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00:01:57.000We've talked about how the Republican Party is becoming the Parents' Party, about how moms and dads are rising up to fight for their children's education.
00:02:07.000They're pushing back against all the indoctrination that is happening in their schools.
00:02:12.000But a new development is making the Republican Party, Parents' Party argument even easier.
00:02:18.000Now, yes, we have a wide open southern border.
00:02:21.000We have double-digit inflation, but I saw this story creeping up kind of on some at first fringier websites and people sending me links.
00:02:29.000I was like, I don't know if that's true.
00:02:31.000And I started texting around and people said, Charlie, this is totally happening.
00:02:34.000Now, what's interesting is that if journalists were doing their job, they would have saw this story three weeks ago.
00:02:39.000And if the administration was doing their job, they would have saw this problem very recently.
00:02:45.000And what's the problem I'm talking about?
00:02:53.000This is not some sort of tsunami or earthquake.
00:02:56.000This is something that was deliberately done by the government.
00:03:00.000Now, whether they did this intentionally or not, we don't know, but it was deliberate.
00:03:04.000It was a force of action and a reaction that came from it.
00:03:08.000And this is exposing just how corrupt our federal government is.
00:03:13.000This is showing how incompetent our federal government is and how lobbyists destroy, pollute, contaminate any sort of process of meaningful public policy in our country.
00:04:15.000If you go to Abbott.com, do you know what they say?
00:04:20.000The first thing they say: clinical trials have a diversity problem.
00:04:24.000That's why we here at Abbott are taking action to make research more inclusive.
00:04:30.000And so you can just tell they're part of not just the medical industrial complex, they're part of all the other kinds of diversity, equity, inclusion, or diversity, inclusion, equity die sort of movement that has done so much damage to our country and continues to do that.
00:04:48.000So you go to their website, it's all this nonsense.
00:04:50.000But what most people don't know is almost all of our baby formula is created by Abbott.
00:04:59.000Is that Abbott is the baby formula kind of centerpiece?
00:05:06.000They are the, if you were to shut down, let's say, Coca-Cola, you would have a soft drink beverage crisis.
00:05:13.000There's like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, and that's it for the major creators.
00:05:39.000You don't want to have contaminated baby formula.
00:05:41.000People died as a result of it, allegedly.
00:05:43.000Okay, so what didn't happen is the next step, which is anyone in our government to say, wait a second, if we shut down the creator of 40% of our creation of baby formula in our country, who's going to replace that exactly?
00:06:00.000No one thought that through because we have clowns running our government, far too distracted on getting kickbacks and getting some sort of private and secret deals.
00:06:10.000So instead, the federal government just kind of lets it happen.
00:06:15.000And this is a government-created crisis.
00:06:19.000Now, how we got to a place ever where we are now dependent on foreign nation baby formula shows exactly the lie of foreign internationalist trade.
00:06:31.000There are certain things we should make in our country.
00:06:53.000And what happens when things other than price start to factor in?
00:06:58.000What happens when all of a sudden you go to war with a country?
00:07:00.000Or what if China doesn't want us to have baby formula anymore?
00:07:03.000Or whatever a country that we might need to.
00:07:09.000Now, mind you, the baby formula industry lobbied for years to weaken the bacteria safety testing standards, Abbott being one of them.
00:07:20.000Abbott Labs, which is Abbott Nutrition, which helps is under kind of their whole system, their whole conglomerate, I should say.
00:07:28.000They have that facility in Sturgis, Michigan.
00:07:31.000And in Sturgis, Michigan, this is where the outbreak happened and the FDA shut them down.
00:07:37.000Now, mind you, why wouldn't Abbott also say, wait a second, if you're going to shut us down, there's going to be a baby formula shortage in our country?
00:07:46.000Why did no one actually think that through?
00:07:49.000Well, I don't trust our government at all.
00:07:51.000I've become very cynical and skeptical.
00:08:42.000This is hardly the first time that there's this slow-rolling anticipated disaster happening exactly as forewarned, whether it's the exit from Afghanistan, the border surge.
00:08:52.000The Biden administration does not want to call this a crisis.
00:09:06.000The Biden regime has found a way to further irritate American parents, not just the double digits they're paying more inflation, not just the sometimes triple digits to go fill up a tank of gas, not just the deteriorating public schools and the CRT and the nonsense that's happening in our schools, but now the inability to be able to feed their babies.
