WEBVTT - 052023 Who Gets to Decide Who Lives or Dies? (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.080 And now proper watch show my mic back. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.560 You're like that you can strike. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.560 Head borders behind and. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.240 Those are just tuning in the city, sack around your 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.360 host bramsay, John is John, I am Hugh wardon de 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.319 fac I'll say there's a lot more to stick around for, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.959 so be sure to do just that. We're gonna be 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.320 talking about, funnily enough, the second. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.240 Half of the show, who gets to decide God dies 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:32.920 and why? 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.680 And what? Probab We're gonna make a whole segment out 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.239 of that quick question. Listen, man, listen, listen. There's so 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.400 many layers layers to that heard process and answered that 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.080 question right now. I have no idea how we're gonna 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.080 do a whole segment on that. We're gonna try to 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.640 figure it out. Another thing that we're gonna do, and 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.240 I want you to stick around for, is we're gonna 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.080 check out the origins of the no trespassing sign. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.600 There's so much stuff that's racist. In fact, there's an 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.000 account called everything is Racist. Follow it because everything is racist, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.400 or so it seems. But first and foremost, let's discuss 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.880 b A b A becoming a better ally baba. So 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.920 today's Baba is sponsored by Unknown Union, the fashion house 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.560 situated at the intersection of meaning, innovation, and culture. More 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:19.080 info check out Unknown Union dot com. All Right, for 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.800 today's baba, we got a line from one of our followers, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.800 Miss Romo's Creations at Miss Romo's Creations, who wanted us 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:35.240 to highlight a teacher named Alice Soy h and her 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.920 account is Music with Miss Alice. She says she's an amazing, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.560 amazing educator who advocates for our API brothers and sisters, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.679 spreads joy to children and adults alike, and has inspired 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.200 her and many other educators to do better at decolonizing 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:57.400 their classrooms. We missed this baba during the teacher Appreciation Week, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.120 but today we're going to highlight her. So I will 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.480 read some of what I got from my research of 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:11.000 Alice Soy again at Music with Miss Alice, all right, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.519 and this is what she says. In my own activism, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.760 I have shared my voice alongside my students and continue 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.359 to challenge the notions of what music education is within 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.280 our field and to onlookers from outside the field. I 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.320 ask students constantly to reflect on what it means to 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.480 build community and to create cross cultural connections between different communities. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.720 In addition, I asked students to question the separate histories 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.120 they learn that divide communities. As an Asian American music 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.560 educator of mostly black and Latin X students, it is 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:43.000 important to understand how BBIA or the term global majority 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.720 may unite us, yet we still have our own nuanced 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.680 identities and stories. I have shared stories of racial discrimination 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.960 and stereotypes I have faced as an Asian American woman 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.000 with my students, and also histories of black and Asian 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.480 solidarities that continue to this day that are not always highlighted. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.160 So again, I want you to check her out, Alice Soy. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:10.240 She's breaking down barriers and be colonizing classrooms, and we 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.119 want to make sure that we shout her out at 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.760 music with miss Alice keep going, you are becoming a 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:16.359 better ally. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.640 Shout out to all of our teachers, all of y'all. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.400 All right, who gets to decide who lives or dies? Okay, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:28.240 first off, before we get into this Q, there's been 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.640 a ton of stories that we haven't been able to 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:38.800 talk about in the news, resulting in people black people dying, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:46.560 and you before we started with the show and turn 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.680 the MIC's on and everything you came up here earlier, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:54.320 and you had a lot to say about how these 0:03:54.720 --> 0:04:02.320 high profile incidents of individuals sometimes sibili taking the lives 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:08.720 of folks who are unarmed, not really posing a threat, 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.000 maybe having an episode or just shouting, like what Karen's 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.000 do all the time, how these black people are losing 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.839 their lives. And you made a connection to some politicians, 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.320 mostly right wing politicians. I'm using that for campaign fodders 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.120 or as to suggest that this is the type of 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:34.520 behavior that we want in America. So paint that picture 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.279 a little bit before we get into the actual stories. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:43.600 I don't remember how long ago, Rams, but I told 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.960 you that a bunch of our people, and not just 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.840 our people in the broad scope, but like specifically friends 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.200 of ours, people that we interact with during our last 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:12.080 during the during our last president's time in office, say 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.400 things that I think they thought were woke or hyper 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.119 enlightened or like, y'all can't see me on the radio, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.320 But yeah, I'm. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.599 Saying, fist pump. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.000 I'm glad that they showing their true colors, because you know, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.320 I would rather have somebody be racist out loud and 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.200 show me how they really feel. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.560 And I remember that time. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:44.919 And I'm like, nah, because that's wild dangerous. I like 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:51.280 the fake, polite, fake decent, performatively nice racist person that 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.240 pretends that they're not racist when me and my children 0:05:54.240 --> 0:06:00.920 are around, because that's way safer, like way safer. And 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.360 I knew that it was not just a slippery slope 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:12.760 an avalanche. Once that type of behavior became something that 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.800 people's palate was able to taste and not spit it 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.600 out immediately, we were going to be in trouble. Once 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.440 people did not have to pretend to be decent anymore, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.320 it was not going to be a better life for us. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:33.840 People's private thoughts in their homes cannot kill me, so 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.680 they could call me the N word or just be 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:42.159 flat bigoted racist in their own homes as long as 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.200 our society required of them to pretend to be decent 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:51.880 people in public. And we used to and now we 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.520 do not anymore. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.200 Yeah, it's real out loud. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.840 And it's become like a badge of honor for them. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:04.240 Now let me show you how racist I am, because 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.960 what I realized during the last presidency is that y'all 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.600 really rock with that. And this is how I've always felt. Anyway, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.560 to let me go and get this off my chest 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.640 because it's clearly that my people are riding with me. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:23.120 So now we have it's not even it doesn't even 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.880 make sense to call it the extreme right wing anymore. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.320 It's just republican politics, to wear racism on your chest 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.560 like the Superman symbol, as a way to get elected, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.560 as a way to raise money, as a way to 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.000 garner support from the tens of millions of people who 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.160 have shown Yo, I'll rock with that, y'all spitting right 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.960 now when it's the mixtape coming out? How do I subscribe? 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:52.600 Do it again? 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:58.120 You know what I mean? 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:03.520 So now we're at a place where our country has 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:10.520 shown us once upon a time I can just grab 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:17.760 her by the would have automatically disqualified you as a candidate, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.280 like you can't even consider running after I said that 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:33.120 out loud, except that person then became the president, after 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.640 everyone knew that that was how he felt, and people 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.640 wonder why I was frustrated and angry and terrified. As 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.480 so many people start to buy into the idea that 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:51.760 all politicians are the same. All politicians are politicians, so 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.640 there are some things that, by nature of the job, 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.080 that they have in common, just like all cars are cars. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.599 They all got tires and an engine and a gearshift, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.920 you know what I mean, Yeah, all cars or cars. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.600 All politicians are politicians. Sure, but we understand that the 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:11.160 fiesta and the ferrari aren't the same. Right. So, once 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.880 that nature of politician was acceptable to the palette of 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:20.600 the public, we were in trouble because pretending to be 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:26.000 decent means that at one point, because you thought the 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.280 country would turn their nose down at you if you 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.800 were a racist, bigot, you'd have to pretend not to 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.880 be just to stay in the good taste of decent people. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.320 We have now retrograded back to a place where you 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.080 and I talked about this on the show as well, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:47.160 people posing in front of burnt hanged black people as 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.720 a family, because even those people consider themselves to be 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.719 decent back then, because that's what because that was acceptable 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.600 by society, Society had to determine that those things weren't 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.280 acceptable for those people to feel bad. If society hadn't 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.000 out loud thought and felt different, those practices would have continued. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.319 Even watching us go backwards to that, and nobody cares 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.520 because and I'll say this as often as I get 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.559 in front of this microphone. It has become intellectually beneath 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.439 a lot of black people to call overt racism racism. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.800 We are hyper woke ourselves now, and to prove how 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.040 intellectually superior we are, we have to act like the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.800 idea of racism and white supremacy holding us back. We 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.679 have to act like that idea is beneath us. We 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.360 have to act like we've arrived at a place where 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.160 that's no longer the case. And we think that you're 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.600 lazy if you think so, and you're just not working 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.040 hard on us. Racism doesn't exist. The man isn't holding 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.760 you back. It's you, no, maam. It absolutely still exists, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.040 and as long as we are the ones saying that 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.720 it doesn't, playing in into the idea that it doesn't turning, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.880 our news is down at the conversation about reparations, so 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.280 called allies, people who we elect, who we get into office, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.680 have a conversation with them about reparations, and watch how 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.679 fast their tone changes. Well, you know, we don't want 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:19.319 to put a dollar amount on it. Why not, we've 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.760 got we've we've crossed the bridge too far. Now now 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.480 that we're talking about paying us some money, we've gone 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.760 too far, And as I watched the country like slip 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:38.040 away from the ideas of progress, of inclusion, of equity, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:43.480 of unity, even right, I've heard somebody say this before, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.040 and it's a really tragic truth. Nine to eleven at 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:54.760 least united us. And we've heard all the conspiracy theories, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.320 we've seen the documentaries, even if they all played out 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.240 true and that was orchestrated. Man, did it give us 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.880 someone else to point at man? Did it give us 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.920 an enemy to be united against? 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:09.280 Man? 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.880 Did it put us all on the same page, on 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.800 the same team, if you will. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.520 Everybody had the flag. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.880 Everybody had the flag. Flag did not mean what it 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:21.720 means today. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.240 I had a flag on my dodge neon going to 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:26.240 my second year. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.640 I got the flag player all of us. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:38.400 So so watch this. The people that you're talking about, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:44.959 the politicians that you're talking about, they have now found 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.280 And I see this time and again. It started way 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:52.040 back with George Zimmerman and just kind of super duper 0:12:52.520 --> 0:13:02.440 localized politics. But you know, we saw with Rittenhouse, you know, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:08.679 the former president hosted him. Remember Kyle Rittenhouse got out 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.640 there and shot a protester at a BLM rally. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.400 I think he showed multiple protesters who killed one of them. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:23.960 We've seen people get shot for knocking on the wrong door. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:33.440 We've seen Greg Abbott, the governor in Texas, wants to 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:39.440 pardon a man convicted of killing another BLM protester. And 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.480 then there's the ones that have happened this week. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.160 Okay, and that governor wants to pardon that person on 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.440 the basis that they're white and killed a black person. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.080 That's it. Not He didn't think they were wrongly convicted. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.080 He didn't think that it was trumped up charges. He 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.440 didn't think that, you know, the prosecutor, you know, misplaced 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.960 some evidence or did something corrupt. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.080 It just became political beyond the scope of lawn. Since 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.199 he's governor, he has the right to do that. And that, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.880 I think shows you exactly what black life is worth 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.280 and what we don't want ought to our children. We 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.760 want our children to know that black life is worth something. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.080 If someone harms you, they will be punished. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.520 Is that at all still possible in this country? And 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.440 I mean that as a serious question, not as something 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.800 for us to think about for a second, pregnant, pause 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.640 out loud, and move on from Is that still possible? 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.200 I'm always going to say. I think it's always going 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.000 to say that that's just who I am. I think 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.440 it's otherwise. You know, why we do this show because 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.240 we think the world could be a better place. There's 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.360 got to be some part of it, some corner it 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.720 still believes that in each other's humanity, in the fact 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.240 that we're brothers and we're sisters, and some of our 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.920 brothers and sisters have lost their way, and I believe 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.880 the basis of their behaviors is fear. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.600 How come it seems that those numbers are growing. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.080 Because we got work to do. That's the I mean, 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.680 you know, but while we're here, while we're here, while 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.080 we're here, let's make sure that we tell these stories. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.160 So for those that don't know, one of the stories 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:22.360 that happened since our last episode that we've been able 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.480 to cover because we didn't cover it last episode was 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:31.680 Jordan Neely being killed by Daniel Penny. So I'm going 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.520 to read this. On May twenty twenty three, round two 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.360 thirty pm. Jordan Neely, a homeless, thirty year old black man, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.200 was killed by a white twenty four year old ex 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.280 marine who placed him in a choke hold while they 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.240 were riding the F train in Manhattan on the New 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.800 York City Subway. At least two others restrained Neelie's limbs. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:52.440 Freelance journalists and witness Juan Alberto Vasquez recorded video of 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.680 the incident. I want to let you know, I'm reading 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.720 this from Wikipedia, all right. According to police, witnesses said 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.840 Neelie was acting in a hostile and erratic manner, telling 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.080 ris that he would hurt anyone on the train. Basquez 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.880 said that Neelie was shouting that he was hungry and thirsty, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.680 that he did not mind going to jail or getting 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.080 life in prison, and was ready to die. Basquez said 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.800 that Neeli did not physically attack anyone, while police sources 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.120 said that other witnesses reported him throwing trash at passengers. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.360 A man approached Neelie and put him in a choke hold. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.480 The choke hold lasted for several minutes, and at least 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.960 three minutes were recorded on video. According to Basquez, the 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.440 choke hold lasted for fifteen minutes. An onlooker warned about 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.600 fatal harm being done to Neely, saying you're going to 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.680 kill him now. After the choke hold, the onlooker said 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:41.200 he's all right, he ain't gonna die. Basquez said that 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.960 Neelie was moving and defending himself during the chokehold, and 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.680 Vasquez did not believe that he would die. Neeli was 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.600 taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he's pronounced dead. According 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:54.480 to some sources, he died on the subway car's floor. Okay, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:17:00.240 so we have a story here where again I'm you 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.200 know this because this has been national news for some time. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:02.840 Forgive it. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.840 That's just our news cycle we're on once a week 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:12.520 for an hour. But story where there's a homeless man, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:18.359 black man, very tiny man. Uh. Many of you have 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.120 probably seen the video. If you haven't, there's no need 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.480 to watch this video. It's exactly how it sounds. There's 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.080 a human being whose life it's snuffed out, So don't 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.359 go out of your way to watch it. I'm not 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:37.399 trying to say that his life it's not worth you 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.679 knowing about, but both there's a lot more videos of 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.560 his life that you can watch. Yeah, we're talking about 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.760 his life. That's what I'm trying to think. Video because 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:47.240 I don't want to. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:47.720 I don't want to. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.080 I don't want to make it seem like I don't 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:50.840 want you to know this, but I do want you 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:51.080 to know. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.880 Videos talk about this the type of thing that could 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.160 cause you mental and emotional trauma after long after you've 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:58.520 seen it. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:17:59.520 Yeah, it's not good. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.439 So they're plenty of videos of this young man if 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.240 the idea is to honor his life and know more 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.720 about him, of him dancing and even in what may 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:12.560 be considered a compromise mental state, bringing light and joy 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.040 to people, not harming people, just like he wasn't harming 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.920 people day he was murdered, thank you. So the video 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.000 is just hard to watch, not it's not making less 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.200 of his worth or his life. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.560 We on this show, for those who don't know, we 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.680 take turns watching videos because we don't want to ourselves 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.399 become overwhelmed with death and black harm against black bodies, 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.200 black and round bodies. We have to do this every week, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.920 so we try not to do it. But this week 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.960 I had to watch two human beings lose their lives 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.080 on video and it just stays with It keeps you 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.760 up at night. It's not cool. So that's what I mean, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.160 all right, So what happens is we have a mentally 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.400 disturbed man who was having an emotional breakdown he was hungry. Well, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.120 let's point to economic reasons for this episode, right, Economic means, 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.959 societal means, it's formentable. We just need to get every 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.080 body on the same page in terms of identifying what 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.000 the problems are. And I know, I know, I know, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:06.719 but that's what we need to do. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.120 Well, you say we need to do it like it's 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.240 like it hasn't happened. We're not still trying to identify 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.600 what the problems are. That's we we all know, indeed, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.240 but it is not a mystery. The point is figured 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.280 it out yet we. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:26.800 Need to We need to ensure that our elected representatives 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:34.600 know to equate crime rates with poverty rates rather than 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.399 the equate crime rates with race. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.119 That's not in their best interest, of course not. But 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.120 that's what we need to get intellectually beyond them. That's 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.800 that's where we need to outdraw those conclusions. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.800 That's where we need to go. And what I'm saying 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.800 is the person is walking around on the subway saying 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:57.400 that he's hungry. Listen, I'll tell you like this. I 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.200 believe I'm a good man too. I believe that you're good. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.000 I believe you mean no harm to anyone. Okay, I 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.000 believe that the circumstances in your life ensure that you 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.280 don't have to harm anyone. No one will be worse 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.760 off because your presence in their life. I do believe 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.680 that if it was we changed a couple of circumstances. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.400 Let's say it's the end of the world and water 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.240 is scarce and food is scarce, and you've got two 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.240 babies to feed, and I got two babies to feed, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.040 that might change. Things might get a little bit more 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:30.200 dicey and tougher. Decisions might have to be made because 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:35.680 I need to ensure the continuation of my family and 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.000 that my children have the resources they need to grow up. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:43.879 And you might end up undertaking some actions that you 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.720 wouldn't if you had some economic insulation. Let's say it 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.399 that way. I believe that everybody listening would agree with 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.800 that statement. Doesn't matter what color you are, right, So 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.439 that helps you to point to economic factors over just 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.879 these people are just bad people, so it's okay to 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:00.400 kill them. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.600 Yeah, but even the people that say that no better, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.040 it's just not in their best interest for anyone else 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:06.679 to know better. Well, we're going to. 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.679 Teach you better. So again, mentally, to start man on 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:16.000 a train, hungry, telling everybody's hungry, yelling, fed up, frustrated. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.720 It's put in a chokehold. His life ends, and the 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:24.480 person who killed him has a two million dollar word 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.679 chest based on donation Legal. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.520 Defense Fund right because he was made a hero. Yeah, 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.520 and there is a hero Republicans. 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:37.200 So let me let me read this other story. Michael 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:42.080 Anthony shoots Banko Brown for suspected shoplifting again economic condition. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.840 Another awful video. He was at a walgrind. If you 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.200 didn't see, yeah, you don't. 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.840 Have to watch this one. But he was at a Walgrens. 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:51.600 You're not shoplifting to come up at Waburn. You're shoplifting 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:52.560 because you need some stuff. 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:53.480 Walgreens. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.639 Don't say nothing that costs more than twenty dollars. Okay, 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.560 not shoplifting at the jewelry store. Do you know what I'm saying? 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.760 All Right, So I'm gonna read this Timsey. San Francisco 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.359 District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who was also black, to make 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:06.760 sure I say that I need to point out some 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.479 things about the killer as well, released the footage Monday 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.159 to show why she declined to bring charges against Michael 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.639 Arlwaine Anthony for killing Banko Brown at the store on 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:20.520 April twenty seventh, what Anthony says was self defense. The 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.280 video starts off. The video starts off with Anthony blocking Brown, 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.919 carrying a bag of alleged stolen items, from exiting the store. 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.639 Anthony then goes after Brown, repeatedly punching him and placing 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.440 him in a chokehold. At one point, Anthony lifts Brown 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.480 off his feet and throws him to the floor, getting 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:40.200 on top of him as the two thrash around. Finally, 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.920 Anthony lets him up, prompting Brown to grab the bag 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.680 of merchandise and start for the exit. At the door, 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.760 Brown whirls around and appears to make a move at Anthony. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.000 It's pointing and talking and yelling and that sort of thing. 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.520 So you point your finger and Anthony pulls a gun, 0:22:55.600 --> 0:23:00.320 opens fire, and kills the alleged thief. So what I 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:01.960 want to say while we got this little bit of 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.800 time is that, you know, I don't know what was 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.720 in that bag. I assume it's stuff that's necessary, it 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.440 doesn't matter. But you know, food is something that's commonly 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:21.159 even economic factors. So we see animals, burns flying and 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.560 take a piece of bread cats steal a piece of meat. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:28.280 I think it's cute human beings do that, and we're 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.560 saying it's if they're black. We saw what happened with 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:36.360 Hurricane Katrina. These last two people, we are unarmed. As 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:41.320 I mentioned, they ultimately pose no threat. So where's the 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.199 line of I'm afraid and I get to kill you? 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:46.840 Because that could be different for everybody. That needs to 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:47.760 be clearly different. 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.520 Black, and the chances that I'll be held accountable are 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.080 far less. So if I don't like you or if 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.960 I quote unquote fear you, I can kill you and 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:56.760 I'll be fine. 0:23:57.320 --> 0:23:59.960 Well, this is what I put Do you get to 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.560 kill someone because you're scared? Not if you're black? Often yes, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:08.879 if you're white, absolutely, if you're the police, And I 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:10.879 want everybody else to know that. We've seen the video 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:14.240