Cynthia G - Zac Stacy Response Video

Welcome back to the channel. And today, um, I want to do this video. This is a bit out of my element. Uh, this is, it's not the type of content I generally speak about. Um, but I, I wanted to share, you know, my opinion and just give my thoughts on, um, this incident with Zach Stacy. Um, and, uh, you know, a video, kind of like a video response to Cynthia G, uh, about a video she did, uh, about Zach Stacy. And, um, you know, basically the brutality that he exhibited in, in a video where he, um, attacked his, um, he attacked, I guess, his ex-girlfriend and the baby, their baby. Was right there witnessing it all. It's a very violent act, and I just thought it was important, you know, to talk about this because what Cynthia G was talking about in her video— and if you don't know who Cynthia G is, I— to me, I look at Cynthia G like, you know, they do these— they do these videos about relationships and you know, culture, mostly of, you know, African-American men. And, um, it has a very negative view and negative outlook on African-American men. And, um, there have been many questions posed, um, about what would be, or so to speak, you know, some of the, the personalities in the African-American communities. Like, if you're Talking about someone like Kevin Samuels or Tommy Sotomayor, right? What would be the counterparts to them? And that was a question that had been coming up kind of on my radar over the last few weeks. And, um, you know, because I had been, um, you know, viewing and speaking with a YouTuber who actually had, uh, you know, uh, did a video about it and about Cynthia G and her, her, her entire, uh, opinions about African American men. Um, myself being an African American man, I, I think that has a lot to do with probably the interest that I've, you know, gained on it over maybe the last month or so. But, uh, I want to, you know, speak on a little bit and, uh, but looking, you know, going back to what I was saying earlier about you know, what would be the counterpart to, you know, these personalities like Tommy Sotomayor. And, um, you know, some people were trying to rank Kevin Samuels in there as well. Uh, who would be the female version of it? And, you know, after, you know, I had known who Cynthia G was, but I just never really got that, you know, invested in, uh, a lot of, you know, her content. And, um, I think I learned about her from watching Tommy Sotomayor, right? He came across the radar, and of course he had some sensational um, you know, things that I thought were just, you know, mostly about entertainment. But, you know, within entertainment is some elements of truth, you know, in these things. And so it, it seemed to me that someone like Cynthia G would be the, you know, would be the counterpart of maybe someone like Tommy Sotomayor. I don't think I would say, uh, someone like Kevin Samuels. I, I— Kevin Samuels, um, I kind of see in a in a different element, but I would kind of compare her as the, the opposite of Tommy Sotomayor, maybe from a, you know, from the, the perspective of, of a, of a female, right? African-American female, you know, in that, you know, and both of these personalities on our extreme sides of the spectrum. But what she had been saying earlier, and, um it kind of lowered my spirit a little bit. And that was, um, that a lot of the Black African-American men who reacted to this video, uh, from this ex-NFL player Zach Stacey, the first, you know, questions that they were asking were, uh, what did she do for, for, um, you know, uh, him to attack her that way? And I just wanted to let Cynthia G know that I'm an African American man and that was not my first, uh, thought process. When I saw this, I was like, my spirits dropped. I was like, this is ridiculous. It's unnecessary. Uh, doesn't make a lot of sense because, you know, the thing about it is no matter what she did, even if you look at something from a legal standpoint, you look at punishment fitting a crime, right? If the action of a person isn't in the area of what you're doing in retaliation against it, right, or your reaction to it, if it doesn't fit what they've done, right, then it's not right to do it. And so in a case like this where there's this physical violence and I mean, he's tossing this woman around like a rag doll. You know, this is an NFL player now. Um, and she's, she looks like she might be, uh, I don't know, 120 pounds or something like that. It's just crazy. And so he's tossing her around, and my thought process is whatever she did, uh, it wouldn't be relative to her doing that to him. Right? And so, you know, in addition to that, you know, my, my first thought process was just that, you know, uh, it wasn't about what she did, it was about he, you know, he's just went too far, right? And it seemed like one of those— these people who have a lot of problems with anger management and things like that. But whatever it was, whatever his situation was, that was totally on him to carry out that action like that, right? So is wrong. And, um, that's the first thing came to my mind, right? Uh, not what she did, but, uh, you know, his reaction to that and what he's doing right now. To Cynthia G's defense, you know, and I have to kind of tell it like it is, her statement was that, uh, you know, many