 Out of all the dumb shit that Jake Paul does on a regular basis, the last thing I ever thought he would be doing is looting my local PF Changs. Hey, what's up guys? It's Scarce here. Now, our first story today comes from the YouTuber Jake Paul. Now, if you don't know a couple days ago, Jake Paul was actually spotted in one of the riots going down in Scottsdale, Arizona. It looked like he was involved in some of the looting there and it also looked like he stole a bottle of vodka here. I mean, someone actually handed him a bottle of stolen vodka from the local PF Changs that people actually busted into. It was an absolutely insane, insane story that went down and a lot of people were upset with Jake Paul for taking part in this. There also was video footage of Jake Paul actually being in a mall that was closed. So people had actually broken into this mall and Jake Paul went to this mall and took his vlog camera with him to try to vlog it. I mean, it was absolutely insane. Jake Paul released a video that people could not comment on or rate where he... It's only hard to say someone apologized when they make themselves out to be the victim in the video. He already acknowledges that he should have left but then he talks about how he was an easy target, you know, because his name's Jake Paul. And also in this apology, non-apology video, he tries to raise money for Black Lives Matter. But the big update we got this morning is that Jake Paul has now been criminally charged in the state of Arizona. Growing up, there weren't a lot of books that made a huge impact on me. Like a lot of other millennials. I was entertained by Arl Stein's Goosebumps series, but I couldn't tell you the plot of many of the ones I read. One book that stuck with me all these years is the 1986 book by Sid Fleischman called The Whipping Boy. The Whipping Boy is about a young man by the name of Prince Horace. He's annoying and constantly misbehaving because he craves attention from his father, the king. Horace is so bad that he's given the nickname Prince Brad. But since he's a prince, nobody can raise a hand to him. Jimmy, on the other hand, is a young orphan boy who was brought to the castle and his sole duty is to be punished because Prince Brad can't be punished. Whenever the prince misbehaves, Jimmy is beaten and this happens several times a day. After seeing Jake Paul and many other white people looting during these protests and not fully understanding what they're doing, I couldn't help but think of The Whipping Boy. On Monday, May 25th, America witnessed the brutal, senseless murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers. This was on the exact same day that a woman named Amy Cooper tried to weaponize her position of being a white woman by calling the cops on a black man in Central Park who politely asked her to put her dog on a leash. Since this started, every half-decent white person around the world has been asking one simple question. What can I do to help? In order to help decrease police brutality and systemic racism in the United States there are two things people must be educated about. White privilege and black anxiety. With people like Jake Paul and many other white people looting while people of color beg them to stop we're going to try and dive deep into the topic of white privilege. We're going to find out why so many white people deny that it exists. Using psychological research, we could find answers as to why it happens and how it inadvertently leads to the oppression of African-Americans and other people of color in our country. Although the majority of white people aren't sheet-wearing clansmen we're dealing with a massive empathy problem when it comes to white privilege versus black anxiety. In order to fully understand one's privilege we must analyze the fear that African-Americans and people of color deal with on a daily basis. Once we're able to learn about what they go through and attempt to put ourselves in their shoes only then can we begin addressing the problem of white privilege. Right now it's difficult for black people to know who is an ally and which white people are just talking the talk as a way to signal that they aren't one of the bad guys. One of the reasons it's difficult to separate the allies from the posers is due to the recent rise of people virtue signaling their white guilt. Simply talking about how guilty you feel for just being white is one of the most shallow, least productive things a person can do when trying to be an ally against racism and oppression. At this point some of you may be wondering if I'm doing this as a form of my own white guilt. The average person looks at me and sees a straight white man with a white girlfriend and a white son. While it's true that most of my life I've experienced the same privilege as other white people looks can be deceiving because I'm actually not white, I'm biracial. I'm the son of a Sicilian mom and an African-American dad. Most people don't believe me until I show them some pictures of me and my dad and the rest of the black half of my family. Growing up I was raised by my African-American dad. And yes, it was an interesting experience being a white looking kid with a black father. My entire life consisted of kids asking me if I was adopted as well as teachers with astonished looks when they met my dad. If I'm being honest there were quite a few times when I felt awkward growing up. Like every year at the Boutte family reunion I got quite a few strange looks being one of the only white kids there. As a result