July 15, 2026 • 55 mins
The Supreme Court finally voted on Trump's order to end birthright citizenship. Today let's go back and talk about where this idea came from and where we are now.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All media, all right, along with the NBA Finals in
the NHL Finals, which I have no idea who won
the NHL Finals. I apologize, let me check my audio mixer.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Supreme Court had their final countdown, the final crash
out of their decisions. Things that we've been talking about
for a while, birthright citizenship, the rights of trans Humphrey's executor.
I know, so these next two weeks we are calling
(00:42):
the Supreme Court crash out, nerd out, Okay, like we
fin a nerd the hell out. The three things I'm
probably gonna cover is trans women in sports, Okay, we're
gonna talk about that. What they decided to talk about,
the unified executor theory in the president's ability to fire
(01:06):
people from the FTC and other organizations set up by
the Congress, And of course, birthright citizenship. A few things
to start with. First, you are about to get a
refresher on where birthright citizenship came from and when it
was challenged. When we run bitch, I'm from the land
(01:27):
right now to remind you of the cases and how
they were challenged and how absurd and why the fourteenth
Amendment makes perfect sense. But it's important to note that
like this was like a six' three what an, asterist
meaning six of The Supreme court justices like agreed and
(01:49):
then three, dissented but there was really like a fourth
which was kind of like on a technicality right and
got the. Right all mad At amy cony ban For Chief.
JUSTICE i apologize, for uh need to put some respect
on her name for not just falling on political. Lines,
anyway it's kind of crazy that it was disclose because
(02:15):
this is. Absurd it's literally the Fourteenth amendment all of a.
Sudden y'all not originalists anymore for some. Reason, Anyway but
we're gonna go into the nerdiness next, week, right but
this week we're going to talk about the reminder of
what was really at stake and WHY i can't believe
(02:36):
we're here right. Now and thankfully The Supreme court barely
made it made the right. Decision but as we go
into these next two, WEEKS i need to again to
remind you that these people are not your friends even
if they get something, right and they not your enemy
when they get something. Wrong y'all don't sign they check on,
(03:00):
marinate they. Chicken they ain't worried about what we think
a lot of times people think that there's these powers
in these back rooms that are trying to do their
best to, sway, manipulate and send false messages to the
public in hopes to keep them. Docile here's the. Thing
(03:21):
there is a room of, That BUT i think that
there's a room beyond that room that really don't care
what the public. Think they gonna do what they gonna.
Do that's the Room i'm talking about the level of
gangster that really don't care if everybody against. Them we're
gonna do what we're gonna. Do and that's the room
(03:43):
The Supreme court in why because we don't elect them
and they get to stay for, life they ain't worry
about what you. Think you don't, sign they, check nor.
Marinate they chicken happy for The july though birthrights it listenship, ya.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Don't, sign don't, sign don't don't, sign, y'all don't.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Sign i'm from the. Land don't say you hate L
a if you ain't been below the. Ten one of
the truest statements of many true statements That Kendrick lamar has,
stated and most of us who are from L a
have made this claim many. Times most people that hate
(04:35):
L a have only been To. Hollywood they've never been
to L. A north of the ten is the, freeway
the Ten freeway that anybody else would call THE i.
Ten we don't call our freeway's eye. Anything it's the
which the strong small piece of history is because our
freeways weren't just. Numbers there used to be. Locations so
(05:00):
the ten was The Santa Monica, freeway the one ten
was The Harbor, freeway the sixty was The Pomona, freeway
so it was named after, city so you'd call it The,
harbor so like now it's the one. Ten, anyway you
wouldn't know that because you're not from the. Land what
do we mean by the. Land we're talking about the entire.
(05:23):
Culture it's not just being born. Here it's about embracing
the territories and jurisdiction, thereof and all that comes with
understanding our, slang our way of life and all. That
and we have no problem naturalizing. Citizens obviously you got
to put in some. Work but what we love and
(05:44):
respect is like even if you even if you rep the,
land even if you live, here you know where you're.
From that can never be taken from. You and that's
something that we value and if you know, me and Also,
sophie you cut us. Open we Bleed Los angeles And
sophie is you, know she's from The West. Side but
the part of The West side she's from is one
(06:06):
that would, never, ever, ever, EVER i would ever question her.
Certification sophie a real one and although she may not
live here, now nothing can take that away from. Her
but what makes somebody from where they? FROM i am
From South central BUT i was born at The Fox
Hills hospital In. Inglewood but as many times As i've
(06:28):
said in my, Music i'm from the six to. Six
what does that even? Mean six six is twenty minutes.
East that's WHERE i grew. Up so as far as street, terms,
YEAH i went to high school in The Inland. Empire
lived there for a little. Bit you would, say are
you from where you went to high? School, no BECAUSE
i that's not in my. Soil it's part of my.
(06:50):
STORY i am From Los. Angeles can't take. That but
how long do you have to be somewhere before you
can Rept what do you have to? Embrace? Like what
makes you from wire? Weed as said in many, lyrics
at least If i've Said West, coast we get defensive
about our. Homeland, LISTEN i, admitted we are easily offended
(07:13):
because a lot of our reputation comes from. Transplants like
a lot of the stuff that people don't like About
la is people that's not FROM. La so that kind
of bothers us sometimes because it's, like that's you not
even from. Here, Yeah and if you're gonna come here
and talk trash about it's, like have you even Seen Los?
Angeles you've Seen hollywood talking about The. Palisades you only
(07:35):
Know Alta dina because it caught on. Fire that's the
only reason you know what that. Is so we're very
defensive about a. Homeland but at the same, time if
you were born here and left immediately your family packed,
up you can't help. That your family packed, up moved To,
colorado you grew up. There and IF i met you
(07:55):
and you Was Hella, granola Then i'd be, like, oh
you From denver and they, say, WELL i was born In.
La AM i allowed to tell this person they not
FROM la that's where they. Was that's where. YOU i,
mean you. Can't that is an immutable UNLESS i have
a time. Machine this fool's FROM. La do they carry our? Culture?
(08:15):
No because they wasn't raised in. It their home was.
Different BUT i can't take that from. You it would
be ridiculous to say that your citizenship has nothing to
do with where you were. Born we need to talk
about the history of birthright, citizenship the, politics. Y'ALL i love.
(08:51):
THIS i love these times WHERE i get to do
something THAT i think can be a little more, evergreen
if you, will MEANING i can record this at any
time because of the way that our politics is set,
up is gonna be relevant for a long, time right
and has been relevant for a long. Time because we're
talking about the Fourteenth. Amendment now here is my premise
(09:13):
As President trump so brazenly suggested that we need to
change the Fourteenth amendment that if your parents were here,
illegally you are not a citizen no, longer no matter
where you were. Born AND i made statements, about, like
you need to take this man, serious while most of
You internet constitutional scholars are, like it's gonna get shut.
(09:34):
Down it has to get of, course they're going to shut.
It it is a. Constitution it's in the. Constitution you
can't you could just not have it in the, constitution
to WHICH i, responded take him. Serious and some of
my more you, know brunching liberal friends shout out My
dowd in a group. Text. Uh he's very calm about
(09:57):
this and has evidence and it it did happen that
The Supreme court shut it. Down BUT i feel like
we're dealing with a different, animal which is WHY i
want to give you this history, here because his ever
so young, sidekick MISTER. J D vance is, like, hey,
listen if The Supreme court would tell a general what to,
(10:19):
do none of us would take that serious because that's
not a. Jurisdiction if A Supreme court would tell the
attorney general what they should, prosecute we would all be,
like that's an overstep of. Power you're not supposed to do.
That so why are we saying when the president has
something to say the executive, branch why is that not
an overstepping of? Bounds, now this logic is essentially a constitutional,
(10:42):
crisis which we'll talk about, later but they what he's
basically saying is why does the president have to listen
to the? Courts? NOW i need you to pause for
a second and think about what just came out of my.
Mouth why does the president have to listen to the?
Courts because it's The court's job to decide what is
say it with me. Constitutional so if The president decides
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he don't need to listen to the, courts and you
SAYING i don't worry about birthright citizenship because it's in The,
CONSTITUTION i feel like you're not paying, attention like you
ain't been around for the past twenty sixteen and. Beyond
What i'm trying to say is this man is a different.
Animal but in your defense and for your, information we've
(11:34):
been here. Before allow me to introduce you To Wong Kim.
HART i love this, stuff. Y'all, now BEFORE i could
(11:56):
take you back To Sam francisco In may of eighteen ninety,
six BEFORE i could do, THAT i got to take
you back to something That i've taught y'all, before which
was the Dread scott, case which is where we get
the fourteenth Amend there's gonna be a lot of reviewing
here Because i'm still trying to teach y'all. Something this
is teacher prop you feel, me Mister, petty shout out
(12:19):
all my old students that listen to this Showy they grown.
Now but we've talked about how The Supreme court. Works
but we also talked about specifically this Dreg scott, case
and the Dread scot case was essentially a slave who got.
Free this was still this was during the separate but equal.
(12:39):
Time this was during the time that, well, no this
is for separate equal what AM i talking? About this
is during, slavery, Right so during this era when the
country was growing and if a new state came, in
for every free, state there had to be a slave.
State for every slave, state there had to be a free.
State for some, reason we have not learned a lesson
that you cannot playkate. Racist still we ain't learned. That
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but at the, time this is what was going. On,
now remember the, argument at least the front facing argument
of The Confederate, states was that the states have rights
and that the states rights should not be abridged by
the federal. Rights we want a small federal. Government y'all
are just there to make sure the paperwork gets pushed.
(13:24):
Through but we carry the rights that we have and
in my rights in my stated segregation now segregation forevil
like they you, know they trying to keep they way
of life going without the encroachment of those city. Northerners. Right,
well one of these brothers escaped Dred scott and he Escaped. North,
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now when a slave, escapes the owner gets to hire
a slave, hunter which eventually becomes the police that you
evolved through the. POLICE i WISH i was making this stuff.
