The Ben Shapiro Show - Not Everything Is Rrrrrrrracist | Ep. 1289

00:00:00.000 The Supreme Court says shoring up voting procedures isn't racist.

00:00:03.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones gets her tenure and then demonstrates why she shouldn't have been offered it in the first place.

00:00:08.000 And Nancy Pelosi launches her January 6th commission with cover from Liz Cheney.

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00:01:17.000 Okay, so yesterday was a day of panic.

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00:01:32.000 Okay, so yesterday was a day of panic panic because the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Voting Rights Act, which is a very, very far reaching and historic measure in American law, going all the way back to 1965, it was designed to prevent attempts to essentially keep the vestiges of segregation in the South after the Civil Rights Act and prevent black people from voting is meant to stop those procedures from happening in the South.

00:01:55.000 It required Southern states particularly to go through a process known as preclearance in which their voting laws were basically precleared by the federal government.

00:02:04.000 And the idea was that over time, as the country got less racist, and as states began to see better representation of black voters who historically had been Discriminated against the polls that the Voting Rights Act would start to diminish over time in the same way that we saw the Supreme Court say in the 1970s that affirmative action would start to wane over time.

00:02:24.000 And this has always been sort of dicey constitutional territory because on its face, the Voting Rights Act does seize authority from the state and bring it up to the level of the federal government.

00:02:34.000 And so the broader The more broadly you interpret the Voting Rights Act, the more permanently you interpret the Voting Rights Act, the more it seems to come into conflict with the Constitution.

00:02:41.000 The same thing happens to hold true with regard to affirmative action, as the Supreme Court has found over and over.

00:02:45.000 They keep saying, well, it's sort of a temporary measure.

00:02:47.000 Yeah, we understand that it violates the Equal Protection Clause, but we need it in order to redress historic wrongs.

00:02:53.000 And now the Supreme Court has come up with sort of new justifications for why it's okay to discriminate in admissions on the basis of race.

00:02:59.000 Now they say diversity is its own excuse and all of this.

00:03:02.000 Well, the Voting Rights Act Was never meant to be a way of cramming down federal rules on on states that had discriminated for all of time.

00:03:10.000 And we are now 60 years removed from the Voting Rights Act, almost 60 years removed because passed again in 1965.

00:03:16.000 It is now almost 2025.

00:03:17.000 So it's almost three generations later.

00:03:19.000 And the left is still insisting That voter discrimination is a massive problem in the United States.

00:03:25.000 The evidence of this is extremely scanty.

00:03:27.000 The notion that black and Hispanic voters in the United States, but particularly black voters, are being discriminated against and prevented from voting is just not true.

00:03:34.000 The belief That huge numbers of black voters are being disenfranchised is a lie.

00:03:40.000 It is trotted out by the Democratic Party in order to jog voter turnout in the black community.

00:03:45.000 The reality is that Barack Obama basically won in 2012 because black voters in places like Ohio showed up in numbers that out-tallied their percentage of the population.

00:03:54.000 The reality is that black voters showed up en masse this last election cycle in places like Georgia, for example.

00:03:59.000 So the belief that red states have been shutting the doors to black voters or discriminating against black voters is extremely un- it's not based in evidence.

00:04:08.000 It really is not based in evidence at this point.

00:04:10.000 Okay, so there was a voter law in Arizona.

00:04:12.000 It was passed in 2018, and what it cracked down on is essentially two things.

00:04:16.000 One was voting out of precinct.

00:04:18.000 If you voted outside your precinct, then your ballot got tossed because you have Usually a place where you're supposed to vote and it's very difficult to match you up to your vote if you're voting outside your precinct.

00:04:29.000 If I drove over to Naples today and I decided I was going to vote in Naples as opposed to voting where I live, well then that would be a serious problem.

00:04:36.000 It'd be difficult to match up my ballot to the place where I lived.

00:04:40.000 And so Arizona cracked down on that. 0.91

00:04:41.000 And they also cracked down on the most corrupt practice in modern American politics, ballot harvesting.

00:04:45.000 Ballot harvesting is this practice where you deploy members of your party to go pick up ballots from third parties.

00:04:52.000 So you are the Republican Party chairman and you say to your worker, I want you to only go to houses that have historically voted Republican.

00:04:59.000 I want you to pick up their ballots and I want you to drive them to the ballot box.

00:05:03.000 And well, this presents a couple of problems.

00:05:05.000 One, basically whichever side is better funded in terms of who picks up more ballots that day, Is it really a stretch of the imagination to believe that when you ballot harvest on behalf of a party and you're a party activist and you have access to a bunch of ballots that you have specifically picked up, that you're not going to go in the back and just mark off a few boxes?

00:05:30.000 In fact, this is a major problem in North Carolina in a Republican district.

00:05:34.000 Somebody hired a Republican voter outfit, and this is exactly what they did.

00:05:38.000 They had to rerun the election.

00:05:40.000 So ballot harvesting has been a major problem.

00:05:41.000 It's been a major problem in California.

00:05:43.000 In 2018, for example, Democrats swept a bunch of seats in Orange County that looked as though they were red seats, specifically because they went out and they ballot harvested.

00:05:52.000 So ballot harvesting is extremely corrupt.

00:05:54.000 It is rife with the potential for fraud, and Arizona cracked down on it.

00:05:57.000 So the Democrats sued.

00:05:58.000 They said that it was a discriminatory law.

00:06:00.000 They said it violated the Voting Rights Act because it prevented black and Hispanic people from voting in a way that it didn't prevent white people from voting.

00:06:06.000 Now the problem for them is that it was a facially neutral law.

00:06:09.000 The law applied to everybody.

00:06:10.000 You can't vote out of precinct.

00:06:11.000 Doesn't matter your race.

00:06:12.000 And the other problem is that everybody still got to vote.

00:06:15.000 So it's very difficult to make the claim that this was specifically directed at black and Hispanic voters.

00:06:20.000 You could say that it was attempting to crack down on Democratic voting practices at which they had an advantage, that ballot harvesting had been used to great advantage by Democrats, and Republicans were now fighting back against that.