of my ethnicity I've been fortunate enough to be surrounded by black people my whole life. When tragedies happen like what happened to George Floyd or the many other African-Americans who have been the victims of police violence it hits me hard. George Floyd could have been my own father or my uncle or my sister or one of my cousins. Throughout my life I experienced pangs of what some people call white guilt but it hits differently. White guilt is often arbitrary and people feel it because they think it's the right thing to feel. For me I see these feelings as a call to action to do something. To speak up and to call out people like Jake Paul who cloak their white privilege and honestly can't see the damage that they're doing to the black community. My dad grew up in the 50s and 60s during the civil rights movement in a predominantly white part of California. Him, his family and his friends experienced racism in a way that I can't even imagine. My mom, being a white woman who was attracted to black men was beat up on numerous occasions at school for who she dated and I will never know her full pain. I'll never fully understand the anxiety that my dad and other African-Americans feel each time a black man is murdered by the police. But the thing I can do is what people like Jake Paul and other white people can do and that's to educate ourselves, empathize and work towards common solutions. Because when people like Jake Paul are running around being a part of looting they don't understand that the black community is the whipping boy and it's making things a whole lot worse. We need to begin by traveling back a few months to truly understand how we got here. In early 2020 COVID-19 began to spread to different countries around the world and since then we've seen a massive influx in cases in the United States. Since the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in America President Donald Trump and his administration has been largely criticized for their slow reaction to the outbreak of this potentially fatal virus. Although the United States was late to the party cities and states gradually started shutting down non-essential businesses and promoting social distancing. Within a matter of weeks people started to get stir-crazy and refusing to self-isolate. It wasn't long after this when massive protests broke out in Michigan and people began blocking streets as a way to say they wanted America to reopen. We saw the tension starting to rise in the United States as these protests happened and as President Trump continued to argue against scientists and downplay the virus. Finally we reached the point where armed protesters took over the Michigan Capitol building. During this time viral pictures and videos were going around of armed white men screaming at cops and trying to instill fear into others. Although one of the great liberties we experienced as Americans is the freedom of speech and the right to protest when situations like this happen people can't help but wonder how this would go down if those armed Americans were black. Would black men be able to gather with assault rifles at a Capitol building and intimidate police officers? Or is this an example of white privilege? Not long after people started asking themselves these questions about white privilege then we received the news that a young man named Ahmad Arbery was fatally shot and killed by two white men in Georgia. Allegedly while jogging a father and son named Gregory and Travis McMichael believed Arbery was stealing from construction properties in the area. Like many other black men and women in America, Ahmad most likely had anxiety as these two white men chased him down while accusing him of a crime that he had not committed. Not only was this a shocking and horrifying story about an innocent black man being killed by two white men but Gregory and Travis McMichael weren't arrested until May 7th. Why is this such a crucial detail? Ahmad Arbery was murdered in February but the story didn't get mainstream attention until early May. Days later the McMichael's were arrested. Due to the media coverage of the death of Ahmad Arbery the conversation around racism was brought to the forefront once again. For months conversations like this have been sidelined because of a global pandemic but the murder of Arbery sparked people to start looking for answers it also brought up debates around whether white privilege or racism even still exists. Soon we're going to try to understand why white privilege is denied by citing an article from the Association for Psychological Science titled Herd Invisibility, the Psychology of Racial Privilege which was written by L. Taylor Phillips and Brian S. Lawry of New York University and Stanford University. When an unarmed black man is killed while jogging anxiety and anger ripples through the black community. In the African American community the only feeling that isn't experienced is surprise. Not only are unarmed black men shot and killed by gun-toting civilians but they have to worry about those who were sworn to protect and to serve us. Usually a story like this dies down and we can all live in blissful ignorance about white privilege but before people could even cope with the death of Ahmad Arbery we were hit with two disgusting stories in one day. One could be perceived as a threat of violence against a black man and the other resulted in a murder that took place in broad daylight at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. As people debate whether or not white privilege