Up but, anyway this brother gets to a free. State and,
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again since states have, rights once you cross these, borders
just Like, Mexico mexico, said there's no slavery In. Mexico
so if a slave gets To, mexico look up the
city Of Vera. Cruz you Know Richie valens And ba
ba bah go look up that. Area why is it
so many black people? There, well besides it being a
part of The transatlantic slave, trade if you got, there
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he was. Free we've had centuries of. Solidarity despite what
people may, think or even what some of these young
folks might, say there's been centuries of solidarity among. Us,
Anyway So Dred scott got Up, north started a, business
became a. Family because in the state that he's, living he's.
Free he's been able to dodge these slave. Hunters but
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one day the slave hunter found him and was, like,
hey you're our. Property we got to go. Back and
the state he was in was, like what are you talking.
About they're, like, no, no, no, no. No he escaped from our.
Plantation he is my. Property they're, like the fuck he's.
Not this man ain't going. Nowhere you whether they were
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anti racists or, not they was, like you don't get
to tell me what to do in my. House does
that make? Sense you've ever been in a situation where
it's like it's not so much THAT i think you
right or. WRONG i just don't think you get to
tell me what to do about. It this is what's.
Happening they was, like you don't get to tell us
who's a citizen and who's. Not we have. Rights and
The Southern state was, like we also have. Rights i've
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been hired by a person to do a. Job this
person has not been. Freed they are still legally the
property of, somebody, saying hold, on hold, on hold hold,
up hold, on hold. On let me stop you right, there,
chief that's according to your. State this man don't live
in your. STATE a man run a business, Here you got,
family got. You this man live right, There we shop
at his. Stove he's a citizen of our. State it
(16:01):
was like knowing not, yes he is knowing not. Yes
he is all the way to The Supreme. Court and
LIKE i told y'all, before it's a lot of times
The Supreme court is not really about the case. Itself
it's about the principle of the. Case so the principalities
of the situation was who's state laws gets to trump
who else's state. Law at some, REASON i don't know
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why these people did not think that this moment was,
coming that one of these situations was gonna be like
that where you have to decide between two states that
have differing. Laws does this sound familiar to? You you
ever heard of? Abortion are we not dealing with this right?
Now this is why we keep trying to, say, look
we need a federal law to calm all this stuff.
(16:43):
Down so this thing goes all the way to The Supreme,
court and it's not so much about Dread scott. Himself it's, about,
huh whose laws trump? Who's and wait a, minute but
is a citizen, then because if this person's a, citizen
they are entitled to certain inalienable. RIGHTS i LOVE i love.
(17:09):
History so The Supreme court had to be, like, OH
i don't, Know and REMEMBER i told you how The
Supreme court. Works it's a whole gang of what. IFFs
so they shot a ton of one. Ifs WHO i
got stuff all in my? Beer y'all ain't say. Nothing it's.
SOAP i PROMISE i just showered because NOW i gotta
do this stuff visually. Anyway so they shot a whole
lot of. SWFs all, right so what what?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
If?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This what if? This and eventually the court, decided in
Typical american, fashion Dred scott's gotta go, back so we
had to go back and be a slave. Again so
The Fourteenth, amendment after The Civil war and reconstruction was
designed to fix, that to, say this is. Absurd, okay
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if you are born here within the jurisdic and territories
of The United, states you are in fact a. Citizen
so if you are a, citizen you have zero right
to enslave another. Citizen can we just, like can we
what are we? Like what are we even talking? About
(18:19):
that's that's the. Deal, now this is the basis of
the conversation that we're talking. About. Now, obviously if you,
racist that don't sit right with. You there's a part
of you that feels, like we know what we mean
when we Say. American An american citizen and that feeling
has not changed because it has traveled all the way
(18:40):
through the twenty twenty five presidential. Election they know what
they mean when they're just like the same. Thing they
know what they mean when they SAY. Deei and it's
funny watching people, saying, oh, man one hundred and fifty
people on stage During Kendrick lamar's performance and not a
single white. Guy, oh you want, diversity equity and. Inclusion
does that feel unfair to. You i've seen a picture
(19:02):
of A Governor abbott out Of texas in his wheelchair
because apparently he hurt himself rolling into his, office And i'm,
LIKE i wonder if he used ramps that were installed
because of, diversity equity and. Inclusion but you, know it's
(19:28):
the new hard art, anyway the Dread SCOTT k, says
this is the Fourteenth amendments all persons born or naturalized
in The United states and subject to its. Jurisdiction there
are thereof are citizens of The United states and of
the state wherein they. Reside one of those things where it's,
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like all, right clearly we have to stay. This so
now we're saying, it but that's not WHAT i want
to talk. About. Today that's just that's your. Precursor you feel,
me that's your. PREQUEL i want to talk About Long
Kim arc after. This all, right we're. Back so Wonkim
(20:36):
arc a brother from the eighteen, hundreds Clearly, chinese born
In San. Francisco as a matter of, fact we had an,
address And i'm gonna tell you where the address is
a little. Later but why is he so? Special well
let me talk to you about. Him So Wankim park,
was LIKE i, said born In San. Francisco but he
became the subject of what's called a test case in
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eighteen ninety. Six this is this test. Case it's a
test case about the Fourteenth. Amendment, now have you ever
been the test case of? Something it really don't feel.
Good you ever been in a situation where a bunch
of y'all have done a bunch of, things but you're
the one that got in. Trouble they just want to see,
you feel, me? Right, yeah it's just that that's. Awful
(21:23):
i've been the test case a few times where it's,
like well let me just let me see how serious
we are about this a test, case, Right and a
lot of times it's the luck of the draw because
you have to again remember that The Supreme court is
not dealing in their. Brain it's not humans we talk.
About we're talking about abstract concepts of the. Laws so
the persons involved in these things really are besides the
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point to, them which is why they seem so. Heartless
but if you can find A Supreme court justice that
understands the humanity of it, all you win. It, Anyway
i'm gonna tell you his whole, narrative But i'm gonna
cut to the beginning of the scene BECAUSE i think
the scenes the movie should start with this. Moment it's
been a three month, journey, no, yeah three, months yeah, no, no,
(22:06):
no it takes about a, month a month journey coming
back From. China this brother is a. Cook he got
it out the. Mud he was back In china visiting
his parents and his newly found. Wife and like every immigrant,
story you, know you grind, away you, know you send money.
Back you know What i'm, Saying try to support the,
(22:28):
family try to support, yourself to try to make trying
to make ends, meet get your weight, up get your lady,
here have a great, life right She his wife is From,
china Which i'll talk about. Later but he, again was
born In San, francisco but he was going back and,
forth so obviously he speaks the, language he understands the.
Culture he's doing a cancer and because he lives In,
chinatown a lot of his cultural sort of, presentation It's
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chinese because of, Segregation i'll talk about. Later and while
he was, gone something crazy happened In, america but he
don't know that. Yet he gets to the, port pulls
out his, papers and he's, like all, right what's up y'all.
Doing i'm glad to be. Back i've been gone for a.
While i'm glad to be. Here they was, like hold,
up cuz where you? Going and he was, Like i'm going.
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Home they was, like, uh are you a? Citizen he's,
like what the hell you talking? About pulls out his, papers,
Right so he pulls out his papers and get. This
about the, papers he kind of knew this was, coming
because you got to go get it all notary, republic you,
know to prove that you are who you say you.
Are so just like a leftover from, slavery about three
(23:34):
slaves had to show them them. Papers, basically if anybody
that don't Look, american wink, wink you need to carry.
Papers so he carrying, papers and those papers have to
be certified by get, this three white, witnesses because that'll
stand up in the court of. Law that'll prove that
he was born where he. Said, YES i grew up with.
Homeboy i've seen him over. There you know here it,
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Is i'm from. Here but what was happening in the
team the time time that he left to go see
his girl and came back with something called The Chinese Exclusion.
Act now let me put you on some. Game if
you don't know what The Chinese Exclusion act, Is i'm
gonna read from The National. Archives. Listen The Chinese Exclusion
act was approved On may, sixth eighteen eighty. Two it
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was the first significant law restricting immigration into The United.
States in the spring of eighteen eighty, two The Chinese
Exclusion act was passed By congress and signed By President CHESTER.
A Arthur have you even heard of? That? President the
act provided watch this an absolute ten year ban On
chinese laborers immigrating into The United. States for the first,
(24:41):
time federal law prescribed entry of an ethnic working group
on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain.
Localities this happened while he was, gone the government, decided
let me tell you what's wrong wal. Racism back it
up a little, bit because a few decades, ago y'all
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was loving The chinese. Coming now why was they loving
The chinese? Coming as we, know The chinese were the
people that ended up building our railroad, system doing a
lot of the hard, work opening up our. Laundries they
did all that good. Stuff now why you think that? Happened?
Nigga they freed the niggers because, well we can't make
the niggers, work so we gotta find somebody else to.
Work it seemed to me like What i'm learning is
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because after this, happened now does this sound familiar to?
You because who're doing our work? Now The? Mexicans, Right
it seemed to me Like americans just don't like to,
Work like, Y'all just why you keep bringing other people
to do the work and then complaining you ain't got no.
Work because what, happened what had happened Was america, Decided,
okay it's too many of. Y'all it's too many of,
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Y'all like it's all, like look at, it y'all gotta
go and don't be bringing no mo dug, like don't
don't be bringing no Mo. Chinese. Chinese my grandma used
to say. That she used to Say. Chinese i'll be, Like,
grandma you. CAN'T i mean she, oh this said, obviously
but she was, like, Yes i'm gonna go Get chinese.
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Food And i'm Like, Grandma she'd like what she give
you that? Look And i'm LIKE i can't correct. Her,
anyway this happened while he was, gone so they looking
at him, like are you a. Laborer he's, like, Yeah
i'm a, laborer But i'm a. Citizen they was, LIKE
i don't know about, that, chief wait right. Here so
we sat there and. Waited, now even though he had the,
(26:29):
paperwork that basically is, like, yo who's? Man is this your? Boy?
