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E11: Re-Emergence of Racism in America · The Junto Podcast

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Music.
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Junto podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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As always, I'm your host, Edgar Mills.
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Music.
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Hello, America. Welcome to episode 11. Thanks for coming back and thanks for sticking with me.
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So today we're going to talk about a thing that I have been seeing on the socials lately.
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Not lately. It's ever since I've been on the socials, really.
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But racism, the reemergence of racism.
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And it's not that racism was ever gone, really.
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But there is a reemergence of it.
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And I mean real hate-filled racism. Um, jokes, you know, whatever you think
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about racist jokes are, they're off color and tasteless and whatever.
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But I mean, there's some real hate being thrown around out there these days.
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And it's largely due to the platforms, I'm sure. But anyway, it's complex.
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There's history and, and all that, that, that contribute.
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But we have to...
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Yes, you do have to acknowledge that it's out there. Racism is out there.
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But then you have to look at what things are exacerbating that here in the modern day.
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I think politics and hyperbole for the extremist positions on either left or right,
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all these activists who lack an ability to be objective or are just looking
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to inflame already tense issues.
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So I want to go back to 2008, the election of Barack Obama.
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That was sold by the mainstream media as being the beginning of the post-racial
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society. He was the post-racial president.
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And the implications of that was that because we've elected a black president,
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that racism was now going to be over, all but over.
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Excuse me. I think the reality of that is not what happened at all.
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In my opinion, I think racial tensions got worse under Obama because he started out.
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He was he was constantly touted as being very pragmatic
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and i i just don't think that's the
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case but he started out very smooth and we're
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all going to work together but that didn't last long at all he was one of the
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most polarizing presidents never
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to have been seated and And not only because he didn't stick to that,
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we're all one team sort of mantra,
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but unmet expectations.
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What did Obama do for the black community?
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I think the general consensus among the black population was that everything's
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going to, boom, get better.
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We're suddenly going to be, there's not going to be any more ghettos.
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There's going to, whatever their version of equality in the marketplace or whatever.
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And nothing ever happened. He didn't even address criminal reform,
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criminal justice reform.
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So the socioeconomic disparities persisted.
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He didn't fix anything. The economy was garbage.
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He didn't do anything great and awesome.
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And then so and that I think that now I can't speak for I can't speak for white
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people let alone black people but,
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I think the masses understood that, okay, he's just a politician and that's
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it. He just does what politicians do.
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He bought a compound on Martha's Vineyard and he's a millionaire and that's it.
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And during that time, there was some very, very, very high profile sort of issues.
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If you guys remember the Trayvon Martin incident where, I forget the guy's name, George something,
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ended up killing Trayvon Martin in a very ambiguous sort of situation.
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And Obama came out and said, if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
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So that statement alone just threw fuel onto the fire.
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And then you had, not as a direct result, but definitely contributing to.
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And then if you guys remember the Ferguson riots that the Democrats,
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they just sort of, yeah, well, this is the way it's supposed to be.
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All that highlighted sort of still systemic issues and there was a national
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outrage and all kinds of things and race was a big topic and this was with the post-racial president,
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Obama didn't do like I said he didn't address criminal justice he didn't address
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education he didn't address economics in any meaningful way so those any disparities
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that existed before him They existed with him and after him.
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So that post-racial label was definitely premature.
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I mean, the guy got a Nobel Peace Prize before he was ever even in office.
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So the post-racial label was certainly premature, never mind the Peace Prize.
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The only president ever to drone an American citizen.
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I think he just stoked racism more than helped to ease the inflammatory hyperbole and rhetoric.
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And it's kind of unrealistic that one man could do such a thing anyway, I think.
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And that's not giving him any credit as saying one man is not going to solve
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centuries of embedded, ingrained racism.
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Or anger about slavery and things like that.
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So during his time, now keep in mind, guys, this is not a podcast.
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This is not an episode just to bash Obama.
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I'm going to get on here in a minute.
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But during his term or his terms, you had the activist groups that come to prominence,
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Black Lives Matter, which may very well have started out as a grassroots movement
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that had legitimate grievances,
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but immediately turned into a paid agitation group.
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The founders of Black Lives Matter grifted the American black population and liberal population.
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And now I want to say the Black Lives Matter founder, I don't know,
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bought multi-million dollar homes and all these kinds of things.
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So it was no longer grassroots, pretty quick into it.
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But their whole point was to oppose police violence and systemic racism and
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to advocate for black communities.
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But if you look around, if you do the research, what did they do for any black communities?
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I haven't done anything for any Atlanta black communities.
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What did they do for any black communities?
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They were very polarizing. They had a lot of loud talk, but what did they do?
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And then you had more militant, like the new Black Panther Party, who I think they were...
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They were largely just a visual, something to be scary. They didn't do anything at all.
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Famously, they was doing a sort of a march, and one of the guys carrying an
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AR-15, a .22 caliber AR-15,
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had like the rifle was on, or the bolt was locked open, his finger,
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all kind of unsafe weapon handling stuff.
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It was pretty funny, but I don't think that the new Black Panther Party has
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contributed, they contributed to hyperbole and racism and that sort of thing.
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But I don't think they did anything to help the community. Now,
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I don't know. I don't keep up with the New Black Panther Party.
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They may be out there doing great things, but I don't know that for sure.
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But just on that note, there is a guy out there, Maj Touré, who runs an organization
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called The Solutionaries.
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He's out there doing things and he has a large following and he has tangible
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effects on the black community i haven't seen any tangible effects from blm
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or new black panther party.
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Now i'm not just bashing on blacks what about these white reactionary groups these,
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sort of remnants of KKK and what during that time, during the Obama time,
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it was labeled alt-right.
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Everything that was white racism was labeled alt-right.
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And the general public, and this was a strategy, by the way,
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the Democrats, and we'll get to their strategy here in a little bit,
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but anything that was conservative was kind of labeled as alt-right.
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And then there were, there's legitimate white nationalist extremists out there. There are.
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Now, arguably, they have no teeth.
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Arguably, they reached their peak in the 80s, 70s and 80s.
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I can remember in the very early 90s, the 82nd Airborne Division,
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when I went to the 82nd Airborne Division, they were doing tattoo checks.
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And they weren't looking, what they were looking for was white supremacy associated tattoos.
