The First of Many

of a fourteen year old white male student named Colton Gray. Now, I want to tell you that, on top of the four people that were murdered, two fourteen year old students and two teachers, thirty children wounded. The swiftness with which the law enforcement said that this fourteen year old was going to be charged as an adult, as if that charge was somehow going to absolve the fear, the frustration, and the decades of trauma that have been forced upon

American families at the hands of Republican legislators. I have never experienced, and I say this really seriously here the adultification of a white child the way that folks are doing right now in Georgia. And what do I mean by that? Let me unpack that we know, and studies have shown. Data has shown that when white law enforcement, for instance, or white people honestly in general, see black children, they assume them to be sometimes nearly a decade older

than they are. One of the most common fears of the parents of black children is how long will it be for their black child, whether they be nine, ten, eleven, twelve, you know, what have you to be seen and treated as an adult? Case in point to me or Rice in you know the early twenty tens, was shot dead

on a playground for playing with a toy gun. And when the officers, who didn't even bother to get out of their car before shooting, spoke or wrote in their police report, they added like ten or eleven years to Timmy or Rice's age. He was twelve, and they wrote about him in the police report saying that black adult

male in their twenties. What are you talking about? But it has always been the adultification of black children, to strip them of their childlike innocence and their humanity, and to treat them in a way that you wouldn't write a perceived white child of the same age. We've talked about this before on the show. When you talk about the murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two protests and was hailed by the right as some type of hero. All of a sudden, when he's crying in court, he's

a young boy, not a seventeen year old murderer. When you're talking about Donald Trump as a nearly Octanegerian, Oh, he'll grow into the job. He'll mature into the space, as if adolescence for white men in particular lasts well into their eighties. So there is something really strategic about the media and law enforcement's treatment of this fourteen year

old boy. And I think that this is going to be the new strategy to absolve themselves from any responsibility as to the adults who put that gun in that boy's hands. I want you to take a listen to this. This was tweeted and I retweeted. It came out of k through twelve school shooting database. A reporter asked this question to Governor Brian Kemp, Governor of Georgia. Reporter, what can be done to make Georgia's schools safer? Governor, this is not the day to talk about safety or policy.

We need thoughts and prayers for the victims. Law enforcement and educators. I'm sorry, what what day are we waiting for? If it's not the day that children are going back to school after summer break and being murdered in their classroom. If that's not the day, then when is the day? Because this fourteen year old was able to bring a

gun into school because there's no minimum age requirement. I want to read to you from what was said by Shannon Watts, who is emeritus at Mom's Demand and every Town, and she posts this, and then I'll read you an

article that she posted as well. She said last year, as a symbol of their commitment to gun extremism, some Republican members of Congress proudly wore their repelpons shaped like an AR fifteen, the same weapon a fourteen year old just used to kill student, two students, and two teachers in Georgia. She also had said that this consistent negligence on the part of Republican lawmakers is why we are here.

And there is no doubt that gunning down members of your community, your fellow students, teachers, is a heinous act. But I'll tell you that the real evil act is having the power to stop this and choosing not to. Right having the power, the legislative power, to stop this from happening, and not doing so. Last year, Shannon Watts tweets this, the student responsible for the shooting threatened to kill people at the school. Because there wasn't probable cause,

the FBI made no arrests. Georgia doesn't have any red flag law, so police also didn't remove the gun from the thirteen year old's home. These acts don't come out of nowhere, right, they come from someplace. There were warnings, There were signs that were readily ignored because in an effort to showcase their pure and total allegiance to the NRA, these Republican lawmakers have stripped any gun safety, any policies that would have alerted them and law enforcement to this issue.

They continually want to call this a mental health crisis as opposed to a gun problem, as if other countries in the world don't have teenagers, they do, and the difference is those teenagers in other countries don't have access to ar fifteens. I will read you this. The fourteen year old suspected of a mass shooting at George's Appalachi High School had been begging four months for mental health help.

