Episode 28 - So what exactly are white people superior at?

In this episode, Franklin covers another overtly racist propaganda video, this time from the outlet "The Cut."  While this video has been universally ripped apart, we take our turn to do the same.

Next, Franklin covers recent reports from the CDC and certain state governments that states will administer corona virus vaccines on first priority to minority communities to cure supposed racial inequities.  This, of course, means that certain individuals would be prevented access to the vaccine based on their race not conforming to the state governments' preference.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello and welcome everyone to the fate of the union podcast, a weekly review of the biggest issues in national politics. Given from a conservative perspective, the show also periodically address current true crime cases from across the country. If you like, what you hear, please hit subscribe and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Now let's talk about the fate of the union buddy, to fate of the union. The first segment here for those of you listening along on the podcast is we're going to go over a video here from an outlet, a YouTube channel called the cut. Now I've yet to hear about this particular outlet or platform, or what have you, before I started hearing about this video that made the rounds. I know that Steven Crowder did a video on it. I personally really first heard of it through watching a revenge of the cysts on YouTube, which I recommend everybody go watch and subscribe and go over to their Patrion. That's really how I came to really be familiar with this video. The video is titled, so what exactly are white people superior at keeping 100 black in America? The Cod and the title is not as you would imagine, complimentary it's supposed to be what negative malicious, uh, conspiratorial aspects or characteristics are white people better at than others. That kind of explains supposedly the theory and narrative of the white supremacist system and the systemic racism and the what have you an interesting part about this video first off is as those of you who can, who can obviously see on the YouTube version of the segment is that it is currently standing at a resounding 10,000 upfits I'm 198,000. Downvotes getting absolutely obliterated. Um, the cut has a very large following and has 10.2 million subscribers. And like I said, although I'm not really familiar with it, I did do it kind of a cursory review of their library on YouTube. And this seems to be the general tone and tenor of the kind of thing that they're publishing. Um, another interesting thing is that, although this video is a little over a month old at this point published on November 15th, 2020, when I was watching revenge of the sisters past week, the comments were disabled and it at least appears from my familiarity with this video is that they were perhaps reactivated, which if you go take a look through the, that was a

Speaker 2: 3:00

Clearly a mistake, um, because it's getting absolutely annihilated in virtually every one of the 10 and a half thousand comments currently logged on this video. So without further ado, let's get into the video.

Speaker 3: 3:18

What exactly are white people superior at? Oh, well, according to television, everything white man could fly. Even a white woman, she'd be four 41. She knew karate. She could take down 15 people.

Speaker 2: 3:30

And the first slide show here says, we asked 100 black folks, FLL, acts very inclusive in America to tell us what white people are superior at. And the introductory comment there is relevant just because I'm not sure what television show that woman is watching. There really aren't any television shows around, at least in the kind of primetime lineup of the main channel, CBS, ABC, NBC Fox, that kind of, uh, mainstays of prime time television viewing that has anything that's really even complimentary to the white characters on the show. Nevertheless, showing some kind of air of superiority or invincibility to them. Um, I became familiar with a show. I think it was on last year called the line. And it would based off of a police shooting in contested, uh, circumstances and every single part of the political backdrop it's set in Chicago. So you can use your imagination there, but the backdrop of the political setting of the shooting itself of the legal proceedings is all 100% slanted. And I think that's representative of really any show, um, again on prime time television. So that narrative is, is very, very long gone. And we're going to skip ahead here, but in between there's a lot of talk of the kind of classic of white people don't know how to spice their food. They think mayonnaise is spicy and there are comedians who do some funny jokes about that. And it's all based on kind of like the white Karen doesn't really know how to make any tasty food, but all of this is not said, I encourage everyone to go watch the video, but even the initial review of its feedback so far shows you that none of these are jokes. These are really mean-spirited comments based on race at the very least it's mean-spirited and kind of the food and the, and the way they dress and the way they talk. And it, it gets a lot worse than that. As we'll see, there's, there's a lot of claims that venture into the ridiculous on the one hand and really the outright racist and conspiratorial skin conspiratorial on the other

Speaker 4: 6:10

Extreme water spewing, corn mazes, right? People are great at having fun. That's a function of white supremacy because they just don't have as many stresses as blue do.

