“I Don’t See Color” Means You Don’t Accept Diversity

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[00:00:21] Do you describe yourself as colorblind? Do you say that you don't see color?

[00:00:28] Do you say that there's only one race? Do you use this terminology?

[00:00:33] Have you used that terminology? Is that the way you feel?

[00:00:37] Honestly, how you feel? I'm going to make some statements and they're going to bother some people.

[00:00:42] But I think it's important because I read an article earlier and was talking about this

[00:00:47] and I don't agree. I emphatically disagree with what was said and just to disclaim once again.

[00:00:53] I am a black American but I make these because I think some of the statements are,

[00:00:58] I think what we've done has gone too far extreme on what people feel and how people should feel

[00:01:04] about certain words. That's why it's going to be my topic here, CasualTalkRadio.net.

[00:01:11] My name is Leistor, I'm your host and welcome or welcome back.

[00:01:14] And if you're okay being a little bit offended, you're in the right place.

[00:01:19] If you're okay being a little bit bothered during the right place.

[00:01:22] If you're okay being critically challenged about your beliefs or your steady state,

[00:01:27] you're in the right place. If you don't mind somebody giving a contrary opinion

[00:01:32] to something you've been told probably as a child, you're in the right place because all I'm doing

[00:01:38] is sharing a perspective. The perspective may or may not be your perspective and I understand that.

[00:01:44] I want to just level set though. What I'm about to talk about is going to piss some people off.

[00:01:49] I accept that because I'm a straight shooter in the world of sensitivity. It is what it is.

[00:01:54] The statement, there's only one race, right? We're all human. Okay. Or I don't see color.

[00:02:01] I'm color blind. Whatever variant of this, you've probably heard it at least once.

[00:02:06] You've probably said it at least once at some point. But what does all that mean?

[00:02:12] Well, let's step back a little bit. This comes in response to somebody being challenged as

[00:02:19] racist. It's a response to somebody being confronted as a racist. They will say that they're color blind.

[00:02:26] They will say that they don't see color. They will say that there's only one race.

[00:02:30] They will say that we're all the same. The statement, we're all the same is offensive to me

[00:02:37] because we're not all the same. Saying that we're all the same

[00:02:41] is to say that what makes us different, what makes us unique is irrelevant. That's why

[00:02:47] it's offensive to me because what makes us unique is what should be embraced,

[00:02:52] which contradicts the idea of one race because each race that we have and yes, we have multiple of them

[00:03:01] have their own nuances and their own idiosyncrasies that we should embrace. We should welcome.

[00:03:05] We should celebrate and we should study. Most important, I looked at various news articles

[00:03:12] that talked about the Maui situation, the stuff that's happening in Haiti,

[00:03:17] the stuff that's happening in Russia and Ukraine across the globe. All these different events

[00:03:23] that we don't struggle with here. We have our climate situations, but nowhere near

[00:03:29] what's happening overseas. We don't have wars being waged on our country's shores here in

[00:03:34] the United States. We have domestic problems. We have white collar problems. We have

[00:03:40] rich people problems. We have issues here that frankly shouldn't be problems, you know, things

[00:03:46] like homelessness. But if you look at the stats, if you really drill into the numbers, it's going

[00:03:52] to tell you a story. It's going to tell you that by and large for decades, women have had a harder

[00:04:01] time getting ahead in the workplace. The numbers will tell you this, but if you dig deeper

[00:04:07] than that, they're going to tell you that women of certain races have it even harder above and beyond.

[00:04:13] So they become statistical anomalies. It is so extreme of an anomaly. This group that I refer to

[00:04:21] when you say you don't see color, let's assume that we're referring to Latin American, Mexican,

[00:04:28] Hispanic. Let's assume that you're referring to Asian Americans. Let's assuming you're

[00:04:32] referring to black Americans. It doesn't matter when you say, I don't see color.

