WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 120421 One More Thing about Kyle Rittenhouse (Part B) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.360 If you're just tuning into Civic Cipher, I'm your host 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:03.120 Rams's job. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:05.440 I go by the name of Q Ward. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.440 Yes, indeed, and plenty more to stick around for as well, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.000 so be sure to do just that. We are going 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.360 to revisit a conversation that we had last week about 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:24.200 Kyle Rittenhouse and the verdict from his trial. I've got 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.040 some things that I really want to say that I 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.720 really think are important to say, and I'm a little 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:34.239 anxious to get your reaction to what I'm about to say, Q. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.360 But also, you know, we need to respond to some 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.360 issues that people have taken online. And of course I 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.519 mentioned that we were going to get into the Black Codes, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.160 and so this week I made it a point to 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.560 do a little research on the Black Codes. So stick 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.280 around for the Black Codes far our way black History fact. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.080 But for now, we are going to discuss how to 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:07.640 become a better ally BA BA And today's suggestion as 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:13.759 far as becoming a better ally is find a community 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:19.920 of like minded individuals. Now, you know, I live in Phoenix, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.640 Q lives in Atlanta, and you know, there's lots of 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.280 groups on the ground, you know, in all over the place, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.520 and there's some national groups as well. But the group 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.600 that I found in Phoenix, I really get a kick 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.240 out of these guys. And there's not just one group 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.319 for one type of people. There's groups, you know, all 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.080 over the place, people that are like you, that feel 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:50.520 like the world should be fair, and you know, people 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:55.280 that share your ideas and your values, and instead of 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.840 us being kind of fragmented and you know, scattered around 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.400 our cities, look for a little bit of community to 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.360 plug into. One such group out here is called White 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:12.800 Pause Phoenix White Paws, and that stands for white people 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:19.640 against white supremacy. And what these guys do is, you know, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:27.360 ifever there's a speaking engagement by black folks, excuse me, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.320 a black person, they'll come and they'll len support. They'll 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.679 stand as a physical barrier between this black person who 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.440 they want to make sure is protected and police or 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.399 counter protesters or whatever. And essentially they're using their privilege 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.280 quote unquote to ensure that no harm comes to these 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.120 black folks. And I do a ton of other things 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.079 that I can't go into. This is just one group, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.240 but I know that there's different groups around and so 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.640 this week's recommendation is, you know, find a little bit 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.919 of community plug in, follow some folks on Instagram or Twitter. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.840 In fact, White Pause is at white Pause PHX for Phoenix. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:03.600 So. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.600 You know, you can check them out and they can 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.760 plug you with someone in your local area who perhaps 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.120 does the same thing. So that's how you can become 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:25.120 a better ally now, Kyle Rittenhouse, I'll be the first 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.160 to admit, not a lot of folks watch this show 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.800 on YouTube. It's a radio show. It's just you know, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.880 after COVID, we were able to do our show differently 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.200 and and still put it out. And then fortunately for us, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.840 it's the national program. So we're you know, coast to 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:52.240 coast now and a couple of things. You know, we 0:03:52.280 --> 0:04:03.400 don't always get everything right, and we also don't purport 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:10.480 ourselves to be experts on anything, but when we're wrong, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:17.679 we'll say it. And because there are people who watch 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.560 the show on YouTube rather than listen on the radio 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:27.320 or downloaded as a podcast after the fact, because those 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.560 folks exist, they're able to leave comments and they interact 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.360 with the show a bit differently. A very very small 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.880 number of people, I promise you, not even we're looking into. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.760 But when someone's right, they're right. And when someone brings 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:45.160 up a good point or a point that illuminates their position. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.159 I think it makes for not just good radio and 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.440 compelling content for a radio show, but a healthy dialogue. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.200 And that's what I want to have today. Now. Granted, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.920 I recognize I'm more in a position of power, and 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.960 so I'll be mindful of that as I talk to you. Know, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:07.400 obviously you know the same rules apply to you, because 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.719 we're doing rather more than just leaving a comment on 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:15.719 a video. But with that said, right is right and 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.640 wrong is wrong. So the first thing I want to 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:23.960 acknowledge is that I did not watch the trial for 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.360 Kyle Rittenhouse. I felt like I had no reason to 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:33.040 watch the trial, especially after uh, I think you and 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:34.840 I kind of tuned out at the same time. What 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.520 was the judge did something or whatever? 