Karen Needs to Go To Jail Part 1: A History of Dangerous White Behavior

so I'm gonna do the opening again right yeah go ahead okay so get good evening good afternoon I don't know where you are in the world I am sitting in a hundred and two temperatures where I am so hope you're all feeling good and cool and warm whatever the case may be but I wanted to to let really honestly alert what's there right there that's right okay so what I want to do is I want to literally put a warning out there to people that I'm gonna be doing a PowerPoint with this presentation because it warranted it everyone knows that this is a conversation which is Karen needs to go to jail Karen representing white women who have contemporarily and historically been the cause of death of lots of people but have never been held accountable for it and so I'm giving people context because it's everybody gets all in their feelings when we start talking about stuff like this is no you know we somehow fell off a truck and what I want want people to know is I'm gonna have some slides that are not suitable for children anybody under 12 should not see some of the slides that I'm gonna show and remember the reason I'm showing these is I want to bring us through the etiology of how we get to the point where white women you know can clutch the pearls cry and cause you know people to go to jail and worse death now children men women anybody and what people don't understand is this has a precedence this this has been going on for a long time and what I'm going to be showing in this PowerPoint is that context so that we can understand why next week we're gonna be inviting attorneys on to figure out how we bring into law something that suggests that this behavior its felony behavior you you don't get to get to lie and put people's lives in danger because you've been inconvenienced you don't get to do that and for some reason I don't know everybody seems to see this happen over and over again and it's like a big joke it's not a big joke it needs to be dealt with and people to be held accountable namely white women who feel that they have instant innocence by virtue of their whiteness so with that being said I would like be here actually for you to stream that video of the police officer talking to the woman you can do that first yeah just to kind of give a purview of how a custom we are to two black people being killed them out and I had the PowerPoint cute at first I thought you're gonna go there first okay nevermind look at how look at how I don't care we can I can do it but you're saying it might be best if we just go with what I have for so those of you that are coming on I'm glad it kind of took a little while because you're gonna want to see the whole PowerPoint I'm just showing I did the best I could to keep it brief but we got to educate people who are already in their feelings before we even start this I'm gonna make sure that we have everybody here okay I'm gonna share the screen and go to your powerpoints excellent I think I think you can if I make you am co-host let me see if I can do that okay anything let's see yeah I'm gonna make you the host right now but yeah I guess I'll make you go and then you should be able to do it now that would be no Abby no okay then no you can't either put it up if you you know what you have to share your screen is probably what's happening so do you want me to advance it or no if I can it's up okay so you can advance it alright you can I'm right here you just tell me okay next way alright so again people know me know that even as a clinician through the many many years I was in private practice I've only had one rule one rule tell me the truth I don't care I was dealing with male and female adolescent adult male and female prostitutes or Street workers or night workers whatever the appropriate term is I've you know when I was working with folks who were homeless working with people who were in prison it didn't matter because I don't care who you are just tell me the truth because I do believe that truthfulness is a foundation of all the virtues in the world of humanity I believe that if you aren't telling the truth you're not going to be well and I think our pathology as a country is in our denial of the issue of racism and white supremacy that that's why we're going down cuz we won't deal with the truth next slide so - was it May 26 or --lens this is a public defender in Manhattan here's what she says this is serious this happened today in Havana hatton is a public defender for over a decade I've tried cases where the Manhattan da uses a historical 9-1-1 call as categorical evidence of guilt usually there's no video like this to refute it meaning of the vigil that just that just with show with its woman in Central Park now this is a white public defender a white woman who's saying that in the past all you needed was to listen to the hysterical 9-1-1 call the men in fact the attorneys would go just listen to the call and now we know you just can't listen to the call a white person calls the police on a black man the police arrive and take the side of his white accuser refusing to believe his version is version of events he is arrested and arraigned an outrageous bail amount is set his family can't afford to buy his freedom he gets sent to Rikers Island where he sits for days months or sometimes years eventually his case is resolved in some way either because the charges are dismissed or because he decides to plead guilty to a lesser charge in the meantime he may have lost his job his home his children or some combination of the three nothing like that happened to Cooper thankfully but the elements of the problem are plain to see now this is a white public defender from New York this is an attorney and again prior to the video all we would need is the 911 listen to this panicked passionate fearful 9-1-1 call and we watched this woman do a 9-1-1 call and was lying the entire time becoming more emotional to bring the police on to create this image of danger that's what she did we watch to do it now remember in the past there's no video all you have is that 9-1-1 call I want you to follow me with this because the implications are serious in terms of what can happen to someone next slide right here okay so lag is not an operator's problem I'm gonna try to you know stay with it and again you may I'm gonna try really hard to maintain my decorum I'm gonna try very hard to be promised voice not speak so low like it says I do but I'm feeling some kind of way about this okay let's just yeah being transparent here so now again one of the things that happens and I because I was one of those people back in the 80s that you know they hired for diversity training and I immediately ceased and desist from doing it because it was an absolute and complete waste of time why is there's a big difference between equity and social justice versus diversity what are you doing it's doing its own thing okay okay okay so the belief that workplace diversity can bring increased productivity new ideas and therefore higher profits appeals particularly cook to corporations although diversity training may make good business sense the model falls terribly short of the comprehensive racial justice approach required for progressive social change what too often gets lost in the muddy waters of multi awareness is any analysis of power and the ways racist attitudes and organizational culture operates a racial justice approach requires an organizational transformation of power relations and see what diversity training did was everybody came in checked off that they were there and nothing changed there was a little fruit and festival you had music and ethnic music and people in ethnic garb and everybody clapped said they were there ate the little refreshments and went back to life as usual there was no change systemically there was no change in the power dynamic dynamic there was no change in the empowerment of people who have been oppressed in those toxic hostile environments next slide dehumanization I'm bringing this up because in any kid you could get all of this if you read my book you know although there's some things in here that's not in the book but dehumanization is a unique problem that has existed in this country since its inception it is how in fact America largely white America embraced its strong Christian ethic that everything is ok because they somehow place a whole group of people in this case not just us but other people too but African Americans is not quite fully human which justified and legitimize everything that came afterwards afterwards so next slide so we have to come in first thing that we have to recognize and this is