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Now, I got a lot of tattoos. I don't have any white supremacy tattoos,
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but I distinctly remember standing butt naked in front of a staff sergeant who
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went over every tattoo on my body.
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So but but my point to that is is that
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the white supremacy all those groups they don't
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have any teeth anymore there might be little pockets out there i don't even
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think they're physically out there doing anything and they're certainly not
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doing anything for their community and they're certainly not doing anything
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to raise a new generation of well-rounded and educated children at any rate.
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And then you had the Proud Boys.
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They were kind of labeled as a white nationalist faction.
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And they were in some of these counter-protests as a direct result of BLM stuff.
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So, and then what you saw.
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And this is arguable, I mean this is debatable, but some of these white nationalist
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protests that you saw out there, they were manufactured.
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Much like BLM, I think, was pretty much manufactured. They were just less controlled.
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I strongly believe that federal agencies manufactured some of these to put them
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in there to keep the flames going, honestly.
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And you say, Edgar, what do they achieve from that?
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Well, the Obama era was a very political, everything was a political strategy.
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Everything was a political strategy.
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And I think that was what they got from that was keeping the divide.
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I think the general American public, white, black, or otherwise,
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I think if you ask them about, hey, what does big government,
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does media benefit from having a divided population?
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And I think everybody, generally speaking, who has a little bit of independent
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thought will say, well, yes, that is beneficial to them, especially in a political
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context of blue versus red.
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So most of these groups that emerged during that time, and then you had the
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Portland, Oregon, the no-go zones and things like that.
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None of that stuff is acceptable. It's madness. And it wasn't legit protest.
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There may have been some legitimate grievances, but destroying city,
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entire city blocks, destroying private property, destroying anything and everything
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is not a legitimate form of protest.
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Oh, what about the Tea Party, Edgar? Well, you know, that's apples and oranges
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at different times, and we can discuss that.
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But just destroying things for the sake of destroying them is not legitimate protest.
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And then what you see, which is a continuance of that stuff,
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is social media is the little echo chambers within social media.
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So here's what I do, and here's my strategy.
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I follow extremists on both ends, on both sides of the spectrum,
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to see what kind of madness they're putting out.
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And I can tell you that following both sides is,
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If you apply consistent standards to both sides and take out the key words,
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you wouldn't know one side from the other.
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They're both vile. They're both hate-filled. And they both spew opinion as if it were fact.
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And they both attempt to demonize nonbelievers.
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Nonbelievers.
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Social media is a tool, much like a gun. and it's only as good or as bad as those who wield it.
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It just happens to be an excellent platform to spread whatever your message is.
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So let's get back on the white nationalist or racial groups, the extremist groups.
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I alluded to this a minute ago. So there's a misassociation that everything
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that is conservative, political conservatism, is somehow racist or nationalist.
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And that's just not the reality white supremacy groups
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like the kkk or whatever alt-right things
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all that stuff certainly predates donald
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trump and and donald trump
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certainly has never been a part of that if you look at the history of donald
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trump and the physically financially what he's done for the for the black community
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objectively if you look at that objectively you're You can't say that Donald Trump's a racist.
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I mean, you just can't clump him in with that crew. You can't do it.
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But it's not just Donald Trump. I mean, conservatism in general.
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It's easy to do that because some of these organizations claim Christianity,
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but they're not accepted by the broader Christian community at all.
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They claim they have some traditional family values But they absolutely do not.
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So, conservatism isn't automatically What is conservatism?
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The reality, and what it's meant to be And it's not even practiced in actual
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politics Is limited government and free markets That's family values Sort of
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Christian family values Limited government and free markets It's the Congress
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right now happens to be full of a bunch of just opportunists,
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but that's what conservatism is.
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It has nothing to do with any legacy of racism or slavery or anything like that.
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So, like I said, Trump's rhetoric, he's got big rhetoric, man.
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He does talk big, a lot of bravado, a lot of America first and all that stuff.
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But that's divisive to some people out there, to half the population.
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But it's definitely not racism.
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It's definitely not racism and certainly not white supremacy.
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And a lot of people, they conflate because of the immigration piece, right?
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They're doing a lot of, they're closing the borders down, not closing them down.
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They're tightening the borders up, right?
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People think because brown people are coming from South America and Latin America
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that it's racism to have some accountability.
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And I don't agree with that at all.
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Now, if you want to talk about what's going on right now, literally,
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their due process, yeah.
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That phrase has been getting thrown around a lot, due process,
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and I believe that there are some shortcomings there as far as how they're deporting
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people, but I don't think yet.
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Everybody says, oh, he's deporting American citizens. I don't think that's a
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provable fact. I don't think that's a provable fact.
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But that's what they associate with racism, because foreigners largely are Hispanic or Latino.
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And you're, well, why don't they deport, I don't know, German people?
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Well, Western Europe, one, they're not, they live in civilized societies.
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They're not rushing to come live in America. And if they are,
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they do it the correct way. They follow procedure.
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However bureaucratic and red taped up that procedure is, you know, they follow it.
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So what Donald Trump does, by and large, is not racist at all.
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It might be distasteful to immigrants. It's definitely distasteful to anybody
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who's liberal, but it's not racist.
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The propaganda and the hyperbole that fuel the racist inferno from the left
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is, it's problematic because they,
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the progressive left, and if the shoe fits, wear it. If it don't, don't.
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But, and I'm speaking with some blanket statements here. There's obviously nuance.
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But generally speaking, the left views America as inherently racist.
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We were born racist and if you're white you are racist whether you believe it or not.
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And they emphasize systemic
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issues all the time downplaying or ignoring individual responsibility in an
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individual agency so that's a problem from the left right and then the other
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problem is how they do it everything that you hear from a,
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a progressive or liberal news outlet or, or liberal put people on the streets
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or videos you see all over the social medias is it's all emotionally charged.
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It's all emotional. Everybody's screaming and yelling or crying and it's selective outrage.
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Yeah. And I've said this plenty of times before.
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You can't bemoan a cop shooting a kid without bemoaning the hundreds of deaths
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every weekend in major urban areas, i.e.
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Chicago, i.e.
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Where it was another one. I think Memphis right now is like one of these high
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crime rates or down in Louisiana, Biloxi or somewhere down there.