African-American Black men were on social media asking what she did and not looking at what Zach Stacy was doing. And I have to be honest and agree with her that many of the commentary I came across, uh, you know, from, you know, African-American personalities, social media, YouTube, and like, uh, that was a big, you know, question that was coming up. That was seeming to be statements formed around that, and there was ideas coming out of their mouths first. And I thought that was, you know, not the proper way to look at it. And I just want Cynthia G to know that not every African American, you know, man, I think, saw that situation like that. I didn't see it like that. I saw it was like it really didn't matter You know, even if she would have slapped him in his face and she would have said, I cheated on you with your best friend, or I'm leaving here, or I'm taking all your money, whatever the case would have been, uh, it still wouldn't have added up to his actions, right? And so, uh, I think that's very important to understand that. Now, just take it a little bit further. Because she speaks a lot about, um, you know, blackmail pathology, right? Um, you know, and I want to be very respectful and approach this from an educational standpoint. You know, I, I, a lot of the characterizations of African American men I think Cynthia G is probably talking about is, you know, I, I think it might— some of it might be stemming from the idea of the Pookie and the Ray-Ray, right? And, and I want to say something about that idea because a lot of times when Pookie and Ray-Ray gets mentioned, then it follows in this very negative connotation, right? But I, I want to just open up some things historically and you know, and maybe just show a different viewpoint in hopes to maybe understand this a little bit, you know, clearer. Excuse me. So when you think of the idea of the Pookie and the, and the Ray Rick, because this seems to be the, the, you know, the, uh, type of, uh, characterization personalities. I believe they use words like dusties and and things like that. I'm not very familiar with that word. Apparently it's been out and people know what it is. But what we do know, we know it's a very negative term, right? Uh, is basically, uh, description-wise, you know, the type of, uh, these negative, uh, African-American influences and personalities that she's speaking about. But When you look at what, look, you know, the, the kind of the what comes to mind about a Pookie and a Riri type personality, and, and, uh, because that generally seems like what she's explaining, like oftentimes when she's talking about, uh, you know, African-American men not taking care of their responsibilities, whether it be their children or they're mistreating their wives and so on and so forth, you know, I'm sure that that doesn't Uh, that doesn't, you know, exclude, uh, you know, maybe Black professionals and, and the like, and, you know, maybe, you know, African-American, you know, men of maybe a certain caliber or what have you, because we know these traits can, you know, can go across, you know, the spectrum. But it— when at least the videos of her I've seen, you know, oftentimes the type of people that have been presented have kind of resembled like the, the, the, the, the, this imagery of the Pookie and the Ray Rays, right? So, um, but of course in this case it's an ex-NFL player, right? So maybe that can expand the spectrum a bit. But the, the point I'm trying to make about some of this being around the Pookie and the Ray Ray characters is that if you, if you, if you look at the, the situation with African American men, particularly going, you know, back to pre-civil rights, right? And then, you know, periods after civil rights were, even though laws, you know, created the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when a law is made, of course, there is, um, it extends, you know, over that period, and then there are things that are still residue left over. So where I'm going with this is maybe if you go back before, you know, in the, in the 1960s, 1970s periods, to the '80s and so on and so forth, even up to now, I guess you could say to a certain degree Um, you know, these people were kind of like, they would be more the rebel to the, to the system. And this was a time when you had police officers who, uh, you know, weren't— the laws weren't for African Americans. They weren't, they weren't equal with African American laws, right? So what you would have is these rebel-like people, you know, would, would have been the protectors, right? So the Pookie and the Ray Rays of, of maybe the, the old days would have been the good guys, so to speak, right? Uh, you know, another thing, uh, you know, and so in certain elements, right, what you deem to be the protector of the African-American culture, right, the, the, uh, those people in a system where they look at it as anti-them, then those people who are more opposed to the system would be the good, you know, the good— it would be the good guys in that system, would be the men of that system, would be the alpha males of that system. So that probably was the case then, but when you fast forward to modern times, what you get is now you get Uh, uh, maybe that mentality still locked on, right? And it is still in the DNA of the