I guess we're going. What's going on, man? I'm chilling. How are you? Good. Y'all wrapped up. You're all sick and shit. What are you drinking? This is a custom-made beverage. Check this out. This, can you see the color of it? Yeah. It's called Lean. You ever heard of this stuff get that out of here no i'm not kidding

that is not liquid that is not liquid codeine and and and purple drinks it was it is it's liquid

coating in a sprite uh they don't make it anymore so it's the old stuff my grandma had some

is that how sick you are no i'm They don't make it anymore, so it's the old stuff. My grandma had some.

Is that how sick you are?

No, I'm just an addict.

Oh, you're a, yeah, you're a degenerate.

You know, that doesn't detract from the whole Sicilian and Italian theories about, you know, hey, considering what we're talking about today.

Well, in the process of the creation of the stuff for this episode, I did change the topic

only slightly because I wanted to make a triangle of thoughts.

I'm just going to be honest with you, Pete, I don't have a thesis here.

I just wanted to tell you three different stories that all have something to do with one another.

Because I don't really think a lot of people know this.

So here's my backstory.

The real brothers out there will recognize the name Dr. Umar. Dr. Umar is a black supremacist,

pan-Africanist, um, beloved in the black community in the United States. He is a, I mean,

philosopher would be one word to describe the man.

Though I disagree with him fundamentally in many ways, I also find him a fascinating person to listen to

because his sort of way of thinking, it has an intellectual lineage that I'm not exactly going to connect for you all here, but it's a lineage of thought that made me go, well, this guy, you know, he's not just making shit up.

A lot of the things that he says have grounding and, I mean, everything from like Pan-african theory to like european continental

theory like the guy knows what he's talking about though i do disagree with some of his conclusions

let me give you one instance of where i disagree with dr umar dr umar believes africans are

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