Politically Incorrect - Boots Riley - part 1 of 2

Boots Riley, rapper, from the group The Coup.
Erin Shannon, political activist.
Harland Williams, comedian/actor.
Eric Braeden, actor, from the TV soap "The Young and the Restless."
Episode Number: 2075
Season Num: 9
First Aired: Wednesday January 30, 2002

[@socillizt4life]

Why the Coup(especially Boots)doesn’t get mentioned alongside Chuck D,KRS,Common,Mos Def,Immortal Technique,add any other intelligent MC is BEYOND ME,The Coup is the most consistent album makers in hip hop

[@rust44]

socillizt4life I think it’s because they’re unapologetically communists and people avoid them.

[@samcherry4741]

@@rust44 Yeah, come to think of it, hip hop is incredibly capitalist to it's own detriment

[@robertstan298]

@@samcherry4741 Pretty sad and ridiculous how the music of the US underclass and it's struggle against capitalist oppression got appropriated by Capitalism in the end and is now one of it's most well sold musical commodities. Just like how Chinese sweatshops make Che Guevara shirts that sell like hotcakes in trendy shops all over the world. Capitalism destroys the soul and meaning of everything, just to make another buck.

[@robertstan298]

@@rust44 (even tho I don't agree with your reply entirely, I'd still add) Well, can you blame them? Living under global capitalism for over 200 years and the brainwashing, demonizing and smearing of everything left-wing, especially in the US, kinda creates a knee jerk reaction of ignorance. It's not like when we talk about Capitalism, everyone jumps in with their 2c to say "Capitalism enslaved entire continents and races, committed genocide of indigenous people and holds everyone except the elite under economic slavery" or "Capitalism kills almost 20 million people a year due to BOTH malnutrition AND obesity, as well as lack of medical care for easily preventable or treatable diseases" not to mention the hundreds of conflicts waged for resources around the world so that the rich can get richer. Say Communism however and it's exactly like that. People have no fucking awareness of how biased and ignorant they are. They just take everything they hear for granted and sigh in apathy in their cesspool of ignorance and lack of self reflection.

[@nihilnovum5034]

The Reason they are not promoted to the level of those others, even though they've contributed AT LEAST as much to the genre as the others, is because their message is actually dangerous to the billionaire class. They are the only ones who educate and have actual solutions, they are a real danger to the elites and they will not be tolerated because of that! The elite are much more willing to let self destructive messaging and general rage serve as a pressure valve, but actual real ideas that expose the way the lower classes are being screwed? Hell no! suppress that shit!! - Said every damn CEO ever

[@KurtG85]

Boots pissed righteous indignation all over that set. That's called courage.

[@dvepps6780]

banana/oil republics in the middle east far fetched? wow... didn't seem too far fetched a year later, huh?

[@KoRMaK1]

2 year old reply but yea I have no idea wtf that old man was talkin bout

[@0therun1t21]

Eh, bananer oil

[@michaelwilson4972]

When the white dude asked him about his hair it low-key looked like Boots was ready to throw hands

[@smokeedinero]

If you stay ready yeen gotta get ready

[@griffithsethan]

Boots has been completely and entirely vindicated. Hurts to see all these loser has-beens treating him like a child.

[@teecee313]

yes boots! smart man representing oakland, CA

[@kevdubya2804]

Boot nailed that shit 15 years before Bernie Sanders was talking about corporations killing the political process.

[@drewdaddy213]

You might want to check that out again, there are videos of Bernie talking about this from 2002 as well as about a decade before that. Boots has been about this for a long time and respect to him for that, but Bernie's been in the trenches just a bit longer ;)

[@BarbaPamino]

Aristophanes was talking about in 425 BC. But the problem isn't capitalism. The problem is democracy.

[@drewdaddy213]

K, but this comment was about Sanders and Boots. And it's pretty clear that capitalism is the problem.

