Ep 511 | Dog Experiments, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ & Dads Stepping Up | Guest: Jason Whitlock
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Jason Whitlock, host of the show Fearless with Jason Whitlock joins me to talk about a variety of topics, including the controversy surrounding the NBA's punishment of Kyrie Irving for refusing to get vaccinated, the backlash Condoleezza Rice has received after her comments on The View last week, and a group called Dads on Duty.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Today
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I am talking with Jason Whitlock. He is a Blaze TV host like me of the show Fearless
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with Jason Whitlock. We'll be talking to him in a few minutes about a few stories. We'll
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be talking about Black Lives Matter protesting the NBA's punishment of Kyrie Irving because
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he refuses to get vaccinated. We'll also be talking about the backlash that Condoleezza
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Rice has received after she said on The View last week that, you know, she denounces the
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principles of critical race theory. We'll also be talking about this awesome story. There's
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a group called Dads on Duty who has really revolutionized in a positive way a school in
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Louisiana just by being present there. They've reduced violence. And so we're going to talk
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about that. We're going to get his take on all of those things. First, I do want to talk
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about a few stories that I saw circulating this weekend that I just wanted to comment
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on. Probably the biggest one, the thing that was just causing so much uproar on social media
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was this story that was actually published a few weeks ago. But I think it's just getting
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attention now because Congress is doing something about it. There was reporting originally by the
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Daily Caller that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, led by Dr. Fauci,
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funded experiments on dogs. So this included hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to a lab
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in northern Africa where beagles allegedly, beagle puppies had their heads placed in mesh cages.
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There are these pictures going around of this. We'll put it up if we have it. While sand flies
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ate them alive. Some dogs apparently had their vocal cords removed so they couldn't bark. According
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to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by taxpayer watchdog group White Coat
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Waste Project and subsequent media coverage from October 2018 until February 2019, NIAID spent $1.86
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million in taxpayer funds on drug tests involving 44 beagle puppies, even though the FDA says they don't
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need animal experimentation to approve a drug. And so now there are a lot of people understandably
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upset about this. There is a group of a bipartisan group of 24 lawmakers, mostly Republicans, led by
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Republican from South Carolina, I believe, not North Carolina, Nancy Mace. She sent a letter demanding
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Fauci answer for this allocation of taxpayer dollars. Like I said, this is very understandable
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why people are outreached about this. Helpless animals being cruelly treated for any reason is
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terrible. I mean, it tugs at our heartstrings. They can't do anything about it. They don't have
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a voice. They can't fight back any time of a vulnerable animal or human being is being victimized in
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this way. It's going to cause outrage and it's going to be really sad, as it should be. However,
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however, as we discussed last week, this is not the worst thing funded by Fauci's agency and also
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the National Institutes of Health, which was recently led by someone, Francis Collins, who calls himself
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a Christian. I'll link to the episode that we did on that last week talking about that. It was revealed
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earlier this year that these agencies were funding experiments at the University of Pittsburgh using
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organs from babies up to 42 weeks gestation. So we're talking about probably a seven to eight pound
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baby. If it's coming out at 42 weeks, probably about an eight pound baby, as well as scalping unborn
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babies and grafting the scalp onto mice. And so these were babies that were aborted allegedly by the local
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Planned Parenthood. We saw pictures of this. They're publicly available. Again, we will link the,
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we'll link my past episode that has the links to all of these studies that you can see for yourself.
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We've seen the pictures. We've seen the pictures of the little human baby hairs growing on the side
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of these mice because the scalps were grafted onto my skin. It's alleged by David Daleiden that Pitt has
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a quid pro quo relationship with Planned Parenthood in their area. Planned Parenthood provides them,
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again, allegedly with these aborted babies and Pitt offers something. I'm not sure what that is in
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return funded by our taxpayer dollars. That did not get a fraction of the outrage or news coverage that
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this dog stuff has. And so what does that say about human nature? What does that say about where we
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are? I'm okay with being outraged about the dog stuff. I do. I understand. Like that makes me really
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sad too. But human beings matter more. They matter more than animals. That statement alone will get
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people really upset with you. We'll get people really angry at you. That's not me justifying
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cruelty towards animals. And it doesn't even matter what I say. Some people are going to hear me say
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that anyway, somehow, because that's what they want to hear. Human beings matter more. They always
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matter more, whether it's inside the womb or outside the womb, whether that human being is disabled,
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whether that human being is old, whether that human being is producing, a producing member of society,
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a contributing member of society, or not. Human beings matter more than animals. And therefore,
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the mistreatment of humans should solicit our outrage more than the mistreatment of animals.
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I had someone say on Twitter, you know, we should be equally outraged about both. We can be equally
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outraged about both. No, that would be really weird. We should not be equally outraged about both.
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We should care about human beings more. That used to just be something that we knew.
