Ben Shapiro: America is systemically racist and evil, and one group of people is deliberately responsible for that And even if you aren t responsible for anything bad, you are responsible for the message that is being sent to all of us that America is racist, and that we should all kneel together in order to recognize that. Ben Shapiro: The message of today s politics is that you will never be able to reach utopia because inequality will always exist, and we will always attribute the evils of the system to the evils the system system. And thus, the utopia must be consistently sought. And that is the message of our politics. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by PeerTalk USA, which covers 99% of Americans, and is making a fraction of what you are currently paying to your cell phone provider. You can cut costs and save up to 250 pounds on a starting phone bill starting on a monthly basis, starting with a Dial Dial Dial. It s a 99% FREE, affordable, premium service that covers 99.99% of the phone bills you are paying, starting at $1.99 a month. You can get 25% off your first bill with a credit card, and get 20% off the bill after you sign up for a 2-year plan with PeerTalk, which starts at $99.00 a month, starting on July 1st, starting July 1, 2020. You get a 20% discount when you become a patron! You get an ad-free version of the show and unlimited access to the show, unlimited credit, and access to all premium plans, including the best deals, and a year, plus a free 3-months of the service, plus the ability to access all of the latest and the best perks, including VIP packages, plus all of that gets you get up to 40% off, plus she gets a discount on the show gets you an ad discount, plus they get an extra $5,000, plus an additional $10% off my ad-only deal, plus I'll get $25,000 and she gets an ad on the entire show starts starts startships, she says she gets $50,000 she gets in the show starts after she gets the deal, she can choose, she gets all that she can do that she gets, she also gets a promo code and I get a discount, too! Learn more about the show drops on her website: bit.ly/theBen Shapiro Show.
00:00:00.000Public health experts say that COVID-19 is extremely dangerous unless you are protesting systemic racism.
00:00:06.000Major cities across America prepared to defund police after nationwide rioting and institutions from sports to the media cast out the unwoke.
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00:00:28.000Well, I told you not to burn down the country over the weekend, and you didn't burn down the country so much as destroyed all of its fundamental institutions.
00:00:34.000So it's really interesting to watch as all of America's fundamental institutions come under severe assault.
00:00:39.000Everything from our government institutions, to the media, to sports.
00:00:43.000I spent the weekend trying to think, how can you escape from all of this?
00:00:47.000Because the truth is, if you turn on a football game these days, you're likely to get a lecture from Colin Kaepernick on why the American flag is bad.
00:00:53.000And if you turn on a basketball game, you're likely to hear some commentators talking about how LeBron James schooled Drew Brees.
00:00:59.000And if you try to turn on Amazon Prime and just watch a movie, you're going to get a Black Lives Matter banner and a bunch of movies they recommend about this particular topic.
00:01:06.000And listen, Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but let's just be frank about what is going on right now.
00:01:11.000What is going on right now is a nationwide push by all of your major institutions to suggest that America is systemically racist and that you as a white person bear some guilt for that.
00:01:20.000And if you're a person of color, you don't, but...
00:01:31.000We all ought to kneel together in order to recognize that America is systemically racist, and this is expected from people right and left and center.
00:01:40.000This is the message that is being promulgated.
00:01:42.000We're gonna get to the message, and we're gonna get to the evils of that message, because I cannot think of a less unifying message than, America is systemically racist and evil, And one group of people is deliberately responsible for that, and even if you aren't responsible for anything bad, you are responsible for that bad thing.
00:01:57.000It's amazing how fast we turn from police brutality is bad, a proposition that 100% of Americans agree with, to America is systemically racist and evil, and also, get rid of the police.
00:02:09.000And you have to think that there is a certain math to this on the part of the left, because the truth is that when you get down to the brass tacks of what kind of policies will be likely to mitigate police brutality, there's fairly broad agreement.
00:02:22.000Things like curbing police unions, for example, and qualifying qualified immunity, right?
00:02:29.000You go back to sort of the common law standard as opposed to the Supreme Court standard implemented in 1982.
00:02:33.000There's fairly broad approval for a lot of these measures.
00:02:37.000But as per our usual political conversation, everyone shies away, it seems, from the discussion of the actual measures to be undertaken in order to mitigate the problem, in order to create conflict around a bigger idea.
00:02:49.000People want to talk about the quote-unquote bigger idea.
00:02:51.000They don't want to talk about solving the problem, which suggests they're really not interested in solving the problem.
00:02:54.000They're really interested in the broader idea, which is remaking America on the back of a simple assumption.
00:03:07.000And thus, the utopia must be consistently sought.
00:03:10.000And that is the message of today's politics.
00:03:13.000It's a religious message, as I mentioned last week.
00:03:15.000The message of today's politics is that you will never be able to reach utopia because inequality will always exist and we will always attribute inequality to the evils of the system.
