White Lives Matter

Malik's Bookshew. Well, I'm gonna bring some more fire this week because every every social media outlet, ends in regular mainstream media is talking about Kanye West third White Lives Matter. So I'm gonna give you my take, my insight in my opinion about white lives matter. Also on this episode is the continuation of Barbara Shop Talks, so I'm gonna bring that as well. And I've revisited the barber shop, got my haircut and got some more content, so I'm

gonna be bringing that for a while. The thing about the Barbershop Talks is wrong. It's community. It's not scripted, and we're just black men talking about things in the community and how we think about relationships the community and other things. Also, I'm gonna do a book review on the book put out by author and commentator Roland Martin, who wrote a book called white Fear. Now. I decided not to include a segment on this episode because it's

just too long, and it's called power Graphs. I want to bring you that next week, though, So I want you to tune in this week and next week because next week I'm bringing some fires. Called power graph is based on an issue in a scandal right here in Los Angeles when a group of Hispanics, the leader Nori Martinez, whose comments was considered racist, But I personally think it's

more bigotry. I have my own take on when they call a person races because they say this and they say that about another group of people, I can see that more like bigger treat to be honest, because I really believe that in order to be a racist, you gotta have power in order to marginalize, silence, discriminate, and

do all other types of things to another group of people. So, um, I don't think that these people have that much power, but they are in a position of power, and they was gonna use elected seat to grab power in the district that's primarily occupied by black people, and so they wanted to kind of find a way and strategically and tactically find a way to do a power graph and silence and marginalized, uh large segments of black people right here in Los Angeles. And so that segment is kind

of long. So I'm gonna bring to that to you next week, and that's episode is gonna be called power Grab. But this week, I'm gonna bring to you my thoughts about Kanye West, White Lies Matter storm. Well, you know,

this podcast is all about Community Malik's book show. So I have to address because all across this nation, black people, white people, and others are all talking about Kanye West and Canada's aunts wearing, particularly though Kanye West, because he's the mega star in all this wearing a shirt that said white lies Matter, White lives Matter, and that created a overwhelming storm. It went viral, It's been talked about all across social media, It's been talked across mainstream media.

But I got the chime in to its whole explosion. Now I'm gonna face value. Everybody dudes that all lives matter. All right, that's just cut to the chase. We all know all lives matter. The reality is that voices are trying to be heard. So other slogans or tags or hashtag come about and that's how Black Lives Matter, which is a movement, came about. It's a movement, but more important is to say, hey, black lives matter too. Why because no one is addressing the lives and the issues

concerning black people. And during the pandemic black Lives Matter movement blew up, got it? They got about ninety million dollars. They're talking about that also in the media. I might address that at another time on this podcast. Okay, in terms of this whole you know, backlash about what they did with the money. But getting back to white lives matter now personally, you know, like I said, we all understood whether you white or black, or in different or whatever.

You everybody know, all lives matter. Come on, let's just be real. So why is it that you get upset when someone you know, single out there, group or nation or race? Okay, why do you get upset when you give a shout out to your own tried game community, whatever. Black lives matter. That's not saying blue lives don't matter

or white lives don't matter. But Kanye is a black man war shirt that said white lives matter, and no one wants they want to talk about should a person wear such it tastes that what they call, you know, politically, I guess they say, because when you say something, oh that's not political to say it that way, or to say something or right, it is that politically correct. I guess I'm trying to say, to wear such a shirt like that, Now, that's gonna come down to each in

every individual whether or not that's politically correct. But Kanye West was creating. You know, this was not something did ramdodly happen. And he said, the reality is why he war shirt like that is to point out issues about abortion and so many black babies being aborted and to address that, why is it, you know, ill proportion in

the black community. I did an episode about abortion. When the Supreme Court made some change, I did an episode they go back to that particularly episode on Malik's bookshelf, and I talked about that, you know, some changes as a result of that decision, you know what's gonna happen. But I didn't think abortion was actually really gonna go away. But the reality is that each state got to decide what you know, are the the the requirements or the parameters about a boy. But here's the thing he wore.

