Glenn Beck's first guest on the Glenn Beck Program, Damani Felder, talks about his encounter with Black Lives Matter protesters while out for dinner. Also, Ben Shapiro stops by to go over his new book, How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps, Fox News has been hit hard with major allegations involving Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Ed Henry, we go over some of the information that s been released from all of this, and do we have a possible Brett Kavanaugh situation on our hands? We are the first ever Citizen Brief, brought to you by the Woke Party.
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00:01:17.340Damani is the founder of the Wright Brothers Conservative Political Activist Group.
00:01:27.440He is a podcaster, and he happened to be in a restaurant when Black Lives Matter walked in.
00:01:35.500And I saw this video from him, what, a week ago or so?
00:01:39.020And it is absolutely phenomenal, because here's a black guy standing up, basically being called a racist and being told what to care about.
00:02:52.620We're going to continue to do our thing and enjoy our evening.
00:02:54.680And so then a few minutes later, that same group walked past us again.
00:03:00.040And what was interesting was even then, no one tried to verbally assault or abuse them.
00:03:05.840They let them do their thing, and we just continued on as normal with our evening.
00:03:10.100But then that same group parked themselves about 50 yards away from the restaurant,
00:03:13.820and really what the goal was was to attract attention.
00:03:16.620And when they didn't get the attention they wanted, that is when they came up to the restaurant where we all were enjoying ourselves
00:03:23.640and decided to continue to shout until they were able to provoke someone standing up for themselves.
00:03:29.080As you saw in the video, there were young black children who were literally feet away from this group of predominantly white BLM rioters or protesters.
00:03:38.020And these people are using the coarsest, harshest language available, and they say they're calling for justice and racial unity
00:03:46.260when the crazy thing is what we have there already at the restaurant was the epitome of everything we claim to desire.
00:04:57.440They take that as some sort of wanton callousness, and then they react as they deem to be appropriate,
00:05:04.780which in this case was essentially setting the entire establishment down just because they felt like they weren't being heard loudly enough
00:05:12.660or they weren't being coddled by the people at the restaurant.
00:05:15.780So it was just one of those things that escalated needlessly.
00:05:18.820And when I saw it developing, my first thought was I need to show people what really is going on,
00:06:57.180And how is it that so many people are being duped by it?
00:07:00.320Well, what I think it is really is there's a lot of young people out there, young adults, if you will,
00:07:08.060who desire to feel like they are a part of something special.
00:07:12.280That's the concept of virtue signaling.
00:07:14.560So a lot of those young white people who are out there creating chaos on an otherwise peaceful evening,
00:07:20.180for them, they were doing that because they wanted to feel as if they belonged to this organization.
00:07:24.700And we know the organization has come out publicly and stated that they're against notions like what they call the Western concept of a nuclear family.
00:07:34.120And we know, I know for a fact in the African-American community, one of the biggest problems we have is fatherlessness.
00:07:40.260So the crazy thing is the stated goal of Black Lives Matter contradict what any African-American or any American really should be striving for.
00:07:48.580It has been hijacked by a lot of people who claim to stand for social justice, but who evidently have no problem ruining an evening,
00:07:58.180creating a chaos in the face of young children using profanity.
00:08:02.660The movement has spun out of control at this point.
00:08:05.060And all they really are doing right now is being political opportunists, utilizing any perceived instance of tragedy,
00:08:12.960in this case, the George Floyd situation, in co-opting that in order to justify their violent, unruly action.
00:08:22.000So I saw a poll yesterday, six in 10 Americans overall believe that the founders were good and America is good.
00:08:34.720Uh, but when you go beyond the, uh, when you start looking in youth and African-American youth, you're looking at the reverse.
00:08:44.680You're looking at, uh, a, a maximum of four out of 10 think that America is good.
00:08:55.800Honestly, it's incumbent upon, especially young people now to do their own research and really understand history as it stands.
00:09:04.720Uh, unfortunately our public education system is largely controlled by the left.
00:09:10.860So the left disseminates what news or what information or what history anyone is privy to.
00:09:16.440But the thing is, especially for young people, we have no excuses at this point.
00:09:20.300We have so much access to information, but what separates some from others is who is willing to actually dig to find the information that the left honestly would rather young Americans not be privy to.
00:09:33.800And yes, we can acknowledge the sordid history of the past as it stands with race relations, but we also have to acknowledge the incredible accomplishments we've had.
00:09:42.940Even in the last 60 years, we've gone from ruby bridges being exported by the national guard into school to being removed already from the first half black president, at least.
00:09:54.000So we can't sit here and act like the country is the most incorrigible, irredeemable country when we have made demonstrable strides to improve.
