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[00:00:00]White people invented race to justify their oppression of the African people and their [music] descendants, as well as to justify their mistreatment of the indigenous American tribes. So, racism is always the aggressor. Race-based violence starts and ends with white people. Entirely different is bias. It's possible for a black person to be [music] biased against a white person.

[00:00:20]It's defensive bias, though, because again, white people started and continued it to present day. So, a black person not liking a white person or not trusting a white person on the basis that they're white [music] is not racism. It's defensive bias based on 400 years of dehumanization and history and trauma that has not been atoned for. No reparations have been made. [music] No apologies have been given by the majority of white people. Most white people will tell you, "I didn't [music] do it, so I'm not responsible. I've never been racist to a black person. Why do they hate me on the basis of my skin color? That's racist." [music] No.

[00:00:58]That's smart. Every time black people have tried to create their own communities, white people have come in and ruined it and destroyed it. We've stolen everything they've ever tried to build for themselves. Black creativity and culture [music] is the most plagiarized and least accredited phenomenon in the world. To this [music] day, everyone steals from the black community and their creativity and their artists.

[00:01:22]It's not Tik Tok slang, it's AAVE, it's Ebonics. You look stupid. [music] It's not yours. It's not ours. It's theirs. It's not ours. It's theirs.

[00:01:30]>> One of the things that I I do is I try to help people get a picture of what I mean by by racism. So, tell me how it is. I'm going to first category is white racism, then we'll deal with black racism. So, white racism. Tell me the ways in which white racism adversely impacts the lives of black people. Just what are the ways that white racism can adversely impact the lives of black people as a group?

[00:01:53]What are some of those ways?

[00:01:55]I'm sorry.

[00:01:57]Power, but how is that defined specifically?

[00:02:00]Education, okay.

[00:02:02]I'm sorry.

[00:02:03]Economically employment.

[00:02:05]What else?

[00:02:06]Housing, what else?

[00:02:08]Policing, and why are we here today?

[00:02:11]Healthcare, okay. Now, we can actually kind of grow that list.

[00:02:16]Now, we're going to move over to black racism.

[00:02:19]Tell me the ways in which black racism adversely impacts the lives of white people as an entire group.

[00:02:28]Thank you.

[00:02:30]The reason why you become silent is one that always comes up, and that's fear.

[00:02:34]White people are afraid of black people.

[00:02:37]They are afraid of us, and it's a very interesting thing is black people know it.

[00:02:41]We know white people are afraid, but you have to start getting into the psychology, what are you afraid of?

[00:02:45]Why are you afraid? But, it's an interesting dynamic. Now, also you see the difference in what racism is, do you not? Racism implies you have not just prejudice, but the power to do something with that prejudice. Now, I don't like you. Not only that, but I'm going to control whether you can get You know, I may say I hate you. I hate white people.

[00:03:00]I hate them. I hate them. It's not going to change you getting that, you know.

[00:03:04]No.

[00:03:05]When you go to bank, you can go You can hate I can hate you all the way to the bank.

[00:03:09]Not going to change.

[00:03:10]You see the difference? That whereas white racism says, "Not only do I not like you, but I'm going to change the impact of where you can live."

[00:03:18]I'm going to determine with that racism where where your powers are. Are you following me? And I'm talking about as a group, not an individual, cuz people say, "I remember when my uncle didn't I'm not talking about your uncle." I'm talking about the whole group. Not talking about an incident.

[00:03:31]That's the difference.

[00:03:32]>> Hi guys. Uh I hope that you're doing well. My name is Furaha for those who are watching me for the first time. And guys, on today's video, we are going to have um a discussion on this question of white people always making a deliberate decision to not understand when black people are talking about racism and how it has affected them in the past, how it has affected them, how it's affecting them right now, and how it will affect them in the near future if things do not change. Now, it is very um true to say that white people have always, you know, I don't know if it's just trying to ignore or trying to just not be interested in understanding when black people are talking about the issue of race, the issue of being discriminated upon because you are a different color, because you're a different race, because you're a different person. Now, white people have been unable, and they keep proving that they're unable to actually um recognize the fact that they have made black people go through a lot of things just because they do not look like them. Now, um you all understand that, but they have always tried to make it a point that they do not see color. You know, by the time someone is coming to a conclusion such as I do not see color, they are uh being they're not being true to themselves, they're not being true to you, nor to the other people, and even to themselves. Now, guys, let me not say so much, let's watch this video, and then we'll come back with a conclusive discussion on the same. So, let's watch the video.

