Ben Shapiro is back with a new segment on the Ben Shapiro Show, and he's got a lot to talk about it. Today, he's talking about George Orwell's 1984, and how the communist party is trying to rewrite history in order to make it their own, and that's why they need to destroy all traces of American history, because it's a threat to them. He's also talking about the fact that the party's goal is to destroy American icons, and the only way they can do so is to wipe them away. And to do so, they must be wiped away, and all of history must be falsified, in order for the party to have a claim on the future, and to be able to continue rewriting history in the minds of its constituents. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and writer who has written for The Daily Wire, The New York Times, and The Weekly Standard, and is a regular contributor to the New York Post. His latest book, 1984, is out now, and it's available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Click here to buy it for $99.99. The show is sponsored by Quip, the Good Habits company. Quip makes it easy by delivering all the oral care essentials you need to brush and floss your teeth. Quip is a dentist recommended for your teeth brush head. Shout out to you! and you get your first refill for just $5.00 each! The Quip brush head brush head, toothpaste, floss refills, and toothpaste and toothbrushes, plus a bottle of watermelon and mint, for $5 more than $10.00! Shout it out on the Quip! You won't want to miss it! - Quip's website is all about good habits, you won't have to be left feeling like you're brushing your teeth, you're getting it, you'll feel like you'll be brushing, you can do it, and you won t have to pay for it, right here! It's Quip says it, it's got it, they're gonna get it, too! . And they'll make it, so you'll have it, no matter where you go, they'll feel good, right there, it'll be there, right in your inbox, right at home, right on your computer, and they'll know it's gonna help you can watch it, yay!
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00:01:52.000I'm sure that back in high school, somebody forced you to read 1984 by George Orwell.
00:01:56.000You may not remember it that well, but one of the key components of 1984 is this idea that the party, right, the entire book is about the communist party in Russia, but obviously it's disguised as sometime in the future, In the West, in 1984, one of the key components of the party is the attempt to rewrite history and rewrite reality.
00:02:16.000All dissenting views must be quashed and history must be rewritten.
00:02:20.000There's a part where one character is explaining to another character exactly what the party does in order to rewrite reality in the minds of its constituents.
00:02:28.000And this character says, Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has it been actually abolished?
00:02:34.000If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there.
00:02:39.000Already we know almost literally nothing about the revolution and the years before the revolution.
00:02:43.000Every record has been destroyed or falsified.
00:02:56.000Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
00:03:00.000I know, of course, the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it even when I did the falsification myself.
00:03:05.000After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains.
00:03:08.000The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.
00:03:13.000So, in other words, the constant rewriting of history is necessary in order for perpetual revolution to continue.
00:03:19.000Because, of course, if people Remember the past.
00:03:21.000If people remember that not all the principles being espoused by the party in 1984 are right or are actually in concert with reality or history, then it presents a threat to the party.
00:03:32.000And so all of history must be wiped away.
00:03:42.000The goal of many people on the, what I called in my book, the disintegrationist left, The goal of many of those people is to destroy all icons of American history, to destroy American history itself.
00:03:55.000And this is why you see, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the tearing down of a wide variety of statues, including statues of people who are deeply instrumental in ending slavery and fighting the anti-Reconstruction South.
00:04:09.000So Ulysses S. Grant, who was Now being sort of, in revisionist fashion, thought of as a very, very good president, right?
00:04:17.000Originally he was thought of as not a great president because of corruption and venality, supposedly, during his administration.
00:04:21.000It turns out a lot of that history had been written by people who were sort of sympathetic to the South.
00:04:26.000Ulysses S. Grant is now seen as not only the general who smashed the Confederacy, but also the president who helped try to implement Reconstruction in a way that preserved the rights of black Southerners.
00:04:37.000And the end of his presidency meant the end of Reconstruction efforts in America for a hundred years.
00:04:42.000It was really a tragedy, the end of his presidency.
00:04:45.000The Reconstructionist Republicans, the Radical Republicans, were basically ousted from power about the same time as Ulysses S. Grant.
00:04:52.000Ulysses S. Grant is a great hero of American history.
00:04:55.000We're not talking here about taking down Robert E. Lee statues, which is controversial in and of itself.
00:04:59.000We're certainly not talking about taking down Nathan Bedford Forrest statues, right, the founder of the KKK.
00:05:03.000You're talking about taking down the statues of the guy who was the most instrumental general in destroying the slave-holding Confederacy.
00:05:11.000And the morons, I would say, you know, maybe they're not morons, because again, they have an agenda.
