Over 280,000 of you watched part one, and what I  showed you, how Iran erases its black population and how Israel marginalizes its black citizens,  hit a nerve that no other channel has touched.

But that video was made before the worst of this war  unfolded.

Since then, things have gotten worse, much worse.

And what I am about to show you in  part two is not history.

It is not analysis.

It is happening right now as in this week in Israel  during Iranian missile attacks.

Ethiopian Jewish families ran to a bomb shelter to save their  lives.

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They were met at the door by extremists   who spat on them and tried to block them from  entering.

Black Jews fleeing missiles were spat on at the door of the only thing that could save  their children.

In Iran, the southern provinces   where the largest AfroIranian communities live  have been hit by strikes that have killed over 160 people, including scores of children in a single  school.

And not one international news outlet has asked what is happening to the black population  in those provinces.

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Let me start with  what happened in Jerusalem.

This single incident   tells you everything you need to know about what  it means to be black in Israel during a war.

When Iran launched its retaliatory missile strikes  on Israel, hundreds of ballistic missiles were   aimed at cities across the country.

Millions  of Israelis ran to bomb shelters.

In Jewish neighborhoods, most families have private safe  rooms built into their homes.

In newer buildings, reinforced rooms are required by law.

The  infrastructure is there.

The protection exists.

But in one Jerusalem neighborhood, Ethiopian  Jewish families, black Israeli citizens, arrived at a public bomb shelter during the attack  and were blocked from entering.

An extremist faction reportedly spat on them as they tried  to protect their children from Iranian missiles.

Let that image sit in your mind.

Missiles are  falling from the sky.

Sirens are screaming.

Children are crying.

And a black family arrives  at the one place designed to save their lives   and is met with spit.

This wasn’t a random  act by one disturbed individual.

This was a reflection of a system.

Because even without the  spitting, even without the hatred at the door,   Ethiopian Jews in Israel were already at a  disadvantage the moment the first siren sounded.

Ethiopian Israelis are disproportionately  concentrated in older lowerincome neighborhoods.

The kind of neighborhoods where buildings  were constructed before Israel’s safe room mandate in the 1990s.

That means many Ethiopian  families do not have private bomb shelters in their homes.

They depend on public shelters.

Public shelters in poorer areas are fewer, older, and less maintained.

Meanwhile, wealthier  Jewish neighborhoods, overwhelmingly Ashkanazi,   have private safe rooms in every unit.

The  disparity in protection during a missile attack is not accidental.

It mirrors the economic  disparity that has defined Ethiopian Israeli life since the day they arrived.

The numbers have not  changed.

Ethiopian Israelis still earn roughly 29% less than the general Israeli population.

They are still over represented in the poorest   neighborhoods.

Their children are still under  reppresented in universities.

Police brutality against Ethiopian Israelis continues to generate  protests.

The same kind of protest that erupted in 2015 and 2019 when videos of Israeli officers  beating Ethiopian citizens went viral.

And now in the middle of a war, Ethiopian Israeli soldiers  are fighting for the IDF, serving in combat units, putting their lives on the line for a country  that will not guarantee them equal access to a   bomb shelter.

An Ethiopian Israeli soldier summed  up the feeling during one of the earlier protests.

He said, “We fight all these wars, but this is  the real war.

” He was not talking about Iran.

He was talking about being seen as equal in his  own country.

But it goes even deeper.

There are still thousands of Ethiopian Jews stuck in transit  camps in Addis Ababa and Gondar.

Family members of Ethiopian Israelis who have been waiting years for  permission to immigrate.

Over 1,000 have already   been approved under Israel’s own criteria, but  the process has stalled.

And now with Ethiopia caught in the economic shock waves of the Iran  war, fuel shortages, price spikes, and disrupted   supply chains, those families are trapped in  worsening conditions.

Their relatives in Israel are sheltering from missiles.

Their families in  Africa are battling an economic crisis caused by   the same war.

And the government that promised to  bring them home has not moved.

Now, let’s cross to the other side of this war.

When the United States  and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, strikes hit targets across Iran, Thran, Isvahan, Karage.

The headlines covered the capital.

The headlines covered the Supreme Leader assassination.

