What Direction Is Our Culture Going In? | With Brandon Tatum

so let's talk about culture brandon we. were just having an interesting. discussion backstage why don't you why. don't you start off and just tell me i. guess. what your viewpoint is on the direction. that black culture and culture in. general i think would be fair to say is. treading right now in america. well i think uh cultures you know people. are so soft these days i mean. this weak. soft crybabies. men don't want to be men anymore. um. it's and it's across the board and you.

know you can see that with people who. lack personal responsibility you know i. was raised that everything that happened. to you has everything to do with your. attitude and the way you you know handle. adversity it's not somebody else's fault. you can't blame the white man you can't. blame your cousin them you can't blame. none of these people you got to look in. the mirror at that person that you see. every day and say do i want to win the. day or do i want to lose do i want to. keep selling drugs or do i want to put.

the drugs down and actually live a life. of freedom you know do i want to be. married do i want to you know keep. sleeping with women i'm not married. you know putting myself in a position to. have children out of wedlock those are. decisions that you make as an individual. and i feel like people want to pass the. bucket to everybody else instead of. looking in the mirror. start looking in the mirror start being. the best version of yourself. and i think that that will change. culture for the better. i want to add to that because i actually. had done an event the other night and um.

what you're talking about is a. generational change the mindset has. changed from one generation to the next. and i you guys know my grandfather is my. i'm i'm he's my biggest fan and i'm his. biggest fan and he really is my idol um. and it's so interesting to me to to. have lived you know been raised by a man. who lived through real racism when i say. real racism i'm talking about real. systemic oppression jim crow laws right. a grandfather who grew up in a. segregated south.

and to speak to him on a daily basis and. to have him never complain about. anything right then you find your. average american today. and they never stop complaining about. anything right it's it's a non-stop. complaining and so you look at the. generation you say. just a couple of generations ago the. average age of d-day when when they. landed those ships um in in france the. average age of a soldier that fought it. was an absolute slaughter fest obviously. you know that omaha beach we got the bad.

beach it was just bad luck you know we. went with the canadians the britons. americas americans got omaha beach the. average age as they were crossing the. english channel they were crying saying. that they wanted their mother was 22. years old 22 years old. your average 22 year old today if i find. i don't care what race you are right if. i find a 22 year old today the average. one on a college campus is crying. because ben shapiro's coming to speak. and i just can't deal with it. it's pathetic. yeah.

you know i was i was just at clemson uh. speaking and they went they had all. these people out there protesting and. saying that our presence on the campus. was oppressive to them and that it's. somehow i don't know if it's hurting. their grades or whatever because we're. i i just don't i don't understand and. and another thing with culture nowadays. is people are so uninformed. i mean they make such emotional. decisions about everything you know they. read a headline and that's what they go. they'll die on that hill uh one perfect.

example and and i'm detouring just a. little bit one perfect example is the. the young guy that got killed the 13. year old boy. adam toledo got killed by a police. officer and if you look at the news you. look at everybody's outrage they want to. protest they got t-shirts already. printed out and they're going this guy. didn't have a gun the cops just murdered. him in cold blood we need justice we. need to demilitarize police and it's. like. you guys are completely missing the. point you're completely wrong the kid. had a gun it was unfortunate but he had. a gun the biggest question that we.

should be talking about if people want. to hold themselves accountable is why. does a 13 year old have a gun. at 2 a.m. shooting the gun off in the intersection. and running from police. and and i'll add this other one in with. the with uh dante wright. okay you know i wish that people would. not resist the rest i mean it's kind of. it's just simple like i get pulled out. by a cop because i'm wrong whether i'm. wrong or not i'm not going to resist and.

i would live. nine times out of ten for sure but the. question is to me is that why. is a 20 year old man. on social media waving around a gun. smoking a blunt with hennessy in his. hand with a warrant for his arrest for. robbing a woman choking and robbing a. woman at gunpoint. and. not showing up to court driving on a. suspended registration what what culture. what what type of young men are we. creating that this young man is doing.

