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Speaker 1: Malik's Bookshew. Well, I'm gonna bring some more fire this
Speaker 1: week because every every social media outlet, ends in regular
Speaker 1: mainstream media is talking about Kanye West third White Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you my take, my insight in
Speaker 1: my opinion about white lives matter. Also on this episode
Speaker 1: is the continuation of Barbara Shop Talks, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring that as well. And I've revisited the barber shop,
Speaker 1: got my haircut and got some more content, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be bringing that for a while. The thing about
Speaker 1: the Barbershop Talks is wrong. It's community. It's not scripted,
Speaker 1: and we're just black men talking about things in the
Speaker 1: community and how we think about relationships the community and
Speaker 1: other things. Also, I'm gonna do a book review on
Speaker 1: the book put out by author and commentator Roland Martin,
Speaker 1: who wrote a book called white Fear. Now. I decided
Speaker 1: not to include a segment on this episode because it's
Speaker 1: just too long, and it's called power Graphs. I want
Speaker 1: to bring you that next week, though, So I want
Speaker 1: you to tune in this week and next week because
Speaker 1: next week I'm bringing some fires. Called power graph is
Speaker 1: based on an issue in a scandal right here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles when a group of Hispanics, the leader Nori Martinez,
Speaker 1: whose comments was considered racist, But I personally think it's
Speaker 1: more bigotry. I have my own take on when they
Speaker 1: call a person races because they say this and they
Speaker 1: say that about another group of people, I can see
Speaker 1: that more like bigger treat to be honest, because I
Speaker 1: really believe that in order to be a racist, you
Speaker 1: gotta have power in order to marginalize, silence, discriminate, and
Speaker 1: do all other types of things to another group of people. So, um,
Speaker 1: I don't think that these people have that much power,
Speaker 1: but they are in a position of power, and they
Speaker 1: was gonna use elected seat to grab power in the
Speaker 1: district that's primarily occupied by black people, and so they
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of find a way and strategically and
Speaker 1: tactically find a way to do a power graph and
Speaker 1: silence and marginalized, uh large segments of black people right
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles. And so that segment is kind
Speaker 1: of long. So I'm gonna bring to that to you
Speaker 1: next week, and that's episode is gonna be called power Grab.
Speaker 1: But this week, I'm gonna bring to you my thoughts
Speaker 1: about Kanye West, White Lies Matter storm. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: this podcast is all about Community Malik's book show. So
Speaker 1: I have to address because all across this nation, black people,
Speaker 1: white people, and others are all talking about Kanye West
Speaker 1: and Canada's aunts wearing, particularly though Kanye West, because he's
Speaker 1: the mega star in all this wearing a shirt that
Speaker 1: said white lies Matter, White lives Matter, and that created
Speaker 1: a overwhelming storm. It went viral, It's been talked about
Speaker 1: all across social media, It's been talked across mainstream media.
Speaker 1: But I got the chime in to its whole explosion.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna face value. Everybody dudes that all lives matter.
Speaker 1: All right, that's just cut to the chase. We all
Speaker 1: know all lives matter. The reality is that voices are
Speaker 1: trying to be heard. So other slogans or tags or
Speaker 1: hashtag come about and that's how Black Lives Matter, which
Speaker 1: is a movement, came about. It's a movement, but more
Speaker 1: important is to say, hey, black lives matter too. Why
Speaker 1: because no one is addressing the lives and the issues
Speaker 1: concerning black people. And during the pandemic black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: movement blew up, got it? They got about ninety million dollars.
Speaker 1: They're talking about that also in the media. I might
Speaker 1: address that at another time on this podcast. Okay, in
Speaker 1: terms of this whole you know, backlash about what they
Speaker 1: did with the money. But getting back to white lives
Speaker 1: matter now personally, you know, like I said, we all
Speaker 1: understood whether you white or black, or in different or whatever.
Speaker 1: You everybody know, all lives matter. Come on, let's just
Speaker 1: be real. So why is it that you get upset
Speaker 1: when someone you know, single out there, group or nation
Speaker 1: or race? Okay, why do you get upset when you
Speaker 1: give a shout out to your own tried game community, whatever.