[00:04:38] It means you're not looking at those numbers. You're only looking at possibly gender will then

[00:04:44] recently the conversation was spinning around non binary and the idea that there's apparently

[00:04:49] more than two genders and apparently they want the governments to acknowledge this narrative

[00:04:56] that that gender shouldn't matter because we're all people. What I want people to think about

[00:05:03] and attributions were made to the Bible and biblical context around the human race that

[00:05:10] was created and it was a single human race and everything else. But what it also talks about

[00:05:17] is that there's different tribes, there's different nations, there's different languages,

[00:05:21] different colors, different physical attributes, different cultural aspects and

[00:05:29] later simply by virtue of who we are as a species comes the different races that we come to know.

[00:05:38] Genders were always a thing. So if you look at it from a biblical context,

[00:05:44] there's no way that you could ignore variations in color, variations in gender,

[00:05:50] variations in physical traits, variations in quality, variations in what we bring as individuals.

[00:05:58] This uniqueness, this individuality is what certain people don't like. Why don't they like it

[00:06:05] because it makes them feel inferior when you see the women who have transgender people coming into

[00:06:13] women's races and smoking them because physically men are stronger, men by our biological, men are

[00:06:21] stronger. We are faster. This is what it is. That's just its nature. So they're essentially cheating

[00:06:27] because they're inferior. So they lobby that they should have a fair shot and they should

[00:06:32] be treated equal. You can't be treated equal because you're not equal. No male can have

[00:06:39] a period. I actually heard somebody, a female celebrity say that no male can have a period,

[00:06:44] but we see stories of them trying to get surgery to actually emulate this scenario.

[00:06:49] There's stories upon stories coming out that really pissed me off about men trying to breast

[00:06:54] feed and men trying to get pregnant and uterine implants and all these things this should

[00:07:01] frighten people because what you're trying to do is blur the lines of gender. So you take

[00:07:07] a blurring of the lines of gender, you take a blurring of the lines of race, race and color and

[00:07:13] and you turn it into this amalgamation of just generic people is what they're trying to push to.

[00:07:21] This should offend people. It should offend whatever your slice is. If you're a female

[00:07:26] that should offend you. If you're a male that should offend you. If you're white,

[00:07:29] it should offend you. If you're black, it should offend you. I could go on and on. The

[00:07:33] point is it should all, it should offend you because what it does is it takes away what makes you an

[00:07:38] individual contributor to society because they don't want you to be an individual contributor

[00:07:43] to society because other people who are inferior don't want to be outshined by you and they were

[00:07:49] never taught by their parents. They were never taught by their schools and they were never

[00:07:53] taught by just getting beat up in the streets about how to survive. This is why everything's

[00:07:59] being dumbed down. Back to the statement now. You don't see color. If you support the idea that

[00:08:06] you don't see color, it means you don't recognize, you don't accept, you don't tolerate, there's that

[00:08:13] word tolerance, you don't tolerate somebody who's different than you and so for you, you dumb it

[00:08:19] down so that you don't appreciate the individual traits of each person and their idiosyncrasies.

[00:08:26] Now I'm going to flip the script on you right now because you heard what I just said. I'm going

[00:08:30] to flip it around. I also don't support the idea that we should cater to individual races,

[00:08:38] creed, color, him or her either in lieu of the rights of everybody else. It's a balance.

