The Ben Shapiro Show - June 19, 2020


The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations | Ep. 1035

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soft bigotry of low expectations white guilt and blindness leftist tears
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Shelby Steele Rayshard Brooks Libby Schaaf Jim Crow Martin Luther King Frederick Douglass Robin DiAngelo George Floyd Barack Obama Jimmy Fallon Robin Kelly Condoleezza Rice Gordon Granger Harriet Tubman Dan Cathy Juneteenth Booker T. Washington Keeanga-Yamata Taylor Nicholas Williams Katie Swinnerton and 26 more
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On this day in 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation was read to a group of newly freed slaves in Texas. It was the last state to commemorate the signing of the order that officially ended slavery in the United States. But it didn t end racism in America, and it was the marker that America was attempting to fulfill its founding promises. The reason it should be a national holiday is because it s a good case to make that America had two founding principles: Neither was in 1619. Neither was the founding of the Constitution. And the second was the fulfillment of the promise of the First Fourteenth Amendment, which says that all black Americans were not to be slaves or to be excluded from the full fruits of the Declaration of Independence. And the third was the realization that America is, in fact, a free country. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a holiday that should be made every year, and why it s important to remember the legacy of the first four years of American history and why we are now having debates over whether America is truly free. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ZipRecruiter and Work Together, and your data is your business protected at ExpressVPN. Visit zipshrruiter.co/worktogether to learn more about Zip Recruiter to find the best possible candidates to apply to your job. Today's episode is the anniversary of Juneteenth! Ben Shapiro's show is on June 19th, 1865. . the day that marked the end of slavery and the beginning of America's freedom in America. , and the birth of our freedom. Ben's birthday! . . . Ben Shapiro: What does it mean to be free? , what does it really mean, and what it means to be a free, and why it matters and more how it matters to him? and so much more? Ben s got it right here, in this episode of the Ben Shapiro show is a great time to celebrate American history, and more! and much more. -- -- copyright 2019, -- and more importantly, in this epilogue to the story of the day of freedom and freedom in 1846? -- Ben Shapiro, the quote of the 1846 edition of this episode, The story of 1846, by a man who made it better than any other day, by a woman who ever saw it?

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00:00:00.000 It's Juneteenth, a great time to celebrate American history.
00:00:03.000 The goalposts for anti-racism keep moving further and further down the field, and Joe Biden gets a pass on, like, everything.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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00:00:23.000 We're going to get to all the news in just a moment.
00:00:24.000 Today, of course, is Juneteenth, which is the date that commemorates the last state to be read.
00:00:30.000 The Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the Civil War was Texas, and the Emancipation Proclamation was read to a group of now freed slaves in Texas on this date in 1865.
00:00:38.000 We'll talk about that, and then we'll talk about the legacy Of American history and exactly the after effects of all of this and why we are now having debates over whether America is truly free.
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00:02:01.000 Okay, so today is June 19th, as I mentioned.
00:02:03.000 That is Juneteenth.
00:02:05.000 I'm going to read to you from the National Registry for Juneteenth.
00:02:09.000 There's a website that's specifically dedicated to Juneteenth.
00:02:11.000 They have a good sort of summary of what exactly happened on Juneteenth.
00:02:14.000 Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
00:02:19.000 Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
00:02:28.000 This is two and a half years after, of course, the Emancipation Proclamation, which had become official on January 1st, 1863.
00:02:34.000 But the Emancipation Proclamation didn't have much effect in Texas because, of course, the Civil War was still on.
00:02:39.000 One of General Granger's first orders of business when he arrived was to read to the people of Texas General Order No.
00:02:44.000 which began most significantly with this.
00:02:46.000 The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with the proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
00:02:51.000 This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.
00:03:00.000 As the website points out, the reactions to this profound news ran from pure shock to immediate jubilation out.
00:03:05.000 Now, of course, Juneteenth didn't end the story of racism in America or discrimination in America, but it was the end of slavery, and it was the marker that America was attempting to fulfill its founding promises.
00:03:19.000 Juneteenth should be a national holiday.
00:03:20.000 The reason it should be a national holiday is because America—there's a good case to make that America essentially had two foundings.
00:03:25.000 Neither one was in 1619.
00:03:26.000 The first founding was in 1776 with the establishment of universal principles.
00:03:30.000 And the second was in 1865 with the fulfillment of the promise for black Americans that they were not to be slaves or to be excluded from the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:42.000 Of course, it would take another century for black Americans to really feel the full fruits of their rights because of endemic racism and white supremacy that existed in the United States, particularly in the southern half of the United States.
00:03:53.000 This was the beginning of the fulfillment of the dream of the founding fathers that they themselves were unable or unwilling, depending on which founder you're talking about, to fulfill.
00:04:03.000 So Juneteenth should absolutely be a national holiday.
00:04:05.000 And in fact, there are Republicans today who are sponsoring that.
00:04:07.000 I mean, among other symbols that we should be looking at, by the way, Frederick Douglass.
00:04:11.000 Good case he should be on the national currency.
00:04:14.000 And they've been talking about Harriet Tubman.
00:04:16.000 That's fine.
00:04:16.000 Harriet Tubman was a hero, a heroine.
00:04:18.000 But Frederick Douglass is my pick.
00:04:21.000 Frederick Douglass, the guy who Okay, so with all of that said, this should be a time to celebrate how far American history has come.
00:04:36.000 Because let's be quite real about this, anybody who's attempting to link the lives today of black Americans with the lives of slaves and make a comparison between the two, That comparison just does not exist.
00:04:47.000 If you were living in slavery versus black Americans at the highest levels of government, of culture, of business, having all the same rights, and in some cases, having actual legally established preferences, in particular college admissions, The idea of that being a reality in the United States in 1865 would have been ultimately, would have been for most, for virtually all black Americans, completely unthinkable. 0.76
00:05:10.000 And it is an amazing achievement of the United States that we have worked so hard to vitiate the evil legacy of slavery and Jim Crow bigotry and racism in American society.
00:05:20.000 However, of course, we are going to discuss in the United States this notion that all inequality is inequity.
00:05:27.000 By celebrating Juneteenth, what we should be celebrating is the movement from slavery to freedom.
00:05:32.000 The movement from the notion that society is going to create a glass ceiling over you to the idea that you're essentially responsible for your own fate and you're able to make your own decisions.
00:05:40.000 And of course, that wasn't true for a hundred years after the Civil War.
00:05:44.000 Black Americans were striving and fighting for their rights.
00:05:46.000 They're striving and fighting to make themselves more prosperous and to grab a hold of the promises made in the Declaration of Independence.
00:05:52.000 This is why it's so irritating to me when I see people rip on the American flag or the Declaration of Independence.
00:05:57.000 All of the great civil rights leaders, from Frederick Douglass, to Booker T. Washington, to Martin Luther King, recognized that the Declaration of Independence was a promissory note that had not been actually provided for black Americans.
00:06:08.000 It had not been fulfilled for black Americans.
00:06:09.000 The promises of the Declaration of Independence were universal.
00:06:12.000 So when people talk about the evils of the founding, what they fail to recognize is that the great civil rights leader, the best civil rights leaders, the most effective civil rights leaders, recognized that they were calling on Americans to live up to the standards that they had not lived up to heretofore.