00:10:03.420But the problem with the left, too, is that what they want to do is they want to continue to perpetuate this notion that there's some sort of disadvantage by default.
00:10:12.460Essentially, it's a handicap, a racial handicap.
00:10:14.880And they weaponize the illusion of the handicap.
00:10:18.440And then they tell people what to think, and then people don't question it.
00:10:21.740So really, what is most important for us to do is just to continue to do our own research and speak the truth,
00:10:27.780because there's a lot of misinformation or a lie by omission that's being perpetrated on the American people right now by the mainstream media and by the public education system.
00:10:36.720We have to combat both simultaneously.
00:10:38.160There is a civil war going on in America.
00:10:46.100And their stated goal is the destruction of America.
00:10:50.000And I truly believe that if a Martin Luther King stood up today, he might face the same kind of consequences that Martin Luther King did.
00:10:59.780But he would save America, that if the black leadership that doesn't really seem to exist right now, except in the Al Sharptons, who aren't leading anybody in the black community.
00:11:15.940But if there was a group of men and women that stood up and had the principles of Martin Luther King, they would save the nation.
00:11:27.780Do you think that there is that group that we're going to find?
00:11:34.340You know, I'm very encouraged by what I have seen, even on social media.
00:11:39.000The response to the video that I took at that restaurant was overwhelming.
00:11:43.020And there are a lot of other people that I've been blessed to meet.
00:12:04.600We need positive leadership in our communities because for too long now, be it Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson and many others, they've used fear and oppression, if you will, to control the ideals of an entire demographic.
00:12:20.400And I'm seeing more and more people who are African-American like myself who are willing to stand up, speak out, repudiate the lies when they surface and tell people there's another way to go about this.
00:12:33.020There was so much positive change that happened as a result of Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent stance.
00:12:39.020And I would argue that more good happened because of his nonviolent stance than anything that BLM or any of these other groups have ever tried to bring to pass.
00:13:17.460Anyone who wants to support can go to my YouTube channel, which is called The Wright Brothers.
00:13:21.400Or they can find me on Twitter at Didamani Felder, Parler at Didamani Felder, Facebook at Didamani Brian Felder, and Instagram at Didamani Felder as well.
00:13:29.380But I appreciate the time, and God bless you and everyone out there.
00:13:59.100I mean, the basic three easy steps to destroy the country, it really is based on the notion that in order for you to have a country, in order for you to have a functional nation, you have to have a common, what I call a unionist philosophy of unionist culture and unionist history.
00:14:14.140What that means is shared philosophy, culture, and history.
00:14:18.080And when it comes to philosophy, that means the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, this idea that there are such a thing as natural rights, and that those natural rights exist, pre-exist government, and are given to us by nature or nature as God.
00:14:29.420The idea that we all have those equal rights before the law, and the idea that government is instituted in order to protect those rights.
00:14:34.900That was the common philosophy of the United States.
00:14:37.420The common culture of the United States was a culture of entrepreneurialism and adventure, a spirit of adventure, that we all should have been cultivating.
00:14:44.800It's the idea that we have to have a tolerance for other people's rights, even if we don't like how they exercise the rights, we understand that they do have rights.
00:14:50.700And we have to have a certain militant in defense of those rights.
00:14:53.800And we also have to have an understanding that our social institutions exist in order to cultivate virtue so that we can have a virtuous people with rights so that the rights aren't too often abused.
00:15:02.860And then finally, we have to have a shared history, meaning we have to understand that the history of the United States has warts and flaws, and it's insanely glorious.
00:15:12.220The history of the United States is about the foundations of the United States, the principles of the United States being more perfectly realized over time.
00:15:21.260It doesn't mean there aren't horrible, evil sections of American history in which enormous human suffering takes place.
00:15:26.240But it does mean that the vision of the United States is one of a unified country, undershared principle, and the history of the United States is the fulfillment of those principles.
00:15:34.880The disintegrationist side, what I call disintegrationist, because I don't think this is quite purely right-left.
00:15:38.860I think there are a lot of folks who consider themselves liberal, who believe a lot of the things I just said.
00:15:43.340And maybe some people on the right who don't believe a few of the things that I just said.
00:15:46.440Because of that, I call it disintegrationist.
00:15:48.680The disintegrationists wish to sort of dissolve all of those bonds by suggesting that American philosophy is at root just evil, that it's just a pasteboard.
00:15:57.500It is sort of a mask for the true underlying power dynamics of the United States.