00:03:25.000We're gonna get to what happened over the weekend because it truly is astonishing in just one second.
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00:04:39.000Okay, so let us begin with the first religious, the first sort of religious That religious cry is that apparently a vaccine has been developed for COVID-19, and that vaccine is systemic anti-racism.
00:05:01.000So all the people who were protesting, and they were saying, I want to go back to my job because I've lost my livelihood.
00:05:05.000And I want my kids to go back to school because they need to be in school.
00:05:08.000They're losing months off of their educational career here.
00:05:11.000All the people who said, I want to go back to church because the center of my life is the church.
00:05:14.000Those people were told over and over and over again, they were killing grandmother.
00:05:18.000They were told over and over again, you cannot go back to these places because if you do, you will, you will be responsible for spreading the virus.
00:05:25.000You will kill hundreds of thousands of Americans if you do this thing.
00:05:28.000Over the weekend, literally millions of Americans were out in the streets, millions of them, crowding on top of each other, shouting, screaming.
00:05:37.000As Dr. Martin McCary from Johns Hopkins University told me last Friday, it is hard to think of a better vector for virus spread than the sorts of images that we saw over the weekend.
00:05:47.000You saw these huge shots of Philadelphia, streets and streets teeming with people.
00:05:53.000If they do have masks, they're removing them from time to time so they can shout slogans.
00:05:57.000Right up on top of each other, right next to each other.
00:05:59.000People have said that churches are a great vector for virus transmission because you are in a small area with a lot of people singing or yelling or shouting or talking.
00:06:07.000Okay, these protests are a great virus transmission vector.
00:06:26.000Which is tens of millions of lives destroyed, by the way.
00:06:28.000We destroyed those jobs and the attendant lives that are dependent on those jobs, including the lives of children.
00:06:33.000We destroyed all of those because we were so convinced that preventing the spread of COVID-19 was that important.
00:06:38.000Now, as long as you're shouting the right slogans, it's totally fine.
00:06:40.000Dr. Tom Ferdinand, who's the former CDC director under Barack Obama, he tweeted out, The threat to COVID control from protesting outside is tiny compared to the threat to COVID control created when governments act in ways that lose community trust.
00:06:52.000People can protest peacefully and work together to stop COVID.
00:06:58.000According to the latest Washington Post statistics, and they keep updating the numbers, there were a grand total of 15 black men shot who are unarmed last year.
00:07:05.000We've had over 110,000 deaths in the United States in the last three and a half months alone from COVID-19.
00:07:09.000So I'm going to go no on it's more of a systemic threat to public health, the police, broadly speaking.
00:07:18.000In fact, I can say that with an extraordinary degree of certainty, that that is not the case, so long as you believe that COVID-19 is actually dangerous, which I do.
00:07:25.000But apparently, the CDC experts do not, because I'm old enough to remember when Tom Ferdinand was on national TV suggesting that Ron DeSantis was going to kill everybody, because Ron DeSantis wasn't shutting the beaches at Jacksonville, which, by the way, killed nobody.
00:07:36.000So it turns out that wokeism is the virus.
00:08:22.000Either they were lying about the danger of the virus, in which case the lockdown was completely ridiculous and there was no reason for it.
00:08:27.000Or, alternatively, they were rightly cautious about the virus, and they are lying now when they suggest that it's perfectly safe to go outside, or at least the risk of going outside and protesting en masse about racism is less than the risk of COVID-19.
00:08:41.000All this looks like is politically motivated trash.
00:09:00.000There were literally people saying, you cannot liken anti-lockdown protests to protests on behalf of George Floyd, or against the police, or any of the rest of this.
00:09:10.000That's not how protesting works under the First Amendment, guys.
00:09:14.000You can't say we're shutting down the protests because we don't like this message, but we do like this message, so therefore the threat doesn't exist any longer.
00:09:20.000And by the way, if you're suggesting that all these protests are deeply necessary, and these protests are deeply important, I have some questions about dancing the Macarena with protesters.
00:09:30.000Okay, so we were told you can't be in a hospital with your grandmother as she dies because you might come out and spread COVID-19 to others.
00:09:37.000We were told you can't go to church and have a funeral service for grandma after she dies.
00:09:41.000But we can have National Guard's people doing the Macarena in the streets.
00:09:46.000with people who are protesting about police brutality.
00:09:50.000Deeply necessary, deeply important work by the National Guard right here with the protesters.
00:10:28.000And he went up to a protest—one of the protesters came up to him.
00:10:31.000And he said to the protester, like, you understand that I think Derek Chauvin, the officer in the George Floyd situation, should be prosecuted.
00:10:59.000And I gotta say, I think that a lot of this is driven not by a desire to quote-unquote end police brutality, which again, everybody agrees with, but by the fact that everybody's been pent up for three months in their homes, and now they're gonna go out en masse, and they're basically going to engage in a party.
