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Dive into a rollercoaster of dirty gossip and juicy workplace stories, then uncover why Trump’s Digital Equity Act faux pas just sabotaged his own rural voters. We break down the internet desert across fly‑over America and trace the shocking 1676 invention of “white” as a legal category. Plus, get our hot takes on the latest Marvel vs. DC trailers, and why Ironheart can’t catch a break. Along the way, we explore white guilt, allyship pitfalls, and share secrets of office BFFs (yes, even the crack‑head you never saw coming). Whether you’re here for pop culture, political shenanigans, or a crash course in race history, this episode has it all. #raceinamerica #trumppolicies #marvelvsdc #DigitalEquityAct #Workplacefriends #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:49 Sibling Happy Hour: Spicy Takes & Drinks 🍹🌶️
02:07 Dirty Dish & Juicy Gossip: Spill the Tea 🫖👀
06:21 Podcast Growth & Monetization Hustle 📈💰
10:18 Marvel vs. DC: Movie Madness 🎬🦸♂️🦸♀️
20:43 Political Circus: Trump’s Latest Facepalm Moment 🤦♂️
30:04 Offline Struggles: The Internet Desert of Rural America 🌾📵
31:48 1676 to 1776: How ‘White’ Was Cooked Up ⚖️🔍
36:17 Unpacking White Guilt & Privilege: Real Talk, Real Impact 🤔⚖️
44:48 Workplace BFFs: When Co‑Workers Become Family 🤝🏢
58:42 Real Talk on Race: Black Joy vs. White Obsession ✊🏿🔍
01:01:15 Don’t Ghost Us: Subscribe, Share & Join the Party 📣❤️
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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racism in America, but not from the people you usually think it would be from, and strange friendships in the workplace. We gonna get into it. Let's get it.
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcast and YouTube exclusive content.
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Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share it with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies.
Special Episode with Andrea: Trump and Reverse Racism
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On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, J. Andrea.
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going to be dilly-dadding a little bit, and then we're going to be talking about Trump, talking about reverse racism, and strange friendships in the workplace. But that's enough of the intro.
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Let's get to the show.
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What up, sis? What up, brother? I can't call it.
Breaking Stereotypes: Men's Conversational Depth
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I can't call it. I had an interesting conversation the other day. Okay. So some people will call it messy, and I am that.
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Yes. But I'm unlike most males. I ask follow-up questions. So there's this running joke all across the internet that guys don't answer follow ask follow-up questions.
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Y'all never get the whole story. Never. get the wholes Never. Like, you yeah, my boy got divorced. Wow, what happened? I don't know. Like, don't start it because that's tea.
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And if you don't have that whole cup for me to sip on, you just gonna piss me off. Yeah, well, I am not, well, in a lot of ways, I'm not like the normal male, but, uh, because I'm emotionally and um emotionally intelligent.
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But a friend of mine was telling a story of something that happened to them. and Okay. And whether it's me being messy or the old journalist in me, I ask follow-up questions.
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And I kept probing and probing to learn more and more, and then they stopped me. They said, you know what? I don't want to tell you anymore. And I said, why? They said, because it's probably gonna end up on your podcast.
Gossip and Podcast Content Concerns
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They were like, I know that you're not gonna put my name out there, but I know the story is gonna end up on your podcast. I was like, wait a minute. I don't know what to take from this.
00:02:42
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Yeah, I've been telling you that. Yeah, well. That eventually people gonna stop telling you stuff because you keep using it as material. and that will be that would be the end of you because you
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you really, really, really love mess and gossip. And so if people stop telling you stuff, I don't know how you're going to survive. So you might use Reddit. Just use people's stories. Yeah.
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just use other people right but i I think that people can't tell if it's somebody that I know or if it's a Reddit story, story that I just get from somewhere.
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No, because you always say, this is a friend of mine, but they're dumb as hell. Yeah. Like, that's how you always started. So, I mean, people who know you and know the people that you know are probably going to be able to figure out who you're talking about. i have so many different...
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areas of people that i know that don't cross that they won't know who I'm talking about. i Like, i wouldn't I wouldn't come up here and tell a story that people could be like, could put two and two together be like, I know who that is. No, nobody.
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People don't really know me like that in groups. Like there's nobody, i am the epicenter of my life. So what I mean by that is everybody is my friend. There's never a situation where It's a group of friends and I'm telling their business and they know each other.
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You know what i mean? Does that make sense? No, it seemed like you weren't following me on that No, it does. Because I have different friend groups too, but like eventually they cross.
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They do. But OK, so I got one friend who never gets a story that I tell them. Right. It's always wrong. Kind of like mom giving directions.
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Right. Directions to be good. That last turn. That last turn. So this person I tell a story to, they will always be like, remember when you told me story about this, this and this? I say, well, wait a minute. No, because that's definitely not how the story went. Yeah, it was. You said this. I said, no, that's that's not what happened. You were you were mixing in two or three different stories and coming out with one story. That's not what happened.
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And so some of these people that I tell stories about, even if and there have been groups of people that met up for parties for me, even if they got together. half the time they don't remember all the stories that I've told.
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h And they wouldn't be able to put two and two together to figure out who is who. The only one that knows who I'm talking about when I'm telling these stories is you, a good amount of time, and my bestie.
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That's it. Yeah. That's it. And I'm going to tell y'all, I don't care. Yeah. So you got to worry about me knowing your business.
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Because i ah don't I don't care. But the flip side to that is there are people out there who give me that are like, you use this on your show.
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Like openly. and I'm like, im not I don't want to talk about that. But what about this subject? I'm like, how am I going talk about that for 20 minutes? it's very That's very, very specific. I don't even know how I can even broaden that topic out. don't know. It's a good topic.
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No, no, it actually isn't. Thank you. I don't, i do need producers, but I'm not going to go to you to be a producer. Right. Just not going to go to you to be a producer.