00:06:29.000 But that's not unusual, right?

00:06:31.000 That is true throughout American voting law.

00:06:33.000 Whenever Democrats take control of a legislature, they proceed to gerrymander the entire state in alignment with Democratic voting interests.

00:06:39.000 And when Republicans take advantage of a legislature, then they do the exact same thing.

00:06:43.000 They proceed to reverse gerrymander.

00:06:45.000 So the sort of interplay over voting law has been a longtime feature of American politics.

00:06:49.000 None of that is banned.

00:06:51.000 Changing voting procedures such that it seems to help your party in one way or another.

00:06:55.000 I mean, this is what Democrats are now attempting to do at the federal level, right?

00:06:57.000 There's a reason why Democrats are pushing ballot harvesting at both the state and the federal level, and Republicans are pushing back against it.

00:07:03.000 And it's not because Democrats just want more people to vote.

00:07:07.000 I'm not seeing Democrats really push super hard in highly red areas for ballot harvesting, for example.

00:07:12.000 It seems like they're doing this mostly on behalf of purple and blue states.

00:07:17.000 But the real ban is on voting procedures that are designed to disenfranchise black people.

00:07:22.000 That's what the Voting Rights Act is about.

00:07:24.000 So the Supreme Court looked at the Arizona law and they said, no, this is not violative of the Voting Rights Act.

00:07:30.000 And the dissent in this particular is a 6-3 ruling in which all of the Republican appointees voted one way and all the Democratic appointees voted the other.

00:07:36.000 It's the first kind of major 6-3 ruling that we've seen in a while, because usually Roberts tends to vote with the Democrats on sort of 6-3 rulings, or he tries to water down the decision so as to get a couple more Democratic votes, which you've seen a few times here.

00:07:51.000 Unanimous decisions that didn't have to be unanimous, but Roberts made them unanimous and watered down the decision in order to achieve the unanimous vote and limit the scope of the decision, for example.

00:08:00.000 On this one, it went almost straight party line appointment.

00:08:03.000 And the Democrats basically now claim that any law that has quote-unquote disparate impact is unconstitutional under the Voting Rights Act, which is pretty wild because most laws have some sort of disparate impact.

00:08:15.000 It turns out the disparate impact in this particular case is minute, statistically speaking.

00:08:18.000 It doesn't matter.

00:08:20.000 So, according to Democrats, this is a racist decision.

00:08:23.000 It is the racist Republican majority on the Supreme Court for cramming down a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

00:08:31.000 Instead, the Supreme Court should read the Voting Rights Act as broadly as possible, according to the dissent, in order to rule out a huge bevy of Republican-led attempts to shore up voting procedures that may disproportionately affect black and brown voters, even though they are facially neutral and, in fact, neutrally applied.

00:08:47.000 This is the argument that you hear from Democrats until the last five minutes, that voter ID is racist.

00:08:51.000 Because they say, well, you know, that'll disenfranchise more black and brown people.

00:08:54.000 And most Americans are like, well, no, everybody can go get an ID.

00:08:58.000 But Democrats say, well, statistically, fewer black and brown people have IDs than white people.

00:09:03.000 Therefore, it is discriminatory.

00:09:05.000 That's the kind of logic that the dissent uses written by Elena Kagan in this particular Supreme Court case.

00:09:09.000 Because for Democrats, everything now boils down to a core voter theory.

00:09:13.000 That voter theory is, the way they're going to win future elections is by cobbling together a coalition of the supposedly dispossessed to overcome the fading white majority. 0.66

00:09:24.000 This has been a theory, again, it's the most dangerous theory in American politics, that demography is destiny.

00:09:29.000 It is a theory that is pushed alternatively by the mainstream left and the alt-right.

00:09:33.000 It is a lie.

00:09:33.000 It is not true.

00:09:35.000 But Democrats have bought into this full scale because it proposes that as the country gets browner, inevitably, Democrats will not only win a majority, but they will keep a majority no matter what, and that the majority will rule for all time. 0.97

00:09:46.000 The demography is destiny argument that Democrats make is basically a utopian argument.

00:09:51.000 It's a millenarian argument.

00:09:52.000 We are going to reach the end of history at a point when we cobble together enough of a coalition of the dispossessed that we will never lose another election. 0.99

00:09:59.000 And thus, the only thing that could be preventing that right now is voter suppression efforts on behalf of Republicans.

00:10:04.000 Which serves a couple of purposes.

00:10:06.000 One, it allows them to keep this illusion of the new politics in their mind.

00:10:09.000 And two, it allows them to lie to minority voters and tell them that Republicans are attempting to prevent them from voting in the first place, which of course is not true.

00:10:16.000 Okay, so according to the New York Times, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave states new latitude to impose restrictions on voting.

00:10:22.000 No, they really didn't.

00:10:24.000 The New York Times is so unbelievably biased.

00:10:34.000 That is not what the court says.

00:10:35.000 What the court says is if you want to show discrimination in law, you have to show discrimination in law.

00:10:39.000 You can't just allege that because a law has a disparate impact, that means that the law itself is racist.

00:10:45.000 Every single law that has ever been passed in the United States affects some groups differently than others.

00:10:50.000 Every single law.

00:10:52.000 That does not mean that the law is invalid under either the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act.

00:10:57.000 What the dissent would like, what Democrats would like, is to have essentially a super legislature at the Supreme Court level that strikes down all laws made by red state legislatures and greenlights all discriminatory measures taken by blue state legislatures.

00:11:09.000 That really is the goal here.

00:11:11.000 The vote was 6-3, the court's three liberal members in dissent.

00:11:15.000 According to the New York Times, the decision was among the most consequential in decades on voting rights.

00:11:19.000 It was the first time the court had considered how a crucial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 applies to restrictions that have a particular impact on people of color.

00:11:26.000 But it doesn't have a particular impact on people of color.

00:11:28.000 This is one of the points that the majority opinion makes.