00:05:16.000But the, I would say the moral fools On the radical left have decided that even statues of Ulysses S. Grant have to be taken down.
00:05:25.000According to The Hill, while Grant is widely celebrated as being one of the leading forces who helped the Union win the Civil War, bringing an end to slavery in the United States, some historians have pointed to his complicated relationship with slavery.
00:05:35.000Because as we know, most people did not have a complicated relationship with slavery in 1859.
00:05:42.000Protesters in San Francisco on Friday toppled the statue of former President Grant.
00:05:45.000San Francisco police said approximately 400 people gathered around 8 p.m.
00:05:49.000to take down the statue, and no arrests were made.
00:05:52.000Where exactly are the cops during all this?
00:05:53.000Where is the law and order that we were promised, exactly, from the White House?
00:05:57.000Where exactly does this perpetual revolution end?
00:06:00.000Also torn down in the park, the statues of Saint Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner.
00:06:07.000And people on the left are really hesitant to condemn any of this.
00:06:12.000I've seen very little upset over the taking down of the statue of Junipero Serra, despite the fact that Joe Biden was on tape, and so is Nancy Pelosi, standing in front of the statue of St.
00:06:21.000Junipero Serra, I believe with the Pope, a few years back, because of course he is a Catholic saint.
00:06:27.000The Grant Statue coming down is really the key, right?
00:06:29.000Because when you talk about Junipero Serra, you can at least make the case that he treated the natives badly.
00:06:36.000But even Junipero Serra, he's really in line with Columbus, right?
00:06:39.000The idea here is that when Western peoples came to the New World, that they destroyed the New World on the back of their Western imperialism because, of course, imperialism, colonialism, and evil never existed until the West arrived in the New World.
00:06:51.000But, okay, Junipero Serra, who is the founder of the mission system in California on behalf of the Spanish government, his statue was taken down.
00:06:58.000They went after a statue of Cervantes, which doesn't even make sense, right?
00:07:01.000Cervantes is the guy who wrote Don Quixote.
00:07:03.000Cervantes was held as a slave for five years.
00:07:05.000They went after his statue anyway, because they don't know anything.
00:07:09.000They just saw a white guy, and so they decided to Deface his statue, was the basic idea here.
00:07:15.000But the taking down of the statue of Grant is so telling, because again, Grant is a figure who stood against slavery.
00:07:21.000Grant is a figure who's instrumental in destroying the Confederacy.
00:07:25.000Grant stands for all the things that the protesters say they stood for, at least if you're looking at his public image.
00:07:31.000He has to be taken down too because all of American history has to be rewritten not as the story of a country struggling to overcome the evils of human nature, struggling to overcome its own inability to fulfill its founding principles.
00:07:43.000Instead, the country has to be rewritten as evil from founding and the only good people who have ever lived, make no mistake, the only good people who have ever lived are leftists from the radical 60s on.
00:07:52.000Everybody else in human history was bad.
00:07:54.000Everybody from the 1960s on who was radical was good.
00:07:57.000And even the 60s radicals were not radical enough.
00:07:59.000And they must be thrown out of the universities today.
00:08:01.000They were still a little bit too liberal, the radicals from the 1960s.
00:08:04.000Because they used to say things like, we want to live a life beyond color in the United States.
00:08:08.000We want to live a life where race doesn't matter in the United States.
00:08:30.000Isn't it amazing to live at this time when the only good people live?
00:08:33.000No good people have ever lived before.
00:08:35.000And if you took those people who are good today and you plopped them down in 1850, they would believe exactly the same things they believe today in 1850.
00:08:41.000They would have been out there in the streets stumping for transgender rights and gay marriage.
00:08:46.000And for anti-racism of the mold that talks about how if you say that you are colorblind and you are totally in favor of the equality of races, then that's not enough.
00:08:58.000They would have exactly the same politics today as if they were plopped down in 1500.
00:09:02.000Because history doesn't matter, right?
00:09:04.000The only thing that matters is that the only moral people who live now are the people who are in charge of our cultural revolution.
00:09:10.000We're gonna get to the ideological basis for this, because it's very clear, okay, this is not happening in a vacuum, and the people who are pushing it forward are deeply, deeply dishonest.
00:09:18.000They're honest about their own desire to tear down the country.
00:09:20.000They are deeply dishonest about what exactly they are saying, because what they're saying is just a pack of lies.
00:09:25.000We're gonna get to that in just one second.
