and you know eat the
• 1:05:46
  meat spit out the bones because there are some historical things that you can't
• 1:05:50
  actually learn from watching this so yeah i think three and a half is accurate
• 1:05:55
  for our movie review of glory and that concludes five on the black hand side And with that,
• 1:06:03
  we're going to roll right into our closing monologue.
• 1:06:08
  My brother, the floor is yours.
• 1:06:10
  Appreciate it. So I want to leave you guys with something that doesn't always
• 1:06:14
  get talked about. The racial history of the homeowners associations.
• 1:06:20
  This country. A lot of people see the HOA as simple neighborhood management,
• 1:06:25
  lawn rules, paint colors, trash cans.
• 1:06:29
  But historically, some of these associations weren't just about property value.
• 1:06:33
  They were about exclusion.
• 1:06:35
  So after segregation laws started falling apart, restrictive covenants were
• 1:06:39
  written into deeds to keep black families and other minorities out of certain neighborhoods.
• 1:06:44
  And even when those covenants became unenforceable, the mindset didn't just
• 1:06:49
  disappear overnight because the systems have a long memory. It's just going to keep going.
• 1:06:54
  So let's be clear. Not every HOA was created with that intention,
• 1:06:58
  but history matters because when rules are enforced unevenly,
• 1:07:02
  when fines stack up disproportionately,
• 1:07:05
  when certain residents feel targeted
• 1:07:07
  more than protected, that's when old shadows start to look familiar.
• 1:07:11
  Understanding that history isn't about attacking neighborhoods.
• 1:07:14
  It's about accountability. It's about fairness.
• 1:07:17
  It's about making sure community standards don't become coded gatekeeping.
• 1:07:23
  We can value order without weaponizing it. We can protect property values without devaluing people.
• 1:07:30
  The goal should always be community, not control.
• 1:07:34
  And if we know where these systems came from, we can make sure they move differently going forward.
• 1:07:39
  That is the end of my closing monologue. But I also want to say one thing.
• 1:07:44
  For all of the readers out there, a book that talks about this,
• 1:07:48
  and I've read it physically once and listened to it on audiobooks twice.
• 1:07:52
  It's called The Color of Law.
• 1:07:54
  Search for it. Read it. It will explain the history of racism as it pertains
• 1:08:00
  to major highways in this country.
• 1:08:04
  Equity and homeowners associations excuse me interesting i like it you you know
• 1:08:11
  i am an absolute enemy of the homeowners association you know what made me think
• 1:08:18
  about this though you know what made me do this my streets not being coming into the community yeah,
• 1:08:24
  that area right there at the front those dips and whatever that's been like that's like eight years,
• 1:08:31
  and I think to myself what are y'all collecting the money? Correct.
• 1:08:36
  What y'all doing with it? Don't get me started.
• 1:08:39
  That's a whole other podcast. Don't get me started. And that ain't the only
• 1:08:42
  reason because you remember I was sued by the whole association when I had my
• 1:08:46
  house but it was thrown out. But anyway.
• 1:08:50
  Alright y'all well that concludes episode 20 of For The Fam Podcast.
• 1:08:58
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• 1:09:02
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• 1:09:08
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• 1:09:19
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• 1:09:23
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• 1:09:28
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