There's a Pennsylvania fire house that has been shut down temporarily.
Because a few of the volunteer firefighters were caught on a hot mic
using some racial slurs mocking the death of a young 8 year old girl who was shot.
So let's go to some of these details because that sounds great.
Seems like these guys might want to protect your house.
So the firefighters are from Briarcliffe Fire company Station 75,
that's in Delaware County.
They thought that their conversation following a virtual meeting in late
January was private.
But the Briarcliffe firefighters reportedly didn't realize that
their colleagues from the Goodwill station were still on the line.
Classic, but Goodwill firefighters recorded the call and
part of that was the original call.
By the way it was to discuss the consolidation of services between three
different fire stations.
So this is completely unrelated to anything that they began to talk about
afterwards.
It's just something that's in their hateful guts.
So when they left that call, members of the Briarcliffe company stayed on and
they started saying things like this.
A bunch of effing inwards down there said one Briarcliffe firefighter
about this all-Black Darby Township Fire Company.
That sounds great.
The Briarcliffe firefighters also called Darby's chief a racial slur and
a piece of s, complained about black firefighters being lazy and
discussed that there's too many African-Americans living in the area.
That's the effing problem, one of them said.
Blacks are gonna take over stuff.
That sounds like it leads to all kinds of helpful stuff from those heroes.
So also we're now onto the 8 year old girl that was shot and killed.
Her name was Fanta Bility.
She was 8 years old and
she was killed by police in Delaware County in August of last year.
This is what they said about her.
Fanta soda, yeah, orange or Fanta grape said one of them during the call while he
was laughing even after being told that the girl was shot to death by police.
And her family released a statement about how hurtful this was to hear.
So the family of Fanta Bility is appalled by the audio recordings of
the Briarcliffe Fire Department that was made public today.
Fanta was a bright bubbly innocent child before being killed by careless actions of
three Sharon Hill police officers.
To speak of her with such disrespect,
shines the light of shame on those people at the firehouse making those remarks.
And to trivialize what this young girl endured that night gives new meaning to
the descriptive, despicable.
So there's that.
So anytime we talk about Black Lives Matter and
all those Blue lives Matter and versus that other matter.
Why do we have to say Black Lives Matter?
Because there's an instance every day
where we can see someone that explicitly says the opposite.
In fact laughs about it because she's an 8 year old little girl who was shot to death
by police.
And what if we wanna talk about how that needs to stop or maybe police need to be
trained differently or just overhauling the system completely.
What are you talking about?
You just hate the police?
Do the firefighters hate this little girl?
Do the police hate that little girl?
Do they hate her family that has been dealing with this and
we'll deal with this the rest of their lives?
And now this new wrinkle to their pain and
trauma about how the people who are supposed to be protecting them,
what they think of her, their little girl and her name.
And if they call the fire department to come put out a fire,
maybe next door may be a part of the house.
Do you think they have much trust that these people
really believe that they should save them because they really don't seem to care
about their daughter that was killed?
>> Yeah.
So, the reason why the phantom part of the story is so important is not just
because it's a little 8 year old girl and they're mocking her death.
It's also because the firefighters are supposed to be in a line of work where
they save lives.
And so obviously they have no respect for African-Americans and
they think there's literally too much of them in the neighborhood.
So are you sure they're gonna save your 8 year old daughter if she's black or
are they gonna say.
Hey it's a white part of town, I empathize with them and there, but for the grace of
God goes, me and my family, I'm gonna go rush into that burning building.
It's a black neighborhood.
Are we really gonna rush into the building?
And risks are valuable white lives for their worthless black lives?
That's why it's called Black Lives Matter because to a lot of people
they don't including in law enforcement and in the fire department.
And guys, let's give you the best case scenario and
say that a lot of right wingers are not racist, okay, and
that's why they keep saying I don't understand there's no racism.
Why is everybody complaining about racism?
Is it possible that even if I give you that benefit of the doubt and
you don't have a racist bone in your body,
you've never thought any of those things that other people think them.
And that has a massive effect on African-Americans in this country,
did you ever think about that?
How do you know that all those other people aren't racist that when you hang up
the phone.
Even if you're a white person, even if you're a Republican or a right winger,
you hang up the phone and the other guys don't go, okay, Billy's off the line.
Billy is a good guy and that's why we don't hang out with them much.
Now let's tell you all the racist things that we actually think and
how we don't wanna work with black firefighters.
We don't wanna say black people and we think they're in N the word.
Of course that exists.
