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Hi, everybody. My name Stefan Molyneux, and I'm the host of Freedomain Radio, which is
the largest philosophy show in the world.
As we are in the closing few days of the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon
Martin, I thought I would share a few thoughts. I hope you will make it through this presentation.
I think it's quite important.
We start with some caveats. I'm certainly no legal expert, and I really don't care that
much about some of these largely manufactured stories that are actually distracting us I
think from more important stories. But that having been said, this really could turn into
quite an important story.
As you may remember, in the wake of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King
beating acquittal, there were 53 murders, 2,400 injuries, 3,000 businesses were ruined
and there was over a billion dollars worth of property damage which tragically took place
in some of the poorest neighborhoods in North America. So I do actually want to get some
information out there for people if it can help calm a few writers and so on, may in
fact save some lives. So I hope that you will stay with me through the presentation.
So just in case you've been on Mars, say, but let's talk about George Zimmerman. He
is a Hispanic-American, oddly enough referred to in the media as a white Hispanic, the white
that they refer to Barack Obama as a white black. He's Hispanic-American. He lives in
a gated community in Sanford, Florida. It's called the Retreat at Twin Lakes. He was raised
in a racially integrated household. He is black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great
grandfather.
As a young man, he partnered with a black friend to start a business. He and his wife
mentored and tutored minority children for free when one of their neighbors who is a
black woman had a home invasion from some young black men. They said, "He has a key
to our place. You can come over whenever you like. Our house is your house," and so on.
So it does not seem to be a huge amount of racial bias quite the contrary.
Zimmerman had been arrested twice in the past, one is with a charge for domestic assault
which was dropped and there was another charge of resisting arrest that was reduced so that
he was no longer charged with any violence and resisting arrest.
In Sanford, Zimmerman actually led the inquiry into the official death of a black homeless
man. Zimmerman publicly criticized the Sanford Police Department for allegedly covering up
the January 2011 beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white police officer which
resulted in the resignation of then Sanford Police Chief Brian Tooley. So he took on a
pretty white bunch of cops in defense of homeless black man and actually did have some real
effects, not the profile of your average *** member.
Now, in this gated community about 20% of the residents are black and there was a problem,
as you probably know. In Florida, the house prizes have collapsed since the housing crash
of 2008 and onwards, lots of unoccupied homes, lots of problems with crime. There were at
least eight burglaries from November 2010 to February 2012 which were committed by black
men with dozens more unreported to the police. Drugs, vandalism and theft have become a constant
problem in the community. In July 2011, a young black man stole Zimmerman's bike from
his home. The next month, his wife saw one fleeing a burglarized home.
Now, let's look at Trayvon Martin. Of course, you probably saw the pictures of this cherubic-faced
young boy of 11 or 12. The reality is he was a 17-year-old young black man. He was 5'11",
158 pounds, the form of a footballer, muscular. He was a possible drug dealer who had been
suspended from school for carrying around a baggie with pot residue. He was actually
sent to his father and his father's girlfriend in Sanford because he had been suspended and
his stepmother I think was worried about things.
He was messaged on social media: "Damn! Where you at? ***, I need a plant," which I assumed
does not mean a hydrangea?. And when a security guard searched his backpack after he tagged
WTF at the school, the security guard found women's rings, earrings, and a screwdriver
which was described as a burglary tool. To be clear, there's no evidence that Trayvon
Martin was associated with any of the burglaries in the gated community. I just really want
to be clear about that. Of course, he's pretty new to the community.
Martin had previously been in fights; one he won by hitting his opponent in the nose
drawing blood, and one he lost because his opponent got him on the ground. We'll get
into more of that in a moment. Martin tested positive for marijuana use after his death.
He had pictures of himself using marijuana and growing marijuana plants. Again, to be
perfectly clear the levels that he tested positive, the levels are very low so that's
important to understand. He was also attempting to acquire or sell an illegal firearm, according
to his cell phone.
