The Ben Shapiro Show - Looking For Systemic Racism In All The Wrong Places | Ep. 1202

00:00:00.000 A grand jury declines to indict police officers in the death of black man Daniel Prude.

00:00:04.000 The first black bachelor complains about systemic racism.

00:00:07.000 And Democrats struggle with Joe Biden putting kids in cages.

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00:01:35.000 Okay, so the news of the day is that Rochester officers are not going to be charged in the death of Daniel Prude.

00:01:41.000 So you may remember the Daniel Prude case.

00:01:43.000 It was another one of these cases where the tape looks really unpleasant, but the reality is that the officers are almost certainly not responsible for the death of Daniel Prude.

00:01:54.000 It created riots during the Black Lives Matter Situation during the summer in Rochester, particularly this came out kind of late in the summer.

00:02:03.000 Because originally, Daniel Prude died in March, but then the tape didn't come out until a couple of months later.

00:02:07.000 It became just another one of the names that is listed in the litany of people who are supposedly murdered by the police.

00:02:13.000 Many of those names don't belong on that list.

00:02:15.000 Jacob Blake was put on that list.

00:02:17.000 He's not dead, but he was put on the list.

00:02:19.000 He was responsible for the riots in Kenosha.

00:02:20.000 It turned out that he had a knife in his hand when he was refusing to obey the orders of officers.

00:02:27.000 It turns out not all of these cases are exactly the same, and Daniel Prude falls into the category of a case where it is absolutely unclear that the officers killed him.

00:02:35.000 In fact, the evidence tends to show the opposite.

00:02:37.000 According to the New York Times, on a snowy night last March, Daniel Prude sprinted shirtless out of his brother's home in Rochester, New York, seemingly in the grip of a psychotic episode, distraught, his brother called police for help.

00:02:47.000 Instead, the officers handcuffed Mr. Prude, placed a mesh hood over his head, and pressed him into the pavement until he lost consciousness.

00:02:52.000 Okay, now that is a wild exaggeration of the actual chain of events.

00:02:57.000 So we actually have the tape, right?

00:02:58.000 The police tape came out of what happened here.

00:03:00.000 And Daniel Prude is walking down the street in the middle of Rochester.

00:03:05.000 It is snowing outside and he is completely nude at the time.

00:03:09.000 And he starts shouting at the officers, give me your gun.

00:03:12.000 And so they restrain him.

00:03:14.000 And then he starts trying to spit at them and he says that he is COVID positive.

00:03:18.000 Remember, this is early on in the pandemic.

00:03:20.000 This is like two weeks into the shutdown of the pandemic.

00:03:23.000 And so they do what officers are trained to do.

00:03:26.000 They put a mesh hood on him.

00:03:27.000 It is breathable.

00:03:28.000 They did not put him in a burlap sack.

00:03:30.000 They didn't choke him to death.

00:03:31.000 And then it appears that he died of excited delirium.

00:03:36.000 Because it turns out that he was probably extremely high on PCP.

00:03:40.000 That is what the autopsy showed.

00:03:42.000 Again, he was walking naked down the street in Rochester.

00:03:44.000 So this obviously was not somebody who was in a decent mental or physical condition when the officers first encountered him.

00:03:51.000 Here's a little bit of what that tape looked like.

00:03:54.000 Get on the ground, man.

00:03:55.000 No!

00:03:55.000 Get on the ground.

00:03:56.000 Put your hands behind your back. 0.68

00:03:58.000 Behind your back.

00:03:58.000 Don't move.

00:03:59.000 Don't move.

00:04:01.000 Chill out, man.

00:04:01.000 Don't move.

00:04:02.000 I mean it. God bless y'all.

00:04:04.000 Let me out! Get the f*** away from me! 1.00

00:04:08.000 In Jesus Christ I pray, amen! 0.99

00:04:10.000 Give me that gun now, man.

00:04:13.000 You hear him say, give me that gun, and then they put him, and they hold him down because he is not staying down, right?

00:04:19.000 That mesh hood is breathable.

00:04:22.000 And then at a certain point, he says that he can't breathe, which is true, because he can't breathe. 0.99

00:04:27.000 He's suffering from excited delirium.

00:04:30.000 The autopsy said that he was experiencing excited delirium, which is a condition that often follows heavy drug use.

00:04:35.000 Similar autopsy report was made about, for example, George Floyd in Minneapolis.

00:04:40.000 The autopsy tends to show that he did not die as a direct result of the officer's pressure in that particular case, that he was high on fentanyl at the time.

00:04:48.000 Something similar happened here with Daniel Prude, according to the best available scientific reports.

00:04:53.000 According to the New York Times, Miss James, Letitia James, who is the Attorney General of the State of New York, she said she was extremely disappointed with the grand jury, which is always a good move.

00:05:04.000 It's always a good move when you have officers of the law saying they are disappointed with the workings of the law.

00:05:09.000 In any case, on Tuesday, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, announced none of the officers who arrested Prude would face charges in connection with his death.

00:05:15.000 A grand jury convened by James to investigate the case declined to charge any of the seven officers on the scene that night with a crime.

00:05:21.000 If she has a way that people can escape dying from excited delirium, I would love to hear it.

00:05:24.000 law enforcement officers accountable in the unjustified killing of African-Americans.

00:05:29.000 What binds these cases is the tragic loss of life and circumstances in which the death could have been avoided.

00:05:34.000 If she has a way that people can escape dying from excited delirium, I would love to hear it.

00:05:38.000 Seriously.

00:05:39.000 In an unusual move, the Monroe County Court Judge Karen Bailey Turner on Tuesday evening granted the attorney general's request to release minutes related to the grand jury's investigation records that are generally protected under seal.

00:05:50.000 Ms.

00:05:50.000 James said the public deserves to know what transpires behind closed doors, which of course defeats the purpose of a blind jury system.

00:05:56.000 The date to make the documents public has not been set.

00:05:59.000 The federal DOJ says they might open a civil rights investigation into the officers.

00:06:03.000 They've tried this before under Barack Obama.

00:06:05.000 Usually it fails.

00:06:06.000 You'll remember that it was Eric Holder's DOJ that refused to indict George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, for example.

00:06:12.000 On Tuesday evening, a crowd of about 150 people marched through the city denouncing the grand jury decision and the system that made it possible.