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Yeah. ah that's Some good news to let the audience know. Okay.
YouTube Growth and Monetization
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Thank you to everybody who watches us on YouTube because our hours are going up, ah alberty up, uppity up.
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And we are smidge, just a smidge far away from being monetized on YouTube. So i want to thank everybody that's watching. Keep watching because when we yeah get monetized,
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and I need you to keep watching and don't skip past the ads because that's how we actually get paid is the ads need to be watched. So I know people don't like commercials. That's what they will be, but watch them because that's yeah how we make money. I have YouTube premium so that I don't have to deal with them Well, we still get paid if people watch on YouTube premium.
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ah So so that's that's a good thing. But yeah I want to thank everybody. The show is growing. That is awesome. And word of mouth. Because you know, you know. I didn't think we was good. I was like, he'll get bored eventually. You tell other this story like every 10 to 15 episodes.
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I don't know why you thought that. you I don't know why I thought that because you literally been talking about this since before podcasts existed. It was you wanted an internet radio show. 20 years.
00:07:41
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yeah And ah it just never got off the ground. And then finally. Well, never tried. Oh, okay. Well, did for some reason now you decided to try. And so, yeah.
00:07:53
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And now we locked in and and this is it. Y'all have to listen to us. We are locked in and everything, you know, for those people out there that have been Happy o that we haven't talked politics for a while because we've bombarded them all fall.
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Yes. It was a politic themed show. You almost thought we was like, save the pod. Like, no, yeah that's not who we are. We're not a political podcast. It's current events and topics.
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And it just so happened that we were in an election year and a lot of crazy stuff has been going on every now and then we got talk about it. We talk about it sometimes on the YouTube exclusive stuff.
00:08:33
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Yeah. Because we just talked about the white refugees. that That are being accepted. Which literally sounds like an oxymoron, but... I mean, no, no. Well, so I'm i'm going to give a little brief history lesson of where the definition of white came from ah in the second segment.
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But when you think of when Americans think of white, there are so many Eastern Europeans that are white that are absolutely refugees. I have a friend who's Serbian.
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Yeah. And it's Serbian now, but Serbia, I don't know if was always. I know it's a it's broken up from the old Yugoslavia. I believe. ah The old Yugoslavia used to be a collection of different countries like Serbia, Croatia, I think all spawned from the old Yugoslavia. But absolutely, she was a refugee. You're asking the wrong person. Well, no. i think I think that, I think it's the, specifically the South African whites.
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well i mean When I know that they still control a majority of the land and the wealth in South Africa. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of hard to be a refugee when you... don't make no sense. Yeah, know. That that is, you know, that's a little difficult. But yeah that's on a YouTube exclusive. So, like, we're not
Comical Political Events
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ducking politics. We're just not going to put it on the main show all the time.
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yeah But this story, it's it's it's about politics, that we what we're going to talk about in the second segment. But it's way more comical. to me, than political.
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yeah I mean, this is literally, if you're writing a sketch for an idiotic president, this is exactly what he would do. Yeah. So it's funny, uh, Kumail Nanjiani, the actor, you probably know him. but when What has he been in?
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A lot. yeah that That was real specific. Thank you for for breaking that down for me. oh He was in, a what's that movie? The Eternals?
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Oh, I know exactly who you're talking about. He was the character that was the head of Bollywood. Yeah, yeah, okay yeah, yeah. Okay. I know exactly who you're talking about. He might be the new Booster Gold if they do a Booster Gold movie in the DCU.
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Now, what is that? I don't know what that Booster Gold is a character from the future that that comes back in time. And he's got all this. The reason why he's a superhero is because he's got all this advanced technology. And he's coming back to be superhero, but not a superhero in the sense of he's doing it purely to be good. He's doing it to become popular. So he's kind of like the Deion Sanders guy.
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of superheroes. Very, um entertaining, but annoying. Bam, bam-bastic. Bombastic? Okay.
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Okay. Well, anyway, he tweeted this. Kamil Nanjiani tweeted this and is so apt for what we're going to talk about next. He wrote, he's just so stupid.
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He's so breathtakingly stupid that the above statement is all it takes for every person reading this to know exactly who I'm talking about. And that is that to me...
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encapsulates this latest just glaringly stupid thing. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:10
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That he's done. Before we get into that, I do want to tell people that I did watch the album but now Al Pacino, Robert De Niro movie, Alto Saints, or Alto Knights, where he plays Vito Genovese and Paul Castellano.
00:12:25
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And I wanted to compare it to, because he plays two characters like Michael B. Jordan does in Sinners. He does a good job. Is it as good as Michael B. Jordan? No. Is the movie as good as Sinners?
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No. But does he do a good job? Yes. When you watch the mo movie, you could tell the two characters apart. ah Part of the reason is, one, ah they have descriptive physical characteristics that kind of make them kind of make it so you could tell them apart.
00:12:52
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But the two characters feel like different people. So Robert O'Neill did a good job. I'm sorry, Robert. I know this was your attempt to win an Oscar. As of right now,
00:13:04
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That bad boy's going to Michael B. Jordan. But we don't know what's going to happen for the rest of the year. Superman. yeah The new trailer for Superman just came out. I put it in the group chat. I'm sure you did not watch it. I didn't watch it But. Of course you didn't. But.
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I've already decided i am going to go see the movie. I'm going go pay and sit in a theater to watch Superman. Anybody that knows me knows that that don't sound like me at all. But I'm doing it because you're going to worry me to death if I don't.
00:13:36
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um and And that's just the truth. You're going to worry me death. This is a preemptive. Yes, I'm just gonna go see it.
00:13:47
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So don't ask me, you gonna go see it? When you gonna go see it? You gonna see it? Just don't eat, I will contact you after I've seen it and we can discuss it.