something I say in all my presentations is that every major institution in America had to be complicit with the dehumanization of black people they had to be complicit with 339 years at least of slavery they had to be complicit with all of the laws that oppressed people who are different and the way they did it was they said well scientifically speaking ok so now we we're bringing in the bastion of science now this individual Karl by Linnaeus you all know he's a father of anthropology everybody who was an apologist is cringing at this point because they know he was categorically insane but here's what he said this man is best known for the classification of things species phylum genus he basically looked around and categorize and classify things and some of those things he did an extraordinarily good job but then he also look at the date 1707 to 1778 had to reconcile the contradiction of a country that prides itself on on democracy and freedom that was committing genocide against Native Americans at the time and enslaving African people so how do you reconcile send us your poor your tired your huddled masses yearning to breathe free one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all how do you reconcile that when you're obliterating destroying an entire group of people to take their lands mind you and then you're gonna enslave a whole nother group of people didn't ask to come right and all Lanner of horrific things well he again now is going to classify and I want you to stay with me because in order for you to feel okay about it you have to justify what you're doing and you do so by relabeling the people you are oppressing in such a way that it justifies what you're doing too so let's see how he describes people by the way there's not a shred of science here just so you know oppress he starts describing homo americanus now just guess in your mind who that might be well that would be native what did he say about native american people he says their reddish choleric obstinate contented regulated by customs okay no science there homo you're a pious white fickle sanguine blue-eyed gentle and governed by laws clearly no science their home oh I see Atticus that's Asian sallow grave dignified avaricious and ruled by opinion but now let's look at homo ever they are black phlegmatic cunning lazy lustful careless and governed by Caprice not a shred of science now even though there's no science here my students when I was teaching at the University teaching my 10-week course which people are taking in my class of course white people would start feeling dissonance Congress of business because oh my goodness wait a minute but dr. joy look at the year 1707 to 1778 you know these people were ignorant they didn't know I see yeah but do you not still here these attributions 2020 to black people when there's not a shred of science here not a shred next slide this will tell you why why it's because nobody checked his veda clearly like everybody's checking mine right now because what I'm saying Linnaeus after one week received his PhD for 32 dissertation from the Dutch University of Hardwick which one is joint of science designated as a mail-order institution yes the University of Harvick was known for selling degrees and there's a saying in the Netherlands for a person whose scientific knowledge is questionable oh it's from the University of Hartman so here's a man who said that okay two things read he's starting to go too fast people gotta hear what you're saying okay what's the bell okay so now just a little history and I want you to I want you to contrast even the manner in which folks are depicted I say whatever you see people dressed up like this you should get concerned okay just get concerned because it's going to be a problem all right so now we know based on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was where the North was trying to eliminate slavery they were actually abolitionists it was a we're trying to eliminate slavery after 1787 Constitutional Convention they were trying to stop it southerners were of course trying to maintain slavery so at this point it came down to well you know the more people residing in a state the more representation that state has and the more power it can wield well the southerners said well we want to count the enslaved Africans and the northerner says you can't count the enslaved Africans you say they're not fully human so they agreed upon decision which is called the three-fifths compromise it's rather than counting every African as a person we're going to count three bits of the entire population hence here's this statement now look at the way the man's dress why we see this how you dress very dignified but look at what he's saying blacks are inhabitants but as debased by servitude below the equal level of free inhabitants which regards the sway is divested of three two fifths of the man you don't even know what the hell he's talking about here but it just rolls off the tongue you know oh my God look how he it must be okay this is James Madison right so again we have to understand that these things were institutionalized many many many many many years ago next slide so now we have Thomas Jefferson I talk about it a lot I in my book with a soliloquy from Thomas Jefferson where he says in the ISA the deed I I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and that his justice can I sleep forever this man was plagued with dissonance to his dying days and he didn't free is enslaved Africans even upon his death but here's what he did say and I want you to I want you to understand when you say Thomas Jefferson said it well it must be what true we're talking about Thomas Jefferson someone who stood for freedom and religious freedom and all these different things but these are his words I can't make it up he says black smell bad and were physically unattractive his words little inconsistent with his behavior but his words nonetheless and then he goes so far as I say we required less sleep and I want to unpack this for you because all of this is to justify what you're doing the people we're saying they're physically unattractive well he was sleeping with child she was searching years old Sally Hemings when she came into his employ and was sixteen by the time she became pregnant there's another word we give to people who do that to children then he goes on to say we required less sleep well we have to ask the question what in the world would prompt him to make that statement because what was the workday for an enslaved African it was sunrise to sunset and we know it because we have the forensic evidence based on the bones that were found in the burial ground in New York we know that they work so hard that the muscle detached itself from the bone as a result of exertion you lazy people you so what we have to appreciate about what I'm trying to share with you here is there's a historical context to what we are experiencing right now with Karen thinking she could call the police nextslide not to mention he says that we are distinct species so now this is a photo then probably many of you have seen this is the first black man to ever appear on the cover of Vogue magazine that's LeBron James now you need to look very closely at this photo and look at the poster of the brute now with Vogue magazine again remember mo this is very first black man ever to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine and they made him an animal stay with me when they were confronted with this photo their official remarks were hmm coincidence coincidence now look closely they got it down to the blue dress he has white toed shoes on was told to open his mouth because he couldn't possibly have known that this was what was gonna happen but this is exactly what happened because I said yes LeBron James will let you be though on the cover but we're gonna make you the animal we believe you are this speaks to what we talked about in terms of pseudo innocence when they say can always coincidence when they say I was just being a good neighbor I was trying to reinforce the law it's a it's a false innocence we all know better you know better right but but because you're right female we're supposed to give you the benefit of the doubt even though we all know that you're not innocent we all know that you are what their of what you're doing when you do these types of things that we conspire together to make them feel better about the things that they do next slide now remember these are choices so now we have hmm clothing store these are choices they put one child in a sweatshirt that says coolest monkey in the jungle and then they put another a sweatshirt on a hoodie on a kid that they say is a