The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 513 - The Left Goes All In For Reparations

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is now pushing hard for reparations for slavery. We'll

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00:01:54.840 All right. Well, an idea that was once on the fringe of the fringe of the fringe is now surging

00:01:58.960 into the mainstream. And make no mistake, if Democrats are to take over on election day,

00:02:03.940 which might well happen, this will be enacted without a doubt. They will do it. Unlike Republicans,

00:02:09.180 Democrats, they actually set out to accomplish their goals. And the promises they make to their

00:02:15.440 voters, they actually try to make them happen, even if the promises are horrific. The idea is

00:02:21.100 reparations, paying black Americans for slavery, paying them back for the injustices perpetrated, 0.77

00:02:29.660 injustices perpetrated against their ancestors. This idea was discussed during the Democrat primaries,

00:02:34.400 you may remember, and every candidate, to my memory, came out in support of it. Now it's back in the news

00:02:40.680 again, back in the discussion again. The New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy piece titled

00:02:44.820 What is Owed? Makes the Case for Reparations. And it's been discussed in the mainstream media regularly.

00:02:52.600 There was a segment on MSNBC this morning. Here's a segment on NBC, actually their streaming service,

00:02:59.720 I believe, referring to the Times piece explaining why reparations should happen.

00:03:04.660 Centuries of systemic racism have created a wealth gap in America between black and white Americans.

00:03:12.880 In her latest New York Times piece, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nicole Hannah-Jones writes,

00:03:17.840 if true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States,

00:03:21.800 the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans. MSNBC correspondent Tremaine Lee

00:03:27.720 interviewed Nicole Hannah-Jones in his latest Into America podcast on reparations.

00:03:32.240 Tremaine joins me now. And Tremaine, what are the factors that Nicole talked about here that

00:03:37.080 are contributing or have contributed to the racial wealth gap in our country?

00:03:41.620 Hey, Allison, more than just a contribution, the actual source, the root of the wealth gap

00:03:46.260 goes back to shortly after emancipation, when the entire enslaved population, formerly enslaved

00:03:52.260 population, really were pushed out with absolutely nothing, starting from ground zero. And even though

00:03:57.860 the government had promised some restitution in 40 acres and a mule, those promises fell through.

00:04:03.620 And in fact, the former plantation owners were given back that land that had been promised to

00:04:09.060 enslave people. But then after that, decades and decades of Jim Crow laws, lack of access to jobs,

00:04:16.000 depressed housing values, on and on up from after emancipation through reconstruction,

00:04:22.140 redemption into the 50s and 60s, all of these contributing factors, including the actual

00:04:27.180 violent dispossession of wealth, the actual bombing of black Wall Street, the actual burning and looting

00:04:33.040 of black communities all across the country. And that land and that wealth and resources were never 0.99

00:04:37.820 returned. OK, now here's a professor at Duke explaining on the outlet AJ Plus, whatever that is,

00:04:45.860 that reparations is the way to close the racial wealth gap. The racial wealth gap is, as you know,

00:04:53.300 is staggering. Blacks are about 13 percent of the U.S. population, but only have 2.6 percent of the

00:05:01.700 nation's wealth. And that translates into an average household differential between blacks and whites in

00:05:09.940 a net worth of about $800,000 in 2016 dollars. That's the gap that needs to be that needs to be closed by a

00:05:19.940 reparations program. But how would this all be funded? Well, the professor has an answer for that, too.

00:05:26.980 In the book that I've just completed with Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st

00:05:34.180 century, we argue that the payments might be made in the form of endowments or a trust account, where

00:05:40.900 individuals would be allowed to spend the interest off the account in any given year, but could only

00:05:47.700 dip into the principles subject to approval for a plan of action or proposal that they develop.

00:05:59.300 In the present moment, you know, the federal government overnight essentially came up with

00:06:04.180 $2.2 trillion. Some people say it's as much as $6 trillion because of the loans that were made by

00:06:11.140 the Federal Reserve Board. But it came up with that money overnight. There were no new taxes administered.

00:06:16.260 I think that the present experience or the current experience demonstrates that the federal government

00:06:20.900 can spend on virtually anything it wants to spend on. So his plan is apparently to just come up with

00:06:26.420 the money. That's his plan. Just, you know, come up with the money. All right, then. An article on CNN published a

00:06:32.820 while ago, says, a little while ago, back during the primaries, gets slightly more specific. It says,

00:06:39.860 generally, advocates for reparations say that three different groups should pay for them.

00:06:44.020 Government, private companies, and rich families that owe a good portion of their wealth to slavery.