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00:10:37.000So, they tore down a statue of Grant, suggesting of course that Grant wasn't abolitionist enough.
00:10:43.000Again, only responsible for the breaking of the back of the Confederacy.
00:10:46.000Only responsible for overseeing the radical Republican attempts at Reconstruction.
00:10:52.000Now, what's amazing is that some semi-sane people on the left will push back against the radicals, but many will not.
00:10:58.000not so adam serwer who writes for the atlantic and is definitely a member of the hardcore left he says granted briefly own one slave you freed years before the war but as a general he smashed the confederacy as president he crushed the clan he presided over the ratification of the 15th amendment people going after grant probably just want to break things and matthew iglesias right who i've called the ralph wiggum of the internet right i'm not a huge matthew iglesias fan although he has been kind of cudgelled into sanity over the last several months right
00:11:25.000You're seeing him start to crack back against some of the insanity of the censorious left.
00:11:31.000He tweeted out, feels like this is slippery slope overreach.
00:11:35.000But here is the thing, here is the thing.
00:11:38.000There is a group of intellectuals who actually believe in this stuff.
00:11:42.000Nicole Hannah-Jones is the leader of this cadre.
00:11:44.000Nicole Hannah-Jones is the creator of the 1619 Project.
00:11:47.000Now you've heard me rip on the 1619 Project since inception, because the 1619 Project, when we talk about that 1984 rewriting of date, and restarting of history, and rewriting of history, she is exhibit A in this.
00:11:57.000First of all, she won a Pulitzer Prize for bad history.
00:11:59.000That's literally what she won a Pulitzer Prize for.
00:12:01.000So she won a Pulitzer Prize, she brags about it.
00:12:04.000Her history was so bad that the New York Times had to correct it.
00:12:07.000She was chided by no less than three other Pulitzer Prize-winning historians because her history was not good.
00:12:12.000And she basically creates things out of whole cloth.
00:12:14.000Like, she says things online that are just ahistorical in the extreme.
00:12:17.000She'll say that the Second Amendment is founded in white supremacy and pro-slavery, which of course is not even close to true.
00:12:27.000She was put in—she's basically been handed the keys to the car over at the New York Times.
00:12:30.000To the point where she has the capacity, basically, to oust the editorial page editor if she's angry at the editorial page editor for running an editorial by Senator Tom Cotton.
00:12:41.000She's been granted the keys to the car, has this lady.
00:12:44.000And she's very bad at her job, but she is not like one of the more sane members of the left who say, maybe we're going a little too far here, guys, when we're tearing down statues of Ulysses S. Grant.
00:12:53.000Instead, she's kind of like okay with it.
00:12:57.000So to understand why she's okay with it, you first have to understand That she's okay with the general ideology of tearing down American history.
00:13:05.000She wants American history torn down from inception so we can rewrite history as the story of cruelty, evil, and malice, and then we can tear down all of America's institutions.
00:13:13.000Remember, as I talked about last week, there's been a shift on the left in the definition of racism itself.
00:13:18.000Racism in the 1960s was seen as an obstacle that once overcome would free all Americans to have equal rights under law as provided by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
00:13:28.000This was the MLK definition of racism.
00:13:30.000And Martin Luther King's definition of racism is, there are racist policies that deliberately target one group of people.
00:13:35.000There are racist people who deliberately target one group of people.
00:13:38.000And if we can stop those people and those policies, then freedom will have been granted, and now you have individual agency to pursue your lives.
00:13:45.000Then, in the 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, the definition of racism itself shifted.
00:13:49.000And suddenly it went from racism is an obstacle to be overcome to racism is the system.
00:14:11.000It is not that the systems are good and were plagued by the problem and evil of white supremacy.
00:14:15.000It is that white supremacy created the systems, white supremacy maintains the systems, and even if you stop the openly racist policies, even if you stop the open racists from pursuing their goals, the system itself was constructed by people who are racist and therefore can never be fixed.
00:14:31.000It's the same sort of ideology that suggests that you have to tear down the art of artists because they had bad personal lives.
00:14:37.000Because they came from exactly the same place.
00:14:39.000So all of the institutions have to be destroyed because the institutions themselves were bad.
00:14:43.000And the reason they were bad is they were founded by people who were white supremacists and racists.
00:14:49.000And you've seen this, you know, across, like, there is no limit to this principle.
00:15:25.000The museum took action, according to the New York Times, amid a heated national debate over the appropriateness of statues or monuments that first focused on Confederate symbols like Robert E. Lee, and has now moved on to a wider arc of figures from Christopher Columbus to Winston Churchill, namely everyone.