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.640 What was it besides throwing out the charge for the. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.279 I think that age the start, right, I think that 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.000 might have been it. Where at that point it was 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.080 even before the things started, We're like, okay this, we 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.440 see how this is going, and it went that way, right. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:01.720 But to be fair, no, didn't watch the trial, and 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.760 we didn't have a reaction to the trials play by 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.240 play per se as much as we had a reaction 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.279 to the verdict of the trial and what that meant, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.720 the precedent that it's set right now, this sounds like 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.440 I'm defending myself, and you know, there is one thing 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.719 that I do need to make sure that we set 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.400 the record straight for because again, wrong is wrong and 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.760 we were wrong. I think you might have said that 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:37.560 Kyle Rittenhouse's mom drove him across state lines to this protest, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.240 and that one part was not true. His mom did 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.680 not drive him. That was something that started on the 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.559 internet early, you know, and we both read that, both 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.040 held that to be true until I actually looked into 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.440 it based on a comment someone left on the video. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.279 Right is right. Wrong is wrong. We've been wrong on 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.760 the show before and we've had to come back and 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.279 set the record straight. That's what journalistic integrity is about. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.600 And we're not you know above that we were absolutely 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.600 call it when that's what it is. But I don't 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.760 think that it takes away from the thrust of what 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.200 we were saying last week, the implications of the verdict 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.280 and what that means. There were people that were picking 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.480 apart the deceased and like, oh, this guy did this 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.880 long time ago, and this guy is a pedophile, and 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.240 this guy beat up his grandma on this, that and 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:38.120 the other. That's neither of us were saying, Hey, these 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.720 guys were saints. You know, we counted them as allies, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.000 and we counted them as allies because they were out 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:54.760 We believe in support of Jacob Blake and standing in 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.760 solidarity with Jacob Blake. That's our belief, our held belief. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.960 But even if those things weren't true, the fact that 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.400 they were at a protest and a person brought a gun, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.160 a big gun like a chopper, you know, uh, what 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.520 do they call it? A k or ar? Some sort 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.920 of like fifteen Sure, you know more about our stands 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.560 for assault rifle. See the fact that he brought that 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:28.080 out and was himself patrolling the streets. In our estimation, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:34.120 he's the threat. We saw. Earlier this week there was 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:56.600 a school shooting in Q's hometown, Detroit, and you know 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.240 those kids, they didn't get to go home, you know 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.200 that they they didn't get to go home anymore. That 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.360 was it for them. Right, We saw that happen, and 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:19.680 I can't help but think, Okay, so this very right wing, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:26.600 very i'll call it republican idea that the only thing 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.000 that stops a bad guy with a gun is a 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.000 good guy with a gun. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:31.520 Right. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.400 That's not something that's new, That's something that these folks 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:39.760 have been talking about since words have existed. I'm sure, right, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.800 when you see a guy with a gun, do you 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.640 wait for him to start killing people before you take action? 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.560 Because if that's the case, then we really have to 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.520 look critically at this most recent school shooting and in fact, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.400 all school shootings. You know, obviously there shouldn't be a 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.400 child with a gun on campus North should there be 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.920 a child with an assault rifle walking in the middle 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.640 of the street during a protest, because everything about it 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:15.160 screams active shooter, right, And this is what we were 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.400 speaking to last week. The implications of the verdict of 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:27.280 that trial again emboldens a group of people who feel like, yeah, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.640 you know, we don't agree with this, so let's go 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.840 out there and get busy. I'm gonna take matters into 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.839 my own hands. And for those that know the story 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.040 about are what we know of this story about this 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.680 most recent active shooter in Detroit as of this recording 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.560 is that he was a child, and my belief is 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.160 that he's a white child. You know, I haven't confirmed that, 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.440 but I've seen pictures of him. It looks whitish to me, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.400 not too dissimilar from Kyle Rittenhouse in terms of his appearance. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.880 Takes a gun, goes to school, and executes human beings 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:12.560 he believes are treating him unfairly a right, and he 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.040 asked for a lawyer. So that doesn't mean he's falling 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.400 on the sword. He's not owning it. He's not eating 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.280 any crow. If you're going to ask for a lawyer, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.080 you believe that you're going to have a way out, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.760 or at least get some leniency from the court. And 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.880 I ramses am able to draw a direct line in 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.120 the span of seven days or eight days or whatever, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.760 from Kyle Rittenhouse to this most recent active shooter. I 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.800 didn't put his name in here because I don't believe 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:51.680 him to be another significant point in the story of 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.720 this country. Kyle Rittenhouse, I believe that was a major point. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.640 Anybody else. I don't really feel like it's appropriate to 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.679 say there names and give them any sort of glory. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.559 It's certainly not for ending the lives of other human beings, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.560 you know. And since we're here, I want to say this, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.360 Q and I both of us. Que tell folks about 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:15.240 hashtag lunchback. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.400 It's infancy, it's impact. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.000 Just what is what is it? You and I we do, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.400 go ahead, you tell them what it is. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.600 Once a month, Ramsas and I and a group of 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:36.000 volunteers who have been now working with us for eight 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:42.040 or nine years get together and put together lunch bags, food, water, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:48.439 hygiene products, socks, de odorant, toothpaste for less fortunate people, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.360 people who don't have a regular place to stay, or 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.880 people who don't get regular meals. We try to, even 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.480 if it's a small thing, provide something for them as 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.640 often as we can. And where do we find these 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.960 people that we give these things to a lot of 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:12.120 them are concentrated downtown Phoenix. Do some stay on a 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.880 campus from you know, periodically. Others live on the street 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.520 on the sidewalk. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.240 Right and I'd say the vast majority of them live 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:29.760 on the sidewalk. And there are some others who live 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:36.319 under bridges or whatever, but all of them are unsheltered. Now, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.679 when we go out, and I'm making a point that 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.120 anyone who hasn't has an adversarial advantage point will be 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.960 able to you know, they'll be able to know the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.440 point I'm making when you and I go out and 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.360 we feed you know, the homeless, our unsheltered brothers and sisters, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:56.840 and we do it once a month. When we go 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:02.000 out and do that, we don't qualify the people that 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.920 we give food to. We don't say, well, you get 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.000 some food because you know you have no criminal background, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.160 and you don't get any food because a long time 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.920 ago you did this. That and the third right, we're 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:19.160 not ignorant and we're not naive. Q and I. We 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:25.560 recognize that some of those people have sex offenses, you know, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.440 and that's why our volunteer base is very well protected 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:34.000 and insulated from you know, potential harm. And you know, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 we move with caution. As Q said, I think we're 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.320 probably not going on ten years, never had an incident 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.080 out there on the streets, right, And a huge amount 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.880 of our volunteer bases women, and along with women comes children, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.280 So we don't hold the worst thing someone has done 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.800 against them. With that said, we also recognize the severity 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:04.040 of some people's past criminal activity, the heinous nature of it, etc. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.400 On and on. But if we're out here in the 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.440 name of love, if we're out here with the spirit 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.880 of love and the idea is to help bolster this 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:21.920 community and fourtify folks who don't have the capacity to 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.400 do so themselves. Then that's what we're going to do. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.640 And we're not going to qualify that. And so folks 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.000 picking a part a person's life after they've been killed 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.880 on a sidewalk feels a little unfair. It doesn't allow 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:43.680 for folks to have perhaps become rehabilitated, you know, that's 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.440 part of you know, the corrections facility of their prison 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.400 rehabilitation centers or whatever it is that folks call them. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.080 The idea there is that you go to these places 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.240 so that you won't commit crimes again, right, And so 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.600 I think there's a fundamental idea built into the criminal 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.160 justice system, as flawed as it is, that human beings 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:09.160 can be rehabilitated. Right, That's not lost on us. And 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.240 so I think that folks picking apart the deceased after 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.480 the fact feels like a cheap shot. This is my opinion. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:22.360 This is my show or our show, and I feel 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:34.920 like it's important to say that as well. There's a 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:47.120 lot of other things that are generalizations that we did 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.239 make on last week's show that weren't specific to Kyle Rittenhouse, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:17:00.360 but in our estimation and based on our lived experience, is. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.080 True. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.040 In other words, I believe we had a comment last 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.440 week that Kyle Rittenhouse was given a water bottle on 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.200 the street, and someone took issue with that and left 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.800 a comment saying the police didn't give them a water bottle, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.359 they pepper sprayed him and they put them in the 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:24.600 back of the car, you know, something like that. But 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.119 I'm not sure that when that was said that we 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.719 were referring to that specific instance. Rather, what we were 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:39.399 referring to is a general approach that police tend to 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:47.040 have when the person there arresting either looks more like 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:55.639 them or has a similar belief system as them, versus 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.359 when the person doesn't. Right, if you're a public servant, 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.080 then you serve the public in theory, that would be equally. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.560 And you know, when we hear about what's the guy 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.359 that shot up that churp number mine, we don't even 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:13.560 need to say his name, but there was a guy 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.000 that shot up a church. He was a Confederate flag guy. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.679 I think his name was Rufe, Dylan Rufe something like that. Anyway, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.120 shot up a black church. I think nine people died there. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.160 Older people lost their life in church. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:26.320 And. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:34.120 I believe before he was taken in he got burger king. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.960 You know, I remember the guy that shot up the 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.760 movie theater in Colorado with the red hair. Didn't they 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.200 do something that was like you know, they didn't beat 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.040 him before they took him in. And this is the 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.760 point I think we were trying to make, you know, 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.800 apprehending someone even if you know Pepper sprang someone like that, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:19:00.800 it shows that there is a different approach. Right if 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.880 there was a black If Kyle Rittenhouse was a black 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:09.760 male with that chopper, he would have got Our belief 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:14.920 is that he would have been executed right there. And 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.639 so the points that we were trying to make, we 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.800 don't want to get lost in the minution. The detail. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.080 You know, what we're trying to say last week and 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.920 this week again is the implications of that we don't 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.280 want allies, We don't want folks who believe in a 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.800 better tomorrow to lose sight of what we're working for 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.760 and succumb to fear. And that verdict could create a 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:45.040 ripple effect where allies could become a lot more fearful. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.240 But with all that said, I do want to say 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.200 something that might get me in some trouble, but again, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.200 this is our show and we can do it. So 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:07.480 I'm going to talk to my white brothers specifically this time. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.320 I know that the world is changing, the world is 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.480 changing in a lot of ways, and I know that 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.520 you've been lied to, and I know that there are 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:37.159 people mark Zuckerberg, who profit from your fear, and they 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.760 have an avested interest in scaring you at every single 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.639 possible point in your life. And don't get caught up 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:50.240 into the word scared, because I know your men were 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.879 all men. You know, we're not scared of nothing. But 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.399 think in terms of like afraid that you're going to 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.200 lose your identity, or afraid that everyone is out to 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.440 get you, or that you were born and everywhere you turn, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.920 just being a white man is the crime, and you're 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:11.720 the source of everything that plagues the world. That feeling 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.920 has got to be overwhelming, and I understand. I don't 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.760 know what it feels like personally, but I'm trying to empathize. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:29.040 I recognize that the life expectancy of white men is declining. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.919 I recognize there's an opioid epidemic that's affecting your people. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.960 I recognize that the cultural landscape of a place that 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.159 you call home is changing. I recognize that the world, 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.280 the way that you view it, a place where you 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.640 can stand confidently in the middle of yourself, where everything 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.680 is available to you as an option, is changing in 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:04.520 your lifetime. I recognize now that it might be a 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.440 scary time for these reasons, and a hundred other reasons. 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.560 You know, some of which are based in reality, some 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:16.199 of which are imagined. You know you perhaps have an 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:21.600 unhealthy fear of Mexican people coming across the border and 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.320 taking your job. That might be a real thing in 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:28.240 your mind. It's not a real thing in the real world. 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.920 But I recognize that the fear feels the same no 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:34.080 matter how you look at it. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:36.560 Right and. 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:43.640 As hard as the world is, and as and as 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.879 few things as you have to latch onto your patriotism 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.800 and supporting the police and trying to hold on to 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:57.560 what you think the world should be like, I reckon. 