exists we saw a prime example of someone trying to weaponize their privilege. On May 25th we learned about Amy Cooper aka Central Park Karen. At Central Park in New York City a black man by the name of Christian Cooper no relation was doing one of his favorite activities, birdwatching. There are a lot of scary things in this world like spiders and a potential zombie apocalypse but somewhere towards the bottom of the list of things to be afraid of would have to be a black man who loves birdwatching. A great place for birders in Central Park is the rambles. Because birds are so easily scared away and it's such a peaceful hobby the rambles has an all dogs must be unleashed policy. When Christian encountered Amy he politely let her know that this part of the park requires her dog to be unleashed that Amy didn't like being told what to do. Christian, being a black man seeing that the situation was escalating with a white woman and knowing that there's a high chance she'll be believed over him if the police were to arrive he decided to record what happened next. Please don't come close to me. Sir I'm asking you to stop recording me. Please don't come close to me. I'm taking pictures of the cops. Please call the cops. Please call the cops. I'm threatening my life. Please tell them whatever you like. In that article, Heard and Visibility The Psychology of Racial Privilege Phillips and Lori Stake whites want to maintain privilege and racial privileges depend on the stability of an unequal racialized social system that tends to provoke resistance. This puts pressure on individuals to hide privilege and illegitimacy from others. This is important to understand because although it seems blatantly obvious that Amy Cooper was intentionally emphasizing the fact that Christian was a black man people were still debating about whether or not this was an example of white privilege. When you combine the story of Emmett Till with countless stories of black men being killed by police officers you start to understand why it's potentially dangerous when someone like Amy Cooper falsely accuses Christian of threatening her while also emphasizing that he's a black man. Had this story happened in isolation people may be able to still claim that white privilege doesn't exist or that Christian Cooper's life wasn't potentially at risk due to the false accusations of Amy. Had this story happened in isolation white people like Jake Paul could continue to claim that they're trying to be a part of the solution as they continue to fuel the problem but this story didn't happen in isolation. On the exact same day we all witnessed the danger black man faced when confronted by police officers. Well you got him down man. That didn't breathe Lees man. I've been trying to hear about it. So it's breathing man. What am I holding down? It's breathing baby. But it's a pregnancy. Relax. Man that didn't breathe my face. Let's get up. What do you want? On May 25th millions of people witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. The incident began when a store Floyd went to call the police on him for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. In the viral video of Officer Derichawin kneeling on Floyd's neck many of us asked ourselves how it got to this point. Although George Floyd was unarmed with his hands cuffed behind his back, not one not two, but three officers pinned him to the ground. They pinned George Floyd to the ground for nine minutes as they slowly squeezed the life out of his body as he begged them to stop. We may never know what was going through the mind of Chauvin, but many of us have his image burned into our minds. As Floyd and others begged for the officers to stop and begged to let this man live Chauvin stares at the camera with his hand casually in his pocket as if he has no human feelings for the man pinned underneath his knee grasping for air and begging for his life. To add to the brutality of what happened to George Floyd, the Minneapolis Police Department hasn't been transparent since the story happened. In the original statement a Minneapolis Police spokesperson said the following in a statement titled, Man dies after medical incident during police interaction. Quote, two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s in his car. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died four times later. At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident. Some may argue that the arresting officers may not have filled out an accurate report of the incident so it's unfair to accuse the police department as a whole for wrongdoing with their initial statement. While this may be a valid argument in the days following this incident we've seen the police department and other state agencies make statements that increases the perception that police officers have little to no accountability. Days after the incident as the community and the nation demanded answers and for criminal charges to be filed Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said, quote, I will say this that this video is graphic and horrific and terrible and no person should do that. Which he followed by saying, and there is other evidence that does not support a criminal charge. We need to weigh through all the evidence to come through with a meaningful determination and we are doing the best of our ability. Although Chavin was charged with third degree murder in Manslar the next day there have been other parts of this story that has left citizens with more questions and frustration. Since the death of