So he was in Sanford, as I mentioned, because he was suspended at school and he told or
bragged to his friends that he was bringing marijuana to Sanford. So this doesn't mean
anything in terms of therefore he could get shot. I mean, 40% of American teenagers use
marijuana. I'm completely for drug legalization so it's not an issue of that; but marijuana
does impair judgment, can cause paranoia and so on. So these are just factors. They're
certainly not proofs of anything in particular. These are just information. And I'm trying
to provide you information that may not have been provided by the significantly race baiting
mainstream media.
So Martin and a female friend on November 21st, three months before his death, after
he told her he was tied and sore from a fight, she asked him why he fought. Bae, shorthand
for "babe." Martin: (Curse) "Man, that *** snitched
on me." Friend: Bae, you're always fighting, man.
You got suspended? Martin: No, we thumped after school in a ducked-off
spot. Friend: Oh, well, demi.
Martin: I lost the first round (sad face), but won the second and third round.
Friend: Oh, so it's three rounds. Damn! Well, at least you won (LOL), but you need to stop
fighting, bae, for real. Martin: Nah, I'm not done with fool. He gonna
have to see me again. Friend: No, stop. You ain't gonna be satisfied
till you're suspended again, huh? Martin: "No, but he ain't bleed enough for
me. Only his nose.
Not unimportant that somebody had a history of fighting, knowledge of fighting. He'd been
studying some mixed martial arts -- and this comes into the narrative a little bit later
-- and that he knew how to hit people in the nose to make the nose bleed and so on. Again,
it doesn't prove anything. It's really clear about this. This is just background information
that I think is not irrelevant, if that makes any sense.
All right, so let's talk about the walk. So Trayvon Martin left the apartment and took
a mile-long walk in the pouring rain in a hoodie to buy Skittles and an Arizona Watermelon
Fruit Juice Cocktail. Now, it could be that he was just jonesing for some sugar, but that
seems like a pretty long and uncomfortable trip to take just for some candy and a soft
drink. It could be another reason as to why he was so keen to get a hold of these things.
The Fruit Juice Cocktail and the Skittles are two ingredients in a druggy concoction
known as lean, sizzurp or purple drank which required codeine, soft drink and candy.
According to his Facebook post, Martin had been using lean since at least June 2011 when
tragically he was separated from his primary caregiver. June 27, 2011, Martin asks a friend,
"You now a connect for codeine?" (Are you now a connection for codeine?) He tells his
friend that "Robitussin and soda could make some fire *** lean, I've had it before," and
wants to make some more. His father's girlfriend's house was 100 yards from Zimmerman's truck
and the confrontation occurred 70 yards from this woman's house, the tragic confrontation.
So what are the drug effects of lean? High doses are sometimes compared to the effects
of other dissociatives such as *** or ketamine. DXM which is part of the ingredients in Robitussin
causes physical and psychological effects that may be frightening or unpleasant. Psychological
effects can include profound disorientation, depression, a feeling of personal disintegration
or a feeling of unreality and disconnection that may persist for days. Chronic use may
cause depression, psychological dependency, and possibly brain damage. Large doses may
be associated with psychotic breaks.
This is a person writing about it and the sources for everything I'm talking about will
be in the low bar or in the notes to the podcast. A few people seem to be greatly susceptible
to DXM addiction and some of these have suffered long-term health consequences, and very few
may have suffered permanent brain damage from extremely heavy use of DXM, an 8-ounce bottle
of maximum strength syrup every day.
On the other hand, some people consume the same amount for years seemingly without consequence.
And while some people can consume DXM regularly without psychological consequences, others
suffer from severe depression and psychotic breaks, even leading to a few cases of suicide
attempts. And this can result in bad trips, psychotic breaks, psychological addiction
and depression and irreversible brain damage.
