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All right, a follow up tap in here, which is some last thoughts about the state of the blackness and the two things I want to discuss which didn't make the cut on the first ones but still feels like one day I ain't realize until after I was done recording, and two are very significant and they are a discussion about what's up with our elder statesman and the two elder statesmen that I am going to give you a compare contrast about.

Is Nicki Minaj and Dave Chappelle tapping with me?

Okay, So continuing with the oddest timeline in the world where we see the fall of Drake from glory.

Now, keep in mind, before y'all start punching me, Drake is fine.

He will continue to be a megastar.

But how to hell Nicki Minaj show up at turning Point, USA?

What in the hell is going on now?

Like we said before, we can stand for a lot of positions and opinions and views.

You know, we black folks oftentimes, like I said, you know, we church folk.

Now, not all black people are church folk.

I got corrected a time or two about that, which I appreciate them sending that correction.

To me, because that is a gross assumption that all of us as church folk.

But that being said, you believing in in you know, Christian values.

We are generally as a culture not very progressive.

We are pragmatic, We are more concerned about our safety and survival, right, and sometimes our conclusions might be very different.

But generally speaking, we see our politics as transactional, and because we are oftentimes coming from a position of faith or religion, we usually kind of have in some ways pretty conservative views around trans and unfortunately queer as a whole.

Now most now, as we know, black queer rules the world.

But generally speaking, our views around such shenanigans are pretty relatively center right.

So it's not weird for me to see a black conservative.

What's weird for me to see a black conservative on the stage at Turning Point USA?

And of all the people, Nicki mother freaking minage God, what the hell?

Now?

One thing she did that we know of that like really took notice was when she spoke to the UN about Christians being persecuted in Nigeria.

Fair enough, right, There's a song in twenty twelve when she kind of jokingly endorses the GOP on like a Lil Wayne song.

She was like, I'm a Republican voting for Mick Rodney, you lazy bitch as a fucking up the economy, you know, okay, bars whatever?

Right again, a lot of times in the hood, people be voting for the dudes that get to the money.

That's why you see sometimes a lot of these street dudes be kind of in the Trump train.

Now, on the other hand, there's her in twenty nineteen criticizing Trump's family separation policy, where she was like, yoa, I came into this country as an ill when I was illegal immigrant.

I was five years old.

But then on twenty twenty one, she got all COVID weird on us and was talking about that she opposes the COVID vaccine because of her cousin's friends testicles.

Y'all remember that.

What is going on with sisterhood?

And then now all of a sudden, she on the stage with Charlie Kirk's widow.

She's sitting up there praising jd.

Vance and Trump as like models for young men.

Listen, I just don't I don't understand.

But hey, she's still black, She's still one of us.

Now you go ahead sing for Jesus' baby, I don't know.

On the other hand, Dave Chappelle dropped his special.

Now, this one's a tough one for us as someone who obviously wants to stand with all of the trans community.

This is where critical race theory and intersectionality really comes to a head for me, because there are parts of me that are deeply disappointed.

Is me personally deeply disappointed with the trans continuing the trans jokes, And then there's part of me that is always proud of the way that he finds his way to stand against tyranny and racism.

And he's also just he's just one of our heroes.

So he did the Saudi Arabia thing, He did the yes butt thing where he was like, you know, the murder of Koshogi is a very awful thing, and Israel has killed two hundred and forty journalists and counting.

Right.

There was a moment where he checks one of the people in Saudi Arabia when he was being heckled because he was talking about the genocide in Gaza, and they was like, you know, shut the fuck up.

He goes, no, you don't get you don't get to take ten billion dollars from our country to do war crimes against an innocent people and then say that I have to shut the fuck up.

You gonna get these jokes right, And then he ends with one of the funniest lines ever when he talks about being afraid to be co opted, and he was like, listen, if I ever been co opted where they have used me as a mouthpiece for something, there's going to be a code word.

Now, I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but I'm sure you've part of the blackness.

You've seen this where well, even before I get to that, he talks about the comparison of Charlie Kirk and Martin Luther King, and he was like, no, no, no, no no.

They both died heinously being shot in the neck.

But that's where the comparisons end, right.

He talks about the absurdity of trying to make this a national holiday his death.

But anyway, he ends with saying there's going to be a code word that if you hear me say this, don't listen to anything I say after this, and it is I stand with, it is real.

Then he tosses the mic.

So he's in a lot of ways he's saying that he has never abandoned his core values and core morals really very much in the vein of you know, modern day panthers, it's blackness and still stands ten to's on making trans people the punching back.

I don't know what to tell you.

We contain multitudes, but I think it's very important to say, moving into twenty twenty six, that you can't never predict which way we gonna go, You know what I'm saying?

But what do we do with our ogs?

Do we expect them to be on a progressive train that we are?

Do we expect them to just become elder statesmen and put us on and let us teach them how to do things?

Or do we listen to them, or we just let them be themselves.

I don't know, whatever it is, I'm here for it.

All blackness