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Black Power Corrupts, ABSOLUTELY — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Hello and welcome to ZPR Zanu Project
  2. 0:04Rethink. I'm Frank Zanu in the studio
  3. 0:08today to talk about uh what is current
  4. 0:11news in the United States, a very very
  5. 0:13sad one for that matter. Now usually I
  6. 0:16try not to uh talk about things that um
  7. 0:20doesn't I don't have the full
  8. 0:22information or even knowledge but I have
  9. 0:25just received too many requests that I
  10. 0:29should uh speak about the killing of
  11. 0:33Javis Fon the young Ghanian 15year-old
  12. 0:36Ghanaian student killed in the Bronx
  13. 0:40just last week every day I open my
  14. 0:43comment section all the letters my
  15. 0:45email. Um,
  16. 0:48that's the request.
  17. 0:50We we are not they they include they're
  18. 0:53not asking me uh to jump on the
  19. 0:55bandwagon and point fingers and all that
  20. 0:58but to let people understand what could
  21. 1:02make this possible
  22. 1:06that a for 15 year old 16 or 17 even 18
  23. 1:12should never pull a gun and kill a human
  24. 1:14being. No it shouldn't happen in Hindi
  25. 1:17society.
  26. 1:19So the story so far for those of you who
  27. 1:22have heard it, the father of Javis
  28. 1:26is from Ghana
  29. 1:29and lives in the Bronx
  30. 1:31and finally was able to secure visa for
  31. 1:36his son who he left behind in Ghana to
  32. 1:39come here and go to school.
  33. 1:42and his son Jabis Frimpon arrived here a
  34. 1:46year ago.
  35. 1:48According to his father,
  36. 1:50Jabis wouldn't even step out of the
  37. 1:52living room when he comes home from
  38. 1:54school. He's just on his phone playing
  39. 1:56games. Wouldn't even go down the hallway
  40. 1:59at all.
  41. 2:01Now, for some reason, some say all this
  42. 2:05time he has been bullied in school so
  43. 2:07much.
  44. 2:10On that fateful day at 9:30 a.m.,
  45. 2:12according to the news, he was going to
  46. 2:14school and he got chased. CCTV cameras
  47. 2:19show him running really hard for his
  48. 2:22life.
  49. 2:25During that time, they shot him and
  50. 2:27killed him.
  51. 2:30Now, I've been following the news,
  52. 2:33looking at the footages and people
  53. 2:35talking and everybody is talking about
  54. 2:37bullying and that uh Africanamean kids
  55. 2:42do not like Africans and it is nothing
  56. 2:45like that. And I think if that is the
  57. 2:47way we are going to go, we're not going
  58. 2:48to find a solution to this problem or
  59. 2:50even understand it deeply.
  60. 2:53I don't believe for a second that
  61. 2:57any kid 14 or 15 would hate another hate
  62. 3:01another that much. No, it's not true at
  63. 3:03all that these kids just for some reason
  64. 3:06hate Javis Fong. I don't believe that or
  65. 3:09even dislike him. I don't believe that.
  66. 3:12It's deeper than that.
  67. 3:14And we have to look at the root cause of
  68. 3:16these problems.
  69. 3:18Why? Please think for a moment with
  70. 3:23young people of that age.
  71. 3:26Seek somebody who look just like them.
  72. 3:31And by that I mean race, skin color,
  73. 3:34look just like them and develop what?
  74. 3:38Hate or dislike
  75. 3:40to the point of taking his life?
  76. 3:44No.
  77. 3:46Young now bully. Yes.
  78. 3:51demeaning someone with bad words and
  79. 3:54behaviors to make them feel bad. Yes, it
  80. 3:58is happening in large numbers in this
  81. 4:01country especially against
  82. 4:05children
  83. 4:06who comes from Africa
  84. 4:11and the question is why
  85. 4:14and that is what I want to explore.
  86. 4:17Please go to the comment section and
  87. 4:18correct me if I'm wrong. But you see,
  88. 4:21it started long time ago. Somewhere in
  89. 4:231966,
  90. 4:25June 16, 1966
  91. 4:29was where it started.
  92. 4:32We I say it in most of my videos that we
  93. 4:35should be careful. The things we say in
  94. 4:38our living rooms
  95. 4:40within earshot of the young ones,
  96. 4:44it never motivates them.
  97. 4:47It steals their self-esteem.
  98. 4:52But we are not. We say it on podcast. We
  99. 4:55say it in movies, in songs.
  100. 4:59We do that
  101. 5:01in this country. We keep telling these
  102. 5:04young African-Americans or young black
  103. 5:08kids, they have no power.
  104. 5:11June 16 at a civil right
  105. 5:15rally in Mississippi. It was Stokeley
  106. 5:18Carmichael who raised his feast and said
  107. 5:21full quote, "We have been saying we want
  108. 5:24freedom for the last 6 years and they
  109. 5:26gave us nothing. So now let's say we
  110. 5:30want black power. Give us black power.