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But don't talk to me until I contact you. yeah And let you know that I've seen it. How am I not going to talk to You mean just don't bring it up. Not not talk to you because we talk like all the time. So rap yes just not talk to you about that. Do not discuss that film until I've seen it and I contact you and I say, OK, I've seen it.
00:14:24
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Let's discuss. right. Well, it comes out July the 11th. So around what time you think you're going to see it? Don't piss me off.
00:14:37
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I don't know I will have an internship and summer class at that time. So I don't know yet. why i mean i will go and see it.
00:14:50
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Well, just because most of the time it's released July the 11th, which is a Friday, right? But, you know, it comes out Thursday, you know, most time the late shows. And so it's a Friday. And then you got Saturday and Sunday. know, I can understand not wanting to go that that that first Friday is saturday and Saturday Sunday because yeah hopefully the theaters will be packed.
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But, you know, on a Monday or Tuesday matinee? Yes. Well, again, I'll have an internship, so I'll be working the You can skip a day to go see that movie. No, I'm not going to that. Um, but I will probably go during the week.
00:15:21
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Yeah, no, i mean, that makes sense. I hope, I hope this movie... Whoo, please. I was on, uh... Okay, we're about to move to next subject, but i just wanted to say talk about this for a quick second. Mm-hmm. I was on the Twitter because that's how I found out. I knew was going to be released today at 12 Eastern, non-Pacific, but that's how I found it.
00:15:42
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What? James Gunn pre-teaser to the trailer yesterday, and then he announced it on Monday that the trailer was going to be released on Wednesday. So there's there are several teasers out.
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Then he releases a pre-teaser to the trailer. Yeah. So it's teser teaser, teaser, pre teaser, pre-teaser, trailer. No, no, no. This was the second trailer. So he did okay he did a pre, he did a tease, then trailer one.
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Yeah. Then a tease, then trailer two. And in between there, they did a dog food commercial because Crypto the Superdog where they had a couple of more scenes. got But there wasn't no trailer or tease. So he's only done four things and the movie's coming out in two months. So, I mean, this is about right.
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And here's what pisses me off. Well, what pisses you off? up Because Marvel is not giving that same energy to Ironheart. Yes, they did. the The trailer just dropped today. I saw it today. No, I feel like... Ironheart is a TV series.
00:16:37
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Yes, that's what I'm saying. Like, it's a TV series. It's going to be on Disney Plus. And I feel like I have not seen enough. Also, executive producer Ryan Coogler. I feel like I have not seen enough previews for Ironheart.
00:16:52
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and big they jitter they Somebody sent it to me this weekend, and then the trailer dropped today. But that's not an even comparison, OK? Because as a TV series, what you could say is I think a couple of weeks after or the weekend or sometime or in this it's in the same month, the Fantastic Four is releasing for Marvel. That's their big movie.
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And I haven't seen a whole lot of... They are not doing what DC is doing. They don't have to because they're Marvel. People are going to show up But this is supposed to be like the Marvel's big, big movie next to Avengers. No, I feel like I've seen a lot of previews for Thunderbolts.
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This is not, I didn't say Thunderbolts, I said Fantastic Four. No, I'm saying i feel like I've seen a lot of previews for Thunderbolts and I have not seen a lot for Ironheart. They might put a lot more money into things they think are not gonna be seen.
00:17:49
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and Like Fantastic Four, people are looking forward to it. Not me. ah well No. I mean, they've literally, this is what, the fourth iteration of it? And it's never been good. Well, Michael B. Jordan played Johnny Storm one time. And it wasn't that great. That that movie was absolutely, it was the worst.
00:18:05
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Yeah. It was the worst. But but that was, I think, Fox. Yeah. That did those. This is Marvel. So, I mean, there's a Marvel, there are Marvel characters, but it was Fox Studios. Yeah. This Marvel Studios. So this is going to be different. And they got Pedro Pascal in it.
00:18:20
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I know. ah So I'm kind of looking forward to it just because I literally adore Pedro Pascal. Yeah, he's good actor. He's great. And also on Moss Bacharach is going to be thing. Yeah. the guy from the bear.
00:18:36
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From the bear. Yes. But still,
00:18:41
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and say, why are we doing this again? But I don't know. Maybe it'll be good. They're restarting. They're kind of, well, they brought back Robert DeWing Jr. don't know. I hear what you're saying. Yeah. Ironheart, but I don't think that movie, I don't even think that TV series is coming out until like August or September. I think it's like July.
00:18:58
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are you sure? and I don't know. But the trailer dropped today to good. If y'all don't know who Lionheart or Ironheart is, it's the black female Iron Man. That's yes what she is. So yes she was in Wakanda forever.
00:19:12
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yeah So we're excited to see that. yes But that's enough for our movie roundup. I don't know why we did that. We just, say you know what? We just, we got stuck on it. And that is what it is.
00:19:26
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But, you know, executive produced by Ryan Coogler. Just, I'm excited for Iron Man. I'm excited for it too. I feel like nobody talking about nowhere near excited as Superman. But that's understandable.
00:19:38
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Yeah, it comes out June 24th. Oh, well, okay. I was wrong. Will they put out the trailer? All right. All right. All right. On that note, let's get into some political shenanigans next.
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Jay?
Trump and Misunderstood Policies
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Trump is a dumbass. Yeah. So there's an article out. Article is by Greg Sargent. He's a columnist for the New Republic.
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And then the title of the article is Angry Trump Kills Woke Program and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters. So what is this article talking about? The article discusses how how President Donald Trump, in an effort to attack what he perceives as a woke government program, moved to terminate the Digital Equity Act, a bipartisan bipartisan initiative designed to expand high-speed internet across underserved areas, and including many rural Republican-leaning regions.