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It does come from a Christian perspective. It's kind of hard to argue it from a secular perspective,
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because, you know, secularists just believe that we are evolved monkeys, but human beings believe
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that we were made in the image of God. We were made in God's image. And because of that,
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the frailest, most fragile, least quote-unquote productive human being matters more than even
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the winningest horse matters more than Seabiscuit. That life matters more. So our energy, our compassion
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should go toward that before our energy and compassion goes towards an animal. Yes, it can be both,
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but we have to so order our loves so that we are reflecting God's heart. And when a society,
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not just individuals, but when a society gets those priorities out of whack, we're going to see
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really bad things. You don't see the elevation of the care of animals. You actually see the degradation
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of our view of human beings when we believe that human beings and animals are just kind of on equal
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playing field when it comes to their inherent worth. Wherever you see, this is J.K. Chesterton,
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he said, wherever you see animal worship, you always see human sacrifice and specifically child
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sacrifice. And so I think we certainly see that today, at least in the general public. Now we're
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also seeing in our institutions cruelty towards animals, which I think is wrong. And I also think
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is a sin. All I'm saying is like, let's not have our priorities out of whack. Let's not have our
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outrage be out of whack, out of alignment. However, if this is the thing that takes Fauci down,
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like if this is the one thing that makes people mad, not funding the research that very likely
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caused this entire pandemic that has cost millions and millions of lives. If it's not that, if it's not
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lying about that, if it's not his back and forth on every single COVID policy, if it's not his funding
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of some of the horrific research that we just talked about using fetal organs, then maybe it'll be the
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dogs. And if it's the dogs that takes Fauci down, then so be it. So be it. All right. I want to talk
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about this article in the Washington Post from Ashley Parker. She wrote about Let's Go Brandon
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in an article titled Biden's Critics Hurl Increasingly Vulgar Taunts. Now, I've explained this
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a couple of times on Twitter, but I know not everyone is quite as online as, you know, as some
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Twitter users are. So maybe you have no idea why people are talking about Brandon. What is Let's
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Go Brandon? Okay, let me clue you in on this. So there have been, and I'm not condoning, I'm not
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condoning this. I'm just explaining what's been happening. So at football games across the country
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since August or whenever football season started, people have been leading stadium-wide chants of
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F Joe Biden. And, you know, they are not saying F Joe Biden. They are saying the word. They're saying
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F Joe Biden. And this also happened at a NASCAR race a few weeks ago. And the guy who won that particular
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NASCAR race, his name is Brandon. He was doing an interview after the race with an NBC reporter in front
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of a crowd. And the crowd behind him was saying F Joe Biden, as has happened in many stadiums across
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the country. And the sweet NBC reporter trying to cover it up, trying to change what was happening,
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because, you know, this is embarrassing and you're not supposed to have those kind of expletives
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on air. She said, oh, the crowd is saying, let's go, Brandon. When everyone knew what the crowd was
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saying. But she thought, I think, you know, maybe she really thought that they were saying, let's go,
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Brandon. But it kind of seemed like she was trying to cover it up to make it, you know, seem like that's
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not what was happening. And so now everyone, when they want to say that Joe Biden is doing a bad job or
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they're angry at Joe Biden or they want to say F Joe Biden, they say, let's go, Brandon. Like that's
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basically a code for saying F Joe Biden. And that's why I've kind of been torn on saying let's go,
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Brandon, myself, because it is effectively cussing. And that's not something that I want to do.
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I do believe Christians are called to in Ephesians to only to let no corrupting talk come out of your
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mouths only, such as is good for building up that it may give grace to those who hear and, you know,
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saying something like F Joe Biden obviously is not doing that. Although I understand the sentiment.
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I mean, when you're looking at, you know, empty grocery shelves, when you are hearing someone
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like Jen Psaki basically make fun of the supply chain issues that we're having and try to turn it
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into, you know, some kind of right wing attack on paternity leave because Pete Buttigieg has been
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MIA as the secretary of transportation. When they don't care about the problems that are happening at
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the border, the issues that are facing and are detrimental to the Americans that they said that
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they were going to unify and lead when you are seeing him use coercion and very draconian tactics
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to try to punish people who choose not to be vaccinated or states that aren't going along with
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his vaccine mandates. I understand the sentiment of of wanting to say, let's go, Brandon. And I think
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I have said, let's go, Brandon, once on Instagram when Jen Psaki said, oh, supply chain issues, the
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tragedy of the treadmill that's delayed. Well, no, Jen Psaki, there's also there's also supplies that
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are needed for hospitals. They're needed for PICUs. They're needed for NICUs. They are needed for sick
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patients that are unable to get some of the equipment that they need. Tubing, for example.
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Syringes like we rely on the supply chain to be able to supply these things to save people's lives.
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And Jen Psaki is basically rolling her eyes and treating it like it's just some, you know,
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it's not a big deal. And that did elicit a let's go, Brandon, from me. However, I stand by what I
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said about it's probably not the best things for Christians to say, even though I understand the
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sentiment. Ashley Parker, this reporter for The Washington Post, apparently doesn't understand
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the sentiment at all. She writes, like I said, Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar
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taunts. And she talks about visiting Scranton, Pennsylvania, and how the people that the people
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that she met were basically racist. So she says that. But it's clear that after nine months in office,
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Biden or at least what he represents is increasingly becoming an object of hatred to many
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Trump supporters. She doesn't say why. She never says why people are angry at him. She doesn't
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list any of the problems that are going on in the country and maybe why people are upset with Joe
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Biden. She just says, oh, he's becoming an object of hatred. The vitriol partly reflects Trump's
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repeated baseless claims that Biden is a usurper. So again, their hatred of Biden isn't based on
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anything real. Is it based on any of the issues that I just explained? It's based on a lie. If it
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weren't for Trump, she's basically arguing, she's implying that everyone would love Joe Biden. But
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because Trump lies about Joe Biden, that's the only reason why people are upset. She said partly
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stems from Biden's actions that Republicans deplore from his spending plans to his immigration policies.