00:06:48.900 It then goes on to explain that, at least for the rich families, you'd probably have to extract that

00:06:52.980 money through litigation rather than legislation. So between rich families, companies, and governments,

00:06:59.300 which are funded by everyone, this basically means that everyone will have to pay at some level,

00:07:03.620 in some form, for reparations. And of course, I say that with Democrats in power, this is going to

00:07:09.140 happen, which it will. But really, even with Republicans, it will happen too, eventually. We're not far away

00:07:15.700 from this becoming an idea that Republicans are even presenting. Now, they'll present it in a

00:07:23.220 in a slightly more moderated way. They'll have a reformed idea of reparations. But they're going

00:07:29.620 to start proposing this too, because we know the trajectory. This is the trajectory with everything.

00:07:35.380 An idea is on the fringes of the left wing. Then it becomes mainstream. Then a few years later,

00:07:40.980 it becomes mainstream among Republican circles. Republicans are on the same track and train as

00:07:46.420 the Democrats are just a few cars back. So, which is why when you look at so many of the positions

00:07:54.500 taken by Republicans today, those are the same positions that Democrats took, you know, back in

00:08:00.420 the 90s. So this may be inevitable. But even so, it's worth discussing, what are the problems with this

00:08:08.980 idea? There are many problems. Let's discuss a few of them. First of all, this may be the most crucial

00:08:14.580 point. The idea that the racial wealth gap is the main driver, or that slavery is the main driver of

00:08:22.820 the racial wealth gap. That's something that needs to be addressed. Because the racial wealth gap is

00:08:27.460 itself probably the main driver of the push for reparations. It's argued that collectively,

00:08:34.180 black Americans are poorer than white Americans. And it's further argued that this is due to slavery 0.77

00:08:39.220 and segregation. Now, the first part of that argument is true. That's just a statistical reality,

00:08:44.100 no getting around it. What about blaming it on slavery and racism, though? There's no doubt that

00:08:51.460 history has an impact on everything in the present, including economics and wealth distribution.

00:08:57.300 So, no serious person would say that slavery has no effect on what's happening today. Everything in

00:09:04.820 history has some effect. But there are things happening today also that are going to have a much,

00:09:12.980 much greater impact on the wealth impact, on the wealth gap, I should say. And I'll give you just

00:09:20.100 one, the fatherless rate. Black fatherlessness is about 70%. That is, 70% of black children today 1.00

00:09:29.220 grow up in a household with a single parent. Their parents are not married and their dad doesn't live

00:09:34.020 with them. Studies have repeatedly and decisively shown that fatherlessness is a major contributor to

00:09:42.340 poverty, the dropout rate, the incarceration rate, crime, drug abuse, suicide, and so on.

00:09:50.340 Pretty much every social ill you can name is tied to fatherlessness in some way. Fatherlessness is

00:09:59.860 going to be a significant contributing factor to it. So the point is that even if you make some sort of

00:10:07.780 payment to black Americans, no matter how large that payment is, it's not going to fix fatherlessness. 0.74

00:10:13.620 And so it's not going to fix anything, really, economically or socially or in any other way.

00:10:21.540 Until we've addressed things like this,

00:10:26.100 there's not a lot of progress that can be made, especially by just giving money to people.

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00:12:14.180 OK, second point on reparations. The reparations concept really demonstrates just how simplistic

00:12:18.420 and binary and literally black and white our thinking has become. Black people were enslaved,

00:12:24.260 white people were slave owners. Therefore, white people should pay black people. That's 1.00

00:12:30.100 that's the thought process. Even leaving aside how long ago this was and the fact that, as already

00:12:37.460 explained, other social factors are doing much more today to hold the black community back,

00:12:43.220 leaving those things aside, this assumes that every black person is a descendant of American slaves and

00:12:50.020 every white person is a descendant of slave owners in America. It also assumes that if historical 0.54

00:12:57.220 injustice should mean present day reparations, only black people have suffered injustice that needs to 1.00

00:13:03.220 be repaired. All of that is wrong. A great many black Americans today, millions, came here or are 1.00

00:13:13.220 descendants of people who came here after, often well after the end of slavery and even after the end of

00:13:18.260 segregation. You know, let's say a black person whose parents came to this country in 1975.

00:13:26.660 Would they get reparations? Meanwhile, most white people and their lineage never had anything to do 0.77

00:13:33.780 with slavery in America. And that was true even when slavery was ongoing. In 1860, a small minority of

00:13:40.820 Americans countrywide owned slaves. Depending on where you look, you know, it was something like five to ten percent.