00:06:25.000 And it's really important to remember that.
00:06:26.000 And that the goal was that when all was said and done, black and white would be equal, not in terms of result by race, but in terms of the rights that they could grab hold to.
00:06:35.000 All would be treated as individuals capable of making free and independent decisions.
00:06:39.000 Because that's what freedom is, the ability to make free and independent decisions.
00:06:43.000 And what that suggests is that the cause of America, when it comes to racism, is vitiating actual racism.
00:06:48.000 Getting rid of actual racism.
00:06:50.000 And it is not a substitute to simply suggest that equality is the definition, equality of outcome is the definition of anti-racism.
00:06:59.000 Because those two things are not actually related.
00:07:02.000 There's no equality of outcome in the white community. 0.65
00:07:03.000 There's great income gaps in the white community.
00:07:05.000 There's great income gaps between old people and young people.
00:07:09.000 Equality of outcome is not the measure of anti-racism.
00:07:11.000 Anti-racism is the measure of anti-racism.
00:07:13.000 Being against racism.
00:07:15.000 Now, as we're going to discuss, the definition of racism seems to have shifted in modern America from you're against bigotry and discrimination on the basis of race to you oppose all the institutions of American society that are shot through with history and with historic racism.
00:07:29.000 And that shift is a really dangerous one because it implies that the only way to be anti-racist, so to speak, is to recognize your own sin, even if you haven't sinned, And to tear down the institutions of American society, which after all were founded in white supremacy.
00:07:42.000 That shift from Martin Luther King-style anti-racism to intersectionality-style anti-racism is a dramatic one.
00:07:49.000 And it leads to the sort of stories that we are seeing today from the New York Times.
00:07:52.000 The New York Times It's a piece today by Patrick Sharkey, Keeanga-Yamata Taylor, and Yaryna Sekes.
00:08:01.000 It's called The Gaps Between White and Black America in Charts. 0.91
00:08:04.000 And we're going to go through this in a second because the obvious implication is that the reason that these gaps exist and have continued to exist is because of continuing systemic racism in the United States.
00:08:13.000 Now, there are after-effects to history.
00:08:15.000 I've said this before a thousand times on the show.
00:08:17.000 There are obviously after-effects to history.
00:08:19.000 If you bar somebody from buying a house in 1960, that will have some follow-on effect for not being able to give your house to your kids, for example.
00:08:26.000 But there are certain gaps that certainly cannot be explained by history, and that includes the continuing wide income gap, or the education gap, or the single motherhood gap.
00:08:26.000 That is true.
00:08:34.000 That cannot be explained by history, particularly when you are looking at such a radical escalation in particular communities.
00:08:40.000 To suggest that America is more racist now than it was in 1960.
00:08:44.000 And when in 1960, the black single motherhood rate, by the way, single motherhood is the single greatest indicator of intergenerational poverty, when the black single motherhood rate in 1960 was 20%, and when today, it is in excess of 70%, and in some heavily black communities, it's in excess of 90%, that cannot be blamed on racism.
00:09:02.000 It cannot.
00:09:03.000 There's just no way to do it.
00:09:04.000 Especially because the single motherhood rate has risen concomitantly in the white community, just not quite as fast.
00:09:09.000 And you can't cite racism when you are saying, okay, I'm going to get a girl pregnant and walk out, which leads to poverty, which leads to poverty for your kid and for the woman you knocked up.
00:09:20.000 If you decide to drop out of school, this is a personal decision that you cannot blame on racism or slavery.
00:09:24.000 But the attempt to say that everything that is unequal in outcome is a remnant of slavery and Jim Crow is a dangerous but pervasive idea in today's modern America.
00:09:36.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second.
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00:10:46.000 Okay, so the implication of today's new take on racism.
00:10:51.000 As we'll discuss, there's a fantastic, fantastic author named Shelby Steele who has talked about the redefinition of racism.
00:10:58.000 He suggests that we have changed the definition of racism from actual racial discrimination to what he calls globalized racism, the idea that all institutions of American life are shot through with racism.
00:11:07.000 This is the way that the media cover all gaps, right?
00:11:10.000 All inequality of outcome is obvious evidence of inequality of rights, which is obviously not true.
00:11:15.000 That is obviously untrue.
00:11:17.000 Kids within the same family have dramatically different income.
00:11:20.000 Dramatically different income.
00:11:21.000 I have three younger sisters.
00:11:22.000 Our incomes are dramatically different.
00:11:24.000 Across the spectrum.
00:11:25.000 We grew up in exactly the same house.
00:11:27.000 But the idea from the New York Times and from so many on the left is that if there's inequality of outcome, this evidence is that America's continuing legacy of racism.
00:11:35.000 So as I mentioned, there's this article in the New York Times that highlights some of the gaps between white and black America in charts.
00:11:41.000 So they show the unemployment rate age 16 years or over, and they show that basically the gap in the unemployment rate between black and white has been fairly consistent since 1960.
00:11:52.000 It actually spiked a bit.
00:11:53.000 The gap seems to have spiked a bit during the 1980s, but it has gone back down now to probably its lowest point.
00:11:59.000 If you look at this chart, it looks like the lowest point in American history.
00:12:02.000 That gap was about 3% up until the pandemic hit.
00:12:06.000 Okay, which is a testament, frankly, to President Trump's economy.
00:12:09.000 I mean, that obviously is a thing.
00:12:11.000 But the unemployment rate, so the suggestion here is that if blacks are historically less employed than whites, even after the Civil Rights Act, and that the gap wasn't closed, then nothing must have changed.
00:12:21.000 Or alternatively, a lot of things changed.
00:12:23.000 Alternatively, there were great society programs that paid welfare.
00:12:27.000 Alternatively, there were affirmative action programs designed to get people into college of minority races.
00:12:32.000 Alternatively, there's a change in behavior as well.
00:12:36.000 To simply look at the gap in the unemployment rate and then say racism, like, if all you knew was one factor, right?
00:12:41.000 Unemployment and racism.
00:12:42.000 What you would suggest is racism hasn't changed.
00:12:44.000 So this chart doesn't look like it changed all that much in terms of the gap.
00:12:46.000 But obviously many things changed, including the number of black Americans who are graduating from high school.
00:12:50.000 The answer is 92%.
00:12:52.000 Including the number of black Americans who are going to college.
00:12:55.000 The answer is approximately, what, 26% now?
00:12:59.000 Go through a four-year college.
00:13:01.000 So that, I mean, that is a massive difference.
00:13:03.000 Okay, it's a massive difference.
00:13:06.000 By the way, again, there's this chart.
00:13:07.000 It shows share of people 25 years and over who completed four years of college or more.
00:13:11.000 And it shows that the gap between white and black has actually risen a little bit since 1960.
00:13:16.000 Not that many people went to college in 1960 period between white and black.
00:13:20.000 But now today, 36% of white Americans over 25 completed four years of college.
00:13:27.000 26% of black Americans have completed four years of college or more, which is an amazing, amazing statistic, right? 1.00
00:13:31.000 Over a quarter of black Americans are completing four years of college or more.
00:13:34.000 Now, what you would have to recognize also is that the black dropout rate is a lot higher in college than the white dropout rate in college. 0.58
00:13:42.000 Black student college graduation rates remain significantly low.
