Tap In: The Marathon Continues: Reflections on Nov 6th

Ok, after the Halloween candy rush wears off of winning a couple victories in the voting booth, it's important to remember the work is not complete. We can celebrate wins but we can stop.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media. All right, a lot of firsts happened, and
first that we should absolutely be thankful for first Muslim,
first South Asian, like truly truly progressive young It's kind

(00:26):
of dope to see, like, oh, man, there's an elected
official whose parents are still alive and could come to
a thing. It was so cute seeing zoron Mom Dottie's
parents show up at his inauguration. That's got it or
not his inauguration as acceptance, Like that's dope. You know,

(00:47):
it's dope to see the thing. And obviously I have
the same fear I had. You know, when we elected
our first black president. You just think, oh, somebody gonna
kill him. And I mean some of it that just
has to do with the reality of racism, like this
is just our experience, you know, But there are things

(01:08):
to celebrate. Now, Can this man pull off all the
things he promised? I probably not, but I think it'd
be sticked to one or two of those. You know,
it's it's a it's a it's a good day. You know.
Have we reached the pros racial society? Uh? Are we

(01:31):
on our way to the progressive bastion of society? To
where class gender and race are truly defeated, and we
can move into just living a beautiful humanity. Ask my
black panther father, Ask them kids in Gaza. The marathon continues,

(01:56):
tap in with me, So what's up, y'all? And this
tap in I'm gonna cover a number of things. I
appreciate y'all who supported the beautiful endling. I did not

(02:19):
get the Grammy nod. And you know, even in the album,
if you was following it, the concept of the three
parts of the poem almost where I realized almost was
like my bully, you know, and something that I've been

(02:40):
very frustrated about that haunts me, and this was another
moment of that, you know, and you rage against it.
The concept of it was you rage against that almost
as an attempt to slow down atrophy, right, but as
the if you were listening to the album, as the
point of that poem is trying to make, is that

(03:03):
slowing down atrophy only accelerates it. Right. For me, it
was workaholism, overworking you know, you you you you. You
put yourself into this frenetic, never ending pursuit of excellence
and I feel like I put out one hell of

(03:24):
an album. But it was in a lot of ways
me fighting back against this bully. Almost Part three was
this understanding that like, oh, that's all I was doing.
I was just trying to slow down atrophy, and slowing
down atrophy only accelerates it. So I say that about

(03:45):
this success that some of us in this progressive world
may have seen in this In this November sixth election, Yeah,
you know, California was down to fight back and was like, look, dude,
like we gone, We're gonna readistrict because I'm not gonna
keep playing with y'all. We elected somebody in such a

(04:11):
sweeping way in New York that feels like the same
tiers of joy I remember feeling with Obama. It's probably
the same tiers of joy that the completion of the
Civil Rights Act might have been. Where you have these wins,

(04:31):
these real true wins. But if I could, if I
could tap in into my church bag, we see in
part and we prophesy in part, it's still an almost.
And if you think that this is it that we

(04:52):
have we have finally turned this corner, the let down,
the disillusionment, the pain of almost is going to haunt you.
This is what happened in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
You know, during the Occupy Wall Street thing, you know,
a lot of them dudes that fought real hard and

(05:12):
that became proud boys, they became Nazis, They became disillusioned
because your revolution did not complete itself. So what I'm
saying is, let us celebrate our wins, but let's remember
that the marathon continues. Let's let the elders, let's let

(05:34):
the ancestors see. This is the wisdom that I feel
like comes from being tapped in to my blackness, being
tapped into my ancestry, is to understand that we're running
a marathon here, that we're fighting an uphill battle against
thousands and thousands of years of divide and conquer and

(05:59):
that power just doesn't let itself go. There are slow moments,
it's a fight. There are moments of celebration. I almost
see it as you got to a mark in the
marathon where you can finally drink a bottle of water.

(06:21):
We can celebrate a moment. This is a great moment
if you believe in sort of equality and progressive politics. Now, granted,
I know there's a whole world of people that feel
like this is the worst moment, ever, but also the
marathon continues for you too. Okay, here to wisdom. I'm

(06:44):
trying to get to y'all. Across the world, one in
five kids are growing up in war zones. What do
you mean we've made it? What like now? I say
this to not be a Debbie downer. I say this
to calibrate and to understand that this is an endurance race.

(07:11):
This is an endurance test. Margaret, our beloved Margaret killed Joy,
who does everything but that she don't be killed. She
don't be killing Joy. Magpie. Magpie is just a wonderful
human being, posted on her social media. The victory of

(07:34):
our progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring
for one another, building a better world. It's not the
goal of our work. Do you do you hear the
wisdom coming from from from the veteran here. What the
wisdom that is saying is the goal was not a

(07:55):
new candidate. The goal was us caring for each other
and having that be reflected in our candidates. The goal
was always serving each other. The goal has always been terraforming,
building a better world. The candidate is a byproduct of

(08:15):
us being who we know we need to be You
follow me, so listen, listen to listen to the late
great Nipsey Hustle. The marathon continues. The work still continues,
Soudan Congo, hail ice raids. We still got work to do.

(08:39):
Let's be happy, Don't get me wrong, Let's be happy.
But the happiness that we celebrate is the fact that
our morals are being reflected in the candidate, not the
candidate being elected. It's a nuance, but it's in important.

(09:01):
Let's continue to lock arms. Let's continue to make sure
that once once my bread Bruh gets in office, that
he continues to be the person we believe he is.
Let's multiply this across the country. And it's not so
much about again progressive views. It's about caring for one another.
Y'all you feel me? Stay tapped in with your boy now. Lastly,

(09:28):
I want to play. Matt drop this in the final
poem of the Beautiful Endling album, which did not get
a Grammy nomination. His poems called almost Part three against

(09:54):
Maybe I do know what happened to David. He ain't
go extinct after all, because evolved. It's me. Well, I
guess I did fear David, but in the way that
we often fear what we know we are becoming. Turns
out I understood him quite well. Why is almost so
important to me? I understand how obsession and repulsion can

(10:15):
exist in the same body. I guess I feared extinction
in my Workaholicism, where all my actions were just an
attempt to slow down atrophy, as if God is not
one of the funniest people. Slowing down atrophy only accelerated.
That's your problem, David, you your problem. So here we are.

(11:05):
I am David staring down the reality that I am
the last of those who played outside without the hint
of a push notification. I am the last of the
pre internets, the Dodo birds of AI and quantum computing.
But I can be the warm Wi Fi vinyl record
that teaches these m P three's that there is more

(11:26):
than virality. You know. It turns out you can ask
an end link of anything you want. Go look in
a mirror,