00:11:31.000 They say, looking at this statistically, the impact on minority voters is minimal.

00:11:37.000 Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority said where a state provides multiple ways to vote, any burden imposed on voters who choose one of the available options cannot be evaluated without also taking into account the other available means.

00:11:46.000 In other words, if the state says you can vote 10 different ways, and one of the ways happens to have disparate impact, there's still nine other ways for you to vote. 0.54

00:11:54.000 So you really can't say that this one right here, this right here is designed in order to prevent black and brown people from voting.

00:12:01.000 Meanwhile, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that essentially wherever it can, the majority gives a cramped reading to broad language.

00:12:07.000 But here's the point.

00:12:08.000 The broader the language of the VRA, the more broadly you interpret the language of the VRA, the closer it comes to violating the constitutional provision that states get to run their own elections.

00:12:16.000 If you are attempting to read the Voting Rights Act in order to give the federal government complete purview over all voting procedures simply on the basis of an extremely statistically minute disparate impact, you're basically just getting rid of state ability at all to make its own voting procedures, which violates the Constitution itself.

00:12:35.000 Justice Kagan said that the court's action was a devastating blow to the nation's ideals.

00:12:39.000 She says, what is tragic here is that the court has yet again rewritten, in order to weaken, a statute that stands as a monument to America's greatness and protects against its basest impulses.

00:12:47.000 What is tragic is that this court has damaged a statute designed to bring about, quote, the end of discrimination in voting.

00:12:54.000 Well, again, the statute was designed to do that.

00:12:57.000 The statute has largely accomplished it.

00:12:59.000 And at a certain point, you're going to have to decide whether you just want to be in control.

00:13:03.000 What Elena Kagan and the Democrats would like is to be in control of all voting procedures on the federal level.

00:13:09.000 So, Democrats are using this as an opportunity to push their Equal Rights Act, their Voting Rights Act, their new voting legislation, the John Lewis Act, and that, of course, is an unconstitutional piece of legislation that federalizes all voting procedure.

00:13:23.000 You can see the Democratic agenda.

00:13:25.000 Call things racist, because if you call them racist, then you get to federalize the procedure.

00:13:30.000 But that's not what this case is about.

00:13:32.000 This case simply said that some pretty basic voting requirements having a slightly disparate impact over the course of millions of voters does not mean that this thing was designed to be discriminatory or in fact is a discriminatory piece of law.

00:13:45.000 We'll go through a little bit more of the decision in a second because it's kind of important.

00:13:48.000 Because, again, the entire Democratic case these days seems to boil down to everything I don't like is racist and therefore give me control.

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00:15:05.000 Okay, so, the Supreme Court majority points out that the Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is not supposed to be an unlimited guarantee that the federal government gets to run all voting procedure.

00:15:17.000 According to the court decision, the court first construed the current version of Section 2 in a case called Thornburg v. Gingles, which was a vote dilution case where the court took its cue from Section 2's legislative history.

00:15:28.000 The court's many subsequent vote dilution cases have followed the path that Gingles charted because the court here considers for the first time how Section 2 applies to generally applicable time, place, or manner voting rules, it is appropriate to take a fresh look at the statutory text.

00:15:40.000 In 1982, Congress amended the language in Section 2 that had been interpreted to require proof of discriminatory intent by a plurality of the court in Mobile v. Bolden.

00:15:48.000 In place of that language, Section 2a now uses the phrase in a manner which results in a denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race or color.

00:15:56.000 Right?

00:15:56.000 It's denying or abridging on account of race or color, right?

00:15:59.000 Because of race or color.

00:16:01.000 Then section 2b states that section 2 is violated only where the political processes leading to nomination or election are not quote equally open to participation by members of the relevant protected groups in that its members have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.

00:16:20.000 In that section, the phrase in that is used to specify the respect in which a statement is true.

00:16:25.000 Thus, equal openness and equal opportunity are not separate requirements.

00:16:28.000 Instead, it appears the core of 2B is the requirement that voting be equally open.

00:16:32.000 The statute's reference to equal opportunity may stretch that concept to some degree to include consideration of a person's ability to use the means that are equally open, but equal openness remains the touchstone.

00:16:41.000 In other words, if you have the ability to vote, Then the fact that you chose not to vote in one way doesn't mean that you can't vote in another way.

00:16:47.000 Another important feature, says the court, is the totality of the circumstances requirement.

00:16:51.000 Any circumstance that has a logical bearing on whether voting is equally open and affords equal opportunity may be considered.

00:16:56.000 Okay, then they take a look at sort of how the Arizona law applies here.

00:17:02.000 And what they point here is that having to identify one's polling place and then travel there does not exceed the usual burdens of voting.

00:17:08.000 In addition, Arizona made extensive efforts to reduce the impact of the out-of-precinct policy on the number of valid votes ultimately cast by sending a sample ballot to each household that includes a voter's proper polling location.

00:17:19.000 The burdens of identifying and traveling to one's assigned precinct are also modest when considering Arizona's political processes as a whole.

00:17:25.000 The state offers other easy ways to vote, which likely explains why out-of-precinct votes on Election Day make up such a small and apparently diminishing portion of overall ballots cast.

00:17:33.000 Also, the racial disparity and burdens allegedly caused by the out-of-precinct policy is small in absolute terms.

00:17:38.000 Of the Arizona counties that reported out-of-precinct ballots in the 2016 general election, a little over 1% of Hispanic voters, 1% of African-American voters, and 1% of Native American voters who voted on Election Day cast an out-of-ballot precinct ballot.

00:17:50.000 For non-minority voters, the rate was around 0.5%.

00:17:53.000 A procedure that appears to work for 98% or more of voters to whom it applies, minority and non-minority alike, is unlikely to render a system unequally open.

00:18:02.000 That is simply true.

00:18:03.000 I mean, at what point do you start to say that a law's disparate impact starts to look racist?

00:18:09.000 Not at the difference between 1% and 0.5%.

00:18:11.000 I mean, that literally means that 99% of the Black, Hispanic, and Native American people who cast ballots in this particular way in Arizona.

