WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:06.240 Yeah, it is time to make that change. Oh my god, 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:10.000 we count it all. Joy to be with you this day, 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.119 Dr West, and myself Dot I'm so glad to be 4 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:17.920 back in the place with you and our viewers and 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.280 our listeners. So much going on in our country, in 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.320 the world per usual, nothing new about all of that. 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:28.719 We're gonna try to go a little deeper into you know, 8 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.799 the more than twenty killed near Gaza aid distribution centers. 9 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.240 We know that there are national laws and also international 10 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:44.759 laws against attacking one civilians two providers of aid and food. 11 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.560 That should not be happening under international agreements. But it's 12 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.520 been happening since this war on Gaza started. Let's be clear, 13 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.159 this is not an equal war. It's not two sides 14 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:57.119 to have equal power. 15 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:58.359 It is. 16 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.039 It is a one sided proposition at this point. And 17 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:05.519 then the Boulder attacks. No room in this country or 18 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:09.079 in the world for anti Semitism, for killing of innocent people. 19 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.319 We've said that time and time again, Doctor West. We 20 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:15.400 don't equivocate on that. It's just so sad what happened 21 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:20.599 in Voulder and then ranked choice voting, woo, we might 22 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:25.879 have an upset in in New York City between an 23 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.480 upstart of somebody that is a self described socialist and 24 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.959 the other front runner, which is former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Now, 25 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.200 this ranked choice voting was something that New Yorkers supported 26 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.439 to try to level the playing field. And my god, 27 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.159 there might be there just might be an upset. But 28 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.719 before we get to any of that, the doctor is 29 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.079 in the house, Doctor West. What is on your heart, 30 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.920 your soul and your mind today? 31 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.319 A dear Since then, I tell you we did miss 32 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.239 you yesterday on Firthday. And we had quite a day 33 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:05.120 as you can't imagine, though, Brother Taverts came in and 34 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.439 then we had the special guest of one and only, incomparable, 35 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.000 inimitable Clifton West, my one blood brother. In the old world, 36 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:16.439 I got billions of brothers, but I only got one 37 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.000 blood brother. Come on and we had an hour of 38 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.439 pure joy, of pure delight and remembrance, going back to 39 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.439 family life. And you know, chock the side the sack, though, 40 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.000 but your spirits with us, oh indeed, indeed, And you know, 41 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:39.000 brother Taverts, he's just such a masterful weaver. That brother 42 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.479 brought in music that I hadn't heard for years and 43 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.919 stories that I had forgot that he re read my 44 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.039 autobio Augraphy that s Filey Books, published almost fifteen twenty 45 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.639 years ago, and then of course my brother just took 46 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:56.360 it to the height so that it was a wonderful day, 47 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.680 but it was still a day that missed you. All 48 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:03.000 of us missed you, and we know you are as 49 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.800 strong as ever. When I think of the day after 50 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:11.400 my birthday, I say to myself, is America still addicted 51 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:16.759 to self destruction as it undergoes this imperial breakdown and 52 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:23.560 spiritual melt down? And we need prophetic fight back. Everywhere 53 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.240 you look you see unbelievable breakdown. It could be this 54 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.919 violence against anybody. It could be against Jews, against black folks, 55 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:36.199 it could be against against white folks. We're seeing the 56 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:42.159 massive wave of violence across the board. And then at 57 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.400 the same time, you know, you're seeing the h the 58 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.240 gangster's being in the White House with Trump or being 59 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.039 in Israel with Nathan Y'allhu and the id F still 60 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.439 just getting away with murder, literally, getting away with genocide 61 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:01.719 literally and getting away symbolically lies trying to hide and 62 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.919 conceal it. And that's exactly what happens when an empire 63 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.000 begins a melt down, and chickens begin to come home 64 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.000 for the roost, and you start reaping what your soul 65 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.199 and the question becomes given the spiritual meltdown that goes 66 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.199 with that, people just kind of give up on love, 67 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.519 give up on compassion, give up on service to others. No, 68 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:26.759 we got a whole magnificent cloud of witnesses in the 69 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.639 American Empire who hold it on the love, justice, service 70 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.000 to others, highlighting the plight of the poor and working classes. 