 Okay, look at me, please Support our patreon like We need that shit so fucking bad Looky, so last month was like a light month for content, right in comparison to our other to like previous months like the previous three or four months, mm-hmm but Should we back on video now? Yeah, we back here sweating this shit in this motherfucker money We risk in it, but this is the thing when I think about the podcast right there We we've honed in on this a bunch of times, but I really don't think people understand So there's a bunch of if you look at What was that like black history month? And I think right after like radical month and shit like that too not for us But I'm saying like so I think about like mainstream media and like podcasts, right like they usually do So they do like the black is for black history month. They have like black podcast You should listen to listen to I think about last year during the uprisings They had like social justice podcast that you should listen to And out of all the podcast, I'm sure the ones that are like the And that's when we reached like the top 100 and shit, right? I think out of all those podcasts out of the top five social justice podcast none of them have Organizing ties none of them you can't tie them to one organization that has and the organization that has on the ground Programs that lead to material resources and material change for the community. You cannot name you that does not exist No I mean you speaking to straight Scientific facts, you know Let's do that. So if we're looking at the organizations or or even the the top The top podcast or the top quote-unquote black podcast Society and culture podcast society and culture. That's what I should activism podcast if you look at the top ones None of them is organizing the fuck is this you know I'm saying we talking about Most of these shows none of them is really outside organizing I'm not talking about no digital organizing, you know, because digital organizing and any on the ground organizer gonna be Organizing somewhat online or just getting some propaganda off online, but solely like that's the only place you can so I think you do With something is like an online book club or some digital shit. How do I look at? How do I look at the the? Oh Categories here we go. I find them up at my bed. Well, what do we call it? It's called society and culture Where's that shit? Oh, here you go society and culture boom, and I think they have one that's strictly for like Black shit. No, that's relationships. I might have just been in February News shows what the fuck is this be anti-racist It's there's one that's called be anti-racist This is with Abram X. Kendi. Who's there? He's not he's not a organizer. He's a professor Shout out to him academics matter But again proving the point though, right? like you can be a professor and Be an organizer you taught at Cali was organizing. So I mean like it's just I know niggas don't like we gotta just I'm just using this to prove a point and to make my case when I start begging in a couple minutes, okay? So we bring out the The tip jar the page. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get a page on jar Well, my nigga Peezy say I'm not afraid to hustle. I'm not embarrassed to hustle me They don't even have society and coach or society and culture is here, but I guess this is the point that I'm trying to prove is that Last summer this shit was all black shit Like it was just hella black podcast on here, and I'm no pun intended, but There you go. You feel me? It's it's not even on here anymore, but I Think we can probably like link to an article. I wish I had the article when we were in top podcast maybe if I search and Pardon me is like, oh, we've been getting people way too long to get to the content But honestly ain't this how all podcast are wasting all fucking time Man, all those other YouTube shows is all wasting our time with bullshit. Okay. Let me see hella black podcast top podcast Who's that one podcast? I think I had a kid can't eat full of Kool-Aid That's the first 15 minutes of the podcast. I Mean, I think we we already know the fact of the matter is that an issue Especially an issue in the so-called West Right America is You see People talking about these issues Talk talk talk tweet tweet tweet But not organized to fix the issue You know I'm saying that's that's a key thing is is is especially in this Celebrity culture that has been developed. There's a lot of celebrity culture shit on the left the so-called West Where people want to be seen as the talking heads We're not the movement not actually doing the work of the movement the day-to-day grind the shit that ain't fun You know I'm saying that those tours black liberation and people want to have a brand build a brand build a career Build their non-profit head status, right and do they book tours and shit, you know I'm saying but not necessarily be not be on the ground Organizing doing the day-to-day work that is important for liberation and we have to identify that purely as as neoliberalism You know I'm saying purely as capitalism purely as you feel me trying to be that token Negro Wanting to sit at the table, you know I'm saying but it's very clear what the new African independence movement calls for Yeah, you feel me and the decolonization programs that we need to build, you know I'm saying for us to all be free first all With life again, that's free people as human beings, you know I'm saying the shit that leads to material change Which brings us back? I want to elaborate on your plane, but like we talked about material change Which brings us back as to why niggas haven't been doing the podcast like we're recording this the day before Tomorrow we're gonna be leading the workshop for our community learning programs You know I'm saying like now that Covid restrictions have been lifted in shit in California like Whereas you know the niggas who was leading marches and shit last year is you know back to traveling and partying and shit We like oh we can open the shit back up. Oh boom Community learning period like the parties and shit is cool But like you feel me we now be gonna use our shit to be using this opportunity to push the politics even further and I say