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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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Man, that felt good.
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That felt good saying that.
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And you might be thinking to yourselves, well Kyle, why does it feel good guys?
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Because I have not recorded a podcast in a very, very long time.
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And you might be thinking, well, Kyle, I've been hearing you every week.
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But here's the thing guys, as I told you about a couple of months ago, my wife gave birth
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to our sweet baby boy, sweet baby James.
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And so what I wanted to do is I wanted to make sure that I could be available to her
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and to him in the early parts of his life, right postpartum with Kelsey and kind of go
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from there.
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And the thing about that is, is I got like two months worth of podcasts recorded, ready
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to go in the hopper so that they could be coming out to you guys every Thursday because
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I didn't want you to be without, right, you know, because I'm just so self involved and
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self important.
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I just knew you weren't going to be able to get by without me, right?
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Is that how it goes?
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That's at least what I tell myself.
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But but guys, you know, nothing's really happened in the last two months.
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So it's not like I would have talked about anything live that was actually going on at
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the time in the country, right?
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Yeah.
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So barely the last time I talked to you guys, things were crazy with COVID and we thought
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COVID was going to dominate the news cycle basically for the rest of the year.
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And now we're sitting in the craziness of what's going on with race issues.
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And that's at the forefront of what everybody's thinking about and talking about in the United
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States.
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And it's like we can't escape it.
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This subject matter is literally everywhere that we look right now, no matter where you
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look.
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And so one thing that I've been asked a lot over these last several months now is Kyle,
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why aren't you talking about this?
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Hey, hey, when are you going to release a podcast on this?
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Hey, what do you think about the George Floyd killing?
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Hey, what do you think about what?
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What's happening with the officers?
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Hey, what do you think about what's happening to the country about the Black Lives Matter
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and defund the police?
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What do you think about all these things?
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And first of all, I had kind of had the built an excuse.
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Well, it's like, Hey, well, I've got all these podcasts already ready to go and the schedule
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is already said and it's recorded and I need to help out, you know, Kelsey and sweet baby
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James and all the things like that.
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But to be honest with you, this is a topic that I never really thought I was going to
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have to cover on this podcast.
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Because obviously if you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, I don't shy
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away from any subject matter, right?
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I go at some of the most incendiary subject matters, some of the most divisive subject
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matters that you can think of abortion, you know, being one that I talk about a lot.
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So but but race seems to be a completely different thing entirely.
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And there's kind of this idea in the country now to where like, if you're if you're a white
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guy, you can't really give your opinion on this.
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And so this was a subject matter to be honest with you.
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Like I just didn't think that I was going to have to go there and talk about it.
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But even whenever I decided that, Hey, I'm probably going to have to go full bore and
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really talk about what's going on here.
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I wanted to wait.
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I didn't want to add to the clutter and the noise of every single person on Twitter and
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every single person on Facebook and Instagram and every single person on the mainstream
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media and in the news and in the blog, blogosphere and all those things.
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I didn't want to just add to that and not because again, not because I'm so self involved.
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It's like, well, my opinion is so much higher.
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So let me just wait until all this riff raff is out of here.
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It was just, I wanted everyone to calm down a bit because whenever you think using emotion
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and for those two guys out there, you've done some of the worst things in your life based
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on just emotions and feelings that you were feeling at that exact time and you later came
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to regret it.
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I went to wait until everyone calmed down a bit.
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But perhaps that hasn't really happened.
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I don't think things have calmed down.
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I certainly don't think people have calmed down, but but whatever, you know, I gave it
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a little bit of room to breathe and we're kind of going from there.
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But really just for me personally, I wanted to gather my thoughts.
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So I wouldn't regret saying anything later or I guess regret how I said it, right?
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So I think that I'm in a good place now and that's something that I definitely want to
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launch into because I've been gathering thoughts for the last two months now about what's going
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on, what it means for you guys, how it pertains to us, the capital C church, America, you know,
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all those things.
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And the thing was, is I honestly thought whenever I was going to prepare this episode that I
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could get all those thoughts into one show and into one episode, but I just can't.
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I just realistically, I can't do that.
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So what we're doing here is this is part one of race in America.
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This is going to be at least two parts because I don't really do parts, right?
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I think I did toxic masculinity part one and part two.
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And that's been the only, you know, dual subject that I've kind of ran into, but this
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will be at least two parts, but it's probably going to end up being three parts.
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So the next three weeks, we're going to be talking about this in different facets and
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at different levels.
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This one today focuses mainly on what happened, you know, what's happened over the last couple
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of months, what has kind of gotten us to where we are right now?
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But as a primer for what I'm going to likely be covering, and this is an exhaustive list,
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but over the next three episodes, I'm going to certainly give you my thoughts on the killings
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of George Floyd and Richard Brooks in particular, the thoughts, my overall thoughts on racial
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issues in America, my thoughts on police and police violence, Black Lives Matter, the
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organization and also Black Lives Matter, the sentence, which is very, very different,
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which we'll get more into next week.
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The politics of it all, there's certainly a lot of politics going on right now and every
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facet of this, what is, what's maybe actually going on with these riots.
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There's something underlying everything that's going on that I don't think everyone realizes
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quite yet.
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Cultural Marxism, how that's kind of taken root, even in the modern day church, my thought
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on reparations, which is getting new steam and life in terms of those types of things,
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my thoughts on racial reconciliation as we move forward, certainly as the body of Christ.
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And I'm going to go into a lot of other subjects, but those are going to be some of the things
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that we're talking about over the next three weeks.
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But guys, before we launch into today's episode, before we launch into part one, there's a
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few things that I want you to keep in mind while you're listening to this episode, but
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also the subsequent episodes that are going to be on the subject matter.
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The first thing is this is many of my thoughts today and on the subsequent episodes, they
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are my own, but I will be interspersing thoughts that I picked up from my plethora of other
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sources.
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I've been listening to a lot of news, a lot of podcasts, a lot of blogs and a lot of reading,
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I will do my best guys to give credit to those sources when appropriate, though I will likely
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make mistakes and accidentally omit some people that actually had the idea first, but it's
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kind of one of those things that, you know, like minds think alike or great minds think
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alike.
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And so I would have thoughts that came to mind and then a week later, I'd hear someone say
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it on a podcast.
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It's like, okay, well, it's I guess it's not that very, very unique of a viewpoint on that.
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Another thing is there are a lot of side topics and narratives that I simply can't get to
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in our time together.
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There are so many different through points and things that are weaved together in all
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this.
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I'm just not going to be able to get to all of it.
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So guys, if you're looking for a podcast, that's a historical accounting of the entirety
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of the topic of race in America, you will be disappointed if you listen to this one and
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expect that.
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That's not what this is going to be.
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Also, this is really important.
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If you feel yourself getting hyped up at any point during this episode or the next one
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or two, whether you're in agreement with me or in disagreement with me, I want you to
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pause the episode, honestly, I want you to pause the episode.
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Maybe go listen to something else.
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Maybe go do something else.
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Take a break because I want you to try to remain emotionally neutral when you're listening
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to these because there's so much emotion with all these things.
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There's so many people being emotional about the subject matter and some of them have every
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right in the world to be, but I don't want you to do that.
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I want you to listen to all this and really lean on things other than emotion.
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Another thing is, guys, a lot of the things that I'm likely to say, these are things
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that you haven't heard many or any other people say.
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So many of the things that I'm going to say today and in the subsequent weeks, they're
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not going to get 100,000 retweets or likes and that's okay, right?
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I'm not doing this for the popularity or any of those types of things.
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I just want to be honest with you and again, you've kind of requested me talk about the
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subject matter, so I'm going to wait in.
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And guys, to be honest with you, a lot of things that I'm going to say are things that
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you're quote, unquote, not allowed to say.
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These are things that currently fall outside of the Overton window for most people, okay?
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But this is another really important thing and I promise I'll get started here in just
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a second, okay?
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If I say something and your knee jerk reaction is to think that the statement is racist and
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that I am thus a racist, I would urge you to withhold your judgment.
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I would strongly urge you to deeply consider what I said, devoid of emotion and then stand
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on reason.
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And that's about as clear as I could possibly make that.
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But just guys from the very top, just know that if one of my opinions offends you, I
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honestly, I just don't care because again, these are opinions and opinions can't be wrong.
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They might be offensive.
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They might be, you know, counter to your sensibilities, but it just kind of is what it is.
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But here's the thing guys, is if I say something that's inaccurate, that is factually inaccurate,
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I care a lot about that.
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I don't care if you're offended.
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I care if I say something that's incorrect and I wish to be corrected.
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So if I say something that's incorrect info at undaunted.life is my email or you can hit
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me up on Instagram.
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Find me.
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Okay.
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And guys, the last thing here, don't assume that you know where I'm going with a point
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and don't assume that you know where I'm going to end up.
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Stick with me to the end.
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Okay.
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I'm kind of an equal opportunity offender, right?
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I'm going to offend a lot of people probably with what I'm going to say and some of the
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things that I think.
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And that's fine.
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If this leads to better conversations and deeper conversations later and more consideration,
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then that's fine.
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That's what we're going to go with.
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So guys, as we launch in here, I think the best place for me to start is just basically
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to spend a little bit of time talking about my racial history.
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This won't be long.
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But for those of you that don't know, I'm a white guy, right?
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And as a white guy, I just consider myself an American, okay?
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In terms of my heritage, I'm mainly Irish and Scottish and Choctaw Indian, okay?
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There might be some English interspersed in there, but spoiler alert, I never, I don't
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have anybody in my family tree that has ever owned slaves in the African slave trade in
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the United States, right?