00:15:48.000They're not being subtle about any of this.
00:15:51.000Okay, so there is an article in the New York Times called, Call Them the 1619 Riots.
00:15:56.000And the basic idea is the idea that I have been promulgating here, which is that a lot of the people who are rioting and looting are under the wildness impression pushed forward by those on the radical left in academia, in the media, that America is inherently and forever evil and must be torn down from its roots.
00:16:10.000And that includes George Washington, that includes Thomas Jefferson, that includes everybody.
00:17:31.000The true story of America is 1619 forever and always.
00:17:34.000And it doesn't matter what intervening events have happened.
00:17:36.000It doesn't matter what has happened to vitiate any of that.
00:17:39.000It doesn't matter how many Americans died in order to rectify the founding vision of the United States.
00:17:44.000It doesn't matter if 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War.
00:17:46.000It doesn't matter that literally millions of white Americans had to back the Civil Rights Movement in order for the Civil Rights Movement to actually take effect.
00:17:55.000The real history of the United States is instead one of racial conflict in which black Americans were the only people, this is literally something Nicole Hannah-Jones has basically said, that black people were the only people who were basically standing against the tyranny of America forever and always.
00:18:08.000Because America's evil and has to be torn down.
00:18:10.000So, she tweets out, it would be an honor to call these the 1619 riots.
00:18:14.000An honor to call these the 1619 riots.
00:18:16.000The rioting and the looting and the tearing down of American statues.
00:18:19.000We'll get more into this viewpoint, which is pernicious, And nasty and quite evil for the United States.
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00:19:54.000Okay, so, Nikole Hannah-Jones, again, makes very, very clear exactly what it is she is after here.
00:20:00.000She doesn't just tweet out that it is an honor to have been the creator of a project that has been used as the ideological basis for the tearing down of all of American history.
00:20:11.000She then tweets out about Ulysses S. Grant.
00:20:12.000So, as I say, some people on the left, and again, Adam Sarour is a man of the left, he says, yeah, we might be going a little far with this Grant stuff.
00:20:18.000Matthew O'Glasey says, maybe going a little bit far with this Grant stuff.
00:20:21.000Nicole Hannah-Jones, again, the 1619 Project Pulitzer Prize winner for an essay so bad it had to be corrected by the New York Times.
00:20:27.000She writes, I think maybe Grant's is not a statue worth toppling.
00:20:30.000I think maybe, maybe it's not a statue worth toppling.
00:20:33.000It's not that it's bad to topple the statue.
00:20:35.000It's not that it's a moral evil or a blot to topple the statue of a man who is the chief The chief architect of the destruction of the Confederacy?
00:20:43.000And the guy behind the 15th Amendment?
00:20:45.000And the guy behind the radical reconstruction attempt to stop the KKK?
00:20:55.000She says, I also understand, after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt, of having been demeaned by public tributes, of entering buildings, of walking past art that celebrated white supremacy, how overzealousness occurs.
00:21:07.000Oh, so it's just overzealousness tearing down the Grant statues.
00:21:10.000That's what it's just a little overzealous, guys.
00:21:13.000You know, you ignored it when they wanted to tear down all of the statues of, like, Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
00:21:22.000And you can see how people would be, like, you know, upset and so tear down the person who destroyed Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
00:21:43.000You know, when you stop people from taking down statues of Confederates, well, I mean, you can see why they would get overzealous and then take down statues of Union generals.
00:21:51.000This makes perfect sense if you are an idiot.
00:22:12.000And we can't condemn people for being overzealous and to facing statues of Ulysses S. Grant Or tearing down statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, or talking about renaming Columbus, Ohio, Flaverton?
00:22:48.000And also, I think that his contribution to the world is definitely on par.
00:22:52.000I mean, I don't know much about Guy Fieri, but I feel like his contribution to Western Civilization is directly on par with the explorer who found the New World on behalf of Western Civilization.
00:24:33.000Okay, first of all, I feel like Hitler was a man of his time is not quite the same thing as George Washington was a man of his time.
00:24:39.000Hitler was, if you're telling me that in 1941 nobody knew that genociding millions of people was wrong, as opposed to in 1770 slavery was the rule rather than the exception around planet Earth.
00:24:52.000A man of his time suggests that this was a commonly held viewpoint and that most people sort of were okay with it even though it was evil at the time.
00:25:01.000Hitler was very much not a man of his time when it came to, you know, genociding millions of people.