00:20:46
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Trump's decisions based on the program's inclusion of the word equity And its supposed benefit to minorities ironically threatens to withhold critical funding for his own base in the red state who stand to benefit from the, for more improved and internet infrastructure.
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This move reflects a longstanding Republican pattern of using racially charged rhetoric to cut government programs often to the detriment to of their own supporters.
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So Jay, Before you even got the rundown today, you said you heard about this. Yes. What do you think about this? It's so unbelievably dumb. Yeah. And this is how um white supremacy negatively impacts poor white people.
00:21:35
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There are many ways in which white supremacy negatively impacts poor white people, but this is like a glaringly obvious way, right? Like poor white people still rely on government social programs, whether it's healthcare, access to internet, just access to resources in general, right?
00:21:58
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And then folks in rural areas still require social programs, government but funded programs for things like like this, access to the internet in an area where that is limited.
00:22:18
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And because white supremacy really only cares about money and power It doesn't really give a damn about poor white folks.
00:22:33
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But the fact that y'all still feel like you're included
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is the saddest part of this entire thing. So I'm going to get into the history of why they feel included. Because, I mean, it it really truly does make sense when you understand the history. But I just want to give people the timeline of this whole decision.
00:22:55
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So Trump discovers there's a government initiative with the word equity in its title. and He assumes it's a race-based program benefiting minorities.
00:23:06
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He announces his Truth Social that he's terminating the initiative, calling it racist and decrying woke handouts. i ah So this is what we talked about when we said DEI means black to these people. CRT means black to these people.
00:23:26
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what's ah What's the other stuff? wo Woke means black. Woke means black. Affirmative action means black. Equity, equality, fairness, justice. All of these things mean black.
00:23:40
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Okay. So what does the Digital Equity Act actually do? Once again, it was part of Biden's 2020 bipartisan infrastructure law allocating over $2 billion dollars for states to expand their high-speed internet in underserved areas. So most people don't understand what that means. if you're in a highly populated area, like a major city,
00:24:02
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You call the the local cable company, internet company, you call them up, you get high speed internet. i mean, going to pay through the nose for it, but you're going to get it. There are still some parts in this country, and this is no bull, some parts in this country that either use DSL or dial up because access to high speed internet, the internet that you have on your computer right now that is giving you the ability to watch this.
00:24:28
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They don't have. So Biden was like, that's unfair. We need to put as far as our in place and our infrastructure bill, the ability for everybody to have high speed Internet. And you may think to yourself, why is it important?
00:24:43
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Education, right? Like a lot of these kids were being taught remote remotely during the pandemic. And they didn't have Internet capacity to even do.
00:24:55
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Zoom. Yeah. All right. So the funding is intended to cover all populations, including minorities, veterans, rural residents and low income households.
00:25:08
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Republican led states who submitted proposals to access these funds aiming to benefit the rural populations. So Republican governors are like, yeah, we need some of this money.
00:25:21
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To. Expand our internet. yeah Many red states like Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Alabama, Iowa, all voted for Trump.
00:25:33
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Yes. Are counting on these funds to improve their rural growth their right broadband. Rural is a hard word. Rural is a hard word. Yeah, rural is a hard word. I usually just say rule.
00:25:45
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Like R-U-L-E, rule. r u l lee rule Yeah, no, but that's not right. That's not the word. yeah No, i'm I know that. Okay. But rural is hard to say. Rural is hard.
00:25:57
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yeah Trump's move could block hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, harming rural and low-income communities, many of whom are mega voters. So with this broader...
00:26:09
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what The reason why I wanted to bring it up, the reason why find it funny is because he equates yeah he quoteates equity with Black, um thinking that it's racist because all of a sudden this country is racist against white folks.
00:26:23
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um yeah Never heard of that in my entire life, but but somehow yeah this country is now racist towards white folks. And all these programs are racist because white folks aren't benefiting from it. Rich white folks aren't benefiting from it, but a lot of poor white folks are.
00:26:37
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Uh, but this follows a long line in Republican verbiage. and like Reagan's welfare cream queens or Romney's 47% or Paul Ryan's hammock metaphor.
00:26:51
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Like they use, Republicans use these type of words to create division among the races and to spark anger in their base towards other people.
00:27:06
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yeahp And the reason why I find it so funny is because the people that are are angriest about it Not Trump. Trump doesn't really care. He knows that if he does this, it'll incite anger in his base, right?
00:27:20
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Which is a benefit to him. Yes. The people who are the actual angriest about it are the ones thinking that these programs are helping minorities and hurting them when in is actuality, it's helping them.
00:27:32
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Yeah. So, ah you know... Yeah, in in a in a myriad of ways. So, like, you talked about education, but you also have telehealth.
00:27:46
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Yeah, I didn't think about that. um You know, economic development, access to government services. You know, if you if you something happens in your state and you need FEMA and you can't get on the website to put your claim in, you know what I mean? Like, that... it it It was specifically targeting rural residents, veterans, and low-income households.
00:28:16
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Yes, it also targets communities of color, but that was never the sole focus of it. Honestly, I think... The biggest gap as far as like the digital divide would be low income households, but but but particularly it would be rural residents.
00:28:35
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Yeah, the flyover states. Yeah, just because geographically they have limited to no access to high speed Internet. And there are a lot of. Republican states, like you said, like West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, that have already applied for or have received the grants from this program to expand rural broadband.
00:28:56
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And now those are at risk. And when people don't realize broadband is not quite cellular, cellular but they fall kind of along the like same lines. So when you think that Well, you expand broadband, that's just internet. It's also to help with cellular development. And why is that important?
00:29:19
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You're in these rural areas, the hospital is not right down the street. You have to call 911. You have to have good cell reception to be able to do those things.
00:29:29
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You were right with the... I didn't even think about the doctor, didn't even cross my mind. But to access certain social services, I believe... Social security, they limited the number of people that were taking phone calls at social security offices.
