Karma has come for
passengers in a boat who repeatedly
harassed a different boat that was
flying an LGBTQ flag.
Now obviously, it's Pride Month.
And so I'm guessing the boat with
the flag is celebrating
Pride Month.
But the other boat was not
pleased about it.
So the bigots in the boat that were
harassing the boat with the pride
flag, decided to just continuously
circle around it, harass them.
I'll show you a picture.
Robbie, a passenger on the vessel
being harassed recalls that he had
seen a woman from the harassing
boat, flip them off as they
approached their vessel.
So we have an image of that and
you can see it.
We've blurred the middle finger.
But you can kind of see what that
whole scene look like.
Then the boat quickly made a sharp
turn back towards us and
went around us.
I then again, personally heard
someone shout out what I thought to
be a the word, gays.
So I asked my brother to pull out
his phone and
blatantly start recording
in hopes that it would avoid
conflict if they noticed, right?
So that's part of the reason why
we've got video of this.
We're not showing the video because
of the middle fingers and
the cursing or whatever.
But we've got the screenshots to
show what happened.
Then they attempted to speed away
as they left a large cloud of smoke
surrounding the area we occupied.
After a moment,
we heard a loud backfire and
a sputter come from the boat.
Though I could not see the boat in
the direction, I could see a cloud
of black smoke rising quickly.
So Robbie, the witness,
the person who was in the boat
that was being harassed is
the one sharing that with us.
And then you see the harassing boat
in flames.
I don't know what exactly happened.
I don't know if it was
an engine issue.
But it's in flames, and
the passengers of that boat,
of course, had no choice but
to jump out, leaving them stranded
in the middle of this lake.
And guess what Robbie's boat did,
they went to the aid
of the individuals who were in
the harassing boat.
In fact, we have some video to
share with you.
Let's take a look.
All right, so
all right my mics up good.
So Karma hits the boaters
who harassed.
So this is basically
showing the entire situation.
You see the flames start up.
Let's keep watching.
You see the harassers swimming in
the middle of the lake.
And they end up getting saved by
the very
people who they were harassing.
>> I start freaking out with
the dough.
Dogs are like, my god, my god.
>> Go home >> They kind of saw
the funny part.
They came out and
did a bunch of circles around us to
stir up the water on us while we
were just sitting there.
>> They were harassing us.
And then we saved them.
>> And then we turned around to
save them.
>> I say think I saved you
guys, right?
>> Yes, you did.
>> Glad >> All
right, so I love that story because
I think the hardest thing to do is
to be kind to people who are being
unkind to you.
But obviously,
these people are like,
yeah, they were harassing us and
this is karma.
But we're not just going to let
them suffer in the middle of
the lake.
But would you guys do that?
Rashad, what would you do?
>> No.
[LAUGH] >> No.
>> First of all, let me say this.
Won't he do it?
I am a progressive Christian.
I believe in a radical black
liberal progressive Messiah.
And as soon as this happened,
as soon as these people taunted my
brothers and
sisters in the LGBTQ community,
the boat blows up, remarkable.
These individuals have more
godliness in them than I do.
Because I would have left their ass
right there swimming in
their water.
That's what I would have done.
Now I wouldn't have allowed them to
drown because I do believe in
the sanctity of life, truly.
But I would not have put them on
my ship.
I would have waited.
I would have recorded as they did.
And you would be playing that clip
from World Start because that's why
would have uploaded [LAUGH] >> God,
god is gay.
Guys, I think this means god is gay
because- >> My god, Tucker
Carlson's head just exploded.
They want to make you drink
Starbucks every single
day these God haters.
Anyway, go ahead.
[LAUGH] >> No,
I just it's a story in three parts.
I mean, it's like three acts.
It's beautiful.
There's a setup,
the middle finger, the implosion of
a little rinky dink boat.
And then being saved by
the same people you're harassing.
It's brilliant, right?
And I totally agree with Dr.
Richie that I would not help those
people at all.
They had life vest on.
They're fine because I also feel
like I don't think they're going to
learn that lesson like in my,
I think my most optimistic is
like yeah because they're going to
go home.
And they're going to be like
my god, maybe we shouldn't hate on
the LGBTQ community.
And maybe we shouldn't have
flipped them off.
No, they're not going to do that,
they want to jam.
Of course we should get saved,
we're straight.
[LAUGH] >> You're probably right.
>> Deserve to be.
>> God, I'm forgetting the name of
this show that I was resistant
to in the beginning.
But my husband really pressured me
to keep watching, and
then I fell in love with it.
It's the show with, it's
the daycare >> RuPaul's drag race?
>> No, no, although I'm sure that's
a lovely show as well.
How am I forgetting it?
The guy, >> Is it Ted?
>> He's super.
>> Ted- >> Ted lasso.
>> Ted Lasso?
>> Yes.
>> Ted Lasso, I didn't watch it,
but I know, yes.
>> You guys should watch that show.
It's good.
It's really good.
And I wish that I could
be a better person.
Because Ted Lasso was the kind of
guy who gets slapped in the face
over and
over again by pretty awful people.
And he just meets them with
an insane amount of kindness and
compassion and understanding.