Hey who? Know cuz they have to ask white, People
hey do you know? Cus this is, ridiculous but this
was our laws. People they was, like we don't know
if you're a. Citizen he, LIKE i got the white
boys to proprove. IT i. LIVE i can see my.
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HOUSE i live right. There and not only DO i
live right, there, FAM i was born right. THERE i never.
Moved i've never applied for no citizenship nowhere else there's
no confusion on no. Paperwork my wife is still In.
CHINA i, LIKE i don't understand what the problem. IS
(27:13):
i say this to, say just because some'm in the,
constitution don't think for one second that you really protected
if you got a Little meloni is All i'm trying to.
Say this is Why i'm bringing this. Up we have
been here, before the challenge of birthright. Citizenships now in this,
moment this thing goes all the way to The Supreme. Court,
(27:36):
now why they picked this is because they're, like wait a,
minute we need to we need to stress test this.
Law and LIKE i, said the way The Supreme court,
works when there is something on the, books you need
to make. Sure i'm gonna stretch this as far and
as absurdly AS i possibly can Because i'll need to
(27:56):
see where it. BREAKS i need to see the. Edges, now,
Concess i'm, surely LIKE i, said this is actually a great.
Practice because that's how you know if a law is
written well or it's good is once you start throwing
absurdities at, it if it still stands if you could take,
it then it's. Good it's the same with people and.
(28:17):
Rappers some rappers can't take the. Heat they get on
stage with fake bullet holes coming. Out they. Shirts oh,
Man so The Chinese Exclusion act was, like, look, man
you can't come if you're a. Laborer he's, like, NIGGA
i was born. Here they was, like you don't look
like you was born. Here you look like A. Chinese
you talk like A, chinese to which he could probably be,
(28:39):
Like i'm From, chinatown but what the hell difference does that?
Make i'm born right? There, like and WHEN i say right,
THERE i mean literally seven fifty One Sacramento street In.
Chinatown you can go now it's a little. School. Now
it's a little school, now but it's there's a, plat
like it's, right you can go to. It i'm born right.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now these are not the only laws that existed at
this time that were designed to make sure that nobody
else succeeds but white. People there was The Page, act
which Barred chinese women except for the wives of, merchants
from entering The United, states which is why this man's
wife was still In, china so he can't even bring her, here.
(29:21):
Right there's also The Geary, act which required All chinese
immigrants to constantly walk with identification papers kind of like breed,
slaves kind of like immigrants and green. Cards there is
any of this sounding familiar to, You so, anyway let
(29:44):
me give you a little more background of. Him, Right
so that's where the camera starts right, here, Right so
here's some. Background so, again as he, says he was
born on the living room floor in what is now a,
school but it used to be like a little store
with an apartment on top of, it a store that
his parents, ran, right seven to fifty, One sacramento a f,
Right so so he was born there and just like
(30:08):
just like, that like if your parents come from another,
country every once in a, while y'all go, back, Right
so he goes back one time when he was, eight
his parents go back and they decide to. Stay so
then he comes back because, again can't stress this, enough
he's An. American so he comes back to s f,
again lived, here worked for his. Uncle you, know Al
(30:32):
vanas did what he had to. Do he worked, there
did he had to do until he was about, twenty
in which case he was getting a little. Lonely he
needed him a trying to find him a lady. Friend,
now because of anti missigenation, laws you ever heard that.
Word it's because it used to be illegal to marry
outside joe, race so because of anti misigenation. Laws and
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you think this is just the eighteen, hundreds let me
tell you. Something it's only been the past sixty, years
seventy years. Now it's very. Recent the WAY i like
to think of it is like. This you, Know Michael
jordan when he was in, kindergarten he couldn't marry a
white lady, anyway since race mixing was, illegal and Because
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chinese women wasn't even allowed to. Come it just wasn't
a lot Of chinese girls. Here those are his only.
Choices it's slim. Pickings so he has to cross the,
salt you, know the, ocean another one month, travel WHICH
i honestly cannot. IMAGINE i don't THINK i go. Anywhere
took a month to get. There i'm good, anyway finds
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a lady since she can't come because he's not a.
Merchant you, know he has to go back and forth
sending money doing. These you, know it's a hard. LIFE
i don't know if you know any, immigrants it's really
a hard. Life my own in laws like the choices
that my mother in, law my SWAGED i had to
make in reference to her own. Children you, know my wife.
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Was it's in her, book SO i don't feel bad
about saying. This but you know she was born here
Literally Boyle, heights you, know and then lived In mexico
And acapoco till about fourth, grade and then one by,
one her mom so for a long time she didn't
live with her. Siblings you, know she the siblings came
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one by one right back To america as her mom
can afford, it she lived with, her like she lived
with her grandma In, mexico and then one by one
her mom was able to bring her and, LIKE i
just don't. KNOW i, HONESTLY i KNOW i don't have
a fortitude for, that to send my kids to go. Live,
Nah i'm good unless the situation back home is that
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desperate you feel me That i'm, LIKE i have to
get my kids out of this. Life i've been to
where my wife's. From Now i'm going as someone who
is from a fully developed first world, country even Though i'm.
Black so there's. That But i'm looking at at this
place like this is a tropical. Paradise it's Southern. Mexico
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it's right at the coast coast Of, chica like it's freaking.
Beautiful acapolco is be uta. Ful but as you, go
as you're, there you realize what is her best Options
if she stays, here run a grocery, store hold a
have a cart on the, beach sell to, tourists like
there's there's unless you're gonna go be one of your
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ancestors and exists in the. Forest there's really no what
do YOU i get. It you're, like there's nothing, here there's,
nothing like we've maxed, out there's nothing. HERE i don't
want my kids to do WHAT i, did which was.
Nothing let's roll. NOW i don't mean that derogatory because
she had one of her uncles that was a, Doctor
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like there Are it's not like it's not like you
couldn't go to college and you know What i'm, saying
but just the, chances the. OPPORTUNITIES i get. It. Now it's, like,
y'all we gotta we gotta. Go and it's like it's
just my sister's, there So i'm going to go get
it out the mud and bring my children. Here you,
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know it's an amazing. Thing my father in, law like
he was selling little fruits in, downtown you, Know Mexico,
city little fruit, cups and as an eighth, grader fam
this can't be, It joe, SAID i get, it you
know WHAT i. Mean so, anyway he's sending him back and,
forth you, know making, money figuring it, out doing he
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got to, do going back and, forth seeing his lady come.
Back because, AGAIN i don't know how else to say.
This he's not A chinese. Citizen he's An. American he
can't stay In. China he's An. American so so this
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was his. Life so he gets. There this situation tells
me who he. Is he's sitting there and basicly lead
the answer was. This, now if this Ain't, DAJAVU i
don't know what is the basic argument as to why
they won't let this man off this boat and he
got to stay in this limbo is if your parents
are not, citizens even if you were born in THE,
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us you are not a citizen of The United, states
and you are barred from entry or deported from The United.
States this is the eighteen. Nineties this is the eighteen.
Nineties so let me tell you what happened after. That.
Next so we're, Back so what's the Situation the man's
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just stuck on this. Boat there ain't nothing he could, do,
Right he just he's just a he's just a, cook
like he's not breaded. Up but here's what. Happens the
word gets out because AGAIN i don't know how else
to say, this it's From San. Francisco people were expecting,
Him so there's there's an entire community that is waiting
to see their. HOMEBOY i just WHY i don't understand
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what y'all don't understand about. This and one thing that
segregationists do not understand is that when you force us
to live, together we form, bonds we form, Solidarity we
learn to look out for each. Other there's one thing
THAT i would say THAT i in some ways envy
an experience my parents. Had, now obviously the situation is much,
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different but my father went to an all black high.
School so with that there is a certain type of
solidarity among y'all community that WHILE i am completely, grateful
unbelievably grateful for the multicultural Raising i've, HAD i feel
like it's made me a global citizen in a way
that a lot of people don't have the full, stratification
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the full experience of what it means to have a
community that loves you and has shared your experience is
something THAT i don't. Have because if you go to
a black, school that means you got a black, Principle
you got black, teachers the, janitor the, mayor everybody in
your experience from every socioeconomics stratus is. Black you seeing
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you have full. Representation you are seeing your world on, display, educated,
uneducated right, worker white, collar blue. Collar you're seeing it
all because you. Live we were forced to do this. Right,
obviously the situation is, awful but that meant, that, like
ALTHOUGH i can remember moments Where i'm, like oh, yeah you,
Know Ms rose down the, street braid of my sister's.
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Hair you know What i'm, Saying you have a bunch
of different. Parents so the guy that runs the corner,
store Mister, johnson WHEN i see miss how you, doing Mister?
Johnson you know What i'm, Saying, like there's a community
that comes with and he understands what it's like to
be a little black. Boy my, mother my, father they had.
That NOW i had it in my own, way but
it was like black And latino either. Way the Point
i'm trying to make is when what segregation is still
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don't get is that this is how we organize against your.
System because organized they. Did you think you think they
just gonna lead their homeboy on that. Boat you think
he don't know nobody with. Power so the word gets
out and six Wealthy chinese companies are, like oh, no
we're Gonna we're gonna fight for. You they pulled their
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money together and they got him a case and they
took it to the. Courts they was, like this man's a. Citizen,
now why would they do? That because when you live
in solidarity and when you live with each, other you
understand that if it could happen to, him it could
happen to, Us which is hold my tongue. HERE i
just don't understand how anyone could vote against the best
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interests of their entire community in exchange for their own.
GOODNESS i JUST i don't get, it because, again if
it can happen to, them it could happen to. You
and on top of, that fuck, y'all that's my own,
boy that's my. DOG i don't even care if he's.
Wrong he with? Us who man's with? This he with?