survival expert those are decisions somebody sat in a room looked at pictures and decided that and you're not gonna tell me that this is an effort to go yeah he's um he's not fully human he's a monkey he's an animal and so there's this again oh and everybody goes aw you're overreacting next slide god I didn't put out a beggar in here darn it you can't do all of it I know I can't okay odor vinegar by the way was put in the Bronx Zoo he's a Congolese man it was 22 years old in 1905 1906 placed in a Bronx Zoo where people came to visit him in the monkey cages they're gonna do a story on him - yes call spectacle next slide the reason why this may seem shocking to you is you weren't aware of the fact that throughout Europe there were human zoos where they would actually capture Native American people and African American people Lock them in enclosures so that white people could see them in their natural habitat you just this didn't make it to your test I can't I can't make this up next slide this is as recent as 1958 that is a little girl in Belgium that is being fed bananas in a zoo I was born in 57 just so you know next slide oh now that gets dicey these are the the pictures I was talking about now this is a famous picture and you might have seen this there's a book called without sanctuary which is all depictions of lynchings but I'm showing you this picture because not because I want you to feel all twisted inside because of the man who is being murdered here but I want you to see who's in the picture I want you to see the people and I want you to see just how young they are that are at this lynching the little girl that's grimacing closest to this man does not see him as human matter of fact everybody has on white which means what day of the week is it it means it's Sunday which means that they've been to church and right after church they went to the lynching and they're not feeling any conflict with that nun nor do they feel any compassion or empathy for him because he is less than a dear to them next life again we have a picture in our mind of maybe when we think of lynchings and these horrible rapacious things that are going on that you got hooded folks on horses with toothless wonders that don't have a clue oh no look in this photo these folks are crowded into this photo they want to be in the photo and they are smiling and there is a man burning in front of them and these are regular folk matter some y'all watching this maybe some of your family members you don't want to own them now but they're there there's somebody's family members they're dressed up they ran train excursions read the work of I to be Wells they ran a train excursions had children let out of school early so that they could participate in these and how many participated thousands participated next slide this is taken from a book a hundred years of lynching no pictures these are all newspaper accounts so I want to put in perspective that that Burning Man that you saw there before the torch was applied the Negro was deprived of his ears fingers and genital parts of his body typical for them to do that he pleaded pitifully for his life while the mutilation was going on but stood the ordeal of fire was surprising fortitude before the body was cool it was cut to pieces the bones were crushed into small bits and even the tree upon which the wretch met his fate was torn up and disposed of as listen souvenirs the Negroes heart was cut into several pieces as was also his liver those unable to obtain the ghastly relics direct paid their more fortunate possessors extravagant sums for them small pieces of bones went for 25 cents and a bit of the liver crisply cooked sold for 10 cents as soon as the Negro was seen to be dead there was a tremendous struggle among the crowd to secure the souvenirs again didn't make it to your text did it this information didn't make it to your taste it's not obscure got the book right up there you can get the book right but it didn't make it to your text because you were made to believe that these were some it was just like a just kind of a fringe group of folks that we're doing awful things the same way we think things are going on today that's not the case next slide so this is Bryan Stevenson founder of the equal justice initiative he is also responsible for now having that amazing 4,400 people lynched memorial acknowledging and and basically for the first time honoring those whose lives were lost next slide this is me at the lynching memorial what you see that that's above me are these columns and on each column are the the lynchings who was lynched on what day and where I had to sit down cuz I just couldn't I literally could not move any further it was so painful on one of those columns there was 215 names which means they lynched an entire community but still none of us made it to your text and not until recently was this even acknowledged the lynching memorial just opened a couple years ago for people to acknowledge 4400 now remember that's just the lanes they had of the official names they have tons of people who they don't have names for next slide so well I was there I decided you know I was there with a young woman who just amazing and and she Toni she was she was actually she descended from people who were lynched so she had come earlier and offered to take pictures for me because it was such an emotional she says just go ahead and walk through I'll take pictures if you see something pointed out I'll take pictures so I said I just want you to go around and take pictures of the reasons why these people were lynched you know I I said just go around and she winter and lining the walls were these things I didn't capture all of them I just put a few of them Warren Powell 14 was lynched in East Point Georgia in 1889 for frightening a white girl General Lee was lynched in reeseville South Carolina in 1904 for knocking on a white woman's front door Robert Morton was lynched in Rockville Kentucky in 1897 for writing a note to a white woman next slide grant Cole was lynched in Montgomery Alabama in 1925 after he refused to run an errand for a white woman Benjamin Hart was lynched near Jacksonville Florida in 1923 after he was wrongly accused of peeping into the white a white girl's window parks bricks banks was lynched near Yazoo City madness in 1922 for carrying a photograph of a white woman in his head next slide Clinton Briggs was lynched in Star City Arkansas in 1919 for using inappropriate language with a white woman Talib gag Li was lynched in Bowling Green Kentucky in 1894 for walking behind the wife of his white employer Frank Dodd was lynched in DeWitt Arkansas in 1916 for annoying a white woman next slide so maybe you know when people start looking at what happened to Tamir rice you know what happened to so many of the young people that we've seen and I think that's because we don't know anything about George Junius Stinney he is the youngest person to ever be executed in the United States George Junius tinnie born October 21st 1929 was accused of killing two young white girls in Clarington County South Carolina George Junius thinny On June 16 1944 became the youngest person ever to be executed in the United States George was five foot one weighed 90 pounds and was so small adjustments had to be made in order to secure his body to the electric chair despite protests a lack of due process and physical evidence of his guilt within 80 days George juniors thinny a poor illiterate black boy was executed at the South Carolina State Penitentiary it took the jury 10 minutes to decide his fate and one supporter of the execution wrote to the governor and stated sure glad to hear of your decision regarding the Stinney now he's actually there he's walking in holding him there's a Bible there that he wanted to have he was posthumously exonerated in 2014 let's unpack why they said that he killed both girls with a railroad spike one he couldn't lift the railroad spike he was he wasn't even didn't have the strength to do it and the other girl would have had to just stand there and wait for him to finish killing one to be killed so he couldn't even lift it let alone do that they actually bribed him with ice cream by the way just so you know see this is context so we understand what happens to people like you know Tamir next slide this is taken from the National Museum of African American history right there in and culture in DC now these are pictures you don't normally see you don't see the white woman sternly confronting the enslaved Africans you don't see her but she's there next slide in fact here she is depicted beating enslaved Africans right but these are pictures that you don't normally see because we always