March 6, 2023 • 25 mins
Does Dilbert creator Scott Adams and Twitter owner Elon Musk have something in common ? Host Ramses Ja shares his thoughts about the interesting connection between the two men in today's segment of "One More Thing".
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's that this is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast,
and I am your host, Rams's Jah And sometimes the
amount of stories that make their way to us means
that we simply can't cover everything that comes our way.
But from time to time, a story just stays with
me and I feel compelled to share it with you
and give you my thoughts. And now one more thing,
(00:33):
So you may not know the process that we have
here sort of behind the scenes and everything that it
takes to put this show together, but I'm going to
share a little bit about our process and that will
help explain why we've arrived at the various things that
(00:55):
we're going to be talking about today. Around here. The
show producer Chris will often send story ideas my way
or you to the group chat, and we will go
back and forth and decide whether or not we want
to cover those stories. Now, a lot of the stories
(01:18):
that come our way, we just acknowledge them and move on.
They need to develop a little bit more in order
for us to really get in there and figure out
what's going on and try to cover it. And then
there's some that obviously we have to acknowledge, but it's
up to us to decide what we feel is the
(01:41):
most relevant for you, so that you're not sifting through
a bunch of clutter, that you get the stories that
really matter and that are making an impact in the
world around you. So Chris, as he always does, sent
over a couple of stories that I thought were meth
(02:05):
you know, they were just submid right, But Chris is
really really smart, and I noticed a trend after a while,
so we'll start um. Last week he shot over an
article from hip hop vibe dot com and the headline
(02:28):
of the article read white man refuge refuses to sell
dodge charger to black man. It's a twenty thirteen Dodge charger,
and the white man said something like, you know, he
didn't sell to his kind, you know. Um, So you
know that's a story, but it's not strictly speaking relevant
(02:53):
to the rest of the world. We know things like
this happened. It's unfortunate, but we're not going to make
a big deal out of a twenty thirteen Dodge charger
that this old white man wants to keep. So, you know,
mental note taken. Moving on, Chris sent over another article
(03:14):
maybe the next day two days later, and this time
this was a b I N article from Black Information
Network and the headline read white man calls black coaches
the N word, blames anger issues, and this one I
had to take a look at. You know, I didn't
(03:35):
know if there was anything more substantial here than you know,
let's say a person selling a car. And I don't
follow sports all that closely, so when I see coaches
and white man, I'm thinking, Okay, maybe there's you know,
a lot of times athletes have a higher profile coaches, etc.
So let me check into this and see if there's
something here. You know, I tend to focus on systemic issues,
(03:58):
things that we all need to be aware of, trends,
and then of course ways that we can impact those
trends so that we can all live more peaceful lives
and lives that are kind of true to the ideals
in the Constitution, the modern interpretation of the Constitution. So
(04:20):
I read a bit, so I'll share a bit with
that with you again. This is from the BI Brett White,
twenty two year old x Wendy's manager was arrested for
hurling racial slurs during a verbal argument with Dante Adams
and Denzel Washington, where both Woodstock Academy basketball coaches per
wb it. During a court hearing, White confessed to saying
(04:43):
the inward, but claims he's quote not a racist person. Quote.
Now I want to mention this. Denzel Washington just happens
to share the name with the famous actor. All Right.
Adams and Washington took their team to a Wendy's in Plainfield, Connecticut,
following a game. Why reportedly refused to serve the team,
and when the coaches tried to talk to him about it,
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that's when he hurled exploitatives and racial slurs at them.
Plainfield police responded to the restaurant and arrested White for
breach of peace. It was arranged tuesday in state superior court,
and now faces two additional charges their degree intimidation based
on bigotry or bias a felony, and deprivation of a
(05:29):
person's equal rights and privileges a misdemeanor. So, you know,
a little something there, but not something I'd normally report on. Again,
it seems just sort of like a private incident. Granted
involved a Wendy's manager and some coaches of a team,
and there's more people there than just one man selling
a car to another man. But you know, again, mental
(05:52):
note taken, and it wasn't until a little later in
the week I found another link in my messages from
Chris and this one read Gilbert comic creator calls black
people a hate group, urges segregation so whites can escape.
