Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick? Right. So here's the deal, folks, I.
Speaker 2: Am calling an audible today, and this is we are
Speaker 2: on the precipice of one of my three favorite sports
Speaker 2: weekends of the year, and we are going to do
Speaker 2: our full wild Card weekend pick show, break game, breakdown,
Speaker 2: all of it in a full jam packed episode that
Speaker 2: will come out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: However, we are going to do something very very different
Speaker 2: given the events in Minnesota yesterday.
Speaker 1: And typically when I.
Speaker 2: Stray from sports, I tell people, hey, you know you
Speaker 2: fast forward here or come back tomorrow. I am going
Speaker 2: to implore, implore people to with an open mind and
Speaker 2: an open heart, spend these next fifteen minutes with me.
Speaker 2: And that's really I think all it'll be. And then
Speaker 2: we'll wrap up the show and then we'll, you know,
Speaker 2: put the clown noses back on and get back in
Speaker 2: the playground talk sports.
Speaker 1: But I really, if I have, if I have earned
Speaker 1: even the smallest sliver of your trust or respect over the.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long you guys have been with
Speaker 2: me as an audience decade in the national spotlight. I
Speaker 2: really am asking you to spend these next ten to
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes with.
Speaker 1: Me, And what I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 2: Is argue with folks about what is shown on that
Speaker 2: video that at this point I assume everyone has seen
Speaker 2: or at least has seen snippets of, and everyone who
Speaker 2: has watched that video knows what they see.
Speaker 1: And I and I just.
Speaker 2: Have to believe that deep down at their core, every
Speaker 2: single person who has even a shred of humanity or
Speaker 2: empathy left, every single person who has not who is
Speaker 2: still a person that sees that video is horrified and
Speaker 2: sad and for a lot of folks justifiably very very angry.
Speaker 2: And I understand that some people have had their brain
Speaker 2: poison and so deeply by their social media feeds, or
Speaker 2: by their own tribalism, or just by deep pervasive hate
Speaker 2: for anyone they perceive to be on the other side,
Speaker 2: that they can't find the empathy, and they will go
Speaker 2: even further and attempt to justify or rationalize or maybe
Speaker 2: even cheer on.
Speaker 1: What's shown in that video. But the video of.
Speaker 2: Renee Nicole Good being shot three times at point blank
Speaker 2: range does speak for itself. So I'm actually not going
Speaker 2: to be talking about that. I'm not going to get
Speaker 2: him back and forth or discuss proper police procedures or
Speaker 2: if that was a good or bad. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: I just want to ask one question, what are we
Speaker 1: okay with? That's it. What are we as Americans okay with?
Speaker 2: And when I said, I'm going to ask you to
Speaker 2: trust me, just follow me down this road because we
Speaker 2: are as Americans, we are collectively okay with the topic
Speaker 2: of the day, mass deportations.
Speaker 1: With me here.
Speaker 2: I believe in democracy. I try not to be a
Speaker 2: sore loser, and I'm also not a conspiracy theorist, and
Speaker 2: so I don't claim, you know, this election was stolen.
Speaker 2: That election was not like we had a presidential election.
Speaker 2: One party ran with mass deportations being a huge part
Speaker 2: of their platform, and they won. It didn't sneak up
Speaker 2: on us.
Speaker 1: They didn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't in the fine print. It was a huge
Speaker 2: they had signed it did mass deportations. Now there was
Speaker 2: an election and the candidate and the party that supported
Speaker 2: that one. You cannot like it or like it. I
Speaker 2: could not like it. But they won. And so we
Speaker 2: can't say we didn't see that coming. They told us
Speaker 2: it was coming. The country wanted it, and here we are.
Speaker 2: So we are okay with that. Collectively, the majority is
Speaker 2: and anyone that put pencil to paper about the math
Speaker 2: of actually deporting millions and millions of people had to
Speaker 2: reckon with that. If they were going to fulfill their
Speaker 2: campaign promise, it would be through brute force and there
Speaker 2: would be unspeakable hardship on countless communities throughout the country.
Speaker 2: And we were okay with that. So if you are
Speaker 2: a proud American, which I am, you have to come
Speaker 2: to terms with that. So that that is something that
Speaker 2: I know we're okay with even if I hate it,
Speaker 2: But other things are happening that we need to have that.
Speaker 1: I feel like we haven't.
Speaker 2: Had the vigorous, true national debate about whether or not
Speaker 2: we are okay with The debate has not happened, and
Speaker 2: it's taking place anyway. So are we okay with the
Speaker 2: term domestic terrorist losing any meaning whatsoever? Are we okay
Speaker 2: with that? Because if that woman, if Renaneicle Good, can
Speaker 2: be classified as a domestic terrorist, then literally any of
Speaker 2: us can be any of us. And words have to
Speaker 2: matter because not only do they tether us to a
Speaker 2: shared reality, but they have real words, like domestic terrorists
Speaker 2: have real legal ramifications. There are protections theoretically that we
Speaker 2: all have as American citizens that become far shakier if
Speaker 2: we are designated as a terrorist, foreign or domestic. So
Speaker 2: I want to be on the record on this. I'm
Speaker 2: not okay with domestic terrorist simply being a catch all
Speaker 2: term you to describe nearly anyone that the people currently
Speaker 2: empowered dislike, or use to describe a protester, or use
Speaker 2: to describe a thirty seven year old mother making a
Speaker 2: four point turn attempting to flee law enforcement. I have
Speaker 2: another question. Are we okay with giving masked, armed, in
Speaker 2: badgeless men, many of which have had far less training
Speaker 2: than your local police force, absolute power over us as
Speaker 2: American citizens anytime we run into them? And to further that,
Speaker 2: are we okay with the growing consensus in some corners
Speaker 2: of American life that the justifiable penalty for failing to
Speaker 2: comply with a law enforcement officer very likely maybe lethal force.