00:06:19.000 The system that made it possible.

00:06:20.000 You mean like trial by jury and grand jury process and due process of law, that system?

00:06:28.000 According to the New York Times, after body camera video of Mr. Prude's death became public in the fall, his name now joined a now familiar list of black people killed during interactions with police, including George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis led to months of demonstrations nationwide.

00:06:40.000 Particularly unsettling in the case of Mr. Prude were images of him in a hood reminiscent of the ones used in lynching of black people.

00:06:45.000 That is not what happened.

00:06:46.000 These police officers did not arrive on scene and decide, you know what, let's lynch this guy.

00:06:49.000 He started spitting at them, yelling at them that he was COVID positive at that point.

00:06:54.000 Again, we were two weeks into the pandemic at this point.

00:06:55.000 So they put a spit hood on him.

00:06:57.000 which is a mesh hood that you can breathe through.

00:06:59.000 The Rochester Police Locust Club, which is the union that represents the city's 700 law enforcement officers, declined to comment on the grand jury's decision.

00:07:08.000 Naturally, Letitia James suggested that there had to be sweeping reforms in how the police interact with and are trained to deal with people in emotional distress.

00:07:17.000 Buried in this article from the New York Times are the actual circumstances here.

00:07:21.000 Mr. Prude, 41, lived in Chicago but had been visiting his brother in Rochester.

00:07:26.000 Friends said that before his death, Mr. Prude had begun to rely more heavily on the drug PCP.

00:07:30.000 This is one of the more dangerous drugs known to man.

00:07:33.000 Known as angel dust, it can cause erratic behavior.

00:07:35.000 He began to use drugs, they said, to cope with the 2018 death by suicide of his nephew with whom he had lived.

00:07:40.000 The day before the episode, his brother, Joe, had him hospitalized at Strong Memorial Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, but he was sent home hours later.

00:07:47.000 So if you're gonna put blame anywhere, it ought to be with the psychiatric hospital that released this guy.

00:07:52.000 Because by the next night, he was out on the street, wandering around naked in the snow and shouting at police officers that he wanted their gun and that he had COVID while trying to spit at them.

00:08:00.000 Just hours after returning from the hospital on March 23rd, Mr. Prude suddenly burst from his brother's home and ran into the night.

00:08:06.000 Fearful for his safety, his brother called 911.

00:08:09.000 And people obviously fear the police so much that they call 911 when they have a problem, worried Prude might inadvertently harm himself or run across nearby train tracks.

00:08:16.000 Police who answered the call found Prude naked and reported he had told at least one passerby he had COVID.

00:08:20.000 When they apprehended him, he began spitting, and the officers responded by pulling the mesh hood over his head.

00:08:25.000 When he tried to rise, the officers forced Mr. Prude face down on the ground.

00:08:28.000 One of them pushed his head to the pavement. 0.52

00:08:30.000 Police body camera footage showed.

00:08:31.000 The police held Prude down for two minutes.

00:08:33.000 He had to be resuscitated.

00:08:34.000 He died at the hospital a week later.

00:08:37.000 Okay, now again, the reality of the autopsy is that he likely died of his drug intake and excited delirium, which is a condition that often follows heavy drug use.

00:08:46.000 One of the symptoms of excited delirium is that you feel overheated, which might be one of the reasons why he shed all of his clothes in the middle of the night in Rochester when it was freezing outside and snowing.

00:08:56.000 A deputy police chief in Rochester wrote in a June 4th email to his supervisor saying, we certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officer's actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement nationally. That would simply be a false narrative and could create animosity and potentially violent blowback in the community as a result. The New York Times interpreted that letter as an attempted coverup, as opposed to the police saying, you guys are going to misinterpret the tape, and then everybody going and misinterpreting the tape. Late last year, the city's office of public

00:09:25.000 integrity apparently concluded no wrongdoing had been committed by any city employee.

00:09:33.000 Ms.

00:09:34.000 James suggested Daniel Prude was in the throes of a mental health crisis.

00:09:36.000 What he needed was compassion, care, and help from trained professionals.

00:09:39.000 Tragically, he received none of those things.

00:09:40.000 He literally was at the hospital the day before and they discharged him.

00:09:43.000 So people are using this as yet another example of black men being brutally mistreated by the police.

00:09:49.000 This is a bad example. 0.83

00:09:50.000 You can find examples of black men being brutally mistreated by police. 0.89

00:09:53.000 You can find examples of white men being brutally mistreated by the police.

00:09:57.000 Those situations do happen.

00:09:58.000 This happens to be a particularly poor example, but it leads all the news because the news people do not care.

00:10:03.000 Your journalistic experts do not care about the particular circumstances of every individual case.

00:10:07.000 They don't care about due process.

00:10:09.000 They don't care about what the actual evidence shows.

00:10:10.000 They don't care about autopsy reports.

00:10:12.000 They have a narrative, and the narrative must be promoted.

00:10:15.000 And the narrative has an effect.

00:10:17.000 I have some poll statistics that are absolutely stunning that I'm going to show you in just one second.

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00:11:27.000 Okay, so.

00:11:28.000 The impact of the coverage of the media in cases like Daniel Prude's, the suggestion that this is a grave miscarriage of justice by Letitia James.

00:11:35.000 This has an impact on how people think about racism in the United States.

00:11:40.000 So there's a poll done by Skeptic Magazine, and they surveyed people of various political persuasions on a simple question.

00:11:47.000 How many black men in America, unarmed, were killed by police in 2019?

00:11:52.000 Right, that is a simple objective question.

00:11:54.000 How many people, how many black men who are unarmed were killed by the police in 2019?

00:11:59.000 Now, the actual statistic, so you know, ranges based on the Washington Post.

00:12:04.000 There are other reports that suggest higher.

00:12:06.000 At a maximum, it is 27.

00:12:07.000 At a maximum, it is 27.

00:12:10.000 And you would know that if you listen to shows like this one because we actually focus in on the data.

00:12:13.000 We actually talk about the fact that in a country with 40 million black Americans, black Americans are not a genocidal existential risk from law enforcement. 0.75

00:12:19.000 It's just a lie. 0.79

00:12:20.000 It is not true.