(06:15):
Now this time, I have a little bit of audio
for you, so allow me to play that. If you know,
nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white
people according to this poll, not according to me, According
to this poll, that's a hate group. That's a hate group,
and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
And I would say, you know, based on the current
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way things are going, the best advice I would give
to white people is to get the hell away from
black people. Just get the away wherever you have to go,
Just get away, because there's no fixing this. This can't
be fixed. Okay. Now I'm going to read from News
one citing a recent ras Musin survey showing fifty three
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percent of black people agree with the phrase it's okay
to be white, which the Anti Defamation League has deemed
a hate slogan. Adam said on Wednesday that this was
the first political poll that ever changed my activities. While
launching into an overtly racist rand. Now I should mention
that Rasmussen is known for being very right leaning. My
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belief is that this was either misrepresented, this data was
misrepresented or misinterpreted. But that was certainly something that I
felt we should probably talk about. But I wasn't fully
convinced until perhaps a day after I saw that, I
(07:44):
saw another article headline in our inbox that said Elon
Musk calls the US media and schools racist against white
and Asians. This one came from cd NBC, so I'll
read a bit about that one. It says that Musk
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accused the media and elite colleges and high schools of
being racist against white and Asian people, espousing his views
without providing evidence. Musk tweeted these statements in response to
news that media organizations around the US detect sorry decided
to cut the comic strip Gilbert after its creator Scott
Adams disparaged black people in a racist rant on his
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YouTube channel. And then it goes on to make another point,
saying that Tesla has been repeatedly sued for racial discrimination
and lost to h profile lawsuit over anti black harassment
endured by a former worker in California, and that brought
about the thought, wasn't Elon Musk sitting next to Rupert
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Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Now, again, I don't pay
too much attention to sports, but that's something worth paying
attention to. And what I'm seeing is a trend in
these articles, and if I may, this might even represent
(09:13):
a trend in our lives. So what can we conclude
from this? We have people who are you know, small
fish in small ponds that are refusing to sell twenty
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thirteen Dodge Chargers, all the way up to the richest
man in the world who owns the platform that many
people use to establish in chronicle narratives about different topics
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in this country. And so is something we need to
know about now. For me, the conclusions that I've drawn
are certainly in align with what I've known to be true,
(10:15):
which is that, forgive how this sounds, but white people
can be very sensitive, and I think that this is
a particularly sensitive time in the timeline of white persons.
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And that's not to say that black people can't be
sensitive or any other group of people. There's certain things
that certain trigger, certain buttons that people will push, and
I know that black people will definitely react to it.
But I think that we own those a little differently.
We admit them, we understand and recognize them, and we
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insist that these things be remedied often enough, in a
manner that is constructive and in a manner that allows
for other people's reality to mean more or less consistent.
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So why is it that white people are seeming to
be more sensitive than other than ever. Well, one reason
is that the world is changing. You know, if you've
been in the driver's seat for a long time, conquering
the world and colonizing and erecting statues and your image
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and everything just kind of feels like your team is
on top. And then when you look at the changing
populations and picular in this country that's moving away from
a majority white country to eventually in the in the
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coming years, white people will make up less than half
of the population. That can be a very scary thing
for white folks because that is new. They have not
yet lived in that world, and the fear of the
unknown very much shapes people's reactions, policies, ideas, etc. And
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that's something that we need to be mindful of because
at present, as you know, and I know full well,
there are white people who control huge parts of this
country and indeed the world. You want to talk about banking,
you want to talk about government, you want to talk
about policing, you want to talk about housing, you want
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to talk about you know, big business, we can, we can,
we can talk about medicine, we can talk about any
number of things. And we know that on some level
we're going to have to go through not just one,
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a good amount of white men, often enough, in order
to be heard, recognized, acknowledged, seem understood. Perhaps, so that's
one way that we need to be mindful of the
sensitivities of this group, and in being mindful of those sensitivities,
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we can be a bit more understanding of these type
of reactions that we're seeing in these headlines. Another thing
that is changing is that white people are not being
centered as often, and in particular white men, because those
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are that's the group of people that typically controls the
power right and white men, a not insignificant amount of
white men push back against the Me too movement, They
push back against affirmative action, they push back against Black
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Lives Matter, they push back against so many different things
that represent an upset to the status quo potential upset
the challenge their authority. They push back against that because
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they often feel like they're being villainized having been born
a white men, because of conversations indeed like the one
I'm having right now. So these are things that we
need to be mindful of on this show. If I'm
the one with the microphone, I will always say that
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those are our brothers and white women are our sisters.