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And so again, she is delegitimizing any reason why someone might be upset with him. Like,
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let's look at the unemployment numbers. Let's look again at the empty grocery shelves. Let's look at some
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of, yes, the immigration policies that he has put forth or at least failed to put forth that has
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led to an unprecedented number of migrants crossing the border illegally and unaccompanying minors at
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the border. Yes, that is why people are upset. But basically, she's delegitimizing it as something that,
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you know, doesn't really matter. So then she goes on to explain what I just explained,
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where Let's Go Brandon comes from. And she goes on to say this is this is her reasoning why this
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is happening. Quote, when Trump was in office, he deployed public profanity in a way unlike any
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other modern president, which his supporters saw as truth telling and his opponents as vulgarity and
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sometimes racism. He railed against immigrants from SHIT whole countries. He tweeted that Senator
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Mitt Romney was a pompous ASS. He was elected after boasting of grabbing women's crotches. Sometimes he
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prompted obscenities from Democrats in return. So that's the that's the only thing that she says
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about the vitriol that was directed by Donald Trump. Now, it's true that Trump said things that
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I didn't like that I didn't agree with. That's absolutely true. But there are some problems with
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this. One, like look at the vulgarity and the death threats, the chopping off of a fake head of
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Donald Trump by Kathy Griffith. There was a Kathy, Kathy Griffin. I never know her name. But when
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Trump was president, I mean, there was in remember that woman when when Donald Trump and his when his
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car was going by in D.C. and there was a woman who was riding her bike who flipped off his car and,
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you know, his band of Secret Service cars. And she was a hero. People loved her on the left. They didn't
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have anything to say about the insults, about the vulgarity, about the profanity, about the threats that
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were launched towards Donald Trump and Trump and Trump supporters. And the article goes on to say,
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one of many legacies of the Trump presidency is he normal. He normalized angry speech. Trump
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normalize angry speech. Like I know most people don't remember the Bush era. And I was kind of
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young to remember the Bush era. But I know enough. I've read enough to know that Bush was compared to
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a Nazi. You're telling me that Trump we can go. Gosh, we can go back to Alexander Hamilton. Like we
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can go back to Jefferson. We can go back to the political rhetoric that founded this country. And you
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will see a normalization of partisanship and angry speech. And yes, even vulgarity and salacious
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rumors and all kinds of stuff. That's not to let Trump off the hook. I have never claimed that
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Trump is some moral exemplar. But this is what the Washington Post, the so-called democracy dies in
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darkness publication. This is what they do. They give you slanted reporting. They say that it's the
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whole story. They say that it's the news and not just a particular opinion. And then people who don't
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know better, who don't want to know better, leave with a particular impression that the only reason
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that people could be mad at Joe Biden is because Trump. It's always still because Trump. These
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people are obsessed with Trump. They think Trump is the originator of all of our problems when he's
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not. He might be if you're on the left, like you might consider him a problem, whatever. But to paint
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anyone who criticizes Joe Biden as a racist or some kind of QAnon conspiracy theorist who just believes
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everything that Trump says about a stolen election, you're wrong. Like your bigotry and your
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condescension and your bias is so clearly showing. And they know this. They know this. And what I said
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on Twitter is that this is not really hypocrisy. Like this is what these journalists and activists
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do. This is what they do. They actually apply the same principle very consistently. And it's so it's not
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hypocrisy. And their principle is this. It is OK to harm and harass someone that you don't like. It is not
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OK to harm or harass or even criticize someone that you do like. So that's the principle. So there is
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no hypocrisy in them saying it's OK to criticize or to harass or to threaten Donald Trump. But it's
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not OK to do so towards Joe Biden. That's not hypocrisy. That is their principle. That is their
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that is their MO. That's what they do. You are not allowed to disagree with them or the people they
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hoist up as political heroes. That's the rule. And so I'm not at all surprised by this. I'm not
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surprised by the outright lying like they turned a lighthearted conservative meme, which is very
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innocuous. Again, you're not going to find me like going around and yelling it and saying it all the
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time. But it's a lighthearted meme that they turned into this, you know, white supremacist rallying cry
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that's more about Donald Trump than anything else. And it's just not true. It's not true. But this is
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what they do. These people hate you like they hate you. And I heard this last week. I think it was by
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Seth Dillon who runs the Babylon Bee. He said, you know who has the power and whose power you should
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really fear based on who you're not allowed to make fun of. If you are not allowed to tell a lighthearted
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joke about a person, then then that is that's the person and that's the entity that all other entities
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are supporting. Because it's not just that Joe Biden is mad about this. It's that everyone else is
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running cover for him. I someone sent me they were trying to sell Let's Go Brandon t-shirts on Etsy.
