WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.780 So let's let's go back to the four blacks you were talking 00:02.780 --> 00:06.780 about. What is the solution? The solution? How do you fix 00:06.780 --> 00:09.600 that? If you're saying those are the four different types of 00:09.600 --> 00:13.580 blacks, you said, the blacks, the house, and then the, you 00:13.580 --> 00:16.100 know, the third and fourth, which I'll let you say right 00:16.100 --> 00:21.540 there, there's a thumbnail to your video. How do you, how 00:21.540 --> 00:25.360 do you fix some of those issues that's being done right 00:25.360 --> 00:30.240 now in the black community? Crime. You've got to be really 00:30.240 --> 00:33.240 tough on crime. And when I mean that, for the black 00:33.240 --> 00:35.940 community, you've got to be tough on crime, not just, you 00:35.940 --> 00:39.260 know, white people or any black people have to be tough on 00:39.260 --> 00:42.580 crime, because at the end of the day, it's us. We're 00:42.580 --> 00:46.760 dealing with it. Definitely for murderers. I'm big on that. 00:47.240 --> 00:50.560 Drug dealers, rapists, people who would do the harsh and 00:50.560 --> 00:52.580 very heinous crimes in our community, we've got to be 00:52.580 --> 00:55.040 very aggressive and combating them. That's something we 00:55.040 --> 00:56.660 don't want to have a conversation about. We're 00:56.660 --> 00:59.480 looking at a lot of these cases where we have 00:59.480 --> 01:01.880 individuals who are very undesirable and we're looking 01:01.880 --> 01:03.660 to defend them. Look at the Carmelo Anthony case. People 01:03.660 --> 01:07.340 are defending him. Not because he's innocent or not 01:07.340 --> 01:09.300 because, you know, he's a good person. This wasn't a 01:09.300 --> 01:11.760 doctoral lawyer. Somebody who murdered somebody and 01:11.760 --> 01:13.620 people are willing to defend that just simply because 01:13.620 --> 01:16.920 he's black rather than because he is innocent. It's a 01:16.920 --> 01:18.780 big problem that we have. We will defend criminals 01:18.780 --> 01:22.080 and killers before we defend doctors, lawyers, the 01:22.080 --> 01:24.320 best and brightest in our community. What's your 01:24.320 --> 01:26.800 biggest problem with the Carmelo Anthony case? Because 01:26.800 --> 01:30.260 there's a lot of stuff that came out. If you want to go 01:30.260 --> 01:32.020 through it, there's a lot of stuff that came out. I 01:32.020 --> 01:35.740 think they ended up rob... How much money did they 01:35.740 --> 01:41.260 raise? $700,000 or so on GoFundMe? That people try 01:41.260 --> 01:43.420 to help them out. None of that was used apparently 01:43.420 --> 01:47.480 for the legal fees. I think that was a public 01:47.480 --> 01:50.180 defender. But what is your what is your core 01:50.180 --> 01:51.960 problem with the Carmelo Anthony case? 01:52.420 --> 01:56.000 Well, my problem is this, just because somebody, I 01:56.000 --> 01:59.020 said this on Twitter, if Carmelo Anthony was being 01:59.020 --> 02:01.520 bullied, just because he was being bullied doesn't 02:01.520 --> 02:02.980 mean you go out and murder somebody. That's the 02:02.980 --> 02:05.200 case in every school shooter is justified in going to 02:05.200 --> 02:10.560 do what he does because he's being bullied. And 02:10.560 --> 02:13.880 then also this idea that you can't move me, you 02:13.880 --> 02:16.080 know, I can go wherever I want. I can sit wherever 02:16.080 --> 02:18.560 I want. It's like, no, you can't. You can't 02:18.560 --> 02:19.800 sit wherever you want. Someone tells you that 02:19.800 --> 02:21.480 you can't be here. You can't be here. Get on 02:21.480 --> 02:23.320 somewhere. Go get somebody that can actually 02:23.320 --> 02:25.880 challenge it for you. We have this mindset that 02:25.880 --> 02:29.020 we're entitled to every space and that nobody 02:29.020 --> 02:32.920 can move us at all. And in anywhere we go, that 02:32.920 --> 02:35.000 if somebody tells us to do differently, we're 02:35.000 --> 02:37.660 going to do the opposite. Now, it's a good 02:37.660 --> 02:40.160 mindset to have that on a positive direction. 