I believe that to be a fact. I believe that
to be a fundamental truth, a founding principle of the universe,
that we are all brothers and sisters, and even if
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some of us can't see it at different points, ultimately
we come from the same source. We were endowed with
consciousness from the same creator, whichever creator you decide that is.
And so being sensitive to their sensitivities isn't pacifying them
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or the situation. It's bearing in mind that while they
still have the power, as things are evolving, they may
react in ways that manifest themselves in articles like someone
that we're seeing, and for us to retreat into our
corner and just say, well, they're doing that, so we
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should do this, I think nobody wins, but I do
think that if we know what's going on, we can
perhaps address some of the things. Bear in mind, white
people are younger than black people, so these folks, in
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many ways, are still finding their way. What is my purpose?
What is my value? You know, on a cellular level,
this may be something that black folks know. Maybe we
don't push back against things in the way that white
folks do. Maybe we do. Maybe it's human nature. I
don't know. I haven't been alive for a hundred thousand years,
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but that little piece of knowledge certainly helps me keep
things in perspective. So what does this mean, Well, it
means that because of these sensitivities, white folks are susceptible
to fear mongering. And there are enterprises, institutions, businesses who
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stand a profit off of wielding fear. Sell guns, sell
ads on Fox News, sell whatever on fear. You're worried
about something that hasn't even happened, may never happen, and
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you're preparing for it as if it's a certainty. I'll
tell you what. Many people that love guns will often
say that I have a gun just in case something
goes wrong. I know that for me, having lived for
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years and most of the people that I know, having
never needed a gun, owned a gun, used a gun,
that a lot of us feel like the only reason
in person would ever even have a gun is because
they've made a decision out of fear. It's the only
reason you would even own a gun. You can't. It's
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not a knife. You can't shape wood with it, you can't.
You know, it's not a tool. It is designed to
end to life, That's it. And most folks will only
grab it if they feel like, you know, they're in trouble.
And often enough, people that have guns end up in
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situations where there's a lot of trouble. Funny how that works.
So fearmongering the great replacement. You know, white folks thinking
that there is a concerted effort to undermine or overthrow
or whatever. Everything is corrupt except what it is that
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they're doing. Anybody that demands progress, anybody that demands equality,
is such an inconvenience. Very strange how it works, but
it is fact. You know, this Dilbert comic creator, this
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man quoting this Rasmusan survey is a direct sign, in
my opinion, that fearmongering works. Again, this rasp Musan survey.
It comes from a very right leaning source. But if
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I may, white lives matter is a st that many people.
If you asked would you agree or disagree with? Particularly
Black people, would you agree or disagree with? Many black
people would say I disagree with that, not because white
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lives don't matter. We all know that white lives do matter.
The words, the sentence is fine, but the intention, the
intentionality behind that phrase again, it exists to contradict the
phrase the affirmation black lives matter. So while you could
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ask black people, do black lives matter, many people would
say yes, because there's some depth to the phrase there
that lies beyond just the words themselves. Similarly, if you
were to ask many black people, do white lives matter?
You might get an opposite reaction. Now, if you're asking
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if the words makes sense, many people, I believe would
agree yes absolutely. I think fundamentally we all understand and
recognize that all lives matter. But the intention behind the
phrase all lives matter is very hurtful and it's meant
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to undermine a very necessary affirmation of black lives matter.