  111. 5:34Give us black power." What does that
  112. 5:37mean? What does it mean? And it became a
  113. 5:40very popular saying which is any child
  114. 5:42who can grow up and understand read and
  115. 5:44write.
  116. 5:46Oh, and they made a feast t-shirts and
  117. 5:48all in the 60s7s 80s stock car Michaels
  118. 5:52black power was there. But when you're
  119. 5:55screaming that you don't have something,
  120. 5:57you're telling the people you're talking
  121. 5:59to or the people you represent that you
  122. 6:02don't have power. And that is why I'm
  123. 6:04asking for power. But what Carichel
  124. 6:07didn't do is explain
  125. 6:10what does that power look like if they
  126. 6:12give it to you. What is it? What does
  127. 6:13the power do?
  128. 6:15He never did. James Baldwin said the
  129. 6:18same thing. And very recently, you may
  130. 6:21know him, Emmanuel Archer, who be who
  131. 6:24became the ESPN commentator football
  132. 6:27player said no, he was not happy with
  133. 6:31just individual black success and
  134. 6:34wealth. No, he wants a collective black
  135. 6:37people to have power. Again, another
  136. 6:39statement and a stamp telling young
  137. 6:40ones, you don't have power.
  138. 6:46And this has seeped
  139. 6:48into the mind of young black kids in
  140. 6:51this country that they don't have power.
  141. 6:55They have to look up all the time. See,
  142. 6:58here is the thing.
  143. 7:00Society is a strata.
  144. 7:04Whether you like it or not, it's just
  145. 7:05natural.
  146. 7:07Industries play certain group of people
  147. 7:13at the top. At the top doesn't mean they
  148. 7:16are better than you. No, not at all. At
  149. 7:18the top simply means you recognize them
  150. 7:21every day because what they do
  151. 7:25is what you need every day. They are
  152. 7:28responsible for the things you need. you
  153. 7:30buy, you use. So you associate it with
  154. 7:33them. If it's important to you, you
  155. 7:35think the people are important.
  156. 7:38We call those at the top.
  157. 7:41In just simply socioeconomic, we call
  158. 7:44them the rich ones and then the middle
  159. 7:46class and the lower class. In culture,
  160. 7:49it is also place a certain group of
  161. 7:51people that you see always because of
  162. 7:55who they are and what they do.
  163. 7:59Even language has a hierarchy.
  164. 8:04But does it mean that those people are
  165. 8:06better than you
  166. 8:08and the power? We assigned it to them
  167. 8:10that if they are so important and we
  168. 8:12think about them and we see them all the
  169. 8:13time, we concluded therefore they must
  170. 8:16have power
  171. 8:18because we said
  172. 8:21the higher earnest,
  173. 8:24the upper class we say. So with the word
  174. 8:27upper class, you don't even just think
  175. 8:30strictly that it's soioeconomic.
  176. 8:33Start we talking about you think the
  177. 8:36upper means they are above you. So you
  178. 8:38say therefore they have power over me.
  179. 8:41Therefore I need to tell my young ones
  180. 8:42we don't have power.
  181. 8:45So James Baldwin Stock Carichel in 1966
  182. 8:50Emmanuel Archo just recently
  183. 8:53everyone is talking about how we don't
  184. 8:56have power. And that means I'm talking
  185. 8:58strictly about African-Americans.
  186. 9:02Those of us we come from the continent
  187. 9:04from the Caribbean. I don't think that I
  188. 9:06have ever thought that I don't have
  189. 9:09power. In fact, if I do think I have, I
  190. 9:12have to describe the nature of that
  191. 9:13power.
  192. 9:16So here is it. Because we have repeated
  193. 9:18this thing so much, so many times,
  194. 9:21written about it, made movies about it,
  195. 9:23songs about it, lamented about it,
  196. 9:25complained about it. We don't have power
  197. 9:29that we need collective power. But what
  198. 9:32they don't do is this. They don't go on
  199. 9:34to tell the kids what they would use
  200. 9:38their power to do even if they get it.
  201. 9:41They don't tell them. Two, they don't
  202. 9:43even describe the nature of the power so
  203. 9:46that the kids can know when and if they
  204. 9:49have it. They don't describe it. So what
  205. 9:52is this the power we keep saying to our
  206. 9:54young ones we don't have. What is it?
  207. 9:58So we begin to assign and ascribe these
  208. 10:01power to certain groups.
  209. 10:04If they have this and they do this then
  210. 10:06they must have power over me.
  211. 10:09Not just they have power over
  212. 10:11themselves. No over me.
  213. 10:13They are these Anglo-Saxon
  214. 10:16white supremacist. They have that power.
  215. 10:20And you don't describe for your
  216. 10:22children.
  217. 10:24Number one, how do they have that power?