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It's got very high crime rates. My point is this.
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They don't objectively look at all the crime. They look at the ones that serve
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a purpose to fuel further racism because racism is a political strategy.
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And then from the right, what do you get from the right?
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I'm not saying there aren't racists out there. There are on both sides of the spectrum.
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But what the conservative media does sometimes is that they minimize legitimate racial grievances,
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which further exacerbates the left getting upset that they're trying to marginalize
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or minimalize what's going on.
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And they and then the right conservative me
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you know they want to frame it as being overblown or politically motivated
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yes i believe there's a lot of political motivation
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but there are racists out there
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and when you call them out it needs if it needs to be determined that it's whether
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or not it's legitimate and as found legitimate it needs to be dealt with legitimately
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there's a problem with the metaphor of the boy who cried wolf.
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And that's why the left is so flawed in this strategy of claiming racism all
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the time, because it does,
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it gives that the boy who cried wolf effect to where now when it's really going
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on and there's really a problem that nobody wants to listen.
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And then what is the right then, the conservative right?
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You've heard the phrase reverse racism. I don't know.
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I don't know who coined that phrase, but it's ridiculous and it's a political construct.
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There's no such thing as a reverse racism.
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You are either a racist or you are not. Black, white, brown, yellow, whatever.
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There is no reverse racism. What would that mean? That would mean you, what?
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You love a particular race so much.
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You love all races, but you love a particular race the most,
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I guess. I don't know what reverse racism means.
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It's ridiculous. You're either racist or you're not. And then there's white genocide.
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Conservatives like to throw that around as well. Now I can tell you right now,
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there is no white genocide.
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There is legitimately in South Africa, white genocide going on as a direct result
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of decades of black genocide and i'm not excusing it and it's bad and it's wrong
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on both sides but kind of like the boy who cried wolf if you claim,
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racism for everything it minimizes the effects of of what you're saying if you claim white genocide,
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in a first world country in America.
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You're not getting the effect that you think you are. Now, there is a political
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strategy, the replacement theory, and that's a whole other thing that can be talked about.
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I think that that is a thing. I don't think it's white genocide.
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I think the Democrats are certainly trying to import brown voters to lock in their votes.
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Not because they love brown people, not because they care, because they're trying to import voters.
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But that's not white genocide, folks. And to say it is, is just trying to,
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that's stoking the flames.
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So all these things, they just get, they have a platform on social media.
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And all this sensationalism over things that aren't exactly true,
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you know it shows up in the algorithm you know what i mean if you're if you
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follow politics you're going to get shit like that in your in your on your stream
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there and all it does is amplify extreme voices.
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Don't even know. The extremes on either side are still a very small percentage of the vast population.
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And that's the vast white, black, brown population.
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The extremists are out there talking the loudest and getting the most airtime on social media.
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And then average people look at the social media and they think that that's
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what's going on in America because of the loudest voices.
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And it's not. Go outside in your average town in America, walk to the grocery
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store, look around you, walk downtown, you know, go out to eat.
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You don't see the things that you see on social media.
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So yeah, like I said, it's a tool. It's only as good as bad as those who wield it.
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The loudest voices wield it pretty well and therefore they show up on your feed.
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And all those loud voices, all they do is drown out any nuance and any objective perspectives.
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And that's what their goal is. They yell the loudest so that their opinion is the one that's heard.
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And they're depending on people who can't think critically or think for themselves
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or can't be objective. They're depending on those people.
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And the loudest voices from either side of the spectrum, they all virtue signal, right?
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That's not just the thing that the left does, by the way. The right does that as well.
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Virtue signaling is no good.
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That doesn't mean you're, because you say, because you wear a t-shirt or you
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do a thing, that doesn't mean that you're dedicated to anything.
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It doesn't mean you have genuine concern or care for any platform, left or right.
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People do that stuff, sadly, for social media to try to get followers, to try to get clicks.
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Personally don't know how people make money on the internet i don't make any
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money on the internet at all i'm happy to have the few thousand people listening
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to me that do i'm quite happy with that,
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but these people who who know how to take advantage of the social media system
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they're doing it and They can seem like that they are the norm when they are not.
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Madness, propaganda, hyperbole, that stuff's madness.
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And it's got to be, at some point we've got to cycle back to some rational discourse.
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So acknowledging extreme behavior on both sides.
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So for the general black population to acknowledge that there are black groups
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out there that are confrontational,
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that are out there trying to publicly shame and physically assault and destroy things,
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to claim that that's justified when it's not, and then not to acknowledge the
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boundaries of behavior. That's no good.
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And that in itself creates or exacerbates racism from a white perspective.
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And when you hold extreme opinions and you spew loudly extreme opinions,
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you're alienating potential allies, moderate people who behave rationally,
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who think rationally, and would otherwise be an ally for you.
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They don't want to touch any extremism.
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They don't want to touch anything that's going to create violence or things like that.
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Or that's going to keyhole them into or stereotype them in some way.
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Moderate people, and I'm reminded of the Bible verse, and I'm not quoting it
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word for word, but it's something to, because you're neither hot or cold,
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I spit you out of my mouth.
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I tell you what, these days we need a little bit of lukewarm in discourse, in discourse.
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You can present extreme ideas in a very calm way and you can build a following
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and build support for those ideas.
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There are people out there who will support it.
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However, when you're dealing with the public,
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Just have some good manners and be polite.
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And then the rhetoric from the militant groups. All that does is escalate tensions, right?
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And then when these militant groups walk around carrying guns,
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you're just out there trying to demonstrate that you have a bigger stick and
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that you're welcome and violence is welcomed. That's all you're doing.
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It shouldn't be, and it shouldn't be that way.
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And then you got the white supremacists.
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What is their behavior? Well, they don't go around destroying things, but what do they do?
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They're a little more sneaky, aren't they? They try to cloak their genuine racism
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sometimes as free speech or as heritage.
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I was born and raised in Atlanta, the South.
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There's heritage there as far as geography goes,
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but they undermine when they try to excuse racism with heritage or with free speech,
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or try to even legitimize racism because of heritage or free speech.
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They're undermining legitimate conservative efforts, legitimate political efforts.
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They're undermining that.
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And then they use subversive tactics online.
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They spread disinformation just like the left spreads disinformation.