So the major risks of occasional use of this lean: panic attacks, psychotic breaks, impaired
judgment in critical situations. The risks of regular use and binges: mania; violent
ideation, means repetitively violence thoughts; anti-social behavior and paranoia. And in
fact, the woman he was on the phone with, Jeantel, did describe him as paranoid during
the time that he was on the phone with her when he was walking home. And again, this
doesn't prove anything. These word games don't mean anything. It's just important information
to have.
So regular use can cause habituation and psychological addiction, tolerance and physical addiction,
psychosis, liver, kidney and pancreas damage. In fact, Martin's liver indicated the beginning
stages of an unusual degrading known as mild fatty metamorphosis and his brain tissue appeared
compromised, both conditions symptomatic of DXM use though not proof of damage from DXM.
So somebody writing with advice on how to deal with people who are taking this drug
say, Be very careful in trying to restrain the tripper since he or she may perceive this
is a threat and will probably be mostly immune to pain. The tripper, like a cornered animal,
could beat the living *** out of you without thinking twice. Then again, this does prove
nothing. These are possible indications of what might have happened. I just want to be
clear about that.
So what happened? So before this time, February 2, 2010, Zimmerman called 911 concerned that
a young black man was scouting a burglary location and said, "I don't want to approach
him personally." By the time the police arrived, the man was gone. So this is not somebody
who goes around stalking and so on. And people used these words like, "Zimmerman was stalking
Trayvon Martin." This is not even remotely accurately, which we'll get to in a little
bit. The stalking is a very specific legal term. It's a repetitive harassment, fear and
so this is not for people who met the first time.
So four days later, after February 2, 2011, two young black men burglarized another house
in the community. One was caught with stolen goods on him. February 26, 2012, Zimmerman
called the non-emergency number of the local police department to report a suspicious person
walking slowly between houses through the rain seemingly on drugs.
Now, right after Trayvon Martin bought his candy and soft drink, three young men came
in to buy blunts which are small cheap cigars that you can hollow out and put marijuana
in or so I've heard. And he may have met them. He may have known them afterwards. There's
no particular video footage, but there's some indication that he may have known them. And
so he may have been actually on drugs at that time or he may have picked up ingredients
for drugs which, you know, if you're addict, it kind of made sense that you're going to
do that walk in the rain so it's possible that he was already on drugs.
The young man approached Zimmerman in his car then ran away. Zimmerman apparently got
out of his car to monitor Martin and told the dispatcher what he was doing. And the
dispatcher replied, "Okay, we don't need you to do that." This is a point of great contention
for people following this trial. "If only Zimmerman had stayed in his car, if only he
had listened to the dispatcher, then none of these would have occurred." We will get
to that, the legality of that in a sec.
So Zimmerman lost track of Martin, but Zimmerman said that first he wanted to walk and check
out the street signs to see exactly which one he was at before he returned to his car.
They changed names occasionally, which is part of why he wanted to make sure despite
familiarity with the neighborhood.
Now, this is kind of what he was supposed to do. He's a neighborhood watch captain which
the community organized because the police can't protect people. We all know that, which
is really tragic but so he was part of -- this is what he was supposed to do and the police
are always saying, "You know, if you see something, say something. Report suspicious activity,"
and so on, right? So after doing this, Zimmerman says he was returning to his car.
As he was returning to his car, Zimmerman asserts that Martin confronted him, demanding
to know what his problem was. Zimmerman replied that he had no problem, at which point Martin
basically said, "Well, now you have a problem," and punched him in the nose, breaking or fracturing
it and knocking him backwards onto the sidewalk. According to eyewitness' testimony, Martin
jumped on top of Zimmerman punching him in the face and pounding his head into the concrete.
At this point, of course, Zimmerman can't see and can't breathe, right? His blood is
pouring back from his nose into the back of his mouth. He's choking. He can't see and
he can't breathe. So he's already in a desperate panic as anybody would be in that situation.
Witnesses report Zimmerman was screaming for help. The mothers of both Zimmerman and Martin
report that it was their sons who were screaming for help. One witness described Martin pummeling
Zimmerman with an MMA technique called the ground and pound. According to Zimmerman,
Zimmerman was having his head pounded against the concrete pavement, and he knew that he
was close to the grass. And he was trying to shimmy up to get his head to be pounded
on the grass rather than on the concrete because he was terrified of losing consciousness and
dying.