like Again the main point before I go on a fucking bashing rant or get on a cell box or whatever the Reasons why if you a patreon if you're a patron of ours I'm again go ahead and tell another page and go tell a friend to be a patron of our shit and support our work And I I know that some people come to patreon for for content y'all come for the actual episodes y'all come for the videos But like any time we not doing this is because we doing something else that's in alignment with the shit that we don't Here talking about or we have some organization shit come up by last week Yeah, there's some organization things that came up where we had to deal with and then shoot we supposed to record And we drained you feel me. Yeah shoot then it's having to travel to go get this health clinic together You know I'm saying since we in the mission I recorded and I get food poison Real life should be happening. You know I'm saying but we're still doing this work And if don't judge the work by how many podcast episodes we dropping There's the work by people's programs by the decolonization programs by the food we feeding by the health care We about to give folks you feel me the grocery program the writing and in the in the midst of For for the podcast that we so let's say we did well one power if we used to doing like four three or three or Four podcasts a month that we did one last month. I think we did too. We did two last month. We have done we have purchased and We have we have our our mobile health clinic now. We have launched relaunched our community learning. We have Distributed Over a thousand meals we have distributed groceries over You know a hundred bags of groceries to families in Oakland That's what is happening when Nick is not doing a podcast shout out people's programs and again like if y'all gonna pour y'all time and effort I What do y'all want to support y'all want to just support the talking heads or y'all want to support the niggas that talk and back it up You feel me so like start looking for that. I don't I don't go say we the only Podcasters out there that's doing I ain't gonna say we don't need people with an online presence who on the ground is is more folks than us And I'm the people that y'all should be supporting the niggas who is doing both you feel me cuz doing both is possible and people We haven't whatever little excuse if you're physically able to get outside is just you just lack commitment That's all it is. We got to call a spade a spade. It's my sister's racist. We have to Someone says right somebody said be I don't know. I don't know. I thought it was a card game, but it's so yeah I say all that to say Support our patreon my niggas straight up cuz even when we ain't making podcasts We live in the shit that we talk about you feel me so niggas support organizers support us and yeah, bro to the point of like I Think like the one of the key like characteristics of neoliberalism is Fucking presenting things as progress do like diversity through representation representation, right? But really what has nothing is really changing changing on a Quantitative level on a qualitative level from a systemic level things are really changing from a material level Yeah, so we look at tomorrow, you know, June Juneteenth is Friday, right or Saturday Saturday is Juneteenth And you know, there's a push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, but what has changed material materially for black people? It's always these symbolic always these tokens But no material change for Africans and why are you gonna ask a slave master? You're gonna ask a slave master for a holiday while slavery still exists through the 13th Amendment While slavery still exists through the wages you was being paid While the capitalists is making millions and billions and trillions of dollars, we already got a month with the fuckers of the holiday gonna do Besides they all gonna do is find a way to monetize it Ford's Juneteenth sale the same for it that was discriminating against fucking Africans in Detroit not hiring niggas But again capitalism will always capitalize off of movements, and that's what we've seen Fundamentally when Africans came into for the car Look at it materially, right? Look at look at this past summer rebellions Right protests Everything going on and I look at the comparison this summer She'll show you exactly where we are what representation gets you where you come on Harris Presidency where she says you gonna stop deportations and is now telling you know, don't people in Guatemala Don't come here But saying oh, this is a land for all whatever whatever the fuck that means, you know I'm saying but that's exactly what this representation We have to hide it this representation shit This representation equal freedom. Nope it's a celebrity culture is like I think as it as it pertains to America United States of America is like the fucking epitome of of Representation of inclusion because you you get it usually comes from what because you get the politicians athletes entertainers like all the things that Niggas want to aspire to be because they have class they have power They have in the facade of power because most these niggas can't really move a needle because if we talk about power and the capital of society that means that means on in the means of production which Most NBA players NBA players even though Don't own the means they still being exploited. No, I'm saying so I'll say some of the politicians I don't know some some some but like niggas run around want to be the mayor of Oakland You know is so I think That that's why it's like there that's why they're prompted on there because these are the niggas who can who can distract That's the best with the idea of change in hope You get, you know LeBron James You get a Jay-Z you get these niggas who At one point did come from, you know, like Poverty and being impoverished Africans who Had to do whatever to Whatever defy whatever odds to get to where they are, right? And so if you have like which is the gonna be the majority of Americans in terms of where they but the majority of New Africans, right? Black folks in America. That's gonna be the majority of our fucking upbringing or poverty in an escape in the