00:29:46
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So you had to get on the internet to fill out information for a lot of these older people, boomers, hell, even some Gen X, right. And older don't know how to really access the computer like that. They don't really know how to work the internet.
00:30:02
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And if they don't know how to work the internet, and they don't have good internet service, how they going to get access to these services? but So there's a bigger, there's a, there's a I know most people that probably listen to the show, definitely most people that listen to the show are in bigger cities because I can see the demographics. you You're in bigger cities and you don't understand the concept unless you have family in rural areas or you go out to rural areas for vacation or whatever.
00:30:28
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You don't understand how bad the Internet service is. And and if you if you don't think. that this is true. I don't know what you're thinking, but like roads and electricity, broadband is an essential part of infrastructure in modern life.
00:30:50
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You have to have not only access to the internet, but ah quick access to the internet. And then people don't think about this, but It's always on.
00:31:06
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Broadband internet is always on. you don't Unlike dial-up where you have to dial in to the connection whatever, it's always on It's always available and at speeds where you can actually get things done in a reasonable amount of time. like That is so essential that we honestly take it for granted, but it is so essential for and like a part of our infrastructure, a part of our modern infrastructure.
00:31:33
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Yeah. So you brought up earlier that youe you kind of couldn't understand how poor white folk would would vote against their own
Origins of Racial Categories in America
00:31:45
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interests.
00:31:45
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And I said, well, there's ah there's a simple answer for that and it's in history. so And there's a simple answer for white, like the term white. I remember getting into a debate with this young lady when I was working at the bar.
00:32:01
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And she was like, why do you always bring up race? I said, i didn't I didn't bring it up. Actually, this country brought it up. This country is where race actually has has been established. No, it's not. It's always been a thing. It's like, no, no, it hasn't.
00:32:13
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There were people that were from Spain, people that were from France, people that were apart from different parts of Africa. They were Africans or Spaniards or Italians or French. They weren't white or white or black, white or black.
00:32:26
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started in America. And she fought me on this and I said, okay, have you ever heard of the Bacon's Rebellion? She's like, what is that? I was like, we're right here in Virginia. You should know about it. I don't know about that. So the Bacon's ba bacon not baker bacon's Rebellion happened in 1676.
00:32:42
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It was a major uprising in colonial Virginia. This revolt united impoverished European indentured servants, Irish people, and enslaved Africans.
00:32:54
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Against the colonial elite, the rebellion alarmed wealthy landowners who realized that solidarity among the lower classes, regardless of their European or African origins, posed a threat to their power.
00:33:08
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To prevent future alliances between poor Europeans and Africans, the colonial elite responded by creating a legal, and social distinctions based on race.
00:33:20
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They began to define white. If you're watching, I put it in quote tapes quotations. If you're not watching, you're listening. I'm moving my little fingers in the quotation marks. White as a privileged, air legal... Air quotes.
00:33:32
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yeah Air quotes, yes. They began to divine so to define white as a privileged legal category. granting poor Europeans certain rights and status denied to Africans.
00:33:46
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This new racial hierarchy gave European laborers incentives to identify with the elite rather than enslaved Africans, effectively dividing the lower classes and entrenching slavery and racial discrimination as the founding elements of American society.
00:34:05
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The white race was invented by rich Virginians in 1676. We don't bring up race. They brought up race.
00:34:17
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And that's the story of how people that identify as white identify as white. Rich people realize that poor people banding together was a threat to their power.
00:34:30
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So they created a unnatural way to create straight division by saying white and black and giving privileges to the white while denying them to the black.
00:34:42
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That's America. Yeah. And what year did that happen again? 1676. What happened got freedom. no. 1776. Yeah.
00:34:52
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oh well some people got freedom no no no seventeen seventy six Yeah, isn't that Civil war Constitution?
00:35:03
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The Constitution, yes. Yes, some people freedom. Not the Civil War. The Civil War was... Not Civil War, sorry. It was about 80 years later. ah ah The Revolutionary War. Yeah, and some people got freedom. Literally 100 years later...
00:35:17
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Americans, well, people that lived in America essentially became Americans. But before that, for 100 years, 100 years before the Constitution was written, there were laws already defining what people could have and what people couldn't have. And it was based on this made up creation of race.
00:35:38
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It's an American concept. Everything about this is American concept. So when white people get upset and say, why do you always bring up race to anybody that's a minority? Just come back and say, i didn't bring it up.
00:35:50
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You brought it up. o This country has brought it up. right You weren't white and to you until it was convenient. I said this before and I'll say again, i don't think there's anything white people hate more than being referred to as white.
00:36:07
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um they They see themselves right as as the standard, as neutral, as normal, when they are then confronted with the fact that they have a racial identity.
00:36:21
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there' so Now there's this there's discomfort, right? Because of the negative connotations around whiteness, i you know ah lack ah that understanding of systemic racism and white privilege. like Now I have to be confronted with what whiteness means if I acknowledge that I am white.
00:36:45
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And that's where the term white guilt comes from. Yeah, white guilt, white fragility, all of it comes from this uncomfortableness with white people have with whiteness.
00:36:57
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You know what? I never thought about it like that, but you're absolutely right. Because, you know, I have more than a few white friends and the almost all of my people I actually call friends are woke.
00:37:10
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Right. But even when i start to explain to them how Yeah, but you know, you got this privilege this way and this way and this way. They they jump on the defense.
00:37:21
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Yeah. Well, no, with check I'm like, ah hold on now. I didn't say you need to feel guilty about it because you're actually an ally. Yeah. But yeah, you got to.
00:37:32
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You gotta acknowledge all of this here. Don't, don't. Just... Well, you can't call yourself an ally if you're not willing to confront those uncomfortable truths. I i don't believe that that's true because i consider myself an ally to many many communities, but there are still some times where I have a blind spot and I don't realize where my privilege or bias is playing into certain ways that i look at it, even though I consider myself an ally.