[00:08:46] We seem to only be able to accept the extreme left or the extreme right. It's everybody's

[00:08:53] just got to be non binary and you have to accept gay cakes and everything else. You have to accept

[00:08:58] that because it is what it is irrespective of your religious beliefs or it's this over here

[00:09:05] and we're all just generic people who don't have any individual freedoms, attributes or benefits

[00:09:11] that we should have an express. It has to be one of these two extremes. It can't simply be

[00:09:17] I as a person recognize there is these two genders in place in my face. These genders may have sexual

[00:09:25] preferences that are different than what I think or I have. If you're a gay male, great. If you're

[00:09:32] a lesbian female, great. You're a bisexual couple, great. We accept their sexual preference

[00:09:39] as what it is. Why does it have to be that a male can't be gay, that a female can't be lesbian,

[00:09:47] that a couple can't be bisexual? Why is there intolerance of those tastes? The intolerance

[00:09:54] of those tastes created a new extreme which is no, you are forced to accept this person being gay

[00:10:01] or this person being lesbian, which shouldn't be necessary. Shouldn't have to. It should

[00:10:05] simply be that we accept that your sexual preference is what it is. The reason it got to the extreme

[00:10:10] is because those that are pushing the extreme don't accept the term sexual preference. They

[00:10:17] pervert it into, no this is genetically and now scientists are changing rules or changing

[00:10:24] written black letter in books from decades ago and saying they got it wrong. They didn't get

[00:10:31] it wrong. They're being pressured to go against their morals and ethics to appease the minority group.

[00:10:38] That appeasing minority group is what I'm adamantly against. I don't support it. When I say minority,

[00:10:45] minority doesn't just mean black. Minority doesn't just mean women. Minority doesn't mean anything.

[00:10:49] It's minority in whatever the conversation goes to. If we're talking about the workplace,

[00:10:56] minorities are anybody who is not white American, just statistically. But that

[00:11:01] varies state to state in Washington. State Asian Americans dominate most of the work spaces. Okay,

[00:11:08] that means everybody else is a minority in those groups. When we talk about sexual preference

[00:11:13] then sexual preferences, your sexual preference is necessarily different than mine and I accept

[00:11:19] that as long as it's not shoved all over the place. I actually just saw an article online

[00:11:25] and this person was complaining about a mainstream game that's been out for decades

[00:11:30] because it didn't have any lesbian representation except for one character

[00:11:34] and this one character just happened to be overly affectionate to other females and this person was

[00:11:40] described as a creeper and a predator. They're not a creeper. They're not a predator. They just

[00:11:45] happen to be overly affectionate to females, just like with certain flamboyant gay men

[00:11:52] who are just they like hugging other men. That's just what it is. They're not predators.

[00:11:56] Again, it turns into another extreme. It's what it is. When we talk about rights,

[00:12:04] I've seen articles talking about from white males, mostly males, talking about how they

[00:12:10] feel oppressed now. They feel like their voice is being suppressed. They feel like they're not

[00:12:15] getting attention. They feel like every focus is going to in this case black Americans or to

[00:12:21] Mexican Americans. You talk about the border situation. They're not wrong. The focus is distorted.

[00:12:29] The focus is distorted going back to something that Dr. Umar Johnson alluded to that he got

[00:12:35] attacked for, but he was telling the truth, which is when the government started creating laws

[00:12:40] to try to accommodate everybody again talks about this amalgamation and a generic

[00:12:46] instead of specific when he said, I want to know, tell me what the government has done

[00:12:52] to help black Americans. And they keep talking about civil rights act and all these,

[00:12:58] all of these have been distorted. They've been dumbed down. They've been watered down.

[00:13:03] They have to cater to women. They have to cater to children. They have to cater to

[00:13:06] lesbians. They have to cater to buy. They have to cater to Mexicans. So now it's no longer

[00:13:11] specific to anyone. The government does that because they don't want to feel like they're

[00:13:16] catering to anyone group. I don't want them to cater anyone group. The, the wrong answer is to then

[00:13:23] create this blended rule that dumps it down for everybody and nobody wins. Because again,

[00:13:29] we have the crisis at the border. The crisis at the border is because we don't have an

[00:13:33] effective way to scream people coming in. We don't have an effective way to scream

[00:13:37] people coming in because we're too afraid to hurt people's feelings in what's necessary.

[00:13:42] I'm sorry. There's a certain classification of people who meet certain qualifications

[00:13:47] who are likely to bomb a plane. That's just what it is. We're afraid to offend people.

