WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 071622 Black on Black Crime is a Falsehood (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.040 And now my mic back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:10.920 You're like that, you can strikes with waters from headquarters 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:11.920 behind him the. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.440 BI if you're just tuning in the civic sideher, I'm 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:16.840 your host, ramses joh. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.040 I'm with him again and always. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.759 They call me q ward list. Indeed, there still a 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.119 lot to stick around for. Uh, we're finally going to 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.080 talk about black on black crime at length. This is 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.040 something that comes up quite a bit. It's one of 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:36.080 those weird eighties zombies that won't die, like trickle down 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:42.360 economics and uh what whatever, you know, these manufactured panics 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.080 sort of buzzwords and phrases or whatever. So we're gonna 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.600 we're gonna discuss that a little bit. We're also going 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.879 to talk about the three fifths compromise for our way 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.960 black history. Fact, this is something that a lot of 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.120 black folks know about and a lot of non black 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.080 folks don't know about. And you know, you might live 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.720 somewhere in this country where you don't get any critical 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.760 race theory or better said, American history. So we got 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.559 your daily dose of that right here. So stick around 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.800 to find out what the three fits compromise in You 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.000 will be sick to your stomach. But first and foremost, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.600 let's discuss how to become a better ally. We shall. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.000 So this one's brought to you by Hip Hop Weekly 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:25.720 Magazine and it comes from CNM, and we are going 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.479 to shout out Rage against the Machine and my guy 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.679 Zach Dayala roche anyway I will read. The members of 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.840 Rage Against the Machine have always carried a message with 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.080 their music. In twenty twenty two, they have plenty to 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.319 be mad about, and after eleven year break from performing together, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.960 they didn't hold back over the weekend. During their pandemic 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.040 delayed return to stage Saturday night, the rap rock band 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.160 was typically abrasive, performing its high octane catalog more than 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.440 thirty thousand people in Wisconsin's Alpine Valley Music Theater. They 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.639 screened images of real world violence, including an El Paso 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.440 police car and gulfed in flame games, along with messages 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.760 related to the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe versus. Wade. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.960 Quote forced birth in a country that is the only 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.959 wealthy country in the world without any guaranteed paid parental 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.400 leave at the national level. Quote an on screen message 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.919 read quote forced birth in a country where black birth 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.680 givers experience maternal mortality two to three times higher than 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.079 that of white birth givers forced birth in a country 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.200 where a gun violence is the number one cause of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.760 death among children and teenagers in quote, and then finally 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.440 apport the Supreme Court. The next screen read in all caps. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.200 Every time we catch somebody using their platform to bring 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:50.160 attention to social issues, particularly if they affect black and 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:55.520 brown people and other marginalized groups in this country, we 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.280 try to highlight that as an example of how you 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.800 can and be the change that you would like to 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.760 see in the world and help to create the change 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.440 for some folks who are your brothers and your sisters, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.760 but may not be from your direct tribe. And Rage 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.079 Against the Machine has done just that. So shout out 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:14.359 to them. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:19.320 That band is called Rage against the Machine. Very well done, gentlemen. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.560 All right, so black on Black crime. I don't want 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:29.239 to take a moment, man. A recent addition to the 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:34.000 show is our producer Maggie aka Maggie be Known, And 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.040 she's the one that's kind of button us up a 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.760 little bit more. And sometimes she comes to the table 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.720 with some stuff that she's kind of passionate about. Something 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.480 she hears she thinks we need to delve into a 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.960 little bit more and we're better for that. This is 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:56.200 one such subject. We talked about black on black crime 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:04.200 briefly last week and she felt like, you know, we're 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.640 not going to wait to develop this to really make 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.160 this live in our listeners' minds. Let's put something together 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.720 and really flesh it out so folks know exactly what 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:18.520 we're talking about. So shout out to Maggie. Be known now, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.680 black on black crime. It's something that I know for 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.280 a fact you've heard just growing up in the United States, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.320 police or wire black people out protesting police brutality. When 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.680 there's so much quote black on black crime end quote 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.160 that they should be focusing on instead. If they were 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.880 really outraged at black death, then they would start in Chicago. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.680 They would start in the ghetto. They would deal with 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:50.359 their own problems before trying to uh take on police 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.320 who are here to protect and serve the community at large. Right, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.600 this is a this is a narrative that exists. This 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.359 is this is a reality. It's a false reality, but 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.800 it's a reality. For some people. This is fact, the 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.599 gospel truth, and they can't see past it. So the 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.000 conversation begins and ends right there, because in their minds, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.200 black on black crime exists, and if black people aren't 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.400 concerned about that, then why should they be taken seriously 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.520 about anything else? Right, So, there's a lot of people 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.360 in this country that that's really how they view it. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.719 And I recognize that you listening to this show might 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.520 not feel that way, but I also recognize you may 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.080 not have had conversations with the people in your lives 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.400 that do feel that way. And so we're going to 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:43.000 go over a couple of things that help explain why 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.880 this term exists, how harmful it is, and what we 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.600 can do to have some conversations with people who have 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.160 kind of stuck in the short loop. You know, that 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.719 was established again in the seventies, I believe kind of 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.760 bolstered in the eighties alongside the crack epidemic and the 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.040 black absent Black fathers, you know, myth and all that 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:18.000 sort of stuff to just basically kind of keep from 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.000 having to discuss what the reality of the situation is, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:30.360 which is basically white supremacy laws that allow black communities 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:38.400 to be overly policed, overly incarcerated, grossly impoverished, denied economic opportunities, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.320 et cetera. And it just paints this really strange narrative. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.720 That again just lingers, So I'll read this comes from 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:50.040 ABC News. Black on black crime a loaded and controversial 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.960 phrase that has often heard amid calls for police reform. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.800 It's a retort sometimes heard in the context of the protests, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:06.440 but what about black on black crime? These retorts have 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:14.400 more recently been mentioned along side you know, conversations about 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.040 the death of George Floyd, anything having to do with 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.680 Black Lives Matter, etc. Often as the idea that there 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.120 is a rampant crime problem within the black and mainly 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.880 urban communities that some are choosing to ignore in favor 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.120 of focusing on police brutality. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:32.480 Right. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:38.360 It's a phrase or concept that at times recently has 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.520 been used by some conservatives to ask why the same 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.640 activists and community members calling for police reform, seemingly, in 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.000 their view, don't express the same outrage when someone who 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.040 is black is killed or injured by another black person. Okay, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:08:00.440 so let's stop right here for a second. Now. I've 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.840 mentioned this on the on the show. In fact, you know, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.679 our first ever episode we talked about this, the first 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.240 ever episode of Civic Ciphers, so long ago. How about that, man, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:15.600 we come a long way I'm I'm proud of you man. Anyway, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.040 our first ever episode, we discussed this, and we've we've 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.080 obviously talked about it since. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:19.320 Then. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:32.880 Let's talk about the value of life of our lives. Okay, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.520 by our lives, I mean black lives. For one second. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.440 If I you know, I'm from Compton, California, So that's 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.439 the city I'll pick if I grew up in Compton 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:58.520 and someone ends up taking my life, right, there is 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.199 a lot of things that may go into that, you 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.640 know what I mean. Granted, there's senseless crime that happens 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.800 all over the planet, right, that is definitely a thing, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.120 But oftentimes in impoverished communities again around the planet, people 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.680 from all colors. A lot of times that crime is 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:25.680 tied very closely to economic conditions. The people who have 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.880 less are more willing to take what they want or 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:37.160 need from the people who have more. Right Hitler, when 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:42.679 he sent Jewish people to the extermination camps in Auschwitz 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.480 in Germany, concentration camps, concentration camps. What did I say, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.559 extermination camps? I don't know, say that concentration camps very good? Anyway, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.160 when he sent these people, I remember reading about this 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.320 in school because I actually did have American history and 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.040 world history critical race or what the equivalent would be 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:07.160 when I got to college. But these Nazi soldiers, what 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.959 they would do is they would remember, these Jewish people 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.280 were hungry, they weren't treated well. They were as good 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.920 as dead, six million of them, exterminated off the face 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:24.720 of the planet, systematically exterminated. This man wanted to wipe 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:37.360 the Jewish faith from the planet entirely, sick faith and ethnicity. Sure, sure, exactly, so, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.880 they weren't well fed. They arrive at these concentration camps, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.600 you know, and my understanding, if I remember correctly, is 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.679 they did some work here and there, but for the 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:55.160 most part they were gassed and discarded, their their bodies discarded. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.319 But while they were being held I remember this distinctly. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.040 The soldiers what they would do, because you do have 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.400 to provide some sustenance unless you want them, to know, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.040 be too weak to be of any value too. Yes, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.440 So the German soldiers what they would do is they 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.120 would take bread, and they would throw bread into like 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:25.760 the cells and the and the holding pins where these 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.520 very skinny, very weak people were being held, and then 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:47.679 they would fight over the bread and sorry, they they 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.440 would fight each other, and I don't think that's fair 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.600 because you know, I don't think that they really wanted 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.200 to fight each other. I think they were hungry. And 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.720 I think that that's a human No. I think that's 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:08.600 anything with a nervous system and survival instincts. That's that's 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.400 kind of you're forced into that. That's effectively what that is. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:17.000 You're forced to take that action. And that's not fair 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:23.160 and that's not kind. And you know, yeah, I mean 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:24.719 you've listened to the show. You know me, I'm I 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:26.920 try my best to be fair and I try my 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.920 best to be kind. So those are that's what I 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.880 teach my children. That's the best I got. So if 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.080 you take that example and you you know, bring it 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.760 over here to this country and you look at these 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.800 really impoverished communities or oftentimes my people, our people live 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.080 and then, you know, in the eighties, when these terms 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:57.120 were kind of first being popularized in this country, there 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:03.559 was issues with with drugs being brought into black communities, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.880 Compton specifically where I lived. I was born in nineteen 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.720 eighty two, so the timeline checks out. I was there 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:18.920 and I saw it with these eyes right here, those 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:27.000 sorts of things, deliberate, systemic things, exacerbated the poverty, and 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:39.640 then you end up with these now criminals doing criminal activity, okay, 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.000 and then you start to realize that, you know, just 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:52.280 like the Jews, the environment creates the criminals. They're not 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:57.280 born bad, right, and the people harmed by that are 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.040 the people closest to them. Have you ever heard of 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.280 Jew on jew? Cute? 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.320 You've never heard of any other group of people in 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.360 the history of Earth on you know. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.319 Sub it's hard to get it out and enter into. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:20.680 The argument a synonym for themselves on themselves crime? You've 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:21.520 never heard of it. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:22.600 Ever. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.800 The only such instance in the history of the planet 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.760 Earth is black on black crime. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:38.600 So the reason why black on black crime was popularized 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:44.080 is because in the eighties when Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics was, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:56.280 you know, kind of sweeping the nation, these very conservative, very. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:04.040 It's hard to keep saying racist. I don't because I 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.280 don't want to try to look for synonyms. I don't 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.240 want to say try to give you something else. But 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.440 you know what it is, you very very clearly that 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:11.440 here's what it is. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:11.680 Man. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:22.480 A lot of institutions white supremacy. There's no exception will 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.480 protect themselves. They will refuse to deal with the reality 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.720 we just talked about police not not being accountable, not 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.440 being honorable as much as they could be. You know, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:41.040 you know, the same is true with really big parts 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:45.480 of this country, big parts of this country. Rather than saying, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:53.320 you know what, we have historically done wrong to this 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.600 group of people, and we continue to do wrong to 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.480 this group of people, and we continue to benefit from 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.120 the wrongs that we are still doing to this group 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.920 of people, rather than coming to terms with that, it's 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:16.560 easier to say, no, let's spin a narrative that suggests 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.880 that these people are doing it to themselves. And that's 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.720 something that's different from what happened in Germany. This is 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.120 why you've never heard of jew on jew crime, right. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.680 But if you come to this country and they, you know, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.480 throw the scraps into the pen or the ghetto or whatever, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.080 and we're left to fight over what little resources are 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.880 there and we're all trying to and then of course 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.000 right down the street. You know, the component is California 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.920 is a strange place because you can drive ten minutes 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:54.120 in any direction and be either in a million dollar 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.440 neighborhood or on a beach or in the slums or 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.440 you know, skid row. It's all you know right there, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.520 right for those who haven't been out there or don't 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:11.520 know about California or southern California at least. So you're 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.120 right around the people, but the haves, and if your 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:21.639 have not, then you know your aspirations may get the 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.160 best of you. Now that's not to say that you know, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.600 black people are going to go out to Beverly Hills 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.399 and you know whatever. No, it's typically the circumstances are 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:31.560 a little bit more dire than that. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.960 Not just not just that though, it's not just close proximity, right, 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.880 it's also a failure of accountability. When the quote unquote 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:47.880 black on black crime happens, those protecting servers are far 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.040 less likely to protect and or serve. They know, if 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:57.359 they cross into Beverly Hills, the stakes get higher, the 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.320 level of scrutiny and accountability and attention, it's higher. Those 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.720 people over in that zip code with that money and 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.640 that complexion get a different type of protection and attention 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:14.040 from those who sign up for that job. So those 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:18.200 that look like us are left to fit for themselves. Right, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.120 and since I'm less likely to even be investigated. When 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.000 I'm a criminal and I'm doing crime where I live 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.960 and where the people around me are also poor, this 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.760 is where I'm going to do my criminal activities. I'm not, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.600 by nature of my skin color, a criminal, but by 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.320 nature of the circumstances I was born into, with an 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.200 entire system working to keep me in those circumstances. So 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.760 that those who have also, always, I'm sorry, benefited from 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.160 this system will continue to and their prosperity and their 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.640 children and the generations after them will continue to benefit 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.879 from said system. It is in their best interest to 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.840 keep us right where we've always been and to never 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.640 acknowledge the foot that is on our throat, because they 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.120 want to present themselves as decent people. So they can't 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.400 say out loud, we're sorry for not only what our 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.359 forefathers did to you, but what we continue to do 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.120 to you today. They have to be able to tell 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:29.480 their children that they're decent people. Those people over their honey, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.560 they do that to themselves. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:41.840 Just look at the news now. I'm glad you brought 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:51.080 that up, because that disconnect is, or rather these people 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.119 being able to insulate themselves from what is effectively a 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.960 shared problem is kind of what has allowed this myth 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:07.320 to persist? Share this kind Well, it's it's a societal problem, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.359 but they can insulate themselves from it. But it's based 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.800 on society, you know, just not based on an individual 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:16.600 group of people just being bad. And I do want 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.239 to say this because I know some folks will say it. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.440 You know, cues from Detroit, let them set them. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.600 To be a seven for anybody that's listening. 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.640 If you know anything about that, you know that that's 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.040 where it goes down. And again, I'm from Compton, California, 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:39.199 and we yes have done okay, right, I gotta say this, 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:40.159 you know, I gotta say it. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:41.280 We've done it. We did okay. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.080 But if you look at I mean, we can just 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.280 say the names Detroit, Michigan, Compton, California, you already know 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.200 that everybody doesn't make it, you know what I mean. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.000 This is why us being here, having these types of 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.840 stories to tell matters so much more. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.240 This is an interesting thing that we haven't touched on. 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.320 And any time that we've talked about this that I 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:13.119 think we should, I've heard said out loud by people 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:19.800 who were sincerely and genuinely upset. How come black lives 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:25.760 only have worth when they're taken by non black people. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.840 And ironically, every time in my life that I've heard 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.960 that rhetoric and that form of questioning, it's been from 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.600 someone who looks just like you. 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.560 Can I answer that question because I got the answer, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.280 yes you can, But give me a second, all right. 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:55.120 It is a failure to understand that the criminal is 0:21:55.160 --> 0:22:02.159 not the criminal because you look like you. And that 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.440 would be the very short, concise and specific answer. Right. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:13.560 The circumstances, the criminal behavior, the lives being taken in 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.879 these situations are not being taken because they're black. 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.840 That's the difference I want to add to that. Please, Okay. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.320 The other part that I want to add is if 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:39.400 police officer comes into your community executes black person unnecessarily, 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:42.800 it's not they don't have to be unarmed. It's legal 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.080 to carry guns in this country. But let's say an 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:46.280 unarmed black person. 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:50.280 Don't don't qualify it. Please don't for me, for men, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.320 I won't. You're right, don't qualify. 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.720 It, just unnecessarily terminate because we've watched them get arrested 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:57.919 with assault rifles. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:22:59.280 Sault qualifier for us. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:06.880 Okay, So the police does that, we feel as though 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.480 there's no chance for accountability, and the community feels like 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:15.600 our lives don't matter. If a black person, non police 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:21.320 kills a black person, there's the chance for justice and accountabilities, 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:25.000 especially if it's on video. So bear that in mind. 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.280 I want to read this before we move on. Activists 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:32.440 and academics who say black on black crime, who say 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:36.600 that black on black crime is an offensive phrase and 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.600 it has its origins rooted in America's racist legacy, and 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:43.400 it's meant to mean black people as criminally inclined. Some 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.560 also say it's misleading. White people are mainly killed by 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.440 white people, they say, but there is no conversation about 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.360 white on white crime. The idea that black people kill 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.760 each other is exceptional or something that can only be 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.840 fixed by black people is deeply rooted in White supremacists 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.680 passed the specific notion of black on black crime gain 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:05.439 Traction in a book published in eighteen ninety six entitled 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:10.119 Race Traits and the Tendencies of the American Negro And 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.560 then I want to read this right here. The Bureau 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:18.520 of Justice Statistics twenty nineteen Crime Victimization Statistics Report shows 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:20.720 that those who commit violent acts tend to commit them 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:24.880 against members of the same race as the offender. So 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:29.320 that's all stats that paints the picture. There's no such 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.320 thing as black on black crime. If there is, then 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.480 there's a whatever on whatever crime across the board. So 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:38.480 do not single black people out or otherwise. It's not 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.200 a thing. Moving on, sound for the way Black History 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.399 fact brought to you by Hip Hop Weekly Magazine. This 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.959 one comes from thoughtcode dot com and we are going 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.200 to talk a little bit about the three fifths compromise. 0:24:53.880 --> 0:25:00.080 So at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates agreed that 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:03.480 the representation each state received in the House of Representatives 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.520 and the Electoral College would be based on population, but 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.320 the issue of slavery was the sticking point between the 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:15.360 South and the North. Obviously, this is in the origins 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.760 of this country. It benefited southern states to include enslaved 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.359 people in their population counts, as that calculation would give 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:23.159 them more seats in the House of Representatives and thus 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:27.639 more political power. Delegates from northern states, however, objected on 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:30.360 the grounds that enslaved people could not vote, own property, 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:34.080 or take advantage of privileges that white men enjoyed. None 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.119 of the lawmakers called for the end of slavery, but 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:39.520 some of the representatives did express their discomfort with it. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.600 George Mason of Virginia called for anti slave trade laws, 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:47.200 and Governor Morris of New York called slavery a nefarious institution. Ultimately, 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:50.680 the delegates who objected to enslavement as an institution ignore 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:54.040 their moral qualms in favor of unifying states, thus leading 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:58.400 to the creation of the three fifths Compromise, first introduced 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:01.439 by James Wilson and Roger Sherman on June eleven, seventeen 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.320 eighty seven. To three fifths compromise counted enslaved people as 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:09.280 three fits of a person. Black people were three fits 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:16.200 of a person legally by law. It's written down. 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:18.400 To talk about what's legal and what's criminal. 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:22.320 This agreement meant that the Southern states got more electoral 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:26.720 votes than if the enslaved population hadn't been counted at all, 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.320 but fewer votes than if the enslaved population had been 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:33.120 fully counted. The text of the compromise, found in Article one, 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:36.560 Section two of the Constitution states, quote, Representatives and direct 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:40.199 taxes shall be apportioned among several states which may be 0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:44.480 included within this Union according to their perspective. Sorry their 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:48.000 respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:52.200 whole number of free persons, including those bound to service 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:55.880 for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, 0:26:56.200 --> 0:27:00.080 three fifths of all other persons. The compromising not well 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:03.119 slavery was a reality, but did not meaningfully address the 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.160 evils of the institution. In fact, the delegates passed not 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.879 only the three fifths Compromise, but also a constitutional clause 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:13.720 that allowed enslavers to quote reclaim enslaved people who sought 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:18.159 freedom by characterizing them as fugitives. This clause criminalized the 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:22.919 enslaved individuals who ran away in quest of their freedom. 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:27.680 How the compromise affected politics in the nineteenth century, the 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:30.720 three fifths Compromise had a major impact on US politics 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:33.600 for decades to come. It allowed pro slavery states to 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.480 have a disproportionate influence on the presidency, the Supreme Court, 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.359 and other positions of power. It also resulted in the 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:42.080 country having a roughly equal number of states deposed and 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:45.840 favored enslavement. Some historians contend that major events in US 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:48.879 history would have had the opposite outcomes were it not 0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:52.160