you are now listening to the Grio black podcast Network Black Culture Amplified my name is Michael Harriet I'm your favorite white pist I'm here every day to tell you what's going on in the village and of course today is white people Wednesdays every Wednesday we dedicate to our favorite white subject we explore the world that is whiteness because this podcast would never exclude a group based on color creed or or race or how they season their food we would never do that we explore what's going
on in the white jungle out there I'm Michael Harriet world famous white pist and this is the GRE o [Music] daily when Stokley Carmichael and the leaders of the civil rights movement in L County they call themselves The L County Freedom organization decided to get into politics they had to get themselves a mascot right and the mascot for the Democratic party was a white booster it stood for white supremacy and so stokeley Carmichael and the people who believed in armed self-defense they got their
own mascot and they created like this Tiger but it was black right like a pummer from South America and that is how we got the idea and the logo for the black p Panthers because black people were all about armed self-defense right and even today when you think about armed self-defense you think about black people protecting themselves and that's the difference between America's preoccupation with guns and black people's decision to own guns to protect themselves one is to attack black people li
ke they did in Wilmington like they did in Greenwood or Tulsa like they did in so many of the black massacres so many of them happened after whites disarmed black people so White's preoccupation with guns was a tactic about controlling the black population and it was a political tactic too when you mentioned a lot of these massacres doing reconstruction during the Civil Rights movement during red summer they were about not just disarming black people but suppressing the black vote that's a great
way to do it right so Whit's preoccupation with guns is closely related to voter suppression like white black people weren't just like sitting back chilling not voting the reason they didn't exercise their right to participate in democracy was because there was some people on the other side of that camera with guns that's where black armed self-defense came in handy so you can't separate America's preoccupation with guns from the Quest for black Freedom even today so let me tell you about this
guy named raim Bogan he was adamant about the self protection he was adamant about gun ownership he was a second amendment Advocate right and so he would go to gun shows and buy guns legally right but then the FBI came out with this of this memo that says black extremists embedded into the black lives matter movement are going to attack police officers now they were never they never offered any proof of this so-called black identity extremist except for one guy this guy Rim Logan Rim Bogan never
said he was going to attack a police officer he never wrote it he never said it on social media he never told anybody there was no evidence that he had ever planned to commit violence with guns he said that he bought his guns because of armed self-defense but they arrested Rima Logan he was the only person to this day who is Ever arrested as a black identity extremist but when he went to court the judge says like what are you doing like do you have any evidence that this guy was going to commit
an act of Terror do you have any visual or statistical or written evidence that this guy was going to attack police officers tell me what constitutes black identity extremist and the FBI couldn't do it they couldn't offer an example they couldn't even say he was going to do this like this previous black guy did it to this day there is no example of black identity extremism it is a tactic to disarm black people from protecting themselves with the second amendment that was created to disarm black
people so Rakim Bogan was eventually set free but they didn't stop see during the George Floyd protest this dude named John Johnson he was the leader of the largest black militia in the country right they called him grandmas J and Grandmaster J saw what Kyle Rittenhouse did during the George Floyd protest Grandmaster J saw the three percenters uh come to Ferguson he saw these militias come to the George Floyd protest he saw militias white militias show up every time there was a black protest an
d he decided Well you know my militia is going to show up at a protest to protect the black black protesters so when police in Louisville Kentucky killed a woman named Briana Taylor John Johnson Grandmaster J and his militia showed up and they showed up with their guns the same kinds of guns that the white people the white militia men showed up with as a matter of fact he had an AR-15 which was exactly like Kyle Rittenhouse used in Kenosha Wisconsin now Kyle Rittenhouse shot two people at a blac
k protest when he was summoned by white militia men to come and protect the property remember remember what George Mason said they own their guns to protect property so Grandmaster J didn't come to protect property he came to protect black people's lives and he showed up there with this AR-15 and there were snipers and SWAT teams on the rout and someone said that grandmas J pointed his AR-15 at a cup now of course he didn't fire unlike Kyle writtenhouse he killed absolutely zero people but Grand
master Jay was convicted of assaulting a police officer he didn't fire at him he didn't shoot anyone he didn't even say I am going to shoot a police officer he was convicted because he pointed his gun in the direction of a sniper that was on a roof now any responsible gun owner will tell you what's the safest way to carry your weapon with the barrel pointing up but Grandmaster J to this day right now has just been convicted of assault ing a police officer by not shooting them and that encompasse
s the entire ethos of why white people own guns to protect them from scary black people like Grand Master J to protect them from black identity extremists who don't exist to protect them from people like the scary people in the white imagin Nation who are coming to kill them like zombies black people are white people's zombie apocalypse and that's why white people love guns and that's why they believe so much in the Second Amendment it's a delusion it's a thing that they have always made up in t
