Moe Factz 56 - "Fishing Polls"

Moe Factz with Adam Curry for January 4th 2021, Episode number 56
"Fishing Polls"
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  Adam and Moe Kick off the New Year with a Pot Luck of political Verzuz
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  LeBron James' voting rights group converting arenas into polling places
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    ATLANTA (AP) '-- If basketball icon LeBron James gets his way, NBA arenas and other sports venues around the country will be mega polling sites for the November general election.
    James and his voting rights group, formed this spring with other black athletes and entertainers, are joining with other professional basketball leaders and Michigan's top elections official to push for mega voting sites to accommodate in-person balloting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
    More Than A Vote, the James organization dedicated to maximizing Black turnout in November, shared its plans with The Associated Press on Wednesday after the Detroit Pistons became the second NBA franchise to announce plans to use its arena for voting later this year. In Georgia, Fulton County elections officials this week approved the Atlanta Hawks' proposal to use State Farm Arena as a polling site. Plans call for the arena to serve as a countywide early voting site ahead of Election Day.
    The idea, which comes after Kentucky used large facilities in its June 23 primary, is to use large spaces that allow for in-person voting while still enforcing social distancing guidelines. It also underscores the attention on the mechanics of voting amid the pandemic, with the intensity already reflected in both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden warning that state and local officials have the power to ''corrupt'' the election.
    Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson called her ''partnership'' with the Pistons an ''blueprint for other teams and leagues seeking to advance our common goal of protecting access to the vote for all.''
    Lloyd Pierce, head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, said the arrangement in his city ensures ''high turnout'' in a safe environment. Benson, Pierce and David Fizdale, former New York Knicks head coach, will advise NBA franchises and arena management entities around the country on how to replicate the existing deals.
    The Milwaukee Bucks also confirmed they are willing to use their home arena as a voting site in the most populous city in the key battleground of Wisconsin.
    The coordinated push is a turnabout, of sorts, in the often-partisan jousting over voting procedures.
    Some Democrats panned Kentucky elections officials for limiting in-person June primary voting in the state's two most populous counties to Louisville's Exposition Center and the University of Kentucky football stadium in Lexington. Voting rights advocates argued in federal court that the plan, part of culling voting sites statewide amid coronavirus concerns, would harm minority voters.
    A federal judge rejected their claims, and voting proceeded without the melee that some advocates had forecast.
    Now, Benson, a Democrat, is pushing the arena model not as an example of potential voter suppression, but a way to fight it. ''One of our greatest challenges in protecting voters' access to democracy this November is identifying accessible locations where citizens can safely vote in person,'' she said.
    Amid COVID, that could outweigh potential logistical difficulties of large sites. Lines for such venues can still be long '-- just as with normal polling locations '-- as was seen in Lexington at some points on primary day. Voters also could face traffic jams or public transit hiccups given the number of people involved. General elections also have considerably larger turnout than primaries.
    Nonetheless, there's a growing bipartisan push for large-venue voting. NFL executive Scott Pioli last week presented the National Association of Secretaries of State a plan for widespread use of professional and college sports facilities.
    James' group is officially nonpartisan. But the NBA star has been open about its emphasis on the Black community, where Trump faces intense opposition for his white identity politics. James has not endorsed Biden, but he endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
    In Milwaukee, meanwhile, the Bucks owners, the Lasry family, are major Democratic Party donors. Bucks executive Alex Lasry helped lead the effort that landed the Democratic National Convention in the city.
  'Double Consciousness and the Veil' by W.E.B. Du Bois: Summary and Analysis - Penlighten
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    W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous work, his treatise 'The Souls of Black Folk', was a seminal work in the African-American literature. The two terms he incessantly used 'double consciousness' and the 'veil' couldn't have been put in a better set of words to explain his situation and what he felt about belonging to a looked-down-upon race. Our endeavor is to put forth a summary and analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois' 'Double Consciousness and the Veil'.
    History repeats the injustice!This is the 21st century we are living in, so to say! An unarmed 18-year-old African-American was gunned down by a police officer on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson city in Missouri, United States. The final verdict of this case was on November 24, 2014, with the guilty officer not being indicted. This horrible occurrence has caused many riots and protests in the city, and has left a mourning family crying for justice for their departed teenager.
    'Double Consciousness' and the 'Veil' are terms used by William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois in his classic work, 'The Souls of the Black Folk'. This book contains heart-touching essays on the black race, based on his African-American life experiences. It is known as an influential piece of work in the history of African-American literature. Apart from this, the book is acknowledged as one of the early works in sociology and holds an important place in social science.
    SummaryIntroductionIn 'The Souls of the Black Folk', published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois writes about the struggle of the African-Americans that has been there since the time of slavery and continues to endure even after emancipation. He believes that one question most of his white men want to ask the black people is ''How does it feel to be a problem?''. This although is never asked directly, but is stated in their actions and made known by what they say.
    The RealizationW.E.B. Du Bois was made to realize that he was the problem, when he was studying in an elementary school in Massachusetts. As a part of their class project, they were supposed to exchange visiting cards. A girl who was newly admitted to the school refused to give him one, and that is when he understood the difference of his being. As a result of this incident, he decided to educate himself far more than any of his white mates and prove that his existence mattered.
    Double Consciousness and the VeilInsightfully, W.E.B. Du Bois used the terms 'double consciousness' and the 'veil' describing the double lives a black has to live in order to survive in his country'•the life of a black, and the life of an American. He cites that a Negro is 'sort of a seventh son born with a veil', seeing himself through the eyes of the whites. He also calls the veil a gift, making the black stronger day by day, striving 'to merge his double self into a better and truer self'. A black struggles every day to claim his identity among a majority of whites. He doesn't wish to change America, and neither does he want to change himself to an American. All he wishes is to be both, a black and an American, to be called even, and given equal dignity and respect from his fellow countrymen.
    AnalysisThe Story of W.E.B. Du BoisThe struggle of an African-American boy, who was as innocent as any other white kid, to understand what was really going on around him, had his first encounter with the truth about 'racism' that a white kid of his age had revealed to him. W.E.B. Du Bois was in school when in a card exchanging class project, a new girl student of his class refused to give him one, because of the color of his skin. He realized there was a problem, and it dawned upon him at that very moment, that the problem was nothing else other than himself. He was the problem. His existence in a country of whites was a problem, and so was that of the realm of African-Americans living in America. Meandering around the actual point, the whites would insinuate into the minds of every black, how downtrodden they were.
    A young W.E.B. Du Bois, with all the questions about his prejudiced permanence, was adamant on liberating himself and his people. He decided not to be oppressed by this imbecile discrimination based on the color of a man, and take further education, proving that it is justice in receiving equal rights as a citizen of America.
    Meaning of the VeilW.E.B. Du Bois writes about seeing the world from under the ''veil'', a misfortune every black is born with. The veil is a metaphor used for the restricted frame of mind that always thinks from within the walls of injustice. It is like an imaginary barrier that surrounds a black and separates him from the white'•the barrier that is made by the whites for the blacks. Americans run circles around them making them feel guilty of faults that don't exist. They question their quiet existence. They make them live with the sense of dwelling under the power of someone else.
    Meaning of Double ConsciousnessContemplating themselves through the eyes of others, they are forced to live double lives'•the life of a black and as an American, both of which are not liberal to them. Hence, the term 'double consciousness'. They know what the Americans feel about them, and everything even remotely related to them. But the whites know not what racism is. They have never experienced it after all. They have never felt what it is to be suppressed by people of their own country. They have never felt that pain or misery, that the blacks have been breathing like air since their birth.
    The question arises that after two centuries of slavery and 40 years of emancipation, why is there still so much injustice in the 20th century? The answer lies in this sentence by W.E.B. Du Bois: ''Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.''
    But as readers, we wonder if the hearts of this era have still not been able to accept the difference in color. Behind that skin is the same race'•mankind. Is it so hard to understand?
  Mike Tyson had to stop his daughter from knocking out Boosie Badazz
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    Mike Tyson (L) and Boosie Badazz. (Screen captures via YouTube)
    Apparently, Mike Tyson isn't the only punching powerhouse in the family '' he had to stop his daughter from knocking out a transphobic rapper who appeared on his podcast.
    Indeed, Tyson's daughter flew from New York City to Los Angeles, California, to confront Boosie Badazz over his slew of transphobic statements against Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's trans daughter, he told Zab Judah on VLAD TV.
    He explained that she ''wanted to physically grab'' him during the podcast. Tyson, 54, ended up roasting Badazz himself during the show which he did in a very, er, let's just say, Mike Tyson kinda way.
    Wade, a retired NBA player, and Union, an actor, have been vocally supportive and accepting of their trans daughter Zaya since she came out.
    But for some weird reason, Badazz became obsessed this year with the teenager and the loving way she is being raised by her parents. He has reportedly made disturbing remarks about her, beginning in February when he said: ''Don't cut [her] f**king d**k off, Dwyane Wade.''
    ''Some of my best friends are gay,'' Tyson said in the interview published Saturday (19 December), ''and ['...] that's just who [they] are as human beings. I'm not saying Boosie was gay, I just said you haven't any kind of empathy about that.
    ''My daughter lived that life,'' he continued, ''and she came from New York to this office to confront this guy and she's violent. I thought she came to see me!
    ''I thought she came all the way down to come and see her father and stepmother [Lakiha Spicer]. She came to confront him physically.
    ''So I had to take care of that before,'' Tyson said. ''I was watching her, she wanted to physically grab this guy, and started attacking this guy.
    ''I had to come in, I was watching her. She explained herself, then he explained himself and it didn't go as bad as I thought it was going to go.''
    Boxer suspected rapper might be 'gay' for attacking Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's trans daughter.During Badazz's appearance on Tyson's show, Hotboxin' With Mike Tyson, the eponymous host asked why the musician is attacking Zaya in the way he is.
    ''Why do you say things about people who might be homosexual?'' Tyson asked, clearly misunderstanding that being trans is not the same thing as being gay.
    ''Why do you say that about them? Do you feel there's a possibility that you're a homosexual and by disrespecting them you further yourself from being a homosexual?
    ''I'm thinking you may like homosexuals.''
    Badazz responded: ''No, I'm straight as an arrow.''
    ''If you're straight, then why do you offend people?'' Tyson replied.
  Boosie Badazz Turned Away at Planet Fitness Over Transphobic Comments | PEOPLE.com
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    Dwyane Wade first revealed Zaya's new name during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Feb. 11
    Rapper Boosie Badazz says he was ''refused'' entry at a Planet Fitness in Georgia over transphobic comments he made about Dwyane Wade's daughter Zaya.
    Boosie, 37, spoke out about the incident on Instagram Thursday, sharing a video, which shows him pulling out of the gym's parking lot.
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    ''Do not go to Planet Fitness, they racist. They haters. They just put me out Planet Fitness for what I said about Dwyane Wade son,'' Boosie explained. ''And they said I said in a video one of they employees was f'--'-- or some s'--'... They got roaches in that bitch.''
    Boosie also addressed Planet Fitness in the caption of the post writing, ''Manager who was gay refused to let me n planet fitness because of my past actions on social media about gender etc.''
    ''Do not support planet fitness,'' Boosie continued, sharing the facility's address. ''They have roaches, n they shower water don't get hot! Get out ya feelings lil bitch.''
    Boosie then went on to insult the manager using homophobic slurs.
    McCall Gosselin, a spokesperson for Planet Fitness, tells PEOPLE, ''Planet Fitness does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. In this instance, a guest was asked to leave after refusing to comply with gym policies and harassing club staff. We are the home of the Judgement Free Zone and as such, we have policies in place to ensure that we maintain a non-intimidating, welcoming environment for all of our members where everyone feels accepted.''
    The Louisiana-born rapper has been under fire after he condemned Wade's decision to support Zaya's transition earlier this month.
    Boosie Badazz, Dwyane Wade
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    During an interview with Good Morning America this week, Wade revealed that his 12-year-old, whom he shares with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches, knew from an early age she was different and had long been aware of her gender identity '-- it just took her father a little longer to catch up.
    RELATED: Gabrielle Union Introduces 12-Year-Old Zaya to the World: 'She's Whip Smart and We Are So Proud'
    ''She's known it for nine years. She's known since she was 3 years old,'' Wade, 38, said. ''Along this way we've asked questions and we've learned. But she's known.''
    ''I knew early on that I had to check myself,'' he explained to GMA. ''That's what I knew. I knew early on that I had to ask myself questions.''
    ''I've been a person in a locker room that has been a part of the conversation that has said the wrong phrases and the wrong words myself,'' Wade continued. ''As I got older and I watched my daughter grow, I had to go and look at myself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What are you going to do if your child comes home and says, ''Dad, I'm not a boy '... I'm a trans girl.'' What are you going to do?' That was my moment of real.''
    Part of the reason why Wade turned inward was because he hadn't ever had anyone else in his life come out ''as gay, as trans, as anything.''
    Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union with their daughter Kaavia James and Zaya
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    ''My daughter was my first interaction when it comes to having to deal with this conversation,'' Wade said to GMA. ''Hopefully I'm dealing with it the right way. Some people feel that I'm not. But inside our home, we see the smile on her face. We see the confidence that she's able to walk around and be herself. And that's when you know you're doing right.''
    The athlete told Roberts that Zaya actually helped educate Wade and his wife Gabrielle Union, 47, on what it means to be transgender, after doing the research herself.
    ''She is our leader,'' Wade said to GMA. ''I think when the conversation we had '-- the one thing about it, for parents, is have conversations with your kids. Zaya, early on, knew two things. She knew straight and she knew gay. But Zaya started doing more research.''
    He continued, ''She is the one who sat down with us as a family and said, 'Hey, I don't think I'm gay.' And she went down the list. 'This is how I identify myself, this is my gender identity, I identify myself as a young lady. I think I'm a straight trans because I like boys.' So it was a process for us to sit down with our daughter and find out who she is and what she likes, and not put something on her.''
    RELATED: Dwyane Wade's Son Zaire Pens Sweet Tribute to 'Best Friend' Zaya: 'I Love You Kid'
    Wade first revealed Zaya's new name during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Feb. 11.
    ''So once Zaya, our 12-year-old, came home '-- first Zion, I don't know if everyone knows, originally named Zion, born as a boy '-- came home and said, 'Hey, I want to talk to you guys. I think going forward I'm ready to live my truth. I want to be referenced as she and her, I would love for you guys to call me Zaya,' '' Wade shared.
  An Analysis of the Rhoades Father-Son Snogging in 'Billions' - The Ringer
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    Billions, the beloved Frankenstein's monster of a show that it is, stuffs every episode to the brim with pop culture references and unsubtle winks to current events. (Todd Krakow is a Dragon Ball Z fusion of Steve Mnuchin and Ted Cruz, just so we're clear.) Like dollar-slice pizza with caviar, Billions is an over-the-top indulgence, but we love it anyway.
    With that in mind, please observe this climactic scene from Sunday night's Billions episode, ''Hell of a Ride'''--an all-timer'--involving Chuck Rhoades and Chuck Rhoades Sr. Specifically, look at this passionate exchange. (I would provide a spoiler warning, but this demands to be seen by the American public.)
    Showtime That is Emmy winner Paul Giamatti and Emmy nominee Jeffrey DeMunn sharing an on-screen mouthing that has reverberated through my mind for the entire weekend and possibly will for the rest of my life. If you watch it more than 20 times (!), you start to notice little physical cues that make the sort-of-Oedipal overtones of the scene even more unsettling, if that's even possible. Chuck Sr. grasps Chuck Jr.'s head and puts him in a death grip; the father-son lip lock will be over only when Chuck Sr. wants it to be over. (Chuck appears to briefly resist, but that effort is soon quelled when his right ear is twisted like a pretzel.)
    Showtime The power dynamics'--and the 50-year-old Giamatti and 70-year-old DeMunn osculating for several seconds'--notwithstanding, the kiss scene is complicated to unpack because of the events that precede it. At this point in the story, Chuck has figuratively pinned his father into a corner, forcing him to refuse immunity from Oliver Dake and Bryan Connerty if he wants the land he purchased upstate to eventually be turned into a casino rather than a conservation area, which would render it financially worthless. And remember: This isn't long after after Chuck betrayed his dad at the end of last season with his epic Ice Juice trap.
    Chuck Sr. should be pissed, then, but in the moments before locking lips with the star of Universal Pictures' Big Fat Liar, he also says he's proud of his son. And he probably means it. Chuck Sr. has a twisted sense of standard for success; as Chuck told Wendy earlier in the episode, the first time he can recall his father being proud of him was after he returned from losing his virginity at a brothel at 14. While he was taken there by his uncle, Chuck says it was his father who picked out the woman for him. (With the Rhoades family, we all should've seen this virginity story coming, no pun intended.)
    Thus, Chuck Sr. might be looking at (and smooching) his son with a sense of genuine pride. Chuck was willing to do something loathsome to his father as a means of self-preservation, but he has proved once again he's cut from the same insidious cloth. Still, Chuck Sr. is effectively screwed by this ordeal. It's Rhoades: Infinity War moving forward, in other words.
    The pop culture moment that immediately comes to mind after watching this antagonistic mouth-to-mouth is from The Godfather: Part II, when Michael Corleone plants a kiss on his traitorous brother Fredo.
    Given the hostility between the Chucks, the Godfather undertones check out, but are there any recent events'--specifically mouthing between a father and a son'--that also come to mind? Yes, it seems there are:
    ET Canada Tom Brady loves a good family smooch, though credit where it's due: When his Brady lips make contact with other Brady lips, the embrace doesn't appear to be laced with malice. Just love. (I know what you're wondering: which kiss lasted longer: the one between the Chucks, or the one between Brady and his son? The Rhoades kiss was about 3.5 seconds, to the Bradys' 1.7. You're welcome.)
    Do other people kiss their fathers/sons on the lips? Yes, but considering the first three pages of Google results for ''father son mouth kissing'' are all Tom Brady''related, it's possible that Billions was poking a bit of fun at the Patriots quarterback. Series creator Brian Koppelman is a New York Jets fan, after all.
    And maybe'--just maybe'--the New England Patriots''Billions comparisons have been staring us right in the face this whole time. If Chuck is Tom Brady'--a man with a way cooler wife that is nonetheless very good at what he does, which is political slithering, not throwing deflated footballs'--then Chuck Sr. is Bill Belichick. Chuck Sr. wouldn't be caught dead in a hoodie, but he is ruthlessly good at what he does, even in his old age. Also, Belichick is also known to mouth other Belichicks.
    What does this make Bobby Axelrod? I'll say this: Damian Lewis does have a big forehead, and Axe is a big fan of cheap pizza.
    It started out with a kiss, and, halfway through Billions' third season, the father-son dynamic is on the verge of implosion. How did it end up like this? We can probably blame a 14-year-old's unnecessary visit to a brothel, as a start. Knowing both Chucks, they'll probably weasel their way out of any legal trouble and emergence victorious, like a lawyer's version of Deflategate. And if that happens, their triumph will be no less controversial than that of the Patriots men who also mouth-kiss their offspring.
  Boosie Badazz claims he paid for sex for 14-year-old son
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    Boosie Badazz bragged about allegedly orchestrating a sexual assault on his own family.
    The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based rapper took to Instagram Live to deliver a disturbing, expletive-filled rant. ''Hell yeah, I got my f''king son d''k sucked,'' says Boosie, whose real name is Torrence Hatch Jr., in a 57-second clip that has since been posted to Twitter.
    ''I'm training them boys right,'' Boosie, 37, says in the video. ''Ask any of my nephews, ask any of them, ask my son. Yeah, when they was 12, 13, they got [oral sex] .'‰.'‰. That's how it's supposed to be.''
    This is the latest in a series of shocking statements made by the father of eight, which have some calling for his kids to be taken away, citing child sex abuse.
    In 2017, the ''Set It Off'' rapper posted a birthday message to his son, also named Torrence, then 14. The caption in part read, ''got a bag for you n a bad bitch to give u some h''d.''
    In Louisiana, it is illegal to solicit sex workers, and for anyone over the age of 17 to engage in sex, including oral sex, with anyone under that age. But Boosie, who referred to the sex workers he hired as ''super grown,'' seems to admit to these crimes. ''They should call CPS on this foolish man,'' wrote one Twitter user in the comments.
    Earlier this year, Boosie came under fire for attacking Dwyane Wade's 12-year-old daughter, Zaya, who is transgender. ''Don't cut his d''k off, bruh,'' fumed Hatch to Wade in an Instagram video, adding, ''You've gone too f''king far.'' Boosie, who was released from prison in 2014 after doing time for drug charges, filmed the video in a Planet Fitness in Georgia. He was later kicked out of the gym for harassing staff.
    He's made homophobic statements in interviews, too. In 2015 he bemoaned ''gay s''t'' on television in a since-deleted Instagram post, according to Complex.
    One claim he denies? The rumor that he beat up George Zimmerman '-- the man acquitted of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17 '-- in a Walmart parking lot, a bizarre idea that circulated last year.
    ''Service announcement from Boosie. I never seen George [Zimmerman] in my life [except] on TV,'' he said in a video on Instagram. ''This is a lie. Leave me alone.''
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  Magic Johnson Enterprises - Wikipedia
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    American investment company
    Magic Johnson Enterprises is an American investment company owned by retired NBA Hall of Fame legend Magic Johnson. In 1995, after some criticism that he only invested with other people's money, Johnson took an equity stake along with what was then the Loews chain in the 12-screen multiplex movie theater in Baldwin Hills (now owned by Cinemark). The Beverly Hills''based Magic Johnson Enterprises formerly owned Magic Johnson Theatres in four cities, 31 Burger King restaurants in the Southeast, and 13 24-Hour Fitness/Magic Johnson Sport health clubs. Over the years, Magic Johnson Enterprises has continually invested ownership in many lucrative businesses such as the Los Angeles Lakers, movie theaters and restaurants in the United States, including T.G.I. Friday's, Sodexo, and Burger King locations.
    In March 2008, Johnson signed a multi-year marketing deal to help electronics retailer Best Buy Co. bolster sales in urban neighborhoods.[1] In October 2010, Johnson sold his interest in 105 Starbucks licenses back to the company.[2] The next day he sold his 4% interest in the Los Angeles Lakers for an estimated $27 million to Patrick Soon-Shiong.[2][3][4]
    Johnson's urban investments were formed in 2001 as the Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund, an alliance with Canyon Capital. The alliance has financed 31 real estate developments in 13 states and the District Of Columbia. The first Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund struggled for two years to raise $300 million to invest in urban neighborhoods. A subsequent fund raised $600 million while the third and biggest investment fund was started in April 2008 and drew $1 billion from pension funds and other investors.[1] The Canyon-Johnson fund was involved in the $100-million purchase of the 32-story former Transamerica Center complex in downtown Los Angeles that subsequently was renovated and sold for $205 million. The fund also had a stake in Sunset+Vine in Hollywood, which was built for $125 million and sold for $160 millon.[1][5]
    In the summer of 2006, the company made headlines for concluding a deal with Sodexo, one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world. The initiative includes a marketing agreement and the formation of SodexoMAGIC, LLC, a new joint venture that is 51 percent owned by Johnson.[6]
    References [ edit ] ^ a b c Bresnahan, Mike; Johnson, Greg (June 30, 2008), "For Magic Johnson, the NBA was only halftime", Los Angeles Times, archived from the original ('' Scholar search) on August 4, 2008 ^ a b Turner, Brad (October 19, 2010). "Magic Johnson sells his 105 Starbucks franchises". Lakers Blog. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010 . Retrieved 24 September 2019 . ^ Bresnahan, Mike (18 October 2010). "Magic Johnson Sells His Ownership Stake in the Lakers". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 24 September 2019 . ^ "Earvin 'Magic' Johnson Sells Share of Lakers to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong" (Press release). NBA Media Ventures. 20 June 2011 . Retrieved 24 September 2019 . ^ Vincent, Roger (July 2, 2002). "Sunset Rising in Hollywood". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 1, 2019 . ^ "Magic Johnson Forms Deal With Food Service Vendor Sodexho". Fox News. December 7, 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-05-28 . Retrieved 2020-11-12 . External links [ edit ] Official website Canyon-Johnson Funds
  Clippers Protest Owner by Turning Jerseys Inside Out Before Playoff Game (Video) | Hollywood Reporter
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    UPDATED: The players made a silent protest on Sunday at the Oracle Arena in Oakland by wearing their warm-up jerseys inside out to hide the team logo when they took to the court to take on the Golden State Warriors.The Los Angeles Clippers players have held a united front since audio allegedly of owner Donald Sterling making racist remarks was released on Friday.
    On Sunday, they made a public show of solidarity in a silent protest against racism by coming out onto the court before the game against the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena with their warm-up jerseys on inside out to hide the team logo.
    Rather than having the Clippers' logo emblazoned on the front, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and their teammates wore plain red as they walked out before the tipoff for Game 4 in the first round of the NBA Playoffs.
    In the crowd, Warriors fans held up signs that read: "Magic always welcome at Oracle," and "No racism here."
    The statement comes after both TMZ and Deadspin obtained versions of audio remarks that see Sterling express displeasure to V. Stiviano, described as his girlfriend, about having "black people" attend Clipper games. Sterling, a Los Angeles real estate mogul, has been the subject of multiple housing discrimination lawsuits in years past.
    Despite the protest, ABC and ESPN commentator Jeff Van Gundy expressed his wish that the players would do more. "The only action that is wrong is inaction or neutrality," he said at the beginning of ABC's broadcast of the game.
    STORY: Clippers Respond to Donald Sterling Rant
    "I would like the players to make a statement about how racism has no place [here], or for them to sit on the bench for 15 minutes before the game.
    "There are some things that are bigger than pursuing a championship. Making a stand on something that impacts society is more important," he said.
    Later in the first quarter Van Gundy went on to say: "I've heard some people say they can't speak to it because their team told them not to. Are you kidding me? You're a grown man, speak up for what you believe."
    Sterling agreed not to attend the game but his estranged wife, Rochelle Sterling, was sat courtside. She told ABC off-camera that she didn't condone the statements or believe them, "I am not a racist and never have been." The team is the most important thing to my family."
    She said she "didn't know" if that was her husband's voice on the tape but she does think there were parts cut out and plans to let the experts handle it.
    NBA commissioner Adam Silver was also at the game. He has pledged that the league will move "extraordinarily quickly" in its investigation, and hopes to have the situation wrapped up "in the next few days."
    With the Clippers down by 23 points at one stage of the game, analyst Jalen Rose said during the halftime show: "That's what happens when you have an owner like Donald Sterling who talks about his players like they are field workers that he allowed to live in the house."
    Rose went on to encourage "socially-conscious fans" to follow their team's lead by turning their gear inside out. Love your team but despise your owners racist ways."
    Fellow commentator Bill Simmons reflected: "This is a really sad weekend for the NBA. The baggage that the Clippers have as a franchise is just this owner, he has always been a shadow lingering around this franchise, and for him to rear his ugly head this weekend'... he might have changed this series. I think it is a disgrace and as a basketball fan, I feel sad."
    Clippers point guard Paul, who is also the president of the NBA Players Association, said in a statement on Saturday, "On behalf of the National Basketball Players Association, this is a very serious issue which we will address aggressively.
    "We have asked Mayor Kevin Johnson to expand his responsibilities with the NBPA, to determine our response and our next steps. As players, we owe it to our teams and our fans to keep our focus on our game, the playoffs, and a drive to the Finals."
    Magic Johnson reiterated his opinion that Sterling shouldn't own a team when he appeared on ABC's NBA Countdown show on Sunday morning, saying: "He should stand up and say 'I don't want to own a team anymore,' especially when you have African-Americans renting his apartments, coming to his games, playing for him and coaching for him.
    "This is bad for everybody. This is bad for America. I'm really upset about it."
    The Clippers lost the game 97-118, making the series tied at 2-2. They will next play in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
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    Donald T. Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz, April 26, 1934) is an American attorney and businessman who was the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers (initially San Diego Clippers) professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1981 to 2014.
    In April 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the league after private recordings of him making racist comments were made public.[2] In May, Sterling's wife Shelly reached an agreement for the Sterling Family Trust to sell the Clippers for $2 billion to Steve Ballmer, which Sterling contested in court. The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the Clippers to Ballmer on August 12, 2014.[3][4] Sterling settled his lawsuit against the NBA in November 2016[5] and remains active in Los Angeles real estate.[6]
    Early life [ edit ] Donald Sterling was born Donald Tokowitz on April 26, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois.[7][8][9][10] His family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles when he was two years old. His parents, Susan and Mickey, were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants.[7][11][12][13] He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where he was on the school's gymnastics team and served as class president; he graduated in 1952. He next attended California State University, Los Angeles (Class of 1956) and Southwestern University School of Law (Class of 1960) in Los Angeles.[14]
    When he was 25, he and his wife Shelly changed their surname to "Sterling", filing a formal petition to do so on December 9, 1959.[15] They cited the difficulty among his peers to pronounce "Tokowitz" and the belief that there would be financial benefits for the change.[15]
    Legal and real estate career [ edit ] In 1961, Sterling started his career as a divorce and personal injury attorney, building an independent practice when Jews had fewer opportunities at prestigious law firms.[16] His biggest ventures were in real estate, which he began when he purchased a 26-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills.
    In the 1960s, Sterling also purchased Lesser Towers, a pair of large apartment buildings in the Westwood area of Los Angeles,[17] and renamed them the Sterling Towers (now the Sterling International Towers). In 1976, he leased the California Bank Building on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, and renamed it Sterling Plaza. The Art Deco landmark was built in 1930 by MGM cofounder Louis B. Mayer. In 2000, Sports Illustrated senior writer Franz Lidz revealed that Sterling had a 99-year lease with the Mayer estate that required him to pay a relatively small annual fee and 15% of any rental income, which was why Sterling had remained the sole tenant. "With no other tenant," Lidz reported, "the Mayer estate faces another 75 years with virtually no income from its Sterling Plaza property. By sitting and waiting, Sterling may force a fire sale."[7][18] As of April 2014, he owned 162 properties in Los Angeles.[19]
    NBA ownership [ edit ] Sterling and Los Angeles Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss were each indirectly responsible for the other owning his respective NBA franchise.[7] The first instance came in 1979, when Buss used the money he made from selling a portion of his apartment buildings to Sterling (worth $2.7 million), which covered the remaining balance in purchasing the Lakers, the Kings hockey team, and The Los Angeles Forum from Jack Kent Cooke for $67 million. Two years later, Buss suggested to Sterling that he could purchase his own NBA franchise, and Sterling bought the struggling San Diego Clippers for $12.5 million.
    At his introductory news conference in San Diego, Sterling vowed to "spend unlimited sums" to build the Clippers into a contender, and he embarked on a county-wide marketing campaign featuring his smiling face on billboards and the backs of buses.[7][20][21][22] The seminal ads read: "My Promise: I will make you proud of the Clippers".[21] Unlike Buss' instant success with the Lakers (including winning an NBA championship in his first season as owner, 1979''80), Sterling and his Clippers struggled through many lackluster seasons, and they did not have their first winning season until the 1991''92 season, 11 years into his ownership. In Sterling's 33 years of owning the Clippers through 2013''14, the Clippers lost 50 or more games 22 times, 60 or more on eight occasions, and 70 games once. Their 9''41 record in the lockout-shortened 1998''99 season projected to another 60-loss season.[23]
    The NBA in 1982 fined Sterling $10,000, the largest sum ever levied against an owner at the time, after he commented that he would accept the Clippers finishing in last place in order to draft an impact player like Ralph Sampson.[7][21][24] In June 1982, Sterling attempted to move the team to Los Angeles. This prompted an investigation of the Clippers by an NBA committee of six owners. In September, the group recommended that Sterling's ownership be terminated, having found that he was late in paying creditors and players.[21] Days before a league scheduled vote in October to remove Sterling, he agreed to sell the team, and the league sought buyers who would keep the franchise in San Diego. At the suggestion of David Stern, then the league's vice president, Sterling handed over operations of the team to Alan Rothenberg, who became the team's president. By February 1983, Stern called the Clippers a "first-class" franchise, and the ouster of Sterling was no longer pursued.[21][25]
    Encouraged by friend Al Davis' victory over the National Football League in an antitrust lawsuit that allowed him to move his Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles without league approval, Sterling moved the Clippers from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984.[26] However, the move was not approved by the NBA, which fined him $25 million. He sued the league for $100 million, but dropped the suit when the league agreed to decrease the fine to $6 million.[27] Sterling was widely criticized for his frugal operation of the Clippers, due in part to a consistent history of losing seasons. The club was long considered the laughingstock of the NBA.[28][29][30][31] With the Clippers' move into Staples Center in the 1999''2000 NBA season, the team began to become a contender, winning 47 games in the 2005''06 season. This was a record for the most victories in a single season since the franchise moved to California. It was also only the second winning season in Sterling's tenure as owner. In the lockout-shortened 2011''2012 season they made the playoffs with the best winning percentage in their history (.606) and they won their first round series against the Memphis Grizzlies, 4''3, before being swept by the San Antonio Spurs, 4''0, in the conference semi-finals. Led by Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the Clippers posted two more winning campaigns in 2012''13 and 2013''14, setting new franchise records for regular-season wins with 56 and 57, respectively.
    Sterling rebuffed numerous offers from other cities to relocate the Clippers and was steadfast in his refusal to move the team out of Los Angeles, let alone sell the team. While the team played a few games in Anaheim in the Arrowhead Pond (now the Honda Center) for a few years before the Staples Center opened, he was not willing to move the team there permanently. In later years, he showed an increased willingness to spend. In 2003, Sterling signed Elton Brand to a six-year, $82 million deal, the biggest contract in franchise history. He matched the contract the Utah Jazz offered restricted free agent Corey Maggette: a deal worth $45 million over six years. The Clippers signed higher-priced veteran free agents, such as Cuttino Mobley in 2005, Tim Thomas in 2006, and Los Angeles native Baron Davis in 2008. In another first during the Sterling tenure of Clippers ownership, the team gave a four-year contract extension to head coach Mike Dunleavy Sr., as well as a five-year extension to center Chris Kaman. Both extensions took effect starting in the 2007''08 NBA season.
    Under Sterling's ownership, only Dunleavy and Bill Fitch (1994''1998) lasted four seasons or more as Clippers head coach; as of the 2009''10 NBA season, Dunleavy entered his seventh season as Clippers head coach, by far the longest tenure in franchise history, but was relieved of his coaching duties on February 4, 2010. Dunleavy was also the club's general manager, but was fired from that position a month later.[32] The Clippers accused Dunleavy of defrauding the team, and he sued the club for money owed on the remainder of his contract; an arbitrator ordered the Clippers to pay Dunleavy $13 million in 2011.[33] The Clippers also went to court with former head coaches Fitch and Bob Weiss.[34] Weiss, who signed a three-year contract but was fired in 1994 after one season, had to sue to receive money that was still owed him.[34][35][36] In 2001, the Clippers sued the 63-year-old Fitch, whom the team had fired in 1998, after they stopping paying him for failing to seek employment to reduce the team's obligation for payment.[34][36][37] The suit reached an undisclosed settlement before going to court.[36]
    Sterling spent $50 million to build a state-of-the-art practice facility and team headquarters in Los Angeles' Playa Vista mixed-use development neighborhood. This followed the lead of several other NBA franchises, including the Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Detroit Pistons, in having their own facility dedicated exclusively for team use. The facility was completed and opened in September 2008, in time for the start of the team's training camp. The team previously practiced at a local health club in suburban El Segundo, and before that at Los Angeles Southwest College.[citation needed ]
    Sterling's ownership was viewed critically.[7] ESPN The Magazine in 2009 named the Clippers the worst franchise in professional sports.[38][39] Uncharacteristic for an owner, Sterling in 2010 heckled players on his own team'--with Baron Davis receiving the harshest treatment'--while the owner sat courtside during home games.[40][41]In late April 2014, following news of racial remarks, Sporting News described Sterling as "one of the worst owners in basketball for decades",[42] while The New York Times and Forbes called him the "worst owner" in sports,[38][43] and an analyst noted that under Sterling's ownership, from his purchasing the Clippers in 1981 through 2013-14, the Clippers achieved the worst winning percentage in all four major American sports leagues.[44]
    Racist remarks and lifetime ban [ edit ] On April 25, 2014, TMZ Sports released a recording of a conversation between Sterling and his mistress, V. Stiviano (born Mar­a Vanessa Perez, also known as Monica Gallegos, Vanessa Perez, and Maria Valdez).[45][46] In the recording from September 2013, a man confirmed to be Sterling was irritated over a photo Stiviano had posted on Instagram, in which she posed with Basketball Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson.[47][48] Sterling told Stiviano, who herself was part African-American: "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people," and, "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want," but "the little I ask you is ... not to bring them to my games."[49][50]
    The recording received national media coverage[51] and Sterling retained Newport Beach-based attorney Bobby Samini as his lead counsel in litigation with the NBA, TMZ, and Stiviano.[52]
    Clippers president Andy Roeser issued a statement the following day,[53] indicating that Stiviano was being sued by the Sterling family and had "told Mr. Sterling that she would 'get even ' " with him.[54] A month earlier, Sterling's wife had sued Stiviano for the return of a $1.8 million Los Angeles duplex, a Ferrari, two Bentleys, a Range Rover, and $200,000 cash she said her husband bought for Stiviano.[55][56]
    Sterling's comments affected the NBA, a league with predominantly black players.[57] On April 26, the team held a meeting to discuss the incident. Both coaches and players expressed anger toward the comments, and they briefly raised the possibility of boycotting Game 4 of their series against the Golden State Warriors on April 27 before deciding against it.[58] Instead, players protested Sterling's remarks by wearing their shirts inside-out in order "to obscure any team logo" during their pre-game huddle.[59] On April 28, players of the Miami Heat wore their uniform tops inside-out to show solidarity with the Clippers. LeBron James commented on the situation, "There's no room for Donald Sterling in the NBA." The owner of the Miami Heat, Micky Arison, also called the allegations "appalling, offensive and very sad."[60] NBA's Kevin Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan also condemned Sterling's remarks.[61][62] The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) cancelled its plans for the following month to award Sterling for a second time with its lifetime achievement award.[63] President Barack Obama characterized the recording of Sterling as "incredibly offensive racist statements."[64] Chumash Casino, the Clippers' most visible sponsor during the prior four seasons, ended its relationship with the team, as did sponsors CarMax, Virgin America, and others.[65] On April 29, 2014, UCLA announced that it was rejecting a $3 million gift from Sterling.[66]
    On April 29, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that Sterling had been banned from the league for life and fined $2.5 million, the maximum fine allowed by the NBA constitution.[47][67] Silver stripped Sterling of virtually all of his authority over the Clippers, and banned him from entering any Clippers facility. He was also banned from attending any NBA games.[47][68] The punishment was one of the most severe ever imposed on a professional sports team owner.[48] Moreover, Silver stated that he would move to force Sterling to sell the team, based on a willful violation of the rules, which would require the consent of three-quarters, or 22, of the other 29 NBA team owners.[69]
    In his first public comments in nearly two weeks after his ban from the NBA, Sterling appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper on May 11 to apologize, saying he was "not a racist", and ask for forgiveness.[70] He said he was "baited" by Stiviano into making the offensive comments.[70] In the interview, Sterling criticized Magic Johnson's character and his battle with HIV.[71] In response to Sterling, Silver apologized for the NBA to Johnson "that he continues to be dragged into this situation and be degraded by such a malicious and personal attack".[72]
    Sterling's wife, Shelly, had co-owned the team with him since 1983, and she had served as one of the team's two alternate governors.[73] While she was not included in the NBA's ban on Sterling,[74] the league stated that "if a controlling owner's interest is terminated by a '‹ 3'4 vote, all other team owners' interests are automatically terminated as well".[75] In response to the NBA's decision, Sterling's attorney Bobby Samini called the NBA a "band of hypocrites," citing previous discriminatory conduct by the NBA, and suggested the organization "take a close reflection at their own conduct."[76] The NBA formally charged Sterling with damaging the league with his comments from both the TMZ recording and the CNN interview, and scheduled a hearing to begin on June 3, after which the league could vote to terminate the Sterlings' ownership.[77][78]
    On May 23, Shelly Sterling said her husband had authorized her to negotiate the sale of the team.[79] On May 29, she reached a deal, pending NBA approval, to sell 100% of the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.[80] Shelly also agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the league against other suits related to the case, including any initiated by her husband. The NBA responded by cancelling its hearing to consider stripping the Clippers from the Sterlings.