pitfalls of capitalism And so when you get someone like that who as you just assume like you just see yourself in them to some degree Right, like most of us already see ourselves and I mean they use it as a bootstrap mentality Ourselves in the rich anyway, right? That's why I think it's be like Retweeting shit like oh if you laugh for that a millionaire and you broke you the problem is because for some reason we have this Warping of our mind that has us aligning with this false class solidarity We be having class solidarity with people who would we're not even in the same You that the niggas who's retaining this that it's poor that like you need to shut up, too Like you're a part of this like nigga the moment you laugh at me you gonna be the fool and so the point being like For some knowing that we already aligned that we have this false sense of class solidarity with the rich And then we have like someone who was once poor now be rich now. We have like this double-sided thing of seeing ourselves in them and we just Trust these niggas. I don't know why I don't know. I just I don't know why but for some reason people just tend to trust these niggas because based off Their upbringing knowing that no matter what their current actions They just don't let their current actions to find them and they don't let their act the reality They're not judging shit by the reality that's presented to them. And so I mean we got to understand these people as a part of the propaganda machine as a inherent part of this imperialist project is Using quote-unquote colonial subjects new Africans using Africans using black people to be a part of the propaganda machine To do the job of the machine to do the job of the state, you know I'm saying and Do I think LeBron consciously thinks he's doing the job of the state? He probably don't You know I'm saying but he's being used in a way as a as a representation You feel me came from poverty and came up is able to start his schools and shitty like what shit like if I did it Anybody can do it. That's literally what most of these niggas be preaching if I did it You could do it if I did it you could do it and it's like nigga. You are Anomaly one in a billion or not anomaly and all the niggas who look at all the niggas other you ain't the only kid from And He said you know the state will maneuver and we'll pick a token Negro To serve the interests of the state And then it gives an example to everyone else or you can be like an Oprah Oh, you can be like a Jay-Z. Oh, you can be like a nice. You can be like this person You know I'm saying you could be a pediddy. You know I'm saying like they give you those examples So now blame your ass for being poor and that's an inherent part of a celebrity coach And that's that's what that's what it's used for but you know Like Kwame and crew would be saying the same thing back in 1968 the state will always Adopt its changes you feel me will make some changes in order to keep the states are strong You know I'm saying so yeah, it will use integration And it will use representation to give you the false false sense of being included in the society But the masses of your people is landless ain't own shit. You feel me colonized subject Living on colonized land You know I'm saying so this is how the state is maneuvered and it's now giving us representation And you know what's loudest? I think sometimes I'm when people When we when you talk about celebrity culture since so much of it is challenging to people's identity because celebrities do start to identify as Celebrities whether consciously or subconscious like that becomes a part of who they are like this status Shit is is ingrained into the head and they start to take it as an attack against them when you start to attack their entire, you know Personhood their identity, right? But it's like all right, my name is you want to you almost want to defend them off identity Yeah, but you know I'm Sarah like that's how they try to they try to defend themselves like oh you attacking you attacking my money you attacking my Persona, you know, I'm the you attacking me. It's like now we attacking the system that created you my nigga Yeah, and also it's like okay if you able to take a step back out of your ego I've seen you and left talking about ego the other day Because what I think people Sometimes get frustrated was also you say there's no place for me then like that. I have no meaning as a celebrity It's like no you have a place. It's not to be a pawn for the state nigga, and it's also to stop pushing Uninformed and underdeveloped ideas Nigga start like a lot of a lot of these celebs just be regurgitating information can't give you a primary nor secondary source They just be regurgitating with people around them who are usually other pawns of the state PR Nigga as a nigga who works in entertainment there. You have PR. I work as a PR person We're going to say that this this way. This is literally what I do for a living I'm telling y'all right here. Like this is what happened. You have PR person who is likely Some figurehead for some big media company and who owns the who owns the media The same niggas who owns the means of production, right? And so they're gonna tell you what to say and how to say things So that's not your role as a celebrity is being is regurgitating a lot of celebrity shit is just controlled Opposition they're gonna tell you which brings us to niggas like Mark Ruffalo Don't say anything that is going to fuck up the money which is gone Don't and if that's not gonna fuck up your money and in turn go on Fucking raise consciousness. That's just what it's gonna say. Don't say nothing That's gonna fucking go best gonna be anti the state and we say the state the government the police the capitalists Don't say anything that's anti that Stan Lee was calling that nigga Was calling that nigga from the grave I a bro if you want this next Marvel check Stop saying it talking this pro pro power star shit. You better be coming down. It's real quick and denounce Denounce Palestine. Oh, yeah, Israel isn't genocidal. Yeah And so like the point being right like trying to control the opposition again Yeah, like you don't want to be that you don't want to be a pawn for niggas