 Hey, welcome back everybody. Thanks for clicking on this video. I got a pretty interesting one here for you today Well, not so much interesting as completely psychotic and very racist From a person who lacks any self-awareness apparently or is unknowingly part of a cult So we have this New York Times article, which is an opinion piece and a guest essay whatever that is I don't know. Maybe they added that in later after this came out. They got some blowback But it's called is my little library contributing to the gentrification of my black neighborhood Okay, well, that's that's kind of a weird, you know headline it to me come comes off immediately as racist because you know What is gentrification? I mean really all that is is a word for people of different races coming into neighborhoods That are predominantly another race and in this case, you know They're complaining that white people are coming in and just changing the makeup of these neighborhoods Which is you know, pretty interesting considering it used to be a white majority and Slowly that change and now it's mostly black and Latinos that are living there. So right off the bat We have this kind of weird Contradiction where you know, you shouldn't be all about, you know different races coming into live in your neighborhood, right? Doesn't that add to the tapestry and the melting pot it adds to the diversity because diversity is good, right? Well, not when you know You're a person who believes that diversity essentially means that there's less or no white people at all I mean, we're talking about people who play up this idea of quote ending whiteness So really in that context diversity really means there's just no white people there And that's the way they like it apparently she starts off about a year ago I decided to build a library on my front lawn by library I mean one of those little freestanding library boxes that dot lawns and bedroom communities around the country Charming birdhouse like stretchers filled with books that invite neighbors and passersby to take a book or donate a book or both I'd spotted the phenomenon on walks through upscale largely white neighborhoods around Los Angeles and immediately resolved to bring it home to Anglewood, okay, that's weird So she's saying that she's incorporating something that she got from a white community She's gonna incorporate it into hers. Why not a library is not so much of a marker of wealth and whiteness as it is Affirmation of community in cozy small town camaraderie that Anglewood That's funny a mostly black and Latino city in Southwest or Los Angeles County has plenty of we deserve no less But then she goes on to describe Inglewood, California as quote cozy and that has small town camaraderie Oh really look, I've never been to California, but I grew up in the 90s I was a huge, you know gangster rap fan growing up and I know that Inglewood Specifically is quite a violence neighborhood. Just think you know easy e and dr. Dre both guys a lot of their songs are about this area they're about South Central and Inglewood so she talks about it being slow at first and that people started to kind of come around and browse and some people took Books and traded books so it was working good then one morning Glancing out my front window. I saw a young white couple stopped by the library Instantly I was flooded with emotions astonishment and then resentment and then astonishment again at my resentment it all converged into a silent scream in my head of get off my lawn Oh my god, like how Can you imagine a white person writing this article about you know a mostly white neighborhood where they put out their Their little mini library for people to come and trade books and they saw a black couple Come up and just look at their books and trade books Oh, and I was just astonished with resentment and anger that these black people would who What are they thinking coming into this neighborhood using my library that I put out there for the public for everyone except for You know those people it's just it goes to show how these people are really in a cult You can't think for a second that these people are actually using any kind of like thought process It's pure indoctrination by a cult. I mean just think about it for a second You're against racism You know you don't want people being treated differently for the color of their skin But then you reach some point where you start saying, huh? Well, actually I do hate these people because of their skin color But I mean obviously that makes me hypocrite So I have to tell myself that because of power plus privilege plus privilege. I can't be racist Perfect. Oh now I can just basically say and do whatever I want all these things that if a white person was doing that Be clearly bigotry clearly racism, but when you're part of this woke cult. No, it's completely different It's completely different when they do it This is why you see at these multi heritage spaces at university colleges when white people show up to these things You'll have the black students in there actually and in both cases that I know that's happened It's been a black woman, but they kick these white people out citing that. Oh, you know This is the multi heritage festival white people have no heritage You know white whiteness doesn't exist and so you can't be here I mean these people are literally part of a cult that Want to achieve an end to us existing and these people for whatever reason are being You know given positions as professor at university colleges are being held up as these Brilliant thinkers you talked about the importance of defining racism But I but I unless I missed it, which is possible I don't I didn't hear your personal definition Is there is there one that you would offer us like how do you define racism? Sure. So racism I would define it as a collection of racist policies That lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas And then you see things like this where this woman's opinion piece you just posted like It's like they don't even realize how insanely racist this comes off But that's because all of this mantra she's using it's all part of this cult movement And so they can't even they can't even see themselves. They have literally zero uh self-awareness of the of how utterly racist they are because At the end of the day in the back of their heads They can't be racist and so back to this point that