On this episode of the Black and White on the Gray, host Cedric Alexander sits down with his good friend Cedric Jackson to discuss the growing racial divide in America and how to address it. Cedric is a long-time friend of the show and has been with it for a number of years. He is also a frequent guest host on the show Black & White On The Gray.
00:02:03.000Why do black why do young black men fight in packs?
00:02:08.000So a couple of years ago when I started black and white on the gray issues, I sensed some growing discontent or more of a racial divide in America than I'd experienced in my lifetime, and it seemed to be egged on by legacy media.
00:02:24.000It it's sad to see a lot of people going along with that.
00:02:27.000The American people have felt safe in their home.
00:02:30.000But people who had absolutely no chance of victory.
00:02:38.000And as that evolved, and for the first time I walked into Stevie J's barber shop, I really was looking to sit down uh and talk with, but mainly listen to real black Americans living the real American black experience to see whether they shared the viewpoint of a lot of the public representatives, the now networkless Joy Reeves of the world.
00:03:02.000Or back then the Don Lemons, what they wanted me to believe.
00:03:05.000I realized CNN and MSNBC was really here.
00:03:08.000And overall it was a largely warm, productive conversation.
00:03:13.000you can go check out that video to see what it was like.
00:03:16.000Fast forward to now, and not only have things not really improved, and according to many Americans, they're markedly worse.
00:03:27.000And if listening is important, I noticed that a lot of white Americans felt pushed to a point that they weren't even fully comfortable expressing.
00:03:38.000But for the most part, when they did, their communication was pretty restrained.
00:03:43.000And then it was dialed up to near boiling point with the recent cold-blooded murder of Irina Zarutska.
00:03:54.000See Brown pull out what officials say was a pocket knife.
00:03:57.000He unfolds it, then stands up behind Zerutzka.
00:04:01.000What we aren't showing you is the moment where Brown then stabs Zaruska several times and walks away.
00:04:07.000And that murder taking place at the hands of a black man who was arrested at least 14 times and released largely in the name of racial justice.
00:04:18.000Spread a reaction from white Americans that frankly is unsurprising.
00:04:23.000And truth be told, for young white Americans, is understandable.
00:04:28.000And it would be doing America No favors to completely ignore the discontent of young white Americans who, if you listen to them, definitely will make the case that they have been vilified and asked to foot the bill for original sin or crimes that they've never committed.
00:04:56.000And if you marginalize that entire segment, that voice of the country, that will lead to quote unquote radicalization.
00:05:06.000And if this country wants to avoid that, or at the very least, as we've done in the past, understand that there needs to be a major course correction in the approach to communication.
00:05:21.000And that's why this time, I didn't visit the barbershop merely to listen, but to communicate a very real set of grievances that could bubble into massive consequences.
00:05:37.000This one goes a little bit of a different direction compared to last time.
00:05:42.000This is Black and White on The Gray Issue.
00:06:33.000The first person that came, the first person that came last time was a uh from he said and he said it out at all, he was like, I'm Indian, but he had on a he had on a MAGA hat.
00:06:45.000And he walked in and was like, hey, uh saw you guys on a crowded.
00:07:39.000Well, it'll be like an air of superiority.
00:07:41.000Like, just like certain things you say in conversation, and you know, and like you said, just in the in the physical nature of these chairs.
00:07:48.000Well, in conversation, you can physically go up and down and put yourself above or beneath.
00:07:55.000Yeah, you know, it's funny that you mentioned that because I actually when I do the change of minds and sit with people, I actually kind of slump my shoulders and deliberately kind of make myself smaller, just to not, it's like you know, what is it, the crab that has the red under its claws that's showing danger?
00:08:08.000So I don't wear red, because apparently that signifies poison.
00:08:11.000But yeah, no, I there's all these body languages experts now.
00:08:14.000You watching TV, and I'd like this seems like horse.
00:08:16.000Like he looks to the left, so you can tell he's lying.
00:08:31.000He wants to say last time we talked, we were kind of just, and the reason was just like, you know, often you see in news, people just kind of siphon themselves off right into an echo chamber.
