The Glenn Beck Program - April 14, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Jason Whitlock & Lori Meyers ｜ 4⧸14⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

149.79489

Word Count

5,806

Sentence Count

13

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast uh today glenn is on the air he is uh working from home now with his back
00:00:07.160 issues but he is in rare form today talking about the importance of schools and education and how
00:00:14.360 we're forming the next you know hopeful century of our our lives here in this country uh you know
00:00:22.280 there is so much going on with critical race theory and all of this craziness going on in our
00:00:30.580 schools what can you do about it though we talked to a teacher who's actually making a difference
00:00:35.360 and changing has changed multiple cities uh and the way they're treating critical race theory we're
00:00:40.000 going to get into that today also talk to jason whitlock jason whitlock of course the journalist
00:00:45.080 he's here to talk about what's going on in minnesota he was put in twitter jail twitter
00:00:51.620 has released him from twitter jail we'll tell you how that happened which still is very very bizarre
00:00:56.580 and go into what is the solution to everything we're dealing with in uh when it comes to racial
00:01:03.220 relations and minnesota and our relation with police and everything else we'll get into that today all
00:01:09.020 in the podcast don't forget tonight is a back-to-back stew does america 8 p.m eastern followed by a new
00:01:14.920 glenn tv uh it's going to be a really a really good uh back-to-back show i know glenn has uh doing a lot
00:01:20.720 on education again tonight and what we can do about it i'm going to go into the uh what this
00:01:25.940 johnson and johnson vaccine thing really means i've been looking into all the data uh the media is is
00:01:31.640 doing quite a job on this one we'll get into that as well don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and
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00:01:41.240 free they're always available to you thanks so much here's the podcast
00:01:44.540 you're listening to the best of the glenn back program
00:01:55.400 all right i'm going to give you a couple of stories here and the first story i want you to put a pin in
00:02:03.420 um because i just i want i want to i want to give it to you but then i'm going to come back to it so
00:02:09.720 put a pin in this story listen to this tuesday it was reported that centers of disease control and
00:02:15.240 prevention and the food and drug administration announced that they were recommending a pause
00:02:20.300 in the administration of the johnson and johnson covid19 vaccine out of an abundance of caution
00:02:26.400 according to release statements officials are examining whether the whether the vaccine was
00:02:32.600 linked to six cases in the u.s of rare and severe type of blood clot the one shot johnson and johnson
00:02:43.440 vaccine has been administered more than 6.8 million times across the country but we have found six
00:02:52.740 cases out of the 6.8 million six cases and so they've stopped
00:02:59.920 put a pin in that by the way so you have an idea the risk of blood clots from the pill
00:03:10.540 is 2 000 times higher than what johnson and johnson is experiencing now in the vaccine
00:03:18.820 the pill 2 000 times higher for these exact blood clots
00:03:25.440 why is this being stopped okay put a pin in it i'm coming back i need to talk to you about
00:03:34.480 a couple of fronts that i'm just going to go over just so you were aware of
00:03:39.660 but we'll do all the work on this so you don't have to worry about it we have our eyes on it
00:03:45.320 romania's former anti-russian president is saying now that nato will not lift a finger for ukraine
00:03:54.400 and in his opinion the russians will now occupy ukraine the whole country and threaten europe next
00:04:02.520 there's an allegation that hungary has made a secret deal with moscow to get territory it lost
00:04:09.740 in world war ii if they leave nato putin has threatened war with nato if they intervene in support
00:04:16.960 of ukraine the reason why this is coming up now is because there are 250 000 troops that russia has
00:04:25.640 deployed on the ukrainian border now they expect experts who are watching this that that number
00:04:33.400 will rapidly increase over the next couple of weeks the russians have said no this is a regular
00:04:38.020 exercise no it's not no it's not now they may retreat if we stand up but we're not going to
00:04:45.540 russians are also deploying mobile mortars this according to james which watches this stuff for
00:04:54.060 a living that these mortars will fire tactical nuclear weapons and such weapons are being moved
00:05:02.020 up to the border right now secretary of defense austin is going to nato headquarters as the war