[00:13:53] And so we don't enforce this when we look at gun violence, the argument is, if you look at

[00:13:58] who's doing mass shootings, I'm talking mass shootings, not murder suicide shootings,

[00:14:02] mass shootings by and large statistically, it skews towards what white men? That's what it is.

[00:14:09] The rebuttal is yeah, but black men are killing other black men in the streets. They're not wrong,

[00:14:15] but we're talking about mass shootings right now. So in terms of mass shootings,

[00:14:20] the numbers don't lie. Let's deal with one problem at a time. Do we tackle this one

[00:14:26] over here where the vast majority of people are getting killed or do we tackle this

[00:14:30] one over here, which is kind of an internal issue. It's still an issue, but it's not like

[00:14:34] they're going off shooting up schools and all this crazy nonsense. When we talk about police

[00:14:39] brutality and the whole defund the police movement and everything else that was born

[00:14:44] of an anger over police departments. And I do that plural police departments who have

[00:14:51] sketchy shady people working there. You get that lady who basically was had a train run on her

[00:14:57] by other cops and then other police departments. This is San Diego talks about it and says, yes,

[00:15:02] that happens. Those kinds of girls get in there and that's what they do. They're whores. They're

[00:15:08] whores. So okay, we know this corruption in the police departments plural. So we know that

[00:15:14] happens. They don't want to address it. Why? Because they need the police departments to

[00:15:19] ultimately handle crime at a basic level, but it got me thinking, are we focusing as far as

[00:15:25] police on the wrong topical matter? Because we have a law for everything, right? Everything's

[00:15:31] essentially against the law. At some point you're going to find some law about you breaking the

[00:15:35] law about doing something benign. It's just that they don't enforce every single one of them,

[00:15:39] but yet you have this girl who has a train run on her by a bunch of other cops and allegedly

[00:15:44] some of this happened in the workplace and she gets off with a slap on the wrist.

[00:15:49] Okay. So what's really the justice system? The blue wall is truly a real thing. They

[00:15:55] don't see color by default. They're forced to see color when they get into the work and

[00:16:01] then they're confronted with situations where they're encountering criminals. I'm talking outside

[00:16:06] of the force, criminals who happen to be black or Mexican or whatever. And then they don't know

[00:16:11] how to handle it. They don't know how to handle it because they were trained. It's

[00:16:15] ingrained in them to treat it as a black, a blue wall against everybody else.

[00:16:20] My summary and the reason I go on that rant ever slightly is because I want people to be

[00:16:24] thinking about the statement, you don't see color. There's only one race. Be thinking about

[00:16:29] the domino effect that that causes, be thinking about the bigger picture of what that means.

[00:16:34] What it means is at the end of the day, you don't really care about the nuances of what

[00:16:40] make all of us individually valuable to society, irrespective of things that we might do.

[00:16:46] So if somebody goes and they rob a store because they're starving on the street,

[00:16:51] are you considering them a criminal? They're still a criminal. Are you considering that they

[00:16:55] rob the store because they're hungry in your mind? You might look at their race and make

[00:17:00] a bias determination. You're perfectly entitled to do that. But if you look at it as crime

[00:17:07] is crime, you're one of those that says you don't see color and crime is crime. I would argue

[00:17:12] society can't survive with that kind of mentality because we need people to make everything go around.

[00:17:19] But if you look at the root cause of why certain crimes happen and why certain races

[00:17:23] are predisposed to criminal behaviors, you'll start to see a pattern. There are three main

[00:17:29] things. It's actually increasing now, but three main things largely driving what we see.

[00:17:36] And this is assuming that you do see color. There's three main things largely driving this,

[00:17:40] drugs obviously, right? Alcohol obviously, right? And relationships. Well, that third one's kind

[00:17:48] of interesting. You can't really do much about it, but here's what affects relationships.