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And all that does is exacerbate the divide, the mistrust.
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So both sides, extreme elements of both sides perpetuate cycle of resentment and then retaliation.
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And then as a result, there's zero progress in anything racist,
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racism-wise. Now, I can tell you this. I do believe this.
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I believe racism has been largely legislated out of the system.
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Largely. Now you still have small municipalities that have guys,
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good old boys, especially in the South that are racist.
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You can't know someone's heart. So you can't know if you're hiring someone who's racist.
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All you can do is try to vet people as good as possible.
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And I'm talking about the system. I mean, police, government organizations, et cetera.
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But I think generally speaking, racism has been legislated out.
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I can't discriminate against you because of your color, whether I wanted to
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or not. I can't, I can't do that.
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Now I could be subversive about it, but then now you're just guessing,
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right? Now you're just guessing. You have to take people's actions.
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You can't just assume. And if you're a black guy listening to this,
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you can't just assume every white guy is racist.
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And also, if you're a black guy listening to this, you can't say,
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because I've heard this said on
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several videos, that black people can't be racist because they're black.
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Well, I tell you what, go travel, go to Asia, even go to Europe.
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Hell, go to North Africa. You will see some of the most egregious racism on
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the planet I can tell you this right now,
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Despite America's past and its very, very,
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very short history Compared to the world of slavery and whatnot We are leaps
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and bounds Leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the world,
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and the way we've managed race relations.
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You may not believe it, and you may think, I don't know what you think about
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that, but I've seen some racism, and there's slavery going on right now in the
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Middle East and in Africa that people conveniently forget about.
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And I get it. If you're an American and you're an isolationist and you're like,
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no, I care about America, okay, great.
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But you have to acknowledge the scale. You have to acknowledge the scale.
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Mistrust. Progress. Until we acknowledge the extremist behaviors as being invalid,
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we're not going to be able to move forward.
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And then there's a question I have. My question to anyone who's a racist or
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anyone who's a statist, for that matter, is who has the right to violate others?
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Anyone have a right to violate someone else's individual rights?
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No, no, no, no, no. Nobody does. You can't legitimize it. You can't claim it.
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And that's to include police.
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We have a Fourth Amendment, which one of the problems with all this stuff is
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that we've drifted further and further away from the true intent of the Constitution.
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No one, black, white, or otherwise, has the right to violate someone else,
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their personal space, their personal property, certainly not put their hands
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on them and violate them physically.
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And if you think you get a free pass because you are a certain color,
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you may have a season where you do get a free pass, but you don't.
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You don't have a free pass.
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You're wrong. You're the aggressor. You're wrong if you violate someone else.
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I've seen so many videos of white and black liberals who assault the Trump followers.
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You know, they might be wearing their red hat at the McDonald's and then somebody
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comes up and smacks it off their heads.
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And young people, they, oh, that's funny.
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You get desensitized to that. But can you imagine that? Can you imagine being in that situation?
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What if you were wearing a Kamala hat at McDonald's and a guy walks up and smacks it off your head?
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And then because you think you're a tough guy, you swing on them and then they
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pull a gun and blast you. It's a very realistic thing.
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But the standard of behavior for the left is far looser than the standard of behavior for the right.
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And that's, I can back that up with video after video after video.
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You don't have a right to physically harm anyone. You don't have a right to destroy property.
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These protests that CNN touted as largely peaceful protests,
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where you could see the city burning in the background, that is unacceptable stuff.
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And that is a direct reflection of racism.
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Being used as a weapon by political entities It's a direct result of that You
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don't have a right to infringe on anyone's free speech,
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Extremists on both sides, black and white, left and right Have engaged in violence,
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The left, and there's been seasons, right?
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There's been seasons the left brings up the the civil rights in the 60s and
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50s where there were lynchings and stuff like that going on not acceptable it's
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unacceptable it it you don't have a right to violate someone,
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else's person and that and those things were wrong and organizationally as a
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government they They took steps, however hard fought it was,
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they took steps due to things like Martin Luther King,
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people like that, doing actual peaceful protests and actually doing things that were productive.
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But what's some other form? You got the rioting, right?
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Where it's just free for all. Where somebody somehow magically drops off bricks,
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pallets of bricks, right?
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And then you got things like doxing, right, where somebody says a thing or does a thing.
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There's a video recently, past few days, of a white lady at a park who called
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a five-year-old the N-word.
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And a guy said,
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videotaped her and then sort of started following her and
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trying to you know he was he was video so he's
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trying to get you know his video to go viral so he
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he's trying to get that now he didn't
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catch her on saying that by
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the way on video but that lady
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she might be racist i don't know but
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she said the n-word that that was her
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crime so now and we'll talk
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about it in a sec she's unsafe in her own house yeah
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now she's unsafe because her information has been put
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out her job and all that stuff now this is not go fund me but there's some other
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thing that she's going to make a lot of an actual crime,
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and he's going to get rich off of this fundraising site.
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And the premise is that he's unsafe, but he's not unsafe.
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What happened after that was the family of the guy that got killed got doxxed and swatted. Yeah.
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So do you see how the racism, it's the imbalance there, and there shouldn't
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be a balance, right? There shouldn't be any racism.
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You know, that lady was wrong for saying the n-word, even though that is just a form of free speech.
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But somehow that word alone has been somehow put off limits to whites.
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It's distasteful. I don't say it.
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But how can a word be put off limits? So it has been. But the word's not hurtful.
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It's not the word that's hurtful.
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Otherwise, black people wouldn't say it either. But I don't want to talk about that word.
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If you're the kind of guy that sits around privately and you say that and you
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hate black people just because they're black...
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You lack critical thinking skills and probably have a pretty low IQ as well.
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But the same for blacks. If you think it's okay and you rejoice in a white person
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because they said the N-word,
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you rejoice in their life being literally destroyed, you probably got a little problem too.
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You probably are somewhat of a sociopath.
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People who rejoice in other people's death and demise, you have issues that need to be addressed.
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But if you don't recognize it or if you refuse to recognize it,
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then I guess there's nothing you can do about it and you're just going to be that way.
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But if you rejoice in somebody's demise, I've seen some pretty egregious videos about the track meet.
