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Speaker 1: Are we good? Yes, sir? Do you think that reparations
Speaker 1: should just go to like one like group relation and
Speaker 1: targeting people that are in the same kind of like,
Speaker 1: Because that's an interesting question. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: If I like, there are like white people that have
Speaker 1: been disappranchised like recently, like recently is the key? Recently?
Speaker 1: Is the key like the industrialized? Right? So, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people in like manufacturing job and stuff, right,
Speaker 1: but so so so to your question, to your question,
Speaker 1: I think you have to understand what the word reparations means. First.
Speaker 1: So reparations you are repairing something that you have broken.
Speaker 1: You are paying for something that you were supposed to
Speaker 1: pay for. I'm not saying that they aren't people living
Speaker 1: in America today who are suffering and are going through
Speaker 1: pain and strife because of what's happening when it comes
Speaker 1: to um, you know, the machines taking jobs, factories becoming industrialized, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But reparation is a specific conversation about a specific time
Speaker 1: in America, and that is black people were slaves. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I've even heard people say like, oh,
Speaker 1: but there were some of the Irish who are indentious,
Speaker 1: like yeah, let's slavery. Look at the numbers, look at
Speaker 1: the time, look at the level of work. You could
Speaker 1: not work toward your freedom. For most black people in America,
Speaker 1: this was a time when you were that was it.
Speaker 1: You lived and died as a slave. And so that's
Speaker 1: what reparations is about. And so I hear what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but I think that's a completely separate conversation that needs
Speaker 1: to be had about the now because if you if
Speaker 1: you are not careful, what you then do is you
Speaker 1: combine everybody suffering into the same ball, and you make
Speaker 1: it seem like all injustices have the same waiting, and
Speaker 1: they don't just like crimes. You know, theft isn't the
Speaker 1: same as murder. We don't try them the same way.
Speaker 1: And as much as there is a white person who's
Speaker 1: suffering today, I feel for anybody who's suffering because I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to be poor. I know what
Speaker 1: it's like to suffer. I didn't come from a wealthy family.
Speaker 1: We struggled when I was growing up. But I also
Speaker 1: understand that there are levels of that suffering, you know,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes white people it doesn't it does block
Speaker 1: a white person because you go white privilege, and a
Speaker 1: person goes, I'm poor and I'm white, where's the privilege?
Speaker 1: You know, White people like I wish I could activate
Speaker 1: my white privilege. I wish I could do it right now.
Speaker 1: White privilege. Give me something. I get that. I get that,
Speaker 1: trust me, I get it. It is hard to accept
Speaker 1: that you have benefits because of the color of your
Speaker 1: skin if you cannot see the benefits that you have.
Speaker 1: But the thing I tried to explain to a person is,
Speaker 1: think of it more like golf. Don't think of it
Speaker 1: as privilege, and think of it like a handicap right engulf.
Speaker 1: They acknowledge that you are in a position where you
Speaker 1: need so many advantages to be competitive in the game.
Speaker 1: Right so what they say is you have a handicap
Speaker 1: of fifteen, So that means like you're gonna be hitting
Speaker 1: from this tea and you get more chances to get
Speaker 1: the ball in because we understand the position you're in.
Speaker 1: And if you're a black person in America from slavery
Speaker 1: from day one, the number of injustices that have held
Speaker 1: Black people back in America amount to an insurmountable like
Speaker 1: you you look at you look at black people's freedom,
Speaker 1: you look at black people's land. Just just land alone,
Speaker 1: the oounts of wealth you can you can acquire over
Speaker 1: time if you own land is exponential because you have
Speaker 1: the land, You have the fact that you can borrow
Speaker 1: based on the land. You have the fact that you
Speaker 1: can use the money that you have borrowed to grow
Speaker 1: more wealth. You can use it to grow your family's wealth.
Speaker 1: Just taking that away from black people alone is crippling them.
Speaker 1: And so you combine that with slavery, and then you
Speaker 1: look at Jim Crow laws. You didn't let black people
Speaker 1: in America live in the areas that they wanted to live,
Speaker 1: and they couldn't get loans from the banks that they
Speaker 1: wanted to get loans from. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: when they started getting the loans from American banks, American
Speaker 1: banks were found to be giving them higher interest rates
Speaker 1: when in fact they were the same risk as many
Speaker 1: of the other races that they were they were giving
Speaker 1: loans too. So when you combine all of those things,
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that black Americans have
Speaker 1: a conversation that they need to be having with the
Speaker 1: United States, doesn't involve me, doesn't involve white people, doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's like it's like, yo, American government, meet the
Speaker 1: black people. That's it. Have that conversation. Whenever, whenever I
Speaker 1: see all the stuff about voter registration and vote to
Speaker 1: I d laws in America, et cetera. That's one of
Speaker 1: the few moments when I miss South Africa's racism, because
Speaker 1: know what I liked about South Africa's racism is that
Speaker 1: it was just straight up, you know, they're just like,
Speaker 1: no blacks, no blacks. Okay, simple as that, no blacks,
Speaker 1: and you knew where you stood. I don't like in America,
Speaker 1: They're like, they make you work for your racism. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure it out. They'd be like, we don't
Speaker 1: need certain people who are prone to hip hop and
Speaker 1: swag and you people like which people you people like
Speaker 1: which people told people know you people like. I'm like, no, man,
Speaker 1: I just want to be offended and enjoy it. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna I gotta figure out my racing racis
Speaker 1: sudoku or something. I don't want to figure it out.
