WEBVTT - 100723 The Fights in the Comments Section (Part 2) 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.240 Just tuned in a civic cipher. I'm your host, Ramsy's job. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:04.360 He is Rams' job. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.280 I mq ward. You are listening to Civic sciph. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:08.280 From ged you are, and we still got a lot 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:09.920 more show in store for you, So be sure to 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.040 stick around because we are going to take a moment 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:21.400 to engage with the comments section on our Instagram which, 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.040 by the way, if you are on Instagram, do us 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.720 a favor, follow us at civic cipher, leave us a 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.400 kind comment, something supportive, Just support us. You know, we 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.279 could use the support there also on TikTok and other 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.479 places where a civic cipher everywhere, but Instagram is a 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.520 place where we get the most pushback. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:41.800 Everywhere else's people's. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.000 Teen diagram is particularly negative. Yeah, it seems that we 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:50.080 only get engagement in the way of comments from people 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.479 who sit opposed to us. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.440 There's tons of likes, but all the comments areve so, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.400 but we're going to respond to some of them. Give 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.200 you some talking points in case you have people like 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.400 that in your life. But before we get there, let's 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.560 discuss be becoming a better ally. 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The repayment pause ended on 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.400 October first, twenty twenty three, and let it be known, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:47.520 the Department of Education data shows returning to repayment without 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.320 cancelation will be even worse. Make no mistake, The NAACP 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.559 continues to pursue the cancelation of at least fifty thousand 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.960 dollars of debt per borrower as repayment approaches. We are 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.480 excited to be a part of this Save on Student Debt, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.000 a national campaign to spread the word about saving on 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.359 a valuable education plan. And if you want to participate, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.640 you can go to the NAACP dot com. You can 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.480 send a petition. You can also donate to help fund 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.799 these efforts to make sure that we can move past this. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.079 And for those of you that know, you know this 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.079 will sound kind of redundant. But for those that don't know, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:33.320 a lot of the issues that come up with some 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.560 frequency in terms of black stories, a lot of those 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.320 issues have to do with poverty and debt and lack 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.919 of access to fiscal opportunities. Money makes pretty much everything better, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.120 and so that's why there's a big push for reparations. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.639 And that's why canceling student debt is particularly of particular 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.800 interest to black people because, as I mentioned, disproportionately impacts 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:03.600 black and brown families on the comments. So cute talk 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.720 to me, because once upon a time I had you 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:17.960 signed up for our social media stuff, and you had 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:18.840 to turn that off, right. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.880 So, once upon a time an administrator for our social 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.600 media directly our Civic Cipher Instagram page, and after a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.880 few hours of seeing the type of engagement we got, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:34.880 I had to log out of it and get rid 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:41.520 of it. I am not bulletproof. Some may know this 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.400 part of my story, some may not, But I was 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.640 I took a four year hiatus from social media, not 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.640 four hours, not four weeks, not four months, four years 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:56.200 because I don't like the word victim. But I was 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:02.920 subject to thousands of really really negative online attacks from 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.880 complete strangers because of some things happening in my personal life. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.520 And I mean tens of thousands, And I am not 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.320 that person. Like there's a lot of people who don't care, 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.560 they could care less and they could laugh at that stuff. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.880 I am not one of those people. So I had 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.440 to and I regret this now because I had a really, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:24.160 really great level of engagement going with some really incredible 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.480 people that I haven't seen since, so I have not 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:33.279 been able to reconnect with those people. But being subjected 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.359 to those levels of negativity drove me off of social 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.640 media completely. I won't let that happen to me this time. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:45.000 I'll just remove myself from being in rooms and spaces 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.039 where I'm not comfortable. And that's not just on social media, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:48.720 that's in real life. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:48.960 Here. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:54.080 If you attack me in any way, I'm not going 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.279 to attack you back, especially if you're somebody I care about. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.320 There's no fight back. I don't have a point to prove. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.840 I'm not trying to be right. I just throw my 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.560 hands up and remove myself and the type of engagement 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.919 that we get to things that seem so straightforward and decently. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.599 If you listen to this show, you'll see that even 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.960 when I'm upset, I'm not radical. I don't go to 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.440 any extremes about anything. I don't praise our current president 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.280 or former. I voted for Barack Obama, but I didn't 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.320 get a tattoo. I don't have a Barack Obama flag 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.159 on my house. I don't have a ten foot Barack 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.000 Obama cardboard cutout. He did not become a deity to me. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.640 He was just the president and one of the most 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.880 decent in my lifetime. I'm talking about as a person. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:43.200 I am not a political correspondent. I cannot rate the 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.920 level of politician really that any of our legislators are right, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.200 because all of them tend to have a position that's 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:54.480 more about corporate interest and fiscal benefits to themselves and 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.280 their constituency than to the people that vote for them 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.920 and put them in office. So I really don't. I'm 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.400 not a big fan of politicians in general, because they 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.839 all say a lot of really amazing things to get elected, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.360 and sin seem to get to what do they call 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.560 it when you forget amnesia once they get in office. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.920 That seems to be the truth on both sides of 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.960 the aisles. So I have to just get to the 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.200 idea of decency, and I mean the idea because I 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.720 don't know any of these people personally. Like to those 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.479 of you that get in our dms and message us 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.200 like fiery and angry and support of the former president, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.160 that's weird. He doesn't know you or care about you, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.800 and he's shown you that he doesn't care about you, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.200 but he also doesn't know you. And for those of 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.280 you that know me that reach out to me on 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.600 behalf of this weird stranger, that's I won't say that's 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.280 weird because I think weirdo is a compliment, so I 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:42.360 can't even call you weird. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:43.760 That's just bizarre. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:50.440 Yeah, right, So you know it's interesting, man. I had 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.120 to not only remove myself and as an administrator, but 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.920 I had to mute the page because I'm tagged in 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.239 most of our post so I get all the comments 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.120 and I'm just not here for it. So we can 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.760 talk about some of the comments that we get. You 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.520 can start us on whatever track you want. Yeah, let's 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.800 do it, because I definitely have some that pop right 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.960 to the top of my mind. So yeah, yeah, let'st 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.640 So again we're sharing these with you. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.200 We're going to respond to them, because we don't really 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.800 respond in the comments section we have. We're on seventy 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.640 eighty radio somewhere in their radio stations. Every week, we 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.320 have thousands of followers. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.920 there's no sense in need tongue wrestling with or thumb 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.000 wrestling with someone in the comment section. But again, we 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.200 recognize and respect the fact that as a listener, you 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.320 might have people in your world that feel this way. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.920 So one of the comments came up on a video 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:47.600 that Q posted recently where he was talking about there 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.640 was a conservative gentleman who was attacking a black woman 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.280 who was trying to fund other women of colors businesses 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.200 and startups. Attacked her because because of that she's trying 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.480 to fund women of color. So it's crazy. Yeah, So 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.320 one of the comments says, what about Oprah, Michael Jordan, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.280 jay Z, Lil Wayne, et cetera. Maybe if you work 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.200 as hard as they did instead of complaining and playing 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.480 the victim, you'd have power as well. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.520 So I do that. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:24.040 How many people did he named, he said, Oprah, Michael Jordan, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.800 Jay z Lil Wayne, et cetera. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.120 Okay, for those four people, you people should just shut 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.800 up and be happy because this is a meritocracy and 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.320 all that takes is hard work. Right. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.439 Yeah, So so let me let me give you something, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:40.959 some food for thought, just in case something like this 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.600 comes up in your world. So what are these people 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.280 have in common, Oprah, Michael Jordan, jay z Lil Wayne. Well, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.520 they're all celebrities working entertainment. Okay, Entertainment is a very 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:55.199 very very very very very very very small field. We 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.880 work in entertainment. It's very small, very competitive. I was 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.120 watching a video you might have shared it with me, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.679 where there was a gentleman explaining how every year there 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.319 might be a million children that want to go to 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:16.520 the NBA, but ultimately seven people are drafted into the 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.760 NBA something like that every every year or something. I'm 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.240 not sure exactly what the numbers, but it's a very 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.240 small amount of number of people that get drafted into 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.920 the to the year, more than seven. But wait whatever, whatever, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.719 it's so there's like a million people that want to 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.680 play and it ends up being like or on a team. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.040 I think it's four people on a team something like 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:44.439 that in an area. So all of these million kids 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.560 are all competing for the these well, the number was seven. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.880 I just I can't quote the video directly, but it was. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.960 That's the number he used. So I'm not sure how 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.280 he was explaining it. But you have all these kids 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.559 competing for what was effectively seven full time jobs. And 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.360 oh no, sorry there was I forgot the number of 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.439 what you said, but it was the job lasts for 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:07.760 seven years on average. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.400 That was the number seven. Okay, so forgive me. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.640 But the long and short of it is, there's a 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.880 million kids that want to play in the NBA, and 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.280 the number of jobs that are available is very small. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:23.040 They draft in the two rounds about sixty four players 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:23.640 a year. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.439 There you go, So you have sixty four jobs, and 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:33.040 then I think some of them only last seven years 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:33.559 or something like that. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.320 So in terms of like a full career for your life, 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.800 there's only a handful of those million people that will 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:42.520 actually end up. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:42.920 With that job. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.640 Well, the same holds true with the rest of the 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.040 entertainment business. That's sports entertainment, but the rest of the 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.839 entertainment business. So you're going to look at people who, yes, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.640 have worked hard. But as you know, hard work isn't 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.960 the only thing that goes into this and sports in particular, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.320 you need like some sort of genetic advantage, you need 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.360 the right sort of guidance, you need to be free 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.839 of all the encumbrances that comes along with that. And 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.000 then the truth is you have to be in the 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.440 top zero point zero, zero zero whatever percent of the athletes. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.559 So it doesn't really matter how hard you work. There's 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.160 people that work day in and day out and day 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.199 in and day out that will never go to the 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.280 If I wanted to work all day, I'm five foot 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.959 eight of never going to the NBA. It doesn't matter 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.240 how hard I work. Right in terms of Oprah, In 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.000 terms of Little Wayne, you know, there's these are people 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.880 that are born with like natural gifts and they couple 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.920 that with hard work. Right now, let's talk about something 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.920 that makes a little bit more sense. You know, if 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.079 we're talking about stem jobs, there might be one hundred 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.200 thousand of those jobs available, right but what you need 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:49.400 is people to show these kids who are born in environments. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.559 So there's a great deal of hopelessness and not a 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.559 lot in the way of access to those particular opportunities 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.719 where you can and there's the opportunity to create that 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.000 connective tissue and to shape those outcomes for those students, right, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.920 and then you start to have impact on the amount 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.600 of income that comes into black households and black communities 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.839 and so forth, and start changing the way that the 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.679 world wire. And it's not just a matter of working hard. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.240 It's a matter of what opportunities exist. And for those 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.240 people that look at black people and say, well, you know, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.319 you got to stop selling drugs your own community, and 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.600 you got to, you know, stop committing crimes and whatever, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.800 you're not accounting for the fact that desperate people and 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.120 desperate circumstances do desperate things. This is a fundamental fact 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.960 of humanity or really of any creature of life. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.600 Definitely not limited to black people. I want to use 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.120 an extreme example on purpose. There was a movie that 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.000 came out years ago. I don't remember the name of it, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.599 but essentially a plane crashed in the mountains and it 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.400 was freezing cold, oh and they started eating it. Eventually 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.640 they ran out of food and cannibalized to survive. Not 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.600 because they were awful, not because they were criminals, because 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.120 they were dying. It's we want to make it more 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.040 complicated than that, because we want to have a clear 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.240 moral compass when we make decisions that continually and perpetually 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.800 disenfranchise other people. We don't want to be seen as 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.280 bad people. And I don't know why I'm saying we 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.240 because I don't fit into that group. But that group 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.160 they defend those principles and those ideals so hard so 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.240 they can sleep at night. Yeah right, There's no way 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:27.000 that I'm responsible or partly responsible, or even participating in 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.959 a system that's responsible for causing these people to be 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.599 oppressed and poor and homeless. It has to just be 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.800 because they're black and criminal and lazy. Oh yeah, that's it. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.960 It's not and at some point we have to accept 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.880 that that's not the case. This gentleman used, or this 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.280 young lady whoever used? Jay Z and Lila Wayne ass 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:51.360 right where the greatest of all time at what they do? Right, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.480 I have two examples to point to, because Chris Rock 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.800 made a joke about this at one point, jay Z 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.679 and Mary J. Blige being his neighbors. Their neighbor was 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.199 a white dentist He didn't invent teeth. He did not 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.480 invent teeth or dentistry. He was just a dentist. They 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.880 Mary J. Blige, Chris Rock, and jay Z, three of 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.360 the greatest who ever exist in their fields. Their neighbor, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.720 a white dentist, not the greatest dentist of all time. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:27.520 Write another example. Just Spotify alone, daily, sixty thousand songs 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:32.440 are uploaded a day from artists all over the world. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.920 You ever listen to the radio, of course, of course, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.080 how many songs you think you're here? Day thirty of 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.160 the same songs over and over again for months at 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.280 a time, without there being a new song that breaks 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:48.920 into that cycle. So fifty nine point nine of fifty nine, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.040 nine hundred and ninety nine of those songs will never hear. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.720 That's insane. So the idea that you just work hard 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.280 and keep uploading and keep recording and keep writing you'll 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:58.760 be jay. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.280 Z one day don't work that way. That's not how 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.280 this works. And let me add to that, because again 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.520 he's talking about entertainment. If he was talking about any 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.880 other industry where black people were successful and they had 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.680 the money and all that stuff to go with it, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.960 I'd be like, yeah, let's keep talking. Let's keep having 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.560 that conversation. But he's only talking about entertainment. So do 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.000 me your favorite Go to an audition or a speaking role, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.400 in a paid speaking role in pretty much any on 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.240 the level production, film, television, whatever, and see how many 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.440 people are auditioning, and then see how many people get cast, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.200 and then you'll start to see how. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.360 See how successful that project is, because there are TV shows, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.000 commercials and movies that get made that are not successful 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.040 that too, So then you're back at square one, trying 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.080 to audition again. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.840 So again you're starting to see how limited your scope 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.000 is and the field is there, and how unrealistic it 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.040 is to just say, well, just work like these people 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.040 and you'll be successful. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.200 And there's three of those people are billionaires. Yeah, okay, right, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.880 So when you're talking about private equity, ask us to 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.640 search money capital vcs, you know, being an approved investor, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.360 I don't think could ever get to the point where 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.520 you'll make a billion dollars. That that world doesn't exist, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.040 sir or ma'am. I don't think this individual is asse equated. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:13.280 Ridiculous comment. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:14.280 So let's move on. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.360 Here's another comment, says BLM pulled it over y'all's eyes 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.880 and took your money many of my favorite many of 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:29.480 you's freedom and turned that into mansions and millions for themselves. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:35.320 And IT and Antifa are homegrown terrorist organizations attacking, burning, looting, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:36.920 and killing indiscriminately. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.240 Yeah, that happened, all right? Hold on, hold on, hold on. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.240 No one buys the BLM virtue signaling stuff anymore unless 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.720 they willfully choose to be ignorant or want to start 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.680 the burning slash murder, slash degenerate stuff cycle all over again. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:17:02.840 And then a skull emoji. Don't get hung up. We 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:03.200 got a lot. