WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 073022 Why Do We Support Systems Rooted in White Supremacy (Part 1) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.200 Welcome to another episode of Civic Czicher. I'm your host, 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.480 Ramsy's Jah he is Jah, I am q Ward. This 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.680 is Civic Excpheress. It is another great show in store 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.280 for you this week. Be sure to stick around. We 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.919 have a lot to talk about, as per usual, but 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.440 this week we're going to do a bit of a hodgepodge. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.840 We had a lot of issues and topics come our 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.520 way this week, and so we got a lot to cover. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.800 You know, we always complain about there not being enough 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.519 show to cover everything that comes our way, so we're 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.040 going to try to address that a bit. We're still 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.080 not going to get to everything, but obviously there's a 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:38.519 lot of stuff that's sort of piled up that we 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.640 haven't been able to get to. So we're going to 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.479 spend the first part of the show talking about in 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.720 the way that we continue to endorse and support systems 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.520 that fail us, particularly systems rooted in white supremacy and 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.800 racism that historically have harmed black and brown people, and 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.880 we're going to you know, go through some examples that 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.279 have been in the news lately, and it's kind of 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.280 you know, we've been wrestling with that question a bit 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.600 around here, But I guess we're going to have a 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.880 more general conversation with you, our listeners and obviously amongst 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.280 ourselves here in the studio. We're also going to talk 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:22.840 about some real accountability with respect to policing in the 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:29.280 way that the government looks at policing and the government 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:38.759 continues to support the institution despite how the numbers paint 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.600 the picture the reality for black and brown people in 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.720 this country. So another thing that we have to deal with. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.240 And then obviously our producer, Maggie B. Knowing and her 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:54.160 infinite wisdom and her be known thought that we should 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.800 take a look at the origins of modern day policing 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.240 by taking our way black history fact to these slave patrols. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.120 So again, a lot to stick around for today's show. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.279 But first and foremost, we are going to discuss q's 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:12.200 favorite segment, Ebony Excellence. Shall We We Shall? Today's Ebony 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.280 Excellence is brought to you by Hip Hop Weekly Media. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.920 This article comes via afro Tech and we are going 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.600 to shout out a Shanty. She is our abny excellence 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.040 example for today. The article reads, A Shanty aims to 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.000 promote ownership as the first black female artist to be 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.120 co founder of a Web three company. Now, if you're 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.240 like me and you didn't know or don't know much 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.040 about Web three, get to know about it. It is 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.240 the future. But I'll read twenty years since the world 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.840 has was introduced to the songstress dubbed the Princess of 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.639 Hip hop and R and B, Ashanti is shaking things 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.560 up in the metaverse and proving that there is an 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.480 ever evolving relationship between music and tech. Thanks to a 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.840 partnership with the EQ Exchange, Ashanti is now the first 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.720 black female artist to be a co founder of a 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.320 Web three company. Quote technology has been a blessing and quote, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.080 she told Afro Tech during the twenty twenty two Essence 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.000 Festival of Culture. Quote everything has pros and cons, but 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.240 I think using it as a tool to empower an 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.880 uplift to learn and research are all beautiful things. I 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.360 want to continue to do things like this and having 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.720 these conversations to continue to spread the narrative, continue to 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.840 use the platform and become the vessel and say, hey, guys, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.000 it's so important to own your intellectual property. You know, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.640 like we come up and we set the trends with 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.520 these dances for TikTok and for Instagram and for these tutorials. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.960 I feel like creating awareness and understanding that ownership is 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:39.120 so powerful is essential. And you know, for those who 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:44.680 don't know, I recently did a talk with a man 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.800 named Rashad Tobacco Walla who is a great thinker in 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.480 this space Web three, Black Folks in Tech. It's on 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.400 the Black Information Network Daily podcast on the iHeartMedia app. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.840 I employed to check that out if you want to 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.360 learn a bit more about Web three. But again, that 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.480 is the future and we want to shout out Ashanti 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:07.960 for being a pioneer in that arena. Now moving on, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.560 we had a lot of a lot of articles pop 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.039 up in our group chat this week. As you may know, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.360 or if you're new to the show, you may not know, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.520 we have a group chat. Things that come up on 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.600 social media or our news feed or whatever that we 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:32.080 feel will be pertinent to this show and to our listeners. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.479 You know, we discuss them and debate them in our 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.000 group chat before we sit down and we how shout 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.760 a show and then of course our producer kind of 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.120 whittles our conversations down to the essence and then we 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.479 speak to those things. But this week there were so 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.599 many different things that fell under the same umbrella that 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.520 we felt like we might be able to kind of 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.600 give you the listener a glimpse into what our life 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.760 is like in debating what it is we need to 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.320 talk about and what really deserves some attention this week. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:06.040 So these are some of the headlines that hit us 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.839 hardest this week. We'll go through them one by one, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:15.080 but you know, just to give you a peek behind 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.919 the curtain, and then also ask the question, as we 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.359 mentioned at the top of the show, why do we 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.039 continue to endorse and support systems that are failing us, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.400 systems that are rooted in white supremacy and racism, and 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.760 that actively are harming black and brown people. So we'll 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.680 start with the least of the transgressions. I suppose Q, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:40.840 you saw the news or sorry, the weather report there 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.560 where there was a forecast and they used the racial 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.200 slur in there, right, you saw that one. I think 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.040 you might have posted it, right, the racial slur? Yeah, yeah, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.800 I saw that one. So I'll read a bit about it. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.640 So this one comes by the New York Post. It 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.839 says a racial slur scene in TV weather forecast. Quote, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.279 apologize to our viewers. End quote. It was a cloudy 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.120 day with the chance of outrage. A graphic during the 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.120 Weather Channel cable Networks Local on the Eights presentation in 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.440 Des Moines last evening included a racial slur. The post read, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.279 we removed this graphic as soon as we learned a 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.720 bit This did not originate with us, and we're in 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.400 the process of investigating it further. We apologize to our viewers. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.080 End quote. So the racial slur is the one that 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:36.440 you're thinking, Yeah, that one, and it said something like, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:43.200 you know, get ready for rain, you know, in words, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.000 something like that, here your weather, inclement weather, Yeah, something 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:54.839 like that. Word. That was a very good So, you know, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.320 there are a lot of people out there who are like, yo, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.600 it's just a word. What's it matter. Oh, I'm sorry, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.680 this is your weather my in words? Okay, okay, thank 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.320 you now we got it. Okay. So there are a 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.120 lot of people out there who might look at this 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.280 and be like, Okay, what does it matter. It's just 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.440 a word. It's the Weather Channel in Desmoin you know, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:24.640 on and on, right. But I think there's it's hard 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.160 to know what the ripple effect of these things are. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.520 If the initial impact doesn't move you in a significant way. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.480 And for black people obviously, that word moves us in 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:47.600 a significant way. In my estimation, this is the sort 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:53.080 of thing that is among the height of disrespect where 0:07:53.120 --> 0:08:01.560 someone can jokingly use the ugliest word in the English 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.000 language that only refers to one group of people and 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:10.880 those people have melanin in their skin, to relegate these 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.240 people to second class citizenship, to relegate these people to 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:21.120 the margins of society, to insult right. But the thing is, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.800 what I think a lot of people don't realize is 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.520 that if you insult a person, okay, the person has 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.480 to deal with it, right, But if you insult a 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:36.600 race of people, it feels a lot heavier. It's hard 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:41.080 to shed that because at no point can you convince 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.040 this person that you are not that word. Right. It 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.839 just goes with you because you're black and everyone else black, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.360 and that's it. And for people not to get a 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.600 sense of the gravity of it, to play with it, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.280 like in the case of des Moines or this weather 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:05.440 channel in des Moines, and for it to just be broadcast, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.240 it's very hurtful. But I think more more than that, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:19.880 it just suggests that that disrespect still resides at key 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:26.760 places in society. The uh, the fact that there are 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.280 people who feel like this is either a joke or 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.160 are being deliberate in the way they choose to insult 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:43.520 one group of people and in my estimation, position themselves 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.280 above that group of people. You know, that is the text. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:52.080 That's textbook white supremacy right there. Because again, this word 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.640 had the er you have the hard r on it, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.040 you know. Ah, it's just one of those things where 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.200 when you look at it, you're like, shoot, man, we 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.440 it just reminds you of the uphill battle that we're 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.960 dealing with, and it reminds you that that type of thinking, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.520 that type of disrespect is prevalent in spaces where you 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.880 wouldn't even conceive of it. You know, we talk about 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.720 the police a lot on the show. We never talk 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.160 about the Weather Channel, and yet and still guess what 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.320 we're talking about the Weather Channel and the fact that 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.520 this type of disrespect exists in places like that any thoughts. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.480 I mean, I wouldn't even call it an uphill battle. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.280 It's like we're climbing the face of a mountain, a 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.400 sheer cliff, right. Walking uphill is different, right, I mean, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.040 it's you know, there's a incline that you have to 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.000 deal with. You had to fight gravity a little bit, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.040 but you know, anybody able body can make it to 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.200 the top of heel. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:47.400 This is different. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.720 Yeah, And we got no net, no equipment, and if 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.640 we get too close to the top of that thing, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.880 somebody will be sure to try to push us back down. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:57.880 Right. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.880 You know, even the idea that somebody might take it 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.280 as a joke, that's even more. That's worse than the 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.440 person who said it to be mean, the person that 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.920 thinks that it's funny. I mean, I have to think 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.200 about how difficult it is to get a graphic on 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.000 the weather channel something seemingly benign. But we work in 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.800 broadcast media. Yeah, it's not like we couldn't put something 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.679 on Iheart's website ourselves today just because we felt like 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:31.000 there's so many checks and balances. So it didn't But 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.960 they say it didn't come from us, or it didn't 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.199 originate with us, So what it still made it to television, right, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.040 So either the person who pushed the button to post 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.480 it thought it was funny, or like you said, really 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:48.520 wanted to to get that message out there, or they're 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:56.280 always so incompetent. I can't believe it's the ladder. I can't, yeah, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.080 because the weather competent people don't make it that. Yeah, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.240 the weather channel is not this new upstart, right, you 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.680 know what I mean? So all right, Well, moving on. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.960 Another headline that made it its way to us this 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.839 week was this one comes by a black enterprise whold 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:19.719 North Carolina police department quits due to quote progressively responsible 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:24.560 and quote town manager. I'll read in protest of newly 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:31.720 appointed progressively responsible town manager in North Carolina, an entire 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.760 police force has turned in their two weeks notice because 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:39.840 of their alleged hostile work environment. Jones has nothing but 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.280 a praised career during her years of public service. Jones 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.760 has dedicated her career to public service over the past 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.640 sixteen years, during which she worked in progressively responsible positions 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.719 with local governments in Minnesota, Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.920 This came by a press release from the town of Kenley. Now, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.440 the Jones that we're speaking of is a black woman. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.160 I think it's important to note that. Grab her first 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:09.520 name for me. I want to make sure that I 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:16.280 mentioned that. Now. I know that you know we're reading texts. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.640 I just want to make sure that we're giving credit 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.839 where it's due, But in essence, what happened is a 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.559 black woman was hired to manage a town in the 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:31.840 entire police department with That's what happened. So you know, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:38.640 we're we're this is rather more insight into the reality 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:46.000 of our current climate. Okay, Justine Jones is the woman's name, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:55.400 So we're rather we're taking a more a deeper look 0:13:55.520 --> 0:14:00.480 rather into what we're dealing with here. This is this 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.199 is this week, but this is all the time. These 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.520 are just kind of smaller articles that we just don't 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.920 really need, we don't really get to and we can't 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.720 when we're dealing with death and you know, those sorts 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:18.320 of things. But imagine the town, the culture of the town, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:30.480 imagine the the way the way it feels to be 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.520 a black woman. You know, we we spent a lot 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.480 of time on this show celebrating Justice Brown Jackson's appointment 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.680 to the Supreme Court. Do you remember when Joe Biden 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.240 won the presidency? Q. We were we did a whole 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.960 we dedicated a whole segment to Kamala Harris being the 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:52.880 first black woman vice president, and uh, you know, we 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.200 are big fans of Black Girl magic around here, and 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.760 if we weren't, Maggie b Known would certainly make sure 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.640 that we were because she is is a super fan 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:01.360 of Black Girl Magic. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.360 I mean, if we weren't, we wouldn't have the relationship 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.320 that we have with Maggie exactly. So let's start there. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.760 She I don't think that she would even allow herself 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.880 and the company with people who weren't at the bare 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.080 minimum super fans. Well said what we coin as Black 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.400 Girl Magic. I wanted to say something before we moved on, 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.760 because there's a term there used over and over that's 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.600 kind of ambiguous, progressively responsible, and it's in quotations every 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.800 time that it's used. I wanted to give a more 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.920 plain definition of this. It actually has one. Progressively responsible 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:37.080 refers to task, job duties, or roles that demonstrate growth 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:43.320 and or advancement and have a difficult level of responsibility 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:47.680 five plus years experience, bachelor's degree, et cetera. A very 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:53.320 very qualified progressive woman. But the progressively responsible I think 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.680 that term is used a vigorously on purpose, Yeah, to 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.200 kind of leave to question what that might mean. Very 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.320 very qualified and intelligent black women, right right. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.040 So imagine if Justice Brown Jackson was appointed to the 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.680 Supreme Court, and all the rest of the justices quipped right. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.920 So here we have a black woman being appointed to 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:19.320 again town manager. The entire police department turns in their resignation. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:26.239 So again we're getting a sense of the disrespect the reality. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.520 You know, these are little stories that are kind of 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.600 in little pockets of the country that deserve to be mentioned. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.200 But I think that when we take them all in 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.200 a hole, you get a sense of exactly where we 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.000 are as the country. You know, you may listen to 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.960 us in a big city, you know, just depending on you, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 we all are in some smaller cities around the country 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.520 as well, but you know, the majority of our listenership 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.600 is in big cities around the country, and so you 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:58.480 might not be aware that racism is not just you know, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:05.520 the N word and police violence. Racism is really marginalizing 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.400 people and denying people opportunities. How can you provide security 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.040 for a town if your entire police department quits, and 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.399 then what is the town left to do except change 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.600 the police uh, change the town manager if they want 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.520 their police supports. No, the town could very easily hire 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.160 better offices. That's what I was thinking right the way 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.160 where they're going to come from. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.840 The escapegoders the progressively responsible candidate town manager. But they 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.399 can come from the same town where the progressively responsible 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.120 town manager came from. Right, These people have been in place, underqualified, 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.919 under educated, very very minor in their levels of complexity 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:49.040 and emotional intelligence. Hire better people. Hire an entire actually 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.560 is a police Hey, so listen, we're hiring. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.119 This job pays fifty five thousand dollars a year to start, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.000 and they limited over time. And you can rethink policing 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.840 in the in the in the interim, which we're going 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:04.040 to talk about because you know, but you know, just 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.320 for her to have to go through that and and 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.440 for us to hear about it and be able to 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:10.960 share it with you just kind of again gives a 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.920 glimpse into just how far people will go to show 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.480 their hatred and disdain for black people. Certainly, obviously the 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.200 police don't want to work for a black woman. And 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.840 I think that's that's something that we learned. Excuse me, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:30.800 in Arizona, we had a cheap of police was a 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:36.640 black woman, and the people that worked for her gave 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:41.919 her a very hard time, and the community gave her 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.399 a very hard time. Too, And I'm not going to 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.199 say whether or not it was deserved because I was 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:52.560 following national stories. I just heard about it. But I 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.400 recognized because her husband did come up on the show, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.439 and Judge Williams came up on the show, and I 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.320 recognize that being a black woman in that position had 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.320 to be tough, no matter which way you cut it. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:11.280 So story number two, Story number three. This one comes 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.960 by a CBS or Sorry, NBC News. Cincinnati police officer 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:20.600 and former reality TV figure caught on camera using racist slur. Rosemalentino, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.240 a fourteen year veteran appeared on TC's Police Women of Cincinnati, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.359 has been taking off the streets after she was recorded 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.760 on her own body camera using a racist slur, caught 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:37.399 saying fing inward ifing hate them as she punched the 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.119 steering wheel of her squad car on April fifth. According 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.040 to an internal fares report, Malentino said she was agitated 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.439 by a crowd of cars lining up to pick up 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.440 students at Western Hills University High School, which didn't move 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.800 when she activated the lights in siren. Now a little 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.399 bit more about the story. She says a student flipped 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.560 her off and then she started punching the steering will 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.960 and saying fing in words I f and hate them. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.680 It's on camera and I saw that one. So goohead. 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.199 If I was ding driving down the street in my 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:15.879 squad car and a pickup truck intentionally t boned my 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:22.240 squad car right, airbags pop out and I survive, nothing 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:28.840 in my entire consciousness would say fing any group of people, 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:29.879 I hate them. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.840 That all of them, you know, that would term for 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.720 all of them. There is no this word individual disrespected me. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.480 But there is no version that being the natural reaction 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.760 to any group of people, let alone the very pejorative, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:50.840 very negative, very insulting, very ignorant term used to in 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.800 the most racist manner ever describe said group of people. 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.240 Hang on, So now let's go to Mississippi, our favorite 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:03.080 place us today. Mississippi police chief fired after leaked audio 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:07.320 captured racist rant him bragging about killing thirteen people. Okay. 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.720 Former Lexington Police Department chief Sam Dobbins was fired after 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.000 audio recordings demonstrated him bragging about shooting and killing people 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.400 in the line of duty, including a black man who 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.600 he claimed to have shot more than one hundred times, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.359 in a racist and homophobic rent about eighty percent of 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.280 the city nearly thirteen hundred people are black, since his 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.000 data shows so this is not just an isolated police incident, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.440 and this is just this week. Normally we wouldn't even 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.480 have the bandwidth to cover this. I still have more 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.840 articles to get to. How about this one. This one 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.120 comes from Yahoo News. A black man beaten, left bloodied 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.720 after alleged stop sign violation in Tennessee. We saw this 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:55.360 video that was hard to watch. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.359 has opened a probe into the brutal arrest of a 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.000 black man who was chased into a home where a 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.679 loved one recorded as he was beaten and shocked with 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:09.800 a taser after an alleged traffic violation. You know, some 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.640 of this stuff we share on our social media at 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:15.320 CIVI excipher. If you want to check it out, some 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.040 of the stuff, you're going to have to do a 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:23.520 little bit of homework because we don't we don't want 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:30.199 to devolve into sort of like the media enterprise that 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:36.760 glorifies or benefits from the sensationalism of harm against black 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.000 and brown bodies. So some things will share, some things 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.600 will point you in the direction where if you want 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.160 to actually see it. You can, but we're a radio show. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.880 We talked through things. But that was an awful, awful, 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.920 awful video to watch. And that you see these people 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.159 chase this man down like an animal and hurt him 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:56.840 and hurt him and hurt him, and he's screaming and 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.000 they heard him and heard him for a traffic violation, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.560 and he ran because he was scared. That's it. 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.760 Their only intent was to hurt him, that's it. So 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:09.360 of course he ran, and once they caught him, their 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.639 intentions were not to subdue, not to arrest, not to handcuffed, 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.479 not to anything. Let's harm this man as much as 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.000 we can, as fast as we can, as aggressively as 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:24.720 we can, as forceful as we can. The reason why 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:31.680 does not matter. Your job is to not physically punish 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:37.520 people that break the law. Yeah, the guns that you 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:43.000 have are supposed to be to protect people, not to 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:53.560 aggressively forcefully murder, injure and harm people. That's not what 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.240 you signed up for. I never really understand even in 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.800 traffic stops. I got a speeding ticket recently. The officer 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:05.200 was so angry at me, and I was so confused 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.399 by it. Right because the speed limit the post it 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.760 number is very arbitrary. I don't know if you people 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.359 drive in real life, and I hate the way you 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:15.240 people sounds. 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:18.760 I don't know if anyone drives in real life at 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:22.280 the posted speed limit right right, So I'm just going 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:24.399 faster than you thought I should be going, and that's fine. 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.840 Pulled me over and incite me, that's fine too, But 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:30.879 why are you angry at me? I did not do 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:34.200 something to you, sir. Nobody's hard. Everybody's still living. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.320 And it was funny because the police officer that pulled 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:42.000 me over was also not just speeding but driving. He 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:44.560 wasn't posted with a radar, so it even says on 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:46.439 the ticket the way that he detected that I was 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:47.879 speeding was by pace. 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:55.760 This is just his opinion, folks, what a system man. Well, listen, 0:24:57.040 --> 0:24:59.560 despite going through all these headlines, we still have more 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:03.639 that we can't get to. And that's just the reality 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:05.960 of it. So we'll leave it right there.