 Hey, how's it going first? I've been playing with the lights a little bit because I was really hoping to show off my orange shirt But it doesn't seem that the lighting is going to allow you to know that I'm wearing an orange shirt Which you can pretty much only get away with in places where? Orange is a major color. I'm in Syracuse, New York Football team is called the Syracuse Orange the basketball team called the Syracuse Orange So we wear orange so I can get away with it, but that's not the topic You know one of the things that I have a personal issue with is People's overtly bad behavior now I don't mean just your normal jerks who are out there being really stupid and saying things that they probably shouldn't for the most part I mean really overtly bad behavior for instance a lot of racist stuff or You know hate against women and by hate against women. I mean beating women and different things like that I really absolutely hate bad behavior like that and the thing is that a lot of people who were getting away with this before Pretty much got away with it because no one ever reported it at the time One of the things about history is the history will go back and find things out and then it comes forward and when it does Sometimes it's just really disappointing and you're not really sure what to do about it for a lot of people I find myself basically Disowning the behavior of some of these people for instance Well magic just put it out there I've gotten rid of anything that I owned ahead Bill Cosby's name on it now I was one of those people who always supported Bill Cosby the guy did a lot for people He marched, you know for civil rights. He gave away a lot of money for charity He helped raise money for black colleges. He was out there, you know really saying the right things But this other thing that was out there that he was doing with drugging women so he could have sex You can't support that's bad behavior So even though in my past I have spent money and even though I've seen him in concert a couple of times All sort of kind of stuff. I just can't support it now. I know you know if I'm listening to this joke I'm knowing the kind of guy that he was can't do it. Just can't do it James Brown James Brown had to pull James Brown out of my life Why because James Brown had a major pattern of beating women. He almost killed Tammy Terrell She was like 15 or 16 years old and he beat her badly Badly enough that someone else who was in his entourage had to sneak Secretly call her mother and say please come get your daughter because she's in the hospital and take her home I mean he put her in the hospital and basically was just gonna leave her there. He could have cared less I'm sorry. I cannot support that kind of behavior. Yeah, I don't know. This is me now Having said that It's always this question about history. I mean yes, this is kind of history But I was alive for these types of things, but let's go back to some of the other historical things You know on Twitter There's a lot of people who love to put quotes out about Winston Churchill and Winston Churchill You know all I really knew about the guy for the longest time was that he was prime minister of England During World War two and he was this you know this character who basically tried to do whatever he could to show the British people that we could stand up against Nazism and do all these kinds of things and you know In a in essence, he was kind of a heroic figure So I was stunned and depressed to find out that he was one of the biggest racists ever A lot of people don't know because folks don't really know much about history that India used to be a British territory and in his opinion, they were less than dogs He said some of the vilest things about the Indians. Oh my goodness You know if he'd been in America, we probably would have just said okay You're a Klansman and go off with you But he said all this nasty stuff and he still got elected prime minister of England But you know what I can't support that kind of bad behavior I don't care what you did later on as a matter of fact the guy gets voted out of office during the war because he Was a blankety blank. I don't cuss He had some of these things but when all of a sudden done this was a dirty guy I can't support that so I will never a retweet anything that puts this man in a favorable light Just can't do it Okay, here's one for you Gandhi, you know, everyone talks about Gandhi being this messenger of peace and you know Sit-ins and you know basically letting people do all these things to him Trying to get the independence of India And yes, that's a great sentiment. You know what? He was anti-women. I hate to say that but he was he basically allowed his wife to die Because she had some kind of illness and there was a medication that could have saved her life And he basically said no you're not allowed to take it But when he got an illness he took it and he saved his own life. I'm sorry You know, I have a difficulty with the fact that this is a guy who everyone put on this pedestal For peace and all these other kind of things But he did not believe women were really equals to men. Now. I know some people will say well, that was just a time period Well, you know, you might be right, but I just don't know. I just have some problems with it I have some problems with it because of who he was. I mean, you know, how do you get to be kind of this? harbinger of peace and Love and then you basically don't think women are equal So sometimes it has something more to do with the fact of What you basically have put yourself out to be and then you're not that and that parts gonna You know get a lot of people who aren't going to be happy that I said that but you know what this is history This is true. Now having said that I've had to work on reconciling myself with Wagner Yeah, I love Wagner stuff. I love his music, but Wagner was an anti-Semite. I mean even now In Israel, you know Jewish people have big problems with him. He was a major anti-Semite when he did all this stuff This one's a little hard to deal with Except for the fact that back then almost everybody was anti-Semite I I've never understood this thing about hating Jewish people. I really don't this is probably one of those things I did a video a long time ago where I was talking about religion and how come I don't trust religion