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Etsy took their t-shirts down. I don't know if this is happening to everyone who tried to sell it
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to sell those t-shirts on Etsy. But Etsy took took it down. Spotify took a Let's Go Brandon,
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you know, funny rap off of the top charts on Spotify. YouTube has apparently censored some
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videos that are saying Let's Go Brandon. I mean, really, like this is going to threaten
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y'all's fragility that much? Let's Go Brandon? I mean, that's like that's what authoritarians do.
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That's what authoritarians do. They don't even allow jokes about them. But honestly,
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it kind of makes me it kind of makes me happy. Because at this point, I'm not saying I'm not
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condoning using that language. But at this point, like you should absolutely be doubling down
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in your criticism. They obviously are threatened by it. They're very fragile, little tiny babies.
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And you need to continue to voice your criticism. As I say, raise a respectful ruckus. You don't have
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to use vulgarity to do that. But don't be intimidated. And don't buy into this hit job
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on people who use Let's Go Brandon by The Washington Post that basically tries to liken
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them to, you know, QAnon white supremacists. It's crazy. This is what they do. Make sure
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that you're picking up on that. Jason, thank you so much for joining us. All right. First,
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I want to hear your take on this Black Lives Matter. They're staging a vaccine mandate protest
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at NYC's Barclays Center to demand unvaccinated Kyrie Irving be able to play in NBA games. I'm a
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little surprised by this. I don't typically find myself aligning with Black Lives Matter,
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although I have seen them push back against this. What's your take on it?
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I think that Black Lives Matter in New York has carved a little bit of a different path
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than the rest of the Black Lives Matter organizations. I think the group out of New York
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questioned some of the handling of the financing as it related to Patrisse Cullors, I think.
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And so they've always had a little independent philosophy or, I don't know, style about themselves.
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And so I'm like you. I don't agree with them often, but this is the second time I've agreed
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with them in terms of them questioning, you know, what's going on with the money and now
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questioning the vaccine mandate. And literally in New York, the impact, the disparity impact in terms
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of the number of Black people in New York that are unvaccinated, that are being impacted by this
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mandate. I think this is what BLM should be doing, is defending Kyrie Irving. And then even if you
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remove race out of it, if you just understand American freedom and what this country was founded
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upon, you know, I think it's a proper stance for BLM and other organizations to be supporting
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Kyrie Irving. I think what Kyrie is doing, and people keep getting upset with me and friends of
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mine like Charles Barkley, you know, passionately disagree with me, but I think what Kyrie Irving's
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doing is as courageous as what Muhammad Ali did years ago when refusing to be inducted into the
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draft. That was Muhammad Ali standing up to the establishment and taking a real risk. And I think
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Kyrie Irving is taking a real risk here and standing up to the establishment. I don't think he's going to
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do it forever, but I'm glad someone's doing it and forcing a conversation and forcing groups like BLM
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and others to cut out, you know, positions that aren't in such promotion of the establishment
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and in promotion of the elite. So I think what Kyrie's doing is courageous and he's starting a
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conversation that is very necessary. And at least this chapter of BLM is actually consistent because
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this is like the Ibram X. Kendi definition of racism. You know, he says it's not necessarily intent,
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it's impact. So if any law or policy just happens to disproportionately affect negatively affect black
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people, then that is racist. Now, I don't necessarily agree with that, but at least apply
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that principle consistently. You don't see people like Ibram X. Kendi and other so-called anti-racists
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really speaking up about the vaccine mandate, which is disproportionately affecting black Americans
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because a large percentage of them are unvaccinated. Like at least this chapter of BLM is being
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consistent in applying their principles, even if I disagree with them in some ways. But I'm glad,
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I'm glad that they're speaking up about this. And you said that you don't think Kyrie Irving is
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necessarily going to hold out forever. What do you think is going to happen? Because obviously
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something's got to give, right? Well, I think there's so much money on the line. And I think that
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the Brooklyn Nets have a chance to win a championship and that would be important to
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Kyrie's legacy and Kevin Durant's legacy and James Harden's legacy. And you have to remember, Ali,
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I know you probably don't follow the NBA that close, but NBA players in recent years look for every
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reason possible to miss games, particularly early in the season. They really only want to play in the
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postseason. And so I could see Kyrie, NBA, it starts in October, but the season really, really doesn't
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kick off until Christmas. And so I could see Kyrie holding out until around Christmas or just after
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Christmas and then coming back and playing, having made his point, having, you know, sparked a lot of
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conversation around this. But I would be shocked. Now, I would love it if he set out the entire season
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or even if he just set out the regular season and did come back and play in the postseason.
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I would love that. The longer this goes on, the better, the more opportunities for us to discuss it,
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the more opportunities for people that don't understand. Because I think it was like Glenn Greenwald
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was early on this. I was talking about it months ago that, hey, look, these vaccine mandates are
00:26:11.180
going to impact black people the most. And I know that corporate media is trying to tell you that,
00:26:18.160
oh, it's just Trump supporters and they're the worst people on the planet. And so let them all die or,
00:26:23.240
you know, they're the evil people. And I was like, no, you're lying to people. It's not
00:26:27.140
Trump supporters who are the least likely to be vaccinated. It's actually black people. And
00:26:34.640
these rules are, just think of the cost to black people in New York. They can't go to a restaurant.
00:26:44.640
They can't go to inside a grocery store, I think. All of this is just adding expense to their life.