00:12:22.000 But folks on the left like to promulgate that narrative.

00:12:23.000 In fact, that narrative is so unbelievably popular that you had literally 10 to 25 million people in the streets repeating the lie that America's police are systemically racist over the summer.

00:12:33.000 And you had some of those people going and burning down the local neighborhood.

00:12:38.000 So here is how Americans, how many Americans believe Black men were killed by the police, unarmed, in 2019.

00:12:47.000 And there's a serious differential in terms of political persuasion here.

00:12:51.000 So, if you are very conservative, you know not very many black men are killed, unarmed, by the police.

00:12:57.000 In fact, 46% of very conservative people knew that the answer is about 10.

00:13:02.000 Another 34% of very conservative Americans said that the answer was about 100.

00:13:06.000 Okay, so that's at least somewhat close, right?

00:13:09.000 I mean, at least that's ballpark.

00:13:11.000 A grand total of approximately 20% of very conservative people overall thought that over 1,000 black men were killed unarmed in 2019 by the cops.

00:13:22.000 Now, let's look at the very liberal crowd.

00:13:24.000 The very liberal crowd, 15.71% of very liberal Americans believed that about 10 black men were killed unarmed by the cops in 2019.

00:13:34.000 Fully, I'm not joking, Fully, 31% thought that about 1,000 unarmed black men were killed by the cops in 2019.

00:13:40.000 Another 14.29% thought that about 10,000 unarmed black men were killed by the police in 2019.

00:13:43.000 And 7.86% thought more than 10,000 were killed by the cops in 2019, which is utterly crazy.

00:13:45.000 thought that about 10,000 unarmed black men were killed by the police in 2019.

00:13:50.000 And 7.86% thought more than 10,000 were killed by the cops in 2019, which is utterly crazy.

00:13:57.000 So when you add those three numbers together, what you end up with is a majority, a majority of very liberal people believe that over 1,000 black men were killed unarmed by the cops in 2019.

00:14:10.000 The actual answer at a maximum is 27.

00:14:12.000 So they are only off by like two orders of magnitude.

00:14:15.000 Okay, there's a reason for that.

00:14:18.000 And the reason for that is the media coverage.

00:14:20.000 And by the way, here's the big problem.

00:14:23.000 This holds true for normal liberal people, not just very liberal people, normal liberal people.

00:14:29.000 Normal liberal people, Believe that many, many more unarmed black men were killed than actually were killed.

00:14:37.000 26.67% of normal liberal people believe a thousand black men a year are killed unarmed by the cops.

00:14:41.000 Another 12% think that at least 10,000 people were killed by the cops unarmed black every single year.

00:14:50.000 Now, once you get to people who are moderate and who don't believe the narrative quite as much, you still end up with a huge percentage of Americans who believe that the number is way higher than it is, right?

00:14:59.000 Fully 41% of moderates believe that about 100 people were killed a year by the cops, unarmed and black, and 16% still believe that about 1,000 were killed.

00:15:09.000 What you see is that as these polls get more conservative, they get more accurate.

00:15:14.000 The more conservative these folks are, the more accurate they are.

00:15:16.000 In fact, there's only one exception to this rule, and that is actually between very conservative and conservative people.

00:15:21.000 If you're just conservative and not very conservative, you're actually more accurate on this question.

00:15:26.000 About 86% of just conservative people understood that the answer was below 100.

00:15:30.000 Okay, so here is the problem.

00:15:34.000 The narrative has purchase, and the narrative is a lie.

00:15:37.000 Black men are not being routinely gunned down by cops unarmed every year, and this holds true throughout our society.

00:15:44.000 Every time you hear about systemic racism, you should be asking for the data.

00:15:47.000 What is the evidence that a disparity is in fact discrimination?

00:15:50.000 But people don't bother.

00:15:52.000 People do not bother to actually answer that question.

00:15:56.000 Okay, so there is a...

00:16:00.000 Another poll statistic from Skeptic.

00:16:02.000 Okay, and the question was, in 2019, what percentage of people killed by police total were black?

00:16:08.000 The actual answer is about 30%.

00:16:09.000 Actually, sorry, it's about 25%. 0.91

00:16:11.000 About one quarter of all people killed by the cops in 2019 were black.

00:16:15.000 The vast majority of those people, as we've just explored, were armed or threatening the cops in some way.

00:16:19.000 Okay, once again, once again, The very liberal people get this one completely wrong.

00:16:27.000 They believe that 60% of all people killed by the cops in 2019 were black.

00:16:31.000 60%, six in 10 people killed by the cops were black, according to very liberal people. 0.79

00:16:36.000 According to liberal people, 56% of people who were killed by the cops in 2019 were black, total.

00:16:42.000 Okay, again, that is off by at least a factor of two.

00:16:46.000 Moderate, 46%, they believe that 46% of people who were killed by the cops were black in 2019.

00:16:54.000 Conservatives were the closest.

00:16:55.000 Once again, people who just consider themselves conservative were the closest on this score.

00:17:00.000 They say that 37.8% of people killed by the cops were black.

00:17:03.000 Again, the real number is 25%.

00:17:04.000 So every single subgroup in American life thought the number was higher than it was.

00:17:08.000 Very conservative people thought 44.5% of people killed by the cops were black.

00:17:13.000 So here's the reality.

00:17:14.000 Even among conservatives, the narrative has purchased.

00:17:17.000 Because when you keep hearing over and over and over that black men are being gunned down and when the only stories that you hear are of black men being shot by the police as opposed to white people being shot by the police or Hispanic people being shot by the police, well then you end up with a narrative.

00:17:29.000 And the narrative, oftentimes, is extraordinarily false.

00:17:32.000 And here is the thing.

00:17:33.000 We live in a society where it's not enough.

00:17:35.000 That you hear the narrative.

00:17:38.000 You must parrot the narrative.

00:17:39.000 And if you don't parrot the narrative, you will be called out for being unwoke.

00:17:43.000 You will be called out for not being one of the people who is sophisticated.

00:17:47.000 One of the people who doesn't see.

00:17:49.000 It'll be suggested that you're naive.

00:17:51.000 You don't see through the system.

00:17:52.000 In fact, you are a pillar of the system.

00:17:56.000 You are a person who makes this evil system possible.

00:17:59.000 Unless you repeat a false narrative.