71 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.160 That is what you call propfhetic fight back. That's the 72 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:44.079 history of Black folk. Prophetic fighting back, leading with love 73 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.959 and following through with love and justice in the bleakness 74 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:54.040 of the moment. And there's something that we've talked about 75 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.560 over and over again on our show, and we will 76 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:01.480 never ever get tired of talking about, no matter how 77 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:07.639 bleak the moment, leading with love and following through with courage, 78 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:11.560 fighting for justice for pooring working people. It's not worthwhile. 79 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.800 It is the desirable way of being in the world. 80 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.040 It seems absurd, but it's the most alluring mode of 81 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.079 being precise because we wouldn't be here if the folks 82 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.879 in the past hadn't done precisely that and somebody's got 83 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.560 to do it every generation. 84 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.560 Yeah. Amen, Amen, everything that you said, Doc, I love 85 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.800 that prophetic fight back. Got to put that in the 86 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:44.160 long term memory. Let that marinate. And that is the tradition, 87 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.279 the collective tradition of black people. But you can be 88 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.759 non black and still has some prophetic fight back. 89 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.000 Lord thing, it's a human thing. We just beget on 90 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:59.600 the track the side of town. That's how. 91 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.439 Yes, I love starting on the choclate side of Yes, 92 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.879 I do always, even with all the pain you know 93 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.959 that we face as a people, love starting on the 94 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.439 chocolate side of the town. I often, you know, asked 95 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.120 myself to queste. You know, if God said, I'll give 96 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.079 you a choice, you can come back this way, this way, 97 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.160 this way. I would still always pick, knowing everything that 98 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.839 I know, to come back as a black woman. 99 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.519 Oh, I ain't no doubt about that. But I wouldn't 100 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:34.240 ask if it be Irene and Cliff as the mom 101 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.079 and dad. It's the beautiful thing being black and chocolate 102 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.040 and all. But I got my bias when it comes 103 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:47.160 to family. Yeah, comes to the brother Cliff and sit 104 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.079 there in Charlton, Red Willie be cook and shallow. But 105 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.199 then Lord said oh, you just want everything. 106 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.319 I mean, since you get to pick some things, you 107 00:06:58.399 --> 00:06:59.800 might as well put it all out there that you 108 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:01.720 want at once. You might not get it all, but 109 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.319 at least you put it out there. You're listening the 110 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.600 truth time went Dot, the Cornell fest and Nina Turner. 111 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.519 When we come forward, we are going to wrestle with 112 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:17.000 today's topics. Prosthetic fight bang. That is our main court today, 113 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.240 wrapping that into all of our stories so that you know. 114 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:25.399 The Red Cross says that at least twenty one people 115 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:29.160 were killed and dozen shot in a Guys of Aid incident, 116 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.480 and as the reporting goes across the board, both international 117 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.959 reporting and domestic reporting here in the United States, a 118 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:41.879 mass casualty influx of people, many with not just gunshot 119 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.839 wounds but also shrapnel, you know that bounces up wounds 120 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.759 were These were innocent people. These were people seeking aid, 121 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.439 people trying to provide aid. The International Committee of the 122 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.360 Red Cross said twenty one people were declared dead upon arrival, 123 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.680 while women and children were among one hundred and seventy 124 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:12.160 nine cases. The organization statement came after the Israeli Defense Fund, 125 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.759 you know they are involved in this and the innocent 126 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.680 killing of civilians. And there's nothing new about this. This 127 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.399 has been going on since this war started, time and 128 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.600 time again. Doctor West and I from the beginning of 129 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.519 October seventh have said what Hamas did to those innocent 130 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.519 Israelis were wrong, no doubt about it. Here we are 131 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.159 on the other side of this and killings are still occurring. 132 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:40.440 I think over fifty thousand people doc have been killed. 133 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.600 That's only the numbers that they have is probably more 134 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:47.440 than that. And millions of people enduring famine on the 135 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.879 Palestinian side, and it just seems like there is no 136 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:56.600 relief in sight. Israel is definitely violating international law, and 137 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.240 in Israel, the right wing government of Israel be very specific, 138 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.799 and it's being aided in a bed by the United States, 139 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.679 starting with Biden and continuing with Trump, both presidents, both 140 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:11.960 US presidents. 