Before his deadly attack on Wednesday, According to an aunt of the suspect, he was quote begging for help from everybody around him. The aunt told The Washington Post the adults around him failed him. The odd who lives in central Florida, declined to elaborate on the teen's mental health challenges, but said she tried from afar to get him help. She said his struggles were exacerbated by a difficult home life. He and his family had previous contacts with local child

service departments. So as this story continues to unfold, this is something that could possibly end up with the parents being charged. We don't know. But what we do know is that guns are the problem. Access, easy access to guns are the problem. We are not the only country that has teenagers. We are not the only country that has people that have mental health issues. We are the only country, though, that has more guns then it does people.

And then we continue when these acts of violence happen, to just resign ourselves to it is what it is, or, as Donald Trump said, we just need to quote get over it. There is a message that is going around right now that shows one of the last exchanges between a mother and their child. Child at the school sends a text to their mother saying, I love you. There is a shooting. Someone is dead. I'm sorry. It wasn't

always the best daughter. How is this okay? How is it even a choice in the next sixty days between people? A party that on their Christmas cards showed their children holding guns that are taller than them. A party that is telling American families to get over it. The pro life quote unquote party doesn't give a fuck if your kids are gunned down in school. These are the issues

that are on the ballot. There is another meme that I saw that was like the right to carry, showing an outlined mail with an AR fifteen and you know, a trucker hat, and then forced to carry the outline of a pregnant woman on her knees. This is America. That's America in a snapshot. It honestly amazes me that people want to come here, because I would be scared to death if I lived in another country and my family was just like, oh, let's go vacation in the

United States. I'd be like, huh, they're unhinged over there. You could get shot anywhere, a movie theater, a school, a place of worship the mall, a concert. The list goes on, and what is even more disturbing is that, as I record this, folks, it's September fifth. School's been back in many places for less than a week, so we know, based on patterns alone, this will be the

first of many. This will be the first of many rounds of thoughts and prayers, the first of many handwringing, Oh, we don't know why this is happening, Like are we stupid? We don't know why? We don't care? And worse yet, we keep voting people back in office that tell us

on a regular basis that they don't care. On top of that, you know, Donald Trump and his band of merry fucking idiots, you know, once again showing connections to Russia and content creators being completely and totally bought out, you know, one hundred thousand dollars a post to spread lies and misinformation. The stakes couldn't be higher, The stakes could not be higher. And you know right now, like I always say, I don't really care about what the

polls are saying. I don't care about them when they're bad.

I don't care about them when they're good, because the only thing that matters is the decision that people decide to make on November fifth, and I will continue to say that's between now and then activate and organize, you know, join you know, texts groups and you know, knocking on doors and donate and register people to vote, and you know, connect with organizations that are working on get out the vote and go and volunteer, do everything that you possibly

can with the time, you know, the precious time that you have, but the precious time this country has left. I just can't imagine, and I say this often, I can't imagine what it is like to be a parent and a caregiver in America. You know, I have friends that just have a newborn baby boy, and I'm just like, what kind of world are we leaving for these children? Generations upon generations of children absolutely morphing into traumatized adults who have just looked to their left and their right

and ask like, why didn't you you protect me? Why didn't you help us? From a cooked planet to cooked in the brain. Politicians that see no value in public safety, They only see the checks the NRA gives them. So that community just like Parkland and Newtown and Aurora and Buffalo and Pennsylvania, and you name a city and there's been a mass shooting, one that has made the headlines, and I tell you that, you know, I knew after Newtown this country was willing to shrug their shoulders at

a classroom of white kindergarteners riddled with bullets. I knew that there was absolutely no hope that we would do anything if you're willing to let white children in this most racist nation perish in that way. And how many mass shootings have their been sense too many at account? That is it for me today, dear friends on wokef as I've been saying, friends, I have launched a YouTube channel where I am putting up fresh video content every day. Some days I rest on Sunday. But please go over

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