This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forward to the 1:54:28. This episode is also dedicated to Stacey Park Milbern, one of the creators of the disability justice movement. We also dedicate this episode to the Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP).  The transcript at 1:55:00 is from a livestream of a community vigil held in the victims' honor and in solidarity with Black and Indigenous sovereignty. Cash App: $mpopsea, Venmo: MPOP_SEA


Recommended Reading:
-Resisting State Violence by Dr. Joy James (Ericka reads an excerpt from that book in this episode)
-Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson 
-Some Reasons For Chinese Exclusion: Meat v Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism (Author Unknown)
-Essay on Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows during political imprisonment by the FDR administration during WWII by Malia McAndrews: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536560/summary

-The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad 

-Search for articles on the history behind yellow peril movement and Richard Aoki, an FBI Informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in the 60s

-Note on Marxism: Engels' father owned a factory and Marx was white and didn’t understand that capitalism is always racialized like Cedric Robinson and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore talk about - check the book out if you want, there are some goods in Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith

-Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice Official Statement: https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/official-statement-from-samaria-rice-mother-of-tamir-rice-lisa-simpson-mother-of-richard-risher-and-the-collective/
How to Support Samaria and Lisa: Cashapp-$SamariaRice
Cashapp: $lisalee693


Support
Tamir Rice Foundation/Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland, OH
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP)
List of Black Owned Bookstores: https://nonamebooks.com/Bookstores
Zora's Daughters Podcast: https://zorasdaughters.com/

Music by Benjamin Earl Turner-Apathy Happy

Editors Note: Both Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel wore Blackface

The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White

A soulful return to house, this mix is for Fokus Global, fats, femmes & those who love us. <3

Apply Pressure

A longie but goodie just in time for the fall of US imperialist projects in Afghanistan...and autumn. TLDR: It’s giving very much hating on the not rich who did not understand the assignment of shutting the fuck up and running politicians their propers for re-election. A tax on vibes.
If "Taliban" means "student" in Pashto--the US is the teacher. 

Have you ever asked yourself why tax reform is such a contentious issue and has been for decades? Have you ever stopped to think that politicking, grandstanding and "fashion diplomacy" is part of moderate, centrist Democrats' pandering to a more leftist, "progressive" voter base but without alienating their prioritized white voter base too much (think Nancy Pelosi kneeling in the kente cloth sash in 2020)? There's a slavery era explanation for that:

The tobacco rice and indigo that our ancestors grew and produced were considered in Alexander Hamilton’s own words “which must be capital objects in treaties of commerce w foreign nations” and precipitated the events that led to this country’s independence in 1776 following the Revolutionary War. His more famous quote, though, "no taxation without representation" portends a more glaring contradiction: imagine being mad you have to pay taxes to enrich the British whose royal companies, militaries, fleets and slavers sold and transported the Indigenous Africans you enslaved and calling TAXATION slavery while actually enslaving people? Tax the rich is again policy sloganeering and is a liberal democratic/partisan rallying cry that can’t happen in good faith in an oligarchy that siphons all its resources to an already massive defense budget. Just earmark our reparations, will ya?

Maybe the majority of folks who at least have some semblance of a revolutionary or radical politic aren't hating on rich people or Met Gala attendees or AOC herself, but instead recognizing that she and other politicians across the spectrum are sworn to serve a country that used the international slave trade between Britain and Spain to generate revenue to build a domestic manufacturing infrastructure to keep taxes lowered for their most invaluable taxable import--Black people and whose Central Intelligence Agency created the Taliban to wrest power from the USSR's puppet pro-soviet government during the Soviet Afghan War in 1979-1989 as part of plan to distort the public's view of the barbaric, warmongering, misogynist primitive backward United States to continue competing for oil and other natural resources in Central Asia, including the global heroin trade to finance the invasion of other countries, arm the genocide of their number one ally in the region (the Israeli Government. See Kamala Harris's comments on Israel)while pretending to care about "women's right's" and immigration while whipping Haitian immigrants at the border. That said, shirking accountability for their complicities in systems of oppression to remain elected isn't above any of their paygrades--even the politicians you like!

Eyes On Haiti
Oligarchy: https://haitiantimes.com/2021/07/16/haitians-can-no-longer-hide-behind-the-caste-system-killing-our-country/
US mass deportations of Haitian Immigrants: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021/09/20/border-patrol-using-whips-del-rio-round-up-haitian-immigrants/5789596001/

Recommended Reading: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/newsletter/afghanistannograveyard?fbclid=IwAR20EeWyNUk4MpwUubcXZ53usiqemg3Rl6u4ZkeSioLAO14DiY5A2E4KrRA
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/afghanistan

Tariq Ali: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/debacle-in-afghanistan
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/4AF487C90CA14FB985256E000057B5EB?OpenDocument

Global Heroin Trade Links to US presence in Afghanistan: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/84028515/FULL_TEXT.PDF

AOC: https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/aoc/

You Can't Tax the Rich in an Oligarchy: Haiti, Afghanistan, Upper East Side Goddam

Anu's joined by Detroit's finest Ash Lauryn in a bumper collab show.

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-anu/episodes/soup-to-nuts-anu-15th-march-2023

Soup To Nuts w/ Anu & Ash Lauryn 150323

Legendary

Drakeo The Ruler x BlueBucksClan - I Know

Angels in tibet sped up

INTRO 
LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT!!!!

(Zhalarina) 
I SAID GUNNY I’M HURT LIKE 
NEW PLAN, NEW HAND, NO WORK  I’M TIRED OF THE SAME OLD DANCE TRYNA VIBE WHEN I KNOW I CAN’T 

CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)

VERSE ONE 
I mean to say it broke me not/ 
my nephew call me paramedic cause I’m/ 
cruising with the open shot/ 
Look here, the benefit of a good drown
is seeing hope float/
Baby wallet on soaked loaf/ 
I started measuring my pleasure in living/
after beginning a descent into bad sprints and a broke run/ 
my locs thinning, the doctor say that my spine shifting/
I should break the mileage/ 
but she don’t know what I’m running from/ 

I pray to God through a clenched fist/ 
If He playing, I must be bout to see him at intermission/  
Caught a valley and a split chin/
when He made my perfection His business/
I’mma take two bunny steps to the right alright?/
Scooch for the goon with the room to fight/
I’m calling for help like it's gon' jump out the manger/
Cause I ain’t run up a mountain to become a cliffhanger/
oh

CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)
 
VERSE TWO 
I don’t even know I don’t wanna receive help/ 
Drive standing so I don’t inconvenience the seatbelt/ 
You and me? Well, we know bout Yeshua 3 nails/ 
the way He felt, n***as would call Him a "female"/ 
So for me? Tell? Rina gon' spare every detail/ 
cause the bar could not be steeper when speaking for retail/
But ’m hurting in my Birkin and trying to be well/ 
that’s like cuffing a vitamin and trying to B12 
yo
I’m finally dying to grieve well/ 
throw my pride to the water and pray it don’t beach whales/ 
Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy/
I call for my GUNNY/
You can press Him with a thorn but He still coming for me/
Almost said a vow in Spanish
I like to repeat L’s/ 
But He popped shame, I can remember the heat smell/
I’m kind to each fail, I find the meek trail/ 

BRIDGE
The mountain is that continual journey
that we find ourselves on 
We’re not walking a flat terrain 
It might go from a 45-degree angle to a 90-degree angle 
But I’ve got a lot of tools 
And I’m able to reach out to somebody 
who can reinforce and support me 
That’s another tool 


CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)

GUNNY

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