141 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.799 No, all Trump's got to do is make a phone call. 142 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:22.240 They would stop. He has said, so everybody knows. So. Yeah. 143 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:24.120 But the sad thing. 144 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.799 Is is that the the ugliness and the viciousness of 145 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:38.120 anti Palestinian racism makes it possible for the genocide of 146 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.840 precious Palestinian people to be. 147 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:49.559 Right on TV, on social media, but can but not stopped. 148 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.559 People can witness it, they can behold it, but there's 149 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:00.519 no collective will to stop it. And what in the 150 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.679 way of it, What gets in the way of it 151 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:12.360 is a blind allegiance to an Israeli government that does 152 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.840 not believe that Palestinians are full fledged human being, so 153 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:21.840 they can be killed at Whima and massacred that way. 154 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:28.399 And there's a sickness. It's a spiritual what the Bible says, 155 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:32.279 it's a spiritual wickedness, and it's a human thing. Government 156 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:36.159 can have it. Israeli government doesn't have a monopoly on it. 157 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.799 Jews don't have a monopoly on it. Any human being 158 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.559 be spiritually wicked, Any government can be spiritually wicked. When 159 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:47.960 any government that perpetrates genocide is spiritually wicked. And United 160 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:53.879 States supports, sponsors, authorizes it, and no voices in Congress 161 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.960 in a collective effective way can stop it. There's two 162 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.519 voices here there. That's it. 163 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:04.519 Yeah, that's it. And imagine, I mean, we could put 164 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.840 ourselves in the place of the Palestinians, and we would 165 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:11.399 want the international community to come to our aid that 166 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.799 it's important to remind our listeners, our audience, rather that 167 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.720 Israel does not allow international news organizations to come in, 168 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.399 so we're lucky to get any of the truth out 169 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.639 because they do not allow international news organizations including the BBC, 170 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:32.799 into Gaza, making verifying what's happening, truly happening in the 171 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.120 Gaza even that much more difficult. So the little bit 172 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.360 of news that we are getting probably only barely scratches 173 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.559 the surface when it comes to the humanitarian crisis or 174 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.960 flipped another way, the inhumanity that is happening to the 175 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:53.159 Palestinians in Gaza. And I mean, it's so wonder that 176 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.240 anybody is still alive. That we talk a lot about 177 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:01.159 the resilience of black people in this country facing so 178 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.679 much racial bigotry, a top black hatred generationally, and when 179 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.879 I look at some of the similarities again not exactly 180 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:12.240 the same of what the Palestinian people are going through, 181 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.639 it's just so wonder that many of them are still alive. 182 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.600 No, that's real. But I think what really brings together 183 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:27.960 black people and Pians historically is a degree to which 184 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:34.879 institutionalized hatred could be so targeted at them that nobody 185 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.399 cares when they're precious babies are killed. In the larger 186 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:46.519 white mainstream, the anti Palestinian racism, anti black racism. They 187 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:53.440 cut so deep that people just get normalized and naturalized 188 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:57.240 in such a way that, yeah, all these deaths are 189 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:01.559 taking place, that's just the way it is. All these 190 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.120 baby massacred, that's just the way it is. But if 191 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:10.120 it was their babies, it is not just qualitatively different, 192 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:16.120 but the script is completely flipped. Then the people are savages. 193 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.159 The people are doing it, are sub human. The people 194 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:25.000 are doing it deserve resistance. We gotta support resistance. Oh no, 195 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:27.480 you don't get in the Western world. You don't get 196 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.240 in in America, you don't get in the US government. 197 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:36.480 Any talk about resisting the id F and resisting Israel's 198 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:41.399 attempt to impose genociah, nick cleansing and apartheid on Palestinian's. No, 199 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.480 But if it were the other way around, Oh my god, 200 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.240 the US Congress would be in the vanguard of resisting 201 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:54.960 any kind of killings of white babies, European babies, or 202 00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.759 Israeli Jewish babies. That's the racism. That's not just the stars. 