[00:17:54] What affects relationships? There's a byproduct. Social media is a byproduct of this.

[00:17:59] Money is a byproduct of this, which has a byproduct of stress and strain.

[00:18:03] And the workspace relationships, they are relationships as a generic that covers a lot

[00:18:09] of ground. But all of these other things affect relationships. We society, when I say we don't

[00:18:16] want to solve all the other root causes to the things I just broke down. We don't want to solve

[00:18:21] the drug crisis that we know is there. We don't want to solve the alcohol crisis. And yes,

[00:18:26] there's an alcohol crisis because if you think about it, look at how many people

[00:18:30] JJ's have to resort to drinking. They can't seem to stop themselves. You might say,

[00:18:35] yeah, it's not a problem drinking beer. Yeah, it starts there and then you go to something else

[00:18:40] and then it gets worse and then something else happens. I prefer as an opinion that people

[00:18:46] stay largely clean because we know what it does to the body. And of course alcohol seems to

[00:18:51] age people well beyond their time. I can count multiple situations. Mary Wells is a great

[00:18:56] example where you look at them. It's like, how could this person have aged so quickly? And it

[00:19:02] just happens to be that no, they are, they were, they were drinking. They got in it. They couldn't

[00:19:07] get out of it. Bobby Brown, they were drinking. They couldn't get out of it. And then they're

[00:19:11] aged well beyond their years. I would rather see people not do that, but I know that it's

[00:19:16] what it is. Then relationships and social media and the disconnect people don't want to connect

[00:19:22] face to face voice to voice anymore like they might have used to. Nobody wants to do that at that level.

[00:19:29] It's different if you're busy, right? You're working and so you're focused on your job,

[00:19:33] your J O B, you know, eight hours a day, your nose to the grind. That's different. I'm talking about

[00:19:39] people who would rather be on Twitter on Facebook. People were out there flipping on their phone

[00:19:45] while walking the dog. People who they can't even acknowledge. They're not even paying

[00:19:48] attention where they walk because they're flipping on the phone. Those are people I'm

[00:19:51] talking about. People when they're trying to date somebody or more worried about text messages,

[00:19:56] that's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about people who are truly

[00:19:58] busy. I'm talking about the people who can't seem to decouple themselves from the phone.

[00:20:03] When you're so embedded in the phone, it takes away the emotional aspect.

[00:20:08] Our bodies, we, we crave all of our senses, crave attention. If you give only one or two

[00:20:18] of your senses the attention that they crave, that's what's driving our young people to suicides.

[00:20:24] That's what's driving society to basically be nervous and sketchy and questionable of one another.

[00:20:31] That's what's driving us to not trust by default. That's what's trying. That's what's causing us

[00:20:36] to say that this group of people over here has got to be doing something

[00:20:40] because the media is telling you this and you're too busy listening to it

[00:20:43] because you listen to your phone like an android. No pun intended. That's what's happening.

[00:20:50] The so-called color blindness, the so-called one human race, that comes from you not welcoming

[00:20:59] the diversity that's out there without compromising the facts about what you see.

[00:21:05] The facts about what you see crying is a given. Alcohol abuse is a given.

[00:21:12] Drug abuse is a given. Relationship problems are a given. These affect everybody.

[00:21:17] They don't have anything to do with race, but the way that we respond is unique.

[00:21:23] Different races handle it differently. Certain races go one way with it,

[00:21:28] certain races go another way with it. You'll see white families talk about how they find it

[00:21:34] shocking to think about kids getting beat with extension cords and everything else,

[00:21:38] which is common in black families. You'll hear about Hispanic families who don't want their

[00:21:43] daughters dating outside of the race. You'll hear Asian families, badmouth black people,

[00:21:50] just because that's the way that they were raised on and on and on.