So Similarly, this Rasmussen poll showing that fifty three percent
of black people agree with the phrase it's okay to
be white, implying that I believe it was twenty seven
percent disagree with that statement, which was the foundation of
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this gentleman referring to black folks as a hate group.
You can see how the Rasmussen poll just delivering that
statement misrepresents perhaps the intention behind that survey. As we know,
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and as I've read, the Anti Defamation League deemed it's
Okay to be White a hate slogan. I am a
member of a group on a website, a popular website
that is called It's Okay to be White. I couldn't
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tell you how many people subscribe to that group. It's
literally called It's Okay to be White, and I'd say
six out of ten things that they post, maybe more
are overtly racist. Now I'm a member of this group
because I have to know what it is that these
people are talking about in their echo chambers, so that
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I'm able to engage when the time comes. I can
hold my own if we both have microphones and we
have to have a debate, etc. But that phrase, it's
okay to be white, in and of itself is harmless,
but the intention behind it, it's very hurtful. It's almost
like a slogan. It's like saying white power. It's a
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very different statement than saying black power. One of those
statements is rooted in black oppression and white superiority. The
other one is an affirmation that black people indeed are
powerful people. Two very different things. And so this creator
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of this comic was the first to fall thanks to
this rasmusin survey, and then right behind him came Elon Musk.
And I don't think we're gonna see this trend dissipate
anytime soon. I think this is going to be with
us for a while, and it's up to us to
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know how to engage. These are still our brothers, and
these are still our sisters, and they are having a
tough time clearly, and since we are the big brothers
and the big sisters, I think it's time for us
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to be aware. Of course, we must engage, we cannot
allow the disrespect. We also have to be a bit
understanding for their sake. We are a patient people. We've
shown that, and now it seems like our highest calling
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is upon us. So here's what I'll do. I'll keep
paying attention to these stories, and I want you to
do the same. Anything you got send it my way,
and of course you can drop your two cents. I'd
love to hear from you. Use the red microphone talk
back feature on the iHeartRadio app, or of course you
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It's that this is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast,
and I am your host, Rams's Jah And sometimes the
amount of stories that make their way to us means
that we simply can't cover everything that comes our way.
But from time to time, a story just stays with
me and I feel compelled to share it with you
and give you my thoughts. And now one more thing,
(00:33):
So you may not know the process that we have
here sort of behind the scenes and everything that it
takes to put this show together, but I'm going to
share a little bit about our process and that will
help explain why we've arrived at the various things that
(00:55):
we're going to be talking about today. Around here. The
show producer Chris will often send story ideas my way
or you to the group chat, and we will go
back and forth and decide whether or not we want
to cover those stories. Now, a lot of the stories
(01:18):
that come our way, we just acknowledge them and move on.
They need to develop a little bit more in order
for us to really get in there and figure out
what's going on and try to cover it. And then
there's some that obviously we have to acknowledge, but it's
up to us to decide what we feel is the
(01:41):
most relevant for you, so that you're not sifting through
a bunch of clutter, that you get the stories that
really matter and that are making an impact in the
world around you. So Chris, as he always does, sent
over a couple of stories that I thought were meth
(02:05):
you know, they were just submid right, But Chris is
really really smart, and I noticed a trend after a while,
so we'll start um. Last week he shot over an
article from hip hop vibe dot com and the headline
(02:28):
of the article read white man refuge refuses to sell
dodge charger to black man. It's a twenty thirteen Dodge charger,
and the white man said something like, you know, he
didn't sell to his kind, you know. Um, So you
know that's a story, but it's not strictly speaking relevant
(02:53):
to the rest of the world. We know things like
this happened. It's unfortunate, but we're not going to make
a big deal out of a twenty thirteen Dodge charger
that this old white man wants to keep. So, you know,
mental note taken. Moving on, Chris sent over another article
(03:14):
maybe the next day two days later, and this time
this was a b I N article from Black Information
Network and the headline read white man calls black coaches
the N word, blames anger issues, and this one I
had to take a look at. You know, I didn't
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know if there was anything more substantial here than you know,
let's say a person selling a car. And I don't
follow sports all that closely, so when I see coaches
and white man, I'm thinking, Okay, maybe there's you know,
a lot of times athletes have a higher profile coaches, etc.
