WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 082722 Handling Black Trauma (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:07.360 And now bring my mic back. You're like that journal time. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.960 You can strikes with Waters headquarters behind. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.360 Him and be the borders. If you're just tuning in 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.680 acidic cipher. I'm your host Rams this job. He is 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.759 ramdas John. I am q Ward and you are listening 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.079 to say it sid for this Indeed, I stick around 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:23.239 and still that a lot more show for you. We're 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:24.840 gonna touch on a few more of these topics and 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.480 we're gonna discuss how it feels to have to wade 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.840 through all this, because if you are one of our 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:37.800 non millenated brothers or sisters and this is your weekly 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:44.000 dose of an alternative reality, it might not be over 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.080 as overwhelming. But a lot of this stuff feels very personal. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.000 It's very triggering. It reminds us of stories we lived through, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.159 as we've mentioned, and so we're gonna discuss that a 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.120 little bit as well. Also, we're gonna spend some time 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.320 talking about the history of rhythm and blues. You know, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.680 we talked about the history of house music. It's black 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.360 roots that go to Chicago to a very specific drum 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.080 machine and some gospel samples and some disco music. But 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.080 now we're going to talk about R and B and 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.399 first though, we're going to talk about becoming a better ally. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:21.760 Bah bah. So we've asked many times for you to 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.240 consider donating to the NAACP. Of course, you can always 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.800 donate to Civic Cipher, But the NAACP is a very, 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.679 very old institution, and they fight battles on fronts that 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.600 we are just not as effective with. You know, on 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.880 those fronts, they go behind doors, they do this sort 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.119 of stuff. Well, we're going to let you know some 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.280 of the things that your dollars go to and ask 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.240 again that you continue to support the NAACP. So we 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.120 got a letter from them recently and it says as follows. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.840 When we say the NAACP is fighting to end racial inequality, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.040 these aren't just words. Our work tackles every corner of 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.480 American life, from clean drinking water to fair legislative districts, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.400 and thanks to our grassroots community, the NAACP has the 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.880 power and resources to advance equality on not just one front, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.520 but on all of them. Here are just four of 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.240 the many issues we're fighting in our work for true 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:19.960 racial equality and freedom inclusive economy. After generations of discrimination, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.080 investments in communities and color are vital to closing the 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.080 racial wealth gap. We're working with elective officials and private 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.480 partners to provide resources to black businesses, implement a federal 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.040 minimum wage council, student debt, reverse racist housing policies, and 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.840 more police reform and criminal justice. Our criminal justice system 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.560 is shaped by biased policing and unfair judicial precedence. After 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.120 securing the Executive Order on Police Reform this June, the 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.559 NAACP is pushing to go further now voting rights and democracy. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.760 More than a century after the right to vote was 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:57.160 declared a fundamental right that's under attack. Since twenty twenty, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.880 the NAACP has challenged anti voter laws and over ten 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.280 states and is mobilizing two million activists to ensure black 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.280 voters are informed and black voices are heard. And then finally, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:11.040 environmental and climate justice, which disproportionately threatens the health and 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.240 livelihoods of communities of color. So again, the NAACP could 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.240 always use your support, and that is how you can 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.240 become a better ally. Now back to these mini stories. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.640 There is a story that we had to talk about 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:34.000 about a home that and we talked about this before. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.000 I remember this a home that was appraised with a 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.480 quote black owner, the price came back at four hundred 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.160 and seventy two thousand dollars, swapped out owners with a 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.920 white owner, and then that home appraised for seven hundred 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.960 and fifty thousand dollars. Nathan Connolly and his wife Shannie 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.360 Mott say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.920 their race. Again, that comes from the New York Times. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.720 So again, this is something that we talked about on 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.400 the show before. We had a few examples back then. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.800 I remember we had maybe three or four examples, and 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.520 those examples. You have to bear in mind that our 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.560 content for the show comes from reputable news sources. So 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.000 this made headlines as much as a year and a 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.039 half ago. And then of course this story we're talking 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.200 about today is a recent headline. So you can see 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.800 these things are still going on. You can see how 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:39.680 these things contribute to economic inequality, which has innumerable factors 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:45.560 and it influences black life in immeasurable ways. And we're 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.200 just talking again about one facet. Can we get the 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.799 fair value of our house? You know, the same building, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.440 same content, same location. We're just black and we own it, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.880 you know, in fact, not for nothing. If I have 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.159 to ever have to get my house appraised, I'm probably 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.360 gonna use the same trink because it seems like it works. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.039 I can get some extra money off this property. But 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:15.400 it goes to show you what black life it can be. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:23.120 Like you know what I mean? And how how do 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.520 I say this? So there's something that we say, we 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.720 have to be twice as good to be good enough, right, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.760 something like effectually, this is what is said in black circles. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.240 We have to try twice as hard to get half 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.960 a chance these sorts of things. Is this is part 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:43.640 and parcel to our experience. This is sort of something 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.919 that illustrates exactly what we're on about. Let's say we 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.839 have a goal that we want to have a million 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.719 dollars to leave to our children at the end of 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.279 our lives. You can very easily see that, yes, we 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.960 have to be twice as good, you know, to matter 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.599 in a world that is not really set up for 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.760 people like us to thrive. We're still human beings. We're 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.800 still endowed with the same consciousness, the same intelligence, the 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.919 same physical attributes and qualities and you know so forth. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.960 But there are systems in place and prejudices that exist 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:22.200 in corners either conscious or unconscious, that work against us 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.240 and our efforts to be all that we can be right, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.320 And the fact that this show exists to illuminate those 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:40.600 things is a testament to the fact that people need 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.960 to know about it, because if I was not telling 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.520 you this, there's a good chance you would never know 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.440 what happened. Especially if you're not a black person or 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.440 a brown person, these stories perhaps don't make their way 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.560 into your life, and that is I believe the biggest 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.960 tragedy of all of this. It's because I do believe 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.920 that if you've listened to me, if you listen to Q, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:07.960 if you listen to Maggie, I believe that you want 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.560 to be a good person. Perhaps you want the world 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.920 to be a bit better place. Otherwise, why listen to 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.680 this content? And this might be the first time you're 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.239 hearing something like this, And this is every day for us, right. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.320 So one of the questions that we wanted to ask, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.960 or that you know, our producer wanted us to ask, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.360 is that is it okay that we feel like this? 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:32.480 So I'm gonna throw that one to you. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.480 I mean, the quick and easy, straightforward answer is no, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.320 is it okay to feel this way? Of course, Is 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.480 it okay that we feel this way? Absolutely not. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:48.440 I like that it is. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.560 It is grossly traumatic, and we have to spend a 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.280 lot of time kind of pretending not to be traumatized, 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.320 thank you, because we'd be constantly angry, and if we 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.760 actually thought about our reality constantly, we'd be mad a lot. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.080 And an interesting thing about us doing this show is 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.040 that we're reminded of our reality far more often than 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.960 really everyone else that we know. Yeah, so we have 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:22.480 to spend a lot of time. I have to spend 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:29.640 a lot of time trying not to be overtly angry. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:35.200 And I think that's why I'm the least optimistic half 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.600 of Civic Cipher or third of Civic Cipher, right, because 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 like even some of the things that the NAACP is 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.319 fighting for, like I'm reading that stuff, Like you guys 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.360 can't really think this stuff is ever going to happen, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:55.320 Like you can't like this country's going to be more 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.320 financially equitable for us, Like are you is anyone paying 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.200 attention to the entire history of not just this country 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:04.839 but the world? 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.800 Right, Like we speak about. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.920 What has become an absolute environment for us everywhere, right 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.959 anywhere on Earth that's been colonized, which is about eighty 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:20.280 percent of Earth. Racism exists because the colonizers were white, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:26.760 white Europeans almost always Europe is what six seven percent 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:32.360 of the Earth eight I'll say eight percent of the 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:39.160 land mass on Earth, they've colonized eighty percent, right, So 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.480 we try to think back throughout history about the ideas 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.360 that well, any people with power would have no just 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:53.640 one group, for the history of Earth has sought to 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.160 go as far away from where they're from to take 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.680 everything from everyone else. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.080 Let me add something right here. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.680 If I'm in so. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:10.839 I I have to just so that I'm doing my 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.199 job as good as I can. I have to subscribe 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:27.920 to some far right racists pro white content, because I 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.360 need to know what people are thinking about. I need 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.400 to know what conversations you are listener are subjected to 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.240 when you go back home and have to interact with 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.640 your grandmas and grandpas with their trump hats. You know, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.440 I need to know what's going on in those circles 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.880 and do my best to try to give you information 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.040 to where you are armed when you are confronted with 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:56.720 these detached realities that your people might might subscribe to. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.120 And one of the things that I've find and it's 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.719 important that I share this with you. One of the 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.360 things I find is that you know, a lot of 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.120 times in these rooms on the internet, these places on 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:15.880 the Internet that white oftentimes men celebrate the fact that 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.240 they are these conquerors. There are these great conquerors, right, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:27.199 And I think it's really important to bear in mind 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:35.600 that to conquer is sure, it's something that a person 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.200 could do. You could wake up and say, you know, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.880 I'm going to conquer someone else. Right, It's a philosophy 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.920 you could have. It's a way of life. Right, it 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:49.920 exists as a state of mind. And there are so 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.920 many others. You know. One of the things that a 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.599 movie we saw recently, it was Maggie b Knowan and 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.960 I she knew We saw a movie about the old 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.520 movie was called Avatar, the one with the blue people, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.560 the real tall blue people on a planet long time. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.040 It was an old movie. We were watching it just 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:17.320 because it was on And you know, I think that 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.640 a lot of the characters in that movie they were 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.199 based off of, like like native tribes that you might 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:24.640 have found. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.040 A blue indigent indigenous culture. I don't even know what 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.520 we call them. People right, that's very specific to us. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.600 Yeah, they were, they were alive, yes, so we'll leave 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:42.280 it there anyway. But these people, of these alive beings, uh, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.520 they were not, insofar as I could tell, focused on conquering. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.480 That philosophy did not enter into their mind much like 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.240 or at least not conquering to the degree of what 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.319 we've seen with our European our brothers and sisters of 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:59.120 European and well. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.480 Actually not at all, though you don't have to, we 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.040 don't have to trade semantics. They weren't interested in conquering 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.800 at all. Hunting, gathering, living, loving, And I think that's it. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.120 I think that that is doable now. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.960 The thing is a lot of the people that I 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.120 find in these little corners of the Internet, they feel 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.080 like it's eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.240 And that is a philosophy. I am being fair. It is. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.199 It does exist as a philosophy right for all of 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.720 the jungle. But I think that as human beings being 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.920 more evolved, I think that we have the capacity to 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.640 cooperate with each other and uplift each other and fortify 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.640 each other. And I think that our tendency over the 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:44.120 majority of our time as humans, not Neanderthals and whatever 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.000 we were before we reached this part. The majority of 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.800 our time in this current form has been cooperative. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.520 I mean to say that you're right, wouldn't even be 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.640 saying enough. Like, look over the readings and the ideology 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.880 of conquerors with regards to the very cooperative people they 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.520 can conquered. You like, listen to and read about how 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.439 they speak about our Aboriginal and Native people of this country. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.920 The people that conquered them almost not almost made very 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:17.080 very light of how cooperative and accepting they were as 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:17.959 they planned to. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.440 So watch this. So for those people who end up 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.400 on those corners of the Internet affirming how great a 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:35.920 conqueror the White Clan has been over throughout history, the 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.280 rest of us really don't see it that way. We wonder, like, 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.040 why do you need so much? It's like we feel 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.600 like it's crazy to need to want more than you need. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.080 Why would you want more than what you want? You know, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:53.280 there's there's a tree that grows apples, right, and if 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.840 I'm hungry, I can go to the tree and take 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.040 an apple and eat it. I don't need to take 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.280 the whole tree. I can't eat all the apples. That's 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:01.160 and then the tree. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.400 Even if you took the tree for yourself, why do 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.720 you have to take everyone else's tree? 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.360 You know what I'm trying to say. It's just it's 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.040 the craziest thing, and so I just wanted to offer that. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:16.600 Now, Oh before I forget what I was going to say, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:22.360 Racism exists in the entire colonized world. Nowhere does it 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:29.720 exist so flagrant and violently as it does here. So 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.240 is it okay to feel how we feel? Was the question? 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:39.840 My trauma starts there. My children are beautiful. I know 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.200 you think that about your kids too, and you should. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.440 But my kids are incredible. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.680 I know he's going to say, but, but. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:53.400 They're not going to always be kids. Specifically, my boy, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:02.240 as his arms and legs grow muscles, and the sun 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.320 kisses his skin a little bit more, and if one 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.360 day he doesn't wear his hair, how it grows out 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.920 of his head but he decides he wants to twist 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.240 it or braid it or lock it. How fast does 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.560 he go from this beautiful thing to something that, as 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:25.320 Ramses would say, scares people. I think that's crap. Until 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:31.640 he turns into something that they hate. You don't seek 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.680 out and destroy things you're afraid of. You run from them, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.840 when you run towards them to kill them. That is 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:42.480 not fear. So yeah, it is okay for me to 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.320 feel this way, because how could I not. It is 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.400 not okay that I feel this way. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:55.760 Now. I want to get back to what it means 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.080 for us to go through these stories every week. Again, 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.800 we have a heavy dose every week. As we shared 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.200 on the show before, Q and I often will take 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.320 turns watching videos where we know we're going to see 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:23.280 some trauma, We're going to see black death or black harm, 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:29.399 and you know, we've come up with a system that 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:34.040 we think works for us, but it's only the only 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.400 thing we can say is that it works as good 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:41.359 as it can. We try our best not to watch 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.600 everything so that we're not overwhelmed and we don't become 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:53.399 desensitized to the loss of human life, in particularly the 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.080 loss of black life. One of the stories that we 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.239 didn't get to this week is and I know that 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.719 we both saw this one, but this gives you an 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:11.720 idea of how heavy this stuff can be. I'm not 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.600 a soft person. I mean that from the bottom of 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.879 my heart. I am not that, But I am a 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.040 human being who feels things. I think that's the hardest 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.000 thing I could say. I'm forty where somebody would say 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.120 something to me. You know what I'm saying, I've been 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:33.120 doing this right. We saw a video some police officers, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.600 three police officers, and it was on a man and 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.240 it was punching his dude in the face. And then 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.000 an officer grabbed his dude by his hair and he 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.919 picked his head up. He slammed his head into the concrete. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.919 Do me, fevor Maggie can find out what video that 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.040 was because I don't have it right here, but we 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.840 like it's hard for me to even talk about it, like, 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.720 it's like, what is wrong with y'all? Why? Why is 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.200 that not? How can you feel good about that? Even 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.199 if somebody hurt you. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:11.000 This person has already been subdued. This person is mounted, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.960 This person is laying on their stomach, no weapon, not 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:20.080 posing a threat. There are three officers present. One of 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.600 them has gripped the side of this person's head by 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.840 the roots of their hair and proceeds to pummel their 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:35.440 head and their face into the concrete. There is no 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.680 explanation as to why that was necessary or how that 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:47.199 person who clearly doesn't have a stable mental situation. So 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.400 here's here's a peace officer. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:56.760 I'm glad you said that man solicit So these these guys, Uh, Maggie, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.280 just let it. Let us know that these officers are 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:07.119 from Arkansas and they're on paid leave right now, paid 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.199 because the lead because the investigated. The investigation is going on. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.440 Because the video isn't enough, right, we got to so again, 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.639 journalistic integrity compels us to tell as much of the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.720 story as we know. At this point, the officer said 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:29.600 that this the gentleman that they were subduing, was he's 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:44.720 the person that initiated the the altercation. And that's really 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.879 as much as I got, you know. And then the 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.200 video picks up and it's someone just kind of filming 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:54.000 the officers. And then if you've seen the video, hopefully 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.040 we've given you enough if you want to look it up. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.359 But I take our word for it. This is not 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.880 worth watching unless you really enjoy watching people get harmed, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.159 which I don't. It discussed. It just discussed like it 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.040 turns my stomach. I couldn't imagine. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.280 Actually doing it that every time. Exactly, it doesn't go 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.240 away with my stomach every time. So you can see 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.879 on the officer's face as soon as they see that 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.320 they're getting filmed, because someone's like filming from like the 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.160 backseat of a car. Some I don't know exactly where 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:23.880 their vantage point is, but you could you could tell 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.639 they're not close to the officers. They've zoomed in all 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.480 the officers and they're. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.080 Watching the officers just beat this guy and like Rodney 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:36.919 King beat him right. It surprises me that after that 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.639 officer slammed his head into the to the concrete with 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:47.159 all his strength, that demand didn't die. He's here people, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.159 right in the concrete. Do you know that sound that 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.199 a head makes when it hits the concrete. I know 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.320 that sound. He did it on purpose, and then they 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.320 kept beating him after that. Nobody was like, WHOA did 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.280 we wake up this morning to end the life? Because 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.840 that's what it sounds like we're doing. Nobody stopped. You 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:09.560 might have noticed, however. What you might have noticed, however, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.480 is that when one of the quote unquote good guys intervenes, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.680 they get strapped up by their neck, sure or by 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.080 her neck. Yeah, you've seen that. And they do it 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.120 to police officers too. They'll do it to each other. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.840 There is no equity in being the good guy in 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.840 that situation. You subscribe to what they subscribe to, or 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:35.119 they will make sure that they alienate, harm at least 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.600 alienate and harm you physically and probably and most likely 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.600 make you a pariah professionally as well. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.520 It's important that we say his name, so we will 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.800 say his name, Randall Worcester. I believe that's how I 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.879 say his last name. That's I know, the sauce, so 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.199 I've always heard it as Worcester Sauce. I don't know 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:59.359 if that's if I've ever been saying that right, but anyway, Yeah, 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:06.960 so Randall Worcester, and he's the person who is another 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:15.320 recent victim of police violence. And again we're talking about 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:20.440 what it means for us. And we know that even 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.800 black people that don't work in a media space like 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:29.400 we do might not have to deal with the amount 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:32.439 of stuff that we have to deal with, but that 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:36.560 amount is still not zero, and their personal connection to 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.400 seeing black bodies, just like there is being harmed day 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.960 in and day out, story after story over and over again, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:48.640 can be overwhelming. And it's just something that we all 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.480 need to keep in mind because it's the sort of 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.000 thing that makes you want to pull into a well 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.160 lit gas station before you get out of your car 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:03.280 and interact with the police. There is a real, primal fear, 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.840 not imaginary like we often say, happens with the police, 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:10.800 a real fear because again, the police have the real guns. 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:14.080 So let's just keep that in mind. Moving on, it's 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.640 time for the away Black history fact. This one comes 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:21.679 to you from Hip Hop Weekly Magazine. We pulled a 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:24.600 story from the Library of Congress, and today we are 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:30.600 discussing the history of rhythm and blues. So depending on 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.359 what station you're listening to, you might get an R 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.600 and B song after this, or it might have heard 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:38.680 one before we started talking. But it's important that you 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:42.639 know the history of all the music. Any music with 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:44.639 the beat goes back to Africa, because that's where the 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.800 drum comes from and that's where the heartbeat comes from. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.159 So we like to claim all that, but certainly R 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:52.840 and B is a little bit more of our modern history. 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.240 The term rhythm and blues, often called R and B, 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:59.840 originated in the nineteen forties when it replaced race me 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:04.200 music as a general marketing term for all African American music, 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:09.359 though it usually referred to only secular, not religious music. 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:13.200 The term first appeared in commercial recording in nineteen forty eight, 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.960 when RCA Victor Records began using blues and rhythm music 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:22.720 as a descriptor for African American secular songs. The migration 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.639 of African Americans to urban centers in the Northeast and 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:29.280 Midwest during the early twentieth century helped to bring various 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:35.800 regional styles of African American music together to influence one another. 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:39.320 The migration also created new markets for these styles of music. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.199 Early on, the term rhythm and blues was used for 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:48.000 boogie woogie, African American swing, jazz, and blues. All these 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.680 styles of music influenced the development of what is called 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.760 rhythm and blues today. The meaning of the term continued 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:57.320 to change over time, and today it is still used 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:00.439 as an umbrella term for many different African American music forms. 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:04.760 Historically speaking, though, a rhythm and blues as we understand 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:06.960