WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 020522 A Numbers-Based Understanding of the Black Experience (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.040 And now watch my back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.600 You're like, just strike. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.520 Waters from headquarters behind him and step. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.480 In the borders. If you're just tuning into Civic Cipher Iron, 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.479 your host ramses josh I go by the name of 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.239 q Ward. Yes, indeed, and if you just tune it in, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.360 be sure to stick around because we're examining some interesting 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.040 points made by a social media influencer he called. His 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.480 name is Dan Price Seattle. He had a stream of consciousness, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.040 uh not too long ago and put some hard hitting 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:44.480 facts up and we're reviewing them now. But let's before 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.080 we get back into that, discuss how to become a 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:56.200 better ally. So we're talking about this gentleman, Dan Price 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.280 Seattle at Dan Price Seattle on Twitter and and for 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.039 today's Baba become a better ally, I would like for 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.160 you to follow him, subscribe to his feed, even if 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.679 you don't want to follow him, review it. You'll see 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.760 that these sources are well documented and you'll be able 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.479 to you know, it's just one of those rabbit holes 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.640 that you might want to plug into if you want 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.399 to become a better ally, if you want to become 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.400 a better brother or sister to you know, people who 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.880 don't look like you this is the way to do it. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.560 But he's not the only one. There's another person I'm 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.840 a big fan of. His name is Brian Stevenson, and 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:40.680 he is the person behind the movie Just Mercy starring 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.480 Jamie Fox and Michael B. Jordan. But I've known Brian 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.880 Stevenson for a very very long time. I got put 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.160 on him in like twenty twelve or something because of 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.960 a Ted talk. I love this guy, and you can 0:01:55.000 --> 0:02:00.520 follow him at EJI Underscore o RG EJI standing for 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.320 Equal Justice Initiative, which is his initiative. If you know 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.800 inmate rights and sent and you know the criminal justice 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.120 system is more your thing. You know, Dan Price, of 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.520 course is more about economics and business and that sort 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.480 of stuff. But Brian Stevenson eji dot org. Be sure 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.280 to check him out if you know the criminal justice 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.960 system is something you need to learn about. A group 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.200 I follow on Facebook that I really wish more people 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.760 knew about is called Audit. The Audit and what they 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.080 do is they monitor police interactions and they'll take the 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.560 video and they'll have a lawyer or some educated person 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.840 examine what's happening during the interactions. And it's just a 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.280 great way to get educated so that we know what's 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.680 happening and we can I think that's the best way 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.480 to support the police is by knowing what it is 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.320 they should be doing. And I will leave you with 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.839 a name, Janeelliott dot com. Even if you don't really 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.880 plug in, she's someone that you need to know about 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.400 and that is how you can become a better ally. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.880 Now back to Dan Price, I feel like I want 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.240 to get some thoughts from UQ before we jump back in. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:05.160 How are you feeling so far? 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.600 I just want people to kind of process all this 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:15.120 data and this information with this lens. These are not 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:23.560 random statistical anomalies. It be impossible for these statistics to 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:30.560 be slighted this heavy and disfavor of black people. It'd 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.560 be impossible for that to be random. So view all 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.360 of this information through that lens. This is systemic. This 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.720 is intentional. This is not just by happenstance, like Man, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.360 all those all those statistics really just randomly worked out 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.960 that way for those people. No, they absolutely did not. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:56.640 This system was very intentionally put into place to have 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.640 these outcomes. And when you're hearing all of this information 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.760 through that lens, it hits you a little bit different. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.880 I want to read something, at least it should I 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.840 want to read something that I came across. I might 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.680 share this on our social media page eventually, which, by 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.520 the way, follow us at Civic Cipher, c Ivic c I, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.040 P H E R on all social media. To your point, Q, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.840 and this is about critical race theory. And normally I 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.080 don't do this sort of thing, but just I think 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.760 it helps illustrate your point. A person asked, I get 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.200 that the GOP does not want CRT critical race theory 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.680 to be taught in schools, but can you tell me 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.640 what CRT really is? And the answer is my pleasure. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.920 Critical race theory was developed by a largely African American 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.640 group of law professors starting in the nineteen seventies when 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.400 they noticed that the elimination of racist laws didn't actually 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.800 do much to make the justice system less racist. The 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.480 theory part is that systems and institutions set up prior 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.320 to the elimination of racist laws still maintain those racist 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:13.479 origins and are why the legal system still has racist outcomes, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.120 such as the fact that black people are less likely 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.280 to have charges dropped before trial than white people. It's 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:26.039 something you might study in a postgraduate law program, assuming 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.599 you're working with one of the dozen or so professors 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.680 that are actually working in that area. As such, you 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.080 won't study it in law school, university, and especially not 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.600 in high school or elementary school. It would like it 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.920 would be like trying to teach topography in math class. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.359 You need a lot more math than you'll ever be 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.680 able to learn in high school to even begin to 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.520 try to understand it. Now, what people try to say 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.880 is critical race theory, like teaching about racism in America, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.680 is actually what is known as American history. Children in 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.560 elementary school and high school aren't being taught that now 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.120 because people who actually did those bad things are often 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.479 still alive and don't want people to know what bad 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:16.200 things they did. One of the problems is that slavery 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.200 is taught as the history of black people and not 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.760 the history of white people. So I think it was 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.480 important to read that because again it illustrates that there 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.800 are systems that are set up where even if you 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:39.480 change the laws, the system, the mechanism creates these outcomes, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.840 and it's reinforced subtly in the minds of some people, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.479 but also in the framework of society, like subtle conditioning 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:54.120 and then more formal institutions elsewhere. You know, we talk 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.000 about them all the time, you know, and I don't. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:04.440 I'm learning to not bully the police because I don't 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.000 believe that two wrongs make a right, and I do 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:11.200 recognize the human beings in the uniforms, but I will 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.000 forever remain critical of the institution as long as that 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:20.440 institution ends lives needlessly, pretty much as long as you're 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.360 carrying guns, because that feels a little like, all right, well, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.200 just in case I need to end the life today, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:26.400 go ahead, qu you jump in. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.440 That's a very interesting way to pull to put that 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.000 just in case of you know, might need to kill someone, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.120 and there, let's make sure we got the tools. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.960 That we need. Why not get a bulletproof vests if 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.680 you need to protect yourself, that's protection. A gun is 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.440 to kill someone. I don't dah man or put in 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:42.840 the drunk. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:49.160 I wanted to point out the use, or almost the 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:55.640 manipulation of people's very vague understanding of critical race theory. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.800 A certain sector of our population has has has gone 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.040 to dog was liistling in a way that they know 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.960 a lot of people don't know what that means. Right. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.400 They've made it scary, attached it to everything having anything 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.880 to do with segments of American history like slavery, and 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.040 scared people into thinking our kids shouldn't learn about this, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.920 even though, as you just pointed out, they're not one 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.600 and the same. You guys don't want us to teach 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.400 our kids' American history is what it is. But if 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.080 you said that out loud, people would think you were ridiculous. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.040 So you have to brand it as critical race theory, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.960 knowing that hundreds of millions of people have no idea 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.760 what that means. Make it a scary term, just like 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.920 socialism because a lot of people don't know what that 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.080 means either. But if I can make it scary and 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:48.440 give it a somewhat permanent negative connotation, I can dog 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.240 with a large groups of people using these scary terms 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.160 and get the outcomes that I want. So it's just 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.800 interesting to hear you read that definition, because I'm sure 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.240 there are people listening to this show that heard that 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.200 definition the first time today, but have heard critical race 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.600 theory said one hundred times before. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.240 Yeah, and they didn't know what it was. Yeah. Well, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:16.840 to their credit, the right, the conservative wing of this 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:23.320 country is excellent when it comes to marketing, especially marketing fear. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.360 I've never like, Wow, I went to school for marketing. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.720 I have a degree hanging on my wall and I 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.600 so I can see it and it is not got 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.880 milk is It is not you know, have it your way. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.559 It is not that it is different. It is like 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.840 like they get in the head of these people freaking out. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.959 They have a lot of people thinking that we are 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.040 the enemy. It's the wildest thing, yo. We the only 0:09:55.120 --> 0:10:03.200 thing that we asked for is equality and never revenge. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.280 Never in any circle have I ever heard that we 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.439 need to get revenge. No, we need to get equality. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.800 We need to get equity, we need to get a 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.600 fair shot, we need to you know, we need what 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.679 this thing is promise to its citizens. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.480 People would would view as minimums. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.880 Yeah, many's the most that we ask for. The minimum. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.800 Absolutely absolutely, So So let's get back into Dan Price. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.839 That detour was necessary. I'm glad we took that one. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.760 But let's get back here. So there's some more slides before. Actually, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:44.000 before we get into this. There are some people black 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:54.040 people who make a point of identifying quote unquote white saviors. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.720 What this term means is a person that comes in 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.319 and says, oh, poor black people. I'm white, so I'm 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.840 going to save them as opposed to, Hey, look this 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:10.080 doesn't look right. I respect black people and brown people there. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.079 They're thinkers. They're They're not just rappers and singers and 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.400 you know all that dancers, their thinkers, you know, their leaders, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.200 their politicians, everything that, everything that anyone else is. So 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.520 we will figure out what it is that they need 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.000 for their communities by asking them and then empower them 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.160 to take such action. Right. So not I'm going to 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.480 step in and get all the shine and the glory, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.160 but I'm going to empower them. So this is the 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.199 difference between what would be known as a white savior 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.880 and a good person an Ally. There you go an ally, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.439 And before anybody comes at me telling me, why did 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.640 you do a whole show on this white savior, I 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.760 don't think that this guy is at no point that 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.400 I in my research for today's show, that I see 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:08.960 him insert himself into some circumstances where a black person's 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.920 voice would have carried further, or a black person's actions 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.280 would have meant more, or anything like that. He is 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.320 a businessman who is speaking to corporate interests and economics 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.199 in a space where most of the people that are 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.200 observing what he's doing and finding out what works look 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.600 like him. I call that an ally and if you 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.920 have a problem with that, then you can come see me. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.720 But I implore you be careful with that one. I don't. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.280 And that's oh man, I wish that everybody just kind 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.679 of knew that we're all of us. We're all trying 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.839 to get there together. We don't need to tear each 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.480 other down if we get it wrong, you know, not 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.480 just us, anyone. If you get it wrong, talk to 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.360 us to tear it down. Anyway. I'll get back to it. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:03.559 So his next slide, he says, oh, let me give 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.360 you a little bit more history. So his his slides 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.880 are a little bit about not just about race. This 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.280 stream of consciousness has a lot to do with race, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.720 but he's also talking about you know, teachers and education, healthcare, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:23.160 you know workers' rights, you know quality of life of course, economics, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.720 you know business, all that sort of stuff, and standing 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.760 up for the underdog, like he says, so recently put 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.800 up a post that said, eighteen years ago today, I 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.120 started my company, Gravity Payments. I was nineteen years old. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.040 And just excuse me, just trying to survive. We now 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.439 have over two hundred employees, over fifty million dollars a 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.439 year in revenue, pay everyone a living wage again seventy 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.120 thousand dollars minimum wage at his company, and have never 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.880 had one layoff, he says, My secret great employees, CEOs 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:59.040 don't matter, workers do. I think that that better identifies 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.839 who he is as a person. And this thing we're 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.120 talking about today is one facet of that. He hasn't 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.720 built his whole identity around, you know, anything like rescuing 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.920 black folks, and even that I take issue with it, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.920 because if someone did, that was their life's mission. I 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.080 don't think that's the worst thing in the world. I 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.600 do get that some people take issue, and I guess 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.800 I can understand why, But I don't have a problem 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:21.960 with that. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.200 Good And I mean, that's that's similar to the conversation 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.320 that you and I had before, Because to outsiders, people's 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:37.680 intentions matter, right, Oh yeah, But sometimes outcomes should outweigh intentions, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.840 even if they personally entire mission was to say, hey, 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.000 look at me, I'm awesome. Look at all these black 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.560 people I helped. If we're looking at all the black 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.680 people they helped. Then I don't care that it's clout chasing. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.520 I don't care that the that their their reason for 0:14:55.600 --> 0:15:00.120 it was to ultimately big themselves up. If the outcomes 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.600 are still righteous, thank you think we had an issue 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.000 Just to give you guys full transparency when we started 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.720 to change society and hashtag lunchbag more specifically one of 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:17.280 our flagship programs. It's a social media program, hence the 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.360 name hashtag lunch bag, and we got a lot of 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.360 pushback from people saying, hey, get the cameras out of 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:25.400 those people's faces. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.040 You know, we were feeding homeless people with this problem. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.000 Stop saying hey, look at me, I'm so great because 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.320 I'm doing this thing, and just do it. And it's like, sure, 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.920 the five of us could just do it, but by 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.560 sharing it on social media, millions of people all over 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.360 the world got involved. Seventy eighty cities at a time, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.080 all that once, feeding millions of people because of social media. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.600 So of course some people came out because it was 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.080 a good look on their Instagram to be seen doing 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.000 something good for people. But the outcomes were still right. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.920 Those people still got food and meals that they wouldn't 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.920 have gotten and we're talking millions of people. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.800 Absolutely, so I'll take it. I'm with you there. But 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.480 you know, we so we obviously this show. We created 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.360 this show to be a black show for non black people, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.920 you know, to create better allies, to empower folks, the 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.800 people that were out on the streets that wanted to 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.600 know where to go, what to do in twenty twenty, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.200 Where do we go? How do I support? What do 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.160 I put on my sign? What does this mean? What 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.320 does that mean? What is it that you want? How 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.120 can I help? You know? There was nothing talking to 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:37.800 those people, no show like this in this space, in 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.800 the radio space on these stations that was doing that, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:48.760 and so we created this. But again, the conclusion the 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.880 outcomes is more important than anything. And so people come 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.400 at us, you know, because you know, black people listen 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.320 to the show as well, and some folks take issue, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.640 and that's okay because we don't know everything. But as 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.280 long as the tone is good and positive, then we'll 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.240 all get there. Man, it's a very difficult job to do, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.320 but I love you all. It doesn't matter who you are, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.560 what color you're from, or what color where you're from, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.679 or anything like that. My job is to love you, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.359 and I'm gonna do my best for you. All right, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.560 let's get back to these slides, all right, I'm gonna 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.040 burn through a few of these first. Black owned businesses 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:27.640 get three percent of all business loans. Black people own 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.320 one percent of all stocks. Black people own four percent 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.400 of legal cannabis businesses under one percent of fortune. Five 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.560 hundred CEOs are black women. Scooter startup Bird, you know 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:46.400 those little scooters in every city. Scooter Startup Bird got 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:51.480 more funding than all black women upstarts combined in twenty twenty. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.919 In nineteen fifty, black men made fifty one cents for 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:02.200 every one dollar white men made. Now fifty one since, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.040 So that means it has not changed. Americans think black 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.320 people have ninety percent of the wealth while white people do. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.399 Or sorry, americans think black people have ninety percent of 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.160 the wealth white people do. So Americans think black people 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.840 have ninety percent of the wealth of white folks, it's 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.200 actually ten percent. Black homeowners are still five times more 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.720 likely to be in old redlined areas fifty years after 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.719 redlining was outlawed. That is why you need critical race 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.760 theory that you see the legal implications of a system 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.360 that was outlawed and what are the long term implications 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.280 of it? How do systems continually affect you know, these 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.240 communities after the laws have been passed and changed and 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.040 so forth. That is where critical race theory comes into play. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.879 No one in elementary school is going to learn about this, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.159 and if they did, they wouldn't look at themselves like, oh, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.280 my gosh, I'm a bad person. Oh woe is me? 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.160 You know, at least that's my take on it. All right, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:14.040 I'll move on. Black Americans are three times more likely 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:15.880 than white people to be killed by the. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:22.200 Police, and more likely, by the way, because three times 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.160 makes it sound small, that's three hundred percent more likely. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.479 But I like the way you said it better. In 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.040 eight cities, the rate of police killing black men is 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:38.760 higher than the general US murder rate. Facial recognition is 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.840 one hundred times more likely to misidentify blackfaces than white ones. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.280 This all came out on the same All these slides 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:48.919 came out of the same day, so you can imagine 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.240 the impact that it had on me and Q. All right, 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.480 I'll continue. Distributions from corporate stock buybacks and dividends in 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.680 the last fifteen years benefited white people seventy two times 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.280 more than black people. Black owned small businesses were three 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.240 times less likely than white owned businesses to get a 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:12.800 PPP bill out. Minimum wage workers are twice as likely 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:19.159 to be black than white. All right, thirty seven percent 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:25.720 of black families have zero dollars in net worth. I'll 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.639 say that one more time. Thirty seven percent of black 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:35.480 families have no net worth. That is zero dollars, and 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.919 that's twice the rate of white families. Under the post 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.399 World War two GI bill, point one percent of homes 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:50.440 went to black military vets. Point one not one percent, 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.439 and ninety nine percent went to everyone else. Point one went. 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.000 To black point went to everybody else, Thank you, yeah, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.640 ninety nine point nine. 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:08.359 There it is. Black voters are seventy four percent more 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.560 likely than white voters to wait at least thirty minutes 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.320 at the polls. Oh, I bet they love that on 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:22.040 the right. All right. Median net worth white families with 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:27.160 kids sixty eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight dollars. 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.920 Read that again. The median net worth of white families 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.359 with kids is sixty three thousand, eight hundred and thirty 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.480 eight dollars. The median net worth of black families with 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:45.000 kids is eight hundred and eight dollars. So the numbers 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:49.320 sixty three, eight hundred and thirty eight versus eight hundred 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.120 and eight, so it's over sixty three thousand more dollars. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.560 And it's not even that that the amount is important, 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:05.880 it's just it's nothing. So gross network. Yeah, that's crazy, 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:07.840 And we talked. We talked, I think it was last week, 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.800 we talked about how having money in the house affects 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:17.399 the brain development for babies. If if a mother who's 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.760 just given birth, a postpartum I think that's what it's called, 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.480 or freshly birthed, you know, seed in the house man, 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:33.240 their brain develops better when there's fiscal resources. This is 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.560 like a scientific thing we talked about on a previous show. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.520 Feel free to hit the websites cif E, cipher dot 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.840 com and download it and then our last light here. 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.760 From nineteen thirty to nineteen sixty, one percent of all 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:50.280 mortgages were issued to black people. Today, homelanders are eighty 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.080 percent more likely to reject a black person's application than 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.520 a white person with the same finances. And finally, black 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:00.239 millennials net worth is fifty two percent lower and their 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:05.240 parents at this same age once again. Oh you know 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.080 what before we go about thirty seconds Q. Any final thoughts. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.600 These numbers are staggering, and just to echo my point 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:22.120 from before, it's a statistical impossibility for all of these 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:28.400 truths to be random. It's absolutely intentional, absolutely systemic, and 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.240 absolutely on purpose. And that's the part that. 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.560 Makes it so disgusting. 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:39.920 Yeah, well again, I employ you to check out on 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:45.240 Twitter at Dan Price Seattle. All the sources for all 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.800 of his statistics are there so you can examine them. 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.000 I looked at the sources too, because I don't want 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:51.560 to take some nonsense and put it on the radio, 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:53.200 because then y'all be coming after me and I don't 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:57.199 need that problem. So check them out for yourself. It 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:01.080 is very insightful, and I think he'll become a more 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.399 empathetic human being after seeing that, and maybe it'll inspire 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.080 some creativity along the way. Now the way black history 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:13.840 fact Sidney Poortier. He died earlier this year at age 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:16.920 ninety four, and I will be reading a bit from 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:22.080 CNN dot com in their article on that, they wrote, 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.840 after you passed Portier overcame an impoverished background in the 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.199 Bahamas and softened his thick Island Accent, a rise to 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.280 the top of his profession at a time when prominent 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.680 roles for black actors were rare. He won the Oscar 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.600 for nineteen sixty threes Lilies of the Field, in which 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:40.800 he played an itinerant laborer who helps a group of 0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:43.640 white nuns build the chapel. Many of his best known 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.480 films explored racial tensions as Americans were grappling with social 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.560 changes wrought by the Civil Rights Movement. In nineteen sixty 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:54.040 seven alone, he appeared as a Philadelphia detective fighting bigotry 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.520 in smalltown, Mississippi in In the Heat of the Night 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:00.560 and a doctor who wins over his white f Beyonce's 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.159 skeptical parents in Guests Who's Coming to Dinner? That's the 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:08.760 one I know him for. Quartier's movies struggled for distribution 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:12.000 in the South that makes sense, and his choice of 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.119 roles was limited to what white run studios would produce. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:19.320 Racial tableaus, for example, precluded him for most romantic parts, 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.240 but his dignified roles helped audiences in the fifties and 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:26.320 sixties envisioned black people not just as servants, but as doctors, teachers, 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:30.840