[00:05:16]>> Anything that robs us of our humanity is a danger to everyone.

[00:05:22]And that is what's going on with people of African descent all over the world because not only did it get done here, but who do we tell the entire world? We told these people don't deserve any value.

[00:05:34]Everyone wants to be American.

[00:05:37]Not y'all.

[00:05:39]But when we go, I mean, I literally go to countries all over the world, America sets the standard, and thank God for what happened later. Let's move forward.

[00:05:49]So, a lot of people start saying, "Well, y'all got free, right?

[00:05:53]Y'all were free. Everything's fine."

[00:05:55]>> [laughter] >> Just cuz I think that see whatever you talk about post-traumatic slave syndrome, people get locked there.

[00:06:00]So, there's a myth that after slavery ended, the playing field was leveled.

[00:06:05]Was it?

[00:06:06]Remember all the lynchings occurred after slavery.

[00:06:10]That wasn't during, after slavery.

[00:06:13]So, we had black sharecropping.

[00:06:16]Now, we didn't get a lot of black history in our schooling. I have four degrees and three of them advanced degrees.

[00:06:24]Never did I get black history.

[00:06:27]I got about two pages of black history and one of them What page was a picture?

[00:06:32]And it was a picture of little folks with the cabin.

[00:06:35]You probably saw the same picture. It's a little cabin.

[00:06:38]The little guy on the porch with a banjo.

[00:06:41]>> [clears throat] >> Little children running, frolicking about, eating watermelon.

[00:06:45]Right? Everybody happy?

[00:06:47]And we certainly need little Mary and little little Johnny to believe that they were they were happy.

[00:06:55]The slaves were happy people. And they had nice place to live.

[00:07:00]Because we couldn't have them feeling cognitive what?

[00:07:05]Not little Mary.

[00:07:08]She can't start questioning what grandpa did.

[00:07:11]>> [snorts] >> So, I want you to see this because those are left over slave quarters.

[00:07:16]He's a sharecropper.

[00:07:18]So, now let's go back and take a look at sharecropping.

[00:07:21]Now, these are folks that were slaves, no longer slaves.

[00:07:24]Decided, "I'm going back to be a sharecropper on the same plantation that I was enslaved." Why would you do that?

[00:07:33]Let's move forward.

[00:07:34]Here's why. Because when you did try to leave and you go to north cuz you're free.

[00:07:42]I want you to go north now. I live in Oregon, right? That's where I live. Here we go. No free negro, mulatto not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall come reside or be within this state or hold any real real estate or make any contracts or maintain any suit therein.

[00:08:00]And the legislative assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such negroes and mulattos and for their effectual exclusion from the state. And for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the state or employ or harbor them.

[00:08:16]This was repealed November 3rd, 1926. My father was alive.

[00:08:22]Section 6 that if any free negro, mulatto shall fail to quit the country as required by this act, if guilty upon trial, shall receive upon his or her back not less than 20 no more than 39.

[00:08:33]We'll beat you.

[00:08:35]>> [snorts] >> That if any free negro, mulatto shall fail to quit the country within the term of 6 months after receiving such stripes, he or she shall again receive the same punishment over and once every 6 months until he or she shall quit the We going to beat you until you leave.

[00:08:50]>> [snorts] >> BUT YOU'RE FREE.

[00:08:54]THE PLAYING FIELD IS LEVELED.

[00:08:57]Pull yourself up from your bootstraps.

[00:08:59]Are you following me?

[00:09:01]So he went back to the plantation. Let's go back.

[00:09:04]He went back to the plantation to be a sharecropper because that's the only place he could live. But he can't read or write because it was illegal to educate a slave. So I'm illiterate. I go back and I say to the slave owner, who past slave owner, "Okay, now I'm coming back to work for a fair wage cuz I'm free." And the slave owner says, "Sure, you can come back."

[00:09:25]So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to advance you seed, tools, and a mule.

[00:09:33]In other words, you know, I am going to I'm you that grant >> [laughter] >> that you want.

[00:09:39]And we're going to let you work with that.

[00:09:42]And at the end of the year, we'll settle up.

[00:09:46]Well, the grant's never enough, is it?

[00:09:51]And so at the end of the year, he's found owing.

[00:09:53]And what must he do to [snorts] pay off that debt?

[00:09:58]He's got to work it off, yes?

[00:10:00]And his children have to work it off, yes?

[00:10:02]That's called debt servitude or another form of slavery. But you all are free. What are you whining about? Let's move forward.

