Sorry about that! We in the hood - pit bulls are running like DMX video.
How great of an effect did  DR. King had on your life
It seems that you took up what he
and that just - you know what pulled me to use your voters act interview
you talk to you you talked about the
restoration of the voting rights and i
And I remember thinking to myself "Who the fuck is this crazy white guy?"
Like - it didnt even make sense to me! Because
I have lived in Atlanta all my life and I've virtually heard no black politicians angry about it.
I virtually heard no black politicians outraged about it
You were the only voice of our race
let me tell you something: this is true. I am very fierce believer in democracy. You know what? I love democracy.
I love that facet that in this room somebody disagrees with me they say "you know what? Bernie you're full of shit".
I'm gonna vote against you." That's fine. I love it. I love people thinking about what kind of future they want.
And I feel because
I've been in politics for many years running
many elections that these people
all over America now as a result of the
Supreme Court decision to gut the voting rights
day after - they are sitting up thinking "alright great! How do we deny people the right to vote?"
They are cowards. The are cowards because they're afraid to
contest a free and fair election. They
can't win it. So they gotta figure out how do I come
up with some cockamamie scheme that are some little old lady the right to vote
because she is gonna vote against it. That disgusts me. Profoundly disgusts me.
So what we have got to do
is in this country do what many other countries around the earth do.
You're 18 years of age? You're registered to  vote - let's cut the rest of the crap.
And you wanna commit vote fraud, you vote twice - youre gonna pay a heavy price for that.
Okay. Everybody has the right to
vote
end of discussion. The other thing I want
to talk about Mike - and I get back to the
media on this. People think that some of the ideas that I have are very radical ideas.
they are not radical ideas. Ever come to Burlington, Vermont?
I havent been to Burlington - An invite thought I'll definitely come.
Alright, You're invited.
I'll come.
"Laughter"
we live fifty miles from the Canadian boarder
ok - Canada - everybody has healthcare as a right. It aint a big deal. They have had it for - I dunno - 50 years or so.
It's not a big deal.
Go to the U.K. You been to the U.K?
Often.
Alright - Everybody has healthcare.
Go to Scandanavia. Everybody has it. Go to Germany go to France, everybody has healthcare.
Why are we the only major country that doesnt have healthcare for all of our people? Not a radical idea.
Kids in the united states are
going to Germany. Do you know why they are going to Germany?
They can get free tuition in college. Good schools. these are not radical ideas.
And, you're not B.S-ing because
my rap partner and I
Run the Jewels - we travel the world we've been around the world about four times now.
we did 14 months straight. I spent my
summer in Europe and the first thing I
asked Americans who preach fear of a 1
pier health care system for instance.
I say: "you ever been to Europe? Most America's (god bless them) - it's a beautiful country we have
every type of terrain every type of
wheather you like. But if you've never been
outside of country you have no way to
appreciate how great this country is
and how potentially great the country
could be if we can make some subtle
changes and I see in Europe - I see other things working and I'm
wondering how long before we catch up in
why do we keep having to play catch up
we could see a good idea say we can
implement this idea this is a way for us
to make in America but this is a worthy
idea. free health care for citizens
make sense to me
college makes sense to me because a
smarter constituency you have the
smarter country you don't have to worry
about importing other smart people you
got it you know you grow your own and
that way your imports are an addition
not a necessity to the point you're
leaving yourself are most vulnerable you
know how long before this country
becomes or is this a campaign of
bullying in until other countries are
not willing to even cooperate with us
you know so i don't i don't i don't give
in to the international politics of it
all but I traveled and I see things that
work other places and I know they were
working this gets back to the point you
raise a little while ago - about greed.  I don't have a problem with people making money. but I do have a problem with
these guys who are worth billions
spending a lot of them a lot of their
money and their time and energy. You know what they are trying to do?
destroy Social Security you got people
in this community trying to get by 
$12-13,000 a year. Why in god's name would somebody
stay up nights trying trying to cut their social security benefits. Cut their Medicare benefits?
That's pretty pathetic so you know if you've been
around the world you know that there are
countries that do a lot better for the
children they have great child care
do better on health care to better for
seniors so when they retire they can live
with a little bit more dignity and
security now seniors get.
