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But You Have to Wear the Ribbon · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Friday morning, twenty eighth
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day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me winding down this month
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of July. Winding it down, that's sart. We'll get it into it,
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we'll end it, I guess on Monday, final weekend of July.
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That's where we're at, though, and get ready to kick off August on
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Tuesday. All right, I want to talk a little bit about racism.
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Okay, it's so silly that I feel like I should preface everything I'm gonna
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say with the fact that I think that racism is bad. I think it's
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horrible. If you've listened to me over the years, you know I make
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no defense of any form of racism whatsoever, none of it. I think
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all racism is bad. I think that judging someone based on the color of
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their skin and not the content of their character or of their heart is a
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bad thing. I think racism is despicable, horrible, And I think also
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simultaneously, we have no laws in place that make it illegal to be racist.
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Just a reality. There's no law that says you can't be racist.
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It's not illegal. In fact, things that you say that are racist short
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of saying things that are violent, asking someone to do something violent that might
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hurt someone of a different race, and in some cases not even that.
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But those things that aren't begging for violence or doing something negative to someone based
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on their race is actually protected free speech. You can say things that are
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racist. You can make racist jokes. Now, can you be punished in
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our society by your employer? Can you be punished? Have people in your
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life it look at you differently for saying racist things? Well, certainly,
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but is it illegal. Is it against the law to say things that are
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racist? No, it is actually protected free speech. We don't encourage it
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in our society. We don't want it to thrive. In fact, we'd
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love for the wounds to heal. We'd love for people in our society who
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seem to continue to pick at the scabs and refuse to let it heal.
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We have those people that for some reason want it to continue on. They
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just need it. They need it to control us, they need it to
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separate us. They need to remind us constantly that we're different and that we're
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supposed to act a certain way based on the color of our skin, which
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itself is racist. It's an interesting situation we're in as a society, isn't
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it. And I move over to Kentucky, who has put into place a
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required class about implicit bias in the history of racism and healthcare. In order
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to renew their nursing licenses in Kentucky, mandatory they have to learn about racism
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or they could lose getting their license renewed. And this comes the Kentucky Board
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of Nursing, which is a government agency, was going to discipline the healthcare
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workers mandatory continuing education course that had to be completely did by July first.
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That was what they were told. The course included showing photos of KKK members
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burning across diagrams of covert and overt racism, explaining the differences between those things,
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and explaining that the different kinds of covert racism like white silence, denying
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white privilege, claiming reverse racism, and excusing and white explaining racism. And
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it also went on to explain that these types of racism and healthcare lead to
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many problems, including to the people who are being racist against them, like
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high pretension, high blood pressure, low birth weight and prematurity, heart disease,
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diabetes, increased BMI, anxiety, stress, depression, that all of
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those things could come about because of various forms of systemic racism that they needed
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to learn about in these classes. Now, ultimately, I guess, you
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know, with continuing education, renewals and things to renew your license, I
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guess that there are many states that do that, and them throwing out mandatory
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and required in it lays things out for them. So and I guess there
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were questions about whether or not they could lose their license that they already had.
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Wasn't just a case of renewal or whatever. But I guess in the
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end there was a let's see, a Kentucky Board of Nursing issued a statement,
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no license. They will be denied licensure for failing to meet mandatory CE
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requirements. Most others to meet CE requirements result in a nondisciplinary settlement because there
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were claims that there would be some sort of civil sanction. So this is
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another case of requiring someone to take a class to tell them how racist they
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might be or how racist another group of people is. And you notice in
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this they specifically address this notion of white splaining that if you're not familiar with
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white splaining, it's when white people explain things to non white people so that
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they can understand the white perspective on things. Okay, you could argue that
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that's what I'm doing with this whole show. I mean, if that's what
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you want to narrow it down to, that's not my attempt. My attempt
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is to say, the teachings of doctor Martin Luther King, and we take
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a day every single year to honor him and his legacy, and then we
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throw it away by doing things like require hiring nurses to take classes to teach
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them about how racist they are or how racist other people might be, and
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accuse them of things like white splaining racism. So oh, and oh,
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don't forget the fact that claiming reverse racism is another way that you could be
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covertly racist. So again, this is denying the fact that non white people
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could be racist, right, I mean, if you're saying that reverse racism
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or reverse discrimination isn't really a thing, then you're claiming that only white people
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can be racist. So what about the racist things that other people say?
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What about the hateful racist things that other people say, and that other people
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do. What about when they tell you that only white people can be racist,
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which in itself I would think would qualify as a very racist thing to
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say. It's frustrating, It's frustrating. It's frustrating that this is the one
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of the ways that our government, that our leadership, anybody in charge,
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And this happens all over the world, but especially when we can talk about
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it here in the US. I can't fix even the US's problems, but
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I definitely can't talk about and address the world's problems. But the very fact
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that this is how they try to control us. This is how they try
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to separate us. This is how they try to divide us. This is
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how they want to keep us continually off balance and continually not communicating with one
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another. Are their discrepancies in healthcare when it comes to races? Sure,
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the research certainly seems to say that. I can't deny that. Not if
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the research is there. Now, if the researchers have some sort of reason,
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some implicit bias where they want to tell us something that maybe isn't accurate.