00:05:09.020 alert alert level has been raised to potential imminent threat putin is going to deliver a speech in the
00:05:16.420 next 10 days rumors in russia say it will be an ultimatum of some kind the ground in ukraine is
00:05:23.660 muddy at the moment when it dries by mid main mid may or later the russian offensive some believe will
00:05:30.860 begin the ukrainian president zelensky says that war cannot be avoided now let me say that again war
00:05:39.620 cannot be avoided now ukraine will lose its sovereignty if it gave in to the present russian demands zelensky
00:05:46.600 said war might be avoided if nato admitted ukraine as a member the united states despite joe biden saying
00:05:54.620 i'm tough on putin said no no we're not going to do that we are now in the period what has been called
00:06:03.360 one clenched fist in which russia and china start flexing their military muscle we'll see how it plays
00:06:11.060 over the next couple of weeks there will be serious economic consequences because of the russian army
00:06:17.540 it'll be much closer and more threatening and nato will have an absolute crisis massive amounts of
00:06:25.700 money will be needed and guess who will have to pony up for all of that now let me give you do you
00:06:33.680 remember what you put a pin in let me give you something else that we're watching on the war front
00:06:39.440 the new director of national intelligence has issued a report saying
00:06:47.260 quote some hard-hit developing countries are experiencing financial and humility and
00:06:52.380 humanitarian crisis increasing the risks of surges in migration collapsed governments or internal
00:07:00.340 conflict the economic i'm quoting the economic fallout from the pandemic is likely to create or
00:07:07.620 worsen instability in at least a few and perhaps many countries as people grow more desperate in the
00:07:16.480 face of interlocking pressures that include sustained economic downturns job losses and disrupted supply
00:07:24.280 chains if there is a collapse still quoting if there is an economic collapse in any given country
00:07:31.600 it is only natural that there will be migration flows to places where the economy is more robust
00:07:37.920 are we concerned about the economic impacts that this might have which could lead to migration
00:07:44.960 as militaries face growing calls to cut budgets gaps are emerging in the u.s peacekeeping operations
00:07:53.100 military training and preparedness counterterrorism operations and arms control monitoring verification and
00:07:59.160 compliance these gaps are likely to grow without a quick end to the pandemic and a rapid recovery making
00:08:05.920 managing the conflict more difficult particularly because the pandemic has not caused any
00:08:12.000 diminution diminution diminution diminution making things smaller in the number of intensity or
00:08:21.000 of conflicts my god how did i get this job i apologize radio hall of fame we expect covid19 to remain a threat
00:08:29.280 to populations worldwide until vaccines and therapeutics are widely distributed let me again take that pin back out
00:08:35.780 now and talk about johnson and johnson 2 000 times more likely to have those blood clots with the pill
00:08:46.220 than with this vaccine why are we shutting things down why why is this happening why aren't we
00:08:57.840 uh uh uh doing everything we can to get back onto our feet and open things up why are we not watching our border and
00:09:08.940 making our border super strong if our director of national intelligence is saying revolutions are coming
00:09:18.200 and when one boat is swamped people will rush and swamp the next boat
00:09:24.440 oh by the way one last in this iran has ramped up uranium enrichment to the highest levels they've
00:09:35.700 ever done as biden seeks to re-enter the nuclear deal
00:09:40.180 okay i'm done with all i'm done with all that we will keep our eye on that for you
00:09:52.240 um and let me give you a piece of good news and here's how i know it's good news the new york times the daily
00:10:02.360 today was freaking out about it and that is the rights of religion are being strengthened there was a
00:10:11.480 decision uh about uh churches being able to hold you know bible study and be able to open up their
00:10:19.740 churches and and and and be treated like the bowling alley um and not held to uh a standard that walmart
00:10:28.840 doesn't have to be held to
00:10:30.380 well it went in the favor of religion thank god five four decision and it has real impact
00:10:42.160 and i know this because the new york times just did their daily today where they talked to their
00:10:49.860 expert on the constitution uh you know a reporter from the new york times uh and uh he says the
00:10:57.920 supreme court has really handed uh victory after victory after victory for the religions of america
00:11:06.940 and to so much so that they're they're getting special treatment i mean and and uh this this court's
