WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 052122 The Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo NY that Killed 10 Black People (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:00.920 And now. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.040 My back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.000 You're like that. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.840 We can strike waters from head borders behind him. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.920 And for those just tuning in to Civic Cipher, I 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.800 am your host, Rams's Jack. I am today and moving 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:26.920 forward referred to as Q Waterer. Yes, indeed, and stay tuned. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.680 We got a lot more to talk about. We're still 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:35.080 peeling back the layers of the hate crime slash mass 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:41.239 shooting in Buffalo, New York. We're going to discuss some 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.440 details and I'm trying to figure out the whys and 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.680 maybe kick around some ideas and how we can what 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:54.320 we can do, you know, moving forward. So yeah, Also, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.000 we're gonna spend our way black history fact talking about 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:03.800 a lady named Laya Chase who the Princess and the 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.959 Frog movie, the Disney movie was based on her. Wow, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.280 and that felt kind of special. So I'm happy to 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.520 share that with you. The first and foremost, let's discuss 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.280 how to become a better ally? Ba shall we we? Shall? 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.479 You want to take this movie? You want me to get? 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.679 This is from TMZ. Okay, let's go. Justin Bieber, a 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.080 young man who I've met and you know, have a 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.240 lot of respect for, at a concert in Buffalo addressed, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.039 They're very, very difficult and impossible. Why I have to 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.800 feel mass shooting that happened in the city where he 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.120 was performing, asking his audience for a moment of silence, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.960 He didn't waste any time addressing it, you know, right 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.640 off the bat, at the start of the show, you know, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.960 asked the people and attenders to join them in the 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.240 moment of silence. This was Saturday, so this was immediately 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.720 at the Key Bank Center, just hours after a man 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.280 allegedly gunned down at least ten individuals and what clearly 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.880 appeared to be a race driven attack. But even amid 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.760 the blood bath, Justin called for peace. He posted a 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.520 few videos showing him talking about the massacre at a 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.040 few different points in the concert, including right before he 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.919 took stage, where he went into prayer with his team. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.200 After that, Justin went on to perform to a pack 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.360 house full of people who were static to see him. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.800 It sounds like before he dove into any music, though, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.839 he took a moment to acknowledge the tragedy and even 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.720 called for a moment of silence. You can hear people 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.800 hooting and hollering during this solemn period, and Justin called 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.799 them out, asking why couldn't you respect it? I think 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.320 that that part is important, you know, for becoming a 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.560 better ally. We sometimes we ask you to share your platform, 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.960 share your voice. If you have an audience listening, to 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.720 please share it. But in this instance we thought that 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.680 this stood out because Justin doubled down on the Hey, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.360 let's have some respect, you know. And so that's our 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.760 example for this week of how to become a better ally. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.520 It's important to point out, as will round us in 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:22.680 his IG posts, racism will never prevail prevail God. Does 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.840 we stand with you, Buffalo and stand against the racist 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:41.800 act of terror? Bo shout out JB. All right, replacement theory. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.520 You know what, Let me read a little bit please. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.880 So this one comes from the New York Times. From 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.240 nineteen sixty six to twenty nineteen, seventy seven percent of 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.000 mass shooters obtain the weapons they used for their crimes 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.840 through legal purchases, according to a comprehensive survey of law 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.360 enforcement data, academic papers, and news accounts compiled by the 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.880 National Institute of Justice, the research wing of the Justice Department. Okay, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.520 the reason I'm saying that is because what we have 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:22.000 is people going and purchasing legal firearms right, and this one, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.719 this mass shooting, we will be fair. This mass shooting 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:34.360 was targeted black mass shooting. There have been mass shootings 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.000 that have targeted Hispanic people. There have been mass shootings 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.760 that have targeted our brothers and sisters who are Muslim 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.360 or from the Middle East. There have been mass shootings 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.720 who have been indiscriminate. There have, of course been mass 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:56.919 shootings that have targeted LGBTQIA plus brothers and sisters and 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.760 our family from those communities as well. There's a gun 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.160 problem here, and seventy seven percent of mass shooters obtained 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:10.760 the weapons they use through legal purchases. In upstate New 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.400 York a few months ago, the eighteen year old suspect 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.560 in the Buffalo shooting walked into Vintage Firearms and Sleepy Indicott, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.480 passed an instant background check without a glitch, and bought 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:27.120 a used bush Master M fifteen semi automatic rifle, a 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.760 copy of the ubiquitous AR fifteen used in many other 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.960 mass shootings. Now this is the gun that Q was mentioning. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:41.000 He wrote all of this stuff on some of the 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.520 things that I know he wrote was again he wrote 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.880 the N word at the end of the barrel of 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.400 that gun, and he wrote, I think he wrote, here 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:57.680 is your reparations on the gun. That's been a you know, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.560 an ask for black people ever since really the end 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.200 of slavery. You know, it was once proposed that maybe 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.360 forty acres and a mule ought to cover it, but 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.440 that never happened, and so we've just been trying to 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.279 figure it out ever since then. But you know, a 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.799 lot of us and a lot of non black people 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.800 do feel like there's kind of a debt to be 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.440 paid there. You know, it's economic empowerment would change quite 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.040 a bit. He also paid tribute to one of his heroes, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.360 go ahead, Yeah, aforementioned Dylan Ruth. And there were other 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.159 things written on the gun as well. Perhaps there were 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:37.360 just codes for other white supremacists or whatever, but but yeah, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:46.320 you know, another right wing media personality mentioned something that 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.320 if you took the enrollment numbers of all the white 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.360 supremacists organizations in the country, that they wouldn't even fit 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.120 into a college or that they would fit into a 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:06.080 college football stadium, right, And that's sort of a strange 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:15.600 way to quantify racism, because race, to be a racist, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.600 to be a white supremacist, doesn't mean that necessarily mean 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.320 that you need to be registered for and receive the newsletters. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.960 You don't have to be an extremist in any form, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.840 or you can be and just not be a part 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.080 of those organizations. Yeah, but I mean, let's say double 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.760 that number, say all of the extremists also registered, right, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.520 so now you've got two football stadiums or whatever. I 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.720 think trying to make it like, hey, there's only a 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.440 couple hundred thousand of these people in this nation of millions. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.680 It's a small number. But we're not just talking about extremists. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.400 You and I have talked that length. There are a 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:55.000 lot of very very passive racists, I think, angering us 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.960 even more, those who can be sort of apathetic about it. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.600 It's not a big of a deal. It's not really 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.440 bothering us, so, you know, and it's not alarming to 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:10.680 you know, people on the right, because you know, the 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:19.080 things that they fear are in our estimation, largely imaginary. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.600 The thing we're in line with white supremacy. There you go. Now, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:29.440 the things that we fear are real. You know, we've 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.480 told a story, you and I have told a story 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:36.160 before of a real panic inducing incident that happened to 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:41.280 the both of us in Mississippi driving back home from Florida, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.840 where we had to interact with some police. And what's 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.320 so intense, Ramses, is that we've told that story now, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.040 let's say, half a dozen times, and every time we 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.079 tell it, it feels less scary because we're further removed 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.440 from it until this happens. And then I remember why 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.760 we were so terrified when it happened. It's a real 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.600 it was in the wake of something similar that the 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.800 country felt a lot like it does now, and driving 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.959 through the Deep South in this country and the wake 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.760 of that, like even Ramses and I would stop and 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.240 take pictures because for those of you that don't know, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.520 Ramses visited every state while we were sitting down, while 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.120 we weren't outside, ram just thought, Okay, let me go 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.160 see this country that he also loves, because somehow, if 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.280 you don't, if you're not a patriot in the way 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.600 of the white supremist, you don't love America. Now if 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.360 there's to some degree critical correct, So now that you 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.960 bring that back up, my heart just started beating fast 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.720 because we were terrified when that happened. And this is 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.240 why these are not one offs this is it's more 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.880 likely that we don't survive that than that we did. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.760 And then in the wake of it we can kind 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.400 of hoof. But during it, especially in this moment where 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:05.120 Ramses can't see me. You understand, I'm outside of the car. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.480 It's pitch black outside. There's me and these two members 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:14.040 of our law enforcement community in Mississippi at three o'clock 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.480 in the morning, in the wake of George Floyd. I 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.520 want to add this too. They took you out of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.400 the car, and they didn't need to. They knew everything 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.079 they needed to know. So when they came back and 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.000 said can you step out of the car, then it 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.760 went from scary to really scary because I knew it 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.160 was a matter of time before it was coming to 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.000 getting me out of the car. Q got out of 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.680 the car to make the likelihood that he died less. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.480 Now imagine I'm going towards these guys and their guns, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.720 hoping that that makes it less likely that they'll use 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.000 them on me when there's zero reason for me to 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:55.160 get out of this car. So that's the difference between 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:02.280 real fear and imaginary fear. Now I have to be 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:08.920 measured here. Fear makes people do strange things. Whether or 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.480 not it's based in a shared reality or based on 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.319 some delusion, it makes people do strange things. Right, these 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.320 are facts, so I have to say this, right. But 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:25.560 a part of that imaginary fear that exists on the right, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:39.080 it's called replacement theory. So replacement theory. Now, I'm not 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:46.440 going to explain it verbatim, but effectually, replacement theory is 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:58.040 the idea that there is an intentional, concerted, deliberate effort 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:08.199 by liberals to increase the birth rates or otherwise maintain 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:14.440 high birth rates for melanated individuals, non white individuals, and 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:19.959 to bring in other people from other countries to help 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:28.520 bolster a liberal political agenda through voting or through numbers, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.160 or through whatever it is. And the reason it's called 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:38.000 replacement theory is because a lot of this is largely 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:45.880 a white male thing. Feel like that subscribe to this 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:52.440 way of thinking, feel like they're deliberately getting replaced and 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.280 written out of their land and their history. Right now, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.360 we could talk about that, because we know that this 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:03.200 land actually belongs to our Native brothers and sisters. Nobody 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.120 wants to have a conversation about the Aboriginal people. Oh no, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.440 we can talk about it here, though nobody will to 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:15.320 have that conversation. Well, yeah, but the thing is that 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:21.560 this has caused I know you're not gonna like this, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.560 cue I don't. I know that I'm me saying this 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:31.480 feels like it makes me my stomach turn a little bit. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.080 But I know it's true right now. It's hard to 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.920 say it, but it will always be true because this 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.720 is the man that I am, and this is the 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.760 microphone I got, and I got to talk to you. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:47.040 These people that are so scared of me, they're still 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.040 my brothers, they're still my sisters. And I don't it's 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:58.120 not my responsibility, but there's got to be something there 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.800 where me understand standing their fears and the nature of 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.800 their fears, maybe I can help them not be so afraid. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.200 I don't push back hard on that, because there's nothing 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.800 wrong with compassion and empathy. However, you have nothing to 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.640 base it on. You have the history of humanity that 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.680 tells you the opposite is true. Right, there's no longer 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:27.800 a redeeming quality here. Like I know, black people specifically 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.440 have gone out of our way to not just extend 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.520 this outive branch, but to create this space where there 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.760 should be a redeeming quality right where we should be 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.480 able to point to this young man and the difficulty 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.720 of his life and his fears and his ideology, and 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:48.040 point to how that sent him spiraling into this murderous rage. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.840 For what Why do we have to afford them that 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.240 the redeeming qualities don't exist, the road back doesn't exist. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.360 Where is this progress? The nation's getting younger, and as 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.560 you said, the birth rates are increasing, we have more 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.119 people and younger people. How old is this kid? It's twenties, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.960 not even twenty. This is not some sixty year old 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.800 get off my lawn inWORD, No, this is an eighteen 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.600 year old young man in New York a very metropolitanism 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:23.400 staate or and three right, and the hypocrisy and even 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.680 the way that they think their own ideologies contradict each other. Sure, right, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.080 we want to they're going to replace us, right, but 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.760 then they make self safe and healthy abortions less available 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:41.040 to poor people. That's a great point. So right, we 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.280 must make sure they have babies, But then once they 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.680 have them, we have to make sure we keep those 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.040 people off of welfare. So which is it? Folks like 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.680 your pro life, but you're not pro taking care of 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.000 those lives once they get here, especially those who are 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.000 most helpless and can do the least for themselves. Is 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:05.040 a very very confusing pullpit that they preach from. But 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.320 they're able to pedal ignorance because the audience does not 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.240 require them to be based in any truth. As long 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:19.280 as it's hateful and divisive and racist, it flies. Let 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:25.880 me offer this. So twenty twenty, doctor Camilla Westernberg, who's 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.920 a good friend of the show, reached out to me 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:36.920 and she says, hey, Ramses, the census is there. There's 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.760 like an effort by the US Census to make sure 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:48.200 that black and brown neighborhoods are reporting accurately so that 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.160 we can have enough fire departments and enough schools and 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.480 enough resources. So we need the census data so that 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:01.080 government funds will be allotted appropriately in black in brown neighborhoods. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.159 And without people reporting, without people knowing the whys, they 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.879 won't report. Without those reporting, you know, the community suffer. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:13.199 And I will say, because I know this, there is 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.760 a deep distrust of black and brown communities of the government. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.840 So telling anybody your business with reason, Yeah, telling anybody 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.679 your business is not something that you readily do in 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.280 those communities. But when you see the why, when you 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.520 see what it's for, maybe it might help out. So 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:36.480 I helped, you know, in Arizona where I live in Phoenix, Arizona. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.320 For those that don't know, I'm a radio personality. Certainly 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.400 was back then and I'm still now obviously a radio personality, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.800 and you know, having a big name and having some 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.320 status in my city, I was one of those people 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.000 that can kind of motivate folks to champion this cause, Hey, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.800 let's make sure we all get out there and do 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.040 this right. What it did was it gave me in 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:04.359 site into what was happening in the country. And you 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.120 and I have talked about this on the show before too. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.160 When those numbers came back, it reflected what a lot 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.200 of people knew to be true, which was that the 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:21.480 racial makeup of the country was changing. It just confirmed 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.560 again what everyone knew to be true that this country, 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.800 in terms of its percentages, was moving away from a 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:37.520 majority white country to a minority white cot. Now they 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:43.320 would still be the largest minority, but you know, there's 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.080 still the largest the majority. That yes, singularly the majority. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.439 But if if you take all of the minorities and 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.920 put them together, then it would make up the majority 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.520 of humans. Now, is that eventually or already? I believe 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.440 that we're on the cusp of it, So I don't 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.399 I don't want to say that that's true yet. But 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.320 the writing is on the wall, like it's it's inevitable 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.080 at this point. There's no way to kind of bring 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.840 that one back in. So it's a matter of time 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:14.440 now for people who were born in this country. If 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.920 you were born in the nineties, if you were born 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.520 in the eighties, you know, born in the seventies, whenever 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.399 you were born. You know how old you are listening 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.560 to this show. You know, maybe you are a white man. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.640 Maybe you know a white man. I hope at least 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.840 one of those things is true. Again, those are our brothers, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:39.080 same as anyone else, right, you, if you were a 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.840 white man, you were born into a country that said that, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.159 you know, you could live the American dream. This has 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.639 been true since the forties, fifties. You know, this is 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.520 a country you know you can if you have a 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.480 little bit of stick to itness, a little bit of fortitude, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.240 and you know, drive, a little bit of brains, work ethic, 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.480 you can you can do anything. American dream, right, greatest 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.200 marketing campaign of all time. Well, it's effective. It makes 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.960 everyone think that they have a fair shot at it. Yes, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.800 and face live, but yes, effective effective. You know this 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.320 American dream is yours. Right. You can be a rock star, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.199 you can be a football player, you can be a 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.480 titan of industry, you can be a millionaire. You can 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.480 have the prettiest girl you know, wherever in your town 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.680 or whatever she can. She's going to fall in love 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.240 with you. If you watch these movies and you know 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.920 you can be top gun, fly your airplane, you can 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.080 be I don't know whatever, whatever it is that you 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.440 think is cool. That's that's something that's realistic for you. Right, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.199 And a lot of your reality reinforces that all the 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.440 presidents look like they could be you. You know, all 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.399 of the judges and the people with prominence of people 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.560 on TV growing up in that time, people look like you, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.480 The people with status that people were, the heroes in 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.960 the movies, et cetera. Right, So of course that makes sense. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:05.119 Right then you get a little bit older and reality 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:12.359 starts to set in. And not only did those things 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.800 not become true because of what Q and I like 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:28.840 to call capitalism, but also you realize that this American 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:31.439 dream thing is pretty much the only thing that you 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.919 got left. Well, I'm not a rock star, but at 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.960 least I'm American. You know, I'm not a whatever, but 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.960 at least I'm American. But I know I'm you know, 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:41.959 this is a real thing, you know, and this is 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:43.640 this is why we see a lot of my belief 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.159 why we see a lot of flags and American to 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:50.240 that group became synonymous with something else. Sure, sure, but 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.600 it creates a sense of community. Human beings, we need community. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:56.520 That we're social creatures. That's just what we do. So 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:01.000 tie that binds for a lot of folks and for 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.720 it to becoming us versus them in terms of the 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.240 American and who gets to fly the flag? That sort 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.440 of a thing. And then of course Donald Trump coming 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.720 along and kind of with fanning those flames, it becomes 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:19.000 gasoline on those flames. Here you go, and all the 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:24.680 while you see the population shifting away from that last 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.800 pillar that you can stand on. This is our at least, 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.200 this is our country. And I got my rights, freedom speech, 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.359 I can carry a gun. You know that my Bible 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.400 got my gun. You know, this sort of thing. They'll 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.720 die on that ship. Well, when it comes to like, well, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.000 wait a minute, hold on, the country is shifting away 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.320 from you, know what I mean? And then imagine the 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:46.359 world changing out from under you that you thought was 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.240 so solid, right even if you're even if that's all 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.320 you have and you don't necessarily hate this group or 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.639 hate that group, but if let's say that's all you have, 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.480 that's a scary world to live in as it's actively 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.600 changing away from you. And I just need to say that. 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.119 I need to say that before we move on. I 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.320 want to say this out loud. This is from CNN. 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.879 President Joe Biden on Tuesday did not hesitate to call 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.840 the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo an act of domestic terrorism, 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:17.800 condemning the racist ideology of the suspected shooter. Why supremacy 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.720 is a poison. It's a poison running through our body 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:26.320 of politics, Biden said, adding that silence is complicity. I 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.480 think it's important to say that part out loud, rams 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:39.520 what do you think? Absolutely, there's also a part of 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.160 this that I feel is important if we understand sort 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:47.520 of the root cause of why people are so freid, 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.560 and maybe our conversations, maybe if we come across someone 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:53.160 and we can talk them off of the ledge. Maybe 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:54.639 we can let them know that there is not a 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:59.240 concerted effort. This is just natural. I know. It's we 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.040 have to say something thing. So that's what I got. 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:07.760 My brother is so hopeful. I don't think we would 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:10.240 be on the radio for we did no reason at all. 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.040 I don't think we'd be on the radio. We knew 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:14.600 we could do something to support the way that you 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.720 feel with that regard my brother. That hey man, it's 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:21.959 just it's a a prayer bless you man. Anyway, it's 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.200 time for the Way Black History Facts. So we'll leave 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:28.960 it there. Yeah, that flow. We're praying for you guys 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:32.080 all the time. This week. The Way Black History Fact 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:36.960 comes from hip Hop Wiki, sponsored by Hip Hop Wiky magazine. 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:42.080 The source is the James Beard Foundation. So I will 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:49.040 read lead Chase. She received the twenty sixteen Lifetime Achievement Award, 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:55.760 and I'm going to read from that article article so 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.600 that she so I can make this breathe. But the 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:03.440 truth is she is the inswer again for Tiana, the 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:08.000 Princess from Disney's The Princess and the Fraud. So this 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:11.720 wasn't something made up imaginary whatever this is based on, 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:15.000 like a real person, and a real Black woman at that. 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.720 And so I didn't know the roots ran this deep. 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.560 So I'm happy to share this with you, all right. 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:23.000 The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual whose 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.320 lifetime body of work has had a positive and long 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:27.960 lasting impact on the way we eat, cook, and or 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.159 think about food in America. Trailblazers don't always intend to 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:33.520 beat a new path. When Leah Chase first moved to 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:36.359 New Orleans in nineteen forty, she chose not to follow 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:39.840 her aunt's to work in a factory. Instead, she applied 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:41.960 for a job as a waitress in the French Quarter. 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:45.840 Shout out to the French Quarter. It was a humble, 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.840 entray entree, I guess is how I say that into hospitality, 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.880 but also the first step toward her groundbreaking role as 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.480 the chef at Doukie Chase's restaurant, a position that she 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:02.320 has held for seven decades. I do want to mention 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:06.240 that she has since passed since this article came out, 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:08.679 but I'll read it as it was written. She has 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.000 spent politicians and civil rights leaders, celebrities and bus drivers, 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:15.400 all while amassing an influential collection of African American art. 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:22.040 As New Orleans born food historian Lolis Eric Ellie says, 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.119 quote missus Chase is an icon of American cooking, of 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:29.399 Creole cooking, and of African American cooking. Quote. In nineteen 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:34.840 forty six, Leah Lange married Edgar Dukie Chase Junior, a 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:38.080 big band leader whose family had owned Dukie Chase's restaurant, 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:42.639