Speaker 2: 6:23

And there you heard it. It's a ridiculous statement that white people are graded having fun. This of course is a function of white supremacy. And the follow-up comment there by that gentleman is that the black people can't have fun and enjoy themselves in this way. You see, because there is a racism, institutional systemic, the systemic systems of structural institutions lurking around every corner. And that of course haunts their very being. Um, this is a completely cancerous narrative and way of thinking that has really permeated the inner cities and the younger demographics of the inner cities, which I think is particularly harmful, you know, a young black person growing up in, in the inner cities. They hear that they're being hunted for sport. They're these agents of the state lurking around every, every block that's just waiting to execute them. Um, every single vehicle or institution in America, that one would come into contact is purposely against you. Um, because of a characteristic that you simply cannot change. It's setting up a wide array of individuals for, for absolute failure. And it's no wonder that a lot of people have this mindset coming up when it's being jammed in their heads, by teachers and parents and community leaders and politicians, and as ridiculous as it may be for a young kid, you have to understand for a young, highly susceptible mind in terms of influence, when you see that kind of idea, coming from every supposedly authority figure in your community or in your personal life, you can see how that really gains a lot of traction, unfortunately, and will set you up for absolute failure, um, and really quite a disappointing upbringing and a disappointing outlook on life as you head into young adulthood, which it really is a shame. It is quite disappointing. The effects that this can have on the younger generation of, of black Americans

Speaker 4: 8:49

Arrested. We always driving down the street with, uh, Darren down the highway with a friend of mine who was white when he was like, I need to, I'm just going to pull over and pee. And I'm in the passenger seat. And I was like, please don't cause the black man thinks differently. If I pull over to the side of the road and pee, a cop is going to be right behind me to punish me.

Speaker 2: 9:06

And there you hear again, the kind of traffic and fraction, that's someone, a black individual got killed because of a traffic infraction. You hear that when you hear of cases where such and such got killed, because they had a broken tail light because they didn't signal because they were speeding. Um, the ratio, art Brooks cases, um, and especially good one good case to apply that to because it's recent. Um, all of the video is clear. All the evidence is on video. Nevertheless, you heard people like Trevor Noah and the young Turks say that he was killed because he got stopped for DUI. They there's a very concerted effort to ignore all the facts and in between and attribute the fatal use of force to the originating reason for the interaction with police. Um, and that's a good case study ratio at Brooks because we know the DUI was just the reason for the very first interaction between he and the police officers, him being intoxicated, but also resisting arrest, um, swinging punches on both cops, stealing their tasers and shooting at them. And then running away with the taser was the reason he got shot. Um, they weren't carrying out an arrest on a black man for drunk driving and that's just the way it goes. There were clearly superseding events that happened in particular in between that provides a very clear explanation for what happened. Um, this next part is an astonishing and astonishing, uh, comment. And we will most certainly get into it.

Speaker 4: 10:57

And everybody else really ballsy. They Rose up all over the world and they walk into everybody's house and says, Oh, this is nice. I'm going to take your. And they have no qualms about it. They can take anything, baby. What is that going to work with? They're real good at violence violence. That's the Genesis

