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Glenn is on the air talking about the importance of schools and education, critical race theory, police brutality, and much more. Also, the FDA has halted the use of a rare blood clotting clotting disorder vaccine, and NATO has threatened war with Russia if they intervene in Ukraine.
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welcome to the podcast uh today glenn is on the air he is uh working from home now with his back
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issues but he is in rare form today talking about the importance of schools and education and how
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we're forming the next you know hopeful century of our our lives here in this country uh you know
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there is so much going on with critical race theory and all of this craziness going on in our
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schools what can you do about it though we talked to a teacher who's actually making a difference
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and changing has changed multiple cities uh and the way they're treating critical race theory we're
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going to get into that today also talk to jason whitlock jason whitlock of course the journalist
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he's here to talk about what's going on in minnesota he was put in twitter jail twitter
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has released him from twitter jail we'll tell you how that happened which still is very very bizarre
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and go into what is the solution to everything we're dealing with in uh when it comes to racial
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relations and minnesota and our relation with police and everything else we'll get into that today all
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in the podcast don't forget tonight is a back-to-back stew does america 8 p.m eastern followed by a new
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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
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on education again tonight and what we can do about it i'm going to go into the uh what this
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johnson and johnson vaccine thing really means i've been looking into all the data uh the media is is
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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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free they're always available to you thanks so much here's the podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenn back program
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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
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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
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put a pin in this story listen to this tuesday it was reported that centers of disease control and
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prevention and the food and drug administration announced that they were recommending a pause
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in the administration of the johnson and johnson covid19 vaccine out of an abundance of caution
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according to release statements officials are examining whether the whether the vaccine was
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linked to six cases in the u.s of rare and severe type of blood clot the one shot johnson and johnson
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vaccine has been administered more than 6.8 million times across the country but we have found six
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cases out of the 6.8 million six cases and so they've stopped
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put a pin in that by the way so you have an idea the risk of blood clots from the pill
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is 2 000 times higher than what johnson and johnson is experiencing now in the vaccine
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the pill 2 000 times higher for these exact blood clots
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why is this being stopped okay put a pin in it i'm coming back i need to talk to you about
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a couple of fronts that i'm just going to go over just so you were aware of
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but we'll do all the work on this so you don't have to worry about it we have our eyes on it
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romania's former anti-russian president is saying now that nato will not lift a finger for ukraine
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and in his opinion the russians will now occupy ukraine the whole country and threaten europe next
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there's an allegation that hungary has made a secret deal with moscow to get territory it lost
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in world war ii if they leave nato putin has threatened war with nato if they intervene in support
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of ukraine the reason why this is coming up now is because there are 250 000 troops that russia has
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deployed on the ukrainian border now they expect experts who are watching this that that number
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will rapidly increase over the next couple of weeks the russians have said no this is a regular
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exercise no it's not no it's not now they may retreat if we stand up but we're not going to
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russians are also deploying mobile mortars this according to james which watches this stuff for
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a living that these mortars will fire tactical nuclear weapons and such weapons are being moved
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up to the border right now secretary of defense austin is going to nato headquarters as the war
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alert alert level has been raised to potential imminent threat putin is going to deliver a speech in the
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next 10 days rumors in russia say it will be an ultimatum of some kind the ground in ukraine is
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muddy at the moment when it dries by mid main mid may or later the russian offensive some believe will
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begin the ukrainian president zelensky says that war cannot be avoided now let me say that again war
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cannot be avoided now ukraine will lose its sovereignty if it gave in to the present russian demands zelensky
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said war might be avoided if nato admitted ukraine as a member the united states despite joe biden saying
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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
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one clenched fist in which russia and china start flexing their military muscle we'll see how it plays
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over the next couple of weeks there will be serious economic consequences because of the russian army
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it'll be much closer and more threatening and nato will have an absolute crisis massive amounts of
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money will be needed and guess who will have to pony up for all of that now let me give you do you
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remember what you put a pin in let me give you something else that we're watching on the war front
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the new director of national intelligence has issued a report saying
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quote some hard-hit developing countries are experiencing financial and humility and
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humanitarian crisis increasing the risks of surges in migration collapsed governments or internal
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conflict the economic i'm quoting the economic fallout from the pandemic is likely to create or
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worsen instability in at least a few and perhaps many countries as people grow more desperate in the
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face of interlocking pressures that include sustained economic downturns job losses and disrupted supply