00:08:40.000And I thought it was good, we were just kind of able to see other perspectives.
00:08:42.000Where do you think the country is now?
00:08:45.000Like, is that open question or yeah, race relations between, because last time I wanted to get your perspective, and there's a perspective now in the white community.
00:08:54.000None of us are an ambassador for the entire community, but things have changed quite a bit the last last year and a half.
00:09:28.000See, in order to have uh you can't have a one-dimensional approach when you're wanting to continue to lead from a global perspective, all right?
00:09:38.000What you see here today is an isolationism approach, which has never worked in the past, is because we don't have an understanding of geography and history, all right?
00:09:50.000And I'll just simply close by saying you you gotta understand something.
00:09:55.000The rest of the world is grossly infuriated with the way America has taken shape, and not only that, we're ceding all our best opportunities to China, right?
00:10:06.000Look around you and the relationships they're fostering with everybody else, which includes Canada, Mexico, and they've even gone as far down into the Latin American corridor, fortifying their bases while we're still hollering that we're the greatest.
00:10:21.000You're talking about China, like in the Panama Canal, not just the Panama Canal.
00:10:25.000Let's let's let's pivot from the Panama Canal and let's look at the long-term strategy they have now, where they've just signed an agreement with Mexico to build another canal bypassing the Panama Canal.
00:10:37.000And when you look at the whole transatlantic corridor where you've got now Brazil and Canada as well as Mexico trade and they stopping in Peru, where China has a huge presence at circumventing completely the nav the navigation, the use that comes with having to use Panama canal.
00:10:57.000So we'll avoid conflict with America and just simply go around America is what's happening here.
00:11:23.000So I'm fine with the US being the best country.
00:11:25.000I came here from Canada because I mean I had friends who were arrested.
00:11:28.000I had a friend, stand-up comic was fined for telling a joke.
00:11:31.000I don't think people realize how good we have it here in this country compared to other countries.
00:11:35.000But that's the painstaking part about it all is the fact that, you know, I'll I've always been one to say, and I believe this firmly, freedom is not a right, it's a privilege until you wake up the next morning and find out you don't have it anymore.
00:13:12.000Yeah, it's a term that's being used by people uh in the white community, by and large, again, saying they feel like they've been victimized and they're tired of taking that shit.
00:13:22.000You know, that was a girl who was dying alone in public, and that was a guy who was let out 14 times.
00:13:28.000Fourteen times, including Violent crimes in the name of racial justice, right?
00:14:16.000What I'm saying is in white communities or in quote unquote so-called white communities.
00:14:22.000Across the country, the rate is a black man or person, because most murders men, there are very few female murders, 12 times more likely to kill a white person the other way around.
00:14:31.000And then you look at the average amount of times that someone in this country is arrested before they're brought in for killing, charged with murder.
00:14:37.000Do you know how many times they're at uh arrested on average before they murder?
00:14:42.000Once again, the justice system's got his its flaws, and people have been complaining about that for years.
00:14:47.000We spend more time trying to fix that than trying to complain about the the white versus black of it all.
00:14:53.000Well, I I think just like I was trying to listen to all communities last time, I think this is something that's unavoidable.
00:14:59.000If this community, if enough white people get pissed off, or they're going, look, we're living in New York now, we're getting killed in record numbers, or Detroit, a 12 times the rate.
00:15:07.000And our system, three strikes in California, right?
00:15:45.000Not the right in suburban neighborhoods, white people are not in danger.
00:15:49.000And that's what that's what this kind of fear mongering tells them is that you're in danger because you're 12 times more likely to get killed by a black person.
00:15:56.000You live in fingers ain't nobody coming after you.
00:17:00.000It's not, no, and look, we always have to say, not all, not all, not all, like not all white people wear mug hats and are dumbass pieces of racist sh.
00:17:07.000But we have all been accused of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia.
00:17:11.000What I'm saying is black fatigue is white people going, you know what?
