WEBVTT - 042923 How White Supremacy Causes Harm to White People (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:06.119 And now proper watching my mic back like that. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:13.600 Just striking water headporters. It's behind in the in the porters. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.680 If you're just tuning in to Civic Cipher, I'm your host, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:16.520 Brandy's job. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.200 He is Ramsey's job. I am you Ward. You guys 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.520 are once again tuned in to so b Exciper. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:23.840 Be sure to keep it close because we've still got 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.279 a lot more show for you. We are going to 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:34.320 be discussing more in depth how white supremacy arms white people. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:40.360 And before you start making up your mind on what 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.720 I'm about to say, a lot of this research came 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:50.000 from Forbes magazine, so there take that. 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All right, today's Baba comes from Newsweek. Thousands 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.160 of Christians is signed an online Oh. First off, forgive me, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.920 this is a little late, but I did want to 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.920 mention it so it'll sound a little dated. But I 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 know that already. Okay. Thousands of Christians have signed an 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.360 online petition by Faithful America demanding Tennessee House Speaker Cameron 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.880 Sexton's resignation. The outrage comes as a response to sex 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:06.840 organizing a vote that expelled to Democratic Tennessee lawmakers from 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.000 the House. The lawmakers, Representative Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.040 spoke out of turn when they supported a youth led 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.919 protest calling for gunner control following the shooting out of 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.919 Nashville elementary school that left three students and three adults dead. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.200 Representative Gloria Johnson also spoke out of turn to participate 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.160 in the protests. Tennessee Republican lawmakers have been accused of 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.440 racism after they expelled Jones and Pearson, both black men, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.240 but by one vote, Johnson, who is white, was able 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:38.720 to keep her seat. Now the better ally. Part of 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:45.040 this is the Christians, the thousands of Christians who signed 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:53.200 an online petition by Faithful America because rarely in this space, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.600 this space meaning Civic Cipher, do Q and I both 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.560 get to shout out Christian folks were behaving in a 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.799 manner consistent with what we know to be christ Like. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.040 So become a better ally by behaving like the people 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:19.919 that you purport to worship. Once again, amen, all right, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.560 so let's talk about some ways that white supremacy harms 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.720 white people. Again, a lot of this came from Forbes. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.040 A lot of this was some other independent research that 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.440 we put together for today's show. And I do want 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.480 to shout out Janice gassam Assare, who contributed hugely to 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.520 what we're talking about today and in fact wrote some 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:50.240 of this stuff. So before we get into this, I 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:55.400 think that for much of my life, I thought of 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:04.119 it as white supremacy benefiting all white people, and that 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.720 to be white was to have like a golden ticket, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.280 which in many ways it is in this country. That's 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:12.760 to a person like us. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.720 I was gonna say, I haven't seen that disproven. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:21.360 So okay, so let me tell you my story. I 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:27.600 grew up. I met a kid named Kevin when I 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.160 was little. Okay, he grew up to become Blue Leg CAF. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.240 He was three years old when I met him. I 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.080 was seven years old, so I was always older than him, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.840 his big brother. So all of this stuff, for those 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.839 that are familiar with the blot Leg CAF, all that 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.279 stuff came from my CD books and my jerseys and 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.360 all that, right, But I would go to his house 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.800 and spend the night with him, hang out with his family. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:57.640 And Kevin grew up very poor. He grew up in 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.080 an environment where there were a lot of drugs. He 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:06.240 grew up where there was a lot of hopelessness, and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.520 a lot of the people that looked like him but 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:21.440 older were into criminal activities to get money for drugs 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.479 or to whatever to change their station of life. And 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.440 I spent so much time with him, and of course 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:29.840 I spent time in my own house, that I was 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.560 able to see a lot of similarities and a lot 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:40.000 of the things that I felt were issues in black life, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.000 they weren't not issues in his life. I knew that 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.320 they would be a bigger issue over here, but that 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.679 didn't mean that it didn't affect him. Just the same. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.360 Now I'm going to make this come to life a 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.279 little bit more as I kind of go through these, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.760 but you'll start to see what I mean. So I'll 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.679 start one of the ways that white supremacy arms white 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:09.600 people government programs. For those that are familiar with Chelsea Handler, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.240 the comedian, she had a twenty nineteen documentary called Hello Privilege, 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.720 It's me Chelsea. In this documentary, Handler visits a group 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.520 of white women from Orange County, California, and a discussion 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.559 about white privilege ensuites. Women share their belief that people 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.960 of color receive unearned privileges and unfair advantages in society 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:35.320 in reality, In reality, the group that benefits the most 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:40.599 from affirmative action programs are actually white women. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.640 And just to be clear, when he says in reality, 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.880 he doesn't mean in the opinion of ramses in Q. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.760 He means the statistics in the data back that last statement. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.800 All right, let's put this nail in this coffin. The 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.960 irony of this is that white women, according to reports, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.680 are actually some of the staunchest opponents of affirmative action programs. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.560 In addition, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:15.920 Because the US and US Bureau is United States, not US. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.160 Okay, I love them when you put that punctuation, you know, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.280 that exclamation point there because it needs to be said. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.920 I appreciate that again. I'll say it again. The United 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.920 States Bureau of Labor Statistics, thank you, reports that white 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.320 people are the largest beneficiaries when it comes to government 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.640 assistance programs. Remembright, I told you Kevin grew up poor. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:47.480 Now growing up, there's always been this attack on government 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.080 assistance programs for families who are having a tough go 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.800 at life. What they were always trying to do was 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.600 single out black families. And if you, if I promise you, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.400 we can't do it today, well I'll do a deep 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.520 dive one day, maybe for a way black history fact. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.600 But trace this all the way back to the Great 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.960 Depression and see the origin story of these government assistance 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.520 programs and see how they benefited white people. See how 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.440 the tax code that was an active in this country 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.960 was designed to help white people and harm black people. Like, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.840 there's so much stuff. There's racism. Racism is so many 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:26.640 different things. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.920 This next line you're about to read, I'm about to please. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.800 I'm not gonna skip it, but you know I love 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.680 the fact that we do this show because I think 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.080 that I love the fact that you keep it real. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.640 But I can learn all this stuff. I can learn 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.800 that this country hated me from the moment I was born. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.560 I love the past tense that you put on that 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.040 you were. I appreciate and admire you more than you 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.560 could possibly imagine, sir, I can't I just because there's 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:01.240 an hopeful there's a hopefulness and optimist optimism in Rams's 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.320 spirit that is long gone from mine, and there's a 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.679 balance that's required. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.559 I think that you're a little bit more based in reality, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.680 and I'm a little bit more optimistic about the future 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.800 and those that's where we tend to focus our energies. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.160 But I think I'll do what you said. I'll read 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:23.640 the next line. Racialized phrases like welfare queen have propagated 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.079 the false narrative that black people, and particularly black women, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:32.040 are the ones who unfairly benefit from government programs. Now, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.360 we talked about a football player once upon a time 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.040 on the show who was benefiting from the welfare program. Right, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.320 I think he was about as white as Casper the Ghost. Right. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.960 I don't know his name. His football dude he's a 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.840 famous dude. I know that because I heard his name. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:46.800 I just don't know his name. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.680 His name is Brett Farr. That's him, So google Brett Farv. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.200 Is that a welfare que in Mississippi welfare? Because I 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.319 feel like there's a lot to impact this, That's what 0:09:58.400 --> 0:09:58.800 I've had it. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.040 That sound like a welfare king to me. You probably 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.719 got more money in everybody. But listen noth of that, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:10.320 and he was already rich that part. But I want 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.960 to go back and reread this again because it's important 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.200 to mention this. Some ways, white supremacy harms white people 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:22.880 again government programs. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.840 that white people are the largest beneficiaries when it comes 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.079 to assistance programs. In other words, white supremacy creating the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.680 false narrative that black people are disproportionately benefiting from welfare programs, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:43.800 causing far right politicians to attack government assistance programs will 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.600 cut the knees off of needy white families way more 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.000 than it will cut the knees off of black family 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.400 because of the amount of white people that are benefiting 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.479 from it. Again, check the US Bureau. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.599 And white people who would benefit from such programs, and 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:04.960 do benefits from such programs vote in contradiction of those 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:10.040 benefits something, because not because they don't know that it 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.200 affects them, that they don't they know that they're benefiting 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.959 from it, but because they think we are too not 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:16.800 gonna be able to do it. 