WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 061122 Another Deadly Week/Weekend in America (Part 1) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome to another episode of CIDK Cipher. I'm your host, 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Rams's joh I go by. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.240 The name q Ward most of the time, but not 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.479 all of the time because sometimes my mom calls me 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.080 quinn Ton with an extra emphasis on the O, because 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.200 I might be in trouble a little bit, even at 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:16.079 forty years old. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.320 Well that's the way the game goes. I'm mad at 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.520 that at all. Stick around because we got a good 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.680 show lined up. We're going to do some thinking today 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.480 and we would like your help in participating in this 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:34.080 thought experiment. We're going to talk about guns as is 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.240 necessary right about now. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:42.840 Unfortunately, Yeah, absolutely, but yeah, We're going to talk about 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:49.080 another deadly weekend and week filled with mass shootings in 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:49.680 this country. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:56.480 We're also going to talk about legislation and really what's 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.920 standing in the way and what we can do about it, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.120 and really just kind of deal with the reality of 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.920 the guns in this country. This is obviously a national issue, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.839 but as you'll find out that this, like many other things, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.560 disproportionately affects black and brown people in this country, and 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.560 poor people and poor. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.640 People, which is why there's likely not going to be 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.120 anything done about it. But Ram is going to keep 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:22.000 you guys hopeful. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.959 That's my job and it's not just lip service. I 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.360 do believe that we can make progress, but it starts 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.000 with conversations like these, and hopefully we're doing our part. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.679 You know, when we meet our maker, our maker won't 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.120 be able to say we didn't do anything. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.200 We did something. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.520 We did what we could and hopefully, with your support, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.399 we can actually see some real change in the world. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.000 Today's show is brought to you by Ms Maggie aka 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.080 Maggie B Knowing yes she does. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.680 So if you are mad at us, you can blame her. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:59.000 That's not right. She didn't deserve that. But first and foremost, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.400 we'll start where we always do with some ebony excellence. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.400 How does that sound cute? Shall we? We shall? 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.040 This one is brought to you by Armadale Vodka and 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.000 we are going to talk about Lebron James. The story 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.440 comes from CNN. We now have a new black billionaire, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.160 Lebron Gi Yes, indeed, and this is marking the first 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.760 time an active NBA player has achieved that milestone. According 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.200 to one calculation, Forbes said that the Los Angeles Lakers 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.320 star has maximized his business, generating more than one point 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.520 two billion dollars in pre tax earnings. His NBA salary 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.480 from three different teams during the past nineteen years has 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.960 amounted to three hundred and eighty three million dollars, and 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.799 James has raked in upwards of nine hundred million dollars 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.160 in income from endorsements and other business ventures. In addition 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.200 to lucrative endorsement deals with Nike, at and T, Pepsi 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.040 and Walmart, Forbes said that James structured his deal to 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.960 include equity in those brands, giving him a quote cut 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.880 of the upside instead of a quick paycheck in quote 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:56.280 keep that. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:56.880 In mind, kids. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:02.840 The four time NBA champion also has investments in fitness 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.680 startup Tonal, ride sharing company Lift and eatery upstart Blaze, Pizza, Lebronto, GQ. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:13.120 In a twenty fourteen interview, quote, it's my biggest milestone. Obviously, 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.320 I want to maximize my business, and if I happened 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.520 to get it, I happened to be a billion. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:18.560 Dollar athlete. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.400 Hip hoay, Oh my god, I'm going to be excited. Quote. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:31.440 So that is obviously a tremendous achievement. And then all 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.760 of the philanthropic things that he does He's not just 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.760 a billionaire. I don't mean to throw anybody under the bus, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:43.720 but there is other NBA billionaires too, I think one particular, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.520 and Lebron James, in my estimation, is doing more for 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.400 the black community and for poor people than I've ever 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.840 seen before. So not only because he's a billionaire, but 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.360 because we believe it would be a good man. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.440 So far, he deserves some ebony excellence today. Shout out 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:04.040 to the King. Nine hundred million and endorsements and not 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.040 playing keep going anyway. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:13.040 Now we must talk about another deadly week and weekend 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:13.960 in America. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.159 We be driving toward the sun with a smile on 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:23.440 our face and here comes this detour and we got 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.040 to make this left. And man, it's hard to brace 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.920 for it, like even though we know it's coming. Yeah, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.520 it is hard to brace for it. Man. Yeah. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:41.000 So obviously you know, to Q's point, we are thinking 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.960 feeling individuals. You know, the reason you're hearing us on 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.440 your radio stations right now is because we are broadcasters. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.640 We're DJs, like actual DJs with Vinyl and serato and 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.240 play music for people to dance to, that sort of stuff. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.880 We have this skill set to where we can put 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:05.240 together programming. We have a great show producer, and we 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:10.240 have beating hearts, and we feel things, and so obviously 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.440 covering these subjects is a very difficult thing to do 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.520 week in and week out, but we feel it's necessary. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.680 So we appreciate you sticking with us as we kind 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.479 of comb through these things and try to make sense 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.679 of it. We feel it's important, and obviously, by your listening, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.680 you feel it's important as well. With that said, anytime 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.279 we discuss the loss of life, we try not to 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.240 become desensitized to it, and we also try not to 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:40.120 become overwhelmed by it. We deal with this quite a bit. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.200 We have to watch these videos, we have to read 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.760 these stories, we have to listen to these mothers and 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.120 these families that are left behind. And I wanted to 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.680 acknowledge what you were saying to you, that this detour is. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.839 It should never be normalized. But we appreciate the support 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.240 of all of our listeners, and if this is your 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.719 first time tuning into the show, you'll understand why we 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.960 made that statement. So the first thing we're going to 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.039 discuss comes to us from twelve News in the Bronx. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:14.400 The headline reads three other States saw active shootings at 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:19.160 the same time as the mass shooting at the Tulsa 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:25.159 Hospital complex. So the big story, recent, big recent mass 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:31.280 shooting story was that a man was not happy with 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.200 his medication that he was subscribe prescribed. I think that's 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:42.320 the word, not subscribed, by the way, be sure to subscribe. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.920 He went and got a gun, went and shot up 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.360 a hospital, right, And I think that we should say 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:55.600 this here. This shooter was a black man, and the 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:01.359 primary target of this shooting was a black doctor. So, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:08.080 you know, we never like to make things black and 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.360 white issues if we don't have to. On this show, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.480 we do realize that the overwhelming number of the larger 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.520 mass shooting incidents that we see on the news are 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:23.760 usually carried out by white men. But we do feel 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.280 like when we get to the point where we're talking 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.120 about the way to address these things, that it could 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:36.440 help prevent these tragedies happening from people from all different 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.160 colors and all walks of life. You know, the access 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.240 to firearms and mental health, you know, those sorts of things. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.680 We're all humans at the end of the day, so 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.160 we all got to kind of pass through those same checkpoints. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:54.440 Hopefully it'll read out everyone's that's my hope. However, I 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.320 want to read on. A gunman killed four people Wednesday 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:05.520 during a shooting inside the Also, Oklahoma hospital. An inmate 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.720 receiving treatment at a high at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.720 shot and killed a security guard before shooting himself near 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:17.600 the hospital entrance. A person was shot outside of Walmart 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.640 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, during what police called an attempted homicide. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.920 And a student was shot Wednesday afternoon outside of high 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:31.720 school in Valley Glen, California. And these weren't considered mass shootings, 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.520 but they all occurred at the same time. Like, so, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.880 if you went and looked at the clock, this is 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.920 you know, all these people were dead from guns. People's 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.480 lives were cut short. We all agree that if if 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.320 a gun is involved, then a life was cut short. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:53.680 And these are reported active shootings. Right, So that's one 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.720 way of looking at the deadly weekend. We'll move on. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:02.320 This one also comes from CNN from graduation Parties to 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.040 a mall. Thirteen mass shootings over the weekend lead more 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.880 than a dozen dead and over seventy injured. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:09.600 Right. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:16.680 It's important to remember that mass shootings don't often kill everyone, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.319 you know, they are wounded people. I was seeing a 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.120 story about a teacher in Uvalde, Texas. If you haven't 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.240 seen that clip, be sure to check it out. He's 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.079 a very passionate man who recounts his story. There was 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.679 also footage of an eleven year old who survived the 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.400 shooting involved day, and she had something to say as well. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.240 And so there are people left behind that have to 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:38.120 pick up the pieces. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.800 You know. The toughest thing rams about listening to a 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.160 lot of these stories that we've read about that were 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.320 highlighting and that we're talking about, is that it'd be 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.520 sad if there was a mass shooting, right if somebody 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.360 said the mass shooting that we'd all know what we 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.680 were talking about. That would be sad. What's way sadder? 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.000 Or I know what you mean? Forgive us people? I 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.480 think I might have made that word up, but you know, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.200 more sad I think is the proper way to say that. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.760 Either way, I guess that if someone in mixed company, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.160 not here at the store, at the shopping mall, somebody 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.720 text you whatever, had you heard about the mass shooting? Now, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.720 it takes you a minute to try to decipher which 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.160 one they were talking about you might even ask the question, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.960 you might even have to ask which one that is 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:41.840 startling and also kind of not getting enough press. Well 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:48.080 to your point, that is exactly why we're doing today's show. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:53.040 You know, when Maggie b Knowen came with the idea, hey, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.480 we need to make sure to articulate and enumerate the 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:03.400 number of mass shootings that have taken place. We didn't 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.920 know ourselves how many had taken place. And we work 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.760 in news media now, for all intents and purposes, this 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.360 is what we do. And not only do we work 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.440 in news media, we work in this space very specifically. Yeah, exactly. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.880 So it's one of these things where it's really easy 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.880 to say, Okay, this thing happened in Texas, this thing 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.000 happened in Buffalo, this thing happened you know, And you 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.360 might live in Vermont, you might live in Oregon, you 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.199 might live in South Carolina, you might live in you know, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.800 wherever it is that you live. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.920 So a lot of times these stories might feel far 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:37.520 away from you. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.560 But we really need to kind of heed the gravity 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.600 of the amount of gun violence in this country, and 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.840 we all need to work together to push for legislation. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.360 You know, if there's I think there was somewhere in 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.800 the neighborhood of ninety percent of folks that wanted some 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.480 form of gun reform that were pulled. I'm thinking that 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.240 number needs to be closer to one hundred percent. I 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.960 get that there's never going to be one hundred percent 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.680 because there are people that you know, work at the NRA. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.719 But if you're like. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.360 Us, as I mentioned in the beginning of the show, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.400 human beings with beating hearts and feelings who cringe at 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.440 the thought of wounded eleven year olds giving their testimony, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.040 and then you know, we saw the speech that Matthew 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.199 McConaughey gave at the White House when he was talking 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.040 about the exit wounds on these children from an AR 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:30.440 fifteen style weapon, the exit wounds from a child, and 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.640 they couldn't That's why they couldn't identify the kids. They 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.480 had to use their clothes and their shoes and other 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.960 context clues to figure out whose babies these were in 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:52.160 this puddle of leftovers. We need to know the extent 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.359 to which this is happening so that we can ourselves 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.199 heed the gravity. And when I say we, I mean 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.680 Q but also those of you who choose to tune 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.319 in and listen to the show every week. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.120 I often go back and forth with you Rams, and 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.120 you know this about the gravity of covering this type 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.880 of content so constantly, not just the effect that it 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.200 has on us, but the potential effect that could have 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.600 on listeners, and not just a traumatic effect, but like 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.120 a man for real, every week, y'all going to talk 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.719 about this stuff, kind of like an exhaustion of it, right, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.760 But then I think about conversations that we've had and 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.640 the fact that we might be the only people in 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.640 the space having these conversations constantly. Tupac One spoke about 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.360 the reason why his art was so tragic, if you will, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:55.240 and he compared it to the photo journalist that covered Vietnam. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.920 Had the people here not been able to see how 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.800 bad it was, that war may have never stopped. The 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.680 support of people back home wanting that war to end 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.360 was good because people had to go over there and 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.360 show us how bad it was. And he thought that 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.520 if he could continue, you know, why you talk about 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.679 women that way? And why do you why do you 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.040 give violence such a big platform? Why do you point 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.400 out all these or celebrate all these horrible things about 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.000 the communities that you're in. He's like, I'm not celebrating it, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.200 but I feel like if I talk about it enough 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.240 and people hear how bad it was, they'll want to 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.680 do something about it. They'll want to change it. And 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.880 I kind of understand our responsibility in this space. As 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.400 exhausting as it may be to hear about it, as 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.120 mentally and emotionally draining as it may be for us 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.920 to talk about it, it's kind of necessary. People do 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.640 need to get tired of hearing us talking about people 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.160 being murdered and all of the very difficult things that we. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.400 Have to talk about so often. I appreciate you saying that, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:05.800 and obviously that's kind of what we're hoping for. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.960 You know, we like. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 Some of you listening, you know, like people in your 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.800 own communities, people that you know have large stages and 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:21.040 so forth. We saw a need, we saw no one 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.040 else was meeting that need, and we tried to meet 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.680 that need the best we could, and in doing so, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.560 we've been learning how to deliver this content to you 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:34.040 in a way that is engaging but also informative, and 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.600 at the same time trying not to overwhelm ourselves with 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.800 black death, you know, not to succumb to. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.720 The fullness of the black experience in this country. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.720 You know, we'd be the first to admit Q and 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.480 I would be the first to admit that we have 0:15:53.680 --> 0:16:00.160 had many opportunities that many black people don't get. We 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.440 have had stories that are very different from the stories 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.840 of the people born in the same exact circumstances as us. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.240 And you know, with these gifts comes the responsibility that 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.040 sometimes looks like a show called Civic Cipher. And so 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.200 I appreciate you saying that, and everyone listening to the 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.480 show every week that feels the same way. We appreciate that. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:28.240 I'll continue. The US has suffered at least two hundred 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.080 and forty six mass shootings in twenty twenty two. According 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.560 to the Gun Violence Archive. The country is on pace 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.560 to match or surpass last year's total, which was the 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.360 worst on record. In twenty twenty one hundred and sixty 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.400 one mass shootings through June fifth. In twenty nineteen, it 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.600 was one hundred and fifty four, So we're well ahead 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:52.440 of schedule here as far as mass shootings. This next 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.840 tidbit comes from NPR. Firearms overtook auto accidents as the 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.640 leading cause of death in children. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:07.159 So that should be enough, right when we talk about legislation, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.320 when we talk about action, when we talk about just 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.200 being fed up, we shouldn't even have to have a 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:20.080 rest of the show after you say that. Yeah, no, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.240 we still got more. And we're parents, so maybe it 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.720 hits us different. But all of us are either parents, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.000 or we are children, or we are siblings or uncles 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.240 or like all of us know children, right, all of 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:41.600 us should view them the same. Like. Still people. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.000 Say that because wait until I read this. You know, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.199 one day maybe Civic Cipher will be a show about 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.439 two DJs sharing good music with folks. But for now, this, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.720 while these problems still persist and we have voices and 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.080 our able to share, it sounds like what I'm about 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.879 to read. The CDC reports every year more than thirty 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 five hundred children and teens are shot and killed in 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.200 the US, and another fifteen thousand are wounded shootings CDC 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.480 data from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. Of those deaths, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:23.800 twenty one hundred are homicides. On average, twelve hundred children 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.200 a year die by suicide with a gun. Another one 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.720 hundred and thirty children and teens per year die from 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.800 unintentional shootings. On average, fer than thirty five children and 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.520 teens are killed as a result of mass shootings a year, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.040 even though for obvious and good reasons, those tragedies often 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.959 receive lots of attention. Experts and advocates say that as 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.560 the US is forced once again to confront the tragedy 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.280 of the children being gunned down in their schools, saving 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.720 the lives of children, we will require the country to 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:57.040 seriously address gun violence in all forms. I want to 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.560 continue if I may, And. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:18:59.520 That's from Time Magazine. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.919 By the way, Time Magazine. Yeah, you're right, sorry, thing. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.520 Gun violence has trended upwards since the start of the pandemic. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.879 As of June one, twenty twenty two, six hundred and 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.480 eighty six children have been killed this year as a 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.080 result of gun violence, and seventeen hundred have been injured, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.439 according to the Gun Violence Archives. And this note that 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.440 I'm going to read comes from Ms. Maggie aka Maggie B. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.640 Knowing the majority of these shootings happened within inner city 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.639 minority communities. Black children are fourteen times more likely than 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.320 white kids and teens to die as a result of 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.400 gun violence. Hispanic or Latino children are three times more 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.800 likely to die than white kids as a result of 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.159 gun violence. To put it plainly, black and Hispanic or 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.639 Latino children are severely more exposed to gun violence and 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.240 white children. Now, I want to jump in right here 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:53.600 before we make the last point. We didn't want to 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.879 give any shine to this story, so you won't hear 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.200 about it on our show today. But there is an 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:04.399 individual endorsed by the former president of this country, who 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.879 is seeking elected office, who is on record as saying 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:12.960 that gun violence, to put it plainly, as a result 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:20.280 of black people. And I recognize that maybe not you, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:25.159 but maybe people in your life might feel like that 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:26.679 is largely true. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.800 You know, there's there's a lot of ways. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.560 To look at numbers and data to tell yourself whatever 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:40.480 story you're comfortable hearing, right, But they're almost all incomplete. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.400 I'll even see that sometimes the information that we get 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:44.119 is incomplete. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:44.520 Right. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.440 We're not immune to that. We've had to make corrections 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.240 on this show before, and we're not above that. We're 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.399 committed to telling the truth and sharing our vision and 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:53.080 our perspective. 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.879 But in complete and blatantly false are not the same, by. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.040 The way, point, and a lot of times what they 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.800 have on that side, it is blatantly false. But you know, 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.639 for the sake of this part of the conversation, I 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:10.160 do want to say that, while we're kind of venturing 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:16.760 into an entirely different topic, there. 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.920 Is a reason for. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.600 Violence, gun violence specifically, there's a reason for crime, and 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.679 impoverished communities. There's a reason for lots of these things 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.119 that many people look at impoverished communities, communities of color 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.199 very often in this country and think to themselves, it 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.840 is the very nature of these black and brown people 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:43.639 to be violent. And that is not true, because if 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.040 it is in the nature of black and brown people 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.560 to be violent, then you would see it in black 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.960 and brown communities around the country, and that's just not true. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.280 We see it in this country largely. It follows the 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.679 money line around the world. I mean, yes, in this 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.920 country at large, follows the money line. And so what 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:10.800 you're noticing overwhelmingly is that economic inequality shapes these outcomes, 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.800 these statistical outcomes. And again, that's a much bigger conversation 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:16.560 that we've had on the show, we will continue to 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:18.840 have on this show. But right now we're talking about 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:26.040 gun violence. And because Maggie wanted us to make sure 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.480 to make this point that it disproportionately affects black and 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:36.080 brown people and children in this country, that our communities 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.960 also need to take these things very seriously and allies 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.840 to these communities. So if you're not a black or 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:46.919 brown person, but you love people or a person, or 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.480 just have any degree of love in your heart period 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.440 and would like to see better outcomes for black and 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.879 brown communities, you need to know this as well. I 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.040 want to read this last point just so that we 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:02.680 get it in before we move on. So this last 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.800 one comes from CNN. America's deadly weekend of more mass 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:10.399 shootings raises stakes for Senate gun talks. Okay, it's a 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:12.800 fierce political debate. While many Americans see their right to 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:16.840 bear arms as a critical plank of self defense and 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:21.080 national identity, polls show even many Republicans consider some sensible 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:28.640 extra regulations are necessary at times. At the weekend, news 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:31.560 of more shootings came in speeds that were difficult to believe. 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:34.720 Of course, most Americans went about their business without encountering violence, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.160 but the indiscriminate nature of the shootings recently at schools, 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.119 medical offices, supermarkets, at bars, and at parties shows how 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.359 deeply ingrained the threat of gun violence is in everyday life. 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:48.199 No one killed in these outrages had any reason to 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.440 think their lives were about to end in a relatively 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.760 mundane locations. In other words, these weren't war zones. This 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.200 was day to day life in the United States of 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:58.879 America and. 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:05.280 Very benign circumstances normally going to the grocery store, going 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:09.600 to school not just benign but safe. Right, you don't 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:11.760 want your children running the street, you want them in 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:18.439 school once upon a time. It will forever be a 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:25.520 question of mine with our Second Amendment, Folks, that the 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.200