00:09:27.000Look, we've known for a while that this regime does not have a pro-family focus.
00:09:32.000If you look very carefully and you kind of look at the messaging, basically the only solution the left has for the baby formula problem is just to go have more abortions.
00:09:41.000That's basically the only solution that they're putting forward.
00:09:45.000It's like, well, we just need less people, I suppose, like just have more abortions.
00:10:02.000He says, well, look, if we were mind readers, we could have saw this coming.
00:10:06.000He said, if we could have saw in the future, well, but your own government shut down the baby formula plants and you guys didn't think this through.
00:10:27.000They can't do the most basic things our government is supposed to do.
00:10:31.000And we're supposed to go push more power to these people.
00:10:33.000We're supposed to give them the ability to be able to go declare war on a nuclear power.
00:10:40.000They can't get baby formula to people.
00:10:42.000And some people say, well, it's not the government's role.
00:10:44.000It's the government that shut down the factory and we were dependent on Abbott because Abbott has some of the most talented lobbyists in Washington, D.C., being a very, very valuable company.
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00:12:02.000So, do you trust the school you send your child to?
00:12:06.000Do you think they are doing what they say they are doing?
00:12:10.000Well, as we talk more about the parents' party, of course, the Democrats are the pervert party, it's become more and more clear.
00:12:17.000We should ask questions about our local institutions, schools, communities.
00:12:23.000So, here's a new clip that has been surfaced.
00:12:25.000On elementary, it's a longer clip, but it's an elementary school teacher group bragging about how they ignore parents' requests to refer to their children by their given names and pronouns.
00:12:38.000Look, there are some phenomenal teachers out there, there are some great teachers.
00:12:44.000It just so happens that there are some really bad teachers, too.
00:12:49.000In fact, I would say there's a disproportionate amount of bad people that decide to be teachers.
00:12:54.000That doesn't mean there's not awesome teachers.
00:12:55.000We have some that listen to this program.
00:13:43.000Caregivers asked, I actually referred to their child's name in an IEP meeting, using the name that the child had asked to be referred to and their chosen pronouns.
00:13:57.000And the caregivers reacted really strongly and then followed up with me and the principal and said, I noticed that you were using a different name than my child's given name at work at birth and the pronouns that we gave them.
00:14:09.000And I'm respectfully asking that you use the name and the pronouns that we gave them.
00:14:14.000I chose my words carefully and I said, I hear you.
00:15:07.000They call them people that are just temporarily guiding them.
00:15:14.000Every mark of a tyranny or a mark of a tyranny is to break the bond between a parent and a child.
00:15:21.000This is one of the reasons why the baby formula thing doesn't actually bother them.
00:15:25.000Strong families are a bulwark against totalitarianism.
00:15:31.000Now, this was a Zoom meeting held April 26th, and it was how these teachers were bragging about how to ignore their parents' requests over pronoun use.
00:15:43.000This is a fellow panelist, a fifth-grade teacher from Massachusetts, who, yes, that was their real voice.
00:15:51.000The educator then proceeded to describe instances where he ignored parents' requests to call their child by certain pronouns.
00:16:01.000With us is an exceptional American, one of my all-time favorite people in public life, someone who has lived an incredible life and is an articulate and wise voice for how we actually solve some of these problems in our country.
00:16:18.000He is the author of the phenomenal new book that we have up on our beautiful new screen here: Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America by Dr. Ben Carson.
00:16:31.000Dr. Carson, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:33.000Thank you so much for having me, Charlie, and thanks for being a patriot.
00:16:39.000You and I had a phone call a couple weeks ago, and you just said something that really resonated with me.
00:16:43.000I thought about it since our conversation.
00:16:45.000You said, We have to fix this race problem because it's going to be our undoing.
00:16:50.000Can you elaborate on that and talk about the book?
00:16:53.000Well, you know, the reason I wrote the book is because you'll probably notice the last few years, everything seems to circle back to race, whether it has anything to do with it or not.
00:17:03.000And people are using the race issue as a codgel to beat people into submission, to make white people feel guilty, to make black people feel like victims, and other minorities to feel like victims, and just splitting us apart.
00:17:21.000The United States of America has been such an important stabilizing force in the world.
00:17:26.000Before we became a great power, there were all these despots all over the world stamping, stomping on anybody who was weaker than them and taking advantage of them.
