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#BecauseMiami: We Need to Talk

2024/11/11
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The panel discusses their voting history and principles, reflecting on how their empathy often led them to vote against their own interests. They express concern for the welfare of others and the potential impact of Trump's policies on the working class.
  • Panelists voted based on principles rather than party or person.
  • Concerns about Trump's policies harming the working class.
  • Empathy as a driving factor in voting decisions.

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I was a registered independent or NPA, no party affiliation, from age 18 in 1996. I registered right here in my English, AP English class at New World School of the Arts High School in downtown Miami. So from 96 until 2018. And I voted for as many Republicans as I have Democrats. And a few third party candidates that I'm not proud of. Maybe one that I am.

I've never voted for a person or a party. I always vote for a principle, to quote former President John Quincy Adams. After all, I'm not in a cult. I'm in a democracy. I consider a candidate's character, their competence, their commitment to our Constitution. But then we all have different

criteria and different priorities. Ultimately, I am a white man in America, born in America. So I'm good. My concern was for other people. And perhaps that was my character flaw, if you will, was empathy. I often voted against my own best interests. I voted so that I could pay more taxes and

to even the playing field to keep the American dream or the hope and potential of it alive. I believed that paying more of my fair share meant providing a safety net. It meant creating a more perfect union to ensure that more Americans have more rights and opportunities. Because I believe that a

Well-fed and housed and educated population with access to health care makes our communities, our country and our world a happier, healthier and safer place. But these states are not united. It's no longer Reagan's shining city on a hill or, as JFK said in his famous commencement address at American University,

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

About five months later, he was assassinated. It's now kind of every man, woman and child for themselves. Look after you and yours. The truth is Trump's policies, proposed policies like mass deportations, tariffs, Medicare, Social Security, they're going to predominantly harm the working class, the people that voted for Donald Trump. I'm going to get a tax cut.

My 401k and my stocks are going to soar and I am going to have to as a white man in America not hold my tongue if I want to make a joke about one thing or another. I might wind up in a place where there is more room and more opportunity. I don't think that

The changes to women's rights are going to affect my family because as a white man in America of some means, I'll be able to provide for them because this doesn't apply to us. You understand? We can say that now. But I was concerned for too long about the welfare and well-being of other people. And sorry, Roy. You know.

You gave me and Cynthia a minute to respond to that. That's great. Thanks. And my rights got taken away in the same damn week? Sorry, white man talking here. Jesus. Well, thanks a lot, though. So much for...

I'm going to put another 20 seconds on the clock. Oh, that's great. I appreciate you. That's kind of like a recount. It's 10 seconds for each. I'm sorry. Actually, no. Roy will get three-fifths of that time. No, time. All my time gets taken away anyways. That's fine. You're going to deport her time, huh? Yeah, exactly. Not a white woman nor man. How are you guys feeling? Not great. You know, as a father of a daughter, a black daughter,

Seeing what happened on Tuesday, you know, not exactly the best result, especially for things that's going to happen potentially in her future. I mean, it's not even surprising that he won. It's surprising just how badly she lost. You know, Kamala got blown out. Is it surprising? Surprising, no. Surprising, no. The amount that she lost by, no. It's just...

Damn it, the hope. There was a lot more hope. To a certain extent, there was that, hey, you never know.

And no, we just got the same results over again. I mean, we are a far more, I think, misogynist country than we are a racist country. What? As evidenced by the fact that, I mean, we elected our first black president back in, you know, 2008 and have yet to vote a female president in. And in fact, both of them were beaten by the guy who couldn't have been less qualified because

compared to the other woman in the race, both races in 2016 and in 2024. And America still chose this path. And remember, our last three presidents have now been 78-ish year old white men. The country is not interested in electing a woman president and even less interested in electing a female minority president. I mean, that is absolutely accurate. And in fact,

a majority of particular minorities in this country, minority immigrants in this country, agree with that as well. It was very, not baffling, I don't want to say baffling was the word for it. The one thing that hit home for me after having a couple conversations with those who voted certain ways in my friend group was that there's a super need now more than ever to separate church and state. Because I...

come to realize that a lot of the voting that took place, especially for the abortion amendment, one, the propaganda got to those people and they believed a lot of those things that were being said in those commercials. Secondly, religious beliefs were the top priority when certain folks went out to vote. And

And what I have to say to that is that that's beautiful. You have your religion. You have your faith. You have your God. But if we're going by off your God, what about so-and-so's God and Roy's God and his religion and that religion? My God disagrees with their God. Exactly. So if you're going out there to the polls voting based off your faith and your religion and your Bible, you're going to be a little bit more of a loser.

