Tap In: Boulder, Co and Why Y'all Should Sit Down Somewhere & Play the Quiet Game

Whiles there's a lot we know, there's even more we don't know. Can we for once just kinda shut up until we do know more? And I mean EVERYONE shut up if you don't know what you're talking about.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media after last week talking about radicalization and how
state sponsored violence almost inevitably produces radicalization. It immediately happened
in Boulder, Colorado, where a young Egyptian man, I'm gonna

(00:22):
call him young, he forty five years old. I don't
know if that's young Egyptian national who lived in Kuwait
for almost twenty years, you know, before he came to
the US and in about three years ago, and according
to the Department of Homeland Security, that vis a being expired,
but he applied for asylum and was waiting for his trial,

(00:45):
so he wasn't a citizen kind of is what he is.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
He didn't have legal status, and.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
According to him, he'd been planning this thing.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
If you don't know what this thing is.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
There is a group of mostly elderly people in Boulder,
Colorado who do these annual, not annual, these monthly walks
in solidarity with the hostage situation where the Israeli citizens
were captured and held hostage by Hamas. Now, normally this

(01:15):
is a very peaceful event and these people did not
ask for any security. I suggest y'all take a second
to go check out Molly Conquered show recently about the
police's obligation to actually protect us, meaning they don't have
an obligation to matter of fact, their disincentivive to actually

(01:36):
step into danger for us. Anyway, they did not request
any sort of protection. And apparently this man had been
planning this for over a year.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
He wanted to wait for his kids to graduate.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
He was gonna shoot him, but he couldn't get no gun,
and he got a couple homemade Malotov cocktails and was
chucking them. And this was in solidarity with the peace
full of Palestine. He said he was trying to kill
some Zionists. That's what this man said. So you kind
of you got to call a spade a spade. This

(02:10):
is antisemitic. So which brings me to the point of
what I want to tap in with y'all with, which
is sometimes you should just have several seats because you
may not know what you're talking about. Let's play the
quiet game, y'all tap in with me now. I know

(02:45):
recently I've talked about this in other episodes, but how
it hurts me. It burns my heart when a real
prejudice is being weaponized, used as a battering ram, like
you're using my suffering to push your agenda, the idea
that Harvard gonna lose their money because of anti Semitism.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like, come on, fam like.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
That you not you as as a Jew, you you
should be.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like y'are not doing that for us? And you know
you not doing that for us.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
So and this the same way I feel about Trump
releasing Larry Hoover and releasing NBA. Young boy, you not
doing that for us. I know you say you are,
but look so before anybody starts talking and cheering on this,
it's like, you know what, man, Let's play the quiet game.
Don't act like you're doing this for me. Just have

(03:40):
several seats. So when you start naming stuff that's kind
of anti Semitic adjacent, it gives pause to when something
is really anti semitic. It almost makes you not want
to acknowledge it because you're not trying to give no
credence to these people that are weaponizing your thing. But

(04:00):
if you're gonna keep it a buck, you're gonna keep
it a buck. I mean a lot of things are
going on here, it's you trying to I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
He just just told you. Now.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Of course, there's a difference between Zionist Semitics anti Semitics,
because Palestinians are Semitic. Also, y'all don't know what y'all
mean when y'all say that, but that being against the
nation state and believing the nation state is wrong is
very different than thinking that these human beings do not
have the right to exist and should not have the

(04:30):
same freedoms the rest of us do. All those things
are two different things. However, in this situation, at least
how it looks now is he was.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Trying to take these He was trying to take these
Jews out.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now on the other hand, because these things are complicated.
On the other hand, I have this sinking feeling whenever
something some sort of tragedy or act of violence pops
on the news, and.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's crazy to watch it.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Expand to where it's spand it to You'll understand as
I continue to talk. When a violent crime happens and
it pops on the news, my first thought is black people.
I hope he ain't black. That's always my first thought.
Now my next thought is, I hope he's not Muslim.
I hope he ain't Arab, because whenever we do something black,

(05:23):
Arab just persons of color. But specifically black, Latino Arab
somehow another, our actions reflect all of us, like this
one person apparently speaks for all of us. And that,
my friend, is where the right needs to play the
quiet game, because y'all always do this, y'all always look

(05:44):
at the situation, but you don't ever answer off of
the same grace to your own people. To your own people,
you say he got a mental health issue. This is
the mass incarceration stuff that we be trying to argue
y'all with. When y'all right wing gules be like, well,
black people get are more violent, they get incarcerated at
a higher rate than white people, And I'm like, okay,

(06:06):
so in your argument, is the evidence that disproves the
statement you're making because you're talking about convicted a crime.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now, do we commit more crimes? Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
What we are are arrested and convicted at a higher rate.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Therefore we be in jail more.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Because when a little white boy do it, he troubled,
he just fell in with the wrong crowd, or you know,
boys would be boys. Why don't you have several seats.
Let's play the quiet game. Maybe you don't know what
you're talking about. Okay, So when this man. Do this
when somebody say they pro Palestine, you saying they pro
hamas Man have several seats. We didn't explain this a

(06:48):
few times now on the left. Well, I'm gonna say
the liberal media because some of us over here understand
these distinctions. You know, a silly y'all sound already claiming
this is a false flag. Do you remember that's what
they did all the time during the Black Lives Matter protests,
the all of the all of the police shootings. They

(07:09):
even said for a second there that January sixth was
a false flag like that that magga ain't actually do it? Man,
Why don't you sit down somewhere. Okay, you don't know that.
Now I'm recording this on Tuesday, maybe some more information
will come out, But you don't know that, you know
what I'm saying, like, have a tall glass or shut

(07:31):
the hell up.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
You don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
And if there is anything that irritates black men more
than I don't know, then somebody's talking when they don't
know what they talking about. You don't know what you're
talking about. It might be you don't know that. So
I'm just saying, listen, the man left notes. The man
said his attentions. A lot of things are true. Right now,

(07:56):
this was a tragedy. There's no other way around this.
Dem hostages should not be where they are. Israel should
not have responded the way it did because that response
radicalizes people. And this man, as desperate as he might feel,
he shouldn't have. He shouldn't have through them. The man

(08:17):
talk cocktail. None of this should happen. I don't think
any of us wanted any of this to happen. All
I'm saying is, if you don't know what you talking about,
can can we just play the play the quiet game?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Can we can this time? Okay?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I know were gonna have a lot more incidences for
us to practice, but I'm just saying, here's my challenge
to all of us. Okay, hood politics with prop fans,
cool zwers, listen, play the quiet game. Maybe we don't know,
let's just this time, just this time, we can understand
the bigger themes which I always try to communicate. But my, my,

(09:01):
my left leaning brothers and sisters, nigga a false flag word,
my right wing brothers and sisters, You saying that man
represent every immigrant?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
You saying, oh this is why we got to keep
these people out of our.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Country for real, because you saying, people not from America
invented crime.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Is that what you're saying? Boy, If you don't sit
down somewhere, just everybody.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Like, okay, just this once, just just just hold your
tongue for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Now, how did that feel? Tap in with