00:11:15.920 completely out of control they are freaking out the one thing that donald trump did that you can never
00:11:24.920 take away from him and you can also say thank god thank god
00:11:31.160 is what he did on the supreme court and the lower courts now they don't like it because it's not an activist
00:11:39.880 court in their favor and quite honestly i don't think it's an activist court in any favor as it should
00:11:47.060 be it's just strictly constitutional many times i don't want an activist on the right and i don't want
00:11:55.500 an activist on the left i want a constitutional court they're freaking out because it seems as though
00:12:03.920 that's what we have at least on the first amendment
00:12:06.840 as it should be as it should be don't get discouraged religious rights have been greatly empowered
00:12:19.100 now my question to your church my question that you should be asking your pastor priest or rabbi
00:12:26.620 we have been emboldened we have gotten many of our rights back that have been lost for a long time
00:12:35.480 what are we as christians and what are you as the pastor and we as a church doing
00:12:42.120 to protect the rights of all mankind pulpits pastors priests you have failed us you have failed the
00:12:55.620 country do not fail anymore god has helped you out by giving you enriched and strengthened rights
00:13:05.900 for the first time in a long time you have almost full access to the rights that god has given you
00:13:16.320 what are you going to do with that
00:13:18.940 the best of the glenn beck program
00:13:24.820 oh my gosh do we
00:13:35.940 did you have anything but bread and water in twitter jail jason they actually fed me very well
00:13:43.640 very very well good let me order door dash while i was wow yeah wow
00:13:48.480 well welcome back uh you know now you have your voice back twitter has got to play such an important
00:13:56.380 role in your life you know it does in terms of my media career but uh i got i don't have you ever
00:14:05.940 heard of the tv show uh the wire glenn yeah yeah the wire is widely known as the greatest show ever
00:14:12.720 it's certainly my favorite show and i don't know if it's widely known as the greatest show ever
00:14:18.320 i think that might i think that might be it is very well respected no it's very well respected
00:14:24.600 but it is not widely known as the greatest show a lot of people do say it but i mean it you know
00:14:30.620 it's not universal obviously i didn't say universal i said widely a lot of people think a lot of people
00:14:37.700 think titanic was the greatest movie no that's a lot of people think avatar was the greatest movie
00:14:43.420 that doesn't make it true anyway go ahead but if you type into google greatest tv show in history
00:14:50.160 tv there's three candidates that they're gonna get written about the sopranos the wire and breaking
00:14:56.480 bad breaking bad i was gonna say yeah uh the wire is the greatest show in tv history most competent
00:15:02.260 people recognize that and uh they had a drug kingpin named avon barksdale and he had a saying about jail
00:15:12.300 you only do two days the day you go in and the day you come out and so i just did my two days
00:15:19.880 there you go you know why did you go into twitter jail i went into twitter jail because i was critical of
00:15:27.460 the black lives matter founder that bought a 1.4 million dollar home in a neighborhood with 1.4
00:15:36.220 black population and you know she's making her living and building her brand off of saying that
00:15:44.340 white supremacy uh has total control over the destiny of black people and that all white people
00:15:51.860 are basically have privilege and they're racist and so it just seems odd to me that a woman with
00:15:58.220 those beliefs would live in a community where there's only 1.4 black people that seems contradictory
00:16:05.680 and it's i think it's 90 percent white so she'll have a lot of white cops and a lot of white people
00:16:11.140 to complain about it would be a little like dietrich bonhoff for moving into the nazi neighborhood
00:16:17.120 yeah i mean if you really believed it yeah you'd be like that doesn't really make sense
00:16:22.200 so they slammed me in twitter jail and then they waited four days and sent me a note twitter did
00:16:28.160 that said this was yesterday around 6 p.m hello thanks for reaching out about this i did not reach
00:16:36.360 out to them that's a lie uh twitter takes reports like this very seriously and our goal is to create
00:16:42.040 a safe environment for everyone to express themselves freely we've reviewed we've reviewed
00:16:46.460 your account and it looks like we made a mistake our records have been updated to indicate there was
00:16:51.580 no violation and we apologize for causing you to delete the tweet i never deleted the tweet