So let me check into this and see if there's
something here. You know, I tend to focus on systemic issues,
(03:58):
things that we all need to be aware of, trends,
and then of course ways that we can impact those
trends so that we can all live more peaceful lives
and lives that are kind of true to the ideals
in the Constitution, the modern interpretation of the Constitution. So
(04:20):
I read a bit, so I'll share a bit with
that with you again. This is from the BI Brett White,
twenty two year old x Wendy's manager was arrested for
hurling racial slurs during a verbal argument with Dante Adams
and Denzel Washington, where both Woodstock Academy basketball coaches per
wb it. During a court hearing, White confessed to saying
(04:43):
the inward, but claims he's quote not a racist person. Quote.
Now I want to mention this. Denzel Washington just happens
to share the name with the famous actor. All Right.
Adams and Washington took their team to a Wendy's in Plainfield, Connecticut,
following a game. Why reportedly refused to serve the team,
and when the coaches tried to talk to him about it,
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that's when he hurled exploitatives and racial slurs at them.
Plainfield police responded to the restaurant and arrested White for
breach of peace. It was arranged tuesday in state superior court,
and now faces two additional charges their degree intimidation based
on bigotry or bias a felony, and deprivation of a
(05:29):
person's equal rights and privileges a misdemeanor. So, you know,
a little something there, but not something I'd normally report on. Again,
it seems just sort of like a private incident. Granted
involved a Wendy's manager and some coaches of a team,
and there's more people there than just one man selling
a car to another man. But you know, again, mental
(05:52):
note taken, and it wasn't until a little later in
the week I found another link in my messages from
Chris and this one read Gilbert comic creator calls black
people a hate group, urges segregation so whites can escape.
(06:15):
Now this time, I have a little bit of audio
for you, so allow me to play that. If you know,
nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white
people according to this poll, not according to me, According
to this poll, that's a hate group. That's a hate group,
and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
And I would say, you know, based on the current
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way things are going, the best advice I would give
to white people is to get the hell away from
black people. Just get the away wherever you have to go,
Just get away, because there's no fixing this. This can't
be fixed. Okay. Now I'm going to read from News
one citing a recent ras Musin survey showing fifty three
(06:58):
percent of black people agree with the phrase it's okay
to be white, which the Anti Defamation League has deemed
a hate slogan. Adam said on Wednesday that this was
the first political poll that ever changed my activities. While
launching into an overtly racist rand. Now I should mention
that Rasmussen is known for being very right leaning. My
(07:22):
belief is that this was either misrepresented, this data was
misrepresented or misinterpreted. But that was certainly something that I
felt we should probably talk about. But I wasn't fully
convinced until perhaps a day after I saw that, I
(07:44):
saw another article headline in our inbox that said Elon
Musk calls the US media and schools racist against white
and Asians. This one came from cd NBC, so I'll
read a bit about that one. It says that Musk
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accused the media and elite colleges and high schools of
being racist against white and Asian people, espousing his views
without providing evidence. Musk tweeted these statements in response to
news that media organizations around the US detect sorry decided
to cut the comic strip Gilbert after its creator Scott
Adams disparaged black people in a racist rant on his
(08:27):
YouTube channel. And then it goes on to make another point,
saying that Tesla has been repeatedly sued for racial discrimination
and lost to h profile lawsuit over anti black harassment
endured by a former worker in California, and that brought
about the thought, wasn't Elon Musk sitting next to Rupert
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Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Now, again, I don't pay
too much attention to sports, but that's something worth paying
attention to. And what I'm seeing is a trend in
these articles, and if I may, this might even represent
(09:13):
a trend in our lives. So what can we conclude
from this? We have people who are you know, small
fish in small ponds that are refusing to sell twenty
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thirteen Dodge Chargers, all the way up to the richest
man in the world who owns the platform that many
people use to establish in chronicle narratives about different topics
(09:54):
in this country. And so is something we need to
know about now. For me, the conclusions that I've drawn
are certainly in align with what I've known to be true,
(10:15):
which is that, forgive how this sounds, but white people
can be very sensitive, and I think that this is
a particularly sensitive time in the timeline of white persons.
