We Have To Come At Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Because We No Longer Have Dick Gregory Alive To Do It [COLORFUL LANGUAGE]

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[00:00:20] You know, I had a different topic to talk about. I wanted to continue the home buying conversation, as I thought it was helpful, seemed to be popular.

[00:00:30] Then, to my detriment, I'll blame myself for this, to my detriment, I stumbled across an article in some of my research.

[00:00:39] I wouldn't call myself a historian, but I do consider myself a student of history.

[00:00:46] I think a lot of people simply don't understand, or they misunderstand, it's probably better said, what history did and what it didn't do,

[00:00:56] and the origins and the source of a lot of the dissent, malcontent, a lot of the disruption, a lot of the cantankerous actions, right, of people long gone.

[00:01:12] And it's important to think about this. People long gone.

[00:01:16] The article was written by a person, I have the person's name, the person's name is Rihanna Gunwright.

[00:01:24] I say the person because I don't know how they identify.

[00:01:27] I'm assuming, and it's an assumption, that Rihanna Gunwright identifies as female,

[00:01:33] because the various articles that reference her material say her, she, as defined pronouns.

[00:01:40] Could be that she didn't approve those.

[00:01:42] I'm going to make the assumption that this person identifies as female,

[00:01:46] so you'll hear me refer to this person as by she or her through the context of my response.

[00:01:52] And if it sounds like I'm a little bit on the heated edge, I'm not on the heated edge.

[00:01:57] I'm disappointed because it's clear to me, it's clear to me this person was influenced by somebody,

[00:02:05] likely a white American who gave them a message that was designed to sow dissent amongst black Americans

[00:02:14] by convincing Rihanna Gunwright that what she now believes is the only truth and the only part that matters.

[00:02:22] And the mission that she's putting forth is so disappointing to hear.

[00:02:27] It's so misguided.

[00:02:29] So I'm going to summarize what I read.

[00:02:33] Rihanna Gunwright may come back and respond and say that I got it wrong.

[00:02:37] That's cool, but I'm going to summarize what I read and the interpretation of it,

[00:02:42] because what I need Rihanna Gunwright to understand is the interpretation of what you put out.

[00:02:48] You have to be very careful and thoughtful about how it's perceived by other people.

[00:02:54] If you put out a straight up message with no forethought or pre-thought,

[00:03:00] you just throw it out there because you're so adamant that you must be right.

[00:03:05] You're so strong on your beliefs.

[00:03:09] You're so committed to what you want.

[00:03:12] Everybody else be damned in your messaging.

[00:03:15] That's what causes people like myself to have to come at you with a couple of messages.

[00:03:19] Not because we're attacking you as a person.

[00:03:22] I believe, I firmly believe Rihanna Gunwright doesn't know any better.

[00:03:27] I firmly believe that Rihanna Gunwright was talked to by one or more white Americans who were purposely trying to sow dissent.

[00:03:36] Notice I said this group of people or one person, they had a specific intent.

[00:03:41] I'm not saying all white Americans because not all white Americans do this.

[00:03:46] I'm saying the ones that were talking to her, that gave her this message and told her that this should be the focus,

[00:03:52] they're trying to sow dissent.

[00:03:54] They're trying to strengthen their position to the detriment of Rihanna Gunwright

[00:04:01] and many others that believe the same thing that Rihanna Gunwright believes.

[00:04:05] Here's the subject matter as I perceived it and as I read it.

[00:04:10] And I'll even give direct quotes.

[00:04:13] Quote number one, as she shares, climate change is quote,

[00:04:17] a reminder that just because we have constructed a reality that benefits from black people being exploited and marginalized doesn't mean that it doesn't have cost in reality.

[00:04:25] The earth still keeps the score unquote.

[00:04:29] So that statement, does that sound stupid to you?

[00:04:33] It sounds stupid to me because to draw a line from climate change to black people being exploited and marginalized.

[00:04:43] When I saw that, I'm like, I don't understand how anybody can draw this conclusion.

[00:04:48] I don't understand how anybody can draw a straight line between these two things because it skips over so many other critical path things.

[00:04:56] It's almost laughable in its implementation.

[00:04:59] Continue quote, this in part has made Gunwright frustrated with federal policy like the Inflation Reduction Act.

[00:05:07] Quote, August marked a year since the Inflation Reduction Act passed, arguably the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history, she says in her essay.

[00:05:16] But the racist compromises and the marginalization of black people and their demands that facilitated the bill's passage have seeped into the climate movement.