    Sterling disavowed having given his wife authorization to sell the team, denied all charges, and refused to sell the Clippers. He called the penalties "draconian" and referred to the process as a "sham".[81] He then sued the NBA for $1 billion, alleging it had violated both antitrust laws and his constitutional rights.[82] On June 4, 2014, attorney Maxwell Blecher announced that Sterling had decided to drop the lawsuit against the NBA, and had agreed to allow the proposed $2 billion sale of the Clippers to Ballmer. The sale would be approved pending a majority vote of league owners.[83]
    On June 9, Blecher said Sterling had withdrawn support for the sale, and would resume the lawsuit.[84] However, Shelly was granted a trial in probate court that began on July 7 to allow her to proceed with the sale as sole trustee; she contended that three doctors reported that Sterling was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and lacked the mental capacity to be a trustee.[85] Closing arguments were scheduled for July 28. The NBA was scheduled to vote on the sale to Ballmer on July 15, the same day the deal was set to expire unless Ballmer granted an extension.[86] On July 23, Sterling sued his wife, the NBA, and Silver for damages, alleging that they violated corporate law and defrauded him in order to sell the team to Ballmer. Sterling also sought an injunction to freeze the sale.[87] On July 28, the probate court ruled in Shelly's favor, and granted her request for an order to permit the sale to be completed regardless of any intervention by an appellate court.[88] Ballmer's $2 billion purchase of the team closed on August 12, and Shelly received the titles "Clippers Number One Fan" and "owner emeritus" as part of the sale agreement.[89] As of April 2015[update], half of the $2 billion paid by Ballmer was held in an escrow account controlled by the NBA pending the conclusion of Sterling's lawsuit over the sale of the team.[90]
    One of Sterling's critics among the team owners, Atlanta Hawks majority stockholder Bruce Levenson,[91] also left the NBA in September 2014, as an indirect result of the incidents and lawsuits. Levenson reported a racially insensitive e-mail (sent two years prior) to the NBA, as the Sterling case made Levenson feel remorseful for behaving in a manner he described as similar.[92]
    U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed Sterling's 2014 lawsuit over the sale of the team in March 2016. The judge assailed it as "plainly insufficient" and "clearly implausible." Sterling appealed the decision but the 82-year-old's attorneys didn't file an opening brief by the deadline. The matter concluded with a three-page motion to voluntarily dismiss the case.[93]
    In 2017, a judge ruled that two law firms could move forward with their lawsuit to collect more than $270,000 in legal fees allegedly owed by Donald and Shelly Sterling, stemming from the 2014 probate action that cleared the way for the sale of the Clippers.[94]
    Discrimination lawsuits [ edit ] In February 2003, the Housing Rights Center of Los Angeles (HRC) filed a housing discrimination case against Sterling on behalf of 18 tenants. The lawsuit featured several racist statements allegedly made by Sterling to employees, such as that "black people smell and attract vermin" and "Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day",[95][96] as well as Sterling's alleged intent to rent only to Korean tenants because "they will pay the rent and live in whatever conditions I give them".[96] Part of the HRC case's resolution included U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer awarding the plaintiffs' attorney $4.9 million in attorneys fees. While the final terms for the plaintiffs were confidential, the judge said the fees were justified as the settlement obtained by the plaintiffs against Sterling was one of the largest of its kind and the public benefit terms were significant and wide-ranging.[citation needed ]
    In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Sterling for housing discrimination for using race as a factor in filling some of his apartment buildings. The suit charged that Sterling refused to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown neighborhood and to African Americans in Beverly Hills. In November 2009, ESPN reported that Sterling agreed to pay a fine of $2.7 million to settle the lawsuit.[97]
    In February 2009, the Clippers were sued in L.A. Superior Court by former longtime Clippers executive Elgin Baylor for wrongful termination and employment discrimination on the basis of age and race.[98][99][100] The lawsuit alleged that co-defendant Sterling told Baylor that he wanted to fill his team with "poor black boys from the South and a white head coach".[100] The suit also alleged that Mike Dunleavy Sr., the head coach, "was given a four-year, $22-million contract...[as he was a] Caucasian" while Baylor's salary had "been frozen at a comparatively paltry $350,000 since 2003".[98] Baylor later dropped the race accusation. The case went to trial in March 2011, with the jury ruling unanimously in favor of the Clippers and Sterling.[101]
    Sexual harassment lawsuits [ edit ] In 1996, Christine Jasky, a property management consultant for Sterling who also did work for the Clippers, sued Sterling for sexual harassment, claiming she quit her job after he repeatedly offered her money for sex, and asked her to recruit sexual partners for him.[102][103] Sterling countersued, and the two eventually reached a confidential settlement in 1998.[103]
    Sumner Davenport, a property supervisor for Sterling who was fired in 2002, sued him in 2003 for sexual harassment for "unwanted and offensive physical conduct".[104] She lost the case at a jury trial two years later.[103][105]Court documents indicate that Davenport was a property supervisor based in Sterling's Beverly Hills office, with the responsibilities of overseeing several of his apartment buildings. In her case, she asserted she was fired for her complaints against and refusing to comply with his racially discriminating and abusive behavior against tenants, his illegal eviction process, as well as his offensive physical conduct against her. Court records indicate Sterling's organization denies firing her.[106]
    Personal life [ edit ] In 1955, Sterling married Rochelle ("Shelly") Stein, with whom he had three children: Scott, Chris, and Joanna. Joanna's husband, Eric Miller, served as the Clippers' director of basketball administration, voluntarily leaving after Sterling sold the team.[107]
    Sterling had a relationship with a woman named Alexandra Castro. Seeking the return of a house she was living in, Sterling sued her in 2003 after their relationship ended.[43][108] Castro, in 1999, had signed a contract that gave Sterling protection from her seeking palimony, which divides assets between unmarried couples. Their agreement read that Sterling "is happily married, has a family and has no intention of engaging in any activity inconsistent with his domestic relationship".[109][110] In the proceedings, Castro stated that Sterling consulted her on Clippers personnel decisions.[43] Sterling and Castro reached a confidential settlement out of court in 2004.[108]
    Sterling and Shelly became estranged at the end of 2012, when he moved to a mansion in Beverly Hills, California, after she kicked him out of their beach house in Malibu, California, following a family dispute during which he was arguing with a mistress on the phone.[26] A week later, Sterling's son Scott was found dead on New Year's Eve, having died of an accidental narcotic drug overdose at the age of 32.[26][111]
    On August 5, 2015, Sterling's attorney Bobby Samini confirmed to KABC-TV that Sterling filed for divorce from his wife Shelly.[112][113] In March 2016, Samini informed the Los Angeles Times that "notwithstanding all the difficult events of the last two years, the Sterlings have resolved their differences" and decided not to proceed with their divorce.[114]
    Health [ edit ] In 2012, Sterling began treatment for prostate cancer.[26][115] By May 2014, according to multiple doctors Sterling was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.[116] He was deemed mentally unfit to continue to lead the financial affairs of the Sterling Family Trust, clearing the way for his wife Shelly to sell the Los Angeles Clippers on his behalf despite his protests.[117]
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    Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of whom are Black or Latinx, have their lives impacted by a marijuana arrest each year. But the tide is turning against the remnants of a drug war targeted at Black and Brown people that was never meant to increase public safety in the first place. Legalization is an important step towards ending the war on drugs, and it cannot come soon enough.
    Legalizing marijuana must come with expungement, with reinvestment in the communities most harmed by enforcement, with limitations on how police can interact with people who they suspect of a marijuana offense, with legal nonpublic spaces for smoking marijuana for those who cannot smoke in their residence, with a prohibition on deportation for people with marijuana convictions, and with full inclusion of those most impacted by criminalization of marijuana in the new marijuana industry.
    Currently, nine states and the District of Columbia allow for recreational use among adults, while 31 states allow for medical use of marijuana. The laws reflect growing public support. Two out of three Americans are in favor of legalization, which has majority support in all age groups and political affiliations.
    While progress in reforming our nation's drug laws is vital, we must remember that if we legalize without righting the wrongs of past marijuana enforcement, we risk reinforcing the decades of disproportionate harm communities of color have faced and endured. People in the United States use and sell marijuana at roughly the same rate regardless of their race, yet a Black person is almost four times more likely than a white person to be arrested for marijuana possession nationwide. In addition, roughly 13,000 people were deported or separated from their communities and families in 2013 alone for drug-related offenses.
    While it is not a panacea for past harms, thoughtful legalization can help us forge a more equitable future.
    Today, overcriminalized communities continue to suffer from the fallout our nation's drug laws, even in states that have legalized marijuana and seen dramatic drops in the number of people arrested for marijuana crimes. That's because legalization has not eradicated the indefensible rate at which Black and Latinx people are arrested for marijuana offenses in these states. In fact, many states have seen an even steeper rise in the percentage of Black and Latinx people having their lives impacted by a marijuana arrest. Two years after decriminalization in the nation's capital, a Black person is 11 times more likely than a white person to be arrested for public use of marijuana.
    This is one of the main reasons enforcement is key to reform. When it comes to drug law reform, policing, which more rightly can be titled over-policing, is at the headwaters of the injustices communities of color suffer. We must address, combat, and eventually eliminate discriminatory policing practices and the structural racial bias at every step of our criminal legal system. Legalization measures must have equity as a vital component to avoid continuing to harm certain and to address the years of hardship and stigma that criminalizing marijuana has wrought.
    Along with the harm of incarceration and conviction, a simple marijuana charge has a negative ripple effect.
    Having a marijuana conviction on your record can make it difficult to secure and maintain employment, housing, or secure government assistance for the rest of your life. This is why clearing people's records of marijuana convictions is a necessary addition to any legalization measure. If we believe that marijuana is not worthy of criminal intervention, then it is only right we stop the suffering inflicted on people by a marijuana prosecution. Especially since we know this disproportionately falls on the shoulders, and families, of low-income communities and communities of color.
    Such efforts to extend racial justice must explicitly be tied to a program of economic justice.
    People who have been harmed by the enforcement of marijuana must have a place in the bourgeoning marketplace created by legalization. Indeed, any legalization bill should include provisions that enable people who have struggled to find employment due to a marijuana conviction to participate meaningfully in the marijuana industry. Excluding people directly impacted by marijuana criminalization from the industry further entrenches the outsized impact that the war on drugs has had on communities of color.
    If we legalize without mindfulness of the full ecosystem of the criminal legal system and how it impacts people, then corporate and industry-backed legalization efforts will lead us away from what is right and just. That is why we must support legalization legislation that truly help roll back overcriminalization, end the failed war on drugs once and for all, and usher in a more equitable future through drug law reform nationwide.
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    HOn. CANDACE HOLLINGSWORTHNational Co-Chair, Mayor, Hyattsville, MDTwitter: @justlikecandace Instagram: @justlikecandaceEmail: candace@ourblackparty.org
    + More on CandaceCandace Hollingsworth is the mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland where she is the youngest, and first African American mayor in the city's 134-year history. She is a passionate advocate for great cities, youth, and stronger democracies. As mayor, Candace has championed policies and programs that improve outcomes for young people, expand opportunities for marginalized communities, and chart a path toward shared prosperity. As national co-chair of Our Black Party, Candace will help lead a national agenda to create lasting change in the everyday lives of Black people nationwide. A native Memphian, Candace holds a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies from Emory University and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University. She is a board member for the Prince George's County African-American Museum and Cultural Center, a Sisters on the Planet Ambassador for OxFam America, and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
    Dr. Wes BellamyNational Co-Chair, Vice-Mayor, Charlottesville, VA (Ret.)Twitter: @DrWesBellamy Instagram: @dr.wesbellamyEmail: wes@ourblackparty.org
    + More on WesDr. Wes Bellamy, Author of ''Monumental: It Was Never About a Statue'' is a former Vice-Mayor and City Councilman in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Political Science Department Chairman at Virginia State University, and one of the Global thought leaders of the Millennial Generation. Dr. Bellamy is the Managing Partner of New Emergence Consulting, an Equity and Policy consulting firm, and the National Public Policy Chairman of the 100 Black Men of America. He is the youngest individual ever elected to the Charlottesville City Council post, and he came into the national spotlight after helping to lead the effort to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from City Parks.
    He developed a comprehensive plan, the ''Equity Package'', which included nearly $4 million in aid fir marginalized communities, and pushed it through city council. He is the founder of the Black Millennial Political Convention, a Convention focused on bringing together African American millennials from across the country to collectively use their power to create change. He has been featured in the New York Times. Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, and has made appearances, on CNN, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, NPR, and On One with Angela Rye.
    HON. Stephanie MoralesSteering Committee, Commonwealth Attorney, Portsmouth, VA Twitter: @attystepmoralesInstagram: @attystepmoralesEmail: stephanie@ourblackparty.org
    + More on StephanieOn February 10, 2015, Stephanie Morales was the first woman to be elected Commonwealth's Attorney in Portsmouth, VA. She is a mother of four, a wife and a fighter who has committed her office to restorative justice and correcting the wrongs to members of the community by the system.
    Three months into CA Morales' first term an officer in her city killed an unarmed teen. CA Morales secured an indictment and led the prosecution at jury trial herself, leading to a voluntary manslaughter conviction of the officer, and resulting in police accountability in her city.
    In 2015 she established the "Ctrl+Alt+Del Program'' which now enters prisons to ensure incarcerated community members are successful upon release.
    To intentionally build the future leaders of the legal profession, Commonwealth's Attorney Morales has mentored over 200 students under her program called the ''Future Leaders Initiative'' which was also established in 2015. Under this program young people from elementary school all the way through law school come to shadow, intern or fellow during which they become ''Junior Commonwealth's Attorneys.'' To further extend youth engagement and to keep students poised for academic success and success in life, Commonwealth's Attorney Morales and her team formed the ''Social Media by the Statutes'' program where she and her team enter the public schools and engage students with scenarios that teach them how their behaviors online and through technology can affect them legally and permanently.
    CA Morales advocates daily for those who can't fight for themselves and to end and disrupt racism and implicit bias in the legal system. She fights for reform in marijuana enforcement and for other legislative reform centered around providing restorative justice to our community members.
    Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Morales is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Links, Inc., an appointee to the Virginia State Child Fatality Review Team and is a national board member of the Local Progress Organization.
    HON. lea webbSteering Committee, Councilor, Binghamton, NY (Ret.)Twitter: @leaweb1014 Instagram: @leawebb1014Email: lea@ourblackparty.org
    + More on LeaLea is an award-winning activist who works to bridge the gap between the community and government agencies to bring about positive and lasting change. One of her greatest achievement includes being elected as the first and youngest African-American representative in the Binghamton City Council.
    She has 20 years of experience as a Community Organizer leading effort on various social justice issues; quality education, health care, and addressing food deserts. She has also served on community boards and created task forces whose goals are to address cultural competency and anti-racism. She has passed legislation supporting equal pay for women, the creation of a city based human rights commission, establishing a city-wide climate action plan, and other equity-based legislation.
    She was recognized as one of tomorrow's leaders by Oprah magazine. She's an Alum and Trainer with Vote Run Lead, and the Young Elected Officials Network, where she serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the Black Caucus.
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    + More on RashaadRashaad Lambert is an award winning marketing architect (or marketect ®), educator and philanthropist hailing from West Philadelphia.Rashaad is the founder of Sporty Marketing Group, the world's only six sigma marketing agency. There, he has worked with multi-billion dollar companies such as Uber, JetSmarter, Adidas, the NBA, and the NFL as well as multi-million dollar companies Forbes, Villa, Club Corp, & Pink Label Beauty. Rashaad is also the founder of For(bes) The Culture an initiative of CultureMakers Inc & Forbes Media.For his business acumen Rashaad was given the 'Entrepreneurial Excellence' award by the Pennsylvania House Of Representatives.Rashaad is also the founder of Lambert Legacy Charities, a nonprofit organization that has served over 20,000 people over 10 years using experiential philanthropy in efforts to alleviate deep poverty in the Southeastern Pennsylvania area. For his community work through Lambert Legacy Charities, Rashaad has been awarded an NAACP Image Award (Hometown Champion), a Congressional Proclamation, and A US Senate Resolution.
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    The intentional destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group
    Part of a series on Genocide IssuesList by death tollChronological listCultural genocideGenocidal rapeGenocidal massacreUtilitarian genocideIncitement to genocidePsychologyDenialRisk factorsPreventionEffects on youthStudiesPerpetrators, victims, and bystandersWar and genocide Genocide of indigenous peoples Dzungar genocide, 1750sCalifornia genocide, 1846''1873Circassian genocide, 1860sSelk'nam genocide, 1890s''1900sHerero and Namaqua genocide, 1904''1907 Late Ottoman genocides Greeks, 1914''1922Assyrians, 1914''1924Armenians, 1915''1923 World War II (1941''1945)The HolocaustRomani genocideNazi crimes against the Polish nationGenocide of Serbs by the UstashePopulation transfer in the Soviet UnionGenocide of Bosniaks and Croats by the Chetniks Cold War Bangladesh genocide (1971)East Timor genocide (1974''1999)Cambodian genocide (1975''1979)Guatemalan genocide (1981''1983)Anfal genocide (1986''1989) Genocides in postcolonial Africa Ikiza genocide (1972)Gukurahundi (1983-1987)Isaaq genocide (1988''1989)Rwandan genocide (1994)Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996''1997)Darfur genocide (2003'')Ethno-religious genocide in contemporary eraBosnian genocide (1995)Yazidi genocide (2014''2019)Uyghur genocide (2014'')Rohingya genocide (2017'')Related topicsDemocideEthnic cleansingEthnocideForced assimilationMass killings under communist regimesHolodomor genocide questionAnti-communist mass killingsAtrocities in the Congo Free StateCategoryGenocide is the intentional action to destroy a people'--usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group'--in whole or in part. A term coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe,[1] the hybrid word geno-cide is a combination of the Greek word Î"Î­Î½ÎÏ‚ (genos, "race, people") and the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing").[3]
    The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to "bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.[4][5][6]
    Prominent examples of genocides in history include the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwandan genocide. The Political Instability Task Force estimated that, between 1956 and 2016, a total of 43 genocides took place, causing the death of about 50 million people.[7] The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008.[7]
    Origin of the term Before genocide was coined, there were various ways of describing such events. The Armenian Genocide was described by contemporary English-speaking observers as a "systematic" or "organized" "campaign of extermination" or "race extermination".[8] Some languages already had words for such killings, including German (V¶lkermord, lit. 'murder of a people') and Polish (ludob"jstwo, lit. 'killing of a people or nation').[9][10] In 1941, Winston Churchill, when describing the German invasion of the Soviet Union, spoke of "a crime without a name".[11]
    In 1944, Raphael Lemkin created the term genocide in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The book describes the implementation of Nazi policies in occupied Europe, and cites earlier mass killings.[12] The term described the systematic destruction of a nation or people,[13] and the word was quickly adopted by many in the international community. The word genocide is a combination of the Ancient Greek word g(C)nos (Î"Î­Î½ÎÏ‚, meaning "race" or "people") with the Latin caedere ("to kill"). The word genocide was used in indictments at the Nuremberg trials, held from 1945, but solely as a descriptive term, not yet as a formal legal term.[15] The so-called Polish Genocide Trials of Arthur Greiser and Amon Leopold Goth in 1946 were the first trials in which judgments included the term genocide.[16]
    According to Lemkin, genocide was "a coordinated strategy to destroy a group of people, a process that could be accomplished through total annihilation as well as strategies that eliminate key elements of the group's basic existence, including language, culture, and economic infrastructure".Lemkin defined genocide as follows:
    Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.
    The preamble to the 1948 Genocide Convention (CPPCG) notes that instances of genocide have taken place throughout history.[17] But it was not until Lemkin coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials that the United Nations defined the crime of genocide under international law in the Genocide Convention.[18]
    Lemkin's lifelong interest in the mass murder of populations in the 20th century was initially in response to the killing of Armenians in 1915[19][1][20] and later to the mass murders in Nazi-controlled Europe. He referred to the Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive cases of genocide in religious history".[21] He dedicated his life to mobilizing the international community, to work together to prevent the occurrence of such events.[22] In a 1949 interview, Lemkin said "I became interested in genocide because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians, then after the Armenians, Hitler took action."[23]
    As a crime Pre-criminalization view Before genocide was made a crime against national law, it was considered a sovereign right.[24] When Lemkin asked about a way to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, a law professor told him: "Consider the case of a farmer who owns a flock of chickens. He kills them and this is his business. If you interfere, you are trespassing."[25] As late as 1959, many world leaders still "believed states had a right to commit genocide against people within their borders", according to political scientist Douglas Irvin-Erickson.[24]
    International law After the Holocaust, which had been perpetrated by Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II, Lemkin successfully campaigned for the universal acceptance of international laws defining and forbidding genocides. In 1946, the first session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that "affirmed" that genocide was a crime under international law and enumerated examples of such events (but did not provide a full legal definition of the crime). In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) which defined the crime of genocide for the first time.[26]
    Genocide is a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, results in great losses to humanity in the form of cultural and other contributions represented by these human groups, and is contrary to moral law and the spirit and aims of the United Nations. Many instances of such crimes of genocide have occurred when racial, religious, political and other groups have been destroyed, entirely or in part.
    '--'‰UN Resolution 96(1), 11 December 1946
    The CPPCG was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948[4] and came into effect on 12 January 1951 (Resolution 260 (III)). It contains an internationally-recognized definition of genocide which has been incorporated into the national criminal legislation of many countries and was also adopted by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC). Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
    ... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
    (a) Killing members of the group;(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.The first draft of the convention included political killings, but these provisions were removed in a political and diplomatic compromise following objections from some countries, including the USSR, a permanent United Nations Security Council member.[27][28] The USSR argued that the convention's definition should follow the etymology of the term,[28] and may have feared greater international scrutiny of its own mass killings.[27][29] Other nations feared that including political groups in the definition would invite international intervention in domestic politics.[28] However leading genocide scholar William Schabas states: "Rigorous examination of the travaux fails to confirm a popular impression in the literature that the opposition to inclusion of political genocide was some Soviet machination. The Soviet views were also shared by a number of other States for whom it is difficult to establish any geographic or social common denominator: Lebanon, Sweden, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Egypt, Belgium, and Uruguay. The exclusion of political groups was in fact originally promoted by a non-governmental organization, the World Jewish Congress, and it corresponded to Raphael Lemkin's vision of the nature of the crime of genocide."[30]
    Incitement to genocide is recognized as a separate crime under international law and an inchoate crime which does not require genocide to have taken place to be prosecutable.[31]
    Genocidal intent Under international law, genocide has two mental (or mens rea) elements '' the general mental element and the element of specific intent (dolus specialis). The general element refers to whether the prohibited acts were committed with intent, knowledge, recklessness, or negligence. For most serious international crimes, including genocide, the requirement is that the perpetrator act with intent. The Rome Statute defines intent as meaning to engage in the conduct and, in relation to consequences, as meaning to cause that consequence or being "aware that it will occur in the ordinary course of events".[32]
    The specific intent element defines the purpose of committing the acts: "to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such". The specific intent is a core factor distinguishing genocide from other international crimes, such as war crimes or crimes against humanity.
    "Intent to destroy" In 2007, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) noted in its judgement on Jorgic v. Germany case that, in 1992, the majority of legal scholars took the narrow view that "intent to destroy" in the CPPCG meant the intended physical-biological destruction of the protected group, and that this was still the majority opinion. But the ECHR also noted that a minority took a broader view, and did not consider biological-physical destruction to be necessary, as the intent to destroy a national, racial, religious or ethnic group was enough to qualify as genocide.[33]
    In the same judgement, the ECHR reviewed the judgements of several international and municipal courts. It noted that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice had agreed with the narrow interpretation (that biological-physical destruction was necessary for an act to qualify as genocide). The ECHR also noted that at the time of its judgement, apart from courts in Germany (which had taken a broad view), that there had been few cases of genocide under other Convention states' municipal laws, and that "There are no reported cases in which the courts of these States have defined the type of group destruction the perpetrator must have intended in order to be found guilty of genocide."[34]
    In the case of "Onesphore Rwabukombe", the German Supreme Court adhered to its previous judgement, and did not follow the narrow interpretation of the ICTY and the ICJ.[35]
    "In whole or in part" The phrase "in whole or in part" has been subject to much discussion by scholars of international humanitarian law.[36] The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found in Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic '' Trial Chamber I '' Judgment '' IT-98-33 (2001) ICTY8 (2 August 2001)[37] that Genocide had been committed. In Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic '' Appeals Chamber '' Judgment '' IT-98-33 (2004) ICTY 7 (19 April 2004)[38] paragraphs 8, 9, 10, and 11 addressed the issue of in part and found that "the part must be a substantial part of that group. The aim of the Genocide Convention is to prevent the intentional destruction of entire human groups, and the part targeted must be significant enough to have an impact on the group as a whole." The Appeals Chamber goes into details of other cases and the opinions of respected commentators on the Genocide Convention to explain how they came to this conclusion.
    The judges continue in paragraph 12, "The determination of when the targeted part is substantial enough to meet this requirement may involve a number of considerations. The numeric size of the targeted part of the group is the necessary and important starting point, though not in all cases the ending point of the inquiry. The number of individuals targeted should be evaluated not only in absolute terms but also in relation to the overall size of the entire group. In addition to the numeric size of the targeted portion, its prominence within the group can be a useful consideration. If a specific part of the group is emblematic of the overall group or is essential to its survival, that may support a finding that the part qualifies as substantial within the meaning of Article 4 [of the Tribunal's Statute]."[39][40]
    In paragraph 13 the judges raise the issue of the perpetrators' access to the victims: "The historical examples of genocide also suggest that the area of the perpetrators' activity and control, as well as the possible extent of their reach, should be considered. [...] The intent to destroy formed by a perpetrator of genocide will always be limited by the opportunity presented to him. While this factor alone will not indicate whether the targeted group is substantial, it can'--in combination with other factors'--inform the analysis."[38]
    "A national, ethnic, racial or religious group" The drafters of the CPPCG chose not to include political or social groups among the protected groups. Instead, they opted to focus on "stable" identities, attributes that are historically understood as being born into and unable or unlikely to change overtime. This definition conflicts with modern conceptions of race as a social construct rather than innate fact and the practice of changing religion, etc.[41]
    International criminal courts have typically applied a mix of objective and subjective markers for determining whether or not a targeted population is a distinct group. Differences in language, physical appearance, religion, and cultural practices are objective criteria that may show that the groups are distinct. However, in circumstances such as the Rwandan genocide, Hutus and Tutsis were often physically indistinguishable.[42]
    In such a situation where a definitive answer based on objective markers is not clear, courts have turned to the subjective standard that "if a victim was perceived by a perpetrator as belonging to a protected group, the victim could be considered by the Chamber as a member of the protected group".[43] Stigmatization of the group by the perpetrators through legal measures, such as withholding citizenship, requiring the group to be identified, or isolating them from the whole could show that the perpetrators viewed the victims as a protected group.
    Genocidal acts The Genocide Convention establishes five prohibited acts that, when committed with the requisite intent, amount to genocide. Although massacre-style killings are the most commonly identified and punished as genocide, the range of violence that is contemplated by the law is significantly broader.[44]
    Killing members of the group While mass killing is not necessary to commit genocide, it has been present in every recognized genocide. A near-uniform pattern has emerged throughout history in which men and adolescent boys are singled out for murder in the early stages,[citation needed ] such as in the genocide of the Yazidis by Daesh,[45] the Ottoman Turks' attack on the Armenians,[46] and the Burmese security forces' attacks on the Rohingya.[47] Men and boys are typically subject to "fast" killings, such as by gunshot.[48] Women and girls are more likely to die slower deaths by slashing, burning, or as a result of sexual violence.[49] The jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), among others, shows that both the initial executions and those that quickly follow other acts of extreme violence, such as rape and torture, are recognized as falling under the first prohibited act.[50]
    A less settled discussion is whether deaths that are further removed from the initial acts of violence can be addressed under this provision of the Genocide Convention. Legal scholars have posited, for example, that deaths resulting from other genocidal acts including causing serious bodily or mental harm or the successful deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction should be considered genocidal killings.[44]
    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Article II(b) This second prohibited act can encompass a wide range of non-fatal genocidal acts.[51] The ICTR and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have held that rape and sexual violence may constitute the second prohibited act of genocide by causing both physical and mental harm. In its landmark Akayesu decision, the ICTR held that rapes and sexual violence resulted in "physical and psychological destruction".[52] Sexual violence is a hallmark of genocidal violence, with most genocidal campaigns explicitly or implicitly sanctioning it.[44] It is estimated that 250,000 to 500,000 women were raped in the three months of the Rwandan genocide, many of whom were subjected to multiple rapes or gang rape.[53] In Darfur, a systemic campaign of rape and often sexual mutilation was carried out[54] and in Burma public mass rapes and gang rapes were inflicted on the Rohingya by Burmese security forces.[55] Sexual slavery was documented in the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Turks and Daesh's genocide of the Yazidi.[56] These acts are ordinarily, but not exclusively committed against women.[citation needed ]
    Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, when committed with the requisite intent, are also genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. The ICTY found that both experiencing a failed execution and watching the murder of one's family members may constitute torture.[57] The Syrian Commission of Inquiry (COI) also found that enslavement, removal of one's children into indoctrination or sexual slavery, and acts of physical and sexual violence rise to the level of torture, as well. While it was subject to some debate, the ICTY and, later, the Syrian COI held that under some circumstances deportation and forcible transfer may also cause serious bodily or mental harm.[58]
    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction The third prohibited act is distinguished from the genocidal act of killing because the deaths are not immediate (or may not even come to pass), but rather create circumstances that do not support prolonged life.[3] Due to the longer period of time before the actual destruction would be achieved, the ICTR held that courts must consider the duration of time the conditions are imposed as an element of the act.[59] The drafters incorporated the act to account for the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and to ensure that similar conditions never be imposed again. However, it could also apply to the Armenian death marches, the siege of Mount Sinjar by Daesh, the deprivation of water and forcible deportation against ethnic groups in Darfur, and the destruction and razing of communities in Burma.
    The ICTR provided guidance into what constitutes a violation of the third act. In Akayesu, it identified "subjecting a group of people to a subsistence diet, systematic expulsion from homes and the reduction of essential medical services below minimum requirement"[60] as rising to genocide. In Kayishema and Ruzindana, it extended the list to include: "lack of proper housing, clothing, hygiene and medical care or excessive work or physical exertion" among the conditions.[59] It further noted that, in addition to deprivation of necessary resources, rape could also fit within this prohibited act.
    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group The fourth prohibited act is aimed at preventing the protected group from regenerating through reproduction. It encompasses acts with the single intent of affecting reproduction and intimate relationships, such as involuntary sterilization, forced abortion, the prohibition of marriage, and long-term separation of men and women intended to prevent procreation.[3] Rape has been found to violate the fourth prohibited act on two bases: where the rape was committed with the intent to impregnate her and thereby forcing her to carry a child of another group (in societies where group identity is determined by patrilineal identity) and where the person raped subsequently refuses to procreate as a result of the trauma.[61] Accordingly, it can take into account both physical and mental measures imposed by the perpetrators.
    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group The final prohibited act is the only prohibited act that does not lead to physical or biological destruction, but rather to destruction of the group as a cultural and social unit.[44] It occurs when children of the protected group are transferred to the perpetrator group. Boys are typically taken into the group by changing their names to those common of the perpetrator group, converting their religion, and using them for labor or as soldiers.[62] Girls who are transferred are not generally converted to the perpetrator group, but instead treated as chattel, as played out in both the Yazidi and Armenian genocides.[44] The measures used to forcibly transfer children may be imposed by direct force or psychological coercion, such as threats, duress, or detention.[3]
    Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) coming into force The convention came into force as international law on 12 January 1951 after the minimum 20 countries became parties. At that time however, only two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were parties to the treaty: France and the Republic of China. The Soviet Union ratified in 1954, the United Kingdom in 1970, the People's Republic of China in 1983 (having replaced the Taiwan-based Republic of China on the UNSC in 1971), and the United States in 1988. This long delay in support for the convention by the world's most powerful nations caused the convention to languish for over four decades. Only in the 1990s did the international law on the crime of genocide begin to be enforced.[citation needed ]
    UN Security Council on genocide UN Security Council Resolution 1674, adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 28 April 2006, "reaffirms the provisions of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity".[63] The resolution committed the council to action to protect civilians in armed conflict.[64]
    In 2008 the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1820, which noted that "rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide".[65]
    Municipal law Since the Convention came into effect in January 1951 about 80 United Nations member states have passed legislation that incorporates the provisions of CPPCG into their municipal law.[66]
    Criticisms of the CPPCG and other definitions of genocide William Schabas has suggested that a permanent body as recommended by the Whitaker Report to monitor the implementation of the Genocide Convention, and require states to issue reports on their compliance with the convention (such as were incorporated into the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture), would make the convention more effective.[67]
    Writing in 1998, Kurt Jonassohn and Karin Bj¶rnson stated that the CPPCG was a legal instrument resulting from a diplomatic compromise. As such the wording of the treaty is not intended to be a definition suitable as a research tool, and although it is used for this purpose, as it has international legal credibility that others lack, other definitions have also been postulated. Jonassohn and Bj¶rnson go on to say that none of these alternative definitions have gained widespread support for various reasons.[68]
    Jonassohn and Bj¶rnson postulate that the major reason why no single generally accepted genocide definition has emerged is because academics have adjusted their focus to emphasise different periods and have found it expedient to use slightly different definitions to help them interpret events. For example, Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn studied the whole of human history, while Leo Kuper and R. J. Rummel in their more recent works concentrated on the 20th century, and Helen Fein, Barbara Harff and Ted Gurr have looked at post World War II events. Jonassohn and Bj¶rnson are critical of some of these studies, arguing that they are too expansive, and conclude that the academic discipline of genocide studies is too young to have a canon of work on which to build an academic paradigm.[68]
    The exclusion of social and political groups as targets of genocide in the CPPCG legal definition has been criticized by some historians and sociologists, for example, M. Hassan Kakar in his book The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979''1982[69] argues that the international definition of genocide is too restricted,[70] and that it should include political groups or any group so defined by the perpetrator and quotes Chalk and Jonassohn: "Genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator."[71] In turn some states such as Ethiopia,[72] France,[73] and Spain[74][75] include political groups as legitimate genocide victims in their anti-genocide laws.
    Barbara Harff and Ted Gurr defined genocide as "the promotion and execution of policies by a state or its agents which result in the deaths of a substantial portion of a group ... [when] the victimized groups are defined primarily in terms of their communal characteristics, i.e., ethnicity, religion or nationality".[76] Harff and Gurr also differentiate between genocides and politicides by the characteristics by which members of a group are identified by the state. In genocides, the victimized groups are defined primarily in terms of their communal characteristics, i.e., ethnicity, religion or nationality. In politicides the victim groups are defined primarily in terms of their hierarchical position or political opposition to the regime and dominant groups.[77][78] Daniel D. Polsby and Don B. Kates, Jr. state that "we follow Harff's distinction between genocides and 'pogroms', which she describes as 'short-lived outbursts by mobs, which, although often condoned by authorities, rarely persist'. If the violence persists for long enough, however, Harff argues, the distinction between condonation and complicity collapses."[79][80]
    According to R. J. Rummel, genocide has 3 different meanings. The ordinary meaning is murder by the government of people due to their national, ethnic, racial, or religious group membership. The legal meaning of genocide refers to the international treaty, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). This also includes non-killings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group. A generalized meaning of genocide is similar to the ordinary meaning but also includes government killings of political opponents or otherwise intentional murder. It is to avoid confusion regarding what meaning is intended that Rummel created the term democide for the third meaning.[81]
    Highlighting the potential for state and non-state actors to commit genocide in the 21st century, for example, in failed states or as non-state actors acquiring weapons of mass destruction, Adrian Gallagher defined genocide as 'When a source of collective power (usually a state) intentionally uses its power base to implement a process of destruction in order to destroy a group (as defined by the perpetrator), in whole or in substantial part, dependent upon relative group size'.[82] The definition upholds the centrality of intent, the multidimensional understanding of destroying, broadens the definition of group identity beyond that of the 1948 definition yet argues that a substantial part of a group has to be destroyed before it can be classified as genocide.
    International prosecution of genocide By ad hoc tribunals All signatories to the CPPCG are required to prevent and punish acts of genocide, both in peace and wartime, though some barriers make this enforcement difficult. In particular, some of the signatories'--namely, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, Vietnam, Yemen, and former Yugoslavia'--signed with the proviso that no claim of genocide could be brought against them at the International Court of Justice without their consent.[83] Despite official protests from other signatories (notably Cyprus and Norway) on the ethics and legal standing of these reservations, the immunity from prosecution they grant has been invoked from time to time, as when the United States refused to allow a charge of genocide brought against it by former Yugoslavia following the 1999 Kosovo War.[84]
    It is commonly accepted that, at least since World War II, genocide has been illegal under customary international law as a peremptory norm, as well as under conventional international law. Acts of genocide are generally difficult to establish for prosecution because a chain of accountability must be established. International criminal courts and tribunals function primarily because the states involved are incapable or unwilling to prosecute crimes of this magnitude themselves.[citation needed ]
    Nuremberg Tribunal (1945''1946) The Nazi leaders who were prosecuted shortly after World War II for taking part in the Holocaust, and other mass murders, were charged under existing international laws, such as crimes against humanity, as the crime of "genocide' was not formally defined until the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Nevertheless, the recently coined term[85] appeared in the indictment of the Nazi leaders, Count 3, which stated that those charged had "conducted deliberate and systematic genocide'--namely, the extermination of racial and national groups'--against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories in order to destroy particular races and classes of people, and national, racial or religious groups, particularly Jews, Poles, Gypsies and others."[86]
    International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1993''2017) The term Bosnian genocide is used to refer either to the killings committed by Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995,[87] or to ethnic cleansing that took place elsewhere during the 1992''1995 Bosnian War.[88]
    In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) judged that the 1995 Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide.[89] On 26 February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in the Bosnian Genocide Case upheld the ICTY's earlier finding that the massacre in Srebrenica and Zepa constituted genocide, but found that the Serbian government had not participated in a wider genocide on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war, as the Bosnian government had claimed.[90]
    On 12 July 2007, European Court of Human Rights when dismissing the appeal by Nikola JorgiÄ‡ against his conviction for genocide by a German court (Jorgic v. Germany) noted that the German courts wider interpretation of genocide has since been rejected by international courts considering similar cases.[91][92][93] The ECHR also noted that in the 21st century "Amongst scholars, the majority have taken the view that ethnic cleansing, in the way in which it was carried out by the Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to expel Muslims and Croats from their homes, did not constitute genocide. However, there are also a considerable number of scholars who have suggested that these acts did amount to genocide, and the ICTY has found in the Momcilo Krajisnik case that the actus reus of genocide was met in Prijedor "With regard to the charge of genocide, the Chamber found that in spite of evidence of acts perpetrated in the municipalities which constituted the actus reus of genocide".[94]
    About 30 people have been indicted for participating in genocide or complicity in genocide during the early 1990s in Bosnia. To date, after several plea bargains and some convictions that were successfully challenged on appeal two men, Vujadin PopoviÄ‡ and LjubiÅa Beara, have been found guilty of committing genocide, Zdravko Tolimir has been found guilty of committing genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide, and two others, Radislav KrstiÄ‡ and Drago NikoliÄ‡, have been found guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. Three others have been found guilty of participating in genocides in Bosnia by German courts, one of whom Nikola JorgiÄ‡ lost an appeal against his conviction in the European Court of Human Rights. A further eight men, former members of the Bosnian Serb security forces were found guilty of genocide by the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (See List of Bosnian genocide prosecutions).