00:11:12.000And when you see people dancing the Macarena in the street, that does not look like a Martin Luther King Jr.
00:11:20.000When I see people rioting and looting, that does not look like an extension of justified rage.
00:11:25.000What that looks like is people partying, rioting and looting.
00:11:28.000And if you watch the tape, these are not people with frowns on their face and anger in their face.
00:11:31.000These are people excited that they just got to take a TV.
00:11:34.000To pretend otherwise is to just lie about the situation.
00:11:38.000So if you are angry at the system today, and by the way, if you think that America is about to be mugged by COVID reality, you're probably right.
00:11:45.000Because one of two things is going to happen.
00:11:46.000Either there will be a giant spike in COVID cases, in which case you were lied to by all the health experts who told you that it was okay to go out and protest.
00:11:54.000And then they will do this routine where they say, well, you know, the protests were necessary.
00:11:57.000So in the end, it wasn't us saying it's good to protest that spread the virus.
00:12:01.000It wasn't us saying that sort of stuff.
00:12:05.000We saw this from the health commissioner of New York City, who five seconds ago was saying, if you go outside, you're going to kill grandma, saying, if a lot of people die from the protests because of COVID-19, that's because of racism.
00:12:15.000Racism can be blamed for everything, including your own massive hypocrisy and stupidity.
00:12:20.000But again, this is all about the broader message.
00:12:21.000Because the only way you can really get to the conclusion that it's okay to go out en masse and protest in the middle of a pandemic... And by the way, this sort of stuff was tried back during World War I. People have talked about the Spanish Flu.
00:12:33.000As Dr. McCary said on my show last week, during the Spanish Flu, there were these giant Liberty Bond rallies.
00:12:38.000They were one of the chief vectors for transmission of the Spanish Flu.
00:12:41.000So we've done this before, gang, and it didn't go all that great.
00:12:45.000But the only way that you can make the argument that from a public health standpoint, it is important to protest in the middle of a pandemic, is if you truly believe that the American system is corrupt through and through.
00:12:55.000And that's really what this argument has become about.
00:12:57.000Whether the American system is corrupt through and through.
00:13:00.000From root to branch, from beginning to end.
00:13:02.000And that is why people are demanding that other people kneel for things they have not done.
00:13:06.000This is why people are demanding that people wash feet for things they have not done.
00:13:12.000The very idea of kneeling to atone for a sin you did not commit is sinful.
00:13:17.000If you did not commit a sin and you are kneeling to atone for that sin, that is a paganistic ritual.
00:13:22.000One of the great discoveries of Judeo-Christian religion is the idea that you're not responsible for the sins of your parents.
00:13:28.000That, in fact, you are an individual who's responsible to God and others for the things that you do.
00:13:32.000But the very idea that you're supposed to kneel on behalf of a system That you did not create and do not like or, alternatively, that the system is to blame for all inequality so you kneel on behalf of the system?
00:13:44.000What you're really doing is you're not kneeling to take in your own sin.
00:13:46.000What you're really doing is you are kneeling in order to indict others.
00:13:50.000You're really kneeling and virtue signaling in order to indict people who won't kneel and who don't believe the system is evil.
00:14:15.000It has been linked to the Colin Kaepernick kneeling.
00:14:16.000It's been linked to the idea that America is systemically racist.
00:14:18.000That is the message that is being promulgated.
00:14:20.000If you are kneeling to suggest that America is evil, Then you're doing something sinful because America is not evil.
00:14:26.000If you're kneeling to indict your fellow citizen as evil for not believing that America is evil, that is also sinful.
00:14:31.000If you're kneeling to take upon yourself a sin that you did not commit, that is sinful because you're an individual and every individual ought to be answerable for his or her sins.
00:14:40.000They ought not be answerable for the sins of other people.
00:14:43.000Because once you start in with this idea that you're responsible for the sins of everybody else, that's how you get to the brutality of collective responsibility.
00:14:52.000And that gets very nasty very quickly, especially when you're not talking about the sort of implications of wartime in which you have no choice but to go after military targets and sometimes there are civilians there.
00:15:02.000You're talking about just, in normal politics, blaming large groups of people for the actions of a few.
00:15:09.000And it's hard to think of anything worse than that.
00:15:12.000You take that to the racial level and it's racism.
00:15:14.000To say, okay, well there are some people of this race who do a bad thing, therefore everybody of this race is sinful and indicted that way.
00:15:21.000You take it to any other level, it's just as sinful.
00:15:23.000We're going to get to more of this message in just one second, because this is the great battle.
00:15:27.000This is the great battle, and you will see it has some very practical ramifications, because once you indict the entire system, you have to tear out the system root and branch, and it doesn't matter how many lives that costs, particularly in the minority community, which is what is about to happen.
00:15:39.000And what we're about to watch is going to be so ugly, it's going to make your head swim.