African-American communities. So then, uh, you know, that culture of people, that group of people will still flock to that. And so, and in some cases it makes sense, right? Because if you're, let's say, in a certain urban community, then the, the more valuable, uh, uh, person in a relationship, so to speak, it's kind of going to be that kind of person, that kind of Pookie and Ray-Ray person. In their environment, they would be good because this may be a difficult environment to navigate, and you're probably going to need someone like that to survive, right? So, so in that sense, I could see why psychologically there may be some binding to those type of personalities. Now, you know, unfortunately, in certain rough elements and communities, if you have something like that, if you have that type of alpha male and that type of masculinity, right, then, um, you know, in a very harsh environment like that, you might have a certain type of, um, uh, uh, you know, I don't want to say anger, but a, a certain physical, uh, reaction to many things, right? Because that, that's going to be a person in a mindset they're not going to let you push them over. They're not going to let certain things go. And this can be played out in a very masculine way, right? And there's no excuse for this. I'm just saying that there may be some residue from, from, you know, what I'm saying here that is still part of that African-American community. You know, I remember even when I was growing up, I remember older uncles and great uncles and things like that, they would be speaking about women like we were kind of in the Ike Turner days, right? You know, and, uh, you know, where there was probably a lot of abuse of women back then. It was a, you know, and there was a, a different culture on how maybe the alphas, right, in those particular communities handled, you know, the opposite sex and so on, right? I, I think part of the, the issue, I guess what I'm trying to get out here is that when it comes to the environment we live in today, obviously it's a different environment. Physical violence of this magnitude is met by the system, uh, with a great deal of severity, right? And when people snap this way or they go about something this way, it's got to be big consequences to be paid behind this, right? And this NFL player Zach Zach Stacey, uh, you know, being a former NFL player, right? So it's not like, you know, even he's some big NFL player that, um, you know, would have, um, you know, uh, many of the PR and things and resources to, to, uh, to, to maybe handle or navigate a situation like this. You know, uh, reports are coming that, you know, he's been out of legal for 5 years, he's driving a 2020 Kia or something, and, you know, and, uh, so it's even that much worse, you know, uh, with how he's gonna meet this condition. This is totally inexcusable though, uh, no matter what the situation is or the what situation he would have been in, it would still been the same that, you know, this is totally unacceptable. It's inhumane. And, uh, everybody should keep their hands to themselves first of all, right? There should be no reason for this, right? So there's just no excuses for his behavior at all. And I just want, you know, people like Cynthia G to understand that, um, all African American men don't think the same. Excuse me, guys. I always forget to turn off my notifications. And, um, and, and, and, and, and of course this is something, this kind of act of violence, I know she's using this to, to validate some of the points she makes about African American men. And I gotta admit, this one does look really bad. You know, this really fits with her content. It's really, really bad and, and, you know, very sad and, and, and unacceptable. But, um, you know, um, the, the— what we have to expand to in this though is that this is something that isn't race related, right? And I want City G to understand that, you know, there's nothing wrong with dating interracially. I, you know, I come from the South Florida area, Miami area, where that's very commonplace, has never been a problem, um, of a severe degree, you know, with much of things I've been around. I think the biggest problem is when the generalization, the categorization of, um, and then the lack of tolerance, you know, for when people start to just go Well, I'm only gonna date this race of people, right? Uh, that type of preference, I think it's very dangerous, you know what I mean? Because it creates a lot of prejudgment. And I think that's part of the big issue with what Cynthia G, you know, does with like over 90% of her content regarding African-American men. But I also would say that, um, that This is something that expands racism right now. Just get this quick story real quick. It's brutality and even to the length of murder, how things can go. So, um, you know, I worked in investment banking, you know, many, many years, and I actually used to live like a block around the corner from Donald Trump, right, in Palm Beach. And one of my investment firms were there. Um, and there was a big story that had been circulating around the area about this multimillionaire He was a Caucasian person and he married, um, a Black woman. And, uh, the divorce came through and she was about to, you know, try to get all this money from