Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - Is BLM Anti-Black?

Jan. 5, 2021 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer

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Is BLM Anti-Black? | Ep 59

If BLM really cared about black lives, it would actually focus on the real issues facing the black community. Instead, it scapegoats the police and lies to black communities. This anger puts the focus on non-issues, which makes the solution to these problems much more difficult.

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	So as you're out here, be fing responsible.
	Have a f ⁇ ing plan.
	You can protest all you want, but the s I just saw take place and you think it's okay to take down a neighborhood.
	Now, I can honestly say this with a full heart of thankfulness to God.
	Welcome back.
	to Slightly Offensive with your favorite host, me Elijah Schaefer.
	Obviously, I say with a grateful heart to God because I was in some serious, I could just say some deep this weekend.
	And there's no better words to really describe it.
	I mean, I witnessed a man nearly get killed.
	A viral clip that garnished over 35 million views got a shout out from the President of the United States live on TV as well as a retweet.
	President Trump is acknowledging people getting attacked all over the country during some of the violent protests.
	And that includes one man in Dallas over the weekend.
	Innocent people have been savagely beaten, like the young man in Dallas, Texas, who was left dying on the street.
	Dallas police tell us they have not made any arrest in that attack.
	And at last the victim was stable.
	It helped change the dialogue of the country.
	It's really great to get some recognition for the work that we've been doing here as a team and really just putting blood, sweat, and tears to covering the story.
	But also, it's just grateful to be alive because my gosh, man, what I witnessed honestly gave me some PTSD.
	I feel traumatized.
	And I don't mean that in a light way.
	When you watch people's heads get split open and stores robbed and things happen that you never thought you would see on the streets of LA, man, I've been waking up with nightmares for nights.
	And I really never thought that would happen.
	You know, I've been in some serious protests, some really incredible times.
	I've gotten multiple concussions.
	I have lost count of how many times I've been punched in the face by protesters and rioters.
	I've been to riots, but what I witnessed this weekend was something beyond human, you know, and it really just wreaked some havoc on my mental health.
	But, you know, I'm a pretty healthy person overall.
	And I have a good way of dealing with it.
	Maybe you have a different method.
	I read my Bible.
	I've been praying.
	I've been talking a lot with my wife.
	I also spoke a bit with my temporary producer, which is also the president of the company.
	And I'm just working things out, you know, because this stuff really is intense.
	And it's not just intense for me.
	The whole country is under wraps.
	And we're going to get into a lot of what's going on in this country, a surreal look at the hypocrisies as well as the truth, sort of debunking both extreme views on this coming up.
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	So what the hell is going on right now in America?
	I mean, gosh dang, right?
	Like, what?
	If you're like me, I didn't even have to travel to a protest or a riot.
	I mean, I'm sure if you live in the United States of America within a few miles of a large city, one of them came to you, free subscription service.
	And the chant and the slogans are that black lives matter, but do they?
	I want to jump right into this really gripping and heart-wrenching video from an individual who completely sees the madness in all of this.
	And yes, she also happens to be black.
	These are fing people who live in public housing.
	And you just made a fing melee.
	You took down bus routes.
	There are people who live in this neighborhood who have to go back up town to work.
	And you are here profiting off of our fing.
	So you fing protest every single last one of you.
	You think about what it's like to be a black woman in this fing neighborhood who lives with people in public housing, who now has fing shit to walk through, who bag your grocery, who drop off your food, who defend you, who go uptown to a f ⁇ ing hospital to serve this community.
	So as you're out here, be fing responsible.
	Have a fing plan.
	You can protest all you want, but the s I just saw take place.
	I know there are people out here, homeless people, who fing rely on those banks to charge their fing home.
	And you think it's okay to take down a neighborhood.
	You don't see corporations here.
	There are human beings that live in this goddamn neighborhood.
	You do this in Harlem, you do this sh ⁇ in Brooklyn, and I swear on everything.
	These people in this neighborhood deserve better.
	And I'm not talking about the gentrification.
	I'm not talking about the f ⁇ ing students who come here and pay cash to go to NYU.
	I am talking about the people who go to a methodal clinic down the goddamn street.
	And you fing think this is a protest?
	I mean, did you hear the emotional plea in that woman's voice?
	She made a lot of good points.
	And I want to bring up this argument about how, you know, people of color are disproportionately affected by these riots by first debunking this phrase people of color.
	I disagree with it entirely.
	You know, when we think about words, words have power, and that power controls our society.
	Those who control words control this world because you shape narratives.
	And when we use phrases like people of color, we're told in our institutions, our education systems, even in our social life, that's the proper way to address these people.
	But what are these people?
	They're human beings.