00:15:41.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:17:01.000You can do whatever you have to do because the system itself is evil and the system itself is racist and all inequality can be laid at the feet of inequity.
00:17:08.000Now, when people talk about systemic racism, they always fail to define it.
00:17:12.000So there are a few ways you can define systemic racism.
00:17:15.000There are two ways that are obviously untrue and one way that is true.
00:17:18.000Okay, so the two ways that are obviously untrue.
00:17:40.000Sometimes people are born smart and sometimes people are born stupid.
00:17:43.000Sometimes people are born with more grit and sometimes people are born with more of a tendency toward, toward lassitude, right?
00:17:50.000There are plenty of differences among human beings without regard to race.
00:17:53.000My siblings and I are not equivalent in every way.
00:17:58.000That does not mean some inequity happened in our household.
00:18:00.000It means that people are born different and people act differently and make individual choices differently.
00:18:04.000So, if by systemic racism you mean that you can cite a statistic that suggests that more black people are arrested on a percentage basis than white people, and that this means that the system is to blame, that some inequity has taken place, you're going to have to explain what the inequity is.
00:18:17.000What is the policy inequity that is happening right now?
00:18:19.000You can't just cite the disparity and say discrimination has taken place.
00:18:25.000Systemic racism is ghost hunting in this context.
00:18:28.000It is the suggestion that even after you take into account all of the various other factors, the only factor, it's the god of gaps, the only factor we can't explain, it must be racism, it must be racism.
00:18:39.000So, for example, there's this video that's been going around, that people have been pushing around, all about systemic racism.
00:18:43.000And it talks about redlining and the impact of redlining.
00:18:47.000And the studies that it cites include a study from the 1992 Federal Reserve of Boston talking about redlining.
00:18:52.000And they talk about the fact that black people were unable to get home loans at the same rate as white people.
00:18:56.000It neglects to mention that that same study found that black-owned banks were actually lending at a lower rate to black-owned businesses than white-owned businesses.
00:19:04.000Maybe it doesn't have to do with racism.
00:19:05.000Maybe it has to do with credit record, for example.
00:19:08.000Or level of wealth that can be taken as collateral.
00:19:11.000There are other factors that might explain disparities.
00:19:15.000The immediate jump from inequality to inequity is not correct.
00:20:00.000Because there are only a certain number of slots, that's a zero-sum game.
00:20:03.000If you say that certain people don't have to get the same scores as other people, that is obviously discriminatory against the people who now have to get the higher scores.
00:20:10.000There are plenty of scholarships available across the country on a race-based preference suggestion.
00:20:16.000The notion that policy across the country is systemically racist is just not true.
00:20:21.000Today's institutions are not racist, and if you can cite a policy that is racist, let me know about it because I'm happy to oppose it with you.
00:20:27.000Then, there's the third argument about systemic racism, and this is that history has consequences.
00:20:31.000This is obviously true, that history has consequences.
00:20:34.000But, to say that history has consequences does not mean that all consequences are due to history.
00:21:31.000So history has consequences, but so does human action.
00:21:34.000So to say that bad things happened in the past, and thus all inequality that is existent today is due to the bad things that happened in the past, is to make a leap.
00:21:45.000That's the leap that people want you to make.
00:21:46.000They want to say, because we can all acknowledge bad things happened in the past, and so the idea is that all bad things that happen today are outgrowths of bad things that happened in the past.
00:21:54.000That is true, but in that chain, that does not mean that that is the proximate cause.
00:21:59.000Hey, there are many, many intervening causes, including personal decision-making.
00:22:03.000If, in fact, the wealth gap has grown between black and white families in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act, you have to explain why.
00:22:08.000You have to explain why it is that as redlining waned.
00:22:12.000Redlining, by the way, was made illegal in 1975 under the Community Reinvestment Act.
00:22:16.000If after the Civil Rights Act, the gap between white and black got larger, if the middle class started growing slower after the Civil Rights Act, If in fact educational disparities became larger after the Civil Rights Act.
00:22:27.000If single motherhood went up after the Civil Rights Act.
00:22:30.000You have to explain why exactly it was racism that drove all of that.
00:22:35.000You can't just say history made it this way.
00:22:38.000You actually have to explain what you have to explain the chain of logic.
00:22:41.000And then you have to explain what you think the logical redress is.
00:22:44.000We'll get to the fact that nobody wants to explain the logical redress because the logical redress is bad policy.
00:22:50.000Once you suggest that everything is broken down, the only solution is to tear down the system as a whole, and that's how you get to defund the police.
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00:24:08.000Okay, so again, the message that is being pushed here and that we are all being told that we must accept is that America is systemically racist and the death of George Floyd is somehow tied into this.
00:24:17.000Now again, we have yet to hear that Derek Chauvin was motivated by racism here.
