B (28:58)
All right, that is flag. So I'm gonna ask you to return to your seat. It's a waste of my time. Y' all just want to be seen. I don't need to be seen. Hello. How are you? I'm Jasmine, the pretty lady. Say less outfit. Thank you. So this is my thing. I think the premise of your question was black on black crime. So I think I'm coming from a place. And I guess my issue is having had my biological father murdered by a black man, having had my cousin shot in the head by a black man. We can talk numbers and statistics and what the people are doing and what the white man is doing and all that, but at the end of the day, I see when my family lives on the south side of Chicago, and I think you and I both can attest to this. And I'm not saying that they're not other factors, but we know that we kill each other at a disproportionate rate than any other race. Now, why we do that and why 6 to 9,000 black men are going to be homicided or killed or whatever by the end of the year annually by other black men. Whereas the likelihood of a black man being killed by a white police officer is less than 150 per year. We know that we kill each other at a higher rate. So I'm not debating that there are not factors at play, but because I've lived the experience as a black woman losing my father to be murdered by a black man walking down the street. I'm sorry to hear that, by the way. No worries. Thank you. But walking down the street in inner cities and different things, knowing that it's more likely that my own brother will rob and rape me than a white man or a white officer. We gotta be real. What's your proximity to white men in the south side of Chicago? Are there even white men around to rob and rape you at the same rate that there are black men? There are white men around at the same rate. There wasn't a lot of black people in there. But then that doesn't justify the fact that we're destroying each other. So even if we get nothing like there, we can agree on that. Ok. Because I feel like a lot of Nothing justifies. I'm not a liberal. I am not alive, I'm not a liberal. Okay, well, I will say that people that sometimes have your stance that are against conservatives, maybe they have this claim that they're making it up, they're making up the numbers. We know that we do that to each other. So I wanna get to the root of the issue. Why are we killing each other? I think the root of the issue is we've lost our values and we've lost our resilience as black people. We sit there and we talk about what the white man did and we talk about slavery and everything like that, but we have no self accountability and say, you know what? At the end of the day, that is my black grandmother, that is my black sister, you are my black sister. And you know that a black man is more likely to rob you or commit some type of crime against you. And that's what we need to get down to the issue of. And like you were talking about earlier, like, hey, well, what's going on? You know, what do you think the answer is to one of the brothers that we're speaking? I think it's the breakdown of the family. I think, like he said, because of our poor choices. And what happens is we look at domestic violence, for example, when domestic violence, women or men are even attacked, what is the first thing we say is like, you know what? It's not your. What, it's not your fault. So that's what we do. We hold onto this narrative that, well, it's not our fault and the issues in our community are not our fault and the white man needs to give us something. The old white lady down the street is looking at me and I don't know why she got braids in her hair. And we focus on all these other stuff, stupid things that don't matter. We don't get to the root of the fact that we're killing each other at a higher rate than any other race. It is self hatred amongst us. I believe that we can do that. That we. My cousin, my mom's cousin, excuse me, coming from the church parking lot. And guess who stuck her up and robbed her at gunpoint. A black man. I need you to get to the point is, is that no. And I'm not trying to be funny unless like you said, we're gonna keep it respectful. Yeah, but you're monopolizing the whole conversation. Okay, I'm gonna let you speak, but let's not get the attitude and stuff because you're my sister and I Respect you. So I don't have an attitude. I'm being direct to you. But you're literally speaking this, and you're not going to do that with me either. So you're stating your point. And you've been stating your point for quite some time. Yeah. Would you allow me to respond? So that's a better response. Go ahead. The response that I have for you is that everything you're saying does not exist in a vacuum. I actually agree with you in that, yes, there has been an incredible denigration of black worth and black pride in this nation. I think it's also very important to acknowledge what has contributed to that. And to say state that it is only black people that have contributed to that is a false flag. So we have to admit that. So in order to have this conversation around how we got here, you can't say, oh, well, we're caring about the white woman getting braids, and that doesn't matter. And this thing, all of that attaches, all of that is actually a very big part of the lack of worth of black people. I'll ask you, do you think we're resilient? What does resilience mean to you? Do you think we have to be perpetual victims or do you think that black people are? I think that those are two different conversations. I think they're. Because I think that the concept of black people being victims is really trying to not provide accountability to where the root problem for the actual cause is. And if we keep saying that somebody is a victim and that that doesn't mean that the other person should have to have to actually have accountability, then what are we really doing? You can do both. You can be a victim and be resilient. How do we do both? If you stay in the victimhood? That's my question. But your statement about black people staying in the victim place is also your point of view. But how do we rise above it? We continue to rise above it by one, pouring into our communities with mutual aid. But two, by simultaneously making sure that we are challenging the systems that are in place to impede us. We have so many opportunities where we are trying to do mutual aid. And those things get disrupted by folks who want to have capitalist gain, by folks who want privatization. We used to have all these mom and pop businesses in our communities. There's over 3 million black billionaires in America right now. You are an intelligent black woman. That is successful. That's irrelevant. No one's stopping me from doing anything. I'm an intelligent black woman that graduated have tried to stop me from doing what I do. We are not all equal in our capabilities, and we are not all equal in our ability to be invested in by others. We are not all equal in our trauma. Are we resilient? We can't say we because it is a false equivalency. I believe that every black person has resilience. We keep trying, but we keep trying to cause. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry you've been voted out.