[@BarbaPamino]

Thaddeus Ghostal the problem is democracy. If there were no officials to bribe then the corporations wouldn't be able to buy legislation that protects them. Let them compete in the wild without laws just like everyone else and see how far these fat cats get with out our tax funded police force to enforce their billshit laws. Let's see Enron attempt to raise an army and invade the middle east on their own.

[@drewdaddy213]

That's beyond stupid. Government is the only lever the people have to check the power of the wealthy. They literally WILL raise armies, check out Blackwater (now Adacemi) for a first world example of a private army and the situation as it exists in Somalia for what a land without government or laws looks like. Warlords rise up and oppress the people worse than any legitimately democratic government.

[@TheTybot3000]

Ah Boots, you're such a bad ass.

[@MrSammstyles]

Get'm Boots

[@janemillerick9614]

reason I watched? Boots. more than once, too.

[@nliebert41]

bruh they just went for his hair like wuttt

[@man.6618]

@@nliebert41 and its the greasy white dude with no chin too smfh

[@EdwarioERS]

@@man.6618 He was the cop that drank piss in Dumb & Dumber.

[@TheUnlimitedlou]

Ten years later, same old same old. Boots was telling truth like he always does--a lot of people were--but nothing changed. In fact, it's worse. I'm not going home until it's fixed this time. Occupy!

[@eemoogee160]

Ten years later, same old same old. Definitely, well past time to get political power into the hands of the people.

[@stbx43z]

you shouldn't expect truth from corporate media

[@danielcarnam6420]

still holds true, more than ever know

[@RMS_Azad]

20 years later. Boots was right all alone.

[@ameerhamid89]

Erin: "He's met with representatives of, uh . . . alternatives, energy alternatives, uh, alternatives to, uh, ener-" Eric: " . . . to oil?" Erin: "Eh-energy".

[@elcerrito94530]

Boots keeping it real as usual

[@T-Dogg121]

boots' philosophy is "laugh/love/fuck & drink liqour", he knows how to enjoy a party. boots isn't against everybody, he's against the ruling class. nothing '90s' about that, shit is timeless.

[@cheguevara9173]

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

[@ibieiniid4240]

^^^ triggered

[@WELSHGAMER99]

@Raymundo11 >Implying that Leftists are for gun control "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" - Karl Marx

[@WorldBeans]

Ok

[@badfish13]

I've lost a lot of respect for Harlan these days, and so tactical the way they sat him next to boots like that , so that he could distract him when he was trying to make a point

[@Surayya444]

Exactly ! I took it as very racist and sexist good behavior to boots and the women

[@marcusa.fromthebay7514]

Truth-telling is in Oakland's DNA!✊🏾

[@fancypants5782]

Wtf is a conservative activist? The central tent of conservatism is the preservation of the status quo. Activism is about vigorous campaigning to bring about social change. Conservative activism is an oxymoron.

[@GNARical]

Lobbyist 😂

[@ibieiniid4240]

lmao 8:54 he throws more shade on the mustache.

[@TheRamos07]

Lmao Boots bout lost it with that hair comment omg I felt that.

[@retromillenium]

Boots is based as f**k here! I remember watching this when it came out. Nothing has changed.

[@kincamell2]

Peace to The Coup

[@jeanemlicar]

Never thought I’d see the day where Boot Riley from the legendary Coup crew sit alongside Victor Newman of Y&R.

[@Northside5hadow]

Boots riley rules!!

[@sighedeffects]

@IsaacBaranoff "Under capitalism, you earn what you deserve" - this is the most blatant form of false propaganda... it basically says that the poor are that way because they deserve to be poor. And that investment bankers work so much harder than construction workers or day laborers? What insanity. Why do the people who OWN 60 percent of the capital not have to pay 60 percent of the taxes on it? (Instead, the people in the middle shoulder a majority of the burden with low compensation.)

[@itsokthen]

I don't think govt services means socialism tho. Socialism means workers own the means of production. Socialism doesn't really have anything to do with govt. There are obviously Marxists and others that believe in socialist reform through the govt, but Anarchists like myself believe in no govt, yet still have socialist plans like workers owning their own labor.

[@kincamell2]

Peace to Boots Riley.

