We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters Plymouth Rock landed on us.
Chanting
police initially said Floyd was resisting arrest harassed but Floyd's
family says surveillance video from a restaurant nearby disproves that claim
people are torn and hurt because they're tired of seeing black men die
constantly Eric Garner and mom and reverend Al Sharpton
and you know her son couldn't breathe he kept saying he couldn't breathe
my brother said the same thing that he couldn't breathe black lives matter
everyone's heard of them year after year after year when innocent black men and
women died you hear about them and subsequently when you hear about black
lives matter you hear this I can tell you this I think if there was a movement
called white lives matter it would be considered racist sorry mom I know
you're old and alone and miss your grandchildren but we are shunning you
until you send more money to black lives matter you see them there marching down the street
essentially calling death to the police now from a neutral position this might
be fine and dandy they might be completely correct yet one of the most
disturbing things that surrounds black lives matter is the use of manipulation
tactics and complete lies surrounding it because the typical discussion
surrounding black lives matter hasn't really came from an honest standpoint at
all so to start off the ultimate goal of this video isn't necessarily to be a
mouthpiece for black lives matter leftist political movements or for any
present civil rights movements I've been incredibly vocal about my support for
black lives matter and I've partaken in many protests surrounding that movement
but my entire goal of this video is to lay out the fundamental framework within
black lives matter movements and civil rights movements as a whole because
that's what black lives matters really is it's a civil rights movement similar
to movements that we saw in the 1960s similar to LGBTQ+ movements and the like
and because of some of these bad faith tactics and some of the lies surrounding
this movement there has been a sort of mysticism that I ultimately want to shed
I want us to walk away with a clear understanding about the goals the
intentions and purpose the black lives matter black lives matter was founded
July 13th of 2013 the organization was founded after using the hashtag black
lives matter on social media after George Zimmerman was acquitted of his
murder of Trayvon Martin further with the killings of Michael Brown Freddie
Gray and Eric Garner we've seen it's popularity and subsequent controversy
grow but this video isn't completely about the black lives matter
organization rather I want the focus to be towards the movements surrounding it
and its goals and intentions because ultimately this is now an international
movement this is a global force to be reckoned with so the complete focus on a
specific organization such as black lives matter within the US isn't the
best way to understand this new civil rights movement as a whole you typically
hear demands such as abolish the police from black lives matter supporters and
people involved in other civil rights movements now on the surface this sounds
a little scary and I sympathize with this fear but
whenever you expand your perspective on what this means it starts to make a
little bit more sense and can kind of shed away this reactionary fear because
look at our current standpoint black people in marginalized communities they
have the same fear as typical white more affluent or middle-class or suburban
communities might feel when you say abolish the police the thing is their
direct fear is completely targeted in a complete different direction
these communities are simply more scared of the police themselves than potential
crime happening at a basic level police on the surface typically act as a
paramilitary force in marginalized communities and and even some suburban
communities as well but ultimately with incarceration practices crime bill
practices and drug laws we see that these communities have far more to fear
from a reinforced police force a police force that has more green lights on the
use of force more green lights or reasons to
arrest people than with more affluent communities worried about the
abolishment of the police yet the phrase abolish the police is actually a little
bit misleading they don't mean get rid of a neutral
arbiter and a protector of people and communities which police in the United
States don't really do anyways they simply mean replace them with community
policing it's typically a little bit easier to say and chant abolish the
police rather than abolish the police and replace them with community policing
and civilian and local political oversight typically community policing
is seen as a policing strategy where you demilitarized the police you increase
the amount of time and training needed to become a police officer and
ultimately focus that training in de-escalation tactics dealing with
mental illness and becoming a central non-combative protector of a specific
community the larger abstract and philosophical goals from this is that
these very communities that fear our modern militarized police won't have
that same fear and more importantly these new police forces won't give them
anything to fear at all the overwhelming majority of people you discuss this with
would completely agree it doesn't matter what politics you adhere to the
overwhelming majority of people would agree that this sounds like a good idea