00:13:46.100 Um, certainly minority countrywide, even in the south, uh, a minority.

00:13:52.900 So, if we were doing reparations, you know, right after slavery was abolished,

00:14:00.180 which if it was going to happen, that was when it should have happened.

00:14:03.860 But, but even then, um, you would have been talking about a minority of Americans

00:14:10.980 who should have paid, because they were the ones who owned slaves. And they were the ones who 0.74

00:14:16.420 immediately benefited from slave labor. Now, tack 150 years onto it, and take into account all the

00:14:23.060 many millions of Americans who came to this country sometime in the intervening period,

00:14:28.100 it would make no sense whatsoever for a person whose ancestors came here from Poland, or Italy, or whatever,

00:14:34.100 a few decades ago, to be forced to pay for crimes that were committed a century and a half ago,

00:14:39.140 thousands of miles from where that person's ancestors actually lived.

00:14:44.420 And the only reason they're being told to pay it is because of the the pigment of their skin.

00:14:49.620 This is unjust. It's not, it's not paying for the crimes of your ancestors, which already is unjust,

00:14:56.500 I would argue. But this time you're paying for the crimes of other people's ancestors, that you had 0.70

00:15:01.780 nothing to do with and your ancestors had nothing to do with. Moreover, we aren't taking into account

00:15:08.420 the persecution and oppression faced by many other groups of people.

00:15:12.660 Should a Jewish person whose grandparents fled the Holocaust in 1940 and came here and faced

00:15:17.300 anti-Semitism, should they have to pay for the persecution carried out by other people against

00:15:22.180 other people? Why? And if we want to talk about the legacy of an atrocity and how it negatively

00:15:28.660 affects people today, could not that Jewish person argue that they would be in a much better spot 0.96

00:15:33.700 today if not for the fact that half of their lineage was wiped out in a concentration camp?

00:15:37.460 I think they could argue that. What about an Irish person whose family escaped the potato famine,

00:15:42.340 which killed a million people in about four or five years, came to America, faced segregation,

00:15:47.060 discrimination, ethnocentricism, all targeted against them? Signs hanging in businesses saying,

00:15:52.660 no dogs, no Irish, or Irish need not apply. This is a person who also, if not for those forms of 0.94

00:15:58.820 historical oppression, may be in a better place today. And yet they would be made to pay.

00:16:06.180 But doesn't society owe them too? On the reparations theory, doesn't society also owe them

00:16:10.980 something? Now, maybe you would say it doesn't owe them as much as it owes black people, but it owes them 1.00

00:16:16.260 something, doesn't it? So shouldn't we be talking about reparations on a spectrum where everyone

00:16:22.020 who is an ancestor of a persecuted minority is given something? You see, that's the other problem.

00:16:30.580 Once you go down this road, there's no limiting principle. Pay reparations to black people, then 1.00

00:16:36.980 it's hard to argue at that point that you don't pay to Native Americans. In fact, I would assume most 0.58

00:16:42.900 of the people who support reparations for black Americans would probably say, yes, 0.60

00:16:47.380 let's give it to Native Americans too. So, okay, then you've got those groups. What about Asian

00:16:53.460 Americans who were sent to internment camps? Or other groups of Americans who face segregation

00:16:58.500 and discrimination? And on and on you go. Now, again, you could argue that some of those groups

00:17:04.580 are owed less than others. However you measure this, which it seems impossible to measure and quantify,

00:17:09.780 but however you do it, you could find a way of staggering it and, as I said, put it on a

00:17:17.300 spectrum. But the principle that justifies payment of some kind to one group also justifies payment of

00:17:25.060 some kind to others. And then you get to a point very quickly where almost everyone in America is owed

00:17:32.020 reparations for something. And the whole idea breaks down. So it's a concept that makes no sense.

00:17:45.620 It would only increase injustice. It certainly wouldn't remedy it. And that's why it's an idea

00:17:53.300 that we need to meet forcefully. But I'll tell you exactly what's going to happen. What's happening

00:17:57.300 right now is that a lot of people on the right aren't even bothering to argue the point

00:18:01.460 because they figure they're making the same mistake they always make with everything.

00:18:06.580 Thinking that this is a fringe thing. It's not going to happen. No one, you know,

00:18:09.940 no one really takes it seriously. We're not really going to do this.