attribute such violence to white men next slide so this is called the casual killing act for those of you have never heard of it sounds very very close to I don't know a little bit like you know the escape clause is for runaway slaves you know the Fugitive Slave Act stand your ground you'll hear some similar language here but let's but we're gonna unpack this a little bit more so you understand the context so why we are calling for stricter laws and if any slave resistance master owner other person by his or her order correcting such light and shall happen to be killed in such correction it shall not be counted felony but the master owner and every other person so giving correction shall be a quid of all punishment and accusation for the same as if such an accident had never happened okay what is this about it's called the casual killing Act it was an act that came into existence not just in Virginia because there are statutes in other parts of the country for protecting someone who beats someone to death while correcting them so now you have to ask yourself the only reason why you would have to establish a law is because this was happening frequently right so you gotta ask you some who's beating people to death so frequently that you need to create the casual killing act that is going to surprise you because that was about white women white women who were by the way at this time 1705 beating black children today hmm why well whose children were they really right so white women took out their anger and rage against their husbands who were raping black women by beating to death than their children hence the casual killing act don't want you to get in trouble we want you to just say it was an accident because you were correcting them stay with me next slide now it takes us to 1955 this is Emmett Till Emmett Till's mother had an open casket funeral so that she could show the world what they did to her baby her child and I think you know when we consider this this is probably this is where I'm I really have to roll it pull it together because this makes me so angry next slide first take a breath okay a killing that sugar nation this was taken from the Tribune News January 28th 2017 the person you're looking at is Carolyn Bryant Dunham this is a woman at the center of the trial of Emmett Till's alleged killers and she has acknowledged that she falsely testified he made physical and verbal threats according to a new book it was the summer of 1955 in the Jim Crow South Emmitt more affectionately known as Bobo by the people who loved him had traveled to Mississippi from Chicago to visit his great-uncle once there the teen was falsely accused of flirting with Carolyn Bryant a 21 year old at the time Bryant and her husband Roy owned a grocery store in money Mississippi four days went by then in the middle of the night on August 28 1955 Roy Bryant and his half brother JW mill milem paid Emmitt a visit they rousted him from his bed and ordered him into the bed of a pickup truck they beat him mercilessly then they took his life by shooting him in the head and to get rid of Emmett's body his killer strapped a 75 pound cotton gin to his neck with barbed wire that way he'd be weighed down when they threw his battered body in the Tallahatchie just stay with me one moment here this woman lied admitted that she lied cause the death the brutal torture beating death of a child and didn't see a day in jail didn't see it didn't see a day of justice this woman knowingly waited for the two men to die before she even admitted it but as she closes in on death's door she's gonna admit something which to me says thank you so much we don't cart your behind all off right off to to jail right now because there's no statute of limitations murder but she did it she'll probably write a book out of this and they'll make a movie about her yeah I feel some kind of way next slide now let's bring it closer up today so now again in 2018 everyone knows she like everyone the whole world knows that this woman lied about Emmett Till ever saying hey baby ever whistling none of it was true none of it this is Emmett family and what they did was they got a sign that they posted to honor him at the side of the river where he was killed and within 30 days of putting it up it was vandalized shot with bullets now stay with me everyone knows ok everyone understands that she lied that an innocent innocent child was murdered but look at the visceral hatred that's 20:18 next slide oh then there's Susan Smith Susan Smith 43 was convicted in 1995 of murdering 3 year-old Michael and 14 month old Alex by strapping them into their car seats in her burgundy Mazda and then letting her car roll into a lake in the mill town of Union where she lived okay I'm like I just have to take a breath because just that alone is a mother a child now drowning strapped into their seats I can't even okay the tragic case attracted worldwide attention and stirred racial tensions after Smith initially told police that a black man had carjacked her and kidnapped her children she tearfully pleaded for the kids to be returned this is on nationwide television by the way she went on like Good Morning America and pleaded please bring my children back that's how much attention she garnered that the whole national media was supporting her but in nine days nine days later she admitted she pushed her car down the access ramp of John D long lake with the kids in the back on October 25th 1994 Smith reported to police in her vehicle had been carjacked by a black man who drove away with her son's still inside the composite sketch stay with me she came with a composite sketch of the alleged carjacker and by the way they found them it was basically arbitrarily any black man that you can see and they literally found the men that matched the composites who didn't exist okay did not exist but they found them the composite sketch of the lead carjacker however bruised too generic in the sense that he described half of the african-american men who lived in the community for nine days she made dramatic pleas on national television television for their rescue return now let me update you on her because she gets out in four years she gets paroled in four years she didn't get the death penalty now one I want to really March this home this woman strapped babies in her car and killed them intentionally and we went yeah well not even life without possibility of parole she gets out of jail in four years and if you look at her behavior she hasn't behaved well okay she hasn't been brought up on all kind of cases since she's been there she's still gonna get out help me understand killed her own children in the most horrific way I was praying in my mind did you drug them did you put them to sleep first something but to help your mother oh my god I can't even take a breath take a breath dr. joy looks like two breaths maybe I'm better I'm better oh you didn't breathe I'm watching you brother you read thank you all right okay this is surveillance footage that proves that the white woman who falsely accused a black line hero of sexual assault in 2018 nine I just want you all to go back to nine nine is prepubescent okay it's a child it all happened Wednesday at the Sahara deli market on a table Morrow Road in Flatbush the woman identified as Theresa Kline was being rung up at the front counter when the child walked by according to Kline the boy grabbed my ass prompted her to call 9-1-1 video of the exchange outside the deli when client confronted the child and his mother was later posted on Facebook as a woman proceeds to yell at the family the children weep and attract the crowd of bystanders shocked and what they are seeing that what the actual event you go back and look at this online but what it shows is that his backpack brushed up against her now let's look at what she accused the child of grabbing her ass he's nine years old and in fact the little boy is horrified he's crying he's horrified because he doesn't understand what's going on and when you see it you see his backpack brushed against her that's what happened but it didn't stop this grown adult white woman from accusing a nine-year-old of sexually assaulting her there's no way in the world she thought that happened there's no way she thought that that boy grabbed her ass and if she did there's something wrong with her but still do you understand the implications of this do you think she does not know nextslide nextslide 2014 study anybody taking my class has had to read all this material it's it's called the essence of innocence consequences of dehumanizing black children 2014 so you can go look up the article if you like alright you could um I can give it to you