02:40.480 --> 02:41.960 Someone tells me to do this and I don't think 02:41.960 --> 02:43.300 it's good for me. I'm going to go in the 02:43.300 --> 02:44.960 opposite direction or I'm going to be looking 02:44.960 --> 02:47.640 at things from a perspective I want to do my 02:47.640 --> 02:49.900 own and go in my own way. But no, black people 02:49.900 --> 02:51.460 are like, no, you know, if white people came 02:51.460 --> 02:53.320 out tomorrow and said, drink water, drinking 02:53.320 --> 02:55.240 water is good. Niggas will come out tomorrow 02:55.240 --> 02:58.660 and say, drinking water is bad. You should drink 02:58.660 --> 03:00.340 dirt or something. I don't know. You should 03:00.340 --> 03:02.820 drink mud. Why though? Is it because white 03:02.820 --> 03:05.860 man's the enemy? It's become that. It's 03:05.860 --> 03:09.260 become that white man is the enemy and the 03:09.260 --> 03:11.540 enemy at the end of the day is ourselves. We 03:11.540 --> 03:13.040 look at the communities. Every problem that 03:13.040 --> 03:14.920 exists is because of us. Now we could talk 03:14.920 --> 03:16.520 about the historical conditions and what 03:16.520 --> 03:18.740 happened. But this isn't in the 1970s and 80s. 03:18.840 --> 03:20.100 Well, I would say that argument holds up. 03:20.200 --> 03:21.760 Well, the residual effects of Jim Crow still 03:21.760 --> 03:24.280 exist and hiring, banking. I would say 03:24.280 --> 03:25.920 that if this was 1970s and 80s, I would 03:25.920 --> 03:28.500 agree. This is the 2020s going to the 03:29.000 --> 03:32.360 2030s. My generation, Gen Z, there's 03:32.360 --> 03:35.020 nothing holding me back from going in a 03:35.020 --> 03:36.200 positive direction, going in a better 03:36.200 --> 03:37.580 direction. There's nobody holding me 03:37.580 --> 03:39.680 back systemically saying that I cannot 03:39.680 --> 03:41.700 go somewhere and I cannot do something. 03:42.140 --> 03:44.800 We believe that everything, every fight, 03:44.800 --> 03:47.160 cases like this is like another civil 03:47.160 --> 03:49.600 rights case. It isn't. They killed one of 03:49.600 --> 03:51.700 ours. So we've one of ours is in trouble. 03:51.800 --> 03:52.920 We've got to defend them no matter what. 03:53.440 --> 03:54.820 What does it do? It shows the level of 03:54.820 --> 03:56.600 tribalism and instability within our 03:56.600 --> 04:01.520 community. The lack of control, self 04:01.520 --> 04:04.320 control that we have. We can't exist 04:04.320 --> 04:06.060 going in this direction, but I want to 04:06.060 --> 04:07.920 go back to you said about the three 04:07.920 --> 04:09.400 solutions. This is very important. First, 04:09.540 --> 04:11.100 you said crime. Crime being tough on 04:11.100 --> 04:13.900 crime. Second is education. The schools 04:13.900 --> 04:15.920 in the black community. Education is not 04:15.920 --> 04:18.140 focused too much. We care more about 04:18.140 --> 04:19.720 producing the next basketball players, 04:19.860 --> 04:20.900 football players. This is very true. 04:20.960 --> 04:21.960 People say, no, this is a stereotype. 04:22.120 --> 04:24.980 Stereotypes exist for a reason. We care 04:24.980 --> 04:26.600 more about producing more 04:26.600 --> 04:27.720 entertainers than we do leaders. 