    Slobodan MiloÅeviÄ‡, as the former President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, was the most senior political figure to stand trial at the ICTY. He died on 11 March 2006 during his trial where he was accused of genocide or complicity in genocide in territories within Bosnia and Herzegovina, so no verdict was returned. In 1995, the ICTY issued a warrant for the arrest of Bosnian Serbs Radovan KaradÅ¾iÄ‡ and Ratko MladiÄ‡ on several charges including genocide. On 21 July 2008, KaradÅ¾iÄ‡ was arrested in Belgrade, and later tried in The Hague accused of genocide among other crimes.[95] On 24 March 2016, KaradÅ¾iÄ‡ was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes and crimes against humanity, 10 of the 11 charges in total, and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.[96][97] MladiÄ‡ was arrested on 26 May 2011 in Lazarevo, Serbia,[98] and was tried in The Hague. The verdict, delivered on 22 November 2017 found MladiÄ‡ guilty of 10 of the 11 charges, including genocide and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.[99]
    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1994 to present) Victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
    The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is a court under the auspices of the United Nations for the prosecution of offenses committed in Rwanda during the genocide which occurred there during April 1994, commencing on 6 April. The ICTR was created on 8 November 1994 by the Security Council of the United Nations in order to judge those people responsible for the acts of genocide and other serious violations of the international law performed in the territory of Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
    So far, the ICTR has finished nineteen trials and convicted twenty-seven accused persons. On 14 December 2009, two more men were accused and convicted for their crimes. Another twenty-five persons are still on trial. Twenty-one are awaiting trial in detention, two more added on 14 December 2009. Ten are still at large.[100] The first trial, of Jean-Paul Akayesu, began in 1997. In October 1998, Akayesu was sentenced to life imprisonment. Jean Kambanda, interim Prime Minister, pleaded guilty.
    The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, Ta Mok and other leaders, organized the mass killing of ideologically suspect groups. The total number of victims is estimated at approximately 1.7 million Cambodians between 1975''1979, including deaths from slave labour.[101]
    On 6 June 2003 the Cambodian government and the United Nations reached an agreement to set up the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) which would focus exclusively on crimes committed by the most senior Khmer Rouge officials during the period of Khmer Rouge rule of 1975''1979.[102] The judges were sworn in early July 2006.[103][104][105]
    The genocide charges related to killings of Cambodia's Vietnamese and Cham minorities, which is estimated to make up tens of thousand killings and possibly more[106][107]
    The investigating judges were presented with the names of five possible suspects by the prosecution on 18 July 2007.[103][108]
    Kang Kek Iew was formally charged with a war crime and crimes against humanity and detained by the Tribunal on 31 July 2007. He was indicted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on 12 August 2008.[109] His appeal against his conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity was rejected on 3 February 2012, and he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment.[110]Nuon Chea, a former prime minister, who was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and several other crimes under Cambodian law on 15 September 2010. He was transferred into the custody of the ECCC on 19 September 2007. His trial started on 27 June 2011[106][111] and ended on 7 August 2014, with a life sentence imposed for crimes against humanity.[112]Khieu Samphan, a former head of state, who was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and several other crimes under Cambodian law on 15 September 2010. He was transferred into the custody of the ECCC on 19 September 2007. His trial began on 27 June 2011.[106][111] and also ended on 7 August 2014, with a life sentence imposed for crimes against humanity.[112]Ieng Sary, a former foreign minister, who was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and several other crimes under Cambodian law on 15 September 2010. He was transferred into the custody of the ECCC on 12 November 2007. His trial started on 27 June 2011, and ended with his death on 14 March 2013. He was never convicted.[106][111]Ieng Thirith, a former minister for social affairs and wife of Ieng Sary, who was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and several other crimes under Cambodian law on 15 September 2010. She was transferred into the custody of the ECCC on 12 November 2007. Proceedings against her have been suspended pending a health evaluation.[111][113]There has been disagreement between some of the international jurists and the Cambodian government over whether any other people should be tried by the Tribunal.[108]
    By the International Criminal Court Since 2002, the International Criminal Court can exercise its jurisdiction if national courts are unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute genocide, thus being a "court of last resort," leaving the primary responsibility to exercise jurisdiction over alleged criminals to individual states. Due to the United States concerns over the ICC, the United States prefers to continue to use specially convened international tribunals for such investigations and potential prosecutions.[114]
    Darfur, Sudan A mother with her sick baby at Abu Shouk IDP camp in
    North DarfurThere has been much debate over categorizing the situation in Darfur as genocide.[115] The ongoing conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which started in 2003, was declared a "genocide" by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell on 9 September 2004 in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[116] Since that time however, no other permanent member of the UN Security Council has done so. In fact, in January 2005, an International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 1564 of 2004, issued a report to the Secretary-General stating that "the Government of Sudan has not pursued a policy of genocide."[117] Nevertheless, the Commission cautioned that "The conclusion that no genocidal policy has been pursued and implemented in Darfur by the Government authorities, directly or through the militias under their control, should not be taken in any way as detracting from the gravity of the crimes perpetrated in that region. International offences such as the crimes against humanity and war crimes that have been committed in Darfur may be no less serious and heinous than genocide."[117]
    In March 2005, the Security Council formally referred the situation in Darfur to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, taking into account the Commission report but without mentioning any specific crimes.[118] Two permanent members of the Security Council, the United States and China, abstained from the vote on the referral resolution.[119] As of his fourth report to the Security Council, the Prosecutor has found "reasonable grounds to believe that the individuals identified [in the UN Security Council Resolution 1593] have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes," but did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute for genocide.[120]
    In April 2007, the Judges of the ICC issued arrest warrants against the former Minister of State for the Interior, Ahmad Harun, and a MilitiaJanjaweed leader, Ali Kushayb, for crimes against humanity and war crimes.[121]
    On 14 July 2008, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed ten charges of war crimes against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir: three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. The ICC's prosecutors claimed that al-Bashir "masterminded and implemented a plan to destroy in substantial part" three tribal groups in Darfur because of their ethnicity.
    On 4 March 2009, the ICC issued a warrant of arrest for Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan as the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I concluded that his position as head of state does not grant him immunity against prosecution before the ICC. The warrant was for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It did not include the crime of genocide because the majority of the Chamber did not find that the prosecutors had provided enough evidence to include such a charge.[122] Later the decision was changed by the Appeals Panel and after issuing the second decision, charges against Omar al-Bashir include three counts of genocide.[123]
    Genocide in history Naked
    Soviet POWs held by the Nazis in
    Mauthausen concentration camp. "[T]he murder of at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs is one of the least-known of modern genocides; there is still no full-length book on the subject in English." '--Adam Jones
    [124]The concept of genocide can be applied to historical events of the past. The preamble to the CPPCG states that "at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity."
    Revisionist attempts to challenge or affirm claims of genocide are illegal in some countries. For example, several European countries ban the denial of the Holocaust or the Armenian Genocide, while in Turkey referring to the mass killings of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Maronites as genocides may be prosecuted under Article 301.[125]
    William Rubinstein argues that the origin of 20th-century genocides can be traced back to the collapse of the elite structure and normal modes of government in parts of Europe following the First World War:
    The 'Age of Totalitarianism' included nearly all of the infamous examples of genocide in modern history, headed by the Jewish Holocaust, but also comprising the mass murders and purges of the Communist world, other mass killings carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, and also the Armenian genocide of 1915. All these slaughters, it is argued here, had a common origin, the collapse of the elite structure and normal modes of government of much of central, eastern and southern Europe as a result of the First World War, without which surely neither Communism nor Fascism would have existed except in the minds of unknown agitators and crackpots.[126]
    Stages, risk factors, and prevention For genocide to happen, there must be certain preconditions. Foremost among them is a national culture that does not place a high value on human life. A totalitarian society, with its assumed superior ideology, is also a precondition for genocidal acts.[127] In addition, members of the dominant society must perceive their potential victims as less than fully human: as "pagans," "savages," "uncouth barbarians," "unbelievers," "effete degenerates," "ritual outlaws," "racial inferiors," "class antagonists," "counterrevolutionaries," and so on.[128] In themselves, these conditions are not enough for the perpetrators to commit genocide. To do that'--that is, to commit genocide'--the perpetrators need a strong, centralized authority and bureaucratic organization as well as pathological individuals and criminals. Also required is a campaign of vilification and dehumanization of the victims by the perpetrators, who are usually new states or new regimes attempting to impose conformity to a new ideology and its model of society.[127]
    In 1996 Gregory Stanton, the president of Genocide Watch, presented a briefing paper called "The 8 Stages of Genocide" at the United States Department of State.[130] In it he suggested that genocide develops in eight stages that are "predictable but not inexorable".[130][131]
    The Stanton paper was presented to the State Department, shortly after the Rwandan Genocide and much of its analysis are based on why that genocide occurred. The preventative measures suggested, given the briefing paper's original target audience, were those that the United States could implement directly or indirectly by using its influence on other governments.
    StageCharacteristicsPreventive measures1.ClassificationPeople are divided into "us and them"."The main preventive measure at this early stage is to develop universalistic institutions that transcend... divisions."2.Symbolization"When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups...""To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden as can hate speech".3.Dehumanization"One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases.""Local and international leaders should condemn the use of hate speech and make it culturally unacceptable. Leaders who incite genocide should be banned from international travel and have their foreign finances frozen."4.Organization"Genocide is always organized... Special army units or militias are often trained and armed...""The U.N. should impose arms embargoes on governments and citizens of countries involved in genocidal massacres, and create commissions to investigate violations"5.Polarization"Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda...""Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or assistance to human rights groups...Coups d'(C)tat by extremists should be opposed by international sanctions."6.Preparation"Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity...""At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. ..."7.Extermination"It is 'extermination' to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human"."At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection."8.Denial"The perpetrators... deny that they committed any crimes...""The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts"In April 2012, it was reported that Stanton would soon be officially adding two new stages, Discrimination and Persecution, to his original theory, which would make for a 10-stage theory of genocide.[132]
    In a paper for the Social Science Research Council Dirk Moses criticises the Stanton approach, concluding:
    In view of this rather poor record of ending genocide, the question needs to be asked why the "genocide studies" paradigm cannot predict and prevent genocides with any accuracy and reliability. The paradigm of "genocide studies," as currently constituted in North America in particular, has both strengths and limitations. While the moral fervor and public activism is admirable and salutary, the paradigm appears blind to its own implication in imperial projects that are themselves as much part of the problem as they are part of the solution. The US government called Darfur a genocide to appease domestic lobbies, and because the statement cost it nothing. Darfur will end when it suits the great powers that have a stake in the region.
    Other authors have focused on the structural conditions leading up to genocide and the psychological and social processes that create an evolution toward genocide. Ervin Staub showed that economic deterioration and political confusion and disorganization were starting points of increasing discrimination and violence in many instances of genocides and mass killing. They lead to scapegoating a group and ideologies that identified that group as an enemy. A history of devaluation of the group that becomes the victim, past violence against the group that becomes the perpetrator leading to psychological wounds, authoritarian cultures and political systems, and the passivity of internal and external witnesses (bystanders) all contribute to the probability that the violence develops into genocide.[134] Intense conflict between groups that is unresolved, becomes intractable and violent can also lead to genocide. The conditions that lead to genocide provide guidance to early prevention, such as humanizing a devalued group, creating ideologies that embrace all groups, and activating bystander responses. There is substantial research to indicate how this can be done, but the information is only slowly transformed into action.[135]
    Kjell Anderson uses a dichotomistic classification of genocides: "hot genocides, motivated by hate and the victims' threatening nature, with low-intensity cold genocides, rooted in victims' supposed inferiority."[136]
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"In 1943, in the course of his monumental study Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, the late Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide '' from the Greek genos (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (killing) '' to describe the deliberate 'destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group'." ^ "What Is Genocide?", Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 24 June 2014 . ^ Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography (War and Genocide) page 110 edited by Alexa Stiller and Kim C. Premiel Berghahn Books 2012 ^ "Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights". Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 2 May 2008. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008 . Retrieved 22 October 2008 . ^ "Coining a Word and Championing a Cause: The Story of Raphael Lemkin". ushmm.org . Retrieved 22 October 2017 . ^ Yair Auron (2004). The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide. Transaction Publishers. p. 9. ISBN 9781412817844. "... when Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1944 he cited the 1915 annihilation of Armenians as a seminal example of genocide ^ A. Dirk Moses. Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history. Berghahn Books, 2004, p. 21: "Indignant that the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide had largely escaped prosecution, Lemkin, who was a young state prosecutor in Poland, began lobbying in the early 1930s for international law to criminalize the destruction of such groups." ^ Raphael Lemkin (2012). Steven Leonard Jacobs (ed.). Lemkin on Genocide. Lexington Books. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7391-4526-5. ^ Rothenberg, Daniel. "Genocide". Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference US, 2005. 395''397. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 March 2015. ^ Stanley, Alessandra (17 April 2006). "A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate". The New York Times . Retrieved 7 August 2012 . ^ a b Irvin-Erickson, Douglas (2016). "Introduction". Raphael Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9341-8. ^ Goldsmith, Katherine (2010). "The Issue of Intent in the Genocide Convention and Its Effect on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Toward a Knowledge-Based Approach". Genocide Studies and Prevention. 5 (3): 238''257. doi:10.3138/gsp.5.3.238. ^ Rubinstein, W.D. (2004). Genocide: a history. Pearson Education. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-582-50601-5. ^ a b Robert Gellately & Ben Kiernan (2003). The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-521-52750-7. where Stalin was presumably anxious to avoid his purges being subjected to genocidal scrutiny. ^ a b c Staub, Ervin (31 July 1992). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-521-42214-7. ^ "USSR '' Genocide and Mass Murder". hawaii.edu . Retrieved 30 August 2018 . ^ William A. Schabas (2009), Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes, 2nd Ed., p. 160 ^ "Incitement to Genocide in International Law". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Retrieved 9 May 2020 . ^ "Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court" (PDF) . International Criminal Court. July 1998. ^ European Court of Human Rights Judgement in Jorgic v. Germany (Application no. 74613/01) paragraphs 18, 36, 74 ^ European Court of Human Rights Judgement in Jorgic v. 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Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia, 24 March 2016 ^ HRW, "Leave None to Tell the Story", at [215]; HRW, "Shattered Lives", at [39]. ^ Prosecutor v. Semanza, Case No. ICTR-97-20-T, Trial Judgment, para. [320], 15 May 2003; Prosecutor v. Ntagerura, Case No. ICTR-99-46-T, Trial Judgment, para. [664], 24 February 2004, ^ "Direct Killing is Not the Only Way to Commit Genocide ... : Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group...The drafters appreciated that there is more than one way (i.e. killing) to perpetuate genocide." (45''46) Samuel Totten and Henry Theriault, "The Complexities Inherent in the UNCG", in The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019), 37''68. ISBN 1487524080 In practice, this could include deaths from the deliberate infection of Tutsi women with HIV/AIDS through rape in the Rwandan genocide or from the abuse and denial of food inflicted by ISIL on Yazidi sex slaves by ISIL's use of sexual slavery. 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It was upheld in Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic '' Appeals Chamber '' Judgment '' IT-98-33 (2004) ICTY 7 (19 April 2004) ^ "Courte: Serbia failed to prevent genocide, UN court rules". The San Francisco Chronicle. Associated Press. 26 February 2007. ^ ECHR Jorgic v. Germany. § 42 citing Prosecutor v. Krstic, IT-98-33-T, judgment of 2 August 2001, §§ 580 ^ ECHR Jorgic v. Germany Judgment, 12 July 2007. § 44 citing Prosecutor v. Kupreskic and Others (IT-95-16-T, judgment of 14 January 2000), § 751. On 14 January 2000, the ICTY ruled in the Prosecutor v. Kupreskic and Others case that the killing of 116 Muslims in order to expel the Muslim population from a village amounted to persecution, not genocide. ^ ICJ press release 2007/8 Archived 13 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine 26 February 2007 ^ http://icty.org/x/cases/krajisnik/cis/en/cis_krajisnik_en.pdf ^ Staff (5 November 2009). "Q&A: Karadzic on trial". BBC News . Retrieved 28 January 2010 . ^ Simons, Marlise (24 March 2016). 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(597 KB) , Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, 14 December 2006. ^ Statement by Mr. Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to the United Nations Security Council pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005) Archived 13 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, International Criminal Court, 5 June 2008 ^ ICC issues a warrant of arrest for Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine (ICC-CPI-20090304-PR394), ICC press release, 4 March 2009 ^ https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2010_04826.PDF ^ Adam Jones (2017), Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (3 ed.), p. 377 '' " ' " Next to the Jews in Europe," wrote Alexander Werth', "the biggest single German crime was undoubtedly the extermination by hunger, exposure and in other ways of [...] Russian war prisoners." Yet the murder of at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs is one of the least-known of modern genocides; there is still no full-length book on the subject in English. It also stands as one of the most intensive genocides of all time: "a holocaust that devoured millions," as Catherine Merridale acknowledges. The large majority of POWs, some 2.8 million, were killed in just eight months of 1941''42, a rate of slaughter matched (to my knowledge) only by the 1994 Rwanda genocide." ^ Pair guilty of 'insulting Turkey', BBC News, 11 October 2007. ^ Rubinstein, W.D. (2004). Genocide: a history. Pearson Education. p. 7. ISBN 0-582-50601-8 ^ a b M. Hassan Kakar Chapter 4. The Story of Genocide in Afghanistan Footnote 9. Citing Horowitz, quoted in Chalk and Jonassohn, Genocide, 14. ^ M. Hassan Kakar Chapter 4. The Story of Genocide in Afghanistan Footnote 10. Citing For details, see Carlton, War and Ideology. ^ M. Hassan Kakar, Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979''1982, University of California Press, 1995. ^ a b Gregory Stanton. The 8 Stages of Genocide, Genocide Watch, 1996 ^ The FBI has found somewhat similar stages for hate groups. ^ "GenPrev in the News [19 April 2012]". wordpress.com. 19 April 2012 . Retrieved 22 October 2017 . ^ Moses, Dirk (22 December 2006). "Why the Discipline of ''Genocide Studies'' Has Trouble Explaining How Genocides End?" Archived 18 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Social Science Research Council. ^ Staub, Ervin (1989). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press.[page needed ] ^ Staub, Ervin (2011). Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press.[page needed ] ^ p. 9. Anderson, Kjell. (2015) Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua. Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9: Iss. 2: 9''25. Further reading Articles (in Spanish) Aizenstatd, Najman Alexander. "Origen y Evoluci"n del Concepto de Genocidio". Vol. 25 Revista de Derecho de la Universidad Francisco Marroqu­n 11 (2007). ISSN 1562-2576 [1](in Spanish) Marco, Jorge. "Genocidio y Genocide Studies: Definiciones y debates", en: Ar"stegui, Julio, Marco, Jorge y G"mez Bravo, Gutmaro (coord.): "De Genocidios, Holocaustos, Exterminios...", Hispania Nova, 10 (2012). V(C)ase [2]Krain, M. (1997). "State-Sponsored Mass Murder: A Study of the Onset and Severity of Genocides and Politicides." Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(3): 331''360.Books Andreopoulos, George J., ed. (1994). Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3249-3. Bloxham, Donald & Moses, A. Dirk [editors]: The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. [Interdisciplinary Contributions about Past & Present Genocides]. Oxford University Press, second edition 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-967791-7Chalk, Frank; Kurt Jonassohn (1990). The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04446-1. Charny, Israel W. (1999). Encyclopedia of Genocide. ABC-Clio Inc. ISBN 978-0-87436-928-1. Conversi, Daniele (2005). "Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and nationalism". In Delanty, Gerard; Kumar, Krishan (eds.). Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. 1. London: Sage Publications. pp. 319''33. ISBN 978-1-4129-0101-7. Gellately, Robert; Kiernan, Ben (July 2003). The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52750-7. Harff, Barbara (August 2003). Early Warning of Communal Conflict and Genocide: Linking Empirical Research to International Responses. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-9840-2. Horowitz, Irving (2001). Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (5th ed.). Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7658-0094-7. Horvitz, Leslie Alan; Catherwood, Christopher (2011). Encyclopedia of War Crimes & Genocide (Hardcover). 2 (Revised ed.). New York: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-8083-0. ISBN 0-8160-8083-6Jonassohn, Kurt; Karin Bj¶rnson (1998). Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56000-314-4. Jones, Adam (2010). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-48619-4. Kiernan, Ben (2007). Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur . Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10098-3. Laban, Alexander (2002). Genocide: An Anthropological Reader. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-22355-9. Lemkin, Raphael (2008). Axis rule in occupied Europe : laws of occupation, analysis of government, proposals for redress. Clark, NJ: Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 978-1-58477-901-8. Levene, Mark (2005). Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.Lewy, Guenter (2012). Essays on Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-1-60781-168-8.Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. (1999). "The Politics of Uniqueness: Reflections on the Recent Polemical Turn in Holocaust and Genocide Scholarship". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 13 (1): 28''61. doi:10.1093/hgs/13.1.28. Rotberg, Robert I.; Thomas G. Weiss (1996). From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-7590-4. Rummel, R.J. (1994). Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder in the Twentieth Century. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56000-927-6. Sagall, Sabby (2013). Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide. Pluto Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-7453-2653-5. Sands, Philippe (2016). East West Street : on the origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity". New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-385-35071-6. Schabas, William A. (2009). Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes (second ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-71900-1. Schabas, William A. (2016). Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-05233-8. Schmid, A.P. (1991). Repression, State Terrorism, and Genocide: Conceptual Clarifications. State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression. P.T. Bushnell. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 312 p.[ISBN missing ]Shaw, Martin (2007). What is Genocide?. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-3182-0. Staub, Ervin (1989). The roots of evil: The origins of genocide and other group violence. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-42214-7Staub, Ervin (2011). Overcoming Evil: Genocide, violent conflict and terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538204-4Totten, Samuel; William S. Parsons; Israel W. Charny (2008). Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-99085-1. Valentino, Benjamin A. (2004). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-3965-0. Weitz, Eric D. (2003). A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation . Princeton University Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-691-12271-7. External links Wikiquote has quotations related to: GenocideLook up genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Wikimedia Commons has media related to Genocide .Documents "Voices of the Holocaust". British Library. "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide] (1948) '' full text". Genocide Convention. "Whitaker Report". Gregory H. Stanton. "8 Stages of Genocide". Research institutes, advocacy groups, and other organizations "Institute for the Study of Genocide". "International Association of Genocide Scholars". "International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)". "United to End Genocide". merger of Save Darfur Coalition and the Genocide Intervention Network "Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide]". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation". "Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies". Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies". University of Minnesota. "Genocide Studies Program". Yale University. "Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies". Concordia University. "Minorities at Risk Project". University of Maryland. "Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention".
  Black People Will Get Superpowers on December 21, Explained
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    Photo: Yurakrasil (Shutterstock) Dear Prospective SuperNegroes,
    By now you should have received your certified letter informing you that people of African descent will receive superpowers on Dec. 21, when Jupiter and Saturn align for the first time in nearly 400 years. According to researchers at the University of Twitter, this will unlock the melanated magic in Black people, granting them never-before-seen gifts beyond the ability to clap on beat and resist dumping artichokes into potato salad.
    Before this occurs, we wanted to prepare you for this glorious day, as well as spell out a few best practices for this operating system update. To do this, the National Institute for Genetic Gifts and Astronomic Superpowers (N.I.G.G.A.S) assembled a panel of experts, which includes:
    Jerome Jamaal Jenkins Jr.: JJ-Squared became the first documented time traveler in 1943 when his mother Earlene actually slapped him into next week.Yasmine James: A former McDonald's employee who became an instructor at the Dora Milaje School of Wishing a Motherfucker Would.Adrienne Banfield Norris: The Red Table Talk co-host is either an immortal goddess or an ageless vampire. Either way, we needed her advice.Dr. Gregg Carr: The law professor, history scholar and chair of Howard University's Afro American Studies Department is just smart AF. Raven the Science Maven: We commissioned the scientific spitter and self-proclaimed '' Big ole Geek '' to freestyle a scientific explanation.Marshawn Lynch: We have long suspected that '' Beast Mode '' is an actual superhero. However, he claimed he only joined our panel so he wouldn't get fined.G/O Media may get a commission
    The first thing you must be aware of is that you won't be able to choose which superhuman gift you will obtain. The powers will be determined by your previous work for resistance and liberation. For instance, Iesha Evans may become a telepath with the ability to read minds, while Candace Owens may only become a bowelpath'--finally gaining the capacity to know when she's full of shit. Civil rights hero Claudette Colvin may gain the ability to teleport through time and space while Lil' MAGA Wayne could earn his status as a ''real G'' with the ability to ''move in silence like lasagna.''
    Secondly, all Black people will receive these powers, regardless of religion, class or political affiliation, which necessarily presents some problems. Although our Caucasian counterparts will still retain the ultimate gift of white privilege, they will undoubtedly gain access to our unprecedented abilities through subterfuge and brainwashing. Ben Carson has already agreed to lend his super senses to Donald Trump, meaning Trump might actually become a '' very stable genius .'' Although the Negro Solstice will not affect transracial icon Rachel Dolezal, the Kardashians will undoubtedly find a way to succubus the superpowers from a naive-but extra-gifted Black man.
    We must protect Zion Williamson from Kendall Jenner at all costs.
    Once your talents are downloaded we ask that you practice extreme caution. If you think white people are terrified of regular Black people jogging , sleeping in their own beds or armed with Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea , imagine how terrified they will be of bulletproof NIGGAS. Thankfully, we know the police won't treat us any differently...
    They already treat us like we're all bulletproof niggers.
    This leads me to my third point: No revenge.
    I know it will be tempting to go smite all the white people who have caused us harm but, trust me, it will not work. It's easy to use your X-ray vision to go searching for the cops who killed Breonna Taylor or get one of your super-strength homeboys to slap the shit out of Daniel Cameron , but what will it solve?
    Sure, it might make you feel good (OK, ''might'' may be understating it a little) but'--unless there's a defund-the-police superpower, it really won't make a difference. Instead of pointing your laser vision at that kangaroo pouch under Mitch McConnell's chin, you should ask your telepathic cousin to read white people's minds and figure out why they continue to vote against their own interests. I know the answer will be racism. (The answer is always racism.) But at least we'd have proof when they try to present that bullshit ''economic anxiety'' narrative. It might be fun to use your electromagnetic gift to shock the shit out of Donald Trump every time he says something racist, stupid or patently untrue but come on man, you're gonna wear yourself out. That's enough electricity to light up a small Eastern European country.
    And finally, you should be prepared for the outrage when white people find out that Black people have superpowers.
    First of all, you should be aware of the phenomenon of economic gentrification'--when white people move into Black neighborhoods because we have a homegirl who can harness lightning. (I already know what you're thinking: Yes, her Black superhero name will be ''The Plug.'' They'll never give her credit for solving global warming, though.)
    White people will surely be mad. For the first time, Black privilege and reverse racism will actually exist, which means we have to enact a set of new millennium white codes . Of course, we will probably need officers to enforce these new Karen Crow rules. Given the fact that our powers are relatively new, combined with white people's historical craftiness, who can blame a heat vision-enabled supercop for accidentally torching an unarmed white person?
    Immortals fear for their lives, too!
    To make sure our criminal justice system works, we will only hire cops who are empaths and can look at the whites and tell if they're guilty. Accordingly, there won't be a need for that ''fair trial'' bullshit. We should also decrease funding to historically white colleges and majority-white school districts. Or maybe we can send their kids to their own schools. Why should we have to spend resources teaching them their history just because they can't time travel and see it for themselves? If they would just focus harder and concentrate on family, they might get superpowers one day. It's not up to us to even the playing field.
    Speaking of playing fields, they bet' not kneel during the playing of ''Back Dat Azz Up'' before every football game. Voter ID won't work for us because many of us will become shapeshifters. However, just to be safe, we should purge the regular human beings' names off the voter rolls and make them wait in long lines while we vote telekinetically. I know there's no evidence of widespread white voter fraud but you can't be too careful.
    Of course, we will save a lot of money by paying them lower wages. Why should employers shoulder that financial burden just because whites can't take lunch breaks by shifting the space-time continuum? You know what? Why do we have to pay them at all when we are the ones with all the power? It's not racist to round them up and use them for free labor; it's about economics.
    This may sound like I have either traveled to the future or have lost my mind, but I am neither a crazy person nor am I a soothsayer. If the idea of Black people having some kind of genetic disposition that gives them the ability to control everyone else sounds the least bit preposterous...
    Think of how insane the idea of white supremacy sounded 400 years ago.
    Merry NIGGApower Day.
    Yours truly,
    SuperNIGGAS
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  Jake Paul vs. Nate Robinson fight results, highlights: Paul scores scary knockout in second round - CBSSports.com
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    Internet star Jake Paul proved experience matters in his return to pro boxing on Saturday in the co-main event of the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones Jr. pay-per-view.
    Paul (2-0, 2 KOs) scored a trio of knockdowns en route to a brutal second-round knockout of former NBA star Nate Robinson in their cruiserweight bout inside Staples Center in Los Angeles.
    Although he held advantages of four inches in height and 13 years in age, it was Paul's significant edge in boxing training that proved to be the difference. Along with having made his pro debut in January when he finished fellow YouTube star AnEsonGib in two rounds, Paul has done nothing but train this calendar year.
    The 36-year-old Robinson (0-1), on the other hand, started boxing for the first time in August after calling Paul out and the results showed.
    Can't get enough boxing and MMA? Get the latest in the world of combat sports from two of the best in the business. Subscribe to Morning Kombat with Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell for the best analysis and in-depth news, including instant analysis of Tyson vs. Jones and Paul vs. Robinson below.
    "I have been training my ass off for the past year. I am taking this seriously," Paul said. "There is a long list of opponents I want, like Conor McGregor and [fellow MMA fighter] Dillon Danis. I want to knock both of them out. I want to be in this sport for a long time. I'm in love with this so why not?"
    The 23-year-old Paul did well early to hold off Robinson's advantage in athleticism by avoiding the three-time NBA Slam Dunk champion's leaping attacks as the fight largely devolved into a clinch fest featuring plenty of grappling.
    Paul began to time Robinson's forward attack and caught him with a right hand to the side of the head that dropped him in Round 1. Robinson regained his feet but held the back of his head with his left hand trying to sway referee Thomas Taylor that the blow was a rabbit punch.
    The second round saw Paul continue to land clean shots as a looping counter right hand dropped Robinson for the second time and left him pinned under the ropes. Although Robinson was able to regain his feet again, the end would come shortly after in violent fashion.
    Paul landed a three-punch combination that finished with a short right hand to the chin that knocked Robinson out cold and dropped him face first. Taylor instantly waved off the fight at 1:35.
    "It was an overhand right [that finished the fight] but he was better than I expected," Paul said. "He was athletic and super strong. I just want to say thank you to Nate. He was the one who originally called him out and I respect him. His basketball career was great and I don't want to take anything away from him. He stepped into the ring and it takes a lot of balls to do that."
    The final punch stats saw Robinson outland Paul 10-8 in total although it was Paul who was more efficient scoring a trio of knockdowns off the eight shots he landed.
    "For me, my whole life has been a fight so fighting is something I'm great at," Paul said. "Being from Ohio in a small town and just fighting for success. People hating on me, I'm one of the most hated people in the world. It's not easy."
    Paul, the younger brother of fellow internet star and aspiring boxer Logan Paul, talked after the fight about continuing his music and acting hopes, along with his fighting career. He also revealed that he broke his nose weeks ago during training camp after passing out onto a concrete floor while meditating.
    Robinson's 10-year NBA career ended with the New Orleans Pelicans in 2015. Originally drafted by the Phoenix Suns in 2005, Robinson last played professional basketball in Lebanon in 2018.
    Some of Robinson's teammates and rivals took to social media in reaction to the stunning knockout on Saturday, with most in disbelief as to what had happened. Robinson was awake and alert once he was taken back to the locker room after the fight, according to reports.
    Paul and Robinson may have provided the most last memory from the PPV card, which featured Tyson and Jones fighting to an unofficial split draw on the WBC-apppointed judges' scorecards. The pair of legends duked it out over eight, two-minute rounds in the main event and still looked competent while never seriously injuring the other person.
    CBS Sports was with you throughout the entire way on Saturday, so be sure to follow along with the live results and highlights below.
    Fight card, resultsMike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. -- WBC Frontline Championship (8 rounds)Jake Paul def. Nate Robinson via second-round TKOBadou Jack def. Blake McKernan via unanimous decision (80-72, 80-72, 80-72)Jamaine Ortiz def. Sulaiman Segawa via seventh-round TKOPaul vs. Robinson scorecard, live coverage See New Posts
    Robinson is awake but he is having trouble sitting up.
    That was absolutely brutal. Domination from Jake Paul.
    R2: Robinson regains his feet but he's in bad shape. Right uppercut from Logan and now a right hand and Robinson is out cold. That's it. KO2.
    R2: Good feint and stiff jab from Paul. He comes right back and drops Robinson again with a right hand.
    ROUND 2: Good flurry from Robinson with short hooks before the clinch. Both fighters crashing into each other time and again to force the tie up. Lots of shoulders landing.
    Robinson still seems shaken up. He's going to need to collect himself and stop running in. Replays show the punch that dropped him was clean to the side of the head.
    R1: Paul throws Robinson down after a brief clinch. Robinson runs back in to grab Paul around the waist and wait out the end of the round.
    R1: Robinson stands up but he's holding the back of his head and claiming it was a rabbit punch that got him.
    R1: Right hand catches Robinson leaping in and he is down and hurt.
    R1: Referee warns both fighters for too much holding. "What are we going to do here? Are we going to box?"
    R1: Paul misses another right cross as they clinch again. Leaping jab from Robinson lands.
    R1: The clinching continues and a front headlock breaks out from Robinson. Lots of sloppy grappling in close.
    R1: Paul badly misses a straight right and Robinson forces the clinch smartly. Lots of infighting going on in the clinch.
    ROUND 1: Left hook from Robinson lands as he rushed forward. Paul was quick to backstep.
    Referee Thomas Taylor is the third man in the ring.
    Paul will have a four-inch height advantage at 6-foot-1.
    Robinson enters the ring. He last played professional basketball in Lebanon in 2018.
    The fight marks the pro boxing debut for the 36-year-old Robinson, a 14-year NBA veteran. This will be the second time Paul (1-0, 1 KO) takes the ring this calendar year after stopping AnEsonGib to open 2020.
    Up next is the co-main event of the Tyson-Jones pay-per-view as YouTube star Jake Paul takes on NBA veteran and three-time Slam Dunk champion Nate Robinson in a six-round cruiserweight bout.
  Dallas rapper Mo3 believed to have been killed in shooting on Dallas highway, reports say
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    Image taken from the rapper's Instagram page @hotboymo3. (Copyright 2020 by KSAT - All rights reserved.)DALLAS '' Dallas-area rapper Mo3 is believed to be dead following a highway shooting on Wednesday.
    Several area media outlets and personalities have said that the man who died in the attack is Melvin Noble A.k.a Mo3.
    WFAA-TV in Dallas reported that an investigation followed the shooting on Interstate Highway 35 near Clarendon Drive.
    ''A man was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon on a Dallas highway. A bystander was also struck but is expected to be OK,'' WFAA reported Wednesday. ''No arrests have been made.''
    A report by KDFW-TV in Dallas said that Mo3 was approached on the highway by an assailant on foot while the two vehicles were stopped.
    ''Both men stopped their vehicles, the victim got out and started running but was shot several times on the highway,'' KDFW reported.
    The Dallas Police Department has not commented publicly on the death.
    Fans have been reacting to the rapper's apparent sudden passing since rumors of his death circulated online.
    Rip Mo3. A truly talented, respectful and humble guy. I'm Blessed to have had the opportunity to share talents with him in the studio while he was alive ''¤¸ you'll be missed ðŸ•Š pic.twitter.com/u6V339cnz8
    '-- BNYX® ðŸ‡­ðŸ‡¹ (@BNYX) November 11, 2020What Mo3 said '' everybody ain't yo friend everybody ain't yo partna '' RIP MAN ðŸ•Š
    '-- King Dee''¨ðŸ''¸ (@__harperboyy) November 11, 2020Related: Rapper Tory Lanez charged with shooting Megan Thee Stallion
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  Ramsey Tyson Wants You to Stop Making Assumptions About Trans Kids | them.
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    Ever since basketball icon Dwyane Wade revealed that his pre-teen daughter Zaya is gender non-conforming in February, the family has been the center of endless public discourse '-- including a now-viral conversation between Mike Tyson and Boosie Badazz.
    The Louisiana rapper received backlash earlier this year for his transphobic comments about Zaya made in an Instagram live session, in which he misgendered her repeatedly and made derogatory remarks about gender-confirmation surgery. In an October episode of his podcast ''Hot Boxin' With Mike Tyson,'' the retired boxer confronted Boosie about the retorts through a bizarre line of questioning. It started out with Tyson asking the rapper, "Why do you say things about people who might be a homosexual?'' '-- despite the comments being about Zaya's gender identity and not her sexuality '-- and ended up with him implying that Boosie was actually closeted and struggling with internalized homophobia.
    The exchange didn't really get anywhere meaningful. Boosie doubled down on his views and never issued an explicit apology, though he did say that he sometimes needs to ''shut the f*ck up.'' But Tyson was generally praised for the exchange, and clips of it went viral on social media, with the original YouTube video now at nearly three million views.
    Since then, Tyson told TMZ that his ''daughter'' was the one who inspired him to take Boosie to task in the first place. He said that ''she flew all the way from New York City to LA'' to confront the rapper and even came into the room to engage in a dialogue with him. Numerous publications have picked up this alleged factoid, but it's not exactly true.
    The boxer's 24-year-old child did bring Boosie's statements about Zaya to his attention. But Ramsey Tyson, a transmasculine and nonbinary individual who uses they/them pronouns, tells them. that some of their dad's claims about the interaction were false.