Speaker 1: Black lives matter. That's not saying blue lives don't matter
Speaker 1: or white lives don't matter. But Kanye is a black
Speaker 1: man war shirt that said white lives matter, and no
Speaker 1: one wants they want to talk about should a person
Speaker 1: wear such it tastes that what they call, you know, politically,
Speaker 1: I guess they say, because when you say something, oh
Speaker 1: that's not political to say it that way, or to
Speaker 1: say something or right, it is that politically correct. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm trying to say, to wear such a shirt
Speaker 1: like that, Now, that's gonna come down to each in
Speaker 1: every individual whether or not that's politically correct. But Kanye
Speaker 1: West was creating. You know, this was not something did
Speaker 1: ramdodly happen. And he said, the reality is why he
Speaker 1: war shirt like that is to point out issues about
Speaker 1: abortion and so many black babies being aborted and to
Speaker 1: address that, why is it, you know, ill proportion in
Speaker 1: the black community. I did an episode about abortion. When
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court made some change, I did an episode
Speaker 1: they go back to that particularly episode on Malik's bookshelf,
Speaker 1: and I talked about that, you know, some changes as
Speaker 1: a result of that decision, you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think abortion was actually really gonna go away.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that each state got to decide
Speaker 1: what you know, are the the the requirements or the
Speaker 1: parameters about a boy. But here's the thing he wore.
Speaker 1: White lives matter to address the abortion rate, this irripro
Speaker 1: portion that is so herenous and high in the black community,
Speaker 1: not just in New York but around this nation. But
Speaker 1: none of that is being addressed. None of that is
Speaker 1: being talked about. What's being talked about is him wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt that says white lives manner, you know, And
Speaker 1: each individual has to make a decision to you know,
Speaker 1: decide whether or not they will wear such a thing.
Speaker 1: I personally, and I you know, I speak my mind
Speaker 1: on this. I'm not wearing a shirt like that. And
Speaker 1: it's not because white lives don't matter. It's just I'm
Speaker 1: too consumed to trying to elevate the agenda and voice
Speaker 1: of black people. And I'm not trying to diminish other groups.
Speaker 1: But me personally, no, I'm not gonna wear a shirt
Speaker 1: like that. But I do agree with such a subject
Speaker 1: matter being addressed, and that is the abortion rate of
Speaker 1: black you know, the abortion rate of blacks. I do
Speaker 1: feel like that should be dressing. And why is that
Speaker 1: apple wise wilt so high? Why is that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not being talked about and being addressed, and and
Speaker 1: it shouldn't because it's not you know, historically Margaret Singer,
Speaker 1: there has been a historic, factually documented no conspiracy where
Speaker 1: UM abortion clinics have uh, we're popping up all across
Speaker 1: this name in black communities at a much higher rate
Speaker 1: than other communities. And then Marcus Singing, the founder of
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood, had a systematic and toxical and strategic way
Speaker 1: to want to go after black babies and and and
Speaker 1: and and increase the amborce rate amongst black people because
Speaker 1: she felt that, you know, that we um were a
Speaker 1: plague on society. So you know, hey, Kanye West is
Speaker 1: trying to speak on that, and I think something like
Speaker 1: that should be heard more so than the fact that
Speaker 1: he has a controversial slogan on a shirt that white
Speaker 1: lives matter, which of course they do, you know, but
Speaker 1: a white person, you know, to wear something like that,
Speaker 1: or a black person, you know, they're gonna look at
Speaker 1: that as white supremacy. You see what I'm saying, Because
Speaker 1: we can say black lives matter, but we can't say
Speaker 1: white lives matter. We can have a Black um association
Speaker 1: of you know, fireman, but they can't have a white
Speaker 1: associating fire We can have a a Black nurses association
Speaker 1: of nurses, right, but you can't have a white association.
Speaker 1: So we're living in a paradigm where one group can
Speaker 1: do this but the other. Why because in the power
Speaker 1: you know, white you know people have control of the
Speaker 1: power structure, and so therefore people feel sensitive about that.
Speaker 1: But at some point we got the be able to
Speaker 1: sit at the table and say why is it okay for?
Speaker 1: And I'm down with having the black and soul. I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, you should be able to have
Speaker 1: the Black Association of Doctors. I feel like you should
Speaker 1: have the Black Association of football planers and basketball players
Speaker 1: to identify and magnified your issues and your voice because
Speaker 1: for a long time, the voice of black people being
Speaker 1: silent and not talking about, you know, and marginalized. So
Speaker 1: therefore we have these issues in society that it comes
Speaker 1: across when we had affirmative and there was a time
Speaker 1: to build Clinton eliminated guess what that was all about,
Speaker 1: helping black people get a higher percentage in the college
Speaker 1: and jobs and the workforce. And what white folks got mad?
