WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 043022 Mass Media Manipulation (Part 1) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to another episode of Civic Cypher. I'm your host, Rams, 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:10.160 It's joh I go by the name Q Ward. Monday's, Wednesdays, Fridays, and. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.440 Then two Saturdays out of the month, but they're not 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.320 consecutive all the time. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:15.760 It's visitation. You gotta check. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.040 Yeah, we'll figure it out. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.560 Anyway, I'm gonna ask that you forgive the quality of 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.040 the audio this week. I am zooming in. Q of 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.040 course is in the studio and we'll we'll be back 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.120 to normal next week, but for this week, we had 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:29.560 a lot to talk about and I didn't want to 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.000 miss this week, So for now it's a zoom call 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.600 again forgive the audio. So a lot to stick around 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.479 for this episode, so stay tuned. We're going to be 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:44.640 talking about uh Yahoo article that was very upsetting to 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.040 both Q and myself where they tried to come at 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.440 the folks who pledge support for the BLM movement and 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.400 they tried to make some sort of false connection to 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.560 crime rates and so forth, which really have nothing to 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.720 do with in our estimation and uh the lack of 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.000 support from these companies since the protests in twenty twenty. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.160 I know it sounds confusing, but trust me, stick around 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.440 will make it make sense so that you know it 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.039 doesn't make sense. Also, we're going to talk about some 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:24.560 discriminatory loan practices that have been outlined by Ben Crumb, uh, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:30.119 the famous attorney, the famous civil rights attorney that Wells 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.360 Fargo has been engaging in. And I think that this 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.320 sort of goes along with a lot of what we've 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:41.639 been discussing about, you know, uh, the the real estate 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.440 assessment value things and then housing practices and and so forth. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.200 So we're going to talk about lending practices with Wells 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.240 Fargo and how they've been discriminatory, and we're also going 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.920 to you know, hear what they have to say about 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.640 that as well. We're going to talk about for our 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.320 way black history fact the chocolate factory because as it 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.840 turns out, Charlie was originally intended to be black. So yeah, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.920 a lot to stick around for. But first, like we 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:15.920 always do it this term, let's talk about some ebony excellent. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.280 I love it when we do that. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.560 Why don't you take this on you? 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.520 This week's I Mean the Excellence is brought to you 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.480 by Hip Hop Weekly Magazine one Time for the one time, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.960 and we're going to be focusing on Jayden Davis, Cleveland, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:34.320 Ohio native and Ohio State University student. This comes from 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.440 the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Todd Baal 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.880 National Resource Center the BNRC for short, there's a program 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.480 that prioritizes the needs of young black males on Ohio 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:49.840 State's campus. They gave him the Dennis J. Alexander Spirit Award. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.720 The award is given to recipients who are dedicated to 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:57.200 the black Ohio State student body and community. He was 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.959 specifically recognized for developing multiple initiatives and programs for black students. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:07.200 These include a new student organization called the Undergraduate Society 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.799 of Black Leaders. I would have loved to be in 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.480 an organization called that when I was an undergraduate student. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.799 This looks to equitize leadership and professional development opportunities. Additionally, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.040 students are taught how to enact change throughout the world 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.160 and their communities from an afrocentric perspective, something that is 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.839 much needed. And you know, massive shouts to Jaden And 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.360 I wanted to call him a future leader before, but 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.800 I think he's kind of already in that leadership space. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.440 Yeah, you know, it's really special, is that because it's 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.119 a show that we get to produce, and our show 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:53.520 producer Magnie helps us produce. We get to decide sometimes 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.240 big stories, sometimes small stories that don't make national headlines, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.360 you know, but they deserve to be highlighted because, as 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.760 we know, sometimes it's it's little stuff that really turns 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.760 into like you know, it's the ripple effects of the 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.360 small things that really end up making an impact. And 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.080 so yeah, absolutely shout out to Jaden Davis from Ohio State. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:24.520 Now it's time for us to talk about some heavy stuff. There's, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:30.880 as you know, a lot of opposition to anything black, 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.119 anything afrocentric, anything black based. There's always going to be 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.600 a part of this country that opposes it. Never, at 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.800 any point in this country country's history has something been 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.400 black or about black people to benefit black people, and 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.400 one hundred percent of the people be on board. Now 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.920 we know that it is in most instances, not all, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:02.080 but in most instances racism with very thin vailable patriotism. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.680 We talk about this on the show quite a bit, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.400 and a lot of people, a not insignificant amount of 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.880 this country needs that to be the case because they 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:18.480 are in effect racist people, but they don't want to 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.599 be seen as being racist. And so if they can 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:28.279 make any semblance of a logic based argument to attack 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.880 something black based or that benefits black people and brown people, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.920 then they will do it as long as they have 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.200 that thin veneer of patriotism or that thin and near 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:49.839 of you know whatever. And one institution reigns supreme above 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:55.440 all else when it comes to providing that racist framework 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.960 with a thin veneer of patriotism. So people can say, well, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.479 I'm just a conservative or I'm just a you know, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.159 I just really believe in these values. And you know, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.200 the use words like I love this country, you know, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.360 like we don't, you know what I mean. I've never 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.880 been to Africa. I love it like in a romantic sense. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.480 But I'm from Common you know, I've been to all 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.280 fifties dates. You know, you've been a vast majority of 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:17.159 them yourself too. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.040 And so. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.440 They try to own these things, and they use them 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.200 to hide behind so that they are not called racist. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:34.960 Again that thin loosely their argument is loosely based on logic, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.839 so that it sounds good only to themselves. And this 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.600 is why you see most black people, most black people voting, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.760 you know, with their democratic values. And then a lot 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.479 of people who feel like the system works great for 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.400 them in its current state. That's why the word conservative. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.039 They are conservative folks. They want to maintain the status quo. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.719 But in order for them to not feel like they're 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.479 awful people, they need some way of justifying it. And 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.440 again Fox News certainly provides that. Now I needed to 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.320 say that because I'm going to read an article now 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:19.000 from Yahoo that cites Fox News. Okay, and the name 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.200 of the titleist articles companies that loudly supported BLM falls 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:29.400 silent when confronted with skyrocketing black murders, as though there's 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.400 some sort of connection. And the article really really tries 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.520 to stretch to make a connection between BLM and black 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.600 people murdering each other, which is very, very hurtful, wrong 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.840 on one hundred different levels. But there are people in 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.880 the world who need this stuff so that they don't 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.040 feel bad. Oh see, like a confirmation bias. I knew 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:57.800 BLM was wrong. How the world anyway? I'll read corporate 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.000 voices boomed across the nation and support a Black Line, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.240 Lives Matter, and various social justice initiatives. Following the death 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.800 of George Lloyd in twenty twenty, nearly two years later, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.640 what was left in the wake of twenty twenty was 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:13.720 a drastic spike in black murders, with experts blaming, blaming, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.840 pinning blame on the BLM and defund the police movements. Okay, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.040 I'm sorry I missed that up. The drastic spike in 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.400 black murders. Okay, let's define drastic. We'll identify that a 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.480 little later. This is not that drastic experts. Who are 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.640 the experts? Who are these people? 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.480 I like the word skyrocketing. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.760 That's what did it for me. It's like inflammatory language 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.600 that excites this conservative base to say, yeah, see BLM 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.640 is bad. Just their very existence causes black people to 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.680 murder each other. That's effectually what this article is trying 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.679 to say. I'll make the point a little later, but 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.120 that is what it is. Again. The headline is companies 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.720 that loudly supporting BLM fall silently confronted with skyrocketing and blackmurners. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.240 You can need that article in its entirety and see 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.200 the point I'm making. It's so unfair. We're just trying 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:11.439 to live. We're trying to have an easier path to happiness. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.640 We don't need what you have. We just need to 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.079 be free to be that's it, right. This is largely 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.559 what our campaigns have been about since arriving on the 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.400 shores in this country in the sixteen hundred. If I'm wrong, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.760 somebody tell me that. But that's the story that I 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:30.360 know and that I live. But yes, they say that 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.800 they're pinning the blame on BLM. Experts quote unquote ore 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.880 pinning the blame on BLM and defund the police movements. Okay. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.520 Companies posted messages reiterating Black Lives Matter and pledged millions 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.360 of dollars to various social justice organizations that push to 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.200 reimagine police singly allocate on from police departments. This is true. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.199 FBI data reported by Fox News Digital last week shows 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.840 murders spite disproportionately among Black Americans in twenty twenty, right 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:07.080 by thirty two compared to the year priory. Now, if 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.000 this is data right, and it's from the FBI and 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.520 they don't have a dog in this, if I will 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:17.880 assume that right, then just reading that sentence alone makes 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.880 it seem like, oh my gosh, black people are just 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:26.000 killing each other. Right, not entirely true? In the article 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.800 is I'm from the same article I didn't pull from 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.880 a bunch of sources is one place. But I'm trying 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:35.360 to illustrate what we're up against and how the story 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.480 gets rewritten on that side to where everything that we're 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.320 doing to try to convince folks, hey, we're not bad 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.240 guys here, don't We're not going to harm anyone. We're 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.000 not looking for rigein revenge. Rather, we're looking for equity. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.640 That's it, right, Things like this make it difficult for 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.800 us on our plan. Right, I'll continue. Murders across the 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.560 board spiked by nearly thirty percent that year, marking the 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.080 largest single year increase in killing since the AG Agency 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:10.560 began tracking the crimes. Okay, so it says spike disproportionately 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.440 among Black Americans in twenty twenty. I'm rereading the part 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:18.080 I just read disproportionately among Black Americans with me, and 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.200 it says by thirty two percent, And it goes on 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.960 to say across the board by thirty percent that year. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:32.000 So that means that black people's disproportionate spike was two 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.480 percent higher than the national average. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.520 Was almost exactly the same as how I would say 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.320 it if I was going to rewrite the counter article. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.839 Thank you, you almost exactly the same, thank you, Q. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.199 But for people that read that the way that it's written, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.480 if you don't take the time to really digest it, 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.080 or if you're again suffering from that cognitive bias, right, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.200 and you're looking for what you need to make sure 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.160 that you feel less racist about feeling angry because an 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.840 organization called Black Lives Matter exists and you feel that 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.480 anything black is a threat on your whatever your races, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.720 because Stinch is white folks. That so that way, some 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.280 black people feel like Black Lives Matter is a terrorist 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:17.240 organization on Really, I am seeing you black Lives Matter 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.640 based in mass murders, mass shooters, bombings and all that 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.839 sort of stuff. But that's we think it. I guess 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:31.640 I'll continue. Here's the hard numbers. At least and eighty 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.360 four black Americans were murdered in twenty nineteen, according to 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.000 the data. Fox News Digital reported last week that numbers 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.760 shot up to at least forty one murders in twenty twenty. Right, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:48.199 it's an increase. We know what happened in twenty twenty. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.080 I'm not going to even say it because the article 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.280 will try its best to separate these numbers from what 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.880 was very obviously people at home, have nothing to do, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.600 nowhere to go, and in impoverished and sperate circumstances, you 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.240 know where people get out there and look, I got 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.320 babies on the feed them by any means necessary. If 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.840 you are living, breathing human being and you have a child, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.280 you know what I'm talking about. And sometimes those circumstances 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.400 make you, even in your imaginary scenarios, will make you 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.200 come out of character. Right, I'm not making excuses, because 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:20.719 that is bad. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:21.440 Wrong is wrong. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.079 But we can point to things outside of BLM and 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.320 tell that story. This article doesn't even attempt to do that, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:36.600 so I'll continue, Okay. In twenty twenty, meaning that there 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.680 was an increase of twenty four hundred and fifty seven 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.400 Black Americans murdered over the previous year. For white Americans. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.520 At the IDEA shows, there were seven thousand and forty 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.800 three white people murdered in twenty twenty. So seven thousand, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:54.040 forty three white people murdered in twenty twenty and nine 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:59.080 hundred and forty one murders for black people in twenty twenty. Right, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.320 so they're more murders in black communities. These are what 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.120 they would in a different article. Pain is Black on 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.880 black crime. They however, would not refer to these seven 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.800 seven three white people murdered as white on white crime, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:21.000 because that's the way that this media narrative exists, exists 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.920 to frame all things black in the worst possible light, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.840 especially especially Fox News. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.320 I mean, the idea in and of itself black on black, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.800 whatever you put after a crime, murder, whatever. As we've 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.680 discussed before, it's far more based on proximity to each 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.560 other than color of skin. Right, the people who live 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.480 in the community commit the crime in the community. It's 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.400 not because they're black or white, or hispanic or otherwise. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.560 So it's it's far more about the people that you 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.440 commit crime against, especially when you're poor and impoverished looking 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:00.280 like you, not you targeting them specifically. But again, it 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.200 doesn't paint as well when you're Fox News if you 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.240 tell the story that way and include that context and 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.720 that nuance, and you know, a more full, flushed out narrative. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.600 You know what else I don't like about Fox meanings 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.520 They always talk about their ratings because they get good ratings, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 they get high ratings, But that's because they're the most 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:28.120 flagrant conservative media outlet. And when you look at the 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.840 more liberal side of things, CNN ANDSNBC. You know, that 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.040 list goes on why that can't even big up the 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.000 rest of the names, but the list goes on the 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.600 liberal side of things. The ratings are split between all 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.640 these companies. But what happens is Fox News saying we're 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.960 number one or the most watched whatever. It makes people 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.400 feel like, oh, well, they're clearly telling the truth. So 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.320 people that kind of live in the gray area in 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:58.960 this country, they're like, oh, I don't hate black people. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.720 Hope they figured it out. I'm not about to get 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.640 out there and carry a sign, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.360 But you know, if somebody, if I'm want to hire somebody, 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:06.760 I don't care for black worker. There's a lot of 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.280 those people, they'll look at Fox News and get indoctrinated, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:14.000 if you will, watching Fox News, get scared away from 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:20.640 what they're there their their natural state would be, you know, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.800 and they get sucked in because they think that because 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.040 this is a number one news organiz they shouldn't get 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.160 high ratings, that they're obviously telling the true and they 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.680 have this like weird, perfect formula for poisoning the minds 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.000 of this country and and turning those minds against what 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.200 on its surface, and it's is on its surface, is 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.680 meant to be a very positive campaign that helps us, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.520 all right. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.960 I mean, the real issue with what you just said 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.880 with Fox News and other media outlets that have that 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.800 point of view is that far more people lean liberal, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.560 far more. However, those in power, those involved in the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.479 foundation of this great nation, lean very heavily the other direction, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:17.200 and in efforts to conserve their position, their power, their 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.200 political and financial leverage over us, they paint these pictures 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.200 this way intentionally, as you said before, they subscribe heavily 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.560 to racist ideology. But don't you dare call them racist, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.119 because that word is the problem, not the practices in 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.880 the way that they think, but being labeled as such, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.320 as you know, please don't do that. I never I 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.800 know Ramsy's he's my friend. I think he's fantastic. You 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.120 can't call me racist. I know a black guy that 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.199 one in particular, I love his afro. He let me 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.840 touch it. Like really really silly things are said. But 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.480 you talk about them correlating a spike in black murders 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.520 to BLM and more specifically because they kind of slid 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:04.280 this one in there to defund the police movement. However, right, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.880 use these same statistics, are these same sources for statistics, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.080 and it will show you that agencies, police agencies in 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:16.480 our country, cities, states, federal, or otherwise did not get 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:21.000 less money in that time. And the cities and states 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.359 and agencies that got the most money there are statistics 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:29.239 that show have very very high crime rates. Because what 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.119 else are these military forces going to do now that 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.600 they're on the streets with new tanks, new cars, new guns, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.000 and new weapons, but find more people to arrest and harass. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.240 And you know, as you said before, you know, if 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.960 a cop follows you around long enough, you're going to 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.240 break one of the laws, they can just decide to enforce. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.720 Ten thousand laws. If you can name to be ten 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.520 thousand laws, then you know exactly how to deal with 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.960 the police. If you cannot name ten thousand laws, the 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.080 police have an advantage. They will figure out a way 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.359 to arrest you if they are so. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.720 They tell that story as if we defunded the police 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.760 and then all these people got murdered. No, that didn't happen, right, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.680 Another false correlation, because it's very easy to say these 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.280 things and inflame an audience that wants to hear and 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:16.919 believe those things anyway. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.320 So let me let me finish pain please her. Your 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:25.600 point is is is taken. So again, FBI data shows 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.679 there were seven thousand and forty three whites people murdered 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.479 in twenty twenty, meaning twy eighth and ninety eight more 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.480 Black people were killed compared to whites. An average of 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.800 six nine and twenty seven black American murdered each year 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.280 between twenty ten and twenty nineteen. Minue Black murders shot 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.040 up by forty three percent in twenty twenty compared to 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.680 the previous ten year average. And they don't include the 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.760 statistics for white murders right. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:55.400 Now. And even worse, they don't include who murdered these 0:19:55.440 --> 0:20:03.040 black people right because heightened racial tension, you know, an inflammatory. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.520 It was a Donald Trump presidency in there. Yeah, a 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.280 lot of stuff going on, but they this article, the 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.760 whole thing is meant to frame BLN as the bad 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:13.639 guy and that's kind. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.400 Of and defund the police because they mentioned it multiple 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:17.360 times intentionally. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.639 All right, So watch this. Two experts such as the 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:27.960 Manhattan Institutes, Heather McDonald BLM and the defund the police movements. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.600 That s what the nation directly contributed to the spike. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.560 The spike quote began months after lockdown, beginning only after 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.399 riots in quote, McDonald told Fox News Digital noting the 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.240 quote spike was not at all related to COVID end quote. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:52.440 Now this Heather McDonald person, Okay, I love this. If 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.000 you are listening to the show this far into the show, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:07.080 you know that twenty twenty will be remembered for the protests, 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:08.160 not the riots. 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:08.600 Okay. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.640 You know that in the same way that we remember 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.440 doctor Martin Luther King for his protests, not the riots 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.920 that took place. Because there were people that rioted. Get 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.320 that many people on the streets that angry and let 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.800 the police get out there and start agitating people is 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.680 going to turn into whatever it turns into. But history 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.280 doesn't remember it that way. History remembers the peaceful protests 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.080 do people in marching. We shall overcome. That's how twenty 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.919 twenty will be remembered. Right these folks here having McDonald's 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:46.480 specifically called them riots of twenty twenty. Okay, the spike 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.200 began months after Lockdown's beginning, only after the riots. Okay, 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.440 So she said, I had nothing to do with code. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.800 I want to make this point so somebody says, thank 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:04.000 you, you got to stay at home the last side, Okay, 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.480 stay at home, right, and you know you got some 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.320 resources probably in your house at money to bank. It'll 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:17.040 be fine for about how long? A couple months at most. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.000 Somewhere it starts getting a little thin, start getting one 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.639 hundred that I was about to stand there and turn 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.760 some skeletons. Very obvious connection here, right, And I know 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.480 there's a number of things, but the most obvious one 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.439 is that, yeah, it doesn't happen the day that the 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.480 lockdowns said. It happens after months after correct, And so 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.840 it's just silly. But you know, if it's written from 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.199 a trustworthy quote unquote source and there's some sort of 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:47.199 the Manhattan's in. 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.840 There quoting experts. By the way, we have no idea 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:52.240 what HEATHERN McDonald does. 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.159 And even if she was the most qualified expert in 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.359 the world saying right here, it doesn't tell enough of 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.480 the story to convinced me that she's not being biased 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:03.560 at least in this article. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:07.119 Highly intelligent people don't frame arguments this way. If she 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.199 was the foremost expert in this field, she wouldn't be 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:11.600 the quotest source for this story. 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:17.040 Thank you, so I'll continue. Box New's Digital reached out 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.320 to a handful of corporations and companies that pledged support 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:23.359 for Black Lives Matter in various organizations supporting tenants of 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.400 the defund movement, such as the Equal Justice Justice Initiative. 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:32.359 Shout out to Brian Stevenson and the National Urban League, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:37.000 who I interviewed on my other show, The Black Information 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:43.080 Network Daily Podcast. Be sure to check it out. In 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.920 the days and months following the death deployed, The Equal 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.239 Justice Initiative advocates for the reallocation of quote funds from 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.240 traditional policing to services that promote public safety and quote, 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.320 while the National Urban League outlines on its website that 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.880 it has quote twenty one pillars on comprehensive and realistic 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:03.119 reform and accountability, including collaborate with communities to re envision 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:09.000 public safety and quote change the divisive policing policies. Representators 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.359 from Nike, Apple, Face for Amazon, Vin and Jerry's norson 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.080 Target and also did not return Fox News Digital's requests 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:18.159 for comments and for obvious reasons, because Fox News is 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:23.239 trying to get a little bit of incendiary remarks so 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:25.520 that they can kind of continue to read that story. 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:28.480 I do want to say that, at least for me, 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:30.520 I won't speak for Q, I won't speak for anybody else. 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.560 I do believe in the defunding of police departments. I 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:36.919 do believe in reallocating and reinvesting in communities to prevent 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:40.120 crime crimes from happening. I do recognize that a lot 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:45.200 of crimes are based off of economic conditions. And if 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:46.720 I'm able to say it, I have a microphone and 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:49.480 an audience, I will say that that idea has merit, 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:51.600