WEBVTT - 021024 What Black Unemployment Rates Tell Us About America (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.800 Keep on riding with us as we continue to broadcast 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.640 the balance and defend the discourse from these hip hop 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.560 weekly studios. Welcome back to Civic Sideher I'm your host, Rams's. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.240 Jaw he is Ramsy's jaw. I am q Ward. You 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.200 are tuned in and hopefully tuning back in specific signing. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.280 M and we still got some more to talk about. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.239 We're gonna spend a big part of this next half 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:27.160 of the show and discussing black employment, or specifically black unemployment, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.120 and we're going to do our best to connect that 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.760 to a lot of different facets of not only black 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.519 life in America, but society in general. 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Yes, So that is your bab bah walking 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.799 orders for the week. Let's help a brother out, all. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.120 Right, Okay, all right, onto black unemployment. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.080 Okay, let's get it started here, got to set it off, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.360 Let's get it. Let's go. It's time. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.440 When you guys can see, I'm just getting more motivated 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.440 man each time he says this out loud. All right, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.320 So I'm gonna share a bit from ABC News. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.160 The black unemployment relate rate is consistently twice that of 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.960 white workers. And here's why. The unemployment rate among black 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.880 men jumped to five point three percent in January, rising 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.840 from four point six percent over the previous month, according 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:47.120 to data by the US Department of Labor on Friday. So, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.560 in short, what's been happening lately is the economy is 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.120 doing okay. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:04:00.680 Okay, you could blame the president for that, which would 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.040 be an interesting thing to do, right, because the heroes 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.040 of the other side of the aisle would not even 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 see that. Not that, not only that, but we've looked 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.560 at the same data for very very popular presidents like 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.920 Ronald Reagan or maybe the most popular, the guy who 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.240 was in office last time. I don't I don't like 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.440 to say this name much in our inventory, but rates 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.200 from three to four times as high the black employment. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.159 The black unemployment rates, I'm sorry, are three to four 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.680 times higher under those very very popular presidents in this 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.680 most recent one, a lot of black people stepping up 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.760 in support of him and telling us all the reasons 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.600 why he did so much about and the data just doesn't. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:45.960 Not even close. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.599 Now, this in no way is an endorsement of any 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.000 political candidate, because far be it from us to do 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:57.800 that for you. But the fact is that economy is 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:04.880 doing better. Okay, So what does that mean for black 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:12.400 people specifically? Well, this article was again meant to illuminate 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.880 how the black unemployment rate is consistently twice that. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.600 Of white workers. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.320 So I have a little. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.120 I figure what it's called but it's like a breakout 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.560 or whatever. It is a standout, a blurb blurb. There 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.760 you go from the article, and I'll share that since 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.200 the US first collected such data in nineteen seventy two, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.320 the black unemployment rate has consistently stood at levels twice 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.520 as high as the unemployment rate among white people. This 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.240 relationship is undergone occasional shifts up or down, but quickly 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.640 returned to a level of two to one. Okay, so 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.040 it's from the same article again, that's at ABC News. Again, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.040 if you want to read the whole thing, the black unemployment. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.279 Rate portant to point out where this data came from. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.440 Can you say that again? Yeah, ABC News MSN is 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:58.440 where we originally got it. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.040 Even beyond that, yeah, well well yeah, the next of labor, Yeah, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:02.920 the next, the next party. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:04.040 We'll get there. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.920 But yeah, these are all these are all sources. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.360 As you know a long time listener to the show, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:12.400 we do our best to use journalistic uh journalistically. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:18.680 So yeah, from the most journalistically credible sources, sources that 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:19.920 we can, yeah, or. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.279 At least a source with some journalistic integrity. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.440 Because the truth of the matter is, we've said this before, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.279 the truth has a liberal bias to it. So if 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.880 people want to make a conservative conservative argument against a 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.400 news source by calling it liberal or liberal media, the 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:35.840 fact of. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.640 The matter is that the truth often enough as a 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:38.760 very liberal bias to it. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.400 You know, those those of us that subscribe to the 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.480 same moral moral compass will note that the truth often 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.560 lands on on on the side of a more liberal. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.320 Argumentative framework. That's probably the best way to say. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.760 All right, So now that we've established this that, since 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.400 the data has been collected, that there's a black unemployment 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:07.919 rate that is roughly two to one consistently, let's discuss 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:15.640 a few things. Okay, first thing is how does this look? Well, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.640 what's one way that this look? And I know that 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.280 you wanted you're champing at the bit here, so go ahead, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.720 champ no more. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.320 My good man. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.280 That's unfair to make it like I'm just champing at 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:35.240 the bit for this. I'm often very eager to kind 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.080 of share my point of view on the topics that 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.720 we talk about, and I thank you for making me 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.880 smile though, because I'm not typically when we're covering these 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.800 stories and these topics, I'm not normally in studio with 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.000 a smile on my face. It is very interesting. You 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.040 mentioned me traveling all over the world and even living 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.240 abroad and looking at the differences in the way that 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.640 societies as a whole treat people that looked like you. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.040 And I lived in Barcelona, Spain before, I lived in Palawan, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.240 Philippines before, and just recently returned from Tokyo, Japan. Was 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.840 a couple of weeks ago, and quick story. I go 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.400 into this restaurant to use the restroom. Upon coming out 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.560 of the bathroom, I'm getting ready to leave and one 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.920 of the gentlemen working there guides me toward a table. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.440 I say, no, man, I'm just I was just using 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:31.840 the bathroom. Without saying any words. His gesture said, no, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.480 fam buy some you gotta buy something. He didn't say 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:41.240 any words, but hissition his disposition in the gestures that 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.480 followed said oh, no, you use the restroom, so use 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.360 a patron. Now you're gonna buy something. So we sat 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.640 down and I ordered a cup of tea. It was 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.120 the least expensive thing here since I didn't intend to 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.800 buy anything. And after I finished my cup of tea 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.280 and then I got up to leave and pay, I 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.200 realized this place only accept yen, so I had no 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.200 Japanese in and it didn't take a credit card. All 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.559 I had was American cash. And this gentleman took out 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.679 a map and used his finger to draw me a 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:17.760 path to a currency exchange and or an ATM. And 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.960 then he put the map down and went back to work. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.839 And something really, really powerful happened. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:25.480 In that moment. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.200 I realized that to this guy, I was a patron 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.760 in the establishment, and that's it. I wasn't the black 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.520 American guy that might be a thug and might steal 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.680 and might be trying to get out of paying this check. Nope, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.800 he's just a patron, and patrons that come into this 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.480 restaurant they pay, So let me help him figure out 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 where to get his money changed over so that he 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.840 can pay. Nothing in him stopped to watch me, nothing 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.240 insisted that I come back. After me walking down the 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.360 street and trying to find this place for twenty minutes 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.280 or a half hour. When I got back, he sa 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.720 if he wasn't looking for me, there was security, wasn't waiting. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.760 He just went back to work. Nothing in him had 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.440 any idea that I might not come back and pay 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.440 this bill, because to him, I was a person first 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.640 and foremost and really completely because I was very obviously 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.640 not Japanese. By the way I was addressed the fact 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.760 that I was speaking very very noticeable American English, it 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:29.400 was clear what I represented, and in this country I 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.880 would represent more specifically a young black man from Detroit, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:38.520 but first and foremost black before man. In this restaurant 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.440 in Tokyo, I was just the next check that was due, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.320 and since I didn't have the cash, this man wanted 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.000 to help me find the money to pay my bill. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.800 And my entire experience there when I lived in the Philippines, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.079 not as beautiful in Spain, but still different than here noticeably. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.400 This idea that we are by nature supposed to be 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.240 okay with having the lesser experience and every aspect of 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 our life in this country is quite insane. So it's 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.360 not by chance or by the opinion of Ramses and 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.520 Q that black people have a harder time here. By this, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:18.200 data dating back to the nineteen seventies has accurately shown 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.440 that at a two to one rate, black people are 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:28.400 more unemployed for a fifty year almost window. The data 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.360 is consistent. It might vee a little one year higher, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.360 but it comes right back to that same point. Fifty 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.760 two years that this is not just by chance that 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.480 the data over that long of a time would continue 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.679 to show the same results over and over. And what 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.000 we need to get into is these are the symptoms 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.480 or what's the disease, what's leading to the exact why 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.000 exactly of these kinds of acts. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:50.480 So watch this. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:57.080 What I love about that story is that it shows 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:06.720 how public opinions shape outcomes for black people, right, And 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.720 we have to do a separate show about how government 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:17.800 posturing and programs helps either establish or fortify public opinions. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.960 So we recognize that this all goes back to governmental policies. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.720 The government says, well, this is what the people want, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.679 so let's give the people what they want. I'm talking 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.839 about Jim Crow and segregation, all that sort of stuff. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.040 The government like kind of wrote the laws what the 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.000 people wanted, not what was right or otherwise. The government 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.360 will do things that takes advantage of the most vulnerable 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.520 of us in society, and it makes Middle America feel like, oh, well, 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:44.600 that's just what they're for. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.360 We're supposed to be able to take advantage of those people. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.360 And unfortunately, sometimes the government will teach people. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.240 How to do it right Oh, there you go. So 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.440 that's that's kind of what we're trying to. So do 0:12:55.520 --> 0:13:00.920 me this favor. Now, share the the what was that 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.199 the National Bureau thing? 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.480 So this information that we came across was kind of ironic. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.760 A lot of you don't know, but Ramses and I 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:16.120 have both worked in higher education together and in academic 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.480 and admissions advising, right, so we got to help students graduate, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.640 but we also helped students get into school. And we 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.760 noticed very I'm talking about immediately the day one of 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:34.920 both being at this same school applications. You cannot see 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.440 a face, but you can read a name, and in 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.440 a lot of cases, names by people in this country 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:49.520 that are African American stand out. They almost scream I'm black. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:56.079 And because people are hiring and admitting these these children, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.680 these adults that are trying to get jobs, people that 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.800 are trying to get into school, those biases creep in, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.400 creep into their decision. The National Bureau of Economic Research, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.000 a job applicant with a name that sounds like it 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.760 might belong to an African American, say Lakeisha or Jamal, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.760 can find it harder to get a job. Despite laws 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.960 against discrimination. Affirmative action a degree of employer enlightenment and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.720 the desire by some businesses to enhance profits by hiring 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:34.040 those most qualified. Regardless of race, African Americans are twice 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.320 as likely as whites to be unemployed and earn nearly 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.200 twenty five percent less when employed. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.320 Boom. Now, where's the source of that? At one more time? 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.200 The National Bureau of Economic Research. Okay, So let's talk 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.560 about Ramsay's jah. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.000 No, that wasn't que Ward that came up with that, right, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.440 that whole paragraph was from that place. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.920 Okay, I didn't write that. So let's talk about. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:15:02.040 This lady that's trying to run for president, Nikita. What 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.560 is it in Amerika? 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.800 What's her? What's her actual name? 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.800 The people know her as Nikki Hayley. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:08.960 Do you give me a Nimroda? 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.760 I think it's a Nida, but her given name. Yeah, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:13.920 please proceed. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:20.720 So you may have heard her name in recent weeks 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.720 talking about the Civil War was not thought about slavery, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.240 That America is not a racist country. In fact, she 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.400 went on to Charlotmagne a you know a friend of 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.080 the show who went on to Charlemagne show the other. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.560 Day thereafast club, breakfast club. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.040 Yeah, and kind of again tried to suggest that America 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.720 is not a racist country, all the while using this 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:48.080 assumed name of Nikki and identifying in the interview the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.800 very racism that she says that America does not stand upon, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.800 was not built upon, does not continue to enjoy, the 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.800 legacy of does not continue to perpetuate. And and see 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.960 these data, this number of these numbers we're reading is 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.360 in the same country, right, in the same country. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.600 So so go ahead, what's her name? 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.880 Nimurada ooh Rondawa? 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:10.400 Wow? 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.760 Okay, Now she admits that she's a brown woman, all right? 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:14.040 Cool? 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.680 She looks very white passing, no question. She didn't say that. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.680 You wouldn't not you would not know, no question. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.480 And the only thing that you have to do with 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.800 a name like that is just changed the name something 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:27.800 that sounds a little bit more. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:28.960 What's the word white? Passing? 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.520 Yes, And then you can move through time and space 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:38.240 kind of like a white woman does. Right, So I 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.960 don't believe that there's any incentive to do that. If 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:46.160 indeed she is a proun proud brown woman, I believe 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.360 that might be East Indian or she's Indian. Yeah, so 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.600 that there's there's no incentive. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.800 And tells stories about her experience growing up Indian in 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.560 the Yrst country that directly oppose the things that she's 0:16:58.600 --> 0:16:59.600 saying out loud. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.679 Right, So, there's no reason to switch your name unless 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:09.399 you feel like somehow that gives you some sort of 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.640 advantage somewhere. If in fact, you are proud of your 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.639 heritage or upbringing your parents that named you, that the 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.960 only reason to switch your name is because you feel 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.120 like it's going to provide some sort of advantage, some 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:30.080 more comfortable access to something. Right, And what is the 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.199 barrier that you're trying to overcome called to get to 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.359 the place where things are more easy, to get to 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.760 the place where things are more comfortable for you, where 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.240 you have more access. What does that barrier called? Well, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.040 around these parts we call that racism. And guess where 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.440 we call it racism in the United States of America, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.000 and we say it loudly when we say what our 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.240 whole chest because it is factual. Indeed, I can point 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.359 that woman who wants to be the president to the 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.040 very laws that shape the realities that you and i 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.439 q Ward and Rams's Jaw are still dealing with right now, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.679 and are indeed our families and our communities, and it 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:13.400 was the law. In fact, this very country was founded 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:19.040 on the fact that we had a slave class. And 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.200 I put this on almost singularly. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.800 The reason why slavery in this country is different than 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.960 all other cases of slavery throughout history. That entire quote 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.720 unquote class of people are slaves, not second class birth 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.040 class exactly. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:35.560 So watch this. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.000 So I put a post on our social media the 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.399 other day, and I might butcher it now, but roll 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.600 with me. There was no such thing as white people 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:50.320 before the Transatlantic slave trade. White people did not exist. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:51.760 Here's what I mean when I say. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.800 That, nor did black people, or did black people. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.960 And the reason that white people, the term white people 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:08.840 came about is because European colonizers and enslavers were taking 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:13.600 black people and they needed a way to delineate the 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:18.600 slave class from the non slave class. Right and again, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.560 a slave chattel slavery where if you're my slave because 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.240 I conquered your tribe or whatever, your children are now 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.040 a part of my tribe. Our tribe has grown. Okay, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.040 if you're my slave because I bought you as a slave. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.400 If you have children, those are not slaves. I didn't 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.600 buy them. They were born free in the United States 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.600 of America. That's chattle slavery. Your children and their children 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.120 and their children will be my slaves in perpetuity. That's 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.080 the slavery we had here, a slave class. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.080 Okay. Now for this woman to say, I. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.000 Know we're talking about black and employment and that class 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.600 of slave was not about what you just said conquered 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.520 or conflict or lower. No, you're black, so you're a 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:01.120 slave here. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:01.480 That's it. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.200 That's how this works. He's watching movie twelve Years a slave. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:05.960 You could be free and then being slave. 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:11.760 Okay, anyway, so it's very hurtful when people like that tried. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.600 It's like a slap in our face to say, like, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.679 America is not a racist coutry. I don't believe America's 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.080 a race, especially for a woman who changed her name 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.360 to get over that hump that we know of as racism, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.800 that we call it racism. Okay, Now, with this last 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.400 minute or so, I want to make sure that we 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.000 at least hit a couple of points. We're talking about 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.520 black unemployment. One of the things that's really important that 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.960 we discussed on this show is restorative justice. You know 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.040 what I mean, what is it that this country can 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.880 do to make things right for this group of people 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.760 who indeed built this very country with our hands and 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:45.520 our sweat, and. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.040 This singular group of people who throughout history it has 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.000 not gotten anything in the way of reparations are restorative justice. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.119 So now you're starting to understand why we have that 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:59.480 conversation about reparations and how reparations in and of itself 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.280 could serve as investments into black businesses that could affect 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.120 black employment rates. And you're starting to see how this works. Right, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.800 most crimes that we discuss on the show are indeed 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.399 crimes of poverty. If the same crime if the person 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.800 was rich, there's no need to commit it, right, no 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.840 need to commit it whatsoever. Right, And you got to 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.160 think about that. Instead of what Tupac said, I said 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:24.600 this on the show all the time. Instead of a 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.359 war on poverty, they have a war on drug so 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.640 the police can bother me, right, what a bar And. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.399 When the victims of the war on drugs look like us, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.520 they make it criminal. Now those who are under the 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.919 thumb of what they would have called narcotics then what 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:40.959 they call opioids. 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.080 Now it's a health crisis. See what I'm saying to you. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.360 That's what I'm saying, saying, go ahead and say that there, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:47.439 but listen. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.240 Now, hopefully you understand a little bit more of the 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.440 framework of kind of why we push for restorative justice, 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.600 economic justice, reparations, things. 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:01.080 Like this, because it works. So we'll leave that one 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:01.560 right there. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.840 And as always, i'd like to thank you for tuning 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:06.480 in for another episode of Civic Side for once again, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:07.640 I've been your host Rams's job. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:12.679 He is Ramsey's job. I am q Ward. Please subscribe, like, share, 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.879 donate if you can, but listen. 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