00:16:01.520The American culture should not be built around entrepreneurialism and a sense of virtue inculcated by social institutions,
00:16:07.520but through top-down government and cultural mandates decided by our cultural letters that a spirit of tolerance for other people's rights is actually a tolerance for evil,
00:16:17.300and that you shouldn't tolerate other people's rights.
00:16:18.880Really, everybody should just be virtuous in the way that you say they should be virtuous.
00:16:22.200And then when it comes to American history, obviously, you see with the 1619 Project and all of its sort of ideological forebears and offshoots,
00:16:28.760you see this attempt to destroy American history and treat it as though American history is the unalloyed study of an evil country rooted in an evil institution,
00:16:38.100rooted in racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia, and that American history divides us rather than uniting us.
00:16:43.540And the goal there is to just level the entire system.
00:16:45.520If you can level the entire system, then you can build a new system in its wake, supposedly.
00:16:50.140So we are sitting here 56 days since George Floyd was killed.
00:17:39.280I mean, the attempt to take down not just the statues of Confederates, obviously, which is controversial, but at least understandable.
00:17:45.200Moving immediately into conversations about taking down the statues of Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Christopher Columbus is an astonishingly fast move.
00:17:54.060The attempt to shift away from rational, normal conversations about how we extirpate racism in our society.
00:18:00.300I mean, true racism, the normal belief.
00:18:02.440We actually have to define the term now because people have been misusing the term.
00:18:05.260The term racism means we believe in the innate superiority or inferiority of somebody based on their race.
00:18:10.840That definition has been manipulated and changed by the disintegrationists into something completely different.
00:18:16.580Now, the argument made by people like Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo in their bestselling books on anti-racism is that racism just means the system.
00:18:24.040That any system that has an unequal outcome by race means that the system itself is racist.
00:18:29.040So if you stand for the system, you are now perpetuating racism.
00:18:31.660So if the right to free speech ends with two racial groups in a different situation, well, that means the right to free speech is itself a racist system that must be torn down.
00:18:39.940Now, of course, the great lie there is that there is any system that levels human beings to the type where everybody ends up in an equal situation after the system is applied.
00:18:48.140I mean, even under communism, some pigs are more equal than others.
00:18:50.500But the lie there is very seductive and the lie is very powerful.
00:18:56.340And so it's now become the argument has now become that in order to be an anti-racist, and you see it's in all the anti-racist training, which is now being put forth by major corporations, being put forth by the media, being put forth in the halls of governmental power.
00:19:06.920I mean, there are members of the federal government trained in this bullcrap.
00:19:09.400The basic idea is if you don't oppose the American system, you are not, in fact, anti-racist.
00:19:13.700And that means the destruction of the American system when, you know, folks on the political left, the hard political left, suggested that they're going to transform America.
00:19:21.720They didn't just mean that they were going to change some of the tax rates.
00:19:24.560They meant that they were going to fundamentally change how Americans thought about America.
00:19:27.580And they've been wildly successful in doing so.
00:19:29.720There was a Fox News poll that came out yesterday, and it showed that 31 percent of young Americans believe that the founders were villains.
00:19:37.36031 percent, only 39 percent of young Americans under the age of 25 believe that the founders were heroes.
00:19:42.520So 61 percent couldn't actually just label the founders heroes.
00:19:45.720And there's also polarizations by race that have been exacerbated by the entire way that history is taught and the way that we've addressed America's problems in the past.
00:19:54.660That same poll showed that a plurality of black Americans thought the founders were villains.
00:19:57.860I think it was 39 to 31 thought they were villains rather than heroes, which, again, you can understand the evils of American history when it comes to race.
00:20:04.380But if you haven't taught Americans the words of Frederick Douglass, if you haven't taught Americans the words of Booker King Washington or the words of Martin Luther King,
00:20:10.400that the story of America is the fulfillment of the promissory note, that the story of America is the declaration, not John C. Calhoun's view of the declaration of independence,
00:20:18.600then you've done it wrong, and I think we've done it wrong.
00:20:20.280So, Ben, I've talked to so many people recently that have come to this place to where they just feel, I think they're in mourning almost.
00:20:35.780It's if there's no chance of winning and turning the corner.
00:20:42.140How big is this battle that we're in right now, and what are the odds, and how do we turn it?
00:20:51.960I mean, it feels almost like the final ideological battle of the United States, because what we've really come down to is a belief that the United States is something worth fighting for and upholding,
00:21:00.700and a belief that the United States is merely a vestige of evil institutions that ought to be torn down.
00:21:04.620And we had some of this battle in the 1960s, and I will remind people who are feeling despondent,
00:21:09.840that it felt like in the 1960s the battle was completely lost, and then, of course, the Reagan era came about and restored a lot of that feeling.