[00:05:27] These compromises include provisions that would still permit the development of oil and gas infrastructure that could harm black, brown and poor white communities.

[00:05:37] For instance, the act allows oil and gas lease sales that if purchased, quote, will almost certainly increase pollution in neighboring black communities,

[00:05:46] which house the oil refineries and gas and petrochemical facilities that will process the oil and gas fossil fuels extracted from these sites.

[00:05:54] Gunwright writes, quote, as long as we treat black people as dispensable, we make it harder for us to fully and hastily decarbonize.

[00:06:04] She notes in the essay. Stop.

[00:06:08] Did you hear what I just said? Are you able to draw a line between climate change and black people being exploited and marginalized?

[00:06:16] And then to say it's an essay. See, I'm reading this saying, OK, as an essay, you just wrote a bunch of bullshit because that's what you did.

[00:06:24] That's that's what you did because there's no connection here.

[00:06:28] The connection that she's stating is allegedly allegedly only black, quote, black, brown and poor white communities live in, quote,

[00:06:41] neighboring communities to oil refineries and gas and petrochemical facilities that will process the oil and gas fossil fuels.

[00:06:49] Do you not understand, Rihanna Gunn right?

[00:06:53] That it's not just impoverished people. First of all, it's not just black and brown people.

[00:07:00] Second, it's not just poor white.

[00:07:03] Third, that live in proximity to these institutions.

[00:07:07] And do you not understand that those installations are far and few in between?

[00:07:13] And in the most cases, they're out of the middle of nowhere.

[00:07:16] They're not in the urban core dense urban cores, high density city centers, which is actually where lower income families predominantly are.

[00:07:28] Why? Because most of the suburbs, they were priced out.

[00:07:32] This is where I had to come with mine because I allegedly Rihanna Gunn right is one of the architects of what's called the Green New Deal,

[00:07:43] which was AOC's claim to fame that this is going to be the future.

[00:07:48] I happen to be doing research on the New Deal from Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

[00:07:54] For those that don't study history, the New Deal is arguably and I have I'm making this statement myself is arguably one of the main contributors to the decline of these communities that she's calling out black, brown, poor white communities.

[00:08:13] Mostly black and brown, but not just black and brown.

[00:08:17] Also Jews, also Chinese, also Asian, which I call out.

[00:08:22] She didn't have a damn thing to say about them, even though they were just as marginalized as black Americans were.

[00:08:30] That's the flaw in the statement she's making.

[00:08:33] She's drawing one line between climate change and black people.

[00:08:38] These are her words. Climate change quote is a reminder that just because we have constructed a reality that benefits from black people being exploited and marginalized.

[00:08:47] That's her words. I'm quoting directly.

[00:08:49] She didn't call out that Chinese were actually in the New Deal.

[00:08:54] They were marginalized. Anybody who wasn't white was marginalized in the New Deal.

[00:09:01] I challenge people who claim to be educated to go and do some research on what this was doing during that time.

[00:09:08] What we now know of as the so-called quote, federal housing association contributed to what's referred to as redlining.

[00:09:17] Redlining was the idea that if you were not of a white American culture, and I'm actually even talking Jews were excluded, Asians were excluded, blacks were excluded, Hispanics were excluded.

[00:09:30] For black Americans it was even worse because they looked, when I say they, I'm talking the people who formed the maps.

[00:09:37] If there happened to be black American families moving to certain areas, those areas were deemed not worth giving loans to.

[00:09:45] That whole, that section of time, that stretch of time, there are actual, actual bylaws, covenants, even laws, state laws at some level, that specifically say you will not buy here.

[00:10:01] If you are of these races, plural, plural, you will not buy here.

[00:10:08] They were blockaded from doing so.

[00:10:11] Doing that meant it limited their access to generational wealth.

[00:10:15] The GI Bill, the GI Bill was purposely written to enable white Americans that had served to basically gift them homes in many cases and also make programs for others that didn't qualify for the gifts.

[00:10:30] But there were actual explicit exclusions for black Americans.

[00:10:35] This in spite of the Buffalo Soldiers down in Campo.

[00:10:40] What I'm saying is that Rihanna Gunn Wright doesn't understand because somebody told, somebody sold her on this narrative a wild-eyed connection between climate change and black exploitation.

[00:10:55] And then tried to tie it to the proximity of an oil refinery.

[00:11:00] And that somehow that pollution is the main thing that's exploiting and marginalizing black Americans.