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You know, with the Irish and Scottish going back to the Gaelic side and also with the Choctaw
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Indians, you know, we were enslaved.
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We also enslaved people.
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It's a mess, but that's kind of my history.
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I'm a European and Choctaw Indian, but that's kind of what I am.
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But I grew up in a surprisingly diverse town in Southwest Oklahoma, okay?
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So for those of you that have never been to Southwest Oklahoma, there's not a whole lot
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of diversity down there, except in the town of Lawton.
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So in Lawton, Oklahoma, there is an army based, Fort Sill is an artillery base, and that's
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attached to the city of Lawton.
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And so we get a ton of different people from all over the country and really all over the
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world.
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And so I grew up with people of all races and all shapes and all sizes and all religions
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and all backgrounds, and that was just normal from the time that I was in kindergarten,
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right?
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A lot of my friends that grew up in other parts of Oklahoma, they didn't have that experience.
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They went to schools that were 100% white or, you know, there might be a few Latinos or
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it might be a few people mixed here or there, but it was basically a bunch of white people.
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I just had a very, very different experience growing up.
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There's actually, I don't know if I told the story before, but a very short story.
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There was this girl, my freshman year of college, I, you know, picked her up at the girls dorm
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and we were going to walk to the gym and go work out together and, you know, do whatever.
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We were on the same scholarship program and we're walking towards a gym and she kind of
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pulls my shirt and says, Hey, can we, can we walk through the courtyard of this building?
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Which if I could show you where this building was like, that was a really stupid way to
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go.
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It kind of like took you out of the way in order to get to the gym as opposed to going
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in a straight line.
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I was like, Yeah, okay.
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Sure.
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Whatever.
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And so while we're walking across parking lot about to walk in the gym, I was like,
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What was that about?
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And she's like, don't get mad.
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I'm like, get mad.
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Like we've known each other for like 14 days.
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What are you talking about?
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Get mad.
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She's like, Well, did you see those guys hanging out outside?
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I'm like, what guys?
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She's like, those black guys, I was like, Oh, yeah, those guys that were hanging outside
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the dorms.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I guess I noticed them.
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Why?
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She goes, I've never seen a black person in person before and I'm like, I'm 18 years old.
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She's 18 years old.
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And this is the first time in her life she had seen a black person in person, right?
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She grew up in a town that I'll just remain, you know, leave nameless here on this podcast.
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But you know, there are a lot of people that don't have that diversity of an upbringing,
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and I had a tremendously diverse upbringing.
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But the thing about growing up in Lawton is I got to see some things that people don't
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necessarily get to see around the country.
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I got to see a lot of racism directed at different races, but I also got to see intra racism
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right from people that are in the same class, right, the same group, I guess you can say.
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I remember a lot of light skinned and dark skinned black people, kids of mine, friends
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of mine, growing up that were bullied by other black people, and especially the light skinned
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and mixed blacks.
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I saw them being being just bullied a lot by other black people.
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I thought that was weird.
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I didn't really understand at the time, but you know, the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans
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were always getting at each other, right?
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And it was like this kind of weird thing.
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And then there was the Mexican people and then there was like the Central American folks
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and it's like, I never really understood what was going on, but I guess I was around a lot
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of racism growing up.
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But in terms of me and my family, there are members of my immediate family that are not
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white.
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I have a black stepfather and a stepbrother that's from Brazil.
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So it's not just like a bleached white, you know, we were, you know, lower middle class,
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middle class family, but I mean, you know, we got by we did what we needed to do.
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Also there are a lot of friends of mine that I consider to be closer to me than blood, you
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know, as close as a brother and they just so happen to be black.
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So yeah, I guess you can say, Oh, so you certainly have a black friend so you can say
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whatever.
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I'm just kind of giving you an idea.
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I grew up with people of all different races and I just, I looked at them as my buddies.
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I didn't look at them as my black buddy or my Puerto Rican buddy.
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You know what I mean?
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And here's the thing I guess before we go any further is to anyone that thinks that I
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shouldn't be speaking on the subject matter that I shouldn't have an opinion because I'm
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a white Christian cisgendered heterosexual male, just freakin bite me.
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I don't care.
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I don't care about your, you know, your racism towards me because I'm a white guy having
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these subject matters.
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I have a functioning prefrontal cortex.
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So I feel like I can talk on these subjects and saying that I can't have an opinion on
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this because I'm not a person of color.
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Is it akin to saying, you know, I don't know, like somebody can't have an opinion on fiscal
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policy because they've never owned a business or they can't say, ah, that probably isn't
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the picture I would have brought in if they've never actually pitched in the major leagues,
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like there's different experiences to everything, but people can have their opinions.
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But that's kind of my racial history in a nutshell to kind of give you an idea of kind
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of what my upbringing was like and what that was like.
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But there's also America's racial history, which the thing about it is we don't need to
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spend a lot of time on this because you'll guys, you all know this, even guys that listening
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to this podcast overseas, you've certainly heard about this, but all of the biggest
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sins of this nation as a nation have to do with racism, in my opinion, okay, namely the
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African slave trade and Jim Crow south.
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There is, there is zero convincing me that those things were anything other than overtly
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racist, they were also overtly other things, but overtly racist.
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And for time reference, slavery in the United States ended in 1863, I was 157 years ago in
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the Jim Crow south and the laws therein, they ended in 1964, which is 56 years ago.
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Okay, guys, there's not a whole lot more that needs to be said about that, right?
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America is just like every other country in that we have racist inside the country and
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we'll get more into kind of some of the nuance with that statement even.
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But I think it is ridiculous for people to pretend that nothing has changed for black
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people in America since 1619, which the New York Times is trying to convince us was the
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actual founding of the United States because that's when the first slaves were brought
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over.
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Or in 1863 or 1964, it's a historical, it's ignorant to say those things.
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It's so offensive to any black person in modern America that's successful or that is enjoying
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the life that they've built for themselves and their families here to say that nothing
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has changed for hundreds of years or decades and decades.
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It's just disingenuous.
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Okay.
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But again, there's no getting around the fact that the African slave trade in the Jim Crow
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south are absolutely horrific things that were perpetrated by Americans.
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Okay.
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But now I feel at the same time that I need to kind of give you my basic views on law
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enforcement officers because that's going to be a through point of a lot of things I'm
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going to be talking about today.
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For me personally, I've always been taught to give police officers and law enforcement officers
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the utmost amount of respect.
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No matter what, yes, sir, no, sir.
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If a cop tells you to do something that the, you know, the dare officer for those of you
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guys that grew up with, with dairy, you know, the drug stuff in the elementary schools,
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if they ask you to do something, you did it, right?
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You just respected cops, you know, I watched cops with my dad and I watched these detective
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shows and it was just, it was one of those professions that you're like, man, those are
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good dudes.
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There's some bad apples, but there's some good dudes that do that.
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Um, here's the other thing is I was taught by both of my parents actually separately,
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you know, after they had gotten a divorce on how to interact with a cop.
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So there's this narrative that only black parents are having to, you know, teach their
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kids about how to talk to a cop and how to act around a cop.
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It's like, no, that, that's, that's just a thing thing.
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That's, that's a human thing.
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Like whenever I got my driver's license when I was 16, both of my parents separately talked
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to me about what happens if you get pulled over, right?
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It's like, okay, so make sure you pull over, like signal, get out of traffic for your safety
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and the cop safety, take the keys out of the ignition, you know, put the, put the keys
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in the passenger seat, you know, uh, in later years, I started rolling down my window and
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just set my, my hands on the door so that the, the guys can see my hands.
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It's like when they get to the, to the front, you know, or get to the car door and make
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sure that you've got your license and registration ready to go.
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Yes, sir.
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No, sir.
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You know, if they ask you to get out of the car, get out of the car.
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If they, if they ask you to do anything, like just comply, right within reason, obviously,
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but, but just comply with them.
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That's what I was taught growing up.
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And here's the other thing guys that I think was interesting because I've obviously been
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thinking about this for a while now is even though I grew up in a very diverse town, as
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I explained and had a very diverse, you know, group of friends, racially speaking, I've
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never actually heard of specific instances where my friends had negative run ins with
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the cops unless they deserved it because I ran around with some knuckleheads growing
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up and, you know, they were breaking the law and so they deserved to have run ins with
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the law.
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But the thing is, I just found that interesting because I'm sure it happened.
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I'm sure I had friends that didn't look like me that had run ins with cops that were
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racist or had racist tendencies or that were just [inaudible] overall.
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And I'm sure that happened, but, but it was never so severe enough to where it came up
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in conversation.
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And guys, you know, you know, how you and your friends are, you talk about everything.
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The good, the bad, the ugly, the, you know, the ugly crying and the super elation, you
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talk about everything.
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And so I just found that that was interesting that even growing up in a diverse town where
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there were plenty of friends that had run ins with the cops, I just never heard about
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any of the racial profiling, the driving wall black, all of that.
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I just, my friends seem to be not immune to that, but it just, it's something that didn't
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happen to them.
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But guys, we really need to kind of break in that that's kind of foundational for, for
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what we're talking about today.
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But we really need to get into what happened.
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That's why today's episode part one is titled what happened because really the entire country
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seemingly changed on May 25th of 2020.
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And that that's a day for many of us that we will never forget because it's a day that
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literally blew the top off of the greatest country in the history of the world.
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And it was on this day that George Floyd, a 46 year old black man, though his race shouldn't
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matter.
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But at 46 or 46 year old black man was killed by the actions of a white man, though his
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race shouldn't matter named officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis, Minnesota police
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department.
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Okay.
