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Accountability and Common Sense Are Still Missing · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show,
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Tuesday morning, fifth day of December. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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I want to give a quick update, and it's just because I've been
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talking about something on previous shows and I wanted to just give a little update
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on this. Got a phone call from my buddy Cooper Andrews, who's on
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the show. Was on the show The Walking Dead in the Shazam movies.
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He and Dan Foegler, also from The Walking Dead and some of the Harry
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Potter movies, Goldberg's and some other shows. Those two were planning for this
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coming weekend to put on an event, a festival slash convention that they were
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going to do north of Atlanta, and I mentioned it a couple times on
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this show and some other shows. They have been forced to they're postponing the
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event. It's camps on it for twenty twenty three, and they're looking to
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put the event on next year. So if you heard me talk about it
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and we're interested in it and thought, oh, put a pen in it,
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maybe to check it out, to go to this event as a fan
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of any of those projects or those guys or any of the folks that were
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going to be a part of it, you can put that pin in it
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for twenty twenty four. That's the plan now for that event. It's called
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Kingdom Fest. They'll have details on the Kingdomfest dot com I guess coming soon
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with details about what they're going to plan for next year with more time to
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get all of this in place, but some complications that came along that basically
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put them in a position where they weren't able to get it together for this
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year. They're still donating some money to some of the folks that are affected
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were affected by the strikes. That was part of what this event was about,
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was to help raise money for crew members and people that worked behind the
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scenes on movies and TV shows that weren't the writers, that weren't the actors,
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that weren't actually on strike themselves. They had some of those unions for
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those other groups had gone through strikes in the past, but in this particular
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case, they were trying to raise money for them. They're still going to
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be able to give some money to them, which was eventually what the goal
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was for all of this. But I just wanted to give an update on
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that particular event, because I do know some friends that were interested in the
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event that had heard me talk about it. I was planning to go.
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I'm disappointed, but I'm at some point I'm going to get Cooper on one
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or two of the podcasts and shows that I do and have him come on
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and we can well. Definitely for next year, we'll do it again.
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But I did a great interview with Cooper and Dan about the event, and
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I ended up having to pull it down. So I was going to share
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that with you bits of that this week here, but I had to pull
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it down. I can maybe pull some parts of it. I'll see what
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I can salvage from it that doesn't promote that event, and see what we
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can do with that. So let's jump into accountability. I want to talk
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about that today, accountability where it seems like we have all these stories about
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people that just don't end up having to It's weird how laser focused we can
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be and demand accountability from some people but not everyone. That's a problem that
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I think that we have around the world. And I'm saying that because I've
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got a story I'm gonna mention, and it's a pretty gruesome story. I
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don't want to go into too many details in it. You can look up
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all the grizzly details of it if you want, but I'll go ahead and
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mention this one. But you know, I feel like we have folks now
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that are so laser focused on Trump and trying to hold him accountable for things,
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and completely looking past the fact that the timing of the charges, the
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timing of the way that they're trying to strategically lay out a trial after trial
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next year to keep him off the campaign trail. I do think it's all
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gonna end up backfiring on them, but we'll see. I mean, there's
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no way to know. And I don't try to prognosticate when it comes to
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elections anymore. I've listed before to you the number of times I have been
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dead wrong, including when I didn't think there was any way that Trump could
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beat Hillary Clinton and then that happened. So and I was definitely wrong about
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Obama. I was wrong about a number of them. I was wrong about
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a number of them. So I don't predict anymore. I just let him
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play out. But there seemed laser focused on him, not laser focused on
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the Biden family, although that seems to be trying to get some traction,
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but I just don't feel like there's going to be any accountability. We think
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there's I don't know what the I know what the goal is for Trump.
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They're trying to hurt his campaign if we get on the other side of the
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election or they keep him off the ticket. Are they really going to follow
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through and try to really get Trump? Is that really what they're gonna do.
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I mean, I don't know. This story out of Germany is horrible,
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and it goes back to a twenty twenty September twenty twenty incident that happened
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where a group of I guess there were twelve men involved in this particular incident,
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and there's no easy way to say what happened. Okay, so I'm
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just gonna have to to say it because it's not it's a term that we'll
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just saying it. Reading it makes me shiver. It's not a pleasant thing
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to have to say. So I'm just embracing you for the fact that I
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have to address this at all. But there was a gang rape of a
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fifteen year old German girl that happened in Hamburg, Germany. There were eleven
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men initially charged in this incident. I'm gonna try not to say that word
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again. I feel like it should be said for the sake of the fifteen
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year old. Four of them were German, two of them were acquitted,
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nine were found guilty, eight got probation, so eight and it says that
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probation is not exceeding two years and only one headed to prison. So of
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the eleven involved, and there was I think a twelfth that was charged at
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some other time with recording it with a phone. So out of this these
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eleven, eight of them walk free. Eight And part of the reasoning that
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was given by an expert in this particular trial, and it says the rapists
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were aged seventeen to twenty one at the time of the trial. They were
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tried in a youth court and that started a year ago in May. There
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were ninety six witnesses and experts, and this is one of the There was
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a psychiatrist who some of these people that we're talking about here now. When
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I said some not Germans, it's because it migrants from various afghan Kuwait,
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Armenia. And according to this expert, this psychiatrist Nala Sima, saying that
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the gang rape could have been a way to let off frustration, migration experiences,
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socio cultural homelessness involved that comes with being a migrant into a new country.