[00:11:06] Let me educate you a little bit.

[00:11:09] The primary thing that's exploiting and marginalizing black Americans historically was education.

[00:11:17] It was an inability to get access to the same levels of education, so it was a level playing field.

[00:11:23] Beyond education, it was access to generational wealth.

[00:11:28] It was limited. Purchasing a home was limited. Getting access to the loans was limited.

[00:11:33] Living in certain areas was limited. Getting around was limited.

[00:11:37] The whole busing situation, everything was purpose built to segregate.

[00:11:43] That's why the word segregation became a thing because there was segregation all over the place away from these opportunities that they weren't able to take advantage of.

[00:11:51] So it all comes back to what? Wealth. Wealth of knowledge, but also wealth, financial wealth.

[00:11:59] There was a head start. White Americans had a head start in the United States over every other race that was here, including Native Americans, by the way.

[00:12:09] To the point Native Americans basically got frustrated and started taking their own damn slaves down there.

[00:12:15] And the whole trail of tears and it all ties together.

[00:12:19] It's a dog eat dog history. That's what we had. That's what we still have.

[00:12:25] The only thing that's changed from then to now, there's greater access to education by way of the Department of Education of the programs.

[00:12:34] The problem is they've allowed poor education to come in.

[00:12:39] Basically, you've got students that come in and they are not keeping up with the rest and the classes are too large and they don't want to fix that problem.

[00:12:47] Number one, two, you've got areas where they're not trying to cater to the needs of the neighborhoods.

[00:12:54] Remember, education is not just about sitting in a class and learning something.

[00:12:59] Education also ties to parental education. If the parents didn't have a high quality of education, it was harder for them to have their kids get a high quality of education as well.

[00:13:09] Most of the kids that were able to succeed come from families where at least their parents had some measure of education.

[00:13:16] But if they didn't have those opportunities, it's harder for the kids to get those opportunities because it's an endemic situation.

[00:13:22] When you tie it back to then money, wealth, generational wealth, the vast majority of black Americans did not were not born into wealth.

[00:13:31] They didn't have wealth coming in. That's what marginalizes black Americans.

[00:13:36] Black Americans were told many, many decades prior to when you were born that Democrat is the way that you're supposed to vote because Democrat is closer to socialism than anything else.

[00:13:47] Historically speaking, they were sold on the narrative that somebody's going to take care of them, that somebody's going to look after them, that somebody's going to protect them.

[00:13:57] That, Rhianna Gunn-Wright, is ultimately what connects them to your message that somebody sold you on.

[00:14:04] Somebody sold you a bill of goods that the government should be taking care of you.

[00:14:08] Somebody sold you on a bill of goods that all this pollution in the air is your greatest threat despite the fact that I guarantee you your money doesn't go half a nothing towards your rent.

[00:14:18] I guarantee you that if we were to go out and pull black families out in the worst areas of our country, they're going to laugh in your face if you tell them that the smog in the air is the worst thing they got to worry about.

[00:14:31] I guarantee you, you might actually get attacked going to Flint, Michigan telling those people who had tainted water due to government negligence, not due to climate change, telling those people,

[00:14:44] Don't worry about that dirty water. Don't worry about the water making you sick. Don't worry about that.

[00:14:49] Your problem is that little bit of smog you see in the air on a summer day. That's the real problem for you black people.

[00:14:57] I challenge you to go and do that because I am coming at that statement, this notion that climate change is really the worst thing, that climate change is the thing we should focus on.

[00:15:08] Then you say that there's some urgency, some artificial urgency that we have to hurry up and act. That's why I know you were sold on this crap.

[00:15:17] Somebody told you that that's an urgent problem even though there are people that have been on this situation, I'm talking climate change, been on the situation for nearly a century.

[00:15:28] But yet there's this urgency all of a sudden out of no thin air that causes you to say we need to get rid of fossil fuels now. We need to get rid of oil now.

[00:15:36] You're not willing to wait and do hybrids. You're not willing to tiptoe into it. You're not willing to be smart about it.

[00:15:41] You don't give a damn about the jobs that are lost, which by the way, the vast majority of people that work those types of blue collar jobs are going to be the marginalized races, plural, that you didn't call out.

[00:15:53] And you're going to cost them their jobs because Rihanna Gunn-Wright does not care about what's in people's pockets, which does what?

[00:16:01] It simply holds back those marginalized races, plural, that she didn't call out because she doesn't care about them because the person that sold her on this crap wants her to not think about the real issue, which is segregation.