community policing is favorable to nearly everybody and even more important
to state that the pre-crime bill the pre war on drugs police forces in the United
States they tended to use and mirror these tactics quite a bit more than our
current state of policing other policy goals include divesting away from the
police defunding them and ultimately defunding initiatives for further
incarceration these all go hand-in-hand together with our current environment we
stand in a realm where ultimately the main goal is incarceration in a prior
video I made about slavery in America we talked about the Institutional want for
more incarceration and ultimately this has destroyed black and minority
communities while defunding police forces we can also reinvest that money
into public education we can reinvest it into social programs
we can reinvest it into social workers this creates tons of support for these
communities and also creates a new form of employment further this creates a far
more tight-knit community these very changes also answer the questions and
solve the problems of policing itself there is infinite amount of research
showing that the biggest causes for crime in general is poverty it's the
economic parameters that people have to live under so let's say we want to solve
crime let's say we want to create a safer community makes perfect sense when
we see we have police budgets this huge in conjunction with other social
programs that makes zero sense at all and not only does it make zero
conceptual sense in reality it has not worked as we are seeing in 2020 now
there is a reason as to why it doesn't work and ultimately it isn't designed to
do so we have mass profit incentives like private prisons military gear
industries and manufacturers getting fat contracts from police departments that's
kind of a topic for another video the very video I talked about slavery in
America that's length and description goes into detail about this but the
ultimate point stands it doesn't work it's a complete failed strategy the only
logical and coherent strategy moving forward is to defund from the police we
can take the excess military gear we can take the excess from riot gear and we
can reinvest that into social programs and safety nets that would alleviate the
very crime to begin with I don't know a single person on this
earth again despite ideology who would ever disagree
with any of this now if there are more policy demands yet the policy demands
such as ending mass surveillance police accountability etc exists between the
abolish the police and defund the police continuum
now the next logical question to ask is how do we do this how do we guarantee
the implementation of these policies and further how do we uphold these policies
themselves black lives matter and the movements surrounding it employ a number
of tactics the biggest tactic they use is simply civil disobedience peaceful
protest the overwhelming majority of these protests are completely peaceful
there is an absolute boatload of present evidence to support this because of what
is going on right now with the police force in 2020 the United States for the
first time in history is on a danger list for journalists around the globe
the significance of this is that when you compare the two parties the
protesters and the police the police are the violent ones the police are the very
people inciting a potential violent reaction to begin with and typical
mainstream media narratives wouldn't have you typically believing this but
the problem has became so bad that even the police are attacking and arresting
mainstream press because of this we are on a dangerous for journalists and we
are also garnering the attention of Amnesty International because of the
sheer overflow of information and videos supporting this UN watchdog groups have
called out the use of excessive force in the US the UN is ultimately raising the
alarm about police brutality in the United States
ultimately the outreach of social media and peaceful protest are the most common
tactics used and endorsed by the black lives matter organization but as for
movements surrounding black lives matter there is another tactic that is used and
that tactic used is rioting and the idea of
rioting in reaction to injustice the reaction to murder actually tends to
scare more people than the very injustice and murder that occurred and
this is actually completely understandable in a lot of ways not only
is the fear around rioting and chaos understandable
but the fear around the media's portrayal of protests as simply rioting
is also understandable as well as fear is one of the most potent and crippling
human emotions it's extremely important to understand the context behind many
actions that cause fear much of the fear and disdain around rioting comes from a
whitewashing of history it comes from a history that is incorrectly taught also
it can come from a socially unchecked bias of property over human life and
when we examine and we check our biases we often find we do not hold authority
to the exact same standard as ourselves conceptually we hold the police inour
minds to neutrality that they are the protectors of free speech and the public
yet when we really check our bias and we really analyze the police we see that
they are essentially counter protesters to civil rights movements as a whole we
see that the police cannot be a neutral arbiter when it comes to matters of the
police the police become the very rioters themselves against the people