  218. 10:27When did they have that power? And what
  219. 10:30has that got to do with you? What is the
  220. 10:33nature of the power? You need to
  221. 10:34describe it so the kids know when they
  222. 10:36have it, how it will look like. So take
  223. 10:39a moment, please. You can pause this
  224. 10:41video and ask yourself.
  225. 10:43What would it look like if black people
  226. 10:46in this country has what is called quote
  227. 10:48collective power? What is it? What would
  228. 10:51happen? What would change? Please
  229. 10:52describe it to me. If the individuals
  230. 10:55have not gained it, then how would it
  231. 10:58look like with the collective? But
  232. 11:00beside the point, we have repeated this
  233. 11:02thing so much that we forgotten the
  234. 11:04danger and the damage it has done to the
  235. 11:06psych of the African-American kid in
  236. 11:08this country.
  237. 11:12I'm coming soon to tell you what we were
  238. 11:14told back in Africa by our parents.
  239. 11:18So you think that is something you need
  240. 11:20from that person because they say to you
  241. 11:22if the person has that power then he has
  242. 11:25influence over you but they don't tell
  243. 11:27you also what type of influence. You see
  244. 11:30influence is useless. Influ influence is
  245. 11:33like any commodity. Commodities are only
  246. 11:36useful when you have the demand for it.
  247. 11:39Demand
  248. 11:41ignites or activates supply.
  249. 11:45So your influence, your influence is
  250. 11:47useless to me cuz I don't think I wake
  251. 11:49up and ever think that somebody's
  252. 11:51influence has anything to do with me. If
  253. 11:54you have it, fine. I wouldn't even know
  254. 11:55what it looks like, let alone that I
  255. 11:58would need it. Because you see, I was
  256. 12:01influenced at only one time in my life.
  257. 12:05Long ago when I was born, my father, my
  258. 12:08mother, my grandfather, the very close
  259. 12:10people I grew up with influenced the way
  260. 12:14I need to think about the proper conduct
  261. 12:17of living. That is all they gave me. And
  262. 12:20with that with that
  263. 12:24Sussex,
  264. 12:26wealth,
  265. 12:29all these things we chase
  266. 12:31are meaningless to me.
  267. 12:35Because those people, my home laid the
  268. 12:40foundation for me to understand the
  269. 12:42fundamental import of the proper conduct
  270. 12:45of life. That if you have it and you
  271. 12:47know it
  272. 12:49and your parents influence that over
  273. 12:51you, you will be content with anything
  274. 12:55in your life. and therefore positions
  275. 12:58and all these things would not be
  276. 13:00necessary something that would bother
  277. 13:02you on an everyday basis. So yes, you
  278. 13:05have the influence the demand is not
  279. 13:07going to come from Zanu
  280. 13:10because demand activates
  281. 13:13supply. So if they're telling you that
  282. 13:16these people, this Anglo-Saxon white
  283. 13:18supremacist has influence over you, then
  284. 13:20you must immediately agree you maybe has
  285. 13:26a need for what they are influencing you
  286. 13:28with.
  287. 13:31So you've
  288. 13:34accidentally placed these other people
  289. 13:36who doesn't look like us on the high top
  290. 13:39by calling them white superior.
  291. 13:43But you didn't say that. You are saying
  292. 13:45it. You said that they think they are.
  293. 13:49What you're saying is you're not looking
  294. 13:51at their wealth. Because nobody ever
  295. 13:54says that white supremacy is somebody
  296. 13:56who is rich. So you're not looking at
  297. 13:57their wealth. No, you're not even
  298. 14:00looking at their zip code or their town.
  299. 14:01You don't even know where they live.
  300. 14:04But you know what they do, how they
  301. 14:06live, how they conduct themselves. You
  302. 14:09know that. You've seen it. their towns,
  303. 14:11their cities, their neighborhoods, their
  304. 14:14schools, you've seen it. Their children,
  305. 14:16you've seen it.
  306. 14:18You know deep down you that is the
  307. 14:21proper conduct of life, but you can't
  308. 14:24and you don't want to admit it. So you
  309. 14:26claim, let me smear them with a power
  310. 14:29thing because they think they are
  311. 14:31superior. You're describing that their
  312. 14:33actions, the way they live, the way they
  313. 14:35are, it's superior. When you say that
  314. 14:38and you repeat it, you are only
  315. 14:40informing your young ones that therefore
  316. 14:43you are nothing.