all these things at the age of 20 and he. had a young daughter. that is that to me is more baffling. then the police interaction because all. of these things that has happened in his. life all of the choices that his parents. made and that he made got him in a. position. for a police officer to make a mistake. now don't get me wrong she should never. be a police officer again in my personal. opinion there's no way you should. confuse the ta now there's a. psychological reason why you could but.

there's no legitimate reason why you. should confuse the two. but all of these things led this young. man to the position that he was in we. see the same thing with george floyd we. see the same thing with all of these. people that are getting killed by police. it's decisions that they're making and. not holding themselves accountable and i. think one of the things to ask ourselves. is. why we're not allowed to ask why right. so you you have a situation that happens. and everybody wants you to react. emotionally and in an ideal scenario. they want you to go out and they want. you to write and they want you to loot. and for whatever reason they want you to.

steal a tv from target. because right now i feel like that's a. thing right i feel like now actually. people aren't even upset and they're. just going yay it's still a tv from. target night and we can run in and we. can steal a tv. but what i have found interesting is. that these are really important. questions why these people have guns why. why did george floyd you're saying. you're doing this because black lives. matter but you refuse to discuss the. fact that this individual george floyd. aside from being a drug addict let's not. forget when i first did that video. everyone swore he was saint george they.

were saying that he had just gotten his. life back together all of these lies. were making their way around the world. and i just asked a simple question i. just googled his record right and i said. if you're talking about preserving last. you know black lives or helping black. lives this man spent his entire. life. traumatizing black people he was. arrested for armed robbery several times. he spent nine stints in prison he was. moving drugs so you're moving drugs into. the black community you're getting. arrested you know for armed robbery you. put a gun to a a a black or hispanic.

woman you know a minority woman's. stomach while her two-year-old was in. the room her toddler was in the room. you've traumatized black people your. entire life and you want me to go out. and riot in lieu on your behalf when on. a day that you were ingesting drugs you. were high on fentanyl isn't this just. called like you know you know a cycle of. crazy you want me to go risk being. arrested so you have a bunch of people. who don't have records who are told that. they're supposed to be emotional they're. supposed to go out they're supposed to. riot they're supposed to loot in turn. what is the circumstance you have one.

black person you know who died that day. and it's what seems to be clear to me. from his medical records is of a drug. overdose whether or not let's not even. discuss derek shobin just purely one. person one black life and you are. willing to kill how many black lives for. that. right we're heart we're hurting the. black community and yet when two people. get on stage and want to talk about that. we're told we're the uncle toms where. the coons because we are not falling for. what seems to me to be a more nefarious. media message which is that black people. are only worth anything if they're.

outside and they're angry and they're. rioting and they're destroying their own. communities. amen. one of the issues that i see is that i. feel like that many people. you know including uh americans of. african descent is what i like to call. black people in this country like losing. the connection with god. is where i see the biggest problems. there we're not connecting with god like.

we used to. big mama used to have a big old bible. that she carried around all the time and. you get in trouble she'll probably pop. you in the head with it in the name of. jesus power. so. you know but we grew up in you know. believing in god and grandma used to. always say you're going to go to jail or. hell if you keep going down that path. selling them drugs and don't get your. lesson grandma you say lessons you don't. say go to school you can get your lesson. i'm like give my lesson but but but.

that's that used to be valuable. to us going to church being a man of god. teaching young people how to be. leaders and servants serving in the. church and different things like that i. mean even if you're not a christian you. can understand service. i learned a long time ago. and the reason why i love this country. so much is when i started serving with. my life when i became a police officer. and i had to put my life on the line and. i said you know what i'm i'm i'm willing. to die for for people that i do not even. know.

that made me more patriotic that made me. feel like i have value and and the. problem is. that. without god and without serving others. our young people don't feel like they. have value and they gain value from. gangs listening to cardi b twerking and. doing all this other crazy stuff and. they see the value there and. that doesn't get you far in life. that's not going to make you successful.

that's not going to put you in a. position where you really want to be.