00:25:07.000Osama Bin Laden was not exactly a man of his time.
00:25:10.000Osama Bin Laden flew planes into the World Trade Centers.
00:25:13.000It was kind of outrageous, you may remember, because we were alive during that one.
00:25:17.000Does anybody think, oh, 2001, yeah, that was that time when people just flew planes into buildings, it was just a thing, it was a man of his time, you know, Osama Bin Laden, man of his time.
00:25:23.000This person is, she's a fool, she's a fool, she's a moral, she's a moral idiot.
00:25:28.000And this person was rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize.
00:25:32.000My favorite is that she says, I'm not against nuance and balance, but we can't, we can't say man of his time because it's a bad phrase, a bad phrase, by the way, unless you're saying that Fidel Castro is a man of his time.
00:25:42.000Just a couple of years back she was defending Fidel Castro.
00:25:45.000She was suggesting One can't look at Castro's treatment of dissent and economic woes in a vacuum as if the United States did not play a huge role in both.
00:26:26.000She gets to sit there and judge everybody else in human history, outside the context of their time.
00:26:30.000And she can actually determine that Fidel Castro was not only... Fidel Castro was... So, what we've gotten from her is that Fidel Castro was a man of his time, but in a good way.
00:26:38.000We have to contextualize Fidel Castro.
00:26:41.000But if we're talking about, you know, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, stop saying men of their time, because Hitler was a man of his time, and Bin Laden was a man of his time.
00:26:52.000By the way, that's the only thing that matters to her, obviously.
00:26:55.000Somebody tweeted at her, you literally had to post a correction for a piece that won a Pulitzer, and you're gonna preach to others about studying up on history?
00:27:19.000There cannot be any sort of actual end point.
00:27:22.000And not only can there not be any sort of endpoint, quick further note on Nicole Hannah-Jones, this person is so all-fired virtuous that she implied last night that fireworks that were being set off starting about 8 p.m.
00:27:36.000in Brooklyn were actually an attempt, I'm not kidding you, were an attempt to scare black and brown people, maybe promoted by the government.
00:27:44.000This is a serious thing she tweeted out.
00:27:46.000She tweeted out, just asking questions.
00:27:59.000And she is literally tweeting out that people setting off fireworks until 2am is probably white supremacists trying to scare black and brown people.
00:28:07.000I can tell you, I live in Los Angeles.
00:28:10.000People have been setting off fireworks every single night for weeks.
00:28:12.000Every single night, four weeks, until all hours of the morning.
00:28:15.000I'm fairly certain it is not a government-sponsored threat to black and brown people.
00:28:20.000The most intelligent, wisest being out there.
00:28:22.000Okay, so what exactly are people after?
00:28:24.000They are after the perpetual revolution.
00:28:28.000And for white leftists, this feels good.
00:28:30.000Because all you have to do is disassociate from the key institutions of the United States, and from the key ideologies of the United States, and then you will be good again.
00:28:40.000This is how you end up with Robin DiAngelo being trotted out by all of these major publications as some sort of expert on white racism and white fragility.
00:28:49.000By the way, white lady getting rich off of racism is really an ironic thing.
00:29:23.000Here's Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility, who is a crazy person and is being trotted out because, again, one of the goals here is to be deliberately vague.
00:29:31.000You have to understand that when it comes to talking about racism, one of the goals is, it used to be, the old definition of racism, you could be very, very specific about what was racist.
00:30:00.000It's not that the goalposts are moving, it's that the goalposts never existed.
00:30:04.000The goalposts, this is Lucy with the football.
00:30:07.000And the minute you give in to the radical left, that is the minute that they've got you by the nose and they can just pull you anywhere they want by the nose.
00:30:36.000So racism is the foundation of the society we are in.
00:30:41.000And to simply carry on with absolutely no active interruption of that system is to be complicit with it.
00:30:51.000And in that way, we can say that nice white people are racist.
00:30:59.000Ah, nice white people who oppose racism are actually racist because they're not anti-racism, and anti-racism because the definition of racism is chimerical and shifting.
00:31:07.000To be anti-racist means do the things Robin DiAngelo says you must do, or Nicole Hannah-Jones says you must do.
00:31:13.000See, there is a cadre of woke priests, and you must listen to the woke priests because this is a religion now, and you have to listen to the woke priests, and if the woke priests tell you to do a thing and you don't do the thing, this makes you not anti-racist and therefore racist.
00:31:25.000You have to be an activist on behalf of the people who are constantly changing the standards.