00:18:14.500 No, it's not fringe. They really want to do it and they will do it, especially if we don't say anything

00:18:19.860 about it. Let's move on to news headlines. Speaking of things that need to be said. Number one, Tucker

00:18:27.780 Carlson, who I think is one of the most important voices in America right now, had an excellent monologue

00:18:32.340 last night and his message needs to be heard loud and clear, particularly by one person who hopefully

00:18:38.180 was watching. He would change the course of this country's future if the Justice Department rounded up

00:18:44.980 the leaders of Antifa tomorrow, along with every single person caught on camera, torching a building,

00:18:50.500 destroying a monument, defacing a church and put them all in shackles and then frog marched them in 0.97

00:18:56.020 front of cameras like MS-13 and called them what they actually are domestic terrorists, not protesters,

00:19:02.900 not civil rights activists, not CNN contributors, but domestic terrorists. That would be their new

00:19:09.300 government approved title. Once they're charged, it's official. In fact, they are literally as

00:19:14.900 a factual matter accused terrorists and that would change minds right away. Most people don't like

00:19:21.060 terrorists. Terrorists will never be popular, even among democratic voters. So charge them for the

00:19:27.220 crimes they've committed and call them what they are. Right now, the opposite is happening. The terrorists

00:19:33.060 are more popular than the president of the United States and not just more popular than Donald Trump

00:19:37.620 personally, but more popular than the system he represents and administers. And it's obvious why.

00:19:43.540 Our system is weak. It refuses to defend itself. Mayors let new countries sprout in the middle of 1.00

00:19:50.100 their cities. Our leaders act like laws are irrelevant. Everyone watches this happen.

00:19:56.180 It's a potentially fatal problem. Weak institutions die. Citizens develop contempt for them and then they

00:20:02.740 get overthrown. The same is true, by the way, for heads of state. When you refuse to fight for the system

00:20:07.780 you run, you're done. Spend an hour on Google and see if you can find a single leader in the history

00:20:12.980 of the world who stayed in power after failing to quell a rebellion. You can't. By the way,

00:20:18.100 that clip was shared by a media matters person calling it maybe the most deranged rant I've heard on

00:20:22.900 Fox News. Meanwhile, he said that was deranged. Meanwhile, all normal people think it's one of the sanest

00:20:30.580 things we've ever heard, or at least recently heard. Tucker is exactly right. And if anyone needs

00:20:36.660 to hear him loud and clear, it's primarily the president. Now, I know some of you don't like it

00:20:41.140 when I criticize him. I know that. That's fine. You don't have to like it. But I'm telling you the

00:20:46.020 fact of the matter. Tucker's saying the fact of the matter, like it or not. Trump is losing right now.

00:20:50.820 I'm not just talking about the polls. The polls are one indicator. But it's not just about that. I

00:20:57.780 don't need, I don't even need to see the polls. I don't care what the polls say. Trump is losing

00:21:02.020 right now. Make all the lame excuses you want. But if Trump continues tweeting while America burns,

00:21:08.980 he will lose. More than that, he will deserve to lose. It's better for his supporters, I think,

00:21:17.140 to face this fact now, put some pressure on him, than to whisper sweet nothings in his ear,

00:21:22.180 telling him that the law and order tweets are great and totally sufficient. Everyone loves it.

00:21:26.340 He's doing great. Nothing is wrong. They aren't sufficient. Everyone doesn't love it and shouldn't.

00:21:33.780 The tweeting in general, I think most people, I get it. Again, if you're a diehard fan,

00:21:40.820 then you're always going to love the tweets. But most people are not diehard fans and never were.

00:21:44.660 Trump won 2016 with 70,000 votes that gave him the electoral college victory while losing the

00:21:50.980 popular vote by 2 million votes. This is a, he won by a hair's breadth. So, I mean, his supporters

00:21:58.180 have been lying to him and he's been lying to himself since day one, saying that it was some

00:22:01.140 sort of landslide victory. Not even close. This needs to be communicated to Trump in a hurry.

00:22:08.660 Because right now, it's like the guy isn't even trying. He did a town hall on Fox last night. I

00:22:15.140 don't know if you watched this thing. And he was asked what his plan is for a second term. Now,

00:22:20.100 he's asked by Sean Hannity. You could ask for a friendlier interviewer. And you could ask for an

00:22:26.020 easier question. What's your plan for the second term? You got to have an answer to that. That's,

00:22:30.420 that's, you're a president. You're an incumbent president running for a second term. Somebody asks you,

00:22:34.660 what's your plan for a second term? You should be boom, boom, boom, boom, have answers.

00:22:39.620 This is what Trump said. Let's talk about a second term.

00:22:45.220 If you hear in 131 days from now, at some point in the night or early morning,

00:22:51.300 we can now project Donald J. Trump has been reelected the 45th president of the United States.