00:18:02.000 And this has infused every aspect of our culture.

00:18:05.000 And so you see it every single day.

00:18:07.000 Corporations around America, you see it in entertainment.

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00:19:32.000 Okay, so meanwhile, my friend Andrew Breitbart used to say that culture is upstream of politics and it is true.

00:19:39.000 When you hear from all of your cultural sources, all of them, that America is systemically racist and evil, you start to believe it.

00:19:45.000 And when you see that people are called out and cudgeled into line if they don't repeat that narrative, you start to say to yourself, well, maybe I should do that too.

00:19:53.000 Maybe I need to say all of this woke stuff, because if I don't say that woke stuff, I'll get fired from my job at Woke-a-Cola.

00:19:59.000 Or maybe I will be tossed out by my local university.

00:20:03.000 Or maybe all of my friends will unfriend me on Facebook.

00:20:07.000 This has infused even some of our most apolitical Dumb cultural institutions. 0.93

00:20:12.000 So, I say dumb because I will freely admit to you, I am not a watcher of The Bachelor. 1.00

00:20:16.000 I think the premise of the show is idiotic, frankly. 0.99

00:20:19.000 The notion that you have one person who's dating 20 people at once, I think is kind of perverse. 0.99

00:20:23.000 The fact that people think this is romantic is absolutely beyond me.

00:20:26.000 It must be part of the lizard brain that sees any sort of romantic gesture as romantic, even if it's done in the context of a highly and slickly produced program in which a dude is dating 20 chicks at once. 0.98

00:20:37.000 Okay, but in any case, being a non-fan of The Bachelor, I think this gives me in some ways more credibility to talk about the stupidity of what is now going on at The Bachelor. 0.98

00:20:45.000 Okay, The Bachelor has been an apolitical show that men have not wanted to watch for 25 years. 0.96

00:20:50.000 It's the kind of show where your wife turns it on and watches it and is enthralled, and you sit there and you just wish that you could turn the channel to football.

00:20:59.000 But it is one of the key institutional cultural touchstones of our society, clearly, right?

00:21:05.000 I mean, it's been around for forever.

00:21:08.000 It's a cultural institution in America.

00:21:09.000 It's been one of the highest rated shows on TV since 2002.

00:21:13.000 It has been around more than half my life on TV.

00:21:19.000 So, now The Bachelor is imploding.

00:21:21.000 And it's imploding because there is a contestant named Rachel Kirkconnell.

00:21:24.000 And Rachel Kirkconnell, several years ago, went to a antebellum-themed plantation party when she was in college.

00:21:32.000 This involved basically dressing up like Scarlett O'Hara at a plantation. 0.98

00:21:36.000 And this was considered wildly uncouth and racist and covered by the internet sleuths.

00:21:41.000 Those great people doing amazing things, like suggesting that people are racist because they dressed up as Scarlett O'Hara at an antebellum-themed party.

00:21:50.000 in the South, as though this was sort of some sort of referendum on slavery.

00:21:53.000 That probably Rachel Kirkconnell was totally cool with slavery because of this. 1.00

00:21:56.000 Probably that was that is the most obvious takeaway, right?

00:21:59.000 I mean, that's the most obvious takeaway.

00:22:00.000 OK, so when that first came out, the contestant on The Bachelor this season is a Black man.

00:22:05.000 His name is Matt James.

00:22:06.000 And Matt James originally came out on February 3rd and reacted by asking for some grace for her.

00:22:14.000 Matt James.

00:22:15.000 Here's what Matt James said.

00:22:17.000 I have not spoken to anybody since the show ended, but I would say that you have to be really careful about what you are doing on social media.

00:22:17.000 Here's a direct quote.

00:22:24.000 Rumors are dark and they're nasty and they can ruin people's lives.

00:22:26.000 So I would give people the benefit of the doubt.

00:22:28.000 And hopefully she will have her time to speak on that.

00:22:32.000 Now, spoiler alert.

00:22:33.000 I mean, it's well all over the news, but here's your spoiler alert.

00:22:36.000 If you're one of the number of people who for some odd reason love the show, Matt did end up with Rachel in the show, right?

00:22:43.000 He picked her.

00:22:44.000 He ended up with her.

00:22:45.000 And that was Matt James, the black contestant on The Bachelor, saying we should show her some grace.

00:22:50.000 The social media jury, they really should not be doing what they're doing.

00:22:54.000 People on social media decided to check into her parents' voting record.

00:22:57.000 They decided that she had to be canceled because she went to this antebellum-themed party, and boy, isn't it fun to go get this lady. 1.00

00:23:03.000 Let's just go right after this lady, because she disagrees politically with us, or her parents disagree politically with us. 1.00

00:23:07.000 And also, she went to an ill-advised-themed party in 2018, when she was in college.

00:23:13.000 Okay, so that's the setup.

00:23:14.000 The setup is that she does something that is somewhat questionable in the modern context, but certainly not questionable as of even five, ten years ago.

00:23:24.000 And I mean, at that point, it would have been considered kind of crazy to cancel somebody over something like this.

00:23:29.000 Now, you cancel somebody over literally saying the N-word to denounce the N-word.

00:23:32.000 So, everything is cancelable.

00:23:34.000 But it was so crazy that even Matt James, the Black Bachelor, was like, uh, yeah, guys, you need to give her some space.

00:23:39.000 Okay, that is the setup.

00:23:41.000 That is the setup.

00:23:42.000 Fast forward about three weeks, right?

00:23:45.000 Because that was February 3rd.

00:23:47.000 February 3rd, the Bachelor contestant, Matt James, comes out and defends her.

00:23:51.000 And then, A couple days later, Chris Harrison, who's the host of The Bachelor, he comes out and says basically the exact same thing as Matt James, right?

00:23:59.000 Just a couple days later, he comes out, he does an interview, and he says, maybe we should show her some grace.

00:24:02.000 Social media is not judge, jury, and executioner.

00:24:04.000 You're ruining somebody's life. 1.00

00:24:05.000 Maybe you ought to take into account the fact that she was young and stupid. 1.00

00:24:08.000 When you're young and stupid, you're young and stupid. 1.00

00:24:09.000 Maybe she can explain herself. 1.00

00:24:11.000 Maybe she'll apologize.