00:16:58.320 that's why i retweeted it right uh immediately yesterday uh we appreciate your patience while we
00:17:04.560 investigated this thanks twitter and just to add on to what uh jason said earlier i've now pulled up
00:17:10.020 two 100 greatest show uh lists of all time and from rolling stone number three breaking bad
00:17:16.040 number two the wire number one the sopranos yeah i disagree with rolling stone and then uh
00:17:22.120 you can disagree but i can't disagree
00:17:24.580 widely is fair ign has breaking bad at number four uh the sopranos at number two and the wire at number
00:17:33.680 one so i mean this is i gotta say in context i think what's number three why did you skip number
00:17:39.160 three it was the twilight zone and it wasn't involved in our in our previous conversation that's why
00:17:43.280 i skipped it all right let me tell you what's crazy about the my love of the wire and the guy that
00:17:48.580 created it is a former baltimore uh sun reporter david simon he's absolutely one of my idols he's one of
00:17:57.560 the most deranged leftists on the planet he's left of bernie sanders but i love i love what he did with
00:18:05.680 the wire he told the truth with the wire i don't know how it's so inconsistent with i know i don't know
00:18:13.680 how they do it i mean sometimes aaron sorkin it gets into places where you're like i don't think you
00:18:18.880 believe that do you aaron uh i don't know how they produce it but he's he's somebody that i just
00:18:24.800 really disagree with vehemently on politics but his stuff is brilliant um let me go back to you
00:18:32.000 a known widely known liar uh this from uh this the latest on you uh came out yesterday sports pariah
00:18:44.760 and white america's favorite lap dog jason whitlock is unfortunately a black man as such
00:18:53.440 whitlock that's a that's an amazing sentence yeah whitlock has found a niche in life in which
00:19:00.440 his whole modus operandi is to denounce bash and destroy the movement for black lives whitlock
00:19:07.220 hates black people he hates progressive black people even more he really hates black female
00:19:14.480 athletes who don't just stick to sports and he really really hates black people who protest
00:19:20.220 after an unarmed black person has been shot by the police
00:19:24.020 you're not going to even respond are you i read the i read the deal yesterday i believe
00:19:34.780 it's in the root it's one of it's one of the most dishonest vile things that you could say and i i would
00:19:44.380 be embarrassed if i worked at the root if if someone published something like that that so far removed
00:19:50.980 from the truth and just the only intent is to try to harm and damage disbarge slander smear my reputation
00:19:59.960 uh you know what's comical about this is i've actually not even comical but it's just sad that the
00:20:08.660 you know i've actually had the experience of a close family member a family member that i helped
00:20:15.240 raise a cousin that as a child came to kansas city with some other cousins of mine to visit with
00:20:22.600 visit me blah blah blah i stood in the gap because he had no relationship with his dad uh in 2012
00:20:29.120 he was killed by police uh sheriff's two sheriff's officers in indianapolis uh my family has been
00:20:36.920 through the stereotypical black lives matter experience the issue isn't a joke to me and that's
00:20:44.620 why i'm in disagreement with black lives matters because they've turned it into a hustle for money
00:20:50.760 rather than seeking any type of solutions police brutality has actually just across the board
00:20:58.980 has actually decreased in america over the last 30 or 40 years policing has actually gotten better
00:21:05.440 if we have an issue with police brutality unless i will agree that we do it's not a racial problem
00:21:13.000 trust me if you do the research and because of what happened to my family member in 2012
00:21:19.880 i've been all the way down the police brutality rabbit hole and you can find incredible incidences
00:21:28.400 that involve white police officers assassinating white people and i say that without a bit of
00:21:35.800 exaggeration i believe the young man's name is robert well you've already blown your hang on you've
00:21:40.520 already blown your credibility with the wire thing so now you're expecting now you're expecting me to
00:21:45.940 believe this isn't an overreach okay go ahead and so i'm just if we address police brutality
00:21:52.400 in mass as like oh hey we got a problem with policing and maybe they're using guns too often and they're
00:21:59.360 blah blah blah it's not a racial issue it's some people get drunk on their power as police officers
00:22:06.620 yeah and do inappropriate things and uh you know it cuts across racial lines all the studies all the data
00:22:16.360 show it uh and this this promotion of fear that people oh my god you should be afraid of the police