00:24:23.000Right, well all we know is that that was an aspect of police brutality, but we don't know that this is about racism.
00:24:27.000But again, the idea is everything bad must be a racist thing, and everything racist must be attributed to Americans more broadly, particularly white Americans.
00:24:34.000This is going to have some consequences when it comes to policy, because once you suggest the entire system is root and branch evil, it has to be torn out by the root.
00:24:41.000And when you tear out the system by the root, you don't get to keep all the benefits of the system while tearing out the system by the root.
00:24:46.000I know there are a lot of Americans, particularly a lot of white liberals, who tend to believe that the natural state of things is an orderly society in which people treat each other well, and rioting and looting are not common, and in which crime is down.
00:24:58.000This is because you don't remember the 1960s.
00:25:00.000I don't either, but I can promise you there are a lot of people who still do.
00:25:03.000In the 1960s, particularly the late 1960s, crime rates skyrocketed because of a deliberate attempt to reduce policing, because of a deliberate attempt to treat crime as a manifestation of outrage at the system.
00:25:17.000You do that, there are going to be some pretty significant consequences.
00:25:20.000Okay, so ABC's Rachel Scott said yesterday that George Floyd's death was about centuries of systematic racism and racial inequality.
00:25:26.000Again, she's going to have to explain why it is not just about an officer who committed an act of police brutality that nearly every other officer believes was an act of evil, and all Americans do.
00:25:35.000Here was Rachel Scott yesterday making the broad-based argument.
00:25:38.000The killing of George Floyd was really just the boiling point.
00:25:41.000This is about centuries of systemic racism and racial inequality that has existed in this country.
00:25:47.000And I think what we are seeing right now is generational exhaustion and generational uprising.
00:25:53.000These are young voices that are out there from all different backgrounds demanding for change.
00:25:58.000And as we see thousands of protesters out there, it's important to note that every single one of them has a story.
00:26:03.000Either they have experienced racism themselves, some black Americans asking themselves, Am I next?
00:26:10.000Okay, if you're asking yourself, are you next?
00:26:43.000We've been fighting institutional racism for 400 years, does not define institutional racism, does not explain which policies ought to be changed.
00:26:49.000Instead, the idea is that America has not changed since 1619, which is an insane contention, is an insane contention.
00:26:55.000She's a sitting Congresswoman from Florida.
00:26:57.000How many black sitting Congress people from Florida were there in 1619?
00:27:04.000To pretend that, to say things like, we've been fighting institutional racism for 400 years as though there's been little or no progress, or as though we are even remotely anywhere close to what we even were in the 1960s, is patently insane.
00:27:17.000But again, if the argument is that you hate the system and you want to tear it out, then you have to make the argument that either the current system is fruit of the poisonous tree, which is the 1619 Project argument from the New York Times, Or you have to make the argument that the system itself has generated inequality because it is today institutionally racist.
00:28:12.000If your suggestion is that you can vitiate the problems of history by engaging in modern-day injustice, modern-day injustice is not going to vitiate the problem.
00:28:21.000It is simply going to exacerbate other problems.
00:28:24.000Pursuing policies that victimize some at the behest of others is not good policy.
00:28:28.000That was the problem with the history.
00:28:30.000So to try and reverse the history by suggesting discrimination in a different form is not going to solve the problem.
00:28:36.000I'll tell you what else is not going to solve the problem.
00:28:38.000Teaching millions of Americans that no matter how hard they try, the system is coming down on top of them.
00:28:43.000There are no Amer- Again, you can't name the Americans who are in favor of what Derek Chauvin did.
00:29:03.000When you go around suggesting that no matter how you try... I mean, honestly, I cannot... I can't, I mean...
00:29:10.000I never do this, but as a Jew, Jewish history has been replete with some pretty significant repression.
00:29:14.000I'm talking about like forcing people into not just ghettos in the American sense of bad places to live where you can't afford to live out of them.
00:29:21.000I mean forced ghettos where Jews were forced to live and they shut them down at nightfall and you could not exit on pain of imprisonment or death.
00:29:28.000I'm talking about the banning of Jews from social institutions here in the United States.
00:29:33.000I'm talking about the fact that Jews were banned from certain areas of higher education for decades in the United States.
00:29:43.000I'm not even mentioning the treatment of my extended family in the Holocaust or anybody else's.
00:29:49.000And for generations, Jews recognized that life was a terrible thing and that if you worked hard, you were still expected to do the things you were supposed to do.
00:29:58.000Okay, but in America, in a free country, Jews have risen extraordinarily quickly.
00:30:28.000And I don't mean that in the people want to watch you suffer sense.
00:30:30.000I mean that nobody is sitting around thinking, how do I keep a black person down today?
00:30:35.000How do I create a policy that prevents black people from doing X, Y, or Z?
