I've written over almost 200 articles on constitutional issues, legislative issues, how they apply to the constitution, and everything that I do and everything that I teach is not my opinion. I teach from the words of the fronters of this nation. How many of you heard the presentation that I gave last night? The book that I was reading, I need to give a share of math and he needs to teach me how to be a better businesswoman. I'm not a businesswoman, I'm a content person, my husband handles all that stuff. But this is the book that I was reading from last night. This is a book that I've written and I have available today. This is actually a book that I wrote to be a tool for parents to help teach their students the truth about the foundation of this nation because they're not getting that in the government schools and they're not getting it in private schools either. You have to know that the same textbooks that are used to create government school curriculum are used to create private school curriculums. They're made in the same textbook factories with the same teachers and professors that were taught in the same systems. So you get the same corruption of history in your private school curriculums that you do in your public school curriculums. So here we go. Are you ready to blast off? How many of you realize that all three branches of government have failed the Constitution? Okay, but we won't spend a lot of time there because I gave you several examples last night. Your federal government is broken, there is no recourse left in the federal government. What was the last time you wrote your congressman and got the same letter that 250,000 other people got? If you got anything at all. I bet Sheriff Mack writes his congressman, he never even gets a reply because they have a blackout list. If your name is on the blackout list, you can write them 400 times and they will never reply to you. My Florida representative will not even respond to my emails. So when the federal government fails, the states are left to defend the republic. If your states refuse to defend the republic, you have to. See, it's sort of like a chain of command. Not really because you have more authority than the state the federal government does, but nonetheless that's how it works. Let me ask you something really quick. Who has more power in your county? The sheriff or the president of the United States? Who has more power in your county, the sheriff or your congressman? Who has more power in your county, the sheriff or your state senator? Who has more power in your county, your sheriff or your governor? So where should you be focusing all of your attention? Yet here we are in a world, in a country where we spend billions of dollars on national elections. People by and large only show up to vote in national elections. And you get a very small percentage of people who actually vote in local elections. All your power is there. Let me tell you something. When I teach the history, our forefathers identified what they called a malignant and pernicious design in 1641. A malignant and pernicious design that tyrants use that they saw over 600 years prior to their discovery of this malignant and pernicious design that tyrants use to subvert liberty. Are you interested in knowing what the malignant and pernicious design was in 1641? Corruption of the court system. Infiltration of foreign law. Diminishing property rights of the people. The government inserting itself in the church. Manipulation of the monetary system. And the government disarming the people while the government remained unlawfully armed. I'm sure I'm your honest follow today. That was the malignant and pernicious design as identified in 1641. Your local elections are your only solution. Stop being intoxicated by the federal elections. That's what they're there for. We had just inaugurated a king in January, right? And at his inauguration, we were already talking about the 2016 presidential election. Which by the way, I'll insert my opinion for just a second. Stop looking at Marble Rubio. Marble Rubio is an enemy to this constitution. I'll figure that out and talk to me later. If you want to understand the proper role of your state, the proper role of your local government, we've got to get back to some basics. Some things that have not been taught for decades. How many of you have heard of the Lee resolution? The Lee resolution was the legislative action that gave authority for the Declaration of Independence. Unlike history portrayed in movies, they didn't just all have too much beer and fish and chips in 1994. Wake up, get ticked off the king and go sign the Declaration. This was the Lee resolution as written by Richard Henry Lee was the authorization for the delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence. A three-step process for declaring independence. Step number one, we are 13 independent sovereign states. When did we sign the Declaration of Independence? July, right? July of 76. This is June of 76. Prior to the Declaration of Independence, the states were already independent states. Now, there's another thing that you have to understand that we're going to address here really, really quickly. That word state to our framers did not mean Missouri, California, Georgia, Florida. It meant Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France. It meant country. We are 13 independent sovereign countries. We are no longer bound to the Great Britain. We are independent and sovereign alone. Step number two, as 13 independent newly formed sovereign countries, we must seek alliance with foreign nations to obtain our independence. They were 13 brand new little countries. There is no way they knew by themselves that they would be able to come up with the resources and the materials and the manpower to overthrow the most powerful government in the world. Step number three, as 13 independent sovereign countries who have just now gone into debt with foreign nations and are inviting them to occupy our territories to help facilitate our independence, we must form a confederation. If they did not form a confederation, they would have been immediately occupied and overcome by the very foreign aid that they had received. You don't really think France was helping us because they were just good guys. They were looking to get something out of us. So the states existed prior to the Declaration of Independence and we have then our first attempt in the Constitution called the Articles of Confederation which did not work out well for us because our framers wanted to create a very small central government. In spite of what you may have heard about the revisionists there was not a plan to create a large centralized government by even Alexander Hamilton. Small centralized government is what they wanted and they created one so small that it could not run. They had delegated the same powers to that federal government that we delegated to ours but they did not give the power to levy taxes and they did not give any power of enforcement of treaties or the power exerted by the central government that was delegated. You see, taxes are necessary. That's the bad news. You cannot run a government without taxes. Problem is corruption in taxes. When you're collecting taxes for the central government to do things they're not authorized to do that's when you have serious problems. Not only that, if the central government is collecting taxes from the people that's unconstitutional the states were supposed to be collecting the taxes from the people and paying the central government because the central government as you will see in a few minutes is the employee of the states. Then we get the Constitution of the United States which is why it's called the more perfect union because it was our second attempt. George Washington was not the first president of the United States. He was the first president under the more perfect union. I want to read to you this. This is the conclusion to the Declaration of Independence and it verifies to you what I mean about that word state. We therefore represent this of the United States of America. In central Congress assembled appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions those nasty atheists. In the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly published and declared that these United colonies are and above right ought to be free and independent states that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and what is this word right here? State of Great Britain. Is an ought to be totally dissolved and that as free and independent states just like Great Britain. Look at this power now. This confirms to you that they were not talking about Florida, Georgia or Missouri. They were talking about Great Britain, France and Spain. The power to let a war conclude peace, contract alliances and establish commerce and they're talking about external commerce not internal commerce and do all other acts and things which independent states may have right do. How many of your states understand that they have the power to let a war conclude peace as contract foreign alliances and establish foreign commerce and for the support of this declaration with firm reliance on the protection of divine providence. We mutually pledge to each other our lives in fortune and sacred honor. Now the Liberals love international law and each by the way our sovereignty is the sole reason the United Nations hates us because the United Nations can go in and take any other country in the world but they cannot take the United States with one felt swim because they know we are 50 independent sovereign countries that have come together through a confederation much to the chagrin of Barack Obama who calls us a consolidation. This is valid international law. This means that even the United Nations must recognize that every state in the United States is free, sovereign and independent. Articles of confederation are first attempt. Article 2 was the precursor to the 10th Amendment. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence and every power, jurisdiction and right. What were those power, jurisdiction and right? Levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish foreign commerce. Not by this confederation, not consolidation, expressly delegated. Now that word delegated is very important, we'll catch that in a second. What is the nature of our republic? The states are united in a compact or a contract. The crazy thing is every single lawyer. Now you guys know that lawyers are nothing more than law students who have passed the bar, right?  So the sum and total of what your judge knows is based on what his practice of law is and what he learned in law school and they don't teach the Constitution in law school. They teach constitutional law which is worse than teaching nothing at all because constitutional law classes teach that men and women in black robes know more about the Constitution than the men who wrote it. Which is why you get this living, breathing document lie which tells you that these men and women in black robes can tell you what the Constitution means regardless of what the founders meant and it is based on what they believe in that day and that time. But the Constitution is a compact or a contract. Now a compact is the same thing as a contract except a compact is a contract between governments and a contract is a contract between people. So I use those words interchangeably because I'm speaking to laymen.  The interesting thing about this, how many of you have heard that the Constitution is a contract between the people and the federal government? Yeah? This is interaction so we're going to keep talking about this I'm going to need your feedback. That is a popular misconception. It cannot be a contract between the people and the central government because the central government did not exist until the Constitution was ratified. You cannot have the product of the Constitution becoming a party to the Constitution that is a temporal impossibility. The Constitution is a contract between the states. The Constitution is a contract. The states are a party to that contract which is important because as we run through the framework's perspective in this they are going to several times refer to the Constitution as a compact or they'll refer to the states as the parties to that compact. The states created the central government. Is that a stretch? Do we get that at all? I don't know. Do you get it? Well that's why we asked you here so I was hoping you could make people get it. I'm trying. Okay, look. Which existed first? The central government or the states? The states existed in June of 76, right? Prior to the Declaration of Independence. The states then got together and created the Constitution in 1787 ratified the Constitution. The Constitution created the federal government, right? So the central government is a product of the Constitution. The states are the parties to the Constitution. Since the states created the Constitution, the Constitution created the central government. The states created the central government. Do you see that? Yes. So the states created the central government and surrendered everything over to the big picture. We're getting there. We're getting there. We're getting there. We're going to do this in small pieces. Yes. What about the question where, wasn't it referred to the people though, directly to them as a contract? I'm not going to do this in 45 minutes. So listen. The 9th and 10th Amendments help explain that, okay? The 9th and 10th Amendments are not like 1 through 8. 1 through 8 are the declaration of rights. The 9th and 10th Amendments are provisions in contracts called, oh and the word's just going to come right out of my mouth. Oh my goodness, how did this happen? No construction. The 9th and 10th Amendments are called Rules of Construction and a contract, a rule of construction, tells the reader of the contract how to apply every provision within the contract. The 9th Amendment declares all the rights belong to the people, okay? Power emanates from rights. Power doesn't exist by itself. It must come from rights. All the rights belong to the people. All the power belongs to the people. But when we enter into governments, we delegate certain powers to certain levels of government to achieve a purpose for us. Several times they say we surrender provisions of liberty in order to maintain government. Why do we do that? The Constitution was created to secure the blessings of liberty. The Constitution was not created to create a central government. It was created to secure the blessings of liberty. The mechanism we chose to secure the blessings of liberty was a central government from the international perspective. Now the people are the ultimate parties to the contract, but they delegated the contracting authority to the states. So we are never separated from our states. Can a state exist without its people? It does not have a life on its own. So that's why the 9th and 10th Amendments are there, is to keep us linked in understanding the source of the power and the fact that all the rights belong to us.


L. It's finished. Lin Marnes is more than 90 years old and hasn't stood at his full height in 10. He was a tower of a man in his prime, 2 meters tall, and built like a boxer. Nearly nobody he ever met was able to look him straight in the eye, at least not until him know. Illness has gradually eaten away at that over the years. He feels as if he lives at the bottom of a deep bath, everybody he ever meets, looking down at him from slippery, unscalable walls, none of them able to reach down to help him. He spent his final months crumpled up in bed, like a dying spider, changing to a corpses color ahead of time. It might have been bearable if he'd lost his mind, but he remembers what he used to be, a leader, a powerhouse. He used to be able to alter the course of terrible events for the better, to get justice. He used to protect people. L. You can wake up now. There's a warm wind through his thin, colorless hair, and there's direct sunlight coming down on him now, and the heat is filling him up like a tonic. He's outside. It's been too long since he was last outside. When he opens his eyes, he sees his lake, the one in the northwest, which he used to have all to himself every summer. He's on a boat, his boat, lying on a blanket laid on the deck. A few kilometers away behind them is the little lake house, empty. It's perfect. He didn't know he had the strength left to safely leave the hospital, let alone travel this far. But if he'd put his mind to it and selected a final moment, this might have been it. Do you remember me? Marnus looks with eyes which are strengthening. The woman speaking is seated on the deck beside him, attentive. She has a large plastic box full of medical supplies open in front of her, and a light suit jacket laid on the deck beside it, and she has her sleeves rolled up so she can work. As he watches, she carefully disposes of a needle. A dim memory surfaces and starts taking shape. The woman is twice as old now as when he knew her last, and visibly twice as confident. It would be difficult to forget her. He taught her everything he, well, everything he could remember at the time. He remembers her as a field agent. He remembers sending her through hell, a fistful of times. Marianne. Elle, the woman softly explains, you died.  They loved you very much, and they cried over you. The funeral for the fake is in a few days, but unfortunately you won't be able to see it yourself.  Marianne. Hutchinson. Marnus feels gold spreading through his bones, miracle juice. It's Wheeler now, but she doesn't correct him. When you retired from the Foundation, Elle, we did what we do to all of us who retire. What all of us agreed to when we signed up.  As you stepped out of the door for the last time, all the work you did for us. Great work, which saved lives, evaporated away.  