  317. 14:44So then they begin to look up this
  318. 14:46strata at the top is not them because
  319. 14:49you told them that these people are at
  320. 14:51the top. That position is taken. Next
  321. 14:54they're not there. If they were there
  322. 14:56they would know. You would describe it
  323. 14:57for your young ones and say listen this
  324. 14:59is the position we occupy in this
  325. 15:02country called the United States of
  326. 15:03America. You will describe it. Do you
  327. 15:07know any black opinion leader Ash
  328. 15:08Sharpie, Jesse Jackson, all of them who
  329. 15:10has ever so eloquently describe for the
  330. 15:14young ones what position they occupy
  331. 15:18that by describing that position, it
  332. 15:20motivates these young ones to want to
  333. 15:23work upon it and keep it, maintain it or
  334. 15:25maybe even move up. No, never. The
  335. 15:28position they describe for the young
  336. 15:29ones of this country is one no one can
  337. 15:32do anything about. day the kids and
  338. 15:34their parents can't do anything about
  339. 15:35it. They're telling them that's where
  340. 15:38you belong and that's why I have the
  341. 15:40action network to free you from that
  342. 15:42place
  343. 15:47and that is where the damage began to
  344. 15:50inform your kids that don't have power
  345. 15:51and then begin to put people at the top
  346. 15:54of you by pointing it and saying they
  347. 15:55are white supremacist.
  348. 15:58And then the next one is who? Oh, some
  349. 16:01of USA. The Jews control everything.
  350. 16:04They have the power. They own this
  351. 16:06country. You've given them a position.
  352. 16:07You think they don't like it. And then
  353. 16:10the third and the fourth. So you see,
  354. 16:13everyone who looks down sees somebody
  355. 16:16under him or her. Anyone who looks up
  356. 16:19sees somebody above him or her. And then
  357. 16:22you tend to look down to see who is
  358. 16:24under you because they've told you that
  359. 16:26you occupy
  360. 16:28the bottom of the totem pole. That
  361. 16:31that's where you belong, not my words.
  362. 16:34These words have been used by majority
  363. 16:37of black activists in this country. We
  364. 16:40are at the bottom of the totem pole. You
  365. 16:42said it and you've told your kids. So
  366. 16:44when your kids look down, they don't
  367. 16:46find anybody.
  368. 16:50But you see in intelligent cultures
  369. 16:53those who are well raised and given the
  370. 16:56proper conduct of life they don't look
  371. 16:57down
  372. 16:59to see there's somebody beneath me
  373. 17:01because it is not useful in any way.
  374. 17:05They always look up
  375. 17:07like my culture
  376. 17:10educated me to look up not down to see
  377. 17:13somebody is beneath me
  378. 17:16and if I see what is above me sometimes
  379. 17:19you may want to copy it emulate it if
  380. 17:21you can even if you don't copy or
  381. 17:24emulate sometime it just inspires you
  382. 17:27because human beings
  383. 17:30want to survive physically therefore we
  384. 17:33all want to do what is Right? In order
  385. 17:36to be motivated upwardly, which we call
  386. 17:38the upward mobility. Upward mobility,
  387. 17:41ladies and gentlemen, is not just how
  388. 17:43much money you make and increase to make
  389. 17:45every year. Upward mobility. It's not
  390. 17:48even just the promotion you get at your
  391. 17:50workplace. How about if you're a
  392. 17:51business owner, do you promote yourself?
  393. 17:52No, you don't. You're simply a business
  394. 17:54owner. If you're a bus driver and you
  395. 17:57own your own bus, that's all it is. You
  396. 17:59don't promote yourself. It may be only
  397. 18:02one bus you drive. If you're a taxi
  398. 18:04driver, you don't promote yourself, but
  399. 18:07you're a taxi driver. What is your
  400. 18:08upward mobility?
  401. 18:10Maybe you work hard and you go to
  402. 18:12training to see how you can make the
  403. 18:15business bringing you more money or how
  404. 18:17useful you become to your community.
  405. 18:19That in itself some people would
  406. 18:21describe as a man
  407. 18:23in his community with an social upward
  408. 18:26mobility, the proper conduct of life.
  409. 18:30Not everything is calculated in Dallas.
  410. 18:34those that are not calculated in Dallas
  411. 18:36tend out to be even more powerful.
  412. 18:40So now these children who have not been
  413. 18:42taught that a human being should always
  414. 18:44look up for himself. Aim high, aim
  415. 18:48upward, not aim down. But now you've
  416. 18:51been told that power can make you
  417. 18:53influence people or do what they have
  418. 18:55not described it. So you begin to look
  419. 18:56down, you don't see anybody. Then the
  420. 18:59relationship changed from being a strata
  421. 19:02where you look up to now being when you
  422. 19:04look sideways horizontal. It's supposed
  423. 19:07to be vertical but now it's horizontal
  424. 19:11which means you must look for something
  425. 19:14or somebody always somebody and find
  426. 19:16something about them that can make you
  427. 19:19put them under you.
  428. 19:25So these kids in the high schools in the
  429. 19:26urban cities
  430. 19:29always are looking for someone. They can
  431. 19:32tease, they can insult, they can demean
  432. 19:39and feel like I have you under me.
  433. 19:45Yes. I'll take you back to 2004 when I
  434. 19:49started when I launched the heroes
  435. 19:51leadership program in Bridgeport,
  436. 19:52Connecticut.