00:38:02
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Nobody is absolutely perfect. That's you don't know. I'm saying I'm saying when you're not willing. No, it's not confronted. It's not that they're not willing.
00:38:14
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Well, it initial if I bring it up and your initial reaction is defensive. I think that's a natural. Jay, I know you ain't talking about anybody's initial reaction being defensive.
00:38:28
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Who's who? You. Me? Yeah. Yes! You are the most defensive person, I say, before we get on here. Hey, I think you hit the echo cancellation. But I didn't, though. But I didn't. But I did. I said, hey, Jay, something's wrong with the sound. Nothing's wrong with my sound. I can't hit. Well, did you hit a button? No. Well, can you check?
00:38:50
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All right, maybe I hit the button. You naturally. I did not hit the button. I'm talking about in generalities here. You be getting defensive. But when I... No. Your initial default is defend yourself.
00:39:03
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Yeah, because I know what I did do and I know what I did not do and I did not hit the button. And I don't care. Maybe this time you did hit the button, but I'm saying your natural default is defense.
00:39:14
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That's a human thing. The natural default is defend oneself. So then you got to take a step back and be like, all right, well, wait a minute. Let me hear what you got to say. And that takes emotional intelligence.
00:39:24
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Not everybody has that type of evolved emotional intelligence to take a step back when they're being confronted about something. And be like, all right, okay, maybe you got a point.
00:39:35
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Maybe you got a point. It's like those people that can't ever admit when they're wrong. Even though they know that they wrong. Right. I... Or people that just say, sorry.
00:39:48
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Yeah, this also starting to feel very pointed. But... at What I am saying is if you don't want to, if you want to be one of those, oh, I'm a colorblind white person, or you don't want to confront the uncomfortability. Yeah, i didn't say that.
00:40:06
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That comes with owning your whiteness and everything that it means. If you're not willing to deal with that, then you're not an ally. Yeah. If you're because, listen, when you bump up against your blind, when you bump up against your blind spots.
00:40:27
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What do you do? Initially, sometimes I i jump on the defense. Sometimes I do jump on the defense. I'm like, I'm an ally. What are you doing? And then I have to be like, let me listen to what this person is saying.
00:40:37
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That but is the difference. But there are so there are people who claim to be allies who don't do that second step. Right. But you know what, though? I've had people in my life call me to task for defending myself instead of listening. I had people that I respected.
00:40:54
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Yeah. That called me to task and I would take a step back and actually listen. ah Not every but that not everybody is like that. And that actually took years for me to get to that. That's a new thing that just happened to last.
00:41:08
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Four, five years. So... but there But there are people who make allyship their identity... True. True....when it's... when they don't know the first thing about being an ally. Because being an ally is not something that you say, it's something that you do. Yeah, that's true.
00:41:25
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It's action forward. Yeah, that's true. You ain't lying. And that includes self-reflection. Yes. You're right. lot of times people want to say they're ally but don't want to do the work. Yeah, you're right.
00:41:40
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I can tell you who's not an ally. Trump and this entire administration. not even yeah Not even close. Oh my God. last story Ladies and gentlemen, this is funny and not funny at the same time.
00:41:54
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Because this man has literally took equity and hurt millions of his own constituency. millions of his own supporters because he thinks it's going to give something to black and brown people.
00:42:12
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That's what it is. Because he said it was racist. Those were his words. And to be truly like transparent, they mean black. It's anti-black racism.
00:42:23
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They mean black. Like when they hear these words yeah immediately in their mind, they hear black people. Yeah, because they don't think that there's any programs out there that's giving benefits to brown people.
00:42:36
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no No. They're not thinking about Asian people. They're not thinking about indigenous folks. They're not thinking about... No. day When they hear these terms that they have decided in their mind they're now now mean racially charged things when they don't.
00:42:54
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Equity is literally just equity. Could be for anybody. Yeah. Usually it it is. It's for everybody. That's kind of the point.
00:43:06
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That if equity is for everybody, okay, they immediately hear black. i'm
00:43:15
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, look, I painted it out for you. I told you where the term white actually comes from. Came from here. I told you why it was given its legal status.
00:43:27
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It's to put people against each other so that they can't rise up against the elite.
Unexpected Workplace Friendships
00:43:32
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Yeah.
00:43:34
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And I showed you what he did. Yeah. You still think this administration is a racist? If that's the point that you get from all this, I can't help you. Sorry. You can't be saved.
00:43:46
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Don't save them. They don't saved. They don't want to be saved.
00:43:57
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You know, Jay, some people that have listened and watched this podcast know that we talk fondly, very fondly upon our time working together and meeting lifelong friends yeah while working at Hard Rock Cafe right here in Washington, D.C.
00:44:14
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yeah Some of those people are even watching and listening to this show and supporters of us yeah over 20 years. Yes. Friendship. Yes. i mean The person that I met at Hard Rock was a groomsman at my wedding.
00:44:31
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Yeah. Just hit him up the other day. It was his birthday. yeah Got two beautiful kids, watches the show, and is a huge fan. And it it is ah crazy of the friendships that you make in the workplace.
00:44:46
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Yes. The workplace will have you friends with any and everybody. Yeah. Yes. I... Okay. When I was working for a company back in Maryland, one of my closest, closest friends in the office was like a 60-something-year-old white lady.
00:45:12
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Sweetest lady in the world. She would knit at her desk. But that was my dog. Like, I can't even explain to you.
00:45:23
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Like, how much me and this lady with zero in common. This grandmother
00:45:32
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and me, I'm in my 20s, zero in common. But I'm like, we're locked in. you Like, how locked in? Like, give me a typical, like, interaction between y'all. I'm talking about we go out after work.
00:45:46
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What? What?