    Ramsey says they were visiting Los Angeles with a friend in February for reasons unrelated to the podcast (''I can't stress enough how I would never fly across the country to talk to Lil Boosie, ever''), when they decided to stop by the studio to see their dad and stepmom, Lakiha Spicer. By the time they were already ''super high'' from quite literally hot boxing the studio, Ramsey found out that Boosie would be the guest that day. Since the rapper's comments about Zaya were still fresh at the time of the taping, Spicer asked Ramsey if they should disinvite him. They advised their family to not cancel, because they thought it might be ''a good opportunity to educate someone about trans issues.''
    ''I can't stress enough how I would never fly across the country to talk to Lil Boosie, ever,'' Ramsey Tyson says.
    When Boosie finally showed up, Ramsey had just ''briefly'' explained to their dad about what the rapper had said about Zaya. ''He went into it with such little information,'' they explain. ''I decided I wasn't going to intervene or step on any toes unless the conversation was completely out of hand.''
    Very quickly into the episode, the conversation got out of hand. Ramsey felt ''fed up,'' so they ran into the studio in the middle of the interview and ''then realized that was a really weird thing to do,'' they explain. They sat in the corner for about two hours until they were able to speak with Boosie afterwards, and pulled up the them. article ''What Critics of Dwyane Wade's Daughter Get Wrong About Trans Children,'' to mentally prepare for the conversation ahead.
    ''Part of the reason why I wanted to talk to Boosie about it is because I'm a nonbinary person who's socially transitioned amongst my friends and started a medical transition,'' they explain. ''I felt like I couldn't not say something.''
    Study Says Trans and Cisgender Children Have Equally Strong Gender IdentitiesThe results point to a simple, though undeniably significant, conclusion: Believe trans kids.
    View Story After the podcast finished taping, they went up to him and started lobbing basic facts about trans children, like that studies have shown that trans kids have a strong sense of gender identity from an early age and that families who reject their children's gender identity significantly increase that child's risk of suicidality. ''[Zaya] has a very supportive family,'' Ramsey adds, ''but that doesn't mean there weren't other people reading those comments that he and Young Thug were saying.''
    ''I ended up having to explain to him, even, that sexuality and gender are two different things, and he was blown away by that,'' they say. ''He and his friends were like, 'I never heard that before.' And then I was like, 'Oh, got it.' He really has no idea what he was saying.''
    Boosie responded by claiming ''he was talking for the straight community'' and justified his views by saying that's how he ''was raised,'' Ramsey says. ''I think he definitely got that he was out of line and shouldn't have said anything,'' they add, ''but I don't think his opinions changed.''
    The rapper addressed his conversation with Ramsey in a recent interview, saying that the two ultimately ''didn't see eye to eye,'' but he has ''no ill will'' toward the Tyson family.
    ''This might be the first time that [people are] hearing about [trans issues]. I think it's much more important to listen to trans people.''
    In terms of being misgendered by their father and the media, Ramsey says that they know ''he didn't mean it maliciously.'' They went on to explain that while they haven't come out to all of their family members as nonbinary, they did talk to their dad ''about gender identity very briefly'' in the past. They added that they weren't ''super close'' and they didn't really expect him to ''be perfect at pronouns.''
    ''It's very sweet to say that I inspired him in some way,'' they add. ''But yeah, it's always a little weird to be misgendered, let alone in Complex.''
    Ramsey urged others who viewed the situation as a success to seek out trans people's perspectives. ''I understand a lot of people are gonna come across this, and this might be the first time that they're hearing about [trans issues],'' they add. ''I think it's much more important to listen to trans people.''
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  Mike Tyson - Wikipedia
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    American boxer
    Mike Tyson
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    BornMichael Gerard Tyson
    ( 1966-06-30 ) June 30, 1966 (age 54) Spouse(s) Monica Turner
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    Children8Boxing careerStatistics Nickname(s) Iron MikeKid DynamiteThe Baddest Man on the Planet Weight(s) HeavyweightHeight5 ft 10 in (178 cm)[1][2]Reach71 in (180 cm)StanceOrthodoxBoxing recordTotal fights58Wins50Wins by KO44Losses6No contests2Website miketyson.com Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed "Iron Mike"[3] and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet",[4] Tyson is considered one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time.[5] He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title.[6]
    Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in the second round, and added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, as well as the only heavyweight to unify them in succession. The following year, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds of the first round.[7] He successfully defended his titles nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. In 1990, Tyson lost the titles to underdog Buster Douglas, who knocked him out in the tenth round. Attempting to regain the titles, Tyson defeated Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991, but pulled out of a fight with then-undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (who had defeated Douglas in 1990 to win the titles) due to a rib injury.
    In 1992, Tyson was convicted of rape and sentenced to six years in prison, although he was released on parole after three years.[8][9][10] After his release in 1995, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. He regained the WBC and WBA titles in 1996, after stopping Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon. With his defeat of Bruno, Tyson joined Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, Tim Witherspoon, Evander Holyfield and George Foreman as the only men in boxing history to have regained a heavyweight championship after losing it. After being stripped of the WBC title in the same year, Tyson lost the WBA title to Evander Holyfield by an eleventh round stoppage. Their 1997 rematch ended when Tyson was disqualified for biting Holyfield's ears, one bite notoriously being strong enough to remove a portion of his right ear.
    In 2002, Tyson fought for the world heavyweight title again at the age of 35, losing by knockout to Lennox Lewis. Tyson retired from professional boxing in 2006, after being stopped in consecutive matches against journeymen Danny Williams and Kevin McBride. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite having received over $30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career. At the time the media reported that he had approximately $23 million in debt.[11]
    Tyson was known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial behavior inside and outside the ring. He holds the sixth longest unified championship reign in heavyweight boxing history at 8 consecutive defenses. BoxRec ranked him as the world's top 10 heavyweight 12 times, and placed him at No.1 from 1986 to 1989.[12] His victory over Larry Holmes received a 5-Star rating from BoxRec. He was ranked 16th on The Ring magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time,[13] and first on ESPN's list of "The Hardest Hitters in Heavyweight History".[14] Sky Sports described him as "perhaps the most ferocious fighter to step into a professional ring".[15] He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
    Early life Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1966.[16] He has an older brother named Rodney (born c. 1961)[17] and an older sister named Denise, who died of a heart attack at age 24 in February 1990.[18] Tyson's biological father is listed as "Purcell Tyson" (who was from Jamaica) on his birth certificate,[19][20] but the man Tyson had known as his father was Jimmy Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick was from Grier Town, North Carolina (a predominantly black neighborhood that was annexed by the city of Charlotte),[21] where he was one of the neighborhood's top baseball players. Kirkpatrick married and had a son, Tyson's half-brother Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, who would help to integrate Charlotte high school football in 1965. In 1959, Jimmy Kirkpatrick left his family and moved to Brooklyn, where he met Tyson's mother, Lorna Mae (Smith) Tyson. Kirkpatrick frequented pool halls, gambled and hung out on the streets. "My father was just a regular street guy caught up in the street world", Tyson said. Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born, leaving Tyson's mother to care for the children on her own.[22] Kirkpatrick died in 1992.[23]
    The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old.[24] Tyson's mother died six years later, leaving 16-year-old Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato, who would become his legal guardian. Tyson later said, "I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: she only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally."[25]
    Throughout his childhood, Tyson lived in and around neighborhoods with a high rate of crime. According to an interview in Details, his first fight was with a bigger youth who had pulled the head off one of Tyson's pigeons.[26] Tyson was repeatedly caught committing petty crimes and fighting those who ridiculed his high-pitched voice and lisp. By the age of 13, he had been arrested 38 times.[27] He ended up at the Tryon School for Boys in Johnstown, New York. Tyson's emerging boxing ability was discovered there by Bobby Stewart, a juvenile detention center counselor and former boxer. Stewart considered Tyson to be an outstanding fighter and trained him for a few months before introducing him to Cus D'Amato.[22] Tyson dropped out of high school as a junior.[28] He would be awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Central State University in 1989.[29] Kevin Rooney also trained Tyson, and he was occasionally assisted by Teddy Atlas, although Atlas was dismissed by D'Amato when Tyson was 15. Rooney eventually took over all training duties for the young fighter.[30]
    Amateur career As an amateur, Tyson won gold medals at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, defeating Joe Cortez in 1981 and beating Kelton Brown in 1982. Brown's corner threw in the towel in the first round. He fought Henry Tillman twice as an amateur, losing both bouts by decision. Tillman went on to win heavyweight gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[31]
    Professional career Rise to stardom Tyson made his professional debut as an 18-year-old on March 6, 1985, in Albany, New York. He defeated Hector Mercedes via first-round TKO.[22] He had 15 bouts in his first year as a professional. Fighting frequently, Tyson won 26 of his first 28 fights by KO or TKO; 16 of those came in the first round.[32] The quality of his opponents gradually increased to journeyman fighters and borderline contenders,[32] like James Tillis, David Jaco, Jesse Ferguson, Mitch Green, and Marvis Frazier. His win streak attracted media attention and Tyson was billed as the next great heavyweight champion. D'Amato died in November 1985, relatively early into Tyson's professional career, and some speculate that his death was the catalyst to many of the troubles Tyson was to experience as his life and career progressed.[33]
    Tyson's first nationally televised bout took place on February 16, 1986, at Houston Field House in Troy, New York against journeyman heavyweight Jesse Ferguson, and was carried by ABC Sports. Tyson knocked down Ferguson with an uppercut in the fifth round that broke Ferguson's nose.[34] During the sixth round, Ferguson began to hold and clinch Tyson in an apparent attempt to avoid further punishment. After admonishing Ferguson several times to obey his commands to box, the referee finally stopped the fight near the middle of the sixth round. The fight was initially ruled a win for Tyson by disqualification (DQ) of his opponent. The ruling was "adjusted" to a win by technical knockout (TKO) after Tyson's corner protested that a DQ win would end Tyson's string of knockout victories, and that a knockout would have been the inevitable result.
    In July, after recording six more knockout victories, Tyson fought former world title challenger Marvis Frazier in Glens Falls, New York on another ABC Sports broadcast. Tyson won easily, charging at Frazier at the opening bell and hitting him with an uppercut that knocked Frazier unconscious thirty seconds into the fight.
    On November 22, 1986, Tyson was given his first title fight against Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship. Tyson won the title by TKO in the second round, and at the age of 20 years and 4 months became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.[35] Tyson's dominant performance brought many accolades. Donald Saunders wrote: "The noble and manly art of boxing can at least cease worrying about its immediate future, now [that] it has discovered a heavyweight champion fit to stand alongside Dempsey, Tunney, Louis, Marciano, and Ali."[36]
    Tyson intimidated fighters with his strength, combined with outstanding hand speed, accuracy, coordination and timing.[37] Tyson also possessed notable defensive abilities, holding his hands high in the peek-a-boo style taught by his mentor Cus D'Amato[38][39] to slip under and weave around his opponent's punches while timing his own.[39] Tyson's explosive punching technique was due in large part to crouching immediately prior to throwing a hook or an uppercut: this allowed the 'spring' of his legs to add power to the punch.[40] Among his signature moves was a right hook to his opponent's body followed by a right uppercut to his opponent's chin. Lorenzo Boyd, Jesse Ferguson and Jos(C) Ribalta were each knocked down by this combination.[citation needed ]
    Undisputed champion Expectations for Tyson were extremely high, and he was the favorite to win the heavyweight unification series, a tournament designed to establish an undisputed heavyweight champion. Tyson defended his title against James Smith on March 7, 1987, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He won by unanimous decision and added Smith's World Boxing Association (WBA) title to his existing belt.[41] "Tyson-mania" in the media was becoming rampant.[42] He beat Pinklon Thomas in May by TKO in the sixth round.[43] On August 1 he took the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title from Tony Tucker in a twelve-round unanimous decision 119''111, 118''113, and 116''112.[44] He became the first heavyweight to own all three major belts '' WBA, WBC, and IBF '' at the same time. Another fight, in October of that year, ended with a victory for Tyson over 1984 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Tyrell Biggs by TKO in the seventh round.[45]
    During this time, Tyson came to the attention of gaming company Nintendo. After witnessing one of Tyson's fights, Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa was impressed by the fighter's "power and skill", prompting him to suggest Tyson be included in the upcoming Nintendo Entertainment System port of the Punch Out!! arcade game. In 1987, Nintendo released Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, which was well received and sold more than a million copies.[46]
    Tyson had three fights in 1988. He faced Larry Holmes on January 22, 1988, and defeated the legendary former champion by KO in the fourth round.[47] This was the only knockout loss Holmes suffered in 75 professional bouts. In March, Tyson then fought contender Tony Tubbs in Tokyo, Japan, fitting in an easy second-round TKO victory amid promotional and marketing work.[48]
    On June 27, 1988, Tyson faced Michael Spinks. Spinks, who had taken the heavyweight championship from Larry Holmes via fifteen-round decision in 1985, had not lost his title in the ring but was not recognized as champion by the major boxing organizations. Holmes had previously given up all but the IBF title, and that was eventually stripped from Spinks after he elected to fight Gerry Cooney (winning by TKO in the fifth round) rather than IBF Number 1 Contender Tony Tucker, as the Cooney fight provided him a larger purse. However, Spinks did become the lineal champion by beating Holmes and many (including Ring magazine) considered him to have a legitimate claim to being the true heavyweight champion.[49] The bout was, at the time, the richest fight in history and expectations were very high. Boxing pundits were predicting a titanic battle of styles, with Tyson's aggressive infighting conflicting with Spinks's skillful out-boxing and footwork. The fight ended after 91 seconds when Tyson knocked Spinks out in the first round; many consider this to be the pinnacle of Tyson's fame and boxing ability.[50][51]
    Controversy and upset During this period, Tyson's problems outside the ring were also starting to emerge. His marriage to Robin Givens was heading for divorce,[52] and his future contract was being fought over by Don King and Bill Cayton.[53] In late 1988, Tyson parted with manager Bill Cayton and fired longtime trainer Kevin Rooney, the man many credit for honing Tyson's craft after the death of D'Amato.[39][54] Following Rooney's departure, critics alleged that Tyson began to show less head movement and combination punching.[55] In 1989, Tyson had only two fights amid personal turmoil. He faced the British boxer Frank Bruno in February. Bruno managed to stun Tyson at the end of the first round,[56] although Tyson went on to knock Bruno out in the fifth round. Tyson then knocked out Carl "The Truth" Williams in the first round in July.[57]
    By 1990, Tyson seemed to have lost direction, and his personal life was in disarray amidst reports of less vigorous training prior to the Buster Douglas match.[58] In a fight on February 11, 1990, he lost the undisputed championship to Douglas in Tokyo.[59] Tyson was a huge betting favorite; indeed, the Mirage, the only casino to put out odds for the fight, made Tyson a 42/1 favorite. Tyson failed to find a way past Douglas's quick jab that had a 12-inch (30 cm) reach advantage over his own.[60] Tyson did catch Douglas with an uppercut in the eighth round and knocked him to the floor, but Douglas recovered sufficiently to hand Tyson a heavy beating in the subsequent two rounds. After the fight, the Tyson camp would complain that the count was slow and that Douglas had taken longer than ten seconds to get back on his feet.[61] Just 35 seconds into the tenth round, Douglas unleashed a brutal uppercut, followed by a four-punch combination of hooks that sent Tyson to the canvas for the first time in his career. He was counted out by referee Octavio Meyran.[59]
    The knockout victory by Douglas over Tyson, the previously undefeated "baddest man on the planet" and arguably the most feared boxer in professional boxing at that time, has been described as one of the most shocking upsets in modern sports history.[62][63]
    After Douglas Despite the shocking loss, Tyson has said that losing to Douglas was the greatest moment of his career. ''I needed that fight to make me a better person and fighter. I have a broader perspective of myself and boxing.''[64]
    After the loss, Tyson recovered with first-round knockouts of Henry Tillman[65] and Alex Stewart[66] in his next two fights. Tyson's victory over Tillman, the 1984 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist, enabled Tyson to avenge his amateur losses at Tillman's hands. These bouts set up an elimination match for another shot at the undisputed world heavyweight championship, which Evander Holyfield had taken from Douglas in his first defense of the title.[67]
    Tyson, who was the number one contender, faced number two contender Donovan "Razor" Ruddock on March 18, 1991, in Las Vegas. Ruddock was seen as the most dangerous heavyweight around and was thought of as one of the hardest punching heavyweights. Tyson and Ruddock went back and forth for most of the fight, until referee Richard Steele controversially stopped the fight during the seventh round in favor of Tyson. This decision infuriated the fans in attendance, sparking a post-fight melee in the audience. The referee had to be escorted from the ring.[68]
    Tyson and Ruddock met again on June 28 that year, with Tyson knocking down Ruddock twice and winning a twelve-round unanimous decision 113''109, 114''108, and 114''108.[69] A fight between Tyson and Holyfield for the undisputed championship was scheduled for November 8, 1991, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, but Tyson pulled out after sustaining a rib cartilage injury during training.[70]
    Rape trial and prison Tyson was arrested in July 1991 for the rape of 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson's rape trial took place in the Marion County superior court from January 26 to February 10, 1992.[71]
    Partial corroboration of Washington's story came via testimony from Tyson's chauffeur who confirmed Desiree Washington's state of shock after the incident. Further testimony came from the emergency room physician who examined Washington more than 24 hours after the incident and confirmed that Washington's physical condition was consistent with rape.[72]
    Under lead defense lawyer Vincent J. Fuller's direct examination, Tyson claimed that everything had taken place with Washington's full consent and he claimed not to have forced himself upon her. When he was cross-examined by lead prosecutor Gregory Garrison, Tyson denied claims that he had misled Washington and insisted that she wanted to have sex with him.[73] Tyson was convicted on the rape charge on February 10, 1992 after the jury deliberated for nearly 10 hours.[74]
    Alan Dershowitz, acting as Tyson's counsel, filed an appeal urging error of law in the Court's exclusion of evidence of the victim's past sexual conduct (known as the Rape Shield Law), the exclusion of three potential defense witnesses, and the lack of a jury instruction on honest and reasonable mistake of fact.[75] The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled against Tyson in a 2''1 vote.[75] The Indiana Supreme Court let the lower court opinion stand due to a 2''2 split in its review. The tie vote was due to the fact that the then-Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court recused himself from the case. The Chief Justice later revealed he did so because of a heated argument between his wife and Dershowitz at a Yale Law School reunion concerning the case.[76] On March 26, 1992, Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison along with four years of probation.[77] Despite being 25 years old at the time of the crime, he was assigned to the Indiana Youth Center (now the Plainfield Correctional Facility) in April 1992,[78] and he was released in March 1995 after serving less than three years of the sentence.[79]
    It has been widely reported that while in prison, he converted to Islam and adopted the Muslim name Malik Abdulaziz[80] (though some sources report the adoption of a different Islamic name, Malik Shabazz).[81] However, Tyson has stated that he converted to Islam before entering prison, but made no efforts to correct the misinformation in the media.[82] Due to his conviction, Tyson is required to register as a Tier II sex offender under federal law.[83][84][85]
    Comeback After being paroled from prison, Tyson easily won his comeback bouts against Peter McNeeley and Buster Mathis Jr.. Tyson's first comeback fight grossed more than US$96 million worldwide, including a United States record $63 million for PPV television. The viewing of the fight was purchased by 1.52 million homes, setting both PPV viewership and revenue records.[86] The 89-second fight elicited criticism that Tyson's management lined up "tomato cans" to ensure easy victories for his return.[87] TV Guide included the Tyson''McNeeley fight in their list of the 50 Greatest TV Sports Moments of All Time in 1998.[88]
    Tyson regained one belt by easily winning the WBC title against Frank Bruno in March 1996. It was the second fight between the two, and Tyson knocked out Bruno in the third round.[89] In 1996, Lennox Lewis turned down a $13.5 million guarantee to fight Tyson. This would've been Lewis's highest fight purse to date. Lewis then accepted $4 million from Don King to step aside and allow Tyson to fight Bruce Seldon for an expected $30 million instead with the intention that if Tyson defeated Seldon, he would fight Lewis next.[90] Tyson added the WBA belt by defeating champion Seldon in the first round in September that year. Seldon was severely criticized and mocked in the popular press for seemingly collapsing to innocuous punches from Tyson.[91]
    Tyson''Holyfield fights Tyson vs. Holyfield I Tyson attempted to defend the WBA title against Evander Holyfield, who was in the fourth fight of his own comeback. Holyfield had retired in 1994 following the loss of his championship to Michael Moorer. It was said that Don King and others saw former champion Holyfield, who was 34 at the time of the fight and a huge underdog, as a washed-up fighter.[92]
    On November 9, 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tyson faced Holyfield in a title bout dubbed "Finally". In a surprising turn of events, Holyfield, who was given virtually no chance to win by numerous commentators,[93] defeated Tyson by TKO when referee Mitch Halpern stopped the bout in round eleven.[94] Holyfield became the second boxer to win a heavyweight championship belt three times. Holyfield's victory was marred by allegations from Tyson's camp of Holyfield's frequent headbutts[95] during the bout. Although the headbutts were ruled accidental by the referee,[95] they would become a point of contention in the subsequent rematch.[96]
    Tyson vs. Holyfield II and aftermath Tyson and Holyfield fought again on June 28, 1997. Originally, Halpern was supposed to be the referee, but after Tyson's camp protested, Halpern stepped aside in favor of Mills Lane.[97] The highly anticipated rematch was dubbed The Sound and the Fury, and it was held at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena, site of the first bout. It was a lucrative event, drawing even more attention than the first bout and grossing $100 million. Tyson received $30 million and Holyfield $35 million, the highest paid professional boxing purses until 2007.[98][99] The fight was purchased by 1.99 million households, setting a pay-per-view buy rate record that stood until May 5, 2007, being surpassed by Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.[99][100]
    Soon to become one of the most controversial events in modern sports,[101] the fight was stopped at the end of the third round, with Tyson disqualified[102] for biting Holyfield on both ears. The first time Tyson bit him, the match was temporarily stopped. Referee Mills Lane deducted two points from Tyson and the fight resumed. However, after the match resumed, Tyson bit him again, resulting in his disqualification, and Holyfield won the match. The first bite was severe enough to remove a piece of Holyfield's right ear, which was found on the ring floor after the fight.[103] Tyson later stated that his actions were retaliation for Holyfield repeatedly headbutting him without penalty.[96] In the confusion that followed the ending of the bout and announcement of the decision, a near riot occurred in the arena and several people were injured.[104] Tyson Holyfield II was the first heavyweight title fight in over 50 years to end in a disqualification.[105]
    As a subsequent fallout from the incident, US$3 million was immediately withheld from Tyson's $30-million purse by the Nevada state boxing commission (the most it could legally hold back at the time).[106] Two days after the fight, Tyson issued a statement,[107] apologizing to Holyfield for his actions and asked not to be banned for life over the incident.[108] Tyson was roundly condemned in the news media but was not without defenders. Novelist and commentator Katherine Dunn wrote a column that criticized Holyfield's sportsmanship in the controversial bout and charged the news media with being biased against Tyson.[109]
    On July 9, 1997, Tyson's boxing license was rescinded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in a unanimous voice vote; he was also fined US$3 million and ordered to pay the legal costs of the hearing.[110] As most state athletic commissions honor sanctions imposed by other states, this effectively made Tyson unable to box in the United States. The revocation was not permanent, as the commission voted 4''1 to restore Tyson's boxing license on October 18, 1998.[111]
    During his time away from boxing in 1998, Tyson made a guest appearance at WrestleMania XIV as an enforcer for the main event match between Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin. During this time, Tyson was also an unofficial member of Michaels's stable, D-Generation X. Tyson was paid $3 million for being guest enforcer of the match at WrestleMania XIV.[112]
    1999''2005 "I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. There's no one can stop me.
    Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm
    Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There's never been anyone as ruthless. I'm
    Sonny Liston. I'm
    Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!"
    '--Tyson's post-fight interview after knocking out Lou Savarese 38 seconds into the bout in June 2000.[113]
    In January 1999, Tyson returned to the ring for a match against the South African Francois Botha. This match also ended in controversy. While Botha initially controlled the fight, Tyson allegedly attempted to break Botha's arms during a tie-up and both boxers were cautioned by the referee in the ill-tempered bout. Botha was ahead on points on all scorecards and was confident enough to mock Tyson as the fight continued. Nonetheless, Tyson landed a straight right hand in the fifth round that knocked out Botha.[114] Critics noticed Tyson stopped using the bob and weave defense altogether following this return.[115]
    Legal problems arose with Tyson once again. On February 5, 1999, Tyson was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve two years probation along with undergoing 200 hours of community service for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident on August 31, 1998.[116] He served nine months of that sentence. After his release, he fought Orlin Norris on October 23, 1999. Tyson knocked down Norris with a left hook thrown after the bell sounded to end the first round. Norris injured his knee when he went down and said that he was unable to continue. Consequently, the bout was ruled a no contest.[117]
    In 2000, Tyson had three fights. The first match in January was staged at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England against Julius Francis. Following controversy as to whether Tyson was allowed into the country, he took four minutes to knock out Francis, ending the bout in the second round.[118] He also fought Lou Savarese in June 2000 in Glasgow, winning in the first round; the fight lasted only 38 seconds. Tyson continued punching after the referee had stopped the fight, knocking the referee to the floor as he tried to separate the boxers.[119] In October, Tyson fought the similarly controversial Andrew Golota,[120] winning in round three after GoÅ‚ota was unable to continue due to a broken cheekbone, concussion, and neck injury.[121] The result was later changed to no contest after Tyson refused to take a pre-fight drug test and then tested positive for marijuana in a post-fight urine test.[122] Tyson fought only once in 2001, beating Brian Nielsen in Copenhagen by TKO in the seventh round.[123]
    Lewis vs. Tyson Tyson once again had the opportunity to fight for a heavyweight championship in 2002. Lennox Lewis held the WBC, IBF, IBO and Lineal titles at the time. As promising fighters, Tyson and Lewis had sparred at a training camp in a meeting arranged by Cus D'Amato in 1984.[124] Tyson sought to fight Lewis in Nevada for a more lucrative box-office venue, but the Nevada Boxing Commission refused him a license to box as he was facing possible sexual assault charges at the time.[125]
    Two years prior to the bout, Tyson had made several inflammatory remarks to Lewis in an interview following the Savarese fight. The remarks included the statement "I want your heart, I want to eat your children."[126] On January 22, 2002, the two boxers and their entourages were involved in a brawl at a New York press conference to publicize the planned event.[127] A few weeks later, the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to grant Tyson a license for the fight, and the promoters had to make alternative arrangements. After multiple states balked at granting Tyson a license, the fight eventually occurred on June 8 at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis dominated the fight and knocked out Tyson with a right hand in the eighth round. Tyson was respectful after the fight and praised Lewis on his victory.[128] This fight was the highest-grossing event in pay-per-view history at that time, generating $106.9 million from 1.95 million buys in the US.[99][100]
    Later career, bankruptcy, and retirement In another Memphis fight on February 22, 2003, Tyson beat fringe contender Clifford Etienne 49 seconds into round one. The pre-fight was marred by rumors of Tyson's lack of fitness. Some said that he took time out from training to party in Las Vegas and get a new facial tattoo.[129] This eventually proved to be Tyson's final professional victory in the ring.
    In August 2003, after years of financial struggles, Tyson finally filed for bankruptcy.[130][131][132]
    On August 13, 2003, Tyson entered the ring for a face-to-face confrontation against K-1 fighting phenom, Bob Sapp, immediately after Sapp's win against Kimo Leopoldo in Las Vegas. K-1 signed Tyson to a contract with the hopes of making a fight happen between the two, but Tyson's felony history made it impossible for him to obtain a visa to enter Japan, where the fight would have been most profitable. Alternative locations were discussed, but the fight ultimately failed to happen.[133]
    On July 30, 2004, Tyson had a match against British boxer Danny Williams in another comeback fight, and this time, staged in Louisville, Kentucky. Tyson dominated the opening two rounds. The third round was even, with Williams getting in some clean blows and also a few illegal ones, for which he was penalized. In the fourth round, Tyson was unexpectedly knocked out. After the fight, it was revealed that Tyson was trying to fight on one leg, having torn a ligament in his other knee in the first round. This was Tyson's fifth career defeat.[134] He underwent surgery for the ligament four days after the fight. His manager, Shelly Finkel, claimed that Tyson was unable to throw meaningful right-hand punches since he had a knee injury.[135]
    On June 11, 2005, Tyson stunned the boxing world by quitting before the start of the seventh round in a close bout against journeyman Kevin McBride. In the 2008 documentary Tyson, he stated that he fought McBride for a payday, that he did not anticipate winning, that he was in poor physical condition and fed up with taking boxing seriously. After losing three of his last four fights, Tyson said he would quit boxing because he felt he had lost his passion for the sport.[136]
    In 2000 Tyson fired everyone working for him and enlisted new accountants, who prepared a statement showing he started the year $3.3 million in debt but earned $65.7 million.[137] In August 2007, Tyson pleaded guilty to drug possession and driving under the influence in an Arizona court, which stemmed from an arrest in December where authorities said Tyson, who has a long history of legal problems, admitted to using cocaine that day and to being addicted to the drug.[138]
    Exhibition fights Mike Tyson's World Tour To help pay off his debts, Tyson announced he would be doing a series of exhibition bouts, calling it Tyson's World Tour. For his first bout, Tyson returned to the ring in 2006 for a four-round exhibition against journeyman heavyweight Corey Sanders in Youngstown, Ohio.[139] Tyson, without headgear at 5 ft 10.5 in and 216 pounds, was in quality shape, but far from his prime against Sanders, at 6 ft 6 in[140] who wore headgear. Tyson appeared to be "holding back" in the exhibition to prevent an early end to the "show". "If I don't get out of this financial quagmire there's a possibility I may have to be a punching bag for somebody. The money I make isn't going to help my bills from a tremendous standpoint, but I'm going to feel better about myself. I'm not going to be depressed", explained Tyson about the reasons for his "comeback".[141] After the bout was poorly received by fans the remainder of the tour was cancelled.[142]
    Tyson vs. Jones It was announced in July 2020 that Tyson had signed a contract to face former four-division world champion, Roy Jones Jr., in an eight-round exhibition fight. Mixed martial arts coach Rafael Cordeiro was selected to be Tyson's trainer and cornerman.[143][144] The bout'--officially sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC)'--was initially scheduled to take place on September 12 at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California,[145] however, the date was pushed back to November 28 in order to maximize revenue for the event. The fight went the full 8 rounds, and was declared a draw.[146] The fight was a split draw and the three judges scored the fight as follows: Chad Dawson (76''76 draw), Christy Martin (79''73 for Tyson), and Vinny Pazienza (76''80 for Jones).[147]
    Legacy Tyson was The Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year in 1986 and 1988.[148] A 1998 ranking of "The Greatest Heavyweights of All-Time" by The Ring magazine placed Tyson at No.14 on the list.[149] Despite criticism of facing underwhelming competition during his run as champion, Tyson's knockout power and intimidation factor made him the sport's most dynamic box-office draw.[150] According to Douglas Quenqua of The New York Times, "The [1990s] began with Mike Tyson, considered by many to be the last great heavyweight champion, losing his title to the little-known Buster Douglas. Seven years later, Mr. Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear in a heavyweight champion bout'--hardly a proud moment for the sport."[151]
    He is remembered for his attire of black trunks, black shoes with no socks, and a plain white towel fit around his neck in place of a traditional robe, as well as his habit of rapidly pacing the ring before the start of a fight.[150][152] At his peak, Tyson rarely took a step back and had never been knocked down or seriously challenged.[152] According to Martial Arts World Report, it gave Tyson an Honorable Mention in its Ten Greatest Heavyweights of All Time rather than a ranking because longevity is a factor and the peak period of Tyson's career lasted only about 5 years.[153]
    In The Ring magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, released in 2002, Tyson was ranked at No. 72.[154] He is ranked No. 16 on The Ring magazine's 2003 list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.[155][156] Tyson has defeated 11 boxers for the world heavyweight title, the seventh-most in history.
    On June 12, 2011, Tyson was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame alongside legendary Mexican champion Julio C(C)sar Chvez, light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu, and actor/screenwriter Sylvester Stallone.[157] In 2011, Bleacher Report omitted Tyson from its list of top 10 heavyweights, saying that that "Mike Tyson is not a top 10 heavyweight. He killed the fighters he was supposed to beat, but when he fought another elite fighter, he always lost. I'm not talking about some of those B-level fighters he took a belt from. I'm talking about the handful of good boxers he fought throughout his career."[158]
    In 2013, Tyson was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame and headlined the induction ceremony.[159][160] Tyson was inducted into the Southern Nevada Hall of Fame in 2015 along with four other inductees with ties to Southern Nevada.[161][162]
    Tyson reflected on his strongest opponents in ten categories for a 2014 interview with The Ring magazine, including best jab, best defense, fastest hands, fastest feet, best chin, smartest, strongest, best puncher, best boxer, and best overall.[163]
    In 2017, The Ring magazine ranked Tyson as No. 9 of 20 heavyweight champtions based on a poll of panelsts that included trainers, matchmakers, media, historians, and boxers, including:[164]
    Trainers: Teddy Atlas, Pat Burns, Virgil Hunter, and Don TurnerMatchmakers: Eric Bottjer, Don Chargin, Don Elbaum, Bobby Goodman, Ron Katz, Mike Marchionte, Russell Peltz, and Bruce Trampler.Media: Al Bernstein, Ron Borges, Gareth A Davies, Norm Frauenheim, Jerry Izenberg, Harold Lederman, Paulie Malignaggi, Dan Rafael, and Michael RosenthalHistorians: Craig Hamilton, Steve Lott, Don McRae, Bob Mee, Clay Moyle, Adam Pollack, and Randy RobertsBoxers: Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson participated in the poll, but neither fighter ranked himself. Instead, a weighted average from the other panelists was assigned to their respective slots on their ballots.In 2020, Bill Caplan of The Ring magazine listed Tyson as No. 17 of the 20 greatest heavyweights of all time.[165] Tyson spoke with The Ring magazine in 2020 about his six greatest victories, which included knockouts of Trevor Berbick, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Larry Holmes, and Michael Spinks.[166] In 2020, CBS Sports boxing experts Brian Campbell and Brent Brookhouse ranked the top 10 heavyweights of the last 50 years and Tyson was ranked No. 7.[167]
    Life after boxing Tyson in the ring at
    Las Vegas in October 2006
    In an interview with USA Today published on June 3, 2005, Tyson said, "My whole life has been a waste '' I've been a failure." He continued: "I just want to escape. I'm really embarrassed with myself and my life. I want to be a missionary. I think I could do that while keeping my dignity without letting people know they chased me out of the country. I want to get this part of my life over as soon as possible. In this country nothing good is going to come of me. People put me so high; I wanted to tear that image down."[168] Tyson began to spend much of his time tending to his 350 pigeons in Paradise Valley, an upscale enclave near Phoenix, Arizona.[169]
    Tyson has stayed in the limelight by promoting various websites and companies.[170] In the past Tyson had shunned endorsements, accusing other athletes of putting on a false front to obtain them.[171] Tyson has held entertainment boxing shows at a casino in Las Vegas[172] and started a tour of exhibition bouts to pay off his numerous debts.[173]
    On December 29, 2006, Tyson was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on suspicion of DUI and felony drug possession; he nearly crashed into a police SUV shortly after leaving a nightclub. According to a police probable-cause statement, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, "[Tyson] admitted to using [drugs] today and stated he is an addict and has a problem."[174] Tyson pleaded not guilty on January 22, 2007 in Maricopa County Superior Court to felony drug possession and paraphernalia possession counts and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs. On February 8 he checked himself into an inpatient treatment program for "various addictions" while awaiting trial on the drug charges.[175]
    On September 24, 2007, Tyson pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and driving under the influence. He was convicted of these charges in November 2007 and sentenced to 24 hours in jail. After his release, he was ordered to serve three years probation and undergo 360 hours community service. Prosecutors had requested a year-long jail sentence, but the judge praised Tyson for seeking help with his drug problems.[176] On November 11, 2009, Tyson was arrested after getting into a scuffle at Los Angeles International airport with a photographer.[177] No charges were filed.
    Tyson has taken acting roles in movies and television, most famously playing a fictionalized version of himself in the 2009 film The Hangover.
    In September 2011, Tyson gave an interview in which he made comments about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin including crude and violent descriptions of interracial sex. These comments were reprinted on The Daily Caller website. Journalist Greta van Susteren criticized Tyson and The Daily Caller over the comments, which she described as "smut" and "violence against women".[178]
    After debuting a one-man show in Las Vegas, Tyson collaborated with film director Spike Lee and brought the show to Broadway in August 2012.[179][180] In February 2013, Tyson took his one-man show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth on a 36-city, three-month national tour. Tyson talks about his personal and professional life on stage.[181] The one-man show was aired on HBO on November 16, 2013.
    In October 2012, Tyson launched the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation.[182] The mission of the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation is to "give kids a fighting chance" by providing innovative centers that provide for the comprehensive needs of kids from broken homes.
    In August 2013, Tyson teamed up with Acquinity Sports to form Iron Mike Productions, a boxing promotions company.
    In September 2013, Tyson was featured on a six-episode television series on Fox Sports 1 that documented his personal and private life entitled Being: Mike Tyson.[183][184]
    In November 2013, Tyson's Undisputed Truth was published, which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.[185] At the Golden Podium Awards Ceremony, Tyson received the SPORTEL Special Prize for the best autobiography.[186]
    In May 2017, Tyson published his second book, Iron Ambition,[187] which details his time with trainer and surrogate father Cus D'Amato.
    He hosts the podcast Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson.[188]
    In February 2018, Tyson attended the international mixed martial arts (MMA) tournament in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Tyson said: "as I have travelled all over the country of Russia I have realised that the people are very sensitive and kind. But most Americans do not have any experience of that."[189]
    On May 12, 2020, Tyson posted a video on his Instagram of him training again. At the end of the video, Tyson hinted at a return to boxing by saying, "I'm back".[190]
    On May 23, 2020, at All Elite Wrestling's Double or Nothing, Tyson helped Cody defeat Lance Archer alongside Jake Roberts and presented him the inaugural AEW TNT Championship. Tyson alongside Henry Cejudo, Rashad Evans, and Vitor Belfort appeared on the May 27 episode of AEW Dynamite facing off against Chris Jericho and his stable The Inner Circle.[191]
    Tiki Lau released a dance music single, Mike Tyson in October 2020 which includes vocals from Tyson.[192]
    Personal life Tyson resides in Seven Hills, Nevada.[194] He has been married three times, and has seven children, one deceased, with three women; in addition to his biological children, Tyson includes his second wife's oldest daughter as one of his own.[195]
    His first marriage was to actress Robin Givens from February 7, 1988 to February 14, 1989.[52] Givens was known at the time for her role on the sitcom Head of the Class. Tyson's marriage to Givens was especially tumultuous, with allegations of violence, spousal abuse, and mental instability on Tyson's part.[196] Matters came to a head when Tyson and Givens gave a joint interview with Barbara Walters on the ABC TV newsmagazine show 20/20 in September 1988, in which Givens described life with Tyson as "torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine."[197] Givens also described Tyson as "manic depressive" on national television while Tyson looked on with an intent and calm expression.[196] A month later, Givens announced that she was seeking a divorce from the allegedly abusive Tyson.[196] According to the book Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson, Tyson admitted that he punched Givens and stated, "that was the best punch I've ever thrown in my entire life."[198] Tyson claimed that book was "filled with inaccuracies."[199] They had no children but she reported having had a miscarriage; Tyson claimed that she was never pregnant and only used that to get him to marry her.[196][200] During their marriage, the couple lived in a mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey.[201][202]
    His second marriage was to Monica Turner from April 19, 1997 to January 14, 2003.[203] At the time of the divorce filing, Turner worked as a pediatric resident at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.[204] She is the sister of Michael Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and former Republican National Committee Chairman.[205] Turner filed for divorce from Tyson in January 2002, claiming that he committed adultery during their five-year marriage, an act that "has neither been forgiven nor condoned."[204] The couple had two children; son Amir and daughter Rayna.