Speaker 1: That's where they beat around it's so slick, but I
Speaker 1: promise you I genuinely think that would stretch things up.
Speaker 1: And black people just came out and said, hey, we're
Speaker 1: all going to vote Republican. You would be surprised, how
Speaker 1: queen this is. This is how you realize how much
Speaker 1: like black people's decisions have affect the general like Republican
Speaker 1: ideology in America. Look at the n r A is
Speaker 1: a great example. And you look at guns in America. Um,
Speaker 1: people always like, oh no, there needs to be you know,
Speaker 1: guns are free. Guns are free guns and free guns,
Speaker 1: free Second Amendment, second women, Second Amendment. Then the black
Speaker 1: panthers came along and they were like, this country is
Speaker 1: dangerous for black people. So they said, we say, all
Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters, you go out there and you
Speaker 1: get guns. You get as many guns as you can,
Speaker 1: and you prepare for a war. And then the white
Speaker 1: people were like, we need to restrict the guns. They
Speaker 1: were like, we need no, no, no, no, no, too
Speaker 1: many guns, too many guns. Bring it in, Bring it in,
Speaker 1: bring it in, bring it Like you see immediately there's
Speaker 1: like bring it in, bring in, and bring bringing and
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Just like the same thing with voting if
Speaker 1: they just thought the vote was going to go the
Speaker 1: other way, they would take a chance just be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm voting for you. Like really, you're voting a Republican. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm vote Republican. It's like, oh, yeah, what who are
Speaker 1: you voting for? The dude man, you know do Scott So.
Speaker 1: In my family, my two younger brothers are um so
Speaker 1: from my mother's second marriage, and so I'm still the
Speaker 1: only person in my family looks like this. So my
Speaker 1: my mom is uh African woman, black Cossa woman. My
Speaker 1: my father Swiss from Switzerland, so he was a white man,
Speaker 1: and so I looked like this. And then my mom
Speaker 1: remarried a black man, and so my brothers don't look
Speaker 1: like me either, right, And I remember what was really
Speaker 1: beautiful was my brothers. We always spoke about this stuff.
Speaker 1: So my apparently they were like, yeah, different dads, we
Speaker 1: get how this works. So my brother one day I
Speaker 1: picked him up from school, right, he's like he's really
Speaker 1: young at the time, was but maybe like I think
Speaker 1: it was the nine maybe ten years old. And he
Speaker 1: gets in the car and he's like just deflated. He
Speaker 1: gets in the passengers seat and he fastens his seat belts,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's going on, Isaac, And he's like, hey, Trevor,
Speaker 1: he's like, kids, Man, I can't do this kids. So
Speaker 1: I go with kids, tell me more. And then he's like,
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know what to do with kids, Trevor.
Speaker 1: You know, like today one of my friends said, are
Speaker 1: we walking home? Then I said, no, my brother is
Speaker 1: picking me up. Then he said, ah, who's your brother?
Speaker 1: Then I said Trevor. Then now when we're walking, he
Speaker 1: sees you in the cart. Then he says who's that?
Speaker 1: Then I said my brother. Then he says, but how
Speaker 1: can your brother? How can your brother be white? Then
Speaker 1: I said he's not white, he's not white, he's mixed.
Speaker 1: Then he said, but you're not mixed. You don't look
Speaker 1: the same. How can your brother not look the same.
Speaker 1: Then so now I'm like, oh, man, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to like go through this. So then I'm like, so, so,
Speaker 1: what did you say to And he's like, Trevor, like,
Speaker 1: I'd have to explain it the way kids understand, he said.
Speaker 1: I just said to him, I said, Swellie, you've got
Speaker 1: to understand like people are like chocolates, Okay, like like
Speaker 1: you can have like a white chocolate, and you can
Speaker 1: have a duck chocolate, and you can have a milk chocolate.