[00:10:12]Move forward.

[00:10:14]So, well, can we lease them? Now, you everybody wants to know, big issue. You have overrepresentation here. Guess how I know.

[00:10:21]Overrepresentation in criminal justice system as in ideology.

[00:10:28]It was big business then.

[00:10:31]It's big business now. You're going to get free labor one way or another. New slavery is imprisonment.

[00:10:39]>> [snorts] >> Well, let's see. Why was this? It was so successful by the mid-1898, nearly 3/4 of Alabama's total state revenue came directly from this institution. Well, of course, I wanted to do research on what they did.

[00:10:54]Cuz they're free.

[00:10:56]But now we're arresting them at alarming rates.

[00:11:00]And for what?

[00:11:02]12 years for vagrancy, loitering, startling a white woman, looking menacingly at a white woman.

[00:11:14]That's what they got 10, 12, 15 years for.

[00:11:19]And many of them, 25% died under convict lease, more than during slavery, cuz there were no protections because now we have another label to justify our behavior towards them. And what's their new label?

[00:11:32]Well, after all they're convicts.

[00:11:35]They're criminals. Don't they deserve it?

[00:11:39]Do you Do you see what I'm saying? So, when did it end is the question. Move forward.

[00:11:45]You all heard about Katrina, yes?

[00:11:49]Yeah.

[00:11:50]See, I was there.

[00:11:51]My family's from Louisiana. I went to the Ninth Ward.

[00:11:54]Sometimes you can't pay attention to what the news says. It's important actually go eyeball what's going on.

[00:11:59]Which was very interesting cuz it was one of the most horrific events I'd ever seen and probably will ever see in my life.

[00:12:06]Well, black folks were just simply treated differently. Did you notice that? Here's the good news about Katrina. Everybody noticed it.

[00:12:13]So, all the rest of the world where we learn send us your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your democracy, your equality.

[00:12:22]They said, "What happened with that Katrina thing?"

[00:12:25]All that stuff y'all talked about. Well, let me read this. This is from Associated Press taken straight from the newspaper. The front actually the top part here is actually a woman, but they think it's a man. Anyway, it says a young man walks through chest-deep floodwater after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.

[00:12:43]Same body of water down here, excuse me.

[00:12:46]Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store.

[00:12:54]Now, SAME EVENT, SAME WATER. WHITE PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE.

[00:13:01]We've told you what you see now.

[00:13:05]That removes your what?

[00:13:07]Distance because these people can't be perceived as looting. They're white people. White people don't loot.

[00:13:13]NOW, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS I DON'T CARE WHAT ANY OF THEM ARE DOING.

[00:13:18]IT DOESN'T MATTER, BUT I'M GOING TO STEAL the social conscience by letting you know, don't forget, this is a looter.

[00:13:26]Matter of fact, what you last heard was that they were looters and rapists, did you not?

[00:13:32]So, don't they deserve it?

[00:13:37]That wasn't back in, oh, I don't know, slavery though, was it? Now, we're going to kind of move into operationalizing that to look at what is it How does it How do we begin to uh connect that that behavior, those that history to what we're dealing with and what you're dealing with right now and what we're seeing? And very often people say, "Well, is everything post-traumatic slave syndrome?" Obviously, that that would, you know, trivialize all the work. You know, we cannot lay squarely on the shoulders of post-traumatic all the problems that we see we see, nor can we uh place all the problems squarely on the shoulders of white people or any of the above. So, hopefully, we won't um digress into anything that is that foolish in terms of a discussion.

[00:14:19]Because, you know, that's another thing that happens in terms of trying to to deal with the pushback around this. Uh then we move into extremes, and it tends to dilute the realities that are going on. So, um I hopefully we're way beyond all that. Well, now she's saying everything is post-traumatic. No, I'm not.

[00:14:37]Um and most of my work uh my background is really in the field doing um you know, doing work in the community and grassroots. That's where I my training was in terms of my clinical work and just, you know, the fact that I've always been uh this work started on the ground. It didn't start here. Matter of fact, the attention I got the attention of places like Oxford and Harvard and, you know, the um Ivy League and major institutions, even even the uh the FBI.

[00:15:04]You know, but those were things that happened after um I did started doing the work on the grassroots level. Um and so, it's for me, my my commitment is to healing. So, this is not an an exercise uh in some kind of broad intellectual esoteric. It's really about how do we then take this information and help a person extricate themselves from a behavior that they've learned and or been socialized to believe black and white and everyone in in the middle that's been affected by this, um, what do we do? So this is kind of looking at the contemporary, uh, kind of reflection of the trauma, uh, which is white white supremacy and terrorism. That continues.