  437. 19:54many students. I thought it was going to
  438. 19:56attract only African-Americans and maybe
  439. 19:58some of the Caribbeans. Come to find
  440. 20:00many of the African students from
  441. 20:02Nigeria, Ghana and other places who were
  442. 20:04in the high schools, the urban city high
  443. 20:06schools started coming to my program.
  444. 20:08But one thing became clear. Every one of
  445. 20:10them will come and complain to me
  446. 20:15that they can't even open their mouth to
  447. 20:17speak in classroom because every word
  448. 20:19that came out of their mouth, the
  449. 20:21African-American kids would laugh at
  450. 20:23them and jump up and down and mimic it
  451. 20:27and keep saying, "Say it again. Say it
  452. 20:29again."
  453. 20:31Every single one I have met. But you
  454. 20:33see, I I will give as much advice how to
  455. 20:36deescalate and keep to yourself and all
  456. 20:38that. I have never thought for a second
  457. 20:40it could lead to death but I knew that
  458. 20:43it did traumatize some of them. A friend
  459. 20:45of mine got into the marine went to one
  460. 20:48of the schools came to the country at
  461. 20:49the age of 11. When he comes to visit me
  462. 20:53and we take a drive just to pass his old
  463. 20:56high school. He breaks sweats
  464. 20:59and visibly gets angry
  465. 21:03because of what happened to him when I
  466. 21:05arrive in this country in the hands of
  467. 21:07people who look just like him.
  468. 21:10Why? These kids don't hate him. These
  469. 21:13kids don't dislike him. These kids are
  470. 21:16not wicked bad kids.
  471. 21:19These kids have been told that they need
  472. 21:22to find power.
  473. 21:25And since they can't reach because like
  474. 21:27they say a dog only bites one that is
  475. 21:30nearer to him.
  476. 21:34They will also look horizontally
  477. 21:37to find someone
  478. 21:40to find someone demean you by your
  479. 21:44looks. But you know what is interesting
  480. 21:47in all the bullies I've heard the
  481. 21:49stories it is always accent.
  482. 21:53Yes,
  483. 21:55I came to the United States as an adult.
  484. 21:59I was in college doing very well
  485. 22:03and my academic advisor thought it would
  486. 22:06be a good idea because of the things
  487. 22:07I've done around the world and all that
  488. 22:08that I should go to the high schools and
  489. 22:10speak that it may inspire or motivate
  490. 22:14some of the kids. I never have had that
  491. 22:16experience. I have arrived in the United
  492. 22:18States. I was on campus. So he would
  493. 22:20call the schools arranged back then. No
  494. 22:22social media, nothing, not even
  495. 22:25internet. My first experience,
  496. 22:28we have to stop the speech
  497. 22:32midway because these kids were jumping
  498. 22:35up and down asking me questions.
  499. 22:38I learned certain words those days. Come
  500. 22:41to find out it was words they used to
  501. 22:43describe us like a Buddhist scratcher
  502. 22:45and all that. asking me questions if
  503. 22:47I've ever laid with a lion or an animal,
  504. 22:50if I sleep on trees.
  505. 22:53I went into the class thinking that
  506. 22:54people who look like me that they will
  507. 22:57be very curious and ask sensible
  508. 22:59questions. Every word I pronounce, these
  509. 23:02kids would jump up and down and laugh
  510. 23:04and scream.
  511. 23:07Do you see it? Ask many, and I'm not
  512. 23:11asking anyone to begin to use this
  513. 23:13episode to start casting any blame on
  514. 23:15the three kids that were allegedly uh
  515. 23:18being sought after for killing Jabis.
  516. 23:20No, that is not where I am. I'm just
  517. 23:24trying to explain something. If we begin
  518. 23:27to pay attention to that thing, maybe we
  519. 23:30can save the life of future students who
  520. 23:32are coming from the continent.
  521. 23:36But you know why it won't stop unless we
  522. 23:38begin to talk about it from this angle.
  523. 23:40The kids themselves. Oh, soon the NYPD
  524. 23:44may found them, arrest them, take them
  525. 23:47to court. Some smart lawyer is going to
  526. 23:49be asking them silly questions on the
  527. 23:50stand. But I promise you,
  528. 23:55they don't know why they did it. That is
  529. 23:58the dangerous part of this whole thing.
  530. 24:02They don't know.
  531. 24:04They might tell stories on the stand,
  532. 24:06but I'm telling you right now, they
  533. 24:08don't know why they did it because from
  534. 24:12all accounts, students, teachers, people
  535. 24:15who knew Java says this is the and I
  536. 24:17believe it. This is the sweetest boy you
  537. 24:19would ever meet. I believe it because
  538. 24:22that is how we were raised. Any country
  539. 24:24we go to to the point people think we
  540. 24:26are timid.
  541. 24:29Yes, sir. Yes, please.
  542. 24:37Yes. Not even high school. Even those of
  543. 24:40us who came here to go to college as
  544. 24:42adults,
  545. 24:44we will respect our professors to the
  546. 24:46point they will tell us, "Hey man, calm
  547. 24:48down.
