“Unapologetically Black First”

Yeah, I'm here. What's up, Tires? Can't complain too much about yourselves. Same here.

Welcome, please. All right. Introduce yourself for the listeners. My name is Jas Lynn and I've been invited for the second time to join Tires on this multi-topic podcast.

Yeah, yeah. But the day we're sticking with our kind of thing, though today's kind of thing that's going to be unappired, genetically black first. You know, and I just want to start it all by talking about the news. In the news, there was this new Jersey wrestler.

He was a high school wrestler by the name of Andrew Johnson. He was a 16 year old. He was forced to cut his dry lots by white supremacist. I know white supremacist is a referee actually.

Or he was forced to force the force of the match. Now, my first question would be, why do you think like we as black people allow children to be subjected to these type of formal terrorism or don't apologize for who they are? I think it's just being fearful, you know. One side can be fear.

But on the flip side of that, you do have some black people that try to tough it out, you know, in hopes that it'll change the ways of people that live in racism and promote racism. Wow. That's interesting because I always felt like my whole thing is, you can't change them. You can't change their minds.

They might be what they are. And they're up against like a genetic battle right now against nature. So it's like there's no conventional about that. But you're a parent and you're a parent.

That's what we do have done. Well, first of all, if I was a parent and I would have already known that he was a supremacist and I don't think that that was the first time him confronting the kid about, you know, his hair. I'm sure it probably wasn't. And, you know, as a parent, I just I don't know what what transpired, you know, between the first interaction and that last one that resulted in the kid cutting his hair.

You know, I don't know, you know, but if you're if you're living in a town, where was it again? New Jersey on someone who they went to birth specifically, but when I read it was a town in New Jersey, a high school in New Jersey. Right. So if the other people allowed this referee right to do this, then they all believe in the same thing.

You know, it's like you, your racism in that county or that little town is alive and well. So that's not something that just came up. You know, that's not something that, you know, they just learned, you know, I'm sure that kid deals with that all the time. He's probably got to predominate a white school.

So he's dealing with that often, unfortunately. You know, I would love for somebody to just give him an opportunity to interview, you know, encourage him and let him know that he has options. You know, you don't have to succumb to the oppressor. You know, I hate to say the word oppressor seems to archaic, but that's who they are.

They want to oppress you or others and they want to have this superiority, you know, over others. And, you know, I just hate that he kind of gave into that. He felt like he didn't have a choice. You know, it's like we are we live in a world where we are pro choice.

You know what I'm saying? And I just hate that kid had to succumb to that. But hopefully that's his last time having to succumb to something like that because that was humiliating. Yeah, because that's it.

That's it. That's it. That's my kid. He was just at the fourth straight of match and we just don't walk out the court.

Right. Me too. Me too. But then it's like you put yourself in a position to train and put your heart and soul into practicing and doing what you love to do.

And then you have to throw it all away. So then you come to a crossroads or should I just throw away everything that I worked for? Again, you know, he has to be taught his choices and his options, you know, outside of that that environment. You know, he can be great outside of that environment and he doesn't have this to come to it and it's not going to be the end all be all, you know, that his talent or his, you know, athleticism.

Good stuff. So he must be able to move on to Travis Scott. From all video surface of him talking about Mike Brown, for those who don't know Travis Scott is a Houston born rapper. He's in a highly publicized relationship with Kylie Jenner.

And he recently some comments service that the other rounds have happened. What's happened in Ferguson, when Mike Brown was murdered by the race of the Dan Wilson who was employed by the city of Ferguson. Mike Travis Nasey, Mike Brown, deserved his consequences. Now my question is are black males and there are interracial relationships.

Are they compromised or they more likely to sell out? I think that they become out of touch, you know, I think that they become out of touch because they're seeing things from a different perspective and it's not the wrong with seeing things. I think we all, you know, I encourage us all to see things from different perspectives and doesn't mean that, you know, all of them are correct, but it's interesting to see how people view things. In this in general, I think that they just become out of touch.

You know, you know, I can see that to a certain degree, but like one time when I was a while ago when I was working at Home Depot, and I was having a conversation with the other guy, he was like, we're talking about losing everything. I was like, man, you know what, they don't stop it. We might have to go to war. And he stopped.

He was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We were talking about war for a buck because I killed a whole bunch of niggas over my wife age. And I was lost at the day. I was like, was that joke?

That was not a joke. That was not a terrible joke. That was point series as a matter of fact, it's, um, you're working at the store and he was very serious. Hmm, interesting.