You're voting incorrectly. I'm sorry. You're not voting the correct way. You're not voting in a way that you are thinking of all of us in this situation. You are thinking of yourself, your own beliefs, and what you think should be implemented on my own life. We're going to be led by a white

Christian nationalist group now. Yeah. And incidentally, that is antithetical to the vision that our founding fathers had for this country. Although I will say, if you had spoken to our founding fathers in 1776 and told them that their experiment in democracy would last about 248 years, I reckon that they'd be impressed with that, that they would say, like, that's a pretty good run for

And I'd like to say all things considered, you know, we did have a pretty good run because, and listen, everybody, this is not doomsday prophesying here. What I'm saying is that something is over. Something is definitely over. I'm not saying it's the end of this. It's the end of that in particular. But I think something is definitively over in terms of the standards that we have, in terms of being a shining city on the hill, a beacon and a model for democracy and integrity and fairness around the world. People don't look at us.

that way anymore. They haven't for some time, but at least we were able to maintain the facade. Now the mask is totally off. We have shown our ass and exposed the lie here. We don't embrace competence and expertise and intellect and courtesy and

empathy, we embrace autocracy and we embrace oligarchy. And doing that nakedly and openly is a change. It is a shift in terms of America's place in the world. And when you have people like Russia and China celebrating, when you realize that this is the end of Gaza, this is probably the end of Ukraine, the end of

Of Taiwan, that that is a shift in the world order in which American superiority, American exceptionalism, America as a not only a leader, but a role model for the rest of the free world. That is crazy.

over. So something is over now. Does this mean what comes next will be worse or better? I don't know. We're all going to find out. We're all going to find out in real time. We are very much living history, which as a documentarian, as a white man, is pretty interesting to me. For the rest of you who voted for this, who didn't vote for this, lo siento.

I'm sorry. No more Spanish. No more Spanish. We are Americans in America now. And we are going to start speaking American again.

From now on. Ain't that right? That's not really English either. No, that's not the Queens. But I was close. The Queens. The Queens. Queen's English? The Queens. Melania now. We did go full Florida. I mean, not only did we elect a Florida man, our friend Nate Monroe at Jacksonville.com had a sensational op-ed about...

Like, not only did we elect this Florida man, but he ran the most Florida of campaigns. I mean, it was just a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey clusterf**k. It wasn't even a three-ring circus. It was like a one-ring circus of just like, of just a freak show of creepy, angry, tawdry. White people. White people. Filleting microphones and calling for retribution and the evil within. I mean, it was a wild thing.

Dark spectacle. And also what's interesting, too, is that, you know, around the country, people voted for abortion rights and very progressive policies while they also voted for the very same politicians that would immediately roll those back or completely abolish.

abolish them with all the houses of Congress. It's not inconceivable we will have a national abortion ban in this country as recently as the spring. Nobody holds the politicians responsible for any of this. We passed the restoration of felony voting rights overwhelmingly over 60 percent of Floridians did. And then the Republican legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis kind of said, well, f***

you voters and I'm going to disenfranchise you. And nobody held them accountable. They, we reelected all the same people. It's this weird cognitive dissonance where we say like,

This is what we want. This is the will of the people. The politicians don't do it. And then we just reelect them. And that's kind of what happened here. This weird misremembering of, I guess, the Trump era and what happened and what it meant for so many people. And we're just going to do it. You're just going to do it again, just like Florida. And the will of the people. Do you realize just how much will the people have to have considering that?

All the amendments down here has to have a super majority for it to get passed. 60 percent. That's crazy. That's absolutely. And that's why everything came up short. Let's let's talk about democracy in Florida. Amendment three, adult personal use of marijuana. Yes. Five point nine million voters. A majority. Fifty six percent. It failed.