That's why you spent your whole retirement believing you were a former Section Chief at the FBI. It's what you wanted. It's what we wanted. It's what you agreed to. But you alone agreed to something else as well. And you must be starting to remember now what that something else was. I've injected you with a serum, which throws the human-aiding process into hard reverse, and it affects everything. Organs. Tissues. Memories. He'll be coming up on it soon. Remember? Yes. Marnus croaks. Remembering. Dizzy. You signed over your final 12 hours to us. You asked for a full and happy and well deserved retirement. But now, for the last day, you work for us again. Because of one particular job. I have it in writing here, you see? Do you recognize your signature and mine? I witnessed. Yes. Do you remember who you are? Dr. Lynn Patrick Marnus of the Foundation. He says. Anti-Memetics Division founder. Wheeler smiles with relief. It's good to see him again. We need some memories from you, she explains. Memories which nobody else in the world has access to, and which are buried so deeply that we can't extract them without killing you. So this afternoon, that's what we're going to do. We're going to extract those memories, and once we're done, you'll be dead. Marnus had already begun to regress to the time when he himself set this wheel in motion. He remembers very clearly discovering the mystery in his own head. The blank spots which he couldn't explain, and couldn't safely access with any kind of chemical or physical technique. He remembers deferring the mystery until now. What happened in 1976? Wheeler asks. Marnus sits up. His skin is beginning to clear, and his breathing is improving.  In his right eye, he sees the lake and the boat he's dying on. In his left, he sees a collage of electrifyingly familiar past faces and places.  The original Site 48 crew, great text, but a hopeless excuse for a softball team. Being Marian with steel-strong nerves, and a mind-like laser, suits and lab coats and empty of operatives, and everywhere, paperwork, and floods of serial numbers. He starts to speak. 1976 was the year he founded the division. He brainstormed the whole thing in one legendary week, hammering out the signs and then distilling the first chemical nestic with the help of a hand-picked trio of assistants, the first anti-mimetics researchers. No anti-mimetic SCPs had even been observed up to that point. The entire operation was a shot in the dark, and yet the team immediately struck gold. Passive black holes of information, active predatory infivores, unrememberable worms, which cover the human skin like dust mites, contagious bad news, self-sealing secrets, living murders, Chinatowns. Wheeler wonders if there might be something more serious awry with Marinus' head. His version of events is hopelessly romantic. In Wheeler's experience, nobody looks back when Foundation worked fondly. But it was all too fast, Marinus says. Special continuing procedures take time to develop, much more time than I took. The Foundation as a whole acquires about a dozen new SCPs annually. I found that many in one year essentially single-handedly. It was too easy. It was as if I knew it all already, and I was just catching up. And then, one day I realized I couldn't remember my life before anti-mimetics. I knew I'd been a Foundation operative for decades prior. That was where I got the authority to start my own division. But there was nothing else there. It was a wall in my mind, which even Nestix couldn't get me past. I went to the paper archives and looked at my own personnel file and... Marinus trails off. Not because he's forgotten what to say next. It's deliberate. The trailing off is exactly what happened.  He went through the loop a dozen times before someone realized what was happening and broke you out of it. Wheeler knows all of this. The file still exists, and the anti-mimetic effect still clouds the back half of it. All of this would be over in a second, if any of that back half could be read. When I assembled the evidence, what I found was, well, a hole. Like a jigsaw with only the edges and corners. So I did the only thing I could do. I looked at the shape of the hole. And together with Bart Hughes and others, I formed a theory. This is not the first anti-mimetic division. Before 1976, there was another one. I was part of that division. Possibly I led it. Certainly, I am the only known survivor of it. Something happened to that team. Some anti-mimetic force chewed up and swallowed the idea of the anti-mimetic division itself. I was led off lightly. I lived. The rest of those people, whoever they were, however many of them there were, are missing without a trace. Wheeler knows. This much we know already. I was there when you wrote the note, remember? The question is known. It's the answer that we can't get to without killing you. It's the answer that we've waited all these years to get at. I'm here to ask you, what happened? Marnus covers his right eye and grimaces, trying. He fails. It's not there. He hasn't sent me back far enough. There's still that wall there in my head. I remember why the question exists, but I don't remember the answer. I need more. Wheeler swaps his arm and gives him another 10 years. Marnus seems like another man once the second ex-dose takes effect. Ring-girls are sliding back up into his face. Muscle mass is returning to his limbs, but it takes Wheeler a second to realize the real reason why. She's just booted him back across the field desk agent transition. Marnus has regressed a little way past senior management, the realm where most problems were solved by saying the correct words, and into a time where he survived through physical fitness, situational alertness, and hands-on experience. Marnus gets to his feet for the first time in years. He scans his surroundings, examining the placid golden lake and the sky and the boat itself. He doesn't sit down again. He smooths down his hospital gown, wishing he had a sweater and, separately, some fishing gear. He brushes a hand through new, old air. His sideburns are back. We weren't foundation at first, he says. The first Antimimax Division was a U.S. Army project. It ran in parallel with Manhattan during World War II. We called ourselves the Unthinkables. It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two years, enough theory had been developed that the task had been reduced to an engineering problem. Another two years, and the engineering problem had been reduced as well, and what we had built was a very special kind of bomb. Unfortunately, we didn't understand what we'd built. Back then, we didn't have the nestics or the shielding that we could use to protect ourselves. We didn't understand how far ahead you need to think when you're working with this kind of technology. We got looped. It was textbook. We built the Unthinkable bomb, and Tess detonated it, and it worked perfectly. The bomb destroyed itself and erased its own successful detonation, and flattened all the knowledge which had gone together to build it. We forgot that we had ever built the bomb at all, and started over. To our credit, we realized pretty quickly what must have happened. There was a four-year gap in our progress now, and there was no other way to explain it.  The Nazis had been defeated by conventional means, and the Japanese had been broken by the first atomic bombings. So we completed the second anti-mimetic bomb, and after that, we sound it. Marion Wheeler is silent for a long time. The U.S. Army, she says doubtfully, was secretly developing anti-mimetic weaponry as early as the 1940s? We sure were, Marnus says, with more than a hint of pride. Of course, there is no one in the whole world who could back this up. That's right, Marnus says, flashing a smile he hasn't flashed in decades. He only had my word for it. Cute, huh? Still, this is why you resurrected me, isn't it? For the sake of one more good war story. God, I've missed shop talk. I resurrected you because I want a very specific question answered, Wheeler says. Although I can see that, in a way, you've already answered it. This bomb was the means, wasn't it? The old anti-mimetic division? The unthinkables. Bomb themselves? Somehow. That's right, Marnus says. From context, Wheeler goes on. I assume that they knew what they were doing that time. I assume it was not an accident. It was not, Marnus says. He displaced half of Marnus' brain is anchored in the 70s now. So the true history of the new original unthinkables is an open book to him. And he reads. After the war, the second bomb collected dust for years. We began sketching improved designs for a third bomb. But around that time, oversight was starting to flick around. We completed our research and production objectives and were given no further objectives. Funding became shaky and we couldn't figure out why. It wasn't entirely clear that the project overseers knew what we were doing, or even that they remembered we existed. It was a side effect from the research, of course, one we had no way of managing at that time. In 1951, a cult movement began in Ojai, California. It was wrong. Everything about it was just wrong. In a matter of days, it was a national phenomenon that's still growing. It was all over the news. To spread that far in months would have been incredible. But days was simply impossible. We and the team could see that the philosophy behind the cult was unnaturally contagious. It was the opposite of unthinkable. It was unforgettable. We knew that this was what our bomb was designed for. We prompted the overseers for direction. But there were no orders. At the time that the outbreak began, we were a U.S. Army laboratory, through and through. Eight days into the crisis, the foundation acquired us. All the classified research, all the material resources, and all the compliant top staff, including me. Anybody who wouldn't comply was mind-wiped and sent back to the Army. Twenty hours after the acquisition, we deployed the second bomb, and the cult was gone. Nobody remembered it. Nobody remembered being part of it. After a loss of life, a completely clean detonation.  