and the rights that they are sworn to protect this is not exaggeration either
there's an absolute ton of video evidence to support this so
understanding that cops often act as counter protesters themselves is
extremely important when examining the narrative around rioting we are often
taught that the labor movements that the civil rights movement the suffrage
movements were nonviolent and completely peaceful of all kinds of myths that
surround U.S. culture this is seriously among the top five the civil rights
movement labor strikes labor movements were incredibly violent far more violent
than what we were experiencing now and further the use of vandalism and
physically fighting back was one of the largest tactics involved so much so that
these movements wouldn't have gained traction without the use of force and
potential violence and rioting from an outsider looking and it can be
incredibly easy to ignore state sanctioned violence and violence
purported by authorities with this bias and the large mis-education surrounding
movements we see that fear from typically politically apathetic people
is extremely common and further we often look at rioting and vandalism coming
from non authority figures such as protesters as violence itself yet from
the side of protesters or rioters depending on your terminology there has
not been any reported deaths associated with any of these movements what this
shows us is that we have been socially conditioned to accept and even feel
comfortable with state sanctioned violence further the arguments we hear
against potential rioting do not hold that much logical weight when examined
closely we often hear the argument that the minute you riot
the minute you vandalize your movement loses all credibility this was a
position that I actually used to hold I used to think that the strategy should
be to maintain the moral high ground yet when looking at the data around police
brutality in the United States looking at all the cases of innocent people
being killed from the police in the u.s. there is nothing that the protesting
opposition could ever do to actually lose that moral high ground to begin
with further when looking at political psychological research we see that
right-wing politics does not actually revolve around objective truth claims
right-wing politics relies on the use of hierarchical structures and authority
and power so with right-wing politics being pretty
transparent and their tactics why would protesters of a civil rights
movement concern themselves with the outlook of a conservative reactionary it
doesn't make logical moral or even strategic sense to do so we see that
there is ultimately nothing that you could do
peacefully March in the streets take a knee during the national anthem on a
football field to win the praise of a right-wing opposition if you challenge
authority no matter how wrong that authority may be there will always be a
reactionary pushback against you this is the academic and conceptual makeup of
right-wing politics and ultimately it manifests itself in reality the largest
recent example of this is Colin Kaepernick and his protest during the
national anthem everyone was virtually mortified by his actions and he quickly
lost his job yet a couple years later after subsequent rioting after
subsequent protesting in the streets the NFL completely changed their stance
around black lives matter and his protest so whenever you deal with status
quo actors whenever you deal with reactionary politics you must understand
that the only thing they fundamentally care about is power so what's the
solution to this it's to show that you are also powerful whether that is
rioting whether that is peaceful protest whether that is marching in the streets
you need to play politics by their own game which is power yet it is still
important to note that this power does not necessarily have to come from the
threat of chaos or potential violence and rioting this can come peacefully but
it is also equally important to understand that rioting has worked in
the past and it continues to work today ultimately I am NOT making a
prescriptive argument about what should be I am making a descriptive argument
about what is and what has work and what is working today I'm further making
these arguments about the movements around black lives matter and how they
operate the lucky thing here is that black lives matter and the movements
surrounding it work prescriptively and descriptively as power and solidarity
this is why we are seeing results this is ultimately why we are raising
awareness around police brutality that has existed for hundreds of years and
its subsequent racial element embedded within it because ultimately from an
individual level the first step we must take in fixing modes of injustice is
truly understanding how that mode of injustice manifests itself and the
strategies of both parties involved because ultimately the philosophy of
black lives matter and the surrounding movements is fundamentally the same as
something like Stonewall it's fundamentally the same as the 1960 civil
rights movement they are ultimately contending with broken power structures
and looking to mend them such as other movements did in the past
the quicker we understand this the quicker we can demystify black lives
matter the quicker we can create a more inclusive society where minority groups
do not have to fear for their lives based on the color of their own skin
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