Speaker 1: But it's all nestly. Okay. If there was one aspect
Speaker 1: of South African culture that I could transplant to America,
Speaker 1: what would it be? Huh what would it be? I
Speaker 1: think it would be, um, maybe our general easer talking
Speaker 1: about race and our racial past, you know, because So
Speaker 1: African America have very similar histories, you know, and that
Speaker 1: there was like there were many things that were done
Speaker 1: to people of color that were extremely heinous, but we
Speaker 1: we just maybe because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in
Speaker 1: our country, we were forced to talk about it, and
Speaker 1: we just talk about it. It's painful, but we laugh
Speaker 1: about it and it's out there. Whereas in America, I
Speaker 1: found there's like a lot of tension in and around that.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are just like, yeah, well, well well
Speaker 1: come on, we don't how do we have to bring
Speaker 1: that up? And it's like, dude, I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: did slavery. Calm down, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: that's how a lot of people treated. They's just like
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I didn't say you were there, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, slavery happened, Yeah, but I swear I wasn't. Dude,
Speaker 1: you thirty seven calm down, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I feel like there could be it helps to
Speaker 1: be able to have conversations about those things because then
Speaker 1: it helps you understand how you got to where you
Speaker 1: got to. But if you can't have those conversations, then
Speaker 1: you just have to operate in a blind space of like,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? You know why there's so many
Speaker 1: black people living this part of Harlem? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why do you think? I don't know? Do you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And it actually opens it up. I
Speaker 1: think that would be like the one part. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't fix everything, don't get me wrong, But I do
Speaker 1: think it makes it easier to address issues, to have
Speaker 1: conversations when you can just be like, yeah, man, this
Speaker 1: ship happened. You know what I mean. It can just
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that was that was crazy, that was wild,
Speaker 1: that that happened, that this happened, that you and and
Speaker 1: then And that's the thing. A lot of the time
Speaker 1: people think it's about a signing blame, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's about addressing what happened so that everyone can move
Speaker 1: forward and understand why things need to be fixed or
Speaker 1: how they got there in the first place. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? Like imagine imagine if like your your doctor,
Speaker 1: like you want to talk to your doctor about something
Speaker 1: that happened inside your body, and then you know your
Speaker 1: your doctors skans and then you're like, Doc, I think
Speaker 1: I think I might have like a cancer, your doctor like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I wasn't eating with you. You're like, no,
Speaker 1: I just need to help fixing it. Yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 1: there though I wasn't eating. It's like, no, man, just
Speaker 1: chut out, you know, let's talk about That's the one
Speaker 1: thing I transplant. That and chickens that don't like do
Speaker 1: weights and stuff. That's the other part. Like chickens are
Speaker 1: just like are normal because American chickens is just like
Speaker 1: what what? What? What was like? Once I saw them,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sorry, what is that the thing
Speaker 1: I'm eating? Oh? Like I remember when I first saw
Speaker 1: a chicken wing in America. This is the this is
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing you've ever heard. And you're gonna judge me,
Speaker 1: but I judge you back. I remember the first time
Speaker 1: I had a chicken wing in America is like I
Speaker 1: ordered like buffalo wings, okay, And I know this sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but the reason I was intrigued because I showed on
Speaker 1: someone else's plate and then I was like, what are those?
Speaker 1: And someone said those are buffalo wings and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this like a part of the buffalo that I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I want to taste buffalo wings,
Speaker 1: and then I remember eating it. Then I was like,
Speaker 1: it's sort of like chicken. And someone's like, it is chicken,
Speaker 1: and I was like, but it's buffalo and then they're like, no,
Speaker 1: it's chicken. Then I was like, but what chicken is this?
Speaker 1: I was like, how big is the wing of this chicken? What? What?
Speaker 1: What dinosaur chickens do you guys have here? Because that's
Speaker 1: not the size of any normal chicken anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would. I would. That's the one other
Speaker 1: thing I would bring is just like normal animals. Normal
Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, I bring normal animals and conversations about race.
Speaker 1: I really find I find it funny how Trump has
Speaker 1: stumbled across many of the things he has ridiculed black
Speaker 1: people for in America, and he doesn't even see the
Speaker 1: irony in all of this. You know, for years, like
Speaker 1: like when it came to the FBI, law enforcement, all
Speaker 1: of that, Black people like they have too much power.
Speaker 1: It's crazy how they can just say things about you.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Trump would be like, you should
Speaker 1: go to jails. And then now he's like, have you
Speaker 1: seen how much power they have? Folks? They can do
Speaker 1: whatever they want to take your life away. I mean,
Speaker 1: listen to the thing they keep on saying about all
Speaker 1: of the people who've been arrested. It's not just Roger Stone.
Speaker 1: They did it with Manifold. They always bring up the
Speaker 1: same thing. They go, he's a sixty year old man.