like Mark Ruffalo being a prime example Like the nigga has said some shit about you feel me The actions of Israel against the Palestinians as genocidal and in the next day He recanted on his shit and his words verbatim was I have reflected and wanted to apologize for pose during the recent Israel Hamas fighting that suggested Israel's community genocide. It's not accurate. It's inflammatory Disrespectful and it's being used to justify the anti-semitism here in the broad My nigga know what you described was describing Israel actions against Palestine as Genocidal was a correct analysis my nigga a scientific fact based on history In present day and present day What you go you can go on the internet and see these Zionist flag marches Or the Zionist is chanting debt to air a raps you can look at police telling activists You can look at Israel police telling Palestinian activists. I should shoot you in your fucking head You can look at what do we talk to talking about destroying mosques and saying Palestine should not exist that Terrorism that is genocide occupy you know I'm saying so it's like that was a fair analysis, but what happened was Marvel or whoever his agent PR was like no We don't say this for one because who owns the means of production who owns the media company some fucking Zionist some fucking imperialist some fascist owns the company some settler owns the company and You were what you are saying is anti the state because the state is in coat is who is pro Israel? You can't say that my nigga. So you if we understand how settler colonialism works Israel as a as a puppet nation for the United States as a colony of the United States So let's bring so again bringing it back for your protecting interests bringing it back for y'all That is not the role of celebrity the world like if if you want to be actually be pro the people pro liberation pro freedom Like all these buzzwords that celebrities love to throw out Equity equality all the shit that you saw in the back of these niggas jerseys last year black lives matter If you do want to be someone that shows that black lives do matter that you are for Equality I think at a base level equality is fucking civil rights, and it's not fucking blowing up mosque and shit, right? And so if you want to be a nigga who? does stand for that you cannot be a pawn of The capitalist you can't be a part of that's not the role of a celebrity activist that is trying to do the right thing and That will be prevented shell you start to develop a real analysis like Ruffalo had one he had one He just has no spine It's such a punk So I'm like how much money do you actually need Mark Ruffalo you've been in 17 more Marvel movies? Do you actually need the next one? That's what I'm saying. These people don't have no courage, bro Do you actually they don't want to give they don't want to give up anything or the movement only when it's popular What does celebrity activism look like so we said we saw a nigga I mean, I think celebrity organizing on they need to pull up and fuck with the people You know I'm saying they need to Consistently because even one nigga tried to do it right one time and now he you know working with Ben and Jerry's and all type of weird shit It has no again no ties to community organizing it Yeah, I mean if you ain't if you ain't tapped in with the real on the ground organizations That is doing work to materially uplift and help the people and serve the people that are building Decolonization programs that that's the way to do it if you look at Paul Robeson, and I think he's a perfect example And I think celebrities should study study him and what he's done in terms of you know charging genocide You know I'm saying to the United Nations, right? Like those are who was who was one? Girl the white lady who's the fuck with the Panthers, you know What is the white lady name Marilyn Monroe Why lady Why can I remember this woman's name Why can I not remember this woman's name? This is insane, but she was like you feel me He was like helping fundraise for niggas speaking at free Huey campaigns and all type of shit. We're on the rider. No, that's not her I know you talking about Fuck it's a name like that. I'm not to Google white ladies She was just in the news to over some to some with the vaccine or something I Am a white woman who dated a black panther? But I think Yeah, so pulling up and supporting the movement, you know what I mean from a real in the field Stands why me in the field people doing work for the people and the ghettos across America, you know, I'm saying like really being outside You know, I think we see things like a Killer Mike Not that But actually being outside being on the ground. I'm being with the people, you know, giving you all money where you can You know I'm saying but being being really outside like I think like a case came and put up to programs It helps support us get microphones and shit like that, you know, I'm saying like it can be done It's just the question is are you willing to put your ego aside? You know what I'm saying? I think that's sometimes like you come in like, okay He was celebrity inside now like you you a person here. Just like we all Africans We all working for this common goal. So how do we work to this common goal? I think one of the biggest things that I want to see cuz you like you'll you'll get You know being in music I'll have things that come up to me and be like, man why you be saying shit about Obama and you know like or Whatever my my like more radical stances are right like Niggas just be having a bunch of like a critique started rooted in how I make them feel not rooted in like whenever we want to Have an actual discourse. They can't point to any like readings. They've done they can only point to like you could just tell They just re-resigned bro. Why are you talking about Obama like that man? Come on, bro. Yeah Is she like just like people's quick like they don't really have an analysis of the United States of America They don't we have a critique. They just have the indoctrination of it It's just like that's how strong this propaganda and this celebrity culture really is you feel me even on the left I've had niggas try to tell me about capitalism like do you