S4 E24 - Black Heroes - Breonna Taylor versus Clarence Thomas

The Untold Truth About Breonna Taylor: Media Myths vs. Reality

In this episode of The 10th Man, the real story behind Breonna Taylor, challenging the media narrative that has shaped her legacy. Examining her short-lived career as an EMT, her associations with drug dealers, and the circumstances surrounding her tragic death, the video aims to uncover the facts that the mainstream outlets often overlook. We also compare Taylor's media portrayal to figures like Justice Clarence Thomas and Dr. Ben Carson, who faced vilification despite their significant achievements. Join us for an eye-opening discussion that questions the narratives fed by the media.

00:00 Introduction: Say Her Name
00:37 The Media's False Narrative
01:06 Breonna Taylor's Real Story
01:47 The Aftermath and Settlements
03:08 The Company She Kept
04:31 Questioning the Hero Narrative
06:28 Comparisons to Other Figures
08:28 Conclusion: The 10th Man Perspective

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Transcript

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They want you to say her name. Her name is Brianna Taylor, and we're saying the part they forgot today on the 10th man, black fatigue is real and it's directed squarely at black culture. Not the people. Everybody still judges people as individuals, but when you see black leaders like Oprah and Al Sharpton attacking the police in support of criminals and losers, you can see the culture is bankrupt. Today's false idol is Breonna Taylor. You've seen the photo Breonna Taylor in an EMT uniform, stoic, serious. A symbol of systemic injustice. But here's the truth, the media doesn't want you to know she wasn't working as an EMT when she died. She only did the job for five months. And the rest of her story, let's just say it doesn't quite fit the halo they built around her. Briana Taylor was an EMT for just five months in 2016, not five years, not even one full year, just long enough to not complete her probation, and then she left or possibly quit before she got canned. After that, she worked in a hospital as an ER tech, not a first responder, not out saving lives in the street. Yet every major outlet kept pushing the EMT image because a woman in uniform is easier to sanctify than a woman with, let's say, a complicated backstory. The city of Louisville, Kentucky paid Breonna Taylor's estate$12 million. Why. Not because the raid was unlawful. A judge signed the warrant. Not because the officers were racist. They weren't. But only because the optics were radioactive. And her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, the man who shot a cop during the raid, he walked away with a$2 million settlement of his own after leading Breonna into the hallway where she was shot. He was unharmed, she died and now he's rich. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, the cop who got shot, sued Walker for damages and lost. That's right, the wounded officer sued his shooter and lost in court. I guess there is separate justice for millionaires. So go ahead, tell me again who the victim is in this story. Before we continue, if you're done with phony narratives, built around scrubbed bios and staged uniforms, hit like and subscribe. And click notifications because the algorithm will never tell you what we're about to walk through. The media painted her as a nurse in Scrubs, but let's talk about the company she really kept. Breonna Taylor dated not one, but two drug dealers. The first was JaMarcus Glover, a major narcotics trafficker in Louisville. Her car was used in his operations. Her apartment was one of several of his drop houses being raided that night. And the second Kenneth Walker, the Loser she let shack up with her and who fired at police and started the chaos that night. When Walker came out shooting, it was probably because he thought Glover was back on with Breonna. Brianna loved being a healthcare professional, said her sister Janiah, but somewhere along the line that love didn't stop her from aiding drug distribution. Her name was on the rental car and it was tied to a murder. Her address was used to run a trap operation. Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths were and still are skyrocketing, but we are told this is who we should honor. She supposedly wanted to be a nurse. While millions of families are burying kids from the very drugs, these men pumped into the streets. Oh and two murders were tied back to this healthcare professional through associations with her ex, but they don't talk about that. It doesn't fit the hashtag. Now ask yourself if she was an EMT and a medical professional, where are her glowing performance reviews? Where are the, she saved my life Stories from patients or from coworkers? They don't exist because she wasn't in the job long enough to make a dent. If she had been exceptional, I'm sure we would've heard about it. Instead, we just get the uniform photo over and over with nothing else to show for it. And that photo, it was taken in 20 16, 4 years before her death. It shows her during the five month job she left before even completing probation. Yet that outdated image became the emotional centerpiece of a national movement Repeated over and over not because it reflected reality, but because it fits the script. And that's what it takes to train AI and the search engines, and we told you all about that in the last podcast. Now, let's step back. Why do the media elevate some people and bury others based not on character or achievement, but on narrative? Breonna Taylor was a woman who made some very poor choices. She dated drug dealers, let one use her address and walked into a hallway behind a man who opened fire on cops. She was probably rushing to the door to cover for him, we don't know. But she wasn't shot in her sleep. She wasn't saving lives. She was in the cross hairs of a drug investigation, and sadly, her death was the result of a chain of bad decisions, many of them hers. And yet she gets the murals. The Oprah Magazine cover the legacy, the imaginary career, and future grandiose aspirations. Now compare that to someone like Justice Clarence Thomas. Born into poverty in the segregated south. He rose to become the second black Supreme Court justice in US history. But because he doesn't follow the left's political script, he's smeared as a traitor to his race. While less accomplished men with rap sheets, get the hero treatment. Now also compare that to someone like Dr. Ben Carson. Like Taylor, he was raised in Michigan by a single mother in poverty, became the first surgeon, period to separate conjoined twins at the brain. Built a medical legacy. So profound. They made a Hollywood movie about him starring Cuba Gooding Jr. But then he joined Trump's cabinet. Instantly the media turned on him. I called him a token and Uncle Tom, a sellout. Not for failing for succeeding, but on the wrong team. Or take Bill Cosby. Let's be very clear. This is not a defense of any alleged crimes, but the attacks on Cosby began long before any courtroom drama. Back in 2004, Cosby gave a controversial speech, the famous pound cake speech, calling out fatherlessness, crime and a lack of personal responsibility in the black community, and suddenly the tide shifted. The man who once told America to get an education and raise their kids right, became a target. Not for what he did, but for what he said. Now, years later, the allegations that finally took him down may be serious, but the cultural assassination began long before any accusers came forward. And you can't help but wonder if the momentum behind those allegations had more to do with what he represented than what he allegedly did. So here's the truth. Breonna Taylor wasn't a lifelong EMT. She wasn't a hero. She was a woman with poor judgment surrounded by dangerous men, and the media scrubbed her history cleaner than a campaign ad. If they have to lie to make someone a martyr, maybe they're not a martyr. Maybe they're a marketing campaign pain. This is the 10th man. We don't follow the crowd. We ask the questions the media refuse to.