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0:05 sometimes we find our voice through a simple yet powerful physical gesture for instance taking a knee can mean dramatically different things in different situations starting during the nfl's 2016 football season quarterback colin kaepernick took a knee in support of the black lives matter movement and ended up getting basically blackballed by all nfl teams on may 25th 2020 minneapolis police officer derek charvin took a knee for eight minutes and 45 seconds
0:51 to the neck of george floyd ultimately killing him the world has not been the same since that fateful day the horrific video literally spread around the world with people from all kinds of cultural backgrounds taken to the streets and yes taking a knee in protest the traumatizing impact of almost weekly police or vigilante killings of people like armon arbury brianna taylor and george floyd are recent deadly examples of the racism that's permeated the united states
1:37 since it began in 1776 suddenly due to the internet america's long deadly history of race related violence had gone viral however just because we are outraged it does not mean that we have to lose our minds or our morals we can be both rational and ethical even though we are angry when our rightful moral indignation causes us to lose our intellect and ethical compass it can lead to some very negative outcomes
2:23 when we leave with raw passion and abandoning our logical thinking we often end up with ideas like an urban riot is no longer a riot it is a quote revolution this idea is often promoted by african americans and their quote allies even though the negative social and economic damage caused by such revolutions hurt economically stressed urban african americans the most for instance after more than five years inner-city african-americans in my hometown of baltimore maryland have still not recovered from the fires and vandalisms which i call riots that happen separate
3:08 from the many peaceful protests against the police-involved killing of freddie gray in april of 2015. additionally the aftermath of these so-called revolutions often leave all african americans in a bad light in a worse political position a riot is a riot no matter who precipitates it or participates in it u.s history tells us that the dailiest riots in the country have been carried out by people identified as quote whites against african americans people of color and other marginalized
3:54 groups we we are when we are justifiably outraged by racially motivated killings we often lose our minds and our morals our rationality and our ethics what this current understandable frustration often leads to is an angry insistence that black lives matter cannot or should not be said in conjunction with the phrase all lives matter i believe that ethically speaking black lives matter because all lives matter my connection to this idea is very personal and painful
4:41 because of what happened on april 14 1997. the slide you're about to see is my son malik jones on april 14th 1997 my son malik jones died at the end of what should have been a routine traffic stop when an east haven connecticut police officer robert fluddquist after a chase from suburban east haven into inner city new haven ran up to his car shattered the driver's side front window with the butt of a gun paid for with money from taxpayers like myself and shot my baby several times at close range killing him
5:30 believe me there's no pain like the pain of burying one of your children within two weeks of the killing i spoke directly by phone separately to the then mayor of east haven and afterwards to the then chair of east haven's police commission i asked them both the same question and gave them the same very specific advice the question was do you have any young men in your family who are at or around 21 years of age this was malik's age at the time of his death they both answered yes i then advised both of them that if they
6:17 participated in the defensive circle the wagons mentality that cities and police departments often adopt in the wake of such police involved shootings the streets of connecticut would be less safe for all citizens sadly on july 14 1999 a little more than two years after malik's deadly encounter with the east haven police officer the headline for an article in the hartford current connecticut newspaper read quote cop shot woman through car's side window google it you'll find the story the story was about a 40 year old white
7:03 woman victoria cooper who like malik ended up dead at the end of what should have been a routine traffic stop on july 13 1999 in nearby north brantford connecticut less than 10 miles less than 10 miles away from where malik was killed the news story also discussed malik's killing because of the similar circumstances of them being shot through the driver's side front window lack lives matter because all lives matter so when we examine the recent history of
7:49 the united states of america three additional dates will help us to understand why we should use our voices to connect black lives matter to all lives matter the dates are may 2nd 1927 january the 10th 2005 and october 27 2018. the names of the individuals connected to these dates are not as well known as the names of malik jones or george floyd however i encourage you not to forget these people as we strive to make the united states and the world live up to the words and shrine in the united states declaration of independence which was
8:34 signed on july 4 1776 it states and you've heard this before we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness we also find similar inspiring words in an autobiography that is seen by many as one of the most insightful critiques of how the power of racism affects u.s society even today near the end of his autobiography of malcolm x malcolm x also known as el hajj malik as
9:22 shabazz stated i am for truth no matter who tells it i am for justice no matter who it's for or against i'm a human being first and foremost and as such i'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole it is in the spirit of these words from both the declaration of independence and the order book for your malcolm x that i urge you not to forget these three people i'm about to tell you about the first name we should not forget
10:08 is carrie s buck on may 2nd 1927 the frame the very famous liberal united states supreme court justice oliver window holmes jr stated in the supreme court decision that quote three generations of imbeciles are enough unquote the decision buck versus bell was an eight to one supreme court decision that helped to fuel the infamous eugenics movement which focused on creating a purer white race by the way you can read all about this case and the huge impact of the eugenics movement in a well-documented book which
10:53 every person in america and worldwide should read entitle war against the weak eugenics in america's campaign to create a master race by edwin blatt carrie s buck remember that name this poor white teenage virginia woman from charlottesville virginia near where i grew up in roanoke virginia in virginia's jim crow exile was the first of more than 60 thousand u.s citizens who were forcibly sterilized under the color of state laws between 1927 and the 1970s
11:40 the first targets of course were institutionalized whites who were called imbeciles and effective they were trying to improve the race after all and then ultimately and it always ultimately comes to this these four sterilizations including blacks and other people of color black lives matter because all lives matter the second name we should not forget is jamila yasmine arshad on january 10 2005 dr jamila yasmin arshad died in the back seat of a police cruiser in kenner louisiana
12:27 she died there because she stopped she made a humanitarian effort to help a boy hit by a car and the officers who arrived at the scene refused to believe that this black woman could be an accomplished well-respected medical doctor that she was i bring her up from the medical profession in this context for two reasons first when we talk about black lives matter we tend to focus on young black men like my son malik jones and we fail to highlight how frequently black women are victims of such police involved killings second according to the centers for the
13:14 disease control of the united states black american indian alaska native women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women in the most expensive health care system in the world most americans receive subpar subpar care but if you're a woman of color you receive even worse often deadly care black lives matter because all lives matter the third name that we should never
14:02 forget is rose mallinger on october 27 2018 97 year old rose mallinger was murdered why she was murdered along with 10 other people why simply for worshiping while jewish at the pittsburgh tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh according to the november 10 2018 edition of the pittsburgh gazette robert bowers the terrorists who killed her shared material online from the christian identity movement by the way the christian identity
14:47 movement believes that people of your deep european descent are the quote chosen people and that jews are their enemies and then other races like mine are meant to be exterminated or enslaved it is a small wonder that even the current u.s department of homeland security secretary sees the white supremacy movement as the greatest violent threat to america today i invite and concern people of all faith and concern people of no faith to understand and act on the reality that the black lives matter movement is not only about race but about the
15:34 safety security and humanity of all of us who inherit this land who inhabit this land let's raise our voices and say black lives matter because all lives matter you