if you need it or want it why can't I get this thing to go up here I want there you go the social category children defines a group of individuals who are perceived to be distinct with essential characteristics including innocence and the need for protection the present research examined this is 2014 examined whether black boys are given the protections of childhood equally to their peers we tested three hypotheses a black boys have seen as less childlike than their white peers B that the characteristics associated with childhood will be applied less when thinking specifically about black boys relative to white boys and see that these trends would be exacerbated in context where black males are dehumanized by associating them implicitly with Apes we expected derivative of these three principal hypothesis that individuals would perceive black boys as being more responsible for their actions as being more appropriate targets for police violence we find support for these hypotheses across four studies using laboratory field and translational mixed laboratory field methods we find converging evidence that black boys are seen as older less innocent and that they prompt a less essential conception of childhood than do their white same age peers further our findings demonstrate that the black ape Association predicted actual racial disparities and police violence toward children taken together this research suggests that dehumanization is a uniquely dangerous intergroup attitude and that intergroup perception of children is under explored and that both topics should be researched priorities that was 2014 that our children are still being dehumanized next slide this is 2016 the next slide so this is the pretty well-known bias story you might have heard it in the news it actually made national news says bias isn't just a police problem it's a preschool problem now I'm gonna fold this into why I'm talking about this because the huge percentage of the preschool teachers are white women so now new research from the Yale child studies Center suggests that many preschool teachers look for disruptive behavior in just one place waiting for it to appear the problem with this strategy beside it being efficient is that because of implicit bias teachers are spending too much time watching black boys and expecting the worst 135 pre-k let me just step back disa little ones who care about the little bitty ones 135 pre-k teachers were asked to watch a few short videos and told press the Enter key on the external keypad every time you see a behavior that could become a potential challenge here's the deception there was no challenging behavior not while the teachers watched I scan technology measured the trajectory of their gaze gilliam wanted to know when teachers expected bad behavior who did they watch what we found was exactly what we expected based on the rates at which black children all right spell from preschool programs teachers looked more at the black children than the white children and look specifically more at the african-american boy again I'm giving you context so nobody just thinks dr. Joyce is being emotional okay we have reams of data we have what I would call a preponderance of evidence about this and what you need to know about this not all the teachers in the study were white there are no doubt black Matt next folks but guess what they've all been socialized and we've all been socialized that there's something wrong with these kids are you following me that's how deeply entrenched it is and even when they had two children they had two children off tasks deliberately off task the children that were off task white boy black boy they were actually off-task doing the same off task behavior and the teachers only saw the black boy they didn't see the white boy even though they were both off task and both off task doing the same behavior next slide yeah people always say it takes a village they love to say that and most people who say it never been to a village and most of them are white more white people say this and anybody in the world they don't want to be in the village our coming in the village so I'm gonna do it the village just saying yeah I'm feeling some kind of way so yeah it takes a village but it also takes education systemic change and social legal justice yes Karen got to go to jail next sly I love this statement because I remember reading it many many years ago steps to healing embracing and again our humanity because I want to I want to leave us with some stuff that we can do the most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will occur not because of the technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human and we have lost sight of our humanity next slide love this one of my favorite quotes we need more light about each other light creates understanding understanding creates love love creates patience and patience creates unity I'm for truth no matter who tells it I'm for justice no matter who it is for or against I'm a human being first and foremost and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole who wrote that that would be Malcolm X bet you didn't know that why because you basically listen to whatever you were taught about the one-dimensional person that people portray Malcolm X's being but again you know if you think you've been educated I don't know read my book next slide so what are the most salient features now what what I've spent my life doing is looking at what works right looking at what works and here's what we know works when working with black folks because my goal here is to help black people survive in spite of Karen right we gotta help our children navigate the hostility of a world that is against them that I think is packed in the DNA of people who believe wholeheartedly in white supremacy so these are the things that I had my graduate students evaluate when I was teaching at Portland State University rather than have my students write papers I didn't want to read and they didn't want to write I said let's do some research let's look at black communities let's look at organizations agencies let's look at programs around the United States that are effective based on a very strict criteria in our way and let's look at the common elements that fall out one building strong relationships hence I wrote the relationship model of educational intervention I wrote the relationship approach and these are my evidence-based models that are being used in communities were used before it I came up with the word for it we know what it takes but we're never you know our voices are never heard so I just you know kind of came up with my own thing and took it on the road building strong relationships core culturally relevant curriculum materials don't act like we didn't build the country okay positive racial ethnic identity development your children are black your children are Latin X have them embrace whole heartedly who they are and love who they are start working when they're young don't try this at puberty don't start trying to work with your kids or puberty needs to be happening early we have all the data in the literature to suggest that as well a parent family involvement in schools in the community commitment and support of administrators and teachers consistency in longevity program providing unique achievement opportunities or wins everybody needs to win you may not make the dean's list but you can win follow up an evaluation everything doesn't last all forever and you need to tweak it you need to change it you need to look at what's going on outside to see if in fact things need to be adjusted next slide so in the relationship approach people of color faced with four questions when encountering American institutions a 1 am i being accepted or tolerated I teach black people to assume you're being tolerated just assuming because we're relationship based people we want to be accepted and then we get our feelings hurt I say ok just make an assumption you're being tolerated if you end up being accepted that's gravy great when do I confront or simply let things go because we can be fighting all day right B we can we gotta choose your battles cuz you can be fighting all day how do i distinguish those from those who are some import sincere and can be trusted from those who would cause me harm I tell my white people in inequity and what is my locus of control this is what we trained and we work with buttressing folks so they can navigate moments where they may not be liked which is often the situation steps to healing tell the truth it is a foundation for health know yourself our history in your personal legacy tell your story preserve memories for those to come