00:18:21.000 And again, remember, this is a very small number of people.

00:18:26.000 That number is obviously not.

00:18:28.000 The difference between 1% and 0.5% is obviously not going to be the big difference maker here.

00:18:34.000 But according to the court, according to the dissent, and according to Democrats, as long as there is any distinction in the outcome, that means that racism has happened.

00:18:43.000 Now, what this has driven is, of course, the Democrats who suggest that the Supreme Court is a repository of racism, etc.

00:18:49.000 So President Biden tweeted out, Our democracy depends on it.

00:18:52.000 Our democracy does not depend on it.

00:18:53.000 in this country and makes it all the more crucial to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and expand voting protection. Our democracy depends on it. Our democracy does not depend on it. That man just got 80 million votes. That man just won a bunch of states he was not supposed to win.

00:19:15.000 Our democracy absolutely does not depend on you federalizing all voting procedures.

00:19:19.000 But again, this is the pitch.

00:19:21.000 This is constantly the pitch.

00:19:23.000 Okay, Joy Reid did the same thing. 0.97

00:19:25.000 She has a violent blow against democracy. 0.96

00:19:27.000 Okay, so let me just get this straight.

00:19:28.000 To say that ballot harvesting is not allowed in a state.

00:19:31.000 Again, it's a very corrupt, fraud-ridden voting procedure.

00:19:33.000 And to say that you have to vote in the precinct to which you are assigned.

00:19:36.000 This apparently is a threat to democracy.

00:19:38.000 Everything, according to the left, is a threat to democracy.

00:19:40.000 Everything.

00:19:41.000 So long as they believe that it's going to cut against them.

00:19:43.000 That's the... Always and forever.

00:19:47.000 It is truly amazing to me that we have gone through six months, eight months, of people going crazy over Donald Trump, suggesting that the election was stolen, stopped the steal, that voter fraud decided the election, which is untrue.

00:20:00.000 And the exact same people say that widespread evidence of voter suppression and racism in voting procedures remains a pressing issue in the United States.

00:20:06.000 There is less evidence of the latter than there is of the former, and there is very little evidence of either.

00:20:10.000 Here is Joy Reid saying what Joy Reid does.

00:20:14.000 In a 6-3 ruling written by Samuel Alito, the most reliably conservative justice, the Supreme Court dealt another violent blow against democracy by upholding two restrictive Arizona voting laws, forbidding the collection of absentee ballots by anyone other than family or caregivers, and allowing the tossing of ballots inadvertently cast in the wrong precinct.

00:20:35.000 It's the latest notch in the belt of Chief Justice John Roberts, whose life's work, really, since his days as an influential aide in the Reagan Justice Department, has been to destroy the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.

00:20:48.000 Okay, understand, the Voting Rights Act was specifically designed for a time and a place, in the same way that many of the provisions of the Civil Rights Act were designed for a time and a place, and Affirmative Action was designed for a time and a place.

00:20:57.000 Now, please, it was 1964-1965 America.

00:21:00.000 It was not designed to suggest that every voting procedure undertaken in a red state in the South has to be scrutinized by the federal government three generations later.

00:21:11.000 This is a political argument, it's not even a legal argument.

00:21:13.000 What Elena Kagan would like, she sets no standards in her dissent, by the way. 0.68

00:21:16.000 Her dissent basically says, whenever we decide that we don't like a voting procedure, we will just say it violates the VRA and then we'll throw it out.

00:21:23.000 And the court in this case said, no, you actually have to show evidence that this was designed in order to hurt black people.

00:21:30.000 The DNC did not show that in this particular case, and thus the DNC lost in this particular case.

00:21:34.000 This also means, by the way, that the DOJ case that's being brought against Georgia on the basis of their new voting procedures is likely to be tossed by the Supreme Court.

00:21:41.000 It also means, by the way, that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act that the Democrats are pushing probably would be found unconstitutional a wide variety of ways by the same Supreme Court.

00:21:51.000 The reason Democrats are pretending to be so upset about this, of course, is because, again, they want black and Hispanic Americans to believe that there's an entire party seeking to disenfranchise them.

00:21:59.000 That is a lie.

00:22:00.000 It's untrue.

00:22:01.000 But.

00:22:02.000 Maybe they can make political hay while the sun shines.

00:22:04.000 Because if everything is racism, you never have to make an affirmative case for your own actual political agenda or explain why it is that your agenda keeps failing black and Hispanic people the country over.

00:22:14.000 Okay, so, Nikole Hannah-Jones apparently has now received her tenure. 0.96

00:22:19.000 I know, I was waiting with bated breath as well.

00:22:22.000 Now I said for a long time, I've become an accelerationist when it comes to universities and colleges.

00:22:26.000 When it comes to universities and colleges, I think that basically the colleges should embrace the most radical points of view.

00:22:33.000 They should enshrine them.

00:22:35.000 And then everybody who recruits for a business should just start ignoring college degrees.

00:22:39.000 We at Daily Wire do not take college degrees into account when it comes to hiring.

00:22:44.000 If you have qualifications, if you have work experience, we will hire you whether you went to high school, whether you went to college, we don't care.

00:22:50.000 We would be hypocrites to do anything less.

00:22:52.000 My business partner, Jeremy Boring, never graduated from college.

00:22:54.000 I went to Harvard Law School.

00:22:56.000 Our educational degrees are quite disparate.

00:22:58.000 Our business partnership remains intact.

00:23:00.000 The very silly notion that if you get a degree from the University of North Carolina that this somehow qualifies you to actually do anything in life if you are a liberal arts major or somebody who studied with Nikole Hannah-Jones is absurd on its face.

00:23:14.000 By the way, note going out to all major Republican donors to the University of North Carolina, this is where your money is going.

00:23:20.000 Understand that your money is now going, your donations.

00:23:23.000 You may love the Tar Heels, but your donation is now going to pay Nikole Hannah-Jones a salary.

00:23:28.000 You should think about that before you sign the check.