White lives matter to address the abortion rate, this irripro portion that is so herenous and high in the black community, not just in New York but around this nation. But none of that is being addressed. None of that is being talked about. What's being talked about is him wearing a shirt that says white lives manner, you know, And each individual has to make a decision to you know, decide whether or not they will wear such a thing. I personally, and I you know, I speak my mind

on this. I'm not wearing a shirt like that. And it's not because white lives don't matter. It's just I'm too consumed to trying to elevate the agenda and voice of black people. And I'm not trying to diminish other groups. But me personally, no, I'm not gonna wear a shirt like that. But I do agree with such a subject matter being addressed, and that is the abortion rate of black you know, the abortion rate of blacks. I do feel like that should be dressing. And why is that

apple wise wilt so high? Why is that, you know, it's not being talked about and being addressed, and and it shouldn't because it's not you know, historically Margaret Singer, there has been a historic, factually documented no conspiracy where UM abortion clinics have uh, we're popping up all across this name in black communities at a much higher rate

than other communities. And then Marcus Singing, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had a systematic and toxical and strategic way to want to go after black babies and and and and and increase the amborce rate amongst black people because she felt that, you know, that we um were a

plague on society. So you know, hey, Kanye West is trying to speak on that, and I think something like that should be heard more so than the fact that he has a controversial slogan on a shirt that white lives matter, which of course they do, you know, but a white person, you know, to wear something like that, or a black person, you know, they're gonna look at that as white supremacy. You see what I'm saying, Because we can say black lives matter, but we can't say

white lives matter. We can have a Black um association of you know, fireman, but they can't have a white associating fire We can have a a Black nurses association of nurses, right, but you can't have a white association. So we're living in a paradigm where one group can do this but the other. Why because in the power you know, white you know people have control of the power structure, and so therefore people feel sensitive about that.

But at some point we got the be able to sit at the table and say why is it okay for? And I'm down with having the black and soul. I feel like, you know, you should be able to have the Black Association of Doctors. I feel like you should have the Black Association of football planers and basketball players to identify and magnified your issues and your voice because for a long time, the voice of black people being

silent and not talking about, you know, and marginalized. So therefore we have these issues in society that it comes across when we had affirmative and there was a time to build Clinton eliminated guess what that was all about, helping black people get a higher percentage in the college and jobs and the workforce. And what white folks got mad? They said, why should you have you that s discrimination against us because you know you're giving favor towards another

group and whatnot. See, so therefore, you know, we need to have, you know, no discrimination and no situation where it can help another group that disenfranchised and underserved and lack of resources helped them help them increase their percentage of opportunities to the merger. Let's not have no you know, you know, listen, when you're doing horse racing, they put they call it a handicap, and they put certain weights on other horses that equalize the field. We like that

we act like in society. Yeah, things ain't fair and things ain't the way we wanted to be, but you have to put things in place because there are other groups that I handicap. So what are you gonna do the level the playing field If people act like so insensitive and act like they don't understand that, you gotta do that. And that's all affirmative action was all about. It wasn't trying to men take a job from no other group of people or undermine another group of people.

It was trying to help but a disenfranchise, underserved community. They helped black folks what get in a better place and a better position, But that wasn't but too many white folks got upset and voted it out, and Bill Clinton signed the Bill. And so that's you know, why I'm saying that we have Black Lives matter, because you know, more black people get killed in the inner cities of America then was that Vietnam. You see. So we got

a lot of issues. But the thing is, um when that's point of time when we can like say, hey, we don't need those times, I think there's always gonna be because see this, to me, this is all relevant. You know, a group of people one to become empowered. So therefore they strategically and tactically work together collectively to to uh increase their power, but at what costs and at what you know, and what expense because you gotta you know, are you disenfranchising another group to do that?

You know? And are you undermining another group people to do that? And that's you know in America, that seems to be a playbook and a move that white supremacis have done for decades and centuries as well as other groups.

So we we you know, So I think that you got to have an agenda that unapologetically addresses your issues and concerned and you can't be concerned about other people's feelings and how sensitive they're gonna be because they don't understand and they typically see the world differently, and that's okay. But the thing is, get out their way and let other people who want to make changes for the better happen.