[00:16:17] And in this case, it's segregation of wealth and the segregation of wealth gets worse with what she advocates because when you rush to EVs, you're pricing those marginalized races, plural, that she didn't call out, out of being able to buy a car.

[00:16:31] So her sales is well get on the bus. That sounds good until you have a bus that takes 45 minutes for the round. Then you're like, OK, get up early.

[00:16:39] Get up early. That sounds good until you have three kids. No matter what you say, Rihanna Gunn-Wright, your messaging is what you like. It's what you support. You have every right to do it.

[00:16:51] But you sound like a fucking idiot when you tell me that climate change is the number one thing that people have to worry about when you've got black Americans who are struggling even now,

[00:17:03] when you have a system that right now because of the Biden administration is pushing to essentially price them out of that market where they're priced out of buying homes, where we're not getting equal opportunities on the job market.

[00:17:15] There's no equal opportunities for us and none of that matters to you. None of that means a damn to you. What you care about is that little bit of smog in the air.

[00:17:23] You can care about that little bit of smog in the air. Don't expect everybody to roll along with that because if you're really about it, you want the smoke. No pun intended.

[00:17:32] Please and please go to Flint, Michigan. Tell them the dirty water that you dealt with that the government fucked you over on. It doesn't matter. It's all about the smog in the air.

[00:17:43] That's the problem that you really need to be focusing on people do that. Please go to Chicago where you can buy a house on a credit card and tell those people, no, you don't need these houses.

[00:17:55] You just live in an apartment somewhere. You don't need a car. You don't need that because that smog in the air is really your killer. You don't need a job. You don't need to make any money.

[00:18:05] You don't need to take care of those kids. You don't need any of that stuff. That smog up there is really a problem. Again, nobody is suggesting that we should not make progress towards less reliance on fossil fuels.

[00:18:18] But the history lesson ends with the statement. It took centuries to get to where we have cars that are even remotely safe.

[00:18:28] So to try to rush a narrative in less than 10 years to think that we can completely decouple from it, you and people like you and people who sold you on this crap are the reason what happened in Chicago with the Teslas and the EVs happened.

[00:18:44] You and people like you and those who sold you are the reason that Ford is recalling all these fucking trucks and all these batteries are having issues.

[00:18:55] You and people like you and those who sold you are the reason Elon had to lay off all the charging stations.

[00:19:03] I can go on and on. There's no point because you can believe and support and accept whatever you want to do.

[00:19:11] But I'm telling you that you're wrong. It's not about climate change and black people. That's bullshit.

[00:19:19] Climate change, if we want to focus on climate change, your messaging. So here's the lesson. Your message should focus on everybody because I don't know if you know this, but every race shares the same fucking climate.

[00:19:35] That's why you sound like a fucking idiot. And that's why it's transparent what you're doing.

[00:19:42] And that's why it's obvious somebody sold you on this bullshit because you sound like a fucking idiot when you say things like this.

[00:19:50] Your whole write up is it's so extreme in how it's trying to connect the dots between climate change and black people completely ignoring every other race, completely ignoring all points of history, completely ignoring a fucked up economy, ignoring everything else that would have actually supported your argument to some degree.

[00:20:13] You ignored it all. You know why you ignored all of it? You ignored all of it because you know if you actually analyze the facts objectively, you would come to the same conclusion as anybody who had a common sense, which is we should be conservative in what we want to do.

[00:20:30] We all share the same shit, but people still got to go to work. People still got to pay bills. The economy's fucked up. That fucked up economy impacts marginalized races plural which you didn't call out.

[00:20:44] Yes, it happens to in many cases impact black Americans to a greater degree. The counter to that is that black Americans have a greater incidences of crime, especially black on black crime and the stats are out there.

[00:20:59] So we got bigger problems. I'm sorry than the smog in the air. You ignored all that data because you're trying to make your point to try to justify climate change, but you sound like a fucking idiot doing it because every race shares the same climate.

[00:21:14] The difference is smart people those of an older situation understand that you sound like a fucking idiot and you're not you have no credibility, which is why the Green New Deal feels like it should be dead in the water because it's trying to tackle the wrong problem.

[00:21:31] Just like the New Deal did years ago. It tried to tackle the wrong problem. It sounded good. We should increase the value of these homes until it started attacking certain races until it was over specific about race, which is exactly what you did.