00:45:51
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like Me and this lady are friends. Okay? Another coworker. A mom of two. and Again, nothing in common with this woman. This is when you were younger. This is when I was younger. Nothing in common with this woman.
00:46:07
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I know her mom. I know the kids. Her husband. see She cooked dinner for me at her house. light I'd have been to so many retirement parties I'd been turned up.
00:46:21
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Like, it will literally, you will be best friends with an old man name that you call Mr. Otis. Right. Yep. And Mr. Otis, because he always got some story.
00:46:35
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He always got something going on. And you'll be like, you'll look at that time sheet and be like, Mr. Otis ain't coming in today. Damn. Damn.
00:46:50
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I was hoping Miss Barbara was gonna be here today. ain't on schedule. Oh. I, you know, i talked about it on a podcast and I've talked about it on this podcast that in my younger years, I was completely homophobic.
00:47:07
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Yeah. Completely homophobic. Yeah. With no real reason why other than I was raised in a I know, homophobic society.
00:47:20
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Yeah. Yeah, that's that's basically what it was. And working in the restaurant industry, I became friends with literally everybody. Yeah. We had a bus person that they were trans.
00:47:34
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Mm-hmm. And... Favorite person in the entire world. Used to give them extra money because they used to look out for me like, yeah, you want... And we just chit-chat. Now, we never hung out. but But to my credit, yeah I ain't hang out with a whole lot of folks anyway. My thing I'm going to be friendly at work. yeah And then outside of work, eh.
00:47:54
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But I'm just like that with everybody. But but it's not just like... Oh, I become friends with different people from all walks of life. You even like have friendships that you ain't got no business having.
00:48:07
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Because you have nothing in common. no No, because like there'll be a crackhead at or something, but it'd be like... ah No, I... Wait a minute, what? You remember? No, I... A crackhead?
00:48:21
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A literal crackhead. ah That we worked with? Yes. I don't remember this. ah or Who was a crackhead? But I loved them to death.
00:48:32
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Seriously. They just was addicted to crack. Like, that was, that was you know, it's unfortunate. Were they a server, bartender? I don't want to get specific.
00:48:43
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I'm not you. We could talk off air. Right.
00:48:50
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and ah But you just be like, I know what you and know what you do on your personal time. I may have not known that there a crackhead. You probably didn't know. Oh, yeah. I probably didn't know. because you And you also adored this person. So did I. Oh, my goodness. now I can't wait to get off the A. If y'all are watching it, just stay at the end for behind the scenes because going reveal that person. No, we are not. No, we are not.
00:49:14
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Who was a crackhead? no we are not It doesn't matter. point is yo job your job be having you friends with people literally from all walks of life. It should.
00:49:31
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It should. let me shift it it should When you go to work, if you're not working in a small town where everybody's the same, so you're working in a big city and it's it's everybody from the city, different parts of the city might be working in this one location.
00:49:46
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Just like college in a way, it can introduce you to people from different walks of life, different backgrounds, different lifestyles and educate you. yeah And that's what I'm saying it did for me. Like coming from being this homophobic person to literally, it was in the span of two years Right? to Two years being this super homophobic person to going to see Superman Returns with one of my good buddies that was that was gay and his boyfriend.
00:50:14
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Like, like yeah that transition. yeah so it let It lets you know people are people. People. yeah Yes. They just do a little crack. Right.
00:50:26
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No. That's going to bug me. I'm going to have to call on mutual. When I say the name after this, when I tell you who it is, then you're going be like, oh, oh, yeah, yeah.
00:50:39
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I got a feeling I think I know who it is, but i don't I don't think they smoke crack. I just think they was just eccentric. Then we're not thinking of the same person. Did you actually see this person smoke crack?
00:50:51
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Why would I be around people while they're smoking crack? Did they say that they smoke crack? Listen, I know somebody's on crack. It's not that hard.
00:51:02
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yeah No, no, said no. To know when somebody's on crack. ah Hold on And you said you was their friend. Did you hang out with them outside of work? No, we never hung out outside of work. You were just friendly at work.
00:51:17
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I adored this person at work, yes. Oh, um I can't wait to end this show so I can figure out who the hell this was. I because like i need you to tell me. Sweetest person. Sweetest. I have a friend of mine who talks about how when they started their job, they were the young one and kind of had these mentors yeah that that they made friends with and would go to retirement parties and stuff like that. And now they're...
00:51:41
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they're in the position of where their mentors were. yeah And now they're mentoring the young folks. yeah And young folks be coming to my friend for like real life advice. And that's part of the dynamic of these weird friendships in the workplace that you meet these people that can literally tell you about life experiences yeah that either you may get in the future or you may not even get in the future, but then you still know that people deal with this type of thing. isn When you allow yourself to be you can really open yourself up to a whole world of possibilities by being friends with your coworkers. Yeah.
00:52:19
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If it's a social environment. Well, well, also it's important to never mistake your coworkers for friends. Mm-hmm. um Because that's how your business ends up in the workplace.
00:52:35
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So, you know, have a clear boundary. Now, I have people that I used to work with that are good friends to me to this day, including, ah you know, my birthday trip to Panama. Two two of our um our old Howard Rock buddies was was on the trip.
00:52:52
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Two of them? I thought it one of them. Two. Oh, who's the other one? I got to go back and look at the pictures. She used to work in the store, too. I don't think I knew that person. Okay. yeah Yeah. But, but yeah, just like while you're working with them, just, you know, remember to keep a little healthy boundary there because you don't want your business at the workplace. Well, you're real good at setting boundaries.
00:53:17
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So, Maybe give some people, give our audience that some insight into what would be a purse what would be a healthy boundary, how to determine if a person is just a coworker or if they are a friend.
00:53:30
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I would say if you hang out with them outside of work, that's a clear friend. Yeah. But if you only hang out with them and chit chat with them during breaks at work, then maybe that's just a friendly coworker. That's a coworker. A friendly coworker. Yeah.