00:22:56.100 Let's talk. How did, what's at stake in this election as you compare and contrast?

00:23:00.660 And what is, what are your top priority items for a second term?

00:23:04.340 Well, one of the things that will be really great, you know, the word experience is still

00:23:08.500 good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I've always said that.

00:23:12.660 But the word experience is a very important word. It's in a very important meaning.

00:23:18.500 I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington,

00:23:22.260 I think 17 times. All of a sudden I'm president of the United States. You know,

00:23:25.300 the story of riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady. And I say,

00:23:29.300 this is great. But I didn't know very many people in Washington. It wasn't my thing. I was from

00:23:33.700 Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody. And I have great people in the administration.

00:23:40.020 You make some mistakes like, you know, an idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do is drop bombs 1.00

00:23:43.860 on everybody. You don't have to drop bombs on everybody. You don't have to kill people. 1.00

00:23:46.820 That's just nonsense. I don't want to hear, it's Trump being Trump. I don't give a damn if it's 0.95

00:23:52.980 Trump being Trump. Trump needs to stop being Trump. That's babbling, ridiculous nonsense. 0.91

00:23:58.740 You were asked a question. What's your plan? People actually want to hear it. It's a good question. 0.99

00:24:04.420 That was not an answer. If the guy can't even tell us what he wants, what he wants to do in a second

00:24:10.820 term, why should anyone vote for him? He literally can't give you a reason to vote for him other than

00:24:16.820 Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah. That's not going to be enough. It was enough against Hillary. Okay.

00:24:22.500 To beat Hillary, all you had to do was say, look at Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. 1.00

00:24:26.580 I think this time around, when you're in the incumbent and you have a record for better or worse,

00:24:30.020 you need to actually present a positive reason to vote for you, for you. What is good about you?

00:24:38.340 Now, this excuse that people are providing for Trump, that his supporters are providing,

00:24:43.900 Trump is doing nothing as anarchists destroy the country. The excuse is, well, we'll let the leftist

00:24:51.260 cities destroy themselves. No. That might seem like the sort of tough approach. It's not tough. It's

00:24:59.820 weak and cowardly. It's the weakest BS I've ever heard. What you're saying is, let's give the 0.99

00:25:08.400 criminals and anarchists everything they want. That'll show them. So what you're doing, if you

00:25:15.580 let them destroy themselves, no, it's not them destroying themselves. It's allowing criminals and

00:25:20.620 anarchists to do what they want, while innocent Americans in those cities suffer. Trump is the

00:25:28.380 president of those people. And it's not, and you, and if your next, if your next move is to blame

00:25:35.680 them for living in the city to begin with, that's not going to be a winning message. Well, they deserve

00:25:41.320 it. They, they made a choice to live in a city because that's where they found a job. You might

00:25:46.820 be able to soothe yourself with that message. That is not a winning message. Trump is the president of

00:25:53.200 those people. He's their president too. You're not punishing the anarchists by letting them do what

00:26:01.560 they want. Is it, is this what people do with their kids? I guess, yeah, this explains a lot,

00:26:05.780 really. This is how a lot of parents act with their kids. I'll show them by letting them stay up all

00:26:10.900 night playing PlayStation. They'll learn their lesson eventually. Yeah. Maybe, maybe 30 years from

00:26:15.720 now, when they look back at their wasted childhood, that's when they'll learn their lesson.

00:26:18.560 That's not good enough. No, they need to learn their lesson. Now you're the parent, do it. Now I

00:26:23.380 certainly hate to compare a politician to a parent because that's not the relationship politicians

00:26:27.020 supposed to have with the public, but still these people are acting like children and worse. That's an

00:26:32.320 insult to children. They're acting like worse than children and they do need to be punished. Law and

00:26:37.360 order, not just a tweet. He's floundering. It's pathetic. He's going to lose. That's the reality.

00:26:46.940 If he doesn't do something now.

00:26:51.740 Number two, they're coming for Mount Rushmore. Uh, now a report from daily wire says on Thursday,

00:26:56.880 USA Today quoted that a tribal leader of the Sioux nation saying that although Mount Rushmore should

00:27:02.240 not be blown up, it should be removed. How do you remove a mountain? I don't know. Um,

00:27:09.540 Oglala Sioux president, Julian Bear Runner, who expresses disapproval of president Trump's visit

00:27:14.820 next week to the Black Hills, South Dakota stated of Mount Rushmore. I don't believe it should be

00:27:18.660 blown up because it would cause more damage to the land. Uh, but he agrees that it should be removed.