George Ford the other three officers involved have yet to be charged. It's important to note that two of those officers also physically contributed to the death of George Ford. Quick update, by the time I recorded this the other three officers were charged and arrested for being accessories to this crime and Chavin's charges were upgraded from third degree to second degree murder. Remember it was just weeks before George Ford's death that we found out about Ahmaud Arbery. Not only was he killed in February and the story wasn't made public until May, Greg and Travis McMichael's weren't charged of any crimes for over two months. Whenever an innocent person of color is killed people start blaming the victim. People start saying well if Ahmaud Arbery is innocent why did he run away from McMichael's or if George Floyd didn't resist arrest maybe they wouldn't have had to restrain him the way they did. Aside from being extremely insensitive comments after someone's death in order to truly understand why people of color react the way they do must get inside their minds to fully know what's going on. While it's easy to watch from afar and say how a person should react we must take into account how the brain functions as well as human psychology. Many of us are predisposed and raised to believe in the delusion of uniqueness although each one of us are separate individuals we often look to to differences more than similarities. One of the ways we can begin understanding what's going on in the struggles people of color deal with is by finding where we can relate and with millions of us struggling with anxiety or some form of trauma many of us can find a common ground where we can relate. When we relate we empathize. When we empathize we find solutions. In the United States alone roughly 40 million adults 18 and older struggle with an anxiety disorder which makes anxiety disorders the most common mental illness in our country. Of these 40 million Americans 7.7 million men and women suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of a traumatic experience. In order to understand why black people like Amon Harbury run when being chased by white men or why people like George Floyd resist the rest the 40 million of us with anxiety disorders need to relate to what they're feeling. Months ago Jake Paul was once again wrapped up in controversy due to the statements he made about anxiety. In this tweet he said Remember anxiety is created by you. Sometimes you gotta let life play out and remind yourself to be happy and that the answers will come show your mind out go for a walk talk to a friend. Not long after that he was on his brother's podcast in Pulse in tears as he discussed his struggles with anxiety. But part of his privilege and lack of fear while participating in looting is because he can't empathize with the anxiety that blacks deal with on a daily basis. In 2018 an article was published in the Journal of the National Medical Association titled The Violence Epidemic in the African American Community. A call by the National Medical Association for comprehensive reform. The abstract states this paper while not intended to be a comprehensive literature work has been written to reinforce the need to treat violence as a public health issue. To emphasize the effect of particular forms of violence in the African American community and to advocate for comprehensive policy reforms that can lead to the eradication of this epidemic. The article analyzes the impact of violence in the African American community and they focus on three specific areas. Gang violence, intimate partner violence and childhood maltreatment and what we'll be focusing on in this video. Police use of excessive force. The article states a Harvard study examining patterns of law enforcement injuries in America demonstrated that police related firearm injuries requiring hospitalization were more likely to be suffered by black and Hispanic males between the ages of 18 and 39 years old. Police officers who are tasked with protecting and serving the communities frequently engage in intrusive policing practices in high crime neighborhoods where the subjects of their policing are young men who are often experiencing barriers to equality. Next, they go on to explain that the psychological harm resulting from adverse police interactions is as important as the physical harm. Researchers have shown that young men who experience these intrusive police practices display higher levels of stress, anxiety and trauma associated with these police interactions. The reality is that the fear and anxiety that accompanies law enforcement interactions is justified. This fear is justified by the documented practice of racially biased use of unnecessary excessive and on occasion fatal force by police. To better understand what the article is discussing and what many black people are experiencing as a result of personal experiences as well as stories about police officers, use of excessive force, we need to know how anxiety works. Anxiety is a psychological and a physiological response to a potential threat. Our top priority as a species is survival. So when we feel a real or imagined threat, our brain and our body responds. This response to potential threat completely bypasses our prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that is responsible for thinking. When our life is in danger, we don't have the luxury of thinking rationally. Anxiety happens based on triggers. When we experience something that is threatening, the brain's hippocampus logs