Speaker 1: Is he going to spend the rest of his life
Speaker 1: in jail? And that's literally literally what communities of color
Speaker 1: have been saying in America for decades. They're like, you're
Speaker 1: gonna let someone spend the rest of their life in
Speaker 1: jail because of because of a mistake they made, not
Speaker 1: disputing that they broke the law, but they're gonna spend
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives in jail. And the people
Speaker 1: are like, well, you break the law, you pay the price.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. And now all of Trump's people,
Speaker 1: this is the sixth person. Now all of them going
Speaker 1: to jail, all of them. And now Trump is like,
Speaker 1: did you see in the middle of the night, You're like,
Speaker 1: and they came into his house because that's where he was.
Speaker 1: This is like, yeah, that's that's what it is. These
Speaker 1: guys are genuinely shocked when the police use the same
Speaker 1: force on them that they've been using on so many
Speaker 1: other people in the country unchecked. Because that's why I'm
Speaker 1: saying I do. I didn't think it's extreme. I like
Speaker 1: American police, especially if you do travel the world weird
Speaker 1: flex You'll see, you'll see how like it's it's just
Speaker 1: police are militarized, militarized in American in a way they
Speaker 1: aunt in most developed nations, you know, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: so weird for me. Every time I go back to
Speaker 1: South Africa, I'm reminded. I'm like, oh, yeah, being a
Speaker 1: policeman just means that you are a citizen who has
Speaker 1: the job of enforcing the law. But it doesn't put
Speaker 1: you at a different level. It doesn't mean you can
Speaker 1: treat people like ships. It doesn't you you I'll talk
Speaker 1: to a police officer, I can disagree with him. I
Speaker 1: can argue still respectful of course, that I can arrest
Speaker 1: you if you go too far. But it's not like
Speaker 1: I have to be afraid, you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: to be afraid of the person. I remember once I
Speaker 1: was driving in South Africa with my American friend and
Speaker 1: the cop car in front of me. He wasn't paying
Speaker 1: attention and he like swerved into my lane and so
Speaker 1: then I hooted it in my haunk. I was like,
Speaker 1: bab and then he went back in and my friend
Speaker 1: was like, what are you doing. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: he came into my lane. I was like, the guy
Speaker 1: I was spend for what you hung into that. He's like,
Speaker 1: you can't hunk at the cops. I was like, but
Speaker 1: but I did. He's still a driver. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy's driving and he does something, I gotta honk and
Speaker 1: tell him hey man. And then like in America, I
Speaker 1: learned you can't even you can't even drive past the cops.
Speaker 1: That's like the weirdest thing for me when I was
Speaker 1: when I first when I first moved here, I lived
Speaker 1: in California and I was on the freeway and I
Speaker 1: didn't know like the rules of America, and so I
Speaker 1: was just like follow the speed limits, and I'm driving
Speaker 1: and all the cars are going slow, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you guys are idiots. I'm gone and I'm going fifty five,
Speaker 1: having a good time fifty five and there was a
Speaker 1: cop car and then I just drove past it, right,
Speaker 1: but the cop car was going like forty. I was
Speaker 1: going to the speed limits and then the cop cop
Speaker 1: like it came up. Yeah, this is the funnies because
Speaker 1: the cop car came up behind me then like and
Speaker 1: then I was like in my head because I've done
Speaker 1: nothing wrong, look at the speed I'm like, oh, he
Speaker 1: wants to go past. So I moved one lane over
Speaker 1: and then the cop car came behind me and then
Speaker 1: he was like and I was like, go around, man,
Speaker 1: and then I came back, and then I came back
Speaker 1: into the lake and then he came back. Then I
Speaker 1: was like this guy, like, I thought we were doing
Speaker 1: nothing on the sidewalk, you know, and someone like like
Speaker 1: you do that. I didn't think he was trying to
Speaker 1: stop me. I was just like, go around, man, God.
Speaker 1: And then finally was like Paul, Paul off and then
Speaker 1: we pulled over and then he gave me a long speech,
Speaker 1: was like sure, you know, you drove past me. And
Speaker 1: I was like, uh huh. And he's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're from, but out here, uh, cops,
Speaker 1: we don't like to be passed. I was like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: I like some serious toxic masculinity right there. My friend, Like,
Speaker 1: I was like, you just don't like to be passed,
Speaker 1: And then he explained, He's like, no, we do it
Speaker 1: for traffic. So you see a cop car to stay
Speaker 1: behind it, don't you know. And then then then I
Speaker 1: learned from then on that you don't pass them quickly.
Speaker 1: You've gotta gradually. So if the cops going forty, you
Speaker 1: go like forty one slowly goal postive cup car. Then
Speaker 1: you wait for a truck to come between you. Then
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