[@HoussamNekkaa]

Boots being based as usual 🔥🔥🔥

[@WildWestTrail]

haha looking back, Boots was right, and they were all wrong

[@obedirect5491]

@2:40 Boots Riley spittin' TRUTH. WORD.

[@ggoraps]

What? This is the shit! Boots Riley and Bill Maher??? Thanks for posting this. Boots Riley, one of my favorite personalities in hip hop...

[@sighedeffects]

@IsaacBaranoff " In a free market, the quality of the product is the judge." This ignores the complexity and nuance of present conditions. Does the quality of product always take precedence to the advertising of a product? Inferior products never have a higher demand? "Anyone who tries to make money is a capitalist." That still doesn't work - this is a capitalist society: anyone who tries to make money is trying to survive. Is anyone that wears panties a woman?

[@nocturnezero]

@stewyshepiro Indeed, the soap opera actor was acting incredibly self-righteous, with the backing of Maher and that Erin woman. Boots lets them talk, but they refuse to let him finish a point.

[@spartan2600]

Capitalism has always involved cronyism. "Crony capitalism" is CAPITALISM. Its natural in a system where some people get outrageously rich and others are poor, the rich people use their wealth and power to get even more money and more power.

[@DrYazman]

Boots fucking rules!

[@spyemerson2454]

boots.

[@sweatshopkid2708]

My man LEANED FORWARD.

[@catbuffalo]

Politcal groups often hijack terms and dilute their original meanings. Take "freedom" and "liberty" for example.

[@caseyowens5386]

This is my friend boots Riley from the coop yeah nice film director. Sorry to bother you. But next time I see boots Riley I'm going to ask him what happened to e Rock one of his group member I know what happened to Pam the functress she died from cancer. And my name is k a s i m. So smooth. I have a song with v e l l q w a n 17 rounds. Name of the CD I'm The Only singer. Also he have a song with the legendary Master P. You don't know me. He changed his name to v e l l i o n e. If you Google up the word. It would mention something about the legendary Tupac shakur. I know we both should be in the same movie Tupac movie that's right

[@Kidactivist2022]

E Roc seems to just be living his personal life nowadays being a father and staying out the way

[@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt]

Boots Boots Boots!!!

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

💯💯💯

[@goeleet]

hell yeah, tell em riley

[@FunkFight1]

@HexTest and Isaac M. Baranov are the same person. They're leaving the same exact comments on both parts of this episode with Boots and using multiple accounts to vote things up or down. You will only see this for a little while because he will put so many negative comments that it will disappear. This is a non-inflammatory statement, so if its voted away, this will prove my point- since normal users wouldn't do that. Question is: what is he/what are they so afraid of that they censor comments?

[@25chrisrobb]

I shop at K-mart baby, so it doesn't effect me.

[@iluvmyboba]

A brother with a mind...and actually uses it. I hope Boots has around 10 sons. We need more black men with intelligent point of views. Love ya, Boots!!!!

[@sighedeffects]

@IsaacBaranoff I do, in fact, know quite a bit about Capitalism. Capitalism is a system in which the means of production and accumulation of capital are privately owned. There are various forms of capitalism. It is not a narrowly defined system. Just as democracy has many forms, so does Capitalism. Direct democracy and representative democracy are still democracies. As far as a free market... we do not have a command economy. A true "free market" will always result in monopoly.

[@sanctifymymusic]

Damn. The young and the restless has been on for a while.

[@jeanemlicar]

My mom still watch that joint.😂😂😂😂

[@Surayya444]

Is it just me or is the guy sitting next to boots being rude and racist?

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

Yes a real piece of shit

[@kasim0wens685]

that's my folks right there boots Riley I'm so proud of him your folks Scooby-Doo AKA kasim Soul smooth

[@microfighterz]

Boots talking some real shit as always

[@cyz44]

well said sir

[@HexTest]

I was depressed to see the US has almost dropped off the top ten list of most economically free countries. Sad so many people claim the US is a "free market" country. That stopped being the case over a century ago.

