A Black Executive Perspective now presents Need to Know with the award winning hyphenated Dr. Nsenga Burton. Dr. Burton. What do we need to know?

Good afternoon and welcome to Need to Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton. I am she. I'm coming to you today to talk about January 6th, which we really weren't talking about enough to my satisfaction. Uh, I am really, there's a meme that's been going around online that says I will never get over We'll figure out how January 6th was not a deal breaker, and I don't know who originated that meme, but I would like to co sign 10, 000 times on that. Um, you know, it's just really sad when you have such a major event unfold. I mean, it really is a treasonous act at best. And at worst, I would say it's domestic terrorism and, you know, the fact that they can so easily, they'd be in media police officers, people of that nature leaders can so accurately describe the attack on New Orleans as a terrorist attack, but will not do the same for something as heinous and as harmful and as detrimental to our country as a January 6 treasonous act. Uh, is Just really unthinkable, you know, so we, we kind of know why these things happen, right? Ideology, uh, this obsession with, uh, white, whiteness and white supremacy, um, this idea that, um, treasonous, um, in our country, we're the only country to actually let treasonous live, by the way. So we're still dealing with, you know, the remnants of treasonous, treasonous from the civil war, um, who, um, you know, really. If we were in a different country would have been taken out. Right? Um, but when you let that poison get into that tree and go down into the roots, it's hard to get rid of it. And so we're still dealing with all of that now, as someone who lives in Georgia, the state of Georgia, I mean, it's literally every day when it's the confederate flag, whether it is someone talking nonsensically about the civil war, because they really just rewritten the history of it. Um, you know. All of that matters, and all of that is tied to whether we want to admit it or not. Uh, the January 6th, uh, attempted overthrow of the government. I would say it was, it was an overthrow of the government because, you know, people were running for their lives. Our vice president, they were threatening to hang our vice president. Um, they did all of these things. They killed police officers. You know, and this is, and this is why it's just not, it doesn't. It's just like you're killing police officers, you're threatening the lives of Congress people, including your own people in your party that you claim to support, um, you're overthrowing, uh, or trying to overthrow and not certify the election. Uh, I mean, all of these things are happening and it's somehow, you know, an event. You know, you let all these people go home, like, literally somewhere home in time for dinner. Um, and then you have to spend years finding them and bringing them to justice so that they can be pardoned by, uh, 47. So, you know, I, I just think when, when people. Want people to be accountable. It's real hard to do that when we live in a system and a world where accountability doesn't matter, particularly for our highest leaders. You know, whether we're talking about 47, who's trying not to be sentenced, even though he's not going to have to serve any time for all these crimes he committed while the prisons are filled with people who were serving time, doing the same crimes that they committed, you know, you, there's this double standard, right? And then you want Joe Biden to put his son in jail when our 47 is gone. Escape jail, um, just to prove something to Democrats, um, you know, to prove that we're the better people, uh, which makes no sense at all, you know, regardless of party. I don't think I know. I don't know anybody who's going to call up the police and be like, take my, my kid and put him in jail. I don't know those people. Maybe, you know, I don't know those people. So again, are an unwillingness to live in the real world, right? This unwillingness to face what's in front of us, this unwillingness to address what is actually happening, happening and has happened. And this is how we get to 47. Right. So, um, I just wanted to say today, um, I need to know, uh, we need to know that our standards are gone. Um, we have a sexual abuser coming into the White House for a 2nd time. We had all the data about this person. Um, from our horrendous experience from 2016 to 2020, including the death of over a million people, uh, that was preventable, uh, which we're not talking about that either. I don't know. We're talking about, uh, Israel and Palestine, but we're not talking about what's happening here. I don't know why we can do both. Truly. So, um, I just will not understand how January 6th was not a deal breaker. And I will not understand how this country continues to literally be its own worst enemy. Uh, by not holding those who are in power accountable, um, and not only doing that, but elevating them. Um, I, I just won't, I won't understand that. So, you need to know if you want to hold people accountable, you actually have to represent it yourself. When you don't represent it yourself, don't be surprised when all sorts of tomfoolery unfolds, which is absolutely going to happen, uh, over the next four years and many more to come. All right. So this is Need to Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton. Join us next week on A Black Executive Perspective podcast for more news, information, and trending thoughts. Bye.

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