Us you got a problem with? IT i got the
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bread some of that's some street stuff, too like y'all following. Me, Man,
like even if my little homy mouth off LIKE i,
said you don't get to tell me what to. Do
it's the same. Prime even if he, wrong y'all don't
get to say. It and, LOOK i got the, EDUCATION
i got the. Bread you ain't finna look At i'm
off this. BOAT i don't care how. BAD i don't
care how bad my accent is. Either that's WHAT i
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love about this. Moment these are Wealthy chinese, people so
they probably speak with a heavy. Accident but that, man
that's just working the. Borders you just, pole little white,
boy so you ain't have these things you saying about.
Them but these men is, like, listen he can't go all.
Right bet so he posts a two hundred and fifty dollars,
bill which clearly didn't have and they thought at that
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time that's like two hundred and fifty thousand. Dollars them
Ridged chinese. Folks was, like you need a. CHECK i love.
IT i love. It so this mug goes to the,
courts goes all the way to The Supreme, court and
guess what. HAPPENS i ain't gonna tell. You i'm just.
Kidding of, Course i'm gonna tell you. So we in the,
courts and he fought it based on The Fourteenth. Amendment
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because you just, said according to, you would you like
me to scroll up on my, notes you could see
me scroll up on my notes to read to you
the Fourteenth amendment, Again i'm gonna do that for. You
The Fourteenth amendment all persons born and naturalized in The
United states and subject to its jurisdiction thereof is citizens
of The United states and the state for which they. Reside,
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fool that's your. Law that's what they fought. ON i
don't understand what you're talking. About where was this man
born In San? Francisco what is your? Argument what are
we talking about? Here did he? WANT i don't. Know
i'm gonna tell you in a. Minute but the court went.
Crazy it lasted for a. While there was many, appeals
which is the, okay that's the. Reveal he, won but
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he didn't get to get off the boat. Yet the
only reason he was off the boat was because he made.
Bail but case wasn't over because for some reason about white,
people especially white, racist they don't they don't take too
well for. LOSING i feel like they still why Is
obama still get brought up because they still mad that
a nigger was in the. Office, LIKE i don't understand
(41:38):
why y'all still talk about that, man that man with zero,
scandals a husband or one, wife with extremely successful. Children
what is your problem with? HIM i think we. Know
so how could the courts have any leg to stand
on to say that this man's born, here he's not a.
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Citizen how could that make sense in any way all
the way to The Supreme? Court and why would The
Supreme court take this? Case it's because they have a
chance to be like, again, okay, now actually this is.
Interesting your argument, is, well his parents aren't born, here
so he's. Not, okay we got time talk to me nice.
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Now none of this mattered until white people got, involved
as far as at The kate of, course the court, level,
right and what the argument against him went like. This
the Fourteenth amendment has some, caveats and the caveat one
is About Native americans, obviously because none of this can
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count towards. Them they're clearly, here you were here before, us,
Right but it kind of works like, this this where
the race has got to. Dance actually in the in the.
Brief this is from the brief, that like the Fourteenth,
amendment argues guarantees citizens to all of those born in
The United. States but it's got an, asterisk it's got a, caveat,
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right and the caveat is those who are born in
The United states who are subject to its, jurisdiction born
here and subject to its. Jurisdiction, well what he's saying
is jurisdiction can be two. Types your authority what, like
(43:31):
who do you who is your og? Of what range
do you exist? On let me talk to. Y'all let
me talk to Y'ALL la folk About. Pomona It's pomona
IN la or The Inland? Empire what? Jurisdiction what you're, Like,
well It's La. County it's the last city In La.
County No. Claremont is is IT la or is it I?
E well it's The nine on. Nine, well the nine
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on nine is THE. Ie what's what's what is it
subject to its? Jurisdiction what is its? Culture it's culture
is very but then again so Is. Ontario But ontario
is THE. Ie nobody questions If ontario is THE, ie
what is jurisdiction territorial and. Political let me translate this for.
You you was born In, la but you act On New.
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Yorky you real. Easty well that's because you was born,
here but your mama from The, bronx so you talk
like yo. Mama or you was born, here but you
packed up and moved To New, york so you got
a real easty year. Son you walk around here At.
Thames we LIKE la won't wear. Tams oh, MAN i
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was raised In New York And i'm, like, so then
you not From. La he's, like, No i'm From. La,
nigga know you? Not you are not subject to its
territorial and political. Jurisdiction you chose, drake my, nigga you
ain't from No. La how you From? La you ain't
being below the. Ten you are not subject to its.
(44:58):
Jurisdiction so they're, arguing is these, people his family and
in turn, him clearly are subject to the jurisdiction of
The Chinese. Emperor this man is Culturally. Chinese he dressed like.
It he sound like you look like A. Chinese so
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no matter where he was, born he is not also
subject to our. Jurisdiction he is politically and Culturally. Chinese
therefore he Is, chinese so we. Can't so, yeah LIKE
i can't call him a citizen according to the Fourtheen
amendment because the Fourteenth amendment has a. Caveat so what
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is he? Saying you know what he's? Saying he don't act.
White you don't act. White you don't act like. Us,
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yo you ain't never crip. Walked you ain't. You you
ain't like, us you got. Accent therefore you can't possibly
be is This seldi? Familiar he is subject to the
jurisdiction and the territorial allegiance to The. Chinese, therefore he
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cannot possibly be An. American we obviously don't own a
time machine and have. Not this is an interesting. Part
we can't move back in time and prove that he
was not born here, because LIKE i, said three white
people agreed that he was born. Here SO i can't
argue that. One BUT i can argue he's not subject
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to our. Jurisdiction and now it Was wong's lawyer's. Terms
and do you know what they said in defense when
it translated to, you for you who are not watching
but are, LISTENING i just put my, hand you know
(47:13):
when you put your, finger you know when when your
significant other is obviously lying and you just want to
hear the rest of the, story so you put your,
finger you, know you kind of got a ball fist
with a thumb up under your chin and your finger
on the, side and you're just looking at, him just
about like trying to figure out if this person knows
how dumb they sound like if you And you're just,
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LIKE i can't believe you said that with a straight.
Face you are dead, serious ain't? You their? Defense was
this the dumbest shit ever heard in my? Life is their?
Defense what are you talking? About we went through this
(47:59):
with the black when y'all said a person can't vote
unless they grandparents could. Vote do you think The states
the course didn't understand what you were. Saying this is.
Ridiculous and, furthermore they, said do you know how Many
europeans got? Here, hell we haven't even got to the
(48:19):
future of The Homestead, act which brought a bunch Of
europeans here to fill out The. West i've already did
an episode on A Homestead act when the government was
giving handouts to poor white people government and handouts so
that they could build. Wealth i'm telling, YOU i can't
make this shit. Up so if this is the, case
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if the sons and daughters Of chinese citizens are not,
citizens what of the sons and daughters of The, english The,
irish The, germans The, french the people have come to
The United. States if he ain't a, citizen they ain't a.
Citizen if that man ain't a citizen according to y'all,
Laws George, washington ain't a. Citizen what the hell are
(49:03):
you talking? About and let me ask you. This let
me ask you. This do it start with your? Mama,
Okay so if my parents weren't, citizens then that Means
i'm Not, okay what about my? Grandparents, well if my
grandparents weren't, citizens then that would mean that my parents ain't,
citizens which would mean that even though they was born,
Here i'm not a. Citizen now check this. Out what
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if it was my great, grandparents what are? Immigrants then
that would mean that, them two non, citizens gave a
birth to a non citizen who gave birth to a
non citizen who gave birth to. Me what are you talking?
About that means that no one's a. Citizen dumb? Ass
was the argument The chinese. Made the fuck are you talking? About,
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well if you got here, illegally and you're a. Child
your parents got here illegally and they gave birth and
neither of you are. Citizens what the? Okay THEN i
need you to dig up every, relative every ancestory you.
HAD i need. You and if you find a single,
person then that means that all of the descendants and
citizens either you're gonna go you're gonna do? That how
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many people getting how many people getting? Deported? Do you're
not gonna do? That have a tall glass of horse?
Shot the fuck? Up oh? Man and guess what the court, said,
touche you are absolutely, correct and birthright citizenship stood that stress.
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Test now that was eighteen ninety. Six, now that pole,
man that poor Man wan Kim ark was on that
boat for four months till he was finally able to
(50:54):
just go back. Home and what did he go back? Home?
Speaker 2 (50:57):
To?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Poverty his wife still In. China AND i don't know
enough of the story to know if he continued to
go visit his, wife because like most, immigrants they be
scared to leave because apparently the system hasn't figured out
(51:20):
who's protected and who's. Not so, Yeah trump's talking about
birthright citizenship right, now we've been here before and praise
The Lord God, Almighty, hallelujah the highest Praise. Shondo it
worked or we stood the stress. TEST i just don't
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know if we're gonna stand it. Again It i'm from the.
Land don't say you hate la if you ain't been
below the tan. See and that's that. One now to
bring this into the modern. Era you, know oh, boy
The Nigerian London american boy that's playing for THE us
(52:06):
men's soccer, team the one that got the red card
That trump went in there AND i mean cheated and
got it. REMOVED i mean he cheated like there's another
way around. THAT i, MEAN i guess anyone could call
the president OF, Fifa but are you gonna get a?
Yes probably. Not that is what we call. Privilege. Now,
(52:27):
anyway that man played for our team because of birthright.
Citizenship do you understand? That because that man's mama was
pregnant with him seven months pregnant when she was on
vacation In. America she live In. London she wanted to go.
Home they wouldn't let her fly home because they said
she was too. Pregnant so because of, that he was
(52:51):
born here boom. Citizen now he's the reason why we
didn't scored what we didn't, scored now we play. THEM
i think we're playing Playing belgium right. Now BUT i
gotta work, obviously and maybe he's the hero. Again but
All i'm saying is this very thing you trying to
(53:13):
tear down is the very thing you just cheated so
that we could have our star player. On but it's
not like consistency has ever mattered to a. Fascist all, right,
(53:39):
now don't you hit stop on this. Pod you better
listen to these. CREDITS i need you to finish this
thing SO i can get the download. Numbers, okay so
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people is not smarter than. You we'll see y'all next.