Once we started working for the foundation, the pace of research ramped up. Every new technological advancement uncovered new hidden SCPs. I passed the foundation field exams and went out catching ghosts. My life turned into the Twilight Zone. I... Marnus blinks hard. He covers one of his eyes, then the other. I remember all these different people now, he says. It feels like my memory is in stereo. Almost every anti-mimetic SCP we caught before the wipe in 1976, we caught again soon after the wipe. That means I remember two acquisition logs for each one. I remember two anti-mimetics teams, and I don't remember who belongs on which side of the wall. Do you remember Goldy Yarrow, the neurologist? The mechanism of anomalously accelerated memory loss wrote a library book on a subject? Wheeler doesn't. Dr. Ojibiro? Julie Still? Elle, this is important. Are you at the right place in your own timeline to remember what happened yet? Marnus focuses, and he discovers that he is. Something changes in his eyes as he stops reminiscing. He speaks more slowly now, his voice dropping almost to a whisper. There is an SCP which your division has never seen. The SCP which my division couldn't contain. The escapee. This is what you wanted, isn't it, Marion? Yes, she says, this is the data I'm killing you for. She leaves a gap where, if she felt there was anything to apologize for, she would apologize. Marnus locks eyes with her. It was eating my divisional life. It came at us so hard and so fast that the only way we could stop it was to self-destruct. But we had no sight-nuke, and in retrospect, it's obvious to me now that this was because the SCP had consumed our sight-nuke first of all. If you know it exists, it knows you exist. The more you know about it, the more it knows about you. If you can see it, it can see you. And you can see it. You've been looking right at it all afternoon. Wheeler is suddenly acutely aware of her surroundings. There are only two of them on the boat. The boat is anchored more than a kilometer from any of the lake shores. She hasn't brought any backup with her. There's a radioactive prickling in her brain. She doesn't? Red flag. Why didn't I bring any backup with me? That doesn't make sense. There should be a team at the lake house. There should be an MTF operative and a medic here on the boat with me. And a second boat. At minimum. Am I all alone out here? Why did I do that? She pulls her gun, but doesn't aim it at Marnus yet. Where is it? Is it in you? Marnus' voice is becoming urgent. He covers both of his eyes again. The old knowledge of it was the only way to destroy it. And restoring my memories was a foolproof way to bring it back. It's in his eyes. Most likely his left eye. Wheeler backs up to the other side of the boat, draws a bead on the center of Marnus' head and says, L, are you still in there? There is a way to fix this. Marnus hisses, dropping to his knees. He keeps his eyes screwed up and gropes his way forward blindly on his hands and knees. Well, you need to tell me what this thing is. That's the opposite of what we need to do, Marnus says. You need to set another bomb off. We don't have that bomb. We lost the technology. Wheeler begins. You've always had it. There's an engineering lab in Site 41, you know it. An underground complex the size of a football field in pristine condition and totally disused. Why? Think about it. That's where your bombs installed. But that just sets us back to square one. If I set the bomb off, Wheeler says, knowing full well that she is thousands of kilometers from it and can't hope to reach it in time anyway. How do we contain this thing? We won't, Marnus shouts. We can't ever. Don't you get it? The whole division is looped. We start the division, we run headlong into this thing and either it eats us or we wipe ourselves out in self-preservation. The idea of anti-memes is as old as forgetfulness itself. Humans have been looping through this problem over and over again since long before the 40s, maybe for centuries. His blindly probing fingers find the medical box. It's too late. As Wheeler watches, a waving black pedipalp coated in dark hairs forces its way out through Marnus' left eye. Marnus screams. Still in his knees, he grasps the pedipalp with both hands and tries to break it. But it's solid as if it has bones inside it. What is it? Wheeler shouts at him. That can't be the whole story. Where is it from? What does it want? Can it reason? Can it speak? Help. A second spider leg, significantly longer and spindlier, slides out through Marnus' trachea, ruining his throat and voice box, and producing a gout of blood. He gurgles. The third leg shoots from his abdomen like a spear. Wheeler shoots Marnus in the head. Marnus falls forward, limp, then rises back up, lifted by the three spider penises, as if he is a puppet being controlled by something gigantic and invisible. His arm is raised as if suspended by wires. Wheeler squints. She fires four more shots over Marnus' head, at the likely body mass of the invisible puppeteer, and fires the rest of her clip almost directly into the sky. The whole boat vibrates, along with the surface of the lake, as if responding to an infrasound or a localized earthquake. Then the boat shutters violently and starts to lift out of the water, raised by more unseen appendages. Wheeler holsters her gun and goes for the medical box herself, pulling it away from Marnus' floating feet. There's a compartment with Class B amnestic, the fast-acting stuff in serum form. She does a hurried burst of mental arithmetic, measures out the correct dosage in a syringe, and hands shaking, plunges it into a wrist vein. The boat is still rising. Whatever the monster is, it's colossally tall. Or maybe it flies. She is, of course, already dosed up to the eyeballs with nested drugs. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to perceive any of this. The medical literature warns in the strongest possible terms against putting both kinds of drug into the same brain. Best case scenario, this ends with her in the hospital. They're 30 meters up in the air now, 10 stories. There's a stabbing pain developing in her left eye.  She goes to the edge and contemplates the drop. For a disbelieving second, she jumps. It takes two hard-stopping seconds of freefall for her to hit the water. The chilled hammer below the impact is enough to blank her mind out. By the time she surfaces, she doesn't remember where she fell from or why. And likewise, the skyscraper-sized being which claimed Marnus and the boat has forgotten about her.  She gasps, treading water.  Where the hell? There's nothing above her. No explanation. Only the symptoms of the drug cocktail give her any indication of what just happened.   Swim, says part of her, get to shore first, then you can die. The extraction team finds her around dusk, unconscious on the lake shore. They stabilize her in the helicopter, then take her to site 41 for examination and to have her system flushed. She spends a solid eight days at home, detoxifying. No anesthetics. No amnestics. No exposure to dangerous memory-corrupting SCPs. No work visitors. No work. The doctor also tells her, pointlessly. This isn't anywhere near the first missing event in Wheeler's life, nor is she the first person in the anti-magnetic staff to have such an experience. But the sensation is no less disturbing for its familiarity. As per procedure, she writes a report summarizing everything she can remember. The gap in her memory is about 13 hours. Then she adds her report to the extensive complex map of missing time, which the whole division maintains collectively. It is a map of holes, and the map is becoming large enough that very faint patterns are gradually forming. The outline of an enemy is becoming visible, or perhaps a group of enemies. When she quizzes the extraction team later, none of them remember who activated the emergency beacon with some of them. In fact, the beacon itself cut out, long before they landed at the lake. Wheeler compares the current size of her division with her best estimate of what it should be. Maybe she needs a few more key people here and there. So assuming the division was fully staffed before the event, maybe those empty roles are the people who died this time around. Maybe one of them activated the beacon, a commendable act, by someone now only known to exist because of that single act. It's weeks later still that Wheeler discovers the largest new hole in her memory. Who founded the division? When? And a file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP Orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.