00:21:16.200Other countries have experienced something similar.
00:21:18.220Israel, for example, experienced a post-Zionist era in the aftermath of the Oslo Accords that spanned for about 15 to 20 years,
00:21:24.700and then it turns out that their enemies didn't go away, and now the entire Israeli population is center-right.
00:21:29.000So one of the terrible facts about humanity is that America's enemies don't go away no matter how much navel-gazing we do.
00:21:36.820So while it is true that the United States could theoretically really rip itself apart over a lot of these issues,
00:21:43.320eventually our enemies will show up at the gates.
00:21:45.800And when there's an enemy at the gates, it tends to unify Americans in a way that ideological discussions do not.
00:21:51.180I mean, I think a lot of historians have pointed out quite correctly that a lot of the fragmentation in American politics took place in the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
00:21:59.080And then we came back together a little bit around 9-11 when there was a feeling that there was a common enemy seeking to destroy American values.
00:22:05.880And now, because it doesn't feel like there's an existential threat to the United States, we're kind of turning in again.
00:22:10.940But I think it's pretty clear that there are some fairly large existential threats on the horizon.
00:22:14.560Now, the bad news is that if it takes an existential threat on the horizon to unite Americans around the greatest set of principles ever devised by man,
00:22:51.680There are people deeply embedded in our government that I think hate our system and are trying to overthrow and trying to have their own way.
00:23:02.880If we don't get to the root of this problem, which is education, which is honestly people like George Soros that are funding all of this.
00:23:19.000No, and I think this is one of the areas where Republicans really missed the boat is that the left has been fighting a culture war.
00:23:26.720And again, I hesitate to make this a left right divide because I think that there are some old fashioned liberals who just disagree with me on tax rates and the role of government,
00:23:35.680but still agree with fundamental American rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
00:23:39.440I think you saw some of them signed at Harper's Weekly Letter, Rip and Cancel Culture.
00:23:43.580But it is true that the assault on America's values that came predominantly from the left in the 1960s took place on a cultural level.
00:23:51.540And the cultural revolution always precedes the governmental revolution.
00:23:54.460So the cultural revolution that took place in the 1960s, the right never fought back on those grounds.
00:23:58.880They did a little bit with Reagan, but Reagan was a governmental figure.
00:24:02.400The fact is that we seeded the field of battle.
00:24:04.080I mean, you know this better than anyone, Glenn, is trying to get conservatives to understand that things like Hollywood entertainment
00:24:09.120is actually kind of important, that the content that your kids consume may be more important than the politicians you elect.
00:24:14.860Getting conservatives to understand that is very often very difficult because conservatives tend to think,
00:24:18.940OK, well, you know, these kids will grow up, they'll go into the business world,
00:24:21.740and then they'll have to live a real life, they'll have to earn a buck, and they'll realize the tax rates are too high,
00:24:25.880and they'll kind of swivel toward a more conservative position.
00:24:29.220Well, what happens when all of those woke, microaggression, SJW types,
00:24:34.920what happens when all of them at college, they go into the workforce,
00:24:37.640and they don't get shaped by the workforce, they shape the workforce instead.
00:24:40.960And you're seeing that happen right now in corporations around America,
00:24:43.140where CEOs are now being told what to do by woke interns.
00:32:53.520I would like to warn citizens about the next citizen brief item.
00:32:57.520It contains crime expressions that lionize patriotism and encourage white supremacy.
00:33:04.520Always remember that nationalism or national pride in America is literal hate and a war crime in accordance with the woke party's book of cancelable offenses.
00:33:19.520A man in Portland continued his hate speech when he held an American flag outside of a federal courthouse telling activists of the woke party,
00:33:28.520none of you guys represent black lives.
00:33:31.520Noting, I felt compelled to show my patriotism and try to bring a different message to the courthouse.
00:33:38.520To make matters worse, the man is a veteran or one of the marines.
00:33:46.520Thankfully, soldiers from the woke party have already begun their assault against the man in their ongoing campaign to annihilate the enemy.
00:33:56.520Salute those brave soldiers, most of whom are white and young, for attacking a black man,
00:34:03.520a depraved man who has fallen victim to white supremacy, all in the name of racism.
00:34:11.520But the forces of our foes will not stop their racism easily,
00:34:16.520just as hundreds of thousands of bourgeois capitalists had to be killed to free Sweden.
00:34:24.520As now seen in updated history books, the glory of the Venezuelan revolution,
00:34:30.520the cultural truths of the Mao revolution that led to millions dead,
00:34:36.520will be our story, where death is life, fear is comfort, and truth can never be known except by us.