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:10.280 When I say black lives matter, I'm talking about myself, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:16.720 my mother, my friends, my siblings, my children, my family, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:22.160 my classmates, my coworkers. I'm not talking about the name 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.800 of an organization, however you feel about that organization. That's 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.080 not what I'm talking about. And I'm saying what I'm 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.520 talking about because this comment was in response to a 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.160 video where I said those words, and I even explained 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.440 in the video, sir or ma'am, if you just press 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.359 rewind or watch again or listen the first time, that 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.600 when we say black power, black girl magic, and black 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.440 lives matter, that we are simply affirming our worth to 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.200 a country that has gone out of its way for 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.240 its entire history to show us that those words aren't true. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.000 Hard stop period. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.920 Everything you said, okay, okay, so let me let me 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:04.000 add something to that. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.439 Does not apply. Let me. I had to stop myself 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.080 from getting very very angry just there. The things that 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.959 you said have nothing to do with what I said, sir, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.040 all right, so let me add something to that real quick. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.159 For those of you who've never worked in activism, you 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.040 don't know how activism works. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.919 And one of the things that the powers that be. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.840 Have done to discredit the Nation of Islam, or to 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:43.240 discredit doctor King or Malcolm X or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.399 the Black Panthers, on and on, is they try their 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.479 best to discredit how they are spending money, in addition 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.239 to villainizing them, saying that they're black supremacists and all 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.359 kinds of other wid stuff. But we're talking about money here, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.159 because that's the issue with this guy and a lot 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.159 of people when they talk about BLM the organization. So 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.159 if you have not been an activist, you don't know 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.600 how scary that is. If you have kids, if you 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.600 know whatever, you're affirming your life and your right to exist. Okay, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.320 So when I start my activism, I live in an apartment. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:17.840 Live in an apartment. You know, people can just walk 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.520 right up to your front door and it's made out 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:20.040 of cardboard. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.560 Okay. If I. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.600 Get a higher profile, then that comes with a lot 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.520 of people who hate me, would rather see me dead. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:33.720 A lot of these people are crazy people. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.439 Crazy people exist on the Internet and people get docked, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.240 and that means that they put your information up on 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.240 the internet. So all of a sudden, your apartment with 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.120 the cardboard door is not safe anymore. It doesn't matter 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.600 how many guns you try to purchase or bulletproof vest 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.159 or whatever. Your life is at risk walking down the 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.600 street and at home when you're asleep. Somebody can just 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.200 kick that door, ride open, unload in your house and 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:53.800 that's the end. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:54.280 Of your story. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.800 Nobody wants that, right, So you can't stay there. You 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.920 need to move somewhere more secure, probably somewhere with a gate. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.359 Okay. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.359 So when people start pointing to the money of BLM 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.920 and they start looking at these people, first things first, Okay, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.639 when you're at the helm of an enormous organization, you 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:12.399 draw a salary. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.880 Any organization. It could be McDonald's, it could be whatever charities, 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:16.879 you know, whatever. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.000 The Ronald McDonald's Cross, Ronald McDonald's children's charities, the CEO 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.840 of that organization makes a lot of money, enough to 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.600 afford whatever mansion that individual lives. And then pick again, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.720 Red Cross, pick anyone, because there's still corporations and you 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.919 still need to pay for that executive level talent. Otherwise 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.080 they would just go and work for a for profit company. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:36.480 Right. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.639 These people aren't just bums and broke people at the 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.119 helm of these huge organizations. These women are no different. 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.280 But because they're black, the optics look worse because we've 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:46.639 been taught to view dobs. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.200 Don't actually look worse. They're just framed works framed worse. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:49.480 Thank you. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:51.440 I got to make sure I knocked this out in 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.080 just a second because there's a lot more comms we're 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.560 not going to get to, but as far as this one, 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.240 because this is a tired argument, to me, this was 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.920 the most important one. So so what I want to 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.760 say is that for those people, whatever it is that 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.560 they're paying themselves, which I don't suspect is more than 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.280 someone at the Ronald McDonald house to do the work 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.640 that they're doing. Not everybody volunteers their time for free. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.040 We are radio professor professionals, me and Q. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.240 We should be getting paid for the work that we do. 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:19.960