  548. 24:50Be casual with me." We are nice people,
  549. 24:54especially Ghanaians.
  550. 24:55Anyone
  551. 24:57that has met, first one that will come
  552. 24:59out of their mouth if the person is a
  553. 25:01Ghanaian say the person met a Ghanaian.
  554. 25:03Oh my god, they are such respectful and
  555. 25:05sweet people. Yes, they are.
  556. 25:08They are.
  557. 25:10How many times in this country have you
  558. 25:12heard a Ghanaian in trouble here, a
  559. 25:15Ghanaian in trouble there?
  560. 25:17They like to live with themselves. They
  561. 25:19like to live by themselves. They like to
  562. 25:21associate and have parties and talk.
  563. 25:22Their children are very, very
  564. 25:24respectful.
  565. 25:26Now, the father said something that was
  566. 25:28interesting. He said since he arrived
  567. 25:31here, he wouldn't even come out to go
  568. 25:33down the hallway or to the neighborhood
  569. 25:34and play. He won't. He would just stay
  570. 25:36indoors. Now, ask yourself,
  571. 25:39who is the majority, the predominant
  572. 25:42population
  573. 25:43in that Bronx area? Black, not white.
  574. 25:46Javis wasn't afraid of white. If Javis
  575. 25:49father had enough money and thought,
  576. 25:52I'll put my son Javis
  577. 25:56in a private school 99.99% white, Javis
  578. 25:59would still be alive. Jabies will grow
  579. 26:01up to become a professor or a medical
  580. 26:02doctor or whatever he chooses to become.
  581. 26:04And I can tell you for certain
  582. 26:08Javis would never be hurt by any law
  583. 26:11enforcement member because he already
  584. 26:14have the foundation to understand what
  585. 26:17the proper conduct of living is required
  586. 26:19of any human being in any society.
  587. 26:23Young Javis knows that. You can see the
  588. 26:24father's face when he was talking. No
  589. 26:27blame at all. He openly shed tears on
  590. 26:31camera.
  591. 26:34He was shocked beyond. Oh, the joy of
  592. 26:36waiting for a year to see your son you
  593. 26:38left behind.
  594. 26:40You know, but these young three
  595. 26:43unfortunate kids are going to live the
  596. 26:45rest of their lives with murder against
  597. 26:48their name and on their record.
  598. 26:51No one should jubilate that. See, we
  599. 26:54can't bring back Javis. No, we can't.
  600. 26:59May he soul rest in peace
  601. 27:01and may his parents have strength.
  602. 27:06We can't bring him back
  603. 27:08but we can do something.
  604. 27:11If we can have the conversation
  605. 27:16then we can start something
  606. 27:18because we will be told we will be
  607. 27:20informed that the kids in the school
  608. 27:25they have this inside them. They don't
  609. 27:27They're not even aware.
  610. 27:30They're not even aware. So, we can
  611. 27:31recreate the whole situation. And what
  612. 27:34is this about? This celebrity said,
  613. 27:36"I'll pay for the funeral." What do we
  614. 27:40think that Javis insurance can pay for a
  615. 27:42coffin?
  616. 27:45What is this I'll pay? How many caskets
  617. 27:48if you pay
  618. 27:50will this go away?
  619. 27:53That is the best you can do. No, I am
  620. 27:57waiting
  621. 27:58for Ben Chrome, Al Shapton, or Joy Reed
  622. 28:03and Don Lemon. Where are they? Of
  623. 28:05course, I'm the one who said black lives
  624. 28:07have never mounted anywhere.
  625. 28:11Never. You see the silence? Because they
  626. 28:14can't go out there. They were ones who
  627. 28:17pedal this nonsense that the kids don't
  628. 28:20have power or we collectively don't have
  629. 28:22power. So what are they going to say to
  630. 28:24them?
  631. 28:26But this would have been the best
  632. 28:29opportunity for all of these people
  633. 28:33to speak out to become aware that what
  634. 28:36we are dealing with is not something
  635. 28:37kids wake up and plan I'm going to do
  636. 28:40because I don't like this person from
  637. 28:41here I don't like this person is
  638. 28:44inherent deep
  639. 28:49because they've heard it both from their
  640. 28:52parents who were also told so they are
  641. 28:54nothing his father is in jail. His
  642. 28:57mother is on drugs maybe or alcohol
  643. 29:01and he's been told to blame someone for
  644. 29:03it.
