The Biden administration is explicitly discriminating against white people and men as it doles out COID relief. This is what systemic racism actually looks like. We ll talk about that today, plus five headlines including: Southwest kicks a 3-year-old off a flight because although he was wearing a mask, they were afraid he might take it off at some point in the future. And South Carolina brings back the good old fashioned firing squad, which I think is a positive development.
00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration is explicitly discriminating against white people and men as it doles out COVID relief.
00:00:07.040This is what systemic racism actually looks like. So we'll talk about that today.
00:00:10.340Also, five headlines, including Trump's Facebook ban is upheld.
00:00:13.840Southwest kicks a three-year-old off a flight because although he was wearing a mask, they were afraid he might take it off at some point in the future.
00:00:20.740So they kicked him off. And South Carolina brings back the good old-fashioned firing squad, which I think is a positive development.
00:00:26.840We'll talk about that, plus our daily cancellation and so much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:59.160It's not as easy as you may think to find a simple definition of the term systemic racism.
00:02:05.560Given that we hear it so often, wielded with such blithe certainty, you'd be forgiven for assuming that the phrase actually, well, I don't know, means something.
00:02:13.960But it takes some digging to discover what that meaning is, if there is any meaning to discover at all.
00:02:18.380An article in USA Today, published during the height of the BLM riots last summer, appears intent at first on answering the question.
00:02:24.700The headline says, what is systemic racism?
00:02:28.180Here's what it means and how you can help dismantle it.
00:02:32.160The piece surveys various civil rights leaders and advocates, including the head of the NAACP and also the president of the racial justice advocacy group Race Forward.
00:02:41.760Between these authoritative sources, the following definitions of systemic racism are offered.
00:02:47.960The complex interaction of culture, policy, institutions that holds in place the outcomes we see in our lives.
00:02:56.000Also, systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantage African-Americans.
00:03:02.540And also, systemic racism is naming the process of white supremacy.
00:03:06.520Okay, so to summarize, systems and structures have procedures and policies which interact with cultures and institutions to create outcomes which lead to disadvantages caused by the process of white supremacy.
00:03:22.220But the ambiguity, of course, is the point.
00:03:24.180If systemic racism has no clearly discernible definition, then the definition could be whatever the activist needs it to be in any given moment.
00:03:30.940Systemic racism, like so many other terms these days, C, gender, whiteness, privilege, human rights, etc., means anything and also everything and also nothing all at the same time.
00:03:42.740But if you're not satisfied with the fluidity of the term and you would like to settle on something more solid so that you can actually apply it to the real world in a meaningful way,
00:03:51.100then perhaps this definition that I found from the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center will suffice.
00:03:58.520Systemic racism includes the policies and practices entrenched in established institutions which result in the exclusion or promotion of designated groups.
00:04:07.980Now, this is still wordier and vaguer than it needs to be, and it seems to dissemble a bit with the word includes, you know, but it gets us closer to the answer.
00:04:16.440All we really need is the last part with a couple of additional qualifiers.
00:04:19.400Systemic racism, if it means anything, must mean the explicit and purposeful exclusion or promotion of designated racial groups by a powerful institution.
00:04:30.560That's a coherent and self-contained definition, which may render it useless to the racial justice activists,
00:04:37.960but makes it useful to those of us who are actually concerned about finding and exposing true examples of systemic racism in our society.
00:04:47.560On that note, here's an example that may be worth our attention.
00:04:51.480Breitbart reports, quote, restaurants and venues owned by white men will be last in line for federal relief under President Joe Biden's restaurants revitalization fund,
00:05:02.000prioritizing funds for women and minority groups.
00:05:04.200As part of Biden's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Small Business Administration is opening the application process by which owners of restaurants, bars and other venues can apply for federal relief to help make up for the loss of revenue
00:05:16.040as a result of economic lockdown spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
00:05:20.740The plan allows business owners to apply for relief of up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location.