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Kid that got stabbed and is dead
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because simply because
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of he said she said stories so you
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know man that don't rejoice in anyone's demise who has the right to violate
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other people nobody not white not black not anyone all right so ultimately what
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this comes to is a respect for individual rights.
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And respect for individual rights is the foundation of society,
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of a civilized and just society.
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Respect for individual rights. That transcends race.
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It transcends race, sex, sexual orientation,
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whatever, religion, what are some other inflammatory things,
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job profession respect for individual rights transcends all those things.
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Alright now I want to move on and I want to look at one of the foundational things that is used as a,
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an excuse sometimes for racism and then talk about it it's problems,
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the crime rates in America are disproportionately
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high among black people because something like 13% of the population being black
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accounts for something like 37% of violent crime arrests.
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So that statistic, which is legitimate, and that was only up until 2020,
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that statistic and whether it fluctuates left or right a little bit.
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But many, many, many white people, racist people use to just explain away,
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well, what, okay, and let's get, let's get on, I'll get to it in a second.
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And what's the, and some historical context there is in the 1960s,
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and I wasn't alive in the 1960s, but that is when the war on poverty began. The war on poverty.
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Now, I want you, in your mind, while I'm saying war on poverty,
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I want you to be thinking war on drugs as well.
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And then the Great Society programs. Yep.
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The Great Society programs that were started under Lenny B.
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Johnson, LBJ, and I say arguably by design,
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were create they created dependency from
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the black community and they disrupted the family
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unit of the black community and the
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black community was targeted and they were targeted well because of
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racism but this is
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when the racism democrats have always democrats were the slave owners democrats
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were the south you guys have heard the term dixiecrats that's the southern Democrats
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who fought to maintain slavery.
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Now, look, there were economics and other things involved in the Civil War, but mostly economics.
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But slavery was, at that time, just, it was a part of economics. It was free labor.
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But then the Democrats who voted against all the civil rights acts that came along.
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They did not want equality in any way. They didn't want any desegregation. That was Democrats.
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Now, some of you are going to say, well, the party switched platforms or some
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garbage like that. The parties didn't switch any damn platforms.
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They just switched strategies. And that is all.
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And the Great Society was a strategy. And I'm going to say this.
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LBJ famously said, we will have these Negroes voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
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EJ, the Democrat, said that. And that was in the early 60s, well, mid-60s.
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Bad urban policies that stemmed from that right there and over-policing contributed
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to all these socioeconomic problems that persisted and, well,
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that began and then persisted on through the years in the ghettos.
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And in the urban areas and the low-income areas and those kinds of things, that is just bad policy.
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It's bad liberal policies who, on the surface, are telling you they're doing
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a good thing for you, they're helping you, but when in reality they're creating
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dependence and then securing your vote.
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That is what they're doing, and that's the strategy.
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Any attempt these days to simply tweak an already horrible policy just to improve
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upon an already failed policy. All that does is maintain status quo.
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And all it does is create and maintain the ghettos. And then in the ghettos, what happens?
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There's a lack of opportunity and lack of resources.
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And then that lack, what does that do? Well, that leads to desperate people
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doing desperate things, which leads to criminality, criminal elements,
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and then sort of a ghetto culture, right?
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It's not black culture. It's ghetto culture that is the problem.
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And then that culture and those criminals, which are small elements of that, get glorified.
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And once that glorification hits, then it just creates a cycle.
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And then that cycle, it's a negative cycle. It's a negative cycle.
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And the implications of that are that the crime disparities,
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they get exploited by both sides. The same statistic can get exploited by both
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sides to try to push agendas.
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The left uses those to push the systemic racism narrative in that,
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well, the only reason the blacks are being arrested is because they're black.
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Completely ignoring individual responsibility, which those policies set that up.
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And then the right uses it to justify harsh policing policies that are potentially
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violating rights that do violate rights.
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I know a guy who's an undercover cop who has no problem beating the ever-loving,
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bejesus out of a suspect.
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Guilty, whether he's not guilty, whether, whatever, he takes pleasure in just
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beating the crap out of suspects.
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That's a violation, man. It's a violation of rights, and it's not necessary at all.
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Solutions to these things, they don't lie in policies that lead to dependency.
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They don't lie in policies that destroy the family unit, that keep black men
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in jail and keep a fatherless household.
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That is never going to solve anything.
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Solutions must address root causes.
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And root causes, racism's root cause changed over the years, I do believe.
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Way back in the 1400s, people came up in their little isolated spaces, wherever they were at,
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and other tribes and other cultures and other people were foreign and different,
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and they didn't view each other as human beings, right?
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They didn't view each other as human beings, despite what the Bible might say.
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And then, you know, then you had that cause slavery.
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Well, one, you had Africans selling Africans to, you know, Dutch and whoever
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else who were then shipping them over to South America and North America.
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Well, as we grew, as we educated ourselves, as we evolved as civilized human
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beings and understood that men are created equal,
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then the root cause of racism wasn't those cultural societal differences so
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much as it was like things like slavery.
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And like, well, now, and you got in the 60s and 70s and whatnot,
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you had people with their feelings of superiority.
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And then the poor, even the poor white people felt superior to black people.
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And then when they saw black people doing better than them, that fueled racism.
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But what racism was that? That's envy, right?
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That it was a black person doing better. They also envied white people doing better.
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So was it really racism or was it something else?
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And so anyway, what's another root cause? What's the root cause of the ghetto culture?
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It's economic opportunity and education.
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Famously, famously, the liberal agendas has refused to address actual job market
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job creation and free market job creation.
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And then education. Famously, the liberal version of that is the Department of Education.
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Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education, and quite literally since its creation, the U.S.
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Education statistics have been on a steady decline as compared to other civilized nations.
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Steady decline. So how do you continue to sell the benefit of the Department
52:52
of Education when it year after year after year underperforms?
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And then, I mean, just not even underperforms, but like egregiously underperforms.
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So economics and education are part of the root causes that'll fix these things.
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Don't political don't politicize the statistics just
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fix it now i want to say this i've
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said the phrase black community a lot i think in general people underestimate
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and oversimplify the term black community the black community is every bit as
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diverse as the white community people probably oversimplify white community.
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People probably oversimplify conservatives or liberals.
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Now, when we talk, we have to sort of blanket statement these things.
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There's nuance to everything. There's exceptions to everything, literally.