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So right now I'm going to spend a little bit of time getting into the details of what
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happened.
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Because we know what happened.
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There's a lot of video.
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There's a lot of witness testimony.
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We have a pretty darn good idea about what happened.
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But I just want to review the facts because, you know, some people only get the end of
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the story.
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They don't get the beginning of the story.
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I remember when I first saw the video, I saw like the last 10 seconds of the video.
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My first thought was, you know, what happened before this?
19:45
Was there a fight?
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Like, you know, what, what's even going on here?
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And so there's a lot of context.
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But around eight p.m. in the evening, Floyd went to a store called cup foods.
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That's a grocery store there in Minneapolis and he went there to buy cigarettes and he
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used a $20 bill for that transaction.
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Okay.
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So an employee of the grocery store realized at some point after Floyd left that the
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money that he used in the transaction was a counterfeit bill.
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It was a phony $20 bill.
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All right.
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People are like, well, that's a legend.
20:10
It was a phony $20 bill.
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So you know, that employee grabbed another employee and they left the store and they
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both went across the street to confront Floyd because apparently he was sitting in a parked
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SUV with two other people in a parking lot of a restaurant across the street.
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So when the two employees got to the vehicle, they demanded that George Floyd give the cigarettes
20:28
back to them and he refused.
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Okay.
20:30
So at that point, the employees didn't take it any further.
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They called the police to report the incident.
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Now, when they called in this incident, they reported that Floyd in their estimation was
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very drunk at the time, right in quote, unquote, not in control of himself, right?
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That's what the employees told the dispatcher.
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Okay.
20:48
So the two police officers that responded to the call initially were Thomas Lane and Alexander
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Kong.
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Okay.
20:55
So Thomas Lane is a mixed ethnicity guy.
20:56
Again, none of this should matter, but I have to say Thomas Lane is a mixed ethnicity
20:59
guy and Kong was a white guy.
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So the thing was, is there was a brief struggle, but officer Lane was able to actually get
21:05
Floyd out of the vehicle and handcuffed him.
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Okay.
21:08
Then the officer sat Floyd down, you know, by an exterior wall of the restaurant and Floyd
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was said to have been calm, right?
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You know, the situation was, was calm.
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He was in handcuffs.
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He was to the side.
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They were about to figure out what was going on.
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So the officers then informed Floyd that he was under arrest and that they were going to
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walk Floyd across the street and put him into their police cruiser.
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So they're walking Floyd across the street and at that point, George Floyd threw himself
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on the ground.
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They refused to get into the back of the cop car.
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He was claiming that he was claustrophobic, that he wasn't going to be able to breathe,
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you know, so on and so forth.
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Okay.
21:37
So a few minutes after all this is going down, officers Derek Chauvin, who plays the largest
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role in all of this, who is a white cop and two oh thou, I think is a sky's name or two
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thou who was an Asian guy.
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They arrived on the scene to assist.
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So now there are four officers that are directly within, you know, touching distance of George
21:55
Floyd.
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Floyd told all four of the officers that he couldn't breathe.
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That's why he didn't want to get into the back of the cop car and he was refusing, you
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know, using his force to basically not get in the back of the cop car.
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He didn't want to be arrested.
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Okay.
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So officer come apparently tried to force Floyd into the driver's side back of the cop
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car.
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He was unsuccessful and he was unsuccessful for, you know, a meaningful period of time over
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a minute trying to get this human being into the back of the cop car couldn't do it.
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So it was at that point that officer Chauvin, he tried to help officer come and he, he got
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on the other side of the car.
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So he began pulling Floyd from the passenger side back of the cop car while come was, you
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know, basically pushing from the driver's side back of the car.
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So officer Chauvin, then actually, once they got Floyd into the back, he didn't stop there.
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He actually pulled Floyd completely out his side.
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Floyd was still handcuffed.
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He pulled them out of the car completely and Floyd, you know, fell onto the pavement onto
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his face essentially.
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So it was at this point that three of the officers subdued Floyd, okay, because they
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didn't want to get up and all those types of things.
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So they pinned him to the ground.
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So officer lane, pin, Floyd's legs, officer kung, pin, Floyd's torso, and officer Chauvin
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pin, Floyd's head to the ground by placing his knee on Floyd's neck, okay.
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Officer towel or thou, he just supervised, he was just standing around at this time.
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So not long after that, officers kung and lane got off of Floyd, but officer Chauvin
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did not.
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Okay.
23:15
So now, you know, counter to what you've heard in the news from people that don't know any
23:18
better what officer Chauvin did initially by putting his his shin on the neck of George
23:25
Floyd in order to to subdue him.
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That is an acceptable and trained technique of restraint for police officers when a perpetrator
23:32
is resisting arrest, okay, you're taught to either, you know, do it on the neck.
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It's also generally taught, you know, to maybe put it in between their shoulder blades or
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something like that, not necessarily on the side of the neck, but you are to put, you
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know, pressure in that area.
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That's in order to subdue the perpetrator long enough to get him cuffed.
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And then, but the other thing that you're taught here is that as soon as you get them
23:52
cuffed and subdued, that's when you start taking care of them, okay, you know, you set
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them up, you let them get a breath, you know, you do what you need to do to make sure that
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they calm down and that they're okay.
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And so that that's kind of what they were taught to do.
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But that's not what officer Chauvin did, okay.
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Officer Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for close to nine minutes.
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The exact time is still being debated, but it was a long time.
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He kept his knee on the neck of George Floyd for a very, very long time, okay.
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Floyd was constantly during this entire ordeal complaining about the pain he was in that
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he couldn't breathe, you know, at two points, he even cried out for his mother who was deceased.
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So that was incredibly sad to see incredibly brutal to see.
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There were even bystanders that were just imploring the cops begging the cops really in
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the most cordial, but stern way possible, in my opinion, very cordial, but very stern
24:43
for officer Chauvin to get his knee off of Floyd's neck.
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Like, hey, man, you got him.
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He's down.
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He's not moving.
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Like, you know, he's not resisting.
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Can you can you please just get off of him?
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Right?
24:52
I was astounded at how controlled the crowd was.
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But then the other three officers on the scene, you know, Tao, who's the Asian lane, the mixed
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guy and Kong, the white guy, they all stood by and essentially just allowed this to happen,
25:05
right?
25:06
Certainly more on that later.
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But by the time the ambulance arrived, Floyd was completely unconscious and nonresponsive,
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okay.
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And to make matters worse, officer Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for almost a
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minute, even after the ambulance arrived.
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He still had his knee on Floyd's neck when the EMTs began checking Floyd's vital signs.
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I mean, just think about the optics of that much, much less like how that looks, how that
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actually affects somebody in real life, right?
25:34
Floyd was later pronounced dead in the emergency room about an hour after the ambulance left
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the scene where Derek Chauvin had his knee on his neck.
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So after all this kind of went down, there were two different autopsies done, which is
25:46
only muddied the waters further in this situation.
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But the Hennepin County medical examiner ruled that George Floyd's death was a homicide,
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but it was caused by a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by the officers who
25:57
had basically subjected Floyd to neck compression.
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Okay, that's, that's the wording that they use.
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The Emmy also said that there was arteriosclerotic heart disease, hypersensitive heart disease,
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infant and all intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use.
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That was all the things that he found within George Floyd's body during the autopsy.
26:16
And he also, you know, this is really insignificant to mention, but here I'm going to mention
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it.
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He tested positive for COVID-19 like that even matters.
26:23
But there you go.
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I mentioned it.
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But then Floyd's family had a separate autopsy done, a private autopsy done, and surprise,
26:28
surprise, they came to a different conclusion than the county's Emmy.
26:31
But the pathologists in this case for the family, they did the autopsy and ruled that
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Floyd died of mechanical asphyxiation due to pressure on the neck and that his death
26:40
was a homicide.
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Okay.
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So they both ruled it a homicide, but for slightly different reasons.
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But the other thing is that they ruled that Floyd had no underlying medical problems that
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caused or even contributed to his death.
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And, you know, oddly, that even though Floyd was constantly talking during this encounter,
26:55
you know, that does not mean that he was unable to breathe that there or that he was
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able to breathe rather.
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And so very, very conflicting things there, obviously, you know, each one of those sides
27:04
have their own dog in the fight.
27:06
But the videos of the incident went viral online.
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There's one particular video from one particular scene, a cell phone camera scene.
27:13
And you know, it sparked immediate outrage and condemnation, and rightfully so, frankly,
27:18
all four of those officers were subsequently fired for their roles in the death of George
27:21
Floyd.
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But that's certainly not where it ended for them.
27:24
Former officer now, Chauvin, he was originally charged with third degree murder and second
27:28
degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
27:31
The less than a week later, the charges against former officer Floyd, or excuse me, former
27:35
officer, Chauvin, were increased to second degree murder.
27:39
And the former officers, Tal Lane and Kung were charged with aiding and abetting second
27:43
degree murder.
27:44
So this is a very, very serious situation.
27:45
Those guys are in jail and, you know, especially Derek Chauvin, he may not ever see the outside
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of a jail cell, certainly after his trial.
27:54
But now I want to kind of get into before I talk about the situation that went on with
27:58
Richard Brooks and kind of how that fan the flames is, I'm going to give you some universal
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thoughts in reference to the death of George Floyd.
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These are universal thoughts.
28:04
Like, I don't know of a serious person that doesn't think these things.
28:07
First thing is this, former officer Derek Chauvin is in large part responsible for the
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death of George Floyd, I mean, because duh.
28:16
Because I have not seen a single law enforcement officer, not one, not, not some Rando on Twitter,
28:21
not someone on Fox News or OAN or any of these, not a single one of them has come out in
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support of Chauvin's actions, not one, it's universal.