That's all im talking about, its not something radical.
there's an african proverb that says
many hands make for light work you know
a lot of the tenement  of socialism
with social democracies are are about
you know everyone having some input and
I think that what people are missing
from my community about not hearing your
voice today, youre not saying, sometimes we look up to rappers and athletes too much.
you know every American looks up to the rich. Lifestyles of the rich and famous was here long
before rap you know in terms of the
opulence but a lot of times we think
well those people are in the right way
to get it and they don't understand now
that I'm closer to be financially
independent and I was a five years ago
my accountant is  giving me different advice now you they I i'm i'm i'm talk better ways
to handle money that the regular public
never gets an opportunity to have or
see you know. Fat Joe said he's not telling
people to go out and vote but i'm rich
aready i'm ok. I don't even have to say
this I'm doing this for you guys I need
from our community to understand that
your message directly impacts so I got a
transition is conversation to prison
because some of the offers I've gotten
invest money and have been companies
that supported private prisons we have
essentially says Jim Crow in the south
on the chain gang
should be in Georgia we have used we
have used prisoners essentially isn't
dishes are dirty and dangerous servant I
tell people when I was a kid I remember
driving along the expressway an
expressway in Atlanta was cleaned by
black men who worked for the city or the
county of the state you know I'm from a black city
I got older and my teens and twenties I
start noticing that those crews were
disappearing so city workers who had a
fairly who lived in the community that
as a kid you got an opportunity to
get out of high school and not go to college
still he get a good job
those  people start to fade and the
city truck started to fade and when I
start to see was prisoners on a side of
the road cleaning cleaning highways and
I thought you went to prison as
punishment not to be punished and we
haven't even gotten to the
rehabilitation phase what have we got a
country with Barack Obama became the
first sitting president i'll know how
long to actually enter a prison is this is
this campaign to ratify prisons to
choose to stop an illegal drug war that
really targets a particular color race
and class of people do you continue that
and how vigorously will are going to be
in because it directly affects
african-american males in particular
what is happening to young male and
female african-american community is a
tragedy almost beyond words right now
we're talking we're talking about people
disagree on this one out of four black
male babies born today if we do not
change it will you are talking about a
higher percentage of blacks in jail in
america today that was the case under
apartheid in South Africa
you are talking about hundreds of
thousands or even millions of black men
who no longer have the right to the vote
because they were felons.
Do you change that?
Oh yeah, we change that.
so felons get a right to vote what about get a job?  felons the answer is yes my state that's already
the case. Felons can vote.
wow. why? You got places like NY in the barber shop. One of the best barber schools in the nation
is in one of their prisons
in places like New York and even Georgia
if you're feeling it's harder if not
impossible to get a bargain slightly so
not only can you not gonna get a job
working for corporations you can't even
be self-employed it took to produce for
yourself because the state doesn't
allowed and this is a point of having a
lot of people are aware there's one
thing you send ten years in jail that's
terrible you got a police record just
one year in jail for the job
guy says:  tell me about your last
year in jail. Have a nice day - we dont need you.
hard to make a living credits hard to do
the things you need to know what happens
when you're off and running at the drugs
and something else right and it gets
worse so I think this is an issue that
we have got to absolutely focus on and
it's not just reforming Police
Department. It's not only doing away with minimum sentencing.
But it is also taking a
hard look at the so-called war on drugs
which has destroyed many people. so what have I done? just
recently for a start. as you know, The controlled substance act
the federal Controlled Substances act- says
that schedule 1 drug marijuana is the
same as heroin what do you think about that?
I'm a marijuana smoker those absolute
bullshit
of course it's crazy everybody knows
that's crazy so we've taken by
legislation would take marijuana out of
the controlled substance act completely
that means you're not subjected to
federal prosecution and if your state
wants to go forward in legalize
marijuana as four states have well then
They are not going to have any problems
from the federal government you know of
any lives have been destroyed
you tell me. Many I know.  what we also becomes a
racial issue is it turns out whites and
blacks
utilize marijuana turns out that's the
case four times as many blacks
are arrested posssion as whites becomes a racial so I think this is an issue that
we have got to absolutely deal with. I would love to see you just go on like a barber shop
tour to to say this these things to back men in particular
not because I think like  black men are a separate base that you have to speak to especially
but you know we get discouraged and we
just don't go vote.
you know a lot of the times
when people say in a democratic vote is
already like people supposed democratic
vote out of state of Georgia in Atlanta
particulars married to Hillary Clinton.
That's what they think.
I dont follow that at all.
I think that there is a sleeping giant
in this city of african-american men in
particular and women who have had our
uncles, nephew's, sons, husbands, fathers
involved in the prison complex illegally
but we know about estate in those
bullshit law I believe that there's a
sleeping giant ready to wake up and
support that candidate as part of a day
I need for people who look like me and
who are sympathetic to people who look
like me you know I have a lot of white
friends and advocate for things that
have no effect on their general
community - honestly it's a little better. if all the road blocks are on my side of town and not on theirs
I will get caught with weed. they never will but they're they're adamant about helping to make
sure that this gets fair I think there's
a sleeping giant of voters now want to
see like barbershops and Masonic lodges - I would to do it.
Youre looking at a guy. I love
democracy. I have had more town meetings in vermont we go to small towns few hundred
people do it how many people come out we
talk are you take me to the barber shops
I'll be there.