04:28.760 --> 04:29.760 What leaders do we have in the 04:29.760 --> 04:32.620 community? We don't have any. Most of 04:32.620 --> 04:33.640 the leaders and heroes that black 04:33.640 --> 04:34.660 people have today, they don't mention 04:34.660 --> 04:36.780 rappers, football players, basketball 04:36.780 --> 04:39.140 stars. He's got money. He making 04:39.140 --> 04:41.660 money. I don't need niggas that 04:41.660 --> 04:42.660 make money. We need niggas to 04:42.660 --> 04:44.600 think for themselves and build for 04:44.600 --> 04:46.300 themselves. We've got enough niggas 04:46.300 --> 04:48.120 making money. That's fine. And Danny, 04:48.240 --> 04:49.300 you can make money in this country. 04:49.500 --> 04:51.300 It's a beautiful country that you can 04:51.300 --> 04:52.520 make as much money as you want in this 04:52.520 --> 04:55.120 land. We need leaders. And this is the 04:55.120 --> 04:56.300 beautiful thing about America. We 04:56.300 --> 04:57.540 have dominated the world over the last 04:57.540 --> 04:59.280 century because we've made leaders in 04:59.280 --> 05:02.160 this country. All the money doesn't 05:02.160 --> 05:03.640 compare. Leaders have been made. So 05:03.640 --> 05:05.240 Democrats would say you don't think 05:05.240 --> 05:07.000 Obamas are leaders. You don't think 05:07.000 --> 05:08.840 Barack Obama is a leader. Obama is 05:08.840 --> 05:10.840 a symbol of black excellence that 05:10.840 --> 05:13.300 black people ignore. They look at 05:13.300 --> 05:15.980 Obama as more of a revenge symbol than 05:15.980 --> 05:18.300 a symbol of excellence. Some do. 05:18.680 --> 05:19.660 Some look at him like, oh, you know, 05:19.740 --> 05:21.160 Obama is a great person to look up to. 05:21.880 --> 05:23.020 But they get wrapped into the 05:23.020 --> 05:24.740 politics of it, Democrat, Republican. 05:25.020 --> 05:25.920 I'm not looking at that. This goes 05:25.920 --> 05:26.860 back to what I said about looking at 05:26.860 --> 05:28.460 things from a realistic lens, 05:28.580 --> 05:30.380 wrapping this emotional blue team, 05:30.480 --> 05:32.500 red team lens. I'm looking at how 05:32.500 --> 05:34.700 the reality of things are more so 05:34.700 --> 05:36.280 than the, you know, all the other 05:36.280 --> 05:38.100 petty stuff behind it. But Obama 05:38.100 --> 05:39.320 is fantastic in terms of what he 05:39.320 --> 05:40.780 symbolized. Now, the politics of it, 05:41.560 --> 05:42.940 him being a Democrat, what he's done 05:42.940 --> 05:43.840 underneath his administration, 05:44.100 --> 05:45.760 completely different. That's a 05:45.760 --> 05:46.800 completely different conversation. 05:48.440 --> 05:50.340 But going back to that education, 05:50.600 --> 05:51.720 it's very important for us to focus 05:51.720 --> 05:52.820 on education, being tough in the 05:52.820 --> 05:55.100 schools on education, separating 05:55.100 --> 05:56.800 the kids that want to do well, 05:57.000 --> 05:59.380 that are educated, that want to 05:59.380 --> 06:00.620 work and show that they have this 06:00.620 --> 06:03.460 drive to do more, separate them 06:03.460 --> 06:04.780 from the kids that are 06:04.780 --> 06:05.080 struggling. 06:05.880 --> 06:07.460 Yeah, Rob, I think you have some 06:07.460 --> 06:08.740 stats on that. If you want to 06:08.740 --> 06:12.720 pull it up on specifically with 06:12.720 --> 06:14.580 education, you had one of those 06:14.580 --> 06:15.420 chart that you did with 06:15.420 --> 06:18.200 perplexity this morning, it shows 06:18.200 --> 06:20.840 bachelor's degree or higher degree 06:20.840 --> 06:22.800 by race. Okay, so if you look at 06:22.800 --> 06:24.300 this bachelor's degree or higher 06:24.300 --> 06:27.760 by race, ages 25 plus, this is from 06:27.760 --> 06:30.680 the US Census Bureau, Asians at the 06:30.680 --> 06:33.940 highest 59.3, whites 41 eight 06:33.940 --> 06:36.620 national 37 seven blacks 27 six 06:36.620 --> 06:40.560 Hispanics 29. Why is that? 06:40.780 --> 06:42.280 Why is education not a priority 06:42.280 --> 06:43.740 based on this these numbers? 