[@nocturnezero]

@IsaacBaranoff That's a market. Capitalism also employs other necessary attributes - private ownership of the factors of production, corporate divisions of labor, and distribution of wealth often by output or property ownership. You can have a non-coercive exchange of goods and services under Socialism - the goods exchanged would just have to be produced by a democratically owned firm. The merits of this are arguable.

[@sighedeffects]

@IsaacBaranoff I did not say that capitalism is monopoly... I stated that the ultimate goal in capitalism is monopoly. Where in the history of human civilization has a completely "free market" been successful? To claim there is no society without capitalism is a great example of false consciousness. To point that it is better than "places where people trade women for food" is true. Having parents that neglect you is better than parents that beat you. I fail to see relevance.

[@josephedery]

boots baby!!! the man

[@KurtG85]

I'll just advise you to make sure you have ALOT of emotional fortitude/courage in reserve if you choose to begin the process of waking up from your manufactured paradigms to deeper levels. The truth (or at least the most logical conclusions credible intellectuals can derive from the documentable evidence we have access to) is extremelly difficult to digest. Please trust that I'm not being sarcastic, pompous, or egotistical here, this is a genuine warning of a mind-F many people go nuts from.

[@Danrt2]

Afghanistan abuts Iran. So while it's not *technically* a part of the Middle East, to imply that it not being part of the ME makes it any less important with regard to oil and gas policy (particularly since it's likewise adjacent to Turkmenistan - owner of substantial Caspian natural gas reserves) is to make clear either your ignorance of the subject or your mendacity, and perhaps both.

[@FunkFight1]

What is it with issac M. Baranoff? He's been trolling this video clip for years, voting his own comments up and others down. He must be crazy.

[@WillBSmiling]

that Boot was made for talkin'.... TRUTH.

[@hectordelgado4409]

BOOOOOOTS!!! :D

[@Zxx459]

Politicians supposed to work for the PEOPLE.

[@SplitAxisProductions]

Get em dude

[@Canaderek]

Well, he DID say "not apart", rather than "not a part". Assuming TheBk11209 is literate, maybe it was his poetic way of saying Afghanistan, for the purposes of the discussion, is essentially indistinguishable (not "apart" from) a Middle Eastern nation.

[@SlugSage]

I kind of miss this show.

[@CrowdPleeza]

All of those countries are mixed economies with capitalism. Even the U.S is a mixed economy. These countries including the U.S have elements of both capitalism and socialism. It's just that mixed economies can vary. Some may lean more towards one way than the other.

[@paddydaughton]

@djcdoubleomizzle: Actually, Boots has a fair point. Enron & Exxon were both major ENERGY companies exercising quite an amount of influence in the political sphere. Take the Enron CEO at the time, Ken Lay. He had very close political connections to the Bush family.. but his support went to Democrats also, assisting Sheila Jackson Lee's 1994 Congress campaign (..same lady later voted with Republicans in favour of a Bush administration energy plan).

[@badfish13]

Not that the Taliban are good guy, but they were oppressing the production of opium/ heroin in afghanastan. But now the military is promoting it and protecting it's farmers. Expect to see more of that in the us. And now they found lithium over there if they didn't already know it was there. But this episode happened way before this was public knowlege

[@nocturnezero]

@IsaacBaranoff What of the contributions of society and history? What of inventors and laborers and innovators and all that they contribute to the creation of a good or service today? Who creates the mill, the builders, the engineers, the man who installs the electricity and plumbing, the overseer of the build site? How can we disregard everything that social and historical contributions have to do with the culmination of a single good?

[@Patrick_Bateman92]

Bill and Boots are awesome!

[@CrowdPleeza]

Here's a good video below comparing the American and Scandinavian systems. It breaksdown the pros and cons of both systems. Rise of Scandinavia "What in the World" !