00:24:13.000 Okay, and then Chris Harrison got hit with the Anvil of wokeism is just dropped on his head from the third story.

00:24:20.000 And so he ends up being suspended from his own show for the great crime of suggesting that a young woman ought to be given grace, saying the exact same thing in nearly the exact same words that Matt James said.

00:24:32.000 Okay, the reason that this all started is because there's a former Bachelor contestant named Rachel Lindsay. 0.51

00:24:36.000 Okay, so Rachel Lindsay went after Chris Harrison and said it was racist of him.

00:24:40.000 He didn't understand, she said, when she was not cutting ads for Cadillac in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protest.

00:24:46.000 She said that it was very, very important that Chris Harrison understood the context of his own racist sentiments.

00:24:52.000 And the producers of The Bachelor, wanting to avoid controversy, then removed Chris Harrison from the final episodes of The Bachelor.

00:24:59.000 Which is kind of incredible, actually.

00:25:01.000 Okay, fast forward about three weeks.

00:25:03.000 Now, Matt James, who, by the way, picked Rachel Kirkconnell.

00:25:07.000 Again, he picked her after defending her at the beginning of February.

00:25:10.000 Now, he has issued a full-scale statement, not only denouncing Rachel Kirkconnell and throwing her under the bus.

00:25:16.000 I mean, this guy's... 0.99

00:25:17.000 What a douchebag. 1.00

00:25:18.000 Honestly, seriously. 1.00

00:25:19.000 He was defending her three weeks ago.

00:25:20.000 What changed in three weeks other than he didn't like the media blowback?

00:25:23.000 So he took a girl who was dating him, right?

00:25:25.000 And then he just tossed her under the bus. 0.51

00:25:27.000 And the show that made him a star and a relevant person in American life, The First Black Bachelor, a show so apparently racist that you had women of all different racial makeups dating the main character who's black. 0.97

00:25:39.000 So obviously this is a deeply racist, terrible show.

00:25:43.000 Now Matt James has flipped on a dime.

00:25:44.000 And now he says the show is racist, Chris Harrison is racist, and he is woke. 1.00

00:25:49.000 Which makes this guy not only a douchebag, but a coward. 0.97

00:25:52.000 So Matt James put out a statement and says, the past few weeks have been some of the most challenging in my life. 0.95

00:25:56.000 And while there are several episodes left of the season, it is important that I take the time to address the troubling information that has come to light since we wrapped filming, including the incredibly disappointing photos of Rachel Kirkconnell and the interview between Rachel Lindsay and Chris Harrison.

00:26:10.000 So he went from, let's give her some grace and treat people like human beings to, I'm incredibly disappointed in everyone around me and it's definitely not my fault and please leave me alone and maybe I should be on the cover of a magazine talking about racial problems in America.

00:26:23.000 Matt James writes, the reality is that I'm learning about these situations in real time.

00:26:27.000 Oh really?

00:26:27.000 Because back on February 3rd you knew about them.

00:26:29.000 So if by in real time you knew that the photos were out at the beginning of February and you defended her and now you're too much of a coward to stand by it? 0.91

00:26:36.000 There's that.

00:26:37.000 He said it's been devastating and heartbreaking, to put it bluntly.

00:26:39.000 Chris's failure to receive and understand the emotional labor that my friend Rachel Lindsay was taking on by graciously and patiently explaining the racist history of the antebellum South, a painful history that every American should understand intimately, was troubling and painful to watch. 0.97

00:26:52.000 Okay, that's just pathetic.

00:26:53.000 I'm sorry. 0.98

00:26:53.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:26:55.000 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:26:55.000 The labor and pain, the emotional labor Rachel Lindsay was taking on, Again, this is a lady who in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protest, she's like, you know how I fight for Black Lives Matter? 0.99

00:27:06.000 I put on podcasts talking about Black history in my beautiful Cadillac XT6.

00:27:12.000 I'm not kidding.

00:27:13.000 That's an actual Instagram post she put up.

00:27:16.000 Okay, it is a post in which she touts Black Lives Matter and she says she can listen to podcasts about Black history on her beautiful Bose sound system in her Cadillac XT6. 1.00

00:27:27.000 Emotional labor, my ass. 1.00

00:27:29.000 Rachel Lindsay couldn't be reveling in this anymore if you paid her. 1.00

00:27:33.000 And they are paying her.

00:27:34.000 Emotional labor.

00:27:36.000 Come on. 0.98

00:27:37.000 Yeah, she seemed, I mean, it must be real emotional labor, having to explain to people that they should be canceled, not because they're actively racist or believe in the inferiority of black people, but that they should be canceled because they suggest grace for a person who went to a party That was ignorant. 0.83

00:27:53.000 And that should be, that's cancelable.

00:27:55.000 And not only that, the person who says, maybe we should give that person grace, give them a chance to explain themselves and apologize, to even explain to that person, to even explain to that person, is emotional labor.

00:28:06.000 You cannot even explain to Chris Harrison, that is an emotion, it's an act of emotional labor.

00:28:11.000 Emotional labor.

00:28:13.000 Honest to God, pay me for that kind of emotional labor.

00:28:15.000 Give me a Cadillac sponsorship for that kind of emotional labor.

00:28:18.000 Emotional labor.

00:28:20.000 As black people and allies immediately knew and understood, it was a clear reflection of a much larger issue that the Bachelor franchise has fallen short on addressing adequately for years.

00:28:28.000 Again, Matt James is the first black Bachelor. 0.97

00:28:30.000 The first one.

00:28:31.000 Okay?

00:28:31.000 And Rachel Lindsay was a contestant on The Bachelor.

00:28:34.000 She's very famous now.

00:28:35.000 This is... Yes, that is... You nailed it, right, Matt?

00:28:38.000 You nailed it.

00:28:39.000 It turns out that it has dawned on you now that you are a participant in the most racist franchise in American history, obviously, The Bachelor.

00:28:47.000 It was like Birth of a Nation, except with dating, and a black lead, who's the hero, and him dating a bunch of... Lindsay, by the way, was the first black Bachelorette. 0.98

00:28:57.000 Forgive me for my ignorance on matters concerning The Bachelor, one of the dumbest shows of all time. 0.96

00:29:02.000 Matt James continues. 0.91

00:29:03.000 No, it has not.