When he was shimmying himself, according to him, his coat rolled up and Martin saw his
gun and said, "You're going to die tonight, ***!" and reached for the gun. Zimmerman
grabbed the gun and shot at Martin. This is important. If you say "shot Martin," well,
if he is half blind and choking and it's raining and it's nighttime, I mean the idea that he
can sort of aim and just pulling and shooting wildly, that would be my guess. The bullet
passes through Martin's chest injuring his heart and he may have been able to speak for
10 to 16 seconds. And Zimmerman reports that Martin said, "You got me." And then he may
have lived from one to three minutes afterwards.
So of course, you could easily say, well, Zimmerman is just making up a whole bunch
of stuff. He's saying whatever is convenient and so on. And for those who say that the
stand your ground law has anything to do with this, I can only tell you that you're actually
not correct about that. Stand your ground is if somebody is approaching you, you don't
have the duty to retreat. If somebody is on top of you and pounding you, there's no possibility
of any kind of retreat. So the stand your ground law is irrelevant. This is classic
self-defense. But the important thing is that Zimmerman's account is corroborated by all
available evidence. And the prosecution did not overturn ay of the available evidence
which corroborates Zimmerman's accounts.
There were no injuries on Trayvon Martin's body except for the gunshot wound and injuries
to his knuckles, which obviously come from punching someone. Zimmerman's head had lacerations.
His nose had been broken or fractured. He had sustained two black eyes and a coccyx
injury. Zimmerman had grass stains on the back of his jacket which would be in accordance
with his testimony. And a police detective actually lied to or misled Zimmerman while
he was interviewing him after the incident, and he said the entire assault had been caught
on video camera. And Zimmerman's response was "Thank God!" Not unimportant.
Now, people say Zimmerman should not have followed Martin. Well, it's irrelevant to
the law. If you look at anything that happens, there's always a causal chain of effect that
goes beforehand, and if you take any of those dominoes, something wouldn't have happened.
But let's say Martin was someone who was going to do another home invasion. I mean, he wasn't,
but let's say he was going to do another home invasion and Zimmerman had decided to stay
in his car. Well, then they'll say, "Well, he should have gotten out of his car because
then somebody died." So you can go back and replay anything and say that there are different
choices that could have been made, but that's only with the full information that you have
looking back, right? Hindsight is 20/20.
The point of this trial as any point of any criminal trial is to determine whether a defendant
accused of violating one or more criminal statutes will be found guilty or acquitted.
That's all it's about. Will a defendant accused of violating one or more criminal statutes
be found guilty or acquitted?
Now, in his neighborhood watch capacity, Zimmerman decided to watch Martin. The police dispatcher
said that Zimmerman did not need to follow Martin. This is not an order. There's no binding
authority. This is a standard line, not situation dependent and not authoritative or enforceable
in any way whatsoever like if a police officer tells you to do something, you have to obey.
If someone on the other end of a 911 call tells you, "We don't need you to do that,"
or "It might be better to do this," not authoritative, not binding in any way, shape or form.
So if you see someone hanging from bushes at the edge a cliff and you call 911 and the
guy is like, "Help me! Help me! I'm about to fall," and you say, "I need help. This
guy is about to fall off a cliff," and they say, "Well, our nearest crew is 10 minutes
away." You say, "Well, I'm going to go help him." They actually will tell you, "We don't
need you to do that." They actually cannot give you orders because they're legally liable
if they give you orders.
So the fact that the dispatcher said, "We don't need you to do that" is not binding,
is not authoritative in any way, shape or form. So it has nothing to do with the law
whatsoever.
Zimmerman decided to keep an eye on Martin. That's a perfectly legal action. In fact,
it's encouraged by the police as a whole. They often work with neighborhood watches
to make sure that this kind of stuff occurs. There is no law anywhere in the United States
that prevents one person on a public street from watching another person on a public street.