00:27:25.000 And then there's a lot of stuff about how this is a symbol of, uh, Nick Tilson of the Oglala

00:27:30.260 Lakota tribe, uh, said Mount Rush, Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy of structural racism.

00:27:36.580 That's still alive and well in society today. Ah, and on and on and on. And they'll do it.

00:27:42.720 They'll do it too. They'll do anything they want. Okay. The people that are seeking to tear down the

00:27:49.000 monuments and tear down Western civilization and all of its icons and heroes, they're just getting

00:27:54.120 whatever they want. And that how, that's how we're, again, that that's how we're, we're punishing them

00:28:01.660 by just letting them do it. Great strategy. Wonderful. Number three, here's something to think

00:28:09.680 about, uh, next time you're at the beach. Look at this drone footage of a great white shark, gigantic

00:28:13.940 beast swimming right under unsuspecting surfers. Good God almighty. Now, you know,

00:28:21.960 I like the beach. I love the water, but it is kind of a weird thing we do, isn't it? I always think

00:28:27.660 if aliens were to come to this country, they would be, that'd be one of the many things they're very

00:28:32.480 surprised and confused by. They would say, why are these humans gathered around and for no constructive

00:28:39.420 reason, swimming and paddling in this giant salty death trap where man eating monsters are lurking in 0.91

00:28:47.120 the depths? And a lot of them aren't even doing anything. And if you go to a beach, they're just

00:28:53.020 standing in it, letting the, the, the ferocious waves pummel them in the face while they get sand

00:29:00.820 up their shorts and they do that for an hour and a half. And then they go home. What was the point

00:29:05.380 of this ritual? That's what the aliens would be asking. I imagine. Of course, I'm also assuming that

00:29:11.720 aliens don't know what an ocean is. I mean, if they didn't have an ocean on their home planet,

00:29:15.720 then there would be no civilization to begin with. So, you know, there are problems with my

00:29:18.560 hypothetical, but anyway, number four, after 30 years, the Dixie Chicks are changing their name.

00:29:23.000 They will now be the Chicks, not the Dixie Chicks. Why is the word Dixie offensive? This is,

00:29:30.820 this is a very interesting in a lot of ways. And it shows among other things, what I'm always talking

00:29:35.960 about, how feminists are constantly having to take a back seat on when it comes on the modern left, 1.00

00:29:42.000 feminists are very close to the bottom of the totem pole. They're, they're almost, at this point, 1.00

00:29:47.340 they're treated almost like white men to be a feminist. You're, you're, you're, you're very,

00:29:52.640 you're not that much, you're not that, that, that much higher, you know, on the hierarchy than white 0.97

00:29:59.340 men are as feminists because all of their interests are thrown to the side. And you see here, 0.77

00:30:03.740 so Dixie Chicks changing their name and they're going to keep one of the words. They decide to keep 0.87

00:30:09.120 chicks, which the feminists have been saying for decades is offensive. And now they're just the 1.00

00:30:15.700 chicks. We've got to get rid of Dixie, but not chicks. I just think that's very emblematic of 1.00

00:30:22.500 the situation on the modern left. And, and of course, meanwhile, you've been the Dixie Chicks for 30 0.87

00:30:29.960 years. You're just now deciding that it's offensive after three decades. What changed your mind? What made

00:30:38.780 you realize that it's offensive? What, what were you told in the last year or few months really

00:30:46.720 that you didn't know already that made you decide that it's offensive? Now it's not offensive. The

00:30:51.560 word Dixie is not at all offensive, but if you think that it is, what new information were you

00:30:58.240 provided that brought you to this conclusion? Or have you thought that it was a racist name all along

00:31:04.320 and you, and so you've just been white supremacists for 30 years? Which is it, Dixie Chicks? 0.96

00:31:11.580 I didn't even know that Dixie Chicks still, still, still existed, to be honest. I had no idea that they

00:31:15.480 were still out there making music. All right. Number five, a report from Fox Carolina. A very sad,

00:31:23.040 disturbing, infuriating story. The Forest City Department, Police Department, said a young girl has died after

00:31:29.380 she was severely injured in a shooting on Tuesday evening. The shooting happened along the intersection of

00:31:33.320 Oak Street and Harmon Street around 5 p.m. The officers arrived, found two individuals pulling a seven-year-old

00:31:41.260 girl from a vehicle, and she was suffering a single gunshot wound to the head. Now they arrested Shaquille

00:31:52.000 Marchand Francis, 26 years old, charging him with shooting this girl in the head. They haven't been, there's,