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The second is that officers towel, lane and comb, in some part are responsible for the
28:35
death of George Floyd as well.
28:36
You know, again, their knee or their chin bone, we're not, we're not on the neck of
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George Floyd, but they sat around and watched that.
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You know, one of the officers at some point, he, part of his defense that he's creating
28:47
now is that he mentioned to Chauvin at some point, Hey man, you know, we got him, you
28:51
know, let's take it easy.
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And he didn't do it.
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But they sat by and watch this happen.
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They could have done something.
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The third universal thought is this was clearly a case of an excessive force.
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There's so many stories and anecdotes going around about cases of excessive force that
29:06
aren't excessive force.
29:08
This was clearly excessive force.
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I don't think there's any debate on that.
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And the last thing here is that George Floyd should not have died that day.
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He shouldn't have died.
29:18
Again, I have not talked to a single person that says, yep, his actions should have led
29:22
to his death that day.
29:25
Not all the situations are like that, but his certainly was, but now we need to transition
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a little bit and talk about some of the inconvenient facts in reference to the death of George
29:33
Floyd.
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So let this be the beginning.
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I made it a whole 30 minutes without saying anything that was too terribly controversial.
29:38
But you know, here we go.
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The first inconvenient fact in this whole, you know, George Floyd situation is that George
29:45
Floyd in small part is responsible for his own death.
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He would still be alive today if he hadn't broken the law and didn't resist arrest almost
29:56
100%.
29:57
He would still be alive.
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Now don't hear what I'm not saying.
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Did he deserve to die that day?
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No, no, he absolutely did not.
30:05
No one believes that.
30:06
No serious person believes that.
30:07
But again, if he hadn't broken the law that day and he wouldn't not have had, he essentially
30:11
would not have had any interactions with former officer shalvin and thus officer shalvin could
30:16
not have killed him.
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This is not an opinion.
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This is not my opinion.
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This is a fact.
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If he hadn't broken the law, he would not have ran into officer shalvin that day.
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We can pretty much guarantee it.
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Okay.
30:27
Guys, if you don't break the law in general, you almost 100% of the time will not experience
30:33
police brutality.
30:35
Most instances of police brutality where excessive force don't just fall out of the sky.
30:39
Okay.
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If you comply with the police officer, you almost 100% of the time will not experience
30:45
excessive force.
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Okay.
30:47
Those are just facts.
30:49
The second one here is that George Floyd and former officer shalvin 100% knew each other
30:55
prior to this incident, but there is no corroboration to the rumor that these two butted heads
31:00
while working security together.
31:02
This is a rumor that's been traveling around the internet.
31:04
Joe Rogan's mentioned it several times on his podcast, but here's the deal.
31:08
Those two guys did know each other 100%.
31:11
They did work together at security at these nightclubs and different things like that.
31:14
The guy who originally said that those two that that Floyd and shalvin, you know, got
31:19
into, you know, they butted heads over how to do security at the club.
31:22
He has since gone back on his original statement.
31:24
He had confused George Floyd with somebody else that worked in the club.
31:27
Okay.
31:28
So please stop propagating that lie.
31:30
And if anybody knows Joe Rogan that listens to this podcast, please tell him to stop saying
31:34
that.
31:35
I mean, because he's not, he's just not aware that the guy that originally said that has
31:38
taken back his statement.
31:39
Okay.
31:40
The third inconvenient fact here is, and this is just kind of crazy to me, but the charge
31:46
of second degree murder makes the case against former officer shalvin much, much weaker.
31:53
And the likelihood of him walking went up dramatically when his charges were upgraded.
32:01
Because in the state of Minnesota, they have something called third degree murder, but it's
32:03
essentially manslaughter.
32:05
But when you upgrade that to second degree murder, again, just as a reminder for anyone
32:09
that doesn't know, first degree murder says that there is prior planning and intent to
32:12
kill, right?
32:13
And then you followed through with it.
32:14
Second degree murder is you weren't setting out, you know, when you got in the car that
32:17
day with your lunch pail and your briefcase to go kill somebody, but you just ended up
32:22
doing it like you meant to kill somebody.
32:24
So there has to be intent that has to be proven.
32:28
Okay.
32:29
There has to be intent.
32:31
And in this case, there is, you know, 99 times out of a hundred, you're, he's going to go
32:36
down for manslaughter or maybe a hundred times out of a hundred.
32:39
But I feel like, and again, I'm not trial lawyer, but second degree murder, they, if
32:45
the prosecution doesn't have the goods on intent, he's going to walk.
32:49
It's at least 50 50.
32:50
I'll put it that way.
32:51
It's a coin flip at that point.
32:53
So the prosecution is taking, you know, the district attorney and all the people in this
32:57
case, they're taking a risk here, right?
32:59
And maybe that's calculated.
33:00
Well, we'll certainly get more into that later.
33:02
But the last thing here in terms of inconvenient facts on this situation is, and this is the
33:07
most important thing maybe of the entire episode that I'm going to say, and it's, it's seemingly
33:11
so obvious, but no one's talking about it.
33:13
And it says, we have no evidence whatsoever that the reason George Floyd is dead is because
33:20
officer Derek Chauvin is a racist.
33:23
I'll say it again, cause it's the most obvious statement possible, but I'll say it again.
33:28
We have no evidence whatsoever that the reason George Floyd is dead is because officers
33:32
are Derek Chauvin is a racist, but we'll come back to that a little bit later, because now
33:38
we need to talk about what happened to race hard Brooks.
33:40
Okay.
33:41
So this was on the night of June 12th, 2020.
33:43
This was a little over two weeks after the death of George Floyd.
33:46
This was a 27 year old Richard Brooks, who is a black guy.
33:48
If that matters, he was killed by officer Garrett Rolf, a white guy.
33:51
If that matters of the Atlanta police department, okay?
33:54
So let me kind of give you a breakdown of what happened here.
33:56
This was just before 11 p.m. that night, an officer Devin Brosnan was dispatched to a Wendy's
34:01
in southern Atlanta and there was a report of a man that was asleep in his car, blocking
34:06
the drive through, right?
34:07
And you know, when you want your Wendy's, you want to get your Wendy's, but officer
34:10
Brosnan came to the scene.
34:12
He came to the window.
34:13
This is all on his body camera and he woke Brooks up and told him to move.
34:17
Even while the officer was talking to Brooks, he actually fell asleep again.
34:20
So officer Brosnan, you know, had to wake Brooks up again, but he finally got him to where
34:24
he was, he had come to enough to where he could like pull off and pull aside the road
34:27
where he could talk to him or the side of the parking lot rather.
34:30
Now officer Brosnan, obviously suspected DUI.
34:33
So he called for assistance and that's when officer Garrett Rolf arrived on the scene.
34:37
So Brooks was visibly drunk and impaired, but the officers did administer a breathlizer
34:41
test and Brooks did blow above the legal limit.
34:44
I think it was 25% over the legal limit or something like that.
34:47
Both officers had a very calm discussion with Brooks for almost 30 minutes, right?
34:52
I mean, this is all online.
34:53
Like I'm not making any of this up for almost 30 minutes.
34:55
I had a very calm discussion with him, okay?
34:57
The officers and Brooks were all calm, everybody was just discussing what was going on.
35:02
But here's the thing is is the offers, the officers obviously couldn't let Brooks go.
35:06
I mean, in the state that he was in, so they informed Brooks that he was under arrest.
35:11
He had had too much to drink.
35:12
They couldn't let him get back in the car.
35:13
He'd already broken the law by driving the car while being so drunk.
35:16
He had to be arrested.
35:17
Okay.
35:18
Now, immediately Brooks began resisting arrest and started fighting both police officers.
35:23
He wasn't, you know, just making it difficult for them to cuff him.
35:26
He was attacking both officers, okay?
35:28
Now, Brooks was on parole at the time, which very likely led to him not wanting to be arrested.
35:34
But you know, that just kind of gives you a little bit of an idea of what was his state
35:36
of mind at the time.
35:37
Now Officer Brosnan, who was the first officer on the scene, just as a reminder, he drew his
35:41
taser.
35:42
But during the struggle, Brooks took from the officer, so he took the taser from the officer
35:46
and tried to shoot him with it, right?
35:49
Which you know, bad on the officer for getting your weapon taken away, revenue retention is
35:53
a big issue for a lot of cops.
35:54
So that shouldn't have happened, but it did happen.
35:56
Officer Brosnan said that the taser actually hit him in the head and it caused him or actually
36:01
hit him and it caused him to hit his head on the ground.
36:03
So that's what he claims.
36:05
Brooks then attacked Officer Rolf.
36:07
That was the second officer on the scene.
36:09
He punched him.
36:10
He was attacking him.
36:11
Officer Rolf drew his taser at this point, not his gun, but his taser and tried to shoot
36:15
Brooks with it.
36:16
Okay.
36:17
Brooks took off running through the parking lot, still in possession of Officer Brosnan's
36:21
taser.
36:22
Officer Rolf tried to shoot Brooks with his taser.
36:25
Now while running away, Brooks turned around and now tried to shoot Officer Rolf with the
36:30
taser, but the shot actually went over Officer Rolf's head.
36:34
And it was at this point that Officer Rolf dropped his taser.
36:37
He drew his firearm shot three times, striking Brooks twice and the third shot actually went
36:43
into a car where other three other people were in there, but none of them were injured.
36:48
It's been reported that after Officer Rolf dropped Brooks with two of those shots, he
36:53
began to administer first aid until the ambulance arrived.
