WEBVTT - 060323 Who are we Allowing to Dictate the Rules? (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:08.560 And now pat my mic back like we can strike. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.880 Head borders behind in the If. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.600 You're just tuning an inn civic side for I'm your host, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.360 Rams's job, he is Ramers John, I am to Ward. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.120 You are listening to civic sycsdeed you are. We got 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.560 a lot more show inste for you. So stay tunedcause 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:34.040 we're gonna be talking about Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem that 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.839 was banned in Florida. Okay, We're also going to be 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.840 talking about the zoot suit riots for our way black 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:48.159 history fact. You know, black history is plinth theful and 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.680 black history is beautiful. We definitely need to talk about it, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.000 but we do our best to share this space with 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:01.040 other marginalized groups and our Mexican American brothers and sisters. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.160 We want to make sure that we tell a little 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.679 bit of a story about how they've been treated in 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.720 the past as well. So stay tuned for that. I 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.600 promise you'll like it. But before we get to all that, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.319 we're going to discuss Baba becoming a better ally Baba. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.880 Today's Baba is sponsored by Unknown Union, the fashion house 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.800 situated at the intersection of meaning, innovation and culture. For 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.480 more info check Unknown Union dot com and today for 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.240 our Baba, we're going to shout out some police departments. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.560 I know, I know if you listen to this show, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.800 I know if you feel how we feel. I know. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.400 But credit where it's due. We always said that we 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.240 were going to do that. Right today, credit where it's due, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.280 baby steps, But credit where it's due. I'll read I'm 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.560 seeing in. The Cincinnati Police Department implemented a new policy 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:58.480 limiting police chases to violent felony offenses, the latest city 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.000 to restrict the risky police police tactic. The Atlanta Police 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.280 Department updated its policy last summer, similarly limiting police to 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.160 pursuits in cases where violence is suspected. Chicago police are 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.960 forbidden from chasing for traffic or theft defenses and required 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.240 to balance the police action against the risk to the public. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:26.080 The policy in Valusia County, Florida, updated last January, states 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.720 that apprehending a suspect is quote never more important than 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.480 the safety of innocent motorists or deputies quote. Like many 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.800 tactics that came into bogue in the nineteen eighties and 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.200 nineteen nineties as police departments across the country led the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.280 War on drugs. Police chases have fallen out of favor 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.839 among police leadership and mayors and city councils that oversee them. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.800 So what that means is that police chases that often 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.000 end up with innocent people getting hurt or killed, that 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.760 end up with police getting hurt and killed in some instances, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.000 and get a danger to the public. They're starting to 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.760 rethink what police chases could look like and should look like. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.800 That's not everything, but critically that's not nothing. Thank you 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.200 for starting to become a better. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:16.919 Credit. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.920 Where's do man appreciate it? 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.160 Yes, I don't put down my nose that baby steps. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.320 It's the no steps that bugs me. Sure, five steps 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.799 forward to twenty steps back. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:27.720 Yeah, of course. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.000 It's the response to our progress by making sure you 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.359 go out of your way to drive us backwards. And 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.320 you know, in response to it, that makes me, you know, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:40.760 sometimes feel hopeless. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.720 Gotcha? Okay? All right, So now we have a big one. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.400 It's not big in the way of life and death. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.160 Don't you dare, don't you dare make this smaller, don't 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.440 shrink it, don't marginalize it. This is massive. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.560 Well, the point I'm making is that it's not a 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.680 life and that thing, But I think it's mission critical. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.600 It's a big one because it's critical to the conversations 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.120 that we're having about this country. It's critical because it 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:13.040 calls into a question, who has the power, what are 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.600 they doing with the power? What are they afraid of? 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:22.039 Is it founded well founded? And have you or the 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.800 people around you, our listener been able to be scared 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.719 into adopting policies that are not based in a shared reality. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.680 Maybe our listeners have it, but a lot of people 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.120 around the country have sure. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:40.400 Sure, But here's the point. Some of our listeners understand 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.560 some of the things that we say and don't understand 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.839 some of the other things. But I think more importantly, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:52.320 some of our listeners belong to either social circles with 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.559 folks who don't share their opinions politically and don't share 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.280 their capacity for compassion because they just lack in site 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.400 and they lack perspective and access to real stories. And 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.360 we empower those folks to then take into their social circles, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.359 or their work circles, or whatever their family circles. We 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.920 empower our listeners to take this content into those circles 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.440 and then create the changes and create the ripple effects 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.479 that we're hoping will one day wash back up onto 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.000 the shore that we know of a civic cipher. Right, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:36.440 So again today I want to talk about Amanda Gorman's 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:43.360 inaugural poem. So and we'll be doing some reading from 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.719 the Atlanta the Atlanta Black Star. I want to shot 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.320 them out because we do pull from them frequently as well. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.680 So for those who don't know, when when President Biden 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:01.839 was elected, okay, he had a little girl named Amanda 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:07.800 Gorman Gorman, sorry, come up and read a poem. And 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.039 the poem was very powerful if you google it, it 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.080 had a viral moment and it felt very special, especially 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.559 for folks who had to deal with a lot under 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:26.440 the previous administration. Her poem was one based on hope, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:33.080 was based on Obviously there's some legacy and and you know, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.880 we're looking backward and indeed looking forward and understanding where 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.720 we are, what this moment means, and that a better 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 future is possible. And you got to also imagine being 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.799 in that moment after January sixth, that happened, and after 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:53.920 you know, a very highly contested election process, and on 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.080 and on and on. Okay, Now I don't want to 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.239 I don't want to make it seem like I'm a big, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.080 huge Joe Biden fan. I think that I'm a Bernie 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:06.880 Sanders guy. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.560 I think the moment is less about who won and 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:12.480 more about who didn't. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.200 That's the exactly Okay, thank you for saying that. So 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.600 this little girl, so it's a very powerful poem, gets 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.000 to come up in front of the entire country and 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:22.960 share this poem. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.680 In front of most of the world, I'm sure in 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:24.960 the world. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.640 Indeed, So I'm gonna read a bit the mother who 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.520 had Oh let me before I get there, preface before 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.920 I get there. So again, this poem a very special 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:44.240 poem in Florida. I know you've been keeping up with it, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.960 but for those that haven't been in Florida, it's been interesting, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.000 you see. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:58.960 What I'm saying, so kind and graceful Florida, Yes, has 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.280 been interesting process. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.640 So the reason I choose that word because I know 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.520 the real word, as you know, you know full well 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.520 I know the real word. But the reason I choose 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.320 that word is because, as I mentioned, some of the 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:16.000 people who might be listening today who care about these things, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:24.040 they might have gotten a dose of the far right wing, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:38.440 deeply conservative, hateful content rebranded as policy intended to ensure 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.480 that children aren't made to feel bad. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.439 And in this context, the word conservative doesn't mean conserved, right, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.160 it's a political idea, right fascist. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.679 So anyway, so when I say interesting, it's because I'm 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.520 trying to be mindful of the fact that some people 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:06.720 sincerely believe that these policies exis to equalize everyone's feelings, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.400 when in fact they're intended to center the feelings of 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.760 white children and to deny educational opportunities and understanding of 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.880 their past and critically their present. Why are we poor? 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.280 Why are my people going through this? We are not 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.720 bad people? What's going on? Denying that reality? By denying 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.720 the past, ensures that power will be seated in one 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.439 place well into the future. This is not new. This 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.840 is textbook fascism, okay, But some of our listeners may 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.720 not know that because this may not be their reality. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.040 As you mentioned, people have full lives. They might listen 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.440 to us once a week, and this might be all 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.240 that they have. And so I choose that word because 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.560 I don't want to make anyone seem like they're wrong. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.160 I recognize that many people have been misled, and so 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.880 thank you for pointing that out. But for those that 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.080 agree with Q, you should that that's not the right word. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.040 Just know that I chose that word because there are 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.800 some of our listeners who may not agree with what 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.480 I'm about to say, and I need them to keep 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:16.000 listening until I've made my point. So in Florida, the 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.080 interesting goings on are, if I were to stated briefly, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.680 the attacks on what has become known as critical race theory, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.760 which is in fact American history. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.560 And that's important to point out too, because critical race 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.120 theory is not actually being attacked. Critical race theory is 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.920 not actually what they're trying to ban. They are trying 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:42.920 to ban American history, right, and they've used critical race 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.720 theory an idea or an ideology that people are not 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:52.520 familiar with, and they use that to brand black American history. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:59.040 Yeah. CRT is like a master's level collegiate academic pursuit. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.600 With these kindergarteners and K through twelve students are being 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.600 taught not at all, but they've turned it into that 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:05.760 to give to fear. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:11.120 Again, to rewrite the textbooks. Yes, now it has spilled 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.480 out in Florida and now in other states. Texas, I 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.920 believe Kansas, as well to attacks on books that may 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:27.280 not necessarily be based on American history, but books that 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:33.000 articulate the black experience in this country, Books that articulate 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.600 folks who have been relegated to the margins their experience 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:42.400 in this country. Books that highlight brilliant thinkers who have 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.840 insight and knowledge on how to get from where we 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:53.080 are to a more equitable society. And these books have 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.760 been under attack. So it goes well beyond see quote 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:03.280 unquote crt anything that is slightly progressive toward I won't 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.199 even say equity. I'll say even equality. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:16.439 Yeah, even just basic information. It's not a book on 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.480 racism will be banned. It's a book that has the 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.760 word racism, and oh the word in Texas. They want 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.920 to ban the word racism from the UC Texas, and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.880 we talked about that. That's not even you know, it's 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.480 not even the collective meanings or teachings of a book, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.760 you know, mentioning slavery, mentioning race. They're trying to make 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.840 talking about it, talking about saying words illegal. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.319 Yeah, yeah, you can lose your job and be jailed 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:49.400 for saying the word racist, racism. Indeed, So this is 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.959 where we are. Now. I needed you to know that, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.280 so that this makes sense. So the little girl who 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:06.120 wrote the poem, that poem has been banned. Okay, one 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:11.880 person was successful in banning this poem. Okay, Now, one 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.560 person was instrumental. One person was successful. Makes it seem 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.319 like a lot of people tried and only one person got. Okay, 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:18.880 thank you for that. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.840 Yeah, one person's problem, one person's complaint. One person's effort 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:32.040 singularly led to the poem being banned comprehensively and collectively 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:38.600 and unilaterally for everyone in the entire state of Florida. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:46.280 Now, as I mentioned, she read this at the inauguration 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.880 of the forty sixth President of the United States of America. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:57.360 It is history now, and it is banned in one 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.800 of the United States of America's fifty states. For people 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:05.360 to read it if they are in school. Okay, because again, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:10.800 of one person's efforts. Now, but I'll let you read. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.320 But I was gonna ask you, do you know why 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.679 is it? Oh, we'll get to it. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.680 Because this person was offended or oh. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.240 Listen, let's let's okay, so we can be honest. Me 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.560 and you Q we can we can be honest. So 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.320 let's be honest with each other, and you, our listener, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.480 gets to listen to this honest moment that you and 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.120 I are going to have. Okay, I'm going to tell 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.280 you something you already know and you know that I 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.240 know this, Okay, I just want so, so I'm going 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.920 to say it for the benefit of our listeners who 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.600 are listening. So this is not me talking to you, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.240 the listener. This is me talking to cue my brother. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.560 This is behind the scenes conversation that you're going to 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.440 get full access to. This is a conversation that I'm 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:47.800 sure happens in black households and social circles across America 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.600 if in fact their thoughts rise to the political arena. Okay, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:15:02.440 they're banning black authors, They're silencing black boy and anybody 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.640 who has anything to do with empowering black people there 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.000 on the menu too. That's what it is. And the 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.920 reason I know that is because at the end of this, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.520 you'll find that the woman who was instrumental in banning 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:29.240 this poem didn't even read it. Okay, I'll read now again. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.640 Shout out to the Atlanta Black Star, the mother who 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.400 had Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem band in a Florida school 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.760 reportedly has ties to the Proud Boys Daily. Sealinas reportedly 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:47.040 posted anti Semitic memes on social media and was an 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.600 attendance and Proud Boys rallies. Okay, So remember I said, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.560 we're going to establish who has the power, so you 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.760 already know who this person is. This is a white person, 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:02.800 a white woman who has ties to a well documented 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:09.000 far right extremist group that is decidedly anti black, anti 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:18.080 lgbt Q I a plus, anti immigrant, anti anybody that's 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:24.880 not Proud Boys, you know. Okay, where was that? Selena's 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.400 protested five books at the library from the library at 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.120 Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes, Florida, including Gorman's 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.880 poem The Hill We Climb, as well as the ABC's 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:42.280 of Black History, Love to Langston, Countries in the News, Cuba, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.520 and Cuban Kids. Selena's claimed in March that Love to 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:50.080 Langston includes references to critical race theory and indirect hate messages. Okay, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:56.160 and I really really really want people to think about 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:01.920 that indirect hate messages, because if there's somebody who has 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.199 studied black history, I'm not going to say I know 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.080 black history better than you or you know a lot 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:12.679 of other folks, But I definitely have done my research. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.719 I have done enough research to know a little bit 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.480 about what I'm talking about, which is more than the 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.200 average person. I have degrees on my wall, which doesn't 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.680 mean anything, but it does show that I have read 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:31.640 the books. Okay, I have never ever even remotely come 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:36.560 close to finding something I'm a black author that was 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:44.880 hateful toward white keeper never seen it. Okay. The closest 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.719 that people they try to make a big deal out 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.160 of is like slaver bolts and things like this. Right, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.760 and understanding the framework and the context of which these 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.280 slabor bolts took place kind of makes sense, you know, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.240 if that's my only out, if I'm going to work 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.719 my way to death, or I can die fighting for 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.000 what I believe is right. You know that this country 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:04.639 was built on that. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.199 So I'm not mad at anybody to revote against the 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.960 system of slavery without revoting against. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.159 Boom, thank you. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.879 But outside of that majority of owners that were white, I. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:23.359 Have a textbook downstairs in my house from when I 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:29.400 was in college and I took an African American literature class, Okay, 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.600 not a history class, literature. These are the writings of 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.760 black people going all the way back to the sixteen 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.119 hundreds and maybe even before because some of those got 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.720 shared in the oral tradition and slavery. Okay Olu Dhara 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.920 and the interesting narrative that we saw when we went 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.919 to the National Museum of Sorry, the National Museum of 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.479 African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Shout out 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:02.200 to them all the way up to Jagged Edge's lyrics 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.080 in their songs. And you know, this was what was 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.639 going on at the time when I was in college. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.200 All the huge textbooks still have it right now. Doctor 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:15.560 Camilla Westenberg was my teacher. Never came across anything that 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.080 said indirect, that said that it was a hate messager, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.960 a hateful letter, okay. And for her to say that 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.520 this where's it go? Here we go love to Langston 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.960 includes references to critical right theory and indirect hate messages. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.439 Lets me know that she has absolutely no idea what 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.239 she's talking about. And wherever she's getting that from is 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.240 someone making a huge stretch. Now, I can find lots 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.800 of writings hang on real quick. I can find lots 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:51.000 of writings from white folks about and two black people 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.639 extremely hateful, prominent and elected white folks. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.320 We don't have much research to know. And not only 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.040 does she not know what she's talking about, but that 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.000 she's just a bold face line. Absolutely again, it reveals 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.400 itself later in. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:12.639 The same story, if you will ram so, Selene's claimed 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.959 that she is not a member of Moms for Liberty 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.879 or the Proud Boys and was only attending some of 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:23.120 the same events. She also admitted that she hasn't read 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.760 the poem by Gorman as I mentioned, and that she 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:32.480 she wanted to be She wanted them to be banned 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:40.240 from her children's school, and she blamed sorry, let me 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.000 read this right, She said, they have to read from 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.359 me because I'm not an expert. So she's not a reader. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.080 She says, she's not a book person. She's a mom 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:51.880 involved in her children's education. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.879 I also don't want people to think that you said 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:55.720 that last part. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.280 She says, I'm not a reader right here. Sorry, she 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.680 says that, Yeah, because you said, okay, I'm we have 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.719 to read. Sorry, I lost my place. Next bird, and 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.760 then you said she's not a reader. Yeah, No, she said, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:09.480 I'm not a reader. I'm not a reader. 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.399 Yeah, I'm not a book person. I'm a mom involved 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.960 in my children's education. So that lets me further know. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.720 How involved in your children's education are you if you're 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:19.199 not a reader or a book person. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.920 And how do you feel like taking down this book 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.800 Love to Langston is going to affect folks if you 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:28.600 haven't read it, And how can you make an assessment 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.480 like it has indirect indirect hate messages if you're not 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:39.840 a reader? Right, So here's here's where we are with this. Okay, 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:45.040 This one woman was instrumental and affecting these outcomes that 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.879 had ripple effects throughout the entire state of Florida. Okay, 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.560 so who are we talking about here? Is this a 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:54.480 black woman? I'll answer for you. No, of course not. No. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.400 Ok Does this center the black perspective? Absolutely not. Does 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.320 this center an anti black perspective? 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:02.960 Absolutely? 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:09.359 Thank you? Okay. Now for folks who are decent individuals 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:15.280 with a just moral compass that recognize how important equity is, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.400 how important treating each other as human beings is, how important, 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:24.160 how important allowing people their identities and their cultures and 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:29.919 ensuring that everyone has a just go at a society 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:36.840 that we all partake in and share. This should be 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:41.080 a gigantic red flag. And for folks who have in 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:49.400 recent months said to us through social media or whatever, hey, 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.920 you know, Ronda Santis is you know, he's he's better 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.679 than Trump. He's you know this and that and the other, whatever, 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.600 whatever your opinion is on that, I need you to 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:05.040 understand of his his rise to national prominence and what 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.480 that was built on. That's built on very hateful messaging 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.280 and very divisive messaging. It does not allow for a 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:11.159 black perspective. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.959 And it's scary because he's actually better at being a 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:22.080 politician than his cohort or colleague. Competition now now competition 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.679 Donald Trump, which gives us an evil and more evil 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:31.000 as choice, which is scary that just my nature of 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:36.280 being less competent might be less dangerous, even though I'm. 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.480 Not certain that I believe that. Well. 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:43.040 Important to note Rman's poem was not banned, but the 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.359 schools did restrict who could read the material, claiming it 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.600 was better suited for middle school children. 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:52.320 Right now, remember I don't believe the little girl that 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.280 read it was a middle school student. I believe she 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.880 was still in elementary school. But I could be wrong 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.320 on that and feel free to correct me. But that's 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.560 just the way I'm remembering it, and so that restriction 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:06.640 is not nothing. And of course it's brought that into 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.800 fire under fire and indeed caused us to talk about 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:15.080 it today. So remember who's being centered. Now it's time 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:18.880 for the Way Black History Fact. Today's Way Black History 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.320 Fact is sponsored by Underground Beach Club From the Streets 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.360 to the Beach, the finest in beach where visit Underground 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.160 Beach Club dot com. They we're going to be talking 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:31.360 about the zoot Suit Riots. Now. I will warn you 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:34.520 I pulled these from a few different sources because I 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.280 wanted to make sure that I could paint this picture 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.399 in a short amount of time. So forgive me if 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:41.840 you hear a couple of things twice, but I'm gonna 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:45.320 do my best for you. The Zootsuit Riots were a 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:47.640 series of riots that took place from June third through 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.560 eighth and nineteen forty three in Los Angeles, California, in 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:55.399 the United States, involving American servicemen stationed in southern California 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.439 and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. It was 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:03.400 one of the as in wartime industrial cities that suffered 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:05.840 race related riots in the summer of nineteen forty three, 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:10.399 along with Mobile Mobile Alabama, Beaumont, Texas, Detroit, Michigan, and 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:13.240 New York City. So shout out to Los Angeles in 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:16.800 Detroit one time because me and cure in the building right. 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:20.800 American servicemen in white Angelinos attacked in stripped children, teenagers 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:24.000 and youths who wore zoot suits, ostensibly because they considered 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.640 the outfits, which were made from large amounts of fabric, 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.840 to be unpatriotic. During World War Two. Rationing of fabrics 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:32.919 and certain foods was required at the time for the 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.560 war effort. While most of the violence was directed toward 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:41.160 Mexican American youth, African American and Filipino American youths were 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:45.120 also wearing who were wearing zoot suits were also attacked. 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:49.520 The zootsuit riots were related to fears and hostilities aroused 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:52.679 by the coverage of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial following 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:54.840 the killing of a young Latino man in what was 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.360 then an unincorporated commercial area near Los Angeles. The riot 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:01.720 appeared to trigger similar attacks that year against Latinos in Chicago, 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:05.960 San Diego, Oakland, Evansville, Philadelphia, and New York City. The 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.359 defiance of zoot suitors became inspirational for Chicanos during the 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:13.320 Chicano Movement. One of the first conflicts between sailors and 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:16.600