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She said. Rapists who live on the margins of society, completely uprooted,
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culturally, linguistically, and socially, could experience a mix of emotions of
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anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, fantasies of grandeur and compensation, attempt
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to cope with one's own misery, and drug use. Disordered unprepared migration experiences
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and socio cultural homelessness increase the risk of addiction and psychosis. And that basically
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raping gang raping like this could be a means of releasing frustration and anger,
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and that by doing it as a group, it gives them a sense of
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group feeling and helps with their identity. And that apparently was part of the
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testimony that ultimately got eight of them to walk. So let's think about that
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for a minute. And I'm not an expert on migration and immigrants. I'm
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not an expert on people that are coming from a place where they need help
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and they need to come to a new place. I understand there's a lot
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of layers that go into that. I agree but right now we have what's
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going on in various parts of the world, including Ireland. We've got concerns
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here within our own borders about a number of people. We know that they
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are military age Chinese people that are coming across our southern border into our country.
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We don't know why, we don't know what the purpose of them coming
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here is, we don't know. We're not really getting answers, we're not
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really seeking answers. I don't think. I don't know that we're looking for
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that. But if this sort of thing is a problem with migrants coming into
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countries, whether it be in Europe, whether it be in the US,
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wherever it is, if people coming in are carrying this kind of baggage with
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them, that would cause them to get into an environment and put them in
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a position where they have no choice but to gang rape a fifteen year old
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girl, I think people should hear that. I think that's something that people
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should know before a country says we're just going to open up the border and
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let people in, don't you think. I mean, it's not enough that
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we have drugs coming across our border. It's not enough that we have a
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number of crimes that are taking place. It's not enough that our own citizens
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have just gone to complete lawlessness, in part, I think because they realize
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that there doesn't seem to be anybody paying attention. If you walk into a
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bank and the security guard is sleeping, don't you feel like maybe you could
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just do whatever you want in the bank. If you walk into the bank
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and the security guard isn't even there, I don't even have security guards anymore,
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and the cameras are all off, and they're publicly announcing to everyone our
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security systems are all down, the cameras are off. Don't you think there's
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a temptation? So maybe I don't know rob the place, wouldn't there be
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And that's what we have at our border? Is this wide open border or
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we're taking in migrants from places and saying, well, they just need help.
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But if we alerted the citizens that this is a concern that maybe just
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because they're migrants, just because they're here, just because they've come from somewhere
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else, at some point a group of them may decide to gang rape a
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child. Is that something that I mean, that seems to be one of
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the things that should be addressed. If this is something that is one gonna
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possibly happen. And two and I mean this is in Germany. I'm not
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pretending this is happening on our soil, but I'm saying, if this is
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a real defense and it's happened in Germany where they just were allowed to walk,
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no big deal, not a problem. Just let them go, Just
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let them go. What's the big deal? They can't help themselves. This
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is just what they've done. This is just who they are because of their
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circumstance. I think that's something that we should be talking about, isn't it.
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Isn't this something that should be addressed. Let's talk about another's This is
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a very different situation, but it's still horrible. Can we talk about I
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haven't in any way addressed this dead Spin guy. This Karen Phillips Karen J.
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Phillips shows this boy at a Kansas City Chiefs game wearing face paint and
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the kid is wearing he's wearing a Chief's jersey, he's wearing a headdress.
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His family says, hey, we have Native Americans. We used to live
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we have Native American heritage, and we used to live on a reservation.
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We are a Native American family. And this guy decides to post a picture
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of this kid. His face is painted. Half of his face is black,
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the other half is he's trying to show loyalty to the Kansas City Chiefs.
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I think any moron who's ever watched a sporting event would know why this
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kid is dressed the way that he's dressed. Karen J. Phillips doesn't even
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qualify as a moron apparently, or he's very notorious, and you got to
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figure which one it is. Sounds like it's probably that one, because I
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don't think he's, you know, dumber than a moron, is he?
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So he shows a picture of this kid strategically cut from the side so that
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you don't see that the kid is wearing red paint on his face, just
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the blackface, and he accuses him of being in blackface at the game,
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and how he should be called out for it, and his parents should be
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called out in the NFL and the Chiefs, and I don't know everybody,
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anybody's sitting in that area, they should all be called out for it.