00:31:29.000They read the chicken entrails, and then they tell you what you have to do today in order to be considered not racist, in order to be considered anti-racist.
00:31:35.000And it's not enough to say, I'm against racism, because you see, you're only against the old style of racism.
00:31:40.000But the new definition of racism, which shifts and change and is miasmatic deliberately so, deliberately vague, the goal there is to make sure that you're constantly at the beck and call of your woke peers and your woke betters.
00:32:06.000For white woke leftists, this is the best thing, right?
00:32:08.000As I mentioned last week, Shelby Steele has written about this.
00:32:10.000What this means for woke white leftists, particularly, is that they are better than other white people, right?
00:32:16.000White liberals are bad, but woke white leftists are good, because woke white leftists get to set the standard for the other white liberals.
00:32:22.000They're superior to everybody else in the United States.
00:33:25.000Well, probably you're paying too much money.
00:33:27.000You go in and they have different price levels for people who are professionals or do-it-yourselfers, or they may not have the exact part and they have to order the exact part, or they just give you some generic part that doesn't work all that great.
00:33:36.000Instead, head on over to the interwebs and use rockauto.com.
00:33:39.000Rockauto.com is a lot easier than walking into a store.
00:33:42.000And someone demanding quick answers to things like, is your Odyssey an LX or an EX?
00:33:46.000And then the person behind the counter has to dig behind the counter to find what you're looking for.
00:34:34.000Okay, so as I say, The Robin DiAngelo view of the world, the Nikole Hannah-Jones view of the world, that there is this woke priesthood that gets to dictate to the rest of America exactly how they ought to act and how they ought to think and has to tear down all the systems in exactly the way they say, it's incredibly demeaning to everyone in the country who is not a member of the priesthood.
00:34:51.000If you're not a member of the priesthood case, Priesthood cast, then you are out in the wilderness and you must bow before them.
00:34:59.000This is particularly bad for black Americans.
00:35:01.000Ian Rowe is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
00:35:03.000He has a piece called The Power of Personal Agency.
00:35:06.000Now you'll recall, I've talked about this at length, that the worst thing that you can say to somebody in the United States is, your destiny is not in your own hands.
00:35:13.000Your destiny is in the hands of Robin DiAngelo and Nicole Hannah-Jones and all the people who are going to rewrite the system, top to bottom.
00:35:19.000And we're not talking about systems that are deliberately designed to keep people down.
00:35:22.000We're talking about just general, freedom-based, equal rights before law systems.
00:35:25.000Those systems themselves have to be torn down.
00:35:27.000And then you tell people, the way that Michelle Obama did in her graduation speech, that if you're young and black in America, and you do all the right things, you're still not going to get ahead?
00:35:35.000That's like the worst thing you can do.
00:36:00.000Our mission has been to empower the students we educate, most of whom are black or Hispanic and from low-income houses, to become whatever they want to be, regardless of the actions of any quote-unquote oppressive majority.
00:36:09.000When helping young people of all races to envision what is possible, We have to counter what Tyrone Howard of the University of California, Los Angeles calls the quote, pathological depiction of and belief in the inferiority of black people culture and history.
00:36:21.000Instead, we must identify and speak about black excellence, especially now when the prevailing notion seems to be that black people's efforts are futile in the face of white supremacy.
00:36:30.000We must accentuate the positive stories of millions of black men and women who are living the American dream or are on their way to do so despite structural barriers.
00:36:37.000Census data show that more than 3 million black students were enrolled in college or graduate school in 2018.
00:36:42.000According to the Washington Post, 23 unarmed black people were killed by police that year.
00:36:46.000This is 23 too many, yet roughly 136,000 black students were in higher education for each unarmed black person killed by police.
00:36:54.000This is their pathways to power for young black people.
00:36:55.000That's why our nation's educators must help black girls and boys cultivate a sense of personal agency and convince them that their deliverance is determined more by their own actions than by the incantations of a newly enlightened majority.
00:37:21.000There's a piece I need to read you a little bit from.
00:37:23.000In just a second, because it tells you what you need to know about this mentality.
00:37:27.000But first, let's talk about the fact that if your car breaks down, you probably don't know how to fix it, unless you are some sort of mechanical genius.
00:37:34.000Not because, you know, the normal car parts are broken, but because all these cars now have computer systems.
00:37:38.000From electronically controlled transmissions to touchscreen displays to dozens of sensors, if your car breaks down, you're gonna pay a lot of money for it.
