Double Standards in Democracy: Unmasking the Legacy of January 6th

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A Black Executive Perspective now presents Need to Know

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with the award winning hyphenated Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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Dr.

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Burton.

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What do we need to know?

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Dr. Nsenga Burton: Good afternoon

and welcome to Need to Know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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I am she.

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I'm coming to you today to talk about

January 6th, which we really weren't

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talking about enough to my satisfaction.

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Uh, I am really, there's a meme

that's been going around online that

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says I will never get over We'll

figure out how January 6th was not

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a deal breaker, and I don't know who

originated that meme, but I would

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like to co sign 10, 000 times on that.

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Um, you know, it's just really sad when

you have such a major event unfold.

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I mean, it really is a

treasonous act at best.

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And at worst, I would say it's domestic

terrorism and, you know, the fact

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that they can so easily, they'd be

in media police officers, people of

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that nature leaders can so accurately

describe the attack on New Orleans as

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a terrorist attack, but will not do

the same for something as heinous and

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as harmful and as detrimental to our

country as a January 6 treasonous act.

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Uh, is Just really unthinkable,

you know, so we, we kind of know

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why these things happen, right?

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Ideology, uh, this obsession with, uh,

white, whiteness and white supremacy, um,

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this idea that, um, treasonous, um, in

our country, we're the only country to

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actually let treasonous live, by the way.

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So we're still dealing with, you

know, the remnants of treasonous,

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treasonous from the civil war,

um, who, um, you know, really.

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If we were in a different country

would have been taken out.

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Right?

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Um, but when you let that poison get

into that tree and go down into the

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roots, it's hard to get rid of it.

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And so we're still dealing with all

of that now, as someone who lives in

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Georgia, the state of Georgia, I mean,

it's literally every day when it's

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the confederate flag, whether it is

someone talking nonsensically about

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the civil war, because they really

just rewritten the history of it.

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Um, you know.

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All of that matters, and all

of that is tied to whether

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we want to admit it or not.

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Uh, the January 6th, uh, attempted

overthrow of the government.

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I would say it was, it was an overthrow

of the government because, you know,

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people were running for their lives.

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Our vice president, they were

threatening to hang our vice president.

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Um, they did all of these things.

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They killed police officers.

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You know, and this is, and this

is why it's just not, it doesn't.

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It's just like you're killing police

officers, you're threatening the lives of

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Congress people, including your own people

in your party that you claim to support,

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um, you're overthrowing, uh, or trying to

overthrow and not certify the election.

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Uh, I mean, all of these

things are happening and it's

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somehow, you know, an event.

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You know, you let all these

people go home, like, literally

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somewhere home in time for dinner.

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Um, and then you have to spend years

finding them and bringing them to justice

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so that they can be pardoned by, uh, 47.

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So, you know, I, I just

think when, when people.

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Want people to be accountable.

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It's real hard to do that when we

live in a system and a world where

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accountability doesn't matter,

particularly for our highest leaders.

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You know, whether we're talking about 47,

who's trying not to be sentenced, even

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though he's not going to have to serve

any time for all these crimes he committed

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while the prisons are filled with people

who were serving time, doing the same

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crimes that they committed, you know,

you, there's this double standard, right?

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And then you want Joe Biden to put

his son in jail when our 47 is gone.

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Escape jail, um, just to prove

something to Democrats, um, you

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know, to prove that we're the better

people, uh, which makes no sense at

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all, you know, regardless of party.

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I don't think I know.

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I don't know anybody who's going

to call up the police and be like,

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take my, my kid and put him in jail.

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I don't know those people.

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Maybe, you know, I

don't know those people.

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So again, are an unwillingness

to live in the real world, right?

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This unwillingness to face what's in

front of us, this unwillingness to

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address what is actually happening,

happening and has happened.

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And this is how we get to 47.

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Right.

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So, um, I just wanted to say today,

um, I need to know, uh, we need to

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know that our standards are gone.

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Um, we have a sexual abuser coming

into the White House for a 2nd time.

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We had all the data about this person.

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Um, from our horrendous experience

from: 2016

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death of over a million people,

uh, that was preventable, uh, which

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we're not talking about that either.

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I don't know.

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We're talking about, uh, Israel and

Palestine, but we're not talking

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about what's happening here.

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I don't know why we can do both.

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Truly.

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So, um, I just will not understand how

January 6th was not a deal breaker.

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And I will not understand

how this country continues to

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literally be its own worst enemy.

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Uh, by not holding those who are

in power accountable, um, and not

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only doing that, but elevating them.

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Um, I, I just won't, I

won't understand that.

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So, you need to know if you want to

hold people accountable, you actually

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have to represent it yourself.

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When you don't represent it yourself,

don't be surprised when all sorts of

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tomfoolery unfolds, which is absolutely

going to happen, uh, over the next

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four years and many more to come.

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All right.

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So this is Need to Know with Dr.

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Nsenga Burton.

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