0:31BThey try to make it a passive --
0:33AYeah, so King is just very passive and he just wants to love people and wants everyone to come together. They never mention that, you know, King was someone who was very critical of American capitalism, very critical of America’s foreign policy, criticized the war in Vietnam. He’s someone that demanded reparations.
0:49BReally?
0:50AI didn’t know that. And it’s funny to me because like this Black Lives Matter movement, I’ve seen a lot of people on Fox News saying, well, why can’t these activists be more like Martin Luther King? But then if they were, they’d be more hated now than they already are.
1:05BWell, when people say reparations, the system gets angry about that. I had an argument with someone a couple days ago that said, well, you know, you just have to accept things are the way they are. It’s always been The one who has the most power. He says, all those islands throughout the Caribbean, they’ve all been dominated by Europeans. And that’s just a fact of life. Accept it. That’s what happened. They have more power throughout all of world history. It’s always been like that. Somebody who has more power dominates someone else who doesn’t. But like I told him, that’s all fine and good, but that’s not the way it’s taught. And the way it is taught is that, you know, these goody-two-shoes came and saved the people and made them civilized. And that’s the problem. And that’s what, you know, he didn’t understand. Okay, you conquered, you know, what’s that terminology? The conquered or the fittest or whatever.
2:08ASurvival of the fittest.
2:09BYeah, survival of the fittest. But that’s not how it is taught. And the government knows that. That’s why they eliminated Black Studies from schools. They don’t want to teach Black Studies because they saw -- they have done 1,000, you know, tests and studies on it -- that when children from a young age learn about their contributions, man, that is like the most powerful, you know, ammunition you can give to a child is let that child know who they are and let them know they’re somebody and all the accomplishments. But these kids, well, they don’t know nothing about, you know, any of the accomplishments or anything like that. And that’s how the system wants it. That’s how they stay in control. Because it’s the same thing that happens in the Puerto Rican community. We did -- I remember about 5 years ago We wanted to do the event, which we do every year on the what’s called the Grito de Lares, where the Puerto Ricans fought to get independence from Spain, and there was going to be an uprising and all that. And the place we were supposed to have it a couple days before they rented to us; we couldn’t do it there.
3:22AAnd Lares is the African part, right? Of Puerto Rico, right?
3:28BNo.
3:28ANo.
3:29BAnd but anyway, the the thing was that five years after the Grito de Lares, you know, that’s when slavery was abolished because these people that were fighting for those particular people fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico at that time, they were also adamantly against slavery. So and and and known to Britain like Bill of Rights, human rights. But the people who wrote Bill of Rights here, who were they? They were all slave owners. What the heck is that about? There’s no validity in any of that.
4:01AThat’s the other thing too about Haiti that I like to remind people is that when they fought their revolution and overthrew French dominance on the island, when you look at the first constitution written in Haiti, that constitution actually outlawed both slavery and discrimination based on race. So again, you know, in school they teach us about the great democratic American Revolution, even though the revolution didn’t do anything for enslaved African people. Didn’t do anything for Native American people. Women couldn’t even vote in America. That took a whole struggle. So it’s this great democratic revolution, and it really only benefited rich, wealthy, slave-owning white men. But then Haiti, which is never taught in school, was really the most democratic revolution at that time. Even the French Revolution is taught about in school, and again, the French Revolution was very dominated by the upper class, the very racist upper class. No, in Haiti, this was revolution from the bottom. These were the slaves rising up and shaping the society that was beneficial to their interests. But like I said, again, it’s not taught in school, so the impression that they give people is that oppressed people always just sit back and wait for the oppressor to liberate them, and that’s never --
5:07BIt’s never been the case. People have never been liberated because the oppressor liberated. They’ve had to fight, and that’s a sad And it’s like that to this day. And we listen to -- that’s why, you know, I see like these pastors and priests and all that, and they, you know, make so much money and they got people going every week, and some of them give like 10% of their income. What are they doing? 10%? Not 2? 10.
5:35AShe said 10.
5:36BOh, I thought she said 2. 10%. And, and what, what are they doing? They’re still These kids are getting killed left and right. The prisons are full. There’s more African-American men today in prison, you know that, than there were in the time of slavery, than were slaves.
5:54CAnd now they’re starting to use the prisoners to build work and stuff like that too. Now, like the fires that’s happening in California, yeah, there’s many of the prisoners working.
6:04BThat’s what they do.
6:05CThey’ve been doing that for a while.
6:06AYeah, I’ve been going out there No, I mean, that’s what they do in the prisons. And then they take a picture of the firefighters telling them about, yeah, there’s all these guys working out there. That’s so messed up. But I mean, that’s the thing with the prisons, they make them work. And the reason for that is, again, the way they teach history in school is going back to Abraham Lincoln, the great generous white man that freed slaves. You check the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, they put some provision in there that slavery is actually legal in cases of punishment for crime. So what they started doing now is will, you know, imprison these people and then use their labor essentially as slave labor. Because these prisoners, um, yeah, these prisoners are used for labor. And a lot of times, if they are paid for the labor -- because most times they aren’t paid, sometimes they are paid and they’re given a few pennies for whatever labor -- you cannot surprise me. Private prisons is actually a multi-million dollar industry. Yeah, they’re profiting from essentially what is slave labor. And again, the way they teach history, they make you think that, you know, Slavery was ended when Abraham Lincoln abolished it, and the truth is it never ended.
7:08CIt just like took a shift.
7:10AIt just changed.
7:11CIt’s --
7:12AI mean, never ended. It’s got a hood over it. Yeah, it never ended in America. No pun intended.
7:17CSlavery in the northern states as well when slavery was abolished, which is why Juneteenth is highly, uh, uh, which is why -- which is why it’s highly celebrated because ’Cause I’m from South Georgia, and although, you know, you hear about Abraham Lincoln, the emancipation, in Brooks County it was still slavery well after that. In Lowndes County it was still slavery, and even when slavery was abolished, it was still, you know, you gotta deal with sharecropping, that was slavery.
7:46ADefinitely.
7:47CYou know, you still living on the land, and you gotta give the good harvest to me. Still slavery. Even till today, I feel it’s still slavery, whether we’re going to -- you know, it’s just, uh, I mean, capitalism is a sense of slavery in my opinion. From what I’ve seen, it still is slavery.
8:07ABecause I mean, the root of capitalism is profiting from someone else’s labor, and the person really doing the share of that labor doesn’t make the full benefit of the work.
8:15CIt’s colonialism 2.0, you know.
8:18ABut I