00:29:03.000 The only important question is why is it that you are running away from your own willingness to grant people the benefit of the doubt?

00:29:09.000 questions. No, it is not. The only important question is, why is it that you are running away from your own from your own willingness to grant people the benefit of the doubt?

00:29:19.000 People you are dating, by the way. And then the minute that there's some blowback, you throw her under the bus and you suggest that you're a hero for doing so and resulted in It has also pushed me to re-evaluate and process what my experience on The Bachelor represents.

00:29:33.000 Oh, so now he's going to re-evaluate, right?

00:29:34.000 We're going to go back and we're going to re-process.

00:29:36.000 They're really going to think hard about what a rough life he had dating 20 women at once on national television and being paid for the privilege.

00:29:45.000 It has pushed me to re-evaluate and process what my experience on The Bachelor represents, not just for me, but of all the contestants of color.

00:29:50.000 Oh, no, he's a representative of all black Americans. 1.00

00:29:52.000 Black America, do you understand?

00:29:53.000 This guy represents you, apparently, according to him.

00:29:56.000 Especially the black contestants of this season and seasons past, and for you, the viewers at home.

00:30:00.000 I will continue to process this experience, and you will hear more from me in the end.

00:30:04.000 My greatest prayer is that this is an inflection point that results in real and institutional change for the better. 0.99

00:30:10.000 I'm sorry, this is the stupidest crap I've ever heard. 1.00

00:30:12.000 It does not make the culture better, it makes the culture significantly worse. 1.00

00:30:14.000 If you look at this season of The Bachelor as a victory for American racial tolerance, you're missing it.

00:30:21.000 Because what it was, was a victory for conciliation, and then The woke came and decided to completely destroy everything.

00:30:29.000 And the Bachelor, again, he started it, man.

00:30:32.000 He started it.

00:30:33.000 He defended Kurt Connell.

00:30:35.000 He defended her at the beginning of February.

00:30:37.000 And within three weeks, he has flipped.

00:30:38.000 He's not only inciting Kurt Connell as a racist, he's inciting Chris Harrison as a racist, and the entire Bachelor franchise as a racist.

00:30:45.000 He's doing all of that within three weeks because Rachel Lindsay said, you are obviously a sellout, essentially.

00:30:52.000 I mean, that must have been the case that she was making publicly.

00:30:55.000 Or at least he felt that way.

00:30:57.000 Pretty incredible stuff there.

00:30:59.000 Pretty incredible stuff, because the show ain't racist.

00:31:02.000 You know what the proof is that the show ain't racist?

00:31:04.000 The show.

00:31:06.000 There is no good evidence that Rachel Kirkconnell is a racist.

00:31:10.000 Not only did she post a groveling apology for the antebellum stuff, She's put out a bunch of statements since, that Rachel Lindsay has found insufficient.

00:31:19.000 And Rachel Lindsay, as the Pope of Wokeness, gets to determine whether or not you are sufficiently, whether you're sufficiently deferential to woke principles.

00:31:32.000 And she'll do so while standing in front of a Cadillac XTS, by the way.

00:31:35.000 It's an XT6.

00:31:36.000 It's impressive stuff, I will admit.

00:31:38.000 Because nothing says America is racist quite like getting to rip America as racist, the show that you starred in as racist, the host of that show as racist, other contestants on that show as racist, and the entire system of the United States as racist while standing in front of a beautiful Cadillac XT6 with a Bose sound system.

00:31:56.000 Clearly, this is an awful, awful country for people like Rachel Lindsay. 1.00

00:31:59.000 Clearly, she has suffered greatly in her life.

00:32:00.000 Clearly, Matt James has suffered.

00:32:01.000 The emotional labor, oh!

00:32:02.000 The emotional labor, oh! 1.00

00:32:04.000 The emo- Emotional labor my ass. 1.00

00:32:08.000 Seriously. 1.00

00:32:09.000 Ridiculous, ridiculous stuff. 0.99

00:32:10.000 But don't worry. 0.99

00:32:11.000 We're making the country less racist, one cancellation at a time.

00:32:15.000 It's all very exciting stuff.

00:32:16.000 I'm excited to report to you that the latest in making the country less racist is that Harry Shearer, a white actor, will no longer voice the black character Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons.

00:32:28.000 Now, if it had ever occurred to you, like, who voiced that character?

00:32:32.000 Then congratulations to the dozen of you.

00:32:36.000 Like, seriously, who sits around going, the voiceover artists, what color are they?

00:32:39.000 Hmm?

00:32:40.000 Well, I can guarantee you one thing.

00:32:41.000 The Simpsons is super racist, because a lot of the characters on The Simpsons are yellow.

00:32:46.000 Many of those characters are yellow.

00:32:47.000 And I guarantee you that not a single person who has ever voiced one of those characters has that same color, because that color doesn't exist on humans in real life.

00:32:54.000 It's very upsetting.

00:32:57.000 I mean, honestly, unless we have people who voice over these characters, who have all the characteristics of the characters on cartoons, I think that we absolutely should not be able to do these things anymore.

00:33:06.000 Unless you, as a human being, if you are hit in the face with a frying pan, and your face takes on the shape of a frying pan, I do not think you should be able to voice a cartoon character who, when hit in the face with a frying pan, has their face take on the shape of a frying pan.

00:33:18.000 All characteristics must be shared.

00:33:20.000 It was clearly a sign of deep American racism that a white actor was voicing over a black character on a cartoon Racism solved, gang!

00:33:30.000 Shurer has voiced Springfield's most skilled doctor, in contrast to Hank Azaria's incompetent doctor, Nick, since 1990.

00:33:35.000 He also voices Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, among other characters.

00:33:39.000 He will continue voicing the other roles.

00:33:42.000 He joins Azaria, who last year announced he'd be no longer voicing the Indian character Apu.

00:33:47.000 In part, after a 2017 documentary, the problem with Apu brought attention to the subject.

00:33:52.000 Yes, this is great.

00:33:54.000 This also follows Family Guy actor Mike Henry, who is white, announcing in the aftermath of the George Floyd incident that he would not be voicing the black character Cleveland anymore.

00:34:04.000 And that solved racism, guys.

00:34:06.000 It's amazing.