that into memory to help us avoid that threat in the future. This is why veterans experience anxiety when they hear loud noises or a woman may be triggered by a smell they remember from when they were assaulted. This is what's called a trauma response and it's extremely important to know that you can develop a trauma response just by hearing stories about something life threatening that has happened to others. A prime example is the terrorist attacks of September 11. Although the majority of Americans were nowhere near the Twin Towers many people developed anxiety around flying and other triggers associated with the attack. Now think about what it's like to be an African American in the United States. As the article from the National Medical Association proves people of color are much more likely to be the victim of excessive police force for nothing more than the color of their skin. This is the reality that people like Amad Arbery and George Floyd and millions of other African Americans live with their trauma responses activated each and every day. When our trauma response is activated we react in one of three ways fight, flight or freeze. We might freeze which is a way to show that we mean no harm or that we're dead and not a threat. Or when activated our trauma response might tell us to take flight like Amad Arbery. Finally you might have the response that George Floyd did which is to fight. Again the most crucial thing to understand about the fight, flight or freeze response is that we do not make the conscious decision for how to respond. When triggered our heart rate increases and we're flooded with cortisol and adrenaline in an effort to save our lives. This is why we must get rid of the narrative saying how a black person quote unquote should respond in these situations when their trauma response kicks in. This is yet another reason why mental health awareness and education is so important. How can we expect to make systemic reforms when we don't understand how the brain and the body responds in various situations? How can police officers understand that they're adding fuel to the fire by continuing to discriminate against people of color which only increases their trauma responses and likelihood of resistance? These are trauma responses that people like Jake Paul will never fully understand but fortunately in a recent podcast his brother Logan was able to become self aware of his own privilege. Speak up against injustice if you're white if you look like me use your privilege and for those who do not think white privilege exists you are blind you are delusional and you are part of the problem I can count on zero hands the amount of times that I have feared for my life at a routine traffic stop that has never happened half of the reason I'm able to get away with some of my hooligans doing my vlogs is because I'm a white kid I'm confident that I do not have the fear for my life should the cops show up acknowledge and weaponize your privilege The researchers from the National Medical Association outline a wide range of solutions but here's where they recommend we start. The public health community can no longer be silent regarding the impact of police violence on the mental and physical health of our patients as described by Cooper and fully loved there must be a coordinated multifaceted approach that develops viable solutions in the life cycle that leads to excessive police use of force this approach will require prevention and intervention strategies that focus on poverty, crime policies of mass incarceration police review and oversight police culture and unions as well as implicit bias to name a few now that we have a better understanding of the anxiety of Ahmaud Arbery George Floyd and other African Americans it's time to take a look at why people are protesting as well as the psychology of rioters and murders alright thank you so much for making it all the way through the end of this very long video I've been working on it all week I've probably spent about like 40 hours with writing the script and doing the research and editing and all that so I actually decided to divide this into two parts so part two will be out Wednesday and in it we're going to dive into the psychology of crowds as well as some more about white privilege as well as the very important topic of the psychology around white fragility alright so make sure you're subscribed and stay tuned because that will be out Wednesday and also I spent a lot of time on this thing YouTube is probably suppressing it so feel free to share it if this thing got demonetized if you would like to support the channel consider becoming a patron or I've linked a bunch of books down below that I've been reading on the psychology around bias and race and all that stuff that's all down in the description or if you're somebody in need of therapy I have an affiliate link down below for better help online therapy it's a therapy service that I personally use so what happens is you get affordable online therapy a little bit comes back supports the channel all the work I put into these videos alright so I'm going to get back to editing that next video but anyways that's all I got for this one if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge thank you to everybody out there who is supporting the channel over on Patreon or everybody who supports the channel by buying my mental health books at therewiredsoul.com or the merch from the merch store like this Rewired Souls shirt alright thanks again for watching see y'all on Wednesday