Week The
Speaker 2 (55:02):
Two sid
All media, all right, along with the NBA Finals in
the NHL Finals, which I have no idea who won
the NHL Finals. I apologize, let me check my audio mixer.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Supreme Court had their final countdown, the final crash
out of their decisions. Things that we've been talking about
for a while, birthright citizenship, the rights of trans Humphrey's executor.
I know, so these next two weeks we are calling
(00:42):
the Supreme Court crash out, nerd out, Okay, like we
fin a nerd the hell out. The three things I'm
probably gonna cover is trans women in sports, Okay, we're
gonna talk about that. What they decided to talk about,
the unified executor theory in the president's ability to fire
(01:06):
people from the FTC and other organizations set up by
the Congress, And of course, birthright citizenship. A few things
to start with. First, you are about to get a
refresher on where birthright citizenship came from and when it
was challenged. When we run bitch, I'm from the land
(01:27):
right now to remind you of the cases and how
they were challenged and how absurd and why the fourteenth
Amendment makes perfect sense. But it's important to note that
like this was like a six' three what an, asterist
meaning six of The Supreme court justices like agreed and
(01:49):
then three, dissented but there was really like a fourth
which was kind of like on a technicality right and
got the. Right all mad At amy cony ban For Chief.
JUSTICE i apologize, for uh need to put some respect
on her name for not just falling on political. Lines,
anyway it's kind of crazy that it was disclose because
(02:15):
this is. Absurd it's literally the Fourteenth amendment all of a.
Sudden y'all not originalists anymore for some. Reason, Anyway but
we're gonna go into the nerdiness next, week, right but
this week we're going to talk about the reminder of
what was really at stake and WHY i can't believe
(02:36):
we're here right. Now and thankfully The Supreme court barely
made it made the right. Decision but as we go
into these next two, WEEKS i need to again to
remind you that these people are not your friends even
if they get something, right and they not your enemy
when they get something. Wrong y'all don't sign they check on,
(03:00):
marinate they. Chicken they ain't worried about what we think
a lot of times people think that there's these powers
in these back rooms that are trying to do their
best to, sway, manipulate and send false messages to the
public in hopes to keep them. Docile here's the. Thing
(03:21):
there is a room of, That BUT i think that
there's a room beyond that room that really don't care
what the public. Think they gonna do what they gonna.
Do that's the Room i'm talking about the level of
gangster that really don't care if everybody against. Them we're
gonna do what we're gonna. Do and that's the room
(03:43):
The Supreme court in why because we don't elect them
and they get to stay for, life they ain't worry
about what you. Think you don't, sign they, check nor.
Marinate they chicken happy for The july though birthrights it listenship, ya.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Don't, sign don't, sign don't don't, sign, y'all don't.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Sign i'm from the. Land don't say you hate L
a if you ain't been below the. Ten one of
the truest statements of many true statements That Kendrick lamar has,
stated and most of us who are from L a
have made this claim many. Times most people that hate
(04:35):
L a have only been To. Hollywood they've never been
to L. A north of the ten is the, freeway
the Ten freeway that anybody else would call THE i.
Ten we don't call our freeway's eye. Anything it's the
which the strong small piece of history is because our
freeways weren't just. Numbers there used to be. Locations so
(05:00):
the ten was The Santa Monica, freeway the one ten
was The Harbor, freeway the sixty was The Pomona, freeway
so it was named after, city so you'd call it The,
harbor so like now it's the one. Ten, anyway you
wouldn't know that because you're not from the. Land what
do we mean by the. Land we're talking about the entire.
(05:23):
Culture it's not just being born. Here it's about embracing
the territories and jurisdiction, thereof and all that comes with
understanding our, slang our way of life and all. That
and we have no problem naturalizing. Citizens obviously you got
to put in some. Work but what we love and
(05:44):
respect is like even if you even if you rep the,
land even if you live, here you know where you're.
From that can never be taken from. You and that's
something that we value and if you know, me and Also,
sophie you cut us. Open we Bleed Los angeles And
sophie is you, know she's from The West. Side but
the part of The West side she's from is one
(06:06):
that would, never, ever, ever, EVER i would ever question her.
Certification sophie a real one and although she may not
live here, now nothing can take that away from. Her
but what makes somebody from where they? FROM i am
From South central BUT i was born at The Fox
Hills hospital In. Inglewood but as many times As i've
(06:28):
said in my, Music i'm from the six to. Six
what does that even? Mean six six is twenty minutes.
East that's WHERE i grew. Up so as far as street, terms,
YEAH i went to high school in The Inland. Empire
lived there for a little. Bit you would, say are
you from where you went to high? School, no BECAUSE
i that's not in my. Soil it's part of my.
(06:50):
STORY i am From Los. Angeles can't take. That but
how long do you have to be somewhere before you
can Rept what do you have to? Embrace? Like what
makes you from wire? Weed as said in many, lyrics
at least If i've Said West, coast we get defensive
about our. Homeland, LISTEN i, admitted we are easily offended
(07:13):
because a lot of our reputation comes from. Transplants like
a lot of the stuff that people don't like About
la is people that's not FROM. La so that kind
of bothers us sometimes because it's, like that's you not
even from. Here, Yeah and if you're gonna come here
and talk trash about it's, like have you even Seen Los?
Angeles you've Seen hollywood talking about The. Palisades you only
(07:35):
Know Alta dina because it caught on. Fire that's the
only reason you know what that. Is so we're very
defensive about a. Homeland but at the same, time if
you were born here and left immediately your family packed,
up you can't help. That your family packed, up moved To,
colorado you grew up. There and IF i met you
(07:55):
and you Was Hella, granola Then i'd be, like, oh
you From denver and they, say, WELL i was born In.
La AM i allowed to tell this person they not
FROM la that's where they. Was that's where. YOU i,
mean you. Can't that is an immutable UNLESS i have
a time. Machine this fool's FROM. La do they carry our? Culture?
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No because they wasn't raised in. It their home was.
Different BUT i can't take that from. You it would
be ridiculous to say that your citizenship has nothing to
do with where you were. Born we need to talk
about the history of birthright, citizenship the, politics. Y'ALL i love.
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THIS i love these times WHERE i get to do
something THAT i think can be a little more, evergreen
if you, will MEANING i can record this at any
time because of the way that our politics is set,
up is gonna be relevant for a long, time right
and has been relevant for a long. Time because we're
talking about the Fourteenth. Amendment now here is my premise
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As President trump so brazenly suggested that we need to
change the Fourteenth amendment that if your parents were here,
illegally you are not a citizen no, longer no matter
where you were. Born AND i made statements, about, like
you need to take this man, serious while most of
You internet constitutional scholars are, like it's gonna get shut.
(09:34):
Down it has to get of, course they're going to shut.
It it is a. Constitution it's in the. Constitution you
can't you could just not have it in the, constitution
to WHICH i, responded take him. Serious and some of
my more you, know brunching liberal friends shout out My
dowd in a group. Text. Uh he's very calm about
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this and has evidence and it it did happen that
The Supreme court shut it. Down BUT i feel like
we're dealing with a different, animal which is WHY i
want to give you this history, here because his ever
so young, sidekick MISTER. J D vance is, like, hey,
listen if The Supreme court would tell a general what to,
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do none of us would take that serious because that's
not a. Jurisdiction if A Supreme court would tell the
attorney general what they should, prosecute we would all be,
like that's an overstep of. Power you're not supposed to do.
That so why are we saying when the president has
something to say the executive, branch why is that not
an overstepping of? Bounds, now this logic is essentially a constitutional,
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crisis which we'll talk about, later but they what he's
basically saying is why does the president have to listen
to the? Courts? NOW i need you to pause for
a second and think about what just came out of my.
Mouth why does the president have to listen to the?
Courts because it's The court's job to decide what is
say it with me. Constitutional so if The president decides
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he don't need to listen to the, courts and you
SAYING i don't worry about birthright citizenship because it's in The,
CONSTITUTION i feel like you're not paying, attention like you
ain't been around for the past twenty sixteen and. Beyond
What i'm trying to say is this man is a different.
Animal but in your defense and for your, information we've
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been here. Before allow me to introduce you To Wong Kim.
HART i love this, stuff. Y'all, now BEFORE i could
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take you back To Sam francisco In may of eighteen ninety,
six BEFORE i could do, THAT i got to take
you back to something That i've taught y'all, before which
was the Dread scott, case which is where we get
the fourteenth Amend there's gonna be a lot of reviewing
here Because i'm still trying to teach y'all. Something this
is teacher prop you feel, me Mister, petty shout out
(12:19):
all my old students that listen to this Showy they grown.
Now but we've talked about how The Supreme court. Works
but we also talked about specifically this Dreg scott, case
and the Dread scot case was essentially a slave who got.
Free this was still this was during the separate but equal.
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Time this was during the time that, well, no this
is for separate equal what AM i talking? About this
is during, slavery, Right so during this era when the
country was growing and if a new state came, in
for every free, state there had to be a slave.
State for every slave, state there had to be a free.
State for some, reason we have not learned a lesson
that you cannot playkate. Racist still we ain't learned. That
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but at the, time this is what was going. On,
now remember the, argument at least the front facing argument
of The Confederate, states was that the states have rights
and that the states rights should not be abridged by
the federal. Rights we want a small federal. Government y'all
are just there to make sure the paperwork gets pushed.
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Through but we carry the rights that we have and
in my rights in my stated segregation now segregation forevil
like they you, know they trying to keep they way
of life going without the encroachment of those city. Northerners. Right,
well one of these brothers escaped Dred scott and he Escaped. North,
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now when a slave, escapes the owner gets to hire
a slave, hunter which eventually becomes the police that you
evolved through the. POLICE i WISH i was making this stuff.