00:05:28.500Business owners do not have to repay the funds so long as the money is spent by March of 2023.
00:05:34.200The relief, though, is being prioritized based on race, gender and whether or not business owners are considered socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
00:05:43.960We can refer to the Small Business Administration website to confirm Breitbart's reporting.
00:05:49.540The website lays out the process and the timeline for restaurant owners to apply for relief.
00:05:54.000The first three weeks are designated the priority period, kind of like priority boarding on Southwest Airlines before you get kicked off for not having a mask on.
00:06:03.080And only the priority groups are going to be processed and funded during that priority period.
00:06:11.020Now, to discover what qualifies as a priority group, we are told to see below.
00:06:15.820And you got to scroll down a little bit.
00:06:17.420And then it clarifies that a priority group is a small business concern that is at least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are women or veterans or socially and economically disadvantaged.
00:06:29.740But who counts as socially and economically disadvantaged?
00:06:35.720So you do a little bit more scrolling, continuing the goose chase, and then we find this stipulation.
00:06:40.600Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.
00:06:48.560Economically disadvantaged individuals are those socially disadvantaged individuals whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.
00:07:04.520In other words, as long as you're not a white man who never served in the armed forces, you get to enjoy priority status.
00:07:11.980White men can go to the back of the line.
00:07:13.600How is it fair or legal to penalize business owners for their race and sex?
00:07:20.500And what in God's name does any of this have to do with COVID?
00:07:24.420Those are questions that you simply are not supposed to ask.
00:07:27.420There's no answer for them that they're going to give you anyway.
00:07:30.660The Small Business Administration is being straightforward in its discrimination against men here, but they're being a bit more coy about the racial component.
00:07:37.660So it doesn't actually say anything about race specifically.
00:07:41.540It doesn't lay out the races that are included and not included.
00:07:44.540It doesn't explicitly state that white people are excluded.
00:08:12.920It says a group of Midwestern farmers sued the federal government Thursday, alleging they can't participate in a COVID-19 loan forgiveness program because they're white.
00:08:22.200The group of plaintiffs include farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Ohio.
00:08:27.060According to the lawsuit, the Biden administration's COVID-19 stimulus plan provides $4 billion to forgive loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are black, American Indian, Hispanic, Alaskan native, Asian American, or Pacific Islander.
00:08:43.880White farmers aren't eligible, amounting to a violation of the plaintiff's constitutional rights, the lawsuit contends.
00:08:52.340But again, the agency's website confirms these contentions.
00:08:55.800An article on USDA.gov titled FAQs on American Rescue Plan Debt Relief for Socially Disadvantaged Borrowers begins with this.
00:09:06.180It says, earlier this week, we posted important information about the American Rescue Plan Debt Relief Payments for Socially Disadvantaged Producers.
00:09:13.500The American Rescue Plan includes provisions for USDA to pay up to 120% of loan balances as of January 1st, 2021 for Farm Service Agency direct and guaranteed farm loans and farm storage facility loans.
00:09:25.080And then it says, if you are a black Native American slash Alaskan native, Asian American or Pacific Islander, or are of Hispanic slash Latino ethnicity, with one of the loans listed above, you are eligible for the loan payment.
00:09:44.740I mean, literally need not apply because you're not going to get it because you're white.
00:09:47.900Of course, the claim that all minority farmers are socially disadvantaged and that only minority farmers are socially disadvantaged is absurd on its face.
00:09:59.340One of the plaintiffs joining the lawsuit is a man named Adam Faust.
00:10:05.720He's a disabled cattle farmer with spina bifida who lost one leg to a farming accident and the other leg to diabetes.
00:10:13.920The Biden administration offers him no relief at all on the basis that a legless, disabled, diabetic farmer has no social disadvantages because his skin pigmentation is slightly lighter than some other farmers.