I don't know. I mean, I mean, me personally, I've never been into interracial in an interracial relationship. So my thoughts and my opinions can only go so far, you know, parallel facts, you know what I'm saying, but, um, I don't know, I just think that is stuff. It's just so many ways.

It's like the whole saying of, you know, one equality, you know, it's like, as black people, period, you know, we want it to be treated as equals and we forgot that we needed to still be 10 times better, you know, being equals or gave us. The acceptance was okay for us. So the whole part of tapping into our extraordinary gifts, talents, dreams, all of that just kind of went to the side and there's only a few of us that can kind of achieve that I feel like. That's my opinion.

You know, but I just think that's a part of that. You know, you want to be equal. You want to be accepted, you know, to compromise. And yeah, so I guess so it's also like compromising your compromise and your roots and your heritage and which people die for and not necessarily by choice died for, you know what I'm saying.

So that you can have to treat them to date whomever you want to, but not to the, to the extent of forgetting, you know, what they went through just like you can have what you think is. So what part do black people do you think that black people just got the sister mindset of because, you know, my grandmother for freedom and equality, but mostly equality. And my parents did too, and I'm pretty sure your grandparents and your parents did too. But at what point do this generation of us are the other generation that's coming up on comin' the beneath us is under us rather do this with the mindset so not want to be equal, but want to be dominant because we do have a power to become dominant.

I think that we are, you know, I think that this is just a start of a revolution, you know what I'm saying, like it started, I think in the last few years it's starting, but it's not just in one way, you know, it's economically, it's probably, you know, it's all the things that tie in of being dominant. You can't just, you can't just embrace one facet of it, you know, you can't just embrace economics and think that you've got it all covered, you know, it's like it's a process, it steps to this. And so we've gotten it started, I think that, you know, just being millionaires at younger ages, you know, the millennials, I love millennials, I'm a millennial, I think that we are the ones that have, that are like, are putting in the groundwork, you know, now we can't really see it, I think we'll see it maybe 20, 30 years from now, but I think that, you know, we're the ones that's got the baton out, you know, as far as shifting the mindset and actually taking the youth under our wings because millennials, you know, I can't speak for everybody, but I don't remember being taken under the wing and shown, you know, a better way to do things outside of just only surviving and being equal from, you know, the generation right above me. I just can't see that, you know, that just didn't happen for me.

Maybe other people are different. But you know, you know, I think that's a problem too, because I feel like it's always the generation before you was job to teach you what they did wrong and what they did right and how you could continue to progress, you know, and I just leave the young generation hanging. Yeah, I feel like, I feel like the millennials was left hanging, you know, I really feel like that, and it's not a strife against the generation before. It's none of that.

It's just, I think that, you know, nobody, we're a different breed, you know, we're just a different breed and it has nothing to do with our parents. It's just our timing, I think, for a difference and for a change, a different type of change going about the different way, you know, it's not all about marching. It's like just coming together and putting the ego to the side and a jealousy to the side. I think that gradually we're working towards that.

But remember, we still have to fight through the condition, you know, it's like, unconditioning and then reteaching. So, you know, I don't think in a generation really had to face it like we're facing it. It's like you have to realize that you're conditioned first. So the millennials, we get that we're conditioned.

And the next thing is, okay, how do we uncondition and then we teach. So, I think that's where we are now. I think that it is at the beginning of newness. And I see it already.

Me personally. Yeah. Okay. So, and speaking of old videos, we surfacing Chris Rock Chris Rock.

He seems to be at a round table at old video with a comedian Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C. And Ricky DaViz. Now, Louis C. K.

and Ricky DaViz was using the N word in front of Chris Rock. And he didn't check them at all. So, my first question is why have black people allowed audiences of people to become comfortable with refer to them at the end where it's the lack of self respect, you know, like, not even, not necessarily even just self respect, but like community disrespect, you know, it's like, I just feel like the generation that his generation should I say, wanted to try so hard to just be accepted. You know, and don't get me wrong.

I know they have to kiss a lot of ads. I had to kiss a lot of ads just to get where they are so that we can have the space to do what we do and be unapologetic about the things that we do, you know, so I give them that but I just, I don't know. I just, you know, I read up on that to earlier today because I was, I was ignorant to it. And I'm still not fully understanding what all happened, you know, the transcript between the two and, you know, this, but forget the.

But forget that the people, you know, the people, the white people that are offended by it. It's like, that's a reality check right there, because everybody should be offended by it. You understand, like, you shouldn't have to be a black person to be offended by it inward. That's my opinion.

It should make you uncomfortable because it comes from discomfort. It comes from a place of pain and all that. This isn't like an active endearment. You know what I'm saying?