00:37:47.000CarShield has affordable protection plans that can save you thousands of bucks for a covered repair including computers, GPS, electronics, and more.
00:37:54.000The people at CarShield understand payment flexibility is an absolute must.
00:37:57.000Monthly plans can be customized to your needs with rates as low as $99 a month.
00:38:01.000No long-term contracts or commitments.
00:38:03.000CarShield will give you options others won't.
00:38:04.000You get to choose your favorite mechanic or dealership to do the work.
00:39:56.000We live in a predominantly white neighborhood.
00:39:58.000However, our kids, twin boys, went to a local public charter elementary and middle school that was very diverse.
00:40:02.000When it was time for high school, our twins were lucky enough to have their closest friends from elementary and middle school attend the same school.
00:40:08.000Each of the boys had a diverse group of friends, and they were taken aback as freshmen in high school by the way other kids sat at tables in same-race clusters.
00:40:14.000The kids who'd gone to our small middle school, where tables were assigned by grade, continued to hang out at lunch together as a mixed group.
00:40:19.000Now my sons have graduated, and their closest friends are still a mix of black, hispanic, and white kids.
00:40:23.000I've never been concerned about the kids having any issues around race, but one of our sons mentioned recently how irritated he is by the form he has to fill out regarding a college roommate.
00:40:30.000He has to specify his race, and all of the profiles of potential roommates he views also include race.
00:40:35.000He says all he cares about is if they are male or female and what their interests are.
00:41:58.000Your kids have a diverse group of friends, and they don't care what the race of their roommate is, because they're racist!
00:42:03.000They're not anti-racist enough, which means that they are rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr This is, you feel better about yourselves?
00:42:13.000Woke white authorities making the world worse.
00:42:17.000Just tearing down statues of great Americans and talking about how all of American history is evil and how nothing unifies us.
00:42:25.000And how if you have a diverse group of friends and you just tend to think of them as your friends, that's because you're just a bad white person.
00:42:31.000Because black and brown people, we know, have to think in terms of race.
00:42:33.000But if you're a white person and you have a bunch of black and brown friends, well, you're probably a racist if you don't see them as black and brown friends.
00:42:40.000Because you have to see people in terms of race in order to, in order to what exactly?
00:43:03.000Now, this does have some real-world consequences.
00:43:05.000You know, it sounds as though this doesn't, but it turns out that ideology has consequences.
00:43:09.000When you suggest that the chief obstacle to equality in the United States is the system itself, When you suggest the chief threat to black people in the United States is white people, and when you suggest the only way that black people are going to get ahead in the United States is for white people to accept the responsibility for every wrong in American life and every decision made by somebody else in American life, there is no cure.
00:43:28.000And not only that, it leads to the promulgation of crappy policy.
00:43:32.000This is what half of the Black Lives Matter movement has been about, is this idea that the chief problem facing black Americans is police brutality.
00:43:43.000Okay, in reality, police brutality and police racism, first of all, there's no evidence of systemic police racism in the United States.
00:43:50.000The idea that police all over the United States are systemically racist, the evidence of that is incredibly scanty.
00:44:22.000The disparate crime statistics between white and black in the United States are not a reflection of underlying individual criminal activity.
00:44:27.000They're a reflection of the evils of the system itself.
00:44:30.000And so the solution is to stop policing.
00:44:32.000And this is what's behind the defund the police movement.
00:44:35.000This is why Black Lives Matter equals defund the police was painted on the streets of Washington, D.C.
00:44:40.000Well, it turns out that actually has some real consequences.
00:44:43.000So in the newfound, beautiful, pacifistic haven of CHAZ slash CHOP over in Seattle, they banned the cops.
00:44:50.000The cops were not allowed to come in because it's autonomous.
00:44:53.000It's the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:44:55.000They called it now the occupied protest, but originally it was the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:45:00.000Over the weekend, somebody got shot and died there.
00:45:04.000local time to a report of shots fired at Cal Anderson Park, which is inside CHAZ, according to a police statement.
00:45:10.000Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim, but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims, according to a statement from the cops.
00:45:18.000Police said they were later informed that CHOP medics had taken the two victims to a hospital.
00:45:23.000Officers then went to Harborview Medical Center, where they were told a 19-year-old male had died from his injuries.
00:45:27.000Police said the other shooting victim, a male, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
00:45:32.000Police later released footage of the incident.
00:45:34.000The video shows the initial moments of the shooting, in which the sound of shots was captured on security cameras.
00:45:38.000Later, body camera video showed protesters confronting police as they arrived at the scene.