[00:15:46]We we see that on a daily basis in the United States as well as as here. Uh, this book is called, um, Breaking Rank by Norm Stamper.

[00:15:56]Norm Stamper is a 34-year police veteran. He was a chief of police for the cities of San Diego and Seattle. This is a white man wrote this book called Breaking Rank and he really did.

[00:16:11]So all I can tell you is he broke rank.

[00:16:13]I've been trying to meet Norm. Norm travels quite a bit and he gets considerable, uh, amount of, uh, depth threats because of what he's done. But he talked about, and this is contemporary.

[00:16:25]And remember that's what we're looking at. How does it reflect itself today?

[00:16:27]I've heard some police officers refer to prostitute slayings or to the slayings of blacks as misdemeanor murders.

[00:16:35]Employing an unofficial code for them NHI, which means no human involved.

[00:16:42]Now these are on telephone call These are on calls that you hear on police officers speaking, "Hey, what do you have?" "Oh, we have a NHI. We have a no human involved. It's a black person killed." Do you see what I'm saying?

[00:16:53]Again, the dehumanization reflecting itself in just their casual involvement with one another. San Diego cops confess to a myriad other acts of discrimination including additional dehumanizing references to blacks on the radio call just an 11-13 11-13 is a code for an injured animal. How many people think they understand what racism is?

[00:17:14]Show of hands.

[00:17:17]Come on, you know you you think you know.

[00:17:21]I'm not suggesting I know. I just have a couple definitions that that kind of came to me as I thought about it. How many people think there are white racists?

[00:17:29]That there are white racists out there.

[00:17:32]How many think there are black racists out there?

[00:17:35]Okay.

[00:17:37]Now, this is an interesting thing cuz this becomes important as we begin to define concepts. Now, I do that I usually define concepts um all the all the way. But, one of the things that I I do is I try to help people get a picture of what I mean by by racism.

[00:17:55]So, tell me how it is. I'm going to first category is white racism, then we'll deal with black racism. So, white racism.

[00:18:02]Tell me the ways in which white racism adversely impacts the lives of black people.

[00:18:10]Just what are the ways that white racism can adversely impact the lives of black people as a group? What are some of those ways?

[00:18:19]I'm sorry?

[00:18:20]Power, but how is that defined specifically?

[00:18:24]Education, okay.

[00:18:26]I'm sorry?

[00:18:28]Economically, employment.

[00:18:30]What else?

[00:18:31]Housing, what else?

[00:18:34]Policing. Uh why are we here today?

[00:18:37]Healthcare, okay. Now, we could actually kind of grow that list.

[00:18:44]Now, we're going to move over to black racism.

[00:18:48]Tell me the ways in which black racism adversely impacts the lives of white people as an entire group.

[00:18:58]Thank you.

[00:19:01]The reason why you become silent, there's one that always comes up and that's fear.

[00:19:06]White people are afraid of black people.

[00:19:08]They are afraid of us. And it's a very interesting thing cuz black people know it.

[00:19:14]We know white people are afraid, but you have to start getting into the psychology. What are you afraid of?

[00:19:18]Why are you afraid?

[00:19:20]But it's an interesting dynamic. Now, also you see the difference in what racism is, do you not?

[00:19:25]>> [clears throat] >> Racism implies you have not just prejudice, but the power to do something with that prejudice.

[00:19:30]Now, I don't like you. Not only that, but I'm going to control whether you can get You know, I may say I hate you. I hate white people. I hate them. I hate them. It's not going to change you getting that you know, some loan.

[00:19:43]When you go to bank, they could go You could hate I could hate you all the way to the bank.

[00:19:47]Not going to change.

[00:19:49]Do you see the difference? That whereas white racism says, "Not only do I not like you, but I'm going to change your the impact of where you can live."

[00:19:58]I'm going to determine with that racism where where your powers are. Are you following me?

[00:20:03]And I'm talking about as a group, not an individual, cuz people said, "I remember when my uncle didn't" I'm not talking about your uncle.

[00:20:09]I'm talking about the whole group. I'm not talking about an incident.

[00:20:14]That's a difference. But white people are afraid. So, let's get into how this fear impacts criminal justice. Cuz if white people in this room are afraid of black people, guess who else are is afraid of afraid of black people? Only they have guns.

[00:20:29]So, now let's look at what he said.