00:13:45.000 The nationwide college graduation rate for black students stands at 42%.
00:13:48.000 There are a lot of black students who are going into college and that are not graduating college.
00:13:54.000 And by the way, it's largely, statistically speaking, black men are more likely to drop out of college than black women are.
00:14:00.000 But that does explain part of the gap.
00:14:02.000 So one of the things that has happened is again, people refuse to look at ancillary factors that might explain continuing gaps.
00:14:08.000 Because the idea is just a very simplistic single factor analysis.
00:14:11.000 If there's a gap, that gap is due to continuing endemic racism.
00:14:15.000 If you look at median household income, you see that there has been a continuing gap between white and black and that the gap has actually risen in terms of median household income.
00:14:24.000 Now you might think to yourself, okay, why has the median household income gap risen given the fact that Racism, racial discrimination in employment has been outlawed since the 1960s in both the private and the public sectors.
00:14:35.000 In every state in the union.
00:14:36.000 That's what the Civil Rights Act did. 1.00
00:14:37.000 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, essentially.
00:14:40.000 Why exactly is that gap still existent?
00:14:43.000 Well, maybe it has something to do with high school dropout rates.
00:14:47.000 Maybe it has something to do with the fact that so many public schools are failing black students and so many black students are graduating from high school without actually having rudimentary skills and have to go into remedial education even if they go to college.
00:14:58.000 I mean, there are significant gaps in the number of students by race who are going into remedial education once they hit college.
00:15:03.000 Maybe this has to do with the fact that there are so many single moms, right? 0.95
00:15:07.000 That changes the median household income.
00:15:09.000 If the mom and dad are living together, the median household income, right, it's a mom and dad, their combined income is going to be higher.
00:15:14.000 If more people are unmarried, that's two separate households now, right? 0.94
00:15:18.000 So the household income is lower.
00:15:20.000 In other words, what the New York Times is trying to do with all of this is imply that racism is still the deciding factor in American life.
00:15:26.000 And in fact, they make this absolutely clear in the New York Times piece.
00:15:29.000 They suggest that in many parts of the country, black and white Americans continue to live in very different worlds.
00:15:34.000 This distinctive feature of American inequality is not an accidental development, but rather a result of policy choices.
00:15:40.000 Again, the idea is that historic discrimination is what has caused all of this, which would not really explain why the black middle class was growing faster in the 1950s before the Civil Rights Act than it did after the Civil Rights Act in 1965.
00:15:50.000 Another example, the home ownership rate.
00:15:52.000 So the home ownership rate Prior to 1990, going all the way back to about 1980, there was a huge gap between white homeownership and black homeownership.
00:16:02.000 Well, as black income has risen, and it has risen dramatically from 1960 and on, wouldn't you expect more black homeownership? 1.00
00:16:09.000 And yet black homeownership is actually at the lowest levels that it has been since 1990.
00:16:13.000 So, what exactly is going on here?
00:16:15.000 You can't really blame redlining for lack of homeownership by black Americans in 2020 at this point.
00:16:20.000 But what you can blame is rising real estate prices and low income.
00:16:24.000 Right?
00:16:24.000 That's what you can blame.
00:16:26.000 How about sentenced male prisoners per 100,000 residents of the corresponding group?
00:16:30.000 So the idea here is that black Americans are being discriminated against in the criminal justice system.
00:16:36.000 So the gap has actually dropped fairly dramatically from what it once was over the past 20 years.
00:16:40.000 But for every 100,000 black males, 2,272 of them will end up sentenced to prison, as opposed to 392 for every 100,000 white males.
00:16:50.000 Is that the result of racism or is that the result of individuals making criminal decisions?
00:16:55.000 The basic notion here that the New York Times is pushing, and this is the notion that the left is pushing, Is that all inequality of outcome is due to discrimination, continuing discrimination in the system, which is not correct.
00:17:08.000 It is not factually correct.
00:17:10.000 When we look at the actual rationales for why income has remained low, or why, for example, young black men who are growing up in high-income households are significantly more likely to fall out of the top quintile than young black women, you have to determine whether there are individual decisions that are at play here.
00:17:27.000 You have to remove the confounds.
00:17:28.000 But for the left, it's not necessary to remove the confounds, because the only thing that is important is implying that all of America's institutions are systemically racist, and therefore, the onus is on restructuring those institutions so as to achieve equal outcome, not equal rights.
00:17:42.000 And this view has infused so much of our public thinking right now.
00:17:47.000 And what it does, really, is it makes white liberals responsible for—it's incredibly paternalistic.
00:17:54.000 It makes white liberals responsible for the uplift of black Americans. 0.51
00:17:57.000 That's really what it is. 0.52
00:17:58.000 It's a bunch of white liberals feeling good about themselves because, oh man, these systems are so bad.
00:18:01.000 But you know what? 0.92
00:18:02.000 I can fight racism because these poor black people, I can't hold them to the decision not to have a child out of wedlock or to finish high school.
00:18:10.000 But if I restructure the system, I can feel so good about myself.
00:18:14.000 It's really on me.
00:18:16.000 It's really on me.
00:18:17.000 Me, the white liberal, to fix life for the individual black person.
00:18:22.000 Even if the equal rights are guaranteed by the Constitution, by law, in every state in the United States, it's up to me to guarantee equal outcome.
00:18:30.000 It makes people feel so good.
00:18:32.000 And not only does it make people feel good, it leads to what Condoleezza Rice has correctly called the soft bigotry of law expectations.
00:18:39.000 And this is how you end up with articles like this one from Dr. Robin D.G.
00:18:42.000 Kelly, professor of American history, in the New York Times called, What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?
00:18:50.000 The idea being, she's a professor of American history at UCLA, the basic idea being that we cannot expect as Americans, black Americans, not to riot and loot and burn things. 0.99
00:18:59.000 The idea being because all of the systems are so inherently corrupt that it causes black anger and therefore it is wrong to expect black Americans not to riot and burn and loot things. 1.00
00:19:09.000 Why? 0.93
00:19:10.000 First of all, I think everyone should not riot and burn and loot. 0.57
00:19:13.000 It turns out there are some white Americans doing that too.
00:19:14.000 But you don't get to riot and loot and burn things because the supposition here is that all inequality, again, of outcome is the result of evils in the American system and that rage and that people cannot therefore be expected to operate within the system.
00:19:29.000 That operating within the system is itself a form of bowing to the system and the system itself is inherently racist.
00:19:35.000 And therefore, the truest form of fighting against the system is things like rioting and looting.
00:19:39.000 This is the soft bigotry of law expectations Condoleezza Rice was talking about. 0.85
00:19:43.000 We can't expect people to abide by the law because after all, the law was originally founded in racism in 1619.
00:19:47.000 And therefore, expecting people to abide by the law and live under the quote unquote racist regime.
00:19:52.000 That means that you are asking people to sacrifice their own honor to obey the law.
00:19:57.000 It's absurd on its face.
00:20:00.000 It does not make the lives of black Americans better in any way, conceivably, like any way at all, because it turns out the path to prosperity in the United States is wide open if you make the right decisions.
00:20:09.000 Only 2% of Americans Who do the following three things.