00:45:43.000That video shows at least eight officers entering the area, some carrying shields, as protesters yell at them.
00:45:47.000An officer can be heard saying, please move out of the way so we can get to the victim.
00:45:51.000All we are trying to do is get to the victim and provide them aid.
00:45:53.000A bystander can be heard yelling, you don't belong here, they're gone, the victim is gone.
00:45:57.000Another says, put your effing guns down.
00:46:59.000So the autonomous zone established in defiance of the evil police calls the cops as soon as there's a problem and then bar the cops from actually entering and it's the fault of the cops.
00:47:08.000Do you feel like maybe this has nothing to do, a lot of these protests have nothing to do with actually achieving good things on behalf of black people and have everything to do with castigating the system?
00:47:17.000That a lot of this has to do with that?
00:47:19.000There are many good-hearted people who are protesting who believe obviously that they are improving the system and there are systematic improvements that can be made when it comes to police brutality.
00:47:27.000But the outsized insanity that leads to people cheering on Chaz, cheering down the tearing down of statues, that is not going to improve the lives of black Americans.
00:48:42.000The cops arrived, had a conversation with Rayshard Brooks for like 25 to 40 minutes, and then he wrestled two of them to the ground, stole a taser, shot one of the cops with the taser, tried to shoot the other cop with the taser, and was shot for his trouble.
00:48:53.000And then people tried to burn down the Wendy's.
00:48:55.000Well now, there was more shooting that broke out at Wendy's over the weekend, so things are going great in Atlanta.
00:49:18.000This new world that is being created by the left, it's kind of terrible.
00:49:21.000And it actually makes room for people to act horribly.
00:49:24.000It makes room for people to act horribly.
00:49:25.000Another instance of somebody acting horribly over the weekend.
00:49:28.000According to the New York Post, there's a Michigan rapper, he shot a viral video of his brother slugging a white guy inside a Macy's department store.
00:50:13.000Quay said his brother acted on instinct, that his violent reaction was spur of the moment.
00:50:16.000Instead, I just want people to know the real story of really what's happened, and what's in the description of me and my brother just walking into Macy's, just minding our own business.
00:50:23.000And yes, we made a petty joke and asked the guy, was the shirt too little, when he could have asked me.
00:50:36.000The video shows Quay's brother, who is black, punching a white store employee and knocking him to the ground, then hitting him twice more as he tries to crawl away.
00:50:45.000Flint police launched an investigation after the video was posted on social media.
00:50:48.000They said they're looking for Quay and his brother.
00:50:50.000Macy's officials identified the white man as a store employee and called the attack unprovoked.
00:50:55.000Naturally, the get-out-of-jail-free card for an unprovoked attack is that you suggest that the person used the N-word, which makes full sense.
00:51:58.000Vice President Joe Biden has said that his first criteria for picking a running mate is that the person be ready on day one to be president of the United States.
00:52:08.000You are a contender to become Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee.
00:52:12.000Are you ready on day one to be president of the United States?
00:52:17.000Yes, but I also think that Joe Biden has the right to pick whomever he wants to work alongside him and to serve as his vice president.
00:52:34.000There's not a single person on the left who's going to escape this unless they simply bow to the whims of the white woke priesthood.
00:52:41.000And the people like Nicole Hannah-Jones over at the New York Times.
00:52:44.000Jimmy Kimmel has to go on vacation now.
00:52:46.000Jimmy Kimmel's going on vacation because people are pointing out that back during the Man Show, 1999 to 2004, he put on blackface and played Carl Malone.
00:52:56.000And also did a parody of the Oprah Winfrey show called Oprah Jimfrey.
00:53:00.000So, apparently, he is cancelled now as well.
00:53:06.000Because the revolution must be perpetual, and the only way America can ever be better is for the revolution to continue apace.
00:53:12.000And all the heroes of yesterday will be made into villains today, and all the heroes of today, by the way, they should know it right now, they will be made into villains tomorrow.
00:53:19.000Robespierre was one of the first people to the guillotine.
00:53:22.000So, enjoy yourselves, gang, because you've decided that the equal rights that Americans fought and paid in blood and died for, And that black Americans fought for those rights that black Americans spent centuries fighting for and were achieved.
00:53:35.000Those rights, in the end, they just weren't all that important.
00:53:38.000The only real thing that matters is virtue signaling and tearing down the system of rights itself.
00:53:44.000And what an ugly country we are creating.
00:53:46.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content, including President Trump's big Tulsa rally.
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