The Matt Walsh Show - March 09, 2024


Matt Walsh Breaks Down The Faulty Logic Behind Reparations [Weekly Walsh Original]


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After decades of racism, San Francisco officials voted unanimously to formalize an apology to the city s black residents. But is it enough, or is there still more to be done? And will the city ever move past its racism problem?

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00:00:00.000 We've talked about reparations quite a few times on this show,
00:00:03.220 and I wish there was a subject that we could move past,
00:00:05.400 but the race hustlers, of course, will not allow it.
00:00:07.040 In fact, that is, you might say, that the single objective of the race hustlers 0.87
00:00:10.780 is to make sure that we never move past anything.
00:00:13.260 A few days ago, the governor, Kathy Hochul,
00:00:15.060 announced her appointments to the so-called
00:00:16.760 Community Commission on Reparations Remedies.
00:00:19.720 And the announcement came in a press release which said the following,
00:00:21.880 quote,
00:00:22.400 The commission, formed through legislation signed in December 2023,
00:00:25.000 acknowledges the horrific injustice of slavery
00:00:26.760 and is tasked with examining the legacy of slavery,
00:00:29.120 subsequent discrimination against people of African descent,
00:00:31.600 and the impact these forces continue to have in the present day.
00:00:34.940 Through the work of this commission, our state can lead
00:00:36.720 in what should be a national conversation about the truth of our past
00:00:39.920 and the healing work required to create a more just future.
00:00:43.540 Yes, well, that's what we need most of all, isn't it?
00:00:45.580 A national conversation about all the bad things that happened in this country
00:00:49.120 hundreds of years ago.
00:00:50.980 Now, you might think that we've already had that conversation.
00:00:54.240 You might think that we've been having that conversation for years.
00:00:56.720 You might think that we talk about our historical sins more than any country in the world
00:01:01.040 or history has ever talked about their historical sins.
00:01:04.680 You might think that our national self-esteem has sunk into subterranean levels
00:01:09.040 and there's absolutely nothing to be gained by continuing to talk incessantly and exclusively
00:01:12.600 about all of the terrible atrocities, whether real or imagined,
00:01:16.140 that our ancestors inflicted on one another.
00:01:18.600 You might think that our problem isn't our lack of focus on our flaws,
00:01:23.340 but rather that we don't focus on anything but our flaws.
00:01:26.480 You might think of all that, but that's because you are a normal, emotionally stable,
00:01:31.360 psychologically well-adjusted person.
00:01:33.820 Unfortunately, our country is not run by people like you.
00:01:36.560 It's run by sadomasochistic lunatics,
00:01:38.800 and that's how you end up with reparations commissions.
00:01:41.680 Personally, I would probably enjoy seeing this proposal put into practice in San Francisco.
00:01:46.740 Just let them put themselves out of their misery
00:01:48.840 and embrace the final ruination of their city and community
00:01:51.920 through this crazy, you know, harebrained scheme.
00:01:55.100 But the mayor isn't quite insane enough to go along with it, so it hasn't happened.
00:01:58.800 And instead, in lieu of making every black person in the city an instant Powerball winner,
00:02:03.080 the city voted last week instead to just issue an apology.
00:02:07.540 Today, San Francisco supervisors may take another step
00:02:10.120 towards formally apologizing to the city's African-American people 1.00
00:02:13.860 for policies that hurt them or held them back.
00:02:17.360 NBC Bay Area's Chris Sanchez joins us with the vote the supervisors will take up.
00:02:21.580 Laura, this has been in the works for a while now,
00:02:24.660 and the recommendation from the reparations committee is unanimous.
00:02:28.380 We expect that the supervisors will approve and move forward with that formal apology,
00:02:34.180 which, as it's written, reads in part,
00:02:36.400 Well, that ought to do it. Now we can all move on.
00:02:57.680 I have to say, although this apology is pointless and stupid,
00:03:00.620 I do deeply appreciate the humor of it.
00:03:02.860 The race hustlers wanted $5 million apiece,
00:03:05.260 and instead they got a two-paragraph apology.
00:03:07.280 It's like promising your wife a trip to a tropical island for your anniversary,
00:03:10.520 but instead you just give her a postcard with a picture of a tropical island on it.
00:03:14.800 And, you know, I don't know.
00:03:15.820 They say it's the thought that counts.
00:03:17.080 But in practice, that rarely turns out to be the case,
00:03:19.820 which is why, as you might expect,
00:03:21.620 this apology has not been entirely well received.
00:03:24.640 Reading now from Fox News, quote,
00:03:26.420 A reparations expert says that San Francisco's apology to black residents
00:03:29.340 won't mean anything if it's not backed with actions.
00:03:32.040 Reparations are the redemptive act that makes the rhetoric of an apology meaningful.
