WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 120322 Black White Supremacists (Part 1) 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.320 Welcome to another episode of Civic Sacher. I'm your host, 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.320 Ramsey's Jah he is Jah, I am q Ward. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.559 You are listening to Civic Ciphers. Indeed you are great 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:12.280 show lined up for you. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.120 Today we're going to talk about some stuff that is 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.200 pretty interesting, so a lot to stick around for h 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.639 including some stuff you may have seen in the news 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:30.320 in recent months. These powerful black people who are effectively 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.640 white supremacists. We're going to discuss that phenomenon because we 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.199 recognize that that can be a very confusing thing if 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.159 you don't interact with a lot of black folks or 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.800 you know, human nature oftentimes is to kind of stereotype 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.279 paint with broad strokes, that sort of thing. You might 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.840 be getting mixed messes, messages if you look at these 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:58.560 black people who really prot white supremacist ideas and you know, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:07.120 stand for just very hard nosed, hypocritical ideologies, and there's 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:08.640 a black face on him. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.200 So again, it might be very confusing. But we're going 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.400 to talk about that today. We's gone especially in some 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.080 of these cases in the name of just personal political 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.920 gain and absolutely in parting the politics of the far right. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:18.480 Thank you. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.480 So we're we're gonna peel all those layers away, and 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.039 this one is going to be a deeper dive. I 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.919 know we've we've talked about this sort of thing before, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:32.280 but we're also going to talk about forgiveness in the 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.560 black community. And I really want to pay particular attention 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.839 on today's episode to Will Smith stopping by Trevor Noah's 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.600 show and discussing his upcoming movie, but also discussing the 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.520 Oscars slap of the infamous slap. He offered a lot 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.320 more insight into that, and I think it's worth looking 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.520 into what forgiveness looks like, especially when it comes to 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.840 Black men interacting with each other. And so we're going 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.440 to do both of these things on full display for 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.320 all of you to witness. But first and foremost, we 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.800 are going to start off with some Ebny excellence. So 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.040 this week's Eventy Excellence is sponsored by Hip Hop Weekly magazine. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.680 For all the latest in hip hop music, check out 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.280 hip Hopweekly dot com. Today's segment comes from Black Enterprise, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.280 So I'll read from the middleary article here Bob Johnson 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.959 from be ET. This is old news, but it was 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.800 news to us and we thought it was We're celebrating 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:31.400 Bob Johnson. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.880 They found specifics of it we're new to us. Yeah, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.240 the overall story we knew already. Right right there, you go, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:36.560 Thank you. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.120 So Bob Johnson is the man that founded BEET as 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.480 a black man, I'll read the challenge did well in 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.080 its first years, but didn't turn much revenue until a 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.760 new and exciting form of entertainment came into the picture. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.040 And there's a quote along the way. Came music videos 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.960 and MTV started playing videos, but they wouldn't play black 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.600 music videos. So I said, this is Bob Johnson speaking. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.800 I said, there's a chance to play black music videos, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.040 and that's where we started. And the thing about it 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.800 that may BET such as success was the videos were free. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.840 So imagine a business where the cable operators pay you 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.080 to carry a program, the record companies give you the 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.040 content for free, and the advertisers pay to speak to 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.960 your audience. So he ended up winning in three different ways. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.799 So this is how BET rose to prominence. Because MTV, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.359 I think they would only play Michael Jackson at the time, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.040 but they wouldn't really go any deeper than that. And 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.720 the part of the story that I didn't know that 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.280 we believed to be ebony excellence is in two thousand 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.160 and one, again a while ago, but in two thousand 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.080 and one, Johnson sold Bet to Viacom, the infamous Viacom 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.320 and BET employees, and in doing so created a large 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.520 number of black millionaires who Johnson gave equity and Bet. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.480 So he created the largest number of black millionaires at 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:00.160 one time in American history. And even though that's old news, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.240 we didn't know it, and we believe that's ebony excellence. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.960 So shout out to Bob Johnson for that. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.080 For Bob Johnson. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:11.200 All right, so let's talk about black white supremacists. And 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:16.120 we're not talking about black conservatives. We're talking about something different. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.839 If you are a black conservative, if you know someone 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.960 who is black and has conservative beliefs, that is normal, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.160 that is healthy. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:25.520 That is okay. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.480 You know, we recognize that all black people don't feel 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.560 the same way, we don't all espouse the same values and. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:33.400 So forth and so on. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.320 But there is something to be said about those folks 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:41.120 who really fortify and uphold white supremacist ideals and institutions 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.640 that we really need to discuss because it can be 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:49.919 very confusing. Uh, And you know, some folks may not 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:57.200 know may not know what's right unfortunately. So I want 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:03.160 to start with a phrase that or a saying I 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.159 guess that we use in the black community. Uncle Tom. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.360 We've talked about Uncle Tom on the show before. The 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.840 actual Uncle Tom person that that name comes from, was 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.520 actually not an Uncle Tom, but his name has been 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:22.560 co opted in the black community to refer to black people, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:27.320 often black men who are not down for their people. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:33.000 You know, black men that want to be accepted at 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.200 all costs, you know, to at cost to their dignity, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.800 to their culture, their people, their family, et cetera. They 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.599 want to be accepted in often enough white circles. Right. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.279 So I need you to be familiar with an Uncle Tom, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.400 and that's not to be confused with a person like 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.760 for those familiar with the original Chappelle's show, Clayton Biggsby 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.320 sort of a person, right, Clayton biggsye be sort of 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:01.479 a person is a person that doesn't wreckonognize his own 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:08.880 blackness as having value or being even real. There are 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.560 black people that do not wish to identify as black. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.320 We know that this is a very strange thing to encounter, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.760 but we have to acknowledge that there are people who 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.919 try to think of the world in different terms, and 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.800 I feel, I personally feel like that's often a desperate move. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.120 That's a move of a person who hasn't been able 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.920 to connect with his ancestor. It's very sad because no 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.719 one would want that for anybody. You know, it doesn't 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.760 matter what part of the world you're from. There are 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.239 some parts of your ancestry. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.760 That are beautiful that you should be able to connect with. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.880 And to completely turn away from your ancestry, we think 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.240 that's a very sad thing. But there's some other names 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.400 I want you to know. There's a guy named Uncle Ruckus. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.720 This is another fictional character. It's in a show called 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.160 The Boondock. Shout out to my sister Jamar Taylor. The 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.200 boon Docks is an anime cartoon about two black kids 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.960 that moved to the suburbs. You should definitely check it out. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:15.080 But there's a character, Uncle Ruckus, and he's another sort 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:22.080 of white supremacist type of character very openly and they 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.880 use his character to flesh out concepts in the program. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:32.720 So and last, but not least, I'll mention another fictitious character. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.600 This guy's name is Steven. For those of you familiar 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.960 with Quentin Tarantino films. He had a film called Jangle Unchained. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:45.600 Steven is another kind of like Uncle Tom type of 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:50.200 person Steven was. The character was played by Samuel L. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.120 Jackson in the movie Jangle Unchained. And for those of 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:59.400 you familiar with any of these movies or shows or 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.400 anything like that, it kind of gives you an idea 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.160 of basically a black person that hates black people. They 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.640 may not say that out loud, but their actions and 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.880 their their ideas and their their you know whatever, it 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.920 often enough suggests that they don't really think very highly 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.000 of black people and they can get away with it. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:22.000 They can. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:28.640 They almost always get platforms because they are saying things 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:34.000 that white supremacists can't say without being canceled or challenged. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.160 So they end up being. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.520 The racist or white supremacist, which they like being those things. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.720 They just don't like being called them right right, And 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:43.920 if you're black, you can do it. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.240 And of course I find black and I say, you know, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.760 black people are awful, and you know, police brutality is 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.560 a myth, and you know, black people, it's it's all 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.960 your fault and that sort of stuff. No one can 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.160 come to me because I'm black and say, well, you're 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.440 being racist, although that's exactly what I'm doing. It is 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.960 possible for people to hate themselves and to hate the 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.640 people that they come from. And this is what we're 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:11.320 talking about today. So I want to talk about a 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:22.360 name that makes cues I twitch. This is a person 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:31.040 that is very dangerous. This person gives a black shield 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.040 to white supremacy. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.120 I like that. I should write that down. I'm black, umbrella, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.640 a black shield, a black overcoat. There you go. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.240 This person is intelligent, this person is charismatic and all. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.000 And this person has also been propped up. This person 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.360 goes by the name of Candice Owens. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.559 There goes the eye twitch. I see it close. You 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.600 couldn't see the twitch. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:02.960 And I want to say something. We've been through recently. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:09.240 Q and myself, we've been through some interesting things lately. Rights, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.600 that's a way to put it. Yeah, yeah, And we 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.160 want to be very careful because we do not and 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.360 we're asking you, our listeners, to hold us to this. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.560 We do not want to let this show ever devolve 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:30.360 into the type of program that tears people down. Rather, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.800 we want to hold people accountable, hold people responsible. We 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.080 want to challenge people and institutions to become better the 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.880 best versions of themselves. And we have to be very 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.440 careful because we have to decide where that line is. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.600 But we also have to be mindful of the fact 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:55.720 that our words carry weight, especially now, and so we're 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.920 not trying to tear anyone down. But it's important to 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.360 mention this woman in particular, because this is a woman 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:09.360 who actually does believe that police brutality is a myth. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.320 Hold on, wait, you think she believes that? No? 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.320 No, this So I went through, you know, researching today's topic, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:27.360 and I gathered my notes from credible sources that talk 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.040 about Candice Owns and who she is and things that 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.640 she said. So I know that this is definitely That's 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.559 why it's first. That's definitely something that she said that's 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.160 a very alarming No, No, we. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.200 Know that she said it. What I'm asking you is, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.240 do you think she actually believes that? 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:44.440 Oh? 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.160 No, I don't think this is not I think the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.720 woman is a con artist. Yeah, and it's faking everybody 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.960 out because of its fiscal implications. No, I can't see me, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.800 but I just almost touch face. I guess what happy 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.000 that he said that? And I couldn't articulate it properly. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.080 I don't think she believes that at all, which is 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.520 why I despise her. Yeah, so. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.960 You're absolutely right, and we're gonna get to that in 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:17.480 a little bit too. But a fiscal benefit, political influence, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.880 there's there's lots of reasons that a person might do this, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.640 But what we look at, you know, I'm talking, I'm 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:30.840 gonna speak for the general It's hard to say that, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.360 but most black people in this country, and I think 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:42.040 most people who are not conservative, would look at this 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:48.000 woman and realize that her words don't really reflect a 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.920 shared reality among black people. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:50.640 Right. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.199 She is very much a black outlier. But again, what 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:01.080 she does is gives people who want what she says 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.160 to be their truth a reference point, something that is 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.440 quote unquote credible, that they can lean on when they 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.959 themselves are challenged for there often white supremacist or racist 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.920 beliefs right. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:18.920 Now. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:26.720 Candice Owns also praised Hitler for his nationalism. You know, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.440 he wanted everybody to be German. What's wrong with that? 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.480 You know that sort of thing, right, And something that 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.160 you brought up on the show before Q is that 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.880 she made a documentary about the murder of George Floyd 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:52.360 and did her best to try to make anything else 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.040 the reason for his death other than a police officer 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.600 kneeling on his neck for eight minutes or nearly minutes 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:06.040 everything else in the world. Try to make that argument 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:11.360 in this film and then released it on when on 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:17.160 his birthday. And so it's those little things that go 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.040 a little bit beyond just a conservative black voice, that 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.120 little bit of extra hatred, that little bit of extra 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:32.160 genesse equa talk about being intentional, right, and this sort 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.680 of thing often takes a person from simply being a 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.600 black conservative voice. We've had black conservative voices on this 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.000 show before. That's not something that we're afraid of. It's 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.640 something that we I admit every every third episode that 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.160 I'm a bleeding heart liberal. It's not my deal, but 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:49.000 I recognize that. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.240 Other peopleticians, law enforcement. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:57.040 Yeah, yeah, all be above right. But I think that again, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:03.440 releasing a movie on his birthday to try to somehow 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.760 make him the bad guy in the story where he died, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:15.640 it feels particularly offensive and it's very upsetting for those 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.800 of us who have a beating heart and empathy, right, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:24.280 and we all saw a man's life end on a 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:31.240 video that should be sad to everyone. I'll admit something 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.120 too on the show. I mean, the MIC's on, everything's rolling. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.840 I'm gonna say it. The worst person in my lifetime 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.320 that I ever knew about was Osama bin Laden right 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.000 by far, the worst person. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.320 I'll say it. You know, I recognize that. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:54.720 But when the news came back that he was dead 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.800 and I had to go on the radio and share 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:05.840 that with the city and pretend to be happy about that. Like, 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.760 I was definitely happy that the story had an ending. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.000 I was definitely happy that it felt like there was 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.960 a little bit more justice in the universe than I 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.480 had anticipated. But I was not happy about a human 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.880 being's life getting ending. Even though I guess the right 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.000 ending to that story, it just didn't feel like worth 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.120 something to celebrate. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.960 Maybe right in my mind, the right ending. He gets 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.480 captured and or arrested and has to Like even when 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.960 watching movies as a child, the bad guy dying was 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.920 never the outcome I wanted. Like, that's not justice, that's 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.200 just death. Yeah that's yeah, it's a different type of thing. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.120 But here's the thing. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.640 What I want to do is be fair. Okay, so 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.840 we often say this, especially you, but and I learned 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.760 from you. When you say this a recent Instagram post 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.040 of yours follow him I mq word check him out 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:57.880 a recent. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:58.800 Instagram post of yours. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:05.720 You say I'm no one's moral superior or moral guidepost 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.480 or something like that. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:08.879 Effectually, this is what you're saying. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.760 I'm just a Stella's son from you know, seven Mile, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.959 you know, Detroit, Westie, something like that, right, And I 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.239 think that that is kind of the posture I want 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.959 to adopt when talking about the death of a person, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.880 right and explaining why this thing that Candice Owens did 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.280 is particularly offensive. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:32.640 And so. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.600 I wouldn't tell anybody else how to feel about Osama 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:39.480 bin Laden dying. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:40.400 Right. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.919 You feel how you feel, But it's hard for me 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.600 to be happy about that thing. If justice is served, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.479 cool happy, you know these people got closure. Cool happy 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.560 a human being, you know, It's just a sad thing 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.880 for me. And I'm that type of person. I recognize 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.320 other people may not be like that. So for me again, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:03.240 looking at this documentary that this woman put out and 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:09.919 recognizing that the angle that she took, the approach that 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.880 she took, is offensive, and then to put it on 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:20.840 his birthday and frame him as like again, the like 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.640 the bad guy in his own story and he's dead. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.960 Her levels of malcontent is really hard to understand. The 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.359 whole point of it seems to be, I don't want 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.440 you all to be sad that that man was murdered. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.920 So here's all the reasons you shouldn't be right, and 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.320 that feels like yo, now let me move on. Oh, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.040 let me not forget. She wore the White Lives Matter 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.639 shirt next to Kanye West, allright. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:49.120 She also, before we move on, announced the NAACP after 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:54.800 it helped her claimed that white supremacy and racism don't exist, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.680 except the NAACP helped her win a lawsuit. We sued 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.240 because she was racially discriminated. Except that doesn't exist. So 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.760 we Oh, I'm sorry, No, I just I like to 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.359 say true stuff allowed sometimes. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.000 Yeah, that's okay, that's what we're here for, all right. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.719 Moving on, Justice Clarence Thomas. This is another name that 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.560 you might be familiar with, bless. This is the guy 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.399 that looks so much like Samuel L. Jackson's character in 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.640 Djangle Unchained. He might look more like from your sisters 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.400 either with like a combination of the two. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:27.000 Anyway. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:34.920 He is a Supreme Court justice and a black conservative, right, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.640 and he wants black people to pull themselves up by 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.080 their bootstraps. Right, Which, for a second, for the record, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:48.560 let me say that saying was initially made in jest. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.000 Think about it. Is it possible for you to pull 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:58.439 yourself up by your own bootstraps? No, it was a joke, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:05.240 especially if you don't have boots to begin with. Anyway, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.520 the idea meaning that black people are responsible for changing 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:15.359 our own reality is not something that we don't brush 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.399 up against in our day to day lives. Right, So 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.520 a person feeling that and championing that message isn't the 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.840 worst thing in the world. We recognize that we have 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.080 issues that we need to deal with in our communities, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.480 just like every other community has issues that are more 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.320 relevant to their actual lives and their actual cultures. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:36.600 Right. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.399 So if that was the end of his story, that 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.160 would be all well and good. But bear in mind 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:51.600 that this man who is the physical embodiment of the 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.639 phrase all skin folk ain't kinfolk as a black saying 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:01.679 for those that are uninitiated. This is a man whose 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:08.000 wife participated in and protected those involved in the January 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.199 sixth insurrection to try to overturn the election results and 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:17.439 basically overthrow the government proceedings. Right, And this is a 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.399 person he's famously quiet, but if you look at his 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:26.640 voting record, you recognize that his record is nowhere near 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:35.040 in alignment with what it is that many black people 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.360 would say that we need in this country. Quite the contrary. Yeah, 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.040 he's almost intentionally right against And this is a little again, 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.400 this is a little bit more than just a conservative voice. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:50.320 This guy's a little bit more like intentional here herschel Walker. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:56.280 This man is the embodiment of everything that the right 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:03.000 supposedly despises about black men in America. My belief is 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.600 that we live in a celebrity culture that kind of 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:08.560 gave him a head start because of his name, and 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:09.360 then he's been. 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:10.480 Managed to ride that wave. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.520 That's the only way that makes sense to me, because 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.159 if you've heard him talk, If you've. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.880 Heard him, and that's the thing that troubles me the most, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.240 you've ever heard him speak about any topic. It doesn't 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.959 matter even the topic you think he'd be an expert at, 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:27.440 which is football. When you hear him talk at length 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:32.760 about any topic, just how grossly qualified he is to 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.560 be in front of people for any reason. Becomes clear 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:42.119 the unqualified, and then presenting him as someone who should 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:45.679 be in a leadership role with regards to our nation's 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:51.080 government should seem like insanity, except there is a portion 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.280 of our population that have shown that there is no depth. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.159 Now I will not steep to Okay, now watch this. 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:03.480 He is more than happy to play that role, which 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:07.119 is why the people on the right that are really, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.000 really deeply conservative are pushing so hard to get that 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.880 man elected, knowing full well that he's a complete hypocrite. 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:18.080 I think completely unqualifies better than saying deeply concervatively racist. 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.360 Thank you, Q, I appreciate you helping me out, all right, 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.080 And then we're going to dedicate a few seconds to 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:31.160 a gentleman named Kanye West or better said yay, and 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.679 we will recap here. He went from the man that 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.040 we knew saying George Bush doesn't care about black people, 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.679 to the man we know who has the Confederate flags 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:47.800 sown into his clothes years ago, who said slavery was 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.720 a choice, who said Harriet Tubman never actually freed slaves, 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:55.240 who of course wore the make America Great Again hat 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:57.080 and later the White Lives Matter shirt. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:58.280 We know a little bit about that. 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.720 And it's now ratternizing with known white supremacists, right, and 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.879 any one of flagrant bigot ways out of sea level 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:11.160 white supremacists. Absolutely now any one of those things by themselves, 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.480 maybe two things, hey man, maybe he's just on his journey, right, 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:20.600 but all of them together, let you know full well 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:24.280 that this is a black white supremacist more than just 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:29.359 a conservative. And what are the reasons, well, grift, self hatred, 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:36.280 desire for attention, desire for money, lunacy, the list goes on, right, 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.679 But what we need to do is let you know, 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.720 don't be fooled. As we said, all skin folk ain't kinfolk. 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:49.200 You need to do a little bit more in the 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:54.600 way of gaining a consensus before you decide what your truth, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:57.119 or rather what other what you believe other people's choose 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:58.639 to be. So sit with that.