Because you need a supermajority. Amendment four, amendment to limit government interference with abortion, got over six million votes. A majority. That is over 57% of voters. 57% of Floridas don't agree on anything, but they agree that there should be limited government interference with abortion. That failed to pass. Because you need a supermajority. Here's the funny thing about that.

Back in 2006, they put this amendment on the ballot to establish the supermajority vote in order to amend our state constitution. And they said, should there be a 60% threshold in order to amend the constitution? That amendment passed successfully.

With 57 percent of the vote, a majority, it got a smaller percent or about the same as Amendment 4 did. Amendment 4 did not pass. That did. Let's remember Ron DeSantis ran for reelection in 2022.

And he got fifty nine point three seven percent of the vote, which meant at the same threshold of a state constitutional amendment. Ron DeSantis would not have been reelected. Do you honestly believe that's credible? It makes no sense. But that's democracy in Florida. The abortion rights amendment in Florida failed with a higher percentage than every other state in which it succeeded.

Was that understood? I know it's a little. The abortion amendment in Florida failed with a higher percentage than in every other state in which it succeeded. That is not democratic. OK, but that is what America wants. That is what America wants. And you can't disagree.

With the voters, Donald Trump won the popular vote this time. And unlike the Republicans who love to in advance of an election, love to claim election fraud or voter fraud and like to storm the Capitol if they don't like the outcome. I accept the results of a free and fair election in this country and the will of the people. Donald Trump would have the vice president, by the way, on January 6th.

if she was doing her constitutional duty, would not certify...

Would not certify the electors. That is apparently her right to do. By the way, it is not. It is not her legal or constitutional right to do that. And she has already said, Vice President Kamala Harris, that she would not do that. And what I really am looking forward to talking about is how the Democrats f***ed this up. I really think that we have to have that conversation, not as a postmortem, but how we watched it happen in real time and there was nothing that we could do about it. Kamala Harris was the wrong person.

Joe Biden stayed in the race far too long. The Democrats f***ed this up. Let's be clear. They played politics and they gambled with the future of our republic. That's what the Democrats did. The Republicans didn't do that. They had their guy. Okay.

And the Democrats screwed this up. And we're going to have that conversation ongoing on this program because I don't know that there's any way to right this ship because the Democrats are so lost. The ship be sinking, brother. Oh, yeah. The Democrats are so, so lost. And I don't know that that's such a bad thing either.

I'm saying that as a white man in America, but then again. We can say that now! Do you guys have any hope? Let me ask you. I'll ask you the same question I asked Uncle Luke. I just answered it, no. Is there anything over the next four years or 50 years that you are looking forward to that you think could be or could get better other than the midterm elections, Roy? No, nothing. That's it. It's over.

I always have faith. I always have faith. Good for you. You got more than I do. Well, you know, you have to have faith in order to hope that there's change in your lifetime. And, you know, we've seen some change. We're going backwards a couple now right now. But I have hope that, yes, there will be some sort of change that I will see in my lifetime. But will I be disappointed if I do not see that?

A little bit, but I will not be surprised. I want to ask you about these women, though. White women? I want to ask you about these binders of women. Because something that I learned about in 2016, which I'd never heard of, someone said to me, well, internalized misogyny. And I was like, what the hell is that? And it was a woman, obviously, who said this to me. She said, well, it's like, well, nobody hates women more than we hate ourselves. Right.

And more importantly, other women. And I was like, what? Does that ring true? I never heard of that. Internalized misogyny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a bit of that. It's a common phrase. Yeah, there's a bit of that. I've definitely experienced that in my adulthood. Unfortunately, there is this kind of thing where in society, women kind of are pitted against each other.