writing our own narratives look beyond healing seek to be healthy build a steam healthy and accurate not hire low healthy and accurate control your inner world manage stress and conflict on that note take a deep breath racial socialization culture preparation for the future and again we got to lean into this we need to be deliberately helping our children of color navigate as they are so let's not pretend you people know the first chapter in my book is called I don't even know this race okay I wrote that because white people said that to me it I think they trying to compliment me I don't notice your black joy that's not a compliment hello I notice I'm black you should notice I'm black too but if all you can do is not notice me in order to grapple with your skybridge of business I'm not signing off on that so literally cultural preparation for the future letting our children know who they are and going all the way back to their ancestors build upon strengths past and current model the health be the healing that you seek we got to walk the talk look in the mirror change and growth our continuous so we are at you know a point where again everybody knows when I was in and in Ghana in West Africa I actually read this while I was taking the picture I had a book of Proverbs that I had gotten from the actually from the University and it said if you wish to go alone if you wish to go fast and go alone but if you wish to go far go together this is something that requires that we all show up it is something that requires we roll up my sleeves but I wanted to give context but here you can I think that's the last slide right yeah so let's come out of that um I don't and I weren't I'm sorry I just wanted to give context so that when people you know we and again we people have means and have all these different different things going on about you know Becky or whatever that is this is serious okay and I'm serious about creating and establishing some accountability for people who are putting folks lives in danger instead of us making means and and plastering it all over the face but thank God for you thank God for the people video tape I'm happy about that but if we want to do something about this there needs to be some change I'm not an attorney and here is my plea to those of you that are out there that's on my lane but you can bet I know some attorneys and you can bet I'm gonna call on them but we want next week between now and next week please reach out if you're an attorney because what we specifically want to talk about is how do we get this put into law that these people that do these things they are not doing something innocent it's just not in that accident that's why I showed you the history so that you can understand this is an accident so we have we have some precedents and we have some situations I know that we're gonna try to have an Oregon representative Jenelle Bynum who was canvassing for her community for re-election who someone call the police on her said there's an african-american woman knocking on doors and we don't know she's begging blah blah blah and she got a bill passed that right now at least if you call 9-1-1 for some you know stupid reason or basically racially motivated 9-1-1 calls you'll be fine now it's like $250 but it's enough of an inconvenience for people to be aware that if they make this phone call they could end up having a fine what we're saying is that was one representative in you know what some well there's some other senators that supported backing it but there were it was it wasn't a huge movement but we could have a huge movement that then results in some federal laws that lets you know if I'm gonna make this call and say he's african-american he's african-american you're gonna go to jail Karen you're gonna go to jail yes go that'll stop it when you realize you're going to jail or better yet not only you're going to jail we gonna fine you - we don't take your stuff you know I mean come on we can't just have these conversations we have a preponderance of evidence and we have a history there's no confusion here and again the only thing I don't because you got to know I would be on the front steps of the Capitol if I thought Joey can do something about it I again not my lane I'm not stopping don't think think I'm gonna put this down I'm gonna I will learn you know what needs to be done but we can't so here as far as I know you can't jog while you're black you can't watch birds while you're black you can't go to the store for skittles you can't play with a toy gun if you're black you can't barbecue outside you can't drive while you're black you can't sit at the counter at Starbucks while you're black yes the water play your music loud if you're black I mean but the bird watching the bird watching watch the birds you can't you can't watch doesn't even do anything to the bird but you can't watch the birds bag only issue the issue there was his brother's at Harvard you know he's our bird man so she picked the wrong one but aside from that did you see who she was did you understand the position she holds so what my husband wanted me to bring into this conversation it's the fact that we work with Karen mm-hmm we work with Karen now Karen showed out in the park but we still work with Karen and it's that same mentality that shows up in the workplace in the classroom in the boardroom it's the same mentality and I'm going why are we why do we have any thinking I just have part of it as we're under estimate the inherent sense of superiority and racism I think that if we don't underestimate that if the average Karen who's a do-gooder who thinks you know I you know voted for Barack I'm a good white person if that Karen does not just decide I'm going to be anti-racist nah I'm just not a racist person I'm going to be actively anti-racist which means that every decision that I make I'm gonna be checking it through an anti-racist lens because I have had experiences with the best the best most well-intentioned white women ever really one of the equity at the finish line so long as they can wake up and see equity happen they don't want to have to live through the process that it's going to take for the end and a personal transformation that's going to be required for them to get to that finish line they just want to be at the end clapping and hugging right they want the photo op at the Union kumbaya but the personal work which shows up in little things like oh I don't know evaluations oh I don't know memos you know and I'm going some racist and you think that you're all about equitable equity okay breathe breathe I'm gonna meet you to brief I could deal with Karen who just doesn't know what I can't do is write on Karen whose nicest I can't back the part that Mike did you notice equity Karen that you're acting inconsistent to what you say you're about Karen I'm sorry okay breathe great see we we gotta breathe but here's the other know what you know the other evidence that people really know is you know most of the folks telling their own Karen I mean the people who are following chasing Karen down with equity hearing anti-racist Kenny racist Karen is is walking up that because the one thing they know is they ain't nobody gonna do that to me grain so it would have been a black person tracking them down with the video like the woman in the park with the bird watch you're here to tell her she's trying to grab oh now all she had to do stay with me all she had to do when the police showed up is jump on this man and attack him and ADA killed and now she's in a tussle oh please the man that's why I was so glad to brother said right but again it's it's the luck of the draw yeah and they shouldn't be that way it shouldn't be that way but white women who do get it there are white women who get it they start tracking down care and then going I'm sorry Karen what made you think those women are and we're are anti-racist Karen's we help you if you're going to say that you're about something so long as you're not uncomfortable so why don't you not to talk to your dad or your cousin or you people I'm gonna be down with UVA as long as I can join your movement but in my spaces you know many times people have asked me how they can join something that I'm doing I'm like there's plenty of pathology in your house in your office work with those folks that you have close proximity and access to do that I don't need your help to work maybe we know what's going on you know but I think the act of being anti-racist is very different and the answer the reason for the query there's gonna be people that are gonna say God knows my heart this is when we talk about intention and impact right I don't care about what your intentions