tucker: what about chicago courts mark at chicago is a tough example. part of f a reason why it makes sense to have a federal gun laws, while they have a tough gun laws, people who want to get guns on the credible locket just up to leave there. tucker: i ve heard there, that s not really the problem. you know as well as i come on gun control is not really about making a city or state safe, it s about controlling the population. in disarming them. you don t believe that believe that. tucker: i emphatically do believe it, i think obvious like gun control people after watching this lot fail is pushing to double down. it tells you everything, it s not about making the city safer, it s getting more dangerous. all i can tell you is i been doing this work for ten years. nobody who does this stuff is concerned about controlling the populace. they don t want 90 people to be killed with guns in this country every day.
like o.j. simpson saying he s going to find the real killer. he s not doing to do that because he doesn t believe in it f you did believe it, you wouldn t pull out of paris. america has unilaterally seeded global leadership on this issue which for years even republican presidents george h.w. bush, you know, pushed in this direction. let me go back to tone and messaging again. again, look, we re having there s the facts and figures that demand attention. there s no doubt about it. but at the endst day, you know this is cultural. this becomes something different, as you just very well describe. but you also made you also said this decision was a decision acted with stupidity and self destructiveness and ignorance. the reason i highlight those words is that many people in red america hear that and they think, geez, they think i m stupid. do you think the messaging needs to change in how you talk about this and how you create a since of urgency with this chunk of america that isn t
and becoming aware that a higher power can move us forward. it s a leap of faith. it s multiple messages. you re going to be all right, we re going to get through this day, and we re going to be here tomorrow, and we re going to fight to save this nation, and fight to save ourselves. we re right. this is a morally righteous cause. there s a funny story of the civil rights era woman, who writes for the washington post. was given a record to listen to. hated the kendrick lamar. hated it, found it foul and disgusting. i thought, well, that means that it s really, really working. he s meant to get on your nerves with new stuff. and they will do it. because they don t want their
musician born in the segregated south. her song is one of, if not the most racially trenchant critiques in the songbook. alabama s got me so upset tennessee made me lose my rest everybody knows about mississippi to some extent, dr. king has been a buffer the last two years between the black and white community. thehite people not do know it but the white people s best friend is dead. can t you see it i know you can feel it it s all in the air i can t stand this pressure much longer somebody say the song has a very powerful impact. she couldn t come up with a better word. got her in trouble. it was banned.
public enemy, the young black male situation in america, we feel we re all public enemies. we have a logo that has a cross. we feel that represents ourselves, and anybody in our situation. public enemy had already been the most political rap group, at the time and still probably the most political rap group ever. they were not afraid to invoke the nation of islam. they were taking from black oppositional politics that was different from the mainstream ones. no one else had really had the courage to consistently use that as a base of operation. sampling is a musical practice. but i always thought of it as a way of recognizing musical history.