00:17:16.000And I know that we're dealing with record crime, and I know that I'm more at risk, and they have negative interactions, and they're constantly told that they're not allowed to voice their fing opinion because they're white.
00:17:25.000And if those people get pissed off, like that's where we actually could end up with some kind of I'm telling you, I see this brewing.
00:17:30.000I see people who were milk toast white suburb who are becoming actually racist.
00:17:36.000Now, not all of them, but I've seen people actually become racist because they get mugged, their store gets looted, and nothing gets done.
00:17:42.000They're going, and if I say something, it's turned into a racing.
00:17:46.000I'm telling you what that's where it's coming from.
00:17:47.000At what point do we have a talk and go like, okay, let's reform justice, but we have to be honest as to why it was reformed in the first place.
00:18:20.000So if if by if switch it over, if black people say, Well, we getting fed up and we tired of all these school shootings and all of these road raids and all that.
00:18:47.000That's the reason for catching release.
00:18:49.000The reason for it, in the wake of Black Lives Matter, George Floyd rights, summer of lovers, we're gonna reform crime, we're gonna reform the justice system, and it's gotten worse everywhere it's been, and then when white people leave those neighborhoods, well, now it's white flight.
00:19:03.000And I'm telling you, there are a lot of people who are pissed off, and they're not gonna sit down and have this conversation and be real about it, and they're going, well, what happens when someone has to keep their mouth shut about everything?
00:19:43.000If you're not, then I've been misled and I've been uh isolated from from realistic numbers.
00:19:50.000But I know in this country, from the time that we got here and until now, there's never been hordes of black people that just go out and maraud and menace white people.
00:19:59.000Now interactions happen and things do occur.
00:20:02.000I'm not saying that they don't, but not by enlarging numbers.
00:20:05.000We can't be this small a percentage of the overall population and still have the numbers that people try to perpetuate on to us.
00:20:12.000See, black people do more harm to other black people than we do to other white people.
00:20:38.000You know, when the the I've like I said, black fatigue, that's the newest, that's the newest mantra that's been put out into society to make people think that, okay, they tired of black people, they're tired of what you said that we can't say anything about black people, we can't do.
00:20:53.000Well, when you hold all the power, when you hold all the economic uh rights, when you hold all the uh things that make this country move, when you're in charge of those things, you know what I'm saying?
00:21:04.000Well, you know what I'll put it like this.
00:21:07.000Black people, white people got the firecrackers, we got the stem.
00:21:47.000And that's what we consider, that's white fatigue, but you know what we do?
00:21:51.000We just say that's just how it's always been.
00:21:54.000So we don't make up words for it or terms for it.
00:21:57.000So now you have a frustrated group of white constituents that feel like, oh, we can't say anything, we have to do this, we have to do that, so you don't be deemed as that.
00:22:05.000Well, if you weren't that in the beginning to start with, there will be no need for the for the re for the reform or the uh the the feelings that you have.
00:22:14.000You can't say anything about because you done treated us like for so long, and people finally stood up and said, hey, you gotta stop treating us like now that you won't feel like you know things aren't going in the manner that you want them, now we want the right to start to keep saying those things.
00:22:28.000What if your premise is completely flawed?
00:22:30.000And what I mean by that is if we're trying to understand it, you said you have power in all those institutions.
00:22:35.000What if, for example, you have an entire generation of people, young white men, women, who, if they apply to a college or apply to a job, they don't have a grant, there's no Pell Grant, there's no type of subsidy, there's no DEI initiative.
00:22:46.000As a matter of fact, they're likely to be passed over.
00:22:50.000And when you say black people haven't done anything, when you think of this white person, a young white person, because I'm seeing some people become radicalized and it can become a problem.
00:22:58.000And then they see billions of dollars and riots and damages all summer long, and then they go, why is this happening?
00:23:05.000So they're gonna make that connection.
00:23:06.000Now they have no institutional power, but if they go into a neighborhood that's largely black, they're gonna get the shit kicked out of them.
00:23:13.000And they're being blamed for something that supposedly their racist forefather did that they have nothing to do with.