are if the impact is detrimental to my person my spirit my mental health my community if it results in the fear of my son death then I don't care what your intentions were don't care if God knows your heart I don't care if I know your heart I'm looking at what the impact of what you did said heard wrote about called about the impact of that is what's important and if the impact of that doesn't match and you don't do a self-evaluation and change that then you are your it doesn't matter equity caring let me have an example of that because sometimes people don't understand the difference between intention so this is sister who did it's such a really good example she said let's just say I take a frisbee and I smack smack you in the side with the frisbee BAM hit you decided hit right and I go oh my god I I don't you know I don't know how to do frisbees I don't throw the northland I never I never I didn't mean to oh my god how about are you hurt can I help you know what what they're doing is I didn't mean to no my friend Jamal said he was walking down the street last week earlier this week and this little girl ran into him behind him was riding her bike wasn't paying attention ran into him and fell over so she reaches down I'm he resented to help her back up but she's like I'm okay I'm okay you can touch her but then her friends he said well what is going the friend said she's good she's good so they're all trying to get him to back up so the mom comes out and she says what happened she says they were in my way and I and I felt they were in my way not I ran into someone did you are you okay sir that I ran into with my bike who's walking but they were in my way and I hurt myself and again this is socialization I have I live in Sacramento for the moment and one of the things that happen one day my husband I came home and there were spray-painted stuff in the driveway my neighbor's house was right painted the street was spray-painted where all these kind of weird signs and stuff and you know I don't know if we're dealing with you know vandals I don't know if we're dealing with some you know hate groups you know like I'm trying to figure it out so me you know my husband I you know we we say okay we can have checked this out so we go to my neighbor who's got you know and now that they burned something in his whatever was they burned something of his right up in his yard now my neighbor is Mexican American they use the Latin X I don't know whether actually may not be mexican-american I know he's mad next so he comes out and he says you know what's going on going out and I was following then another neighbor on the other side said yeah they say spray painted this so we start walking through the neighborhood because we try to figure out what happened so we walk down and we're talking to people and as we're walking we're seeing more and more spray it's tough so we get down to the end of the block here's a man standing sitting down with no shirt on white man with no shirt on you know kind of middle-aged a woman a white woman and some blonde hair literally towhead blond white girls right and they range maybe from eight to like maybe twelve so I'm going you know we just noticed that there's a lot of spray-painting of crazy stuff you know and the girl goes yeah we girls say I know I know did it I said really she goes yeah it was Carlos Carlos yeah Carlos we tried to tell him not to do it we really did and he just didn't listen and you know I'm just really sorry that he did that to your house is terrible right so now I'm a clinician okay and me thinks mountainous know too much okay so I'm going okay so how do you know um how do you know Carlos well he's in my class okay so he's not my friend or anything he's just he's in my class okay so I said in what class that so it's the actual school is literally a block from my house huh prison school the prison school they call it to prison they try to be horrible it looks like prison a fairly new school so anyway we say so I say to the little young woman I go yeah well we're gonna be going to the principal going to the school going to call the police and obviously you know this is vandalism so it's gonna be really unfortunate but we're gonna go and we're gonna talk to the principal and we're gonna go to the class and speak with the teacher and you know we're gonna you know so and so we turn around and we go back right so about 9 o'clock at night I get a knock on the door well knock on the door the mother of the three girls is sitting there the mother of Carlos is there she's Mexican Carlos is Mexican the girl comes to the comes to the door the one who gave me all the information and says we did it all wait a minute they spray the only thing Carlos did was provide the spray paint that's what Carlos said now I said now you see for me I'm going I said you know what's concerns me cuz I did a lot of crazy stuff when I was a kid it's no doubt is the fact that you threw him under the bus and you lied so instantly I mean with absolute there was no sign of any level just that live floated out there and the only reason why all those people showed up in my front door is because I said I might call I have to call the police now the mother don't know if she was documented or not I said what you need to know I said is your friends here threw you under the bus instantly instantly didn't think a moment about it and had done all of it now to the mother's credit she goes honestly that's what disturbed me the most was the lying and so she she had the children from literally morning till evening scrubbing which they can't get out first of all that's not gonna work you can't get the spray paint out but she made him do it anyway all day day long hands were raw they say it was throbbing right there I'm gonna hold them accountable she told me she was worried about that one child she had which she believes you were him no she believed the child was a sociopath no she did because she almost killed her sister - but the thing about it is - is it's like little white kids get to be careless whitey I have this planet to myself I'm like Carlos need to understand what happened for him and that's thinking like you know they're kids who do stupid stuff all the time most kids do super said you know fully developed breathing you make it decisions with everything that tracking but the consequences can be dire for you and it seems so oppressive you know I have two teens and they you know they don't understand what you're so worried you're always so worried about everything I'm not worried I know better it's not just worry it's like okay this is likely to happen if these sort of circumstances align so what am I gonna do let me go nope can't go good you mad at me if you want to so it's one of those things that I think we have to figure out and I think it's important we're talking about locus of control because part of the healing piece of this also is that one we're not crazy first of all you're not insane like you I think I might be paranoid but sometimes people actually are following me so you're not starting again again you know and you start to realize like they don't see us as humans do you move on you right so for us we're like okay that is creating injury you're in your house you can't go to the gym and work it out right I am teaching dance class tomorrow though however right a little joy we're doing missing Elliot I got to get you know dancing with Missy Elliot so we're going to how you understand it and again you know I don't drink I don't smoke you know I don't I but I realize why people do I really do understand why people do because if you don't have a way to to manage this stuff away and that's why me and of course we know we're out here talking it's feeling better for us but I'm hoping that some of you feel a little better now cuz you're like yes right because when do we get a chance to go you can save your trip take take the clip from this show and go through some of these slides these are slides that she doesn't always share that's right that's right cuz it's rare everybody knows I rarely if you might first of all I have 300 something over 300 slides in my presentation and you can't people may be mad at me but you you come out changed because I'm not telling you what's my opinion I'm showing you history oh right but you show the clip we gotta end it with the clip oh do we do we have to do them yes we do is that the way that we want to end okay no maybe now I should direct people to it if they want to see they've got don't direct people to that cuz it's not okay I'm not gonna show it I'm not gonna show it but it's a pic it's a video of a police officer stopping a white woman who is scared to use her phone