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However, what I'm saying is this, is you have to understand that I couldn't
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possibly speak for all white people.
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And every Every activist that gets on the social medias can't possibly speak for all black people.
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It's just not possible. There's too many, even within a race,
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even within a community, there are too many different priorities and value systems
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for one person to speak for all.
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A president don't speak for all of America, even though he's the representative
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of America throughout the world, he don't speak for everyone.
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He does speak for everyone as America, but individually...
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May disagree or you may hate the guy, no matter which guy it is.
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So understand that there's a far more nuance here when it comes to solving individual problems.
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We're talking about big problems. We're talking about socioeconomic education problems here.
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And for the sake of argument, we're talking about low-income areas where crime
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is high and things like that.
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There are plenty. I don't even know. I should look this up. How many black millionaires
55:08
are in America right now.
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I'm not, I don't even think our rate rank is middle class.
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I don't know what, how they're, they're measuring the class these days based
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on money, but these days, everybody has an opportunity.
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You might have to go search it out, but it's out there.
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Everybody has an opportunity. You don't have to resort to violence and crime
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to be successful. All right.
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Sticking with a little bit of history, in 1971, there was a book published,
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and this book was literally a textbook that provided strategies for what they
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called community organizing.
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But it it promoted
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polarizing political tactics like
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like how to choose a target how to
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freeze that target stop its progress personalize that target and then polarize
56:12
and isolate that target yeah what does that sound like am i setting up for an
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assassination hit No, man.
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That was Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. And that's what they promoted.
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Pick an opponent, a political opponent or a, you know, corporate guy or whoever their chosen enemy was.
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Freeze, personalize, and polarize. Yeah.
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Saul Alinsky was not a good guy. He was a bad guy.
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And he, I think, took pleasure in manipulating young people into these leftist ideals.
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But he, like, in his book, he framed issues and, like, what ended up coming
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from that was that he basically narrowed down the American people into two classes.
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It wasn't black and white. It was the oppressed versus the oppressor.
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So you were either in the oppressed class, and this all has Marxist underpinnings
57:19
all through it, or you were an oppressor.
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Now, I can tell you this. I don't think I'm in either class.
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I used to think I was an oppressed guy. I used to think the system was out to get me. But...
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But, well, if you just, you know, but I'm certainly, I don't think I was,
57:38
but I'm certainly not an oppressor either.
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You can't just narrow it down to those two gigantic categories.
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And all that did was create a sort of a victim mentality and a victim class.
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And then once you're in the victim class, hey, you have a free pass to do and
57:59
say anything you want to.
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That's what they believe. And then they demonize the police,
58:04
which the police do a good job of demonizing themselves, but they definitely demonize the police.
58:13
And look, I do that sometimes. I have a love or hate relationship with the police
58:19
and sort of policing in general.
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And I believe that the law takes too much liberty with citizens who are not proven to be criminals.
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But anyway, the police. And then they labeled anybody who dissented,
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any opposing opinion as racist.
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Yeah, that came with Saul Alinsky.
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When everybody was a racist. No matter if they disagreed, they're racist.
58:47
That was a strategy that Saul Alinsky laid out for activists.
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It says community organizing, but what he means is political activism.
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So if you label anybody who disagrees with you as a racist loudly,
59:04
then nobody's going to want to debate the actual issues because they don't want
59:08
to be labeled. Nobody wants to be called a racist.
59:12
Consequences of these tactics over the years, all it does is alienate anybody
59:20
who may be an ally, moderate.
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Anybody who's a moderate person, they don't want to deal with extremes.
59:29
And then it entrenched the extremes on the left and right.
59:35
These tactics just caused people who are already extreme-minded,
59:40
just caused them to dig in deeper.
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And then that means what?
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Compromise is impossible. So now, in their mind, it's a fight to the death.
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There is no compromise. There is no meat in the middle.
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There is no give or take. It's all or nothing.
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And politics, countries can't survive that way.
1:00:03
And then the other thing it did with the oppressed versus the oppressor in the
1:00:07
victim class is that it created that whole narrative of victimhood that undermines
1:00:13
individual responsibility, individual accountability.
1:00:17
That's what that does. If you walk around believing you're a victim,
1:00:21
probably chances are you believe anything you do, violent or otherwise,
1:00:26
is justified because you think you're a perpetual victim and that anything you
1:00:32
do, you claim self-defense, whether it's philosophical or physical.
1:00:39
And that's what's happened. That's what Saul Alinsky has brought to the world.
1:00:43
That's what Hillary Clinton touted. She was a student of Saul Alinsky.
1:00:49
That's what Saul Alinsky brought to the world. All or nothing political discourse. All right.
1:00:58
We're still on a little bit of history here. And I quote, The white liberal
1:01:04
is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man.
1:01:09
He is the most dangerous because he poses a
1:01:12
friend at poses as a friend but is
1:01:14
really an enemy does anybody take a few minutes in your head and guess who said
1:01:20
that yeah malcolm x said that malcolm x said that malcolm x was an activist
1:01:26
yep fbi had a foul on him just like they did, Martin Luther King Jr.
1:01:32
But he understood that liberal whites,
1:01:37
he understood that there was no swap of the platform, that Democrats were just
1:01:45
using black people as votes.
1:01:48
And he criticized white liberals for pandering and patronizing the black community and offering.
1:01:57
Well virtue signaling right that was
1:02:00
that was early virtue signaling they they
1:02:04
offered support but it was only superficial it was
1:02:06
nothing tangible you know
1:02:09
they would they would go walk with them and stuff like that but they offered no
1:02:12
real tangible support but what
1:02:15
they did do was maintain control of
1:02:19
the black vote and they did
1:02:23
it without addressing any systematic systemic issues
1:02:26
they claimed to they planned
1:02:29
to they campaigned on doing it
1:02:32
but what they really did was just create a
1:02:35
welfare state which we're living in so yeah
1:02:40
i i encourage he was you you could see in the public life of malcolm x he kind
1:02:47
of his evolution now eventually yeah when he got He got killed by one of the black Muslims.
1:02:57
He got killed by his own, not only his own race, but his own religion,
1:03:02
black Muslims, or a nation of Islam, I want to say, if you recall.
1:03:06
But you could see his evolution of critical thinking.