36:56
That's under, that's hotly contested right now.
36:58
How quickly did he administer aid, all those different things, but he clearly did administer
37:02
first aid after he shot him before the ambulance arrived.
37:05
Brooks was pronounced dead following surgery at the hospital.
37:10
By the way, the entirety is incident as again was recorded on the officer's body cameras.
37:14
There's also the security cameras from outside the windies.
37:17
But this situation got even crazier five days later because five days after the incident,
37:21
this was on June 17th, Officer Rolf was fired and Officer Brosnan was placed on administrative
37:26
duty, which is basically he was put behind a desk.
37:29
Officer Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and two counts of violation of police
37:34
oath.
37:35
But on the same day, as the, as is firing, the Fulton County district attorney announced
37:39
11 charges against former Officer Rolf 11.
37:45
Okay, the first was damaged to property, then four police oath violations, then five counts
37:54
of aggravated assault, and then the, the cherry on top, felony murder, felony murder.
38:03
And Georgia is a death penalty state.
38:04
So essentially this officer is going to be fighting for his life whenever he eventually
38:08
has his day in court.
38:10
Okay.
38:11
Now after the announcement of these charges, Atlanta police officers staged what, what's
38:15
being called a blue flu, but essentially for an evening or two, pretty much every Atlanta
38:19
police officer called in sick, basically like, okay, we're going to do our job.
38:25
We're going to do the job by the book and to the utmost of our training.
38:30
And then the DA is just going to come down like this.
38:32
All right, check out what happens in Atlanta on a night without cops.
38:37
You want to experience the purge?
38:39
We'll give it to you firsthand.
38:40
You won't even have to rent the movie, right?
38:43
So now we need to talk about the universal thoughts in reference to the death of racial
38:46
art Brooks, but these are universal thoughts of sane people because there's a lot of people
38:50
saying a lot of things about this situation.
38:52
There's not a whole lot of universality in some of the thoughts, but these are what the
38:55
same people are saying about the death of racial art Brooks.
38:58
Okay.
38:59
The first thing is that this was a good shoot.
39:02
A good shoot is, you know, basically toppling, go for, yep, uh, that that was he was fully
39:06
within his rights to do what he did to use lethal force.
39:09
I've yet to see a single law enforcement officer come out and say otherwise.
39:14
There was originally this report that, you know, officer Brosnan, uh, came out and said,
39:18
you know, he couldn't believe how officer off, uh, treated the situation and how he acted
39:23
in the situation, but that was, that was a lie.
39:25
You know, it was, it was put out there by all the mainstream media.
39:28
And then the retraction was obviously, you know, put on the back page, but this was front
39:32
page news at the time, right?
39:34
The second universal thought outside of the fact that this was a good shoot is the charges
39:37
against the police officer in this case against Dr. Rolf, are some of the most egregious charges
39:41
possible in light of the evidence guys.
39:45
The entire encounter is on video for Christ's sake.
39:47
The entire thing.
39:49
There's no ambiguity here.
39:50
We're not piecing together the stories of 17 people, half of which were drunk.
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We have the video.
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The videos are out there guys.
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I'm not going to put in the show notes because there's literally so many different versions
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of the video.
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There's people breaking down the video.
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There's just the raw video.
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It's out there.
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These charges are insane.
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And the third universal thought for saying people is that comparing this death to the
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death of George Floyd is asinine.
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These situations literally cannot be more different.
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Again, the overwhelming majority, just look at the populate.
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Just look at the blue population.
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Look at cops.
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Look at law enforcement.
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You have universal 100% of the people are all arm and arm saying the killing of George
40:30
Floyd was wrong, right?
40:32
It was completely wrong.
40:34
But then you have the same thing on the other side saying that this cop in Atlanta acted
40:38
completely within the bounds of the law and his training.
40:42
So comparing these two instances as if they're indicative of something else is ridiculous.
40:46
And the last universal thought is this is that ratio of Brooks, not the police officers
40:51
were at fault in this situation again for almost 30 minutes.
40:57
These cops knew this guy had to be arrested, but you know, they calmly get into the side.
41:01
They calmly discuss things with them, they want to make sure that he's relaxed so that
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they can put him under arrest because you can't be driving around drunk.
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He blew over the legal limit.
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He's got to go to jail.
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Okay.
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Rachard Brooks was at fault, not the police.
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So now we did the inconvenient facts in reference to the death of George Floyd.
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So we're going to do the same with the Rachard Brooks.
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First one is this, Rachard Brooks in large part is responsible for his own death.
41:27
He would still be alive today if he hadn't broken the law, if he didn't resist arrest,
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if he didn't attack the cops and didn't try to shoot them with a taser.
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He would be alive today if not for making all those decisions on his own.
41:40
Now, is a DUI worth the death penalty?
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No, but anyone making the claim that claim as if it's, you know, even matters, it's
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at best disingenuously moronic and at worst, manipulatively evil.
41:55
No one thinks the DUI should give you the death penalty.
41:58
So don't let people play those vernacular games with you.
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He was killed that day because he tried to attack cops or no, he didn't try to attack
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cops.
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He physically attacked them, right?
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You can't do that.
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The second in can be in fact is the fact that Brooks was shot in the back while running
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away, which everyone's making hay about.
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It's completely irrelevant.
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Completely irrelevant.
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Everyone's like, well, you know, at that point he wasn't a danger to anybody.
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He was running away.
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I mean, the two shots he was shot in the back and he was shot in the butt.
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Like he was at no, like the officer was at fault.
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He murdered him because he was running away at that point.
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The thing that you're missing dummies is he was running away with the cops taser.
42:42
Now some people are like, well, he had already taken his two shots.
42:44
It would have to have been reloaded.
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Do you know that for sure?
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Did you know that there wasn't another shot available?
42:53
The fact that he's because again, the guys just think about the realistic.
42:57
So let's say I break into your house, right?
42:59
I break into your house because I want to take your stuff or do damage to you.
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But if I turn my back away from you the entire time, am I safe?
43:07
Am I safe from your retribution in your bullets?
43:10
Because here's the thing guys, my body can be faced away from you and my hand with a
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weapon in it can be facing towards you, which is exactly what happened in this situation.
43:20
So everyone that's talking about the fact that he was shot in the back, they just don't
43:23
understand how stupid of an argument that is because he was still in immediate danger.
43:28
And here's the other thing.
43:29
Here's the other thing is let's say he connected with the taser shot.
43:33
Luckily it went over to officer off's head.
43:36
Have you ever seen someone get tased or been tased yourself?
43:39
Your body becomes completely incapacitated at that exact moment because you have, I don't
43:44
know, hundreds of thousands or millions of volts running through your body of electricity.
43:48
Your body basically shuts down anyone that is tased when you watch these police videos
43:52
of training for tasing.
43:53
There's a reason why they have people standing holding their arms and look on either side
43:57
of them in case they fall over because you can't stand up anymore.
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So at this point, he's already shot one officer with a taser.
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If he shoots officer off with the taser, what does he do at this point?
44:10
Because it looks like everyone's just assuming that he was just going to casually set the
44:13
taser down and just go skipping through the parking lot on his merry way.
44:18
What's to say he doesn't come back to the officer who's now incapacitated and take
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his firearm off his hip?
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Do you know that that would have happened or wouldn't have happened?
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Because I don't, but it's certainly a possibility.
44:33
So the belief officer doesn't really have the option at that point to say, ah, well gosh,
44:37
darn it.
44:38
His backs turned to me.
44:39
He's got one of my weapons, but yeah, he's probably not a danger to us or anybody else
44:44
in this immediate vicinity.
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We got to let him go because all we can see is his back.
44:49
No, at that point, shooting that guy in the back was completely, completely justified.
44:53
So so again, if you hear people talking about the fact that he was shot in the back, it
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doesn't matter.
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His body, his head and his arm with the weapon in it returned towards the officer and he was
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trying to shoot him with it.
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Gosh.
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All right.
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Third thing here, the inconvenient facts on this case is the prosecutor in this case against
45:09
the officer off, they are obviously trying to make an example out of officer off and
45:14
they're using the momentum of public opinion in the wake of the George Floyd killing to
45:17
do it because there's not a DA in their right mind in any city in any democratic city or
45:23
republican city.
45:24
It doesn't matter.
45:25
That's going to put these types of charges on a police officer and less what happened
45:28
two and a half or so weeks before that hadn't happened, which was just egregious, but they're
45:34
trying to make an example out of this cop.
45:37
And I certainly hope they don't succeed because you got to think as the DA, you know, they're
45:42
trying to, you know, build up their woke Bonafide saying that they're going to go after this
45:46
cop and make an example out of them, but that would ruin this cop's life.
45:50
How long would he last in prison?
45:52
You know, a cop in there for capital murder.
45:54
Like I don't know if they have separate wings for police officers that have to do life in
45:58
prison or get the death penalty on death row.
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He's going to sit there and rot for a couple of decades.
46:02
No, he's going to get killed in there, right?
46:05
We're basically doing the right thing in that situation.
46:09
In the last thing here, this is going to sound a lot like something that you heard a little
46:11
while ago, but the last inconvenient fact on the, the killing of Ray Charred Brooks is
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that we have no evidence whatsoever that the reason Richard Brooks is dead is because officer
46:21
Garrett Rolf is a racist, none.
46:27
George Floyd is not dead because he was black.
46:31
Ray Charred Brooks is not dead because he was black.
46:34
We have no evidence that either of these white officers killed those men because they were
46:38
black because they had hate in their heart and all they could see in that moment was
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red and black.
46:43
We don't have that evidence.