  645. 29:05I say when a man is under durex you see
  646. 29:08when a man is under durex physically
  647. 29:13he may complain to the person complain
  648. 29:17or he may simply lament to himself or to
  649. 29:21others about the condition. You either
  650. 29:24complain or you lament about it. When
  651. 29:26will I get out of this condition? How
  652. 29:28can I get out of this condition? That is
  653. 29:30lamentation
  654. 29:32or you complain to the person. If you
  655. 29:34know
  656. 29:35but when people leave their lives to
  657. 29:38blame
  658. 29:40someone for their condition
  659. 29:43that is a clear indication that you are
  660. 29:44dealing with people with very very low
  661. 29:47intelligent
  662. 29:49because intelligent people
  663. 29:52they don't blame people
  664. 29:54post the fact
  665. 29:57after the fact
  666. 29:59because they know the dangers. They've
  667. 30:01seen it in society the dangers it will
  668. 30:04do not to you directly but to your
  669. 30:07children's children and children.
  670. 30:09You point one finger and others will
  671. 30:12join you to look at that direction and
  672. 30:15they are never going to turn away to
  673. 30:17look at themselves unless you turn and
  674. 30:19tell them to take a look at themselves
  675. 30:21or to look upward.
  676. 30:24That is a danger of why many societies
  677. 30:27or colleges
  678. 30:29refrain from blaming others.
  679. 30:36In the memory of Javvis, if we want to
  680. 30:38do something,
  681. 30:40we need to now I saw it this morning.
  682. 30:42Justice for Jarvis. Justice?
  683. 30:47What justice?
  684. 30:49That they should arrest them and try
  685. 30:51them and put them in jail.
  686. 30:53That is not justice.
  687. 30:57That's not justice.
  688. 31:00Javis will tell you
  689. 31:02if you can start talking to yourselves
  690. 31:04and say, "Gosh,
  691. 31:09we made a mistake. We've poisoned our
  692. 31:11own children."
  693. 31:15Yeah.
  694. 31:16And apologize to the young black kids
  695. 31:20that you have poisoned. they would think
  696. 31:22about it.
  697. 31:25You see, but when you keep saying that
  698. 31:27those people, the Anglo-Saxon white
  699. 31:30supremacist, they have the power.
  700. 31:34Well, you trying to say,
  701. 31:37have you told them what they use the
  702. 31:38power to do?
  703. 31:40Are you talking about describing to your
  704. 31:43kids that copy that power? Because if
  705. 31:45you have that power,
  706. 31:48you would keep your cities to look clean
  707. 31:52like the Anglo-Saxon white supremacist,
  708. 31:54his city or his town. That they use
  709. 31:57their power to protect their young girls
  710. 31:59from being knocked up at the age of 16
  711. 32:02and be left with three and a half
  712. 32:03children who rely on the taxpayers
  713. 32:06footstamps.
  714. 32:07They use their power to keep drug
  715. 32:10dealers out of their town. If anything,
  716. 32:12they themselves will not sit in street
  717. 32:14corners and sell drugs to their kind.
  718. 32:16They use their power to make sure their
  719. 32:19children bring in massive amount of
  720. 32:23volunteer hours every month. They use
  721. 32:26their power to make sure that their kids
  722. 32:28stay in school.
  723. 32:30They use their power to clean and keep
  724. 32:33their environment safe and secure so
  725. 32:36their children play outside all the
  726. 32:38time.
  727. 32:40They use their power to teach their
  728. 32:41young ones by the time they turn three
  729. 32:43how to save money. They use their power,
  730. 32:47the white supremacy power
  731. 32:51to teach their children the proper work
  732. 32:54ethics and the proper conduct of living.
  733. 32:58Maybe that is the power you're
  734. 32:59describing.
  735. 33:02Maybe if you have described the power
  736. 33:03that way to your children, they will not
  737. 33:06look at Fon when he came here. They will
  738. 33:09be looking upward. If you have told them
  739. 33:12that the people you want to blame and
  740. 33:14hate that their power, look at their
  741. 33:17schools, look at their towns, they don't
  742. 33:19even have city sweeping machines, but
  743. 33:22look at their town. Their children don't
  744. 33:24throw fits in public over little
  745. 33:27disagreements. They don't smash and
  746. 33:29grab. They don't shoplift from Indian
  747. 33:32convenience stores. They don't scream in
  748. 33:35public and pull each other's hair
  749. 33:36because you mix my French fries.
  750. 33:39They don't. That is the power you should
  751. 33:43have thought to your children.
  752. 33:47That is what they have used their power
  753. 33:49to do. But no, no, no. You didn't
  754. 33:52describe it. You couldn't. How could
  755. 33:55you?
  756. 33:56Even that they give you an envelope full
  757. 33:58of what is good for your children, you
  758. 34:00will shove it in your back pocket and
  759. 34:01keep telling them that somebody is on
  760. 34:03top of your neck. You don't have power.
  761. 34:07And like I said, in a society when you
  762. 34:09repeat that to any group of people for
  763. 34:11so long and they come to believe you
  764. 34:13because now you've stolen their
  765. 34:14self-esteem,
  766. 34:17they also will look for somebody on
  767. 34:21whose neck they should sit. In this
  768. 34:23case, they turn the relationship not
  769. 34:26vertical anymore, but horizontal
  770. 34:30and Javis
  771. 34:32Fon
  772. 34:35was the next one they saw.