00:10:30.000This is not only insane and grotesque, but it's out and out racism, systemic racism, to be exact, because you have a powerful institution, namely the United States government, the most powerful, excluding one group based explicitly on their race while elevating other groups based explicitly on their race.
00:10:52.240Now, in our country today, there are no policies or laws, none, that expressly and intentionally elevate white people over racial minorities.
00:11:05.620You cannot give me one current example of that.
00:11:10.220Something like this in the reverse, where you've got a government policy that says, here's an advantage, and if you're white, you qualify for it, but if you're not, you don't.
00:11:22.240There are plenty of current examples of laws that reserve special privileges for those who are not white, but not for those who are white.
00:11:31.800Examples of the reverse, and these are just two of the most recent.
00:11:37.280So systemic racism, yeah, it is indeed a problem in the United States.
00:11:42.060It's just, it's not the sort of systemic racism that the racial justice activists want to talk about.
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00:13:45.820When you're married and you have kids, and then you get a night to yourself, at first, you always get that sort of, like, tinge of mischievous excitement, similar to how you felt when you were 17, and your parents made the cataclysmic mistake of leaving you alone for a weekend.
00:14:01.000And you could feel that way for a second, and then you say to yourself, oh, yeah, never mind.
00:14:18.940It says, Facebook Incorporated's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump, but said the company was wrong to make the suspension indefinite and gave it six months to determine a proportionate response.
00:14:31.120Trump called the decision and his banning across tech platforms a total disgrace and said the companies would pay a political price.
00:14:39.200And so he's still banned, at least for six months.
00:14:46.040And Trump is upset about that and says they're going to pay a price.
00:15:25.360And I think I think everyone knows that.
00:15:29.220Even if they won't admit it, this is this is obviously politically motivated.
00:15:32.680And they don't want to give him the platform back, especially if he's thinking about running again in 2024, because and they also don't want to be blamed by the media.
00:15:43.660It's the thing if Facebook and Twitter let Donald Trump back on.
00:16:07.300Generate a lot of anger and outrage over this.
00:16:10.320To the same degree as other conservatives and other and other, you know, conservatives and media, especially very, very upset about the Trump Facebook ban and all of that.
00:16:18.960I can't get myself to feel all that upset about it, because as I have argued many times.
00:16:24.860Trump had the chance to do something to rein in big tech and he didn't do anything.
00:17:54.680As far as making a lasting impact, doing something big and important and difficult, like reigning in big tech, for example, didn't even try.
00:18:24.820If all, yeah, let, let, let, you know, it's like the kid in high school or middle school, you know, who starts talking a big game in class, acting like he wants to fight another kid.
00:18:40.640When the teacher is right there and he knows the teacher is going to stop him.
00:18:43.940And then you find that kid outside of the classroom, like at the bus stop and he's, he's running for the hills.
00:31:51.000You know, she never explains and isn't asked to explain, um, how exactly, or rather, why, um, the dancing ban was put in place at weddings.
00:32:07.140That question is not insisted that she answer that question, which that would seem to be like the number one question when it comes to this issue we would want answered.
00:32:21.000You know, all she says is that, uh, well, we, we want to have weddings and we want to do it in a way that's safe and is not going to put your guests in danger.
00:33:34.460How did you get from one to three here?
00:33:36.260She was pressed a little bit more, um, lightly.
00:33:40.560And she said that she's still, uh, given, given more, actually she's, she's pressed on whether she would allow dancing in the future, even after everyone is vaccinated.
00:33:51.500And she still wouldn't commit even then.
00:33:54.940Is there dancing allowed in New Mexico, governor?
00:33:58.760Well, I'll tell you what, if you're socially distanced and you're wearing a mask and you meet the other requirements with our level of vaccinations,
00:34:09.520And I want to, I want to give the mayor, uh, it takes courage to be really clear about what constitutes high risk activities and behaviors.
00:34:18.640And it is something that democratic governors are leading in this country evidence-based.