Up but, anyway this brother gets to a free. State and,
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again since states have, rights once you cross these, borders
just Like, Mexico mexico, said there's no slavery In. Mexico
so if a slave gets To, mexico look up the
city Of Vera. Cruz you Know Richie valens And ba
ba bah go look up that. Area why is it
so many black people? There, well besides it being a
part of The transatlantic slave, trade if you got, there
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he was. Free we've had centuries of. Solidarity despite what
people may, think or even what some of these young
folks might, say there's been centuries of solidarity among. Us,
Anyway So Dred scott got Up, north started a, business
became a. Family because in the state that he's, living he's.
Free he's been able to dodge these slave. Hunters but
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one day the slave hunter found him and was, like,
hey you're our. Property we got to go. Back and
the state he was in was, like what are you talking.
About they're, like, no, no, no, no. No he escaped from our.
Plantation he is my. Property they're, like the fuck he's.
Not this man ain't going. Nowhere you whether they were
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anti racists or, not they was, like you don't get
to tell me what to do in my. House does
that make? Sense you've ever been in a situation where
it's like it's not so much THAT i think you
right or. WRONG i just don't think you get to
tell me what to do about. It this is what's.
Happening they was, like you don't get to tell us
who's a citizen and who's. Not we have. Rights and
The Southern state was, like we also have. Rights i've
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been hired by a person to do a. Job this
person has not been. Freed they are still legally the
property of, somebody, saying hold, on hold, on hold hold,
up hold, on hold. On let me stop you right, there,
chief that's according to your. State this man don't live
in your. STATE a man run a business, Here you got,
family got. You this man live right, There we shop
at his. Stove he's a citizen of our. State it
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was like knowing not, yes he is knowing not. Yes
he is all the way to The Supreme. Court and
LIKE i told y'all, before it's a lot of times
The Supreme court is not really about the case. Itself
it's about the principle of the. Case so the principalities
of the situation was who's state laws gets to trump
who else's state. Law at some, REASON i don't know
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why these people did not think that this moment was,
coming that one of these situations was gonna be like
that where you have to decide between two states that
have differing. Laws does this sound familiar to? You you
ever heard of? Abortion are we not dealing with this right?
Now this is why we keep trying to, say, look
we need a federal law to calm all this stuff.
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Down so this thing goes all the way to The Supreme,
court and it's not so much about Dread scott. Himself it's, about,
huh whose laws trump? Who's and wait a, minute but
is a citizen, then because if this person's a, citizen
they are entitled to certain inalienable. RIGHTS i LOVE i love.
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History so The Supreme court had to be, like, OH
i don't, Know and REMEMBER i told you how The
Supreme court. Works it's a whole gang of what. IFFs
so they shot a ton of one. Ifs WHO i
got stuff all in my? Beer y'all ain't say. Nothing it's.
SOAP i PROMISE i just showered because NOW i gotta
do this stuff visually. Anyway so they shot a whole
lot of. SWFs all, right so what what?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
If?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This what if? This and eventually the court, decided in
Typical american, fashion Dred scott's gotta go, back so we
had to go back and be a slave. Again so
The Fourteenth, amendment after The Civil war and reconstruction was
designed to fix, that to, say this is. Absurd, okay
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if you are born here within the jurisdic and territories
of The United, states you are in fact a. Citizen
so if you are a, citizen you have zero right
to enslave another. Citizen can we just, like can we
what are we? Like what are we even talking? About
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that's that's the. Deal, now this is the basis of
the conversation that we're talking. About. Now, obviously if you,
racist that don't sit right with. You there's a part
of you that feels, like we know what we mean
when we Say. American An american citizen and that feeling
has not changed because it has traveled all the way
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through the twenty twenty five presidential. Election they know what
they mean when they're just like the same. Thing they
know what they mean when they SAY. Deei and it's
funny watching people, saying, oh, man one hundred and fifty
people on stage During Kendrick lamar's performance and not a
single white. Guy, oh you want, diversity equity and. Inclusion
does that feel unfair to. You i've seen a picture
(19:02):
of A Governor abbott out Of texas in his wheelchair
because apparently he hurt himself rolling into his, office And i'm,
LIKE i wonder if he used ramps that were installed
because of, diversity equity and. Inclusion but you, know it's
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the new hard art, anyway the Dread SCOTT k, says
this is the Fourteenth amendments all persons born or naturalized
in The United states and subject to its. Jurisdiction there
are thereof are citizens of The United states and of
the state wherein they. Reside one of those things where it's,
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like all, right clearly we have to stay. This so
now we're saying, it but that's not WHAT i want
to talk. About. Today that's just that's your. Precursor you feel,
me that's your. PREQUEL i want to talk About Long
Kim arc after. This all, right we're. Back so Wonkim
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arc a brother from the eighteen, hundreds Clearly, chinese born
In San. Francisco as a matter of, fact we had an,
address And i'm gonna tell you where the address is
a little. Later but why is he so? Special well
let me talk to you about. Him So Wankim park,
was LIKE i, said born In San. Francisco but he
became the subject of what's called a test case in
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eighteen ninety. Six this is this test. Case it's a
test case about the Fourteenth. Amendment, now have you ever
been the test case of? Something it really don't feel.
Good you ever been in a situation where a bunch
of y'all have done a bunch of, things but you're
the one that got in. Trouble they just want to see,
you feel, me? Right, yeah it's just that that's. Awful
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i've been the test case a few times where it's,
like well let me just let me see how serious
we are about this a test, case, Right and a
lot of times it's the luck of the draw because
you have to again remember that The Supreme court is
not dealing in their. Brain it's not humans we talk.
About we're talking about abstract concepts of the. Laws so
the persons involved in these things really are besides the
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point to, them which is why they seem so. Heartless
but if you can find A Supreme court justice that
understands the humanity of it, all you win. It, Anyway
i'm gonna tell you his whole, narrative But i'm gonna
cut to the beginning of the scene BECAUSE i think
the scenes the movie should start with this. Moment it's
been a three month, journey, no, yeah three, months yeah, no, no,
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no it takes about a, month a month journey coming
back From. China this brother is a. Cook he got
it out the. Mud he was back In china visiting
his parents and his newly found. Wife and like every immigrant,
story you, know you grind, away you, know you send money.
Back you know What i'm, Saying try to support the,
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family try to support, yourself to try to make trying
to make ends, meet get your weight, up get your lady,
here have a great, life right She his wife is From,
china Which i'll talk about. Later but he, again was
born In San, francisco but he was going back and,
forth so obviously he speaks the, language he understands the.
Culture he's doing a cancer and because he lives In,
chinatown a lot of his cultural sort of, presentation It's
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chinese because of, Segregation i'll talk about. Later and while
he was, gone something crazy happened In, america but he
don't know that. Yet he gets to the, port pulls
out his, papers and he's, like all, right what's up y'all.
Doing i'm glad to be. Back i've been gone for a.
While i'm glad to be. Here they was, like hold,
up cuz where you? Going and he was, Like i'm going.
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Home they was, like, uh are you a? Citizen he's,
like what the hell you talking? About pulls out his, papers,
Right so he pulls out his papers and get. This
about the, papers he kind of knew this was, coming
because you got to go get it all notary, republic you,
know to prove that you are who you say you.
Are so just like a leftover from, slavery about three
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slaves had to show them them. Papers, basically if anybody
that don't Look, american wink, wink you need to carry.
Papers so he carrying, papers and those papers have to
be certified by get, this three white, witnesses because that'll
stand up in the court of. Law that'll prove that
he was born where he. Said, YES i grew up with.
Homeboy i've seen him over. There you know here it,
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Is i'm from. Here but what was happening in the
team the time time that he left to go see
his girl and came back with something called The Chinese Exclusion.
Act now let me put you on some. Game if
you don't know what The Chinese Exclusion act, Is i'm
gonna read from The National. Archives. Listen The Chinese Exclusion
act was approved On may, sixth eighteen eighty. Two it
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was the first significant law restricting immigration into The United.
States in the spring of eighteen eighty, two The Chinese
Exclusion act was passed By congress and signed By President CHESTER.
A Arthur have you even heard of? That? President the
act provided watch this an absolute ten year ban On
chinese laborers immigrating into The United. States for the first,
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time federal law prescribed entry of an ethnic working group
on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain.
Localities this happened while he was, gone the government, decided
let me tell you what's wrong wal. Racism back it
up a little, bit because a few decades, ago y'all
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was loving The chinese. Coming now why was they loving
The chinese? Coming as we, know The chinese were the
people that ended up building our railroad, system doing a
lot of the hard, work opening up our. Laundries they
did all that good. Stuff now why you think that? Happened?
Nigga they freed the niggers because, well we can't make
the niggers, work so we gotta find somebody else to.
Work it seemed to me like What i'm learning is
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because after this, happened now does this sound familiar to?
You because who're doing our work? Now The? Mexicans, Right
it seemed to me Like americans just don't like to,
Work like, Y'all just why you keep bringing other people
to do the work and then complaining you ain't got no.
Work because what, happened what had happened Was america, Decided,
okay it's too many of. Y'all it's too many of,
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Y'all like it's all, like look at, it y'all gotta
go and don't be bringing no mo dug, like don't
don't be bringing no Mo. Chinese. Chinese my grandma used
to say. That she used to Say. Chinese i'll be, Like,
grandma you. CAN'T i mean she, oh this said, obviously
but she was, like, Yes i'm gonna go Get chinese.
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Food And i'm Like, Grandma she'd like what she give
you that? Look And i'm LIKE i can't correct. Her,
anyway this happened while he was, gone so they looking
at him, like are you a. Laborer he's, like, Yeah
i'm a, laborer But i'm a. Citizen they was, LIKE
i don't know about, that, chief wait right. Here so
we sat there and. Waited, now even though he had the,
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paperwork that basically is, like, yo who's? Man is this your? Boy?