  773. 34:38They teased him and me and many others
  774. 34:41who had come from either the Caribbean
  775. 34:43or Africa by using the Anglo-Saxon white
  776. 34:47supremacist language that you don't have
  777. 34:49that accent and therefore you are
  778. 34:51inferior if you don't speak like us. Now
  779. 34:54me
  780. 34:56I speak with an accent.
  781. 35:02You see what they use to find somebody
  782. 35:04who is inferior?
  783. 35:06accent
  784. 35:09from the borrowed lang not even borrowed
  785. 35:11the language that was down their throat
  786. 35:14is the only thing you found to say that
  787. 35:18the you can tease you can demean even
  788. 35:22kill because I didn't speak like you who
  789. 35:25speaks the language of the Anglo-Saxon
  790. 35:29white supremacist can you believe they
  791. 35:32didn't say he was fat they didn't say he
  792. 35:34was slow in past.
  793. 35:37They didn't say he wasn't swave.
  794. 35:41They look for something that will make
  795. 35:43him different.
  796. 35:47In this case,
  797. 35:49tragedy.
  798. 35:52We can change this. It may not take a
  799. 35:55week or two or three, a year or two, but
  800. 35:58please all of you,
  801. 36:01we got to stop saying the language. You
  802. 36:05hear it, back away from it. You know
  803. 36:09those who are currently still saying it
  804. 36:11either they are blaming you for marrying
  805. 36:13somebody who has a a different skin
  806. 36:15color from you
  807. 36:19or they are blaming you. But you know
  808. 36:21what is funny? And if there is any young
  809. 36:23person listening to this, next time they
  810. 36:26come to tell you that a Jew is wrong and
  811. 36:29the Anglo-Saxon white supremacist is
  812. 36:31wrong, ask them where they work. Ask
  813. 36:34them who have made their lives so
  814. 36:36comfortable. Starting with your LeBron
  815. 36:38James.
  816. 36:40Yes, he will disrespect the national
  817. 36:42anthem,
  818. 36:44but immediately the bell goes. He will
  819. 36:47be bouncing inflated leather balloons on
  820. 36:50a hardwood floor to entertain the Jews,
  821. 36:52both their children in the bleaches and
  822. 36:55the company owner. Oh, he dare never
  823. 36:58disrespect the company owner who is also
  824. 37:01Jew and Anglo-Saxon.
  825. 37:04He forgotten that the anthem was played
  826. 37:07because that Anglo-Saxon formed the team
  827. 37:09he's playing for. Oh, what a what a
  828. 37:13confused life. I'm blessed for not being
  829. 37:16in that position.
  830. 37:19The Jew that pays $800 a trip for a
  831. 37:22chopper to take him to Philly to play.
  832. 37:25Oh, he doesn't respect that one in the
  833. 37:27boardroom.
  834. 37:30See, they are lying to you young ones.
  835. 37:32They live a lavish lifestyle on the same
  836. 37:35person they are telling you to hate and
  837. 37:37how to respect and to respect the anthem
  838. 37:40and the flag.
  839. 37:43They are lying to you. They go to the
  840. 37:45boardroom with it and say, "Yes, sir.
  841. 37:47When next will I play?" It used to be
  842. 37:49Apollo Theater, not King Cole and Ella
  843. 37:52Fitzerat. And you know they play to
  844. 37:56entertain white people with cigars, both
  845. 37:59men and women. But they respected them
  846. 38:02and they did well.
  847. 38:05Now it's not Apollo. It's Madison Square
  848. 38:07Garden.
  849. 38:09The teams are all owned by white people.
  850. 38:11Oh, and I bet you LeBron James, I dare
  851. 38:14you to say I'm not going to play for any
  852. 38:16whiteowned team and then call on all
  853. 38:19your friends, including Colin
  854. 38:20Kaepernick, to do the same.
  855. 38:23He boycotted the national anthem but
  856. 38:26can't boycott a team that is owned by a
  857. 38:28Jew
  858. 38:30double standard
  859. 38:32and you've poison these young ones where
  860. 38:35they can grow with talent and skills and
  861. 38:37look up and be somebody
  862. 38:42but fron Javis primone
  863. 38:46sad story.
  864. 38:48So let's stop let's stop this talk of oh
  865. 38:53they hated them in the diaspora wars.
  866. 38:56This is all very foolish. My slogan to
  867. 38:59the rethink community. One of the things
  868. 39:02we should do is we wage a campaign. A
  869. 39:04friendly campaign but powerful. We
  870. 39:07reject any negative talk. We want to
  871. 39:11create a peaceful be beautiful world.
  872. 39:13People just do your thing. Coexist. Live
  873. 39:16this short lives.
  874. 39:19and say goodbye to the world. And I want
  875. 39:22to say goodbye to you too. Go to Patreon
  876. 39:25right now.
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