[@crazyfool619]

no. they weren't crying. Timmy ran up on stage and got up on the scaffolding. it wasn't out of protest. he just wanted to do it. i dont think they care about winning a MTV award

[@nocturnezero]

@IsaacBaranoff This is a fascinating proposition, that have a say in the management of surplus value proportional to the degree to which you contributed to that surplus value is restrictive while you claim that one person owning a factory or a firm and taking a majority of the surplus value is not restrictive. In any case, I have several responses: Boots is not talking about goods or services created being democratically owned, just the profits earned...

[@sharonstyle]

Where is the facilitation here? People are speaking over one another and can't even get a coherent, complete thought out.

[@Airfryerbath]

i was just passing by and saw this comment,....i could go for one of thse links if you don't mind

[@pazsincethe80s54]

The dude nexts to boots i think is my neighbor. ..

[@Pai001]

boots riley for president

[@Karudu]

Wtf Im from germany....since when do we have a non capitalist society ^^...were fucking into deep...

[@ScottBrown666]

How do you properly use ''banana republic?' Seemed apt to me. Maybe I'm misinformed.

[@HexTest]

It's also a little known fact that they account for 73% of the population.

[@jordyfi8974]

Boots got her st-stuttering.

[@ImperialPimp]

Yup.

[@z00pac]

theyre all so out of touch and got the nerve to be condescending to boots

[@ShastaOrange]

hey you said exactly what I wanted to say. And you also have "orange" in your name. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy here, but I'm also not saying there's not a conspiracy

[@nocturnezero]

@IsaacBaranoff Do you earn what you deserve, or do you earn what supply and demand determine? Supply and demand are non-constants so the remuneration for the producer cannot be constant, but what you deserve for the same amount of work is a constant. The two cannot coexist.

[@paddydaughton]

@djcdoubleomizzle: Afghanistan may not be rich in oil, but there is a hell of a lot of gas there!! And geographically it is an important location for oil and gas pipelines. Energy companies do have a big interest in Afghanistan.

[@itsokthen]

I wouldn't agree that pure socialism doesn't work, and also it depends who you ask about being paid the same.In the spainish civil war the workers loved it because they were typically paid far less.But I don't know anything about that thing with Isreal but whatever it was I'm sure it isn't nearly as bad as they are now.However, I can probably bet they didn't have pure socialsim which, at least in my opinion is absence of state. Besides hard work doesn't make you rich, or women in africa would be

[@ISMEY]

@IsaacBaranoff what about the poor or disabled?

[@KurtG85]

Nor do I.. I was just offering the most credible perspective in the search for political truth which I have found. Not trying to force it on you. By the way I'm always open minded to free clues, but ya there is alot of propaganda out there.

[@Grensley]

Boots and Bill are holding down the sanity in this.

[@stewyshepiro]

I usually like bill maher, but I think he and the other guests here were treating Boots in a pretty degrading way. It's obvious that the guy with the moustache and the young and the restless guy feel they are racially superior.

[@foodeater398]

im so glad Maher got off cable and on HBO

[@killyourhead]

Nah I can feel the love, they probably went for a beer afterwards unless Boots didnt drink at the time.

[@AhemmittP]

Part of the Greater Middle East, like Iran, Turkey.

[@epicparkourdewd]

"free market systems" is an oxymoron. once something is systemitized, it is controlled, ie not free

[@PopeKurt]

Harland Williams was sicking Boots on Erin, hahahaha.

[@Surayya444]

Well. It was a very racist gesture imo

[@milcookful]

the world is wonderful

[@jeanemlicar]

Not really,my friend.

[@nocturnezero]

@IsaacBaranoff Finally, this is not true of Capitalism. Working in a private firm, the good you create will be handed to and sold by a manager, with you getting a fraction of the earnings. The division of labor further complicates who creates what. Socialism at least provides elementary structures for handling this problem - all people have a say in the allocation of their firms earnings proportionate to the degree to which they contributed to the creation of those earnings.

[@ImperialPimp]

Shame, I doubt he would get such an wide-reaching TV platform nowadays.... This show got cancelled way back , huh?

[@beyondthabottomline5498]

ImperialPimp He's on HBO now with what I would assume is a much better deal.