00:30:39.000In fact, everybody, as far as I'm aware, has been thinking, how do I create policy that gives more opportunities to people who have grown up in poor communities with bad educational systems?
00:30:56.000If you want to damage an entire generation of people, tell them that they are inherently victims in the freest society in the history of the world.
00:31:02.000And this is what you get from Al Sharpton, who's made a bunch of money.
00:31:04.000That is a dude who has gotten rich off of this myth.
00:31:07.000Al Sharpton has gotten rich off of lying to people that America is systemically racist and evil, top to bottom.
00:31:13.000He just goes to corporations and blackmails them by suggesting he will call them racist unless they give him a donation.
00:31:19.000Here he was at George Floyd's memorial, suggesting that no matter how hard we try, there is a Neoner next.
00:31:23.000That was true in legal terms during Jim Crow.
00:31:36.000America is the story of black people fighting for their freedom and white people fighting alongside them to fulfill constitutional declaration of independence ideals.
00:32:23.000The reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of being is you kept your knee on our neck.
00:32:31.000We were smarter than the underfunded schools you put us in, but you had your knee on our neck.
00:32:42.000We could run corporations and not hustle in the street, but you had your knee on our neck.
00:32:52.000And then he says, get your knee off our neck today.
00:32:53.000OK, again, to equate Jim Crow America with today is patently insane.
00:32:58.000But again, if you are Al Sharpton and you are trying to equate all inequality with inequity, then this is what you have to do.
00:33:03.000Are you blaming the system more broadly?
00:33:05.000And it's not just Al Sharpton, who's an open race baiter and an awful human being.
00:33:09.000It's Michelle Obama, who really should know better.
00:33:10.000This is a woman who went to Harvard Law School.
00:33:12.000This is the former first lady of the United States.
00:33:14.000She's had a pretty damned good life in the United States.
00:33:17.000But here she was giving a speech to graduates over the weekend, suggesting that for many black Americans, no matter how hard you work, structural racism is stopping you.
00:33:25.000Please name the policy that is stopping you no matter how hard you work.
00:33:34.000Because that would mean you'd have to get specific.
00:33:36.000And then we might all have a solution.
00:33:37.000But if there's a solution, then inequality might actually decline.
00:33:41.000And if inequality declined, then it might be that Americans aren't racist.
00:33:45.000Again, if you start from the premise that all inequality means racism, and it is necessary for your political point of view that the system be racist, then inequality must be preserved.
00:33:56.000Any attempt to mitigate policy such that inequality is not preserved means maybe the system isn't so bad.
00:34:02.000And that runs counter to the entire left-wing argument.
00:34:04.000Here's Michelle Obama, one of the most successful black women in American history, suggesting that no matter how hard you work, structural racism is stopping you for many black Americans.
00:34:13.000And again, I want to know who these people are so we can offer them scholarships, and so we can make sure they get into the schools that they need to get to.
00:34:21.000This is again, suggesting that because history has consequences, everything today is bad, or inequality is equal to inequity, and it's a lie.
00:34:30.000And Michelle Obama knows better than anybody it's a lie.
00:34:32.000When it comes to all those tidy stories of hard work and self-determination that we like to tell ourselves about America, well, the reality is a lot more complicated than that.
00:34:43.000Because for too many people in this country, no matter how hard they work, there are structural barriers working against them that just make the road longer and rockier.
00:34:56.000And sometimes it's almost impossible to move upward at all.
00:35:00.000At no point does she suggest what these structural barriers are or how we remove them.
00:35:05.000The idea is no matter how hard you work, you're screwed.
00:35:07.000You think that might breed a little bit of resentment and rage at the system?
00:35:10.000And by the way, justify tearing down all of the institutions of the society?
00:35:14.000As we will see, that is the actual agenda.
00:35:16.000And to watch people buy into this wholesale in an attempt to appease folks is really quite astonishing.
00:35:24.000It's quite astonishing and quite immoral.
00:35:26.000We'll get to that in just one second because it really is incredible stuff.
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00:36:56.000The culmination of this message that America is systemically racist.
00:36:59.000People buying into this because there is this bizarre notion in many American communities that if you acquiesce to the message that somehow all of this will go away and be better.
00:37:10.000This is the first step toward the destruction of the institutions.
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00:38:45.000It is the most relevant book in history, maybe.
00:38:48.000The entire book is about how there's a quest by a large group of Americans, I call them disintegrationists, who want to destroy our common philosophy, history, and culture.
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00:39:54.000So the nasty, divisive and cruel narrative that America is systemically racist and evil has now been taken, swallowed whole by a huge number of people across the country.
00:40:03.000Mainly, I think a lot of these people want to do a couple things.
00:40:21.000Or is it just more to express sympathy?
00:40:22.000I think most people are good-hearted and they want to express sympathy for people who feel outraged at police brutalities and instances of racism.