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Was a good y'all. Here's the question. I want to ask you all Do you believe Anthony Fauci lied? when he stood before Congress and Gave his testimony regarding not having anything to do with gain of function research Having it funded by the NIH Do you believe that Anthony Fauci should be arrested for his part of causing gain of function research to Effect this entire country. This is what's being stated. This is what's being said now that That he lied under oath and now people are demanding that he be arrested and in charge for crimes against humanity. I Have my opinions about it. I think I know what it is, but I'm curious to know yours What do you think should Anthony Fauci be arrested? Should he be put in prison for the rest of his life for what he has done to the American people and to the world? Let me know what you think in the comments below. I'm definitely trying to see something I don't know


Ranged maggots, woolly locusts. You've probably heard such negative descriptions applied to sheep. Historically, sheep have been given a bad rap in Wyoming and elsewhere. Sheep's bad reputation is based on faulty stereotypes and is mostly unwarranted. It can largely be traced to poor management by humans and to the anatomy and behavior of sheep.  Sheep have mobile lips and tongues, and the upper lip is split, allowing them to nibble or strip the leaves off of shrubs and broadleaf plants. Sheep eat proportionally less grass than cattle do, however, if forced to, sheep are capable of grazing grasses to the soil surface. It is a myth that sheep are more likely to overgraze rangeland than cattle. Overgrazing usually occurs when there are simply too many animals for the available forage to support, or when they are left in an area for too long. Since they eat more shrubs and broadleafs, properly managed sheep may be better adapted and less likely to damage the range than cattle, especially in shrub-dominated rangelands. Moreover, research indicates that because of differences in diet preference, cattle and sheep grazing together can utilize about 20 percent more forage than either species grazing separately, and the balance among the various classes of plants remains healthier. Sheep can help control shrubs and flowers that would otherwise compete with the grasses that cattle eat. I'm Rachel Miller with the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, exploring the nature of Wyoming.


Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute.  Why is it your ad here? Call me. The 39th annual Redbud Festival will be held April 9th through the 10th in the Redbud capital of the world, Hanukkah, Virginia. The festival will feature various events including a car and truck show, a pet show, a canoe race, and more. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, we're back this year to celebrate once again the hopefully beauty of the Redbud tree in our community. In addition to the shows, vendors and games, the festival also does their part to give back to the community. Each year the Redbud Festival scholarship is awarded to a local student and a historical essay contest is held for all ages. We've also done things that some similar festivals might not do. We sponsor a Redbud essay contest with elementary and high school students as well as adults and printed, I think, six volumes of essays about written about the history of the community. The festival kicks off at 7.30 a.m. April 9th with the Redbud Festival birdwalk. Entry to the festival is free. For our full schedule of events, visit HanukkahRedbudFest.com. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.


Item number SCP-854 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-854 is contained on US Bureau of Land Management property in state. Roads and trails leading to the site have been closed for maintenance and rendered impassable while cameras monitor the site and all approaches to it. Supervising personnel are authorized to use any non-lethal means to deter trespassers. Barriers erected at the ends of the arch prevent access except under controlled circumstances. Wild animals are not permitted in the area in order to prevent unsupervised disappearances. Description SCP-854 is a natural arch formation eroded from sandstone and known locally as the Dream Bridge. Despite its precarious appearance it is exceptionally stable and can support in excess of 400 kilograms without difficulty. A single large pictogram in an unknown language adorns the base of the structure but it is otherwise naturally formed. The arch has no observable anomalous properties unless the top is traversed like a bridge from east to west. Animals and people crossing from west to east walking under or around the formation or otherwise interacting with it in any other way experience nothing out of the ordinary. Living animals that cross the arch from east to west vanish at the midpoint of the structure. No organism that has disappeared has ever been recovered. Contact with the arch is necessary for this phenomenon as birds flying above it in the same direction experience no effects. Non-living items such as remote controlled vehicles also cross without interruption. No energy discharge, spatial irregularity or other ancillary phenomenon has been detected that explains the mechanism of the disappearances. Eyewitness and sensor recordings suggest that subjects simply cease to exist the moment they reach the halfway point to top the arch. Recording equipment carried by or attached to test subjects vanishes along with them halting any transmissions. Local lore ascribes various supernatural properties to the arch and its environs. Usually the arch is depicted as a gate or bridge to another realm often spiritual in nature which must be venerated or guarded. Certain oral traditions state that those who cross the bridge are granted an audience with mother sky a local divinity figure. In past times of need a messenger would brave the journey to bring news of her people's plight and a gift to sway her will. Whether the messengers carried the gift with them or were themselves the gift varies based on the account. Capture summary. The dream bridge arch formation has a history of anomalous stories and myths related to it but was not examined by the foundation until 19 an amateur vacation video filmed by Nancy showed a ground squirrel being chased by the family dog across the arch with both vanishing and mid stride at the center. The video was played on local news channels before being explained as a trick of the lighting and recovered by foundation agents. Other than the aforementioned disappearances, no abnormal properties attributed to the site and folklore have ever been verified by the foundation. Incident report 854-1. On February 18th, 2000 a radio labeled foundation tracking tag was intermittently detected 200 kilometers southwest of Nord Greenland by satellite systems. A recovery team located and collected the device which lay exposed on a remote hilltop. The team also collected three metal zippers, 35 brass buttons a variety of crushed electrical components, two gold tooth fillings hundreds of flint and obsidian axe heads, spear points and carvings and a pair of metal pet tags from the same location. The tracking device was identified as one used in foundation experiments with SCP-854 in 1981. No further items sent through SCP-854 have appeared at this location perhaps due to some time delay phenomenon. Experiments and observations are ongoing. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-853 Weather preserves right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


I feel good right now, outside in the autumn daytime I love my life, and I feel like I am finally making my way down the river toward you I know that you are having so much fun


In 1998, as I was becoming familiar with rice, it was obvious that rice is clearly a public sector activity. Now, that does not take into account clearly all of the equipment and processing that was done by the private sector. In terms of developing technologies, clearly the private sector was involved in that. But in terms of the germplasm, and primarily the agronomic research that would have been associated with germplasm, there was not a lot of private sector involvement. I'm not going to say there was none, but if you looked at where most of the technologies came from, they would have come from the public sector. My concern for rice in this area is that with the decline in funding from the public sector, if you looked at other commodities, for example, as public sector funding went down, private sector funding went up, such that if you looked at the producer, he wasn't being short changed in terms of product. In other words, when I started to school in the 60s, all of the major Midwestern universities had a corn breeding program. Now maybe two of them do. Maybe three. But yet the farmers still have a wide array of germplasm products coming out every year, new ones from the private sector. Now, are we going to have that in rice? In other words, as public sector funding goes down, is the public sector going to step forward? And that's a real issue. Now one of the things that has intrigued me about hybrids is I thought this would be a way for the private sector to get involved in rice. So there are a lot of issues surrounding hybrid rice. In other words, there are problems that you have in rice that you don't have in sorghum, maize, and other hybrid products, in terms of the heterosis, in terms of the production systems, the sterility systems and stuff, are more complicated than, for example, maize. I think it would be great if hybrids were successful, because this is clearly something that will draw in public sector, I mean private sector support. And all of a sudden you will start having products, research and products being done by the private sector on rice germplasm.