So then, of course, I think it's a white man's plan because you guys want us to be distracted while you go ahead and take the rest of our rights away. But yeah, there's definitely some internal, there's self-hate most definitely amongst a lot of women. I'm one of those. I do have a self-hate trait and I do talk to myself in a really negative light sometimes. I'm working to better myself in that way. But there is also a lot of, I don't want to use the word cattiness, but yes, there is a lot of dissension and a lot of

There's not a lot of women's sisterhood bonding all the time. Is there a lot more of that these days? Yes. There's a lot more women supporting each other. Women just not in this election right now. Just don't quote me on that one right there. But in my life, I do have that woman's support that I did not have for quite a long time in my adulthood. Yeah, and I wonder what we do about that other than a Barbie movie sequel. I mean, that was cute while it lasted, but now we're here with...

limited rights. So yeah, it's great. I love it here. I love having a vagina. It's just so amazing. How does it feel to be a little less than human in this country? The same way I felt Monday night going into Tuesday. Nothing changes. It's still the same. Still feel the same way. So here we are. We just have to hold on to our loins and pray for the best.

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H-E-L-P dot com slash D-O-B. Thanks, guys. How you doing, Cynthia? Not great. You know, you did this to us. Just kidding. Not my people. My people got it right. Just kidding. 70 plus percent of my people got it right. You know, it's how do I feel? I'm still in this haze of not surprised, still angry, don't understand how certain voters voted, but everybody has the right to vote the way they vote.

And they did. Not for long. Well, yeah, there's that. There's that. Which reminds me, I don't know that it's such a bad thing to roll back some of these voting rights. I think there's too many voting days. You mean like the pre-election? Well, what I'm saying is there was a thought process on the part of the Democrats that bringing in certain immigrant groups...

giving them citizenship, giving them the right to vote and letting people vote for two weeks to maximize engagement and enfranchisement. Maybe that's dumb, because if you look at the stats, educated voters, the elites, if you will, I mean, just educated, gainfully employed people are actually the Democratic base. So what I'm saying is if you've got to show up on a Tuesday in person and cast your vote,

I'm saying maybe we shouldn't make it easier for more people to vote. I could show up on a Tuesday, no problem. Anytime I want, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and vote. Make that day a national holiday. F*** that. Okay. By the way, most countries, you can make voting mandatory, have it on a Sunday, have Election Day on a Sunday instead of a Tuesday. I'm fine with certain— No, because that's football season. People are missing out on football. Yeah.

Football. Another man situation. Sports. Cool. Another man situation. Another man sport. Another man situation. You don't want to vote for me because football's on. All right. Yeah, the pigskin. Another man situation. I get it. I get it. What if... Oh. Hear me out here. Okay. What if for fantasy there was like a voting fantasy league?

- A voting fantasy league. - Yeah, what about that? - That's called voting. - And that's why I don't have the rights, 'cause I didn't think about that. That's why my rights were taken away a little bit. - Ay, yo mío. - What you gonna do? - I mean, you know, it is very sad, and then what really got me was the people's religious beliefs really got in the way of what should have been

A vote that did not have your wholehearted emotions based off your God and your Bible. That's my takeaway from this. I mean, these people haven't read the New Testament, though. Yeah, my magic book is better than your magic book. Right, and that was, some of the conversations did get spirited. I don't want to say heated. They got spirited because I'm saying, okay, but those are your beliefs, and you're impeding your beliefs on me.

So, but then what about me? What can I, can I do the same to you? Because essentially what you're saying to me is exactly what you're doing to me. If that makes sense. It seems like the freedom of religion thing is a misnomer. I don't want to say like there, uh, those who are into the religion are, uh,

feel holier than thou, but it did come off a bit of like that. Like, I know better than you because of my religion, here's how I'm gonna vote. And the other thing that I realized also when it came to the abortion amendment of why people voted against it, they also didn't have all the information. I had one person tell me in a conversation of,

well, what if the child is six months in the womb and you're going to go ahead and murder it that way? And I was like, that's not, that's not, that's not what's worked. That's not how that goes. It's a health care issue. Correct. And I'm like, and they also took their religious belief of like, well, there shouldn't be premarital sex. So if we should ban abortions to stop that, I'm like, you can't stop something that's already. That's the other thing. All the blame is being placed on the woman

Exactly. Listen, we've been talking about that now for like years on this show, that the entire conversation around abortion is about female promiscuity instead of health care. And of course, who's propagating and controlling that conversation? White men. Old rich white men, by and large. This is about, oh, well, girls got to keep their pants closed or whatever, keep their pants on or whatever. It's like, but that's not...