There's no right of privacy when walking down a public street.
So Zimmerman broke no laws by being in the neighborhood watch, by believing that Martin
was acting suspiciously, by calling the police to tell them what he was doing and asking
for assistance, by declining the dispatcher's suggestion to stop observing martin, not illegal
in any way, shape or form. Continuing to observe Martin without making contact or interfering
with his free action is all perfectly legal.
Now, when Martin was bugged, annoyed, frightened or angry at the man he referred to as a creepy
*** cracker, when he went up to Zimmerman and said, "What the *** is your problem,
homey?" he didn't break any law. You can verbally confront people. That's fine. And when Zimmerman
said, "I don't have a problem," when he tells Zimmerman, "Well, now you have a problem,"
all perfectly legal. If he'd said to Zimmerman, "*** off! Stop following me. I'm like right
here. I live with my father and his girlfriend," perfectly legal and would have ended the problem.
There would have been nothing further.
However, so these are the steps around the law, the moment that Martin punches Zimmerman
in the face, well, now he's committed a crime. So nothing Zimmerman did was illegal, but
what Trayvon Martin did in punching him in the face was illegal.
Now, in some jurisdictions in the US, the first punch might be classified as a misdemeanor.
Still a crime but depending on the mood of the DA might be a misdemeanor. But once Zimmerman
is on the ground and Martin attacks him again, it is no longer a misdemeanor. This almost
automatically becomes felony battery, a significant crime.
Once Martin allegedly said, "You're going to die tonight, ***," and began smashing
Zimmerman's head into the concrete either/or, this becomes attempted ***.
If we accept -- this is important to remember -- if we accept Zimmerman testimony and the
eyewitness' accounts and the physical evidence, at this point, he can't see, he can't breathe,
he's been told he's going to be murdered and his skull is being smashed repeatedly into
concrete, forget race, forget age, forget cherubic pictures, forget all the portraits
that the media has painted of a racist, of white on black crime. At this point in the
interaction, Zimmerman cannot breathe. He cannot see. He's just been told he's going
to be murdered, and his head and skull are being smashed repeatedly into concrete and
he's got a gun on him but he has waited for over 40 seconds from the beginning of the
altercation, he still has not fired his weapon or reached for it.
If that situation, if we accept what the evidence and the eyewitnesses and Zimmerman's testimonies
say, if we accept that, you can reject anything you want -- I mean, you can make up anything
you want in this world -- if we accept that, if that doesn't justify self-defense, then
there's no such thing as self-defense at all. And this is why the police let him go because
they couldn't find any evidence to counteract his claim of self-defense.
It doesn't matter -- the media has been unbelievably reprehensible in this saying that Zimmerman
referred to young black men as "*** ***" when he actually said "it's *** cold,"
which I guess it was, they edited a tape to make him sound racist. So they edited the
tape and played Zimmerman saying something like, "He looks suspicious. He looks like
he's up to no good. He looks black." But that's not what happened. What happened was "He looks
suspicious. He looks up to no good." And the dispatcher said, "What is his race? Is he
white, Hispanic, or black?" "He looks black." He was actually asked about the race.
The media edited that out to make him look racist. I mean, you're in a matrix of race
baiting which is going to have catastrophic consequences unless we hold fast to the facts.
He said, "These *** always get away." He's not referring to black people because
he's friends with black people. He's business partners with black people. His wife is best
friends with black people. He tutors black kids for free. He's talking about thieves.
There's a plurality of young black male thieves in this situation. That's who he's referring
-- I mean, that's my guess. To paint him as a racist is... Anyway...
So let's talk a little bit about race. We can have frank discussion as adults with facts,
I hope. So some of the writers were, after this incident, talking tragically and say,
this is a writer in New York Times, "that I have two young black teenage sons and I'm
terrified of them going into the world and getting shot by whites. Well, okay, let's
look at some numbers. You want me to shock anyone with some facts.