00:26:51.200
And all these social justice warriors, that's their number one concern. Oh, what can we do to protect
00:26:56.500
the voiceless or the disadvantaged or the discriminated against? The mandates don't do
00:27:03.360
that. And particularly, I know this well, we're trying to protect them from the consequences of
00:27:10.000
COVID. Well, the consequences of COVID, 1% may die. And I've said this, Ali, and I don't say this
00:27:20.880
to be humorous. I say it to be dead serious. The vaccine is for 50-year-old overweight people like
00:27:28.940
myself. That's not the great mass of people. This COVID thing just doesn't wipe out 29-year-old
00:27:40.280
super healthy athletes like Kyrie Irvin or young people or young children.
00:27:46.860
And if it does, it's rare enough. Obviously, I'm sure it happens. There's a story about everything,
00:27:53.260
but it's rare enough to allow people like that or really to allow anyone, but especially the
00:27:59.640
population that you're talking about, to have the choice and certainly not to lose their livelihood
00:28:03.480
or their access to basic accommodations because they don't make that particular choice, right?
00:28:11.020
Absolutely. And I, you know, I just went home this past weekend and visited my family and
00:28:18.480
everybody there is in my family. They're all pro-vaccine. And for as soon as they hug you,
00:28:26.700
they tell you, I'm fully vaccinated. And they're always shocked when I say, I'm fully unvaccinated.
00:28:35.700
And at some point I will get vaccinated, but I don't blame the people that are waiting.
00:28:45.440
And because I put up a target, I said, you know what, summer of 22, there'll be enough information
00:28:50.900
about the vaccine that I'll be more comfortable getting it. And I think I'm a very reasonable
00:28:56.900
person. And look, I understand that my weight and age make it that, you know, the vaccine's probably
00:29:03.860
for me, but I still want to be patient. I don't have a death wish. I'm not some idiot. These people,
00:29:10.740
Kyrie Irvin isn't some idiot. These people that are vaccine hesitant aren't stupid. Vaccines take a
00:29:18.080
long time to develop. They don't get this kind of FDA approval this soon. I know I'm getting a little,
00:29:23.280
I'll probably get us kicked off YouTube. So let me shut up. Yeah. You know, sometimes I was a guest
00:29:28.180
on a, I was a guest on another podcast last week and we were talking about so-called Rachel Levine.
00:29:32.580
And I had to say the same thing. I said, you know what, I'm going to do my best not to get you kicked
00:29:36.220
off YouTube and to hold my tongue on, on some things. But no, I think, you know, my audience understands
00:29:43.080
what you're saying and people, the fact is that people don't like to be dehumanized,
00:29:47.240
bullied, condescended by people like Joe Biden, basically making everyone who is hesitant about
00:29:52.040
the vaccine seem stupid, seem like a parasite, seem like, you know, some kind of burden on
00:29:59.080
society when the numbers don't even necessarily prove that to be true. Anyway, I want to talk
00:30:05.020
about also someone who is getting a lot of pushback. We talked about Condoleezza Rice and what she said
00:30:09.600
on The View last week. We played the clip. She just said, you know, these principles of critical race
00:30:15.280
theory, they're not really helping anything. They're disempowering black kids and they are making
00:30:20.300
white kids feel bad about themselves. And then, of course, there were people on the left who got super
00:30:25.540
upset about that. There is a journalist who calls himself Torre. I don't even know. I know that he's
00:30:31.960
been hit with a few sexual harassment allegations and he says some crazy things on, on Twitter. But he
00:30:38.820
says, and let me read it for you. So he says that she is a, Condoleezza Rice is a soldier for
00:30:48.700
white supremacy. White children and adults should absolutely feel bad about the past atrocities
00:30:55.060
committed by white Americans. They should feel guilty. They should cringe at what their ancestors
00:30:59.520
did. They should also understand that modern white power is directly related to those atrocities,
00:31:04.500
blah, blah, blah, blah. So this is the general sentiment about Condoleezza Rice, who grew up in
00:31:08.700
segregated Alabama, that she's just a foot soldier for white supremacists. What say you?
00:31:16.720
Look, real white supremacy is in convincing young black people that you can't make it in this world.
00:31:27.080
You're so weak. You're so impotent. You can't do what your ancestors did. You can't do what Barack Obama
00:31:36.960
did. You can't do what Martin Luther King did, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington. You're weak
00:31:43.620
and impotent and you're so intellectually unsavvy that unless we bend all the rules in your favor,
00:31:52.780
you can't do what we've seen many people, millions of people do, what my grandparents did, what my
00:32:00.880
parents did. You can't do it. And so I a thousand percent agree with Condoleezza Rice, where critical
00:32:09.700
race theory is trying to convince black people that you don't have any agency in this world.
00:32:17.300
You're not in control of your destiny. You're not as strong as your ancestors who overcame
00:32:23.600
far worse than hurt feelings or being misgendered or whatever they come up with that is somehow so
00:32:32.500
crippling. And so I think the actual opposite is true. Condoleezza Rice actually believes in black
00:32:42.420
black people and believes that we can do incredible things. I think that comments like the man you
00:32:49.760
quoted are coming from and where this society has gone. When you live in a secular society and everyone
00:32:56.500
basically abandons belief in God or they only have a very surface level belief in God that, you know,
00:33:05.380
because I was brought up in a church where we were taught all things are possible through Christ.