00:40:30.000But the people who are promulgating the message at the highest intellectual level, it is not just that they condemn police brutality and racism.
00:40:37.000It is that they are inciting you and the entire system and they want you to repent for sins you have not committed.
00:40:42.000And so you see what I think are hideous images like this.
00:40:45.000Police officers washing the feet of black community leaders in North Carolina.
00:41:01.000And why is this being done on the basis of race?
00:41:04.000Did they victimize these particular people?
00:41:06.000To atone for a sin you did not commit is itself sinful.
00:41:10.000You cannot atone for sins that other people committed without taking on responsibility.
00:41:14.000And that, of course, is the end goal here.
00:41:15.000Because if you believe that you're buying off the wokest on the left by engaging in the kneeling and the feet washing and the ritual humiliation, if you believe that you are buying them off and suddenly they are going to be like, oh, well, you know, this person showed their sympathy, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt next time there's a racist incident.
00:41:31.000The next time something bad happens in that community, which is, I believe, Cary, North Carolina, the next time something bad happens in that community, the protesters will be right at that front door asking for the police chief's head.
00:41:42.000That is the first thing that will happen.
00:41:44.000Hey, Democrats, we're kneeling in the Congress today.
00:41:48.000I mean, they were all wearing, it looks like some sort of scarf, I assume to symbol to African Americans, because I think there's a cultural scarf.
00:42:05.000And truly ridiculous stuff, because if the idea is that you have to kneel to the notion that America is systemically evil, that Colin Kaepernick was right after all, that the American flag represents racism and bigotry, it doesn't represent freedom and liberty, Then what the hell are you doing in the United States Congress?
00:42:19.000Why do you believe the institutions that you serve are good?
00:42:22.000Shouldn't you want to tear down all those institutions?
00:42:25.000If you think the demands end with just a little bit of virtue signaling online, that you've bought your way out, Amazon, by putting a Black Lives Matter thing on your page, now everybody's gonna be happy with you, think again.
00:42:35.000The New York Times put out an op-ed over the weekend that literally says that you should text your relatives and loved ones, this is a direct quote, telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives, either through protest or financial contributions.
00:42:49.000So you're going to tell mom and dad, I'm not visiting unless you sign a check to my preferred organization.
00:43:19.000Why is it not good enough to just oppose racism and think racism is bad?
00:43:22.000Why is it that I have to mouth whatever platitudes you decide to put out there today, including a platitude that is not a platitude at all, but an extraordinarily nasty proposition that Americans are deeply racist, that they are systemically biased, that the American system is racist through and through?
00:43:36.000No, it seems to me that you know what basic human decency requires of you?
00:44:04.000If you want to cite something that I have done wrong, I'm happy to talk to you about it.
00:44:07.000If you want to talk about indicting a broad American system or suggesting that I'm keeping my knee on the neck of black America, as Al Sharpton has suggested, Then F off!
00:44:23.000And it has consequences, because once you suggest the American system is completely disgusting, top to bottom, then all the institutions of America become simply symbols of the deep-seated American racism that is.
00:44:35.000They become symbols of this deeply corrupt system.
00:44:38.000It's not enough for Mike Pence to simply say we stand with George Floyd's family, which is something he said.
00:44:42.000He has to say that America is corrupt through and through.
00:44:45.000It's not good enough for Pence to say what everybody agrees with, that police brutality is bad and we don't want to see any instances of it.
00:45:01.000You know, now charges have been brought against all four police officers and the President immediately deployed Justice Department officials to examine the possibility of federal charges to be brought as well.
00:45:13.000But what happened on that street in Minneapolis shocked the conscience of the nation and we stand with every American.
00:45:24.000Taken aback by that act, and we will stand for justice every day.
00:45:44.000So there are those of us who are like, okay, well, now that you're suggesting that the entire American institutional infrastructure is bad, tearing it down might have some really bad consequences.
00:45:51.000In fact, if I wanted to point to tearing down American institutions having bad consequences, I might point to the fact that there were a bunch of people out there who were justifying rioting and looting, right, over the past week.
00:46:00.000And then we shut down nearly every major American city for a week so people could riot and loot to their heart's content.
00:47:43.000I think that it is going to lay the basis for the momentum for us to bring about the change that we need to do.
00:47:50.000And not only that, if you're a white liberal, you have to understand that if you oppose crime, if you want to preserve any institutions of American society, that's coming from a place of privilege.
00:47:58.000So over the weekend, the Minneapolis City Council vowed to defund the police.
00:48:19.000In Minneapolis, they're talking about absolutely just getting rid of the police entirely.
00:48:22.000Okay, so there's a woman named Bender, appropriately named, because she's on a bender here, who is on CNN from the Minneapolis City Council.
00:48:32.000And she was asked a very obvious question by Allison Camerota.
00:48:35.000Well, what happens when somebody commits a crime?