00:20:13.000 Graduate high school, don't have a kid, before you are married and get a job, end up in permanent poverty in the United States, according to the Brookings Institute.
00:20:19.000 You do those three things, you won't end up in permanent poverty.
00:20:21.000 The soft bigotry of low expectations is one of the more dangerous things that is happening in the United States right now, and it's tearing the country apart. 0.89
00:20:28.000 And it's largely being pressed by white liberals who want to feel good about themselves and establish their moral superiority to their fellow white person for acknowledging their own sin, and subtly to establish their own white supremacy by suggesting that black people are incapable of taking care of themselves and need white saviors to come in and help them.
00:20:44.000 That's it, which Shelby Steele writes about this and he is exactly right. 0.94
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00:22:13.000 So as I say, The idea that all inequality of outcome is due to a racist system leads to the soft bigotry of low expectations in which we can't expect black Americans not to loot. 0.99
00:22:22.000 Okay, there's an actual article in the New York Times by a professor of American history, Dr. Robin Kelly, at the New York Times.
00:22:28.000 Why are they looting?
00:22:29.000 It's asked every time protests against police violence erupt into civil unrest.
00:22:32.000 We know the answers by now.
00:22:33.000 Poverty, anger, age, rage, and a sense of helplessness.
00:22:36.000 For some, it is a form of political violence.
00:22:38.000 For others, destructive opportunism.
00:22:40.000 There appears to be no single motive.
00:22:41.000 That white youth figure prominently among looters during the recent wave of unrest confounds easy explanations.
00:22:47.000 No, it actually doesn't.
00:22:48.000 It actually doesn't.
00:22:49.000 It turns out the vast majority of people who are looting have no interest in making a political statement. 0.99
00:22:54.000 They are instead just stealing crap. 1.00
00:22:56.000 That is true for white people. 1.00
00:22:57.000 It is true for black people. 1.00
00:22:58.000 If you are getting a TV off the back of George Floyd, you're not doing anything for George Floyd. 1.00
00:23:01.000 You're just a piece of crap. 1.00
00:23:03.000 But we can't say that, right? 1.00
00:23:04.000 We're not supposed to say that because apparently looting is a form of standing up to the system.
00:23:08.000 This is the same mentality that led Maxine Waters to call the LA riots, which largely burned down black neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the LA uprising.
00:23:16.000 Uprising against what?
00:23:17.000 Against the system itself, right?
00:23:20.000 According to this columnist, Let me offer a more productive question instead.
00:23:23.000 What is the effect of obsessing over looting?
00:23:26.000 It deflects from the core problem that brought people to the streets.
00:23:28.000 The people, the police, keep killing us with impunity.
00:23:31.000 Instead, once burning and looting start, the media often shifts to the futility of violence as a legitimate path to justice.
00:23:36.000 Crime becomes the story.
00:23:38.000 Riots, we are told, cause harm by foreclosing constructive solutions.
00:23:41.000 But such rebellions have not only shined a spotlight on American racism, they've also spawned investigations and limited reforms when traditional appeals have failed.
00:23:47.000 The evidence for this is extraordinarily limited.
00:23:50.000 But again, this is all in pursuit of the myth that the greatest obstacle to black success in the United States is white racism.
00:23:56.000 And now the kind of bleeding edge of that is supposedly the police.
00:24:00.000 And this is how you end up with the New York Times talking about the Rayshard Brooks shooting in Atlanta this way.
00:24:05.000 Police decisions are scrutinized after Rayshard Brooks' fatal encounter.
00:24:08.000 The original headline was, Rayshard Brooks' final hour was a jarring panorama of policing.
00:24:13.000 Rayshard Brooks resisted arrest after a 25-minute conversation with police officers, wrestled two police officers to the ground, took a taser off a police officer, tried to tase one police officer, and then while running away tried to tase another police officer and was shot for his trouble.
00:24:27.000 That is not a panorama of policing.
00:24:28.000 That's a man acting like a criminal who was shot justifiably.
00:24:32.000 And that's what a grand jury is going to find.
00:24:33.000 The charges in this Atlanta case are absurd.
00:24:35.000 But again, if the police are stand-ins for the evil system, then the police are the ones who have to answer for a man acting like a criminal.
00:24:43.000 We can't, of course, expect Rayshard Brooks not to act like a criminal, because to do so would be to engage in the fallacy that people are responsible for their own actions in the end in a free country.
00:24:54.000 Now, none of this has any relationship to reality, right?
00:24:57.000 In terms of the general idea that police are the greatest obstacle to black freedom in America.
00:25:01.000 It's just not correct.
00:25:02.000 In fact, the officer in this particular case in Atlanta, he gave CPR to Rayshard Brooks.
00:25:07.000 After he shot him, he gave CPR to him.
00:25:09.000 But the narrative holds.
00:25:11.000 And it combines with a narrative of white penitence. 0.83
00:25:15.000 White penitence. 0.90
00:25:16.000 And the white penitence is not designed to actually alleviate the problem.
00:25:19.000 The white penitence is designed instead to do something else.
00:25:23.000 And that is to reestablish the moral authority of white liberals.
00:25:26.000 Because the argument is that white people lost moral authority because of Jim Crow and racism and slavery, which is completely fair on issues of race. 1.00
00:25:34.000 And the only way that the moral authority can be restored is if white people who are liberal express their guilt and then proceed to treat black people paternalistically by offering a bunch of systemic changes. 0.52
00:25:48.000 Being against the system becomes the marker of being a good person. 0.81
00:25:51.000 And that's what white liberals are doing right now. 0.94
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00:27:05.000 Okay, so I wanna read you from a fantastic book By the author Shelby Steele, who teaches over at Hoover Institute.
00:27:12.000 And the book is called White Guilt.
00:27:14.000 And it really does explain, I think in detail, the worldview that ends with the belief that all inequality of outcome is an evil in America and explains why we are seeing these religious, these acts of religious penitence From the left, from the white left particularly, and why we are seeing the attempt to rip away American history.
00:27:34.000 I mean, there was a George Washington statue that got torn down in Portland yesterday.
00:27:39.000 This is all of a piece.
00:27:40.000 So I never do this, but I think that this is a very important subject and I'm gonna let somebody who is more well-versed on this than I speak to you here.
00:27:47.000 So Shelby Steele. 0.99
00:27:49.000 Again, in his book, White Guilt, he talks about white guilt.
00:27:51.000 He says white guilt is, quote, the vacuum of moral authority that comes from simply knowing that one's race is associated with racism.
00:27:57.000 Whites and American institutions must acknowledge historical racism to show themselves redeemed of it. 0.81
00:28:01.000 But once they acknowledge it, they lose moral authority over everything having to do with race equality, social justice, poverty, and so on.
00:28:07.000 They step into a void of vulnerability.
00:28:09.000 The authority they lose transfers to the victims of historical racism and becomes their great power in society.
00:28:15.000 So in other words, when you acknowledge the guilt, the white guilt, that white supremacy was a governing force in the United States, you immediately lose all authority to speak on moral questions.
00:28:26.000 Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, says Shelby Steele, it makes the moral authority of whites and the legitimacy of American institutions contingent on proving a negative, that they are not racist.