00:34:07.000 I mean, you know how much less racist American society got since Mike Henry, who is white, announced he would not be voicing Cleveland anymore?

00:34:14.000 Every day, we draw closer to utopia.

00:34:18.000 It's really, really exciting stuff.

00:34:20.000 I'm just glad that I could be alive when we decided that we were going to basically purge everybody who doesn't agree with the most woke among us, and then cudgel everybody else into imitating that viewpoint.

00:34:29.000 I'm grateful to be living in such a virtuous time, truly, because we know that we're on the verge of eliminating racism by calling every single person in the United States racist, every single show in the United States racist, determining That everybody should be canceled for their past views except the people who get to join the mob.

00:34:43.000 And if you join the mob, then you're basically okay.

00:34:45.000 And not only that, you get to be a leader in the movement.

00:34:47.000 And we celebrate you.

00:34:48.000 And we talk about how you're right.

00:34:51.000 Don't you feel the joy and hope?

00:34:54.000 Wait, you're saying that this is all depressing?

00:34:56.000 And it makes you despairing that we are living in a free and tolerant country?

00:35:00.000 No!

00:35:01.000 Don't you understand?

00:35:02.000 The revolution is afoot!

00:35:04.000 And it's a wonderful revolution, in which we will promulgate false narratives, and in which we will push those false narratives with every piece of institutional power at our disposal, and we will run right over you if you disagree.

00:35:14.000 Isn't that great?

00:35:15.000 It's so much fun.

00:35:16.000 Okay, in just a minute, we're going to get to the unfortunate fact that apparently Joe Biden is putting kids in cages.

00:35:21.000 It's just like, I mean, AOC told me that when Trump did it, it was like a concentration camp.

00:35:25.000 So, I don't know.

00:35:26.000 That lady knows everything. 1.00

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00:38:08.000 All righty, so meanwhile, the news media are fully intent on covering up for the fact that Joe Biden apparently is putting kids in cages.

00:38:21.000 So here is the funny thing.

00:38:22.000 We talked about this yesterday on the program a little bit.

00:38:24.000 There's an article in the Washington Post.

00:38:26.000 It is titled, First Migrant Facility for Children Opens Under Biden.

00:38:29.000 And it sounds fun, man.

00:38:30.000 It sounds like a summer camp.

00:38:32.000 According to the Washington Post, the emergency facility, which, by the way, is a vestige of the Trump administration that was open for a month in summer 2019, is now being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17.

00:38:42.000 Here's the thing.

00:38:43.000 We need these facilities.

00:38:44.000 You know why we need these facilities?

00:38:45.000 Because these are kids who are coming across the border unaccompanied.

00:38:48.000 We can't just release them to nobody inside the United States of America.

00:38:52.000 We have to keep them somewhere, and so we put them in the facilities we have.

00:38:55.000 They were not concentration camps or ghettos or cages when it was Trump, and they are not concentration camps or ghettos or cages when it is When it is Joe Biden.

00:39:03.000 And if they were all those things, they were those things when Barack Obama was president and started this entire process under Flores.

00:39:09.000 OK, but according to the Washington Post, it's amazing.

00:39:12.000 Tents, tent cities are now soft sided structures and cages are now migrant facilities for children.

00:39:17.000 It's all very exciting stuff.

00:39:19.000 Now, members of the Biden administration were, in fact, asked about this.

00:39:23.000 Jen Psaki was asked about this by the only decent reporter in the White House press corps, apparently, Peter Doocy.

00:39:28.000 So he said, you know, it's weird because you guys were ripping on Donald Trump and saying kids in cages a lot.

00:39:32.000 I remember because I was there.

00:39:33.000 So why are these not kids in cages exactly?

00:39:37.000 This is not kids being kept in cages.

00:39:40.000 This is a facility that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities.

00:39:48.000 It is not a replication.

00:39:50.000 Certainly not.

00:39:51.000 That is never our intention of replicating the immigration policies of the past administration.

00:39:57.000 But we are in a circumstance where we are not going to expel unaccompanied minors at the border.

00:40:02.000 That would be inhumane.

00:40:04.000 So it's not kids in cages, guys.

00:40:05.000 So notice she never explains why it's not kids in cages.

00:40:08.000 She just says that our policy is not the same as the Trump administration's policy because the Trump administration policy said we are not going to simply release people into the interior of the United States without tracing where they are, right?

00:40:19.000 Basically, there were two choices under the Flores settlement when you end up with parents who arrive with kids at the border, right?

00:40:25.000 Those choices were either you release both the parents and the kids, Or you release the kids, or you release the parents, right?

00:40:31.000 You can't have a situation in which you keep both the parents and the kids in facilities together, right?

00:40:37.000 That was one of the problems with the Flora settlement. 1.00

00:40:39.000 It was an idiotic settlement. 1.00

00:40:40.000 It was done under the Clinton administration. 1.00

00:40:41.000 It was ridiculous.

00:40:42.000 Okay, but the bottom line here is that what she is saying is that the structures are exactly the same, but since our policies are different, it's not kids in cages anymore.

00:40:50.000 Weird, because it's the same kids in the same cages, but it's not kids in cages anymore.

00:40:56.000 And guess what?

00:40:56.000 Members of the media are defending this sort of nonsense.

00:40:58.000 You know, again, she doesn't actually explain why it's not kids in cages. 0.97

00:41:01.000 She just says, our policy is different than Trump's, and Trump is bad. 0.88

00:41:04.000 The orange man was super bad.

00:41:05.000 So if we do exactly the same thing as the orange man, but our overall policy is different, then that makes it good.

00:41:11.000 Post-senior political reporter Aaron Blake defended the decision not to call this thing a concentration camp.

00:41:16.000 By the way, the paper did refer to the facilities during the Trump era as quote-unquote concentration camps.

00:41:22.000 So Aaron Blake said no, Biden's new border move isn't just like Trump's kids in cages.

00:41:28.000 Blake said the description was justified because the paper didn't view it as a good thing and because the Biden administration doesn't separate children from the adults accompanying them.

00:41:36.000 It's amazing.

00:41:37.000 It's amazing.

00:41:38.000 So you've got the entire media flipping on a dime, and the same exact facilities being used.