	They're American citizens.
	They have a darker complexion than, say, myself.
	But really, I am a black person in some ways.
	It's just all concentrated in small dots.
	And it's not a joke.
	Really, if I was the color of my freckles, I would be brown, maybe a little bit red too.
	Talk about being a Native American.
	Elizabeth Warren has nothing on me.
	But a person of color is such a stupid phrase because what it does is categorizes people who are non-white and then people who are white and creates this dichotomy and split to create divisions and schisms in our country.
	Not to mention that Caucasian people, which is what they call white, only make up about 11% approximately of the global population.
	So if you look at the statistics of the whole country, white people really are the minority.
	And so it's really weird to call people of color and then white because white also is not a color and black is not really a color, right?
	White's essentially the lack of or the reflection and black is the concentration of all of them.
	So it's just a weird way to divide us against each other.
	How about you just call them people and the color of their skin means nothing?
	Because in every culture and race and ethnicity, there are whites and blacks.
	And even in Brazil or Mexico or places where people are brown, quote unquote, there's all different variations of the color.
	But you know what?
	She's not the only black woman who's crying out that this is completely BS.
	Check out this clip.
	It's freeway and there's nobody at the checkout.
	But this nigga just pulled a gun out on not just me, but five other black females and y'all sitting up here really pretending like y'all did this shit over black lives.
	A black man who looks like me, who should be out there protecting me, just pulled a gun out on me and five other sisters.
	So y'all tell me, keep lying to yourself, talking about this is about black lives.
	Just pulled a gun out on me because I'm out here trying to clean up.
	To clean up what's mine.
	Y'all so pro-black that y'all anti-black.
	Ain't nobody gonna say nothing about that, right?
	That's what I worry about.
	When the police came here, they didn't pull out no gun on me.
	But my brother did.
	Just pulled out a gun on us because we're trying to stop people from coming in the parking lot.
	We're trying to stop people from coming in the parking lot and creating more girls.
	And this man just pulled a gun out on me.
	She said it.
	I didn't say it.
	She said these people are anti-black.
	And I'm going to make the case that Black Lives Matter is anti-black.
	And the reason why I say it is anti-black is not because the organizers don't like black people.
	But if you want to help black people, which I presume these groups have the interest of doing.
	And, you know, I mean, if you don't want to help black people, that's up to you.
	I don't care.
	It's a free country.
	I would love to see black people succeed and get past things like their, you know, up to three quarters of them being raised in families without fathers.
	You know, 92% of black homicides are committed by other black people.
	Up to 50% of young men, black men do not graduate high school.
	I mean, these are very seriously damning and heartbreaking statistics.
	And I don't want to see a community that makes 13% of the U.S. population somehow make up over half of the violent crime.
	Something does have to be done.
	And, you know, black lives do matter, but do they matter to an organization that promotes ideas that don't actually help the community?
	One of those ideas being that police brutality and violence is one of the major issues that is facing the community when statistics themselves refute that.
	It's true.
	It does.
	And it's come to the point, guys, where if you condemn the looters, if you condemn the criminals, people say that you're racist and that you're condemning black people, which in and of itself is a racist statement, meaning that they conflate criminals with black people.
	And so by you condemning criminals, they feel like you're condemning the black community, thus admitting that they believe that black people commit crimes.
	Look at this moment where these three girls are cleaning up graffiti off of this federal building.
	And then this girl, which I'm presuming is black by her voice, but I could be wrong, shows up.
	It doesn't really matter.
	It's important what's said.
	Why are you guys removing Black Lives Matters, graffiti?
	Where are you trying to take out?
	Yeah, we tried over there and it wasn't coming off.
	It's still in what's coming on.
	But why do you want that to come off?
	Well, I can't wait to the federal militia.
	But so you don't care about black lives then?
	That's not enough for the money.
	That's what this.
	We certainly do care about black lives.
	Not enough to leave up a message.
	Not a great way to use your white privilege, ladies.
	Not a great, that's disgusting.
	Know, when we're speaking about the facts here and the truth and what's really happening to the black community and the fact that Black Lives Matter doesn't care about black people, that's a strong statement that I'm saying.
	And I mean that really because they aren't looking for the real solutions.
	They're looking to scapegoat people like the police.
	But I think I found a real way for white and black people to come together and to understand each other, something that's vital to fixing the race relations in this country.
	As I understand the plight that black people cry out and grievances for their ethnicity and race, saying that they are stuck in a hole.
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	I mentioned that Black Lives Matter doesn't care about black people, and that's a bold statement, and it's true.
	Any organization that looks at a non-issue and makes it the plight of the people doesn't truly care about the people.
