WEBVTT - 042923 Getting Caught Up (Part 1) 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.520 Welcome to another episode of Civic Cipher. I am your host, 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:04.480 Ramsey's job. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:11.800 He is Ramsey's job. I am honored and privileged to 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.360 work with him. I am q war. But I need 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.560 to say that because I'm pretty lucky to, you know, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.320 share the airways with this gentleman as often as I'm 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.439 allowed to so, And that is just thought I would 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:23.200 say that out loud. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.319 I appreciate, thank you. I feel the same way. But 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:34.040 for you listening to us, we have another good show 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.199 in store for you today, not as heavy as some 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.760 that's a good thing around here, and so stick around. 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.200 We have a lot to talk about. We are going 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:48.120 to be getting you caught up on some stories in 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.840 the news. We're just gonna kind of do some quick 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.160 hits because oftentimes on the show we end up complaining 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.880 about the lack of time and the plethora of stories 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.680 that are relevant to black and brown people and marginalized 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.800 people in this country. And so we're gonna talk about 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.880 some of the bigger stories that have been in the 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.280 news cycle. We're also going to spend some time discussing 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:22.120 ways that white supremacy harms white people. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:22.600 Wow. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.200 Yeah, you might think it's not your problem, but it 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.720 is White supremacy is not good for anybody. No supremacy 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.680 is good for anybody. We're all here together, okay, So 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.760 we're definitely going to spend some time talking about that. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.760 I do want to welcome a new sponsor to the show. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.759 You'll hear a bit more about them a little later. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:50.760 But Thenknown Unknown Fashion House is joining our list of 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.960 sponsors for the show, so we want to salute them, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.880 and again we hear a bit more about them later 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.720 on today. But first and foremost, let's discuss some ebony excellence, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.320 shall we wi shall So this week's Ebny Excellence is 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.799 sponsored by Hip Hop Weekly Media, and I'll be reading 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.240 from that grapejuice dot net all right. Just weeks after 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.800 making headlines for crushing King of Rock and Roll Elvis 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:21.280 Presley's record for most gold certified songs among male vocalist, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.640 Chris Brown has logged in the Recording Industry Association of 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.000 America's history books for planting R and B's flag and 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.440 yet another uncharted territory. Believe it or not, only eight 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.720 acts in the history of recorded music can boast having 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.600 scored twenty or more multi platinum singles in America over 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.400 their careers. The RIA qualifies multi platinum as two million 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.200 or more sold in the United States and writing. Chris, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.320 with exactly twenty to his credit, is the only male 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.440 singer in the group. Among all acts, his placement follows 0:02:54.480 --> 0:03:00.800 Lil Wayne, Beyonce, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Eminem Drake, and Rihanna. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.840 This means that he unseated Elvis, I think in the 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.960 third category now, which I think is special because Elvis, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:17.240 for many of you who don't know this, became popular 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:23.960 for performing black music, and for Elvis to be the 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:31.079 king of rock and roll has often been considered an 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:39.520 affront or a whitewashing of what is indeed black history. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.200 You know. That's not to say that he wasn't insanely 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.720 popular or anything like that, but that's like, that's like 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:45.960 calling Eminem the King of. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.120 Rapid not to say that he wasn't talented exactly, he. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.280 Was popular talented, That's the word I was trying to say. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:57.240 So absolutely so, this is something that feels definitely like 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.560 a qualifies for ebony excellence. So out to Chris bra 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:06.400 for Breezy. All right, let's get to the news. All right, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.040 Like I said, it's not all heavy stuff. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.920 Yeah, it's a it's an entertaining space that we're in 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.279 sometimes sometimes, you know, and this is definitely one of 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:17.960 those weeks. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:26.640 Yeah. So, first and foremost Fox News. Fox News had 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.680 to settle with dominion voting systems for seven hundred and 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:36.600 eighty seven and a half million dollars, and I. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.560 You had something, I have plenty I want you to finish. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.480 So you know, in the second half of the show, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.280 we're going to talk about how white supremacy affects white people. Right, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.120 But if you think about it, here's a great example 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:59.840 right here. Fox has occupied the far right, conservative me 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:05.039 media facet of this country. There's some others, but they're 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:11.440 much much smaller than Fox. And ever since Obama was 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:17.880 elected to office, Fox has moved further right. Now, to 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.960 anybody that can see with their eyes here with their 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.839 ears and has a thinking brain, we can see that 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:30.159 Fox was responding to a facet of this country, or 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:45.360 vice versa, that was responded to Obama's blackness, right, not Obama's. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.400 Democratic Party routes, not Obama's politics. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.680 Politics, that's the word I'm trying to say. So that 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:56.760 has culminated in this lawsuit is a direct lineage there 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:02.559 right now. Again, to folks looking at this, they're just like, Okay, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:09.360 well Fox News had some bad information, they got held accountable, whatever, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.200 That's not what we're talking about here. Indeed, Fox News 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:19.040 knowingly went on the air with stuff that wasn't credible. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.839 They pushed lies about this company, and they push lies 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:25.840 about the election. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:32.480 Now ramses settling. It's not an admission of guilt. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.960 I'm glad you brought that up, because here's what would 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.599 have happened. Here's how far gone Fox viewers are now. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.799 Fox people that watch Fox are never gonna watch Civic 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.240 Cipher are never going to listen to Civic Cipher. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.120 And if they do, they're going to jump into comments 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:50.960 and trash us. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.279 Yeah, and that's okay. Listen, man, we pulled from reputable 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.320 sources here best you can do, right, and also we 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.800 subscribe to the actual reality, actual shared reality that it 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.040 includes all of the facts. But I'm glad you brought 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:10.040 that up. So here's what happens no matter what. Here's 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.520 here's the effects of white supremacy on white people. Okay, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.400 we're in this example. Will say that a huge base 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.800 of Fox's viewership is white folks. Oftentimes their male oftentimes. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:27.800 Conservative so and then hyperconservative black folks benefit from But 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.400 that's of such a tiny number, very very tiny. I'm 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.720 just relative to the audience. It's because it's beneficial to 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.040 them in some way, not even personal actually believe indeed 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.559 the things that are being said. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:46.720 So here's what happens. Dominion biles a suit against Fox News, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.240 and they have all the receipts as we now know. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.040 Anybody that doesn't watch Fox News knows this. Anybody that 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.720 does watch Fox News has no idea because Fox hasn't 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:03.240 even mentioned this. Right, Dominion has all the receipts that 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.800 shows that Fox knew that what they were saying was false, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.680 went on the air with it anyway because they didn't 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.840 want to lose their viewership. Right, So they're tangled in. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.520 It's like a snake eating its own tail. Right. So, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:29.200 had that trial played out, then Fox viewers would have assumed, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:35.360 in my estimation, the same way they assumed when all 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:43.000 of the court cases that Donald Trump was involved in 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.760 during the election, lie stuff that he was trying to 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.479 get off, that all of these judges are somehow corrupt 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:58.959 and they're liberal, they're woke, and all this sort of stuff, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.120 and that Fox would have not got a fair trial there. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.000 It's political, it's a witch hunt, blah blah blah. So 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.600 had they gone to court and had to pay as 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.679 a result of that, that's what their viewers would have 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:17.600 taken from it. Fox. However, settling that splits the difference. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.040 So they don't have to pay one point six, which 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.439 is what they were being sued for, but critically they 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.640 have to pay something, and that paying of something is 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.600 an admission. Now, if it was a dollar, if it 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.079 was five million dollars something, that was just like, you know, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.200 not really newsworthy. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:38.439 It's seven hundred eighty seven million. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.680 Dollars and a half. Don't forget that extra five hundred thousand. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:49.920 So that is not nothing. That's called consequences. Now, is 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.359 it what we would have liked to have seen. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.679 But we did? I don't know. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:56.679 Well that's that. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.640 I'm said, that's right, because listen, man, what can we 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.040 do for y'all to not take all those receipts and 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.920 show them the people over three quarters of a billion? 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.120 Run it all right? Run that? 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:22.520 So, yeah, man, that is the settlement. The settlement amount 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.920 says more than the receipts would have sure, because you're 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.199 absolutely right. Their base, which has shown that they cannot 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.960 be shaken, would have called it all nonsense, all of 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.280 which hunt all made up, all fakeness exactly. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.000 Now we're going to get to their base. You hang on, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:51.360 So watch this. What we would have wanted I think 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.480 me and Q are people that are kind of in 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.000 the media space. You know, we would have wanted some 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.240 accountability because it's not right to outlight lie to people 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.760 for ratings. That's not the reason that we're in this space. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.120 I know that much. You know, when we tell hard truths, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.760 we do it. We'd have to eat crow, We have 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.640 to apologize if we make a mistake on the show. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.160 We come on the next week and we say it 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.520 on the same show with the same energy that officer 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.560 was not wrong officer and read his name. You know, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.200 we've done that on the show, right. So it stands 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.640 the reason that at least we would hold other journalists 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.360 to that same standard. So we would have hoped that 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.800 this would have sank that shit, you know what I mean, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.840 or change the culture or whatever. We don't mind if 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.680 you're a conservative, but don't lie and don't fear monger. Right, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.560 you can have your views, you can have your beliefs. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.320 But if they're based in a shared reality, then there's 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.319 the potential to make progress. If they are not, then 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.240 you are making it harder for us and for your 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.360 white conservative viewer base, and they just don't know it 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.480 yet because you're interested in short term profit. But here's 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:07.600 another little silver lining in addition to that settlement amount. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:15.680 Tucker Carlson was fired. Now I mentioned that we would 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:21.199 talk about their base, right, Fox's base. Guess what they 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.840 started calling Fox News after Tucker Carlson was fired woke. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.400 It's it's you you never can win with. And I 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.200 saw this in a mad magazine one time. They said, 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.360 you can't ever win with a bigot, right, they will. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.160 They will bend reality like Neo and the Matrix. It's 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:46.720 the wildest thing. So that's intense, mad magazine. Fox being 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:52.040 woke isn't that crazy. So let's let's go. So Tucker Carlson, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.480 for those that don't know, is a He's the most 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:03.760 popular extreme right media personality. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.080 Are you going to leave out white supremacist? Know? I 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.840 was waiting for you to throw that. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:14.079 He is. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:16.360 I per bigoted? 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.520 Yeah, very very like if you want to, if you 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.640 if you were in the mood to get angry. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.400 Extreme, maga, sensationalist. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.920 But I will say this, in his time slot, Tucker 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:36.200 Carlson has been number one the vast majority of the 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:41.040 time vast It would be a rare, rare, instant instance 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.480 where he would be number two. Now, Tucker Carlson, just 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.560 so you know, existed in a time slot and in 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:53.960 a space where if you take the entire news cable 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.880 news media landscape and you look at everything that's out there, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.480 you have some media companies that lean a little bit 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.760 more left, some of course, lean a little bit right, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.400 and then you have some that are more or less 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:14.640 kind of center. In politically speaking, there are a lot 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:21.400 of media companies that lean left, couple that are centered, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.520 and really it's just Fox on the right. And so 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:32.080 if you take the country's population viewing population, okay, and 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.560 you assume a fifty to fifty split, which isn't true, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.520 but you assume a fifty to fifty split, fifty percent 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.320 of the people are going to consume media news media 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.000 that is conservative leaning. Fifty percent is going to consume 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.680 media that is what I say, conservative leaning, and then 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:57.720 liberal leaning right. You have to then split the fifty 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:07.520 percent that's leaning liberal among six news channels news companies, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.120 and then the other fifty percent you give it all 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.960 the Fox. And so this is kind of the phenomenon 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.360 that has allowed Tucker, Carlson and Fox to take up 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.880 such so much of the oxygen in that space. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.040 That paints a very synonymous picture with the way that 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.520 they vote as well the way that they show up 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.960 right there. They are a monolith. They do show up 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.280 with a singular voice representing a singular cause in mass 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.880 and we are splintered in every direction that you can imagine, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.120 kind of cannibalizing each other over minuscule issues with very 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:50.760 very low impact, while they, you know, swarm behind their 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:57.000 movement and collectively support it. That part is kind of admirable. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:04.160 They are definitely organized, and they have no problem exploiting 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.360 the gaps and there's no shame, and there is no 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.240 problem on their end with cheating, rewriting the rules and 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.640 real time moving the goalpost, anything. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.200 Like that would depend in that part, and I want a. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.360 Blind eye to it. No, let's do it now, come on. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:26.480 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was recently discovered to be 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.120 accepting gifts or money things that would appear to be 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:39.880 bribes from hyper wealthy friends of his. Once upon a 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.800 time in US history, like when we were teenagers, that 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:51.000 would have been like lead the news cycle scandal, Like 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.920 a Supreme Court justice accepting gifts would have really like 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.320 flip the country on its head, and people it would 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:05.480 have been, you know, blown away. You know, it didn't 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:13.040 even make the ticker. Once upon a time, someone saying 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.200 just grab them by the you guys know the rest 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:23.919 would have instantly disqualified them from consideration to sit in 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:28.680 the highest seat in this land. That video came out 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.240 during his campaign, not after he was present anyone, and 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.800 then he won. Things like that would have caused his 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:42.680 own party to insist that he stepped down. You got 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.520 to resign, man, This is going to make us look 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:54.280 too bad our country. There's a such thing as reaching 0:17:54.359 --> 0:18:00.480 new heights. And then there's what's happened to us so 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.280 divided in extreme and our political beliefs that a very 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.040 very large chunk of our humanity has just dissolved. You 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.479 are with us or against us. There is no nuance, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.159 There is no middle. So you said that there's some 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.920 that are center. They're right, it's just they're so far. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.040 Fox are so far right that normal rights seems center. Yeah, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.639 and it pulls the left more towards the right too. Yeah. Weird, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.240 it's it's what we're going through with our current administration. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:28.679 Exactly. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.879 All these things that we thought would happen for people 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.320 who look faint, love, pray, believe like us didn't happen 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:40.240 because even the quote unquote left have veered right to center. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:51.119 So now, uh, this is a great aperture into the 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:57.119 effects of white supremacy on white people, because indeed, Fox 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:05.200 News has lied to their audience. Fox News under reports 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:11.960 stories that they need to know about and or over 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:18.600 represents things that excite them right under the guise of 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.960 being a news or a journalistic you know, enterprise or 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.520 something like that, and they suffer as a result of it. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:34.399 And I think it's illustrated in their response to the 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.399 Tucker Carlson firing because again them calling Fox woke. You know, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.760 woke is like this bad word on the right. We've 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.720 talked about this on the show before, and strangely enough, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:52.080 as you mentioned, woke is what we would consider just 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:59.200 kind of center left, and Fox News being called woke 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:05.040 goes to show you just how skewed these people's perception 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.880 of reality has become so again the effects of white supremacy, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:17.640 they don't necessarily always benefit all white people all the time. Now, 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.280 some of you could make an argument that some of 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.080 this is capitalism. We often make that argument here, but 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.440 I think that this is kind of poking its head 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.320 here and there. So let's move on to some other stories. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:34.280 Kim Potter, the officer convicted of killing Dante Wright, was 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.440 released from prison after serving sixteen months of a two 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:38.120 year sentence. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.120 The officer convicted, yeah, of killing Dante's dead, correct, Yeah, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.040 He's dead forever. And then the jury said, yes, she 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.359 did it and she was wrong, yep. And then she 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.280 served sixteen months in. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.680 Prison, and then she's serving arrest on house arrest. She's 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:03.960 at home right now. I mean, we don't even have 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.439 to go in. You know exactly how we feel about that. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:14.359 That can just be the headline. Let's move on something 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:20.920 something that you do need to know about. President Biden 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:26.720 formally announced his candidacy for president. He's seeking a second term. Terrifying, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.280 and so it looks like it's going to be him 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:35.960 versus Donald Trump again, because terrify, These are the best 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:43.800 two man. Listen terrifying. Now now Trump is under he's 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.600 he has to go to court for a rape trial 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.639 now too. That's that was awesome in the news this week, 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:55.399 not just the the finance stuff. What is what is 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.760 that thing that start mean Daniels stuff. He's also has 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.359 like a rape trial he's dealing with too, And he's 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.320 just in the news so much for going to court 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.280 that it didn't even make headlines. But look it up 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:11.680 at Sarah Promis and then little footnote just because of time, 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:18.400 not because it's an actual footnote. Phil Jackson, Phil Jackson 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.879 is give folks a brief overview of Phil Jackson. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.119 Phil Jackson, for those of you who are not sports fans, 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.520 was the coach of the Michael Jordan era Chicago Bulls 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.560 and then the Shaq and Kobe era Los Angeles Lakers. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.000 One of the most one of the winningest coaches in 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.879 the history of sports, and all of his fame, wealth, 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:44.000 and notoriety is tied directly to the success of historically 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.240 talented black men that Phil Jackson. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.920 He said that he hasn't watched an NBA game since 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:57.600 twenty twenty because of BLM logos and slogans, and he 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:03.879 thinks games shouldn't be political. Now, I do want to 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.320 mention that you and I have a much longer conversation 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:14.880 about Phil Jackson that can be found on the Black 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.960 Information Network Daily podcast. I implore you to check it out, 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.520 and you can find it on any podcast app and 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.280 it should be one of the recent episodes, depending on 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:30.680 when you're hearing this. But suffice it to say for 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:40.119 now that non black people telling Black people how to 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:45.040 protest is a slap in the face. Non black people 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:51.280 telling Black people how long change should take is a 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.439 slap in the face. Shout out to James Baldwin for 0:23:53.560 --> 0:24:00.879 educating us the great ancestor that he is. And I 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:05.320 think that it bears mentioning that a person who can 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:09.080 be this close to Black people for such a long 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:15.440 time for him to still be able to harbor feelings 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:17.879 like this. This, This is the sort of person that 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:22.760 looks at a Colin Kaepernick and says he shouldn't be 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:27.480 doing that here, not accounting for the fact that Kaepernick 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.280 and everybody who is black, our whole lives are political, 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.240 and everybody who doesn't work in sports. 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.159 Yeah, through that lens, Yes, our whole lives are political, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:39.760 but that political is a very loaded word when used 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:43.720 in that context. You know, political use to describe something 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:47.960 that's black. They don't cry no politics when they fly 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.200 the flag and march out the military say that. They 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.919 cry political when you say stuff like black lives matter. 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:56.479 So let's be clear on what they mean when they 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:56.960 say that. 0:24:58.240 --> 0:24:59.639 So now you're all caught up.