00:28:35.000 Whites in American institutions are stigmatized as racist until they prove otherwise.
00:28:38.000 White guilt leaves no room for moral choice. 0.65
00:28:40.000 It does not depend on the goodwill or the genuine decency of people.
00:28:43.000 It depends on their fear of stigmatization, their fear of being called a racist.
00:28:47.000 Because if you are called a racist, you lose moral authority and you are linked to a past that you don't belong to.
00:28:52.000 But because you are a member of the white race, you are therefore guilty by association with the people who were creators of these institutions and did exist in a regime of white supremacy.
00:29:03.000 You combine this with the new redefinition of racism.
00:29:06.000 So it used to be that you were guilty for your own racist act, right?
00:29:09.000 For your own racist feelings.
00:29:10.000 That was the Martin Luther King version of racism he was trying to wipe from the human heart and largely was successful in doing so.
00:29:15.000 Then there is the broader version of racism.
00:29:17.000 The broader version of racism is an essentially Marxist version of racism, says Shelby Steele.
00:29:21.000 Ugly human prejudices like racism did not just remain isolated in the hearts of racists.
00:29:25.000 These dark passions worked by an invisible hand to generate societal structures that impersonally oppress.
00:29:30.000 As people simply conformed to mundane standards of social decency, they executed a bigotry and shaped society around it without feeling animus toward minorities.
00:29:38.000 The Marxian emphasis on structures and substructures gave the new militant leaders of the time, the 60s, an infinitely larger racism to work with, a systemic and sociological racism that was far more determinative than the simpler immoral racism of the Martin Luther King era.
00:29:51.000 So the Martin Luther King racism says that America would be free except for these obstacles Institutional obstacles of racism.
00:29:58.000 Get rid of the institutional obstacles of racism.
00:30:00.000 Jim Crow laws. 0.89
00:30:01.000 Racism in interactions.
00:30:03.000 And we will now be free.
00:30:04.000 And now the freedom is on us, right?
00:30:06.000 Responsibility is on us.
00:30:07.000 Once you suggest that it has infused all of the institutions, and the institutions themselves define human beings, the only way to change the system is to rip down the institutions.
00:30:15.000 It is a very Marxist view of human life, that the institutions shaped you, that people did not shape the institutions, and that your fundamental decency within the context of an evil system does not change the evil system, right?
00:30:25.000 You can say as much as you want, I'm not a racist, so long as you are part of an institutionally racist system, there is no getting away from the fact that simply by upholding the system, you are adhering to racism.
00:30:36.000 Shelby Steele says globalized racism, this is the new definition of racism, is quote racism inflated into a deterministic structural and systemic power.
00:30:43.000 Global racism seeks to make every racist event the tip of the iceberg so the redress will be to the measure of the iceberg rather than to the measure of its tip.
00:30:51.000 Because once you say that everything is infused with racism, all you have to do is point to a hotspot like George Floyd or Ahmaud Arbery and then say that this is the entire United States, writ small.
00:30:51.000 Right?
00:31:00.000 Right?
00:31:00.000 That's the tip of the iceberg.
00:31:01.000 Now we have to attack the structures.
00:31:02.000 It is a reconceptualization of racism designed to capture the fruit of the new and vast need in white America for moral authority and racial matters. 0.55
00:31:09.000 And this is really the key.
00:31:10.000 The basic idea here is that if white people are suffering from racial guilt because, as they should, they look to the history of the United States and are ashamed by white supremacy, that if that is the case, the way that white people, particularly white liberals, seek to reestablish moral authority is to prove that they are not racist.
00:31:25.000 And the way to prove that they are not racist is by standing aside from the institutions that supposedly are shot through with racism.
00:31:31.000 So dissociation becomes the key.
00:31:33.000 Dissociation and labeling and cancel culture, these become a key. 0.70
00:31:37.000 By the way, Shelby Steele was writing this in 2006.
00:31:40.000 Suddenly, in American life, the matter of responsibility was qualified by a new social morality.
00:31:45.000 If you were black and thus a victim of racial oppression, this new morality of social justice meant you could not be expected to carry the same responsibilities as others.
00:31:53.000 In other words, because of social justice and the history of racial oppression, we can't expect you not to loot, right? 0.94
00:31:57.000 That's the piece in the New York Times.
00:31:58.000 The point was that American society no longer had the moral authority to enforce a single standard of responsibility for everyone because, by its own admission, it had not treated everyone the same.
00:32:06.000 Thus, in the national consciousness after the 60s, individual responsibility became synonymous with injustice when applied to blacks.
00:32:13.000 Thus, since the 60s, black leaders have made one overriding argument, that blacks cannot achieve equality without white America taking responsibility for it.
00:32:21.000 And this just suits white liberals to a tee. 0.99
00:32:23.000 The idea that equality can only be established if they are given the power to restructure American society.
00:32:29.000 Because it invests them again with moral authority, the moral authority they've lost because of white guilt. 0.76
00:32:34.000 So now they have the power to restructure American society.
00:32:36.000 And not it's great.
00:32:37.000 Not only do they get to show that they are better than other white people for having accepted White guilt. 0.66
00:32:41.000 They also then get to restructure institutions without actually caring what happens to black people who are harmed by the restructuring of those institutions.
00:32:48.000 This is why you see so many white upper crust liberals in Hollywood tweeting about defund the police when they won't be affected by defund the police one iota. 0.57
00:32:56.000 This leads, as Shelby Steele says, to white blindness.
00:32:58.000 A blindness to the human reality of minorities that occurs when whites look at racial issues but see only the contingency they must meet to restore their own moral authority.
00:33:06.000 In other words, what do I have to do to make myself feel better and make me feel like I'm on top of the moral pantheon again?
00:33:12.000 White blindness is an unconscious self-absorption by which whites see racial issues and even interracial encounters as opportunities to dissociate from historic racism.
00:33:21.000 Every time you interact with a black person, it's an opportunity for you to show that you are not a racist and therefore recapture your moral authority.
00:33:26.000 And of course, you can't recapture your moral authority unless you rip the entire system, which as we have said, is an indicator of globalized racism.
00:33:32.000 Dissociation requires evidence of a proactive effort, a self-conscious and highly visible display.
00:33:37.000 This is all Shelby Steele.
00:33:39.000 And again, I'm reading to you at length here because I think that he expresses this so much more eloquently than I would.
00:33:43.000 He says, people who are in the grip of white blindness and thus unaware of their true motivations always miss the human being inside the black skin. 0.79
00:33:49.000 Your color represents you in the mind of such people.
00:33:52.000 They will have built a large part of their moral identity and possibly their politics about around how they respond to your color.
00:33:57.000 Thus, a part of them, the moral part, is invested not in you, but in some idea of what your color means.
00:34:02.000 And when they see you, the individual, you a black person, they instantly call to mind this investment and determine once again to honor it.
00:34:08.000 They're very likely proud of the way they've learned to relate to your color, proud of the moral magnanimity it gives them an opportunity to express.
00:34:13.000 So in meeting you, they actually meet only a well-rehearsed and better part of themselves.
00:34:17.000 This is the sort of pretension that Jordan Peele mocks in Get Out.