	But then makes you wonder if the facts criminally say that black people are arrested more often, et cetera, and jailed because not because their skin color, but because of the disproportionate amount of crimes they commit to the color of their skin, why do black people continue to blame anybody else than themselves internally in their community?
	Well, I think I've figured that out.
	This article here from the Wall Street Journal posted by Ryan Saavedra, I'm not able to pull it up on my home computer because you need a subscription to Wall Street Journal, but he summarized it.
	He's from the Daily Wire, that a police officer is 18 and a half times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
	And that's true.
	But the black community clearly doesn't see it that way.
	And a lot of allies, quote unquote, of the black community don't see it that way either.
	And the reason why is important.
	There is a cultural difference between white and black people.
	And I know white people don't like to admit that there's a white culture, but my younger sister's psychology book, which is a very liberal book and works on cultural Marxism, even sets out an entire section on what white culture is.
	Things like relying on individualism, not looking at a race of your skin color as a defining factor of who you are, setting out an independence, a hands-free parenting, et cetera.
	These are hallmarks of white culture.
	Many people who are not white have white culture.
	You can be a black person and be involved in white culture.
	That is possible.
	But it's also possible that some studies show that up to 72% of black people vote and say that their skin color is an increasingly important factor in the way that they cast their ballot.
	Black people often live in a tribalistic mindset.
	They look at themselves as a brother or something.
	And why do you call someone a brother?
	Because they're part of a family.
	A family of what?
	A family of individuals that all share the same background and culture and skin color.
	And you know this because if you don't know anything about culture, there's Africans, people who immigrate here from Africa, and then there are African Americans, and they don't mix.
	So this is not about black lives because if you meet Africans, people from Nigeria, they typically don't like African-American behavior, customs, or culture.
	So this is not about black people.
	This is about African Americans, if we can even call them that, or just Americans of black complexion.
	That being said, you have to realize that even though police brutality is less of an issue than black people or people killing officers, and really officers have a right to be more afraid of a black individual than black people do of the officer, in their minds and in the black culture, they have a narrative that says that we are victims, that we are targets of police brutality.
	They also have a mentality that we were once property and slaves.
	And even if it's illegal now, maybe many people still view us this way.
	And yes, I know that there are critics and I know that a lot of you guys hold to the notion and the truth that, well, it isn't true.
	So we need to throw our facts at them.
	That's because you apply yourself to Western cultures.
	You care about empirical evidence and truth in determining your ideas.
	But that doesn't mean that they do.
	And that doesn't mean they're not Western.
	It just means that in black culture, which is different than white Western culture, these black Westerners hold Eastern values.
	They look at something to be, if it is perceived to be true by my people, aka other black people, then it is just as valuable or esteemed as the truth itself, maybe even more.
	They vote based on their skin color.
	They often think based on their skin color.
	And this is a tribal collectivist mindset.
	The left knows this.
	Democrats prey on this, which is why Joe Biden said that if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
	He wasn't lying and he wasn't being racist.
	He's just saying that black people, yay, will reject you if you don't vote Democrat.
	And that's not a lie.
	It's not racist to say that.
	And the truth is, though, not all black people think the same.
	Check out this one protester who's quick to condemn the rioting and the protests, saying this is not what we're about.
	Why are you protecting the business?
	Why are you protecting the business?
	We're not here to loot.
	That's not what we came here for.
	We're peaceful protesting.
	That's not peaceful.
	Looting is not a part of peaceful.
	This business, whoever owns it or whatever, had nothing to do with what we're here for.
	So if you're going to protest, fucking protest.
	That's what we're here for.
	But if you're here to loot and get some good shit for free, because we're not.
	You know, if white people stopped policing them, would that change the nine out of 10 black people killed by other black people?
	No, it would not.
	Do you know that Planned Parenthood is responsible for over 14,000 more deaths of black people every year than the police departments ever were?
	That's a true statement.
	If the black community cared about who they were and black lives mattered, then indeed, truly, I must say they wouldn't be blaming the police because they would be looking internally at the real problems, the stats and the truth.
	But you have to realize since they don't necessarily care about the truth, if it does conflict with what they believe, then you've got to be empathetic and understand that in order to get these people to get ahead, you've got to figure out a way to combine both the truth and never leave it, but also understand their perspective, their reality, and have some empathy.
	And you will say, oh, Elijah's going soft.
	The truth matters the most.
	Yes, yes, the truth matters the most.
	But the truth doesn't matter if people don't believe the truth.
	If people are not able to access the truth, if people are unable to perceive the truth, if people are unable to receive the truth, then what's the point of it?
	Remember, the truth only matters the most when the people themselves can understand it.
	And so we need to make sure that we are there to educate people that, yes, black lives matter.