And they want to move this community in this nation in the direction with people can't sit at the table and can love each other and can work together and can be you know what I'm saying, that harmonious and peaceful environment. We're not gonna get there without rough and feathers. We're not gonna get there without addressing, you know, things that are sensitive to other people. So hey, anyway, that's my thoughts on this Kanye West, this white lives matter.

Of course they do. But hey, if you want to wear a shirt like that, that's your That is your right to do so, that is your opinion to do so. But hey, I'm not wearing it, but I do understand the message behind why Kanye West water the shirt. So that's my take on Malik's Bookshelf. So I hope you enjoy. Thank you, Stay tuned for Part five of Bobby Shop Talks. You have to move together. Enough of us, that is

now to all of us. Enough of us have to move together in order to achieve a desired result that's called the nurtia. So we don't have enough of us to change this reality, but we gotta find a way to do so. So this self hatred, this black inferiority, the question is what do we do amongst our own selves to try to change this. Because we can complain all day and all night about the reality TV shows, about the messages and and coming out of Hollywood to

degrade us. You know, we could talk until we blew in the face about all the illnents that we suffer from. But the reality is that you seek you first, the Kingdom of Heaven and all its righteousness, and all others. But God has been used to divide people. Will will will be added onto you true, But God has been used to divide us. I believe that it takes divinely righteous guide it man with sincere hearts to take the book and teach it correct. The music I'm telling the

music is so powerful. The message in the music is so powerful that it overrides the message of righteousness. Because because to live a life of violence, to glorify violence in the music, to glorify the drug, to glorify the sex. When they see the women come out on the on the rare carpet with half naked outfits on that image that is so that influence is so powerful and it has been made and people have been made to love

it so much that they don't want to hear. But somebody like me or you have to say, we're corny to them. Now, we're we're corny and we don't want to hear that. Man, because why because you're talking about Karan or Bob, you're talking about righteousness. But everybody on TV and everybody in the music is coming up making all this money talking about this field. So ain't nobody coming up making money talking about righteousness? Everybody talking about sex, druve, violence, homosexuality,

you name it, and they are getting paid. And that had been made, that have been that has been glorified all over the world. Now, so when we come up and start talking about we're talking, they're not trying to hear we as it. They're not trying to turn away from that life. It's like the rich man who came up to Jesus. You know, the rich man said, what can I do? They have eternal life, and Jesus said,

giveaway all your world, come follow me. The man. They don't want to do that because he was a lot of people who teach the word of God believes sincerely they are teaching the true word. A lot of people believe that, you know, it's it's it's in their mind and in their heart. They believe they are doing the right thing. Now, that's what I was trying to say in terms of you know, you have a lot of people out here trying to deliver the word of God.

When you say go to the word of God, well there's a lot of different men said just about God, and most people did believe in God, got their own way of worshiping that God and believing in that God and and doing certain things, so and and and all I'm saying is that's what creates the confusion because we're

all looking at it in different ways. But here's the thing I was gonna say also, is that you you you you have a situation where, um listen, when you just living a life of survival, it's very difficult to change course and change your direction. A lot of people are, you know, doing things just to survive, and that their core value. It's hard and difficult to change because it is simple fact. You know, I'm selling Doe. Why because when I need to feed my family, I need to

support myself. You know, I'm sister, you know, just dancing, you know, selling a body or what have you. You know, she might be making a lot of money, you know, but at the same time, she's in the survival mode. She's using her assets, her beauty. Yea. But you know what I'm saying, And it's hard to change people who are fixated on just surviving. Man, it's hard, you know, teaching morality and getting a person to change their life. And you and you're hungry and you ain't got no food.