heir head and to prove it I'll leave you with some FBI statistics that show that a person who has a gun during an active shooter situation is more likely to be shot than a person who is unarmed there is no such thing as a good guy with a gun versus a bad guy with a gun first of all how you going to know who's the bad guy like I don't know why people have ESP I don't know I know they got ESPN because like that come standing on the cable package but I don't think white people can telepathically kn
ow who who is a bad guy with a gun so they just shoot people right like Kyle written house and the preoccupation with guns eventually get more people killed they want to arm teachers even though we know like teachers disproportionately punish black students versus white students and that's not like something I'm making up like that was a study that was commissioned by this place called the United States education department department so it's the truth we know that teachers are not trained firea
rm users we know that people who have guns in active shooter situations are more likely to get shot but for some reason because of this white delusion the only answer that white people have given for their preoccupation with guns is that I don't know more guns keep them safer right like they want to put guns in schools they want to put guns in nursing homes they want to put guns in I don't know uh I don't where do what people go golfing communities right um I guess that's why they always get att
acked by crocodiles in Florida CU they forgot their guns at home and studies show that states with lax gun laws have have worse gun violence and I know that people are going to respond to this by saying but what about Chicago or what about black on black crime which is a good point just this one time I I'll point out that this is a good point which is why black people want gun control like you don't see black people at parade saying ohoo I'm glad that guy got shot black people are pushing for gu
n control even though it protects us because we know that the black onblack violence in inner cities is caused by a lack of gun control and the reason that there is a lack of gun control is not so black people can protect themselves it's because white people think guns will protect them and I'll just say one last thing right so there's this like I don't know this like for some reason there's this imaginary thesis that if more black people own guns then they would create gun control laws right li
ke if more black people own guns for some reason white people get scared and then you know they'll start pushing gun reform laws and so black people should buy guns if they want gun control which is on its face a reasonable conclusion except white people don't follow the law right like when the KKK came to Monroe North Carolina to shoot out and to shoot at black people they weren't following the law when they burned down Greenwood they weren't following the law when they were murdering slaves ok
ay they were following the law then because there was laws that said like you know slave masters could murder slaves but still right like the people who showed up at g with guns in St Louis you know that couple that was standing on their lawn Bing their pistols in their AR-15 when black protesters were walking by doing absolutely nothing to those people they weren't following the law they were convicted so white people's preoccupation with guns it doesn't mean that they are following the law lik
e that's why the Gun Show loophole exists because they will go to gun shows and purchase firearms without background checks white people don't have to follow the law right white people do more drugs than black people and black people are arrested disproportionately so that thesis presupposes that white people follow the law and it presupposes something else it presupposes that unlike George Mason unlike those white slave masters unlike the white men doing reconstruction unlike the white League u
nlike the KKK unlike all of the white supremacist organizations unlike the malicias unlike the 3centers unlike the proud boys it presupposes that white people have the law applied to them cuz you know none of those white people I've mentioned not the people who burned down Greenwood not the KKK members who shot at Robert F Williams not the three centers not the proud boys none of them have been convicted not like they convicted Grandmaster J not like they convict every black person who brandishe
s a weapon which is a great point about black-on-black crime it's not like we are for black on black crime but the black people who shoot black people and who shoot white people are always convicted but the law is not applied to White gun owners so that narrative that black people buying guns will somehow spark gun reform is not backed by history or any kind of evidence what it is backed by is this crazy American preoccupation with guns and that's why to understand white people's preoccupation w
ith guns to understand why white people have this delusional IDE a that guns will protect them you have to understand how afraid they have always been of black people and how that has led to white supremacist murders throughout the history of America and once you understand that you will understand why black people do and say and act in certain ways for instance you will understand why black people own guns you will understand why we don't trust white people with guns and you will finally unders
tand why we say black lives matter because for most of the history of America they didn't it's written in the Constitution and that's why white people are crazy about their guns and as always always we'll be here every day you know kicking it with you for a few minutes telling you what's up in the Black village or you know on Wednesdays what's up with white people so join us every day download the Grio app where you can just get it on your phone on your iPad or on your computer just download tha
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