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:02.159 I can see it now. It's it's it feels like 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:12.960 you might be afraid of what is to come. And 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.800 I want to say with these last few seconds to 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:21.600 you that you are still my brothers, and that I 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.879 still love you. And I recognize that this is a 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:30.520 time of transformation, and for the next twenty years it 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.840 may continue to be that place. And I know that 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.119 you guys say some stuff that's very hurtful, and we 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:39.360 say some stuff that doesn't line up with the way 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.800 you see the world, right, And it doesn't mean that 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:48.560 I'm wrong, right, But I have no ego here at present. 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:52.040 The power is still yours. I want you to know 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.399 that I love you, and when those things change, I 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:56.920 will still love you, and I will still support you, 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:01.280 and I will always defend your right to exist. And 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:05.240 if I do nothing else, I will do that. Don't 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:14.240 be afraid. I'm your brother. Let's get your reaction to 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:18.320 this way black history fact? Does that work? Okay? 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:19.439 Right? 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.640 Well, I did a little research on history dot com 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.800 this week looked up the Black Codes, so I will 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:32.760 read and get your thoughts, que and we'll go from there. So, 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.000 for those who don't know, the Black Codes were restrictive 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.800 laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.960 ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:47.320 was abolished during the Civil War, though the Union victory 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.440 had given some four million enslaved people their freedom. The 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:54.040 question of freed black's status in the post war South 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.320 was still very much unresolved. Under black hose, many states 0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:01.720 required black people to sign yearly labor contract. If they refused, 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:05.119 they risked being arrested, fined, and forced into unpaid labor. 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:09.879 Outrage over black codes helped undermine support for President Andrew 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:14.320 Johnson and the Republican Party. Johnson, a former senator from 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.280 Tennessee who had remained loyal to the Union during the war, 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:20.800 was a firm supporter of states' rights and believed the 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.879 federal government had no say in issues such as voting 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:29.760 requirements at the state level. Under his reconstruction policies, which 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:33.720 began in May eighteen sixty five, the former Confederate states 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:38.800 were required to uphold the abolition of slavery made official 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:42.720 by the thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, swear loyalty 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:45.280 to the Union, and pay off their war debts. Beyond 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:49.200 those limitations, those states and their ruling class, traditionally dominated 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:53.800 by white planters, were given a relatively freehand in rebuilding 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:58.000 their own governments, even as former enslaved people fought to 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:01.240 assert their independence and gain economic autonomy. During the earliest 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.920 years of reconstruction, white landowners acted to control the labor 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.800 force through a system similar to the one that it 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:13.439 existed during slavery, that's the Black Coats. To that end, 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:17.600 in late eighteen sixty five, Mississippi and South Carolina enacted 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.879 the first Black Coats. Mississippi's law required black people to 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:25.280 have written evidence of employment for the coming year each January. 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:28.240 If they left before the end of the contract, they 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.960 would be forced to forfeit earlier wages and were subject 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:39.359 to arrest. Under Johnson's reconstruction policies, nearly all Southern states 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:42.920 would enact their own Black Codes in eighteen sixty five 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.679 and eighteen sixty six. While the codes granted certain freedoms 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:49.840 to African Americans, including the right to buy and own property, marry, 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:54.080 make contracts, and testify in court only in cases involving 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.440 people of their own race, their primary purpose was to 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:02.560 restrict black people's labor and activity. Some states limited the 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.560 type of property that black people could own, while virtually 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:09.399 all the former Confederate states passed strict vagrancy and labor 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:13.720 contract laws, as well as so called anti enticement measures 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:18.240 designed to punish anyone who offered higher wages to a 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:23.720 black laborer already under contract. Black people who broke labor 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:27.920 contracts were subject to arrest, beating, and forced labor and 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:31.800 apprenticeship laws forced many miners, either orphans or those whose 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:34.159 parents were deemed unable to support them by a judge, 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:39.520 into unpaid labor for white planters. Passed by a political 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:42.879 system in which black people effectively had no voice, The 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:47.040 Black codes were enforced enforced sorry by an all white 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:50.840 police and state militia forces often made up of Confederate 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:56.080 veterans of the Civil War across the South. I'm almost 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.400 done by eighteen seventy seven, when the last federal soldiers 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.560 left the set and reconstruction drew to a close. Black 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.960 people had seen little improvement in their economic and social status, 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:09.720 and the vigorous efforts of white supremacist forces throughout the 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.880 region had undone the political gains they had made. Discrimination 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:17.560 would continue in America with the rise of Jim Crow laws. 0:28:17.920 --> 0:28:20.679 So that's the next thing that comes after the Black hotes, 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:27.520 but would inspire the civil rights movement to come. All right, 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:31.119