what this is really that was not the issue about right and Religious freedom and my magic book versus your magic book and my magic ghost in the sky versus your magic ghost in the sky My people believe in Abortion, it's not a matter of believing in abortion. It's about believing in the health and safety of the woman and

at all costs it's just our belief system our belief is that the person who is here now living and breathing and functioning that person's health and safety both physical and psychological according to my people is of paramount import and we need to do whatever we have to do to keep that person

who is here, who is a part of our lives and a part of our world, who is our mother, our sister, our daughter, our aunt, our grandmother, whomever. Like, we need to protect and save, protect the health of and save the life of that person. If it comes to it tragically at the expense of this unborn being that she may very well want to have

in a healthy way, be able to carry, determine, give birth to. So this is a tragedy any which way for...

A woman who and we've had those women on this program who did not want an abortion. They wanted a son. They wanted a daughter. And then they wanted health care to save their own lives, not just so that they wouldn't die. Both them and their unborn babies would die, but so that they could survive and maybe have a sufficiently healthy womb so that they can try to do what they wanted to do in the first place, which is have a baby.

And if you fail to provide not just women, but their husbands with this health care, then you cannot have families who can procreate, who can reproduce, who can grow their families because they want to do that. It's like Bible fan fiction, because not only is it antithetical to really the teachings of Jesus of the Gospels, it's antithetical to what they themselves claim they want

To accomplish, which is healthy families growing and making healthy babies. But you can't do that without first world health care. And that is not what is happening anymore. The Miami of, you know, we often joke that Miami is a third world country.

cesspool it might even be a garbage pile in the middle of the ocean we're just floating on but like that is the kind of third world mentality of women dying in back alleys that we have brought I mean it does feel like some dark ages that do not affect me at all must be nice yeah fantastic

You're goddamn right, Meatball. That shiny beacon on the hill, you know, with climate change and everything, that hill is getting flooded. I'm good with that, too. Every election, people are like, who are you rooting for? I'm like, the flood, motherfucker. I am rooting for her. We're ready to go. Yeah, if you believe in that book, you know, all you have to do is build an ark. Exactly. How about like a party yacht? Can we make it like a party yacht and stay at one of these...

Well, you got to fit two of each animal in your party yacht, so that would be kind of difficult. You got to get two dogs and two giraffes and two rhinos and whatnot. Well, I'm going to need some dogs and cats, if only for lunch and dinner. All right. Yep. Yep. It's a Jewish thing. Sorry. We eat the dogs and we eat the cats. The reason why my hair is this high with product is to cover the horns. Mm-hmm.

We can say that now. Is there a clarification? Can you as a white man say that now or collectively we can say that now? Well, I can say whatever I do. You, yeah, for sure. And I'm pretty sure you can too. I feel like anybody can just say anything now. We can. There is something oddly, you know, we were talking about with Uncle Luke, like something oddly empowering about this.

Because I often bite my tongue, not because I want to say racist things or misogynist things or what, but like, because like sometimes I want to make jokes that I think better of because they might be insensitive or they might be taken out of context or they, or maybe me as a white man, it's not appropriate for me to make those jokes. But now we can say that now. Well, until January, Cynthia, what's your favorite Jewish joke?

Yeah, I'm not doing that. I got my rights taken away and you gave me like two minutes. I'm not doing that. Two minutes? We've been talking for a half hour. What are you doing?

Have you been on this show before? There's no clock. No, this is my first time on the show. By the way, this show is like a soccer game. The clock just goes up and up and up and up. There's no red cards or yellow. We'll stop sometimes, then we'll keep going. This is next week's episode. That is true. I do see you guys in here for like three hours. I'm like, what is going on? It's a whole thing. And the fact that I made it on Because Miami before the hockey show is a whole other discussion. But I'm here to discuss...

Everything with you. I'm sorry. You don't want to talk hockey? You had to know in this country that there was going to be a black man on the hockey show before there was going to be a woman. Can we just? That's true. You know what? Because America. Because America. Hashtag because Miami. We're looking for good women guests for the hockey show as well. All right. Well, I have a vagina, so I'm here. You're welcome. Jesus Christ. You can pop that in the ice. Right?

Right. Just like Luke said. I'm sorry, Roy. What did you say? I didn't hear you. I couldn't hear you right. I'm just here to pop my...

