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Tap In: When the Shooter Got Melanin, the Melanated Are All in Danger

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Speaker 1

Calls media, all right, what's up, y'all.

There's a every once in a while.

I think this is the second time this year that I felt like the tapping was too important to not make video, Like I gotta y'all gotta see this.

I need you to look at my eyes here.

There's a triple sickness going on here that needs to be addressed.

And I just really wish this time a point that black people, indigenous people, and people of color have been trying our best to get the broader culture of America to understand, which is this layered tragedy that we experience when the nation is experiencing a certain type of tragedy.

I am addressing the shooting of those two National Guard civilians workers members by the young man that drove from Seattle to the Capitol to pop them.

And the thought that everyone has who is a little bit melanated, is I hope he's not insert your own intersection, because the triple layered nasty cake of this is that there is a privilege that white shooters have, and it's they get to just be crazy tap in with me.

So the trifecta of tragedy is first the idea that like of what actually happened, you know, and I am not here to adjudicate any of those actions.

That's not the layer I want to talk about right now that I feel like any person of color does understand.

The original layer that we all share is again the fact that it happened a young man, you know, a young lady twenty years old, you know, doing they reasonable service to the country, which now granted I wouldn't do that, but was put in a position where, you know, they had to be in a place that they may have personally not even agreed to or is not what they signed up for.

Most of the time, the National Guard ain't sign up to be the dog gone state secret police that this current administration has had them doing.

And even while they was there, they just up there picking up trash and carrying on.

These people did not ask to be where they were.

They just wanted to do a good thing in their own art of arts.

I don't know them at this moment in time.

I haven't seen none of the soft moving, slow profiles about their lives.

I haven't seen that, But I know the shooter was a young man from Afghanistan who sided with America, who sided with the Cia to help aiding in taking down to Taliban, because again getting ahead of myself to the third tragedy is like, do you know who the original victims of terrorism are?

Are?

The people that lived there?

It's just like it's the same thing with gang violence in these city hellscapes.

You say that you know America cities are you know the first victims of the crime in the black community is other black people?

Think?

We don't know.

You think the people of Afghanistan is excited about the tyler.

No, they was like, we need some help, and America promised them some help, So why would they not Why would he not aid in doing this?

But the problem is when America leaves, they stuck to try to fend for themselves.

So his family is in danger and he did what anybody else would do, which is like, yo, can I roll with y'all?

It is not safe here.

When y'all left, I did all this work and when y'all left, the Teleiban took over.

Can I roll with y'all in America?

According to whatever you think or not, what's doing the right thing?

Bro?

You helped us out in this, Yes you could come fam but if you know any immigrant, you know that that vetting process is difficult and long.

They ask you questions, ain't no way in the world do you remember who you dated in seventh grade for once?

What that person's mama name was, and what they mama did for work.

That's the type of questions you getting.

Where do you wear?

What was the last seven addresses?

Who were your neighbors?

Gee?

Like, how am I?

I don't remember?

You get one of them questions wrong?

You ain't coming in.

You just happen to sit next to on the bus somebody who is related to someone that's married to somebody in some sort of organized terrorist group.

You ain't coming like.

That's how cold it is trying to get in to the country if you don't know what the situation with So these people don't talk to me about no properly vetted bro like.

You ain't never gone through nothing like.

So bro Broh came here along with hundreds thousands of other Afghani citizens who was like, I don't want to live under a terrorist regime either.

But something happened in that man's heart of hearts and he came out to DC and he took this at least at this point, one person's life and deeply injured.

Another one that's a tragedy.

But there's a third tragedy on here.

This is really what I want to talk about, which is the example of how being emotionally disturbed, being mentally unwell and traumatized seems to be, according to our country, a privilege that only the few have.

Dare I say it the white boys?

Why do I say this?

Because the second the President found out that this man was an Afghany immigrant, all of a sudden, anybody from a quote unquote third world country is not allowed to migrate here, all of us see see the country tells us to stop being victims, to stop saying everything is a race thing, to have some individual responsibility.

We're not allowed to have individual responsibility.

You know why, because you just blamed the entirety of Afghani people for this one man's actions.

How Come we can't how come he can't be like Tyler Robbinson?

How Come how come that immigrant man can't how come this can't just be that man's problem.

How is America any different than the Taliban killing a whole family because one boy was a heretic?

Why is this any different?

What the hell the to the countries got to do with this?

What the hell do the forty thousand people waiting on their immigrants status got to do with that one man's thing.

You tell me you want me to take an individual responsibility about my actions, but you punish the whole group for the actions of one.

That, my friend, is racism.

This is what we be trying to say.

This is why we be so nervous.

This is why we be like, Okay, listen, where is the memoriam against white boys with guns?

Where that at?

Why'd you stop?

No?

No, no, no no.

He gets to be a troubled individual.

Huh.

How come we don't get to be troubled individuals?

How are you finna blame all Afghani people for that one man's actions?

You say you don't like that when we talk about racism, Why you gonna blame all white people?

Will you just blamed all people of color?

Which one is it?

My g See, this is what we be.

This is what we talk about.

This that bs we talk about again, the collective punishment of the actions of one, while at the same time you telling us to stop blaming the collective actions of the country for the actions of the few.

You just you just did that.

What I'm trying to say is we don't even get to participate in the morning because now all of us are in danger.

I'm sorry to all my Afghani friends and family.

I'm sorry man, and anybody who look somehow close to that.

Maybe they're from that region.

They finn experience with black people experience all the time.

Man, it's getting old.

Man.

All I'm saying is, why can't you treat us like you treated Tyler Robinson That y'all just look for reasons to see that that man individually was crazy.

Why can't we get that?

Oh, I know why.

It's because you're racist.

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