00:33:11.160
And if God is on my side, how can I fail? And that's like, I authentically believe that. And so I came
00:33:18.180
from a very impoverished background. And because of the sacrifices of my parents, I was able to accomplish
00:33:25.620
incredible things and do nice things for my family and escalate or rise up the American economic ladder
00:33:34.000
and status ladder and all that. And we're doing black kids a disservice by telling them that this
00:33:42.940
country is so unfair that they can't make it. And we're doing a disservice to white kids of telling
00:33:49.240
them that things that happened 100 years ago, things that happened 50 years ago, things that you weren't
00:33:56.100
involved with should be a burden that you carry and should feel bad about. And it goes back to being a
00:34:01.860
secular society because God and my understanding of the Bible, he just doesn't burden people with the
00:34:11.880
sins of their fathers or mothers or grandparents. And so when you come, I, Ibram X. Kendi and all these
00:34:22.520
other people, they're coming from a secular worldview where basically the white liberal is God and, and he's
00:34:34.520
an idol. And without the white liberals, uh, doing things for black people or, or repenting all their
00:34:41.940
sins or living in this guilt ridden place, nothing good can happen in the world. And I, I just reject that.
00:34:48.640
And I, I try to appeal, uh, to black people that a lot of this messaging is targeted at. It's like, Hey, these
00:34:55.780
things they're teaching in critical race theory just aren't consistent with the values that were taught in the
00:35:02.960
church through Christianity. And, and I think that should give you pause. Yeah. And you question that, that perhaps what
00:35:13.640
they're preaching is a satanic worldview. And, and I say that in all seriousness, uh, that's what I
00:35:20.500
believe that they're Satanists and they're preaching a satanic worldview. Yep. It is. It's so true. It
00:35:27.660
presents a completely different gospel. I like to call it the gospel of grievance because that's what it
00:35:33.220
tries to burden kids with burden people with in general is this feeling of grievance for white kids.
00:35:40.200
You feel grievance toward yourself. And as Tori said, Oh, you know, white kids should feel, um,
00:35:46.700
grievance toward their ancestors or guilty about what their ancestors did. And not only is your point
00:35:50.980
correct, that the Bible says that, uh, he, he doesn't judge generations for sins of their past,
00:35:57.740
even though the consequences of sin may last generationally, he doesn't punish, um, people for
00:36:02.700
what their grandparents did. Uh, however, this also goes to this faulty mentality or view of history,
00:36:09.020
that critical race theory posits that all white people today have ancestors who own slaves or all
00:36:15.540
white people are somehow related to ancestors or to white people who lived 200 years ago.
00:36:19.940
That's not even true. The vast majority of white people in this country do not have ancestors that
00:36:24.460
own slaves. And so it's this very strange thing that it, um, apparently all white people in America
00:36:30.960
are tied together with slave holders. All black people in America today are tied together with
00:36:35.300
slaves when that's not even historically accurate. And like, that's what people are upset about when
00:36:39.980
they're upset about critical race theory being taught in schools. It's not what a lot of activists
00:36:44.280
say that people don't want history taught or don't want slavery taught. It's that critical race theory
00:36:49.800
is a historical. It's not true. It's anti-biblical. Yes. But it's also just not reality. It doesn't look at
00:36:56.840
human nature correctly. It doesn't look at history correctly. It forgets about forgiveness and
00:37:02.620
redemption. And it only holds back. I think that's what Condoleezza Rice is getting to and what she
00:37:07.900
understands that for some reason, I don't know why other people just don't want us to be free from
00:37:15.180
the grievances and the burdens, um, that activists, like people like Ibra Max Kendi are placing on us.
00:37:23.580
Well, once you reach the conclusion, it's the work of the devil, it becomes easier to understand.
00:37:31.900
And so there's a misery that's being, uh, created and promoted through that worldview. The other
00:37:39.180
thing, Allie, is it's like, you never hear any discussion. What about the white kids whose
00:37:45.340
ancestors actually sacrificed their lives during the civil war for freedom, for black people? It's,
00:37:53.200
it's actually, and again, some people, Oh, well, they weren't fighting to end slavery. They were
00:37:58.680
fighting to preserve the union and blah, blah, blah. I was like, go listen to the battle hymn of the
00:38:03.360
Republic. Go look at the words where they actually talk about dying so that other men could live free.