know how this shit works like like that's not how it works Like you like it's an exploitative system by demand prices go up Wages wages go up the price and go up That's just how this should work. So it's like looking inflation over the years You keep talking about we talk about our minimum wage and she like my nigga. That's not our economics works. And so like I Think and so the point being People just have to get out of their feelings and ego and I just for me what I want niggas to do is literally read more and develop an Analysis like read please read more much of clothes is window this fucking garbage truck But The life of a podcaster But It's everything in my opinion is possible just it takes a lot of ego work It takes realizing that you've been lied to your whole life You know I'm saying and admitting that you might have partaken in your own lie You know to me because I think that's what it is for a lot of people's like how could this person that I Revealed my whole life, you know or how can this like, you know corny idols becoming arrivals type shit? Like, you know, I'm sorry. What were you saying about Jay-Z like me and you despise them, but you know the way you're doing songs But you ain't letting that get in the way of you feel me a Material analysis of what he has done in terms of investing in ankle monitors in terms of what he's done and working with snitches I mean On a more material level was just like, okay I've seen what I've been able to do with my quote-unquote platform I've seen what our organization has been able to do with money and I to know that someone has a hundred thousand times more resources Then we have and preachers black power and black liberation isn't doing what we're doing is my patience gonna be short when Pro athletes talk about black power and you know freedom and in unity and liberation and all this shit Then you realize like they don't do anything, but these you know few events every year They're not doing no reading. They're not talking about none of this shit post post post game They're not using every moment. They have to speak that shit into truth It's gonna be hard to respect you. It's gonna be hard cuz I've been able to Elevate in capitalism. I have success in this shit. I'm still keeping you and you ain't one Nah, bro, this shit ain't it Gold record And I'm finna go organize after this shit This I can tell you I probably came back from LA this weekend to organize The day we shot this video type shit, you feel me like this is At the program the next Niggas not asking nobody to do nothing that they haven't done Yeah, you know I'm saying it's just like really trying to show niggas niggas was work You we just say all right if you teaching you feel me you should be connected to some Oh, we had the critique of bro who was in top society and culture podcast You was like he a professor and I'm like you feel me like yeah You taught at Cal for four years a real college course real credits This is not something that's just make up. Oh, it's like it's a real course me and you was organizing Period like you can I don't It's just about what sacrifices you want to make even let's say if you don't have the time You know I'm saying cuz cuz realistically right so I could have been teaching I could have a book out by now You know I'm saying if I wasn't organizing and also you feel me so it's like it's the sacrifices that a lot of academics Like oh to push their career for farther They want to publish publish publish which means they write and write and writing and they didn't organize and organize and organize You know I'm saying they and outside They you know they ain't doing the work to necessarily support a movie You got to figure out a sacrifice somewhere and that's the thing about shout out to the professors a few that do And yeah, but the thing is like you are gonna have to make a sacrifice somewhere and that's just what comes There's not no one who's fighting that's not making a sacrifice in some degree That's what the new African independence movement calls for and that's also the biggest like pitfall of Celebrity culture is that you get to do both you get to just say shit That aligns that it like that'll resonate with the The people you can use the theories of liberation you can talk talk the talk of black power And then you get the speaking engagement for it, and then you seen as this you feel me You seen as this person who is now the the holder of all this quote-unquote radical knowledge But in practice you ain't on the ground Yeah, doing that work, you know I'm saying and I've seen elders do this shit. I've seen elders continue to do this work Throughout that whole life So something I want to touch on and like get your opinion on is alright So knowing that there are roles for everyone right like Sometimes if we try to get the person with the biggest platform Like let's say like LeBron might not be actually be able to pull up to the hood and organize like bro There is so much money you could put into grassroots shit the axiolines like the charter school shit is cool, but like Bro, come on if we talk about terms of like it was what's happening in them schools I'm pretty sure niggas is being turned into fucking drones and respectability Negroes You feel me so then that's just that's a whole nother story, but I'm saying like knowing the fact that okay Everybody actually especially if you in terms of you trying to like take that movement Internationally right like if LeBron was to start going to Korea North Korea into fucking Cuba Gonna be traveling so much he might not be able to be actually be on the ground But that's what it will look like for a nigga who really can't be here like you're gonna use those power and celebrity to take the movement Even further that's what that shit will look like and you take it at the direction of organization Yeah, you know I'm saying and that's the key part organization You gotta have an ideology to move your work and it gotta be a North Star gotta be your compass if you don't have that Ideology, you know I'm saying I've seen people say oh we just shift with ideologies No your ideology has to be very clear and that's to help you move forward and of course It should be always growing and