[00:21:47] So all you're advocating is that we do another version of the New Deal, which makes you effectively a racist. I didn't call you a racist. I said your write up makes you sound like a fucking racist because you only called out one race in your advocacy about climate change, which has no connection whatsoever.

[00:22:02] So you sound like a fucking idiot. And I say that I say that not because I'm angry at you. I'm disappointed that people are influenced by these other people and don't even realize it because whatever, and I know it's some slimy executive from BlackRock or something else.

[00:22:21] Somebody talked to somebody who talked to somebody who convinced you that this made sense. And it's that person I'm disappointed with, but I'm disappointed in you for allowing yourself to be influenced when you know you sound like an idiot because I know you know better than this.

[00:22:36] It's possible. It's entirely possible that your education failed you. It's possible. I don't think so. It's well written, but it says bullshit.

[00:22:46] So, and I know how essays go. You write bullshit make it sound good. That's what essays are. I understand. But I expect better of people. I expect. Tell the story. Tell the true story.

[00:22:58] You want the true story. The true story is we all share the same fucking climate. So leave black out of it because that makes you sound like a fucking idiot has nothing to do with black people. Stop talking shit like well black people live near oil refineries and shit.

[00:23:12] You make it sound like a fucking like are you serious bro? Get all that out of there. No, don't try to push that narrative because you make yourself sound like an idiot and not worth listening to tell the true story if you legitimately believe in the cause.

[00:23:29] You got to be credible with your argument and I'm damn sure you learned this in debate class. You got to sound credible which argument not just sound good. You got to be credible with your argument. That argument can be we have concerns about climate.

[00:23:43] That argument can be we have 50 years left and that that that argument can be global warming. That argument can be anything you'd like it to be. But don't ignore the other races plural that you discarded in your quest to try to connect the black people because you're going to get called out.

[00:24:00] If I don't do it somebody else is going to do it. I'm sure that you can handle it. I'm sure you don't care. That's cool. My job is to simply put an opposing voice to what I see as a bunch of bullshit. They can read your message just like I did here.

[00:24:15] They're going to take away the same thing I did. How can you connect climate change as marginalizing black people and in not not one part of your message talk about financial inequality. Not one part of it. So now it doesn't matter that the whole blacks being killed by police.

[00:24:35] That doesn't matter to you. Blacks having a hard time getting money. That doesn't matter to you. Black discrimination on jobs. That doesn't matter to you. Blacks having a hard time getting housing. That doesn't matter to you. Blacks being discriminated on credit scores. That doesn't matter to you. None of that shit matters to you. Just that smog in the air.

[00:24:51] This is how you are perceived in what you wrote. And I'm not knowing you. I'm pretty sure you're better than this. I'm pretty sure you are. That's why I'm disappointed in what I read because you may have an underlying message and then you simply obfuscate the truth under bullshit.

[00:25:12] That's what it is. So I, if you couldn't tell, I don't support green new anything. I don't support all this bullshit that she later says talking about getting rid of the electoral causes have a popular vote.

[00:25:28] Okay, she probably lives in California because that's what you would be doing. You're saying I want California's popularity of what we like, not what's fair, which does what? That marginalizes people in the south. It marginalizes people of lower populations. It marginalizes the Native Americans. You now have said none of the rest of you motherfuckers mean a damn thing.

[00:25:51] That's why I knew it's bullshit. That's how I knew it's bullshit because of what you're saying that you sound like a fucking idiot and I'm especially disappointed in essence magazine for even putting this in writing, but I knew they want the clicks. I got it. I understand.

[00:26:07] I put my dissenting voice out there and that's all I can do. But if I have my druthers, I will not allow someone like you that is dangerous to do shit like this to completely disavow and ignore everybody else's opinion but your own and then try to hook into black people as your allies because that's what Obama did and it didn't work for him either.

[00:26:34] People learned. Hopefully people learned when they voted for Joe Biden because they didn't like Donald Trump, hopefully learn why that was a bad fucking idea too. Hopefully they understand as they see it's way harder to get jobs and way harder to keep jobs.

[00:26:48] Hopefully they understand. You got to stop listening to voices like this. It's okie doke. It's a Chewbacca. They know what they're doing. They know what they're doing. They're trying to distract you so that you're focused in the wrong direction so they can make progress in the wrong direction while billions and billions of your dollars are sent to other causes, not you. Not to benefit you.

[00:27:11] Meanwhile, it's all a distraction to stare at that little puff of smog up in the sky and have them tell you that that's more important than your kids getting a quality education.