00:23:21.000Unity, if let's say your dad's a d or your grandfather's a d and you walk up and you slap his teenager, you now have made that person hate you for life.
00:23:29.000And that's what I'm seeing with young, not even my generation.
00:23:31.000Younger people are going, I had nothing to do with this sh.
00:23:34.000They came up during the riots, they've come up under DEI, and they're seeing a 12-time murder rate skyrocketing crime, and any proposals they make, not holding institutional power, shut down his racist.
00:23:45.000Now, why was D why why was DEI even instituted in the first place?
00:23:49.000Because for the the majority of time that black people have been in this country and being free, we've been denied so much.
00:23:57.000Somebody somewhere had to put some things in place to provide access of some kind of.
00:24:02.000If you believe that, that's fine, but you can't tell that young white kid who had nothing to do with it that it that he should just sit down and take it.
00:24:07.000Especially when they're gonna kill the 12 times a lot of people.
00:24:10.000That's what the that's what America's been telling us for the longest.
00:24:12.000The young white man has to do with a lot that has to be.
00:24:15.000Not in my life, DEI, the young, the young person of this generation that you said that that feels they're misled by the D uh being mistreated by the DEI.
00:25:24.000Now, fast forward till now, those same things that are put in place for those people back in those generations that are still in place, they're not excluding people from uh getting to places that's what they're they're still trying to keep those doors open so that those black people that were coming through that door can still get in.
00:25:42.000Because if you remove those over time, we will be denied the access of the.
00:25:47.000If a black person has lower SATs, right, and lower GPA, should he get in over an Asian or a white person?
00:25:53.000If if if the if the if the if all if if all if all things are supposed to be laid out equal, no, you shouldn't get if you don't have it, that's what happens.
00:26:03.000That's not that it is happening, and I'm telling you, but desert pets, I'm telling you, the majority of what's happening.
00:26:08.000That's it is happening in a small part.
00:26:14.000I'm a look, I'm a form of commercial contractor, all right?
00:26:17.000DEI and affirmative action have benefited white people vastly more so than black people.
00:26:22.000All you gotta do is look at the all you gotta do is look at the business ownership or what have you, and you notice that as long as that white female happens to be 51%, then she qualifies as a minority and a double minority because she's white, she's among the minority and business ownership and she happens to be a female, right?
00:26:39.000So you look at that based on population dynamics, and that automatically tells you this whole thing about affirmative the whole this whole thing about DEI was number one, not as much targeted to towards blacks as much as it was targeted towards minorities, which includes that LGBTGPT.
00:26:55.000So when we talk about that, we need to really deal with the real problem.
00:26:59.000And as it relates to the right, as it relates to the rights, Let me tell you something right now.
00:27:03.000Listen, in the black community, I'll be the first thing.
00:27:06.000Now we do have intractable problems that are not going to be solved in one conversation.
00:27:10.000But what I'm going to say about that as well as the reason why the black community becomes so infuriated, all right, is when you see gross negligence of justice happen or misjustice happening and nobody does anything.
00:27:22.000When this guy's when this guy kneeled on this man's neck to George Flaw.
00:27:27.000Look, if he if he had done something, when he was subdued and on the ground, what was the real reason for kneeling on his neck except to inflict fatal harm?
00:27:50.000Because he was there for 12, 15 minutes, asked to be put in the car, they put him in the car, asked for air conditioning, gave him air conditioning, asked to be taken out of the car, they took him out of the car.
00:28:38.000How many felonies does President Trump have on his record?
00:28:40.000Yeah, he was still allowed to occupy them, no criminal felonies.
00:28:44.000He has no criminal felonies, but he's got moral felonies, which would, if there was a court of justice for that, he probably would be tried a long time ago.
00:29:00.000And when you look at the convergence of this new uh this new agenda where you're going strictly in the blue cities, why is it that most of those blue cities also happen to be occupied?
00:29:08.000The areas they're going in are heavily occupied by minorities.
00:29:17.000You can look at Chicago, is that what you mean?