(10:35):
And that's not to say that black people can't be
sensitive or any other group of people. There's certain things
that certain trigger, certain buttons that people will push, and
I know that black people will definitely react to it.
But I think that we own those a little differently.
We admit them, we understand and recognize them, and we
(10:58):
insist that these things be remedied often enough, in a
manner that is constructive and in a manner that allows
for other people's reality to mean more or less consistent.
(11:22):
So why is it that white people are seeming to
be more sensitive than other than ever. Well, one reason
is that the world is changing. You know, if you've
been in the driver's seat for a long time, conquering
the world and colonizing and erecting statues and your image
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and everything just kind of feels like your team is
on top. And then when you look at the changing
populations and picular in this country that's moving away from
a majority white country to eventually in the in the
(12:08):
coming years, white people will make up less than half
of the population. That can be a very scary thing
for white folks because that is new. They have not
yet lived in that world, and the fear of the
unknown very much shapes people's reactions, policies, ideas, etc. And
(12:34):
that's something that we need to be mindful of because
at present, as you know, and I know full well,
there are white people who control huge parts of this
country and indeed the world. You want to talk about banking,
you want to talk about government, you want to talk
about policing, you want to talk about housing, you want
(12:54):
to talk about you know, big business, we can, we can,
we can talk about medicine, we can talk about any
number of things. And we know that on some level
we're going to have to go through not just one,
(13:14):
a good amount of white men, often enough, in order
to be heard, recognized, acknowledged, seem understood. Perhaps, so that's
one way that we need to be mindful of the
sensitivities of this group, and in being mindful of those sensitivities,
(13:36):
we can be a bit more understanding of these type
of reactions that we're seeing in these headlines. Another thing
that is changing is that white people are not being
centered as often, and in particular white men, because those
(13:57):
are that's the group of people that typically controls the
power right and white men, a not insignificant amount of
white men push back against the Me too movement, They
push back against affirmative action, they push back against Black
(14:21):
Lives Matter, they push back against so many different things
that represent an upset to the status quo potential upset
the challenge their authority. They push back against that because
(14:43):
they often feel like they're being villainized having been born
a white men, because of conversations indeed like the one
I'm having right now. So these are things that we
need to be mindful of on this show. If I'm
the one with the microphone, I will always say that
(15:05):
those are our brothers and white women are our sisters.
I believe that to be a fact. I believe that
to be a fundamental truth, a founding principle of the universe,
that we are all brothers and sisters, and even if
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some of us can't see it at different points, ultimately
we come from the same source. We were endowed with
consciousness from the same creator, whichever creator you decide that is.
And so being sensitive to their sensitivities isn't pacifying them
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or the situation. It's bearing in mind that while they
still have the power, as things are evolving, they may
react in ways that manifest themselves in articles like someone
that we're seeing, and for us to retreat into our
corner and just say, well, they're doing that, so we
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should do this, I think nobody wins, but I do
think that if we know what's going on, we can
perhaps address some of the things. Bear in mind, white
people are younger than black people, so these folks, in
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many ways, are still finding their way. What is my purpose?
What is my value? You know, on a cellular level,
this may be something that black folks know. Maybe we
don't push back against things in the way that white
folks do. Maybe we do. Maybe it's human nature. I
don't know. I haven't been alive for a hundred thousand years,
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but that little piece of knowledge certainly helps me keep
things in perspective. So what does this mean, Well, it
means that because of these sensitivities, white folks are susceptible
to fear mongering. And there are enterprises, institutions, businesses who
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stand a profit off of wielding fear. Sell guns, sell
ads on Fox News, sell whatever on fear. You're worried
about something that hasn't even happened, may never happen, and
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you're preparing for it as if it's a certainty. I'll
tell you what. Many people that love guns will often
say that I have a gun just in case something
goes wrong. I know that for me, having lived for
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years and most of the people that I know, having
never needed a gun, owned a gun, used a gun,
that a lot of us feel like the only reason
in person would ever even have a gun is because
they've made a decision out of fear. It's the only
reason you would even own a gun. You can't. It's
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not a knife. You can't shape wood with it, you can't.