46:45
The guys immediately following the video of the George Floyd killing went viral.
46:48
Black Lives Matter and Antifa and all these other agitator groups.
46:51
They began rioting.
46:52
They began looting, essentially trying to burn the country to the ground.
46:55
The killing of Ray Charred Brooks a couple of weeks later, three weeks later or so that
46:59
just fanned the flames, it added gasoline to the fire and there's just basically been
47:03
chaos in the country ever, ever since in some way, shape or form.
47:07
Now guys, again, even though there's no evidence to suggest that George Floyd or Ray Charred
47:10
Brooks were killed because they were black men in America.
47:12
That's exactly what all the race hustlers, Democrats, mainstream media are telling you
47:17
is the truth.
47:20
The thing is is two non race based incidents are supposedly evidence of deep seated American
47:26
racism towards blacks.
47:29
It's the narrative that you're getting and we're certainly going to have much, much more
47:33
on that later.
47:34
But guys, as I've been thinking about this and been thinking about the situation, most
47:37
people can only see the situations right in front of their face, but here's the deal.
47:40
The aftermath of the killing of George Floyd has almost nothing to do with racial issues
47:45
in America.
47:46
It has almost nothing to do with police brutality and almost nothing to do with even George Floyd.
47:53
And here's the reason why I say that.
47:54
The first reason is this and this is from earlier again, we have no evidence whatsoever that
47:58
the reasons George Floyd and Richard Brooks are dead is because of two racist white cops.
48:04
And yet this incident is supposed to be indicative of a race problem in the United States.
48:08
So here's the thing guys, is if you say that that's the case, if you say that the deaths
48:13
of Floyd and Brooks are because of some sort of racism, right, racist white cops, then
48:18
I have a simple request for you.
48:21
Show me the receipts.
48:23
I'm going to need to see the receipts.
48:26
Because basically the killing that launched a thousand riots or whatever you want to call
48:30
it, they're saying it's because of systemic racism, because of police brutality, because
48:34
racism against blacks, specifically show me the receipts show, show me anything that suggests
48:42
that officer Chauvin or officer off a racist.
48:46
Officer Chauvin seems like a complete [inaudible].
48:48
Everything that I've heard about that guy, it's like, man, I wouldn't want to be that
48:51
guy's neighbor.
48:52
I wouldn't want to see him once a month at the grocery store, but that doesn't mean he's
48:55
a racist murderer.
48:57
Guys, come on, accusing someone of racism without having the evidence that they acted
49:05
in a racist way is one of the grossest and ugliest things that you can do to somebody.
49:10
I mean, that's akin to saying somebody sexually assaulted somebody else without having the
49:15
evidence.
49:16
It's so gross.
49:17
It's so evil.
49:19
However, the thing is, is someone's current or former words or actions or group alignments
49:25
or affiliations, they can give you some insight into what someone believes.
49:29
I mean, guys, no one was confused as to whether or not Dylan Roof was a racist.
49:33
You know, that was the white kid, the white supremacist that went into the black church
49:37
and killed all those people.
49:39
There was no confusion as to why he did that.
49:42
It wasn't because he was a troubled kid or played violent video games or read, you know,
49:46
dark novels.
49:47
Like, he did that because he was a racist and he wanted to see black people basically
49:50
bleed to death, right?
49:53
Because here's the thing, guys, there's two things can be true at once.
49:56
Floyd's death could be a bad killing and not be a murder.
50:01
Floyd broke the law and he didn't deserve to die.
50:04
Chauvin could be a bad cop [inaudible] and not a racist.
50:09
Why is everything a zero sum game?
50:11
I don't understand it.
50:13
Guys, Chauvin killed Floyd because he was reckless and negligent.
50:18
There's nothing to suggest.
50:19
I've not seen a single thing to suggest that he was reckless and negligent because Floyd
50:25
is black.
50:27
Nothing.
50:28
And guys, for those of you where, you know, gosh, the hair on the back here next standing
50:31
up right now and you're so fired up and you can feel that beat of sweat dripping down
50:34
your forehead, I want you to calm down again.
50:37
I'm going to ask you to calm down again.
50:39
And again, think about it.
50:40
What is the evidence that we have that this happened because of racism?
50:45
Because if you got nothing, you need to shut up.
50:48
The second thing here is the narrative that black men are being hunted down and killed
50:52
in the streets of the United States.
50:54
Modern day lynchings, as I've heard some people call it, that it's an epidemic.
50:58
It's wildly false, wildly false.
51:02
And here's an easy proof in Ben Shapiro pointed this out years and years ago.
51:05
This is one of the first clips of him that came out.
51:07
It was some debate with some radio station, I think it was in Seattle.
51:10
But you know how we know that there isn't an epidemic of police murdering black men in
51:14
the United States of America?
51:15
You know how we know that?
51:17
It's a quick, easy proof because we can name the so-called victims, because in some cases
51:23
they were victims.
51:25
I mean, the names on the lips of these activists are Michael Brown and Philando Castile and
51:30
Freddie Gray and Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, but guys just think about that.
51:37
Because again, the Philando Castile killing was horrific, terrible killing.
51:42
That police officer should be in jail.
51:43
I'm not actually sure where he's at right now, but horrible, horrible killing.
51:47
But Michael Brown, there's still people saying hands up, don't shoot.
51:50
For those of you that haven't been paying attention because that seems like it was so
51:53
long ago, Michael Brown was that was an incredibly justified shooting.
51:58
He just got through robbing a store.
52:00
He was high at the time.
52:01
He was walking through the street.
52:02
Police officer said, you need to get out of the street.
52:04
He attacks the police officer, punches him while he's in his police cruiser, reaches for
52:08
his gun.
52:09
The gun fires inside the vehicle.
52:10
The officer's able to retain his weapon, Michael Brown runs away, but then he turns around
52:14
and he starts running towards the police officer.
52:16
Michael Brown was a huge human being and this police officer was not a huge person.
52:20
Police officer said, stop, stop, stop, I'll shoot, stop.
52:23
And then he shoots him.
52:25
But the narrative for forever was that Michael Brown was on his knees begging for his life
52:29
and that the police officer executed him.
52:31
And you know how we know for 100% fact that that didn't happen.
52:35
We have three bits of evidence.
52:36
Number one, the officer testimony, which you might just say, well, of course he's going
52:39
to say that.
52:40
So we'll just get rid of the officer testimony.
52:42
The second thing is the witness testimony, the eyewitness testimony, okay.
52:45
The overwhelming majority of which were black people said that that's exactly how the situation
52:49
went down.
52:50
He wasn't begging for his life.
52:51
He was on his way to try and hurt the police officer and maybe kill him.
52:54
And the third thing is the forensic evidence because one of the bullet wounds that hit Michael
52:59
Brown went into basically if you went into the top of his forearm.
53:05
So if your hands are down to your side, you know, just right below where your bicep connects
53:08
to your elbow right there is where a shot went in and it exited behind.
53:13
And so guys, if you bring your hands up and put them in front of you, like hands up, I'm
53:17
surrendering, there's no way for a bullet to have an entry wound on the top of your forearm.
53:21
Unless it's one of those curving bullets from that stupid movie from the 2000s.
53:25
The thing is is, but you still have people now that are saying those names, but but that's
53:29
not really the point here.
53:30
I'm kind of getting off the point.
53:31
I want to give you a thought experiment again.
53:32
These are people that say there's an epidemic of black people being murdered in the streets
53:36
by white racist cops or by the system or the man or whatever you want to call it.
53:40
But here's your thought experiment.
53:42
Okay.
53:43
Outside of Anne Frank, can you name a single person that was murdered in the Holocaust?
53:51
Just one.
53:52
Okay, how about this?
53:55
Can you name a single person that was murdered in the Soviet gulags?
54:00
How about a single person that was murdered in Malice, China?
54:05
Can you name a single person that was murdered under the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?
54:11
How about this?
54:12
Can you name a single Iraqi that was murdered under Al Qaeda in Iraq?
54:15
And guys, I could keep going, but I'll spare you.
54:18
And the reason is guys is because you can't, you can't name any of these people by name.
54:22
You know why?
54:24
Because those were real epidemics of murder.
54:28
Those were real genocides in history, in some cases.
54:31
Guys, if it's an epidemic, that means it's so widespread and it's too widespread to know
54:38
any of the victim's names.
54:40
And that does not mean someone in the United States that has been killed by bad policing
54:44
that those things don't matter.
54:46
I'm talking about the narrative.
54:48
Again, those people have the amago day, like, you know, I want them to be in heaven with
54:52
Jesus.
54:53
All the things, all the things.
54:54
That's how we're talking about.
54:55
We're talking about the narrative and the narrative that they're being hunted down in
54:59
the streets is so disingenuous and so false, so false.
55:03
Because here are the stats guys, according to the Washington Post, and notice I didn't
55:07
say info wars.
55:08
I didn't say Fox News.
55:09
I didn't say any evil person that you might think is evil.
55:12
According to the Washington Post in 2019, last year, a total of nine unarmed black men
55:18
were killed by cops, nine.
55:21
There are some people that say it's as many as 15.
55:23
I've seen the number nine use the most often.
55:25
So that's the number that I'm going to use.
55:27
Nine.
55:28
Okay.
55:29
Those nine, not all of the officers that pulled a trigger were white.
55:33
That's one little point in some of the black men that were killed were fighting the cops
55:37
at the time of their deaths.
55:39
They just so happened to not have any weapons on them.
55:41
They didn't have a gun or a knife or a pipe.
55:43
They were just using their fists.
55:45
Okay.