    On May 25, 2009, Tyson's four-year-old daughter Exodus was found by her seven-year-old brother Miguel unconscious and tangled in a cord, dangling from an exercise treadmill. The child's mother untangled her, administered CPR and called for medical attention. Tyson, who was in Las Vegas at the time of the incident, traveled back to Phoenix to be with her. She died of her injuries on May 26, 2009.[206][207]
    Eleven days after his daughter's death, Tyson wed for the third time, to longtime girlfriend Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer, age 32, exchanging vows on Saturday, June 6, 2009, in a short, private ceremony at the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton.[208] They have two children; daughter Milan and son Morocco.[195]
    Tyson has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[209]
    In March 2011, Tyson appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss his new Animal Planet reality series Taking on Tyson. In the interview with DeGeneres, Tyson discussed some of the ways he had improved his life in the past two years, including sober living and a vegan diet.[210] However, in August 2013 he admitted publicly that he had lied about his sobriety and was on the verge of death from alcoholism.[211] In December 2013, during an interview with Fox News, Tyson talked about his progress with sobriety and how being in the company of good people has made him want to be a better and more humble person. Tyson also talked about religion and said that he is very grateful to be a Muslim and that he needs Allah.[212] He also revealed that he is no longer vegan, stating, "I was a vegan for four years but not anymore. I eat chicken every now and then. I should be a vegan. [No red meat] at all, no way! I would be very sick if I ate red meat. That's probably why I was so crazy before."[212] In 2013, Tyson stated "the more I look at churches and mosques, the more I see the devil".[213]
    In 2015, Tyson announced that he was supporting Donald Trump's presidential candidacy.[214]
    In popular culture At the height of his fame and career in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Tyson was one of the most recognized sports personalities in the world. In addition to his many sporting accomplishments, his outrageous and controversial behavior in the ring and in his private life has kept him in the public eye and in the courtroom.[215] As such, Tyson has been the subject of myriad popular media including movies, television, books and music. He has also been featured in video games and as a subject of parody or satire. Tyson became involved in professional wrestling and has made many cameo appearances in film and television.
    The film Tyson was released in 1995 and was directed by Uli Edel. It explores the life of Mike Tyson, from the death of his guardian and trainer Cus D'Amato to his rape conviction. Tyson is played by Michael Jai White.
    Published in 2007, author Joe Layden's book The Last Great Fight: The Extraordinary Tale of Two Men and How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever, chronicled the lives of Tyson and Douglas before and after their heavyweight championship fight.
    In 2008, the documentary Tyson premiered at the annual Cannes Film Festival in France.
    He is the titular character in Mike Tyson Mysteries, which started airing on October 27, 2014 on Adult Swim. In the animated series, Tyson voices a fictionalized version of himself, solving mysteries in the style of Scooby-Doo.[216][217][218]
    In early March 2015, Tyson appeared on the track "Iconic" on Madonna's album Rebel Heart. Tyson says some lines at the beginning of the song.[219]
    In late March 2015, Ip Man 3 was announced. With Donnie Yen reprising his role as the titular character, Bruce Lee's martial arts master, Ip Man, while Mike Tyson has been confirmed to join the cast.[220] Principal photography began on March 25, 2015, and was premiered in Hong Kong on December 16, 2015.
    In January 2017, Tyson launched his YouTube channel with Shots Studios, a comedy video and comedy music production company with young digital stars like Lele Pons and Rudy Mancuso. Tyson's channel includes parody music videos and comedy sketches.[221][222]
    In October 2017, Tyson was announced as the new face of Australian car servicing franchise Ultra Tune. He has taken over from Jean-Claude van Damme in fronting television commercials for the brand, and the first advert is due to air in January 2018 during the Australian Open.[223][224]
    A joint Mainland China-Hong Kong-directed film on female friendship titled Girls 2: Girls vs Gangsters (Vietnamese: Girls 2: Nhá>>¯ng C´ Gi v GÄƒng TÆ) that was shot earlier from July''August 2016 at several locations around Vietnam was released in March 2018, featuring Tyson as "Dragon".[225][226]
    Professional boxing record Professional record summary58 fights50 wins6 lossesBy knockout445By decision50By disqualification11No contests2No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateAgeLocationNotes58Loss50''6 (2) Kevin McBrideRTD6 (10), 3:00 Jun 11, 200538 years, 346 days MCI Center, Washington, D.C., U.S. 57Loss50''5 (2) Danny WilliamsKO4 (10), 2:51 Jul 30, 200438 years, 30 days Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. 56Win50''4 (2) Clifford EtienneKO1 (10), 0:49 Feb 22, 200336 years, 237 days The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. 55Loss49''4 (2) Lennox LewisKO8 (12), 2:25 Jun 8, 200235 years, 343 days The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. For WBC, IBF, IBO, and The Ring heavyweight titles 54Win49''3 (2) Brian NielsenRTD6 (10), 3:00 Oct 13, 200135 years, 115 days Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark 53NC48''3 (2) Andrew GolotaRTD3 (10), 3:00 Oct 20, 200034 years, 112 days The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S. Originally an RTD win for Tyson, later ruled an NC after he failed a drug test 52Win48''3 (1) Lou SavareseTKO1 (10), 0:38 Jun 24, 200033 years, 360 days Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland 51Win47''3 (1) Julius FrancisTKO2 (10), 1:03 Jan 29, 200033 years, 213 days MEN Arena, Manchester, England 50NC46''3 (1) Orlin NorrisNC1 (10), 3:00 Oct 23, 199933 years, 115 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. NC after Norris was unable to continue from a Tyson foul 49Win46''3Francois BothaKO5 (10), 2:59 Jan 16, 199932 years, 200 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. 48Loss45''3Evander HolyfieldDQ3 (12), 3:00 Jun 28, 199730 years, 363 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. For WBA heavyweight title;Tyson disqualified for biting 47Loss45''2Evander HolyfieldTKO11 (12), 0:37 Nov 9, 199630 years, 132 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Lost WBA heavyweight title 46Win45''1Bruce SeldonTKO1 (12), 1:49 Sep 7, 199630 years, 69 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Won WBA heavyweight title 45Win44''1Frank BrunoTKO3 (12), 0:50 Mar 16, 199629 years, 260 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Won WBC heavyweight title 44Win43''1Buster Mathis Jr.KO3 (12), 2:32 Dec 16, 199529 years, 169 days CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 43Win42''1Peter McNeeleyDQ1 (10), 1:29 Aug 19, 199529 years, 50 days MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. McNeeley disqualified after his manager entered the ring 42Win41''1Donovan RuddockUD12Jun 28, 199124 years, 363 days The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. 41Win40''1Donovan RuddockTKO7 (12), 2:22 Mar 18, 199124 years, 233 days The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. 40Win39''1Alex StewartTKO1 (10), 2:27 Dec 8, 199024 years, 161 days Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 39Win38''1Henry TillmanKO1 (10), 2:47 Jun 16, 199023 years, 351 days Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. 38Loss37''1Buster DouglasKO10 (12), 1:22 Feb 11, 199023 years, 226 days Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan Lost WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles 37Win37''0Carl WilliamsTKO1 (12), 1:33 Jul 21, 198923 years, 21 days Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Retained WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring heavyweight titles 36Win36''0Frank BrunoTKO5 (12), 2:55 Feb 25, 198922 years, 240 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring heavyweight titles 35Win35''0Michael SpinksKO1 (12), 1:31 Jun 27, 198821 years, 363 days Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Retained WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles;Won The Ring heavyweight title 34Win34''0Tony TubbsTKO2 (12), 2:54 Mar 21, 198821 years, 265 days Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan Retained WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles 33Win33''0Larry HolmesTKO4 (12), 2:55 Jan 22, 198821 years, 186 days Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Retained WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles 32Win32''0Tyrell BiggsTKO7 (15), 2:59 Oct 16, 198721 years, 108 days Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Retained WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles 31Win31''0Tony TuckerUD12Aug 1, 198721 years, 32 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBA and WBC heavyweight titles;Won IBF heavyweight title 30Win30''0Pinklon ThomasTKO6 (12), 2:00 May 30, 198720 years, 334 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester Nevada, U.S. Retained WBA and WBC heavyweight titles 29Win29''0James SmithUD12Mar 7, 198720 years, 250 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBC heavyweight title;Won WBA heavyweight title 28Win28''0Trevor BerbickTKO2 (12), 2:35 Nov 22, 198620 years, 145 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. Won WBC heavyweight title 27Win27''0Alfonso RatliffTKO2 (10), 1:41 Sep 6, 198620 years, 68 days Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. 26Win26''0Jos(C) RibaltaTKO10 (10), 1:37 Aug 17, 198620 years, 48 days Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 25Win25''0Marvis FrazierKO1 (10), 0:30 Jul 26, 198620 years, 26 days Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York, U.S. 24Win24''0Lorenzo BoydKO2 (10), 1:43 Jul 11, 198620 years, 11 days Stevensville Hotel, Swan Lake, New York, U.S. 23Win23''0William HoseaKO1 (10), 2:03 Jun 28, 198619 years, 363 days Houston Field House, Troy, New York, U.S. 22Win22''0Reggie GrossTKO1 (10), 2:36 Jun 13, 198619 years, 348 days Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S. 21Win21''0Mitch GreenUD10May 20, 198619 years, 324 days Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S. 20Win20''0James TillisUD10May 3, 198619 years, 307 days Civic Center, Glens Falls, New York, U.S. 19Win19''0Steve ZouskiKO3 (10), 2:39 Mar 10, 198619 years, 253 days Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, U.S. 18Win18''0Jesse FergusonTKO6 (10), 1:19 Feb 16, 198619 years, 231 days Houston Field House, Troy, New York, U.S. Originally a DQ win for Tyson, later ruled a TKO 17Win17''0Mike JamesonTKO5 (8), 0:46 Jan 24, 198619 years, 208 days Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 16Win16''0David JacoTKO1 (10), 2:16 Jan 11, 198619 years, 195 days Plaza Convention Center, Albany, New York, U.S. 15Win15''0Mark YoungTKO1 (10), 0:50 Dec 27, 198519 years, 180 days Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York, U.S. 14Win14''0Sammy ScaffTKO1 (10), 1:19 Dec 6, 198519 years, 159 days Felt Forum, New York City, New York, U.S. 13Win13''0Conroy NelsonTKO2 (8), 0:30 Nov 22, 198519 years, 145 days Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York, U.S. 12Win12''0Eddie RichardsonKO1 (8), 1:17 Nov 13, 198519 years, 136 days Ramada Hotel, Houston, Texas, U.S. 11Win11''0Sterling BenjaminTKO1 (8), 0:54 Nov 1, 198519 years, 124 days Latham Coliseum, Latham, New York, U.S. 10Win10''0Robert ColayKO1 (8), 0:37 Oct 25, 198519 years, 117 days Atlantis Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 9Win9''0Donnie LongTKO1 (6), 1:28 Oct 9, 198519 years, 101 days Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 8Win8''0Michael JohnsonKO1 (6), 0:39 Sep 5, 198519 years, 67 days Atlantis Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 7Win7''0Lorenzo CanadyKO1 (6), 1:05 Aug 15, 198519 years, 46 days Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 6Win6''0Larry SimsKO3 (6), 2:04 Jul 19, 198519 years, 19 days Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. 5Win5''0John AldersonTKO2 (6), 3:00 Jul 11, 198519 years, 11 days Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 4Win4''0Ricardo SpainTKO1 (6), 0:39 Jun 20, 198518 years, 355 days Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. 3Win3''0Don HalpinKO4 (6), 1:04 May 23, 198518 years, 327 days Albany, New York, U.S. 2Win2''0Trent SingletonTKO1 (4), 0:52 Apr 10, 198518 years, 284 days Albany, New York, U.S. 1Win1''0Hector MercedesTKO1 (4), 1:47 Mar 6, 198518 years, 249 days Plaza Convention Center, Albany, New York, U.S. Exhibition boxing record Professional record summary1 fight0 wins0 lossesDraws1Pay-per-view bouts Professional boxing PPV home television No.DateFightBillingBuysNetworkUnited States1June 27, 1988
    Tyson vs. SpinksOnce and For All 700,000[227] King Vision2March 18, 1991
    Tyson vs. RuddockThe Fight of the Year 960,000[228] King Vision3June 28, 1991
    Tyson vs. Ruddock IIThe Rematch 1,250,000[229] King Vision4August 19, 1995
    Tyson vs. McNeeleyHe's Back 1,600,000[230] Showtime/King Vision5March 16, 1996
    Tyson vs. Bruno IIThe Championship Part I 1,400,000[230] Showtime/King Vision6September 7, 1996
    Tyson vs. SeldonLiberation: Champion vs. Champion 1,150,000[231] Showtime/King Vision7November 9, 1996
    Tyson vs. HolyfieldFinally 1,600,000[230] Showtime/King Vision8June 28, 1997
    Tyson vs. Holyfield IIThe Sound and the Fury 1,990,000[231] Showtime/King Vision9Jan 16, 1999
    Tyson vs. BothaTyson-Botha 750,000[231] Showtime10October 20, 2000
    Tyson vs. GolotaShowdown in Motown 450,000[231] Showtime11June 8, 2002
    Lewis vs. TysonLewis''Tyson Is On 1,970,000[231] HBO/Showtime12February 22, 2003
    Tyson vs. EtienneBack to Business 100,000[232] Showtime13July 30, 2004
    Tyson vs. WilliamsReturn for Revenge 150,000[233] Showtime14June 11, 2005
    Tyson vs. McBrideTyson-McBride 250,000[234] Showtime15December 5, 2020 Tyson vs. JonesTyson vs Jones1,600,000 [235]Total sales15,920,000DateFightNetworkBuysSource(s)United KingdomMarch 16, 1996 Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson IISky Box Office600,000[236]June 28, 1997 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson IISky Box Office550,000[237]January 29, 2000 Mike Tyson vs. Julius FrancisSky Box Office500,000[237]June 8, 2002 Lennox Lewis vs. Mike TysonSky Box Office750,000[238]Total sales2,400,000Closed-circuit theatre TV Select pay-per-view boxing buy rates at American closed-circuit theatre television venues:
    DateFightBuysRevenueRevenue (inflation)June 27, 1988 Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks800,000 [239]$32,000,000[239]$69,180,000June 28, 1997 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II120,000 [240]$9,000,000[241]$14,330,000Total sales920,000$41,000,000$79,930,000Professional wrestling World Wrestling Federation All Elite Wrestling Awards and honors Humane letters The Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1989 awarded Tyson an honorary doctorate in humane letters: "Mike demonstrates that hard work, determination and perseverance can enable one to overcome any obstacles."[29]
    Boxing Ring magazine Prospect of the Year (1985)2— Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (1986, 1988)2— Sugar Ray Robinson Award winner (1987, 1989)BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality (1989)International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee (Class of 2011)"Guirlande d'Honneur" by the FICTS (Milan, 2010) [245]Professional wrestling WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)[246]See also List of heavyweight boxing championsList of undisputed boxing championsReferences ^ Lewis, Darren (November 15, 2005). "Mike Tyson Exclusive: No More Mr Bad Ass". The Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on May 27, 2014 . Retrieved April 25, 2014 . ^ J, Jenna (August 22, 2013). "Mike Tyson: 'I always thought of myself as a big guy, as a giant, I never thought I was five foot ten ' ". Doghouse Boxing. Archived from the original on August 26, 2013 . Retrieved April 25, 2014 . ^ McIntyre, Jay (September 1, 2014). " " Iron," Mike Tyson '' At His Sharpest". Boxingnews24.com. 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  more facts with Adam Curry for January 4 2021 it's episode number 56.
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  Okay, now now I picked off the new year.
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  Thank you Kanye and hello mo facts
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  How you doing, sir? I'm good man. How you doing man? Happy New Year. I am. I am blessed. I made about a 2020 live so I have no complaints. Yes she did. And here we go with our new year's horns. The third podcast I've played them on this week.
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  Oh man, I know you got a real busy season from Halloween through Thanksgiving through Christmas and I did get birthdays and all kinds of celebrations straight through for like the whole fourth quarter.
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  man had birthdays Mama's birthday brothers birthdays daddy birthday is my birthday. Jesus's birthday.
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  Can't forget. Yeah. No, that's nice. Man. You had a great New Year's Eve you would you celebrate at home?
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  Yes, man. I got so much to fill you in on Christmas. first Christmas in the new house. Oh, right. Christmas. I was gonna add Perfect. Perfect.
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  And you take pictures and you got Rocco frolicking in the snow. I see it.
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  It was beautiful. kids didn't wake up too early in life. As soon as they woke up it started snowing. I mean, you couldn't it was something on a like a hallmark bone picture. I'm so happy for you. That's perfect. Especially in the new house. Outstanding. And what did you get socks? aftershave?
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  cashmere socks
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  for my daughter? Yes very dimasi Peter nice and toasty in home.
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  And the bills I got
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  the receipt
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  Am I gonna write that down sucks and receive just my mom and I kind of like it
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  Yeah, well it's it's been a little it's been crazy.
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  I don't want to be rude. How was your How was your Christmas? My Christmas was great. Thank you. That was a Tina myself and we had her daughter my stepdaughter over was real nice. Everyone else has you know Christina social distance in the Netherlands and her other daughters
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  are locked down I should say is semi locked down in Chicago. So thank goodness, we know Austin's not quite so stringent. It was nice. I got a cashmere sweater. I the my my greatest present, which my lovely wife gave me is one of these things that you'd never think of? Because of course I don't really need anything so it was crappy to shop for me. So cashmere. cashmere sweater wins that always wins any sweater wins.
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  A motorized professional knife sharpener.
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  Wow, that sounds cool.
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  And there's this series business which has a drive belt with the sandpaper on it and sharpening stones right and left and you can do scissors and I've already cut up my hands pretty good. These knives are so sharp. Nice. Oh,
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  normally just kind of bounces off my my nail there now no sliced into my nail. So yeah, but it was just good.
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  And, you know, we're kind of in this weird situation where there's lots of rumblings everywhere and we're not quite sure what's going on. And we're gonna have a 45 savage final fourth acts crescendo, which I am still expecting.
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  It's but you know, you don't know you just don't know there's so much taking place. And that and that's just the stuff that we're paying attention to forget about the asteroids don't pay any attention to that.
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  Lots of other things going on, but that's
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  as usual. Um, I'm looking around.
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  I'm sure everybody's wondering about the the long break. So I'll explain more as we get into the clips. I have a bit of not explanation but just explaining, like explain what was going on. But the clips will link to that but I guess we can get right into the bag.
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  roll this up and see what's going on.
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  We'll have topics and slides around where it stops. Nobody knows more of course does because he's extremely prepared this journey for us today's topic on episode 56 is
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  love.
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  Love
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  Love
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  I love how you change.
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  You change the title of the clip so all I see is Steven Universe, Grandma, so I don't know what the I don't know what the show topic is. Okay, potluck. I got it. I got it. Oh, nice. So it's good to end the year or begin the year on a potluck because we had a lot of clips and a lot of topics that we weren't able to get to win 2020 right. And
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  the last show, which was one of my personal favorites, because I did a birthday show for myself on the Gucci man and a cheesy verse, man got a lot of cool feedback on that show. People really like that.
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  So in the spirit of that, we're gonna do our own versus
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  we gotta Okay. All right. All right. So we got it. We got three three matchups. And the reason why I'm doing this is I'm going to show how it's not a versus in the sense of comparing the two people in their talents, so whatever, net and in that sense, it's more of how the media plays two black men off of each other for their narrative, right. And we got a triple header here. So
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  it's a pressure cooker, everybody. Yeah, we got
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  we got our mike tyson vs. bootsy badass. Number two.
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  The world is raving.
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  an NBA star Dwayne Wade's 12 year old son is transitioning from male to female. To 12 year old boy whose name is Zion ever now goes by the name of ziua. Now they're saying Dewayne spoke candidly in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres. But you know, we all love Ellen DeGeneres. We're just gonna add later today they're saying they're saying in the interview, he discusses job being a father's desire, formerly known as Zion. There's an NBA baller revealed to Elon that he reached out to the cast of poles down for health, which are dresses to help address the situation. Man, culture is sad, isn't it?
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  sad when I hear this stuff, man.
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  So we have that, but it's great because it gives us a real launching point. Yeah, to get into some real insight. So that was Gary with the T on the Rickey smiley Morning Show. And that was from potluck show 26 and this is the was the
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  genesis of the mike tyson versus bootsy, badass or bootsy, formerly known as Luna bootsy. Um, their interaction so you had a desire Wade come out. And as
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  the transitions I have weighed didn't really come out their parents kind of through saya weighed out the way I saw it.
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  That's how it was taken by a lot of people because we discussed this and this is not a rehash of that story. But what I need to do is lay it out there and as you heard, the world is raving, and to limp to your point. Um, they got in touch with the cast oppose.
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  It's like, if you're trying to get your child the best help, you would think you would go to professionals, not celebrities, but a lot of people think Gabrielle Union is actually doing the handling in this situation. So um, I don't want to die. I mean, I don't want to go down that rabbit hole too far. But this what number three is their reaction from bootsy badass on this subject.
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  Say somebody should go any way you go.
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  That is a meal.
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  They don't even know that we even know what the next meal gonna be. They don't eat they don't have figured out.
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  He might meet a woman anything at 16 and fall in love with him. But he'll be gone. I don't like brothers. If you're going to fall down. Don't
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  worry if you're gonna be gay. Let them be gay. But don't cut it.
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  Man, like don't come as a woman.
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  he's not.
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  He's not.
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  He hasn't made his final decision. Don't cut it out the way we broke, you tripping.
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  tripping out.
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  So
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  I totally forgot. We might need to play the warning if you have it.
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  Hold on a second. I'm so sorry.
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  Some viewers may find the following disturbing Viewer discretion is advised. I'd love hearing that. Okay, let's let's go with I just want to warn the people out there, you might have some adult, of course, if we cover this kind of information is pertinent to the story. It's not out of just being bow. So that to bootsy and Mike Tyson, so you heard bootsy his reaction, his reaction was more age issue, and that the emasculation of a male.
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  It wasn't like a hatred towards LGBT. He said itself, he's 18 he wouldn't really care, you know, that kind of thing. And I think that was everybody's kind of approach. But of course, the liberal media went and dug up and to boots these past and bootsy had a problem. And this is from the New York Post. Rapid bootsy badass claims he pays sex pay for sex, pay, he paid for sex for his 14 year old son. All right. So in that article, he's quoted on Instagram on one of those social media sites. He says, Yeah, ah, hell yeah, I got my effing son bleep
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  performed on it. So they use that against them. It's like all you know, I mean, it's so how can you talk about kids and you know, this kind of thing? Um, so I'm talking about this, because
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  Lucy ain't the best example for a parent. I'm just gonna say that now. But when I heard this, I'm gonna go off on a little tangent here. Um, it reminded me of this show called the bill, I'll call billions. Right? And I don't know if you watch billions or not. Yes. Watch that. Yes, I have watched it religiously. And I think I know exactly what you're referring to.
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  Alright, so Chuck, Sr. and Chuck. Chuck Jr. I mean, that's his son. He played the role of I think the district attorney or something for the New
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  York State net for the Southern District of New York. Southern District. That's it. So anyway, that's what's important to the story. His kid's father, who was a very domineering parent, helicopter parent, if you want to call it I mean, to the extreme, actually pay for him to have sex when he was 14. So this is not cultural, but not even cultural. It's not even something that's weird for the times this this used to be very common back in the 50s.
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  Right, so I just want to show I only went on that small tangent to show how far we've come that something that it used to be acceptable as having your son You know, paying for sex for your son a young age, I guess the
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  well let's put it mescaline ad or something, but let's let's put it this way. If there's all these things you can do and you can advise your child and coach your child and push your child or except your child all of these things that are completely okay. Which even I find to some degree is certainly at young age really borderline unacceptable. Why is this not acceptable?
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  That's my point. Yeah. And why is the New York Post saying that's unacceptable? But when somebody comes out and says, whatever their child is doing, you know, transitioning or whatever, if people say I have an issue with the age they should be taken the same way i'm just showing the you know, disparity and acceptance and these two events and how he was used it was used as a
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  as a tool against bootsy just wanting to cover that you mean just as going I'm going into the next clip so we had um, Rickey smiley because that's what the Gary with the T was covering on and Ricky had an issue with his with the ages as well and a clip for everybody
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  opinion because
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  it
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  can die.
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  Yep, yep, so just Yep. So just let it go. But anyway,
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  and then they got the baby up here they take a found a picture of the baby up here.
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  acrylic nails, acrylic nails, and a halter top shirt on. No.
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  Be what you want to be.
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  But the question is, if that boy was a real girl, is it appropriate? Cuz my 12 year old daughter wouldn't have on know how to talk and know acrylic acrylic nails. My 12 year old girl right how they got plenty of time for that. They got the rest of they liked to do that. Now why you got the March that out in front of everybody and that's still a child. This is me. Now you can get mad at me in LG. bt community can attack me or whatever and say whatever they want to say but I'm just talking about just as a parent, you got to use a certain amount of discretion and it almost feels like exploitation.
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  To a child's sexuality.
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  Yeah, I'm actually only play.
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  And I can't remember if we talked about this on when this came up the first time, but it is, what is there an equal percentage of black kids transitioning versus white kids? Do you know any give any idea about the stats or just a feeling for him? I haven't. I haven't looked into those stats. But I can't say this as anecdotal. I don't remember any child of any other race being pushed.
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  Right.
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  To this level, not any other child of a celebrity period. Give me another example. I can't think of one offhand. I mean, we hear about Angelina Jolie and her whatever. Right. Like I'm saying, I mean, you hear but you don't hear him being thrust it as a as a LGBT celebrities. And that's not the point of this. That's not that's not the point of me playing these black background clips. So we can hear I know, it just
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  never stops to fascinate me. I'm sorry. Right? No, no, I'm just saying, because I want to make people think we're rehashing that story, but it's important to the vs. Yep. So we have
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  Rickey smiley, who is very, I would assume liberal and politically, not politically liberal. Even he has issue with the age and he's like, he made a valid point that saying, even my 12 year old daughter, women, dress in the manner, that desire is dressing, so I'm just laying that out. And you might say, Okay, well, that's misogynistic. Right? Now, I want to point one other thing out before I move on. Notice Ricky was at a loss of words. He couldn't even get started on he was afraid, like, exactly.
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  So that tell you for somebody that pretty much makes a joke about everything, because he's a comedian. Um, when he took on this, he had to walk His Word to these words very carefully. And if you notice, in the clip, Gary tells him just let it go. And Gary is of the LGBT community. So he was like, Don't Don't even don't say the wrong thing. Walk through them landmine. So he, I mean, that's the kind of the, I wanted to set the tone of how people have to address this. But it wasn't only a man man issue, because we have another person that we visit on the show, and this was show 46, which was a potluck as well, that was a thing Kanye King and Kamala, I think I have it mixed up. But that was the show. Um, yes, we have Angela Stanton, Angeles, Stephen King.
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  And she is the mother of a LGBT child. And let's just hear her perspective on this topic. How does it benefit? black America? Y'all talking about restoring right black America, restoring our lives, restore an economy and starting our families? How does it even benefit black America to encourage our men to become women? Because first of all, anybody understands the strategies of war, it's hard to take out a colony of people, the first thing they do is remove the man. So as a woman, first of all, I need my man, I need my black man. You know, I need you to be a man, I need you to lead. I don't need you to be competition. I don't need you to feel like you are a woman or feel like you are me because I don't have to give my phone away. So no, I don't support
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  feminism, especially not our boys. But if you Oh, man, and you want to make a decision that that's what you want to do. That's what you want to do. But I don't have to support it. And I don't. And tell me, how does it benefit us? Now, just something I've noticed
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  is that you lump everybody together. You say this child is LGBTQ. And that person's child is LGBTQ kind of not fair. The kids either gay, straight, queer, whatever, you can't be the whole acronym. So I don't actually know what what, what, what was her child? or What is her child?
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  Her child is gay. Okay, so the male child, okay. And, and he's, he's gay. But the reason why I say that the acronym is because that's how it's presented. As this community Now we all know that there's infighting in the community and exactly, you know, we've had that discussion before but just for the sake of brevity. Yeah. I actually couldn't remember
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  that in the context of that clip, it made a difference but he had not make sense. Okay. Right. wish her son is
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  very feminine.
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  Well, so I mean, I don't want to, like I said, we're not what that's not what we're here for. I just want to give some background to this story and everybody's perspective across a broad spectrum of political backgrounds. Angela Stan and being a adamant Trump supporter. Rickey smiley being an adamant democrat reporter. supporter.
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  He's probably both supporter and reporter Sure.
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  Yeah. Right. Hey, little boots that he's he's representing the trap. So that's that's the politics from the trap. So where the angle I'm coming from, this is the cocu surf. Now we've we've talked about this before on 48. And that was the Shootist, and this is from Dr. Hassan t Hassan Johnson. And just to get some background on him, we're talking about serious professional here. He is a Associate Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Fresno. And he specializes in black male studies, which I think is one of a handful of schools that have that, that, uh, that studies. And it's his story, more specifically, black masculinity, comparative black gender, and black male existentialism, I think.
  21:24
  Anyway, um, he operates in the black manosphere. And we talked about this before, which the black manosphere is this somewhat safe space for black men? Mm hmm. I'm on YouTube, basically, mostly on YouTube, but it costs it reaches out and other platforms where black men have gotten together. And
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  you saw, blame black men kind of birthed out of this your sweat, you're saying. And it's funny. I just want to say this right quick. What you're saying in the 2020. For men, and more specifically, black men, is what you saw for women in the 1920s, you had this reemergence of gender rights and a push for gender rights, because black men have been suppressed so much, that they've created this safe space. And it's other people I'm gonna start bringing into
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  2021. The most facts show Adam Curry, that's gonna highlight this even more, but
  22:28
  he goes on to talk about the cocky surf. So as you can see, today, we're talking about the reality of black men's disposable role as compuserve. So I've covered this in another show, the whole concept of khaki serves is bringing together two basic ideas, the concubine and the serf. And this, in many ways has to do with the social expectation of black men, both in the larger society, but more particularly within black America. The idea that black men are not only disposable, but their roles are service sexual concubines, as well as serfs, right, who are really just designed to serve you lift bear that tote, so on and so forth. To disposability, right? So the idea of the conky search and how our lives and our deaths can be taken, taken for granted. We don't talk as much about our lives because there's all kinds of conscious conversation and shaming that goes on we talk about what black men experience in their own community. Right. But it but it's clearly evident in our deaths, how we're perceived, and how our deaths are often used for everybody's advancement, but black men themselves. And one of the biggest indicators of that is how much policy has been developed in the last few decades to stem the tide of those deaths. Right. Very little. And yet and still, the social expectations play on.
  23:48
  Yeah, well, that was an impactful episode that was really good with the concubine surf combo. conky surf was really good. Yeah. So what you're gonna see here is more of the surf than the concubine and this aspect of it because mike tyson was leveraged. And this is where we get the bootsy versus Mike Tyson, versus what you have here is TMZ. This next clip is from TMZ and Harvey Levin and Charles, labor, labor dear.
  24:23
  I couldn't figure out how to pronounce the black it's the black guy.
  24:26
  Black, the black guy on TMZ. Wow.
  24:31
  But the black guy, I mean, now cuz I made this point. I made this point for a reason. Every time Harvey speaks on race relations, he always has this guy at his flank. to like, kind of like, oh, okay, we're cool. I'm cool to talk about this. What you're gonna hear is well, I'll let you hear for yourself.
  24:55
  You did a podcast with bozi and what you said I thought
  25:00
  Great, I'm excited. I want to congratulate you on Mike. I mean, you handled it in such a not just classy way but gentle. And I felt like you got through to him at the end. And he understood that he was some of the things he's saying were hateful. You know, I was goofy at one time.
  25:22
  And
  25:24
  my daughter, she flew all the way from Washington, DC to New York City, to LA California, where I'm at, just to be there, cuz she thought booty was so disrespectful, she had to confront him. Can you imagine that? And I'm saying, No, you can't come
  25:43
  and confront my guests. You can't do that. Which is, you know, I gotta talk to him and his brother's disrespectful to the community and then
  25:53
  man, Lottie podium, la te bodia. Yes. Yeah, Matt. So do you see what's going on here?
  26:04
  Well, yeah, I mean, I, this is, this is first of all,
  26:09
  what I see going on is Mike Tyson looking extremely weak. When I hear him speak like that. That's the first thing I see. Just doesn't sound good.
  26:18
  Cuz I don't want to leave you. I just want to hear that. Can I get the bail? This is where?
  26:24
  I'm sorry. We're going into the round here. Yes, here we go.
  26:29
  So this is where it starts. Mike Tyson darda, who is part of the LGBT community, leverages Mike Tyson's toxic masculinity,
  26:40
  to confront bootsy or allow her to confront bootsy. And
  26:47
  with the threat of violence, and this is why I say mike tyson is being used as a kung fu surf. The great thing is
  26:55
  the white guy 11 runs away with the bank.
  27:00
  Crazy stuff. He's making it entertainment.
  27:04
  Right? He makes the entertainment but and we'll get more into like, how she leverages him. But where we stopped at seven, let's go ahead and get into eight. And I'm saying no, you can't
  27:19
  you can't do that. What you know, I gotta talk to him and his brother disrespectful to the community. And so she came in it didn't show it was she came she confronted him. And I was worried because I thought I was gonna have to get angry because this is my baby. But
  27:37
  he conducts himself like a gentleman and
  27:41
  he went okay, what Okay, it didn't go like I anticipated it to go. My daughter has a lot of courage and stuff. Well, obviously she she passed some of that on to you because I just felt like the way you handled it was really well done and, and probably the best, most effective way to get through to bouzy and you know, make him understand that what he was saying was hurtful. So congratulations on this beautiful five web clip for Jeff that he got to be out he had won the fight over those demons. He has to win can get them to them.
  28:16
  Man
  28:18
  and I you see this is this was only in my peripheral vision mo I saw some of this. It was very, very peripheral.
  28:26
  I'm glad you're bringing this up. Because obviously you know me is like okay, sports bullcrap. Now, I'm not watching, looking at something else. But but this is much bigger than than you realize. Of course, it's way bigger because before we get into the mike tyson in bootsy interaction.
  28:44
  Boosie was banned from Planet Fitness over his statements in Georgia.
  28:52
  He was kicked out of Planet Fitness. And this is a people's magazine article. And it was said he was kicked out. Because I think the manager of Planet Fitness was gay. And he didn't like his statements. So I kicked him out.
  29:07
  And here's the big here's the kicker right here. Wow. Wow, I looked into it. So I always say more time better show. Yes.
  29:19
  Oh, this happened? Well, I won't get into that. Let's get let's get back to the the interaction between bootsy and,
  29:28
  and Mike Tyson. So I want to put something out there. And it's called the
  29:37
  crazy cousin effect. So we have this thing in the black community, a crazy blood or whatever, where women will confront men, and then leverage family members.
  29:50
  No against that other man. Oh, really? Oh, they'll come in big conference. Yes, it was actually a famous scene from a famous part of a famous movie called minister.
  30:00
  Society. Yeah, well, woman gets pregnant and the guy doesn't know if he's his or not. He's like, I don't know. I mean, ain't my baby, and she has her cousin go confront the guy that she thinks pregnant, and he gets enough get the crap beat out of him. He comes back and shoots everybody else. Hopefully it's not spoiler alert. Movies. Oh, yeah. Uh huh. Sounds like a nice round.
  30:21
  Right? So this isn't No, this is a real effect where
  30:26
  black men are weaponized against each other. And this was done on a very high level where she knew you heard what Mike said, I thought it was gonna go another way. And get angry. Yeah.
  30:38
  Right. And then you heard me say, Well, she passed her courage on to you. Now. This is a man that gets in the ring. Yeah, but another train athlete in combat sport, but she's passing courage on him. So I mean, I'm just showing you this is very important. That's hard. What that is to me. That's Harvey Levin.
  31:00
  In my mind, the way I the way I heard that was, I'm really a little bit above you, Mike Tyson. And I'm telling you that you know, you got your courage from the kid Really? because now you're a good man. It was it was a key but that's that's DMC. That's what it is. But it's bigger than TMZ it's bigger than TMZ. So what we're what we're gonna do now is we always go back and listen to the real tape. We don't listen to sound clips. So I went to Mike Tyson this podcast called hot box and what Mike Tyson? Yeah, this is where bootsy was invited to be on. And let's get into uh, I think you like homosexuals one.
  31:42
  Like you.
  31:57
  Why are you?
  32:00
  What happened? What happened to you to make you the way you are?
  32:06
  I come from the slums you know better than I know. We all come from the slums. There's something about the slums like it's something nobody is talking about me.
  32:19
  From the slums to know what blew my mind was somebody, I had a hat. My mother bought me a hat in the 70s of Robin Hood, that was a really fly had to have. I must have been nine or something. But for some reason, I had a neat.
  32:33
  I like style. I like clothes out of the blue. I like clothes and somebody punched me in my face. He became a good friend to me. But he punched me in my freakin way. That blew my mind.
  32:45
  That blew my mind ever since then.
  32:49
  I didn't understand word that people will pick on me take my money.
  32:53
  And became not a nice person. Or people when it was just really bad stuff. But it's what happened. How did you that's who I am now. I'm insecure kid. I'm really scared all the time. anybody thinks I'm fucking feeling huh?
  33:07
  Yeah. So once you heard it, which you heard it in the very beginning that clip you maybe can go back and listen to it if you want to. But you heard bootsy sant.
  33:16
  I'm 35 years old. I've seen it all. You know, I've seen everything. So you have this interaction between two black men from different generations. So we always talk about the generational war. And this example of it. Now I think Mike Tyson's like 54 bootsy is like 30 something maybe 40 I think he said 35 if not not mistaken. But if this conversation would have happened 10 years ago, and not in a podcast studio, right. But on our street corner might have ended ugly. This is how it ends. This is how it this is how it works. You have an older man trying to send a younger man and that young man feel like he's being disrespected. He's like see now you don't know nothing, you know, that kind of thing. And then the way he comes out I'm like, you know, who are you know, that kind of thing. So we got to go back to that to the shooters, throwback clip. Me excuse me throwback show. 48 and this is from a local report from a Chattanooga station on black on black crime. When it comes to black on black crime and Chattanooga. Gang Task Force community outreach coordinator. Fred Houser has seen it all. Houser believes the problems unfolding on the streets. Don't start on the streets, but rather at home where offenders come from broken families with little or no guidance. People often point back to the family. Well, when I was coming up, it was a primary family, the mother and father, but it was also everybody in the neighborhood. They represent the family. That structure you know has has broken down and age does play a role that was confirmed by a man who admits to being gang associated for his protection and the protection
  35:00
  of his family, we agreed to hide his face and alter his voice. It's
  35:05
  a myth that you know, the older you get in the bed and again, you know, saying the more power and respect you get. It ain't about that. No mo you know, saying it's about the nega. Who are you putting in the most work? You know, I'm saying who pills will play here? But you know, I'm saying who got the main force?
