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Has no race you know which is you know crazy. You know it's crazy. They say it's post-racial but it's it's it's I think more accurate the same amount of rage. That we've gone beyond it. We've gone beyond it but it's still with us. You know I mean we're carrying it along with this it's it's here we are up above it but it's it's still the base that that we're suspended from. Listen man you know I agree with the hip hop people with that. You know I was I was one in the street one night. Are you telling me that we have to stop soon is that OK. I was walking down a street one day in New York in a West Village Inn or there was a young white gay fellow handing out tickets for a gay rave that's why assume he was gay and he said come to rave man come to the rig you know and you know little things said you know faggots this and that you know they're you know they were giving it out and he was all happy and a young black man took one of the things he was looking at it was you know looking at her closely and studying it

and find him. And like I say Yeah he said Tell me something what any bitches up in him and the white guy smile said no man just us nigga. And the black guy smiled they said well all right. What am I supposed to say. What am I suppose am I supposed to like you know like ask Jesse Jackson to come in and tell me some. Or Oprah or whatever you know. It's like you know listen we live in a world you know like language languages there. We used the language you know the context of language is what matters. What you're trying to say is with matter if you're if if I if I know what a guy's going to say and I change the language then I make the experience invalid. I can't do that. What I don't like for who. Well for some. You know but even for them the who who they are and what they are is to

each defined by each individual person. So you know so when Miles says something is one thing.