Like, don't confuse it. But they, but, but they become so comfortable and saying like, they will say it and wraps on. They'll say it. Yeah, they'll say why you're rapping songs.

Like, they just feel so comfortable and standing out loud. I mean, like, not around me because I'm a victim to uncomfortable. What they say, don't be like, excuse me. What did you say?

You know, like, there's no way you can say they ain't work around me and get away with it. I'm like, I'm at the challenge, you turn a do. I'm at the ticket back to the 1800s or something. I don't always turn a do to do.

It's not be with a glove or something. In a way, there's no way. I agree. I agree.

You know, in this current climate of, um, problem of what's the premise is that dental patent says, why haven't they been forced to apologize? You know, like Kevin Hart recently LeBron James. While we're being forced to apologize and our counterparts aren't. Yes, we live in America where, you know, racism is alive and well, you know, but until, but see, the thing is, is we don't require people to apologize either.

The people that have us who have the platforms, we don't necessarily require white people or any other background or race who will offend us as a people. So apologize. We don't do it. We talk about it.

We might have a conversation about it, but we don't demand apologies. We don't get our troops together and say we need an apology. We don't do it. And I guess because, you know, we went so long without an apology.

We don't even expect them. We just want change behavior, but that's not how you plan a game. They send in the trolls behind. They want apology and they're bullying.

So they, they've, they've, you know, evolved bullying from one way to another. Now it's the whole media, the whole trolling and social bullying is the way that they choose now. That's how they're doing it. And unless you're trying to play the same game and beat them at it, maybe we should start doing the same thing, pressure them to apologize and be sorry.

Damn it. If you, if you're not. How do you call it? Sorry, publicly, publicly.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. How do we apply that pressure when we don't really have any economic banking? Because one thing I found is like, like when you do it like a Jew or white person or if you do something sophisticated, they have economic back and that kind of punish you.

So how do we become economically more economically sufficient to punish these people? Good question. I mean, you, you say Jews. I mean Jews, Jews, all the world.

So, yeah, maybe millennials to be able to, you know, change that to where we're the dominant resource, you know, financially. But I think that you don't necessarily need the money to apply to pressure. You know what I'm saying? Like, all you have to do is stop supporting.

Stop buying. Don't go to, don't go to the stand up comedians show. Keep your money. Spend it on something else.

You know, that's our problem as a people. We don't want to buckle down financially and stop supporting. We can learn about, we can learn about something so atrocious, you know, that, you know, against us and we'll still, we'll still support it. We'll still support it.

We paid our money. We find out some bad news about something. We're like, okay, well, then we try to excuse it on some levels that we can feel better about our coins and how we still want to support and take part of the quote unquote fund. You know, stop supporting.

Yeah. That's it. So, so what did they say about Chris Rock? That he didn't second.

You know, because I was surprised he did something like that. You know, but I'm glad I know now. You know what I'm saying? But, um, out of touch.

You know, it's just, you just so out of touch. And you don't think enough of your own community because at the end of the day, he's not making this money off black America. So now you're cool. You know, you tapped answer for them.

That's how I see him as a comedian. You know, when you look at Bill Cosby and you're looking out, even say Eddie Murphy, you know, Eddie Murphy might have with Disney on this, but I don't consider him a sellout. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Yeah. As a matter of fact, what people don't know during the whole Christmas guy is Saturday night live, even though he told him that they're here, you know, during the Saturday night live special because they just went back in the night. But instead of getting the guy, Bill Cosby said he refused to do it. You know, even after Bill Cosby tried to snare him in a way.

Yeah, so I would agree with John. I think he's a down brother. I think he's like first. No, yeah.

And also, I'm going to talk about the Florida being a dollar slave. The author William wrote him mentioned Michael Jordan. And we know how he did down and how he has nothing to do for black people. Because he made this quote back then when he was writing a book, he said Republicans by sneakers too.

And that was in support of a politician. As he said that he won't leave night won't speak on any issues because the public is by sneakers too. Now we know what that means. He means he's saying that white people by sneakers too.

He doesn't want to get them offended because he wants their money as well. As in the contrast to LeBron James who speaks out on black issues and is active in a black community. Right. And he was just the president day.

LeBron James was on Twitter. He was wrapped in some 21 set of songs by the name ASMR. And he didn't say anything the right story at least that I didn't think he just said that we get enjoys money over here. Everything is cultural, but he was forced to apologize for those payments.

And LeBron James was rich until. Why do you think Richard's in our brightness or apologizing constantly when they have all this money. I mean, I don't know because if that was me, I wouldn't be a kiss and ask like that and bow down if I had money. So then it's like not a question is his money.