00:23:30.000 Think about what you would wish to subsidize with your dollars.

00:23:34.000 NBC News reports in a 9-4 vote the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday approved tenure for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. 0.91

00:23:42.000 Now, Nikole Hannah-Jones is a professional liar and prevaricator.

00:23:44.000 She has no academic credentials that would qualify her for a tenure-track position at a major university. 0.88

00:23:50.000 I'm not qualified for a tenure-track position at a major university, and I actually have more degrees than she does.

00:23:55.000 The vote Wednesday after a closed session comes after a controversy over why Hannah Jones was not offered tenure in her appointment at the Hussman School of Journalism, and the answer is pretty much no one is offered tenure right off the bat.

00:24:05.000 Typically, you are on tenure track, and then you earn tenure.

00:24:08.000 But originally, she was supposed to be given tenure just straight off the bat at the Hussman School of Journalism, which means you can't fire her ever.

00:24:15.000 Hannah Jones said that Wednesday's outcome was about more than her, of course.

00:24:19.000 Of course.

00:24:19.000 Because everything with Hannah Jones is about more than her.

00:24:22.000 The fight is about ensuring the journalistic and academic freedom of black writers, researchers, teachers, and students, she said.

00:24:27.000 We must ensure our work is protected and able to proceed free from the risk of repercussions.

00:24:31.000 And we are not there yet.

00:24:32.000 Really?

00:24:33.000 It seems we're not there yet?

00:24:34.000 Because you are utterly unqualified to have ever been offered this position.

00:24:37.000 You lied in the 1619 Project repeatedly. 1.00

00:24:41.000 You treat people who disagree with you academically like garbage. 0.90

00:24:45.000 You're extraordinarily radical, and yet somehow you have not only been celebrated by our culture, you have been handed basically the editorship of the New York Times now, as well as a tenured position at the University of North Carolina. 0.98

00:24:58.000 It sounds like your systemic racism is working very poorly in the United States, I must say.

00:25:02.000 It's working truly terribly.

00:25:03.000 Because it seems like the institutions of the United States that are most powerful are too busy honoring Nicole Hannah-Jones to ask simple questions like, does she know what the hell she's talking about?

00:25:11.000 By the way, Nikole Hannah-Jones, again, one of our great racial geniuses. 0.85

00:25:14.000 So she did an interview in which she explained that actually, racial violence is good. 1.00

00:25:19.000 Nobody should be surprised about this.

00:25:20.000 She celebrated racial violence last year, in the middle of the pandemic, when there were riots happening in America's major cities.

00:25:26.000 People tweeted out that these were the 1619 riots, and she basically said, I hope so. 1.00

00:25:30.000 The truth is, Nikole Hannah-Jones has been propagating lies and misinformation for years.

00:25:35.000 I mean, Nikole Hannah-Jones last year was suggesting that violence in the streets is a good thing.

00:25:39.000 The civil rights movement leads to this massive civil rights legislation being passed, the 64 Civil Rights Act and the 65 Voting Rights Act.

00:25:46.000 And at the same time, urban ghettos all across the North are going up in flames.

00:25:51.000 People are having uprisings.

00:25:52.000 And folks were so confused because there's this huge expansion of black rights happening.

00:25:57.000 But they aren't doing anything about the living conditions of black people on the ground in northern cities.

00:26:03.000 And those people realize that nonviolent protest was not going to resolve the issues that they were facing.

00:26:09.000 Oh, nonviolent protest is not what actually resolved the civil rights movement.

00:26:12.000 It was actually giant riots in major American cities, which actually, as studies demonstrate, according to David Shore, who basically had his career ended by people like Nicole Hannah-Jones, who decided he couldn't even mention this.

00:26:22.000 He pointed out that riots actually cut against the interests of the people who are rioting.

00:26:25.000 It turns out most Americans don't like rioters.

00:26:27.000 They're not fans.

00:26:28.000 And it turns out that the Watts riots and the Detroit riots, it actually not only inhibited racial progress in those cities, it actually emptied out large parts of those cities in the first place.

00:26:37.000 Here's Nikole Hannah-Johnson.

00:26:38.000 I mean, she's celebrating violence.

00:26:40.000 That's what she's doing on CBS News. 0.99

00:26:42.000 And not just then, right?

00:26:44.000 She's celebrating.

00:26:46.000 And then you at least might have made the case, although it's hard to make the case that racial violence in Detroit and Los Angeles was useful.

00:26:51.000 At least in the 1960s, there was a much more solid basis for the notion that America had systemic racism problems, considering that half the country literally enshrined racism in law.

00:27:00.000 This is the same Nicole Hannah-Jones who said last year that destroying property isn't actually violence.

00:27:05.000 It is disturbing to see property being destroyed.

00:27:08.000 It is disturbing to see people taking property from stores.

00:27:13.000 But these are things.

00:27:15.000 And violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man's neck until all of the life is leached out of his body.

00:27:24.000 Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence.

00:27:28.000 And to put those things, to use the exact same language to describe those two things, I think really, it's not moral to do that.

00:27:39.000 Give that lady tenure. 1.00

00:27:40.000 That lady deserves tenure. 1.00

00:27:42.000 One of the wisest voices on race in America.

00:27:44.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones, of course, she also lies about policing generally, right? 1.00

00:27:48.000 She's been lying for years, saying that policing evolved out of slave catching, which of course is not true.

00:27:53.000 Modern policing, particularly in the South, and as you said, in certain parts of the Northeast, actually evolved out of the slave patrols.

00:28:02.000 The slave patrols were put in place to deputize white Americans to police enslaved communities, to ensure that enslaved people were only in the places they were allowed, to put down slave insurrections.

00:28:14.000 And these slave patrols had the right to stop and question any black person, enslaved or free, whom they deemed to be suspicious.

00:28:22.000 Okay, that of course is not true, as Dan McLaughlin writes at National Review.

00:28:25.000 To the extent that modern police forces took over the job of enforcing racist laws, that's because enforcing the laws is what police do.