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chains if there is a collapse still quoting if there is an economic collapse in any given country
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it is only natural that there will be migration flows to places where the economy is more robust
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are we concerned about the economic impacts that this might have which could lead to migration
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as militaries face growing calls to cut budgets gaps are emerging in the u.s peacekeeping operations
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military training and preparedness counterterrorism operations and arms control monitoring verification and
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compliance these gaps are likely to grow without a quick end to the pandemic and a rapid recovery making
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managing the conflict more difficult particularly because the pandemic has not caused any
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diminution diminution diminution diminution making things smaller in the number of intensity or
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of conflicts my god how did i get this job i apologize radio hall of fame we expect covid19 to remain a threat
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to populations worldwide until vaccines and therapeutics are widely distributed let me again take that pin back out
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now and talk about johnson and johnson 2 000 times more likely to have those blood clots with the pill
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than with this vaccine why are we shutting things down why why is this happening why aren't we
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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
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making our border super strong if our director of national intelligence is saying revolutions are coming
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and when one boat is swamped people will rush and swamp the next boat
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oh by the way one last in this iran has ramped up uranium enrichment to the highest levels they've
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ever done as biden seeks to re-enter the nuclear deal
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okay i'm done with all i'm done with all that we will keep our eye on that for you
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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
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today was freaking out about it and that is the rights of religion are being strengthened there was a
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decision uh about uh churches being able to hold you know bible study and be able to open up their
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churches and and and and be treated like the bowling alley um and not held to uh a standard that walmart
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well it went in the favor of religion thank god five four decision and it has real impact
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and i know this because the new york times just did their daily today where they talked to their
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expert on the constitution uh you know a reporter from the new york times uh and uh he says the
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supreme court has really handed uh victory after victory after victory for the religions of america
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and to so much so that they're they're getting special treatment i mean and and uh this this court's
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completely out of control they are freaking out the one thing that donald trump did that you can never
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take away from him and you can also say thank god thank god
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is what he did on the supreme court and the lower courts now they don't like it because it's not an activist
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court in their favor and quite honestly i don't think it's an activist court in any favor as it should
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be it's just strictly constitutional many times i don't want an activist on the right and i don't want
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an activist on the left i want a constitutional court they're freaking out because it seems as though
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that's what we have at least on the first amendment
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as it should be as it should be don't get discouraged religious rights have been greatly empowered
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now my question to your church my question that you should be asking your pastor priest or rabbi
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we have been emboldened we have gotten many of our rights back that have been lost for a long time
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what are we as christians and what are you as the pastor and we as a church doing
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to protect the rights of all mankind pulpits pastors priests you have failed us you have failed the
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country do not fail anymore god has helped you out by giving you enriched and strengthened rights
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for the first time in a long time you have almost full access to the rights that god has given you
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did you have anything but bread and water in twitter jail jason they actually fed me very well
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very very well good let me order door dash while i was wow yeah wow
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well welcome back uh you know now you have your voice back twitter has got to play such an important
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role in your life you know it does in terms of my media career but uh i got i don't have you ever
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heard of the tv show uh the wire glenn yeah yeah the wire is widely known as the greatest show ever
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it's certainly my favorite show and i don't know if it's widely known as the greatest show ever
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i think that might i think that might be it is very well respected no it's very well respected
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but it is not widely known as the greatest show a lot of people do say it but i mean it you know
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it's not universal obviously i didn't say universal i said widely a lot of people think a lot of people
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think titanic was the greatest movie no that's a lot of people think avatar was the greatest movie
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that doesn't make it true anyway go ahead but if you type into google greatest tv show in history
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tv there's three candidates that they're gonna get written about the sopranos the wire and breaking
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bad breaking bad i was gonna say yeah uh the wire is the greatest show in tv history most competent
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people recognize that and uh they had a drug kingpin named avon barksdale and he had a saying about jail
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you only do two days the day you go in and the day you come out and so i just did my two days
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there you go you know why did you go into twitter jail i went into twitter jail because i was critical of
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the black lives matter founder that bought a 1.4 million dollar home in a neighborhood with 1.4
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black population and you know she's making her living and building her brand off of saying that
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white supremacy uh has total control over the destiny of black people and that all white people
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are basically have privilege and they're racist and so it just seems odd to me that a woman with
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those beliefs would live in a community where there's only 1.4 black people that seems contradictory
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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