him. And, uh, you know, he was, he was convicted, you know, many years later of sending a, basically a hitman posing as a delivery, uh, person to murder her at her front door, right? And he was, uh eventually, you know, caught and charged. But this was, uh, on the other side of the spectrum, right? This was a white Caucasian person going to this degree of, uh, you know, violence and brutality and murdering, you know, this woman. And, um, you know, so this isn't race-related, right? This isn't, you know— now, again, I do admit, as I brought up the, you know, the kind of Pookie and the Ray-Ray stuff, how On one hand, you could see them as the good protectors of the communities because they were going to be— if you really think about in a civil rights era world, that I think is still leftover residue from that. But those people were going to be the resistors the most, right? And they were going to be probably the most active in defending the community, right? What's happened now as we fast forward to the future, I think that they're still left over, right? They're there. The, the, the biology, the DNA is still there. Yeah, so maybe it's, it's a slow process and moving up a little bit further. But the reality of the situation when you're looking at alpha males and masculinity, right, you know, my days on Wall Street, you know, those people were some of the most vicious, uh, uh you know, when it comes to masculinity, right, or even ideas like toxic masculinity, the type of people I worked with, these were killers, right? Sharks, right? In, in how they dealt with people and how they treated people. And these weren't good people, right? These weren't, you know, and they did many of the things that, uh, you know, abused their girlfriends and wives, that many of the things that Cynthia G is, you know, putting on Black males. This was something that was going on and and many other cultures of people. Now, you know, of course it's maybe differently handled and dealt with, uh, in certain classes of people, certain legal senses, wealth classes, uh, you know, because you're going to have good lawyers, you're going to have money to pay people off, you're going to have a lot of stuff. So it's going to play out differently, um, but that doesn't mean that these mentalities, uh, aren't going to be present there, right? You know, so I would like to, you know, make that clear to a lot of people that that's not necessarily going to be a solution to this problem. This is an overall problem, right? Yes, it probably looks a little bit more ugly in the African-American community simply because of, you know, a lot of the history and the socioeconomic clamps that have been on African-American people, right? And again, there's a point where Everything comes down to personal responsibility. So not excusing any of that, you know, like I started the video, I didn't excuse any of this, but this isn't something just geared toward African American men and this isn't all African American men, right? You know, obviously it isn't, right? And, um, whereas I have seen a lot of people attack Cynthia G, a lot of African American men are upset with Cynthia G cuz of many of the statements and the content she releases. Uh, one, the last one, I think had to do with aborting Black babies and so on, and that infuriated many people, right? And I thought that was totally inappropriate and inexcusable as well. But there are some things that Cynthia G has said, like in the case of Zach Stacy here, uh, there are some things that I think need to be acknowledged and not condoned, not excused. Um, and this is one of them, right? And obviously that doesn't mean she's correct on everything. She's way out there on many things, right? But I think she should be allowed to, to, to do these type of platforms. Um, and I think, you know, her voice should be heard on these type of— as long as it's being done on the other side, as long as we have people like Tommy Sotomayor Uh, you know, you're, you know, you're gonna have to have the counterpart to that. And I certainly think Cynthia G is that, even though I don't agree with 90% of the things she says. Uh, there are some things that we can't condone and that we do have to call out, and Zach Stacy is one of those things. But that's all I want to say in this video. This is my first time, I think, really doing content like this. I think, uh, some years ago I might have weighed in a little bit on Tommy Sotomayor and Tariq Nasheed, a few they were having. Uh, but this isn't something I'm gonna regularly do. Uh, I just, you know, wanted to give my opinion this time around because I— when I saw it, when I saw the video, it has such a negative impact on me. Uh, it, it, it, it— I didn't like how it looked like. And, uh, you know, especially, you know, even with like the O.J. Simpson trial, you know, there are people still walking around And there's, you know, even though the court of law proved O.J. innocent, a lot of people don't believe O.J. Simpson is innocent. You know, obviously they think he has something to do with the murder. And then that's very, very sad. And, uh, you see this ex-football player doing what he did, right? Because you gotta think of, uh, you know, him, him doing this in that sense, the type of anger he exuded, how he did it, you know, this was a