What did you say? It's a reference to last week's episode with Uncle Luke. Last week's episode. So listen to last week's episode. Jesus. Are you going to cut this up into four episodes? What are you doing? Roy said, I always wear a black t-shirt. This episode is coming out in December. Have you guys been in the studio? Have you lost your rights such that Dan just keeps you here all the time? You're wearing the same exact clothes that you were wearing when I saw you last week. It's crazy. We just live here. It's amazing. We got wardrobe.

Yeah. Makeup. There's a bevy. Blink twice if you need help. Everything's fine. What are you talking about? Cynthia has toothpicks under her eyelids right now. I was winking. It's all great. Winking, I tell you. I was internally winking. Honestly, I feel like that's for the best now. Like, whatever women have to say, just say it on the inside now. Don't write a whole Barbie movie about it.

- We can say that now! - I mean, we've been trying to speak for a long time. We just get muzzled. - Yeah, don't ruin Andrew Gillum's childhood growing up playing with Barbie dolls. - Damn. - We can say that now! - Again, I think it's just the men that can say these things now. I can't. - I don't know about that. What's your favorite black joke, Cynthia?

Don't even. Okay, Puerto Rican joke. You can do Puerto Rican. She's Dominican. No, I'm just saying in general. No, I just mean in general. I wasn't saying that you're... By the way, what's the difference? None. None, actually. Where we come from, beautiful Caribbean islands. You're Dominican, so what was it like growing up in Mexico? We can say that now. There is a difference. You know what? Puerto Ricans are Americans.

There's that. I don't know about that, Roy. I mean, it's a United States territory, isn't it? I've seen a map. I don't think that that's true. Oh, I bet Hawaii is in America, too. What the f*** are you talking about? Alaska. Okay. It's Canadian. I mean...

They really should be part more of Canada, Alaska. They're up there. They're connected. Why are they with us? They are literally connected. Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house. Alaska is much closer to Canada than it is the United States. Yeah. Well, we could take a crab fisherman boat. Going back to your ark situation, if we're in Alaska, we could take a crab boat out. That's enough space to hoard all of our animals and us. Yeah, the Northwestern. Correct.

Yeah. They got a lot of crabs. But enough about Andrew Gillum. We can say that now. That's fine. I can say that. You use your platform for Andrew Gillum jokes far too often. What's he up to? He's on a show. What's he down to? What's he down to? Down low. Is that true? Down to get down. Maybe if he popped his pussy a little bit. Oh, hey!

What? We can say that now. You said I could. I don't know. I have a feeling this show is going to get so much better. Oh, God. I mean, I just honestly, I think Mayor Pansy Potalita, Francis Suarez was right. In Miami, we are definitely not woke. Definitely asleep now. I can dig a de-woked because Miami. Could you? I don't know. I feel like this could be some fun. Yeah.

Your excitement is scaring me right now. Your body, my choice. We can say that now. Yeah, no, no. You definitely got me there. I mean. It's not mine anymore. I mean, come on now. You know what? I've had it for 40 years. It was a great run. Was it? No, no. And.

And it ended just the way when I was born. Same way. Roy, what is three-fifths of your opinion on this? It doesn't matter anymore. We can say that now! I've been muzzled.

I don't know what this is or where this is going, but I really enjoyed the shit out of this because, again, I'm a white man in America. Yes. You're going to have way more money than the both of us combined. Yeah, for now. You know, I'm hoping. For now? For now. Well, no, I'm hoping to continue to progress forward, but, you know, progress. Progress. Progress. I think it's called regression. Anyways. I think. Backwards. I think. Oh, you know, maybe we should get streeter.

Instead of this is a man's world, we should do this is a white man's world. A thousand percent. Can we fit those syllables in? Streeter, get on it. If anybody can. Let's end the episode with Andrew Streeter's rendition of It's a White Man's World. It's a white man's world. It's a white man's world. And your voice means nothing, nothing. If you're a woman or a girl. You see.

White man's been running shit since the beginning of time and he ain't here to share his spoils just wage wars and do crimes and after he takes everything, everything he can you know white man makes money to keep down his fellow man

This is a white, white man's world. And your voice means nothing, nothing, if you're a woman or a girl.

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