Speaker 1: They said, why should you have you that s discrimination
Speaker 1: against us because you know you're giving favor towards another
Speaker 1: group and whatnot. See, so therefore, you know, we need
Speaker 1: to have, you know, no discrimination and no situation where
Speaker 1: it can help another group that disenfranchised and underserved and
Speaker 1: lack of resources helped them help them increase their percentage
Speaker 1: of opportunities to the merger. Let's not have no you know,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, when you're doing horse racing, they put
Speaker 1: they call it a handicap, and they put certain weights
Speaker 1: on other horses that equalize the field. We like that
Speaker 1: we act like in society. Yeah, things ain't fair and
Speaker 1: things ain't the way we wanted to be, but you
Speaker 1: have to put things in place because there are other
Speaker 1: groups that I handicap. So what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: the level the playing field If people act like so
Speaker 1: insensitive and act like they don't understand that, you gotta
Speaker 1: do that. And that's all affirmative action was all about.
Speaker 1: It wasn't trying to men take a job from no
Speaker 1: other group of people or undermine another group of people.
Speaker 1: It was trying to help but a disenfranchise, underserved community.
Speaker 1: They helped black folks what get in a better place
Speaker 1: and a better position, But that wasn't but too many
Speaker 1: white folks got upset and voted it out, and Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton signed the Bill. And so that's you know, why
Speaker 1: I'm saying that we have Black Lives matter, because you know,
Speaker 1: more black people get killed in the inner cities of
Speaker 1: America then was that Vietnam. You see. So we got
Speaker 1: a lot of issues. But the thing is, um when
Speaker 1: that's point of time when we can like say, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't need those times, I think there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be because see this, to me, this is all relevant.
Speaker 1: You know, a group of people one to become empowered.
Speaker 1: So therefore they strategically and tactically work together collectively to
Speaker 1: to uh increase their power, but at what costs and
Speaker 1: at what you know, and what expense because you gotta
Speaker 1: you know, are you disenfranchising another group to do that?
Speaker 1: You know? And are you undermining another group people to
Speaker 1: do that? And that's you know in America, that seems
Speaker 1: to be a playbook and a move that white supremacis
Speaker 1: have done for decades and centuries as well as other groups.
Speaker 1: So we we you know, So I think that you
Speaker 1: got to have an agenda that unapologetically addresses your issues
Speaker 1: and concerned and you can't be concerned about other people's
Speaker 1: feelings and how sensitive they're gonna be because they don't
Speaker 1: understand and they typically see the world differently, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, get out their way and let
Speaker 1: other people who want to make changes for the better happen.
Speaker 1: And they want to move this community in this nation
Speaker 1: in the direction with people can't sit at the table
Speaker 1: and can love each other and can work together and
Speaker 1: can be you know what I'm saying, that harmonious and
Speaker 1: peaceful environment. We're not gonna get there without rough and feathers.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna get there without addressing, you know, things
Speaker 1: that are sensitive to other people. So hey, anyway, that's
Speaker 1: my thoughts on this Kanye West, this white lives matter.
Speaker 1: Of course they do. But hey, if you want to
Speaker 1: wear a shirt like that, that's your That is your
Speaker 1: right to do so, that is your opinion to do so.
Speaker 1: But hey, I'm not wearing it, but I do understand
Speaker 1: the message behind why Kanye West water the shirt. So
Speaker 1: that's my take on Malik's Bookshelf. So I hope you enjoy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Stay tuned for Part five of Bobby Shop Talks.
Speaker 1: You have to move together. Enough of us, that is
Speaker 1: now to all of us. Enough of us have to
Speaker 1: move together in order to achieve a desired result that's
Speaker 1: called the nurtia. So we don't have enough of us
Speaker 1: to change this reality, but we gotta find a way
Speaker 1: to do so. So this self hatred, this black inferiority,
Speaker 1: the question is what do we do amongst our own
Speaker 1: selves to try to change this. Because we can complain
Speaker 1: all day and all night about the reality TV shows,
Speaker 1: about the messages and and coming out of Hollywood to
Speaker 1: degrade us. You know, we could talk until we blew
Speaker 1: in the face about all the illnents that we suffer from.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that you seek you first, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven and all its righteousness, and all others.
Speaker 1: But God has been used to divide people. Will will
Speaker 1: will be added onto you true, But God has been
Speaker 1: used to divide us. I believe that it takes divinely
Speaker 1: righteous guide it man with sincere hearts to take the
Speaker 1: book and teach it correct. The music I'm telling the
Speaker 1: music is so powerful. The message in the music is
Speaker 1: so powerful that it overrides the message of righteousness. Because
Speaker 1: because to live a life of violence, to glorify violence
Speaker 1: in the music, to glorify the drug, to glorify the sex.