  35:21
  14 year old girl.
  35:24
  Okay, I see the problem. Yeah, you see what I'm saying? Yeah, you don't want to get old in the gang anymore. This is not the way to know you don't because what from Mike's error? It was about this, right? I mean, who had the nicest hands. But this younger generation, maybe starting with Boosie age. It was about who we were saying, as the gentleman said, whose pistol play was the heaviest, How cool was quick to pull out and that's why we call it label that showed the shooters because it was similar to the wild wild west in the 1800s. Yeah, about you know,
  35:59
  the the culture around guns to lay that out, because I'm showing, they put these two men in a pit them against each other, and it could have went way left. Luckily, these two men have matured to the point where they can stand out have a civil conversation in this stage. But I want to talk about a larger phenomenon, like I said, is the crazy cousin scenario where a woman confronts a man, she physically sometimes, and then she brings in her crazy cousin, that either you have to harm him or his harm, shoot, right.
  36:39
  And that's exactly what his daughter did. And I have proof of it. And we'll get more into that. But let's go back to the conversation between bootsy and Mike Tyson and clip 11. So what do you listen to? How do you feel about other people's feelings?
  36:55
  A lot of people talk about fucking gay motherfuckers homos In fact, no, I know a lot of times I need to shut the fuck up. It's just it's just I don't you know?
  37:08
  Why do you say things about personnel? You might be a homosexual? Why do you say that? This is a possibility that your homosexuality by disrespect them? You further yourself from being a homosexual? I think he may like homosexuals.
  37:25
  No, I'm straight in the air on
  37:31
  your street. What are you? I really can I really, I really, I really commented on the Dwayne Wade situation. Because I got offended because because as a child, that's why I really got offended, you know? And
  37:46
  that's why I really say if it was if it was a motherfucking, 19 year old, 18 year old bald person. I probably would I know, I wouldn't say that. Why did you stop liking? I feel like, you know, that hey, you know, I'm not judging you. Think I'm here judging you. I'm trying to understand you. Yeah. You know, and I got some demons. You mean and in my world when it comes to demons? Yeah. Okay, but yes, tell me why. It was just like, you know, I just feel like, you know, that's the child. I felt like a child. And I
  38:19
  can't make that decision. I feel like I feel like, that's just how I feel.
  38:24
  Wow, man. So Mike's kid really did a number on him too.
  38:29
  Yeah. real number candolim. He was handled. Yeah. Yeah, got him all charged up, gave him the talking points, and then sent him in there on bootsy. But it gets worse. But just say if I can say it's the first time, I think I've really heard this accusation. This is a very common accusation. Oh, if you're and, and, and it's, it turns out to be quite true, often, certainly with politicians who make a lot of anti gay or not pro gay legislation.
  39:02
  You know, regardless of what what it is, if they're closeted, and then it comes out and it's like, oh, my God, the people who yell the loudest about it art are typically gay. That's not true. But it's it's now been used in this situation. And I don't think I've actually ever seen it used as a teaching moment because that's what Mike Tyson is trying to do here in
  39:24
  at the puppet hand of his kid.
  39:27
  Yeah.
  39:29
  And you notice,
  39:31
  boosts boosey picked up what Mike was putting down, because Mike never really went to the Dwayne Wade subject. Now, but that was about
  39:41
  right, but he knew where he was headed. And you can see bootsy kind of trying to defuse this situation. Now he's like, yeah, I need to Shut the f up sometimes, you know, yeah, might you right. And he was that he wanted just to let it pass by. But that wasn't the case. When mike tyson says, when Mike Tyson smoking weed and says you've got to tell me
  40:01
  Okay.
  40:03
  Okay, what is this angry thing you were talking about? Yeah, Mike, whatever you need to know I'm telling you.
  40:09
  And that's, that's how black men are leveraged
  40:14
  as serfs. Now you see the khaki serve, you're the muscle, you're the you're the attack dog. And we pull you out when we need you to get other men into line. Whether it's through the media, while high tech lynching, or whether it's through the threat of physical violence, this is what you have. Finally, that was the end of the interaction. So Lucy pops back up on the DJ flash show, and he kind of does account his account of what transpired and what happened in that interaction between him and Mike Tyson. We can't start this interview without mentioning your interview with Mike Tyson.
  40:57
  We have to talk about that. I got a lot of questions. But the mike tyson thing I think has to be front and center. Now after the interview came out, and this interview was old, was old, because I remember when you were on promo tour, that was like, way early in the year that was before the pandemic, I think, yeah, right before the payout for the pandemic, right. So this is what, like March or something? Yeah.
  41:23
  Okay, so nine months later, this interview comes out.
  41:27
  And Tyson did a couple of interviews. I just did one with him. And he mentioned this as well. Is that before he did the interview with you? And he was telling his family, oh, I'm gonna meet with boosey his daughter, who is gay herself, was like, Oh, you're interviewing boosey. I am flying down to LA to confront him over his alleged homophobic comments. So what you know, putting that into perspective, when I saw the way Tyson was speaking to you, I think that was the battery in his back. It was it was his child, which which makes sense. Right? Right.
  42:07
  So So tell me what led up to this interview and when you sat down with them how things kind of went. Alright, DJ Vlad on the tip.
  42:17
  Alright, so now I'm gonna lay out the timeline. To show you this is deeper than a mike tyson Zion Wade situation, because that is a awaited episode where Dwayne Wade spoke about it on Ellen aired on February 11.
  42:34
  The episode of Mike Tyson's
  42:37
  podcast premiered on October 23. Yeah.
  42:43
  Why do you wait nine months, nine months, 10 months to talk about this subject? Well, makes no sense. Unless there's something else we needed to kick off or get going? I think we do. Alright, so I went back to the training. So I told you more time better show because I can really dig into the numbers. Guess what was trending on October 15 2020. Ice Cube? Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. Two weeks before the election? Yes. So the message went out.
  43:17
  Target on black men.
  43:20
  This premieres October 23. Guess what was trending October 21.
  43:27
  Hashtag blame black men. That went quick.
  43:32
  Now, that's a hell of a coincidence. And then you have this bill coffee mug shot show up? Yeah. Have a book coincidence that he called bootsy in and says, Hey, I want to talk to you about something.
  43:47
  Right, and it becomes this tip. And this was all politically motivated. You're, I'm presuming it being just before the election?
  43:56
  October 21. Yeah. October 23. Yeah.
  44:01
  Nobody said, I mean, this is big. This is way bigger, getting everybody into Lyon. Right? Get the black men in the line that they're thinking, Oh, no, you can't have that, you know, um,
  44:12
  and that's, you know, that's how it went. So, we're gonna get into
  44:19
  part two of this interview with bootsy
  44:24
  as a title one interview, like, you know, I ain't really no ties in the interview of
  44:30
  like, yeah, yeah.
  44:33
  So,
  44:36
  when I got there, you know, when I got there, we got the interviewing. You know, it seemed like he was passionate about this situation. Like he was he kept going back to that situation. You know, and, uh,
  44:51
  and I'm like, you know, I'm telling them like, you know, like, I don't agree with
  44:57
  you know, and uh,
  45:00
  But the interview was weird.
  45:04
  It was weird.
  45:06
  I agree with the X in him questions, you know.
  45:10
  And
  45:12
  they took a lot of stuff out the interview. But he was he seemed like he was passionate about. And after that me and his daughter went out interview, his daughter came and interviewed me.
  45:24
  She's like, Dad, I want to interview him. I want to I want to I want to ask him some questions right now. I said, Come on. Come on, man. So they they even they massage the whole thing. They edited it. They got the clips, they launched those on Twitter. What's the kid doing? What who's the kid affiliated with? And she can't find any I can't even find her name.
  45:49
  She's not like she's, it's not like she's big activism or anything. Like I said, I think she had the battery put in her back. Yeah. And she put the battery in her dad's bag. What does she do now? She working?
  46:01
  I don't know. I just I can't even find her name. Which I mean, none of the articles I read it just says Tyson's daughter, Tyson's daughter, Tyson's daughter. That me mentioned her Her name is weird. It's very weird. And if you notice, Lucy says I didn't back down from Mike. But if you listen to Harvey on TMZ, he
  46:22
  said that you got through to him. You. Basically you educated him. And that's not the case at all. But here's the here's the great thing while you look at the Wikipedia from Mike Tyson. And
  46:37
  so it always has so spouses, you know, it's got a 123 children.
  46:43
  Usually, every single kid is listed on Wikipedia, it's got eight kids, not a single one is listed.
  46:50
  I cannot find her name and column I'm gonna look into her. I mean, as much as I could, but it didn't exist. So it's just, I'm just telling you, this is how.
  47:02
  And it's very dangerous.
  47:05
  The pitting the good black man against the black man. And that's the reason why I did this will cost the verses that we did last week. It was the same thing. People hope to see something bad happened between Jeezy and Gucci. Right? That's why 2 million people tune in let's be honest here. But at the same time, it was actually a really a really good vs. But it was a complete it was hijacked for political reasons. Income Stacey Abrams with the with her little bit and everything. As he comes Mike Tyson's daughter. Yeah, not much later, to meet him. He said what I think and I'm like I said, it could be a Space Jam reach. Maybe not. But I'm just saying when you line these things up across the timeline, it just makes no sense why you want to talk about a nine month old story. Yeah, all of a sudden, was like, we need every negative black man out there the last week before the election last two weeks before the election, to get them back and formation. And that's how that's how I see it. That's how I took it. So I mean, they sweat, it's a perception is reality. So that's how it was perceived to me is that black men get back in your space. So um, so I have a part three, I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything. Um, let's go ahead and get into part three. You know, so she got in now. She, uh, she Oh, something I'm gonna say where she Oh, do you know how many people you are? Do you know what's going on? In? No, she was standing like, do you know what's going on in the transgender world right now? And do you know how many people are committing suicide and dying? So I would tell her, do you know what's going on in with black people right now? We're getting shot down. We're getting they got so many single mothers out there. And when she was shooting that at me, I would shoot that at her. So basically, she was saying the things that she was passionate about. And I was saying the things that I was passionate about, and she couldn't feel me. And and I guess she was saying I couldn't feel her. But I was telling I have no ill will towards that. But I was telling her you're talking about debt. Well, let me I'm talking about this all sorted. I feel like this is a bigger subject that's close to my heart. So we didn't see eye to eye so she got up and walked out.
  49:28
  Ramsey I think it's Ramsey Tyson.
  49:31
  Did I have to do over the phone on her? Yeah.
  49:36
  I find this fascinating, um,
  49:40
  that this is another example we talked about the compuserve. But this is also the sacrifice right? This is the black man being a sacrifice. She's trying to elevate her community, which you clearly she sees her community, first community as the LGBT community, not the black community. She's trying to elevate that into whiteness.
  50:00
  At the sacrifice of a black man, I guess.
  50:05
  And I'm gonna give you an example how left it could have went, you know, who was in the studio with bootsy that day? mode three.
  50:13
  He's dead now.
  50:15
  What happened to most three? gang gang? gang land style murder?
  50:23
  I mean, that could
  50:25
  just like that, what you're saying what you're saying. Right? takes what you say what you saying? Yeah, shoot.
  50:38
  And they play with us like pawns.
  50:42
  And and the reason why I say that is I went into pink News. I'm not a frequent subscriber to this website. This is a thing. So for the LGBT community, and this is the headline from pink news. Mike Tyson had to stop his daughter from knocking out bigoted, anti LGBT plus rapper bootsy. badass.
  51:05
  Yeah.
  51:10
  Yeah, yeah.
  51:13
  A lot of people were very impacted by 55.
  51:17
  Cuz, you know, we really got into a lot of the music culture.
  51:22
  Right. And so when you hear this, and not just the music culture, but, you know, the idea of what's being played on the radio, and then the comparison between well, would you like to have this whole catalog of songs that, that are men killing women? Now, I don't want that, you know, but black men killing black man? Yeah, I'll play all those songs. This is where you comes into view. When you see how the entertainment industry? Well, I'm reiterating. Um, I mean, I, I know some of this inherently. But
  51:53
  I was in the entertainment business so long. And when I started doing other things, I really turned a blind eye towards most of it. And I'm glad you're focusing me a bit on it, because these things have meaning and reason. And it's probably all
  52:08
  part of a much bigger show.
  52:11
  And if you look at it is so many black young black men, not to go back to 55, just in exchange of words, and expectation to be something that society wants them to be. And if this turns into something that it shouldn't. And then on the other hand, the same people just as well, since we're on the mike tyson subject, there was a there was a celebrity exhibition between mike tyson and Roy Jones, Jr. Yeah. Another one I know.
  52:44
  Another another fight. I did not watch. Right. I mean, yeah. But but but people wanted to see Bloodsport, right. People wanted to see Roy Jones get killed by Mike Tyson. I mean, that's the meat right. That's what Mike Tyson the lore is him killing people. But he didn't do it in the ring. He didn't kill him. Right. But, but I'm not going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about the undercard. So you had Nate Robinson, a former basketball player and I what's the guy's name? Paul. On one of them. He's a famous YouTuber. Something, Paul. Oh, wait, he had the guy who? Who was in the forest. Filming where people hung themselves. Jake, Paul. Right, Jake, Jake. Paul, why don't you tell?
  53:28
  It's pertinent to the story. So Mike, Tommy, um, Jake, Paul knocks out Nate Robson cold. I mean, like Internet meme or the knockout. And you have
  53:43
  Jamil Hill and her co post co star on the show saying, isn't it racist for a white man to knock out a black guy?
  53:53
  That's so racist. I wasn't gonna cover that show. You have this clip where she says that. I do not have the clip. You can easily find it. I mean, it's all over. Next thing. I didn't want to really bring it but I'm just since you made that point.
  54:09
  It's this weird connection if it's okay for black people to harm black people. Right? The white man, the black man? Yeah.
  54:20
  I mean, and now you get and now you get to the crux of just briefly the reason why I said earlier another fight I didn't see is I talked to Joe Rogan about this too. It's like I don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't like violence in that regard at all. I don't want to see any any men hitting any other man. I don't I don't. I don't get it. It's not me. It's not in my nature. It's not typical, I think. But
  54:44
  what? What you just said when you look at it that way, it's like you're wise okay for two black guys to go beat each other up. But then a white guy comes in is wrong. Oh my god. None of it's good in my book, but.
  54:56
  And I'm not a big us. I'm a Boston fan. I like Boston.
  55:00
  I mean, I think it's
  55:01
  probably the some of the greatest athletes. I mean, try holding your hands up for three minutes.
  55:07
  And punching cuz I mean, those guys are well trained and conditioned, but it's always this pitting against each other. So, I guess we can wrap up with this with number 15. And the final clip in this versus, okay, was Tyson in the room when this was happening? Yeah. Okay. And I remember he talked about this, I think on TMZ. He said, Yeah, you know, he was kind of concerned over you and his daughter kind of going at it, because, you know, he's still he's still the Father. And he was worried that he might react himself if things started to just kind of get out of hand. What was he pretty much cooler control, though. Yeah, it was cool. Like, Mike was cool. Like, you know, after the interview, we took pictures like
  55:53
  he was straight, you don't say but you know, like,
  55:57
  you know, I'm a Jeeva. Like, you know, like, if I feel if we're in the interview, I'm gonna speak my mind. I don't care who you say no boxing match, you know, this, this interview? And you know, she won't you know, she won't, she won't, she won't talk to me. And I'm gonna talk.
  56:17
  I'm gonna talk and we just didn't see eye to eye on the situation. But uh, after that man Tyson was good. You know, I didn't speak to his daughter after that. But
  56:29
  she is very angry but me antis. And we chat we spoke, you know, it wouldn't
  56:35
  hold was the daughter.
  56:37
  Oh, man.
  56:39
  And a quote from Tyson in that same article from pink news. He said I was watching her. She wanted to physically grab this guy and start attacking this guy.
  56:50
  Hmm. So she brought that energy into the room. musi loses his cool. Mike Tyson attacks him in another universe. It could have went down in the very bad very, very bad. Even her being there was a very bad idea. Right? Even Mike knew it was cuz he told her from the TMZ interview. You're not coming out here to confront my artists, but she leveraged him as a surf. cocky, sir. There it is.
  57:17
  Man.
  57:19
  Poor Mike.
  57:22
  Yeah, Mike, Mike. But Mike always has been used Am I would think but I'm not gonna say too much about that. Because?
  57:30
  Because john king has nothing to say on the matter. Yes, I agree.
  57:36
  So that was segment one. And I guess this would be a good time. For us to explain what we do hear. Jim Carrey. First, the white man and the black man have to be able to sit down at the same table for white men has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings are both Negro. And the so called Negro has to feel free to speak his mind without hurting the feelings of the white man, then they can bring the issues that are under the rug out on top of the table. Take an intelligent approach to get the problem solved. But the only way to do it. And this is the only thing we ever do 100% on the mark every single time we don't hold back, we ask and tell exactly what's on our minds. It's crazy. Some people can't handle it most can. And then those that can are the ones who are producers of mo facts with Adam Curry.
  58:26
  Going against this narrative is not popular with advertisers. It's not popular with the with Mike Tyson's kid. And we'd be d platformed. in a heartbeat just talking about this in a counterproductive way. If we were on a
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  mainstream stage, if, if we if we were using YouTube, all these things are very, very dangerous. So we do it here we do it with your help. And with your input as well. We love what our producers have to say, we love our producers going out and turning more people on to the show and we had a great kickoff year. And 2021 is going to be even better. I can feel that we've got lots of big things coming up for us. And yes, and I'd like to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode number 56. Again, all we ask for is whatever you think the show is worth to us you learn something you kids learn something, did it open your eyes, did you enjoy yourself was just entertaining, translate that into it and dollar amount doesn't matter what it is you determine your own value. While we can do is just appreciate everything that you're doing in return, we kick it off with our top donor. Now it has been a number of weeks so this My goodness, this came in mid December. Has it been that long? Mo This is nuts, man.
  59:42
  I almost feel rushed. You mean you and I talk you know from time to time we'll have a nice chat for an hour or an hour half a dream and talking about stuff not necessarily show related. But
  59:52
  yeah, I missed this. I really did.
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  I hope everyone else missed it. And as I was telling you pre show me I was
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  I was amped to get here but and I'll get more into what happened after this donation segment of what's going on.
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  Oh God before we started All right, let's go to Brad are King $344.33 which is incredibly generous of you, Brad. Thank you. It's note the trappers delight show was impressive. Yeah, and I just mentioned that but I too was blown away and I kind of love how most dragging me back into show business. I kind of swore it off, but I'm paying attention now.
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  Southern playlist. Southern playlist. I got that I got that other playlist is Cadillac. Funky Music. What is that? Oh, what's that? Oh, that. Oh, that's OutKast record. Yeah, there you go. Well, that was one of his favorite record. That was one of his favorite albums growing up. Kids are mean sports and listening to rap. Were my outlet. Your show is so good in so many ways. I'm learning understanding my past and current mindset and more. It's deep. Love you guys. Same to all the no agenda, fam. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you, Brad. Thank you so much. Benjamin is 133 33 throwing some magic numbers in our face finally became a Viking out of San Francisco. Now it's time to get rid of my deadbeat status. The last episode that ended with that overproduced miniclip. And Adams unique perspective on the old Catholics in action was dope.
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  Wow. I like when people pay attention that way. That's very cool. Thank you so much.
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  See, thanks for helping us.
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  Helping us all do the work. You to help. Thanks for helping us all do the work. You too. Oh, I got it. Yeah. You're welcome. And keep that good work up and let me deadbeat you're here.
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  Congratulations. You're no longer a deadbeat. I just want to say Happy New Year to Dame Jennifer, who has been along for the ride that was her dead beating and she'll be she'll be doing it the official voice the narrator of most
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  Yes, indeed. Curtis columns one on one. Merry Christmas gents. I'm from ATL Thug Motivation. 101 and trap house where staples also loves 3636 juf, pimp See, etc. I know I'm sounding extremely out of touch when I read these. And I'm enjoying
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  the low mi Mo.
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  Hey, man, if you want to know about well, I've got all his albums. Okay.
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  Episode 55 is a lot. Okay, now you got to explain some of this because I I'm not. I'm not catching all the jargon.
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  Okay, tell me about this. 55 a lot.
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  So it's a lot. It's all uppercase e meant the length of it. I guess he meant the length. Because we did do a marathon episode. We went about four hours on that one. Okay, and I'm looking for code that isn't there. Right, right. JK, but so many great yeah, it was long but who cares? So many great nuggets. especially love the mind trap. change yourself. Be reflective of things that don't agree with you changing of the physical mo check out awful Records, which is ATL LA. I know you appreciate clean beats a lot on your plate. Father is a good start. Also, Jesus is the one I got depression. Kenny beats and Zack Fox and we dive at dawn ice station zebra peace and love curtain. Jen. Oh, my goodness. Thank you curtain Jen for making me look very unhip.
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  You know, that's that's karma.
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  What? What did I do wrong? I miss reading on in a show of cities and names. So I mean, like it's the it's the universe coming back for you. When? Wow. You know, I hadn't even considered that. Huh? Yep. By the way, do you hear john? Here, john on the last show. He's like, you can replace me with Moe.
  1:04:05
  I'm like, oh man, little does he know. I can never know john C. Dvorak is not replaceable, that's for sure. That's for sure. Okay, yes, it is a weird karma but I'll take it Cameron Hunter, also an executive producer, Episode Number 56. Who would like to hear whoosah while we do it, whoo. So why do we have to WUSA why we think we have a while about the Wooster while we I think we got a Russa but not a booster while we that last episode was absolutely fantastic, fantastic. I'm still picking up pieces of my brain from above the floor mode the way you structure episodes from the opening to end to the end song is really something is the guy living in Scotland where the population is something like 97% white. I don't understand black culture one single bit but damn I do understand and see underhand tactics and journalists with snipers going in for the next kill. Scoop he says
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  Sorry. Anyway,
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  I'm going to pick out some chairs and bring my friends to the table and Adam, thank you very, very much for your courage, my friend. No doubt you could have made big effing bucks somewhere, but I hope you know and feel how important the work you're doing is loving life. Thank you very much, Cameron. Maybe, but I'll tell you for sure all the work I've done. This show was the most fulfilling in my career.
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  Nothing like a good boost.
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  Tyler Boyd. I'm sorry. Yes. Tyler Boyd $100. My favorite thing about mo facts are the in depth personality profiles of powerful people like Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Keep it up. Yeah, these are fun episodes to do. The ones we highlight like 45 SAP, which was a good staple. I'm sure we'll do we'll be doing some of those in in the coming year.
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  Wait, who did we have the other Curtis? Maybe it's Curtis Collins he was talking about? I wonder. We have Hickok Haig Hawker with $50 hygge Hawker says thanks for the knowledge and Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year to you. Michael completely been listening since the beginning. This was way overdue. Thanks for the shows. Mike. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Adam Shaw, associate executive producer ship with $50. And he says, Hey mon Adam really enjoyed trappers delight. Willie D of the ghetto boys was recently on JRE. And he spoke about how hip hop used to be very positive, upbeat, skillful, but at some point, there was what he called a conspiracy by execs in boardrooms. Oh man, I know this story. I love this story. a concerted effort to stifle and suppress the positivity and talent and promote the message of criminal elements drugs, bling, etc. of the less talented artists. He said he was putting together a documentary that is to be released soon with interviews and proof of such conspiracy. It is really interesting to hear from Willie D about the top down corporate executive driven influence and the bottom up history and evolution of trap music and culture from mo and how both have impacted and molded the music we hear today and what goes on behind the scenes. really enjoying the pod.
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  Thanks for all the good work. Can I get a Russa you can get a boost? Of course you can.
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  What you're actually seeing is it the way I feel it is and even some episodes before trappers delight. The whole scheme is being revealed for you. Not just that one board meeting which you can find that on the internet. You can
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  Read about this. I think there's pieces of that puzzle that I can help put together just from being more on the inside of the music business. But for sure, things have changed a lot since hip hop the hibbett to the hip hop and you don't stop are rockin so yeah, definitely stuff has happened. And we appreciate you supporting us Adam. Chef Elvis Elvis Rosenberg $50. He says, great show. And we thank you for your great donation. And with that, we wrap up the executive producers and associate executive producers for Episode Number 56 mo facts with Adam Curry will be thanking a couple more people when we come back a little bit later on in the show. And a a an appeal to you for your time, your talent and your treasure. And anything you can add to the to the program. We're both pretty accessible on email and most certainly all over all over Twitter and Instagram, not anyone to Instagram you do YouTube, that's your main you do not do both active
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  dip and dive in both of them. So yeah, I'm not a real heavier user. Did you get that?
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  Before I continue? Did you get my text about new tube? That app?
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  The one you just sent me Yeah. earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Can you can you can you install that we able to install we able to see it or not?
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  Because that's that's like your YouTube Pac Man. That's your that's your that's your your bootleg YouTube app. Because you can run it in the background or you can do the comments and everything and you will love this app. I will definitely look into it because
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  a lot of people saying YouTube is asshole.
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  Well, YouTube is definitely asshole.
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  1:12:51
  Alright, so we wrapped up the first match. I guess we can go ahead into the second match. And this is
  1:13:00
  this is a matchup between two super producers. Kanye West versus Diddy, and I don't know if you've checked Twitter today. But right now my Twitter feed is just tweets from Donald Trump and Kanye West. Kanye is getting kind of political he tweeted my magga hat is signed followed by 30 fire emojis. Now that is fitting because that is how many times I would set that hat on fire.
  1:13:38
  I think Kanye is lobbying for a job as Trump's new communications director. They could just change this name to Kellyanne Kanye.
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  But the height of Kanye is Trump praise has got to be one he tweeted. You don't have to agree with Trump. But the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the rights to independent thoughts. Yes, we have the right to independent thought and I independently think that Kanye has lost his mind.
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  You know what Kanye?
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  Donald Trump is your brother? It is true. I am your brother too. And brother to Brother I just want to say put the phone
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  Yes, big time Shut up. Well, this that's it's always so twisted. When they go after Kanye. And then they always comes a period after that. Oh, well, you know, we should be a little more sensitive because he's clearly having episodes. You know, people are diagnosing him
  1:14:52
  with no with no reason or no no grounds to do that. It's very bizarre how he's handled and he is he
  1:15:00
  tungsten man he's bounces off him.
  1:15:04
  Yeah, he's bulletproof. He's counsel proof. But I want to read the blurb to you. And this is goes more to that de escalation that we talked about in the first segment. This is the actual blurb from the YouTube videos, Magnus from two men most famous for loving themselves decided to branch out and try to love each other.
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  Hey, any innuendo there? Maybe I'm reaching, but I'm just saying. Um, but yeah, I mean, mocking Kanye mental state. Batman's got to be crazy to think for himself. So you probably wonder how I'm gonna, versus Kanye West versus Diddy. And this is more of a political pundit, you know, slash political activists. That's what that's the battle we're going to have here between these two. So Kanye West and Diddy. We both covered them. On show for a Kanye has been on two shows actually. 13. And then he had a mini segment on a 4646, which was a pop potluck show. And then we covered Gideon 35. So we're gonna do a little background between Kanye and Diddy, and then we're going to get into the conflict between the two. So what does the left do in response to Kanye West? How do you make Kanye West shut up? The short answer is you can't. So you work to discredit him. You go ad hominem. You ignore what he's saying. You attack him as a person you don't engage with his ideas, you know, you would lose if you tried that. So instead, you try to keep people from listening to him. It's an easier job when you're dealing with less famous people. Thanks to our centrally controlled the internet, the left can usually silence dissent in an instant with a press of a button. But with prominent wrong thinkers like Kanye West, censorship requires a finer touch, more artistic flair. And Kanye West case they decided to attack him as mentally ill you hear that a lot now, but it's a relatively new tactic. It was just a little over four years ago that cnn published a piece about Kanye West, they highlighted his most famous moments like the time he interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards. CNN described all these incidents as quote, controversial, but there was no mention of Kanye West being a danger to himself much less mentally ill no just controversial, not a problem. And then West appeared to say something positive about Donald Trump and everything changed in an instant Kanye West became a babbling lunatic the kind of guy who pulls imaginary insects out of the air and soils his own pants, but a total nutcase.
  1:17:45
  Yeah, all right. Yeah. Not only that, but we see how fox news is leveraging Kanye is like okay, now Yeah, he's safe now we can use him
  1:17:57
  he was he was crazy when he was interrupting Taylor Swift Fan. and things of that nature to Fox News says like, oh, now he's, he's valuable to us now. So it's just amazing the the high tech lynching that goes on with figures like him are being called crazy and people laughing and I mean if you heard him and it
  1:18:21
  literally is Monday Haha, but even beyond this, I mean, I hang up I mean, because I don't hang out with him but I you know, there's a there's young young girls who, you know, hang out my stepdaughter, my own daughter.
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  And you know, the ones in the US who are very woke they're in their super woke, they have no problem making fun of Kanye West NEOs eyes, He's nuts.
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  Whereas if anyone has any kind of issue, we have to be sensitive and, and not not triggering. Oh my gosh, how long have we talked about not triggering someone? And I've mentally I need a mental health day. But then for some reason.
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  And by the way, it's the same with Candace Owens. You got a book of Candace Owens laying around it's like up stand. Oh Candace
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  you know it's so it's it's programmed it is very deep this programming these are this is not even programming these are just triggers. I think all this this deep programming is is in the psyche already of people. This is just stuff to me and keep it going keep it fresh.
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  And it's the hypocrisy to the all black man thinking for himself. He gotta be crazy. You know, I mean, that's it's it's troubling is what it is. So I want to continue on with the the coverage of Kanye we have to go back to show 13 and that was a deconstruction con deconstructing Kanye. And this was the interview without him in big boy. Are you afraid of losing your audience? Yay. I told you I'm only afraid of God. I'm afraid of my dad.
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  Got another 15 years I'm telling you, God is showing that you can have your own thoughts bro. I've been cast before there was canceled culture Who told you that my career would be over the same people that are telling you that you can't have a right to say who you will vote for. Those people will be soon to take Jesus out to school. Those people will be soon to remove Jesus period from America, which is the Bible Belt. Those people will be so mad Come on, man. I'm finna go Alex Jones. A young man Come on man. What's wrong? Like wake up wake up Mr. West wake up culture. Wake up. I think they so woke but they following the rules of what woke supposed to be hip hop a never been about following rules. It been about doing what you feel. I'm gonna take the Louie I'm like, I'm gonna do with the Polo I'ma do it like this. Even like the way I hold on, let me use my African American voice.
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  Let me saying we're not even speaking in our own language, bro. Like, we talk louder than this African stock loud Italian moms talk loud. We talk louder, but we speak in our corporate voice our we don't want to ruin the deal voice or this one.
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  I love y'all, man. And I love me. And I love Christ.
  1:21:25
  And he also loves to see this. I'm not gonna tell y'all what y'all should do. I'm just doing what I do. If you love it, Dan, cool. If y'all want to meet in a go make a difference. Honestly, I haven't been killed so many times on social media. And I'm still here, I'll still look at me.
  1:21:45
  I'm glad you do these and the potlucks because I'm just remembering how good that whole interview was. That was really fantastic. I really liked that interview. That was great. That was Konya and it's best. And the funny thing is, is I'll listen to a clip. And I'll hear something totally different. The second time around, or the third time around, then I'll do the first time. And as you saw, you see clips come in. Even if people want to know I'll work all the way up to, to the show is restarting starts recording. But what you heard is here, kinda makes the point they're trying to take Jesus out of school to counter mu Jesus, you know,
  1:22:30
  and he says, I'm not, joke's on you. So what you heard there is
  1:22:36
  the kicking in of self awareness.
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  Because he knew he has said some things that may be perceived as crazy.
  1:22:48
  And he'll being called crazy. He starts to self censor and self edit. And I think this will be a good time to get the door. So now I can explain my absence. Okay, hold on a second. Yeah, let me just, it's a heavy one.
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  Hold on a second. Let me just close.
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  Okay, now it's just us.
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  Alright, so people probably want to Where the hell is Mo, it's been a month, you know, in these family interactions in gatherings, birthday parties and stuff. I became self aware
  1:23:25
  of what I was doing with the show when power was being received. And this is a real phenomenon, because this is something that web, web web Dubois of the wha, or do boys, even the pronunciation of that name.
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  speaks to the
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  the perception. I don't want to say do blah.
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  might sound to replicate it, but I don't want to sound do boys is do you want to sound too dumb body from my right. Hit it just right. Oh, yes.
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  Oh, that hit me. Should I tell you something? The first time we talked about yes about him? About the boys? Yes. Now I've had friends who had that last name in Europe. And of course you would pronounce a Dubois.
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  Interestingly, when you said to boys, I was just like, that's it. You know, that I took that as the official pronunciation. I didn't even think twice about it really.
  1:24:29
  But it's an actual, and I'm aspiring to explain to you what it is and then we'll go back to his name. So it's the double consciousness and we talked about this before are the veil and waiting the way he describes is, he said, describing the double consciousness describing the double lives of black past to live in order to survive in this country, the the life of a black and the life of American so it's this double consciousness, what a black person expected to be and what an American expect to be. And then
  1:25:00
  He said he cites that a negro is sort of a seventh son, born with the veil, seeing himself through him, his eyes of whites. So I'm seeing myself
  1:25:12
  as who I am, but then it's not really the double consciousness on its internal, its external. But how is people perceiving me? And then how do I perceive how people is perceiving me. And it put me in a place, I'm just being, I have to be honest with people. And it's like, then you start to think about it, you know, I'm,
  1:25:33
  when I do this, I don't want to think about it. When I get on this microphone, I don't want to think about it. I want it to come come out as it comes up if it's exactly and that goes back to his name.
  1:25:45
  Growing up, I knew people with the last name, I'm from rural North Carolina, it was Dubois, like with a heart do like Dubois.
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  Now, like you said, French proper pronunciation. On this one comment, Sam, and my corporator approved voice is the Wah, you know, if I want to come across anything, you find yourself like somewhere in the middle, like, what, what I want to stay true to this and i want i want to stay true to this. I don't want to seem too educated. So
  1:26:15
  I just want to let people know that this doing this, doing this work frees you.
  1:26:22
  It frees me but they also
  1:26:25
  there's a weight there.
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  So I had to back up. And I had to say you know what?
  1:26:33
  Let me You understand what I mean? Like, what? I started to think about it and it's not like I'm gonna change this, I'm gonna do this. No, no, it was just like, I actually started thinking about it. Because when you tell people what you're doing, what you're working on, oh, you know, family and friends. And that kind of thing. Like,
  1:26:53
  this is a heavy weight. And I just wanna let people know, I mean, like, you get
  1:26:58
  fatigued, I mean, you get tired? Well, when you're when you're not, when you're physically when you're not being yourself, then, Okay, I'm gonna make a weird analogy for you. Just because we're talking about Kanye. When Kanye cannot be himself, he goes a little batshit crazy. When he can be himself. He does weird shit. But he's himself. And I think that's, that's what that's for him, it may be some of it for you, I know, it's for me. And I'll get back to that in a second. That's where the freedom comes from my freedom came from not having a boss. And that's where most people learn, learn how to put on a corporate voice or a corporate veil, or, you know, some other
  1:27:48
  some other mask, and you get good at it, and you get good at putting on a different mask for a different person. And that was my that was truly my corporate life. So I understand the concept.
  1:28:04
  Having, having the feeling that you need to do that, in regular discourse, or on Yeah, or, or at all, whether you're at work or not, it sucks. A lot of people have to do that. But this is an extra burden that I find.
  1:28:22
  Well, it sounds to me like you've like you've shed this this burden, just from it's aware, it's aware, it's like, okay, it's like if you're walking on a tall building,
  1:28:34
  are you standing in a tall building, once you look down, then it becomes real. And I can equate it to is putting a mirror in front of another mirror. And you get this infinite loop of reflections recursion. Because once you see yourself here, recursion, once you see yourself then you see yourself as people see you, then you see yourself as people see you, as you're seeing yourself. And then just keep snowballing. So I was like, hold on, whoa, whoa, let me stop for a minute. Let me let me figure out I mean, let me let me reiterate calibrate. I'm just wanting to let people know and it's, I think,
  1:29:10
  a bright light this may have need to happen at the end of every year. I mean, just so you can decompress, especially with the election and the weird time just going on and there's nothing certain and it's taxing.
  1:29:23
  taxing, it's taxing on anyone who thinks at all.
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  It's taxing, right. Because I'm in like I in this. I just want to share that with people you could probably open the door now. It's kind of what I just want. I appreciate you sharing it with you. I appreciate you telling me the only thing I'd say for the show next time. if something like that happens, let me know you know, so then we can split it up and get some TMZ love man we gotta have you kind of going nuts and saying some crazy shit so we can get on the on the board here.
  1:29:56
  Thank you. I really appreciate what you're saying mo
  1:30:00
  You know, this was one of our first episodes and I'll open the door in a minute I'm warm to, this is one of our first episodes, we talked about remember when, when the,
  1:30:09
  when the black family visited my family and in Maryland when I was like six, and my parents had given me some messages, and, and you and I found out that, you know, like, their parents had clearly given them some messages and it's like, behave right now and act proper and all that shit. You know? So, your self awareness and you know, so 40 You know, it took me a while to figure some stuff out to I'd say, I didn't really figure stuff out till I was 50
  1:30:40
  You know, that's gonna benefit it's gonna benefit your kids, man. So, as a beautiful thing you got parents are free, your kids are gonna be you know, what I want to say is that that was the first time that really has ever happened to me. Because me and outside where I never coast Switched at work, right? How I talk to you is how I talk to everybody. But it was, like I said, just that seeing myself the perception of me back. Seeing that come back. It was like, oh, like what's going on here? You know, nothing major. But I can say I just had to step away in like, Whoa, Alright, good. Okay, now I got it. You know, that kind of thing? Was that the same? Maybe? Was that the same night you lost your cell phone mo?
  1:31:31
  Alright, get getting hot in here. Let's open up that door. Let's get out of here.
  1:31:35
  Everybody, sorry about that. Just a little break needs just have a little little conference. Right? So um, now we go to Karen hunter and her show she has a conversation with a couple of journalists, a journalist and a lawyer, ella distell. And
  1:31:53
  I forget the other person's name, but they talk about the Kanye vote. I believe that the 2016 blip that people think is an anomaly is not an anomaly at all. I think what Trump tapped into something very powerful. He tapped into white male fragility. And the notion of losing the power that you talked about the very power that you talked about the power structure is crumbling. And Trump was speaking to that and made them feel like men made them feel strong and powerful. That same drumbeat resonated with black men. Yep. So when we talk about cuz I was looking at numbers Today is the anniversary of Barack Obama being elected to President, the first black president of the United States, y'all do it as you may. This, this is a fact. When I looked at his exit numbers, 95 plus percent black people voted for him men and women. with Trump 15% of black men actually pulled the lever for Trump. I think it's gonna be the same. And it's that Kanye group is that group that just the guy just called up that they feel not powerful anymore, that the world is shifting. There's all these different things going on. We got days and dems. Now I don't know what to do with that. We got women out there talking about they don't need us. We got this and this and that. And Trump is gonna walk up the elevator with his wife behind him. Not in front of him. He's not gonna he's gonna have the umbrella over him. Not her. He calls women bitches. He tells them you can grab him by the pussy. He does all of the things that a lot of men just maybe they don't do it. But they like this. Somebody can and be president. Right.