00:29:18.000I mean, no, that's not what I'm asking you at all.
00:29:20.000What I'm asking you is, like I say, with this all-out assault right now.
00:29:23.000Just last night they were talking about something in Chicago, right?
00:29:26.000But at one o'clock in the morning, you have people in military gear or have you helicopters and all this kind of stuff like this, not just knocking doors down, but dragging people out by the biggest.
00:29:36.000Because it's the murder capital of the country.
00:29:38.000You just said black people are more harmed by this.
00:29:42.000I think you I think really when Trulie was you're confusing what I'm trying to say to you.
00:29:47.000No, no, what I'm trying to say to you is this though.
00:29:49.000If we're gonna talk about the problem, let's talk about the problem in his totality.
00:29:52.000The fact about it is when you talk about white America being pissed, white America is gonna always find a reason that doesn't fit their narrative or what have you.
00:30:00.000But why what white America fails to talk about, and what never ceases to amaze me is the fact that the biggest threat is not gonna come from blacks, the biggest threat is coming from within.
00:30:08.000You look at the average person that's been committing some of the most heinous crimes over the days, is 22 to 29-year-old white males, right?
00:30:18.000You just said, like you said, a small percentage of the country, about thirty twelve to thirteen percent, 50 percent of the violent crime, but the murder, a 12 times likelihood.
00:30:35.000We look at we look at Roland Fly uh Fryer from Harvard, who conducted it, black guy, black professor, really respectable guy, honorable man, conducted a study, and he came out and he said, Yeah, all of my research says that black men are zero percent more likely to be shot by police officers than whites.
00:30:49.000Black people got so mad at him, he reconducted the study, a black man from Harvard, and he came to the same conclusion, and now he's not black enough.
00:30:57.000Wait, wait, so let me see if I understand you clearly.
00:31:00.000You're saying, according to this guy's statistics, right, that black people are zero percent less likely to be shot by a white police officer, a liberal professor at Harvard, yes, and he conducted it twice.
00:31:15.000Because black people said what you're saying.
00:31:16.000He goes, Look, I was as surprised as you.
00:31:18.000I was trying to find how much worse it is.
00:31:58.000How many shootings have happened in most recent history that have been that have involved black men that have been unarmed and you sit here and use that analogy that black men's analogy times?
00:32:09.000Listen, as a totally blind individual, listen, I'm even apprehensive.
00:32:14.000That was an incident where the police stopped us, and it was my cousin and I, my cousin is a retired military veteran, what have you, right?
00:32:20.000And immediately when we got out of the car, out of fear of possibly being shot, the first thing I did was raise my cane and say, Officer, I said, listen, I am totally blind before we get out of hand with this, right?
00:32:35.000Now, I shouldn't have to have had to react like that.
00:32:38.000But when you start looking at the what's really happening in this country, many times these deal.
00:32:44.000I don't care if you put on a uniform, you can't legislate the heart of a man in his intent, all right?
00:32:48.000And many times these officers do allow that badge to give them impunity to operate and exercise their racism.
00:33:51.000Well, I tell you, actually, the stats show that when you're dealing with armed white people versus black uh armed people, white armed people are more likely to be shot by the cops in black.
00:34:00.000White armed people are more armed to kill police officers.
00:34:43.000What about the body cam footage where we see white people and white police and the white person the white citizen is being belligerent with the police, but the police showing extreme restraint in dealing with that person.
00:34:55.000Whereas black people will reach for your wallet, bow, you get shot.
00:35:05.000But white people are being killed in record numbers right now, and they're pissed.
00:35:08.000And if you keep just not listening to them, look, like you said, white people in the majority of this country, you have young white people who are getting more and more f mad.
00:35:30.000I've been accused of being a racist, even though I'm not.
00:35:32.000And I'm looking at this right now, and I'm not allowed to have an opinion, and I can't go into certain neighborhoods because I get my ass kicked, and then you just say, Yeah, yeah, but you've had systemic power.
00:35:40.000That is a surefire way to bring racism.