00:28:30.000 So if you don't like the fact that there are racist laws, then you should really look to the legislature. 0.89

00:28:33.000 But to suggest that modern policing is an outgrowth of slave-catching patrols by civilians is silly.

00:28:39.000 Policing in some form has existed for as long as there has been civilization, says McLaughlin.

00:28:42.000 It was typically led by a few government officers, a sheriff, a magistrate, a constable, perhaps a local feudal lord.

00:28:48.000 You'll remember that the Sheriff of Nottingham is the bad guy in Robin Hood.

00:28:51.000 But the old English tradition, which came to the American colonies, relied heavily on community volunteers.

00:28:56.000 According to an article by Gary Potter, okay, the development of policing in the United States closely followed the development of policing in England.

00:29:03.000 In the early colonies, policing took two forms.

00:29:05.000 It was both informal and communal, which is referred to as the watch, or private for-profit policing, which is called the big stick.

00:29:11.000 The watch system was composed of community volunteers whose primary duty was to warn of impending danger.

00:29:15.000 Boston created a night watch in 1636, New York in 1658, Philadelphia in 1700.

00:29:19.000 The night watch was not particularly effective because watchmen often slept or drank on duty.

00:29:24.000 Eventually, The major cities created professional police forces.

00:29:29.000 Professional police forces find their beginnings in France.

00:29:32.000 They employ gendarmes as far back as 1700.

00:29:33.000 The creation of professional uniformed police departments can be traced to British Home Secretary Robert Peel, who introduced them in London in 1829.

00:29:42.000 In fact, bobbies, which as they are known, cops in Britain, are called that today after Robert Peel. 0.99

00:29:48.000 All of this is the real root of American law enforcement.

00:29:53.000 The notion that this is vigilantes and citizen lynch mobs, okay, that is not where the police came from.

00:29:59.000 Also, Nikole Hannah-Jones is a believer that the police are the real problem for black Americans, which of course is a lie.

00:30:03.000 The reality, of course, is that when it comes to policing in the United States, it was dearth of police that led to originally disparate crime statistics between black and white Americans, as Jane Levy of the Los Angeles Times has written.

00:30:14.000 The fact is that white communities basically said to black communities, particularly in the South, you're on your own.

00:30:18.000 If murder happens in your communities, we're just not going to police it.

00:30:21.000 And that led to these wildly disparate murder statistics in white communities versus black communities.

00:30:25.000 But again, Nicole Hanna-Jones, victim of the American system, tenured professor over at University of North Carolina and celebrated much ballyhoo to editor-in-chief of the New York Times. 1.00

00:30:35.000 And all of this ties into the broader democratic narrative.

00:30:37.000 Everything I don't like is racist.

00:30:39.000 And everything that I do like is racially progressive.

00:30:42.000 Which is why I see Lori Lightfoot, for example, explaining that 99% of the criticism against her is racist and sexist. 0.99

00:30:49.000 You're just a really crappy mayor. 1.00

00:30:49.000 Nope! 1.00

00:30:53.000 There have been questions raised about your temperament and your reaction to criticism.

00:30:58.000 Tribune editorial used the term irascible.

00:31:02.000 How much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you're a woman, and specifically a black woman? 0.93

00:31:08.000 About 99% of it.

00:31:10.000 Women and people of color are always held to a different standard. 0.71

00:31:13.000 I understand that.

00:31:15.000 I've known that my whole life.

00:31:16.000 And the Tribune, or whoever, can write what they want.

00:31:19.000 What I'm doing is fighting for the residents of this city.

00:31:24.000 Okay, so again, the generalized Democratic argument these days seems to be that if you oppose anything Democrats do, it's because of racial discrimination.

00:31:33.000 Joy Behar, of course, the id of the Democratic Party, she says the same thing now about Kamala Harris. 0.96

00:31:37.000 She says the reason Kamala Harris is receiving criticism is because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:31:41.000 No, it's because she's a terrible, terrible politician. 1.00

00:31:43.000 In fact, the only reason that Joe Biden chose her is because she is a black woman. 1.00

00:31:47.000 He himself said this.

00:31:48.000 Here is Joy Behar trying to pretend that Kamala Harris is a victim of American racism. 1.00

00:31:53.000 What's interesting is that this will be used by the right wing to attack the Biden administration.

00:31:58.000 And isn't it interesting that they go after a black woman? 0.99

00:32:01.000 They don't go after a white guy, Joe Biden, as much because Joe Biden looks like the base on the right.

00:32:07.000 He looks like them.

00:32:08.000 So that's hard for them to get mad at him because then they get mad at themselves.

00:32:13.000 You see something like psychological is going on there.

00:32:15.000 Oh, thank you.

00:32:16.000 That's that's deep, deep, deep thoughts there.

00:32:20.000 If there's one thing we know, it's that Republicans are never angry at white people like, you know, Harry Reid, or for example, Bill Clinton, or maybe like Hillary Clinton, a white lady. 0.95

00:32:27.000 Obviously, they only get mad at black people. 0.91

00:32:29.000 Obviously. 0.97

00:32:31.000 Alrighty, coming up we're going to get into the latest on the January 6th Commission, which is the latest Democratic ploy in an attempt to drive the notion that Republicans are racist and all the rest.

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00:35:52.000 As part of the broader racial push the Democratic Party is making, of course, they are now pushing their January 6th commission.

00:36:03.000 So this is a partisan commission.

00:36:05.000 Nancy Pelosi announced it yesterday.

00:36:07.000 She got Liz Cheney to sign up for the commission so that she could have a veneer of bipartisanship. 1.00

00:36:11.000 Liz Cheney, of course, voted for impeachment of President Trump and has been a longtime critic of Trump.

00:36:16.000 The problem with the January 6th commission, of course, is that the basic premise of the January 6th commission, usually a congressional commission, is about what Congress can do. 0.97

00:36:24.000 You're not just supposed to hold commissions on random crap.