[00:20:33]Simply put, white cops are afraid of black men. We don't talk about it. We pretend it doesn't exist. We claim color blindness.

[00:20:39]We say white officers treat black men the same way they treat white men, but that's a lie. And here's a big one. In fact, the bigger the darker the black man, the greater the fear. Any big black men in here?

[00:20:54]You got a big old bull's-eye on you, even if you got the suit on.

[00:20:59]And it's a truth, because we statistics bear it out.

[00:21:04]The African community knows this. Hell, most whites know it. Yet, even though it's essential, if not the defining ingredient in the makeup of police racism, white cops won't admit it to themselves or to others.

[00:21:18]He goes on to talk about actually learning it in the academy.

[00:21:22]Norm Stamper, he told on everybody. He had folks indicted. He now lives in a cabin on a mountain somewhere in the San Juan Islands. That's where he lives. Nobody knows where he lives.

[00:21:37]Cuz he knows they're coming after him, and they have.

[00:21:40]This is a statement from the book, also.

[00:21:41]Race and class discrimination are all too real in every phase of the criminal justice system, from arrest to sentencing. Impoverished black defendants, and this is going to sound familiar to you, are far more likely to wind up on death row than richer middle-class whites. Or the 3,000 And of the 3,700 inmates now waiting execution nationwide, 43% are African-American.

[00:22:01]Black defendants are not accorded the same due process rights as whites. Their cases are not given the same scrutiny and consideration afforded to white defendants. Not now, not ever, not in this country.

[00:22:14]This is what the man said. It was dismal.

[00:22:17]But he doesn't believe it's possible in the current system. So, what we have to realize is we got to be We got to be realistic about that. So, what I have to do is teach my sons how to navigate this, do I not?

[00:22:26]Doesn't matter what I think and know, baby, we know, we are the world. No, this is real.

[00:22:32]You do have a bull's eye on you. When you When you're in an elevator with the only white woman there, and you're the big black man, she's clutching her purse, and she's worried.

[00:22:44]That's a reality. And if you startle her too much, it used to mean you get lynched.

[00:22:49]Matter of fact, I think she could scream rape now, and you'd get taken down.

[00:22:57]Now, this is interesting, cuz this has to do with women.

[00:23:00]You know, my father used to say if a white man has a cold, a black man has pneumonia.

[00:23:05]And if a black man has pneumonia, a black woman has cancer.

[00:23:10]It just kind of figures out that way. In 1986, on duty California Highway Patrol officer Craig Peyer strangled a San Diego State University student named Cara Knott and threw her body off a 70-ft bridge. Motive? She'd resisted his sexual advances. Now, let's go back and understand that And this is an interesting thing. I worked with adolescent and adult male and female prostitutes for 5 years.

[00:23:32]I don't want you to get that confused.

[00:23:33]I'm not an ex-ho.

[00:23:35]I've actually had people say, "Gosh, she's come along, you know, she used to be She's done so well."

[00:23:41]So, somehow when I say that, people think I'm I've never been in the life, okay? I work with adolescent and adult male and female prostitutes, um, as a case manager counselor, okay? And during that time, um, that I worked, uh, with folks, it was very interesting to see the perspectives and the behaviors and the attitudes that people had, uh, about about prostitutes. I mean, when folks want to be If you want to start off as a serial killer, just go kill the prostitutes. Nobody cares.

[00:24:08]They don't even invest CSI don't investigate the the prostitute slayings, right? But, when we we begin to see what's been happening with, particularly women of color, you know, it just historically, women of color have been fodder for white men.

[00:24:24]Now, what started in the in the in the backwoods or in the cabin with the slaves, it never went away, you know? And I want I want to speak to this cuz this is a tough one to swallow, too. But, imagine They did a They did a study back in the, um, in the actually in the '80s.

[00:24:41]And they asked men, cross the board, cross races, if you could get away with sexually assaulting a woman, raping a woman, in other words, and there's no possible way that you'll get, you know, penalized for it. Do you ever get Would What How many of you would consider doing it?

[00:25:01]This is just regular Joe, go to work, with the kids.

[00:25:05]70% 70. Said if I could do it, I would do it. Imagine being able to do that for couple hundred years with impunity.

[00:25:16]Imagine You don't have to worry about, you know, you talk about pedophilia and all that. Imagine being able to buy that.

[00:25:23]And then you could beat it to death, too, and get another one.

[00:25:26]I know it's tough to wrap your head around, but what happens to an appetite created like that?