00:22:24.940 blah blah blah not if you cooperate and comply with them there's virtually no chance and again i look at
00:22:30.840 the stories that are being written about what just happened to dante right and everyone's saying oh he was
00:22:36.040 killed after a traffic stop no and again i'm not exonerating the police officer she what she did was
00:22:44.060 negligent and incompetent uh which which part firing her gun into a car moving away
00:22:50.620 uh thinking she had a taser in her hand when she had a handgun okay i think when you fire a weapon
00:22:58.480 you need to take a look at it and not just draw it well they also feel a little different yeah i mean
00:23:05.060 but i would take a look at it before firing yeah to make sure particularly if i was carrying two
00:23:10.000 different things and so but i don't think there's any racial intent here by this woman
00:23:16.760 i'm sorry it's terrible what's happened i don't think what she did is criminal i think it should
00:23:22.840 cost her her job and she has resigned from her job but but my number one point is if the media were being
00:23:30.080 accurate they would say dante right shot and killed after resisting arrest because that the traffic stop had
00:23:37.420 nothing to do with him being shot and killed his resistance did yeah and it wasn't even a resistance
00:23:43.480 to arrest because of the traffic stop this guy tried to choke a woman twice for 800 bucks uh she was
00:23:52.440 she was helpful to him she was nice to him and he pulled a gun on her in the end and said give me all
00:24:00.760 your money she said are you kidding me after all of this you're kidding me right he said i'm not he tried
00:24:05.500 to choke her he tried to choke her twice it went to court he was let out on a hundred thousand dollar
00:24:11.640 bail he skipped out on bail he was told that he had to you know check in he had to stay away from drugs
00:24:18.740 and guns and everything else well when they stopped him he knew he was going to jail and it wasn't about a
00:24:26.560 traffic stop he was going to jail because he not only had to face trying to choke this woman but also
00:24:34.060 skipping out a bail and doing all of the things that he was told he had to or not doing all the
00:24:40.100 things he was told he had to do to be in compliance what what does this have to do with this guy was
00:24:47.660 just trying not to go to jail he's not a good guy their media reports glenn that and this is just what
00:24:54.780 drives me crazy because i honestly believe the truth will set you free the truth is the anecdote for
00:25:01.300 a lot of the chaos but there are stories out there that all he was pulled over for an air freshener
00:25:06.300 and he was shot over a traffic violation again he was pulled over for expired plates i've been pulled
00:25:15.620 over for that uh he was pulled over and he was shot because he resisted arrest again i would have preferred
00:25:24.640 for the female police officer shot him with a taser like she was attempting to do uh but again if you
00:25:31.240 don't resist again if you don't want to be harmed by the police don't resist it trust things i've been
00:25:38.660 pulled or i i like when i used to drive i don't drive much anymore but i i've i've driven a mercedes for
00:25:45.820 20 some odd years and those things go really fast because they hook and so i was a bad speeder
00:25:52.700 and so i got pulled over a lot and i just killed the policeman with kindness
00:25:59.980 and you would be amazed how many tickets i've avoided and how much respect they've given me back
00:26:06.740 because of the respect i give them i've even as a kid when i was uh i think a junior or senior in
00:26:15.400 college i'm home in indianapolis visiting my stepmother and stepsister and stepbrother
00:26:21.740 who live in the hood and so at night i got pulled over for an expired license plate
00:26:30.160 and i had a suspended driver's license oh my gosh for an unpaid traffic ticket
00:26:38.240 and in indianapolis at that time this is 1989 1990 sometime around there that was an automatic
00:26:45.340 arrest that was an shot and killed you didn't they they did they shot and killed you big old
00:26:50.840 police cops said hey get out of the car i got out of the car put your hands behind your back i put my
00:26:54.680 hands behind my back he put me into the back of his car and he drove me to jail and and and i was at
00:27:02.020 this time i wasn't as pudgy as i am now i was still fresh off the college football field and so i
00:27:08.020 was kind of swell swelled up and you know i looked the part of somebody and this is in the middle of
00:27:12.880 the night 10 p.m midnight i looked the part of somebody that could be a threat to the police or
00:27:16.900 whatever but anyway got it and so i'm in the back of the car like oh man i'm going to jail oh man i'm
00:27:22.300 going and the cops said hey man they're gonna be so scared of you and you'll be out of here in 10 12 hours