203 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:06.960 That's a deep, deep racism that is not in the 204 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.120 very ways in which media presents it. 205 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:13.679 And speaking of the media, doct I mean I know 206 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.600 Minister Malcolm X talked about He said something like the 207 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.600 media have you love whom they will and hate whom 208 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:23.080 they will. They'll have you loving the oppressor and hating 209 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:27.080 the oppressed. And my God, is that like happening. This 210 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.360 is not the first time that something like this has happened, 211 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.799 but it's in our face in real time for a 212 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:36.279 new and younger generation to not just read about these 213 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:40.159 things happening, but living it out. And that goes for 214 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.120 what's happening in the Congo too. We need to continue 215 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:47.679 to lift up. I saw a post recently by a doctor, 216 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.559 doctor Bernice King, and you know she's always lifting up 217 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.519 what's happening in the Congo, and I know we do too, 218 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.200 and I want to talk about the Congo a little 219 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.200 more than what we ordinarily do, so we'll have to 220 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:02.559 program that in. But it's called the Silent war, and 221 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:08.080 not to compare misery, misery is misery two degrees. Though, 222 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:11.360 when you have people of that magnitude who are suffering 223 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.639 in places like the Congosday and other places like that, 224 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:21.440 and nobody's barely reporting on it, that also shows another 225 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.480 level of disregard and racism, anti black racism. To be 226 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.919 specific about the worth of the lives of the people 227 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.519 who are suffering in parts of Africa, and all of 228 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:39.440 that suffering can be linked back to the Scramble for Africa, 229 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.480 you know, because we got to understand that doesn't justify 230 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.240 the things that are happening, because each generation, each type 231 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:51.279 of leader, can make different decisions. However, to fully understand 232 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.799 the depth of this thing, the depth of what is 233 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.679 happening in the Gaza and the Palestinian Israeli relationships that 234 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.759 go back thousands of years, you know. So what is 235 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:05.120 happening in certain parts on the continent of Africa is 236 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:09.840 also linked to imperialism and colonialism and to Scramble for 237 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:14.000 Africa and the fact that Europeans carved out Africa in 238 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.720 such a way that had a total disregard for tribal lines, 239 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.360 for cultural lines, who got along with whom all of 240 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.120 the You can't understand it, you know. James Baldwin said, 241 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.720 you can't say you love the tree if you hate 242 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:30.279 the root. Or I don't know if that was him 243 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:32.879 or Minister Malcolm, but I think James Baldman says something 244 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.720 like you got to understand the root, and so you 245 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.360 and I as students of history. We always try to 246 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.559 bring in the root cause, not justification for this kind 247 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.360 of violence and displacement of people, but it is just 248 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.720 it's really gut wrenching, and to your point that it 249 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:55.799 is an indictment on our collective humanity, or flipped another way, 250 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.960 our collective inhumanity. 251 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:07.039 And we zero in it's a massive, colossal indictment of 252 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:15.160 governments and mainstream medias tell the truth about this organized 253 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.519 hatred and this weaponized greed that leads towards these kind 254 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:29.279 of massacres, looking for land, looking for cheap labor, looking 255 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:33.000 for power and position, and we know there's a human 256 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.680 story that we talking about, specific stories in this case 257 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.559 in Gaza, in this case in the Congo. 258 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.000 Yeah no, at that part, Doc, going back to something 259 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.880 CBS News reported about this recent killing. At least twenty 260 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.039 seven Palestinians were fatally shot at one hundred and sixty one, 261 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.359 so depending on the outlet, the numbers may be a 262 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.240 little different, but we get the picture. One hundred and 263 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.400 sixty one others wounded on Tuesday as they try to 264 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:05.039 reach a food distribution center in Gaza run by a 265 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:11.039 controversial US back group. According to the Hamas run Gaza 266 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.799 Ministry of Health. It was the third day of deadly 267 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:21.319 violence reported near a humanitarian hub run by the US 268 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.559 and Israeli back Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which I believe doctors 269 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.400 just recently created by this president mine totally blown a 270 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:35.839 private organization accused by the United Nations of weaponizing aid. 271 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.519 Pay attention to what the United Nations is saying, and 272 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:43.640 the United Nations has been sounding the alarm since this 273 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.200 crisis amped up to this magnitude. 