hey guys welcome back to my channel this
is a ume Theresa today I'm going to talk
about black lives matter and why if
you're wondering why all these protests
are happening while diluting why
everyone's so angry why you feel
pressured to speak about this topic on
social media then this video is for you
I'm going to explain the history and the
systemic racism that's really deeply
rooted into our society and hopefully
after watching this video it'll help you
understand why we're fighting so hard
for change so originally when I was
making this video I wanted it to be
about how you can actually help but I've
noticed that a lot of people aren't
understanding the full spectrum of the
issue and now as there are so many
resources out there on how you can help
I've noticed that there aren't enough
resources out there explaining why
people are so angry and why we're
fighting so hard for change initially to
be completely honest I was really
frustrated when I saw people making
ignorant comments and posts on social
media but I've noticed that being angry
on social media or posting
passive-aggressive content isn't gonna
make a change and what's gonna create
change is helping people understand
what's actually going on and how deeply
racism is actually rooted into our
society I'm really grateful to have a
platform to speak on and I would like to
use it not to only raise awareness but
to educate my audience as well and I
really hope that we can all grow
together and learn together to create a
better world so today's gonna be a
little bit of a history and a social
studies lesson 3 our
so racism in America started way back in
1620 when the British pilgrims white
people landed in the United States and
colonized all the land that was owned by
the Native American tribes the Native
Americans taught the pilgrims how to
grow their crops in hopes of coexisting
with them peacefully but instead the
pilgrims took their land and mistreated
them the Native Americans were forced to
evacuate their homes they were
slaughtered and now they're close to
extinct and then in the 1800s the white
people used money and violence to bring
a lot of African people from Africa to
the United States to use them as slaves
the slaves were forced into long hard
labor and they were mistreated in the
most cruel and inhuman ways they were
some people that fought against slavery
in order to free them but these slaves
were considered essential workers in
order to maintain the farms especially
in the south and this led to the Civil
War after the Civil War the slaves were
finally free but there was still a large
group of people that discriminated
against black people that was the KKK
aka
white supremacists they roamed around
the streets and lynched black people
killing them in the most horrible ways
the scary part about this is that these
white supremacists they still exist
to this day a 25 year old black man
named Ahmad Audrey was shot and killed
by two white folks while he was jogging
last February this is not normal you
guys after the Civil War there was a law
called the Jim Crow law that allowed
racial segregation this means that
people of color were not allowed to use
the same facilities as white people and
yes when I say people of color
I mean Asians Latin Americans Native
Americans middle-eastern all racial
minorities so they had to use separate
bathrooms separate entrances they had to
sit at the back of the bus while only
white people were allowed to sit in the
front of the bus they were not allowed
to vote and so on this suppressed and
forced racial minorities into
second-class status only for the color
of their skin in the late-night 50s
nineteen sixties racial minorities
finally stood up for their rights this
was when people like Martin Luther King
jr. and Rosa Parks led the boycotts
which led to the civil rights movement
one of the most famous events of the
civil rights movement took place on
August 28th 1963 this is when Martin
Luther King jr. gave the I have a dream
speech more than 200,000 people of all
races gathered in Washington DC for a
peaceful march to fight for their rights
it looks pretty familiar to what's going
on right now right also I want to point
out that if it weren't for the civil
rights movement us Asian Americans we
wouldn't even exist since the 1920s the
u.s. immigration policy didn't allow us
agents or other ethnic minorities to
immigrate to the US until Martin Luther
King jr. had president lyndon b johnson
signed the Immigration and Nationality
Act
1965 because of this movement racial
minorities were able to obtain job
equality voting rights and fair housing
but unfortunately the civil rights
leaders fartin Luther King jr. and
Malcolm X were assassinated so black
people have been used as slaves chased
and slaughtered by white supremacists
declined their human rights and finally
after all this is over this is one the
systemic part of racism kicks in moving
on to the social studies part of today's
lesson decades after the Civil War the
government divided studies into sections
that were desirable or non desirable for
investment so this means that the black
people that were living in those
neighborhoods were refused loans when
buying their home or investments in the
schools and those neighborhoods and
without financial support or quality
education it has been very difficult for
black families to find high income jobs
and build their wealth not only this but
the prejudices against black people also
affect the acceptance rate into higher
education and higher income jobs even
today numbers show that people who have
white sounding names get twice as many
callbacks as identical resumes with
black sounding names this is also why
the black unemployment rate is twice the
rate of white unemployment rate even
among college graduates but guys this is
only part of the systemic
that's embedded in our society in
American politics there was something
called the Southern Strategy it was a
Republican Party strategy to increase
political support among white voters in
the south by appealing to racism against
African Americans so they pretty much
claim to be the party to fight the war
on crime and drugs
this was actually exacerbated because
they were just basically trying to put
as many people of color into jail as
possible it's not more arrests and
longer sentences even for the most minor
activities to this day the rate of
incarceration and the number of people
in prisons are rising like crazy even
though in reality the rate of crime has
continued to decline our American
leaders still continue to generate fear
so they can continue to filled prison
cells to satisfy the demands for safety
and at the same time a lot of big famous
brands like tourists Egret
Starbucks and McDonald's have benefited
off of cheap prison labor so now do you
see how corrupt the prison system is
this is why there are so many
organizations that are fighting or
reformation of the criminal justice
system also did you know that the u.s.
collectively spends 100 billion dollars
on policing and eighty billion dollars
on incarceration and as a result the
heroic police are shooting and killing
innocent black people every single month
even today with all the protests going
on right now a lot of the police
officers are shooting rubber bullets and
tear gassing the protesters that are
only there to peacefully protest and
send their message this is why
organizations are raising awareness to
defund the police so this is why you've
been seeing the hashtag black lives
matter
every single day and this is why so many
black people and their allies are so
angry sad frustrated and exhausted so
please don't take it personally
when we seem angry or aggressive on
social media we're all just trying to
send the message and change the world
for a better place part of the reason
why I've been so vocal about this topic
is because I have a lot of black friends
in both the US and in Japan and some of
them are like family to me they're the
most beautiful kind talented people I
know and it breaks my heart to think
that any of my friends or their family
members could be killed judged will lead
just because of the color of their skin
and I just can't let this pass but I
also want you to know that it's okay if
you don't know the right thing to do or
say in these situations especially if
you're born into an environment where
you're never taught about racism or if
you don't have any black friends this is
a topic that's difficult for you to
understand there have been times in the
past when I to have said insensitive
things not knowing it was inappropriate
luckily I was able to grow past that
learn from my mistakes and educate
myself but I truly believe that we all
deserve a chance to learn and better
ourselves to make a change hopefully
this video helped shed some light
this issue and understand why we're
fighting so hard and I also hope that
watching this video will encourage you
to take the next steps to help create a
peaceful world without racism a hundred
percent of the Adsense revenue from all
videos I upload in the month of June
will be donated to support the black
lives matter movement so please go and
watch my videos for the month of June
thank you guys so much for watching
today's video
and I'll see you guys in the next one
bye
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Ryan
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