00:34:20.000 The people who are walking around with kente cloths and saying they voted for Obama twice. 1.00
00:34:23.000 So Shelby Steele, in the age of white guilt, white blindness has been driven not by racism, but by the white need to dissociate from racism.
00:34:30.000 Whites are blind to blacks as human beings today, not out of bigotry, but out of their obsession with achieving the dissociation they need to restore their moral authority. 0.82
00:34:37.000 When they find a way to dissociate from racism, diversity, politically correct language, political liberalism itself, there's little incentive to understand blacks as human beings. 0.97
00:34:45.000 Dissociation makes whites human again. 1.00
00:34:48.000 It gives whites the right to speak on these issues. 0.67
00:34:51.000 The more you say that America is racist, the more you say your fellow citizens are racist, the more you say the systems are racist, the more moral authority you have.
00:34:56.000 This is why you will see people kneeling.
00:34:57.000 They're not kneeling to express actual penitence.
00:35:00.000 They're kneeling to reestablish moral authority.
00:35:03.000 Post-60s American liberalism, says Shelby Steele, preserves the old racist hierarchy of whites over blacks as virtue itself, and it grants all whites who identify with it a new superiority. 0.93
00:35:12.000 In effect, it says you are morally superior to other whites and intellectually superior to blacks. 0.97
00:35:16.000 The white liberal's reward is this feeling that because he has erred to the knowledge of the West, yet morally enlightened beyond the West's former bigotry, he is really a new man, a better man than the world has seen before.
00:35:26.000 Because disassociation is a claim of superiority, it generates a kind of collective narcissism, an irrational yet utterly certain belief in the moral superiority of post-60s dissociational liberalism.
00:35:36.000 Dissociational meaning you dissociate from all the institutions.
00:35:39.000 You say, I'm not associated with it.
00:35:40.000 I dissociate from those institutions and from a history of American racism.
00:35:45.000 In this liberalism, one does not argue by logic or principle.
00:35:48.000 One argues by dissociation.
00:35:49.000 Only in dissociation are authority, legitimacy, and power available.
00:35:53.000 When the American left responded to the crisis of white guilt and began to define social virtue as mere dissociation, it effectively started the culture war.
00:36:00.000 Dissociation is always achieved at the expense of democratic principles and demanding values grounded in fairness and individual responsibility, what in shorthand might be called the culture of principle.
00:36:10.000 It is important stuff because as we're going to see, all of the sort of virtue signaling that you are seeing from the white left today is about dissociation, it is about an attempt to re-establish moral authority, and it is about control. 0.51
00:36:24.000 It is not about healing the country.
00:36:26.000 It is not about making the country a better place.
00:36:28.000 Because if you actually want black Americans to be just as successful as white Americans and close all of those gaps, what you actually want is for people to make successful decisions on an individual level that lead to success.
00:36:38.000 That is the thing you want more than anything in the world.
00:36:41.000 What you want is not to incentivize behavior that leads to unsuccess or pretend that a few affirmative action stops are going to solve the problem of bad education in the black community overall by statistics.
00:36:52.000 What you don't want is these sort of displays of pathos.
00:36:56.000 What you actually want are more opportunities, more freedoms, and more demands for individual responsibility.
00:37:03.000 Barack Obama tried this, and Barack Obama was shouted out of the room by a lot of people on the left when he suggested that individual responsibility was the first key to black Americans rising in a free society.
00:37:13.000 That, of course, is 100% true, and it's true for everyone, not just black Americans. 0.72
00:37:16.000 It's true for white Americans. 0.99
00:37:17.000 It's true for Hispanic Americans. 1.00
00:37:18.000 It's true for Asian Americans. 1.00
00:37:19.000 If you want Americans to do well, you need to recommend that freedom be exercised responsibly.
00:37:27.000 And that you white liberals, you are not responsible for your own savior complex paternalistic, I'm going to restructure the systems so certain people are redressed of history's grievances.
00:37:36.000 Okay, again, that's particularly true when you're talking about people who are two generations removed at this point from the Civil Rights Act, and at least five generations removed from slavery.
00:37:45.000 You have to be talking instead about what are the actual factors behind these gaps, not what makes you feel good by creating some program that is likely to be unsuccessful.
00:37:54.000 This is why you see people shouting about the police at the same time that what many members of the black community, I would say the vast majority of black Americans who are living in high crime areas need more than anything else is more policing, more policing.
00:38:04.000 They need less crime in their neighborhoods.
00:38:06.000 That's what leads to investment.
00:38:07.000 That's what leads to people bringing their money in and their tax dollars that then go to the local schools.
00:38:12.000 But instead, it's all about white people I mean, so much of this really is about white guilt and white blindness. 0.80
00:38:18.000 That's the real problem here. 0.97
00:38:19.000 It really is a huge problem.
00:38:20.000 We're going to get to the displays of penitence that really are dishonest in one second.
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00:39:36.000 Okay, well, we're going to get into the acts of penitence, the displays of penitence that really are about the reestablishment of moral authority by white leftists who want to feel superior to other white people.
00:39:46.000 And also want to feel paternalistic for black people and not treat black Americans as individual human beings just as capable and in many cases more capable than white Americans of making good decisions.
00:39:56.000 We're gonna get to that in just one second.
00:39:57.000 First, you know, it's that time of the week when we show somebody with the Tumblr, right?
00:40:01.000 It is the Tumblr time of week. 0.96
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00:40:06.000 It comes courtesy of Emily Kobayashi.
00:40:08.000 She shows herself holding a leftist tears tumbler, standing above Chaz. 0.76
00:40:13.000 You can actually see Chaz over in the background.
00:40:15.000 She has delightfully labeled it for us.
00:40:16.000 She has a 10th floor view of our nascent nation state, where the leftist tears are flowing as the proletariat suffers soil shortages.
00:40:22.000 Hashtag leftist tears tumblers.
00:40:23.000 Well done, Emily.
00:40:25.000 Well done.
00:40:26.000 In the picture, again, she's a surgeon, so she's doing some good for the world, unlike the people over in Chaz. 1.00
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00:40:54.000 Slavery has been endemic to humankind since history, like all of it.
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00:41:05.000 American slavery was an evil, and a very deep evil. 0.58
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00:41:35.000 So we are now in this spin cycle of what can you do to prove that you're not racist?
00:41:46.000 What can you do to prove you're not racist?
00:41:47.000 Well, you can disassociate from anything that could tangentially be perceived as racist.
00:41:51.000 You can disassociate from all of America's institutions.
00:41:53.000 You can dissociate from America's history.
00:41:55.000 As Shelby Steele says, the key to white blindness and white guilt, and banishing white guilt via white blindness, is to dissociate from exactly the institutions that are most likely to grant success to everyone if proper decisions are made.
00:42:07.000 And there are plenty of grifters in this space.
00:42:09.000 Robin DiAngelo is the author of a book called White Fragility.
00:42:12.000 And what I love about this is that Robin DiAngelo is a white author making just a bundle off of, I mean, her book was like number one on Amazon.com, all about white fragility. 0.97
00:42:20.000 And the book is just a trash heap. 0.91
00:42:22.000 It basically suggests that even if you're concerned about racism, this is just evidence of white fragility. 0.98
00:42:26.000 Basically, no matter what you do, if you're white, you're wrong. 0.93
00:42:28.000 Which is a great way for you also to establish your moral authority.