00:34:23.000I, I hear you, but, but mayor, just, just, is there any way that you would reconsider with masks on and say a, a, a, a card that shows fully vaccinated that you'd allow dancing?
00:34:32.800Um, we're absolutely considering opening more activity, uh, as our case rates go down and our vaccination rates go up and that's in our hotels, uh, and that's in our other venues.
00:35:18.840That's what's happening in the United States of America circa 2021.
00:35:21.980Everyone, even if people are wearing a mask and they present a card showing they're fully vaccinated, Empress Bowser says they still can't necessarily dance.
00:35:37.840And then the other woman there on the panel gives Bowser credit, says it, it takes courage to be clear about what behavior constitutes high risk activities.
00:35:56.580In her generosity, she will allow you to dance as long as you're masked and socially, masked, socially distanced dancing.
00:36:06.720I mean, you might as well not have any dancing at all.
00:36:08.580I cannot imagine how absolutely creepy it must that look.
00:36:14.300I want to see what that even looks like.
00:36:15.840If any, if any, you know, any, any, any, any people who are so cowed and submissive that they would listen to these, to these edicts when they have a wedding reception.
00:36:32.380Because, of course, the right thing to do, by the way, if you're having a wedding reception in D.C. is to ignore this completely and do what you're going to do and let her send the goons in to break up your wedding and start arresting people for dancing.
00:36:50.020Force her to send people into a wedding reception and arrest and cite them for dancing.
00:36:55.200But those who are actually pathetic enough to listen to this, if they're, you know, in New Mexico, I want to, I would like to see what that looks like.
00:37:08.000Just because I haven't had the aneurysm quite, quite yet.
00:37:10.640And I want to, I want to be pushed over the edge.
00:37:26.200And then you, maybe there's like hula hoops on the ground and you have to dance within them.
00:37:30.940You know, you each, you each have your little circle where you can dance.
00:37:34.980I don't know if they, if they prescribe specific dance moves you're allowed to do and not do because certain dance moves might spread COVID more than others.
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00:39:54.500Erica says, I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in high school.
00:39:57.440Now I see that my anxiety was not irrational, but a natural reaction to the cesspool that public schools are.
00:40:02.980My body and mind were responding to being indoctrinated.
00:40:05.640Yeah, and you raise a really important point because, you know, as I said yesterday, it's 50 million adults have been diagnosed with mental disorders.
00:40:24.780I think we're at 17 or 18 million children who have been diagnosed with mental disorders.
00:40:27.920And a great many of them are, of course, in public school.
00:40:30.460And it's their experience in public school, their lack of, you know, their inability to acclimate or to thrive in that context of public school that leads to them being diagnosed as mentally disordered.
00:40:42.960Which is outrageous and horrific that we're doing that to kids.
00:40:48.700Because, yeah, public school is a very specific and tailored sort of environment that is not suited for all kids.
00:40:59.200In fact, lots of kids naturally will not acclimate to it and will not thrive in it.
00:41:03.920They won't thrive in it academically and they won't thrive in it socially.
00:41:07.900You're really the exception as a child if you do.
00:41:12.960And rather than considering whether there's a problem with the system itself and with the environment and with the way we're approaching education, instead we say, oh, no, if kids don't do well in this environment, clearly they're diseased.
00:42:02.840I think there was a DSM-4 that had 300 and now it's DSM-5.
00:42:06.280But about 300 mental disorders listed and so many of them are things like this, oppositional defiant disorder.
00:42:14.880So a child who's defiant and opposes his parents' authority has a disorder.
00:42:22.200And of course we'll be told, like we're told with all of these things, that no, it's, yes, it's normal for kids to be defiant sometimes.
00:42:32.000But there's an imaginary line that we've drawn here and if the kids are defiant beyond that line, so defiance on this side of the line is okay and natural.
00:42:44.500But if they're too defiant, if they cross that defiance line, now it's a disorder.