Speaker 1: When they see the women come out on the on
Speaker 1: the rare carpet with half naked outfits on that image
Speaker 1: that is so that influence is so powerful and it
Speaker 1: has been made and people have been made to love
Speaker 1: it so much that they don't want to hear. But
Speaker 1: somebody like me or you have to say, we're corny
Speaker 1: to them. Now, we're we're corny and we don't want
Speaker 1: to hear that. Man, because why because you're talking about
Speaker 1: Karan or Bob, you're talking about righteousness. But everybody on
Speaker 1: TV and everybody in the music is coming up making
Speaker 1: all this money talking about this field. So ain't nobody
Speaker 1: coming up making money talking about righteousness? Everybody talking about sex, druve, violence, homosexuality,
Speaker 1: you name it, and they are getting paid. And that
Speaker 1: had been made, that have been that has been glorified
Speaker 1: all over the world. Now, so when we come up
Speaker 1: and start talking about we're talking, they're not trying to
Speaker 1: hear we as it. They're not trying to turn away
Speaker 1: from that life. It's like the rich man who came
Speaker 1: up to Jesus. You know, the rich man said, what
Speaker 1: can I do? They have eternal life, and Jesus said,
Speaker 1: giveaway all your world, come follow me. The man. They
Speaker 1: don't want to do that because he was a lot
Speaker 1: of people who teach the word of God believes sincerely
Speaker 1: they are teaching the true word. A lot of people
Speaker 1: believe that, you know, it's it's it's in their mind
Speaker 1: and in their heart. They believe they are doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. Now, that's what I was trying to say
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, you have a lot of
Speaker 1: people out here trying to deliver the word of God.
Speaker 1: When you say go to the word of God, well
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different men said just about God,
Speaker 1: and most people did believe in God, got their own
Speaker 1: way of worshiping that God and believing in that God
Speaker 1: and and doing certain things, so and and and all
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that's what creates the confusion because we're
Speaker 1: all looking at it in different ways. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing I was gonna say also, is that you you
Speaker 1: you you have a situation where, um listen, when you
Speaker 1: just living a life of survival, it's very difficult to
Speaker 1: change course and change your direction. A lot of people are,
Speaker 1: you know, doing things just to survive, and that their
Speaker 1: core value. It's hard and difficult to change because it
Speaker 1: is simple fact. You know, I'm selling Doe. Why because
Speaker 1: when I need to feed my family, I need to
Speaker 1: support myself. You know, I'm sister, you know, just dancing,
Speaker 1: you know, selling a body or what have you. You know,
Speaker 1: she might be making a lot of money, you know,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, she's in the survival mode.
Speaker 1: She's using her assets, her beauty. Yea. But you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And it's hard to change people who
Speaker 1: are fixated on just surviving. Man, it's hard, you know,
Speaker 1: teaching morality and getting a person to change their life.
Speaker 1: And you and you're hungry and you ain't got no food.
Speaker 1: That's a difficult challenge. I understand that, But that that's
Speaker 1: an excue. Still, that's an excute because you know why,
Speaker 1: because everybody's an effective everybody on the planet got that same.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an excute that I'm saying because
Speaker 1: they want state check away from being homeless. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You've got a lot of people united
Speaker 1: The United States is one of the most richest countries
Speaker 1: on the Earth. And you have other countries on this
Speaker 1: planet that's way poorer then this country, way poor. Don't
Speaker 1: even have toilets, Okay, they're not here do of the
Speaker 1: stuff that we're doing, and they have not lost their
Speaker 1: morality too for the most part. Now they're poor and
Speaker 1: people always wanted people. I hear I am in the shop,
Speaker 1: people want to say, how can people in the mother
Speaker 1: country they're so port but they're happy because the standard
Speaker 1: of living in life what it is over here. Actually
Speaker 1: point most times, we're pressure and to getting into these
Speaker 1: what we call unfortunate lifestyle to make money because of
Speaker 1: what we see on TV and telling what we need
Speaker 1: to have in order to be accepted. And we've been
Speaker 1: taught and educated differently. But they having in those third
Speaker 1: worlds in that's w I'm going with it. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna understand it. That's why they're putting it on TV.
Speaker 1: They put on it. It's still a teaching. That still
Speaker 1: a teaching. They're teaching our people to be like that.
