 So last week I took some time off so hopefully you enjoyed all of the pre-recorded videos But I'm back now, and I've been chomping at the bit to talk about this particular story I'm not gonna get into all of the details because I'm sure that you have learned about this already, but Rhonda Santis has Done a PR stunt that's just really disgusting and he did this as an attempt to hypocrisy burn Democrats And the reason why I wanted to talk about this is to explore a different element to just kind of put into perspective Historically how bad what he did really is so there were these organizations known as the white people's Councils they existed all throughout the South and the United States during the segregation era and they would often times align with members of the Ku Klux Klan to bus black American citizens to other cities and The same thing that they said was the same thing that Rhonda Santis is saying now So they'd say well, you know this particular governor He seems more open and accepting of black people therefore if we ship them to his city I'm sure that he won't view them as a nuisance as the way that we do and I'm sure that he'd be happy to house them So that's what they would say and we'll get into the specifics here But take a look at the way that Rhonda Santis described these migrants and what his intent was to do We are not a sanctuary state and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures Biden would fly people in the middle of the night Dump them all across this country There was no warning on any of this and all those people in DC and New York We're beating their chest when Trump was president saying they were so proud to be sanctuary Jurisdictions saying how bad it was to have a secure border the minute even a small fraction Of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door They all of a sudden go berserk and they're so upset that this is happening and it just shows you, you know Their virtue signaling is a fraud, okay? So notice the cruelty when he announced that he'd be trafficking these human beings across state lines People behind him laughed I mean particularly the two white ladies who were behind him They laughed as if it was a joke to transport human beings across state lines to prove a political point potentially doing so illegally while Getting them to agree to go with you under false pretenses I mean the whole situation is incredibly grotesque But as you saw he made a prediction at the end there and he said that you know Well, we'll see if they're as accepting as you know in these in these sanctuary cities as They say they are right because they huff and puff but I would argue that this is virtue signaling now again This is the same thing that white people's counsel said back in the 1960s and we'll get to that because the Parallels here between now and then are just stunningly striking now I'll just say that I've had my criticisms of the Democratic Party and their treatment of immigrants But on an individual level he predicted that the people at Martha's vineyard would be as cruel as he and Republicans are towards these immigrants But that wasn't actually the case as law boy tweeted Republicans shipped migrants to Martha's vineyard because they want to cast liberals as out-of-touch hypocrites whose politics are purely aesthetic But they got owned because even those country club assholes have a baseline of human decency well above the median Republican And that is exactly correct most people see these immigrants and They view them as other human beings, but Republicans here by doing this PR stunt They're essentially tacitly admitting that well, we don't view them as human beings And if we do they're certainly inferior to us as human beings Therefore other people will definitely be as cruel to them as we are but that didn't bear out now Let's get to the historical example of Alan Gilmore and what was done to him and his family So Alan Gilmore and his wife with eight children They were shipped across state lines under false pretenses much like these immigrants reportedly were as well And we're not gonna read this but this is an actual clip of the news article from the 60s of this So you can pause the video and read this if you want to but let's get into the actual details Presented in an op-ed for common dreams by Tom Hartman. He writes in the fall of 1962 Deputy US Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach supervised a group of us marshals providing protection to James Meredith as he became the first black person to ever enroll in the University of Mississippi five months after Meredith enrolled at UM in the last week of February of 1963 Charles Bennett president of the White Citizens Council of Shreveport, Louisiana Approached a black father of eight children Alan Gilmore telling him He knew of an employment opportunity in Trenton, New Jersey and would help him get there Gilmore had previously driven a cab and worked in a grocery store in Bakery But had lost his job during the slight economic downturn of 1963 Bennett provided Gilmore with bus tickets for himself his wife and their eight children as well as $75 and spending money and a dozen cans of sardines to snack upon during their two-day journey to Trenton He also gave Gilmore the address of what he thought was the home of Nicholas Katzenbach telling him that Katzenbach was the employer in Need of and awaiting Gilmore services as soon as the Gilmore family was on the bus the white citizens council called a press conference and President Bennett announced that the next day the Gilmore family would show up at Katzenbach's home It was essentially a PR stunt and that's just one example to be clear white people's councils They with their allies in the Ku Klux Klan They did this to multiple black families sending them to Katzenbach's residents saying well I mean, I'm sure that you'll be as accepting of them as you claim to be right So the same thing that happened to these black families in the 60s by the white people's council is the same exact thing that happened With Rhonda Santis and these immigrants and it's not just immoral and unethical But it might actually be illegal as well although that's yet to be seen But thankfully Dylan Fernandez a lawmaker in Massachusetts is calling for a criminal probe saying not only is it morally criminal there are illegal implications around fraud kidnapping deprivation of liberty and Human trafficking and there may actually be a case according to legal experts if the Santis did indeed traffic these immigrants across state lines under false pretenses and the assumption is that oh well They broke the law. So this is their own fault, right? Why are they here in this country? But many of them had already applied for refugee status. So they're trying to actually move here legally and They're just treating them like criminals and most importantly treating them as if they're not actually fully Developed human beings that you know feel the same ambitions pain Suffering happiness and have the same, you know goals for life as as we do and it's just genuinely Disgusting so as we talk about this story in particular I want people to remember the historical parallels to what happened in the 1960s and what Rhonda Santis is doing right now And I get that this story is old news But history oftentimes repeats itself and there's a lot more context to get to so I'll link you to the full story written by Tom Hartman down Below but just so you know overall this is not a new phenomenon It is a cruel tactic that has been used in the past by racists to dehumanize people who they view as inferior to them and This is where we're at still in 2022 you think that things like this are a relic of ancient history that we all collectively look back upon and cringe at but no in 2022 Republican governors are doing this and People are standing behind them laughing at the cruelty rather than wincing at it thinking maybe this isn't the best look maybe we look bad, but perhaps this is backfiring because When you just when you cross that line There are some people who even if they don't necessarily think that immigration Should be a thing that happens. Maybe they'll say oh well I support legal immigration even if in practice they don't but even for them to see the cruelty like this It might be too much for them So there's a potential that this backfires and I hope that it does and most importantly I hope that Ron DeSantis has held legally accountable because human trafficking to make a political point a racist political point It's pretty gross and even for 2022 America. We shouldn't tolerate things like this