transforming and adapting with the time period and the time to is that but you know I thought if you don't have ideology you're walking around in circles You feel me and that's that's that's a key thing right now in this in this Time period we at is we don't have strong organizations If we have strong organizations with people power Strong organizations that have decolonization programs and is really doing the work Then people are gonna be able to follow directions from organizations, you know I'm saying to be able to build with organizations and that's What we see right now is we don't see we see the height of neoliberalism the height of the nonprofit industrial complex where people think Organizing and organizing is being co-opted by our own people where now, you know if you're a digital organizer You run an online organization. What is an online organization? I that that ain't that ain't organizing, you know, I'm saying or Why you wouldn't you an event planner, bro, you ain't no organizer you feel me you just planning panels like that's not organizing I'm sorry that is part of it if you in an organization you need to organize community learning grocery giveaways every three months Or you know follow-up and no no politics behind your guys It's just charity or you partner in partner with the police association to do an event that ain't organizing That ain't organizing that it's counter-revolutionary activity. You know I'm saying so I think We just got to be very clear about what what has to be done and the answers are there So we're willing to look at them and we want to do that work, you know Because if we use in history as a guiding mechanism It shows us exactly what can and won't work won't work We look at revolutions and independence movements what has happened in every organism in every movement has been organization And that's what that's what has to be built is we need strong organizations And we need leaders to be involved in these organizations. We need strong leaders involved in these organizations That is pushing the politic forward Fundamentally that's how we can counteract These opportunists when organizations become strong when the people become strong when these mass organizations become strong People gonna be like that's online shit. All they doing is this. Oh, they just Reading on a book club online every month They ain't outside feeding people in you know, I'm saying and then that's how we draw those lines of demarcation And now this this is actually some kind of revolutionary shit And there's always gonna be this controlled opposition the state will always give controlled opposition And that's what a lot of these nonprofits are is controlled opposition by the state to give the illusion of change To give the illusion of progress happening But realistically it's the government giving the money back to these organizations You know I'm saying so even talking about this online shit I think it is something important to be speaking on, you know, especially in this Twitter sphere Instagram and you know, everybody is again They quote-unquote activism off through the Instagram infographic and they Twitter infographic It's like if we look at look at it from a scientific approach And this all goes back to celebrity culture because you think oh if you have a big platform online You a celebrity if you have a blue check you a celebrity, you know I'm saying two out of ten Americans is on Twitter It's 20% So two out of ten is on Twitter and then most of those people is middle-class and quote-unquote educated meaning they went to college So who is you really talking to online? You in the echo chamber? You talking to people mostly with the same class status a Bunch of motherfuckers talking and doing nothing Talking doing nothing validating your own ego through retweets and likes and that dopamine in your brain thinking you're doing something And I'm here to tell you it's part of it. You need to get your propaganda off But the work is outside the thing about propaganda is propaganda is usually associated with an ideology connected to an ideology and organization in a plan So we got to stop calling these fucking all these tweets These are these these threads interest post propaganda. That shit is not That is not niggas really think they're doing but you're not doing propaganda. You're a regurgit I bet you regurgitating some theory nigga And I bet you just sending out these signals to bring the rest of your people. I mean half these signals are saying support these nonprofits You feel me these counter-revolutionary organizations or support this Online thing. It's like nah, it's like you really got to get outside and be with the people You know I'm saying you got to get outside and talk with the people you got to get outside Host learning, you know I'm saying get outside and feed people with a correct political Audiology not just saying you feeding people to feel good Consistently I'm always building a community with an event that happens once in every now And you know what the community looks like it looks like the community learning program It looks like the garden program. It looks like the but the free breakfast program. It looks like the grocery program That's what that shit looked like the health care program. It looks like it looks like Things that brings y'all together and that's meets the needs of the people that's building community building community is not hosting an event once and then Waiting until and you don't have you don't have anything political to say until the next opportunity It's hosting event and the fact of the matter is This ain't easy and an easy work. That's why it's easier to get on Twitter It's easier to be a celebrity activist than a than a real Movement contributor right cuz like even when we talk about activists first organizer activists usually can just go around doing their own thing They don't have you an individual hold them it to hold them it They're not accountable to a politic or a body of folks to really reign them in And that's how people like if you listen to you should be able to identify people, right? Uses as a tool to identify what people is on right? So if you see a person on Twitter talking all this talk Figure