00:38:10.280
They were clearly talking about black people and, and the sacrifices they were making. And it was a
00:38:17.480
sacrifice. They felt the responsibility from God and their worldview, their Christian worldview,
00:38:24.980
like, Hey, I need to make this sacrifice. I'm going to be rewarded in the afterlife for this
00:38:29.600
sacrifice so that other men can live free. What about the ancestors of those people? Do they have to
00:38:37.580
carry this burden? We don't have to go all the way back to the civil war, the white people that
00:38:42.980
supported the whole civil rights movement and, and, and many of the sacrifice me. What if you're an
00:38:48.860
ancestor of one of them? Do you, no one ever talks about them. And this isn't me trying to cape up for,
00:38:56.920
I'm, I'm really trying to cape up for Christian people. It has nothing to do with, with race,
00:39:03.500
things. But believers have accomplished great things in this country. And the fact that we had
00:39:11.260
a declaration of independence that Thomas Jefferson wrote that stated all men are created equal,
00:39:17.960
and that's because of his biblical worldview. And then we had a constitution and bill of rights
00:39:23.780
that had biblical principles placed into them. And then black people in our journey here in America
00:39:31.560
actually put pressure on America to live up to the things in the declaration, in the bill of rights,
00:39:39.880
in the U S constitution. And that's what's made America so great. Our story as black people here
00:39:48.220
is very uplifting and important to the success of America. Without our journey and our narrative,
00:39:55.380
I don't think America would be as great as it is. We put pressure, our journey put pressure
00:40:01.560
on Christians to live up to the values that they express. And that's what made America so great
00:40:08.500
and has made America so great. And to see us abandoning our biblical worldview, our faith-based
00:40:15.420
culture, our Judeo-Christian culture and values, we're just tossing it away for critical race theory
00:40:22.840
and fly-by-night intellectuals, public intellectuals like Ibram X. Kendi. These people are just popping up
00:40:30.000
out of nowhere, supported by algorithms out of Silicon Valley. And all of a sudden, they're the
00:40:36.500
experts. And these crazy people at the New York Times in their 1619 project. I just, I just, that's why
00:40:47.180
I love what you do in terms of you talk from a biblical worldview. It's so important. And I just think
00:40:55.280
if we as believers come together and put aside our superficial differences and just focus on the
00:41:02.800
word of God and take our understanding of life through that, now America has a chance to get
00:41:09.780
back on course and on direction and the freedom and equality and justice that everybody's looking
00:41:16.980
for. It comes from that. It doesn't come from critical race theory. There's no proof in the history of the
00:41:24.320
world. The critical race theory has produced the kind of results that a biblical Christian worldview
00:41:30.300
does. Yep. You're absolutely right. And people don't understand that you really can't wed critical
00:41:36.560
race theory and Christianity together because they offer two different perspectives on human nature,
00:41:41.660
two different perspectives on sin, two different perspectives on what actual salvation is, who your
00:41:46.340
savior is, even kind of what the end times will look like. The critical race theory offers this
00:41:52.680
picture of this anti-racist utopia that is very similar to communism, except racialized instead of
00:41:59.040
focused on class differences. And it's a completely different religion with different dogmas and
00:42:04.820
different doctrines. And you really can't wed the two. Your point about Thomas Jefferson, I know people
00:42:12.440
are going to say, well, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Yes, that's true. And I don't align with all of the
00:42:17.560
different theological assertions that he made about deism and things like that. The point is,
00:42:21.600
is like what Frederick Douglass knew is that the constitution is fundamentally an anti-slavery
00:42:29.360
document. That's what Frederick Douglass called it because of the principles that were written in
00:42:33.200
there. Not because the people who wrote them were perfect. That's not what anyone has ever said.
00:42:38.920
But because these are values based on a biblical worldview that we are all created
00:42:43.600
in God's image with certain inalienable inherent rights. People don't understand that critical race
00:42:48.880
theory actually does not believe in inherent rights. It doesn't believe in due process.
00:42:52.900
It doesn't believe in free speech. It actually believes that the constitution has led to very
00:42:56.320
bad things for our society. It's radical. It's really radical. And that's why, like you said,
00:43:02.420
it produces so much bitterness and so much bad. And as you were talking, I actually thought about this
00:43:08.520
passage in James 3, which just affirms what you're saying. It says in James 3, chapter 3,
00:43:46.640
sincere. So that to me, I mean, it just affirms what you're talking about, the difference between
00:43:51.700
light versus darkness, a biblical worldview, and the ones that we are seeing from the people who
00:43:55.900
claim to be anti-racist, but very often are just hypocrites, right?
00:44:01.180
Allie, one thing when you have a biblical Christian worldview, you realize there's only been one perfect
00:44:10.860
perfect person on this planet. His name was Jesus. And so I don't look for perfection in Thomas Jefferson.
00:44:18.120
I don't look for perfection in Martin Luther King Jr. I don't look for perfection in Barack Obama.
00:44:24.060
And so you sit there, oh, Thomas Jefferson owns slaves. And trust me, I think that's bad. It's really bad.
00:44:33.920
But I've asked people in this time, and again, I don't know if God has some sort of scale,
00:44:40.660
but I just ask people and say, well, I wonder what God thinks about abortion. Because we as a society
00:44:47.960
think, oh, we're so much better than Thomas Jefferson and those people from 200 and 300 years ago.
00:44:55.220
They own slaves. And I'm sitting there going like, somebody 300, 400 years from now is going to be
00:45:02.120
like, those people sanctioned abortion and took it all the way to the Supreme Court and put Planned
00:45:12.860
Parenthood clinics in every community they could and wiped out millions of unborn children. And so
00:45:20.700
I'm just not sure we're actually any better than Thomas Jefferson and those guys. It just depends
00:45:28.520
on your point of view and perspective. Yeah, that's a good point. I want to talk about a I want to talk
00:45:35.380
about a good story. A happy story about these a group of dads that decided that they were going to go
00:45:45.520
to a school that has been struggling with violence. They're calling themselves dads on duty.