00:35:44.000Now, first of all, here's why I just disagree with you emphatically, right?
00:35:48.000Number one, when it is historically proven when there are riots, and this is the crazy part, most times we as blacks we tend to riot in our own neighborhood for the same reason why we're not 12 times likely to kill a white person, because of the that fact that the penalty is going to be much harsher, okay?
00:36:05.000If black people really were going to, if black people were really the kind of threat and minister white people as we're gonna sit here and say that they are, never mind the stats.
00:36:14.000There's no way in the world that most of us will still be here.
00:37:20.000And the reason he was out 14 times was because a black female judge in the name of restorative justice who has received funding from NGOs said we're gonna have cashless bail and catch and release and the IOU policy in the name of racial justice.
00:37:34.000So people are going, my daughter's dead because it would have been racist to keep this guy in jail.
00:37:48.000Her flawed judgment does not represent the opinion of black people, number one.
00:37:52.000Okay, it represents a systemic correction.
00:37:56.000And you know what the problem really is?
00:37:58.000When you defund when you defund our opportunities to provide adequate psychiatric and uh uh institutionalization for those kind of people, that wouldn't have happened.
00:38:06.000Because let me tell you something, as a if even as a black person as a judge, if you come before me 11 times with all of the information that you provided me with, you know what?
00:38:16.000I'm gonna have you committed to an institution because number one, the greater good is for me to preserve public integrity, and that's on both sides of the spectrum.
00:38:24.000I don't give a damn if you're black or white.
00:38:25.000Why do you think they're not committing him to an institution?
00:39:02.000White people are afraid to go in black neighborhoods because black people be afraid to go to school because a white person go come shoot the school.
00:41:09.000What you kind of just did here is you blamed white people without realizing it for systemic discrimination, and that removes autonomy from a white person to be accountable and also rewarded for their good decisions.
00:41:22.000So if we agree it's bad bad decisions, personal accountability, we'd all be against reparations, and we'd all be against the criminal justice reform.
00:42:42.000I'm gonna respect your opinion, your frame of thought on that, right?
00:42:45.000I beg to differ tremendously, but nevertheless, though, that does that's why we're having this open discussion.
00:42:50.000But let's really talk about where we need to go from here on, and that is the fact that black black people have every sense of entitlement as it relates to having reparations.
00:43:12.000They make options and opportunities available when other uh ethnicities come here or what have you, that we will never get a chance to have, right?
00:43:19.000And then they turn around and tell us, stop asking about reparations.
00:43:24.000Whenever we want to ask for equality and fairness, it's a problem.
00:43:50.000The reason that this was given, right, when you're talking about the Great Society program, the reason when you look at the Model Cities program, herbal urban planning, eight billion dollars into Detroit, adjusted for inflation.
00:43:58.000The reason that, and I don't know if you know this, uh, black students in this country get more spending per people than white students.
00:44:03.000I don't know if you know that, that's an actual fact, even in impoverished neighborhoods through public funding.
00:44:06.000These were the reparations that were asked of white people throughout each decade, given, and then we're told, no, no, that's not the real one.
00:44:12.000They were given, whether you'd like them or not, whether you think they work or not.
00:44:15.000And by the way, I think they're dog sh.
00:44:17.000I think we should completely suspend the Federal Department of Education.
00:44:20.000I think the Texas state could do a much better job, but those were done in the name of racial reparations because they were demanded.
00:45:43.000The cut the controlling party that's in power or what have you are not gonna say, hey, wait a minute, let's look at this other disenfranchised segment of the community or what have you, and see how can we propose the colour.
00:46:45.000Let's look at the academia though, okay?
00:46:46.000That's why you start when you start talking about that, you know, what have you, when you talk about test scores, we can go just south, north versus south, or what have you.
00:46:53.000Let's look at the quality of education that's in these schools or what have you.
00:46:56.000Are you gonna tell me that it's a standardized uh academic agenda that's promoted throughout this country?
00:47:00.000Or is it a fact that some people have a different education level than black?
00:47:04.000Listen, I work with people who are in the world.
