WEBVTT - 042223 Living in the Aftermath of Anti-Black Violence (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:08.560 And now my mic back like we can strike. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.040 From headquarters behind. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:12.080 In the be. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.560 For those just tuning in the civic cecher, I'm your host, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.520 Ramsey's job. He is rams this job. This is. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:25.279 A very emotionally mentally exhausted Q war. And if you 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:26.880 if you call it the first half of the show, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.760 you have an idea why if you didn't keep listening. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.440 We always, unfortunately have enough to keep me feeling like this. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.199 It'll get better. That's what my brother says to me 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.840 every week. I will uh. Today we're talking about living 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.600 in the aftermath of anti black violence. Special guests in 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.960 the studio Marshawn Neely, who just shared a bit of 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.640 his personal story where he was a victim of police 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:00.240 brutality let's be honest and specifically the victim of a 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.160 police attack dog. And we're going to spend the second 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.520 part of the show talking about Ralph Yarl and we'd 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.399 love for you to stick around and share your thoughts 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:15.920 as well. But first and foremost, let's discuss becoming a 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.720 better ally BABA. So today's BABA was sponsored by Major 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:25.240 Threads for the finest in men's sportswear. Check majorthreads dot com. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.520 You know, sometime sometimes with the Baba we help with 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.959 big things in a little way, and sometimes we help 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.000 with little things but in a big way. And this 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.800 past week we came across the story from a young 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.759 lady named Jamia Bratcher or Jamia Bratcher, I'm not sure 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.200 how to say it, but just one of those stories 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.560 that kind of hit me in the heart. She's an 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:59.160 individual who was sent to a homeless shelter, dropped off 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.640 at a homeless shelterer eighteenth birthday, and told to make 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.800 her way. Can you let our audience know who dropped 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.240 her off? It was her adopted parents that dropped her 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.280 off at a homeless shelter because they were no longer 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.359 receiving money for her. She made a video about it. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.720 Someone was interviewing folks on the street, and that video 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:21.280 touched me and the people around me. And normally now's 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.040 the time I'd list her cash app because she showed 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.520 her cash app on the screen if someone wanted to help, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.520 but she said she didn't know how to work it. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.480 And I'll be honest, I sent money and it never 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.959 got accepted. So I really wanted to talk about her 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.560 supporting her financially. But now I'm going to ask since 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.040 we have stations all over the country, she's gone missing, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.400 and I would like for you all to please travel 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:55.239 over to my instagram at rams's jahr Am s e Sja. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:01.080 She's the first photo there, and if you've seen her anywhere, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.040 you got any information on her, please, you know, contact 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.560 me or contact anybody that's connected to that, because we 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.880 need to find her and make sure that she's okay. Again. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.359 We can help a lot in a small way, and 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.440 this is just on my heart, so I appreciate you 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.480 anybody supporting that. All Right now, we're gonna move on. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.800 We're still talking about living in the aftermath of anti 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:30.640 black violence. But another crazy story that has kind of 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:35.880 really taken shape over the past week is the story 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:41.320 of Ralph Jarl, who was shot by Andrew Lester for 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.040 knocking on the wrong door when he was looking to 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.640 pick up his siblings. I think he went to the 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.120 right number address, but instead of street, it was lane 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:52.920 or lane it was street from something like. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.880 That up some some easily mistakable minor semantic like that. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.440 Yeah, and he rang the doorbell. And I'll read from 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.640 the Kansas City defender who's a big supporter of Civic 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.800 Side for a shout out to the Kansas City Defender. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.840 Ralph y'arl, a sixteen year old black boy, was shot 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.880 twice by a white man in North Kansas City after 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.160 accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home while attempting 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.520 to pick up his siblings. My understanding was his two 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.839 little brothers. The white man reportedly shot Ralph in the 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:29.640 head and shot through the glass door, and when y'all 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.000 was already bleeding on the ground, he shot him again, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.839 this time in the head. The family has described it 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.000 as a hate crime, and community members are calling for 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.280 justice for the young victim. And just so we're clear 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.480 around us, the first shot was in the head, was 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.240 it okay? Okay, so imagine that I read that wrong. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.120 No, you read it right, But then you just added 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:51.760 that this time it was in the head until you 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:52.839 read about the second shot. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.000 You shot him in the head already through the door. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.400 Yeah, okay, like for all of us to he shot 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.680 him in the head already, then let me go make sure. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:17.719 And shoot him again. And he was unarmed, sixteen, an 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.599 unarmed child, Yes, sir, pick it. I'm just making sure. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.160 Oh yeah, I'm not sure. So one of the things 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:29.520 that I want to say here is sad and sick, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.520 and we've talked about it on the show before Q 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:37.279 and I. There is an audio recording that we came 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:45.719 across some months ago of a police person, someone with 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:52.080 some authority over normal police officers, suggesting that if an 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.920 officer draws a gun and shoots someone, that they should 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.920 make sure that the person dies, because if the officer 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.960 shoot someone and they live, they could sue and fiscally 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.360 that would have a greater impact than if the person 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.480 was actually dead. Not only that, but they wouldn't have 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:12.760 to do it. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.560 But now there's statement that would never happen before if 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.440 the person was dead. That's where that lack of accountably typically, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.400 that lack of accountability typically comes in. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.880 There's no victim statement, there's no with Shawn Neely in 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.240 the studio, was telling the side of the story. Yes, 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:33.080 so so yeah, so this idea of this second shot 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.400 when he's already been shot in the head, As you said, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.000 I don't know for certain, but I suspect that that 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.640 might have played a role in it, because again, a 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.240 shot in the head through the door. We have to 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.159 avoid definitives. Yeah, it's tough because you know. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:57.400 To maintain our integrity as journalists in this space. It 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.719 is not, however, lost on me, the reason you shoot 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.679 this again. If it was fear or defending for your life, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.240 you already shot him in the head. I think you'll 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.040 be fine, especially because he's a child with no weapon 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.000 and no way to harm you. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.840 I think you'd be fine. We know what the second 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.640 shot was for. Oh yeah, and you mentioned something in 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.440 the first half of the show, Q that I want 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:25.680 to bring back up. The only quote unquote weapon was 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.320 that he had melanin in his skin. Yes, too much. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.760 That's the only weapon. And as you know, I mean, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.320 I'm obviously being facetious here, but that's not a weapon. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:39.800 That is a human condition. Human beings have melanin, original 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.760 human beings, Homo sapiens sapiens, or melanated individuals from Africa, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:51.880 the African continent. So if that struck fear in the 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.040 heart of this Andrew Lester, and he was able to 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.720 execute this attack on his child under the guise of 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.840 stand your ground laws, and I think it's time that 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.960 those laws be re examined to what end. Though right 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.800 like stand your ground on its face, the term should 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.840 be interpreted a lot different than ready fireing. Well, then 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.040 let's let's talk about Trayvon. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.520 Yeah, let's let's talk because that's that's where this versus 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.560 the first time I ever heard about this stand your 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:29.920 ground yep, A man stalked and murdered him and got 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.320 off on the basis of standing his ground. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:40.520 In this case, weaponizing your fear of melanid skin gets 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.640 you off on the idea that maybe you thought this 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.600 young man was there to do you harm, and you 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.000 also betting on that second shot doing its child. Because 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.640 then we don't have we don't have to have a 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.800 nuanced conversation. There's no other witnesses. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.760 There's you and the deceased, who cannot provide his account 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.559 of what happened. I love that you said that weaponizing 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.640 your fear, because I think that's exactly what you were 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:07.839 describing in your story, Marshawn. Because these officers breaking your door, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.679 kicking in your in your door, and then grabbing you 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.320 in the i'm guessing like an atrium or entrance of 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.920 your home and being able to attack you like this, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.840 there's that degree of protection, the qualified immunity, so forth 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.000 and so on, where if police brutality or overreach or 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.760 whatever takes place. They often say, well, it was based 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.679 on a fear for myself or fear, fear, fear, whatever 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.720 the case is, and so weaponizing the fear. And obviously 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.160 you're a black man. Ralph Yarl was a black child, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.880 and that's that's really the only way that I can 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.560 see that existing as a narrative, not a truth, but 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.880 a narrative in the minds of those who would cause 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.319 harm to black bodies. So that's a quick question. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.240 Andrew, guy, he didn't get arrested on the scene because 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.480 there was a stand in your grand law in effect. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.040 Yeah, so we'll jump right there. I'm glad you brought 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.319 that up. So what happened Initially? The shooter, Andrew Lester, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.960 was taken into police headquarters briefly to provide a statement, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.199 but was released shortly after without being charged. How about 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.160 that now real quick, I want to interject something here. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.840 You're listening to my voice. You know that there's a 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.240 black child who's sixteen years old and a white man 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:37.440 who was in his eighties. Right, this white man shot 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.040 this black child through the door. I want you to 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.560 do me the favor that I often asked for on 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.120 the show. I want you to change a couple of 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.400 these pieces around. Let's make the sixteen year old child 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:57.240 a white child, and let's make Andrew Lester black black. Now, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:03.520 now let that play out in your head. Now, the 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.640 police show up, what happens to Andrew Lester? Does he 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.800 go into police headquarters briefly to provide a statement and 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.200 release shortly after without being charged as it happened that way? 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.640 No, I think he would have got arrested right on 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:20.160 the spot or worse or worse. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.400 I know you for those that can't see cs, I 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.120 just got a quick quick question around. Yeah. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.680 Do you believe that they charged him because they felt 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.400 the story was going too viral? 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.080 I'm glad you brought that up. Let me read all right, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.200 So Andrew Lester was able to go home and clean 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.960 up any evidence as pressure mounted for police to charge 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:46.680 him with a crime. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:56.720 Can you imagine black Andrew Lester not being shot when 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:01.920 the police arrived, not being with the crime or arrested, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.120 allowed to go into police headquarters, give his statement and 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:11.400 then go home and clean up any potential evidence. Now, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:17.120 especially because in his statement, yes I shot him. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.000 Okay, thanks for your statement, sir, have a good one. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.080 Not let us keep your own custody while maybe a 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.240 crime scene investigator goes to see if the story checks 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.200 out since we don't have any other witnesses. No, you're fine, man, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.079 go home and get your affairs together so we can 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.480 make sure you're going to be okay. I mean, all 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:44.520 you did was shoot a black kid, ye, and you 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:49.719 know we all know that's not a big deal, right man, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.760 you be keeping it real. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.679 This is so sad, but you're telling do you think 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.040 that if Andrew was black, that he would have got 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.320 to do the peaceful surrender because he got to have 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:06.280 his last meal? 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.160 DN go turn himself in after the charge has got 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.640 brought against him. You know what, I think you're touching 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.640 on something that is a theme around here, and I 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:24.680 will uh summarize the criminal justice system in the United 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:30.320 States of America treat you very different if you are 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.160 white and guilty than if you are black and innocent. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.320 It'll treat you worse if you're black and innocent then 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.560 if you're white and guilty. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.600 Now, come on, Ramses, you know, conversations like this are 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.679 intellectually beneath us, and you need to be a higher 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.960 thinker because of course, things aren't that simple. They don't 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.560 just treat you worse because you're black and innocent and. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.760 Better for those that don't white and guilty. Would Q 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.040 was obviously being facetious here you can't see his face, 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:09.199 but but yeah, this is a theme that and this 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.640 is a big part of why the show exists in 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:17.800 the first place, is that you know, you weren't around obviously, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.960 but in twenty twenty when George Floyd was murdered and 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.280 we all saw and be murdered, and we saw that 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:33.320 there was initially no accountability. The idea that in spaces 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.680 where this show is broadcast, in particular hip hop stations, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.040 there were people who were profiting from the culture. There 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.480 were people who were chronicling a narrative of what it 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.040 means to be black in this country. And there was 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:56.120 a visibly absent moment that was necessary, a moment of 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.160 clarity where we talked about, indeed the fullness of the 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.200 black experience in this country. We need to talk about 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.520 systemic oppression. We need to talk about systemic injustice. We 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.840 need to talk about white supremacy, white supremacists institutions. We 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.480 need to talk about economic inequality. We need to talk 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.160 about housing, We need to talk about healthcare outcomes. We 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.680 need to talk about the criminal justice system, among other things. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.880 And so to your point, that is indeed the reason 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.960 the show exists. So I appreciate you bringing that up. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.520 I want to read a little bit more because, believe 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:34.360 it or not, it gets deeper. Charges. A first degree 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:40.280 assault and armed criminal action came two days later. Okay, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.080 I want to stop here. Okay, So two days later 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:49.920 he's charged again because of mounting public pressure, as you mentioned, Marshall, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:57.920 and he's charged with first degree assault, armed criminal action. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.480 That's not attempted murder. You said he got shot in 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.920 the head, right, first shot, and then then he got 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.120 shot again, and then you shot him again. Okay, So 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.560 that sounds to me like attempted murder. They didn't even 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.840 charge him with that, right, It probably felt like him 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.360 like felt to him like successful murder. Yeah, probably in 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.320 that moment, sounds like capital murder. Well, we're grateful that 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.880 Ralph is recovering for those that have story, and we're 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.160 grateful that you're recovering too, Marshaun, because we don't often 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.040 get stories like this. A lot of times you end 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.040 up talking about people and they can't say anything. So 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.680 we're really appreciated. I want to make sure that that's 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.600 a Stabbs. We're grateful that you could come to the 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.960 studio and tell your story. Yes, but yeah, you know 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.720 when you said that, they hit you with a bunch 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.200 of charges that they ultimately had to drop. And let's 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.800 be honest, they forced you to take a plea deal 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.720 to get out of solitary confinement so you can go 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:59.360 back home and recover. Q calls that trumped up charges. Right, 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.680 we're talking about the same criminal justice system. Q. I'm 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.000 gonna ask you a question. Does first degree assault and 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.720 armed criminal actions sound like a fair charge for what 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.320 happened here with Andrew Lester shooting Ralph y'arl in the head? 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:17.360 Is that trumped up charges? It's barely anything anything. Yes, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.199 it's a slap on the wrist. Let's charge him with 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:25.359 something so that the people right. Okay, okay? Does it 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.520 sound like there's two different criminal justice systems operating in 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:29.520 this states? 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.959 Does it sound like I've said, now many times on 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.800 this show, the conversation that you are attempting to have, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.040 it's intellectually beneath us. I need you to subscribe to 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.520 a higher vein of thinking and remove this very very 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:54.760 elementary idea that racism is always prevalent in these in 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:55.400 these stories. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:55.679 You know. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.800 You know what's funny is that there are people who 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:07.000 actually feel that ways you have to interject race into everything. Well, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.560 as I mentioned, I'm not talking to you, of course, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.240 I'm talking to people that would have that weird argument 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.920 against you know what we're saying here again, We've talked 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.040 about on this show housing discrimination. It's a real thing. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.160 You don't have to listen to the show to find 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.280 that out. You can research it yourself. We've talked about 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.160 a tax on history, critical race theory, and educating people 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.680 so that we have a more empathetic and understanding society 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.120 and way to relate to each other. We've talked about 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:40.560 the legacy of redlining and the economic inequality that black 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.120 people are enduring in this country right now. We've talked 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.520 about the failed War on drugs and how drugs once 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.360 upon a time were criminalized and black people were put 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:58.680 in jail disproportionate sentences, and indeed, drugs were pushed into 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.879 black communities and everyone was just like just say no. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.600 And then when the tables turn and it's fentanyl. Now, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.040 all of a sudden, it's a health problem. It's not 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.400 a criminal issue. And that's not because it's s fentanyl. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.560 Hang on, hang on, because white people are known. But 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:16.080 let me finish. We're talking about environmental racism, right. For 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.480 those that don't know what environmental racism is, please look 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.159 it up. I would love to tell you more about it. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:21.560 We've talked about it on the show. But if you 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.640 don't know, please look up what environmental racism is. Find 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.120 out that black communities are polluted at a higher rate 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.040 than white communities because people in power, people that are 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.480 elected at local governments, who themselves are hateful. I see you, Oklahoma, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.439 I see you North Carolina, and local governments have no 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.360 problem polluting black and brown communities. Okay, we're talking about 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:50.680 the fiscal implications of the unequal disbursement of the GI 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.640 bill in this country. We're talking about policing. We're talking 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.840 about judicial sentencing. We're talking about the legacy of black codes. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.040 We're talking about the legacy of the New Deal being 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:07.640 unevenly distributed to America's population. White people benefited vastly more 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.399 than black people. This is what we're talking about. And 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.240 the people that people that might the people that might 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.119 say what you were saying earlier, real quick, that's not 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.160 unique to the new deal, and and many others. Absolutely, absolutely, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.480 that's probably true for everything, whatever you want. Yes, absolutely, 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.359 But the folks who might say that an argument is 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.920 intellectually beneath me. I have all those and so many more. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.160 Have we talked about. We haven't even talked about health 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.800 care outcomes, and how racism is cooked into the medical books, 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.040 you know that than indoctrination, and how a lot of 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.040 those experiments that white people benefit from were performed on 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.080 black slaves and the legacy of that, and how doctors 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.680 think that we've taken more oxygen and have thicker skin 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.240 and feel less pain, and and real health care outcomes 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.240 that cause us to die more exist in the world right, 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:00.680 So welcome to civic sife for everybody. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:07.040 All I'm saying ramses because I don't understand all that data, 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.119 statistics and facts why you guys feel the need to 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.439 always interject the idea of race into every discussion you have. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.200 I don't understand. To people who might say that, again, 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.080 Q is being funny, But to people who might say 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.840 that to me, not funny. People who might say that 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.280 to me, he was not being funny. Well, Q was 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:30.160 being annoyed. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.120 That's a better way to say it, because these are 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.640 the exact things that people say to us, yes in 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:42.879 person and direct messages on our lives, on our Facebook 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.560 and our comments that we are somehow looking for the 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.680 racism and all these stories. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.919 As if it's not blatant, it's super there, super obvious. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.879 This is not hidden overt stuff we're talking about. This 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.240 is in your face, overt, proud. It's written into the law. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.639 It's written into the bylaws. You can see it the 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.320 government documents. This isn't guessing, This isn't even data. For 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.840 people that feel like data and alternative facts and all 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:13.760 that sort of fake news stuff, you can look at 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.760 the laws themselves and trace indeed the legacy of those laws. 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.120 Speaking of lass, let's get back to this criminal quote 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.920 unquote Andrew Lester that shot this child in the head 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.640 and then shot him again and they headed in the shoulder, 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.080 I believe. So guess what happened after he was hit 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:36.119 with those baby chargers. He was able to post a 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.280 two hundred thousand dollars bond and it's now free again. 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.800 If that means, of course, that means he came up 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.840 with twenty thousand dollars, and right now, well as of 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.639 this recording, he's walking around Kansas City free as a burden. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.280 He can fight his case disgustingly, I'm sure being celebrated 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:58.280 by some of his exactly now, hold on, hold on 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:04.560 a second. Did you have to take a plea deal, Marshawn? Yes, okay, okay, 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.520 that's what I wanted to know. Did you did you 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:07.280 hurt anybody? 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:08.080 No? 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:09.680 Did they hurt you? 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:09.920 No? 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.600 I mean no, no, no, no, they hurt you? Yes, 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.840 I remember the story. Okay. I just want to make 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.800 sure that we are all subscribed to the same reality 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.080 here and that these things are happening and I'm not 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:23.240 in a dream world half the time or whatever. This 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.080 is the same shared experience for all of us. I 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:28.720 do want to say this while we have a few 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:33.240 seconds left. Ralph y'all. He's at home now and he's healing. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.199 But a couple of questions that I want folks to ponder, 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:42.800 because again we're dealing with living in the aftermath of 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.800 anti black violence. What will his future be like? In Marshawn? 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.920 These are questions that we would ask TFT sure trauma, 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:53.800 community trauma, because it doesn't just affect you, you mentioned it 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:55.720 affect your kids. I'm sure Ralph is going to have 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:57.840 this trauma with him for a long time. What does 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.639 this teach the country about what's okay? It's not okay? 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:05.320 And to who? Why were the charges so light? Why 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.000 didn't they charge him with assaulting a minor? Even? You know? 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:13.159 And as always keep thinking what if Ralph was white 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.879 and Andrew Lester was black? And now it's time for 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.120 the Way Black History Fact. There's a Way Black History 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.040 Factor sponsored by Underground Beach Club from the streets to 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:24.919 the beach, the finest in beachware. Visit Underground Beach Club 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:29.919 dot com. 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