[00:21:54] Well, that means each one of us has our nuances. You can choose to say,

[00:22:00] I don't accept the way that they behave, but if you make that generic statement for all of

[00:22:05] them, that means you're putting yourself in a bubble. You're not accepting what is right in front

[00:22:10] of your face so that you can learn from it and learn why it happens. There may be a logical reason

[00:22:16] why or there may not be, but if you ignore it and just make it generic and say we're all the same,

[00:22:21] all you're going to do is cause contention. That contention is what triggers the very animosity

[00:22:27] that is spinning around society right now that's causing people to basically run from the problem

[00:22:32] and cause statements like this to get thrown. I don't see color anymore because we're all the same.

[00:22:38] We are not all the same. I am no same than anybody else. Nobody's same as me. It's not possible.

[00:22:45] Doing so is a disservice to the value I individually bring. Doing so would cause me to be ignorant

[00:22:52] of somebody else's value and I refuse to do that. And I challenge you as a call to action

[00:22:58] to really consider other people's individual values and whether or not your individual value is being

[00:23:03] suppressed in favor of a generic view and that's being pressed upon you by the media or social media

[00:23:10] and really think about what do you, how do you feel about? Do you honestly, are you okay

[00:23:15] with somebody suppressing your individual contributions to the bigger picture? And some

[00:23:20] of those may be specific to your race. Some of them may be specific to your gender. Some of

[00:23:25] them may be specific to simply you as an individual. Why would you want that to be suppressed? Why would

[00:23:30] you not want that to be standing on in a crowd? We would never have accepted this back in the 60s

[00:23:35] and 70s. We can talk about the negatives of the 60s and 70s, but the point is at least back then

[00:23:40] there was some desire to be welcomed and embraced for who we are. There was no female spirit for

[00:23:47] sure. Women's rights movements were all over the place. Did they get where they wanted to

[00:23:52] go? Not all the way. They still got work to do, but at least they were trying. It's the effort that

[00:23:58] I see lacking. There's no desire to be proud of it, to be proud of if you're female, be proud

[00:24:05] of the fact you're female. If you're lesbian, be proud of the fact you're lesbian. If you're

[00:24:09] male and you're not gay, be proud of that. If you're black, be proud of that. You white,

[00:24:14] be proud of it. And it doesn't matter what some other race or some other gender is doing with

[00:24:21] their business. You have your individual contributions. Focus on those. They've got their stuff going on,

[00:24:29] appreciate it as long as it's not affecting you and as long as it's not a criminal behavior.

[00:24:34] And if it is a criminal behavior, try to understand it. You don't have to agree with it. I said try

[00:24:39] to understand it because to understand it is how we identify the root cause of where it's

[00:24:44] coming from. I think you're gonna find if you do what I'm describing and you don't have to,

[00:24:50] but if you do, I think you're gonna find the vast majority of all of this flux and flotsam that's

[00:24:56] happening around you that you're sensing, that your senses are telling you that you might have been

[00:25:01] oblivious to previous is all coming from the United States government and social media, those two,

[00:25:08] and to a lesser degree our school system. But I would argue it's the United States

[00:25:12] government first, Social Security second, big two. United States government promotes

[00:25:17] that dissension. Don't let their messaging about unity fool you. They don't want us to be united

[00:25:25] as who we are. One nation under God say they don't want us to do that. What they want us to do

[00:25:32] is to, all of us must do what they say. That's not unity. That's groupthink.

[00:25:37] That's what they want though. Social media wants to promote narratives and they want to sell

[00:25:43] you that something must be the case. So when you see them tell you about one of the presidential

[00:25:49] candidates allegedly being against abortion and that same candidate comes out and says,

[00:25:56] I just think it's the state's job to enforce it, which if you read all of our different

[00:26:00] stuff, because again, this goes through where the school system failed. If you read all of

[00:26:04] our textbooks about how the government's supposed to work, you realize that that

[00:26:08] candidate is correct. It always should have been a state level issue and you would have the right

[00:26:15] to go to a state that supports your values. People are afraid. They don't want to uproot.