Speaker 2: 11:14

Violence. Then if you go back and watch the episode from last week of her vengeance, that says, I think that's almost broke merge. I think I hope he's okay because, and I could only imagine, um, why people are real good at violence. Um, let me try to address this in the most, uh, community guidelines friendly way, although I'm sure there won't be a lot of attention to this. Of course, the guys like revenger that says, and certainly Steven Crowder have different considerations because they're obviously on YouTube radar am not. So maybe that's maybe that's a benefit, so we'll get into it. Um, they're better at violence. We know this to be absolutely ridiculous. Uh, the last I checked over 50%, uh, about 54.5% of murders every year are committed by a black individual, despite being 13% of the population. And as we spoke about on some of the earlier episodes of the podcast, when we were first starting out, it's not really 13%, um, because you have to essentially cut out the entire female population of the black community because they're statistically irrelevant as far as the murder stats go, uh, for the black community and the offenders, uh, um, as far as murder goes, that gets you down to roughly six and a half, 7% for black men. And then of course you have to cut down again because it's not black children. Of course there are young black men, um, being convicted of murder, but there's certainly below 16, don't really show up in the statistics. And over 50 don't really show up in the statistics. It's a particular issue. Um, an offense committed by not just the black community, it's really black men more specifically. And even more specifically than that black men, roughly from 16 to 50. So whatever percentage you can whittle that down to the U S population, really the, the crux of the, of the F hi offense rate. So that really gets you down to what about 3% maybe is, is responsible for, um, very clearly over 50% of the murder. And it's a similar story, um, although maybe not the same numbers, but a similar story when it comes to rape and sexual assault, uh, simple assault, aggravated assault, uh, manslaughter, really any violent crime. The same general story goes is that the very outsized representation in those statistics for offenders of the, of those violent crimes would be again, being specific here, black men, but black men between 16 and 50 and perhaps better save for another time we can go into why that is. Why are we seeing repeat offenders in so far as the same relatively specific demographics, finding themselves being convicted of these laws? Why is it so identifiable of a trend in this one particular demographic we can get into that, but that of course is assumes the idea that it's true, which it is, it absolutely is true that really any violent crime, if you take the annual statistics. And this has been the case, certainly as certainly as far as I've been studying the law, which dates back to why I started law school in around 2013, I suppose it was. So it's been the case for all the years in the interim and certainly will be before that the general outline of filing crime in America. So to say that, um, it's really a preposterous statement, um, not backed up by any evidence whatsoever. And of course, this is not to mention that the clear disparity between black on white violent crime, as opposed to white on black violent crime, uh, not only is the total or certainly intro race, absolutely. That, um, more represented in the black community as far as violent crime offenders. If you look at the number of offenses from one race to the other, uh, there's well over, uh, 10 times the amount of crime, I think it was about 20 or so 20 times the amount of violent crimes committed by blacks onto white victims rather than the other way around. So even if it looks through the lens of what threat is res a posing to res B vis-a-vis the violence or violent crimes or violent acts they're perpetuating on the other race, it's again, not even close, it's not even close. Um, so that was really the, the ultimate point that I wanted to see that last comment there, as far as the violence part. Um, and again, this is really just a, a very deep seated idea and videos like this, do not help if the cut things that they're well, they certainly think they're being woke I suppose. But if they think they're helping black people and especially young black people, they most certainly are not. That's just, incontrovertibly true, uh, closely held beliefs like this, especially for young people can be very harmful and will continue to be going forward. The sad truth about this is that the effects of, of narratives like this in the black community, uh, are not a surprise, the negative outcomes, and the continual disadvantages that these communities see are tied to these kinds of attitudes are tied to these widespread lies. So as far as the facts like this, the effects of, of videos like this, rather, um, it's on the one hand yet to be seen because of course the future has not happened yet, but it's highly predictable and really should not come as a surprise. It's going to lead to further forgiveness or really ignorance of, of crime in the inner cities, which has, they'd like to say systemic that word systemic that has systemic effects. Businesses don't want to open up in dangerous neighborhoods because they think they're going to get strong, armed robbery on any given day. I'm not going to put out my business capital to open up some kind of storefront in, in a dangerous area. It's just not a good investment. It hurts entrepreneurship. It hurts jobs. It hurts. Um, certainly the school systems, which violence among black Americans seeps into urban schools, for sure it violent crime and just general air of violence. And, um, living in a state of fear in the inner cities has such a permeating effect that it goes beyond just the actual victims of those crimes. So we'll keep an eye on videos like this in the future, because I really do take it from a perspective that, um, I would ideally like to read these kinds of ideas from young black Americans, because it's not setting them up for success. And it's really done as a money play, whether successful or not. I think that, you know, this kind of race baiting industry is unfortunately a very, very lucrative industry. Um, so I think that the producers of videos like this, no they're getting clicks. No they're getting ad revenue. And that might be whether that's a well-founded belief or not. I think that's some of the originating intention behind, behind videos like this, certainly to divide. Certainly a lot of these views are also held by those who come up with these ideas for videos and produce them and publish them. But, um, I think money has a lot to do with it as well, unfortunately, because it is making money off of, of lying to an entire race of people that you so claim to want to protect, but we will continue to look at issues like this going forward. Um, and we'll see you for the rest of the episode over on iTunes and Spotify for fate of the union Dory in a similar racial lens, which seem just as