out. Where's their political home? What organization are they a part of what is that organization actually doing? You know I'm saying Everyone says join an organization. Well, your organization is just an online organization Color of change type shit. You know I'm saying If you really outside though, you gonna know the political home my political home people's programs Ain't no secret Hello black political education It ain't no secret You know I'm saying but That that's but we got to counteract it we got to counteract these celebrities being used Whether knowingly some knowingly by the state to be controlled opposition and to give people a guys because all of it Mostly celebrities. What happens every every election? They funneling people to the booth But they funneling people to the streets to support the people to support The decolonization programs even support mutual aid programs Josh had a tweet Queer socialism on Twitter He says celebrity activists aren't just useless because they are politically underdeveloped if not outright reactionary But because they are usually accountable to far too many forces of capital and therefore incapable of being truly accountable to the people They claim to advocate for again talk about being accountable to some people, right? How can a celebrity be used be of use to social movements when they are far too easily disciplined by the rule of capital having to appease There are millions of adoring fans labels shareholders corporations and the movement itself. That's far too many conflicting interests here Literally bring your home the point that we just talked about you should be like how can it be good like ruffalo Be how can he meet the needs of the people who are like, yo, there's a fucking genocide going on? in Palestine and be and be accountable to Marvel to Marvel Which is owned by again probably someone who has Only owns the means of production Around the world. How can you do this is conflicting? And that's where it's like you tied to global capitalists you tied to the international capitalist system And this is why like I'm not saying like I'm not trying to craft no purity politic idealist I don't think it's a situation where it's like, all right Like how was it because it's like literally like my nigga at some point you're going to have to stop putting the money first That's the number one thing at some point you have to say I'm not going to put the money first And I think after you've made millions of dollars in an industry You may mean we talked about independent production like nigga in hella black as an independent podcast Like you don't in the start it is on and can remain is on a Nigga like Ruffalo who has made millions of dollars doos working with the biggest production companies in the world Can do independent films if he wants to You can go start a independent film company today Fund it with his own money In the road the way how shit is so liberal these days nigga like that was bare minimum to call that shit a genocide like damn nigga After you couldn't go somewhere else nigga, and it would have been a black you you didn't even need that shit But I'm posted but you for the people That's my thing like niggas is a flag. Okay. Well, he'll lose his sponsorships Who cares sometimes you got a you have to make a sacrifice You have to either say you in it actually to be out here on the ground with this My nigga will at least ask you to be willing to lose a few of them sponsorships because shit is so liberal right now Like nigga to say free Palestine don't even got the fucking weight that it had 15 years ago Or even a few years ago Like bro shit is so liberal like these niggas not even doing the bare minimum And that's why I'm like it's hard to take a serious and that's why people have to stop investing so much energy into these folks Who are tied to capital and capitalists fucking if you tied to capital when you tied to the system He was tied to the state that is oppressing our people every day Kwame to restated bet Kwame to race at the best people love capitalism more than they love people And that's what niggas show you when they're afraid to do when they're just Saying the hard thing where shit is gonna pass by anyway Saying the hard thing when you have millions of dollars. He gonna get another job And you don't got to work again have to work again niggas not wanting to make sacrifices That's the thing these these millionaires, but we don't want that got to make them the people supposed to make them Not the nigga with all the money and the resources that these millionaires don't want to make the sacrifices These millionaires with houses on houses on houses Keeping him the money in their pocket and they're afraid to make a sacrifice One of the last things I wanted to touch on was like Another place where I think quote-unquote celebrity activists could like make some changes and do a better job of Is this thing of like, okay Like starting to frame themselves as advocates versus Leaders and representatives right because it's going to be hard to represent something you're so far detached from Like you you live in the hills You have access to the To the luxury to all the luxuries that capitalism can afford and to say that you are representation of the poor is Is false, you know I'm saying and so I think If we can give it like a practical a practical standpoint, it's okay. If you a celebrity activist right like NBA player nfl Rapper singer whatever the fuck like if you on twitter, you should just be retweeting shit and you and You should just be retweeting it and and and post and boosting shit, right? And then I think anytime you want to put your own Like words into something it should be brief if it's not developed you finish by go ahead and support this free all the little buzzwords shit y'all do do that and Really making sure y'all are boosting on the ground shit like period playing blank I think that's somewhere my fuckers can do a better job of and I also think that like when these events are being planned like Nigga Little panthers just holding rallies and speeches and community learning and political. They all that shit all the time, right? If you doing that, there's no reason why I want to hear Fucking killer mic