  1:33:25
  Yeah. And listening, listening to this clip. I've never heard somebody get it. So right. Yeah. And so wrong.
  1:33:35
  Agree. That's right, what she got, right. The fact that there is a Kanye vote out there, there is a free thinking vote out there that says, you know, what, what are you gonna do to me? What do you mean that and that's the approach I had. And I still have, what are you gonna do to me? I mean, I'm at to the point like, I'm 40 years old. You know, I'm getting to that point where I can really feel the way I've been feeling. It'd be justified when you get to a certain age. He's like, you know, dad's grumpy or that. I'm getting my grumpy old man. Oh, so um, what she got wrong is, she says, a white male fragility. But then she doesn't say black male fragility. So if black men are
  1:34:21
  experienced the same thing white men are experiencing wouldn't be black female fragility, but she wouldn't say that. Now. She knew she would get canceled. If you're based over that style. You're being so wrong. You've turned white in her eyes.
  1:34:34
  That Yeah, that's another point. But she was aware that we're talking about awareness that she couldn't string those words together, right. black male fragility? Oh, no, no, that's not a thing. That masculine aspect is very, very
  1:34:50
  prominent. I want to say I think that's the right word. Because that's, I mean, it's like this. For a black man. Your masculinity is how you identify yourself and that's why you hear what little boo
  1:35:00
  See, it's like, Man, what are you doing to your son? I mean, that's his. That's his manhood. You know? I mean, like, I mean, that's where this that's where this is deeply rooted and where we're also where she got it wrong was that um days and them's and nobody's worried about that. I mean, it is what it is people choose to meet people choose what they want to do and they're grown and lungs legal. I don't really care what they do and a lot of people like that. But they want to make us anti woman, anti everybody else. Yes. If we have, you know, the right to free thought. Now they're, they're, they're very disingenuous, this movement has definitely positioned black man is being super transphobic moreso than homophobic.
  1:35:42
  And I listened to Karen hunter regularly ever since we started doing the show. I got Sirius XM in the car. And she's on, you know, when I do grocery shopping, and like this clip here, and that was good for me to hear it again. There's many times that I listened to the Karen hunter show, and I think you racist piece of crap. Like what she just said about white male fragility? I'm like, Well, I can show you my white male fragility. And what are you saying about me? It's really a
  1:36:09
  good thing. I'm sorry. No, no. Black man has to identify with the negatives of white men. Maybe we see a billionaire and an entrepreneur. No, no, no, no, no, they have this even negative they I mean, that's the only thing that makes sense. That they want to keep women in their place. That's a good point. You know, she, she could have easily said, you know, see, Kanye and Trump are successful. And then alpha males and, and men making lots of money and meet Ben meaning something in the world. But she didn't. That's not That's not at all what it's about, according to her. Not at all. So that's the background on Kanye, we got to do the background before we get into the battle. So we have coming up, we have a tobac block of clips from show 35 take that take that will be on this deconstruct Diddy, and this is DD talks to know Mr. Campbell about the black vote. Black vote is not gonna be for free. We're gonna have to see some promises. You know, what are we getting in return five vote, and nothing has changed for black America. And in order for us to vote for Biden, we can't be taken for granted like we always are, because we're supposed to be Democrats. Or because people are afraid of Trump. whoever's going to take care of our community, whoever wants to make a deal. It's business at this point. You know, we can't trust politicians. You know, so we want to know very clearly, just like, Trump made it clear that he wanted to build the wall. The body needs to make it clear that he's going to change the lives and quality of life of black and brown people. LC can't get the boat. I will hold the boat hostage if I said it here. First. Breaking News. Breaking News.
  1:37:55
  Oh, dude, he was talking real tough. Yeah, hold the black boat hostage. Yeah. And in that show, I was I don't know. I mean, I wasn't you. You seen it before. But I wonder hold out hope maybe maybe he was ice cube. I mean, like, maybe he really meant what he was saying. But um, so that was 2122 22 with Sam Roberts talks with P Diddy and DJ whoo kid. This is also Sirius XM. And, um, but let's just jump right into the clip. You want to know and I want to know about? We've been talking about Donald Trump a lot. He's a fellow successful businessman. But now he's running for president. Does he have the puffy vote?
  1:38:38
  Nobody has my vote right now. No, you actually stated that you think voting is a scam coming from vote or die and all that stuff? You do not know. That's what they ran with. I really said I said that it's not his. I thought the deal was very simple. I vote for you. And you give me what I need.
  1:39:02
  You know, so when I got it, you know, so I was voted die. I'm out there. Like, you went hard. Yeah. Young people, young people, people of color. You know, that's part of the process. And, and but, you know, I just I just felt and still feel like I'm, you know, for putting Obama in there that that we should have got more
  1:39:25
  because we put him in there. But I'm not you know, ain't no beef. I'm not saying he does. It so many things. It's just, you know, saying
  1:39:35
  no corporate duty.
  1:39:38
  Huh? Yep.
  1:39:40
  So did so did he do some weird pivots here? So Sam axiom. Did you say voting was a scam? And did he just pivot in life? Like, I didn't say that? Oh, that's how they said. I said that. He didn't say yes or no, that he said that. And then he goes on to say it's a simple deal. I mean, I'll vote for you and you give me
  1:40:00
  What I want or need, right? Um, and it's important to have it in that order because what Ice Cube they were like, Hey, you come back.
  1:40:10
  In hindsight, we see that that call still hasn't happened yet ice cube, and then it goes real soft kind of a little slight jab and Barack Obama but very light but but then he pivots back right? Because he's so glad you picked up on that. He says we should have got more but but no, no, no, no, no. Obama did many great things for us. Not according to Tavis Smiley, we're still looking for
  1:40:35
  anybody who sees moonbase alpha, he's out.
  1:40:40
  We are gonna find tabbies we are going to find him.
  1:40:44
  But a little nugget that I missed on the first time we played this clip, if you can go back to about the 32nd mark. And I'm gonna I'm gonna just let him say what he says. And when he says a simple, simple deal, I vote for you. You give me what I need. Then the other guy says, Well, that's usually how it works.
  1:41:11
  If you want me like,
  1:41:13
  Negros, so I mean, like,
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  I thought the deal was very simple. I vote for you. And you give me what I need.
  1:41:25
  That's usually how
  1:41:28
  you know. So when I got
  1:41:30
  Yeah, that's how it is. It's a joke. It's a running joke. And it's like,
  1:41:38
  Well, to be honest, looks like if Joe prevails, I think these questions could be asked, What are you giving us over here?
  1:41:49
  Oh, and that's where we're gonna get to that we're gonna get down. I have a whole episode on that topic. Everyone's got a handout. Hey, where's my money? Where's my where's my? Where's my stuff? Black Lives Matter, Joe?
  1:42:04
  Joe Don goes to them.
  1:42:09
  All right. So this one I was 2016. And did He's like, oh, no vote for
  1:42:15
  Monday, he still, you know, through his support behind a Hillary, I mean, in a roundabout way. So let's go back to Karen Hunter. And then his clip we're gonna talk about she talks about what the black vote is worth. We support black candidates all the time. But somehow the message is not getting to the people, because they're not showing up to vote. We just had a Houston representative on who was running, she lost in the primary. And I thought she would have been dynamic, but they're not showing up because they don't have faith. And they feel like 4050 years they've been asked to give up a vote with nothing in return. And that's the retort so it's hard to sit here every day and argue that you should just vote Democrat, because we don't want another, you know, reelected Trump. But what are we getting? There's no reparations on a table. I get that, you know, what policy should we be really pushing? I don't know. Drew, what do helped me.
  1:43:11
  And that's why you heard the guy laugh in the previous clip. Yeah, cuz What are you in 50 years? Give your vote for nothing in return. That's that's how it usually works. Except for your your group. She doesn't even have an idea of what to ask for.
  1:43:26
  Oh, no, no, no, she knows what to ask for. Because Have you heard her say? She says no, reparations is on the table. And I get that. How do you get that? I mean, like, it's not. But that's saying, Oh, we can't ask for that. That's literally what she's saying. So she doesn't know what to ask that. But what she says, I give that like, she puts herself into the Democrats, shoes. And that to double contrast her that you know what that is? That's her white man was calling her. Right. She sees how white democrats will look at her for asking for reparation. And she's self censors and self answers herself by saying I get that. And like I said, I love going back to the throwback clips. Maybe for some listening. They're like, Oh, why are you but it's a lot. They're no No, no, no, no, no, don't ever clips. Don't ever think that because I even I'm going Oh, yeah, no, no, this Believe me, this is the right way to go. This is the right path. But Eve even when I listen to it, I'm gonna miss that or not. Because I was so focused on you know why what I was trying to highlight? Yeah. How did I miss this? She's got to listen to stuff in audio man. That's the only when you're when you're off it. I mean, not not in this case, because it's Karen Hunter. But when you're doing YouTube, I have the same thing. You're getting different information than you listen to it again and just audio when you can't be distracted by anything. Time and time again. Even though I'm hearing it too. I'm hearing other things. It sounds fresh to me in some cases.
  1:44:56
  It's funny that you say that because I only listen to an audio
  1:45:00
  magat mp3 interesting not listen to the audio and nicely but even man and I have to listen to over and over again you know to get the clips and kind of do my own edits and if you want to say something to people when you hear the page
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  sound Yeah, I love it. That's me let you know I edit the person that I'm clipping so it's not a you know, tricky tricky editing type one let people know that as well to let you know that I'm jumping from one segment on the clip. And if I didn't do that you will have a three minute clip to get all of the into a digestible morsel of goodness.
  1:45:38
  Okay, so um
  1:45:41
  so that's Karen hunter and what's the black word and you hear it, even she devalues it. It's like no reparations. I get that. I understand why they will never give us that. And with that kind of mentality that goes to show you her mentality, Diddy's mentality like oh, we can't ask for too much. Now. That kind of thing is and when you have a Kanye say I want it all. Or you have black people saying we want tangibles you won't get our vote. We're crazy to them. And when you give me
  1:46:12
  a question, when you just say, Oh, we can't be asking for that. Right? Say that said would you mind saying that for me again? The way you just said it? Oh, that was my nose. You say that's the
  1:46:23
  outcast? They that is B. What do we what do we call that voice?
  1:46:29
  That is the compliant black person voice like, I don't want to upset the applecart you know, that kind of thing. I mean, it's like I said, that's just a double nessa that's a
  1:46:42
  it's just slipping into a well, you know what it sounds like? To me, it's like Driving Miss Daisy. So it's like a throwback to 3040. Yeah, yeah. No,
  1:46:53
  we have not progressed we have not progressed. If this is going on. This is bad.
  1:46:59
  But that's that's how we you listen to people like Jim Clyburn that cloud born and not not not speak ill of the dead. But, uh, what's his name? I get them mixed up. I know, I get people get killed for that getting them mixed up. But
  1:47:15
  the guy from Baltimore. That one was in Selma, and got his head blessed.
  1:47:21
  john lewis, yes. Yes. Bye. Oh, we want good. We only want good trouble. No, that kind of thing.
  1:47:29
  Yeah.
  1:47:32
  That's That's what I thought but just wanted to stop and and highlight it for a second. But I want I want to highlight it to people. When we hear people talk like that, oh, we can't get that. Wow, I understand that. No, it's like you're going back like, what? what progress then you want to talk about progress. It's like if we have to tailor our request. Ladies and gentlemen, you are witnessing the awakening of mo facts he has come to it's like a lotus flower blossoming into his own. That's what 40 years of living will do to you. Yeah, tell me I have very short pay. I've noticed my patience is growing very thin. But
  1:48:11
  I've always taught how to old soul. So I mean, it's nothing new. But it's, I have very little patience for these people. And you know what?
  1:48:20
  That will look like on top. I have to have to say this because I had an epiphany.
  1:48:24
  Because to be fair to the deities and the cleric Karen hunters and democratic voters of the world platinums
  1:48:33
  we use the analogy of Lucy with the football of bakey keep track, Charlie Brown keeps trying to kick that football. And I had an epiphany. Charlie Brown No, she's gonna move the football
  1:48:48
  team has to know it. It's not that he doesn't know that he's got kids believe that his foot is faster than her hand.
  1:48:57
  No, no, no, no, that's not that's not why he does it. Charlie Brown does this because he wants to stay in show business.
  1:49:06
  He knows. He knows. He knows if he doesn't go for that ball. Then there's he gets cancelled. So he's, he's he knows that he's in show business. What's the one I'm saying that analogy that they think? Oh, we can really bought something. They really need us this time. You know, that kind of thing? Oh, they never needed this more than they need this now. Yeah. And, and yet and still their foot your foot will never be faster than her hands. But yeah, it's still their belief in their foot. And like I said, that may be a crazy man epiphany. But that's I was watching Charlie Brown Christmas, something I was like, wow. Like, why does Charlie Brown keep trying to keep that football and it's because he believes it, but they fall for every time. And that's that that's they think that they're they can put the Democratic Party in a position where they're going to give them what they want. Well, not how it works. Exactly. And that's
  1:50:00
  But there's usually very little public discourse over and we still have to see if
  1:50:07
  if Joe prevails
  1:50:12
  but the you know, where's where's the discussion really going to be about? Okay, now what are you going to do for us? Because it seems like this can totally ignore everything. And I don't hear a lot of outrage
  1:50:24
  when they can't, because they sold it so hard. This is this is what they pay. So, excuse me, this is what they paint they sell from the corner because it's like, we told you so we told you this was gonna happen, right? Ice Cube told you this was gonna happen. It's like, No, no, no, Joe's gonna call me back.
  1:50:41
  Joe, Joe is gonna call me back. Trust me, Joseph. And Joe is not gonna call you back. Um, but let's progress with the show. So now we have this is a New York Times special Tom's talk. And they had Sean Diddy Combs on and he's gonna talk about
  1:51:00
  the victim mentality. You talk a lot about black excellence? What is black excellence? And how is it different than white excellence or Asian excellence or anybody else?
  1:51:11
  Yeah, there is a difference there's a difference is a the differences is that we we haven't really forcefully tapped into our excellence. You know, sometimes you could possess magic as superpowers and you afraid of them. You're afraid to tap into alignment with Superman he really want to fly. He was scared. You know, and we have this magic about us that that we were able to be brought over here to be treated the way we've been treated. And we still get up. We love in our hearts now.
  1:51:49
  Crazy. Pain is pain. We get up we love that love in our hearts. And we still have to deal with that pressure. You know like
  1:52:00
  it's fucked up. You hear it all the time. It sounds cliche, but yet you black you wake up Damn. You know, some fucked up shit happened to me today. It don't no matter who you are, you know. And that's a hard way to live, live in fear, you know, and live like that. And
  1:52:22
  he got so wrapped up in the victimization mentality. He forgot the question. Now I want a couple things. I want to talk about one. Can we go back and listen, which is first 10 seconds when he talks about black excellence. This super liberal crowd? laughs I heard it. I heard that you talk a lot about black excellence. What is black excellence? And how is it different than white excellence or Asian excellence or anybody else? Oh, yeah, there is a difference. what's what's funny about that? Let me let me let me listen one more time. Let's see if I can figure out why this crowd is laughing. I mean, listening. You talk a lot about black. Now there was something before that. They were probably already already in some kind of comedic timing, because they're coming. They're coming into this laughing in the audience. You talk a lot about black excellence. What is black excellence? And how is it different than white excellence or Asian excellence or anybody else?
  1:53:17
  Yeah, this Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's purely about the racial part of it.
  1:53:23
  Why was that funny?
  1:53:28
  Once again, when you re listen to things, you hear the things like what what's so funny about black excellence? I mean
  1:53:36
  Well, no, they're laughing at people.
  1:53:40
  And and what audience is this? Now?
  1:53:43
  This is the new york times this is a this is a super liberal New York, New York function.
  1:53:50
  Okay, let me let me let me tell you, I don't think the hardcore conservatives know let me go see, baby. Let me take a stab at it.
  1:53:58
  When you segregate and say, black excellence How is that different from Asian excellence? How is that different? I think it's nervous laughter that they're like oh, maybe
  1:54:12
  Oh, my gosh.
  1:54:14
  segregating
  1:54:16
  you know, something maybe something like that. New York Times audience I can see them nervous laughter I that's what I think it is. I'm never gonna lead you stop me it's this is how we would do what we do. We look at something and we see it two different ways. And now I just, I just find it strange. That's so strange point the last set now.
  1:54:35
  I had to talk about it, folks. superpowers. Did you see black people getting superpowers trending on Twitter. Adam? Have I seen the black people get the superpowers trending on Twitter? No, I have not. I know that. No, I don't know what you're talking about. But I saw was that too. That's why I was at two I was getting my superpowers on December 21.
  1:54:56
  This is from a and it was actually trading on the
  1:55:00
  The social. This is from the route, an open letter to black people about your upcoming superpowers. Oh my so it says but yes, by now you should have received your certified letter informing you that people of African descent will receive superpowers on December 21 when Jupiter and Saturn align for the first time in nearly 400 years, according to researchers at Twitter unit on university of Twitter, this will unlock the melanated magic and black people grant themselves never before seen gifts beyond their ability to clap on beat and resist dumping artichokes into potato salad. Now this is from the root. Wow.
  1:55:47
  Talk about it. I'll tell you this is a potluck folks. We got to talk about it.
  1:55:53
  Yes, it says to do this they're talking about how they're gonna best practices for operating system update to do this, the National Institute for genetic gifts and astronomic superpowers don't say it please I don't I don't want to be the last episode of air curry I want to say but y'all just yeah National Institute for genetic gifts and astronomic superpowers. Alright, so the acronym y'all just worked it out for yourself that way. Anyway, I'll send this who who gave us this acronym?
  1:56:32
  The routes the route Oh my god. Okay. The route. No, man. Yeah. No, no, I won't be saying is this is this is what this is. What No. Oh, and then Baba, wait, wait. I'm just gonna paraphrase the rest of the you cannot use your superpowers to hurt harm white people.
  1:56:50
  Oh, no, thank goodness, that clear. Thank goodness. No. I'm just saying that these super radical woke people is like, wait, wait, wait.
  1:57:01
  is old. He can't go too crazy. Now. Yeah, we'll give you superpowers. But but now this was a real thing that was trending in, supposedly in astronomy that no black people would get their superpowers and maybe I got my superpower not giving a rat's Well, well, well, hold on a second. Hold on a second. Maybe your superpower. You just unwrapped it a little later. And it came, you know came a week or so ago? Maybe right? Maybe you're awakening? What's your superpower? I'm not getting out. Now. I can't discredit this. You know, the, the, the winter solstice with Jupiter. And
  1:57:36
  what the hell and Saturn converging? A lot of people think that was very mystical and magical.
  1:57:43
  See the humor in what they're doing? But also also
  1:57:50
  very cringe worthy. Yeah, very cringe worthy. Yeah. So let's get back to the victimization mentality. You hear Diddy? He got so caught up in just being a victim. He lost his train of thought. So that brings us back to that though back clip 55 my tracks with clay scroggins. How do you stop these mindsets from becoming mind traps. No one likes feeling trapped. Can you remember the last time you were trapped? The problem is we have these thoughts. And our thoughts fortunately, and unfortunately, can create feelings, feelings, both in the here and now. And it's not necessarily what happens to you. But it's the messages that you give yourself about what happens that determines your feelings. And not only do our thoughts create all of our feelings, but the thoughts that defeat us are almost always fraudulent or wrong or distorted or illogical. And sometimes they can form a cycle of mentality that becomes a trap. So how do you know how do you know when a mindset has become a mind trap?
  1:58:57
  There's a ancient Greek philosopher named Epictetus who said this that we are disturbed not by things, but by the view in which we take of them. We think it's the circumstances that are depicted that are that are disturbing us. But no, it's our view of them. That's actually disturbing us.
  1:59:18
  So this is where and it more in the vs theme. This is where people who think like Diddy,
  1:59:26
  get
  1:59:27
  upset when people are thinking like Kanye
  1:59:30
  because Kanye wants to subscribe to the victimization mentality. He is not conditioned by his thoughts are quite the I want to go back to Yeah, so yeah, you know, if you think then you will you have lat right. prosperous, you receive prosperity. So that's what drives the wedge between these two groups because it's like, and because they have they're spiraling because they like we're both black. He's thriving. I'm not he has to be
  2:00:00
  selling out
  2:00:03
  where it's really your mentality and your mindset is holding you back pray I'm not saying this that's what Gucci man says right
  2:00:15
  now you take that out because he said I went out when I I had to realize I was a victim of my own thoughts
  2:00:27
  versus now
  2:00:36
  I don't mind ringing the bell but i don't i don't like the bikini that I have to wear when I walk the sign around for the round
  2:00:51
  peg off the three round fight
  2:00:56
  so you saw Diddy's he gets so wrapped up in the victimization mentality. So now we want to go back show 13 listen to Kanye take on the victimization mentality. I began castle castle before he had canceled culture was cancelled before they had to turn Do you care about any of that? I do I care about everything. Does it does it not rub you the wrong way but does it get to your core when when people do rub me the right way? Johnny Gill
  2:01:29
  What do you say to people they say you turn you turned your back on the culture or exactly 100% I have turned my back on the idea of victimization mentality. We are locked up we went from one to four. We went from one to four to one to three but we always pointing at the white people but yet we want to spend all of our money on foreigners. We want to spend all our money on luxury as opposed to going and buying some land. America is for sale and there's a lot of barren land Disney bought a lot of it and Florida but the culture has you focus so much on fucking somebody bitch and pulling up in a foreign and rapping about things that could get you locked up and then saying you about prison reform.
  2:02:22
  Bro
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  we brainwashed out here bro. Come on, man. It's a free man talking.
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  Democrats had his bone democrats with food stamps for years, bro. What are you talking about? guns in the 80s taking the father's out the home Plan B. Lauren our votes, making us our board our children gotcha Nakheel. I can't tell y'all how to feel. But what I can tell you honestly, is how I feel
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  powerful.
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  And he said there was a nine catch before the culture
  2:03:03
  who defines the culture media because we don't have a culture. You know they've destroyed that they reshaped it. I always say this, they took black. The black black was created around 1960 well made prominent around 1960 mean that mark the marketing the marketing of the of the concept of black. Right they took it with it blaxploitation films and reshaped it to something pimps, hoes perms coke bit Cadillacs, you know, snazzy suits, that kind of thing. And the culture which is shaped by the media has kayaks and has you focused on maintaining the mantrap This is why you hear wall to wall 24 seven, violent, sexually promiscuous, unhealthy habit music
  2:04:03
  it maintains the culture the culture maintains the mind trap and just so you know that that mind trap of that caught the cultural mind trap is extremely exportable. It has an entire class of young people trapped the work.
  2:04:20
  That's what always happens. That's what I never understand the psyche of these people. You bring cocaine crack cocaine, and your kids are in rehab. Yeah, you think he's not gonna bleed over? Yeah.
  2:04:34
  You don't but but
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  now, I'm just gonna say maybe they This is a thought I have maybe they rationalizing the well if it kills are weak. So be it. their strength is our race.
  2:04:47
  Now when you say Huh, who are you considering? Those Okay.
  2:04:54
  Well, hey, Mo the big day. don't give a crap about you or me no matter what your color or culture
  2:05:00
  Ultimately, do not give a crap. Yeah, we're we're pawns. We're pawns in that for sure. Yeah. Well, if you are, if you are allowed to eat fast food and cure yourself, maybe you don't deserve to live.
  2:05:14
  If you're dumb enough to use fitting all of these other prescription drugs, maybe you don't deserve to live well, okay, there's something there's something I was stressing out. But
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  there's something to be said for that. The problem is that the fentanyl there's no difference between the fentanyl and the and the McDonald's. It's both parts of the same machine. And now we know who the who the machines
  2:05:44
  sweeps up first. But particularly fentanyl, you know, these things became a problem for white people, for poor white people. So the machine doesn't give a shit. The machine is more fun with McDonald's. Because you know, you die slow, and you enjoyed the burger on the way. And the fence
  2:06:04
  isn't the big
  2:06:06
  boys can't skip, skip over the biggest part of eating a healthy, the pharmaceuticals.
  2:06:16
  Guess Thank you. But that's what I mean. It's, it's still all part of the same of the same mission.
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  And perhaps we need to look at it more in the context of black people always go first.
  2:06:30
  We're stupid enough to follow.
  2:06:33
  But that's the vaccine, right? That's the what they're trying to do with the vaccine, we say get maybe make a nice rap song about it, you know,
  2:06:41
  you know, nice little tune? Well, unfortunately, what it's done has is it has an adverse effect. Because, you know, now is so easy to say, Well, I don't want to jump in line. I mean, I think I'll step back and I'll make sure that most family has it because you know, it affects his family more than mine. That's the kind of shit you're gonna get. If they all if they look at all as winners and losers. That's how they look at choppers to this my perception of it. We don't care who the winners and losers are. Kanye great, great for him. It doesn't matter. All they want is just someone to move their agenda forward.
  2:07:21
  Not only that, but they want to get rid of the useless eaters that just be one housekeeping 100 it's like let's get them up out of here. fitting all that does the job fast, fast food? Well, we need we need to sell these pills to somebody for high blood pressure and, and diabetes and all this other stuff. This is the mindset of the only way you can break free is to break free mentally. And it's so off putting my people that are in a mind trap. Like, have you ever had somebody you smile and somebody asks you why you smile for what you so happy about? Sure. Sure.
  2:07:58
  I have ex wives mo Yes. I've been through this
  2:08:04
  approach and looking at
  2:08:06
  about what what what he's so happy about, you know, I'm in this I'm in this mental trap. But he's not, you know, come back. So I think we stopped off at 26. So now this is where we get into the new material. And this is Chi West with Nick Cannon. This is right after Nick Cannon got himself into hot water. So, um, yeah, he Yeah, he was. I don't know what Nick was making. Third round out that touch the third.
  2:08:35
  Mainstream TV, what do you think about Nick? But um,
  2:08:39
  yeah, if you get kicked out of YouTube, you know, you'll get kicked off of Fox. Come on now.
  2:08:46
  This is a mechanic's class with Kanye West. When you remove the fear of God, the fear in love of God, you create throne for the fear and love of everything else. Let's get to life.
  2:09:03
  In 50 years, there's 20 there's been 22 million over 22,500,000 black people aboard it strategically and on purpose. Planned Parenthood was set up and placed in minority communities
  2:09:25
  to kill black people. you talking about? When Margaret Sanger, the originator of Planned Parenthood of time, because a lot of people when when you say things like that to in their defense, they say well, Planned Parenthood today is a different organization. But But what do you do do do do? We go
  2:09:49
  there we go. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was an avowed racist whose goal was to reduce the black population in America and she succeeded 80%
  2:10:00
  abortion clinics in America are in minority neighborhoods, over 22,500,000 black babies have been aborted in 50 years, over 1000 black babies are aborted
  2:10:15
  every day.
  2:10:18
  So that means we are inside of it as we speak. This is genocide. So we are inside of genocide.
  2:10:26
  What gets me about this particular story? When you were when you were in your late 20s, I was talking about this on the podcast. I was talking about the history Margaret Sanger, the eugenics Society of America. And I was told to shut up because you are you're you're you're misogynistic. You're anti woman. You don't want women to have access to healthcare, whatever the framing of it is, for 1314 years, this has been denied denied as a conspiracy theory mo I could. If I went and looking for emails and articles, I could show it all to you. And only recently, only in the past few years, does this come up to the, to the point, this is why I view it as a good thing. Because now these stories are starting to come out. 2013 years ago, less internet now we have a lot more internet more people talking about. But now the planned parenthood has taken singer's name off of buildings, because now they now the cats out of the bag.
  2:11:35
  So yeah, but if you notice Nick Cannon, tried to
  2:11:44
  kind of buffer the facts. He's like, that's that that was planned parenthood then. And they do good things for women now. Right. Well, that
  2:11:55
  was headed. Yeah, that's a talking point. Right. Come in. Nick Cannon. Yeah. Nick Cannon is a democratic supporter
  2:12:05
  was coming with the heat. So he had to come in and run interference. But then he comes back around and calls it genocide. Now genocide is an act of war.
  2:12:19
  Yeah, it's a way of war. And that leads us into the next clip with a DD talking to Charlemagne to God, about his evolving political views. He's fought a crazy conversation. And you told everybody to hold a vote. Yeah.
  2:12:39
  A couple of months. I told everybody hold a vote hostage. A lot of things have gone on since then. None of us expected. I think this President has done a great job of,
  2:12:52
  of rattling
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  America.
  2:12:56
  When you move in fear, you don't have any leverage.
  2:13:01
  felt before is the way I still feel.
  2:13:05
  Things have gotten too serious.
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  of a point. seeing what's going on. White men like Trump need to be banished.
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  That way of thinking
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  real dangerous.
  2:13:22
  This man literally threatened the lives of us and our families. about going to vote. Stand back and stand back, stand back and stand by win a war. We're not taking this like it's a war. We take in, it's like, oh, we're in presidential election.
  2:13:41
  We're in a war of love versus hate.
  2:13:45
  The number one priority is to get Trump out of office the tribe of people that have the responsibility and really should be scared to death who this man is white people.
  2:13:58
  Wow, boy.
  2:14:05
  Let's take it from the top. Yeah, please. First Charlemagne straw man says you sparked that crazy conversation.
  2:14:13
  Asking now this is Diddy's words. He said it was a simple deal. I'll vote for you. You give me what I need. That's a crazy conversation.
  2:14:24
  Took Charlemagne to God.
  2:14:27
  What are you asking? You're asking for somebody. That's crazy. That's revolutionary. What? Like, that's the usual
  2:14:35
  that is the usual that he says when you move in fear.
  2:14:42
  You know, you lose leverage. But back on clip 24 his whole thing is all we wake up every morning and we're gonna be killed. So what happened here
  2:14:53
  fix it.
  2:14:58
  fix this.
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  Or that's that's what best case scenario or good he was laid as a hurt him over here Did he and then do the do the swap
  2:15:13
  cuz he's going out you know I'm holding a hostage at the same time when tangibles and no no tangibles no vote reparations. That conversation here comes Diddy. I'm holding the vote hostage at the last hour to unite the final hour to do this weird pivot. And then he says, white man like Trump. Last time I checked this, isn't it this way you always dump a black democrat supporter? Um, what's the diff between Trump and Biden?
  2:15:45
  For years, when you ask him that? No, I'm just saying we asked him that their brain fries like, Ah, well, you know, Biden's nice when he saw
  2:15:55
  that's it. That's it's gotta be nice. All right.
  2:16:00
  Nice genocide.
  2:16:03
  The Humane genocide?
  2:16:05
  Yeah, the humane genocide. And then he goes on, we're in war. And that's why I played the clip from Kanye.
  2:16:12
  Kanye is actually pointing out I mean, just by the definition, and if you look at definition of genocide, is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular particular ethnic group or nation. Yeah, just by the definition of I think that fits. Now, I'm not saying what the motors are. I mean, it's not for me to say I mean, because we could look at it several different ways.
  2:16:36
  But I'm not even getting to the politics of pro life versus pro choice. But when you have one guy here, pointing out facts,
  2:16:44
  facts, hard, hard, cold facts to be improved, like you say, you've been saying it for, you know, what, 20 years? 13 years? Yes. 13. Yeah. And then you have this guy, did he come up with a war, a war? Love versus hate? What? What are you talking about?
  2:17:02
  Yeah, well, we it gets, it gets better. I just, I just want to
  2:17:07
  please, I just want us to the last five seconds. The number one priority is to get Trump out of office, the tribe of people that have the responsibility, and really should be scared to death. But this man is white people.
  2:17:23
  Hello, Adam. Yeah, this is how good I know you play 29. The number one priority is to get Trump out of office, the tribe of people that have the responsibility, and really should be scared to death. But this man is white people.
  2:17:42
  If this man is elected,
  2:17:47
  we're not standing by no more gang kills. We're not scared of anybody standing up and standing by we're on the verge of a race war.
  2:18:01
  Wow, people in America won a race war.
  2:18:05
  They will not vote. I'm an independent. First of all, when I vote, I try to do what's best for my community. Let's be clear on that you not you're not standing by your decision to hold your vote anymore. You want people to go out there and vote.
  2:18:20
  It would be irresponsible of me to hold our vote hostage. But it would also be irresponsible of me to just let this moment go by the world is watching and not do everything I can to make sure that going forward that we are part of the narrative that we own our politics.
  2:18:43
  And so I'm launching one of the boldest movements that I've ever launched. And it's called our black party. Okay, it's time for us to have our own black political party unapologetically because right now if you're looking at the debates we're not even a part of conversation at all we're not a part of the conversation we don't have any political power we don't have any political leverage. Wow. So like what what way to go and try and muscle in on on Kanye? Oh, you're doing it wrong. Here we gotta I gotta leave the political party.
  2:19:19
  So let's start from the ending go back to the beginning. All right, so can you venture on over to our black party.com I was this nice exercise that we like to do on the show.
  2:19:32
  And while you do that, I'm here
  2:19:36
  Yeah, you see what the contribute button over there? You will click all you always want to click on that. This is the fun game you scroll down to the bottom you see okay, where's this money gonna go to a scroll down? It says Oh, no, it's x blue.
  2:19:55
  Yeah, this basically the
  2:19:58
  Democratic Party. Yeah.
  2:20:00
  Democratic Party, our black party.
  2:20:03
  Oh, brother, brother, brother, and it's actually it's go straight to the even the act blue website. They didn't even
  2:20:10
  even to obfuscate it on their own website. And brother know.
  2:20:15
  me. Okay, so that's that I just wanted to get started there so you can read the rest of what I'm going to say. He says if Trump wins, we're not going to just stand by. We're on the verge of a race war. All right, Diddy says we're on the verge of a race war. gbg. Baby Shower, right? I'm out. That's right. Let's stock up.
  2:20:37
  Utah, talk all this talk.
  2:20:40
  And then you're going to be in a helicopter fly somewhere. If it really does kick off and leave your people to be slaughtered. But this this is and this is why I have no respect for Diddy. Let me calm down
  2:20:52
  while you're calming down, so I got to know who talked to him. And what the heck did they say to him? Because I hadn't heard this before. That's that's out there. Yeah, thank you. That's pretty out there, man. It's like we're on a verge of a race war. Okay. Yeah. It's better than hit where Ground Zero mo right here. We're starting that race where you may come on, let's go at it. Yeah, here we go. And then it sounds if it gets even better than that, because, comme Charlemagne, the God says, Yeah, we're not part of the conversation. Bro. You had every Democratic nominee on your show.
  2:21:34
  You could oppress them. Joe Biden told you if you ain't black, you ain't black. Have you on vote for him? And you're talking about the lack of representation and not being part of the conversation out of here. And then
  2:21:48
  Danny goes on to say, he says, if people in America won't race war, they'll not vote. Now digest that again. I'm gonna say it again. I want you to process what he just said. If people in America won a race war, they'll not vote.
  2:22:07
  Who was he talking to?
  2:22:15
  I don't understand what I don't understand. Who was he talking to? I'm aspiring to you. Let me break it down. Please. He said if people in America want a race war, yeah, they'll not vote. He can't be talking to white voters. He can't talking to voters because if you don't vote, then Biden wins. He's scaring black people to the polls.
  2:22:39
  Even if people if people don't vote, then Trump wins. You mean?
  2:22:45
  No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not what he said. He said, If people and that's why I said what I had to listen to. I'm like, hold on, hold on. Let's listen to it again. Let's just listen to it. Again. We're not scared of anybody standing up and standing by we're on the verge of a race war.
  2:23:04
  If
  2:23:06
  people in America won a race war,
  2:23:09
  they'll not vote. If they want a race war. They'll not vote. Yes. Yeah. Well, you can't be talking about Trump supporters. You can't talk about Biden's support. I mean, he's talking to black people. Right. If you want to race war, then don't vote. Don't vote. That's what he's saying.
  2:23:30
  These are the fear tactics. The mind trash you think
  2:23:36
  that's pretty blatant. I mean, no evidence of it. Really. I mean, other than a whole bunch of hoax a very fine people stuff.
  2:23:45
  And he pulls this rabbit out of the hat. Now, I'm surprised that that didn't get more traction.
  2:23:55
  At least not.
  2:23:57
  Now, this is what we this is what we get. Yeah, you need to you need to upgrade your celebrities, man. They suck.
  2:24:07
  Hello, who creates the culture? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You're the culture. Yeah. We don't create the culture. They pick what they feed us. And that goes to more back to what we need more land. We need cyberspace more than land but I mean, yeah. They pick what is trending on for us. They pick what's on the top two top 10 on Google and what suggested in YouTube, that kind of thing. But this is how they talk to us. Y'all. You want to die? You wanna you want to do you want what you want to be hanging by the KKK? No, whoa.
  2:24:40
  Wait a minute. I have in fact, I have someone saying just that. You might die.
  2:24:48
  Oh, yes. Thanks, bear.
  2:24:52
  So now we have we're gonna wrap up with this with this Diddy and his scare tactics with the final clip. political party.
  2:25:00
  Three public parties number one goal is to unify behind a black agenda. That's it, you can be a part of the Democratic Party, the republican party could be an independent, but if you black, he wasn't born Republican, he wasn't born Democrat. He wasn't born independent, he's born black. And we have to seize our political power. Because it would just be more of the same being pushed this way being pushed that way. And we're expecting a different result, a different result. But the definition of insanity is like doing the same thing over and over the same way expecting a different result, and it's not gonna happen. So we have to change that. We got to start with us stepping up and really taking the responsibility and accountability to be a part of this political movement. The other part of that is gonna be getting other black people to buy into this is not for black people, you know, saying this is this is not for the scary ones, the ones that want to move things forward, and want to get to the smoke. Black person spends an average of like five hours on Instagram a day, you could give Instagram that time. 15 minutes, 15 minutes, you can give to educating yourself, and all black parties that platform, we've never played this game. This is another level of gangster. But I played this game before, you know, started in 2004 with voted die. And this is the evolution of that thought. Wow. Now
  2:26:32
  was he taking ownership of our black party?
  2:26:37
  Yes.
  2:26:39
  Wow, this is our platform.
  2:26:42
  He goes on to say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. But I've been doing this since 2004. who voted out? Hello. Listen to the agenda of our black party. defunding the police guaranteed income for all decriminalized poverty, which actually means something else.
  2:27:06
  That means we are calling on local governments to stop making crimes of the very quality of life issues they should be working to fix. It's like low level stealing.
  2:27:16
  You can still see it on $1,000 here. Ah, that's Los Angeles. You know, they're there. There are chain stores like QVC empty, just because people come in, take everything's gone. They don't stock them anymore. Address racism and health care. Well, they're doing that they're giving you that COVID jab, yay, grow black business. See what that means?