00:42:31.000 You just say I'm wrong all the time.
00:42:32.000 That's not actually a way for you to say sorry.
00:42:34.000 It's a way for you to say I'm better than all these other white people. 0.99
00:42:36.000 And also, I am responsible for all the world's ills.
00:42:37.000 By the way, when you acknowledge you are responsible for all the world's ills, when you take the world's ills on your shoulders, doesn't that grant you an awful lot of authority?
00:42:44.000 Like a tremendous amount of authority?
00:42:45.000 So, she appeared with Jimmy Fallon because our late night TV has basically just become woke programming at this point.
00:42:52.000 Here's Robin DiAngelo with her crappy book White Fragility on Jimmy Fallon last night.
00:42:57.000 Okay, so what if you could just give us feedback on our inevitable and often unaware racist assumptions and behaviors? 0.60
00:43:05.000 And I'll never forget this black man raising his hand and saying, it would be revolutionary.
00:43:12.000 Wow.
00:43:14.000 And, you know, just like, just take that in.
00:43:16.000 I just want all the white people to just take that in.
00:43:18.000 Revolutionary, that we would receive the feedback with grace, reflect, and seek to change our behavior.
00:43:25.000 That's how difficult we are.
00:43:27.000 Wow.
00:43:28.000 That's how big a-holes we are. 0.92
00:43:31.000 Jimmy Fallon just looks like he wants to die. 0.76
00:43:33.000 And I mean, honestly, like if I were interviewing this person, I probably would want to die as well.
00:43:37.000 Because again, the entire premise of the book is that white people are the most important people in the entire universe. 0.71
00:43:42.000 Right. 0.98
00:43:43.000 This is the it's the essence of white leftist arrogance. 0.88
00:43:46.000 White people are the most important people in the world. 0.88
00:43:48.000 Their feelings about race are the defining features of the world today.
00:43:51.000 All credit and all blame goes on their shoulder.
00:43:54.000 And as long as you dissociate, dissociate, dissociate, right?
00:43:56.000 That's why you're getting cancel culture right now, because the threat of being called a racist is so high right now that you have to just dissociate from everything.
00:44:05.000 How high is the threat? 1.00
00:44:06.000 You're getting this abject virtue signaling from the stupidest places. 1.00
00:44:09.000 The Chick-fil-A CEO, Actually asked yesterday for white people to shine black people's shoes to show embarrassment for racism. 1.00
00:44:16.000 So I have a basic biblical principle.
00:44:18.000 It actually differentiates, I would say, Judeo-Christian values from Hammurabi's code.
00:44:23.000 Hammurabi's code, you could actually criminally sentence a child for the sins of their parents, right?
00:44:27.000 Your parent murdered somebody, you execute the child. 0.54
00:44:30.000 The Bible says you're not allowed to revisit the sins of the fathers on the sons.
00:44:34.000 This is one of the key standards here.
00:44:36.000 So how about this?
00:44:37.000 How about you repent to the person that you sinned against But not for sins that somebody else did.
00:44:42.000 How about that?
00:44:43.000 But the idea here is that you are supposed to individually shine an individual black person's shoes because of a sin that you did not commit against a black person that you don't even know?
00:44:51.000 This is Dan Cathy's idea of how we are going to cure the country.
00:44:54.000 Really, well done.
00:44:55.000 And again, what this is really about is then, and I don't dislike Dan Cathy.
00:44:59.000 I mean, the guy is pro-traditional marriage by most accounts he's conserved, but this is insane.
00:45:03.000 Okay, this is purely insane. 0.96
00:45:04.000 Here he is saying that white people should shine black people's shoes to show embarrassment for racism.
00:45:10.000 I invite folks just to put some words to action here.
00:45:15.000 And if we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we need to just go right on over and shine their shoes.
00:45:23.000 And whether they got tennis shoes on or not, maybe they got sandals on, it really doesn't matter.
00:45:30.000 But there's a time in which we need to have, you know, some personal action here.
00:45:36.000 Maybe we need to give them a hug, too.
00:45:40.000 I have a question.
00:45:41.000 Did he get the guy's shoes dirty?
00:45:45.000 If that feels awkward to you, it's because it is awkward.
00:45:47.000 And it's about that CEO.
00:45:49.000 Now he can say, when somebody says you're a racist, no, no, no. 0.51
00:45:51.000 Didn't you see that video of me shining a black man's shoes?
00:45:53.000 That's how not racist I am.
00:45:55.000 That's how not racist I am.
00:45:56.000 And let me tell you, I am solely responsible for the failures of everybody else around me.
00:46:01.000 The height of arrogance. 0.97
00:46:02.000 The height of silliness.
00:46:04.000 And this is the same kind of principles that are pushed by Robin DiAngelo in White Fragility. 0.87
00:46:11.000 Again, she asserts things like whiteness is not just a skin color, it's an entire system of oppression. 0.77
00:46:15.000 All white people are complicit in perpetuating this system, is the basic idea. 0.75
00:46:19.000 And once you accept that, well then, I guess that it all does become Shelby Steele's dissociation.
00:46:26.000 That's all it's about. 1.00
00:46:27.000 How far does this stupidity go? 1.00
00:46:28.000 Here's how far it goes. 1.00
00:46:30.000 Yesterday in Oakland, there were some quote-unquote nooses in a park.
00:46:34.000 They weren't nooses.
00:46:35.000 Okay, Oakland's mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially charged symbols of terror.
00:46:41.000 Her name is Libby Schaaf.
00:46:42.000 This is the same woman who suggested that she was going to warn all the illegal immigrants in the Oakland area before ICE came to town.
00:46:48.000 Okay, these things do not look remotely like nooses, by the way.
00:46:51.000 Not remotely like nooses.
00:46:53.000 If you've ever seen a noose, this does not look like a noose.
00:46:55.000 This looks like workout equipment because it's workout equipment.
00:46:58.000 And guess what?
00:46:58.000 It turns out to have been workout equipment.
00:47:01.000 The police department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes, and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.
00:47:09.000 Oh, you mean like to do, I don't know, push-ups?
00:47:13.000 You mean to do, like, pulls?
00:47:15.000 Right?
00:47:15.000 This is all stuff that people do in gyms.
00:47:17.000 They were removed by city officials.
00:47:18.000 So who put them up?
00:47:19.000 Victor Sangby, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system.
00:47:26.000 He also shared video of the swing in use.
00:47:28.000 Out of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought or looked anywhere close to a noose, he says.
00:47:33.000 Folks have tried using it for exercise.
00:47:34.000 It was a really fun addition to the park we tried to create.
00:47:37.000 It's unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to have a good time got misinterpreted into something so heinous.
00:47:43.000 Schaaf said that they were going to do a hate crime investigation anyway.
00:47:49.000 She said officials must start with the assumption these are hate crimes.
00:47:52.000 And then the mayor and Nicholas Williams, the city's director of Parks and Recreation, said it didn't matter whether the ropes were meant to send a racist message.
00:48:00.000 She says intentions don't matter when it comes to terrorizing the public.