00:45:51.980
And Steve Hartman at CBS reported on this. And we're going to play a clip of that new segment.
00:45:57.520
Over the course of three days, another fight, 23 students arrested for fighting massive police
00:46:03.080
response. But strangely, there hasn't been another incident since, perhaps in part because of this
00:46:09.560
most unusual crisis intervention team. Your qualifications are? We're dads. We decided
00:46:16.200
the best people who can take care of our kids are who? For us. What we do. So Michael Lafitte started
00:46:21.980
dads on duty. We're out doing what we do for our babies. A group of about 40 Southwood dads who now
00:46:27.140
hang out at the school in shifts. Let's go. Today, any negative energy that enters the building
00:46:32.220
has to run a gauntlet of good parenting. What's going on already? Because not everybody has
00:46:37.920
the father figure at home. Or a male period in their life. So just to be here makes a big difference.
00:46:47.640
I consider men the vaccine. And we have a plague in this country that requires men to step up and be
00:47:04.240
the cure. And there's not a problem that we have in America that can't be improved by men standing up
00:47:16.080
and doing their job. And I love what CBS did. They gave men two minutes of like, hey, here's what men can
00:47:25.660
do. And so a school system for three days is wracked by violence. 23 students arrested. And it took
00:47:35.760
40 men to flatten the curve. And they did it overnight, instantly. And we need an injection.
00:47:45.620
We need to require the jab. Men reinserting themselves and taking on the responsibilities
00:47:52.800
and roles that they were designed for to protect and serve. And so I would love to have a male energy
00:48:02.680
vaccine mandate come from above. That we require men to step up and do what we're supposed to do.
00:48:11.200
We're supposed to protect and serve. We're supposed to be the primary police officers
00:48:18.080
for every child. Mom and dad should be the first officer friendlies for every child. And to see these
00:48:27.560
men step up and just their presence instantly cures or provides relief from a plague that was hurting the
00:48:37.620
school system in Louisiana. I think it's an uplifting and inspiring message. I'm glad CBS put it out.
00:48:46.460
I wish they had given it more than two minutes because every corporate media outlet will give
00:48:53.140
conversations about the role of police officers. They'll give hours. They'll spend hours every day
00:48:58.700
talking about what police need to do this and they need to be trained better and blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:49:03.960
No, men need to return to their homes, communities, families, and lead and take responsibility
00:49:13.180
for what they created. We are the vaccine. We should require it.
00:49:20.380
That's good. So you're saying that we should have a vaccine mandate that this kind of masculinity and
00:49:27.820
strength should be a place in communities. Even the data shows this. The data shows this,
00:49:32.020
that there is a strong correlation and causal relationship between fatherlessness and crime
00:49:38.460
and depression and teen pregnancy. And yet, like you said, the media won't cover it, I guess,
00:49:43.660
because that takes away from their argument that really the government just needs to step in and do
00:49:48.200
the job that really dads are supposed to do. So they won't talk about that or they think that it's
00:49:52.720
racist or something. But if you truly cared about those that they consider marginalized, then you would
00:49:58.640
be shining a light on this. I'm thankful for these dads too. Good for them. I know some people might
00:50:03.280
think this is so-called toxic masculinity, but I think it's very productive, like you said.
00:50:07.180
All right. Can you tell everyone how they can support you, where they can watch your show?
00:50:13.360
You can watch my show on Blaze TV, any place where, on YouTube, obviously. I think it's
00:50:19.200
youtube.com slash Jason Whitlock. The show is called Fearless with Jason Whitlock. It's available
00:50:24.600
wherever podcasts are available. And we're trying to, and I appreciate you lending me your platform,
00:50:30.700
we're trying to build a fearless army of men like those dads on duty we, you, we just talked about
00:50:38.040
and show, uh, we're, you know, the show is about trying to inspire men to do our jobs.
00:50:44.720
Yep. Well, thank you so much, Jason. I appreciate you taking the time to come on.
00:50:54.740
All right, guys, that's it for today. A couple things. One, if you're watching on YouTube, we're
00:50:59.640
trying to get the lighting and the camera right. So before I really didn't like it because it was
00:51:06.300
like faded. I felt like I was washed out. I was kind of overly exposed and I liked Thursdays. I'm
00:51:13.080
looking down at the monitor right now. I liked Thursdays. Today looks a little yellowy greeny to
00:51:19.680
me. So I'm asking for YouTube subscribers. I'm asking for your feedback. Let me know what you
00:51:26.180
think. Um, also last week I asked for, um, I asked for your millennial moments of not wanting to do
00:51:36.360
menial tasks. This is a millennial disorder that I think that we have called errand paralysis,
00:51:41.860
where we refuse to like send back Amazon packages or go to the post office or call that person back,
00:51:49.740
listen to our voicemails. Why do we do this? I don't know, but I have it too. It's like
00:51:54.020
irrational anxiety surrounding very small things. And I want to hear like, what is that
00:51:59.420
tiny irrational thing or that tiny thing that you won't do for an irrational reason? And tell me what
00:52:05.660
your irrational reason is leave us a voicemail 682-503-1369, 682-503-1369. I think I'll be
00:52:13.220
playing some of those tomorrow. So I will see you guys back here then.