What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. A few weeks back I partnered with Alteryx to host a webinar centered all around data analytics and we brought on other data analytics managers who kind of broke into the field and we basically talked about our stories and we got asked a lot of different questions about skills, tips, and tricks for other people who were trying to get into the field and their answers were phenomenal. I mean a lot of them were just very unique and different than what I had said on my channel and so you know I wanted to share that webinar with you guys because I just really think it was extremely useful. The actual webinar itself was about an hour long and so I tried to trim it to under 20 minutes because I didn't want it to be you know just a really long thing to watch and so I kind of cut it down to just the highlights and I'm going to post the timestamps below so that you can kind of skip around to different questions that you find interesting. Huge, huge, huge shout out to Alteryx. They were absolutely fantastic to work with. Thank you guys so much for putting this all together. You guys are genuinely amazing and without further ado let's jump into the webinar. The first thing we're going to talk about is how we got started in our analytics career and we'll just kind of go around and kind of share our stories and then we'll have lots of other questions and polls later on as well so I'm going to toss it over to Nicole. Nicole if you want to start us off and tell us how you got into analytics. Yeah sure thanks Alex. So as far as how I got started in analytics I think it's going to be a similar story to my guess is a bunch of people on this call today definitely didn't start out on that path. I come from a finance and accounting background then in a series of random you know events I ended up working at a construction company as a project accountant so not typically what you think of when you think of data and I think for me the turning point was really was working with a colleague and he was stuck on something in Excel and he says I'll give a thousand dollars to whoever can figure this out and you know joking around said okay sure I'll take that back to my desk and see if I can figure it out and I actually did figure it out and I did not get a thousand dollars I think I got like a nice ball of wine and a big thank you but for me it was you know realizing that this was something fun like I liked solving these puzzles I liked coming up with these different solutions to things and for me it really just opened up a lot of doorways. I continued in construction for a few more years moving into kind of an IT data analyst role and then eventually networked with some folks from T-Mobile at an altrux conference they were looking for someone who spoke the language of accounting and finance but also had that altrux experience and wanted to help grow the usage of altrux throughout the accounting department and I honestly don't think it could have been a better job for me if they'd said like you have to be named to Nicole Johnson to have this job like it couldn't have been a better fit so for me as able to leverage you know my my finance in accounting background and then also play around in altrux all day long meeting new people working on new projects solving new challenges and so it's it's been a strange journey but really cool to end up doing something I love every day and just getting to solve problems. Yeah that's fantastic I think the biggest thing while I was listening to I was like you know it's really interesting because you still got to use your accounting background but you're using just how you use the numbers and everything in a different way and you know that's fantastic because that's something that a lot of people who are getting started you know they're like I have a degree in this how on earth do I make that transition to analytics you know and using that degree or that background is usually a kind of a good way to go. Exactly helps you find your little niche.  And so in my time off I decided to get married and have a family and that didn't work out so as a single mom I started working at Blue Cross in customer service. I was scared to make that move out of customer service I had a good stable job I was able to do a lot of project work that kept me challenged mentally so why would I risk it by moving to a different position but I finally had the right people leader who saw all of this work that I was doing I was doing project work such as working on our interweb sites building websites building SharePoint sites doing design work that was not related to customer service at all very technical work and it was all things that I was learning on my own how to do. So she encouraged me to not look at the titles for positions because I was really scared of the title saying I'm not qualified for those within two weeks of that conversation with her I took the position of a project program coordinator that one leader I thank her every year when that comes up in my Facebook memories about getting that position I reach out to her and I tell her that she made that impact and I don't want her to forget that I think of her all the time for the impact that she made in my life. I guess I'll share next so I'm Alex Freeberg and my journey into data analytics is very similar to both of you and the fact that I started out in a totally different field I was in healthcare and so I started off at an internship out in Texas at a behavioral health hospital working with people with like PTSD and severe depression and bipolar and so like you know working with those people doing therapy and it was just an internship and my internship was about to end but I just met this girl and I wanted to marry her and so I was like I got to stay in Texas because I was about to move back to South Carolina and so I found this job at a non-profit doing like caretaker work so helping with their day-to-day needs and I wasn't making much money but I really worked hard and I got an opportunity to apply for this job it was called data collection specialist and analyst had no idea what it was at all but I knew I was good with Excel and I applied and it turned and I got the job later I found out I was the only person that applied but you know I was like I was really happy that I got it it was only working in Excel so no other tech skills or anything like that but I learned about data collection and submitting things for grants and and you know creating like metrics and stuff like that and we were implementing a Salesforce a Salesforce data collection a process over there and the guy who we brought in to consult us was like hey you're the data guy over here you must know SQL and I was like what is SQL I've never heard of that in my life and he looked at me like I guy it was just I didn't you don't know what you're talking about which he was right but I went home that night I looked up what SQL was and I started just like obsessing over SQL and I learned it as quick as I could and after about six months after that I took my first job as a data analyst and using my healthcare background I got a job at a healthcare analytics company and so much like both of you I kind of stayed in a similar I used that background knowledge that I had from my previous careers and I use that to my advantage I don't think any other industry would have taken me at all I was mostly brought in for a little bit of my healthcare experience but if I had tried to go into like finance like like you or accounting ready thing they would never hire me so yeah that's that's you know kind of my story it's very unconventional but the same thing with all three of us is none of us started out in analytics none of us have a degree in data analytics or data science or any of those things and so I like that because I think most people or there's a large majority of people out there who are wanting to become data analysts but they have those unconventional degrees and they're like how on earth will I make that change I'm going to start it off with Nicole again but what has been like the biggest factors that have helped you been be a good analyst as it's question is always a little tricky for me to answer because I feel like so much of it was really just right place right time or maybe even more so like right attitude right time but I think for me it was a little bit of just being willing to take on a new job even when I love the one that I had and so I think you know along with that really just the willingness to learn new things answering you know do you know how to do this with not yet not no you know so like I I definitely didn't know a lot about you know SQL or big data systems or or really just you know corporate processes and that was okay because I was willing to learn it and really interested in making it fun along the way and I think that fun element is important too I love all of that that's fantastic I mean you're hustling you're grinding and you're you're not giving up that kind of attitude it's definitely definitely a big factor what about you Sarah you know having that one manager was was a big thing for me because you know she she believed in me and she gave me the confidence to move forward some of the things that really helped kind of fuel my career though is that passion that excitement loving what I do and that really does keep you going even when your job isn't the most fun it's that you can find the fun in what you're doing yeah and I don't want to sound like a broken record because I'm gonna say a somewhat similar thing to what you guys said but but I'm just I glanced over at the results and I know we're gonna look at these later I shouldn't be doing this but there is zero percent for formal education and so you know as as our stories we just talked about about how formal education wasn't really the biggest factor of getting into it that's just really interesting so so like when I was first starting out I hadn't I didn't have anything right I didn't have uh any background any information I just had to hustle and grind every single day um and I fell in love with it luckily um and so I think that passion and that just absolute willingness to continually learn and and just um you know study as much as you can and learn the new skills and and find things that will solve the problems that you're trying to solve you know those are the things that I found to be the