The  headlines covered the nuclear facilities.

But some   of the most devastating strikes landed far from  the headlines.

In the southern provinces where Afro Iranian communities have lived for centuries,  the city of Manab in Hormosan province saw one of the single deadliest strikes of the entire war.

A  girl’s elementary school was hit.

Over 160 people were killed, many of them children.

Hormosan  is the same province where one of the largest   concentrations of Afro Iranians live.

The same  province that has been systematically neglected by every Iranian government for decades.

The same  province that does not have adequate hospitals,   functioning infrastructure, or reliable  access to clean water.

Even in peace time, when bombs fall on communities that were  already broken, the devastation multiplies.

These are people who didn’t have bomb shelters  to begin with because the government that was supposed to protect them never invested in their  protection.

They didn’t have hospitals capable of   handling mass casualties because the hospitals  were underfunded and understaffed long before the first missile was launched.

And when the  survivors needed to flee, where would they go? The   communities further north carry the same colorism  and prejudice that defined AfroIranian life before the war.

Displacement doesn’t erase racism.

It  concentrates it.

Meanwhile, the Iranian regime, even in its weakened postcom state, continues to  operate as though its black population doesn’t   exist.

No official count of Afroar Iranian  casualties.

No targeted evacuation plans for southern communities.

No acknowledgement that the  people absorbing some of the worst damage are the   same people the government has never acknowledged  in the first place.

The oil refineries that were struck in Thran made international news.

The  military installations that were destroyed led every broadcast.

But a girl school in Minab in a  province full of black Iranians barely registered because the lives in those buildings were never  part of the story anyone was telling.

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Now, step back and  look at both sides together because the pattern is identical.

In Israel, Ethiopian Jews were spat  on at the entrance of a bomb shelter.

In Iran,   Afro Iranian communities were bombed in  provinces without adequate shelters.

In Israel, black citizens earn 29% less, live in the poorest  neighborhoods, and are policed more aggressively than any other Jewish community.

In Iran, black  citizens live in the most neglected provinces,   hold no political power, and are not even  counted in the national census.

In Israel, Ethiopian soldiers fight in the Israel Defense  Forces while their families face discrimination   at home.

In Iran, Afro Iranian communities sit  in strategic military zones near the Straight of Hormuz, near military installations, absorbing  collateral damage from a war they had no part in starting.

In Israel, thousands of Ethiopian Jews  remain stranded in African transit camps, waiting for a government that promised to bring them  home.

In Iran, AfroIranian activists who tried to document their community’s existence were met with  surveillance and intimidation.

Two countries, two sides of the same war, and the same black people  at the bottom of both.

This is what I tried to show you in part one, and now the war has proven  it in real time.

Neither side has clean hands.

Neither side treats its black population with  dignity, and both sides are currently asking black American soldiers who serve disproportionately  in the US military to fight and die in a conflict between two nations that can’t even protect the  black people already living within their borders.

Seven American soldiers are dead as of this week.

140 have been wounded.

Black communities across America are watching gas prices explode, watching  domestic programs get cut, watching the war budget swallow every resource that could have been  invested at home.

And both nations at the center   of this conflict treat their own black citizens as  invisible.

That’s not a political opinion.

That’s a documented fact.

And now you’ve seen it from  both sides before the war and during it.

280,000 of you watched part one.

You saw the history.

You  saw the evidence.

You saw how both Iran and Israel treat black people in peace time.

Now you’ve  seen what happens in wartime.

And it’s exactly   what you’d expect.

The same communities that were  neglected before the bomb started falling are the ones being destroyed while the world looks the  other way.

Ethiopian Jews spat on at the door of a bomb shelter.

AfroIranian children killed  in a school the government never invested in.

two black populations, one in each country, both  invisible to the powers that govern them, both expendable in a war neither of them chose.

And  in the middle of it all, black American soldiers, disproportionately represented in the US military,  fight for both of these nations survival while their own communities at home get nothing in  return.

I didn’t make this video to tell you   who’s right and who’s wrong in this war.

I made  it because someone has to hold up the mirror.

Someone has to ask what happens to the people  at the bottom when the bombs start falling.

And the answer on both sides is the same thing  that always happens.

They get forgotten.

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