Speaker 1: Are we okay.
Speaker 2: That we are a country with a foundational principle of
Speaker 2: innocent until proven guilty, being entitled to a trial by
Speaker 2: a jury of your peers, not being detained without probable cause,
Speaker 2: and everything that historically has made America's system of jurisprudence,
Speaker 2: the envy of the world, things that apply if you
Speaker 2: are accused of murder, that all of those things can
Speaker 2: be thrown out the window at any given moment by
Speaker 2: a dude in a mask with forty seven days of
Speaker 2: training because he's on a power trip. Are we okay
Speaker 2: with the de facto punishment for failure to comply with
Speaker 2: a law enforcement officer, at times being harsher than the
Speaker 2: punishment for bank robbery. I'm not okay with that. Nobody
Speaker 2: voted for that, but that is clearly let me revise.
Speaker 2: I don't know that nobody voted for that, but that
Speaker 2: was not put to a vote. Maybe people, It appears
Speaker 2: some people like it. And if that is where we
Speaker 2: want to be as a country, then I want I
Speaker 2: want there to be a vigorous debate. I want people
Speaker 2: to make their case and then we'll see who we actually.
Speaker 1: Are as a country.
Speaker 2: But I'm not I can't believe that's where people actually are,
Speaker 2: but it is the direction we're heading, more rapidly than
Speaker 2: ever before. Are we okay with becoming a nation of
Speaker 2: show me your papers, that any of us, at any
Speaker 2: given moment, for no rhyme or reason, might have to
Speaker 2: prove we are allowed to be where we are?
Speaker 1: Are we okay with that?
Speaker 2: Again, if we as a country are, then I want
Speaker 2: to see the proof. I want that to be debated,
Speaker 2: and I want folks that think that is the best
Speaker 2: version of America to make their case, and if they win,
Speaker 2: so be it. But I'm not okay with that simply
Speaker 2: just being a thing now just happening. Are we okay
Speaker 2: that we have unleashed a band of masked, armed, anonymous men.
Speaker 1: Across this nation.
Speaker 2: That appear to feel accountable to no one, And if
Speaker 2: they didn't feel accountable to anyone before yesterday, they can
Speaker 2: only be emboldened after they saw that video and then,
Speaker 2: most importantly, saw the reaction of literally the most powerful
Speaker 2: people in the country exonerate the shooter and demonize the victim.
Speaker 2: Are we okay that we are a nation with foundational principles,
Speaker 2: foundational principles based in resisting and oppressive government, freedom of speech,
Speaker 2: freedom of protests, freedom of movement, innocent until proven guilty,
Speaker 2: and all.
Speaker 1: That goes along with that.
Speaker 2: And none of that applies evidently if you happen to
Speaker 2: run into the wrong federal agent.
Speaker 1: Who decides.
Speaker 2: Don't care about your constitutional rights, and he might just
Speaker 2: decide that the penalty for not listening to him is death,
Speaker 2: and then post mortem you might be branded a terrorist
Speaker 2: by your own government. Are we really okay with that?
Speaker 1: Is that really who we? Is that the road we
Speaker 1: want to go down?
Speaker 2: And lastly, and this is bigger than yesterday's tragedy, But
Speaker 2: yesterday's tragedy and I feel I feel terribly saying that
Speaker 2: for that woman and her family, I understand nothing's bigger
Speaker 2: than their stage tragedy. I apologize, But yesterday's strategy is
Speaker 2: once again shined to spotlight on this. Are we okay
Speaker 2: with there no longer being any type of shared morality
Speaker 2: amongst us as Americans that Trump's our political affiliations? Are
Speaker 2: we okay that we currently live in a world where
Speaker 2: we can see a thirty seven year old mother shot
Speaker 2: dead in the street, and we know when we see it,
Speaker 2: some people, including some of the most powerful people, will
Speaker 2: not only justify it, but try to convince you that
Speaker 2: you didn't see what you just saw. Are we okay
Speaker 2: with lyne by the world's most powerful people becoming so
Speaker 2: brazen and commonplace that even when it's as black and
Speaker 2: white as the video of the shooting of Renanical Good
Speaker 2: that they believe they can instantly create an alternate reality where.
Speaker 1: What we all saw on video is not what we
Speaker 1: saw on video.
Speaker 2: I'm not okay with any of it, and deep down
Speaker 2: in your heart, in your soul, in the marrow of
Speaker 2: your bones, I gotta believe you're not okay with it either.
Speaker 1: That's right,