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Hood Politics with Prop

Actually, These Are Very Precedented Times: ICE Recruitment & the History of the LAPD

Hood Politics with Prop

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8875 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Black people, POCs or anyone from a marginalized group share a collective sigh whenever we hear some one say of the USA, “This is not who we are!” In our experience, this is exactly who we are. Today we talk about the recruitment tactics of ICE and how it's just like the tactics the LAPD used in the 50s and 60s.

Sources:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-ice-director-says-wartime-recruitment-tactics-like-influencer-campaigns-and-50-000-bonuses-could-attract-the-wrong-kind-of-agents/ar-AA1TQAdC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push/

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:06.4

Quarzo Media.

0:09.5

I think it's safe to say that some of the most soul-filling, satisfying experiences as a black man,

0:19.7

I should think black people in general, is when you're in some sort of meeting

0:25.9

or a gathering where you're one of very few black people and probably extension people of

0:33.8

people of color, but specifically I'm talking about the black experience when,

0:39.7

whether it's work or I don't know. Either way, you're in a place, public, and some caucasity happens.

0:50.6

Some sort of white people, some, some, some, some, some, some, some, some, some,

0:54.1

audacery caucity, uh, starts to be expressed. And somehow or another, you and

1:04.9

that other black person kind of lock eyes real quick. Give a, give a, give a look to each other because at that moment our souls were in sync

1:17.2

and we understood something that only we would understand in any other black person in the room.

1:23.1

Somehow another, we happen to find each other and look at each other. Like some sort of caucasity has just happened. Something came out of their mouth and we just other and look at each other like some sort of

1:27.5

caucasity has just happened something came out of their mouth and we just kind of look at each other

1:32.7

um because we know that almost is more like that is almost more satisfying than actually saying something in the moment.

1:50.0

Because it's so pure and it's so real and it so speaks to a collective understanding.

1:57.0

Which is why, you know, Nelly and Ludacris are doing the Maga Fest is just so weird.

2:03.5

Like, it's just, it's just weird, you know, I don't know.

2:10.0

Not you, Luda, whatever.

2:12.5

Think what you want.

2:14.3

But just, like, you don't know.

2:19.0

I can't understate how good that feeling is.

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