That's a difficult challenge. I understand that, But that that's an excue. Still, that's an excute because you know why, because everybody's an effective everybody on the planet got that same. I don't think it's an excute that I'm saying because they want state check away from being homeless. This is what I'm saying. You've got a lot of people united The United States is one of the most richest countries on the Earth. And you have other countries on this

planet that's way poorer then this country, way poor. Don't even have toilets, Okay, they're not here do of the stuff that we're doing, and they have not lost their morality too for the most part. Now they're poor and people always wanted people. I hear I am in the shop, people want to say, how can people in the mother country they're so port but they're happy because the standard

of living in life what it is over here. Actually point most times, we're pressure and to getting into these what we call unfortunate lifestyle to make money because of what we see on TV and telling what we need to have in order to be accepted. And we've been taught and educated differently. But they having in those third worlds in that's w I'm going with it. That's what I'm gonna understand it. That's why they're putting it on TV. They put on it. It's still a teaching. That still

a teaching. They're teaching our people to be like that. They're teaching you that if you don't have this type of car, you ain't nothing in society. For example, I get an example. You look at it, you know, having a Mercedes bands today just like having a Nissan in central because everybody got on there. And I was saying back in the eighties, you know what I'm saying. You're right, you know if everybody had to say much now they made the Mercedes Ben where it's like, you know, everybody

in the hood got him. Do you see what I'm saying? And why everybody in the hood gotta have a Mercedes Been because of what they see on TV, what they see with the celebrity. I gotta have this type of car in order to beat them. Just talking so I can look like so I can look like the man and the who. It was also Mercedes business model to now making Mercedes Bears for every classroom. Not now if you have the tape one of the Mercedes Been that the arish person got, nowaday not the real expensive one,

these little small issue v ones. You know what I'm saying. Take the Mercedes Being signs off and put a Nissan sign on them. You think they're gonna buy. Hell no, they ain't gonna buy what they're paying for the name brand they ain't paying. You take a Mercedes and you take the sign of say and put a nice on Badger then because of the name brand and they bind because the name because because the brand matters, Because the brand matter. That's my point. The brand matters. Yeah, just

like credibility matter. That's what I'm saying. You're making my point now, credibility matter. That's that you're making my point. Why do people want this because of what they see? Absolutely wasn't glorified. People wouldn't go for every day we wake up, brother, we we see a force and a power in a position of authority. Brother. And we were educated from birth in this system to behave in a

certain way. But as we got older, we came across knowledge, wisdom and understanding, they get opened up and expanded some of our views and our points today. And then what all I'm saying is I want to get back to what what we need to do to make a change, because this system is real and it's an effect, and it's teaching this generation in his program, the next generation to behave in a way that might not be beneficial your own and be yourself. Next week, stay tuned for

Part six of Barbie Shop Talks. It's been a while since I did a book review, but I'm going to do one on this episode of White Lives Matter, and I think it ties in also to the subject matter. So the book I'm going to do a book review on is called White Fear, How the Browning of America Is making White Folks Lose their Mind by Roland Martin. Now a little bit about rolland Martin before I go into this book review. Rolland Martin appeared on TV one.

He was a news opinion name of commentator. He gave opinions about the community, and he was outspoken and he had a lot of elite guests on his TV program on TV one. Now he's written a book called White Fear, How the Browning of America Is making White Folks Lose their Mind. And let me tell you something. I thought that this book right here was on point, because white fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning, and today it's intense, invisible than ever. To neutralize it,

we must first understand it. For two centuries, the deep seated fear that many white people feel losing power, of losing economic standing, of losing a particular way of life has been the driving force behind American politics and culture.

Roman Martin believes white fear has enabled the rise of someone like Donald Trump, and he believes is behind the restrictive voting rights laws disproportionate impact people of color and why reactions to the movement like Black Lives Matter and the football players taking a knee have been so negatively

and so strong now. The motivating factor behind white fear is the fact that in four the predictions that the browning of America is going to take place, that they're gonna be more people of color, that is, than there are as white people, and out of the fear of this future coming event is inticifying the fear which is

festering and becoming more visible the ruling. Martin offers some solutions in the book What can we do to step into our country's inovertible future without tearing ourselves apart as a country. National renowned journalists and award winning author Roling Martin has been sounding this along for more than a decade. And White Fear, he provides a primer on how white fear has shaped and continues to shape our democracy and

our culture. He connects separate puzzles pieces from the Tea Party movement to decline a white American optimism to the diminishing blue collar workforce, to eliminate the large picture or what will unfold in America over the next decades plus, and offers a better way forward so pick up your copy at malik books dot com or wherever book sold. Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf where topics on the shelf, our books, culture and community. Be sure to subscribe and

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