55:46
So here's the thing guys, every year in the United States, there are somewhere in the neighborhood
55:51
of 375 million direct interactions between police and the citizenry.
55:58
375, mama, mama, mama million.
56:00
That's six zeros after the five.
56:03
Okay.
56:04
Now, do we hear about most of those interactions?
56:06
No, of course we don't, right?
56:09
But if we use the available data that we have for 2019 and the fact that cops killed nine
56:16
unarmed black men in that year, police killing unarmed black men amount to point zero zero
56:24
zero zero two four percent of police interactions in 2019 point zero zero zero zero zero zero
56:34
two four percent of police interactions in 2019 resulted in an unarmed black men being
56:39
killed by the police.
56:41
Now, I don't off top my head.
56:44
Know the definition of an epidemic, but can we just go ahead and agree that that it's
56:48
not an epidemic?
56:50
Because here's the other thing, a police officer in America is almost 19 times more likely
56:55
to be killed by a black man than an unarmed black man is to be killed by a police officer
56:59
of any color.
57:00
Again, we're talking about the narrative.
57:03
We're not talking about lives that they don't in ways that they don't matter.
57:07
We're talking about the narrative and the narrative is just wrong.
57:09
And here's the other thing guys, some people will cite that more white men are killed by
57:12
police in the United States than black men.
57:14
That's a really stupid argument, by the way, because populations of those two groups aren't
57:18
the same in the United States, obviously there's per capita that you need to take into account.
57:21
But here's the thing.
57:22
If you want to talk about disparities in the per capita of mountain of black men that are
57:25
shot by police, which sounds fair on its face, then why is it then inappropriate for me or
57:30
anyone else to bring up the disparities and per capita crimes committed by blacks compared
57:34
to other races?
57:37
Because you bring up your point about disparities in per capita amount of black men that are
57:41
shot.
57:42
And then I bring up the disparities in per capita crimes committed and I'm racist and
57:45
you're not, you're woke, you're progressive, doesn't make any sense to me.
57:51
Because and then you have to explain to me how Roland Fryer, Jr., so that's the Harvard
57:55
economist who just so happens to be black again, that shouldn't have to matter, but
57:58
it does matter.
57:59
He did a huge research project and study rather and he releases findings that found that there
58:04
was no evidence of racial discrimination and shootings in the United States.
58:09
None.
58:10
Guys, any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian
58:14
behavior before enduring interactions with police.
58:19
The narrative is just so false.
58:21
And again, if we're talking about things that are happening after the killing of George
58:25
Floyd, that really don't have anything to do with George Floyd, let's talk about the
58:28
rioting and looting.
58:29
Let's move on to that and much, much more on that on next week's episode.
58:33
But right from the top guys, we have to draw a line of demarcation between rioters, looters,
58:37
anarchists, terrorists and peaceful protesters, right?
58:39
That's just intellectually honest to do that.
58:41
But the line has been awfully muddled along the way.
58:45
You know what I mean?
58:46
Guys, there is some truth to those who are lamenting being lumped in with the rioters
58:50
and looters, but these demonstrations are largely taking place in the same areas that
58:55
the rioting and looting take place in the same areas as some of these peaceful protests.
58:59
But when people get on the news and say most of the protests around the country have been
59:02
largely peaceful, it's like, what are you watching?
59:06
Are they largely peaceful because they're not yelling as they're roasting marshmallows
59:10
on the building that they just set on fire?
59:13
I mean, let's be real here and guys, here's the other thing is if you are really one of
59:17
the peaceful protesters, but then you see things are getting out of hand because of rioters
59:23
and anarchists or Black Lives Matter and whatever situation it is, it's your responsibility
59:27
to remove yourself from that area in that situation.
59:31
I mean, no one should feel bad for you if you get hit by a tear gas canister or a rubber
59:36
bullet because you decided to stand next to people that were being crazy and destroying
59:40
things.
59:41
But the reality here is is how does rioting in the streets and looting stores bring justice
59:45
to the death of George Floyd?
59:46
How does it bring any justice for that?
59:50
What exactly does stealing a television or a pair of Jordans or anything do for the Floyd
59:54
family?
59:55
I mean, what does burning down your own damn neighborhood do for racial injustice or whatever
1:00:00
cause you say you're fighting and until all of the, can you hear us now people?
1:00:06
Cause that was a nice trope on Twitter for a while.
1:00:08
Can you hear us now?
1:00:09
You weren't listening before, but now we set the city on fire.
1:00:11
So I bet you hear me.
1:00:12
No, no, I don't hear you.
1:00:15
I can't hear you because I don't listen to people when they're throwing a fit.
1:00:21
I don't listen to children throw fits either.
1:00:25
The thing is, is your level of outrage doesn't equal your rightness.
1:00:29
It simply doesn't into all of the no justice, no peace people.
1:00:33
Derek Chauvin is in prison.
1:00:35
I mean, Richard Brooks attacks two cops.
1:00:38
He tried to tase both of them and died for his trouble.
1:00:41
What injustice are we referring to exactly?
1:00:44
What injustice?
1:00:46
It's almost as if the rioting and looting have nothing to do with what they say it does,
1:00:52
almost like it has to do with something else.
1:00:54
And we're going to get way, way more into that in the next episode.
1:00:58
And then the last thing that we see, we've seen a lot of is that corporate posturing
1:01:02
and virtue signaling, we're seeing a lot of that.
1:01:05
So every company from Amazon and McDonald's, they came out of the woodwork to show how woke
1:01:08
they are, right?
1:01:09
For these companies, you know, you basically post a black square on Instagram on blackout
1:01:13
Tuesday.
1:01:14
And so racism's over now, right?
1:01:16
Is that how it works?
1:01:17
Here's the thing with most of these companies and it's every company on the planet.
1:01:21
Even gushers is coming out with their own thing, right?
1:01:23
They're so desperate to be on the right side of history, as it were, and they'll do anything
1:01:27
to prove it to you.
1:01:28
But guys, don't get it twisted.
1:01:29
We're not going to spend a lot of time on this one because it's so obvious.
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This isn't about heartfelt anguish over the state of racial relations in America.
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It's not.
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It's about money.
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They feel like they can prove their woke bona fides right now and make money off of
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you and all the businesses that they're looking that are doing this right now, they're looking
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to capitalize and increase all of this, this uptick in, in, you know, basically proving
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it how good of people they are, again, it's a virtue signaling, right?
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But guys, as we, we've our way to the end of this episode, I know it's already gone pretty
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long.
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But again, that's why I'm saying we can't just do all this in one fell swoop.
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There's, there's six things I want to go over here at the very, very end because we've talked
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about a lot of things.
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And I promise there's going to be a point here so that you have some takeaways.
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The first, or I guess we should talk about what we're going to talk about.
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So there are six foundational thoughts that might make you angry to hear, but you need
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to hear.
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So for anyone that's, you know, been angry this entire time, they, they probably stopped
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listening a while ago, but there's some more things that we need to talk about in terms
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of setting the foundation, not only for this episode and for our discussion overall, but
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where we're going to be going over the next couple of weeks.
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The first foundational thought is this America is not a racist country.
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It's not, and I kind of have this isn't tongue in cheek.
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This is a real reason why it's because an inanimate object can't be racist by definition.
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Ananimate means not alive, you can't imbue a characteristic of a human onto an object.
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A country is not a person, right?
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It's a group of people.
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So to say that America is a racist country, doesn't even make linguistic sense, much less
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any otherwise.
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The second foundational thought is this is the Declaration of Independence, which basically
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took a few black eyes over the weekend, right?
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You know, yeah, Colin Kaepernick and all these morons saying, Oh, for the July is a racist
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holiday, supporting white supremacy or whatever, the Declaration of Independence was an abolitionist
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document.
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Wait, what are you talking about abolition document?
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Here's the thing.
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There's much to do that has been made about the Declaration of Independence, not applying
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to all Americans in America when it was written.
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And that's obviously correct.
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But it was that same document that became one of the cornerstones for later abolishing
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slavery across the country.
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So to give you a little bit of the background in the 1600s, English philosopher John Locke
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who was influenced by the earlier writings of Thomas Hobbes, they conceptualized the
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rights or a Locke conceptualized the rights for humans, that in that they were natural
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and inalienable, right?
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And beyond that, Locke believed in the natural rights to life, liberty and property.
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Okay.
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That was the Lockean view.
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But when Thomas Jefferson was charged with writing the Declaration of Independence and
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whenever he did so, he changed it to read life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Now you might think to yourself, okay, life, liberty and property, life, liberty, pursuit
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of happiness, you know, whatever, somewhat interchangeable.
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Why the change?
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So get ready for a little bit of history that you're not going to get from your blue checkmark
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people on Twitter.
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But during the time of even the grumblings of the American Revolution, there was already
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a debate going on.
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There was already a debate raging about slavery in the American colonies already at that time.
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Well, I got the receipts for that.
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We can go into that.
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But Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence, the original draft included
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a 168 word passage that condemned slavery as one of many horrific evils that American
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colonies were basically forced to continue because of their connection to British custom
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and British laws, okay?
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The passage was edited out later due to pressure from non abolitionists, right?
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The passage, you know, explicitly decrying slavery was edited out, even though Thomas
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Jefferson wanted it to be in there.
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Now, in those days, some people slaves were obviously property.
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So Jefferson in a very coy way of doing this didn't want to include the word property in
1:05:13
the Declaration of Independence because he knew it was problematic specifically because
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of slavery.
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That's why I change it to the pursuit of happiness instead of property.
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And again, the Declaration of Independence became a foundational writing for the abolitionist
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movement in the United States.