00:47:49.000Well, see, that comes because they wouldn't be able to transport themselves out of a bad neighborhood.
00:47:53.000So right now they're stuck with one school.
00:47:55.000So so when you break, when you start asking those whys and go down the rabbit hole of why and start asking, okay, well, why would somebody say that?
00:48:08.000In other words, if a black kid right now is in certain communities where they don't have certain resources, it's a lot of kids that I once again.
00:48:14.000I live in I've lived in I've raised my kids, graduated three kids from I've I've been afforded some things in this community that some people down south don't have.
00:48:28.000And and I'm some of these school events, I'm I'm questioning them like, well, how the hell y'all expect us to have jobs and still transport these kids to and from these events all throughout the day.
00:48:38.000But if them people down there had to do it.
00:48:40.000So you think what we're doing now is better.
00:49:20.000This has been an insidious process that's been at work.
00:49:22.000And the bad part about it is as long as we as white and black America keep fighting among each other, we'll never see the big picture.
00:49:28.000You go back to 1982 under Charlotte T. If the department of secretary under Ronald Reagan, Department of Education, she wrote a good expose many, many years later called the deliberate dumbing down of America.
00:49:39.000She kind of patted that after that BF skinarian behavioral modification.
00:49:43.000And it ties all into the founder before the Department of Education, which was general education board, where they say, you know what?
00:49:49.000We don't need more painter, we don't need more artists, or we don't need more poets.
00:49:54.000We just want good cops in a will that are easily taught that we can mold under our own hand.
00:50:01.000So you gotta look at the you gotta look at where we come from.
00:50:04.000We come from a nation that was industrious and coupled with innovation to now, everybody tends to do things like you say with your smartphone.
00:50:31.000Here's another problem why scores are so much more in this country, especially when you talk about black people because money doesn't fix a problem.
00:50:38.000We've thrown money at the problem and it doesn't do solve the problem that's a core root of it and start reforming the real academia, all right?
00:50:47.000That's where you solve the so you know what you tell people, we're gonna operate in a system of meritocracy.
00:50:52.000God damn it, you will eat what you kill.
00:50:54.000If you've given you 50,000 to go to school and you decide that you don't want to, or you fail to adhere to what's being presented before you, then shame on you.
00:51:10.000If you're gonna do it from the world, if you're gonna do away with DEI, you gotta make sure that the merits are properly being counted.
00:51:15.000Because the reason why DEI was invented, reason why affirmative action was invented, is because you'd have two qualified candidates, same qualifications, but one would get in strictly because his name was Johnny and the other one's name was was Jamal.
00:51:46.000That's a snapshot you can present it in, but I'm just saying, like the reason why.
00:51:51.000I'm being I'm being flippant, but the truth is people were being black people were being admitted in record numbers if they had the same qualifications before DEI and affirmative action.
00:51:59.000White shrieking feminist wanted to take credit for something that was already happening because people had become less racist, so they can say, tag my white name on there, DEI.
00:53:21.000His daddy put whatever was into him, he either dad either put that into him or his rebellion from his father caused him to think like that.
00:54:14.000And that kid goes, well, what do I do?
00:54:16.000By the way, you're on the hook for reparations, even though his father, his grandfather, his great-great-grandfather didn't own a slave and he's still 12 times more likely to be killed by a black person the other way around.
00:54:25.000What I'm saying is society is going to create a generation of racists.
00:54:29.000What do you say to that young white kid?
00:54:34.000Stop paying attention to what these what these talking heads are saying because they're leading you down the wrong path.
00:54:39.000They're leading you down a path of paranoia and conspiracy theories.
00:54:42.000What if their interactions with black people in general are quite negative?
00:54:50.000Well, we're in it now, and we're going to continue next Thursday, October 16th, on the next installment of Black and White on the Gray Issues.
00:54:58.000Do you realize that you could take all the white people in this country?
00:55:00.000And if you're gonna add up to everyone where you could actually trace the lineage to slave owners or had any involvement, you would end up with maybe two or three percent.