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to complain about it would be a little like dietrich bonhoff for moving into the nazi neighborhood
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yeah i mean if you really believed it yeah you'd be like that doesn't really make sense
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so they slammed me in twitter jail and then they waited four days and sent me a note twitter did
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that said this was yesterday around 6 p.m hello thanks for reaching out about this i did not reach
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out to them that's a lie uh twitter takes reports like this very seriously and our goal is to create
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a safe environment for everyone to express themselves freely we've reviewed we've reviewed
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your account and it looks like we made a mistake our records have been updated to indicate there was
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no violation and we apologize for causing you to delete the tweet i never deleted the tweet
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that's why i retweeted it right uh immediately yesterday uh we appreciate your patience while we
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investigated this thanks twitter and just to add on to what uh jason said earlier i've now pulled up
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two 100 greatest show uh lists of all time and from rolling stone number three breaking bad
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number two the wire number one the sopranos yeah i disagree with rolling stone and then uh
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widely is fair ign has breaking bad at number four uh the sopranos at number two and the wire at number
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one so i mean this is i gotta say in context i think what's number three why did you skip number
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three it was the twilight zone and it wasn't involved in our in our previous conversation that's why
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i skipped it all right let me tell you what's crazy about the my love of the wire and the guy that
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created it is a former baltimore uh sun reporter david simon he's absolutely one of my idols he's one of
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the most deranged leftists on the planet he's left of bernie sanders but i love i love what he did with
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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
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how they do it i mean sometimes aaron sorkin it gets into places where you're like i don't think you
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believe that do you aaron uh i don't know how they produce it but he's he's somebody that i just
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really disagree with vehemently on politics but his stuff is brilliant um let me go back to you
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a known widely known liar uh this from uh this the latest on you uh came out yesterday sports pariah
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and white america's favorite lap dog jason whitlock is unfortunately a black man as such
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whitlock that's a that's an amazing sentence yeah whitlock has found a niche in life in which
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his whole modus operandi is to denounce bash and destroy the movement for black lives whitlock
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hates black people he hates progressive black people even more he really hates black female
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athletes who don't just stick to sports and he really really hates black people who protest
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after an unarmed black person has been shot by the police
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you're not going to even respond are you i read the i read the deal yesterday i believe
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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
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be embarrassed if i worked at the root if if someone published something like that that so far removed
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from the truth and just the only intent is to try to harm and damage disbarge slander smear my reputation
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uh you know what's comical about this is i've actually not even comical but it's just sad that the
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you know i've actually had the experience of a close family member a family member that i helped
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raise a cousin that as a child came to kansas city with some other cousins of mine to visit with
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visit me blah blah blah i stood in the gap because he had no relationship with his dad uh in 2012
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he was killed by police uh sheriff's two sheriff's officers in indianapolis uh my family has been
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through the stereotypical black lives matter experience the issue isn't a joke to me and that's
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why i'm in disagreement with black lives matters because they've turned it into a hustle for money
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rather than seeking any type of solutions police brutality has actually just across the board
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has actually decreased in america over the last 30 or 40 years policing has actually gotten better
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if we have an issue with police brutality unless i will agree that we do it's not a racial problem
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trust me if you do the research and because of what happened to my family member in 2012
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i've been all the way down the police brutality rabbit hole and you can find incredible incidences
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that involve white police officers assassinating white people and i say that without a bit of
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exaggeration i believe the young man's name is robert well you've already blown your hang on you've
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already blown your credibility with the wire thing so now you're expecting now you're expecting me to
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believe this isn't an overreach okay go ahead and so i'm just if we address police brutality
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in mass as like oh hey we got a problem with policing and maybe they're using guns too often and they're
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blah blah blah it's not a racial issue it's some people get drunk on their power as police officers
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yeah and do inappropriate things and uh you know it cuts across racial lines all the studies all the data
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show it uh and this this promotion of fear that people oh my god you should be afraid of the police
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blah blah blah not if you cooperate and comply with them there's virtually no chance and again i look at
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the stories that are being written about what just happened to dante right and everyone's saying oh he was
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killed after a traffic stop no and again i'm not exonerating the police officer she what she did was
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negligent and incompetent uh which which part firing her gun into a car moving away
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uh thinking she had a taser in her hand when she had a handgun okay i think when you fire a weapon
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you need to take a look at it and not just draw it well they also feel a little different yeah i mean
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but i would take a look at it before firing yeah to make sure particularly if i was carrying two
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different things and so but i don't think there's any racial intent here by this woman
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i'm sorry it's terrible what's happened i don't think what she did is criminal i think it should
