 So 4th of July we just finished 4th of July weekend and as Christian Finnegan put it 4th of July this year feels like attending a birthday party for someone in hospice And I think that that is the truest tweet that I've ever seen Because we are witnessing the breakdown of American society. So celebrating feels Awkward to put it mildly. So 4th of July weekend started with 100 masked white Supremacists from the group Patriot Front marching through Boston and it ended with hundreds of Americans running for their lives following reports of an active shooter at Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia and really none of this is surprising because when the government fails to Meet the most basic needs of its citizens when it lets Ongoing crises get worse and worse when it can't even really govern we start to witness the breakdown of society We see more political instability We see more violence and that was all on full display over 4th of July weekend now The least surprising thing that took place over the weekend was of course another mass shooting that happened at a 4th of July Parade in Highland Park, Illinois Where six people were killed and 38 were injured at the time that I record this at least now the suspect Bobby Crimell reportedly planned this attack for weeks He shot at people with an AR-15 from a nearby rooftop and later on in the evening police found him and they Apprehended him peacefully now peaceful is a key word because it's going to play into a different story that we're gonna talk about But nonetheless take a look at the mass shooting suspect being arrested Now there's a lot to say about this mass shooting first of all This is another one that happened which nobody is surprised by but Biden just signed bipartisan gun control Into law a couple of weeks ago, but yet we already see another mass shooting. Why is that? Well, it's because That bipartisan gun control didn't even do the bare minimum. It didn't establish federal standards It didn't ban AR-15 switch one was used to kill six people and injure 38 at the 4th of July parade So if you don't actually do anything meaningful to prevent gun violence And you just pass something so you can point to it as you doing something Well, nothing is going to change and so, you know, we're seeing mass shootings continue to take place He broadcasted his intent to do violence. He shared violence on social media. He planned this attack for weeks and That gun law that was just passed did not prevent this now contrast the way that Bobby crime I was apprehended with the way that police in Akron, Ohio responded to 25 year old Jalen Walker During a routine traffic stop where he decided to run from police now They're not going to peacefully apprehend him in this instance as you're going to see They're going to be incredibly violent and just the forewarning this video is extremely disturbing Now in case you weren't keeping counts 90 shots were fired by police and 60 of them Hit Jalen He was shot 60 times The mass shooting suspect Bobby crime. Oh Wasn't shot a single time. He killed multiple people But yet police in that instance managed to apprehend him peacefully but Jalen stopped for an unknown reason traffic stop presumably Shot 60 times now as Julia Conley of common dreams reports police claim Walker had fired a gun from his car But his family disputes the claim and Walker was reportedly unarmed when he left his vehicle and was chased on foot by the officers Now as Nina Turner puts it the reason Robert crime. Oh is still alive and Jalen Walker is dead is structural anti blackness And that is absolutely correct. We've seen time and again mass shooting suspect after mass shooting suspect Peacefully apprehended and that's the way that it should be but yet that same courtesy isn't extended to black Americans They are still getting killed by the police and were what two years out from the george floyd protests Not a single thing has changed and again This goes back to the government being able to respond To crises so these crises if you just leave them unaddressed they get worse and worse and worse And of course this leads to anger But when American citizens choose to exercise their first amendment right and vocalize this pleasure with the government and their treatment These state sanctioned murders against black Americans Well, they are met with more violence Militarized police arrived to intimidate and later assault protesters and jolly good ginger who was there Shared this video proving that despite the narrative from akron police or the mayor Protesters were not really being unruly in this instance. They were protesting. But they were peacefully protesting. They're allowed to do that But as you're going to see Violence did break out But this time it was because of the cops not the protesters. Take a look They just want us to go home. This is a lawful assembly They tear guys this they tear guys Don't worry about it. Just tear guys. Don't worry about it. It's just tear guys It just just sting a little bit Oh, shit Yeah, here's the tear guys It's tear guys All right, the fire tear gas guys It's tear gas Fuck the police Ah shit Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit Yeah, fuck them. Fuck them. They're still shooting it. Look at it. They're still shooting it All right, they got me. They got me That's all right. Hey, look Hey, look, it's all right. It ain't the first time I've been tear gas Ain't the first time we good We good. Hey, we good That was just a little bit of tear gas. I just caught a couple whiffs of it. We good, baby Let's go Hey, look, yeah, this is this is what's happening Yeah So the conclusion is that Americans are going to continue to be abused if you respond To state sanctioned violence without rage, you will be met with more state sanctioned violence Now mass shootings in this country will continue to happen And if you expect the government to do anything about it, that's actually meaningful Well, then you're horribly mistaken The one thing that I think is consistent is we all know this is going to keep happening Black Americans will continue to be murdered by police mass shootings will continue to happen And the government is going to allow this violence to continue because again, it is incapable of governing That is the only expectation That we all have this is just going to keep happening and nobody reasonably expects anything to be done to address these crises to address the Obvious blatant racism in this system the anti-blackness that is inherent within American institutions So, yeah Happy 4th of July everyone. Do you feel free? Do you feel like celebrating? You know, I myself really didn't so, um, you know, if you had a reason to Meet with family have a barbecue or something then I think that you shouldn't deny yourself that pleasure But I mean, this is why a lot of people just don't feel very enthusiastic. We're losing civil rights and civil liberties And the u.s. government is either violent against us directly or they enable violence through inaction And we all expect this to keep happening because again The government has completely broken down and is incapable of doing the bare minimum to meet our needs And protect us in fact, they're not just refusing to protect us They're doing violence against us and this will continue to happen until it all crumbles down