00:36:27.000 I understand that we do commissions on random crap now, like we'll have a steroids and baseball commission for no apparent reason, but Congress theoretically is supposed to hold commissions and investigations with regard to legislation or procedures they can shore up. 0.86

00:36:38.000 Instead, it appears that what this commission is designed to do, pretty obviously, is to keep January 6th forefront in people's minds and to link it to broader supposed Republican ideologies of bigotry.

00:36:48.000 Testimony from the Department of Homeland Security about concerns that are out there.

00:36:52.000 the opponent as bigoted.

00:36:54.000 You're gonna use whatever you can find in order to do that.

00:36:56.000 January 6th is what Nancy Pelosi wishes to use. 0.99

00:36:58.000 She made that absolutely clear yesterday.

00:37:01.000 Testimony from the Department of Homeland Security about concerns that are out there.

00:37:07.000 All of these institutions talking about, well, I hate to even go there, but it's what they have said in terms of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, all of these attitudes that have well contributed to what happened on January 6th.

00:37:30.000 Yeah, by the way, anti-Semitism is totally fine so long as it's members of her own party propagating it. 0.98

00:37:35.000 That's totally cool, by the way, according to Nancy Pelosi, so we should just make that clear.

00:37:40.000 What the January 6th Commission is pretty obviously designed to do, again, it's a political maneuver.

00:37:44.000 There is a reason why it is open-ended.

00:37:46.000 There is a reason why it is supposed to now delve into the ideological causes of January 6th and try to link that to broader Republican talking points.

00:37:55.000 Liz Cheney, if she provides cover for that sort of report, is doing a grave disservice. 0.97

00:37:59.000 If Liz Cheney is going in there because what she wants to do is use the January 6th Commission to get to the bottom of false allegations about voter fraud and the impact that has, Again, I think that she's providing cover to Democrats, and it's a mistake, but at least you can understand it. 0.84

00:38:15.000 But if the report that comes out of that commission is all about how the Republican Party is rife with white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, and anyone who voted for Trump obviously agrees with those things, because then Trump went on to say stupid things about the vote in November, and then a bunch of morons and droogs decided to utilize those words Do you believe that effectively by Liz Cheney accepting the committee assignment on January 6th that she's left the Republican conference? 0.91

00:38:37.000 she's done a grave disservice. Kevin McCarthy seems to think this is exactly what's going on. Here is the House Minority Leader.

00:38:43.000 Do you believe that effectively by Liz Cheney accepting a committee assignment on January 6th that she's left the Republican conference?

00:38:53.000 I was shocked that she would accept something from Speaker Pelosi. It would seem to me, since I didn't hear from her, maybe she's closer to her than us.

00:39:02.000 I don't know.

00:39:03.000 Okay, so apparently she never even spoke to McCarthy about it, which is again, sort of a weird move on Liz Cheney's part.

00:39:08.000 I'm not sure exactly what her play here is.

00:39:11.000 And meanwhile, again, all of this is designed to distract from the fact that the White House So, the White House had a mediocre job report.

00:39:20.000 I say mediocre because some parts of it are good and some parts of it are not so good, but it's certainly not like a universally bad jobs report.

00:39:25.000 According to the Associated Press, in an encouraging burst of hiring, America's employers added 850,000 jobs in June, well above the average of the previous three months, and a sign that companies may be having an easier time finding enough workers to fill open jobs.

00:39:37.000 Well, except for the fact that there is still this massive demand for jobs and people aren't filling them fast enough.

00:39:43.000 I don't know who this kind of poll of economists is who decide how many jobs they think are going to be added or how they come to those numbers, but they've been wrong pretty much every single month for the last several.

00:39:51.000 So the fact that they underestimated here where they've overestimated the past few months, like, who cares?

00:39:56.000 The real question is, how fast are we filling the jobs?

00:39:58.000 The real question is, how fast is the economy recovering?

00:40:01.000 And the real question is, what's the unemployment rate?

00:40:03.000 Are people coming back into the workforce?

00:40:05.000 Wages rose pretty significantly, which again seems to demonstrate that inflation is taking hold.

00:40:11.000 Not only that, the unemployment rate apparently actually rose a little bit, meaning fewer people are actually still getting back into the workforce.

00:40:17.000 They're not feeling the pinch necessary for them to actually go back and work anymore.

00:40:21.000 Friday's report from the Labor Department was the latest sign, according to the AP, that the reopening of the economy is propelling a powerful rebound from the pandemic recession.

00:40:29.000 Restaurant traffic across the country is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.

00:40:32.000 More people are shopping, traveling, attending sports and entertainment events.

00:40:35.000 The number of people flying each day has regained about 80% of its pre-COVID-19 levels.

00:40:39.000 Americans' confidence in the economic outlook has nearly fully recovered.

00:40:42.000 And of course, that is because the pandemic is effectively over.

00:40:45.000 If you're unvaccinated, it's not over for you.

00:40:47.000 But if you're vaccinated, Then it's certainly over for you.

00:40:51.000 And the rates of people getting and dying of COVID in the United States are very, very low at this point.

00:40:56.000 So that has nothing to do with Joe Biden's economic stimulus.

00:40:59.000 That has to do with the fact that people are now going back to work.

00:41:01.000 The result is that many businesses are desperate to hire and have posted a record high number of jobs.

00:41:05.000 But the competition for workers intensifying, especially at restaurants and tourist and entertainment venues, employers are offering higher pay along with signing and retention bonuses and more flexible hours.

00:41:14.000 The unemployment rate actually rose from 5.8% in May to 5.9% in June.

00:41:19.000 Despite the job market's steady improvement, unemployment remains well above the 3.5% rate that prevailed before the pandemic struck.

00:41:25.000 The economy ran 6.8 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic levels.

00:41:29.000 The number of advertised job openings reached 9.3 million in April.

00:41:34.000 So, by the way, the number of joblessings has actually increased since then.

00:41:39.000 So we still have a systemic problem.

00:41:41.000 The systemic problem is that we're paying people to stay home.

00:41:43.000 And this is leading to some pretty severe issues in regards to staffing.

00:41:48.000 So, It is a good thing that we have more people who are getting jobs.

