.
. WELL,
. WELL, IF IT WEREN'T FOR A PANDEMIC SOCIAL INJUSTICE
PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN
THE STORY OF TWENTY TWENTY.
AND YET TODAY AS WE WATCH
THINGS PLAY OUT IN A RIOT AT
THE US CAPITOL, IT WAS A VERY
DIFFERENT RESPONSE BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT TO PROTESTS AND
RIOTS THAT WERE FORECAST.
WELL, DR. NITA MOSBY TYLER WITH
THE EQUITY PROJECT IN DENVER
JOINS US NOW AND CLEARLY IT
APPEARS THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE
DRAWING A RACIAL LINE AS FAR AS
HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONDED
TODAY, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT
YOU'RE SEEING AS WELL?
I AM SEEING THAT QUITE A BIT
AND I THINK A PART OF THE
ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS IN
ANOTHER SET OF QUESTIONS LIKE
WHO GETS TO STORM THE NATION'S
CAPITAL VANDALIZE OFFICES AND
THEN GET NICELY ASKED TO LEAVE
AND WHY DID WE CALL THIS GROUP
TODAY THAT STORMED AND
VANDALIZED THE NATION'S CAPITAL
PROTESTERS WHILE JUST A FEW
MONTHS AGO WHEN THERE WERE
BLACK LIVES MATTER PEACEFUL
PROTESTERS WE CALL THEM RIOTERS
AND YOU'LL REMEMBER TOO THAT
THE SCENES OF THE STEPS OF THIS
VERY SAME CAPITOL BUILDING THAT
WERE FILLED WITH NATIONAL
GUARDSMEN AND WOMEN TO MEN AND
CONCRETE BARRICADES AND PEOPLE
WERE PEACEFULLY PROTESTING TO
URGE RACIAL EQUITY.
SO WE DID SEE TODAY ALL OF THE
MANY DISPARITIES AND WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY.
WELL, I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT
THAT BECAUSE I THINK MANY
PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT THIS SUMMER
WE SAW THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICA
AS FAR AS RACE WHEN IT CAME TO
BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS AND
THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD WAS
THAT EVOLUTION OR IS IT AN
EXPOSURE OF THE GAP THERE IN
BECAUSE HERE WE ARE NOW AND
JUST THIS WEEK WE SAW NO POLICE
CHARGED AND CHARGES FILED
AGAINST THE POLICE OFFICER IN
THE SHOOTING DEATH OF JACOB
BLAKE IN KENOSHA.
AND NOW THIS PLAYS OUT TODAY
WITH WHAT YOU AGAIN REFERRED TO
AS A RATHER BENIGN RESPONSE BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
I DO THINK THIS IS REALLY AN
ILLUMINED VERSION OF A PROBLEM
NOT YET SOLVED.
THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS AN
EVOLUTION AS MOST PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN THINKING THAT IT IS.
I DO ALSO THINK THIS IS A
NATIONAL LOOK IN THE MIRROR A
MOMENT IT'S TIME TO TELL
THE TRUTH, THE HARD TRUTHS
ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY BUT I AM
VERY CLEAR THAT IT IS THE VERY
SAME COUNTRY THAT PILLAGED AND
SLAUGHTERED INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
FOR LAND AND ENSLAVED PEOPLE
THAT LOOK JUST LIKE ME FOR
ECONOMICS AND CREATE AN
INTERNMENT CAMPS.
THIS IS THE SAME AMERICA
STORMING THE CAPITOL BUILDING
TODAY.
SO UNTIL WE TELL THE TRUTH
ABOUT NOT ONLY OUR PAST BUT
THE RESIDUAL OF THAT PAST AND
THE GRASS THAT YOU'RE FEELING
AND SEEING TO HOLD ON TO THAT
PAST, I DON'T KNOW THAT TRUE
CHANGE REALLY HAPPENS MOST
OF THE REACTION TO TODAY AND
IT'S HARD TO JUDGE PEOPLE OR
HOW MANY PEOPLE FEEL THE WAY
THEY DO SEEMS TO BE ABHORRENT
ABOUT ABOUT WHAT TOOK PLACE AT
THE CAPITOL TODAY.
SO IS IT IN FACT IN ITS
UGLINESS SOMETHING THAT COULD
BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER OR IS
THIS IN FACT JUST ANOTHER PIECE
OF EVIDENCE AS TO HOW FAR APART
WE ARE?
I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT IT IS
THE MOST PAINFUL, COMPLEX
MOMENTS THAT BRING TOGETHER
THE BEST COLLECTIVE WORK.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS
UNTIL ALL IS REVEALED IT'S
ACTUALLY VERY HARD TO WORK ON
THINGS STRATEGICALLY.
I THINK WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING
OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS IS
THE REVEALING OF OUR LANDSCAPE
.
WE CONVINCED OURSELVES FOR A
WHILE THAT THINGS WERE GETTING
BETTER.
WE DIDN'T SEE THE WHOLE
LANDSCAPE.
SO I THINK IN THE VERY PAINFUL
WAY ALL OF THAT'S BEING
REVEALED RIGHT NOW AND I FEEL
VERY HOPEFUL THAT IT IS IN THAT
THAT THE OPPORTUNITY LIES FOR
US TO CREATE STRATEGIES
OF EQUITY.
WELL, YOU TALK ABOUT HARD
TRUTHS AND SEEING THEM EVEN
THAT'S BECOME SLIPPERY OVER
THE PAST DECADE OR SO.
SO WE WILL HOPEFULLY TAKE
THE TRUTH AND GROW FROM IT.
DR. MOSEBY TYLER, WE ALWAYS
APPRECIATE GETTING A CHANCE TO
TALK WITH YOU