1:03:12
And eventually he got killed for it because it wasn't in lockstep with the narrative
1:03:19
that the Democrats want to push.
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The liberals of the day and of today, they use black struggle for political gain.
1:03:29
And there's just, as evidence of Barack Obama, there is no legitimate commitment,
1:03:34
no legitimate commitment to real equality or real economic or educational development.
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Votes And what's the relevance Of that time period Is that Like I said Even today,
1:03:51
Progressive policies They go on They talk loud They prioritize What you see on TV,
1:03:59
They do You know These performative Measures They go up And they do rallies
1:04:07
And they'll show up And shake hands.
1:04:11
But then there's no substance of substance and that and that's today,
1:04:15
and then they they have the left has this sort of paternalistic approach right
1:04:23
like the black community can't do anything without them and and all that does
1:04:28
is is it takes agency and disempowers the black individual.
1:04:35
And you guys have heard of a term called the racism of low expectations.
1:04:40
I've literally heard videos of, and legitimate videos, of white liberals saying that black people...
1:04:51
Go and get ID cards for voting.
1:04:56
I've also heard one where a black lady, no, no, sorry, a white lady,
1:05:01
a white liberal, argued and complained that using a large vocabulary was very
1:05:06
racist because black people didn't understand what you're saying.
1:05:09
Well, I got news for you. I know plenty of white people that don't have a vocabulary either.
1:05:15
But for her to put it in that context, hell, that was more racist.
1:05:22
That was a more racist thing to say in my opinion,
1:05:26
I know a guy I'm not going to name names or how I know him but he's one of the
1:05:32
he's a white guy probably I don't know maybe 8 years older than me and he's one of the most ignorant,
1:05:39
uneducated people that I know so much that it makes me angry because the internet
1:05:48
exists he just chooses to be ignorant,
1:05:51
so to to to say a
1:05:54
large vocabulary is racist because black people don't understand is
1:05:57
just one of the most racist things i've ever heard in my life the racism
1:06:00
of low expectations that's what's going on in a lot of public schools yeah there
1:06:05
are i want to say baltimore i don't know they had like a whole class grade level
1:06:12
multiple grade level that couldn't pass basic reading and math.
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That's what's real. That's what's going on today because of bad policy.
1:06:23
All right. That was all very negative things, man. It's been negative and who
1:06:27
knows what will come from this.
1:06:29
I was going to refrain from, from any controversial topics, but I felt compelled to do this one.
1:06:35
Few things that I've seen go on a few.
1:06:38
I know, I know some guys who are like racist guys and it bothers me.
1:06:45
But let's start getting into some solutions. How about that?
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Let's get positive here for a minute.
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Now, these are my opinions, and I'm sort of framing some of this stuff as political,
1:06:57
but because politics affects everything we do,
1:07:01
and because politics exacerbates the problems i think politics is a big exit
1:07:08
it's a big accelerant for the for the flames so here's what i'm going to say first.
1:07:17
Individualism, people. And that's not to say selfishness. Embrace individualism.
1:07:25
Judge people. We all do it. We're all judgmental in some way.
1:07:30
Judge people based on their individual actions, not as a representative of a
1:07:37
racial group or a religious group or any other group.
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Judge people on their individual actions and what they do. All right?
1:07:49
Reject collectivist ideologies. That's communism, folks. That's socialism.
1:07:54
But the tactics of communism and socialism and Solowansky and modern progressivism
1:08:03
is to pit race against race.
1:08:06
It's to create an oppressed and oppressor.
1:08:13
That's not good, that's bad It only keeps the divide That's what the collectivists
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want They want a divide They want there to be an us against them,
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Because it creates fear And from that fear creates obedience And obedience eventually
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leads to outright tyranny.
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Embrace individualism and reject collectivism. Judge people in their individual
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actions, not the actions of their group or whatever group they claim.
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Learn, seek out, practice critical thinking.
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Learn how yourself or teach others how to evaluate evidence.
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And I mean primary source evidence, not second-third-hand evidence, right?
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Primary source evidence. Question assumptions. Question the media.
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In fact, you should be skeptical of any media whatsoever.
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Somebody owns that, and that somebody who owns that has an objective or understanding.
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Plans, an agenda. So everything's propaganda.
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And you can frame that negatively or positively.
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When I put a commercial or a little video out for one of my courses, that's propaganda.
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I'm trying to change your, I'm trying to get you to want to do a thing.
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I'm trying to shape your mind into doing what I want you to do,
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which is come take one of my courses.
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Now, what makes it not really propaganda is that I offer value in return.
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But almost everything can be looked at as propaganda.
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Question the narratives from everything, from everyone.
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Question them. And that don't mean outright reject. That just means question. Question assumptions.
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Question what they're laying down as facts.
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Demand primary source knowledge. which critical thinking will change your life if you are objective,
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which leads us to this, the philosophy of objectivism.
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I love it. I think it's legitimate, and I think it's one of the only true philosophies
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that advocates for individual freedom and liberty.
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Advocate for rationality. I said individualism, not selfishness.
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But there is a thing called rational self-interest and you need to advocate
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rational self-interests every individual should do what is best for them as
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long as it doesn't infringe on someone else,
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if you are your best self you will be the best for the community or for your friends and family,
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Advocate for rational self-interest.
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Uphold objective merit-based standards,
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Objective standards, for one Hold black people and white people to the same
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standard No matter what, whether it's job, behavior, whatever,
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Sports Sports is dominated, dominated by black people All sports,
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just about With the exception of probably hockey,
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Guess what?
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You don't get any white players just because they're white, right? They have to perform.
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That's it. So they got to do the work. If you want to be on the starting team, do the work.
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Same holds across corporate America. Same holds across standards of behavior out in society.
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Merit-based objective standards, not race-based policies based on affirmative
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action or racial quotas or what's the hot one these days, diversity equals.
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Inclusion or something like that. And here's, and here's what I want to say about that.
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I think two weekends ago, the 2025 best ranger competition was held.
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And that's three days of gruesome combat, physical tasks at a high level.
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And out of however many teams that start that, there's usually,
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I think, I don't know, an attrition rate of teams is probably 50% or higher.
