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Tricky Dick Couldn’t be Kicked

Back in the day on November 6th, 1962, Richard Nixon lost the race for Governor of California. Despite the fact that tricky dick had fallen just short of 120,00 votes to his opponent John F Kennedy two years prior in the national Presidential election, his margin of defeat to Governor Brown in the statewide contest was nearly 300,000. Such a defeat had many commentators and analysts wondering if Nixon’s political ambitions had finally come to an end. Angered by what he considered an adversarial media, Nixon appeared before a press conference at the Beverly Hills Hilton to utter words of defiance that would become infamous. Tricky Dick told the members of the press, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

Unfortunately, the society of the U.S. allows for politicians like Nixon to reinvent themselves time and time again. Just six years after he uttered his infamous words Nixon did not retire from politics. Instead he went on to be elected President where he would kick us all around.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history