According to the Bureau Of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384
black *** victims. Appalling, shocking, wretched, terrible. At about 262,621 of those,
black victims were murdered by other blacks. So I don't think it's white on black violence
that you need to be majorly concerned about. And let's look at some potential roots of
black on black violence or black violence as a whole.
It's tragic. It's terrible. I mean, there's a whole -- I mean, obviously, the history
of racism, history of violence are perpetrator against blacks are being stripped of rights
and property. The black family was actually quite strong in the 1950s. There were illegitimacy
rates lower than that of the white community. Welfare has been a huge problem. Blacks are
exposed to terrible, wretched, horrible educational systems. There's war on drugs which has disproportionately
been tempting for blacks to get involved in as way of getting easy money.
At the same time, as there's been a death in manufacturing in a huge spike of the minimum
wage which has meant lower skilled people don't have an easy access to the basic three
things that you need to do to get into the middle class, right? You need to finish high
school, you need to get and keep a job for at least a year, and you need to not have
a child out of wedlock. Those are three things. Statistically, if you do those three things,
you are fine, you are set to go. But there's so much that's working against the black youth.
I have incredible sympathy for what was going on with Trayvon Martin and so many other black
youth. It's terrible. But let's look at some of the factors that aren't discussed quite
as much.
Child abuse in 2009: 44% of child abuse in 2009 involved white children; 22.3% involved
black children. Blacks make up 12.4% of the country's population; whites, 74.8%; Latinos
are 15.8% of the nation's population, but they made up 20.7% of the total population
of abused children. So according to the statistics, blacks abuse their children the most, Latinos
slightly less, and whites slightly less than that. Again, this is important.
Let's look at percentage of children in foster care. American Indian or Alaska Natives: percentage
of total child population, 1%; percentage of children in foster care, 2%. Asians: percentage
of total child population, 4%; children in foster care, only 1%. That's the kind of ratios
as you want to see it. African Americans: percentage of total child population, 14%;
percentage of children in foster care, 31%. Hispanic: 22%, 20%. White, non-Hispanic: percentage
of total child population, 56%; percentage of children in foster care, 40%.
I will link you below to a number of studies that have I think fairly well proven that
this is not due to racism on the part of CPS or the police.
So the Fourth National Incidence Study on Child Abuse and Neglect Called the NIS-4 '09
to 2010 was a report to Congress. This quotes:
"In nearly all cases, the rate of maltreatment for black children was significantly higher
than those for white and Hispanic children. These differences occurred under both definitional
standards and rates of overall maltreatment, overall abuse, overall neglect and physical
abuse and for children with serious or moderate harm from their maltreatment. They also occur
that the incidents of *** abuse and the incidents of children who were inferred to
be harmed by maltreatment and endangerment standard rates for physical neglect, emotional
maltreatment, and children who were endangered but not demonstrably harmed by their maltreatment.
"While general declines in rates of maltreatment were noted since the NIS-3, these declines
did not occur equally for all races and ethnicities. Rather, rates of maltreatment for white children
declined more than the rates for black and Hispanic children in the incidents of abuse,
physical abuse in children seriously harmed by maltreatment. For emotional neglect, maltreatment
rates for white children declined while rates for black and Hispanic children increased
for emotional neglect. Rates for white children increased less than the rates for black and
Hispanic children."
Now, I will link below to a presentation the facts about spanking which show that spanking
increases aggression, increases social conflict, decreases IQ and increases likelihood for
criminality, drug use, promiscuity, smoking, teen pregnancy -- you name it. It's one of
the worst things that can happen to any human being.
So as we all know, black culture in the US is heavily skewed to the matriarchal side,
let's say. Only 37% of black children live with both parents. The remaining 63% live
with one parent or with other relatives and it's mostly the mom, right? It's mostly the
mom. And a lot of black kids have no relationship with their fathers at all.