00:41:41.000 And they were bad when it was Trump, and they are good when it is Biden.

00:41:49.000 Well, actually, they waited until the final few paragraphs to talk about why it was a bad thing.

00:41:52.000 Otherwise, they talked about how there were soccer fields and basketball courts.

00:41:56.000 It sounded like fun summer camp, man.

00:41:58.000 He called this facility the Cadillac of detention centers.

00:42:02.000 Here is the biggest point.

00:42:03.000 He added, Trump's policy on children at the border wasn't controversial merely because it resulted in children being held at the border, which is a longstanding reality and is what will happen at this facility.

00:42:12.000 It was controversial because it forced children to be separated from their parents, given its hardline policy requiring the parents be held and not released into the country.

00:42:19.000 So in other words, we don't like the Trump policy, but the facilities are exactly the same, but they were cages when it was Trump, and they are just beautiful, wonderful trailers when it's Joe Biden.

00:42:30.000 These are your objective media.

00:42:32.000 Amazing at this stuff.

00:42:32.000 So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez decides to get in on the act, and you will notice some muted language here from the irrepressible and incomparably brilliant Democratic Congresswoman from Twitch.

00:42:43.000 She tweeted out, this is not okay.

00:42:46.000 Never has been okay.

00:42:47.000 Never will be okay.

00:42:48.000 No matter the administration or party.

00:42:52.000 And then she added, our immigration system is built on a carceral framework.

00:42:56.000 It's no accident that challenging how we approach both these issues are considered controversial stances that require reimagining our relationship to each other and challenging common assumptions we take for granted.

00:43:04.000 Oh, like you're not supposed to cross the border illegally.

00:43:07.000 It's only two months into this administration and our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time.

00:43:11.000 That's why bold reimagination is so important.

00:43:14.000 DHS shouldn't exist.

00:43:16.000 Agencies should be reorganized.

00:43:17.000 ICE gotta go.

00:43:18.000 Ban for-profit detention.

00:43:19.000 Create climate refugee status and more.

00:43:22.000 Okay, so her solution is no more immigration laws, essentially, at all.

00:43:26.000 No enforcement mechanism for immigration.

00:43:28.000 But, you'll notice one thing that she didn't do, was head on down to Joe Biden's cages for kids, and take a picture dressed in all white, weeping, several hundred yards from the actual facility.

00:43:39.000 You'll notice that she didn't do that.

00:43:41.000 Or call them concentration camps.

00:43:43.000 I wonder what changed.

00:43:44.000 And it's weird how she says there, you know, it's only two months in.

00:43:47.000 We can't change things that fast.

00:43:48.000 Weird, because it seems like it's a president of her own party.

00:43:50.000 Shouldn't she be putting the pressure on?

00:43:52.000 But instead, it's like, you know what would be really nice is if we reimagined utopia.

00:43:55.000 By the way, none of these people have an actual answer as to what you're supposed to do with unaccompanied kids who show up at the border.

00:44:00.000 None of them have an answer as to what you're supposed to do.

00:44:02.000 None of them have an answer as to what you're supposed to do when parents and kids show up at the border.

00:44:07.000 And the kids cannot be held, so the kids are released.

00:44:09.000 And the parents have to stay because they illegally crossed the border.

00:44:13.000 They have no answer to any of these questions.

00:44:15.000 It is all posturing.

00:44:16.000 It was posturing during the Trump administration.

00:44:18.000 It remains posturing today. 0.94

00:44:20.000 And they are happy to promulgate any lie that they can in order to uphold the ridiculous Biden administration. 0.98

00:44:27.000 And by the way, it turns out it is indeed ridiculous. 0.97

00:44:30.000 You notice something?

00:44:30.000 So Joe Biden, for like a week here, did not go down to Texas.

00:44:34.000 Remember, it was super duper bad when Ted Cruz flew off to Cancun.

00:44:37.000 And I will admit, that was bad optics, right?

00:44:39.000 Well, remember when Joe Biden just basically went to sleep for like a full week?

00:44:43.000 He just went to sleep and he's like, you know what?

00:44:45.000 Matlock's on.

00:44:46.000 Well, it turns out that Biden is going to go to Texas on Friday.

00:44:49.000 Now, again, I don't like when presidents do this sort of stuff, so I was perfectly fine with him sleeping in the basement.

00:44:53.000 I was fine with people doing whatever they want.

00:44:56.000 Like, I really don't care.

00:44:57.000 I think that if you're looking to politicians for empathy, you are looking in the wrong place.

00:45:00.000 Get a dog.

00:45:02.000 Politicians don't care about you. 1.00

00:45:03.000 They never have cared about you.

00:45:04.000 Politicians care about making sure that their constituents keep voting for them and serving their own ambition.

00:45:09.000 That is mainly what politicians do.

00:45:12.000 And I don't feel that our politicians are more honest when they just jet set off to some location where there is a tragedy and then hand out water bottles.

00:45:21.000 Like, this does not make me feel as though they care more about me.

00:45:23.000 But then again, I don't look for empathy from people I elect. 0.52

00:45:26.000 I think that's silly.

00:45:27.000 I don't look for empathy from my plumber.

00:45:29.000 My attorney or for my politicians, but a lot of people do.

00:45:33.000 If you are looking for empathy, though, it's kind of weird that Joe Biden waited for like a year to go to Texas.

00:45:38.000 So now he's going to show up.

00:45:39.000 The thing's over, by the way.

00:45:41.000 The power is back up.

00:45:42.000 Things are getting better.

00:45:43.000 And now Joe Biden is going to show up.

00:45:45.000 On Monday, White House Press Secretary Psaki told reporters that Biden is eager to go to Texas.

00:45:50.000 Psaki said, we're hopeful the trip can happen as early as this week.

00:45:54.000 Apparently, they're going to head to Texas on Friday, which will heal everything.

00:46:00.000 Our politics is... But he's empathetic.

00:46:01.000 That's what we know.

00:46:02.000 He may be crappy at policy, but he's empathetic, and that means that he can do exactly the same stuff that Trump did, or he can lie routinely, and we all just give him the space, because it's fine.

00:46:10.000 I'm sure it's all fine.

00:46:11.000 All right, coming back later today, we'll have an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Looking For Systemic Racism In All The Wrong Places | Ep. 1202

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