And I feel like that show or
at least that culture, or
those characteristics is what we
need in society.
So I tried to think that way when I
met with individuals that are not
so kind, but it's tough.
It's really difficult to be
the bigger person and
meet combativeness and cruelty with
kindness and understanding.
It's just not human nature.
You are, I mean,
I typically enjoy retaliation.
I'm trying to move away from it
a little bit.
>> Yeah, that's not God's plan for
my life, whatever that
brother doing.
That's not what God has me on.
So I'm okay with that.
>> Okay, all right, all right.
>> But then you also think about
obviously, what is the so
called Christian thing to do?
Those who pretend or say that they
believe in the Bible and they
believe in Jesus's teachings, it
would be to turn the other cheek.
It is to be Ted Lasso.
It is to pick up people who have
just flipped you off because they
need assistance after their boat
exploded from a sheer act of God.
That is the godly thing to do.
And yet ironically,
I'm sure these hateful people,
the least like antigay folks are
resting on a bastardized version
of Christianity to bolster their
hateful beliefs about gay people.
>> Can I opine on that?
Let me opine on that.
>> Yeah, go ahead.
>> So there's and
this is in Scripture.
There's a scene where Jesus is in
the synagogue, and
he sees that they are profiteering
off of religion, similar to what
they're doing today.
And he gets so upset.
He decides to turn over the money
exchange tables.
And he creates a riotous atmosphere
and actually destroys property.
That's what Jesus did inside of
a church building de facto today.
>> Jesus getting lit.
[LAUGH] >> He got lit, and
why did he get lit?
He got lit because
the establishment could
not recognize righteousness.
The establishment had
become disconnected from humanity.
And everything was about
the capitalism around the structure
of religion rather than
the humanity, around the structure
of what religious values
should actually teach.
So he was radical in more than
one sense.
Nonjudgmental, that was radical
when he told the Samaritan woman
don't worry about your haters,
tell them that I've
had a conversation with you.
Well, that was nonjudgmental,
a radical idea of that era.
And so there are plenty of stories
that prove who Jesus was.
And he wasn't a pacifist.
He wasn't that at all.
Hell, he had aren't men with them.
There was a time one of his
disciples pulled out a sword and
cut a man's ear
off talking trash to Jesus.
Well, that man was always armed.
He didn't just bring that
sword that day.
He walked with Jesus every day with
a sword just in case something
popped off.
That's just my two sense.
>> Yeah.
>> I like that.
You got to walk around
with the sword.
I've been talking about that a lot
lately actually took away from it.
Walk around with a sword or have
a guy with you who's got a sword.
[LAUGH] >> Leaving you out Ana and
eating a guy around her with
the sword.
It's- >> That will be
a kind of awesome.
>> Like Queen Mother of Dragons.
Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
>> No.
>> Yeah.
>> I love this, it's
a great way to start off pride,
that video on repeat is
just a celebratory pride moment.
And we should all, yeah,
relish in that.
And then paint all the boats with
rainbow colors and be fabulous.
Don't hate, and
God will reward you.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah, and
I want to say this because
every time I bring up my faith,
somebody inboxes me that I believe
in the Bible and the Bible is
adversarial to certain groups.
I do not believe the Bible is
the actual word of God.
>> There are Scriptures in
there that I cannot get down with.
For example, when the Bible says
slaves obey your master, I cannot
get down with that passage, period.
And there are plenty other texts
that I don't get down with because
God gave me a brain
before he gave me a book.
>> Yeah, I mean, and as an atheist,
I think that it's important to
differentiate between religious
extremism.
Whether it's Christianity, Islam,
whatever it is, right?
From, I think what most mainstream
religious people believe, right?
I think that people tend to
pick and choose what they or
what resonates with them from
the Scripture- >> Yeah.
>> Right?
And so and I think that's
okay, right?
If there's something that you take
from it that inspires you to be
a better person, then that's great.
I don't particularly like
the generalized negative framing of
religion, right?
Because I think that it does
demonize good people of faith.
And I think that pushing them away
is just not a good idea,
it doesn't make any sense.
So- >> No, and especially when they
are some of the most active
organizers for change in this
country at a time, when we are so
isolated from one another,
when we struggle to have community.
I think religious communities
actually have that.
There is something to be said about
having a place to go on Sundays or
during the week or barbecues or
picnics or whatever it is.
And for sure orthodoxy on
throughout religion, I think >> We
want people to interpret their
Scripture more liberally because
the other way around is not good.
That's like fire and brimstone and
crazy stuff.
And I think we're in a moment I
do I'm I agree with Dr.
Richie in a lot of ways.
And I also agree,
I personally am not religious.
But I've seen I know a lot of
awesome, like very progressive
churches specifically.
But all institutions of all faith
that right now there is a window.
Because Donald Trump has revealed
that he believes in be as
evangelical if you're rich that's
because you deserved it what
is called prosperity gospel or
some bs like this.
There's a window around
the religious right that is totally
abdicated their responsibility to
so called family values to
the moral, any kind of morals God,
look at me Matt Gaetz.
So I think progressives
are going to be missing out if we
turn our face or return on this
already organized body of Americans
who absolutely have a role to play
and are and have been leaders
throughout change in this country.