In recent studies, children are somewhat more likely to be maltreated by female caregivers
or perpetrators than males. Sixty-eight percent of the maltreated children were maltreated
by a female, whereas 48% were maltreated by a male. In general, women abuse children more
than men. The differences are not staggering. It's not like 20 to 1, but it's important.
If you have a more matriarchal society, likelihood is that you're going to have more child abuse.
Female perpetrators were more often responsible for neglect. Eighty-six percent of children
neglected by females versus 38% by males. To be fair, to balance, 87% of children were
sexually abused by a male, 11% were sexually abused by a female.
Let's just play a little clip, just about a minute. President B. Hussein Obama talking
to NAACP about how wonderful it is and what a great society we've lived in if only we
hit our neighbor's children more or encouraged the parents to hit. He calls it whupping which
is hitting often with implements. And just imagine, if he was talking this way about
women that if your woman disobeys you or misbehaves, it's important to give her a good whupping
and that's going to make everything better.
Barack Obama: To parents — to parents, we can't tell our kids to do well in school and
then fail to support them when they get home. You can't just contract out parenting. For
our kids to excel, we have to accept our responsibility to help them learn. That means putting away
the Xbox, putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. It means attending those parent-teacher
conferences and reading to our children and helping them with their homework. And by the
way, it means we need to be there for our neighbor's sons and daughters. We need to
go back to the time, back to the day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling
around and — it wasn't your child, but they'll whup you anyway. Or at least they'll tell
your parents — the parents will. You know.
I don't think any more needs to be said about that. So here's an example. So Atlanta Megachurch
pastor, Creflo Dollar -- that is one fine name for a preacher. I guess in Atlanta they
have truth in advertising laws -- Creflo Dollar was arrested after his 15-year-old daughter
called 911 to say that he had choked her and slapped her. He was held in jail for a few
hours. He then called his daughter a liar from the pulpit of his 30,000-member church.
The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and the group's Fayette County Georgia Branch
released a statement saying that they were investigating Dollar's arrest on the grounds
that he has a right to be a "responsible parent and discipline his children." Boy, we've come
a long way from W.E.B. Du Bois, prominent black activist of quite some time ago who
said that the black child should exist in a haven of peace and security within his own
home. Now, you can choke your daughter if she questions you about whether she should
go to a party or not.
Eighty-nine percent of black parents, 79% of white parents, 80% of Hispanic parents,
and 73% of Asian parents say that they have spanked their children. This proportionately
goes up. If you are raised by -- this is not to characterize all black women or all black
single moms or anything like that -- but statistically, if you are much more likely to be raised by
a physically abusive or a neglectful single mom, well, does this go some ways to what's
explaining rap lyrics? I think it's possible.
And this is another quote, from comedians and superstar radio personalities who preach
us in YouTube videos of child beatings and Barack Obama, black culture encourages and
even celebrates the beating of children. And I'm sorry I just can't find any way in which
white people are making black people do that. I'm happy to be corrected. Maybe there's some
nefarious mind ray called "hit your children" that even my pasty *** dumb is portraying,
but I think that's something the black community kind of got to look at themselves. And some
of them have done that which I think is great.
So the attempts to put everything through the lens of race is incredibly volatile. I
think it's incredibly destructive. I think it turns us who are generally tax livestock
and play things at the ruling classes, it turns us against each other and it makes us
worry about each other rather than the people who are selling off our future, who are printing
our money into a statist fiat oblivion cloud of nothingness who are starting and sending
us to wars, who are throwing massive numbers of people in prisons for having the wrong
vegetation on their person.
We've got to remember that if we keep focusing on fighting each other, we will never find
the real enemies and the true liberation which is to break out of this historical hierarchy
and find a way to live in peace without all of this brutality, these medieval prisons
and police with fascist weaponry. There's much better ways for us to deal with life
and to find peace or ways of solving our problems rather than appealing to the state and the
race baiters and all the people who turn us against each other, rather than having us
look upwards to the real masters and free ourselves from that.
Thank you.