274 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.839 That's exactly right, over six hundred days. Jesus, United States 275 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.440 come with this little facata reminds me of the United 276 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.119 States government just a number of months ago saying, well, 277 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:02.720 we're gonna we're gonna build a little boat on the vote. 278 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.079 Boat is gonna throw out food for people who undergoing genocide. 279 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:12.680 Please please don't disrespect our intelligence like that. Same is 280 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:15.559 true with this little concoction. Ain't nothing but a facade, 281 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.480 Ain't nothing but a charad, a charade acting as if 282 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.319 in the last minute, we have some concern. Now now 283 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:29.279 they've gone around the more established institutions that providing aid 284 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:35.559 because they have crushed them. Unraw has been crushed by US, Israeli, 285 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:40.200 British forces. That's what makes it in part of genocide, 286 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:42.839 when you get not just the killing of the bodies, 287 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:47.319 but when you about you destroy all the hospital ninety 288 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:52.799 four of us in the hospitals, all the universities, elementary schools, 289 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.359 any of the sites that are sources of human flourishing 290 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:02.039 are crushed. That's what genocide years. Even the who wasn't 291 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.359 brother Homer, the former Prime Minister of Israel, said I've 292 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.039 now reached the conclusion, after this overwhelming evidence, that these 293 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:15.279 attacks are genocidal attacks. These are undeniable war crimes. You 294 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.720 got Matthew Hims what's his name, Matthew Miller of the 295 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.400 Biden administration. Yeah, yeah, yesterday or two days ago, and 296 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:27.039 the heater was telling me, yes, there's definitely war crimes 297 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.839 being committed. Well, we've been saying that for six hundred days, 298 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.559 and you call us anti Semitic. We've been trying to 299 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.759 create certain kind of encampments so that students could express 300 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.720 their moral outrage at genocide. What do you do create 301 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:44.640 a whole discourse attacking the students, calling them anti semitic? Why? 302 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:50.359 Because they're more deeply moved by anti Semitic rhetoric, which 303 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.640 is wrong than they are anti Palestinian racist behavior, which 304 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:00.240 is genocidal, which is pathological. They get more upset the 305 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.839 rhetoric then they do the reality. Why because they don't 306 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:07.759 give a damn about Palestinians. That's why. 307 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.160 Hmm. I mean you preaching doc God, that's it. And 308 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.359 I would dare any of us could be in that position. 309 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.599 And that is the thing that we got to understand. 310 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:27.359 When you have systems and leaders of certain powerful hegemonic 311 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:32.799 or Western nations deciding whose life is worthy over somebody 312 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.680 else's life, it could be the group that you're a 313 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.519 part of next, because none of this hatred, there's no 314 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:42.599 rhyme and reason. It's illogical, it's ill moral, it's at 315 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:45.680 the whim of human beings. And it could be you 316 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.960 or somebody you love next. And that's another reason, even 317 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.359 just for selfish reasons, we should care about how Western 318 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:57.839 nations are deciding that it's just okay to white Palestinians 319 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.519 off the map, because that's exactly what they're doing, taking 320 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.240 their homeland, their bodies, their souls. Everything. You are listening 321 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:08.000 to Truth Time doctor Cornell West and Nina Turner. When 322 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:11.480 will come forward, we will talk about the tragedies that 323 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:19.279 happened in Boulder, Colorado, totally unacceptable. Love and truth in indeed, 324 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.319 so DOCU labeled this that prophetic fight back, and we 325 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.240 gotta have it in every situation, especially in the face 326 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:31.680 of such visceral hate that is steaming full speed ahead, 327 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:34.559 both in this country and all around the world. We 328 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:38.559 were just discussing what happened in the in the gaza 329 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:41.960 for people who were trying to get some food, to 330 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.359 get some made, and folks were killed and folks were injured, 331 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.279 and it just makes no sense at all. We're gonna 332 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.079 move into Boulder, Colorado, which happened a few days ago 333 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:55.119 as well, where you have folks who regularly gather to 334 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.559 say released the hostage, hostage Israelily hostages and they were 335 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.079 attacked and we don't accept that at all. Should have 336 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:06.359 never happened. We'll talk about that. Doc is our time 337 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:08.839 to go into our live chat on the tube. The 338 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:13.319 family has gathered, they are cross pollinating among each other 339 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:16.480 and also they have some questions for us. So I'm 340 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:20.880 so excited to be back to lift this up. Culture. 