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For the first time in history a female and it happened to be a black female,
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and her name was Lieutenant Gabrielle White,
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not only competed in the Best Ranger competition but her and her teammate finished
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I want to say like 14 out of probably 100 teams that started and probably 30 or 40 that finished,
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her and her teammate finished like 14th.
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There was no DEI there, folks. I can tell you this. I know the Army had a lot
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of weird policies and things like that. I can tell you this.
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DEI has no place and does not affect the best ranger competition.
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You have to put out, and you have to put out for three days nonstop.
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And there are grown men, black and white, that do not finish that year after
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year. and this young Lieutenant Gabriel White not only finished,
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but finished at a respectable level.
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She didn't need DEI to do that.
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She performed on her own merit. Keep that in mind. It can be done.
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The racism of low expectations, you didn't see that there.
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She was expected to do everything her white male partner did.
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And at a level that, right. And at his level, or possibly he had to do things at her level.
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Maybe she, she might've been better at some of those tasks than him. Who knows?
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So uphold objective standards for everyone, standards of behavior,
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standards of performance, standards of output as far as work goes.
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You get no free pass for being anything other than a hard worker.
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And then what else can we do? You know, talk to other people, promote marketing.
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You can have an extreme position and still have a rational conversation about it. Promote that.
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Promote calm political discourse.
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That'll help ease the tensions on racism right there. And then a big one.
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What else can we do to kind of help ease the flames of racism in the modern day?
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Support legitimate education reforms. Now, to me, that means school of choice.
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That means Department of Education going away.
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That means community-based education. That means the money follows the child.
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That means Montessori schools, charter schools. That means being competitive
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in the education market so that you have teachers who aren't just riding out
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tenure, but actually give a crap about their performance.
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To me, that's what education reform means.
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But and then you can have education that actually that actually empowers individuals
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with unique skill sets and and stuff like that not just your standardized uh
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factory-based education,
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not just your standardized factory-based education which is what the department
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of defense churns out you know sorry department of education churns out,
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And this also reduces dependency on the federal government for your school funding or any of those things.
1:16:31
And then, right, you don't get...
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Politics in school. You don't get these activist teachers who are secretly trying
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to push agendas in the classroom because those teachers can be fired or those
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teachers can be reprimanded.
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And if you come to work for our school system, this is what our ethos is and
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this is what you will teach or you can beat feet.
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And then the community has more say in what that school does and how they do business.
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And I think that's more important. The federal government doesn't needs say
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and what your local school does.
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And that's, look, that's a very libertarian ideal. And that's what I'm going to get into next here.
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I know I'm going long, but libertarian ideals, whether you're libertarian or
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not, but some of the functional policies or ideals will help.
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And this is it. And these are my final words of encouragement, things that'll help us.
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All right Embrace strong individualism
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All right I said that already Judge people By their actions And not their race
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Or their sex But we're talking about race right now Maintain accountability
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Individual accountability For everyone No matter if they're an immigrant No
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matter if they're black White Brown Blue,
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Individual accountability And responsibility You take responsibility For your
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own actions and hold people responsible for their actions.
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Victimhood, and lack of accountability. And then pursue self-determination.
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You as an individual can find your path.
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You build your own path through education, work, and personal growth.
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You chase down what you desire and build your priorities around that.
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Don't build it around what you're being told by some political group or that your tribe,
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your group expects you to do this, so you do that. No, don't do that.
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I think I hear that a lot from sort of inner city ghetto type situations where
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people are pulled into a certain lifestyle and they can't get out.
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And that's true Yes, that's true That's a common That's a common narrative amongst
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gangsters They get pulled in at a young age And they just can't get out Pursue
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self-determination Right?
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If we use good policy To economic policy And educational policy These ghettos
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will go away And you won't have that same Respect personal property rights It's
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respect your own property.
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And even if you don't own that property, treat it as if it's your own and take care of it.
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Respect that other people have earned their property and you should treat it with respect.
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People should treat your property with respect.
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That's your own personal self. That's your physical things you own.
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That's your home, your car, all those things.
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Your personal space, even. So protect what you earn and respect what others own.
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I'm sure with the exception of a few rich people out there, very rich people,
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everybody's had to earn what they have.
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I've had to earn anything that I have. I promise you I wasn't a trust fund baby.
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I didn't have an inheritance.
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Everybody can say the same thing just about. Protect what you earn and respect
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what other people have earned. Thank you.
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And respect other people's rights. Live and let live.
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Place a high value on free speech. And that includes speech that you don't like.
1:20:38
Freedom of association. People can hang around. They can do business.
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They can protest with anyone they want to protest.
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Freedom of association. And then individual liberty. Respect other people's liberty.
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Everybody has the same rights. Respect those and respect them for yourself as well.
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Expect them amongst yourself or expect it of yourself.
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Put that expectation on other people for you, and then you live that expectation against other people.
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And then practice good manners, people. I say this all the time. Just have good manners.
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That's it. Just out in public. Treat others with a basic human respect.
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You don't have to kiss anyone's ass.
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But please and thank you is not a capitulation of superiority or inferiority, right?
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Just have a little respect amongst the general public.
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Even when you disagree, don't let it turn into an emotional frigging event.
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Respectfully agree to disagree. Practice good manners.
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I think that's in short order today. I don't even know if that's a part of kids' schooling today.
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If you live these principles that I just laid out, these are very libertarian-esque
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principles, but they're also very human principles.
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Nothing's groundbreaking extreme there.
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If you live these principles, you can dismantle the illness of racism,
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at least in your circle of friends.
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You can get rid of this identity politics that we've been doing for the past
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20 years And then we can usher in a modern society where character and merit.
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Your success, right? Good character and being of value to yourself and others
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will define your success.
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Be honest with yourself, respect other people, and have good manners. There you go.
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That's what I had to say today, folks. I don't think anything was very inflammatory.
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It may have been, and you may have a little issue with some of the things.
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If you do, by all means, reach out.
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Djutopodcast.com go on there and leave me a message and tell me what you think
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or if you got a different spin on on what what i've laid out give it to me i'll
1:23:10
look over and i'll address it,
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stuff.
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Like, share, follow, rate, leave me a review even.
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And as always, reach out. If you need help, reach out.
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If you need anything within my capacity, I will help you with it. All right.
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So thank you, folks. Be good.
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Talk to you next month. I love you guys.
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Music.