Jared Ball

And it really is a look at how.

black leaders i mean we how how a lot of people i guess think about the term selling out but really buying in is where we have seen a lot of our leaders it's a critique of crack capitalism but also it's a very scathing response to killer mike and so uh for people who might not be aware we've talked about this quite a bit here on this on this show we've also had dr jared ball who's a part of this conversation he's been on this show uh as well we're actually in the video so shout out to fd for that we'll say applause uh but The video is out now.

I think a lot of us knew that this was coming.

I want to let's just start with reactions to the conversation.

haven't read the article except for the pieces that have been circulating in which this writer at Jacobin was...

Shout out to Jared Ball in the chat.

Oh, hi, Jared.

I think, like, many of us have known that that's not bullshit worth looking at or paying attention to for a very long time.

And that was amazing.

So I'm not going to let you downplay that shit.

Jared Ball also said that this takes some big ovaries.

That's right.

It's just to make clear that there is no liberatory praxis within the accumulation of wealth and that for any individual or group of black people and that anyone, anyone who tries to promote the idea of black wealth as a vessel through which black people can protect themselves as a whole from the system, is either ignorant or willfully lying to you.

And now we enter one Dr. Jared Ball in his book, The Myth of Black Buying Power, which pretty much explains everything and has everything I just talked to you about.

Please go buy the book and read it.

It's a very short book.

Just to kind of check some stuff.

But it says, uh, this is what I see Maguro, "Killer Mike has called Dr. Jared Ball and asked to reconcile over their past differences.

Mike had notably dissed Dr.

Ball in the viral Red Bull Cypher."

What is this?

[laughs]

The fuck? Oh, Jared Ball is on here.

I guess maybe he's telling his side of the story.

that went into it when

you're trying to be aligned in your politics based on everything you're saying and just in in general the psyops that goes into the film where i know our our Shared friend Sam Youssef talks about this a lot, and Jared Ball, and we've been having these conversations.

So let me just read this to folks.

This is from the work in progress sent to me.

Like, yeah, these are, you know, these are imperialist spaces and they're outposts of it.

And they're part of the whole thing, whether it's actual, how capital is going to be situated, the narrative warfare they want to have.

Shout out to Jared Ball for that, that line that they want to kind of put out where they want it to exist.

I mean, I'll bring one thing.