[00:25:32]Where you could rape a black woman anytime you wanted to, and it wasn't considered rape because she was promiscuous.

[00:25:41]Hundreds of years. We're not talking about a few years, hundreds of years, protected by the law.

[00:25:49]No moral You could go to church. It was all good.

[00:25:54]Where do you think that went after slavery ended?

[00:25:58]It didn't go away, cuz guess who's the number one You got folks who are pimping the women, and then you got the ones that are buying them. And who's buying them?

[00:26:06]Same middle-aged white males between 35 and 60, married with children.

[00:26:14]All right, 5 years I worked with them.

[00:26:16]These are the Johns. Still are the Johns.

[00:26:19]And still are getting hold of some of that black body.

[00:26:27]Are you following me? This is really important to know. It just It just mutated into something else.

[00:26:32]So, now we have to figure out a way within the legal perspective to deal with these women who are out of control.

[00:26:39]My cautious guess is that 5% of America's cops are on the prowl for women. Women, you need to get concerned.

[00:26:48]5% of any police department. In other words, there are folks who become police officers because they're predatory.

[00:26:55]That's why. Think about it. We know where pedophiles go, don't we? You go where there are children. Thank you. So, we got to understand police officers, plenty of them are twisted. And I've worked for the last 20 years with police officers.

[00:27:07]Trust me.

[00:27:09]I'm always concerned about someone that deliberately wants a gun aside from the short man.

[00:27:19]In a department the size of Seattle's, that's 63 police officers. In San Diego, 145. In New York City, 2,000.

[00:27:27]The average patrol cop makes anywhere from 10 to 20 unsupervised contacts a shift. If he's on the make, chances are a predatory cop will find you or your wife, your partner, your daughter, your sister, your mother, your friend.

[00:27:41]That's in general.

[00:27:42]And you see, you get a freebie when you have a person of color cuz they have no rights.

[00:27:48]It is not hard to understand why people of color, the poor, and younger Americans did not and do not look upon the police as quote theirs. Compare and contrast, are the police as an institution known for their protection of the innocent against deception or do they deceive the innocent?

[00:28:04]Do the police protect the weak against oppression or intimidation or do they oppress and intimidate the very people they've sworn to protect?

[00:28:12]Again, we're not talking about anybody that just fell off a truck. We're talking about a 34-year police veteran who went back, by the way, to get his PhD.

[00:28:20]Now, this was a study I did, the research I did. Now, let me explain kind of the the fake basis of this research.

[00:28:26]200 African-American male youth, 100 of whom are incarcerated. Right? 100 of whom are not but are from the same neighborhood. That was my uh the the the group that I was working with.

[00:28:40]So, one of the things that I wanted to do, over here on the right side, what you see is my uh dependent variable, what I'm trying to predict.

[00:28:49]And what I'm trying to predict is the use of violence.

[00:28:53]So, what I discovered was the most significant predictor of African-American adolescent violence when I did the multiple In other words, I put all the variables together to see how what was most significant. The baseline variables of witnessing and victimization, we already know they're going to fall out fall out cuz they're baseline. We already know that.

[00:29:12]was respect.

[00:29:14]The most important predictor, respect.

[00:29:18]Think about that.

[00:29:20]How do you get respect as African-American male, period, but a male youth 16 in your society?

[00:29:26]How does he get respect?

[00:29:28]Got to get it though, cuz he's not going to roll up in a corner and ball and die somewhere. He needs to get respect.

[00:29:36]And as black people, I say this all the time out in here, that we can ill afford to swallow whole what is called cultural.

[00:29:44]We can ill afford to swallow that because there's poison in the cookies.

[00:29:48]And the only way to get the poison out of the cookies is not someone from the outside looking in, but those who are living in this to be able to look at themselves and assess it with a level of dignity, a level of safety that perpetuates a sense of a sense of well-being and healing. Thank you so [music] much.

[00:30:05]>> Machinka is realizing why people really think black joy is just ghetto.

[00:30:09]>> It's because white people aren't allowed to be joyful. And this isn't me being critical of white people, but the concept of whiteness is social control, right? It is rigidity. The concept of whiteness was sold as privilege, but the price of that privilege was freedom, was joy. They are only allowed to have privilege in a controlled sense. I want you to think about all of these concepts, political correctness, social manners, professionalism, dress codes.

[00:30:39]Like all of these things are inherently controlling. Like none of these things are freedom. None of these things are expressive. White people aren't allowed expression. And this is why black people are like white people's secret obsession.