	Yes, their culture matters, but they've got to shape their culture based off of empirical evidence and not after what they feel and anecdotal evidence.
	I have seen black lives murdered.
	I have seen police brutality.
	I have witnessed the lives of black people and racism in this country.
	But the stats and the studies and the patterns do not support the idea that there is any different treatment of them long term over a systemic way than any other race.
	I know it might feel like that and it might be true, but because it feels like that to them, if you want black culture to succeed, you've got to learn to meet them in the middle.
	But before we jump any further, you know, I have to tell you every, we're going to get to the coronavirus here in a second and just the hypocrisy.
	The coronavirus is over.
	It's just done.
	It's gone.
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	But the coronavirus is over.
	And we know that because suddenly racism was something that decided to end this virus.
	It was just a few moments ago that these Democrat governors were saying, we've got to arrest these sunbathers and we've got to put sand inside of these skate parks so skaters can't skate.
	You know, by the way, it's dangerous to go to church.
	But now these same healthcare professionals who are crying and making TikTok saying stay home are now cheering on, cheering on these mass protests, because suddenly the coronavirus can affect people who are fighting against racism.
	So it turns out that the cure for COVID-19 is racism.
	The cure for the flu was COVID-19.
	So the cure for the common flu was racism.
	Who would have known that?
	Well, that's really interesting stuff.
	If we don't see the biggest spikes in coronavirus cases across the country due to these massive protests in these large cities, then we will find out what we all know is that we've been completely lied to because these people are fine.
	They're okay.
	And they look like morons with their masks on, but whatever.
	Just keep listening like sheep.
	Do what you have to do to fit in.
	I know that these protests, a lot of people are genuinely sharing their grievances, but a lot of other people are not.
	Anyway, George Floyd, who was killed, he has coronavirus.
	And so the important part about this is that because George Floyd has coronavirus and Dr. Burr said that anybody who died with coronavirus was counted as a coronavirus death, I'm actually scared that this police officer is going to completely get off the hook with no reprimand, maybe because it's going to get counted as a coronavirus death.
	Now, if George Floyd, because he had coronavirus, does not get counted as a coronavirus death, then the government is subject to go back and recount all of the deaths and change the numbers, which they'll probably do neither because they're inconsistent and they're the government and that's why we don't trust them.
	But I'll say this, you know, the matter going around George Floyd, it's suspicious to me because of this.
	Coronavirus hysteria was dying down, and we know that.
	It was completely going away.
	Everyone started to see right through the bullshit.
	And then suddenly we heard about Ahmaud Arbery, which was weird because the Ahmaud Arbery case happened three months earlier than when we heard about it first, which shows you the race baiting to bring up a story months earlier and then to ask me to care about it.
	Yes, I care about Ahmaud Arbery, but why does the media?
	That's the question.
	Then you had that altercation in New York where the woman told that black man, I'm going to tell people a black man is assaulting me or whatever.
	Okay, not a good statement.
	Definitely discriminatory in its own right.
	But it's not news.
	People in New York being just complete crappy individuals talking smack to each other in the park.
	That's just called living in New York.
	Then on top of that, we're going to get into this idea that then all of a sudden with George Floyd, you know, it's like, I believe he died from the knee on the neck, but he had a respiratory infection, coronavirus.
	He had fentanyl in his system, low blood flow.
	I mean, the thing about this is, is that with Keith Ellison, the attorney general, trying to up the charges to second degree for this officer, puts a bigger case for this officer to be acquitted.
	Because if you're trying to prove second degree murder, but he had his knee on his neck, which is not protocol, from my understanding, I've talked to some officers.
	It's only for about 30 seconds on the back or the shoulder while you're securing the person.
	But I will say this.
	With George Floyd having all these cases, if they're trying to prove that there was a second degree intent murder, and then it turns out there's all these lung problems and drug problems, and the officer can prove intent, he might get off on the case on a lesser charge like manslaughter.
	And somehow I feel like that might actually be the ultimate plan.
	It might not be to get the officer in prison for a heavy crime.
	It might be to try to get the jury to acquit him of the heavy charges so that we get into a crazier race war.
	And I know that I sound a little conspiratorial right now, but I mean, nothing's off the table, right?
	If they're trying to push him on charges that are going to be hard to press and there's evidence that might be able to get him off the hook, and it's easier to get someone off the hook when you're pushing harder charges because the paradox between the two is significant.
	You might very well see this man getting house arrest or something or even just like six months in prison.
	And we're going to have a complete race war on our hands.
	And I have a feeling that's what they want before the election.
	So if that comes true, may not, but hey, it's not off the table.
	But the coronavirus is done and it took racism to solve it.
	And we know that.

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