most successful this question is how have you saved time learned new skills or had greater impact you know really good at taking that formal path and saying I'm going to sit down and I'm gonna learn Python and then they'll go find the course and then they'll go take all the the lessons and they'll figure it out and I have just not ever really been great at that um I think probably like 95 percent of my on-the-job education is probably from Google uh and so for me it's about asking questions because I like to connect the dots between things and so for me I asked a lot of questions from people that I'm working with about things that probably don't have any real bearing on what I'm trying to build for them in Alteryx or what I'm trying to um do as far as a project goes um but what I do get from that is understanding how like this process impacts something upstream or downstream um how do these these different pieces connect together um have I learned something from another project that might help this team out or can I take something from this project and help another team out and so for me it's about connecting the dots and and asking questions to learn more about like what people are doing. Any process that I have found that works that is a good process or um lately well for the past few years I've been doing a deep dive into our new claims processing system and the data involved with that working closely with the business to really um identify the data definitions. It saves time not only when it comes to building new reports but also when bringing new people into the business that we can share those resources. I completely agree and there's that's something that I think is really um I don't want to say undervalued it's just not as talked about in the data world is documentation so like creating data dictionaries and and and processes and procedures and document this thing crazy important but they don't get the love they deserve. I like to to learn from somebody whether that's in person or course or something so I'm kind of the opposite of Nicole. I like to like take a course learn it quick but you know things like things that I found the most helpful and most impactful in my career at least are things like the data prep and the data cleaning like the ETL side of things. That has been like my bread and butter you know so like learning those skills and um you know taking those courses and doing those things that's kind of where I think I would I would say like where I've been learning the most um or have had the most impact on my career. This next question is what advice would you give someone just starting out in their analytics career? I'm excited for this one because I think you will have some pretty good answers on this one. Nicole I'm gonna toss this one over to you. Focus on um learning things and finding your finding your niche finding those you know ways that you can take your background whether you know you used to be a circus performer or whether you used to work at a bank or whether you used to walk dogs for a living. I mean you can find so many connections between your passions and the things that you've you know done in your your prior life your prior career and find ways to turn those into you know advantages when it comes to your analytics career and um and then I think that the other really important thing is to find your people and whether that's the people who are going to mentor you and support you and and help lead you in the right direction but also the people that you can show and tell stuff to that are going to be really stoked about what you build. So it's less about the skills you'll get those practice makes perfect um but how are you going to really leverage your other strengths and the people around you to really push yourself forward? One of the things that uh one of the male managers in the room was telling us was that we needed to advocate for ourselves more and I had no idea what he was talking about. But after it was explained to me I started looking at what I was doing on the service desk and I started looking at the reporting I was doing and I was like wait a second reporting isn't in my job description and I went to my boss and I said hey I'm doing this this and this that has to do with data and that's not in my job description and he's like you're right and I got my first promotion start looking for things that you could do to push you in the direction you want to go with your career. If you're interested in data and analytics look and see if there's something that you can add to your current job that might allow you to move more towards that direction. I absolutely agree I love that last one that's where I tell a lot of people as I'm like I'm like look you know you do this obscure job over here but I guarantee you can find a way to leverage that or use that to become more data analytics focused like I know you can. I think my biggest piece of advice is to really focus in on domain knowledge. I think domain knowledge is something that a lot of people don't think about they think oh if I just if I know SQL and I know Python or I know Alteryx or Tableau like if I know the tools I can get a job and that that is true to some level but you know for jobs that even I hire for or I've hired for in the past you know I really focus on the domain knowledge. I need somebody who knows the health care industry well. If you don't know it if you don't know it it's really hard it's I find that that's harder to teach sometimes than actually teaching the technical skills. You know first one off the bat how hard is it to enter the market for data analytics and should fresh grads worry you know what's the market look like today for jobs. I think it's pretty competitive. I think that a lot of people are trying to get into this career because you can work remote. There's usually pretty good pay. There is the ability there's a lot of flexibility usually and so there's a lot of good factors of trying to get into the market and so I think right now is a unique time where there's a lot of people who are trying to get into like you said there's a large increase in demand and there's a large increase in people wanting to get in and so you know take that with a grain of salt every area and every place and different domains have different demands but as a whole it's it's more challenging than it was five years ago. I think there are a ton of jobs. I think we're lacking in a lot of senior level people right now. What's more important maybe to put on your resume or to look for in a job. Certifications are great but it's sort of that same argument is like do you really need to go to four years of college and get a degree in the field that you're going to end up in and if that was true then none of us would be doing what we're doing right now because we didn't go to school for those things because some people are just really good at taking tests but that doesn't necessarily mean they can apply those skills and that they can actually use them to make an impact in that business. Don't get me wrong I love learning and I love school but I don't have a college degree.  I don't have any letters after my name but I am very marketable and I can tell great stories and I have spoken at many conferences and I do a lot of webinars necessarily the same resume as somebody else. For my secure it's a big worry for many is that their college education and whatever else they have simply can't compete with computer science graduates. From what you all are seeing how flexible is the market for self-taught people with a well-built out portfolio. I know Alex mentions it on his YouTube channel you know that that might be important to have but what are your thoughts on that? I think you can be just as competitive as somebody who has a degree in data science, data analytics, something like that with a non-traditional background. You know I've interviewed a lot of people and typically the education is something that really is not a huge factor in the end. So the person with the portfolio is going to be a lot easier to sell themselves because they can point directly to the actual work that they've done and talk through it and explain it and if you can do that you know it it makes you much more hireable than somebody you can just say I know how to use this skill or I have this degree it's I know how to actually solve the issues that you are facing in your in your company. So I don't think the formal education is as big a thing as I think a lot of people think it is. I'm 43 is it too late for me to start into a new role or a different industry?  You know you have a lot more industry knowledge I'm sure in some specific area than everybody else who's applying so you know don't look at it as like my age is the bad thing look at it as your experience and domain knowledge is going to be a huge upside. Yeah I really appreciate the panel for their time today and also all of our attendees.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Thanks for clicking on this video. I got a pretty interesting one here for you today Well, not so much interesting as completely psychotic and very racist From a person who lacks any self-awareness apparently or is unknowingly part of a cult So we have this New York Times article, which is an opinion piece and a guest essay whatever that is I don't know. Maybe they added that in later after this came out.  