00:48:38.000What are you gonna do with the police?
00:48:39.000Now remember, you abolish the police because the police are systemically racist, because America is systemically racist.
00:48:45.000Once you say that America is systemically racist, and that the police are systemically racist, and that the police doing their job is just an extension of the evil past of policing in the United States, you come to the point where crime is good.
00:48:56.000Okay, and this is exactly what a Minneapolis City Council member said on Alice in Camarada Day.
00:49:16.000Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
00:49:39.000If you're worried about a crime being committed against you, it's coming from a place of privilege.
00:49:49.000You actually need more policing in these areas.
00:49:51.000High crime communities require more police, not fewer police.
00:49:53.000And in fact, if you want to explain a disparity, here's a way to explain a disparity through discrimination.
00:49:57.000One of the reasons you have high crime That that ravaged black communities since the turn of the 20th century.
00:50:04.000I mean, murder rates that are a multiple of the white murder rates is because white communities deliberately decided to withdraw police from those areas and said, you're on your own.
00:50:13.000You want to know why gang warfare became a prominent feature of urban life, inner city life?
00:50:37.000The new campaign is defund the police.
00:50:39.000So over the weekend, the Washington, D.C.
00:50:41.000mayor decided that she'd be making a real statement by painting on the street Black Lives Matter in giant yellow letters all across the street.
00:51:22.000The implication of you painting something like that is that you believe that everyone who disagrees with you doesn't think science is real.
00:51:46.000The idea of Black Lives Matter is that there is a vast swath of Americans who disagree with you because they don't believe Black Lives Matter, and that I find insulting.
00:51:53.000So anyway, she painted Black Lives Matter on the street, Mayor Bowser in Washington, D.C.
00:52:28.000Over in Minneapolis, where they burned down a police precinct and had a week of rioting and looting, and people were hurt, and businesses were ravaged, and the city was basically set on fire, the mayor of Minneapolis, who started this whole thing off by suggesting that white privilege was responsible for the death of George Floyd, that it was a racist killing, who's gone on TV and said he's gonna check his own white privilege and all this, You want the proof that the kneeling will get you nowhere?
00:55:09.000First of all, you have Ilhan Omar, who, whatever she says, do the opposite and you'll have a successful life.
00:55:14.000Ilhan Omar, the representative from Minnesota, she was out there saying she wants to defund the police.
00:55:19.000Which again, the people who are most harmed by this are the people who are most victimized by crime.
00:55:23.000The people who need the police most will be the people who are harmed the most when the police go away.
00:55:28.000Also very convenient for a lot of the people who are shouting, defund the police, in the media particularly, because they all have private security.
00:55:35.000It's pretty easy to be, well, you want to talk about white privilege?
00:55:38.000White privilege, or privilege more generally, is saying get rid of the publicly funded police because I'm rich enough that I already have my own private security firm.
00:55:45.000Ilhan Omar has protection from congressional police.
00:57:57.000A city councilwoman named Monica Rodriguez showed up to lecture the LAPD.
00:58:00.000And the LAPD officers, they were having none of it.
00:58:02.000They're like, we're here, and we haven't done- Like, if you have an instance of racism, then bring it to our police union, prosecute us, but you got nothing here.
00:58:09.000And here you are saying that we should- We're the only thing stopping the looters and the rioters.
00:58:13.000We're the only thing standing between Melrose Avenue being burned to the ground and Rodeo Drive being destroyed.
00:59:28.000Now Martin Luther King, he said, budgets are moral documents.
00:59:33.000They show what our priorities and commitments are as a nation and as a society.
00:59:38.000And the same problems that we are seeing.
00:59:41.000The same problems that we are seeing on a city council level and on a city level, which are you have an entire city budget and half of that budget goes to policing and a shred to education, a shred to mental health services, a crumb for hospitals.
01:00:01.000That is mirrored on the federal level.
01:00:06.000What she's saying is not even close to true on a factual level.
01:00:08.000The huge percentage budgets in the cities are not going to police.
01:00:11.000I mean, it's just that's an astonishing lie.
01:00:13.000But beyond that, again, the defund the police movement in the aftermath of widespread rioting and looting, you can only justify that if you think the rioting and looting and the crime are okay.
01:00:21.000And that any attempt to tamp those things down is an attempt to shore up the institutions of white privilege.
01:00:28.000I do not believe that America's institutions are fundamentally racist.
01:00:31.000That does not mean that America's history has not been filled with endemic racism.
01:00:35.000It does mean that today the institutions are not racist.
01:00:37.000I do not believe that America's philosophy, culture, history are the story of racism.
01:00:41.000And I'm never going to kneel to the idea that America will be healed or unified by trashing the American system entirely in favor of defund the police.
01:00:52.000By the way, where's Joe Biden on this?
01:00:53.000How does Joe Biden feel about defunding the police?