By Patrisse Cullors
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In today’s video, I share my thoughts on the United States Capitol riot and the ongoing threat of white supremacy in America. I also react to comments from Glenn Grothman, Tom McClintock, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez regarding the 2021 impeachment hearing for Donald Trump.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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y’all patrice colors here welcome back
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to my channel we are talking about the
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capital riots after you watch
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like subscribe comment and ring that
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so i just want to start by saying i
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don’t think
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i ever ever imagined
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in my wildest white supremacist
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nightmares
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that i would witness a coup a failed
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coup at the u.s capitol we all know that
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black lives matter spent an entire
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summer
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protesting racial injustice and
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i talked about it on my last video the
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difference between how
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white protesters and black protesters
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are treated so i’m not going to really
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go into that you should check it out
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for years black lives matter has been
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talking about white supremacist violence
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we have talked about how it impacts
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us and the world we talked about how
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it’s one of the most
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threatening parts of our society
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and unfortunately it took a mob to take
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on the us capitol for folks to notice it
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and see it
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and take it seriously but now
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now i know they are what has also
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happened due to the
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mob and the riot and the white
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supremacist extremists taking on the
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capital
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donald trump was impeached for the
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second time
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and during those hearings there was a
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bunch of [ __ ] going around
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i want to watch some of those clips with
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you and
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i just will
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will react y’all i didn’t watch the
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impeachment hearings because
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who wants to watch and beachbody
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earrings for the second time
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but this is some wild ass [ __ ] this is
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glenn grothman a rep from wisconsin
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you don’t understand why they were here
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they’re scared to death we’re gonna go
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back to the days without donald trump
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of hundreds of thousands of people
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crossing this border every month
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they’re scared to death our man nobody’s
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going to keep our manufacturing here
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they’re scared to doubt that nobody else
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will fight to cancel culture as we head
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towards
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an error when some things can’t be said
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they’re scared to death that a majority
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party got here by teaming up with black
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lives matter
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a bunch of founded by marxism it’s just
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like a family
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see i got a shout out there um
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yeah uh
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i feel like i need to do a video on
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cancel culture and actually talk about
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what it means
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because this is a repeated thing that
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the right
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and the republican party has done they
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take our language and they use it when
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it’s convenient for them
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the president isn’t being canceled the
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president is being held
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accountable for harm and violence those
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are
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two very different things this is tom
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mcclintock i think i did watch this one
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because this one
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i think went viral this is tom
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mcclentock a california rep
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okay well his mask his mask
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says this mask is as useless as our
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governor
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as in governor newsom temperate speech
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as a physical incapacity requiring
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removal from office
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today we define it as a high crime and
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misdemeanor
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well the moment any member of this body
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gives an impassioned speech and the
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lunatic fringe of their movement takes
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license from it
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be prepared to answer to this new
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precedent that we
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established today now i could cite
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plenty of provocative speeches made by
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democrats
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that directly preceded violence this
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summer
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but we’ve already had enough of that so
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our protest last summer and i talked
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about this in
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the black protesters versus white
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protester video majority of our protests
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were peaceful
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the intent was and
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always has been peaceful protest
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it’s in our dna as black lives matter
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and in fact
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it’s in our dna as a civil rights
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movement for black people
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to use non-violent direct action
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community-based solutions to really push
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forward
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um the health and dignity of black
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people
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the capital riots the
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insurrection
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its intent was violence these are two
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different things
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blm is not the same
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as a white supremacist mob it never has
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been
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and it never will be and let me say
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something i’ve said i said this before
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if blm had even tried it
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to take and storm the us capital
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it would have been a massacre the fact
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that this white supremacist mob
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was given instructions
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on how to enter the capital just days
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before
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by republican elected officials who
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gave them information about the capital
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worked alongside with them
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shows white power and privilege and
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action
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these white supremacists are not fringe
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they’re not a fringe part of society
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they were working with our gop
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elected officials now that’s something
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to [ __ ] chew on
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and you know some of you may still be
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comparing blm to the white supremacist
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mob that happened on january 6th
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but i want to say this blm
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and black movements have always been
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fighting for the right to live
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to breathe to be in our dignity
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while the kkk neo-nazis
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white supremacist mobs have been
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fighting
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for their right to oppress
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to humiliate to abuse and harm
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our communities all right and then like
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let’s just watch aoc because she always
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brings the truth like
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thank god for aoc i want to hear or see
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the republican party talk about blue
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lives
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ever again this was never about safety
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for them
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it was always a slogan because if they
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actually cared about rule of law they
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would speak up when people break the law
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they would speak up they would enforce
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fairness and equity but they don’t give
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a damn about the law
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they don’t give a damn about order they
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don’t give a damn about
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about safety they give a damn about
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white supremacy
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i mean that was the best
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like that’s the part that has been the
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most
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stirring these
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lawmakers are the same lawmakers that
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create all the laws to lock up
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criminalize
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demonize black folks brown folks
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and yet when their people white people
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commit acts of terrorism commit
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crimes all of a sudden it’s not that big
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of a deal
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because what we’re seeing the reality of
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it
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is that the gop and the republican party
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are way more invested in white supremacy
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there’s always been a time in history
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when there has been
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a white backlash up against black
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movements
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and black uprisings but this time i feel
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like the rest of the world especially
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elected officials
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are recognizing that white supremacy
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does not end with donald trump and that
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they are going to have to change
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their attitude around how they
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understand
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white supremacists and white supremacist
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extremists
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