00:31:59.340 there's no information about motive or anything. Not that motive matters at all with a crime like

00:32:05.720 this. But here's the thing. Francis, the monstrous scumbag, or alleged monstrous scumbag, was released

00:32:16.500 from jail just a few hours before. One of the reports I read said that he was released from jail on 1.00

00:32:21.300 different charges, other charges. I think it was assault by pointing a gun at someone. He was, one report

00:32:28.580 said, three hours earlier he was released, and then allegedly immediately went and shot a girl in the

00:32:37.360 head. This goes back to what I've been, the drum I've been banging for weeks now, that if we're going

00:32:44.880 to be doing reforms, reforms that protect black lives and all lives, then rather than police reform being

00:32:54.580 the first thing we do, we should be looking at reforms that would prevent murderous sociopaths from

00:33:03.360 walking the streets. Because the current strategy is that criminals, dangerous criminals, get out of

00:33:09.840 jail a million times until they do something so unbelievably heinous that there's no choice but to

00:33:17.280 lock them away for, and even then, a lot of times it's not forever, it's for, you know, but at least

00:33:22.040 for many years. That's the strategy right now. I mean, you have someone who you just, you know,

00:33:29.040 they've committed many crimes, many of them violent, and you just, you know that eventually they're going

00:33:33.380 to do something utterly horrible. And, but all we do is just wait for them to do that thing. And to that

00:33:38.840 victim, even if it's a seven-year-old girl, apparently the system is saying, well, you know,

00:33:43.520 too bad, basically, is what, is what the system is saying to these victims.

00:33:51.940 I, I think this should be the reform.

00:33:56.680 You know, if you have someone, if this is the crime that he committed, assault with a deadly weapon before,

00:34:02.560 what is he doing back out on the street? Keep him in jail. This is a dangerous person.

00:34:06.860 Why are you letting him out? That should be our reform. All right, we're going to move on to our

00:34:14.180 daily cancellation. By the way, if you haven't gotten the Daily Wire reader pass yet, you should

00:34:19.420 definitely do it. If you're not a Daily Wire member and you're looking to read some of our

00:34:22.940 great content, go get a Daily Wire reader pass. You can get it for just the first month, just a dollar,

00:34:28.060 actually 99 cents. So you save even an extra penny, which is good. And if you get a reader pass now,

00:34:33.060 I mean, my, my latest article talking about, um, the, the, you know, the, the left's message now

00:34:39.640 that it's simply not okay for actors to pretend to be something they're not. And I was talking about

00:34:46.320 the case, Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate, two actresses that decided to stop voicing, uh, cartoon

00:34:51.420 characters who were not white. Now, of course, cartoon characters aren't white or black or any

00:34:56.260 cartoon characters don't have a race because they're cartoon characters, but that's what we're being told.

00:35:01.120 You just, even in the, in the context of an animated cartoon, you can't pretend to be something you're

00:35:05.200 not. And, uh, so I'm talking about that in that article. You can go read it now. Okay. Uh, for the

00:35:09.660 Daily Cancellation, I'm going to be canceling one of the worst songs ever written, a song that has been

00:35:15.200 the bane of my existence, a blight on our society and a scourge on the earth for decades. That's John

00:35:21.840 Lennon's Imagine. And I'm canceling it because for one thing, it's just a terrible song that gets credit

00:35:27.420 for being one of the great songs ever written. So that's one reason. Two, I'm canceling it in a

00:35:33.920 preemptive strike. This is a strategic preemptive cancellation because activists are now talking

00:35:38.820 about making it our new national anthem, not a joke. Well, it is a joke, but not an intentional

00:35:44.140 one. An article in Yahoo titled why it might be time to finally replace the star-spangled banner

00:35:50.100 with a new national anthem makes the case that we have to get rid of the song because apparently

00:35:55.080 you won't believe this. Francis Scott Key, who wrote the song and was born 250 years ago,

00:36:00.360 uh, had some problematic views on race. Crazy. Um, you know, of course, 250 years ago, 0.89

00:36:08.640 all people had problematic views on race, but we're going to hold them accountable now for the crime of

00:36:13.560 being born in the wrong century. They, you know, Francis Scott Key and all these other people,

00:36:18.840 they should have made a more virtuous choice in what century they were born in.

00:36:23.400 And that's, that's their fault. We're going to hold them accountable for it.

00:36:26.780 Tear down the statues. Francis Scott Key had a statue torn down and I think it was San Francisco

00:36:30.920 this week. And now they're going to get rid of the song too. And yeah, that's that they deserve it,

00:36:36.620 I guess, because of that, because they, they should have thought better about what century they were

00:36:40.900 born in. They should have in utero, they should have said to their mom, Hey, Hey mom, what century is it?

