WEBVTT - 101423 Dispelling Myths from the Comments Section (Part 1) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.920 You know, these online trolls and comments have been getting 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.319 to me, and it's time we did something about it. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.479 Broadcasting from the Hip Hop Weekly Studios, ID like to 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.320 welcome you to another episode of Civic Cipher. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.680 I am your host, Ramsey's job. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.400 He is Ram's job. I am his personal security. So 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.360 if he's that fed up, then we got something to 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:20.880 talk about. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.919 But you can call me. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.680 Que indeed, stick around. We have a lot to talk 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.440 about today. The fact of the matter is that we 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:36.280 have adopted a more aggressive social media strategy in recent 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.960 months and been posting more frequently. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.120 You know, we're radio guys. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.720 We do radio, and so social media has just kind 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.040 of always been something that's supplemented what we've done. Well, 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.080 now we've had to kind of lean into it a 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.839 bit more, and along with that comes trolls and people that, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.279 you know, try to pick on us. But the fact 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.880 of the matter is that there are a lot of 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:02.040 people who raised some talking points that are sort of 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.319 age old talking points from the far right, if I'm 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.199 being honest, and some of them are indeed white supremacist, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.560 and so what we're gonna do is hopefully have the 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:17.600 conversations in the studio today so that you can hear 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.920 our rebuttals and use them in your own travels, in 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:28.320 your own journey as you encounter racism or anti black 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.440 sentiment or anti anything sentiment, We're going to have the 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:39.040 conversations that I believe will help you on your way. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.559 We've probably been more frustrated by it than we hope 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.240 that you are, but because we get inundated with it. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:48.880 But the fact of the matter is that we recognize 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.680 that it can be frustrating for anybody and everybody, and 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.720 it's when these things come together that we can actually 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.880 do something about it. So we're going to take the 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.680 time to day to do that and foremost, like we 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.520 always do it, this time, we are going to discuss 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.960 some Ebony Excellence. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:08.080 Show. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.680 We show Today's Abney Excellence is sponsored by Major Threats 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.120 for innovative fashionable sportswear. Check major Threats dot com. All right, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.200 I'm gonna read from NPR and this is a cool story. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.760 It's about a a man, a black man, who was 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.040 a mechanic and later in life became a doctor. He 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.959 realized his lifelong dream and I just thought it was 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:32.040 really special. So he's our Ebony Excellence example today. Carl 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.959 Alanbe's professional trajectory could be reduced to the plot of 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.639 a feel good movie, skimming over the details. His story 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.560 is of a once poor boy from the wrong side 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.919 of Cleveland who went from fixing cars to fixing people, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.480 from mechanic to medical doctor, and technically all of that 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.440 is correct. Alan b did go from owning an auto 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.120 repair shop almost straight out of high school, recently starting 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.080 his first job as an emergency room attending physician at 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.200 Cleveland Clinics Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. But the 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.119 more accurate truth is that in this case, alan Be's 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.239 social and economic mobility, the kind that embodies the soul 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.959 called American dream, was of the tortoise versus hair variety. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.200 It stretched out over decades. High school graduation came and 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:14.080 went with little fanfear, though by then Allenbe was living 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.480 on his own and had picked up a job as 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.760 at an auto part store. It was there he learned 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.040 about cars, and he would often pick up small repair 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.320 jobs that he worked on at a shop across the street. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.240 In the beginning, he rented a portion of the space, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.240 but eventually he had enough business to buy the place. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.720 It was nineteen taking community college classes unearthed a desire 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.200 he held since seeing Denzel Washington play a doctor. He 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.920 eventually transferred into a program at Cleveland State University that 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.760 guaranteed him a spot at Northeast Ohio Medical University, and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.480 he did well. Just I want to let you know, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.200 I'm reading pretty fast. So in between there he grew 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:50.360 up and raised a family, all that. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:50.920 Sort of stuff. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.120 He graduated Summa cum lade with a bachelor's in science 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.400 by twenty fifteen, and he started medical school, and then 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.880 he graduated from medical school at age forty seven, and 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.080 now he is again at his residency at Cleveland Clinic 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.560 ACRON at fifty one. So shout out to Carl Allen 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.760 Beech any excellence if I ever heard of it. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:15.280 Okay, So here's what we're gonna do. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:20.480 We're going to go through our social media and pick 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.400 out some of the comments that deserver response. It deserve 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.600 is a strong word, but that deserver response that you 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:34.560 could benefit from hearing. Right, Some of these comments that 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.120 we get are We get a lot of comments because 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.839 of the hashtags we use, and a lot of the 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.080 people are very angry people, right, And so we get 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.440 a lot of trolls, a lot of people that are 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.080 just spewing really hateful stuff and not really trying to 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:55.440 understand or really espouse kind of the intent of what 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.080 we're trying to say in our posts. But the fact 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.480 of the matter is that some of these talking points, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.279 they exist, and we know that they exist. They're like zombies. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.119 They'll never die and if we encounter them. The fact 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.400 is that there's a good chance that you encounter them 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.160 in your in your travels, in your own life. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:14.480 And so. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:22.040 Let's start with a post that we put up recently. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:27.839 Q actually posted this where he was talking about lawsuits 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:35.240 settlements and how police lawsuits are settled by the citizens, taxpayers, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.120 You and I. Right, So Q is making his point, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.159 and then the comments are. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:44.320 Pretty ugly. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:55.040 We're being honest. So let's grab one. So here's one 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:02.119 says Wow, another pseudo science sorry, another pseudo sophisticated black 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.520 guy with Obenian glasses with the same take about. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:07.200 The police. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:16.240 For this. I think that when people are trying to 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:24.080 insult us and there's nothing else to their conversation, it shows. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.200 That they're ill equipped to engage. Right. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.000 So a lot of times, and these are lessons you 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.680 would think I wouldn't already, but I'm learning this right now. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.599 It's an interesting point that you bring up, because it's 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.560 not they don't counter what we're saying, right, They don't 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.760 provide data that's contrary to what we're saying. They don't 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.359 they don't even start an argument right with regard to 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.919 what we're saying. A lot of the times they're just 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.880 attacking how we look and pseudo sophisticated. Is interesting. I 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.720 was presenting myself the way that I do every day 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 out in the world. I wasn't attempting to appear or 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.919 be sophisticated, just talking about how I feel and pointing 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.160 out in truth that the citizens of the country and 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:18.200 local municipality civil suits, the taxpayers money goes towards settling 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.800 those lawsuits, absolutely not the pockets of those officers or 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.600 their departments directly. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.040 It comes from the taxpayers. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.600 And I think that something that's just factual like that 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:36.000 eliciting such a strong response from somebody, it shows that 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.160 a lot of these people are dead set on just 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.200 being angry. Okay, so bear that in mind. I want 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.000 to switch gears here to another post. This post is 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:52.000 about the Fearless Fund. Another post from Q. And the 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.680 Fearless Fund is a fund and correct me if I'm wrong. Q. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:01.240 It's a fund that's designed to fund business ventures. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.120 By black women or minority women. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:03.720 Minority women. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.280 Okay, thank you. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:12.040 So immediately the affirmative action conversation comes into play, and 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:17.520 so a lot of the comments reflect that anti affirmative 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:25.480 So let's grab one of these comments here. Okay, affirmative 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.560 action is racist. It was a good thing. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.920 It was abolished. Okay, I put thanks for sharing. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.959 Deciding to live your life as a victim will never 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.760 allow anyone to rise above. This is another kind of 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.080 zombie that will never die because they always think they 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.960 were victims. Nothing should be granted or given based on race. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.200 That's racism. Okay, Let's let's take this comment for a second. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:56.280 Nothing should be granted or given based on race in 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:05.439 a vacuum, all things being equal, That's absolutely true. When 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.199 you take out of when you take history out of 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.559 the equation, when you take the effects and legacy of 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.040 the government sanctioned discrimination that we have as a people 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.880 have experienced in this country out of the equation, then yes, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.960 a comment like that is one hundred percent valid. But 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.960 the fact of the matter is that we have started 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.959 well behind the starting point, and we are compared to 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.520 sort of the standard, if you will, the white standard. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.680 Will call it the white standard, the standard that white 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.760 people have. So why are why are black people making 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.520 this much money when white people are making this much money? 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.360 Why are black outcomes this when white people's outcomes are 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.400 this right, So this is this white people are the 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.640 standard that we're compared to. Right, And without the context 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.640 of how we ended up there, you can make a 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:10.680 statement like, oh, yeah, affirmative action is racist because you 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.440 know you're you're that there's that's almost like delusion. It 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.000 doesn't account for the reality of the situation that affirmative 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:25.760 action was intended to accelerate the healing and the recovery 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:31.440 of black people and not meant to give black people 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.400 an advantage over white people. That's not a real thing. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.280 That's that's also not what it did. Absolutely not, affirmative 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.120 action at no point gave black people an advantage over 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.000 anyone else. It just allowed black people to be considered 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.280 for opportunities where they normally would not have. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.120 Even been considered. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.000 They didn't get to take cuts or jump in front 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.360 of people. It just got someone to look at their 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:57.400 application to. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.880 It's so funny how that works, because again, a lot 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:09.320 of these a lot of these people, they don't know that, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.719 and they they end up kind of coming ei their 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:21.520 face with these really strange and hurtful responses, and it's 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.720 almost like they feel like they have them all high grounds, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.359 so they're not trying to learn anything whatsoever. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.880 And in most of those cases, even that high ground 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:39.240 is born from pseudo education, if you will. They're parroting 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.680 or borrowing talking points that they saw on a meme 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.000 or that they heard on a talk show, or that 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.079 they saw scrolling the timeline before they got to our video. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.440 It affirmed how they felt, and they just said it louder, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.720 as if it was an original thought, as if they'd 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.280 studied or done some research at all. And they get 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.240 to adopt that aggressive position from a position and of 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.439 you know, having the moral high ground, or or feeling 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:12.000 that they are actually the ones being oppressed, or you know, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:17.439 I've heard them say things like reverse racism, when not 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.440 only do the outcomes and the data show that there's 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.120 no such thing. We've never had the advantage or been 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.319 able to disadvantage another group of people because they were. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.640 A certain racewise. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.480 So it just it's it's it's it's always been really 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.000 interesting that they say things like play the victim. Right, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:43.079 if you're if you're bothering no one and somebody walks 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.160 up to you and assaults you, expressing that you were hurt, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.120 it's not you playing the victim. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.880 Nor is leaning into it. Well, how about let me 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.680 not say it this way? When you use it to 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:06.960 explain your current standing, that is not playing the victim either. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:07.840 It's context. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:08.200 Right. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.120 So I think that's the dividing line for people that 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.480 kind of feel that way. If I can, if I 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.160 can make a connection between what happened and where I'm 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.560 standing right now, that's not playing the victim. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.640 That's again just telling telling my story. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:31.640 And if I continue to let it limit me, then 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.280 perhaps that's playing the victim. But I've never seen that 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.200 reality for black people. I've seen black people be as 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.800 resilient as any human being I've ever seen, you know, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.160 and in the face of a country that hates the 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.160 black people have been here since slavery. That means we've 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.760 went through Jim Crow, we went through Black Codes, we 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.720 went through all those lynchings, all those massacres. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.000 That there of course, were some black people here pre slavery. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:00.840 Sure, and let me flip this, a lot of black 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.280 people were victims. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:03.920 How about that? 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.880 Yeah, a lot of black we're actual victims. They're not 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.240 alive anymore. And you know, all of these things that 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:18.440 are passed down, like wealth, opportunities and how those things 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:26.720 shape life today, it's just something that that black people 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.480 don't have. So again, to compare black people to white people. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.280 When a lot of these things have passed down, a 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.280 lot of anti black sentiments still affects black people in 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:44.760 different parts of the country. You cannot divorce the history 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:50.000 from our current reality because the history has created our 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.040 current reality. And so again, there's no victimhood here. It's 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.960 just factual. And I could again that's what we do 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:02.800 on the shows. We outline actly where things are connected 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.800 and what we can do to kind of help shape 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.000 the future for ourselves. I want to I want to 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.800 touch on another post that we have here. I put 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.120 a post up and this is a white gentleman. He's 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:17.840 on a on a podcast. It's just a video that 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.160 I put up, and he says, what are the most 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.720 what are the five most dangerous US cities? According to 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.920 Forbes and the guy says, well, let me start with Chicago, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.360 and then the host says, Chicago's not even the top fifteen. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:30.880 Right. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.480 So again, this this video is meant to show that 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.000 depending on where you get your news, you might be 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:36.880 misinformed the. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:39.600 Most. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.320 The five most dangerous cities are I believe number one 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.360 is Saint Louis, number two is Mobile, Alabama, Number three 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.920 is Birmingham, Alabama, number four is Baltimore, Maryland, and number 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:56.000 five is Memphis, Tennessee. Right, Chicago's not even there. But 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:03.320 Chicago is a common talking point for far right conservatives 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.120 who try to say, well, you don't really value black 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.000 life because look at Chicago. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:13.000 Chicago is the token black on black crime, right right 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.080 city whenever they try to make that point, and I've 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.440 heard a lot of black people use Chicago to back 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.040 that position on that argument. Right, I'm not going out 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.960 to march when the police kill us, because that's our 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.160 lives have more value than that. You guys don't say 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.400 anything when the black kid kills the black kid in Chicago. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.840 It's Chicago's the city, they say, every time, every time, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:42.960 and again. It just goes to show how narratives get 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:50.280 chronicled and how depending on where you get your news, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:56.760 you can be given a falsehood that becomes your reality. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.480 And there's people in the comments here that will not 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.040 let go of Chicago at all. Right, they still like 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.639 it's just like their brain is fixated on Chicago. But 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:16.960 again for the people who really feel like, hey, you 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.640 shouldn't protest the police if you don't protest what's going 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.840 on in Chicago. Right for those people that say that, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:32.160 I say, if a black person kills a black person 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:38.280 in Chicago, there is at least the chance that there 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.320 will be justice and there will be consequence. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.879 Let me do you one better. But when a black 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.880 person kills a black person in Chicago and the police 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.800 know who that person is, they go to jail. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.879 One of the time they get found. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.720 Please hear that caveat If the police know who did it, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.600 like if they have them on videotape, and then they 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.879 arrest them, that person is charged and in almost every 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.879 case convicted and then sentenced in a way that makes 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.240 sense of you having killed someone. The problem is when 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.600 said black person is murdered by law enforcement, and even 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.120 when it's on camera and we know who did it, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.719 sometimes no charges are even brought because there's a justification 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.879 for it, qualified immunity, feared for their life, etc. And 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.600 even when caught and on tape and convicted, they are 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.840 sentenced in a way that doesn't really match the crime 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.840 they're being convicted of. Those are the differences that we 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.960 try to highlight. Of course, there's value in the life 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.680 no matter who took it, but there's also accountability when 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:01.440 that person, specifically in these cases, is caught on camera 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.359 and is not a member of law enforcement. Accountability is 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:08.200 what we're talking about. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:08.480 People. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.159 We're not trying to say that it never happens otherwise, 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.840 just that when it happens otherwise and someone is caught, charged, convicted, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.800 they are sentenced in a way that makes sense for 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.800 having ended someone's life. That is typically not the case 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.120 when it comes to law enforcement. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.680 All right, So. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.679 You remember, for those that listened to the show, you 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:37.840 remember we did a piece where there was an officer 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.119 was laughing at the death of a woman who was 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.119 killed while crossing the street when another police officer was 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.080 speeding to respond to a call the accidentally hit her 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:53.679 right So the subsequent officer was recalling arriving on the 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.240 scene to investigate the initial officer that hit the woman 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.040 and he was recorded on his bodycam video kind of 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.000 laughing at her and saying that they should cut a 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.320 check for eleven thousand dollars and you know. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:07.960 She was low value, that sort of stuff. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.639 So we talked about that, and we took a clip 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.440 from this show and we put it on our social 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.159 media as a teaser, like, here's what to look forward to. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.760 So funnily enough, here's a comment forty seven black people 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.159 shot over a weekend in Chicago. Where's this same energy? 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.200 So they're comparing us talking about a police officer laughing 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:36.160 at a victim and expressing how little worth she has. Yeah, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.960 and they're comparing that to the people shot in Chicago. Again, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.000 there's no connection there whatsoever. But this comment says, forty 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.560 seven people shot over a weekend in Chicago, where's the 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:49.200 same energy? Why is it when one white race soldier 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.800 does something, there's outrage, but you'll see it happening in 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.440 your community or other communities, and its crickets. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:55.760 Okay, So. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.240 Let me help people out with this one, because this 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.200 one is kind of a weird one and I think 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.880 that will will probably be very harm So. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.120 There is a degree of. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:17.240 Individual responsibility that factors into every single human being's life, right, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.840 It's absolutely true. Some people are born with gifts, some 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.240 people are born with talents, some people are born with 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.160 attributes and skills or an aptitude toward a certain thing, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:29.760 and other people are not. 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:30.320 Right. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.800 This is just kind of the way things go, and 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:35.880 it is up to the individual to do whatever they're 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.760 going to do with those gifts and skills. We don't 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:46.280 talk about individual responsibility on this show because we deal 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:52.720 with data, right, and data shows that there are certain 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.640 groups of people doing better than other groups of people. Now, 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.560 we operate under the premise that all human beings in 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:05.480 all groups have equal capacity to be borne, brilliant, talented, etc. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:07.600 It doesn't matter what color you are. If you can sing, 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.520 you can sing, it doesn't matter you know whatever. We 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.960 talk about brilliant black minds. We talk about brilliant black 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.720 everything on this show because we exist well. When you 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.200 look at the data, it tends to favor one group 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:25.640 of people over pretty much everyone else, almost always, and 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:30.160 so for us, we try to deal with the systemic 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.159 issues that we believe are resulting in those outcomes. This 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.760 is what many people who have come before us try 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.960 to do. We are in no way removing individual responsibilities. 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:42.760 No one who's ever said that once this thing happens, 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.400 all black people are going to be fine. Okay, there's 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.000 still individual responsibility goes into every single human story on 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:53.159 this planet, and we are dealing with the systemic issues 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:55.240 so that more of us can break through and we're 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.440 not subjugated and relegated to the margins of society.