00:17:37.000And that moderated to a significant degree when we were very strong.
00:17:43.000Now, as we're getting weak again, you can see the despot's starting to rise up again.
00:17:50.000But the interesting thing that is going on is people are trying to make it seem like the race relations in our country are deteriorating, are getting worse, and they're creating a lot of problems.
00:18:04.000And in a way, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because if you teach our children that the most important determinant of what happens in their lives is the color of their skin, obviously you are going to create some resentment.
00:18:19.000You know, a friend of mine's granddaughter came home not long ago crying and said, Grandpa, am I evil because I'm white?
00:18:29.000Where are they getting that stuff from?
00:18:31.000Obviously, they're getting it from school.
00:18:33.000This is very damaging to children as they're trying to develop their self-image.
00:18:38.000And they're also being told you might not be a girl or a boy.
00:18:41.000You know, these are very damaging things for young people who are simply trying to grow up and become normal individuals.
00:18:48.000It's not going to happen unless we become very, very proactive and get involved.
00:18:54.000And then this whole white guilt thing, you've got to realize the impact of that.
00:18:59.000If you can get a whole bunch of people feeling guilty, then they're not likely to say as much about defund the police or about letting violent criminals out to terrorize your neighborhood or not securing your southern border because they don't want you to call them bad names and they just sit in the corner with their head down.
00:19:18.000This is just awful that's going on, but we see the impact of it.
00:19:23.000And then if you can convince minorities that they're victims, if you think you're a victim, you are a victim.
00:19:56.000Now we have black admirals and generals and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and heads of foundations, heads of colleges, even Ivy League schools.
00:20:08.000We've elected a black president twice.
00:20:47.000I mean, there's so much there to unpack that I think is important.
00:20:51.000And I kind of want to zero in on one thing you said, which is that by every objective measurement, you know, America racially has been now more integrated, has more success for people of any background, if they so choose, to apply themselves in a way that we know success can, you know, the affluence curve can, you know, reach people of any background.
00:21:15.000And yet we're talking about race more than ever before.
00:21:19.000I'll be very honest, you know, because anytime that I talk about how we should be colorblind and respect people for their soul and their spirit and their character and their choices, they're saying that is a white supremacist construct, right?
00:21:37.000I mean, what motivates the, and I'm going to make sure I get this right.
00:21:41.000I believe it was the Smithsonian Museum, the African American Historical Museum.
00:21:45.000You probably remember this two summers ago that came out post-George Floyd and said that being on time and talking properly and mathematics are all part of white colonialist, white supremacist, white Eurocentric culture.
00:22:00.000I mean, there's got to be a breaking point for this, right, Doctor?
00:22:04.000Even when I was in high school, you know, it was people going around saying, you're trying to act white, you know, because I was a good student, you know, and I got good grades and I did all the appropriate things.
00:22:18.000And I would always shut them up by saying, well, dealing with all those things as being white, then what's being black?
00:22:24.000Of course, they never had a good answer for that.
00:22:27.000But, you know, what's interesting today is we have this wealth gap and it is real.
00:22:33.000You know, five to 10x white families versus black families in this country.
00:22:38.000However, if you look at Nigerian black families, Ghanaian black families in America, there's no wealth gap.
00:22:51.000You go to a Nigerian family, you'll find that a bachelor's degree is the baseline.
00:22:57.000There's such an emphasis on education and on family structure.
00:23:02.000But if you look at traditional black American families where those values are very important, education and family, you also find that there's little or no wealth gap.
00:23:14.000So is it possible that maybe we're looking at the wrong things?
00:23:23.000And so there was an article I read recently that made an argument that the big, that the people at the top levels of society, you know, that they have traded the kind of need for luxury goods for something called a luxury belief, which is something that you could say at a cocktail party or say to your friends or family.
00:23:43.000You don't actually believe it deep down, but it kind of sounds cool.
00:23:46.000Like, oh, America's systemically racist or defund the police, even though the people that say that would never want to live under that.
00:23:52.000And to be not to overly racialize this, but these are mostly upper-middle-class white liberals.
00:23:58.000And do you find actually that a lot of this racial conversation absent kind of the Ibermax Kendi people and all that, but it's actually driven.
00:24:06.000In fact, the oxygen is really driven by upper middle class white people and less of kind of the grassroots of Black America that just care about raising their kids and having a better life.