341 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:24.599 What's up, family, Let's get it. Oh, we're trying to 342 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:28.519 get it. Culture. Thank you for chiming in. Blessed peacemaker. 343 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:33.240 I hope you had a great birthday, Doctor West. Welcome back, 344 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:35.680 Senator Turner. So, Doc, did you have a great birthday? 345 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.519 Oh? Lord, better than I deserve it, you know how 346 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.240 correct it I am. I got so many blessing flowing. 347 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.079 I can't keep track, coping. I can't measure him by 348 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:46.960 any criteria. I gotta smile on my face, even in 349 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:47.759 the bleak world. 350 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.039 Hello, somebody, that is beautiful. Blessed peacemaker. Doc said he 351 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.200 had he had more than he deserves. That's beautiful, and 352 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.359 I'm glad to be back. You know, Doc, I was 353 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:59.559 in LA. Did not get a chance to get with 354 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:03.240 brother Tavits at all. It was a whirldwin in and out, 355 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:05.759 and you would know there's some hard flights because you 356 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:08.039 do that all the time. But I was there with 357 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:12.440 the organization One Fair Wage, and I encourage our audience 358 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.359 to go visit Onefairwage dot org. They are a national 359 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:20.799 organization fighting all across the country to lift the subminimum 360 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.319 wage in the United States of America, which by the way, 361 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:25.960 on average is two dollars and fifteen cents. So if 362 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:27.720 you are blessed enough to go to a restaurant from 363 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.720 time to time. Those servers are making on average two 364 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:35.720 dollars and fifteen cents and they rely on our tips 365 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:41.160 to subsidize their wages. That sub minimum wage is rooted 366 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:47.759 in slavery, meaning they got together. This industry was dominated 367 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:50.839 by white by I'm excuse me, by black women, and 368 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:56.119 the restaurant organizations or industry got together and decided that 369 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:58.799 black women did not deserve to get paid. They were 370 00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:02.039 gonna have to rely on the large of tips. And 371 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:05.119 you fast forward to the twenty first century, but they 372 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:10.279 meant for evil basically towards black women. Now impacts all 373 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:13.799 our sisters and brothers and family and friends in that industry. 374 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:18.680 The vestiges are linked to anti blackness and to slavery. 375 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.720 If you go to Onefairwage dot org you can read 376 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.559 that whole history that I was just mortified by that, 377 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:27.079 and I've been working with one Fair Wage ever since. 378 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.079 And they had some successes coming out of La County 379 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.960 where it looks like the minimum wage itself, including tip 380 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:40.240 workers and also hopefully incarcerated of folks as well, is 381 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:44.759 going to increase. So they're launching a campaign Living Wage 382 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.799 for All. So that's where I was. I was so 383 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:50.039 close to brother Tavis and did not get to see him. 384 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:52.839 And the press conference I was at was at the 385 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:57.000 same time that our show starts, so that's what I 386 00:25:57.079 --> 00:25:57.480 was doing. 387 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:02.799 No, but again, our spirits were with and your spirits 388 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:06.319 were with us, because what you're doing dealing with this 389 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:09.480 issue of wage and precious working people no matter what 390 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:12.799 color they are. We thank God for the brother Harold 391 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:16.000 Myerson's and the brother Robert Cuttner's and others who's zero 392 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:19.880 in all the time on this issue of labor and 393 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:23.319 the centrality of labor and what you are doing, what 394 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:28.359 youration is doing, the legacy of Randolph working through you, 395 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:34.440 is doing that difference in the world. So we were together. 396 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.680 We were together. We were together, we were we were 397 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.559 spreading the work. You know, many hands made for light work. 398 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:43.640 So big shout out to Sarru who runs that organization, 399 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:48.440 all the other partner organizations. National Education Association, which is 400 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:51.599 a teacher's organization, was in the place. I mean, labor 401 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:54.440