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When it was brought to the attention of everyone that no, no, no,
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he writes this article about it. I guess I think it was an
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article and he said as I know, he's insulted two groups. He's got
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the red paint and the black paint, so he's insulted two groups. We
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don't really understand some basic things, like we don't understand what blackface even is
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anymore. We don't have a clue what that term even means. We don't
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express just because I mean, you can wear black paint on your face without
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it being blackface. There's a comedian I don't know the guy's name. I
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wish I knew the guy's name. He does a great bit about this where
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he talks about the way the military and those commercials they make it look cool
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to wear black face. He's talking about the camouflage on their face, and
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he's addressing it with an audience, and he talks to one of the members
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of the audience who's black, and he's like, Bro, you know you're
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gonna need me in blackface if we're in battle together. But that's not blackface.
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Wearing makeup on your face doesn't automatically qualify as blackface. That's not what
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it is. Blackface is a very specific thing. This kid's not wearing blackface.
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He's wearing face paint for a team that he likes and pulls for If
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you want to have a criticism about the headdress, that's a different conversation,
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But that is not the reason for this article or this whole thing that got
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started in the first place. Now the kid's family is suing. They want
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the article taken down, they want all mentions of it taken off of X.
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The kid's privacy has been violated. This kid has been blasted all over
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the social media and all these news outlets, and it's unfortunate. He's a
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kid. Let him be a kid. So they're suing him. Do we
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really think and it's going to be an accountability or do we think that this
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is going to be something where it's dead spin? The dad says they don't
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want an apology. They do not want an appology. That's not what they
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want. They said it's too late for that. So and I guess he's
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been the writer, has been defending it and trying to keep the story going.
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But they're suing him. They want the retraction, they want the apology.
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They said that the apology is not going to be enough. Damage has
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already done. It. Says it's too late, little, too late for
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an apology. It is never should have happened. Anybody that looked at this
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kid who didn't know that he was at the game, clearly just pulling for
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the Chiefs. You want to call him out for being wearing the headdress,
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being a Chiefs fan, say what you want to say, address it with
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the Chiefs. But see that argument's already been made. That argument isn't changing
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anything. The Chiefs aren't changing, The Braves aren't changing. Maybe eventually they
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do, but right now they're not. The battles have been one with the
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Indians. The battles have been won with the Redskins. Okay, those battles
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were won. There's some colleges those battles have been won. They haven't been
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one with a handful of others. Florida State. We're all talking about Florida
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State this week, and they fit into this conversation because the Braves, the
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Chiefs, Florida State all do the same battle cry and the same tomahawk chop
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thing whatever they call it. Now they've all got different names for it now.
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But screaming about the Chiefs, that's not having any effect, that's not
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making any difference. Maybe he thinks it's eventually going to make a difference.
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What he did was he went after a kid. He went after a kid
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who was doing what other people at the games do. And again the family
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pointing out, hey, we're a Native American, we can do this,
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We're allowed to do this. This isn't anything for us, and it's not
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blackface. Just because there's black makeup involved doesn't automatically make it blackface. We
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have to start having some common sense conversations about these things. This is one
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of those gaslighting deals. This is this is basically accusing them and trying to
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make it sound like by not realizing that it's blackface, that we're crazy.
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We don't understand, we're nuts because we don't get it. We don't understand
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that this is two groups being insulted by a child by a child, and
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all they're doing is trying to ruin a kid's life. And it's so disingen
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The picture of the kid is a profile shot, and the dead Spin post
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says the NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in blackface
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and native headdress. I mean, it's it's it's so disingenuous, it's so
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phony, it's such a false flag, and there'll be no accountability. Do
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we really think there's gonna be accountability here? Do we think that's really gonna
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be the case. Someone's gonna hold this guy accountable for what he did to
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this kid somebody obviously, Uh, it's the story out of Germany. There's
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no accountability there, none none. Is there accountability to people that are busting
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up stores? You know? The new thing now is they steal your car
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and crash it into the front of a store so that they can rob the
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store. A store that's closed or maybe even open. I don't know.
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They just bust in with a car. So just a reminder. I know
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people say this all the time when you when you are at home or you're
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uh, and somebody might break in your house. If you're not there,
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you gotta hide your keys. Don't give them a chance to steal one of
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your cars that you left behind. You're using the smashing grab. I don't
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know that we got this problem here locally, but if you're in a place
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where these things are happening, you need to hide your keys. They don't
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need to be hanging on a hook by the front door, very obvious which
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key goes to which car that's still in your driveway. You don't need to
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do that. We just need accountability and we need some common sense. When
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are we gonna get it when? Or is it just way too far gone
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