00:48:02.000 Here is Libby Schaaf talking about dissociation. 0.98
00:48:04.000 She's not only dissociating from racism here, she's dissociating from crap that isn't even racist and was put up in a public park by a black man for exercise. 0.99
00:48:13.000 To demonstrate just how not racist she is. 0.98
00:48:15.000 If this isn't the height of navel-gazing narcissism, I don't know what is.
00:48:19.000 Here's Libby Schaaf explaining.
00:48:20.000 Intentions don't matter when it comes to a hate crime investigation.
00:48:23.000 I have a question.
00:48:24.000 How could intentions possibly not matter in a hate crime investigation?
00:48:28.000 The entire crime is the hate, which is the intent.
00:48:31.000 How could you possibly suggest intentions don't matter in a hate crimes investigation?
00:48:36.000 And by the way, if that's not true, then I said, if she's right, she should just go ahead and prosecute the black guy for putting up exercise equipment in the park. 0.96
00:48:43.000 Just go ahead and do it. 0.97
00:48:44.000 Prosecute him for a hate crime.
00:48:45.000 Say that he was a racist for putting up exercise equipment in a park that doesn't look like a noose but might be construed by someone as a noose. 1.00
00:48:51.000 Here's Libby Schaaf, idiot mayor of Oakland. 1.00
00:48:54.000 We have to see this moment for what it is, a reckoning. 1.00
00:48:59.000 And in Oakland, we cannot further terrorize or traumatize our black residents.
00:49:06.000 And yes, the incidents of the last few weeks, but frankly of the last few centuries, is the backdrop upon which we have to make these decisions today.
00:49:17.000 Enough is enough.
00:49:18.000 And again, the intentions do not matter, because the harm is real.
00:49:26.000 No, the harm is not real!
00:49:28.000 And no, the intentions do matter!
00:49:30.000 And also, if you're gonna talk about oppression over the centuries, let's see, it goes something like this.
00:49:33.000 Black slavery, Jim Crow, Exercise equipment in the park put up by a black guy in Oakland. 1.00
00:49:39.000 Not even on the chart, Libby Schaaf, you idiot! 1.00
00:49:41.000 You stupid dolt! 1.00
00:49:43.000 She says the symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. 1.00
00:49:46.000 It's evil!
00:49:47.000 And it symbolizes hatred! 0.96
00:49:50.000 Man, that feeling of white guilt must be, the feeling of white guilt which is connected with the, once it's been alleviated, the feeling of white supremacy, she's better than all the other white people and she's more intelligent than all the black people who must be patriarchally cared for by her, right? 0.93
00:50:02.000 It doesn't matter.
00:50:03.000 If a black person was offended by a thing that is completely non-offensive, well then Libby Schaaf is here to take care of you. 0.94
00:50:08.000 Like, it's so, it's so paternalistic. 0.97
00:50:11.000 It's so insanely paternalistic. 0.99
00:50:12.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.96
00:50:13.000 And this is also what stands behind the tearing down of the statues, right? 0.86
00:50:16.000 You're disassociating from American history.
00:50:18.000 If you dissociate from American history, then you're good. 0.99
00:50:20.000 And it's not enough to dissociate from Confederate American history, right?
00:50:24.000 That's not enough to dissociate from... By the way, I don't think that Americans should dissociate from American history.
00:50:30.000 I don't.
00:50:31.000 I think they should own American history.
00:50:33.000 And they should study American history.
00:50:34.000 And they should realize the evils of American history.
00:50:36.000 Dissociating does no good.
00:50:38.000 Dissociating is about you relieving your own feelings of inadequacy.
00:50:43.000 It does not actually answer the problem of American history.
00:50:45.000 It's designed to make you feel better dissociating.
00:50:48.000 Right? 0.75
00:50:50.000 Tearing down George Washington statues, again, goes to the broader argument, America's evil, America's racist.
00:50:54.000 The proof that America's evil and America's racist is inequality of outcome that can only be alleviated by white leftists fixing America by ripping down her institutions to prove they're not racist and to reestablish their moral authority.
00:51:04.000 So you get a bunch of white people in Portland pulling down a George Washington statue, again, the founder of the United States.
00:51:14.000 Big crowd pulling down and then burning an American flag on top of it.
00:51:18.000 Pretty obvious what is going on here.
00:51:20.000 Pretty obvious what is going on here.
00:51:22.000 It's an absurdity.
00:51:24.000 It's a disgrace.
00:51:25.000 But that is the goal.
00:51:27.000 The goal is tear down the system.
00:51:29.000 Tear down the system. 0.89
00:51:31.000 All to make mostly white leftists feel better.
00:51:34.000 That really is what so much of this is about.
00:51:37.000 And guess what? 0.51
00:51:37.000 Tearing down the system isn't going to help black Americans. 0.51
00:51:39.000 It is not going to help black Americans. 1.00
00:51:41.000 Black Americans, if they were a country, black Americans, they would be, I believe, what was it? 0.98
00:51:45.000 The 20th most prosperous country on planet Earth, if black Americans were their own country. 0.94
00:51:48.000 The pathway to success in America for black Americans is the same as the pathway to success for everyone else.
00:51:53.000 Because this is a free country.
00:51:55.000 And black people are free and independent and fully capable of making incredible decisions, which the vast majority of them do.
00:52:02.000 Which the vast, vast majority of black Americans do.
00:52:04.000 The white paternalism of the left is despicable and the attempt to tear down the only institutions that have ever provided for the prosperity, the wild prosperity of vast differences in race over time is the system that has prevailed in the United States.
00:52:17.000 Thank God.
00:52:18.000 And we have moved beyond the legalized racism of Jim Crow.
00:52:22.000 We've moved beyond slavery.
00:52:23.000 That's what Juneteenth is about celebrating.
00:52:25.000 And the price of freedom for all Americans, white, black, right, left, the price of freedom is individual responsibility and making good decisions.
00:52:34.000 And the best thing you can do for somebody is tell them that they have opportunity in the United States.
00:52:37.000 Take hold of it with both hands.
00:52:39.000 Take hold of it with both hands.
00:52:40.000 Grab the opportunity.
00:52:42.000 Take advantage of the opportunity.
00:52:43.000 And if you actually see an instance of Martin Luther King style, definition racism, you know, somebody standing in your way, then tell us about it.
00:52:51.000 But don't give me we have to tear down the entire system and don't give me that nooses in the park that are not nooses are actually just part of American history and don't give me and don't give me that looting and rioting are okay so long as they are carried out by people who have been historically victimized. 0.92
00:53:07.000 That is soft bigotry of law expectations crap and all it does is make white leftists feel better and it does not forward the access and the success of black Americans one iota.
00:53:17.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content. 0.98
00:53:21.000 Otherwise, have yourself a weekend, okay?
00:53:23.000 Really take the weekend off and enjoy.
00:53:25.000 As I recommended, I mean, I read from it broadly today, go buy a copy of White Guilt by Shelby Steele.
00:53:29.000 I think it is incredibly both evocative and insightful. 0.99
00:53:33.000 Go check that out, as opposed to one of these stupid books about white fragility that is storing up the bestseller charts to make white leftists feel better. 0.99
00:53:38.000 Go check out Shelby Steele and read that over the weekend. 1.00
00:53:41.000 That'll give you something to do.
00:53:42.000 We'll see you back here on Monday.
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