Hey who? Know cuz they have to ask white, People
hey do you know? Cus this is, ridiculous but this
was our laws. People they was, like we don't know
if you're a. Citizen he, LIKE i got the white
boys to proprove. IT i. LIVE i can see my.
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HOUSE i live right. There and not only DO i
live right, there, FAM i was born right. THERE i never.
Moved i've never applied for no citizenship nowhere else there's
no confusion on no. Paperwork my wife is still In.
CHINA i, LIKE i don't understand what the problem. IS
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i say this to, say just because some'm in the,
constitution don't think for one second that you really protected
if you got a Little meloni is All i'm trying to.
Say this is Why i'm bringing this. Up we have
been here, before the challenge of birthright. Citizenships now in this,
moment this thing goes all the way to The Supreme. Court,
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now why they picked this is because they're, like wait a,
minute we need to we need to stress test this.
Law and LIKE i, said the way The Supreme court,
works when there is something on the, books you need
to make. Sure i'm gonna stretch this as far and
as absurdly AS i possibly can Because i'll need to
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see where it. BREAKS i need to see the. Edges, now,
Concess i'm, surely LIKE i, said this is actually a great.
Practice because that's how you know if a law is
written well or it's good is once you start throwing
absurdities at, it if it still stands if you could take,
it then it's. Good it's the same with people and.
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Rappers some rappers can't take the. Heat they get on
stage with fake bullet holes coming. Out they. Shirts oh,
Man so The Chinese Exclusion act was, like, look, man
you can't come if you're a. Laborer he's, like, NIGGA
i was born. Here they was, like you don't look
like you was born. Here you look like A. Chinese
you talk like A, chinese to which he could probably be,
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Like i'm From, chinatown but what the hell difference does that?
Make i'm born right? There, like and WHEN i say right,
THERE i mean literally seven fifty One Sacramento street In.
Chinatown you can go now it's a little. School. Now
it's a little school, now but it's there's a, plat
like it's, right you can go to. It i'm born right.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now these are not the only laws that existed at
this time that were designed to make sure that nobody
else succeeds but white. People there was The Page, act
which Barred chinese women except for the wives of, merchants
from entering The United, states which is why this man's
wife was still In, china so he can't even bring her, here.
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Right there's also The Geary, act which required All chinese
immigrants to constantly walk with identification papers kind of like breed,
slaves kind of like immigrants and green. Cards there is
any of this sounding familiar to, You so, anyway let
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me give you a little more background of. Him, Right
so that's where the camera starts right, here, Right so
here's some. Background so, again as he, says he was
born on the living room floor in what is now a,
school but it used to be like a little store
with an apartment on top of, it a store that
his parents, ran, right seven to fifty, One sacramento a f,
Right so so he was born there and just like
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just like, that like if your parents come from another,
country every once in a, while y'all go, back, Right
so he goes back one time when he was, eight
his parents go back and they decide to. Stay so
then he comes back because, again can't stress this, enough
he's An. American so he comes back to s f,
again lived, here worked for his. Uncle you, know Al
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vanas did what he had to. Do he worked, there
did he had to do until he was about, twenty
in which case he was getting a little. Lonely he
needed him a trying to find him a lady. Friend,
now because of anti missigenation, laws you ever heard that.
Word it's because it used to be illegal to marry
outside joe, race so because of anti misigenation. Laws and
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you think this is just the eighteen, hundreds let me
tell you. Something it's only been the past sixty, years
seventy years. Now it's very. Recent the WAY i like
to think of it is like. This you, Know Michael
jordan when he was in, kindergarten he couldn't marry a
white lady, anyway since race mixing was, illegal and Because
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chinese women wasn't even allowed to. Come it just wasn't
a lot Of chinese girls. Here those are his only.
Choices it's slim. Pickings so he has to cross the,
salt you, know the, ocean another one month, travel WHICH
i honestly cannot. IMAGINE i don't THINK i go. Anywhere
took a month to get. There i'm good, anyway finds
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a lady since she can't come because he's not a.
Merchant you, know he has to go back and forth
sending money doing. These you, know it's a hard. LIFE
i don't know if you know any, immigrants it's really
a hard. Life my own in laws like the choices
that my mother in, law my SWAGED i had to
make in reference to her own. Children you, know my wife.
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Was it's in her, book SO i don't feel bad
about saying. This but you know she was born here
Literally Boyle, heights you, know and then lived In mexico
And acapoco till about fourth, grade and then one by,
one her mom so for a long time she didn't
live with her. Siblings you, know she the siblings came
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one by one right back To america as her mom
can afford, it she lived with, her like she lived
with her grandma In, mexico and then one by one
her mom was able to bring her and, LIKE i
just don't. KNOW i, HONESTLY i KNOW i don't have
a fortitude for, that to send my kids to go. Live,
Nah i'm good unless the situation back home is that
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desperate you feel me That i'm, LIKE i have to
get my kids out of this. Life i've been to
where my wife's. From Now i'm going as someone who
is from a fully developed first world, country even Though i'm.
Black so there's. That But i'm looking at at this
place like this is a tropical. Paradise it's Southern. Mexico
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it's right at the coast coast Of, chica like it's freaking.
Beautiful acapolco is be uta. Ful but as you, go
as you're, there you realize what is her best Options
if she stays, here run a grocery, store hold a
have a cart on the, beach sell to, tourists like
there's there's unless you're gonna go be one of your
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ancestors and exists in the. Forest there's really no what
do YOU i get. It you're, like there's nothing, here there's,
nothing like we've maxed, out there's nothing. HERE i don't
want my kids to do WHAT i, did which was.
Nothing let's roll. NOW i don't mean that derogatory because
she had one of her uncles that was a, Doctor
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like there Are it's not like it's not like you
couldn't go to college and you know What i'm, saying
but just the, chances the. OPPORTUNITIES i get. It. Now it's, like,
y'all we gotta we gotta. Go and it's like it's
just my sister's, there So i'm going to go get
it out the mud and bring my children. Here you,
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know it's an amazing. Thing my father in, law like
he was selling little fruits in, downtown you, Know Mexico,
city little fruit, cups and as an eighth, grader fam
this can't be, It joe, SAID i get, it you
know WHAT i. Mean so, anyway he's sending him back and,
forth you, know making, money figuring it, out doing he
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got to, do going back and, forth seeing his lady come.
Back because, AGAIN i don't know how else to say.
This he's not A chinese. Citizen he's An. American he
can't stay In. China he's An. American so so this
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was his. Life so he gets. There this situation tells
me who he. Is he's sitting there and basicly lead
the answer was. This, now if this Ain't, DAJAVU i
don't know what is the basic argument as to why
they won't let this man off this boat and he
got to stay in this limbo is if your parents
are not, citizens even if you were born in THE,
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us you are not a citizen of The United, states
and you are barred from entry or deported from The United.
States this is the eighteen. Nineties this is the eighteen.
Nineties so let me tell you what happened after. That.
Next so we're, Back so what's the Situation the man's
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just stuck on this. Boat there ain't nothing he could, do,
Right he just he's just a he's just a, cook
like he's not breaded. Up but here's what. Happens the
word gets out because AGAIN i don't know how else
to say, this it's From San. Francisco people were expecting,
Him so there's there's an entire community that is waiting
to see their. HOMEBOY i just WHY i don't understand
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what y'all don't understand about. This and one thing that
segregationists do not understand is that when you force us
to live, together we form, bonds we form, Solidarity we
learn to look out for each. Other there's one thing
THAT i would say THAT i in some ways envy
an experience my parents. Had, now obviously the situation is much,
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different but my father went to an all black high.
School so with that there is a certain type of
solidarity among y'all community that WHILE i am completely, grateful
unbelievably grateful for the multicultural Raising i've, HAD i feel
like it's made me a global citizen in a way
that a lot of people don't have the full, stratification
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the full experience of what it means to have a
community that loves you and has shared your experience is
something THAT i don't. Have because if you go to
a black, school that means you got a black, Principle
you got black, teachers the, janitor the, mayor everybody in
your experience from every socioeconomics stratus is. Black you seeing
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you have full. Representation you are seeing your world on, display, educated,
uneducated right, worker white, collar blue. Collar you're seeing it
all because you. Live we were forced to do this. Right,
obviously the situation is, awful but that meant, that, like
ALTHOUGH i can remember moments Where i'm, like oh, yeah you,
Know Ms rose down the, street braid of my sister's.
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Hair you know What i'm, Saying you have a bunch
of different. Parents so the guy that runs the corner,
store Mister, johnson WHEN i see miss how you, doing Mister?
Johnson you know What i'm, Saying, like there's a community
that comes with and he understands what it's like to
be a little black. Boy my, mother my, father they had.
That NOW i had it in my own, way but
it was like black And latino either. Way the Point
i'm trying to make is when what segregation is still
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don't get is that this is how we organize against your.
System because organized they. Did you think you think they
just gonna lead their homeboy on that. Boat you think
he don't know nobody with. Power so the word gets
out and six Wealthy chinese companies are, like oh, no
we're Gonna we're gonna fight for. You they pulled their
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money together and they got him a case and they
took it to the. Courts they was, like this man's a. Citizen,
now why would they do? That because when you live
in solidarity and when you live with each, other you
understand that if it could happen to, him it could
happen to, Us which is hold my tongue. HERE i
just don't understand how anyone could vote against the best
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interests of their entire community in exchange for their own.
GOODNESS i JUST i don't get, it because, again if
it can happen to, them it could happen to. You
and on top of, that fuck, y'all that's my own,
boy that's my. DOG i don't even care if he's.
Wrong he with? Us who man's with? This he with?
Us you got a problem with? IT i got the
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bread some of that's some street stuff, too like y'all following. Me, Man,
like even if my little homy mouth off LIKE i,
said you don't get to tell me what to. Do
it's the same. Prime even if he, wrong y'all don't
get to say. It and, LOOK i got the, EDUCATION
i got the. Bread you ain't finna look At i'm
off this. BOAT i don't care how. BAD i don't
care how bad my accent is. Either that's WHAT i
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love about this. Moment these are Wealthy chinese, people so
they probably speak with a heavy. Accident but that, man
that's just working the. Borders you just, pole little white,
boy so you ain't have these things you saying about.
