WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 031222 The Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.040 And now watching my my back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.680 You're like that journal journalist time we can strikes with 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.520 waters from headquarters behind him and the border. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.920 If you're just tuning in the civic cipher, I'm your host, 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:16.640 Ramsis Jock. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.400 I happily and humbly go by the name of Q Lord. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.560 Chris Indeed, and please stick around because we've got a 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.120 lot more show coming your way. We are going to 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.880 talk about what I believe to be. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:30.560 Some good news. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.199 You know, I always good to talk about that. But 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:40.320 the uh Emmett Till Anti Lynching Act of twenty twenty 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:47.120 two has now passed UH the House of Representatives and 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:55.200 the Senate of the unanimous vote, and that's not nothing. Also, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.440 stick around because we're gonna speak more about the woman 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.760 we're about to talk about, Mary McLeod Bethune. But first 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.360 and foremost, let's talk about her just a little bit. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.000 I'll give you the deep dive a little bit later 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.920 as a as a bonus, but we're going to talk 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.319 about her a little bit because it's time to do 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:19.360 our bibas segment to become a better ally. This comes 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.240 from the Grio dot com of the one of Black 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.959 America's most prominent female figures in the movement for civil 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.840 rights will be honored this month, with the statue placed 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.920 in the United States Capitol Building's Sanctuary Hall. An eleven 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.480 foot statue of Mary McLeod Bethune will soon be installed 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.840 in the National Statuary Hall collection, meant to represent the 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.840 state of Florida. According to the Washington Post, Bathoune will 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.200 be the first Black American to specifically represent any state 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.000 among the collection of statues. Each state is given the 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.680 opportunity to display two statues of prominent citizens in the hall, 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:03.760 and Bethunes will place one of Confederate General Edmund Kirby 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:09.160 Smith there since nineteen twenty two. That is why I 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:14.320 wanted to talk about that, because you remember it might 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.800 have been closer to two years ago now everybody was 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.799 yanking down on statues and throwing them in the river. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.359 I remember I came across something on Instagram that said, remember, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.359 racists don't have to be statues in order for you 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:29.880 to throw them in the river. I thought that was 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.040 the illest thing I ever read. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.799 I mean, it says a lot about our country, right 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.040 that whiteness is such a powerful and. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:50.280 Embedded peace of or state of mind, that generals and 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.919 soldiers and people who are for the army who tried to. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.720 Like it's even weird to say it. There was an 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:05.160 army fighting against our country, and they all country honors 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.880 the generals of that army that we beat steal like 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.600 this statue is going to replace a Confederate general who 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.200 has a statue in our nation's capital. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.680 That doesn't make any sense. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.639 Man, listen, So you might not know the name Mary 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.160 McLeod Bethune, but you will stick around for our way 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.840 black history fact because we were definitely going to talk 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:37.960 about her. But yeah, shout out to the uh. She 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.560 was the name of the National Statue Statuary Hall Collection 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.640 in the United States Capitol Building for becoming a better ally. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:55.280 We'll take it, all right. The Emmitt Till Anti Lynching 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.040 Act of twenty twenty two. First things first, let's talk 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.160 about Emmitt Till. We talked about him on the show 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.000 before because we had to. Makes all the sense in 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.480 the world. This is a show for him. Emmettil lived. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:16.640 He's a forever fourteen year old. He was born July 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.760 twenty fifth, nineteen forty one, and his last day was 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.919 August twenty eighth, nineteen fifty five. He was a fourteen 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.560 year old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.360 nineteen fifty five after being accused of offending a white 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.640 woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.320 murder in the fact that his killers were acquitted drew 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.800 attention to the long history of violent persecution of African 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.560 Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.279 of the civil rights movement. Now that is just one 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:50.760 brief paragraph from Wikipedia about Emmitt Till. I want to 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.760 call him a man because he's my elder, but he 0:04:53.800 --> 0:05:03.320 didn't live past fourteen, so he was very much a boy. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.440 Forgive us if you've heard this before, but we have 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.000 to kind of make this breathe a little bit. He 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:17.040 goes into the store. He's visiting from Chicago, I believe right, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.080 goes down to Mississippi to visit some of his family. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.599 Goes into a store in Mississippi. The store is owned 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.359 by a white family. He sees the girl in the 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.960 store who's a member of the white family that owns 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.640 the store, and he does like a sort of a whistle, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:37.719 like a like a a whistle that shows sort of 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.640 romantic interests. I don't know what it's called, but it's 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.440 like a I don't want to try to whistle on 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.920 the radio because I'll get it wrong. Anyway, he does 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.080 a little whistle and he says something like, you know, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.800 bye baby, something like that. Right, and then it might 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.320 have been the next day or later that night, a 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.920 group of men break into his house, you know exactly 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.320 where to find him, break into his house, snatch him 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.599 out of the bed, and he was never seen alive 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:12.039 again by his family. They beat him, of course, I 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.840 believe they dragged his body and they like dumped him 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:20.040 in the river. And the reason that this became because, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.000 you know, black people were getting killed a lot. I'm 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.880 not much has changed, but you know, the reason that 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:34.000 his story got national attention is because how grotesque his 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.440 body looked after the murder. And his mother decided to 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:43.520 have an open casket funeral, right, and so all the 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.839 photographers and the cameras were there. If you google it, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.960 if you are you know, trigger warning, because obviously it's 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.960 a dead person person had a lot of promise in 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.440 his life. You can see what that open casket funeral 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.520 look like. And those images were shared everywhere that was 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.000 what started. That's what put the gasoline on the civil 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:10.600 rights movement, and that's what let you know, our forefathers 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.920 on this fight show the world, Look what they're doing 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.160 to us, Look what they're doing to our babies, and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.680 they are not held accountable for it. They can just 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.560 do this and everybody's okay with it. Right later, those 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.680 guys actually admitted, Yeah, that's what they did, you know. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.120 And and the woman on her deathbed, I believe if 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.360 Dave Chappelle's right, because I remember him talking about it, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.600 go ahead, tell me she's not dead. I don't believe 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.760 she's not, okay, but I remember him saying. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.320 Something to double check. But but even if it was, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.880 she lived so many more years. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.600 Than him, right, But she admitted that she made up 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.440 the stories that she ended up telling them. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.440 And that's what I'm saying. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:06.080 Yeah, she after living five lifetimes of what he lived, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.520 finally lets us all know that she made it all 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:16.280 up right right now, and that her conscience allowed her 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.160 to know that that's truth and carry it for decades. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.440 And it finally caught up to her on the at 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.960 the tail end of her life. Huh. So you know, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.200 and this isn't dooming gloom. This is kind of the 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.920 happy part of the show, but you know, a lot 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.920 of times the depths of sadness is you know, a 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.920 great springboard too, you know, a happier day, you know, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.600 and we don't want to forget this man's sacrifice. But 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.200 you know, Dave Chappelle again, he's a person that one 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.800 of his stand ups, he kind of goes into detail 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.280 about this, and I remember vividly because that's right up 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.360 my alley. Obviously I love this well, I don't love 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.680 this stuff, but I'm you know, you and I we 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.479 share on the show before, but we're the sons of ministers, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.120 and a lot of times in the black community, the 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.360 minister is the person who is the keeper of not 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.480 just the faith, but the culture. And so being in 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.440 an environment where there's a person who is kind of 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:24.560 that keeper, we get a heavy dose of our black history. So, yeah, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.760 eighty eight years ago, by the way, oh she still 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:39.040 I how about that? Well, Dave Chappelle said that that lie, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:46.320 as egregious as it is, might have been the thing 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.600 necessary to change the course of this country because had 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:55.000 she not told that lie, had em It not been killed, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.400 had his mom not been a gangster and leave that 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.960 coffin open at the funeral to show the world with 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.520 they did to her baby. Had those pictures not gotten taken, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.559 you know that civil rights movement that did move us 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.560 forward as citizens in this country, all of us, white 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:18.280 people included, white women included. You know, we're all here together. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.959 It's easier to love each other than it is to fight. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.200 We're going to have happier lives. I promise that. Don't 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:31.599 let them divide us. Anyway. Had she not told that lie, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.280 we might not have been able to take that step 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.760 as soon as we did. You know, now, the reason 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.120 I wanted to tell you that is because this Anti 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.840 Lynching Act of twenty twenty two is named after Emmett 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:50.480 till Right. Those fourteen years of his life are still 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.560 affecting us right now. Again, his last day was August 0:10:54.559 --> 0:11:01.000 twenty eighth and nineteen fifty five. This bills passed this year, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:06.760 in twenty twenty two. So that's not nothing. You know. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.240 I know that everyone wants to live a full, long life, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.600 but I think a lot of people want a life 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.800 that matters, that causes something special to come about, you know, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.880 some sort of legacy, you know, that sort of thing, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.960 and them naming this bill after him contributes to that legacy. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.040 You don't want to just be the person who is 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.040 known for dying, you know, and unfortunately that's true here. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.640 But now his name will stand for rather more. Same 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.600 with George Floyd. You know, nobody wants to you know, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.240 people want to live. Man, you know you're going to die, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.920 hopefully accounts or something. He obviously did not die of 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.960 good death, but it was a meaningful one, as it 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.640 ended up turning out. Unfortunately he didn't get to experience that. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.319 But I'll read this. This comes from CNN. The Senate 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.400 passed the Emitt Till Anti Lynching Act of twenty twenty 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.560 two on Monday night by unanimous consent. The bill, which 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.800 would have made which would make lynching a federal hate crime, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.280 now hits the President Joe Biden's desk for signature. Legislation 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.640 was approved by the House of Representatives last week. I 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.720 voted four twenty two to three. I means only three 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.920 people voted against it. Three people voted against it. We 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.520 don't have to focus on them, I know. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.600 Goodness gracious man. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.400 But how about this. Four hundred and twenty two people 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.200 voted for it. Let's let's focus on them, because you know, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.280 we know that there's crazy people and out like out 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.400 loud racist people, and you know, the people that love lynching. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.560 I'm sure there's a few of those in there as well. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.080 You know, everybody gets sent our congressmen and women. You 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:44.160 know Buck Saw, Mississippi, and you know Buck Snort, Tennessee. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.880 I've actually been to Buck Snort. Shout out to Buck 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.839 Snort and the waffle house. They were kind to me 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.520 there and it looks and sounds exactly like you think. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.120 But yeah, Bucksnorth Tennessee. But yeah, this place is all 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:56.920 over the place, and they can elect these people. But 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.320 the Senate, it was unanimous passage of the bill. This 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.280 one might kind of trigger you a bit que but 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.520 passage of the bill is a long sought goal of 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.840 advocates who have been working for years to secure its 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.800 approval in Congress. So yeah, you know, we we we 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.319 know that sometimes our fights are a little bit harder 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.720 than they should be. We know that we are denied 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:25.720 our humanity often, certainly more often than our less melanated 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:26.760 brothers and sisters. 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.760 We got to fight to make lynching. I hate crying. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.280 Yeah, but you know, amen, we were playing the game 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.320 on hard mode. You know what I mean? You know, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.560 and greater is the reward when you reach the finish line. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.800 And if there is a God and he says, well done, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.200 my brother, hopefully it's something a little bit more special. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:47.520 You know. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.120 I have to be man. That's my role here. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:49.360 Man. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.520 You got to keep it real. I gotta. I get 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.840 to keep my head above the clouds. So thank you 0:13:53.880 --> 0:14:01.720 for allowing me that. All right, I'll continue buckle. After 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:08.400 more than two hundred fail attempts to outlaw lynching, Congress 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.319 is finally succeeding. Greatest country in the world, Congress is 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.240 finally succeeding in taking the long overdue action by passing 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.080 the m until Anti Lynching Act. Hallelujah, it's long overdue, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.840 said Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in remarks on the Senate 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:29.880 floor after the bill's passage. That it took so long 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.560 to pass is a quote bitter stain in quote on America, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:40.040 the New York Democrat added. The first anti lynching legislation 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.560 was introduced a century ago, and after so long, the 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.240 Senate has now finally addressed one of the most shameful 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.960 elements of this nation's past by making lynching a federal 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.400 hate crime. He said, Now, the. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.000 First anti lynching legislation was introduced. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.840 When that set a century ago, you can have that 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:03.200 one que. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.760 Does a century mean one hundred years? 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.240 One hundred years queue? And there's two hundred failed attempts 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:16.280 in that time. So yeah, but you know, they owned it. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.080 It's it's long overdue to stay in on our country, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.120 on and on. They owned it. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.400 And did they own it? Though the person saying that 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:25.520 with somebody that was for. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:30.120 It, if he's speaking for the majority, which he is 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.600 the majority leader, then I call that the they. The 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.840 majority is the majority, and as you know, fifty that's 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.440 the majority. So but I think the point here is 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.880 also or I think rather I don't want to say 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.120 the point. I think there might be a catalyst here, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.720 and I don't want to cast any shadow over this. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.440 This is obviously a huge deal and for the people 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.920 that fought for this and dedicated their life to getting 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.360 this across the finish line that passed away and didn't 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.520 get to see it make its way to the light, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.160 which at the time that we're doing this show hasn't 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.360 quite made it there yet. But all it takes is 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.600 Biden's signature and everyone knows that he's going to sign it. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.720 For all those people, I think it's something special. But 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.000 I do have to say, just because I have to 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:27.320 say it, I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:33.680 that now it is getting the sort of unanimous vote 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.640 and the overwhelming numbers and the overwhelming amount of support, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:42.200 I think it has more to do with the unfortunate 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:47.360 crimes that have been committed against mine and your Asian 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.920 American and Pacific Islander brothers and sisters over the past 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.320 couple of years than it has to do with Emmett 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.720 Till himself or those types of crimes against What I'm 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.320 saying is crimes against black people have never really resonated 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.480 in the way that black people would have hoped. This 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.120 is part of the reason why we have to say 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.720 our lives matter. The matter to us if no one 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:16.679 else you know, But I think that you know, because 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.560 of the mistreatment of our AAPI brothers and sisters, that 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:26.320 this has kind of been given a new renewed interest 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:34.400 and there's been some invigorated, impassioned momentum behind it. And 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.600 that's all well and good, you know, because we stand 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.720 in solidarity with our aapi, brothers and sisters. We do 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.520 it literally on the show and out in the streets, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.879 you know. And if that's what it takes to get 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.840 us all to the finish line, then so be it. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.960 Sometimes we got to carry them to the finish line, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.639 you know, And maybe this time that's that's how we 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.480 got it there. But the point is we got there. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.000 It just feels like, you know, in the first half 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.200 for the show, in case you missed it, we were 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.960 talking about very much how it feels to be black, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.680 and how these little tiny things that by themselves are 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:18.440 easily overlooked, they tend to add up to. Rather more, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.080 they tend to add up to. We need to affirm 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.200 the value of our lives, that our consciousness should matter, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.240 that we have. We are entitled to dignity, and we 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:37.320 are entitled to live full, long, happy lives. And this 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.200 is just a kind of a random thing, but I've 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.239 been saying it a lot lately. I've read it and 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.399 I've been sharing it with my friends. I'm saying this 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.800 because I do believe it's important that we're happy too. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.560 We weren't just born to fight and struggle and try 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.440 to overcome. We shall overcome you know none of that. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.960 We should be able to be happy too, and so 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:08.280 I'll say it up. Black joy is a radical act. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.000 It's crazy to think about it, but just being happy 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.000 and black at the same time is something that will 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.960 catch a lot of people's attention, Like, what are they 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.760 so happy for? They must be up to something. What 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.600 did they do? You know? Have you ever gone for 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:29.040 a run? 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:31.919 How about that? 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.560 I know you have to just being funny, I'm picking 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:40.160 on you that. Yeah, So all right, let's uh, let's 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:48.240 talk about the actual law. I guess I'm I'm clearly 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.280 not a law person, but I'll just read the best 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.440 way I know how. All right, So Section two forty 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.119 nine A of Title eighteen United States Code is amended 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:01.720 by adding at the end the following number five lynching. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.320 Whoever conspires to commit any offense under paragraph one two 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.600 or three shall if death or serious bodily injury as 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.800 defined in Section twenty two to forty six of this 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.280 title results from the offense be imprisoned for not more 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.399 than thirty years find in accordance with this title or 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:24.360 both right. The point is that it's now law right. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:29.760 And then number six other conspiracies. Whoever conspires to commit 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.320 any offense under paragraph one two or three. Shall if 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.040 death or serious bodily injury as defined in Section twenty 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.440 two to forty six of this Title results from the offense, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.320 or if the offense includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.119 aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.879 abuse or an attempt to kill, be imprisoned for not 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.560 more than thirty years, find in accordance with this title, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:21:00.640 or both. So both of those, and pending that signature, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:02.640 it will be law. 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:04.480 I hope we're going to get. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:12.920 That. That is all but assured. What we really need 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.200 to focus on now is the John R. Lewis Voting 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:23.440 Rights Act, because that is a separate way that we 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:35.040 could ultimately become disenfranchised from participating fully in our democracy. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.080 So that's next. But you know, there's a lot more 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.919 issues there, and I don't I don't mean for this 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:47.440 to sound the way that it does. But perhaps there 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.000 are less of my aapi brothers and sisters that are 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.919 affected by that, or you know that we don't have 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.720 a real big ally outside of just the people who 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.679 clearly see it, you know, but there's no you know, 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:05.800 what let me say it this way. The Republicans, because 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:12.159 that's really where the opposition lies, are very much in 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:20.000 opposition to it because it represents a loss of power, right. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.919 And I wish that we had the same type of 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:29.600 capacity to collaborate with like I said, our AAPI brothers 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.639 and sisters, are you know some other group that was 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.919 affected by this in the same way, and that we 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:41.240 could have the strength collectively to offset the opposition. But 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:43.600 we're still working on it and we will continue to 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:51.199 do so. And we really need to fight back against 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:57.800 this critical race theory, which is unfortunately wrongly used interchangeably 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.960 with American history, because when they say they don't want 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:06.719 to teach critical race theory, what they're actually doing is 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:14.080 removing American history from the schools. And they've used critical 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:18.520 race theory to kind of blanket over American history and 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:24.000 remove American history from the schools because effectively, anything it 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:26.159 has to do with race that makes anybody feel a 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:32.639 little bit bad now qualifies as you know whatever, and 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.000 they've demonized the term. And so anyway, those are the 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:37.520 next things that we need to work on. We need 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:39.960 to educate our youth so that they know better. We 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:43.320 need to do to grow open fear. We need to 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.199 get our voting rights secured. But for now, we do 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.840 have an anti lynching bill on the books. And you know, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.600 I say it all the time, but mostly because it's 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.399 true and I mean it. That's not nothing. So in Matil, 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.200 baby boy, you know, thank you very much much for 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:06.120 your life and I guess your sacrifice. And you know 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:10.119 now there's there's a rule on the federal books to 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:14.199 ensure that if somebody does something you know your your 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.919 name is going to live on in the name of 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:22.040 justice now instead of just being someone who lived and died. Now, 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:30.520 let's suckle back to Mary McLeod Bethune. This is Women's 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.600 History month, right, yes it is, and. 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:39.840 Shout out to our sisters are actual sisters, the sisters 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:43.960 that we grew up and chose, the mothers of our children, 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.119 and just women in general for being the superheroes that 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:49.600 we are or that they are. 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:55.960 I'm sorry, absolutely absolutely, and it's fitting that we're having 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:00.560 this conversation or we're rather breathing some life with our 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.679 way Black history fact into Mary McLeod Bethune. Now, for 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.960 those that listen to our Baba segment, become a better ally. 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:14.720 Her statue is going into the Congressional Building and it's 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:17.159 replacing some Confederate general. I hope they throw them in 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:21.879 the river. And we didn't get to tell you fully 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:23.320 who she was, but we're going to spend a little 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:25.520 bit of time bringing her to life because that may 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.320 not be a name that you know. Again, we make 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:31.800 a black show for non black people. So the assumption 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:34.600 here is that we're sharing some new information with you, 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:37.920 but if not, it's always great to have a refresher. Obviously, 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:41.359 this is a way black history fact, so we like 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:43.280 to make these names live a little bit more if 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:47.480 we can. This comes from Women's History dot Org, and 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:52.080 I will read. The daughter of former slaves, Mary Jane 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:55.480 McLeod Bethune became one of the most important black educators, 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:58.520 sybil and women's rights leaders, and government officials of the 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:03.119 twentieth century. The college she founded set educational standards for 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.159