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If we have I don't know someone who's in charge of pandemics that or
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seem to be I don't know, covering up things that they might have done
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that may have helped contribute to a pandemic happening. Those sorts of things would
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certainly raise an eyebrow or two cause you to wonder what's going on if something
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so crazy could possibly happen. But if research says that one group overall doesn't
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get the quality healthcare that another group gets, I think that could be addressed.
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I think that's a topic that could be discussed. Telling someone who's white
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how racist they are, and how if they don't push away all of the
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ways that they could be covertly racist, doesn't that suggest that that then makes
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them racist? You're you're a covert racist if you if you do that.
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So this notion that racism is somehow illegal, it's bad. It's bad when
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anybody does it, isn't it. But again it comes back to this notion
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of it not being illegal, it being protected speech, and that some groups
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are allowed to say and do very overtly racist things, not even the covert
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racist things. They're able to say out loud racist things, and no one
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seems to notice, no one seems to mind, no one seems to object
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to it. I don't talk about other and I have it. I just
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saw a headline that said, Joe Rogan compares the situation the anger he talks
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about, addressed the anger about Jason Aldean's song, and he basically said,
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He's not the first person I've seen do this. But I just saw a
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headline that said, he calls some of the language in rap music hip hop
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music much worse. That's the paraphrase of what I read in the headline.
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And when you think about it, when we address one problem on one side
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but not a similar problem on the other side, isn't that a form of
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covert racism. Isn't that something that's not being addressed out loud? And I'm
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sure Joe Rogan will probably get called racist for saying that. I'm sure that
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any of the others I saw a headline may have been Jason Whitlock. I
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forget who the other person was that said something about it. And again,
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two different people, two different people. It's interesting too, how someone like
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Jason Whitlock or Tim Scott who's running for president, number of people who get
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called despicable racist names by people in their own race because they don't subscribe to
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these things that I'm talking about they don't subscribe to this concept that all white
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people are racist, and that all white people participate in covert racism, and
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that just by living your life and not being racist, but not being outspoken
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about racism means that you're using the covert racism tactic of white silence. See,
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we've been told that about a number of things. We've been told that
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being silent is not good enough when it comes to the LGBTQ plus community.
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It's not enough to be friends with someone that is part of the LGBTQ plus
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community and not treat them any differently. Treat them just like everyone else in
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your life. No, no, no, you have to treat them like
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a little bit more than that. You have to treat them as special.
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You have to be an ally. You have to wear the T shirt,
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you have to wear the hat, you have to be very outspoken, you
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have to march in the rallies. And if you don't, then you yourself
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are participating in this silence act. Not everybody feels this way, Not everybody
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in the LGBTQ plus community feels this way. I don't think, but I've
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been told it by someone. It wasn't enough for me to say, hey,
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good for you, live your life, you be you. That's not
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enough. I have to wear the T shirt, I have to wear the
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hat, I have to have rainbows on all of my clothes. It's like
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the Seinfeld episode where Kramer does the AIDS walk. You got to wear the
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ribbon. It's not enough. It's not enough to actively they're so ahead of
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their time on so many things, on shows like Seinfeld, so ahead of
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their time. Because that's a perfect analogy for all of this. It's not
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enough that you yourself aren't racist. It's not enough that you yourself don't hate,
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don't discriminate against someone who's different than you, whether it's race, whether
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it's they're part of the LGBTQ plus community, whether it's someone who's going through
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a transition period in their sexuality. It's not enough that you treat them like
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everyone else. That's not enough. You got to wear the ribbon. Why
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don't you wear the ribbon? You got to wear the ribbon? And what
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happens to Kramer when he doesn't wear the ribbon? If you're not familiar with
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the Seinfelder, Yeah, Kramer signs up to participate. I understand not everybody
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watches Seinfeld Kramer, Jerry's neighbor, signs up to participate in an AIDS walk
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to raise money to support AIDS research. He signs up, he shows up
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the day of the AIDS walk, and he walks up and he gets his
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he checks in, he gets his whatever he's got to get to his number
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or whatever. He puts on his shirt and then they try to hand him
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an AIDS ribbon and he says, no things, no thanks, You don't
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wear the ribbon. And he says, no, I do not wear the
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ribbon, but you have to wear the ribbon, and everybody around starts to
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get oh, you're not. Why aren't you wearing the ribbon? Everybody has
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to wear the ribbon. And he tells him, you're a ribbon bully.