00:24:20.000And a lot of them are liberal white individuals who, to me, manifest racism more than almost anybody because they're the ones who try to determine what being black is.
00:24:35.000You know, when President Biden said, if you have trouble deciding between me and Donald Trump, you ain't black, that's about the most racist statement I've ever heard.
00:24:45.000And they're always trying to determine, you know, what you're supposed to think.
00:24:50.000And if you don't think that, and if you don't act that way, you're a race traitor, you know, you're Uncle Tom.
00:25:22.000Well, I think we have to offer alternatives.
00:25:25.000Now, recognize the Bible says in Proverbs 22:6: train up a child in the way he should go when he's old, he'll not depart from it.
00:25:34.000We can't cede the teaching of our children to those who want to fundamentally change our country.
00:25:41.000We have to provide very good alternatives.
00:25:44.000One of the things that we do at American Cornerstone through our little Patriots program is we have an online learning program, free of charge, by the way, because of generous sponsors, which teaches them about our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our foundational principles, faith, liberty, community, and life.
00:26:07.000Has a little ego called Liberty Eagle, who's the guide.
00:26:11.000Liberty Eagle, by the way, has a left wing and a right wing.
00:26:15.000Can't fly with a left wing, with two left wings or two right wings.
00:26:19.000Got to learn how to get along together.
00:26:21.000We've got to learn how to talk to each other.
00:26:24.000And one of the points that I bring out very strongly in the book is that we have a choice to make.
00:26:32.000Are we going to build our future on our past failings or are we going to build our future on our great successes?
00:26:43.000Obviously, if we look at our successes and don't throw away our failures, but we learn from our failures, we're going to go much further and much faster.
00:26:54.000But if we continue to look back and say, you did this to me, therefore we ended, you know, how is that ever going to lead us to a good place?
00:27:17.000Now, I just want to say, if we can just stop for a moment and think about who we are as human beings and think about this magnificent thing we have that's called the human brain.
00:27:30.000It's the most fantastic organ system in the universe.
00:27:34.000Billions and billions of neurons, hundreds of billions of interconnections can process more than 2 million bits of information in one second.
00:27:42.000Now, interestingly, if you take a human brain and you put it next to an animal, just say a dog, both of their brains topographically look similar.
00:27:57.000However, the midbrain of the dog, it's much better developed than the human midbrain.
00:28:02.000What does the midbrain allow you to do?
00:28:04.000To react, to look at something and react to it.
00:28:08.000And that's why animals react a whole lot faster, cat-like reflexes.
00:28:11.000But people have much bigger, better developed frontal lobes where you engage in rational thought processing, extracting information from the past and present, integrating it to a plan, projecting it into the future, planning, strategizes, analyzing.
00:28:27.000And that's why we don't have to act like animals and just look at somebody's skin color and react to it.
00:28:34.000God has given us much higher processing capabilities than that.
00:28:39.000And why would we be teaching our children to act like animals?
00:29:20.000I remember going to south side of Chicago, Wendell Phillips High School, and one of the banks had purchased copies of Gifted Hands, my first book, for all the students.
00:29:32.000When I walked in there, you would have thought Michael Jerickson came in there.
00:30:44.000So to say that there's no difference, that every situation is exactly the same, actually is not borne out when you look at the statistics.
00:30:53.000Also, when you're looking at poverty, there was a very well-known study done by the Brookings Institute that said that there are three things that you can do to reduce your likelihood of living in poverty to 2% to 3% or less.
00:31:39.000I'll tell you, my mother was probably the wisest person I ever knew.
00:31:43.000She had less than a third grade education, got married at age 13, had to work very hard.
00:31:49.000But the thing about her, and perhaps the most valuable thing she passed on to me, my brother, don't make excuses.
00:31:57.000And anytime we made an excuse for anything, the next thing out of her mouth was a poem called Yourself to Blame.
00:32:04.000And the next question out of her mouth was, do you have a brain?
00:32:07.000And if the answer was yes, then you could have thought your way out of it.
00:32:11.000It doesn't matter what Mary or Susan or Bob or anybody else said or did.
00:32:16.000And when you grow up that way, it makes a profound difference.
00:32:19.000And that's the way it used to be in America when we had the can-do attitude, which is rapidly being replaced with the what can do for me attitude.