I mean really all that is is a word for people of different races coming into neighborhoods That are predominantly another race and in this case, you know They're complaining that white people are coming in and just changing the makeup of these neighborhoods Which is you know, pretty interesting considering it used to be a white majority and Slowly that change and now it's mostly black and Latinos that are living there. So right off the bat We have this kind of weird Contradiction where you know, you shouldn't be all about, you know different races coming into live in your neighborhood, right? Doesn't that add to the tapestry and the melting pot it adds to the diversity because diversity is good, right? Well, not when you know You're a person who believes that diversity essentially means that there's less or no white people at all I mean, we're talking about people who play up this idea of quote ending whiteness So really in that context diversity really means there's just no white people there And that's the way they like it apparently she starts off about a year ago I decided to build a library on my front lawn by library I mean one of those little freestanding library boxes that dot lawns and bedroom communities around the country Charming birdhouse like stretchers filled with books that invite neighbors and passersby to take a book or donate a book or both I'd spotted the phenomenon on walks through upscale largely white neighborhoods around Los Angeles and immediately resolved to bring it home to Anglewood, okay, that's weird So she's saying that she's incorporating something that she got from a white community She's gonna incorporate it into hers. Why not a library is not so much of a marker of wealth and whiteness as it is Affirmation of community in cozy small town camaraderie that Anglewood That's funny a mostly black and Latino city in Southwest or Los Angeles County has plenty of we deserve no less But then she goes on to describe Inglewood, California as quote cozy and that has small town camaraderie Oh really look, I've never been to California, but I grew up in the 90s I was a huge, you know gangster rap fan growing up and I know that Inglewood Specifically is quite a violence neighborhood. Just think you know easy e and dr. Dre both guys a lot of their songs are about this area they're about South Central and Inglewood so she talks about it being slow at first and that people started to kind of come around and browse and some people took Books and traded books so it was working good then one morning Glancing out my front window. I saw a young white couple stopped by the library Instantly I was flooded with emotions astonishment and then resentment and then astonishment again at my resentment it all converged into a silent scream in my head of get off my lawn Oh my god, like how Can you imagine a white person writing this article about you know a mostly white neighborhood where they put out their Their little mini library for people to come and trade books and they saw a black couple Come up and just look at their books and trade books Oh, and I was just astonished with resentment and anger that these black people would who What are they thinking coming into this neighborhood using my library that I put out there for the public for everyone except for You know those people it's just it goes to show how these people are really in a cult You can't think for a second that these people are actually using any kind of like thought process It's pure indoctrination by a cult.  Well, actually I do hate these people because of their skin color But I mean obviously that makes me hypocrite So I have to tell myself that because of power plus privilege plus privilege. I can't be racist Perfect. Oh now I can just basically say and do whatever I want all these things that if a white person was doing that Be clearly bigotry clearly racism, but when you're part of this woke cult. No, it's completely different It's completely different when they do it This is why you see at these multi heritage spaces at university colleges when white people show up to these things You'll have the black students in there actually and in both cases that I know that's happened It's been a black woman, but they kick these white people out citing that. Oh, you know This is the multi heritage festival white people have no heritage You know white whiteness doesn't exist and so you can't be here I mean these people are literally part of a cult that Want to achieve an end to us existing and these people for whatever reason are being You know given positions as professor at university colleges are being held up as these Brilliant thinkers you talked about the importance of defining racism But I but I unless I missed it, which is possible I don't I didn't hear your personal definition Is there is there one that you would offer us like how do you define racism? Sure.  They have literally zero uh self-awareness of the of how utterly racist they are because At the end of the day in the back of their heads They can't be racist and so back to this point that it's Englewood that we're talking about and she's upset that there's white people moving into this Neighborhood. Well, let's first of all, I want to look at this woman just a little bit here Who she is Aaron Aubrey Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and a commas born in 1962 is written about african-american political economic cultural issues since 1992 but it says here that she was married to Alan Kaplan who passed away in 2015 I'm curious about that. Let's let's see a little bit about who this guy is He must be some sort of like, you know ultra, you know, like black panther activist or something like that for her to have these You know such very extremist views. Look at that. It's a white guy Alan Kaplan was a white guy. That's strange. Huh? That's weird that she would have such like anger and resentment about a white person Using her library and being in her presence when she was married to a white person weird 14 years ago I wrote an article for salon.com. Of course Published for valentine's day about how I met my husband Alan Kaplan and I ended the article on a cautionary note Our hugely improbable racially romantic story did not mean that we'd solve the problems of color line far from it strip away the circumstances that I was a reporter and He was a reluctant subject of an interview for a story I was writing at the time and we were merely a black woman and a jewish man from different parts of la. Oh, that's interesting Huh, I wonder if he actually even considers himself white, uh, because I know there's a lot of jewish folks out there who don't The one that's really coming to mind is walter kronkite. Which month is white history month? I'm jewish Okay, which month is jewish history month? I also want to touch a little bit on the fact that she's upset that white people are quote gentrifying her neighborhood Her black and latino neighborhood that apparently is being ruined Ruined by white people white people using her library books. Well Let's let's just take a look at this neighborhood. So again, I'm no You know, I'm not an expert on inglewood But I do have a list here of the five most dangerous places in inglewood. So we got lockhaven. We got morningside park We got holly park knolls. We got hide park. We got westchester I mean, these are all places that are right in this area if I scan around this box You're gonna see all of those places listed here. And like I said, this is a small area and the point is It seems to me that You know white people being in this neighborhood are the least of their problems Gang violence is out of control in this area and it has been that way for decades Moment jolted me into realizing some things. I'm not especially proud of I'd set out this library for all who have lived here and even those who didn't in theory I would not want to restrict anyone from looking at it or taking books based on race or anything else But that's what she's doing. I mean, that's what she wants to do. I don't I don't think she actually did that But that's what she wants to do. She is enraged by white people taking books But while I had seen the white newcomers to the neighborhood here and there the truth was I hadn't set it out to appeal to white residents and just think about the fact that she's totally cool with this Like I can't imagine thinking like that like being angry that somebody Is being neighborly and is in my neighborhood because of their skin color But this is the situation we're in now in this country where these people people like this Even other white people who have been uh indoctrinated to believe these things This is why you have blm and antifa showing up to residential neighborhoods and literally telling white people That they need to give up their homes Or that even though they have a blm sign that that won't protect them from violence and that if the blm wants to take their home They're just gonna take their home and that's justified and then the media wonders why we call them enemy of the people I mean they are literally inciting promoting and defending open racism against whites in this piece What I resented was not this specific couple. Oh, okay. All right. It was their whiteness Oh, well that makes it totally different and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity Of a black space that I had created the integrity because when white people come in that just ruins it I mean you're bringing these dirty people that aren't even people of color. I mean, aren't they even people? I mean, they lack color. They're white the most complicated feeling of it all was the brief bittersweet satisfaction I took in watching them draw to my lawn and to my idea It felt empowering and hopeful on one hand defeating the other So what message do I hope they took from my library the same message? I wanted to send to the rest of my neighbors my community Black presence has a value and every sense of the word and on its own terms that value should make the casual Displacement of black people untenable. I mean, what is she even talking about at this point? Why people existing on the sidewalk at that moment somehow has displaced black people or I thought that racially segregated areas were bad. I thought diversity was good. But again I'm retraining old ground here, but the fact is these people see diversity as no white people That value should make the casual displacement of black people untenable even immoral And that will take much more than a little library to rectify. Let me tell you something The problems in Englewood are not white people. Okay, it's gang violence that has gripped that city and A lot of california for decades now going back to when I was a kid growing up in the 90s This tale of racism seems very old to me. I mean, this is just classic old racism Taking your problems all your problems and pointing to The minority group which in this case is white people and pointing out them as the problem them being In your neighborhood is the problem when we're talking about a neighborhood That is literally one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in this country And I hate to tell you this but it's not white people who are to blame for all this murder and violence All right, folks, I think that's about all I have for that one as always Thank you for clicking on this video if you enjoyed it Please hit that like button subscribe and let me know what you think in the comments