Roy Wood Jr.

No, I'm learning.

I'm a bill on Capitol Hill and everything's great.

And we elect a president gets the most votes.

And then you get to college, electoral college, dangling chads.

I was in the group that marched when Jeb Bush wouldn't certify the Al Gore, blah, blah, blah.

In 2000, you get older and you go, wait a minute.

This feels like a hustle.

Oh, you're redrawing districts, are you?

Gerrymandering.

Didn't learn that in 84.

It was just vote.

And then most people vote and you win.

It's like, oh, OK.

Even when you're in office, you're still, you know, a lot of people, you know, running hustles.

You know, I spent time in black barbershops where, you know, you hear grown men conversations as a middle school, as a high schooler.

So, you know, I understood how city politics worked in Birmingham.

And once I understood local civics, I just kind of took that and just applied those assumptions.

to state and national politics for the most part.

And for the most part, I've been right.

You know, it's not really, you know, like there was, there was a, there was a then mayor of a Birmingham suburb.