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cost her her job and she has resigned from her job but but my number one point is if the media were being
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accurate they would say dante right shot and killed after resisting arrest because that the traffic stop had
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nothing to do with him being shot and killed his resistance did yeah and it wasn't even a resistance
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to arrest because of the traffic stop this guy tried to choke a woman twice for 800 bucks uh she was
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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
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your money she said are you kidding me after all of this you're kidding me right he said i'm not he tried
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to choke her he tried to choke her twice it went to court he was let out on a hundred thousand dollar
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bail he skipped out on bail he was told that he had to you know check in he had to stay away from drugs
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and guns and everything else well when they stopped him he knew he was going to jail and it wasn't about a
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traffic stop he was going to jail because he not only had to face trying to choke this woman but also
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skipping out a bail and doing all of the things that he was told he had to or not doing all the
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things he was told he had to do to be in compliance what what does this have to do with this guy was
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just trying not to go to jail he's not a good guy their media reports glenn that and this is just what
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drives me crazy because i honestly believe the truth will set you free the truth is the anecdote for
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a lot of the chaos but there are stories out there that all he was pulled over for an air freshener
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and he was shot over a traffic violation again he was pulled over for expired plates i've been pulled
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over for that uh he was pulled over and he was shot because he resisted arrest again i would have preferred
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for the female police officer shot him with a taser like she was attempting to do uh but again if you
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don't resist again if you don't want to be harmed by the police don't resist it trust things i've been
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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
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20 some odd years and those things go really fast because they hook and so i was a bad speeder
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and so i got pulled over a lot and i just killed the policeman with kindness
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and you would be amazed how many tickets i've avoided and how much respect they've given me back
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because of the respect i give them i've even as a kid when i was uh i think a junior or senior in
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college i'm home in indianapolis visiting my stepmother and stepsister and stepbrother
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who live in the hood and so at night i got pulled over for an expired license plate
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and i had a suspended driver's license oh my gosh for an unpaid traffic ticket
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and in indianapolis at that time this is 1989 1990 sometime around there that was an automatic
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arrest that was an shot and killed you didn't they they did they shot and killed you big old
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police cops said hey get out of the car i got out of the car put your hands behind your back i put my
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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
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this time i wasn't as pudgy as i am now i was still fresh off the college football field and so i
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was kind of swell swelled up and you know i looked the part of somebody and this is in the middle of
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the night 10 p.m midnight i looked the part of somebody that could be a threat to the police or
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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
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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
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shut up and i shut up and went to jail this is the best of the glenbeck program
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there is a super spreader event and this super spreader event is far more dangerous and uh truly
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deadly to our children and this virus has escaped the university labs and it is super spreading through
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our culture it is truly deadly for your kids and it is i mean almost a religion now it's called crt for
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short it's rooted in marxism and it is flooding our public school systems you've never seen anything
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like this uh now just yesterday we found out in santa clara county the um uh the board of education
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has just called the u.s a parasitic system based on the invasion of white male settlers teachers are
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instructed to cash in on kids inherent empathy that is a quote they also say in the training that
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you got to be very careful if you're online parents are now watching so be very very careful
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it is spreading everywhere and it is deadly deadly to our society and quite honestly i think deadly to
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the soul of our children anything that teaches that one race of people is good another race of people
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are born bad is evil anything that tells my child that for whatever reason they can't make it is evil
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i have a daughter with cerebral palsy and uh she beats herself up all the time it's her birthday today
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she's 33 she's a miracle she's one of the nicest people i know she is really super super smart
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um and anything anyone who would say you know you really can't do that oh my gosh i'd come unhinged
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they're doing it every day to our kids and uh tonight our special is on this this is a must watch
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if there is only one thing that you can do because there's so many things that are on fire right now
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this one the house is on fire and you're standing outside and you haven't noticed yet that your kids
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are still in the house you've got to get your kids out of the house until the fire is extinguished
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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
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on youtube um but it's definitely on blaze tv 9 p.m live tonight don't miss this special
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it's critical we have laurie myers uh she's a california educator co-founder of educators for
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quality and equality not equity important difference she's uh it's a grassroots group of educators making
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sure that we're not killing our kids and teaching them poison we welcome her back to the program now
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laurie how are you i'm good glenn and thank you so much for having me on today and bringing attention
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to this incredibly important issue that's not just in our california schools but really all across the
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country you know i think people think that it is only in uh the california schools or in those crazy