[00:26:21] I've talked to people. Well, my parents are here. I like the job. I like the whatever.

[00:26:26] That means you're afraid. You can be afraid, but that's not the candidate's fault.

[00:26:30] Putting the power back in the States is how it really should be.

[00:26:33] That lets the state, that lets us tell, you know, really what's the support of the country?

[00:26:39] Where are the people going? Are the people all flooding to California then? If every state can

[00:26:44] call the shots and the feds are out of the business. Are everybody cramming to California?

[00:26:49] Okay. Now the people have spoken. That's clearly what they want. But if we start seeing a vast

[00:26:53] majority of people flooding out of California and other states that are contrary to California,

[00:26:58] what does that tell us? Tells us that California was wrong all along. You could take California and

[00:27:04] you can fill in Nevada, you can fill in Oregon, Washington state, Colorado. It doesn't matter.

[00:27:08] The point is putting everything in these specific situations in the hands of the states

[00:27:15] lets us understand what really is going on in the country instead of the group think that the

[00:27:20] federal government currently wants you to do. That group think is why there's such an

[00:27:26] increased push to dumb down individual freedoms, individual liberties, individual voices. They

[00:27:32] don't want you to stand out just like they don't want our cars to stand out. Just like they don't

[00:27:37] want our houses to stand out. They don't want our lawns to stand out. They want everybody

[00:27:42] to be the same just like Camizzots. Shout out if you get the reference. That's what I see.

[00:27:48] So in summary, if you believe there's one human race, you're right. If you think

[00:27:54] the only one race matters, I would emphatically disagree with you. If you say you don't see color,

[00:28:01] I would question why that is. Is there a reason that you choose not to see that color that is

[00:28:05] clearly an apparent right in front of you? And if it's that you chose to ignore the nuances

[00:28:11] of those different races, I would say shame on you. You don't have to accept and say it's

[00:28:18] good, but you should at least acknowledge them for what they are and do more to try to learn

[00:28:24] why they are what they are. The reason that we don't want to do that is because it's perceived as a

[00:28:31] threat. All of us proceed as a threat because the government has pitted us all against each other

[00:28:37] and that's a Chewbacca. It's deflecting against the real problem. The real problem is the

[00:28:43] economy. We all suffer when the economy sucks as it has sucked. Anybody who swears the economy is good,

[00:28:52] they're lying to themselves. Economy's not good. It's in a bad position. I've seen it.

[00:28:57] I've heard it. I've experienced it. It's worse in certain places than others, but it's bad.

[00:29:03] And all because we've pushed towards things we're not ready for. We can try to force change

[00:29:09] as long as we take the time to do it right. And to do it correctly means you have to understand

[00:29:14] its impacts on races of all types, not just yours and not just the ones you quote,

[00:29:21] see all races have to be represented. Even if you don't like it, you've got to acknowledge

[00:29:27] those people. They are not in the same situation you are. So try to force something that's

[00:29:33] putting an undue burden on them. All that does is have a downstream impact on you because

[00:29:38] if you increase homelessness, all because it makes you feel good about not having gas pumped in a car,

[00:29:45] think about who that affects. It affects the lower classes. Think about who largely,

[00:29:49] statistically, comprises the lower classes. Think it through. Think about our education system

[00:29:56] and think about what it means not to teach people about our history as a country. Think

[00:30:01] it through. Do whatever you want to do. I'm just saying think it through before you do

[00:30:06] what it is that you do and consider whether your vision is tainted. The term rose colored glasses

[00:30:14] has never been more apt, but there are certain races where despite the fact that they're rose

[00:30:19] colored glasses, it's clear and apparent. They don't look like you and don't act like you and

[00:30:23] don't behave like you and you should be okay with that if you're not. Consider why you're

[00:30:28] not. That's all I ask. Think about it.