00:53:47
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You know, it's cool to go out for happy hour with your coworkers. Don't get drunk. Well, I mean, yes. but Well, unless you're a bartender or in the restaurant business, you can go ahead get drunk.
00:53:57
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Right. I mean, but you know, if you, if you're in corporate, right Well, no, don't do that. If you work in a hospital, you know, like, yeah, okay. Them hospital people be, them hospital people are just like the restaurant business. that It is not like Grey's Anatomy in the, is it?
00:54:12
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Because I don't know, I've never worked in a hospital. I know a couple of doctors. It is, it is, Grey's Anatomy ain't far off. Oh. It is, wow. it read the It's just like the restaurant. Well, because you're spending so much time You know, those shifts are long. And the same with the restaurant industry. If you work a double, you there all day.
00:54:31
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Literally all day. All day. So it's like, you know, you're spending so much time with these people and you really do rely on each other to get your job done. Like, it's important that the host is communicating with the servers, communicating with the kitchens, communicating with the managers, the bar, like everybody, the bussers, everybody needs to be communicating. So it's like you have to know each other or you're not to be able to get the job done.
00:54:55
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But, you know, just recognize who's a coworker and who's a friend. Yeah. So how do people recognize which is which? You just said it. if you If you have a relationship with them outside of work, that is a friend.
00:55:09
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But if you, if it even if y'all hang out outside of work, but y'all only talk about work, that's still just a coworker. That's not a friend. Mm-hmm.
00:55:23
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That's still just a coworker. you They have to know you about you. You have to know about them for it to be a friendship. You know, I haven't made any friendships from work in about 15, 16, 17 years because my but my position and and mark current place of employment i'm I'm the boss.
00:55:52
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yeah So I can't be yeah friendly. yeah Because there's no equal level. There's nobody on my level level that that isn't a subordinate.
00:56:03
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So that's weird. So I don't really make friendships from coworkers. yeah I do develop friendships with clients But even then, yeah there's a boundary there.
00:56:19
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yeah like I know more about their lives than they know about mine, but that's pretty much everybody in my life. yeah I know about everybody's business, but don't nobody ever know yeah that. is that out close I wouldn't consider that a friendship. like There's got to be reciprocity.
00:56:35
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oh Well, yeah, okay. I guess so. I'm just a real private person. ah was i I know people from this podcast wouldn't think that I'm that, but if you know me personally, you know I'm private. I'm not private with my friends.
00:56:48
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yeah ah What do you consider private? I'm not private with my friends. But what is considered private, though? Like, you literally don't know what I do when you don't see me.
00:57:02
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Well, everybody knows everybody knows what i with it what I do when they don't see me. I'm drinking tequila and playing video games. Yes, but no, right? like not Like, not really. Like, they don't know who you are on a day-to-day. Like, they don't they don't know you.
00:57:21
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I think everybody knows my stances in life. Do they know you? and does anybody know anybody? ah My friends know me.
00:57:31
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Ah, well. They could accurately describe me. but Whether I agree or not. Well, that's just because they people know your facial expressions because we, you know, we can't.
00:57:44
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No, i trace I talk to my friends. They talk to me. i open up and I am vulnerable with my friends. That sounds like prison.
00:57:55
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Anyway. You're definitely co-worker no longer an anxious attachment. You are a definitely avoiding attachment nowadays. yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know when that transferred, but it happened within the last four five years. Definitely, yeah definitely avoiding attachment. Definitely.
00:58:12
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Anywho, that's enough about us. jay what do you want to tell the people out there? Look, ain't that wrong with being white? Nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with being white.
00:58:25
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Y'all relax. Just relax. But also, there's nothing wrong with being black. I don't want you to be colorblind. I like damn black.
00:58:35
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You can see it. It's fine. i don't I don't mind it. I don't want you disenfranchise or oppress me because I'm black. That's the problem. It's not that you're white. It's not that I'm black. It's that oppression comes in.
00:58:50
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If we could pull that out, everybody could just be themselves and would be cool. It'd be dope. Yeah. Yeah. ah so To all my white listeners out there, they're just like, oh, we're talking about race. ah Look, we're talking about things that have been done to us.
00:59:03
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We actually legitimately, Black people in this country, really don't care what white people do. like We don't. We really, we're not in white people's business like that. We we we are just not, which baffles us.
00:59:14
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The reason why you always want to be in our business about right everything. And then we looking up like, what we do now? what like We can't even enjoy a movie because it's ah it's a Black cast. I don't know why they got to have a Black cast because when there's never any Black cast. The default is always white.
00:59:29
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right So anything that is not white that people see representation of themselves, they're going to gravitate to that. yeah Same reason why white people are gravitating towards Caitlin Clark and Cooper Flagg. I didn't talk about Cooper Flagg. Cooper Flagg is going to be the number one draft pick in the NBA draft.
00:59:46
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American-born white player, the first... American-born white player that's going to be drafted number one overall since I don't know when. Jack Sigma, and that had to be the 70s. The boy played for Duke. The boy bad.
01:00:00
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The boy is bad. One of the announcers on the NBA to talk show the other day said that one one of the analysts said, yeah, he's a whale. Speaking of like it's a rare thing to get something like that, yeah he's a whale.
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And the one of the white commentators said, yeah, a white whale. And I said, no, he didn't just say that. He just had a Freudian slip. Ladies and gentlemen, Black people do not care about what white people is doing.
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We don't care. We don't. we We literally don't. We just don't understand why you care so much about us. We don't. No. But on that note... We get it, though. We're cool. I mean, we're cool as hell. I mean, who...
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I'm so happy I was born black. Listen. So happy. I struggle every day with being melanin. You, not me. I'm getting darker right now as we speak. honey no On that note, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for listening.
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I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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