00:41:53.000 It is a very bad thing that the labor market is artificially, shortages are now being artificially created, and the labor market and inflation is hitting.

00:41:59.000 By the way, the White House's pushback on the inflation talking point just sucks right now.

00:42:02.000 The White House put out a tweet yesterday trying to demonstrate inflation is not a problem for families, even though the price of gas is up like 40% over the last year.

00:42:10.000 The White House put out a tweet saying, planning a cookout this year?

00:42:14.000 Ketchup on the news.

00:42:15.000 That's a pun.

00:42:16.000 According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July barbecue is down from last year.

00:42:20.000 It's a fact.

00:42:20.000 You must heard.

00:42:22.000 Must heard.

00:42:23.000 Hot dog.

00:42:24.000 The Biden economic plan is working and that's something we can all relish.

00:42:27.000 So how well is it working?

00:42:29.000 The cost of a 4th of July cookout in 2021 is down 16 cents from last year.

00:42:33.000 You may remember we had a meat shortage last year because we're in the middle of a pandemic.

00:42:37.000 Wow.

00:42:37.000 I mean, look at that.

00:42:38.000 Huge.

00:42:39.000 The cost of a 4th of July cookout, down 16 cents.

00:42:43.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:42:44.000 Back in Joe Biden's day, that could buy you two packs of camels and a stick of Wrigley's chewing gum.

00:42:50.000 Huge.

00:42:50.000 I'm old enough to remember, by the way.

00:42:52.000 When the Democrats claimed that hundreds of dollars in your pocket thanks to Trump tax cuts meant nothing to the average American family.

00:42:57.000 Now, they're touting a 16 cent decline in the price of basic foodstuffs for your 4th of July barbecue, even though pretty much the price on everything else has skyrocketed for basic necessities.

00:43:09.000 Meanwhile, the budget deficit is projected to hit $3 trillion.

00:43:13.000 According to the New York Times, the U.S.

00:43:14.000 economy is rebounding from the pandemic downturn faster than expected and is on track to regain all the jobs lost by the middle of next year, partly as a result of enormous amounts of federal spending that will push the budget deficit to $3 trillion for the 2021 fiscal year, according to the CBO.

00:43:28.000 New forecasts that incorporate the $1.9 trillion stimulus package President Biden signed into law give little credence to warnings by Republican lawmakers and some economists that runaway inflation from all that spending could cripple the economy.

00:43:39.000 Instead, the Budget Office predicted a recent spike in prices for cars, airline tickets, and other products would be temporary and begin to recede this year.

00:43:46.000 Administration officials downplayed the deficit projections.

00:43:49.000 Instead, they focused on the predictions for economic growth because GDP can be gamed by simply injecting government spending into the system.

00:43:56.000 If the government spends a lot of money, that goes into the GDP.

00:43:59.000 So you can game those GDP stats by simply inflating the currency, by providing easy credit, by providing loose credit.

00:44:06.000 And all of that is a way to artificially boost the economy and create what is, in fact, a fairly massive bubble.

00:44:12.000 And this is, as I have been warning, one of the big problems here.

00:44:15.000 A lot of people on the right are focused in on the inflation issue.

00:44:18.000 Inflation may turn into a systemic long-term issue.

00:44:20.000 It is just as possible, maybe more possible, that what we are, in fact, going to get is a steady sort of stagflation or a steady deflation in which the government keeps pumping money, trying to provide loans, and people don't want to take the loans because people just aren't buying.

00:44:34.000 They've kind of maxed out.

00:44:36.000 There are a bunch of conflicting signs right now in the economy.

00:44:39.000 According to the New York Times, again, same day, office vacancies soar in New York, a dire sign for the city's recovery.

00:44:45.000 Nearly 19% of all office space in Manhattan has no tenant, the highest on record.

00:44:51.000 According to Matthew Hogg, even as New York City reopens and pursues a long road to economic recovery, the pandemic's lasting legacy of a changing workplace is emerging as a major obstacle to the revival of the vital commercial districts that help fuel the city's economy.

00:45:04.000 Across Manhattan, 18.7% of all office space is available for lease, a jump from more than 15% at the end of 2020, and more than double the rate from before the pandemic, according to Newmark, a real estate services company.

00:45:17.000 Meanwhile, we also know that the restaurant grant program that was put out by the federal government turned into kind of a boondoggle.

00:45:25.000 A $28.6 billion federal relief fund for restaurants and other food businesses closed on Wednesday after running out of money, having fulfilled fewer than a third of the grant requests it received.

00:45:33.000 It turns out that even the attempt to fill in the gaps created by the pandemic were a failure as soon as government got involved.

00:45:38.000 More than 370,000 business owners applied for more than $75 billion in funding, nearly three times what the program had available.

00:45:45.000 Around 105,000 businesses were approved for grants, which averaged just over $272,000, which of course is going to support a restaurant with several workers for like five minutes.

00:45:55.000 So, yeah, again, all of the stimulus was directed in the wrong direction.

00:46:00.000 Well, the good news is that the United States is focused globally on making business less competitive.

00:46:04.000 In order to shore up the fact that the United States is creating new regulations and new taxes for businesses, we are trying to cudgel countries around the world into raising their own taxes on corporations, which will result in price inflation.

00:46:16.000 When you artificially boost the tax prices on corporations, they are going to pass that down to consumers.

00:46:20.000 So get ready to feel the crunch that way.

00:46:22.000 So, mixed record coming from the Biden administration on the economy at best.

00:46:25.000 At best.

00:46:27.000 They gotta cover that with something.

00:46:28.000 Because 2022 lurks around the corner.

00:46:32.000 And the Biden administration's policies have not, in fact, forwarded economic recovery.

00:46:36.000 They've suppressed economic recovery.

00:46:37.000 If they just got out of the way, they'd be much better off.

00:46:39.000 But they can't, because it runs counter to Joe Biden's LBJ-type, world-beating agenda.

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Not Everything Is Rrrrrrrracist | Ep. 1289

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