You know, it's not a tool. It is designed to
end to life, That's it. And most folks will only
grab it if they feel like, you know, they're in trouble.
And often enough, people that have guns end up in
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situations where there's a lot of trouble. Funny how that works.
So fearmongering the great replacement. You know, white folks thinking
that there is a concerted effort to undermine or overthrow
or whatever. Everything is corrupt except what it is that
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they're doing. Anybody that demands progress, anybody that demands equality,
is such an inconvenience. Very strange how it works, but
it is fact. You know, this Dilbert comic creator, this
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man quoting this Rasmusan survey is a direct sign, in
my opinion, that fearmongering works. Again, this rasp Musan survey.
It comes from a very right leaning source. But if
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I may, white lives matter is a st that many people.
If you asked would you agree or disagree with? Particularly
Black people, would you agree or disagree with? Many black
people would say I disagree with that, not because white
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lives don't matter. We all know that white lives do matter.
The words, the sentence is fine, but the intention, the
intentionality behind that phrase again, it exists to contradict the
phrase the affirmation black lives matter. So while you could
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ask black people, do black lives matter, many people would
say yes, because there's some depth to the phrase there
that lies beyond just the words themselves. Similarly, if you
were to ask many black people, do white lives matter?
You might get an opposite reaction. Now, if you're asking
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if the words makes sense, many people, I believe would
agree yes absolutely. I think fundamentally we all understand and
recognize that all lives matter. But the intention behind the
phrase all lives matter is very hurtful and it's meant
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to undermine a very necessary affirmation of black lives matter.
So Similarly, this Rasmussen poll showing that fifty three percent
of black people agree with the phrase it's okay to
be white, implying that I believe it was twenty seven
percent disagree with that statement, which was the foundation of
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this gentleman referring to black folks as a hate group.
You can see how the Rasmussen poll just delivering that
statement misrepresents perhaps the intention behind that survey. As we know,
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and as I've read, the Anti Defamation League deemed it's
Okay to be White a hate slogan. I am a
member of a group on a website, a popular website
that is called It's Okay to be White. I couldn't
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tell you how many people subscribe to that group. It's
literally called It's Okay to be White, and I'd say
six out of ten things that they post, maybe more
are overtly racist. Now I'm a member of this group
because I have to know what it is that these
people are talking about in their echo chambers, so that
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I'm able to engage when the time comes. I can
hold my own if we both have microphones and we
have to have a debate, etc. But that phrase, it's
okay to be white, in and of itself is harmless,
but the intention behind it, it's very hurtful. It's almost
like a slogan. It's like saying white power. It's a
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very different statement than saying black power. One of those
statements is rooted in black oppression and white superiority. The
other one is an affirmation that black people indeed are
powerful people. Two very different things. And so this creator
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of this comic was the first to fall thanks to
this rasmusin survey, and then right behind him came Elon Musk.
And I don't think we're gonna see this trend dissipate
anytime soon. I think this is going to be with
us for a while, and it's up to us to
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know how to engage. These are still our brothers, and
these are still our sisters, and they are having a
tough time clearly, and since we are the big brothers
and the big sisters, I think it's time for us
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to be aware. Of course, we must engage, we cannot
allow the disrespect. We also have to be a bit
understanding for their sake. We are a patient people. We've
shown that, and now it seems like our highest calling
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is upon us. So here's what I'll do. I'll keep
paying attention to these stories, and I want you to
do the same. Anything you got send it my way,
and of course you can drop your two cents. I'd
love to hear from you. Use the red microphone talk
back feature on the iHeartRadio app, or of course you
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talk soon. All right, until we do peace. This has
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