  2:27:41
  That means give gives us money. Governments at all levels spend billions of dollars each year through contracts with small businesses and black businesses do not have an equitable share of their spending. We demand more from the government. The 1000 you familiar with 1000?
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  No? What kind of black guy are you?
  2:27:59
  united the party, the party, the 1000 This is a meme. So called wins a call so called black person. We have seen that a system run by people who are not committed to the black agenda will pass and support laws that undermine black existence. We will elect at least 1000 black people to positions of power at every level of the government that support the black agenda.
  2:28:24
  Oh, yeah. That guest Yeah, I haven't seen that statewide equity officers. This is that's actually to what is this.
  2:28:33
  state laws and programs have developed without considering the impacts on black people we demand that governors of all 50 states appoint a cabinet level advisor to ensure that all state programs are developed with an equity and justice lens, high quality and affordable education and then legalized marijuana
  2:28:51
  that's always in the black agenda. Black people need not weed
  2:28:56
  is gonna let you out of jail give you some free money and get all the way you can smoke well in this position this a little differently you Don't mind if I do this to you because I find this super hot I do not mind at all. Not marijuana is now a growing and lucrative industry for many. So this is like this is your here's your 40 acres and a mule mow get your weed on man you can grow this shit make some money. Historically Black people's it's interesting black people's. That doesn't mean a das when you say black people's that is that's not a das man. That's something else. So it says historically black people's plural had been the victim of unjust laws and further barred from participation in this market. What do you mean? I bought all my wheat from black guys, this is a lot. We demand that all states legalize marijuana immediately release all prisoners held for marijuana related offenses and expunge the criminal record of those with past convictions and violations. So I don't have a problem with marijuana. I don't have a problem. I certainly
  2:30:00
  Smoking a plant, whatever should just you should not be in jail for that. But to say, Hey, this is your this is literally what they're saying this is your this is your future business
  2:30:12
  that I find disturbing.
  2:30:16
  And there's even Oh, and one more thing. When you said the people's thing, something came to my mind I ran across the button. It was not a clip available to a new term.
  2:30:27
  Folks.
  2:30:29
  Well, not a new term, but yeah, is it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it is known as new.
  2:30:35
  FOL X, folks. Oh,
  2:30:39
  I'm sorry. black folks, folks. Really? No, no. Cuz with that with the gender. Yeah, I know.
  2:30:47
  I get it. I get it. I get it. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So watch. watch for that in the crop up. When you start when you say people's that made me think of that. But I mean, this is this is what we're talking about here.
  2:31:00
  At black, our black party is our blue party. And newsflash Daddy, if you are born, you bought our blue. If you're black, you are born a Democrat. It is what it is.
  2:31:11
  You have to work your way up that plantation. As far as I'm concerned. It is now alcohol salesman.
  2:31:18
  Yeah, sure. Right, boys. I mean, yes. Seriously. Yes. Seriously? That that's No, no talk about how that how alcohol destroys No, no, no, no, we'll have none of that.
  2:31:30
  I'm talking about that. But well, he should be held to be held to account for this. That's really not okay. This I had no idea and I always kind of like Diddy Amanda didn't have a real problem with him. But now Wow, man. What are you pushing?
  2:31:46
  I'm gonna tell you what did he did? They did what did he does? He sampled? Watch a few YouTube videos. Yes, race war.
  2:31:59
  Wow, that's good. Yeah, he's a plagiarist.
  2:32:03
  Yeah, that's what that's what he did. And he put a hodgepodge together. And
  2:32:09
  my question is, where was his support for iQ? You said it was a it was one person was business. So that was business. Yeah. Hey.
  2:32:18
  But that's my wrap on a DD versus Kanye.
  2:32:25
  And that leads us into our second
  2:32:29
  donation clip. And I love new money. And it's let us be very clear. Moe facts and Adam Curry. We too love new money. I like brand new money I just I don't want any money around me is not
  2:32:44
  I don't want to have a new one that are brighter than an old 20 that's kind of dumb and but there's some bad new money that excites you like $100 bills.
  2:32:56
  Smells good, most beautiful thing.
  2:32:59
  I have seen a woman is good looking as $100 bill.
  2:33:04
  Oh yeah, wait until you get a whiff of them Bitcoin though. That money excites you even more? Yes, that's right. This is
  2:33:12
  another little Thank you segment for the people who came in under $50 for as long as we can do it, because eventually the list will just get too long. So we enjoy doing it. It's these things can take a year to so get in while the going is good. Again, time, talent, treasure, everything you share with us as appreciated. All of it is valuable to us. It's really up to you to determine what kind of value you want to return for whatever you feel that you receive. And we see Doug en who come in came in with 4545 I'm sure there's some coded message in there for us. Mo and Adam, I screwed up the donation the first time is in 45 cents instead of $45.45 for gbg.
  2:33:58
  Now he says no need to read this rant, but I think I should read this, shouldn't I? This is kind of nice. I like this. Yeah, go ahead. Switch. There's no need to read this rant. But here's my feedback on time. First of light again, this was an episode. A lot of people impact impacted people. So trappers delight, depressed me in the beginning, I turned 15 in 1970 and participated gladly in the drug counterculture. However, there's such destruction in that way of life. It's a trap. I'm so saddened that the quote heroes of so many people are drug gangsters. The real heroes in my book are the engineers and scientists the real ones and construction workers and teachers and farmers and fishermen men and women who actually produce something of value to care for their families. Parents that care for and raise their children. Anyways. Man, what have we done? By the time you get around to whitey Bolger? By the time you got around to it Bolger. I was totally hooked. Yeah, that was this was good. I loved how we connected all of that. I'm from Rhode Island. The mob around here is legendary. Yes.
  2:35:00
  My mom also is from Rhode Island. You've got me all in with the CIA MK Ultra stuff when do we get to the Trilateral Commission actually think big bank Barry kind of touches on that.
  2:35:11
  Karma for our country in the world. Merry Christmas. And Happy New Year to you as well. Oh, yeah. Well, all of that. That's really what if, if there's one if when people say so what do you and Moe have in common? I said, That's it our belief in lizard people. That's pretty much it. When we go to the conspiracy theories. I think that we're we see very II on that stuff. Nothing's off the table. Oh, no, no, no, I'll be analyzed. As I say, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy analyst. So I just analyze what they put out there in the ether. As far as conspiracies are concerned, no good. I'm one level lower. I'm just a conspiracy therapist, but you know, I'm getting along.
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  2:42:21
  So we couldn't do a vs. Or potluck without doing some sports. Oh, do I get to ring the bell yet?
  2:42:30
  Wait. Okay. Michael Air Jordan. Versus the Brian King James
  2:42:42
  was proud of our players that we not only were we were playing the game of basketball, we was also having discussions every single day about what's going on in the communities from, you know, police brutality to, you know, the racism that's going on to voter suppression. And obviously, as you talked about, there were a lot of things going on off the court. Unfortunately, while you guys were in the bubble, we obviously have a took place in Kenosha, and the season that was already going on was pretty close to stopping right, LeBron, you guys were close to calling it quits and walking away? Yeah, we were you know, it was funny, because Milwaukee was playing Orlando that day. And then I believe OKC and Houston was the next game. And then our game was the last game. I think it was us versus Portland. So you know, when the walkie did what they did, and rightfully so we understood that there was no way that none of us can go on the floor. We stand as a brotherhood. We are a brotherhood in our league. And we still with the Milwaukee Bucks and what they wanted to do. But there was a time where we were ready to leave to the Lakers, myself included, we were ready to leave. And we was trying to figure out if we leave or if we stay what is our plan? What is our call for action, and I'm lucky enough to have a friend, you know, the 44th president that allowed me and allowed CP and allowed us to get on the phone with him and get guidance. You know, when there's things going on when it's chaos, where where people don't know which move to make or how to handle a situation. The best thing you can do is have someone that you can talk to and give you guidance, I have that type of leadership.
  2:44:17
  Alright, so the backstory on this one, so you have young versus old. And it's actually in reverse of the Tyson versus bootsy. Right. You have the young guy coming after the old guy being LeBron coming after Michael Jordan. And the backdrop of this is when Jacob Blake got shot seven times and Kenosha
  2:44:41
  the NBA the Milwaukee Bucks decided to strike right. They said we're not playing.
  2:44:47
  Well, I'm gonna tell you now. The Bron said he was close to calling it quits. No way. The brand needs a fourth and fifth and sixth ring to be compared. Oh yeah.
  2:45:00
  Of course, of course he needs that. Yes, obviously. So he was there's no way in hell, he was going to leave that bubble
  2:45:08
  to win another championship in LA to boycott the season and for other reasons as well. Um,
  2:45:15
  you had Um, so he's he says, Obama convinced him to play on. I call bs on that. Yeah, I think he called
  2:45:27
  grout. Well, we're gonna get that God goggles
  2:45:36
  on. He was doing so well. All sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry, your future gazing. So
  2:45:45
  the Milwaukee Bucks do it through him a curveball. They're like, we're boycotting, we're done. We're not playing, you know, is this the right thing to do? And allegedly, Obama convinces him to play home. Now in 33. We'll listen to Obama and what he said to
  2:46:02
  LeBron.
  2:46:04
  You know, the conversation we had was along the lines of LeBron spoke about protest is useful in terms of raising awareness. But given the power that the the NBA players had, my suggestion was that you use that platform to see if you can start asking for some specifics. This isn't something that's just a one off, right. That's, sadly, what we've seen as it happens again and again. So one of the suggestions I had for the players was, yeah, is it possible for you guys to set up an office that allows you on an ongoing basis to take best practices that are gonna start making incidents like this less likely, as I told them, no, it's not going to be solved overnight. This is something that you got to stay on, right? You got to keep on moving. And so the fact that LeBron Ben has also been working with more than a vote, working with my
  2:46:59
  outstanding partner and the most popular Obama, Michelle Obama, in getting people registered, getting them educated,
  2:47:09
  understanding the connection between voting and reform so that you combine protests and going to the polls. You know, I think that's, that's been the best outcome possible now. I was working with Mike on his massala. You
  2:47:27
  more than a vote. Okay. Go ahead. Mo is another one. I got to look at another one I got to look at Yeah. So
  2:47:35
  Obama says protest is a good thing. But don't just protest, vote. Vote. Oh,
  2:47:43
  my legacy.
  2:47:45
  My vote my legacy. So Disney, Black Lives Matter and big corporations. What and I allowed the NBA to boycott. Let's just keep let's just keep course now. Of course not. Right. Secondly, how in the hell can NBA players stop police from shooting? People? I don't understand. I mean, what what do they think they can do? Well,
  2:48:11
  they got a special office, they can go to and talk about it. Yeah, we don't get to that special office. No. So then more than a vote.
  2:48:20
  And that more than a vote. Are you at the website now? Yeah. Kevin, can you go down to protect home court? Now see that? I was looking at Kevin Hart being on this. That was kind of interesting. I want to be very specific on this one. Protect home court. Can you read what that says?
  2:48:38
  Hold on a sec. Protect. Why don't I see this?
  2:48:46
  We are Oh protect home court.
  2:48:50
  arena voting and discounted rides to the polls?
  2:48:54
  Yes. Oh my god. This is literally a this is an old old old union trick.
  2:49:05
  Well, don't worry, we're gonna drive you to the pole. Wow.
  2:49:10
  Kinda it gets better. It gets better. This is an article I think from Huffington Post. Let me make sure that's right. No, this is for NBC Sports. Um, LeBron James voting rights group converting arenas into polling places. Right. Go down. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Now you know, I'm going
  2:49:32
  yeah, in Georgia. 14 County election officials this week, approved Atlanta Hawks proposal to use State Farm arena as a polling site. Plans to call them for the ringer to serve as the county why early voting site ahead of Election Day. Do you remember this state farm arena being in the news recently recently? Yes. Was this
  2:50:00
  Was this all right for some votes being slipped around back and forth out of a suitcase?
  2:50:06
  Yeah, Huffington Post, surveillance tape, a voting count, vote counting breeding false claim false fraud claims in Georgia. Hmm. Well, no. So this is what the NBA asks for.
  2:50:21
  polling places.
  2:50:23
  Do you see Do you see what's going on here? Of course, I did not. I did not know that. That's how that was, you know, it wasn't hidden. But it wasn't. It wasn't advertised this. Wow, that's good. Mo. Ooh. Huh. Yeah. All right. So let's go on to clip 34. You know, when you think about the history of African American athletes,
  2:50:46
  you know, dating back to jack Johnson, the boxer and then you've got Jackie Robinson, and you've got Muhammad Ali, you've got folks like Bill Russell in the NBA, Arthur, Ashe and tennis. And then for a while, I think there was a suspension of activism. Right? Because I think, for a time the African American athlete started thinking in terms of contracts, money, shoe deals, etc. And to see this new generation without fear in speaking their mind and their conscience. I think you guys are setting the tone for a lot of young people coming up, and a lot of other athletes in other leagues. Wow.
  2:51:33
  Man, this is beautiful. How it's all connected. You got the shoe deal. This you got an Obama is deep in this
  2:51:43
  heat through Michael Jordan complete and but he talks about shoe deals. Yeah, that's what that's what they're basically saying. We were suspended, you know, um, basically, no action was taken with that generation of Michael Jordan because they were too concerned about their revenue. contracts. Wow. Which, yeah, so now we go into that.
  2:52:07
  That's his homeboy. That's Chicago. Is it?
  2:52:13
  Hey, I really started following NBA this year. So I'm just spouting competition Obama has is the most famous black man in the world is probably Michael Jordan.
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  underhanded is big. This
  2:52:29
  is when I heard this. I said this is a weasel.
  2:52:33
  weasel away. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Didn't Obama go up and and and do a three point or was that in the darn arena where the where he did that? Right. Right before the election. That was the that was in I think in Michigan. Okay. It was in an arena. That was the basketball thing, right? Yeah. But it was basically Oh, yeah. Let me let me take a hold on a second.
  2:52:57
  I mean, that's isn't that also part of this like, hey, look at me, Mike. Yeah.
  2:53:03
  Yeah, he had. He had a Blackberry. blackberry is about when he was in the White House. He was playing golf all the time. But when he's running campaigning, he breaks out the round ball. Yeah. Cuz we talked about it on another show.
  2:53:20
  Yeah.
  2:53:23
  I'm just it made people say, Oh, he didn't say Mike specifically. Yeah, right. Everybody knows about Michael Jordan. Republicans buy sneakers to
  2:53:35
  Jordan officially coming out and admitting that he said, Republicans buy sneakers to was, I thought a pretty iconic admission. by him. He's never admitted that he said it before. Now. He said he said it in a joking fashion. And there was a lot of discussion about exactly what Jordan represented off the court. And I say a lot. There's probably seven or eight minutes of a two hour performance. But there were a couple of quotes that I thought really stood out for Michael Jordan. I never thought of myself as an activist. I thought of myself as a basketball player. I wasn't a politician. I was focused on my craft. Was that selfish? Probably. But that was my energy. And I believe that's why Jordan was the best and most popular athlete ever. And this has been a big discussion point. I obviously wrote a book entitled republicans buy sneakers to, based off of that Michael Jordan quote that came out of I believe it was the Jordan rules, the Samson Smith book. And this is something that, in many ways modern day athletes have begun to repudiate is the idea that you should try to appeal to everyone. They're doing a 10 hour documentary on Michael Jordan and they had guy talk
  2:55:00
  Walk in there and said, Oh, Michael Jordan, I don't think he's gonna matter in a few years he's gonna fade he's no Ollie. See?
  2:55:10
  So they're trying to equate LeBron James with Muhammad Ali, a guy that Muhammad Ali gave up everything but what he believed in he wasn't the problem of his boxing, you know, career.
  2:55:23
  Probably one of the biggest American celebrities at that time. And all he had to do was go and fight exhibitions. For the troops. It's not like there was gonna put a rifle in his hand, right? But he said, No, he said, I'm not gonna take the comfortable way out. I'm gonna fight this. I don't believe in it. So I'm gonna fight in this. And they try to
  2:55:41
  equate
  2:55:43
  China's China's LeBron James with Muhammad Ali is pretty, pretty rough.
  2:55:49
  Right? And saying that, that goes back to what we covered in in throwback clip.
  2:55:56
  Go back, clickable 11. When we covered the NBA situation, and LeBron being extra quiet on the situation. There's a song from Hamilton, I want to be in the room when it happens, right? where it happens. And to me, you're upon if you're not in the room, you may have the greatest exposure, you may have the greatest celebrity, you may have the loudest voice, but if you're not in the room where the decisions are being made, then ultimately then you're you are a pawn you're not the queen, you're not the king. You're not a rook. And with LeBron and Colin Kaepernick, yes. Their their ability to present a certain opinion is just that it's a certain opinion. And it's connected, as you said, once again, it's it's all about business. Exactly.
  2:56:45
  And I must say this, that's part always we got to be fair and objective over here at the you know, the show.
  2:56:53
  Conservatives use Michael Jordan is upon, of course, against against LeBron.
  2:57:01
  Oh, Trump did it. I like Mike, you know, he put him right, right.
  2:57:08
  So you hear a lot of these upstart conservative sports shows? They'll use Michael Jordan, to denigrate LeBron. Well, what's this? Good? Well, I was gonna say what, what I've noticed, doing this show for the past year, and taking a little more interest in Spider Man, I like some sports. But I've never watched ESPN. And the level of political discourse that has been run through sports in the United States
  2:57:39
  was so out of control, that it destroyed ESPN and barstool sports. And the out kick. You know, these people were desperate to get away from this bullcrap in their sports. And it's like, the whole thing is political. Everything is business and political. I think people are on to it.
  2:58:01
  Where who's the target audience for sports? Hello, young. Mm hmm. You're saying an FF ethnic males. So if you're trying to talk target that expect it more, more specifically, black males? Yeah. So it's like, let's leverage LeBron in a political manner. And I lost all respect for LeBron when he did that in 2016. with Hillary Clinton, like I said, if you want to donate, but when you get on stage with people
  2:58:27
  and their celebrity that sticks it sticks. Oh, man, he he can't get away from that. He can't get away from that. And so we have another clip from that same segment. Speak for yourself. And notice that's when Whitlock and you're saying I don't know if he got ran off or if he left Fox, sports news, but he's no longer there. So we have a clip with levar Arrington spinners from truth that probably won't have working anymore. You are a pawn I hate to break this news to you. But you are I don't play chess you are you are a pawn and you're a pawn because you are leverageable, you are a leverageable asset. All right. You're a leverageable asset. I'm a leverageable asset. What is the leverage leverageable asset. If we are no longer 11 leverageable asset to Fox, we are no longer welcome at Fox. That's the bottom line. If you don't bring that value if you don't bring a tremendous value for what their causes and their business model is. You're you're not going to be here. The same goes for what what we're talking about right now. So when you're talking about, you know, are these guys pawns for this political game? Of course they are. Whoo, yep, there it is. That will have your TV for very long
  2:59:44
  podcasting for you my friend.
  2:59:47
  Yeah. So,
  2:59:49
  of course, we have to, you know, look at it from the
  2:59:54
  esoteric and one anomaly we had to bring in Chronicle Judah of Judah 144
  3:00:00
  He gives us the inside on the Michael Jordan versus LeBron situation. Alright man peace. You know brothers I've been telling you for a very long time. What does he say? land PDS? Where do you say? No?
  3:00:14
  Man peace. Oh my gosh, I did not hear that I'd man peace. You know brothers I've been telling you for a very long time that this dude LeBron Benny blonko from the Bronx James, that the only reason why he constantly is trying to utilize woke ism and pseudo activism and his fake internet revolutionary persona, so that he could figure out a way to try to take down Michael Jordan, in his mind as being the number one all time greatest NBA basketball player. That's all this shit is really about. This is an attempt by LeBron James in concert with Nike, to try to take down LeBron and you might say, Well, why would you say that isn't Michael Jordan also a Nike athlete, you have to understand something that Nike incorporated is a subterranean organization. They operate according to the concept of magic, meaning white magic and black magic. Like for example, the film Star Wars Star Wars depicts the dichotomy of the white magicians, ie the Jedi against the black magicians, ie the Sith Lords. In the Star Wars films. The Sith Lords operate according to the paradigm of the master and the apprentice. And eventually, the apprentice always tries to destroy the master. He never works alongside the master. And this is what LeBron James is doing. LeBron James is trying to destroy Michael Jordan, because he understand that his magic is not as powerful as Michael Jordan's magic. They're both wizards Don't get it twisted. They're both attorneys. And that's why there's a level of fervor and competition between them.
  3:01:48
  I love that.
  3:01:50
  Yeah, so this guy does great work. He looks at it esoteric, and I frequently bring him to the show because he has a perspective I don't think it is original.
  3:02:02
  Out of all content creators so that that's all it is Michael, he
  3:02:08
  LeBron wants to be the biggest athlete in the world. Sure. But he doesn't have it.
  3:02:16
  Anybody and not maybe I'm being ages here. But
  3:02:21
  if you say you can watch only one last basketball game.
  3:02:27
  Michael Jordan will be the pair player that you pick. Well, yeah, that's the only basketball game I watched was that 10 hour documentary, which is all about him. And that's what firstrate lebra grad. Thank you for the allia opener home. That's what frustrated LeBron because the uh, what was it? I know the name of it? Um, what the documentary? Not? Yes, I know the name of my mind.
  3:03:02
  The last dance last dance last dance. The last dance. That's it. It had better ratings than the actual NBA Finals NBA games. Oh, it was it was monstrous. Absolutely. Was monsters. So that that goes to show you that people are more interested in watching a documentary about Michael Jordan plan actually watched the Brian play. And as a slogan that cropped up. Once you go, Well, you go broke. Yep. That was sports.
  3:03:31
  People don't want to hear about it. No. Okay, I have to go up here a little bit. I am the reigning champion of my fantasy league this year in football. Oh, congratulations. Happy.
  3:03:44
  Thank you.
  3:03:45
  So the last thing I want to hear is about anything other than football
  3:03:51
  is it's because innocent it's an escape. I said don't escape for me. It's a mental unplug, you know, you try to forget everything that's going on outside for you know, for me, it's gonna be about 67 hours every Sunday, um, because after watch redzone. But that's just not here, there. But
  3:04:11
  that's what you want to do is I don't want to I don't want to do anything with veg out in front of TV and have fun, my friends. And don't inject politics into it. They don't get it. That's our only escape. That's it That's left. But what they're doing slowly, maybe knowingly or unknowingly. They're killing entertainment. They kill all the celebrities, they kill all the musicians, they killed all the athletes with all these messages. Nobody wants to hear that. And that's why you like you said you have
  3:04:43
  the new kids on the block out kick in and several others that are doing big numbers because people just want to get the sports well and if you want to hear all the rest if you look at barstool sports, that's totally less like oh, let's just let's watch some dumb sports. Let's just talk about sport.
  3:05:00
  Sports and sport, sports, and then do some good stuff for the pizzas. I love the barstool sports. Fun they're doing for the help restaurants. Yeah, it's just kind of wholesome. good fun. Yeah, like low, you have to think much. You look at look at
  3:05:18
  Dave Portnoy, you think he's not that smart, I'm just thinking much about him.
  3:05:23
  Feels good, it feels very natural and normal and not not problematic to use that shitty term. And what it really is, is a portal, that to your youth, you know, trading basketball cards, trading football cards. I mean, that's what kind of like fantasy is you own the guy's kind of honors card and you can put it this imaginary team together. And it just, you know, it just gives you an escape, and they pollute it with these politics. And it's not even the politics. What are you going to do on the field? Go to the police station, go, I mean, go anywhere. What are you going to do on the field? That's like me at my job? I don't bring my politics, the work. I'm bringing to the podcast. I mean, yeah. Okay. But obviously, that's part of today's professional sports athletes job is to do is to participate in the corporate politics, which is real politics.
  3:06:18
  So is the job to make money or to push narratives? That's what the question because they don't they're not moving in the same direction. Now, the answer is yes. But they don't understand that. They understand that these two things don't coexist long term.
  3:06:33
  I
  3:06:35
  disagree. I don't think they have the opportunity to opt out. That's that's the obvious problem here.
  3:06:43
  And then the other thing, if you're going to talk about it being formed is this guy, Justin Jackson, and he's on
  3:06:51
  some of the more liberal shows, and he's aware he's talking about the Uber. And they know how Uber is stiff to people in California, and they're not counted as with the bit, I mean, gig work. employees, you're intelligent. Yeah, he's very intelligent, educate on the topics. That's fine. Use those platforms. I'm not against politics, and athlete. I'm saying don't bring it to your field of play. That's all I'm saying. So I guess we can get back into a chroniclers Judo part to really the only flaw that Jordan has his Achilles heel is the perceived lack of attention that he's given to so called Black issues. Back in the 90s, they tried to attack him for his gambling. Now, they tried to attack him for his lack of quote, unquote, social activism. That's why I state that this whole issue, this dichotomy between Michael Jordan and LeBron James, is really based on a major issue that is so pervasive in the black community, in regards to the so called black man, either wanting to take control over his own life and be held responsible for his own actions, or for someone who wants to promote the victimization card, who, there it is.
  3:08:07
  There's the connective tissue. This is this is the this is the
  3:08:15
  either or choice of a black man. Either I'm gonna believe myself believe my talents, believe my skills. Or I'm gonna, you know, be a victim. And I'm gonna tell you the problem with LeBron James being the victim. If a goddess 692 178 pounds, is walking around saying he scared.
  3:08:36
  Yeah, there's some truth to that. Yeah, right.
  3:08:40
  It's kind of like a book breaking. I'm scared. I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of my own shadow. No, that's not that's not a good look, period. Um, but isn't that also exactly what LeBron James misses? It's not exactly what be like, Mike. There's no be like, be like LeBron, to Mike. Michael Jordan was the hero of all children.
  3:09:05
  Like, holy crap. He flies the man has wings across the world. Yes. And
  3:09:13
  it was, it was unbelievable. And LeBron just doesn't have that vibe. Right. So now we're gonna get into the owners owner mindset. And this is Mark Cuban. Talking to megan kelly, about the NBA ratings matter in China hypocrisy. So basically, you're saying that No, nobody should do business with China ever? Why don't you just answer my question? No. I'm just trying to get to the root of it. So why? Why are the one on one because they are a customer. They're a customer of ours. And guess what, Megan? I'm okay with doing business with China. You know, I wish I could solve all the world's problems. Megan, I'm sure you do, too. But we can't. And so we have to pick our battles and why you do
  3:10:00
  Like to get proclamation so you can create a clip that says, Look what I got marked to say, you don't want to deal with the actual action item you might be silence is violence, but action gets changed. Sounds like a victim of China actually.
  3:10:15
  Chinese boss sneakers to
  3:10:18
  me, they make amends to him. That's what it sounds like to me. Right? I mean, they didn't they denigrate Georgia for saying republicans buy sneakers too. But now you have an owner. Nobody holds him to task. Okay, no, Cuban got a huge, you got a huge pass on this.
  3:10:35
  Right. And where's the Brian? Where's the brother say, Hey, I know. I know. We don't we don't want that money. We don't want that. You know, that's how owners get down. And in the last closing two clips. This is kind of relevant to what we're talking about here. There was a you remember Donald Sterling?
  3:10:55
  Remember?
  3:10:56
  owner, owner of the former owner of La clippers? He? Oh.
  3:11:03
  Yeah, he had he had to sell. Yeah, of course I remember. Yes. And that this is just as a side note, this is the most blatant one of the most blatant examples of white privilege. You get kicked out of your league and you get to sell your team blight.
  3:11:18
  I think he bought her for like 400 400,000 or something like that. Maybe 4 million. sold it for 2 billion. Woohoo. Oh, that's that's that's, that's showing you something. Gone. But at the time, LeBron James was silent. silent.
  3:11:36
  The LA clippers the same one Chris Paul that taught LeBron James and Obama. Guess what their protest was? We're gonna take our jerseys off and thumb in the middle of the floor at practice. Right? We're radical.
  3:11:51
  Right? But now all of a sudden, oh, now you're saying? Oh, we're gonna we're just super woke. So let's get into this clip with Anderson Cooper and Donald Sterling. Magic Johnson had said that, you know, he would never attend a game while your owner apparently he showed up to a game today. He would never attend a clippers game as long as you were owner. And he came today to to see the game. He's everything. Yeah.
  3:12:21
  I don't think it's worthy of even discussing such a stupid remark. But he lulled me into waiting a week. Do you know I mean, he's don't do anything he told you. You're saying he told you not to say anything? Yeah, don't do anything. I know the girl Don't do anything. I'll help you. I'm waiting. And I'm waiting. And I'm waiting. What you're saying is Magic Johnson called you up or you called him up? I don't know. It showed number he called you up when the tape I don't call anybody. He called your loyalty you He called you up when the tape came out? And he told you not to say anything? Yeah. Why did he say don't say anything. He just said, Wait, be patient. I'll help you. We'll work it out. Why do you think he said that? I think he wanted me to just do nothing so he could buy the team. He thought maybe the whole thing would be resolved within two weeks.
  3:13:13
  What is he done? Can you tell me? Big Magic Johnson? What is he done?
  3:13:19
  He has is a business person he got age. Did he do any business? I like did he help anybody in South LA? I think he is he doesn't actually full blown AIDS.
  3:13:31
  Oh, man.
  3:13:35
  Crap. I hadn't heard this.
  3:13:38
  Yeah, good. Well, no, I was just going to say that the silent protest
  3:13:47
  is they took they didn't just throw their jerseys on the floor, they turn them inside out, which is a violent revolution. And it's not a violation because you're not showing your team logo. It's because you're not showing your Nike logo if I can be so free to make that assumption.
  3:14:05
  Hmm. And that's what gets people's attention in these organizations.
  3:14:12
  Yeah.
  3:14:14
  So then we have Donald Sterling so he's pissed off now magic has kind of told him Hey, don't say don't say anything. Don't say anything.
  3:14:23
  What is wrong with that guy? What is he done? He's famous because he got AIDS, man. That's crazy, right?
  3:14:29
  But Holloway gets worse gets better.
  3:14:33
  Just as a prelude to come to episode, we're gonna talk about Fauci, Matt Johnson, ATC.
  3:14:41
  Good, good, good. We're going there. We're going all the way there. It's always a beautiful thing when you can get a racist so mad that the truth starts to pour out of their mouth.
  3:14:54
  Oh, what kind of a guy goes to every city has sex with every girl, but he catches HIV and
  3:15:00
  Is that someone we want to respected and tell our kids about? I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. But what does he do for the black people doesn't do anything you call up and say, well
  3:15:17
  has opened a lot of businesses. In inner city neighborhoods, the Jewish people have a company and it's for people who want to borrow money and no interest. They want to give them a fish pole fishing pole. We want to help people if they don't have the money we'll loan it to you you don't have interest when they pay us back. So I'm just telling you he does nothing it's all talk Are you saying that African Americans don't contribute to their to African American communities as much as there's no African American? Nevermind
  3:15:56
  Oh, man, I wish he had finished his thought that would have been beautiful. Even he self censor that goes to show you even a white man races. Yeah. Even the racist knows his boundaries. He was like there's no black. Do you
  3:16:15
  go to show you go ahead. I was gonna say there is one point
  3:16:20
  that that that is
  3:16:24
  it's contradictory.
  3:16:27
  And I have to admit, I'm listening to the Mr. Sterling the racist
  3:16:32
  Magic Johnson. Give me his his business is fast food man. It's it's based Burger King. It's
  3:16:44
  one of the largest titles had McDonald's and you have McDonald's and Burger Burger. But he has 31 Burger Kings.
  3:16:52
  Right. Okay, houses. Yeah, I mean, that's true. Please give us give us give us give me trap house wrap house. Yes. Mike. Magic Jordan, and Magic Johnson.
  3:17:05
  Trap houses. Whoo. Trap houses. Let me see what else. Oh, that's crazy.
  3:17:12
  Why you look that up. Let's not lose the baby in the bathwater. Because the truth is not him. lambasting Magic Johnson. He told you the blueprint to the How to have a functioning culture. And I think that's why he got cancelled, because up until this point that hadn't forced him to tell his team yet. But when this beauty came out of his mouth, say, oh, Jewish people, oh, yeah, we have a company and we love each other interest free loans. And
  3:17:44
  when you get the phone call, you got to put up 10 K and I'm pretty sure Tom you put your 10 k in and you get paid back and we help. Yeah. Brian, are you paying attention?
  3:17:56
  Mike Tyson Are you paying attention? Danny Are you paying attention? I'm even say Michael Jordan. Kanye. This is how they operate. Hello.
  3:18:08
  They give each other interest free loans here mo facts. Here's 10 K, interest rate loan pay us back when you can. And the way you pay back is when next time you get a phone call. You put your 10 can just said it himself. We give them maybe we need to listen to that. And again, she said we give them fishing poles. That's an allusion to the give a man a fish. Yes. Eat for a day given that teach man? No. He said we give them fishing poles.
  3:18:38
  Interesting. Let's listen to how culture works. And again, what kind of a guy goes there? He said he has sex with every girl that he catches HIV. And is that someone we want to respect and and tell our kids about? I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. But what does he do for the black people doesn't do anything you call up and take? Well, he
  3:19:04
  has opened a lot of businesses. In inner city neighborhoods, the Jewish people have a company and it's for people who want to borrow money and no interest. They want to give them a fish pole fishing pole. We want to help people
  3:19:20
  that's what culture looks like. Sure.
  3:19:25
  And in an odd way,
  3:19:28
  and it just popped in my head so I'll just throw it out. I'm not quite sure exactly how to explain it but in an odd way. When I see hotep Jesus and other black Americans or maybe a DOS or hotep I just hope I don't get in any trouble. Yeah, with with Bitcoin.
  3:19:48
  I feel that's that is a new version of I want to help you out.
  3:19:58
  building wealth that's
  3:20:00
  That's exactly exactly.
  3:20:03
  Not hands, not handouts, not No, no, no showing you a path showing you a path. But also, I mean, hotep clear, and just using his him as an example, he can clearly is, is helping you know, this is an educational thing. And here's what this can do. Here's how you can build wealth, set it all up for you.
  3:20:23
  You know, most most of what he does is education. The physical act of buying and storing Bitcoin for people is not that hard, but it's the education. And it's helping people understand.
  3:20:35
  He is truly handing out virtual fishing poles in my mind.
  3:20:40
  Yeah, and that's right, you teach a man to fish. That's all it is. And it's not an end the buy in is you have today you get help today you help tomorrow. And that's that's how that culture functions. On our side, it's less take take take, donate, donate, donate, you want to help donate that blue. That's how we're gonna help you save your money. Get your money up. Give your money. Yeah, exactly. How, how cynical? Is it really, man? How cynical. So March 2021 is the year that we're going to set set everyone free, obviously.
  3:21:18
  And I look forward to doing it.
  3:21:21
  Yeah, hopefully this episode episodes like this, we had to get out that mind trap, we have to get a mess, that's gonna be a big thing. And 2021 is going to be not we saw the results of and we were looking at the end results and 2020 politics and
  3:21:38
  and you know, the Boulay and the things that this my focus this year is gonna be focusing on the interpersonal relationships, that creates that outcome. And you see here pitting black men against black men for narratives and political points and, and pushing agendas. So once people see it's all smoke and mirrors, hopefully they can come up by that mantra. And once you come out in the match happening, you thrive. So that's, that's my hope. And this is not just a black thing, man. Lots of people are in the mind trap. Start with us.
  3:22:13
  That's not that's not positive or negative. You start with us. It goes everywhere else. So prosperity start with us, man, you know, and and everybody can, you know, I'm reaping the benefits of it. Moe, I can't. I can't wait to put up a statue of you one day. So in 50 years, some idiot on Tifa kids can pull it down. But still, you deserve one you deserve.
  3:22:37
  Thanks for this journey. Man. I like that there's so much here that I don't know, started off a little rough for me. I had to kind of remember who everybody was and what the what all the issues were and you pull it off, man. Good job. I'd love this. This was a lot of fun. I like I like learning things that I really know nothing about. Now. It's good. I appreciate the outcome. And as I always say, pay attention to everything and the truth reveal itself. And we expect you to hang around until we come back next time. But you know, we're really dedicated to the new schedule for 2021 bringing you more and more facts with Adam Curry right here on the podcast. Mo. Thank you so much, man. Have a great week.
  3:23:19
  All right, have a good one. Adam, see you next time. And remember, you can support us by going to mo facts.com or direct to our donation page. Mo EFQND me.com See ya
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  40. C - Mark Cuban Gets DESTROYED By Megyn Kelly NBA Ratings Crash, BLM, China Hypocrisy 1.mp3
  41. C - Donald Sterling on race, Magic & the NBA 1.mp3
  42. C - Donald Sterling on race, Magic & the NBA 2.mp3
  02. A -TBC26 B- Another Perspective On Dwyane Wade's Child Being Transgender RSMS 1.mp3
  03. A - Boosie Tells Dwyane Wade He Trippin for Letting His 12 Year Old Son Get A Sex change 1.mp3
  04. A - TBC26 - B- Another Perspective On Dwyane Wade's Child Being Transgender RSMS 2.mp3
  05. A - TBC46 - C - Angela Stanton On Sharing Trump’s Policies, Pro-Life, Gender Dysphoria + Rebuilding Black America 2.mp3
  06. A - TBC48 - The Reality of Black Men's Disposable Role as Concu-serf (Dr. T. Hasan Johnson) 1.mp3
  07. A - Mike Tyson Says His Daughter Convinced Him to Confront Boosie's Homophobia TMZ Sports 1.mp3
  08. A - Mike Tyson Says His Daughter Convinced Him to Confront Boosie's Homophobia TMZ Sports 2.mp3
  09. A - Mike Tyson X Lil Boosie “I Think You Like Homosexuals 1.mp3
  10. A - Mike Tyson X Lil Boosie “I Think You Like Homosexuals 2.mp3
  10. A - TBC48 - Black on Black Crime Part 2.1.mp3
  11. A - Mike Tyson X Lil Boosie “I Think You Like Homosexuals 3.mp3
  12. A - Boosie on Mike Tyson & His Daughter Confronting Him Over Trans Comments (Part 1) 1.mp3
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  17. B - TBC46 - A - Kanye West, Trump's Secretary Of Dragon Energy 1.mp3
  18. B - TBC46 - A - Tucker Most compelling voice against abortion is Kanye West 2.mp3
  19. B - TBC13 - Kanye Can't be silenced 4.mp3
  20. B - TBC46 - C - Karen Hunter On The Black Male Vote (2020) 1.mp3
  21. B - TBC35 - Diddy Talks To Naomi Campbell About The Black Vote.mp3
  22. B - TBC35 - P. Diddy - Voting for Trump, No More Vote or Die - #SRShow (Sam Roberts) 1.mp3
  23. B - TBC35 - Karen Hunter - What Is The Black Vote Worth 1.mp3
  24. B - TBC35 - TimesTalk - Sean Diddy Combs (Victim Mentality) 1.mp3
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  27. B - [FULL SESSION] Kanye West on Cannon's Class part 1.1.mp3
  28. B - Diddy talks Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the launch of a Black Political Party 1.mp3
  29. B - Diddy talks Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the launch of a Black Political Party 2.mp3
Music in this Episode
  Intro: Kanye West - Touch The Sky 16 seconds
  Outro: Willie Hutch - Slick HD the Mack - 26 seconds
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