00:27:28.200 shut up and i shut up and went to jail this is the best of the glenbeck program
00:27:38.280 there is a super spreader event and this super spreader event is far more dangerous and uh truly
00:27:49.740 deadly to our children and this virus has escaped the university labs and it is super spreading through
00:27:58.060 our culture it is truly deadly for your kids and it is i mean almost a religion now it's called crt for
00:28:10.000 short it's rooted in marxism and it is flooding our public school systems you've never seen anything
00:28:19.220 like this uh now just yesterday we found out in santa clara county the um uh the board of education
00:28:30.280 has just called the u.s a parasitic system based on the invasion of white male settlers teachers are
00:28:39.180 instructed to cash in on kids inherent empathy that is a quote they also say in the training that
00:28:47.580 you got to be very careful if you're online parents are now watching so be very very careful
00:28:54.720 it is spreading everywhere and it is deadly deadly to our society and quite honestly i think deadly to
00:29:05.240 the soul of our children anything that teaches that one race of people is good another race of people
00:29:11.960 are born bad is evil anything that tells my child that for whatever reason they can't make it is evil
00:29:21.300 i have a daughter with cerebral palsy and uh she beats herself up all the time it's her birthday today
00:29:30.860 she's 33 she's a miracle she's one of the nicest people i know she is really super super smart
00:29:41.080 um and anything anyone who would say you know you really can't do that oh my gosh i'd come unhinged
00:29:49.420 anybody that would do that would be evil
00:29:53.300 they're doing it every day to our kids and uh tonight our special is on this this is a must watch
00:30:02.500 if there is only one thing that you can do because there's so many things that are on fire right now
00:30:08.280 this one the house is on fire and you're standing outside and you haven't noticed yet that your kids
00:30:16.980 are still in the house you've got to get your kids out of the house until the fire is extinguished
00:30:23.980 uh so today i want to that's tonight's special on blaze tv you can get it on pluto i think it'll be up
00:30:32.100 on youtube um but it's definitely on blaze tv 9 p.m live tonight don't miss this special
00:30:40.120 it's critical we have laurie myers uh she's a california educator co-founder of educators for
00:30:47.220 quality and equality not equity important difference she's uh it's a grassroots group of educators making
00:30:55.080 sure that we're not killing our kids and teaching them poison we welcome her back to the program now
00:31:03.780 laurie how are you i'm good glenn and thank you so much for having me on today and bringing attention
00:31:10.260 to this incredibly important issue that's not just in our california schools but really all across the
00:31:16.260 country you know i think people think that it is only in uh the california schools or in those crazy
00:31:24.380 places certainly not in my school not here in south carolina tennessee texas wherever you are
00:31:30.140 but it absolutely is everywhere now uh and and i'd like to get your opinion on this do you think that
00:31:39.360 maybe that's part of the reason why the teachers unions don't want to go back to school because
00:31:44.180 by the time we do go back to school it will be a different type of education altogether
00:31:50.380 so um that's a really important point um our focus is really on the curriculum that's going to be in
00:32:00.020 schools and teachers do have a say in what happens with curriculum and teachers unions are actually
00:32:05.980 quite influential when it comes to curriculum right but for the most part the authority for curriculum
00:32:11.900 decisions lies with individual school districts and that's actually where parents and community members
00:32:18.260 have a lot of power to enact change and advocate for something better for their students
00:32:23.140 so i saw something today that i i know you can talk about and take me through this i saw a pathway to
00:32:31.240 equitable math instruction first can you can you please help other people understand the difference
00:32:37.140 between equity equity and equality they're they're being used as they're interchangeable and they are
00:32:44.600 not and maybe i'm wrong but i think whenever i see we're looking for equity i think that's a first
00:32:51.420 sign of real trouble um glenn i'm really glad you brought that up and probably the most straightforward
00:32:58.280 way to understand the difference between equality and equity is that equality which is foundational to
00:33:05.600 our country equal opportunity for all means that everybody has equal access to everything and that's the
00:33:13.080 the way it should be equitable doesn't mean equal access it means equal outcomes which