Everything. You know, his money is money is money freedom. You know what I'm saying is a really freedom because these those guys and they still not free and they don't even realize it. You know, you surrounded by a type of people constantly that's giving you what you feel like are the keys to success.

Then you think you're not going to adopt their ways. You know, because you're looking at your own community like my community gave me nothing. They gave me nothing. Some of this is white man because he gave me all the tools that has quote unquote made me successful with the considered successful.

That's how, you know, I think that's just it's a condition still. You know, these people recruit these dudes early early early early. You just said something. You just said something.

Now, do you think when in the recruiting process and like athletes and things like that, that they pick a certain type of athlete, you know, like when they will bow down and will apologize that the polls are going to be like, no, I'm not apologizing for nothing. I got this money now and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna be black over here. I don't think that they're gonna pick anybody that's going to create any story or any fight for them. You know, white people fight the way we fight.

And I think that they're fearful of the way we fight. And I don't mean physical. I just mean just the whole black community period. You know, so they don't want anything that's going to give them a little unease or a little trouble.

So yeah, just like how the cabinet you think that whoever recruited him them years ago thought that he would turn out the way he turned out. Because if they do that, they do that. I'll quarterback for the lead football teams, never, never, you know, I just I think it's a beautiful thing when you can find your voice and be unapologetic about it regardless of the past regardless how you got there regardless of what as you kissed, at least at the end of the day you sort of like changed, you change the dynamic for your life and for your people that's looking up to you, you know, he may do nothing for us but look at the generation under him. Like Colin Kaepernick is what 31 32 years old.

Yes, imagine you did it by a little bit beacon of light for the kids that's only the league football teams and baseball teams and basketball. He's a beacon of light for them. You know, if you don't do anything else that's that's staying on that Neil per se, you know, that was everything. You don't have to do anything else that gave those kids hope that they can still have a voice regardless of who's paying them.

And money isn't everything. Yeah. Again back today. You know, I also want to sneak a little history up in there about the Holocaust.

A lot of people don't know that there were black Germans over there in Germany before Hitler wanted to play a race of everything that he called him. And you know the white Jews have murdered them before Hitler eventually took them out into the gas chambers and stuff like that. That's not really back in the night because it was supposed to be sympathetic to the Jews suffering, but somehow like no, I just want to point that out. I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah. So they're like, they're like, they're like doing over there in Germany. Cause you know, we probably like the whole planet basically everywhere. Like this whole planet everywhere, like wherever, wherever somebody just they feel everything already.

Cause we're the original people. So, yeah, they're like do the first, you know, the white Jews have killed off the black ones and then hello, they don't like, oh, white enough either and put them into a tournament camps and things like that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And that is not an old fact. It's a little bit of Jewish itself. He was a Jewish itself.

And then on fact, people don't know. And a lot of people don't know you get the name area from a black man from a black priest. A lot of people don't know that as well. I thought he was German.

I thought he was German. No, not his mother was Jewish. His mother was Jewish. Okay.

His father was, was a white German. Not you. So here you are. Yeah.

A biracial kid. Yeah. You want to be a race. Well, that's kind of like, that's kind of like our black brothers that get with these white women, you know, they can't see the light in the middle of the fucking place.

They can't make it too much to love both sides. So they hate one over you know, that's something, huh? Yeah, but you know, I got put my black face up there where I go. It's power.

Yes. And also I want to discuss, um, it's got Jerry. I don't know if you've seen this video, but it's become viral. But then this guy, Jerry, he, um, he was actually getting arrested by the cops going to traffic stop, right?

It's like a, and Jerry ended up beating up the cops with their own baton. I took the baton problem. If you watch the video and then Jerry's all the time called your boss. Jerry's not dead to the, to the day.

Wait, how long ago did this happen? Oh, no. No, this just happened like two days ago. They do this type of stuff.

And he's got his life. He might not even be in jail. No, he might have got a slap on the wrist. You know.

You know, I was like, you know, Jerry just proved that the cops don't need more assistance to training or they only the trip to African American Museum. They need better background checks and better application checks and better affiliation checks. What are the problem that I have with the police forces? They allow anybody to be cops?

You know, it's like the word of God, you know, cops were appointed to be righteous. And these days is like, you know, you go to the academy, you know, the cops. They just not qualified and not qualified on many levels. I mean, it's not not only mentally and, you know, intellectual wise physically.

They're just in morale shot. If I start with a little bit in them, but they're so overwhelmed with the crooked cops in the force to what it just they just follow suit. You know, and it's like, if I'm a doctor, I had to earn this. Nobody just don't happens to become a doctor.