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:26.600 So again, being white supremacist yourself causes you to maneuver 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:32.400 in such a way that it ultimately is to your detriment. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:33.679 All right. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.880 I also want to mention the Affordable Healthcare Act, which 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.240 was rebranded by conservatives as Obamacare. We're talking about healthcare again, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.319 government programs, right, it helped. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.000 Did you guys hear what Ramas just did? 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:50.240 Right? 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.439 He just did it to mimic what they did the 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.880 Affordable Healthcare Act. It's very hard to stand opposed to that. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.280 When you have tens of millions of people that can't 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.439 go to the doctor when they're sick. It's hard to 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.560 ask those people to vote for you while you oppose 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.920 something called the Affordable Healthcare Act. Right, But if you 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.400 can racially charge a group of people that you know 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.720 will respond the way you want them to with regards 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.400 to black people, you call it obamacare. You know, the 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.680 black guy that you guys don't like it's his program. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.520 Forget that it will benefit you. Just go out there 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.679 and work against him with us. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.520 Oh my god, I'm glad you said that, because I 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.719 remember seeing all of the interviews at that time where 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.000 people would get interviewed and like, so, what are your 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.679 thoughts on Obamacare? Oh, I can't stand Obamacare. The country 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.920 is going you know what, So what is it about 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.680 Obamacare that you don't like? Well, I don't know too 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.240 much about it, but I know that Obamacare is not 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.079 good for us because you know, we got to be 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.760 able to pick our Well, you can't pick your doctor 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.960 under Obamacare. Well, you know, there's there's some things wrong 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.839 with it, and I don't know the particulars, but I know. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.960 And this is I remember this was incredibly prevalent at 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.079 the time. So many people had so much to say 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.800 about it, and they weren't saying anything. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.160 Yeah, those same people are still being interviewed, the same people. Somehow, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.319 their reporters are going out and find the same people 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.800 for people they feel about critical race theory. I hate it. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:26.520 Well why I don't know. Oh, okay, understood. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:33.680 So watch this. The Affordable Healthcare Act helped white families 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:39.840 four times as frequently as it helped black fans four times. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:40.880 Doesn't sound like a lot. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:47.199 That's four hundred percent more. There you go. So so 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.920 for again, people pushing back against it based purely on 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.120 white supremacist ideals, like if you want to be critical 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.000 of a government program by all means if you want 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.400 to help it get in better shape by means. We're 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.439 critical of government programs here, namely the police. Right, we're 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.480 not saying that. But if it's purely based on race 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.920 and no other factors, then we call that white supremacy. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.720 And then you start to see how it works against 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.679 even our Caucasian brothers and sisters. Because no matter what, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.880 I will always say, even these people that hate my guys, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.640 you are my brother and you're my sister, and I 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.720 hope that you find your way. All right, let's move 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.240 on some other ways. White supremacy harms white people and 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.840 stifles innovation, creates corporate blind spots. I want to share 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.760 this example that I learned when I was in college. Okay, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.680 so humble brag here. I went to school, have a 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.440 master's theory, right, don't need it to talk on the radio. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.240 But that one, okay, went to business school, and I 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:53.400 learned marketing in my undergrad and did a case study 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.520 on Colgate as in toothpaste toothpaste. I wanted to sell 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.480 Colgate toothpaste in Mexico. Right, it seems simple. Let's let's 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.480 let's sell in Mexico. There's tons of people there. Let's 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.600 get some money. Yeah, let's do it. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.200 We already got the US on Locke. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.320 We might as well get some of that Mexico money. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:17.400 Pay something in Mexico. Absolutely right, smart move, except when 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:24.120 you don't have diversity, when you have white supremacist ideals 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.320 either like in the front of your brainer, kind of 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.680 tucked in the back where it's we call those implicit 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.920 bias implicit biases. There you go where you're just like 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.200 a room full of white people, and you feel surprisingly comfortable. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.680 There's nothing missing here. Let's just go to Mexico and 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.520 do what we do in America. Right. What you end 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.880 up with is putting a product on a shelf called 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:51.680 hold that thee not coldgate, hold that the and cold 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.720 ate in Spanish means go hang yourself. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:03.240 Oh that'll move a lot of toothpaste, so or not. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.800 And that's just one kind of lighthearted example but there's 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.280 tons of examples like this, where again we're talking about 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.320 how white supremacy stifles innovation. I'll read a bit more. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.640 Research from Mackenzie found that racial and ethnic diversity also 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.400 led to greater financial returns for corporations. One of the 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.800 main tenets of white supremacy is the belief that whites 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.000 should live by themselves in a whites only society. When 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.880 there is no diversity within a group, the same ideas, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.560 thoughts and beliefs create an echo chamber. Organizations with a 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.960 homogeneous makeup will find it challenging to remain competitive in 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.240 the future as the country becomes more racially diverse. In 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.400 other words, you should probably have somebody on your board, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.320 in your c suite, in your upper management, in your 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.640 middle management, that looks different from you, no matter what 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:05.439 color you are, right, because we live in a world 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.800 where there's lots of different colors. And the truth is 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.840 global enterprises will survive into the future. This is like 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.399 the highest tier. The final form of capitalism is that 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:25.000 global corporations will consume everything. That's the only outcome. Once 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.880 drones start delivering everything your mom and pop shops down 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:35.959 the street, Once AI takes all the jobs global corporations, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.200 and how do you sell in Africa where there's high 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.960 illiteracy rates. You can't put a picture of a baby 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.760 on baby formula because they think pictures represent what's in 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.920 the jar. You have to know that, So you need 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.440 people who have experience beyond your boardroom to inform you 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:07.040 that if you put a Gerber baby can a baby 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.399 food on a shelf, people will look at the baby 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.280 face and think you blended a baby and put it 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.359 in a jar. They won't know that it's for baby 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:16.880 food because of the hype of literacy. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.080 That's a hyper literal example, but thank you. You guys 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.760 can translate, all right, So let's move on some other ways. 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.720 White supremacy harms white people, ruining the environment. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.360 We all got this one. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:43.720 We laugh because the actuality of it is terrifying. This 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:48.080 is not a potential outcome. This is a real life 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:56.480 happening right now to us, tragedy that only happened because 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.359 of people's personal political agendas tied to their love of 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:08.119 capitalist white supremacy, only singularly, because the outcomes have for 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:18.840 decades been obvious and disgustingly avoidable if we weren't so 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.000 greedy so shortsighted and so racist. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.560 Let me make that live, please, all right? Ruining the environment. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.760 In some ways, white supremacy harms life, and less understood 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.159 outcome of white supremacy is that it's harmful to the planet. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.800 Hob Hopkins wrote, you can't live or sorry. You can't 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.879 have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can't have 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.240 sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can't have disposable 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:55.040 people without racism. Environmental racism is defined as the disproportionate 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.400 impact of environmental hazards on people of color. White supremacy 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.480 supports them belief that whites should have dominance over people 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.000 of cover color. This dominance manifests in different ways, including 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.040 the treatment starting the treating of BIPOC communities as disposable. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.680 So let's talk about Flint, Michigan. There's a lot of 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.040 black folks who live there. Yeah, shut out, Is it 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:18.800 all black people? 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:19.040 Don't? 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.600 Nope, absolutely not. Some white folks live there. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.440 Yeah, but those are the poor whites. Yeah wait, well yeah, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.560 but they've been convinced that they have nothing in common 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.000 with their poor black neighbors. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:31.600 Well, then let's move on. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.600 So they support policy and politics that are championed by 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:41.080 their richer white supremacists quote unquote allies, colleagues, cohorts. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:43.280 It's a weird world. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.760 We let they go out in March and vote against 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.679 their own best interests to continue to support white supremacy. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:52.200 But I'll let you continue. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.560 That's not the only one. We talked about Jackson, Mississippi 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:02.960 and the water there eighty percent black, right, but that's 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.520 not one hundred percent black. But we can go all 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.720 the way back to Hurricane Katrina, the slow, lots of 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:10.800 lethargic response. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.760 There hundreds of thousands of misplaced white people, maybe millions 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.160 of misplaced white people. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.359 But because there's a lot of black folks there, so 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:25.320 again a lethargic response, limberistic response by the government. Let's 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.199 talk about fracking on indigenous lambs. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:29.760 You know. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.840 The long and the short of this is that white 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:39.280 folks were affected, are affected, have will always been, and 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:44.760 will be will be. But there's this narrative that allows 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:50.840 white people to insulate themselves from these issues because again 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:56.840 of implicit bias, and because of the fact that oftentimes 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.760 our perception is reality. It's perceived that we live into 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:06.040 different Americans, and that's not true. There's one planet, one country. Okay, 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:12.360 all right, so let's add a few more points here 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:18.320 before we move on. Even if there were no black people, 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:24.480 Mexican people, or Hispanic people, or Latin people, Asian people, 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.960 Native people, right, even if everybody was white. What we've seen, 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.439 what history has shown us, is that even white folks 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:36.800 will stratify themselves. Who's the blondest, What nation did you 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.760 come from? You know? This is what white supremacy does. 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.520 White supremacy will even eat white people. And this is 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.040 what we're seeing. There's no escape. It is a monster. 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.400 I used the word misplaced earlier, I meant displaced white 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.240 people and all of those communities that suffer from all 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:58.040 those problems Hurricane Katrina, Jacksonnsissippi and flat Michigan with the water, 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:00.919 and several other things that have happen throughout our history. 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:07.040 What we know is that capitalism praise on the poor, right, 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.320 and because there are so many more poor than rich people, 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:14.600 capitalism should collapse. Except if you can take those of 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:19.360 us that are white and convince us that are our 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.960 kinship and our bond as being white is more important 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.360 than the fact that I'm standing on your neck as well, 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:28.240 then I can get you to vote and support things 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.400 that benefit me because I'm also white. I'm rich, you're poor, 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:33.720 and so are everyone that you live with in. 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.440 Our realities are entirely different. Yes, but we have the 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:37.920 same skin. But we're both white. 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:42.080 So that's not understand with the Mexican, Asian and Black 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:43.360 people that live in your community. 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:45.840 Stand with me, so let me let me let me 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.440 put another one here, police brutality. Police brutality is often 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:55.040 associated with black people, but police violence affects white people too. 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.720 Why do you think the police and culture exists? Why 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.920 do you think police are so well protected? Is because 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:02.920 they need to be protected from black people. Guess what. 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.400 It puts a barrier between accountability for white folks too. 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.359 He saw in Mexico the other day police kicked in 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:17.640 a door in New Mexico, killed a man dead. Wrong address. Well, 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:20.639 now it's time for the Way Black History Fact. Today's 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.600 Way Black History Factor sponsor about Underground Beach Club from 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.240 the Streets to the Beach for the finest in beachwere 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.200 visit Underground Beach Club dot com. All right, today we're 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:35.000 talking about James A. Parsons Junior was born nineteen hundred 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:41.640 and lived through nineteen eighty nine. He was a scientist, inventor, 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:46.119 and university professor whose research with rust resistant medals and 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.040 iron alloys was credited with leading to the development of 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:54.160 stainless steel. During his lifetime, he received several patents pertaining 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:58.480 to medals. For his achievements, Parsons was highly respected among 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.600 his peers in the scientific commun and widely regarded as 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:06.080 one of the nation's leading metallurgists. Just so you know, 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.480 there's a lot of science words here. I don't know 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:11.159 how to say. I'm so bear with me, all right, 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:15.600 here we go. James Albert Parsons, Junior was born in Dayton, Ohio, 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:18.760 on May thirty, nineteen hundred. His father was a butler 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:23.199 in the home of an executive at the Durion dur 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:26.440 Iron Company. I think that's a dur Iron company, a 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.480 metals manufacturing firm. When Parsons was young, his extraordinary ability 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:33.160 in mathematics came to the attention of his father's employer. 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.880 Parsons attended Steel High School in Dayton, and, after graduating 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:39.920 in nineteen seventeen, turned down an opportunity to attend the 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:43.600 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Instead He took 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:47.479 an interim job at the Durian Company as boundary laborer, 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.440 and in nineteen eighteen began his undergraduate studies at the 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:57.240 highly competitive Rensseller Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Durion 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:01.200 provided Parsons with summer ployment while he was in college 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:07.280 in nineteen twenty two, Wrenslar Yearbooks. Yearbook describes Parsons as hardworking, ambitious, 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:10.239 and popular with his peers. His love of music gave 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.040