06:44.140 --> 06:45.520 Because we've pursued this idea 06:45.520 --> 06:47.060 that making money and being 06:47.060 --> 06:49.440 flashy with it is more of a goal 06:49.440 --> 06:50.660 and a priority than anything. 06:51.080 --> 06:52.140 Look at the high school 06:52.140 --> 06:54.200 graduations and the proms. 06:54.220 --> 06:55.920 Yep. Black people flashing a 06:55.920 --> 06:56.800 bunch of money living a 06:56.800 --> 06:57.920 lifestyle that they'll never 06:57.920 --> 06:59.840 live and celebrating like it's 06:59.840 --> 07:01.600 a wedding. And really, it is a 07:01.600 --> 07:03.040 wedding. It's a wedding that 07:03.040 --> 07:04.420 begins their marriage to 07:04.420 --> 07:05.500 mediocrity in the bare 07:05.500 --> 07:06.740 minimum. That's the unfortunate 07:06.740 --> 07:08.560 reality of it. And we don't have 07:08.560 --> 07:10.060 to be like this. The message I 07:10.060 --> 07:11.300 have today is that we don't have 07:11.300 --> 07:12.660 to be like this. This isn't have 07:12.660 --> 07:15.060 to be our direction. I don't 07:15.060 --> 07:16.760 think there's a voting out of 07:16.760 --> 07:18.120 this. We can vote differently 07:18.120 --> 07:19.580 all we want. But we don't 07:19.580 --> 07:20.820 think differently with that. 07:21.220 --> 07:23.080 We don't behave and act in a 07:23.080 --> 07:23.960 different way in a different 07:23.960 --> 07:25.520 manner. It doesn't matter how 07:25.520 --> 07:27.220 we vote. It doesn't matter 07:27.220 --> 07:28.820 what we subscribe to, who we 07:28.820 --> 07:30.960 vote for. What matters is 07:30.960 --> 07:31.960 who we are at the end of the 07:31.960 --> 07:32.600 day. And I don't like the 07:32.600 --> 07:33.360 direction that we're going. 07:33.860 --> 07:36.600 I refuse as Gen Z is 25. 07:36.920 --> 07:38.480 I refuse to allow another 07:38.480 --> 07:40.360 generation of black Americans 07:41.380 --> 07:42.840 to sit back at the age of 40 07:43.240 --> 07:44.720 or 50 and say, you know, damn, 07:44.800 --> 07:46.580 we failed to. That's how I look 07:46.580 --> 07:47.700 up to the older generation of 07:47.700 --> 07:48.620 blacks like, damn, what did you 07:48.620 --> 07:49.460 guys do for the last four 07:49.460 --> 07:51.280 years? Oh, you know, we sat 07:51.280 --> 07:52.380 back and drank and smoking. 07:52.940 --> 07:53.700 You know, your daddy was a 07:53.700 --> 07:54.900 shit back in 93. Well, that's 07:54.900 --> 07:56.660 cool. That's nice. But what 07:56.660 --> 07:57.640 do you have to show for 07:57.640 --> 07:59.240 today in our community? 08:00.240 --> 08:01.520 The music's great. I like to 08:01.520 --> 08:02.600 beat. What was it talking 08:02.600 --> 08:04.520 about? The money looks great. 08:04.720 --> 08:06.440 You got on the flashy cars, but 08:06.440 --> 08:07.700 you're on section 8 housing and 08:07.700 --> 08:08.440 you're living in a poor 08:08.440 --> 08:09.980 airways filled with crime and 08:09.980 --> 08:11.060 the roads are broken up. 08:11.760 --> 08:12.340 We got all these black 08:12.340 --> 08:13.560 politicians we're voting for 08:13.560 --> 08:14.140 them because they're black. 08:14.940 --> 08:15.840 But then they're embezzling 08:16.360 --> 08:18.080 money and not giving you the 08:18.080 --> 08:20.240 same returns that you are 08:20.240 --> 08:20.840 asking for. 08:21.700 --> 08:22.880 Hi, I'm Andre Williams, 08:23.220 --> 08:24.620 constantly critical of black 08:24.620 --> 08:25.900 culture, black fatigue, 08:26.180 --> 08:27.460 calling out the problems within 08:27.460 --> 08:28.640 our community across this 08:28.640 --> 08:29.780 country. If you want to 08:29.780 --> 08:30.780 reach out to me, you can 08:30.780 --> 08:31.960 reach me on Manect.