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So he leaves participates in the walk. He's raising money to help the AIDS
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community. That's what he's doing by participating in the AIDS walk. He's gotten
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people to sign up donate money. He's doing the walk, and over the
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course of him trying to do the walk, if people realize, wait a
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minute, where's your ribbon. You're not wearing your ribbon, and they proceed
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to beat him up. They rough him up to the point where he can
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barely finish the walk. Now he does ultimately barely finish the walk, but
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he almost isn't even able to complete the AIDS Walk, which would be detrimental
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to the cause since he's trying to raise money by you know, he's got
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people sponsoring that he's going to finish. If he doesn't finish, technically,
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they shouldn't even give their money, should they. So that's what we're looking
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at. We're looking at a situation where you have nurses. Now, are
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there racist nurses in Kentucky? Probably? Are there white racist nurses in Kentucky?
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Probably? Are there black racist nurses and could probably Asian, Hispanic Indian.
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Do we have the possibility that we have racist nurses of all colors origins
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in Kentucky. Yes, that's a real possibility. It's a real possibility.
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But do we also have nurses of all colors and creeds in Kentucky that aren't
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racist? Yes, yes we do. But is it enough? No,
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they have to take the course, they're told they have to take the course.
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Now in the conclusion, it looks like maybe they don't have to,
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but not before people had to get really upset about it. Where's your age
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ribbon? Why aren't you wearing your age ribbon? Take the course learn about
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how you're secretly racist, or learn about how they're secretly racist. Learn about
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how secret racism is all around you and we're all drowning in it. Where's
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your AIG's ribbon? You gotta wear your ribbon. I've been told by people,
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someone who's transitioning, someone who said, I'm going to transition, I
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am going I'm a man, I now am a woman. I've always been
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a woman. This is how I want to live. Didn't treat this person
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any differently. Okay, different name, I can call you by a different
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name. You want me to call you she, I can call you she.
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I may mess up. I may mess up and call you by the
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wrong name and the wrong pronoun that I've been used to for years. But
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hey, it's your life. You do what you gotta do. Did it
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destroy their family yes? Did it hurt the kids, yes? Did it
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hurt the spouse? Yet all of those things were a huge impact on this
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person's life. Okay, but for me, it was you do what you
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gotta do. You you're ultimately the one who's going to be accountable for all
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of the things that you've done, all the decisions you've made, the vows
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that you made to your spouse, and the repercussions of this decision that you
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made, and how it's going to affect your life. But if this is
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what you want to do, that's your business. I'm going to treat you
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like the same person that I treated you before. That wasn't enough. Nope,
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you can't just be on the sidelines. You can't participate in this silence
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because if you're not wearing the ribbon, okay, and it was you know,
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sharing their comments on social media, reposting things and making sure that everybody
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knew what a solid ally I was. You can't be an ally if you
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treat them just like everybody else. If you treat them just like you did
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before, that you don't make any changes at all and how you treat them.
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This was addressed in an episode of ted Lasso. I love the show
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ted Lasso, but they fired one of these out in head Lasso, one
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of these you got to wear the ribbon moments without even appreciating the fact that
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it was a you got to wear the ribbon moments when a character who we
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learn is gay gets outed and everybody says okay, and they say it's okay,
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doesn't change anything. And then there's a moment where Ted has to say,
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no, no, no, sorry, it's not that we don't care.
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We do care, and we want you to know that we care this
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much, and goes on and on. It's not enough just to say it's
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no big deal. Whatever you want to do, you live your life.
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It has to be you have to wear the ribbon. You have to wear
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the ribbon. Everybody has to wear the ribbon. If you don't wear the
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ribbon, then you're not supporting us at all. It's not enough. It's
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not enough to treat us by the content of our character instead of the color
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of our skin. That's not enough. You got to wear the ribbon.
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If only we could go back and explain that to Martin Luther King Junior and
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with inflation. But when you think about inflation from twenty twenty versus now,
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people are spending I mean they're buying less. Two. It's not just that
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you make deviled eggs and then you mix in melted chocolate and top the whole
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thing with chocolate chips. What. I don't know which would be worse that
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or the mustard skittles. They're going to be serving these, I guess at
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the Ohio State Fair. The Ohio Poultry Association is serving up the chocolate deviled
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for life. I don't really know how that works exactly, but all right,
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finally, do you think it's strange that and this came up on Kelly
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Clarkson's TV show I Guess Kristen Bell and Dak Shepherd the couple, both actors
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and Dak Shepherds, are recovering alcoholic and apparently they have eight and nine year
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old kids or daughters, and he drinks non alcoholic beer, and apparently they
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crack open non alcoholic beer for the kids as well. Bell said on the
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show that she thinks it sounds crazy to some people, but she doesn't anything
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wrong with it. She said that because her husband drinks the alcohol free beer,
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and I guess when the kids were young, they would suck on the
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rim of the bottle. That doesn't seem overly like a good idea, but
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okay, and I guess they feel it's a bonding thing between him and the
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if you want. I'm not doing anything wrong. That's your problem. That
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should be the response to most things. And that's really the reason I even
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read the story, because I think that should be the answer to criticism from
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