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places certainly not in my school not here in south carolina tennessee texas wherever you are
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but it absolutely is everywhere now uh and and i'd like to get your opinion on this do you think that
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maybe that's part of the reason why the teachers unions don't want to go back to school because
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by the time we do go back to school it will be a different type of education altogether
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so um that's a really important point um our focus is really on the curriculum that's going to be in
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schools and teachers do have a say in what happens with curriculum and teachers unions are actually
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quite influential when it comes to curriculum right but for the most part the authority for curriculum
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decisions lies with individual school districts and that's actually where parents and community members
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have a lot of power to enact change and advocate for something better for their students
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so i saw something today that i i know you can talk about and take me through this i saw a pathway to
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equitable math instruction first can you can you please help other people understand the difference
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between equity equity and equality they're they're being used as they're interchangeable and they are
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not and maybe i'm wrong but i think whenever i see we're looking for equity i think that's a first
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sign of real trouble um glenn i'm really glad you brought that up and probably the most straightforward
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way to understand the difference between equality and equity is that equality which is foundational to
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our country equal opportunity for all means that everybody has equal access to everything and that's the
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the way it should be equitable doesn't mean equal access it means equal outcomes which
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actually flies in the face of everything that we as teachers know about best educational practices
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which is to grow every student to his or her individual potential um what's interesting is that i looked up
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the national education association code of conduct that's the largest teacher union in the country for public
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school teachers and in their code of conduct it tells teachers to believe in the belief and worth and
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dignity of every individual human being that to me speaks to equality equal access not equity identical
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outcome correct which is impossible by the way uh unless your standard is so incredibly low um all right so let me
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get back to a pathway to equitable math instruction the gates foundation has funded this math
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resource training that equates white supremacy culture uh with mathematics and the way of teaching
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math mathematics of getting on the right answer and showing your work etc etc this sounds like common core
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gone really really bad am i wrong i am so i am super glad you brought this up because our focus as an organization
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started with ethnic studies which brought in critical race theory into the curriculum and we know
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because our priority is the safety and well-being of our students how damaging critical race theory can be in the
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in the context of an ethnic studies course or a history course what's shocking is that critical race theory
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is now making its way into other academic areas including math and that's what we're seeing in the pathway
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to equitable math resource that as you said labels quote focus on the right answer and showing your work in
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only one way as white supremacy culture what's most disappointing about this document and there are many
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disappointing things about this document is that there are actually really good math practices
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recommended for teachers but this kind of characterization is discriminatory it's racist and it alienates
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teachers so that they won't even get to the good math practices that are recommended in this document
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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
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you've got to get the right answer and you know just show me how you got to an answer and you know
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you were right in many ways bridges will collapse airplanes will fall out of the sky
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spaceships you know rockets will blow up on the launch pad you there there is nothing but the right answer
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in mathematics you have to have the right answer and to teach that math is somehow racist when you're focusing
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on the right answer is literally deadly down the line am i over am i exaggerating
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i absolutely agree with that and um this is why we are in california so concerned about this particular
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resource because it is included as a resource multiple times in the new california math framework
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that's a draft framework it comes out once every six or seven years that is the definitive guide to
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californian math teachers for teaching math k through 12 we teachers look forward to this document this
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framework coming out so that we can become informed about best practices in math teaching and so that we
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have a plethora of resources that we can use to enrich our math students when this resource is included in
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that document it means that california would then be blessing white supremacist culture labeling math
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practices as white supremacist culture and blessing that ideology for california and we all know that where
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california goes in curriculum the rest of the country follows so this is the number one focus of our
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advocacy efforts right now is to get this resource pulled from the california math framework
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so help people understand you know let me take a quick break and then when we come back help people
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understand how this is not about california you know you just said as california goes so goes the rest
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of the country that's that is really important because that's an understanding of you know the capitalist
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system if california and texas both sign on all of our textbooks are going to be written for those huge
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states and everybody else just gets you know the leftovers they get kind they have to go kind of on
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that path otherwise it's going to cost you a lot of money to develop something else differently but that's
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not what we're even talking about just that alone is is bad but this is a concerted effort in every state
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in the union and the speed of which this is coming at us i've never seen anything like it