and the police officer says you know we don't kill white people we kill black people he says tell me when you know somebody of a white person that we rolled up on a kill we kill the black people this is to make her feel more comfortable and safe his chapping says I don't know his heart but I know what came out his mouth then it goes and he gotta go this man is is literally feeling so comfortable this is a police officer right now again let me say one more time time policing in America was born from slave patrols look it up okay if you look it up and you understand that policing came into effect based on police the police swarming from slave patrols because of their intense fear of what black people were gonna do once we were afraid and even though we never did it they terrorized us they've created their own group to terrorize us and the whole time we're the ones that are violent who's the one that created this vigilante group that is larger than any combined gang in America that's somehow nobody gets arrested they can bring the assault rifles to the White House you know it's Jeff I this is this thing here's the deal here's the deal this is the part that we have to manage everybody's like show the video no let me tell you what I do know that's commit to health person okay I understand that we're all revved up we're all hurting this has been good for all of us people are saying it's helping them because we are acknowledging injustice we're not just frustrated and angry and mad and the man has done us wrong once again we're looking at the history of what has happened and the necessary well the necessity for us to combine our intellect our in our passions our legal expertise to create some level of accountability that we can't just keep being frustrated cuz one it's gonna help us to put our energy into something that can be transformative that's one and two it's giving a it gives you a release to do something with all of this right we got to be able to maintain our life we have to acknowledge what's happening work for justice and try to stay sane and keep light and happiness in our homes they go on a bike ride a bike ride you leave this conversation you're in your house with your family you're revved up you're on edge everything's kind of you know reverberating through your body how do you bring light in love and calm and balanced because that's what you can control you can control how it feels in your house maybe walking outside it feels some kind of way in this skin but in this house in this apartment in this room I can create some some practices for my family where we can sit with something that we can control and we can manifest something beautiful in this space we have to do this and all together right oh it's what every day we got to do this because as you can see the decline that's setting in is happening so quickly everything is moving so quickly and it's one one of those situations where again I got folks you laughing as people right and crazy I know they're right you can make me those people we will tell you you can look it up just look up the video yeah we don't know why maybe we feel like we he's gonna make it we're not gonna put end on making you get we don't want to enter that we want to end on the again the steps towards healing what we have to do to take care of ourselves all of that but again we're not doing this just to be doing it we have every intention you I may fail at this but I will try to get Karen arrested no no no no we gonna get careful let me tell you there's nothing I think we need to be strategic now you know how every time when right before the slave revolt they be like we so happy here boss we ever leave this house now is he really an Duncan I was he really gonna make sure that everybody's children relaxed so that we can actually get movie to get done sometimes I think and I'm not talking about step-in Fetchit I'm talking about you gotta kiss me buddy but anything weird what I'm saying is you have to be strategic when you're dealing with a police officer when you know you're in the right but you know what's happening there's some strategic things that you can do just to make it more likely that you will survive that doesn't mean this your fault doesn't mean that if they're really motivated to kill you that they won't but there are strategies that I think that we need to empower our young men our young women are grown men are grown to say this is this is the language you can use hopefully those attorneys next next we can tell you about how to state your right instead I know my rights okay maybe you do but I would have how do you lay it out right how do you manage that level of indignation and frustration that you have how do you manage that so that you can still be strategic cuz mopping is my mom knows this vote right now dr. joy as you know is from South Central she gotta let you know right now what's happening things up if I ever gonna call it here and someone stole our parking space I'm just saying okay all kinds of cows but for me I'm like okay how am I going to I will not confirm nor deny oh you're a guy I've been there but what I'm saying is if something happens for me my thing is to shame you because I want you to feel ashamed of yourself no after I walk away I want you clutching your pillow and crying at night and wondering does God know your heart that's what I want because the reality is so people stare at you right my mother does this people stare at mom she goes like this oh I forgot I'm black right and I just you know welcome to I go I noticed that your your your staring at me how do we know each other oh oh we don't we don't oh also that's really cuz you were really staring I want you to feel you're weird you're doing something strange or clutch the pearls when the white man wants mine that's my favorite locking door clutch the person in the way boys get back in the car they should feel it too why did they do that oh I don't know my point is we have to all come together South Central dr. joy with the brilliance and you know the shotgun in a over oh we are where we gonna be wait way over but here's the thing honestly I we're doing this largely because we know a lot of people are feeling some kind of way about all that and I just want people to know that we not gonna just talk about it and I'm gonna get some smarter people on here to tell me what we can do and I don't even know if I'll be alive by the time we can put it in the back but I am serious about holding folks accountable and I don't know how to do that I'm saying that out loud but those of you that are attorneys or judges or all y'all out there listen we would love to hear from you and we would love to have the rest of the our audience hear from people who know how to navigate that that legal field but at the same time to know that we're paying attention and all of us are paying attention you're not by yourself love yourself take this moment to let your children and your family know that they are safe that they're loved that we are growing and then this too shall pass we've been through a lot of stuff we're still here we're still here and we're gonna move forward so I'd like to thank you also support any local organizations around you that are doing good work to support in both the mental well-being and health of the people that year-round and also for social justice I'd like to do a shout out to um like getting off flustered organic oneness our dear friends side a if you're in Chicago area look up organic oneness it's an amazing organization that's working to build equity and social justice for all people but in particular focusing on people of color and and there are like multiple ones for us the black parent initiative it's a wonderful thing we're providing a lot of mental health support and direct on-the-ground kovin relief so the black pair initiative in Oregon there's a few there's out there than a million of them but please go to my website you can see some of the things we are doing have done and again the podcast is coming up because you know I'm gonna be making a move and our YouTube channel we're gonna be moving her stuff to you do because all the videos on YouTube that people make lots of money on illegal clips of mom on them we're gonna try to move those to her own page so that's coming soon so thank you everybody we appreciate you bearing with us alright leave the chat how do I get this okay so you're gonna have to probably go on your when you get off of this go to your it's a page and you can go back to it and go through we'll see alright bye bye be safe take your baby watch out Karen we coming for you what we come in you want the gym

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