Speaker 1: 20:48

Ridiculous, if not more is that recent news has come out that the COVID burden on black Americans has created quite a vaccine, quandary this from the U S news report earlier this month centers for disease control and prevention advisory committee recommended that frontline health workers and residents have long-term facilities such as nursing homes should get vaccinated first. And I think at first glance, regardless of what your view is on the vaccine, if you take it from the perspective that it's reasonably safe and, and have somewhat limited and, uh,[inaudible] availability, you would think that healthcare workers and more specifically healthcare workers that are unduly likely to be exposed to the virus would receive at first, because if they are getting a higher than normal interactions with those who may have the virus, they are ones that could be carriers of it, whether symptomatic or not, and thus pass it on to others in their household or their communities, or even throughout the hospital. So at first glance, we'll take that as a, as at least a theoretically sensible solution, but here's where it's gone or wrong. Hi, head of the vaccine rollout, the CDC is advisory committee on immunization practices acknowledged that mitigating racial and equities should be a factor in distributing the vaccine and said, allocation strategies should aim to both reduce existing disparities and to not create new disparities often. Yeah, our Hispanic, black and tribal nation families care for their elderly in multi-generational households. And they're also at significant risk Redfield says, but similar to analyses of affirmative action programs. Yes. If there's a limited number of spots or a limited number of advantages or a limited number of spots for beneficiaries, whether it be admission to a job admission to a school or being a recipient of the vaccine, preferring one class have people necessarily disadvantages another class. And the basic crux of this is that in Tennessee, uh, the plan is, and as well as California, at least if not others, as we see here in North Carolina, New Mexico Jersey. And like I said, California are going to remove barriers related to accessibility and are ultimately going to fever younger, darker skin and individuals to receive the vaccine first. And because there is of course limited supply, it is not as you bake you, it ubiquitous as the flu vaccine. It's not as commonly distributed as some of the vaccines that we all kind of assume is a part of American life. There's of course, going to be some people who are prevented and denied access from a vaccine in favor of the targeted distribution to other groups of people. And this has been kind of framed as really aiming the vaccine for distribution to impoverished communities or communities that wouldn't have access to maybe the health care facilities needed in order to get a vaccine as minister to them. But that appears to be a little bit of cover being thrown for the CDC guidance and for the way that lawmakers and executive officials in the States are planning to roll out this plan. Because as we just noticed in the CDCs public statement and in statements released by, uh, by States again like Tennessee, I in California, the actual statements from the officials don't really mention, uh, poverty or access to healthcare. It's kind of a secondary concern at most when the real brunt of the statement and the real aim of this plan to roll out the virus is to cure suppose it, racial inequities. And we see here, there would be too few doses to make a dent in the diseases burden on residents of color who have been devastated both young and old. The problem with this again, is that certain groups of people, certain communities are going to be denied access. And of course, this puts aside part of the issue in that some of these communities, certainly maybe not Tennessee, but some of the bigger cities like LA, uh, New York city, Minneapolis, where there's been much more documented, large gatherings of minority individuals congregating without masks, certainly breaking the guidance of staying six feet apart, not following social distancing guidelines. And we've seen across liberating rise in number of infections earlier this summer, even the LA County public official office had to come out and say that there is a high likelihood of a correlation between the repeated demonstrations of thousands upon thousands of people in these communities congregating at close distance without proper precautions. And of course the spike in the infection rate. Now that's not to say that these communities should be punished and should be denied access based on their congregation, but it does underlie the mistakes made by certain people in power. And that there was absolutely no castigation. There was no public statement whatsoever at the time, especially throughout this, some are too to sway public opinion and to warn these communities to not congregate in such a way, because it was seen as an argument against protest and argument against some of the narratives and the messages that these people wanted to get across because, uh, I think it was seen as well. If you argue against the way they're protesting, even if it hasn't had to do with the message, it just has to do with the proper safety precautions it's going to be received and, and set aside for trying to undermine their mess and trying to undermine their goals. And now we're at very predictable, the unfortunate but predictable outcome where these communities are having a higher rate, uh, based on population. And it's of course, a complicating effect that these communities already live in very densely populated areas. Of course, if you go into cities like New York city and LA people, and a lot of parts of these neighborhoods really live in kind of star Dean cans for humans, these apartment buildings are very close quarters. So if you're looking at public gatherings in the protest combined with living situations that are already highly susceptible to disease transmission like this more so than people are more loosely populated in some more rural towns or more suburban towns, you really have a recipe for higher infection rate, which we have seen, but nevertheless, the disproportionately affected communities are leading certain state officials like Gavin Newsome, as you see here, and Andrew Cuomo, well to try to direct vaccines communities based on race. And this is an outcome that is that again is predictable, but is going to further. So some ill feelings in, in different communities, because if you are an older white individual, say from a suburb, you see news like this, and you see that you'd necessarily could have a lower likelihood of access to the vaccine in favor of somebody who doesn't look like you, regardless of what the justification may be of what it made or what might be anchored in. You're going to focus on that. You're not being favored and you're actually being disadvantaged in favor of someone else based on something that you can not control. So, I mean, allocating vaccines based on social justice concerns based on race is going to have a very ugly effect. If these are actually, if these things are actually carried out in such a way, but let me know what you think in, in the comments below if you're watching on YouTube, but, uh, it appears that this is at least the aim in numerous States across the country and is really going to serve as a basis for further ill will and, and distrust of governments and state governments in particular. So that does it for this week's episode of fate of the union. You can reach me Franklin, the host of the program on Twitter or medium.com by searching fate of the union, and please visit our new YouTube page over at fate of the union as well. You can also reach us by email@franklinfotuatgmail.com. This has been the fate of the union. Thanks for listening to everybody. Bye bye.