Lena waith and lebron james talk about Uh police brutality. There's no reason why I want to hear them for talk about it Now them four want to put their money together and host six month summit where they bring in Motherfuckers who have been on the ground like who was it bop like who would we talk to is it do we talk to Yeah, black organizing projects like niggas who are like in the like places throughout the throughout the ghettos of america And they are them them people. I just named are Holding space for the ground roots grass roots niggas to come through not the niggas with the big ass platforms Who ain't doing shit, but it's just online the niggas who are literally on the ground Every day pulling up to them schools protesting that's working the nine to fives That's doing that and you holding the space for them to get the ears of the masses. That's how you can start supporting them events I don't want to hear um The biggest celebrities in oakland talk about fucking Police brutality. I don't want to hear them talk about gentrification of oakland. Y'all not out here doing it Feel me. I don't I don't want to hear them niggas to do that I don't especially knowing that if y'all not finna come but reiterate shit that y'all have heard liby shaff and the city council say I don't want to hear that The only reason you should be speaking on shit is if you're doing it as a result of an organization pushing you to say something You know I'm saying like so you actually is using your platform to uplift a message that an organization is trying to push You know I'm saying and that's that's taking direction Rather than pushing some shit that might actually be on some state shit That means going against everything that that that people have Conditions you to be over the last five years because as niggas who have friends and family that are celebrities They have been conditioned to believe that because of their Fight because of their economic status and their celebrity status that they are therefore most knowing Most moral And that's not the facts You are just rich and you have just been propped up as a as an image That's all that that's that's all it has and if we do the scientific fact You are not most knowing because you cannot cite more primary sources Then you cannot give a more in-depth analysis than I can of the systems that we are claiming to want to Destroy So take it that's just that's something that like all right Even in our organ even in organizing you see people have a problem taking leadership, right? These are people who have no experience and Don't even have nearly as much you know ego Ego the pumping up of the ego cna faces every they don't even come back and that now imagine niggas who has been told His whole life who's being told the last four years you the best you the greatest when people come around and they're afraid to speak and all that 50 million On average the niggas who I know with hella money and hella success They don't have niggas around them that are even myself. There are times where I have family members who I'm like I ain't gonna say that to this nigga like it ain't even worth it Or it's like do like I don't see this nigga enough. Do I really feel like arguing with this nigga today or You feel me like yeah, you just It's hard for a nigga with a politic and ideology. It's hard enough for me to be saying something Niggas sometimes so I know That regular motherfuckers who don't got who who are dependent on them and can't do you know what I'm saying? And so It's yeah, it's that if these if we do on like after average everyday person Who is even dealing with issues of self-worth and lack of knowledge Has trouble following leadership. What do you think a nigga who is from a societal standpoint viewed as The cream of the crop what you think is going to be That's just practicing a high level of self-awareness to know like yeah, my ego has been highly developed I know I ain't I got yes people around me all the time. It's just it's A lot of I mean you just described capitalism as one One hell of a system You feel me? I yeah, that's that's all it is is Again, you know, this isn't a problem to individualize. This is the system You know I'm saying this is the system that does this. This is the system that creates this In order to free ourselves from that system. We got to Have independence Sovereignty and political control and build towards that and the only way you do that is through organizing It's through organization that has a guiding ideology Towards independence towards freedom towards decolonization And that is a new african independence movement But um, I feel like we got to do with some patreon extended shit, bro. We ain't done some Patreon extended shit for a minute stomach is literally touching my back. All right, then we won't I'll listen to you talk for 15 minutes. I ain't finna talk about myself for 15 minutes Look at for patreon extended. This is your special shift for the month You're gonna get to see our community learning shit before everybody else All right for the folks that wasn't there you're gonna get to able to see the community learning shit before everybody else like again, I hope that y'all For the folks who are like damn, we didn't get no extended content this month or for this episode You know what we're about to go do right now We're about to go to best buy and get mics so that we can set up the cameras in the community learning space So that we can upload it online and so that people can that aren't living in the open and don't have And aren't able to come to the actual event can get access to the political education that we're about to provide tomorrow Then we better do a tech run then we have to go to the space and do a tech run And also this morning we spent You know all meetings Getting together content to launch our new to launch our new website to drop our merch Grocery program shit like bro niggas have been organizing Since we woke up seven o'clock this morning. So forgive me for not having an extra, you know 15 minutes for y'all extended Content today I gotta go do some real work Hey, and this was real work though. Yeah, but it's 12 18 and that's that's us on and out It's 12 18. We do more the more three hours You