Speaker 1: They're teaching you that if you don't have this type
Speaker 1: of car, you ain't nothing in society. For example, I
Speaker 1: get an example. You look at it, you know, having
Speaker 1: a Mercedes bands today just like having a Nissan in
Speaker 1: central because everybody got on there. And I was saying
Speaker 1: back in the eighties, you know what I'm saying. You're right,
Speaker 1: you know if everybody had to say much now they
Speaker 1: made the Mercedes Ben where it's like, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: in the hood got him. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: And why everybody in the hood gotta have a Mercedes
Speaker 1: Been because of what they see on TV, what they
Speaker 1: see with the celebrity. I gotta have this type of
Speaker 1: car in order to beat them. Just talking so I
Speaker 1: can look like so I can look like the man
Speaker 1: and the who. It was also Mercedes business model to
Speaker 1: now making Mercedes Bears for every classroom. Not now if
Speaker 1: you have the tape one of the Mercedes Been that
Speaker 1: the arish person got, nowaday not the real expensive one,
Speaker 1: these little small issue v ones. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Take the Mercedes Being signs off and put a Nissan
Speaker 1: sign on them. You think they're gonna buy. Hell no,
Speaker 1: they ain't gonna buy what they're paying for the name
Speaker 1: brand they ain't paying. You take a Mercedes and you
Speaker 1: take the sign of say and put a nice on
Speaker 1: Badger then because of the name brand and they bind
Speaker 1: because the name because because the brand matters, Because the
Speaker 1: brand matter. That's my point. The brand matters. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: like credibility matter. That's what I'm saying. You're making my
Speaker 1: point now, credibility matter. That's that you're making my point.
Speaker 1: Why do people want this because of what they see?
Speaker 1: Absolutely wasn't glorified. People wouldn't go for every day we
Speaker 1: wake up, brother, we we see a force and a
Speaker 1: power in a position of authority. Brother. And we were
Speaker 1: educated from birth in this system to behave in a
Speaker 1: certain way. But as we got older, we came across knowledge,
Speaker 1: wisdom and understanding, they get opened up and expanded some
Speaker 1: of our views and our points today. And then what
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is I want to get back to
Speaker 1: what what we need to do to make a change,
Speaker 1: because this system is real and it's an effect, and
Speaker 1: it's teaching this generation in his program, the next generation
Speaker 1: to behave in a way that might not be beneficial
Speaker 1: your own and be yourself. Next week, stay tuned for
Speaker 1: Part six of Barbie Shop Talks. It's been a while
Speaker 1: since I did a book review, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: do one on this episode of White Lives Matter, and
Speaker 1: I think it ties in also to the subject matter.
Speaker 1: So the book I'm going to do a book review
Speaker 1: on is called White Fear, How the Browning of America
Speaker 1: Is making White Folks Lose their Mind by Roland Martin.
Speaker 1: Now a little bit about rolland Martin before I go
Speaker 1: into this book review. Rolland Martin appeared on TV one.
Speaker 1: He was a news opinion name of commentator. He gave
Speaker 1: opinions about the community, and he was outspoken and he
Speaker 1: had a lot of elite guests on his TV program
Speaker 1: on TV one. Now he's written a book called White Fear,
Speaker 1: How the Browning of America Is making White Folks Lose
Speaker 1: their Mind. And let me tell you something. I thought
Speaker 1: that this book right here was on point, because white
Speaker 1: fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and today it's intense, invisible than ever. To neutralize it,
Speaker 1: we must first understand it. For two centuries, the deep
Speaker 1: seated fear that many white people feel losing power, of
Speaker 1: losing economic standing, of losing a particular way of life
Speaker 1: has been the driving force behind American politics and culture.
Speaker 1: Roman Martin believes white fear has enabled the rise of
Speaker 1: someone like Donald Trump, and he believes is behind the
Speaker 1: restrictive voting rights laws disproportionate impact people of color and
Speaker 1: why reactions to the movement like Black Lives Matter and
Speaker 1: the football players taking a knee have been so negatively
Speaker 1: and so strong now. The motivating factor behind white fear
Speaker 1: is the fact that in four the predictions that the
Speaker 1: browning of America is going to take place, that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be more people of color, that is, than there
Speaker 1: are as white people, and out of the fear of
Speaker 1: this future coming event is inticifying the fear which is
Speaker 1: festering and becoming more visible the ruling. Martin offers some
Speaker 1: solutions in the book What can we do to step
Speaker 1: into our country's inovertible future without tearing ourselves apart as
Speaker 1: a country. National renowned journalists and award winning author Roling
Speaker 1: Martin has been sounding this along for more than a decade.
Speaker 1: And White Fear, he provides a primer on how white
Speaker 1: fear has shaped and continues to shape our democracy and
Speaker 1: our culture. He connects separate puzzles pieces from the Tea
Speaker 1: Party movement to decline a white American optimism to the
Speaker 1: diminishing blue collar workforce, to eliminate the large picture or
Speaker 1: what will unfold in America over the next decades plus,
Speaker 1: and offers a better way forward so pick up your
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