of any type And this is probably one of those things because of all these people idiots Yeah, I'll say it who talk about whether Jews killed Jesus Christ. I'm sorry Jesus Christ happened to be Jewish Did you people forget this? so All this blame that Jewish people got for that and all these other kind of things or whatever these stereotypes that they've been put under I Have a major problem with that, but if everybody was like that Then what do you do? I mean, I guess you go back to the civil war types and whatever and You know people say a lot of good things about Lincoln and it's hard not to say good things about Lincoln Lincoln You know in essence he ended slavery in the south Which didn't really work all that well because they didn't find out about it until many years after the civil war But still he did this choose a matter is Lincoln thought that black people were basically subhuman He didn't think that that black people had any intellect He did allow for you know Oddities that could happen because he and Frederick Douglass used to talk about this all the time And he just figured what Frederick Douglass is this anomaly, you know, it's got to happen every once in a while There's got to be one smart one You know now do you do I go after Lincoln and say well, you know I hate him because he did not believe that that black people were you know had any real intellect whatsoever. I Don't know that's a hard one because he didn't grow up around any Matter of fact, it wasn't until he was president that he met Frederick Douglass and said whoa well, okay Here's this and Frederick Douglass Basically pushed him for years to finally allow black people to fight in the war because Lincoln didn't want to do it But of course, you know, you needed bodies and they were willing to do it And so he took them in and so some people say well look at Lincoln I mean my god, this guy is the great great Communicator is the great emancipator. He let black people into the army to fight for the union. They needed him Grant was killing so many people that he needed more bodies. You know, you just you can't you can't change your history So like I said, I have this this problem with your bad behavior, but There are sometimes these justifications So do I let Winston Churchill off the hook because I'm sure he wasn't the only racist back then talking about India No, I don't because he was kind of a moral authority. I mean, you know, he took on this moral authority No, ain't gonna do it. Do I let James Brown off? I'm sorry. No, you almost killed a 16 year old We're just talking to 16 year old. We're not talking about all those other women you beat What's his name? Oh my goodness, I believe our Kelly Come on. Come on. He got off, but we all know what he did to that girl We know that girl was underage and we know that he urinated on this girl. We know that He got off, but do we excuse that bad behavior? He never apologized for it What about Chris Brown? Has Chris Brown ever really apologized for what he did to Rihanna? No Has his behavior any change ever changed? No, he's still causing trouble. I Don't know. I just don't get it and I don't get where today's kids are saying well, maybe they asked for it Maybe they did something wrong. Are you kidding? There is this thing about consequences where you know, I'm one of those people who does believe that you know If you say something or you do something and you get an action back that you didn't expect Yeah, you just probably deserve the consequence to a debris and there needs to be some kind of Absolution, I guess I'll say or you need to apologize and you need to mean it and you need to put something in action showing that you're not going to do that again and All these people I don't think that happened now. The Ray Rice thing is interesting. Let's just throw him in there because we know that he slugged his wife and he knocked her out and Yet she owned up to the thing where she said, okay I hit him first and I did all those other kind of stuff first and People are still beating up on this guy for that. He's apologized. He went to counseling. He changed everything up They still got married his wife went on with him and said, you know, yes Yeah, he did knock me out But I hit him first and I hit him a few times first and I called him all kind of stuff first You know that case I kind of find it a little harder to hate on him He reacted badly, but I said there I used to always say I don't know how I would react if some woman slapped me in the face I've never done anything to encourage any woman to slap me in the face And maybe that's one of these kinds of things where you talk about passion or behavior, you know, I Have a couple of friends who say that I You know talk about this political correctness and there's things I say and that I always saying, you know The other people should practice some of this and how it's unfair to which I always come back to the same thing Okay, what are the consequences of you saying you're mess if you're willing to get the consequence regardless of how bad it is If someone hates what you say so much that they want to come to your house and kill you What are you gonna say? I have to write to my opinion They're giving you to write to their opinion. It may be over the top. They may go to jail for it They may get the death penalty depending on what state you're in But I'm thinking antagonizing people on purpose is probably not the smartest thing to do There it is. But like I said, we go back to this thing about bad behavior and I'm wondering is it just because I'm in my mid fifties that I have this belief and I think this is how it is Or are there other people who agree with me about this bad behavior thing and how far do you take the bad behavior? Do you say okay? You know what? They're a bad person. I'm never gonna buy anything else from them But my goodness, I mean they gave me so much entertainment, you know They'll kind of be told all these funny things and I remember nothing but the good stuff from back then or James Brown music I mean my goodness. There's the godfather of soul. How do you hate on that? Even after you find out this other information. I Don't know so I'm putting this out to you asking you what your opinion is You've just heard mine on all these incidents of bad behavior and whatever Let me know what you think y'all take care