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 morning and welcome to Need To Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton. I am she. Today, I'm here to talk to you about the information on the web or I would say there is some discussion on the web about where black folks. Right. We know that you all are upset about Kamala Harris not winning the election, and you should be participating in these protests. You should be organizing the protests, all the things. And, um, I would like to address the fact that we are not your property anymore. I would like to address that. So, um, there was a time for fairly recent history when black people collectively, that would be the advocates, the activists, those who are on the right side of history. Not all of us, but many. Um, we're marching and being beaten down by the police. Um, there was a time when we were, and actually it's been the last 20 years, it's been longer than recent history, but whatever, um, where we were like, Hey, listen, you know, our voting rights. Uh, which means your voting rights are gonna be in trouble. Um, our civil rights, which means your civil rights are gonna be in trouble. Our reproductive rights, which mean your reproductive rights are gonna be in trouble, um, have been, I mean, we've been screaming it, you know, from the top of the mountains to the lowest hills and, um. You know, received very little, um, support, collaboration, collective action from other groups that benefited from all of the work that was done primarily by African Americans, but certainly I would say multicultural. Um, um. Uh, groups, um, that are on the right side of history as well, but historically have been, you know, the, the torch has been, uh, carried by black Americans. Um, so that we have all of these rights that everyone gets to enjoy. You know, like we're not like other groups, um, that you can look up at around the country where it's like, oh yeah, we want civil rights, but just for us. Oh yeah, we want voting rights, but just for us. Yeah. Y'all gotta get your own. No, no, no. We're gonna form 'em in a whole nother party and we're gonna have like 25 different parties and we just going each, you know, try to figure out we're, we're not doing that. You know, we don't want reproductive rights just for us. We want everything for everybody. We are humanists, we live, uplift everyone with our activism. So when all of those things went away. Um, and, uh, you know, in some shape or way, shape or form when millions of us were disenfranchised by, um, at best racist voting laws and at worst, uh, just very persnickety voting laws that targeted, um, very specific demographics, especially us based on how we historically have voted. Um, at least in recent history. Um, there was very little fanfare outside of the black world, um, when those reproductive rights were hit. Very little fanfare. I mean, there's a black woman now on, um. She's brain dead and she's being forced to carry a baby. Um, 'cause she was nine weeks pre pregnant when she, uh, developed blood clots in her brain. She's a registered nurse, she's in the hospital where she works. She's brain dead. Um, and there has been little fanfare around the fact that she has been made to carry, uh, to continue on in this world even though she's effectively dead, uh, because of a nine week fetus. That is in her, um, a nine week, uh, old baby that is in her, uh, her body. The baby's older now, obviously 'cause she's been on life support for three months. Um, very little fanfare. Um, but we warned you about maternal mortality. We warned because what's happening to us in ridiculous rates like an rn, she's a registered nurse and is now on life support, okay. In the hospital in which, and guess whose family's on the hook? Her family's on the hook for the cost. State is not covering it, the family is covering it. They have to pay for it. All right? So anyway, we've been telling you all, all these things for so many years and we are tired of telling you. We have organized protests and done protests and some of them have been ridiculously effective and others have, um, not, they've really just resulted in our incarceration abuse. And just more punitive laws, um, and measures being passed, um, for us. So I say all of that to say when you're like, where are the black people? I feel very safe saying, well, where were you? Um, and we have fought historically for everyone's rights, um, because we've been fighting for us as you know, we're fighting for you too. Um, so we have the right to not participate. In these protests because we know what will happen to us now. They, they deported a black man born, um, to a father. His father was Jamaican, served in service for 20 something years. He's born on a military base, um, has lived in the United States his whole life. They deported him to Jamaica. Why was, was his crime? Uh, he couldn't pay his rent. Was put out of his house, went back to get some of his things, was reported for trespassing. Put him in jail. Initially they were going, uh, and, uh, sent him to ice. Even though he's, uh, an American, um, they're like, oh, you were born on the na uh, military base. You're not an American. So now we just gonna change the constitution. We change the rules. We're just doing whatever the hell we wanna do. Right. Um. And first they were trying to put him, they put him on a plane in Nicaragua and he was like, I'm the only English speaking person. I don't speak Spanish. So he said, Hey, hey, hey, I'm an American citizen. Took him out now then they put him on a plane to Jamaica. He's in Jamaica, has never been there. His, his entire life, whole family has immigrated to the us so he doesn't even have family there. Um, and uh, I'm just, have you heard about this? Okay. Probably not. Yeah. No. Okay. So we have other shit we're dealing with. Sorry, just trying not to cuss Tony. Um, but we have other stuff that we are actually dealing with that's happening in real time that we are actively organizing around, um, and being part of protest for people. Um, many of whom, and we know it's not everybody we know, it's not everybody, but many of whom voted for 47 and knew exactly what was going to happen. And now that it's happening, you just didn't think it was gonna happen to you. And now you see that they just don't care about the constitution. They don't care about law and order, the rule of law, none of that stuff. They don't care. Well, we knew they didn't care about police officers at the, the, uh, the insurrection, right? So we already knew that. But you all don't care about that. You just interested in law and order. And when this president sent, um, the Marines in and not to be, uh, stereotype Marines, but I always call 'em the fifth dimension. Because I don't know if you met the Marines, and again, I come from a military family. I'm just gonna say the Marines are different and they are sent in to seek and destroy. That is their mission. They, I call 'em the killers. I, I know. Uh, one of my cousins hates that. Hates it. I don't care. They're the killers. If you want something done right the first time you send in the Marines, if you want somebody eliminated the first time you send in the Marines, that is who 47 is sending to people who are protesting ice in Los Angeles. I. That is who he's sending. So I say all that to say, we are not gonna be a part of that. Y'all not gonna put us in jail. We got real shit we're working on. We're trying to get our rights back so that you can have some again. Um, and we are trying to mobilize and work around some of these issues that are happening in our community that need our attention. Um, and so we are putting us first, uh, for the first time ever. We're putting us first. Not the whole humanity, the whole country, you know, other folk we're not, we're putting us first. Um, and so we're not gonna do that. And you don't get to tell us that. And rooted in you thinking you can tell us what to do is white supremacy, um, is sexism, is racism, is misogyny, all the things. Uh, we're not going to cater to your paternalism. And the idea that you think that you can tell us what to do, who to vote for, and that we're on the wrong side because we're not, you know, we may or may not be 'cause many people are pro-Israel in our community, but you know, we're not, uh, with what's happening in Gaza or we are not, you know, a hundred percent behind certain things that are happening. Black people know as Professor Cru, and if you know who she is, look her up. Um, says we know the difference between bad and worse. Which is why we were trying to warn you and why many of us voted, including some people who have historically been Republican, voted for Kamala Harris. All right, now y'all, you learning a hard lesson. You just gonna learn what we've already been dealing with for almost 400 years. So that's all I got. I got the Kanye Shrug. Don't know what to tell you, but you don't get to tell us what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. We will. We are in possession, complete possession of our minds, our moral compass. Our moral compass, our moral compass, and, uh, we get to decide when and how we want to protest. Stand up for, um, or fight for the rights of all Americans as we have done throughout history. And with that in mind, I want you to have a wonderful day. Make sure you tune in next week to the need to know with Dr. Nsenga Burton and of course to A Black Executive Perspective podcast and award-winning podcast that gives you many sides of all of the issues. All right, so I will see you soon. Thank you for tuning in. Bye.

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