00:33:20.020 actually flies in the face of everything that we as teachers know about best educational practices
00:33:25.840 which is to grow every student to his or her individual potential um what's interesting is that i looked up
00:33:35.080 the national education association code of conduct that's the largest teacher union in the country for public
00:33:42.040 school teachers and in their code of conduct it tells teachers to believe in the belief and worth and
00:33:48.980 dignity of every individual human being that to me speaks to equality equal access not equity identical
00:33:57.980 outcome correct which is impossible by the way uh unless your standard is so incredibly low um all right so let me
00:34:07.040 get back to a pathway to equitable math instruction the gates foundation has funded this math
00:34:13.980 resource training that equates white supremacy culture uh with mathematics and the way of teaching
00:34:24.200 math mathematics of getting on the right answer and showing your work etc etc this sounds like common core
00:34:30.940 gone really really bad am i wrong i am so i am super glad you brought this up because our focus as an organization
00:34:41.520 started with ethnic studies which brought in critical race theory into the curriculum and we know
00:34:50.440 because our priority is the safety and well-being of our students how damaging critical race theory can be in the
00:34:57.000 in the context of an ethnic studies course or a history course what's shocking is that critical race theory
00:35:02.940 is now making its way into other academic areas including math and that's what we're seeing in the pathway
00:35:09.040 to equitable math resource that as you said labels quote focus on the right answer and showing your work in
00:35:16.640 only one way as white supremacy culture what's most disappointing about this document and there are many
00:35:24.000 disappointing things about this document is that there are actually really good math practices
00:35:29.160 recommended for teachers but this kind of characterization is discriminatory it's racist and it alienates
00:35:38.940 teachers so that they won't even get to the good math practices that are recommended in this document
00:35:44.020 well i i mean i'm sorry it's just again common sense if if we can't say you've got a lot of
00:35:53.980 you've got to get the right answer and you know just show me how you got to an answer and you know
00:35:58.860 you were right in many ways bridges will collapse airplanes will fall out of the sky
00:36:04.100 spaceships you know rockets will blow up on the launch pad you there there is nothing but the right answer
00:36:13.280 in mathematics you have to have the right answer and to teach that math is somehow racist when you're focusing
00:36:22.820 on the right answer is literally deadly down the line am i over am i exaggerating
00:36:30.040 i absolutely agree with that and um this is why we are in california so concerned about this particular
00:36:40.660 resource because it is included as a resource multiple times in the new california math framework
00:36:49.320 that's a draft framework it comes out once every six or seven years that is the definitive guide to
00:36:56.480 californian math teachers for teaching math k through 12 we teachers look forward to this document this
00:37:03.680 framework coming out so that we can become informed about best practices in math teaching and so that we
00:37:09.900 have a plethora of resources that we can use to enrich our math students when this resource is included in
00:37:17.120 that document it means that california would then be blessing white supremacist culture labeling math
00:37:27.520 practices as white supremacist culture and blessing that ideology for california and we all know that where
00:37:34.120 california goes in curriculum the rest of the country follows so this is the number one focus of our
00:37:40.860 advocacy efforts right now is to get this resource pulled from the california math framework
00:37:45.460 so help people understand you know let me take a quick break and then when we come back help people
00:37:52.900 understand how this is not about california you know you just said as california goes so goes the rest
00:37:59.400 of the country that's that is really important because that's an understanding of you know the capitalist
00:38:06.340 system if california and texas both sign on all of our textbooks are going to be written for those huge
00:38:13.800 states and everybody else just gets you know the leftovers they get kind they have to go kind of on
00:38:19.940 that path otherwise it's going to cost you a lot of money to develop something else differently but that's
00:38:27.240 not what we're even talking about just that alone is is bad but this is a concerted effort in every state
00:38:35.480 in the union and the speed of which this is coming at us i've never seen anything like it
00:38:43.520 you