[00:30:55]And like the bane of their existence.

[00:30:57]You know what I mean? Cuz black people refuse to conform. And in that conformity, even though there is so much even though there's so much of a consequence behind refusing to conform, there's also so much joy. There's also so much freedom.

[00:31:13]And this is why there's so much of black culture that is mimicked. Because it represents something that they could never be. Which is why they wear our culture like a costume. Because it is something that they can only temporarily enjoy. You cannot both remain part of the privileged class in society and rebel against it. Being a privileged member of a [snorts] Christian colonial society means giving up the right to express yourself. It means accepting that you are a part of a greater system of control. Essentially, being white is a job. Right? They are the buffer class between the elites and the oppressed.

[00:32:00]While simultaneously being a part of the oppressed class themselves. They're like the managers of a restaurant. They hate their job, too. They don't make that much money, too. But they make more than you. And so they're going to do everything they can to maintain that position. But they're watching you gossip with your coworkers. They're watching you steal food. They're watching you enjoy the aspects of the jobs that they can't. And they resent you for it. But they also enjoy watching you, right? It's the only fun part of the job. But they can't allow you to have too much fun. No? Or or then the boss is going to hammer down on them.

[00:32:37]It's not really a privilege to be white.

[00:32:40]You know, everything that was great about European cultures and societies, pantheons, the the worship, the witches, the magic, fairy tales, everything that was great about being white, about being European, was stolen from white people.

[00:32:55]I mean, colonization was just as brutal for white people. Well, I won't take it that far, but it was terrible, you know?

[00:33:04]And white people still haven't mourned the loss of everything that they lost.

[00:33:14]>> All right, buckle up. We're about to cover the 15 traits of white supremacy culture. Not the hood and tiki torches version, the everyday version that sneaks into your workplace like a raccoon entering a Chipotle dumpster, because we're all swimming in white supremacy culture, whether we want to believe in it or even know it's happening like an iPhone update in the background. Number one, perfectionism.

[00:33:33]Ah, yes, the belief that making a single mistake means you must pack your belongings and move into the woods to think about what you've done. Two, sense of urgency. Everything must be done now, immediately, yesterday. The world will collapse if Brenda doesn't get that email. Three, defensiveness. Someone says, "Hey, this could be better." And suddenly people are acting like you just stabbed their childhood. Four, quantity over quality. Did you make 12 mediocre things today? Congrats, you're crushing it. Meanwhile, your soul left the building hours ago. Five, worship of the written word. Because if it wasn't documented in a 36-page Google Doc, how could it possibly be true, or real, or exist? Six, only one right way. My way.

[00:34:16]Why? Because that's how I do it. Why ask questions? Stop resisting. Seven, paternalism. When people in power say, "We made this decision for everyone else because we know what's best." Which is funny because they never do. Eight, either/or thinking. Everything is either good or bad, right or wrong, hero or villain, like a Marvel movie written by somebody who hates nuance. Nine, power hoarding. We totally believe in collaboration. Hides all important information in a vault protected by lasers and emotional manipulation. 10, fear of open conflict. The moment someone expresses an honest emotion, "Okay, that was aggressive." No, Susan, it's just Tuesday.

[00:34:56]11, individualism. The belief that everyone should be on an island, alone, self-sufficient, self-soothing, self-destructing. Community? Never met her. 12, objectivity. Pretending you don't have emotions while clearly having emotions, lots of them, all of them, all the time. 13, right to comfort. Any hint of discomfort and someone is like, "I'M BEING ATTACKED!" MEANWHILE, you're literally just talking. 14, progress equals bigger, more. "We're expanding!"

[00:35:28]Cool, why? "Because expansion is progress." Or maybe we're just tired of spiraling. Ever thought of that? 15, entitlement to leadership. When people assume they should be in charge because they've always been in charge despite demonstrating no actual leadership skills, like at all. You don't have to be racist to swim in this culture, you just have to be alive. These are the default settings. The goal isn't guilt, it's new norms. We need to shift from control to collaboration, from urgency to sustainability, from hierarchy to shared power, from comfort to accountability. That's when real liberation begins, and that's when all of us start breathing easier.

[00:36:15]>> So, guys, you have watched the video, you have watched that um talk from this lady that is trying so hard to explain to white people and everyone else that is uh not white but [clears throat] not black as well. You know, she's only trying to explain to these people that, you know, you have discriminated upon black people and this is what you have caused in the past. This is what you're causing right now and this is what you will cause if you do not change your ways. Now, white people for a very long time, they keep having this argument of, you know, there are also some black people that are racist towards white people and that is true. We do not actually want to come here and lie that there are no such people.