Them but these men is, like, listen he can't go all.
Right bet so he posts a two hundred and fifty dollars,
bill which clearly didn't have and they thought at that
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time that's like two hundred and fifty thousand. Dollars them
Ridged chinese. Folks was, like you need a. CHECK i love.
IT i love. It so this mug goes to the,
courts goes all the way to The Supreme, court and
guess what. HAPPENS i ain't gonna tell. You i'm just.
Kidding of, Course i'm gonna tell you. So we in the,
courts and he fought it based on The Fourteenth. Amendment
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because you just, said according to, you would you like
me to scroll up on my, notes you could see
me scroll up on my notes to read to you
the Fourteenth amendment, Again i'm gonna do that for. You
The Fourteenth amendment all persons born and naturalized in The
United states and subject to its jurisdiction thereof is citizens
of The United states and the state for which they. Reside,
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fool that's your. Law that's what they fought. ON i
don't understand what you're talking. About where was this man
born In San? Francisco what is your? Argument what are
we talking about? Here did he? WANT i don't. Know
i'm gonna tell you in a. Minute but the court went.
Crazy it lasted for a. While there was many, appeals
which is the, okay that's the. Reveal he, won but
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he didn't get to get off the boat. Yet the
only reason he was off the boat was because he made.
Bail but case wasn't over because for some reason about white,
people especially white, racist they don't they don't take too
well for. LOSING i feel like they still why Is
obama still get brought up because they still mad that
a nigger was in the. Office, LIKE i don't understand
(41:38):
why y'all still talk about that, man that man with zero,
scandals a husband or one, wife with extremely successful. Children
what is your problem with? HIM i think we. Know
so how could the courts have any leg to stand
on to say that this man's born, here he's not a.
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Citizen how could that make sense in any way all
the way to The Supreme? Court and why would The
Supreme court take this? Case it's because they have a
chance to be like, again, okay, now actually this is.
Interesting your argument, is, well his parents aren't born, here
so he's. Not, okay we got time talk to me nice.
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Now none of this mattered until white people got, involved
as far as at The kate of, course the court, level,
right and what the argument against him went like. This
the Fourteenth amendment has some, caveats and the caveat one
is About Native americans, obviously because none of this can
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count towards. Them they're clearly, here you were here before, us,
Right but it kind of works like, this this where
the race has got to. Dance actually in the in the.
Brief this is from the brief, that like the Fourteenth,
amendment argues guarantees citizens to all of those born in
The United. States but it's got an, asterisk it's got a, caveat,
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right and the caveat is those who are born in
The United states who are subject to its, jurisdiction born
here and subject to its. Jurisdiction, well what he's saying
is jurisdiction can be two. Types your authority what, like
(43:31):
who do you who is your og? Of what range
do you exist? On let me talk to. Y'all let
me talk to Y'ALL la folk About. Pomona It's pomona
IN la or The Inland? Empire what? Jurisdiction what you're, Like,
well It's La. County it's the last city In La.
County No. Claremont is is IT la or is it I?
E well it's The nine on. Nine, well the nine
(43:52):
on nine is THE. Ie what's what's what is it
subject to its? Jurisdiction what is its? Culture it's culture
is very but then again so Is. Ontario But ontario
is THE. Ie nobody questions If ontario is THE, ie
what is jurisdiction territorial and. Political let me translate this for.
You you was born In, la but you act On New.
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Yorky you real. Easty well that's because you was born,
here but your mama from The, bronx so you talk
like yo. Mama or you was born, here but you
packed up and moved To New, york so you got
a real easty year. Son you walk around here At.
Thames we LIKE la won't wear. Tams oh, MAN i
(44:36):
was raised In New York And i'm, like, so then
you not From. La he's, like, No i'm From. La,
nigga know you? Not you are not subject to its
territorial and political. Jurisdiction you chose, drake my, nigga you
ain't from No. La how you From? La you ain't
being below the. Ten you are not subject to its.
(44:58):
Jurisdiction so they're, arguing is these, people his family and
in turn, him clearly are subject to the jurisdiction of
The Chinese. Emperor this man is Culturally. Chinese he dressed like.
It he sound like you look like A. Chinese so
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no matter where he was, born he is not also
subject to our. Jurisdiction he is politically and Culturally. Chinese
therefore he Is, chinese so we. Can't so, yeah LIKE
i can't call him a citizen according to the Fourtheen
amendment because the Fourteenth amendment has a. Caveat so what
(45:41):
is he? Saying you know what he's? Saying he don't act.
White you don't act. White you don't act like. Us,
(46:03):
yo you ain't never crip. Walked you ain't. You you
ain't like, us you got. Accent therefore you can't possibly
be is This seldi? Familiar he is subject to the
jurisdiction and the territorial allegiance to The. Chinese, therefore he
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cannot possibly be An. American we obviously don't own a
time machine and have. Not this is an interesting. Part
we can't move back in time and prove that he
was not born here, because LIKE i, said three white
people agreed that he was born. Here SO i can't
argue that. One BUT i can argue he's not subject
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to our. Jurisdiction and now it Was wong's lawyer's. Terms
and do you know what they said in defense when
it translated to, you for you who are not watching
but are, LISTENING i just put my, hand you know
(47:13):
when you put your, finger you know when when your
significant other is obviously lying and you just want to
hear the rest of the, story so you put your,
finger you, know you kind of got a ball fist
with a thumb up under your chin and your finger
on the, side and you're just looking at, him just
about like trying to figure out if this person knows
how dumb they sound like if you And you're just,
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LIKE i can't believe you said that with a straight.
Face you are dead, serious ain't? You their? Defense was
this the dumbest shit ever heard in my? Life is their?
Defense what are you talking? About we went through this
(47:59):
with the black when y'all said a person can't vote
unless they grandparents could. Vote do you think The states
the course didn't understand what you were. Saying this is.
Ridiculous and, furthermore they, said do you know how Many
europeans got? Here, hell we haven't even got to the
(48:19):
future of The Homestead, act which brought a bunch Of
europeans here to fill out The. West i've already did
an episode on A Homestead act when the government was
giving handouts to poor white people government and handouts so
that they could build. Wealth i'm telling, YOU i can't
make this shit. Up so if this is the, case
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if the sons and daughters Of chinese citizens are not,
citizens what of the sons and daughters of The, english The,
irish The, germans The, french the people have come to
The United. States if he ain't a, citizen they ain't a.
Citizen if that man ain't a citizen according to y'all,
Laws George, washington ain't a. Citizen what the hell are
(49:03):
you talking? About and let me ask you. This let
me ask you. This do it start with your? Mama,
Okay so if my parents weren't, citizens then that Means
i'm Not, okay what about my? Grandparents, well if my
grandparents weren't, citizens then that would mean that my parents ain't,
citizens which would mean that even though they was born,
Here i'm not a. Citizen now check this. Out what
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if it was my great, grandparents what are? Immigrants then
that would mean that, them two non, citizens gave a
birth to a non citizen who gave birth to a
non citizen who gave birth to. Me what are you talking?
About that means that no one's a. Citizen dumb? Ass
was the argument The chinese. Made the fuck are you talking? About,
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well if you got here, illegally and you're a. Child
your parents got here illegally and they gave birth and
neither of you are. Citizens what the? Okay THEN i
need you to dig up every, relative every ancestory you.
HAD i need. You and if you find a single,
person then that means that all of the descendants and
citizens either you're gonna go you're gonna do? That how
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many people getting how many people getting? Deported? Do you're
not gonna do? That have a tall glass of horse?
Shot the fuck? Up oh? Man and guess what the court, said,
touche you are absolutely, correct and birthright citizenship stood that stress.
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Test now that was eighteen ninety. Six, now that pole,
man that poor Man wan Kim ark was on that
boat for four months till he was finally able to
(50:54):
just go back. Home and what did he go back? Home?
Speaker 2 (50:57):
To?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Poverty his wife still In. China AND i don't know
enough of the story to know if he continued to
go visit his, wife because like most, immigrants they be
scared to leave because apparently the system hasn't figured out
(51:20):
who's protected and who's. Not so, Yeah trump's talking about
birthright citizenship right, now we've been here before and praise
The Lord God, Almighty, hallelujah the highest Praise. Shondo it
worked or we stood the stress. TEST i just don't
(51:42):
know if we're gonna stand it. Again It i'm from the.
Land don't say you hate la if you ain't been
below the tan. See and that's that. One now to
bring this into the modern. Era you, know oh, boy
The Nigerian London american boy that's playing for THE us
(52:06):
men's soccer, team the one that got the red card
That trump went in there AND i mean cheated and
got it. REMOVED i mean he cheated like there's another
way around. THAT i, MEAN i guess anyone could call
the president OF, Fifa but are you gonna get a?
Yes probably. Not that is what we call. Privilege. Now,
(52:27):
anyway that man played for our team because of birthright.
Citizenship do you understand? That because that man's mama was
pregnant with him seven months pregnant when she was on
vacation In. America she live In. London she wanted to go.
Home they wouldn't let her fly home because they said
she was too. Pregnant so because of, that he was
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born here boom. Citizen now he's the reason why we
didn't scored what we didn't, scored now we play. THEM
i think we're playing Playing belgium right. Now BUT i
gotta work, obviously and maybe he's the hero. Again but
All i'm saying is this very thing you trying to
(53:13):
tear down is the very thing you just cheated so
that we could have our star player. On but it's
not like consistency has ever mattered to a. Fascist all, right,
(53:39):
now don't you hit stop on this. Pod you better
listen to these. CREDITS i need you to finish this
thing SO i can get the download. Numbers, okay so
don't stop it, yet but. Listen this was recorded In
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