Thank You, Afroman

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Thank you, Afroman, for standing up for freedom of speech and expression. Our human rights matter, and artists have always been on the front lines defending them with courage and power.

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." --Toni Morrison

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0:00.0	Randy Walters is the son of a bitch.
0:05.0	That's why I thought his wife and got filthy rich.
0:18.4	Yeah.
0:29.9	What you just heard, if you don't know by now, was Randy Walters is a set of a bitch by Afro-Man.
0:35.9	A Gaslit Nation listener by the name of Jenny wrote on Patreon, hey guys, this is way off subject.
0:39.1	But can you maybe squeeze in some Afro-Man content?
0:47.2	And the answer is absolutely yes, because Afro-Man was sticking up for all of us, and he's a reminder of what we are always saying on this show. Art matters. Art is powerful. Art is resistance.
0:55.7	For those who need a quick refresher,
0:57.5	Afro-Man is an artist by the name of Joseph Edgar Foreman,
1:01.2	who grew up sinking in the church.
1:03.5	In August 2022, the Adams County Sheriff's Office in Ohio
1:08.1	executed a search warrant at his home while he was away in Chicago.
1:13.2	The raid was based on allegations of kidnapping and drug trafficking, but the investigation
1:18.6	turned up nothing. No charges were ever filed, yet the search caused massive damage.
1:25.2	The raid resulted in over $20,000 in damages to Afro-Man's security system, his gate
1:32.5	outside, his doors.
1:34.3	The officers also seized over $5,000 in cash, and when they returned it, $400 was missing.
1:42.1	So what does Afro-Man do?
1:44.7	He makes a song about it, using the security footage of the cops ransacking his house,
1:50.5	including one eyeing the lemon-pound cake in his kitchen.
1:54.2	That song and album are called Lemon Pound Cake.
1:57.8	So the cops then sue Afro-Man for millions of dollars, claiming invasion of privacy,
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