go ahead, robert group, or the, pull it by the name of gil scott heron, who said the military in the monetary they come together whenever necessary. and that's what we're seeing when it comes to the media right now, that they have their teams, they put on their jersey and whatever and, and tie the other team they are in favor of. so long as you have blood intelligence officials or anti trump, or anti conservative media or anti something along those lines, they will put them all in regard to whatever else they have done. what we have to remember the history that the intelligence agencies have, particularly progressive causes and even more particularly african american community. we look at fred hampton, and wet pampers. you can look at the surveillance don't are more of king of malcolm back there on the 970. so there is no great, well, a trust between the intelligence organizations in the black community. but because so many of these media outlets are simply a anti trump outlet or anti conservative outlet, they will put on anybody who supports that worldview, whether it's anti their o

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author gil scott-heron focused on that in a poem in 1969 just after the moon landing. >> taxes taken. and if all that crap wasn't enough a rat done bit my sister neln with whitey on the moon. her face and arm began to swell and whitey's on the moon. how come i don't got no money here. whitey's on the moon. >> can you brave the brother considering what race relations looked like in the late '60s. his poem reflects a common sentiment, that the highest etch lawns of human achievement and still pretty much reserved for white men. two things about this strike me as especially cruel. one, he was right at the time. and two, he was not quite as right as he thought he was. there was probably no way for him to know behind these whitey's on the moon were a lot of black women. many of us learned of them through the 2017 movie "hidden figures." before a computer was an object in your pocket it was a job description, a human being who did exhausting mathematical calculations on paper. nasa employed human computers to help with the early space program before machines did all the math. back in 2019