it's Englewood that we're talking about and she's upset that there's white people moving into this Neighborhood. Well, let's first of all, I want to look at this woman just a little bit here Who she is Aaron Aubrey Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and a commas born in 1962 is written about african-american political economic cultural issues since 1992 but it says here that she was married to Alan Kaplan who passed away in 2015 I'm curious about that. Let's let's see a little bit about who this guy is He must be some sort of like, you know ultra, you know, like black panther activist or something like that for her to have these You know such very extremist views. Look at that. It's a white guy Alan Kaplan was a white guy. That's strange. Huh? That's weird that she would have such like anger and resentment about a white person Using her library and being in her presence when she was married to a white person weird 14 years ago I wrote an article for salon.com. Of course Published for valentine's day about how I met my husband Alan Kaplan and I ended the article on a cautionary note Our hugely improbable racially romantic story did not mean that we'd solve the problems of color line far from it strip away the circumstances that I was a reporter and He was a reluctant subject of an interview for a story I was writing at the time and we were merely a black woman and a jewish man from different parts of la. Oh, that's interesting Huh, I wonder if he actually even considers himself white, uh, because I know there's a lot of jewish folks out there who don't The one that's really coming to mind is walter kronkite. Which month is white history month? I'm jewish Okay, which month is jewish history month? I also want to touch a little bit on the fact that she's upset that white people are quote gentrifying her neighborhood Her black and latino neighborhood that apparently is being ruined Ruined by white people white people using her library books. Well Let's let's just take a look at this neighborhood. So again, I'm no You know, I'm not an expert on inglewood But I do have a list here of the five most dangerous places in inglewood. So we got lockhaven. We got morningside park We got holly park knolls. We got hide park. We got westchester I mean, these are all places that are right in this area if I scan around this box You're gonna see all of those places listed here. And like I said, this is a small area and the point is It seems to me that You know white people being in this neighborhood are the least of their problems Gang violence is out of control in this area and it has been that way for decades Moment jolted me into realizing some things. I'm not especially proud of I'd set out this library for all who have lived here and even those who didn't in theory I would not want to restrict anyone from looking at it or taking books based on race or anything else But that's what she's doing. I mean, that's what she wants to do. I don't I don't think she actually did that But that's what she wants to do. She is enraged by white people taking books But while I had seen the white newcomers to the neighborhood here and there the truth was I hadn't set it out to appeal to white residents and just think about the fact that she's totally cool with this Like I can't imagine thinking like that like being angry that somebody Is being neighborly and is in my neighborhood because of their skin color But this is the situation we're in now in this country where these people people like this Even other white people who have been uh indoctrinated to believe these things This is why you have blm and antifa showing up to residential neighborhoods and literally telling white people That they need to give up their homes Or that even though they have a blm sign that that won't protect them from violence and that if the blm wants to take their home They're just gonna take their home and that's justified and then the media wonders why we call them enemy of the people I mean they are literally inciting promoting and defending open racism against whites in this piece What I resented was not this specific couple. Oh, okay. All right. It was their whiteness Oh, well that makes it totally different and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity Of a black space that I had created the integrity because when white people come in that just ruins it I mean you're bringing these dirty people that aren't even people of color. I mean, aren't they even people? I mean, they lack color. They're white the most complicated feeling of it all was the brief bittersweet satisfaction I took in watching them draw to my lawn and to my idea It felt empowering and hopeful on one hand defeating the other So what message do I hope they took from my library the same message? I wanted to send to the rest of my neighbors my community Black presence has a value and every sense of the word and on its own terms that value should make the casual Displacement of black people untenable. I mean, what is she even talking about at this point? Why people existing on the sidewalk at that moment somehow has displaced black people or I thought that racially segregated areas were bad. I thought diversity was good. But again I'm retraining old ground here, but the fact is these people see diversity as no white people That value should make the casual displacement of black people untenable even immoral And that will take much more than a little library to rectify. Let me tell you something The problems in Englewood are not white people. Okay, it's gang violence that has gripped that city and A lot of california for decades now going back to when I was a kid growing up in the 90s This tale of racism seems very old to me. I mean, this is just classic old racism Taking your problems all your problems and pointing to The minority group which in this case is white people and pointing out them as the problem them being In your neighborhood is the problem when we're talking about a neighborhood That is literally one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in this country And I hate to tell you this but it's not white people who are to blame for all this murder and violence All right, folks, I think that's about all I have for that one as always Thank you for clicking on this video if you enjoyed it Please hit that like button subscribe and let me know what you think in the comments