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And here's the thing that's really uncomfortable about talking about that is because Thomas
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Jefferson did all this while owning slaves himself.
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His hypocrisy on this issue is stark and unfortunate like that.
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That is so unbelievably clear, but at the same time, it doesn't change what he did.
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This guy was was not without sin, but he wrote the cornerstone document to get rid of slavery
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in the United States.
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That's just clearly what he did.
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Another foundational thought here, number three, there is no such thing as systemic racism
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in modern day United States.
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Oh my gosh.
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So yeah, did your head just explode because again, there is no such thing as systemic
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racism.
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Okay.
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It's a farce.
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It's a lie.
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It's a myth that's been used to propagate the victim mentality and to control people.
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And guys, the reason people say that they're fighting systemic racism, quote, unquote,
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I'm using air quotes in my studio where you can't see me.
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It's because it's vague because when you say systemic racism, it sounds evil.
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It sounds like a bad guy in a bond movie, but it's not specific.
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And again, I, this was pointed out a long time ago in a debate.
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This was Ben Shapiro again, but he pointed out that often if you can point to a specific
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instance of racism or a specific law that is racist and intent, then people like him
1:06:42
and me and millions of other people will stand by you and fight against that when you can
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point to a specific instance, but to just point to this vague issue of racism and call
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it systemic racism and that it just exists somewhere out there in the ether.
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No one can help you fight that enemy.
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You can't fight an enemy that you can't see or precisely identify.
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I mean, just think about it.
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If General MacArthur is like, ah, we're going to go fight evil.
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You know, you would be okay to raise your hand and be like, sir, is there a particular
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kind of evil?
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Is there a front we're fighting this evil on?
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You can't just say it randomly and people just understand.
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But the thing is, is people have bought this, this narrative hook line and sinker that that
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it's, oh, we're systemically racist.
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So we just assume everything else that you build on top of that argument makes sense.
1:07:29
But again, most of the people that are attacking the system, they're only doing so because they
1:07:33
can't come up with anything specific to fight or they just want to see the entire system
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burned to the ground, which will certainly spend some more time talking about next week.
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But, but this idea that we're systemically racist is just, it's, it's absurd.
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It's not founded.
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In fact, in modern day United States and don't talk to me about redlining.
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Don't talk to me about any of those things.
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Because again, I'm talking about today in 2020.
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And if you pointed me to a modern case of redlining, again, tell me where to be.
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I will stand right there next to you.
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I'm not going to throw a Molotov cocktail or a police car.
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I'm not going to, you know, spray paint, be a limb on the side of the building, but I'll
1:08:05
stand right next to you and fight against that injustice because that's specifically racial
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injustice.
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But to just point to systemic racism, that's just not specific enough.
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The fourth foundational thought here is there are zero countries on the planet, zero countries
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on the planet are that are devoid of racist people.
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Zero.
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Now, there are countries certainly that don't have the history of the African slave trade.
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Yeah, sure.
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But almost every single country in the world and every single tribe, creed and race has
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utilized and or experienced some kind of tribe, creed or race based slavery.
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It's happened.
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Every single one.
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Because here's the thing that that's, that's really uncomfortable for people to think about.
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And, you know, we'll probably get more into this in the reparations discussion.
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But what about the African tribes that enslaved other African tribes and then sold those slaves
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into the American slave trade?
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That was Africans enslaving other Africans.
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That's why people are talking about tribalism a lot more than racism.
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That tribalism is way worse because, you know, the Northern Irish and the Southern Irish,
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they were killing each other.
1:09:14
They looked exactly the same and sounded the exact same.
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Like this is maybe more about tribalism than it is about racism, but maybe that's topic
1:09:21
for another day.
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But guys, there are some modern countries that people claim don't have a problem with
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race.
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You know, we don't have a problem with race here, but you know what most of those countries
1:09:30
seem to have in common, they're incredibly homogenous.
1:09:34
Their people are the same.
1:09:35
They have the same ethnicity, the same lines, the same everything.
1:09:40
But here's the interesting thing is when the doors or more literally the borders of these
1:09:44
homogenous countries are opened.
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It's amazing how these docile folks become very just middle of people that don't look
1:09:51
like them.
1:09:52
I'm specifically thinking about a country like Sweden that after they had the tremendous
1:09:57
amount of Muslims that were being spread out throughout the country, you know, some
1:09:59
of which were ISIS and things that were spreading out, all of a sudden, Swedish people were
1:10:03
having a race problem all of a sudden because it wasn't just a bunch of tall, tan, blonde
1:10:08
haired blue eyed people walking around, right?
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It was just a different type of person walking around there.
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So again, no country is without racist, none.
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The fifth foundational thought here is there's no such thing as reverse racism.
1:10:23
There is just racism.
1:10:24
You know, I hear people even on conservative media, it's like, oh, well, that's reverse
1:10:28
racism.
1:10:29
It's like, there's no such thing to just think about.
1:10:31
There's just racism.
1:10:32
Again, this kind of goes back to, you know, identity politics and critical race theory
1:10:36
and basically saying that, you know, white people can't, you can't be racist towards
1:10:40
a white person because they are the ultimate oppressor.
1:10:43
They are the white devil.
1:10:44
They are the things, but that's just not true.
1:10:47
If you treat someone differently or treat someone poorly, basic base just on their race
1:10:53
alone on the amount of melanin in their skin and the genetics and the things that are imbued
1:10:56
on them that are sacred that they can't change themselves.
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It's racist.
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You can't do that.
1:11:01
And the last thing here, number six, is there are not two Americas.
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I've heard people say this are dudes in my life that have said this.
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Kai, there's two different Americas.
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There's the America that you grew up in and then there's the America that I grew up in
1:11:13
because I'm a person of color and it's just different.
1:11:17
What they're saying there, if you extrapolate that viewpoint out, is that their lived experience
1:11:23
is representative of a different America, but you can't just extrapolate that out to
1:11:30
people groups.
1:11:31
The logic doesn't work.
1:11:33
It can't just be white lived experience and black lived experience and Latino lived experience
1:11:36
and Asian lived experience and polka dot, people lived experience.
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That's not where it goes.
1:11:40
You have to extrapolate that out completely.
1:11:42
There are 330 million people that live in this country.
1:11:45
So if you want to argue that there's not one America, there's two Americas, you actually
1:11:48
have to argue that there's 330 million different Americas because everyone's got their own
1:11:53
lived experience.
1:11:54
It's all very, very different.
1:11:56
Right?
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I mean, that's not crazy for me to say.
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And so again, don't buy into that narrative.
1:12:03
And just again, so since we're just setting the foundation here, the foundational thoughts
1:12:07
are America's not a racist country, the Declaration of Independence was an abolitionist document.
1:12:12
There's no such thing as systemic racism in the modern day United States.
1:12:15
There are zero countries on the planet earth that are devoid of racist people.
1:12:19
There's no such thing as reverse racism.
1:12:21
There's just racism.
1:12:22
And the last one is there are not two Americas.
1:12:25
There's just one America.
1:12:27
So think as guys, I know that we've spent a lot of time on a lot of different subjects,
1:12:31
but this is all very, very important.
1:12:32
Even this podcast has a standalone, even if you don't end up catching the next two, it's
1:12:36
going to be important for you to hear some of these things.
1:12:37
And again, just to reiterate, guys, if I'm wrong about anything that I've said factually,
1:12:41
please let me know.
1:12:42
But if you just disagree with my opinion and you want to flame online, I'm not interested
1:12:45
in that.
1:12:46
But next week, we're going to talk a lot more about what's, what's very likely going on?
1:12:49
What's going on behind the scenes?
1:12:52
Because again, I've already established in this episode that the majority of the things
1:12:55
that you've seen happen over the last eight weeks in your country, in your city, in your
1:12:58
neighborhood, have nothing to do with George Floyd, that to do with something bigger.
1:13:02
And we're going to dig into what exactly that means.
1:13:04
But then we're also going to talk about the racial reconciliation piece.
1:13:08
So as men of God is warriors of Christ as, you know, you know, lions from the tribe of
1:13:12
Judah that that we're aspiring to be, how are we to act?
1:13:16
What are we supposed to do?
1:13:18
And guys, to be frank with you, I got some thoughts on it, but I'm going to be spending
1:13:21
the next week, the next two weeks chewing on that myself.
1:13:23
I don't have, I don't have that ready to go in the bag.
1:13:26
And certainly guys, if you're expecting me to solve all the world's issues, especially
1:13:29
on the issue of race in the next two weeks, it's not going to happen.
1:13:33
But I certainly do have some thoughts, so definitely stick around with us.
1:13:36
Appreciate you sticking around this long guys before we let you go.
1:13:38
We will do a quick resilience boost, as you know, by now we are a men's ministry and
1:13:41
our mission is cultivating manly resilience.
1:13:43
Specifically, we do that by providing content that for just spiritual, mental and physical
1:13:46
toughness.
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So for today, I've got a couple of articles for you, actually one article one book, and
1:13:51
they're both by Heather McDonald.
1:13:52
And the first is the myth of systemic police racism.
1:13:55
This is an article that was posted on the opinion page in the Wall Street Journal here
1:13:58
recently.
1:13:59
You do have to have a subscription to that, but you can probably find that elsewhere online.
1:14:02
I do have a link for you here.
1:14:04
And then also the book that she wrote a few years back called the war on cops, because
1:14:07
it kind of gets into this disintegration and just some of the things that people are trying
1:14:12
to do to get under the system.
1:14:13
And for a lot of it, it has to start with law enforcement.
1:14:16
If you're going to make the rest of the system topple down.
1:14:18
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