In this episode, we discuss the controversial topic of race and affirmative action in the workplace. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of affirmative action and how it can be applied to black employees. We also discuss the role of words and how our words can have a negative impact on others.
00:00:26.000I said, that's really sad to me that you don't know, and you'll never know that you deserve to be here because I can tell you, based on if you're telling me the truth, you of course would get into UT.
00:00:37.000And you didn't need a government program.
00:00:39.000And you could see in her face, her teeth, tears welled up because she had been told that she needed someone else to give it to her.
00:00:45.000And that removed her sense of pride in her accomplishment.
00:00:48.000So I said the exact same thing as Charlie did, saying, you can never know if you earned it a meritocracy because of DEI.
00:00:56.000I should be here, and I don't need DEI.
00:00:59.000Affirmative action in that case in that nation in order to believe that.
00:01:02.000And that yeah, in that particular and certainly not from a white guy.
00:01:05.000In that particular instance, it might have been, it might have been completely accurate.
00:01:09.000But there's also, if you if you want to acknowledge that there's a flip side to the coin, sure, right?
00:01:14.000There's also a lot of people who had the qualifications who didn't get the access because once again, their name appeared wrong on the on the resume.
00:01:39.000Just because it didn't operate correctly all the time, you're gonna take the few instances where it didn't, and the majority is a very good thing.
00:01:45.000What I'm saying is that Charlie Kirk, I agree.
00:01:47.000What I'm saying is that Charlie Kirk was making a point.
00:01:49.000And the point that he was making, I'm trying to say is the same point that I was making where this black girl agreed with it, where he was saying, if you say that I'm only here because of DEI, then I am going to believe you.
00:02:27.000If someone is addressing DEI in a conversation and is asked about it, where race is relevant as per the policy, DEI, it exists based on race.
00:02:34.000You can't blame someone for acknowledging the race in criticizing the policy.
00:02:38.000But the policy was created because race was being used to exclude.
00:03:08.000It doesn't, but I'm saying, when when when people when people do things knowing that we're in a heightened inflammatory time, and you do it and you do it on purpose and just bet stand behind, I'm whatever, it don't make me a racist, but I'm saying that y'all ain't sh whatever.
00:03:28.000No, but that matters because believing those lies is why someone killed women in a in a in a in a in a certain context, and then I'm not expecting nobody to get upset by that.
00:03:37.000Let me uh do have to get, but let me just because Charlie Kirk is a big thing.
00:03:40.000Let me just kind of maybe if you could just listen to this, because this is important, and I've been through it, and you're just seeing the the actual murder that got through.
00:03:47.000I mean, I've had concrete milk chase, someone tried to bash group that with a rock, I've had people try to firebomb my car, slash my tires, I've had terrorists show up from Yemen by way of Sweden until the local PD showed up.
00:04:16.000There's some hate put out there against Charlie Kirk, that's not true.
00:04:19.000If someone believes a lie that he wants to erase trans people, that's what the people were also told.
00:04:22.000He wants to erase trans people, which is a lie, that person hates him too.
00:04:25.000If someone believes that he's a fascist, or he's a Nazi, who doesn't believe we should hold democratic elections, which is a lie, and people believe that, hey, that adds another piece of hatred and justification too.
00:04:33.000Someone believes that he's a massagist, a sexist who doesn't think that women should be allowed to vote or have the right to you know earn their place in the workplace, that's not and every single one of them is dishonest, just like no one here knew that Donald Trump said, I condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis totally.
00:04:47.000So I still don't know that he said it.
00:04:48.000I hear you saying he said it, but I'd have to I'd have to go see it in order to do that.
00:04:51.000Okay, so let's assume for a second that I'm not lying, and right after this, I make the references available always.
00:04:58.000And let's assume that I'm not lying, and Charlotte Kirk wasn't racist.
00:05:02.000And let's assume that he didn't want to commit genocide against trans people.
00:05:04.000And let's assume for a second that I'm not lying, and there's a 12 times murder rate from black toward white people as opposed to white tour.
00:05:09.000Let's assume that I'm not lying about any of this, because I'm kind of good at it, and I know these numbers, and it's what I do.
00:05:15.000Wouldn't we acknowledge that, hey, why?
00:05:17.000Why do so many people believe these lies?
00:05:19.000I guarantee you, this right here, this conversation, you will read in the media that this was racist.
00:05:25.000Because I sat down and discussed race issues.
00:05:27.000Because I sat down and argued with black people.
00:05:29.000I have been accused of being a Nazi because of sitting down and having conversations.
00:05:34.000I said, Well, you should know that's offensive.
00:05:48.000It's because the the way the way information is propagate propagated and and given to people, yeah, once again, via social media, all these other platforms, and most of it is disinformation.
00:06:02.000So that's the root of the problem is giving people the wrong information, and then they respond into this wrong information by feeling a certain way about the people that that information is informing them about.
00:06:25.000You know, as it relates to the Charlie Kirk situation, the only thing I think we kind of get the mixed messaging at is, as I said again, it was a young white man that killed Charlie Kirk for his personal issues, whatever those uh, whatever those ideologies that may have been the cause of fuel his violence, it wasn't a black man who said, I don't like what he said.
00:06:45.000Nevertheless, he has said that, you know, uh, Katanji Brown Jackson, uh, what's that young lady that Michelle Obama, all these people, DI highs.
00:06:53.000In other words, we respond differently because we have gotten so accustomed to it in terms of what our what's believed about us or perceived about us.
00:07:00.000So we just know, hey, at tomorrow, it'll be another sound bite on some other sh.
00:07:04.000You understand what I'm talking about?
00:07:05.000So we're not gonna react the same way.
00:07:07.000So I think we gotta acknowledge the fact that hey, you know what?
00:07:10.000There may need to be a change in the conversation overall as it relates to what the really what's really the hell going on with white and black America.
00:07:17.000That's why I see I just need you to kind of just, and Steve, when I say this, it's not a challenge, but I gotta ask you, you gotta tell me these sources where you're getting this 12 times more likely a black man killing a white person.
00:08:00.000I was like, I guess he had to do that one-handed.
00:08:02.000I don't know how you use a plant playboy and braille, but hey man, black people, we love sex, that's our only connection to the rest of society.
00:08:33.000And hopefully we can take it to do what you do, man.
00:08:36.000When your life is on the line all the time.
00:08:37.000I mean, come on, that's not something to scoff at me.
00:08:39.000Just think about the possibility of losing children.
00:08:41.000This might this might be the cure if we can if we can do it in a way that you know what I'm saying, like keep it in a way that that people don't get all up in arms about it.