Nobody goes to a little boot camp and becomes a doctor. You know, it's like, no, but these cops. You know, they're there. Anybody can be a cop today.

It's like alternative to the military. You don't know what to do with your life. Become a cop. Become a cop.

I don't know. You know, this and that. So I got the heart familiar. But let me just go be on.

You still going to wall? Every day you put a uniform on. You got a fight crime. So we know they cops and you know, we are in Britain.

You know, New Orleans area. I'm almost in Canada. So I try to boycott as much as possible. But we know they cops.

How do you see cops? Do you see a cop is like, even a black cop? I'm in different. I'm in different.

I'm in different to order. It's not a respect that that that that brews inside of me when I see a cover. Never. You know, the respect that I have for a cop would be the same respect that I would have for my fellow man is walking the streets like me.

It's not the badge or uniform that makes me put them on a pedestal anyway. You know, and I think I think I think that when you see a cop, just like if you see a man at a cloth or, you know, an educator or, you know, a leader of some sort, there is a certain respect. You should have, but not because you're fearful and think that you should have it. You know, it's not a fearful kind of respect.

It's just something, you know, that they've earned that you respect about them. But when I see cops in S anywhere, it could be a sheriff in OPD. It can be JP. You know, I just different to order.

You know, like they've lost so much respect in the community. And I try not to have a put them in all in the same box because you do have good cops. You have cops that go out and they fight crime all day and they have to go home to their families. You know, I get it.

But we're, I feel like we all know our zone. We're all fine crime. You know, I didn't know my thing is this, though, you don't like they be saying like the main, the main thing is when they instituted black person is I feel for my life. Then why did you join a force?

I'm scared. But these are the ones that go to the military. So, like I want pension. I want retirement.

I want to be able to. I don't know. I want to be a narc. Yeah, because I can be a snitch.

I'm most many, many other things. You know, it's like the integrity, the morale. All that shit is compromised when you're a good person. Deciding.

Why do you take it? You know, you're overwhelmed. I think that a lot of people go into the, let me clarify, you know, I think that a lot of people go into the police force to do good. And to be a light in communities and all of that.

But I think that it's hard for them to do that. Amongst other cricket cops. I think it's very difficult. You know, it's very.

Yeah, it's hard to be angel. I hear. I'm trying to help. That's about the most demons.

And the month angels. It's like angels amongst angels. They all they like blend. You know, the angels are held and angels are going to start to blend.

If you win them all the time, y'all, we all say it. You know, it's crazy. But I'm just joking. You know, it's hard.

It's hard. At the end of the day, cops want to make it home to their families. You know, they want to make it home to their family. So, so my last question to you is, are you unapologetically black first?

Black first? Yes. As in what we said. Well, you know, I like that response.

I like that response. So, yeah. I think that was fun. That was fun.

That was a mouthful. Unapologetic. You know, I don't focus on being unapologetic. I just focus on, you know, standing solid in what I do.

You know what I'm saying? It's like. And then, oh, yeah, that was unapologetic. I did what I feel like I needed to do.

And I don't regret it. I think that's unapologetic, you know, just being solid. And I try to be solid. I try to stay what I mean at all times.

You know, I don't, I try not to lie, you know, lying in all. No, I can keep up with that. You know, that's all about that. You know, your word is your bond and just being solid in your actions.

So to me, that's unapologetic. Now, as far as being black, you know, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm unapologetic.

But, you know, I'm unapologetic first to be a child of God. And then black comes second for me, for me, you know, because I was gone before I was black. So I think that that's number one. And then being black, you know, unapologetically black will be second for me.

Okay. So this would be my last show before the New Year's. Leave us with some positive. It was with some positive.

Let me go back on to the French part three for the New Year. So we everybody like to, everybody likes to on the panel. I mean, for some. You know, I think that if we can just be solid and who we are and be earnest in, in striving for excellence, you know, meaning you're not perfect, but you strive to be excellent.

You know, I think that it'll just make us as a community just better, just being educated and being unapologetic about what we learned and how we embrace it and how we execute it and how we teach it. You know, we're not here to be sad. We're not here to necessarily kiss as either. I don't think.

But, you know, it's like we're here to be a beacon of light for everybody. And at the end of the day, we still need each other. You know, God didn't put us here to be lonely and to be alone is to build each other up. So that's all I guess.

That was good. That was great. And today, I want to say God, and put it as you so eloquently put it to kiss as on the on his earth. And there's been some message to people and be oppressed by people.

We are meant to shine. We are meant to be like, I would say I'm a God having a human experience because I am a God. And for those who told me for this year and who's doing an infinite year, thank you. We just spoke truth to power like first.

Yes.