00:36:47.240 Oh, it's, uh, it's the, it's the, it's the, uh, the 18th century. Oh, you know what? I don't want

00:36:53.220 to be born yet. Let's let's check back in in the, you know, 20th, 21st. Um, there are a few

00:37:00.380 suggestions of what to replace it with, but imagine is a popular one. One activist explains that imagine

00:37:07.420 is quote, the most beautiful unifying all people, all backgrounds together kind of song you can have.

00:37:12.740 Is it though? Here are the lyrics. I mean, we all know the lyrics, but just, just when you have just

00:37:18.820 the lyrics, okay. And John, John Lennon is supposed to be a great songwriter, a poet, right?

00:37:26.700 Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do nothing to kill or die for and no religion to 1.00

00:37:31.520 imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

00:37:37.000 I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you

00:37:42.780 can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

00:37:51.240 This is, uh, now, first of all, the idea of destroying all religions and countries isn't

00:37:56.980 very unifying to people who have a religion and love their country. But second, this is just,

00:38:01.880 this is like something a sixth grader would write if he was given an assignment to write some sort of

00:38:07.680 profound, socially conscious song. That's what a sixth grader would come up with. And if I was the

00:38:13.320 teacher, I would give it a C minus at best. Imagine there's no greed or hunger, but yeah.

00:38:21.020 Well, I'm glad I, I, I listened to, to imagine because before I did, it never occurred to me

00:38:27.780 that it would be better if there was no greed or hunger. I never, I never thought I was,

00:38:32.520 I was actually more in the pro greed and hunger camp. I was very pro hunger, really. And then I

00:38:37.540 heard John Lennon song and I thought, you know, he really makes a good point. Maybe it'd be better

00:38:42.460 off without greed and hunger. Wow. Now, you know, I could right now come up with additional verses

00:38:50.300 off the top of my head. That would be at least as good as what's in that song.

00:38:57.000 And in fact, I'll do it. And because, you know, if this is going to be our new national anthem,

00:39:00.380 it needs to be a little bit longer. That's one problem. It's a, it's a, it's a little short.

00:39:03.920 So let me suggest, you didn't know that I'm a poet too. I'm a poet. I am as good a poet as John

00:39:10.460 Lennon. And I'll prove it to you. Let me suggest a couple of additional verses for John Lennon. I'm not

00:39:16.100 going to sing them, but I'll spoken word poetry so you can really absorb the impact of these words.

00:39:22.560 Imagine only good stuff happening and really good stuff too. No bad stuff, no sad stuff,

00:39:32.120 and no mad stuff too. Imagine everyone's happy and they're being real nice.

00:39:39.800 No one's being super mean. And there are no fights.

00:39:48.260 That's that two, two verses right there. Boom. Just like that. I just wrote half of a classic

00:39:54.500 all time great song just right, right there on this podcast. You didn't, you didn't know you'd be

00:40:01.100 witnessing that. Um, and, uh, I don't know that that's something that's just something from my

00:40:10.000 heart. Okay. That's where my heart is right now. You know, listening to the song, I thought he covered

00:40:17.200 a lot of stuff that we shouldn't have like greed and hunger, but I'm thinking all the bad stuff,

00:40:23.560 you know, let's not, let's not focus on this bad thing or that, but let's get rid of all the bad

00:40:29.860 stuff. Even more than that, let's start thinking about what if everyone is just happy all the time?

00:40:37.460 Wow. Pretty mind blowing. I know. Um, but even so, uh, John, uh, the song, imagine is canceled and

00:40:45.900 all efforts to replace the national anthem are also canceled. But I would warn again that all of,

00:40:51.340 all of this, we can make jokes about it because sometimes you think, what else can we do? Um,

00:40:56.880 especially when the people that we've elected to do things about it are doing nothing.

00:40:59.860 But we should remember that, that, that all of this, this is serious on the left. This is really

00:41:08.000 what they want to do. And they will do it if nobody prevents it. If nobody steps in, in, in the path,

00:41:14.820 all of it's happening. You think replacing the national anthem with, with imagine is some outlandish,

00:41:21.000 crazy idea. It is, but you think that's going to prevent it from actually happening? No, not at all.

00:41:28.320 And on that bright note, we will leave and, uh, end it for the week. Have a great weekend,

00:41:34.420 everybody. Enjoy yourselves. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 26, 2020

Ep. 513 - The Left Goes All In For Reparations

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