It's right there.
That's not from 1967, that's from today, Rick.
>> When we speak of systemic racism, these are examples upon many that we bring up.
In Wilmington North Carolina three police officers
were fired because they were overheard saying the N word.
Saying they wanted to start a civil war,
saying they wanted to wipe them off as in black people in Georgia.
There was a police chief named Jean Almond and an officer named John Brooks
who were caught on bodycam talking about black lives matter protests.
Saying how slave masters were good and the slaves were well fed and they were housed.
These are police officers and a chief.
In Albany New York there was a police officer named David Hopped who very
similarly to what Jenks said.
And I'm just gonna read his quote, my buddies listened to the scanner and
they send me texts all the time and they go, hey, is the suspect ever a white male?
And I go blank, no, it's like, I know it sounds terrible to say, but
I don't give a blank what anybody says.
I sincerely don't, they are the worst blanking race.
You can't deny like over the last X amount of months they're getting worse and
people are defending that?
Are you blanking kidding me?
There's also been judges like David Zimmerman in
Vancouver Washington who was caught saying the N word.
A Manhattan family court clerk Donna Pranito put up ridiculous
posts on social media calling for the deaths of two Democratic politicians.
Tom Cotton said that slavery is a necessary evil.
The head of the New York Police Union after Donald Trump said that they need to
not be so nice on anyone they're arresting, then endorsed Donald Trump.
And then even at the January 6 insurrection,
there were off duty police officers, there were guards at jails,
tons of people who work in law enforcement.
So again, as I preface, when we say systemic racism,
these are countless examples of it.
>> By the way to address the reverse racism line people,
I say, well black folks, they can be racist.
Now, these, as you mentioned, all those things and specifically here,
you're in a position of power and influence over someone else's life or
their career or anything else.
So, if these firefighters, as I mentioned before, are racist,
they determine whether or not they help you to a certain degree if the family
of Fanta is racist against white people.
What is it about their thoughts that's gonna affect these firefighters?
Nothing, that's the difference.
So you can talk about how black folks hate white folks.
What is it that they can do throughout the system that will affect their lives and
keep them or take them down or keep them down.
Not very much, but it always happens the other way.
But let's go ahead and
offset it by saying there's this nonsense thing called reverse racism.
That's why systemically that's the problem.
>> So yesterday on the show, we talked about Gary Chambers political and
he's a great progressive running for Senate in Louisiana.
You should definitely check out his campaign.
ChambersforLouisiana.com, I believe.
So Gary and then, mentioned that when a black man was elected
to go to Congress, about 100 years ago, actually.
The whites in Louisiana said, no, we're not gonna seat you and
why they made up the issue of voter fraud.
Okay, so even back then, right after the civil war, they were pretending that
black people had too much power in this country and they're still pretending that.
It's absurd.
It's the most absurd thing you've ever heard are most of the Fire Department's
black and there's a couple of white fire departments and
that's why white folks are like, well, we are besieged.
Guys, look, I wanna make one other point about, look,
any rational person knows that's absurd.
The idea that black people have too much power in this country as we show you these
tapes of people in actual power saying these things over and over again.
But I'm worried that a lot of people will hear this police scanner stuff
that Ricky said, and it will further reinforce their racism.
Well, if the cops are saying that's who the criminals are.
Look, I'll give you an example of my people Turks.
In America our crime rate is nearly non existent.
Okay, why?
Because it's really hard to immigrate here.
So almost all the Turks here are like doctors and engineers and
apparently talk show hosts.
Okay, I know it's a funny thing, but
were wealthier than the average because of the professional class that we're in.
So there's almost no crime for Turks in America.
In Germany crime from Turks is really high.
Why?
Because they're poor.
Poor Turks can drive to Germany, but they can't drive to America.
So it's a different socioeconomic class.
And so the Germans and go, the Turks or the,
obviously the inferior races are the ones that do all the crime.
Here we do none of the crime because it isn't about the race,
it's about your socioeconomic condition.
It's so obvious yet, that has actually been used to fuel even further racism,
which puts people in a bigger socioeconomic hole and
then they get this vicious cycle of racism over and over again.
And that's what you see every time you lift up a rock and then they tell us, no,
there's nothing under that rock.
And there is no racism left in the country.
It's patently absurd.
>> My very last point on this, very quickly,
they've served the community for 50 years.
I wonder in those 50 years, what else has transpired?
And as you said, the calls that they may be just didn't go out to because receiving
a 30 day suspension is nothing.