[00:37:00]And we keep saying that in this channel that in as much as we advocate for black people that we love our black community in America and, you know, all that kind of support, it does not mean that we are um we are not aware that there are black people that are actually not good people. There are black people that do not follow the things that we keep discussing and agreeing on, you know? We even have black people that support people that hurt um their fellow black people. So, we are very much aware of that. Now, that is not a solid argument in the case of race because white people have a lot of backing towards um helping them to achieve that kind of discrimination because it benefits them. When you're talking about black people being racist towards white people, they do not really get anything in return other than just feeling that emotion of, you know, I have also done to them what they did to our forefathers.

[00:38:10]There's nothing else to that. But for white people, they have a big advantage.

[00:38:15]They have the white supremacy. They have the white privilege. And when they use these things intentionally to hurt black people, which is really the most um case.

[00:38:27]They hurt them for real because we have people in jail. We have lots of young people in jail. We have a lot of black men in jail. We have a lot of women who have not been able to access certain facilities, certain things in life just because they were black, yeah? We have uh for example the the enslaved woman who was heavy and beautiful and all that. That woman went through the trauma of just being pretty because white men decided that they're going to use her as um an as an object, you know? The same way you would use um your remote control in the house, the same way you would use a spoon, yeah? You use it however you want. She was taken to a museum for the interest of men, to please men. So, uh whatever a man a white man feels bored, they would just go there and watch her and sometimes do the deed and that was okay, you know? Nobody questioned.

[00:39:25]Nobody thought that was wrong. Nobody cared about how she feels about that herself.

[00:39:31]And even after she died, that is the part that is most annoying. Even after she died, she did not um they did not give her the respect that a person deserves even in death, yeah? She was still was put in that museum so that the men could do same same thing that they were doing while she was alive. And that is something you do not even want to wrap around your head because it doesn't look real. It doesn't sound real, but they did that. They did that to our enslaved enslaved brothers and sisters.

[00:40:05]And yeah, so when white people keep arguing that there are also black people that do not like them, that discriminate upon them, it is true, we know that, but what is even the percentage? It is a a very small percentage, but not to say that it doesn't mean anything because it does. But, um you also need to recognize the fact that you being racist to black people hurts them more than when they are racist towards you because you have the power. You have every, you know, everything that can help you to fight these people. You have everything that can help you to, um uh you know, protect yourself. But, for black people, when you have someone that is white and they are racist towards you, nobody's going to believe you. You know, first of all, you're not going to report that. And if you do, you will need evidence. And when you give evidence, they will find a reason to justify that you deserved that. Now, those are the kind of things that happen to black people. And when a black people uh when a black person does the same to white people, you know how it ends? They will report them and without a thought, without questioning, without any further, you know, consultation or whatever, investigations, the black person will be put in jail. The black person will be, you know, tortured because why the hell are you making a white person uh shed tears? And especially when it's a white woman. Why are you making a white woman shed tears? And this is one of the things that our black men have really gone through. And it's even uh something that you can find on research.

[00:41:49]You can do your own research and find.

[00:41:51]There are very many black men that are in jail for things they did not do. And if they did, you know, it was exaggerated. The way that they were treated, the way that they their cases were run, you cannot compare the same when it's happening to white people and they have wronged black people. Now, um guys, I know you have your thoughts, you have um things that these video made you to think of, you know, remind you of something.

[00:42:22]Please consider sharing in the comment section. Let us know what you think about this, what you think about the uh discussion that the lady held and if you agree on what she is saying, you can also put it in the comment section.

[00:42:35]If you disagree and you uh are black or white or whatever else, please consider sharing in the comment section. We are here to learn, to unlearn, and to relearn. So, do not fear, do not panic, do not feel like this channel is for black people only and feel like you cannot share your thoughts. You are free to share your thoughts and let's keep helping each other because we are fighting the same demon and we all want a better day for for you and for me and for everyone else. So, yeah. So, and for those people that watch my videos and have not subscribed to my channel, kindly kindly consider subscribing to my channel and if you are new to the channel, my name is Furaha and I'm happy to have you on my channel today. I hope that you enjoyed the video and there are more videos in the playlist. You can just check out my channel and find them. So, get acquainted with what we do here. If you like it, you can consider subscribing to my channel and I hope to see you on my next video. So, bye for now.

[00:43:36]>> [clears throat]