00:03:35.580 Reparations scholar Roy Brooks, a law professor at the University of San Diego,
00:03:38.600 told USA Today, quote,
00:03:40.120 You can't just say you're sorry and walk away, Brooks added,
00:03:42.660 telling USA Today that, quote,
00:03:43.880 an apology alone was not sufficient.
00:03:46.040 Oh, you want money.
00:03:48.060 San Francisco voted Tuesday to formally apologize to black residents
00:03:50.300 after decades of institutional racism.
00:03:51.760 All 11 of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors signed on as sponsors of the resolution
00:03:55.920 to apologize for the city's complicity in systemic and structural discrimination.
00:04:00.120 Although the city officials voted unanimously to formalize an apology,
00:04:03.120 some slammed the measure before it passed as insufficient
00:04:05.620 due to other reparations being put on hold due to budget issues.
00:04:09.000 Reverend Amos C. Brown,
00:04:10.980 a member of the San Francisco Reparations Advisory Committee
00:04:13.140 and the official who proposed for the city to formally pass the apology,
00:04:16.800 also said it's not enough.
00:04:18.400 An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric, Brown said.
00:04:21.120 What we need is concrete actions.
00:04:24.720 Concrete actions, says the Reverend.
00:04:26.800 Namely, one specific concrete action,
00:04:29.040 and that is the action of putting cold, hard cash into the Reverend's pocket.
00:04:33.080 Money, money, money, money, money.
00:04:34.340 This is how you know that someone has been sincerely and genuinely harmed.
00:04:37.600 You know, when you apologize to them and they say,
00:04:39.460 no, it's not enough, nothing will ever heal my wounds,
00:04:42.020 nothing but a briefcase with $5 million in cash.
00:04:45.260 And speaking of which, as New York and San Francisco
00:04:47.220 figure out the reparations puzzle,
00:04:49.000 another viral video on the subject attempts to debunk objections to the reparations scheme.
00:04:54.120 And let's see how well this person does.
00:04:56.960 Watch.
00:04:57.400 Here's how most white people respond to the idea of reparations for African Americans.
00:05:02.100 No one alive today was ever enslaved,
00:05:04.140 and no one alive today was ever a slave owner.
00:05:06.320 This is ridiculous.
00:05:07.220 We're not giving away free money just based on race.
00:05:09.920 Every culture has some form of slavery.
00:05:11.480 But every white person who is alive today is still benefiting from the transatlantic slave trade
00:05:16.560 and chattel slavery.
00:05:17.820 And every black person who is alive today is still being negatively impacted
00:05:21.280 by the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
00:05:25.160 It's not giving away free money to people based on their race.
00:05:28.840 It's an overdue debt that has been owed for hundreds of years that has yet to be paid.
00:05:34.540 Other cultures did not have chattel slavery where people were born into slavery in perpetuity
00:05:39.660 with no way to get out of it and by no fault of their own and then terrorized.
00:05:44.320 It's not only about chattel slavery.
00:05:46.280 It's also about the white supremacist domestic terrorism against black people
00:05:49.940 that has been happening for hundreds of years.
00:05:52.000 And it's still happening.
00:05:53.300 It's still happening today.
00:05:54.980 Reparations are for chattel slavery, yes. 0.86
00:05:58.040 And also for the government-sanctioned violence, displacement, dehumanization,
00:06:02.380 criminalization, and marginalization of black people ever since chattel slavery ended.
00:06:07.300 Period.
00:06:08.100 Got it?
00:06:09.060 Good.
00:06:09.860 She's very proud of herself, you can tell.
00:06:11.580 But she shouldn't be proud of that shirt with the spiky shoulder pads.
00:06:15.360 Ew.
00:06:16.500 It's like something a Star Trek villain would wear.
00:06:18.740 She should ask for reparations from whoever sold her that shirt.
00:06:22.100 I'm not equipped to give fashion advice, of course.
00:06:24.060 But it looks like doorknobs on her shoulders.
00:06:27.220 Why?
00:06:27.480 I don't get it.
00:06:28.460 We're in the midst of Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter.
00:06:31.540 Many Christians are choosing to give up alcohol, social media, and other distractions
00:06:34.900 to focus more on prayer, fasting, and giving.
00:06:37.680 Hallow's annual Pray 40 Challenge is one of their most popular.
00:06:40.960 Last year, over a million people joined.
00:06:42.940 This year's Pray 40 Challenge focuses on surrender
00:06:45.160 and includes meditations on the powerful book, He Leadeth Me.
00:06:48.920 This is a story about a priest who became a prisoner and slave
00:06:51.420 in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
00:06:53.140 His story is one of ultimate surrender,
00:06:55.100 and we're called to offer up our worries, anxieties, problems, and lives to God.
00:06:59.320 There will also be Lent music, Lent-specific Bible stories,
00:07:02.160 and other Lenten prayers like the Seven Last Words of Christ with Jim Caviezel.
00:07:05.760 Hallow is truly transformative and will help you connect with your faith on a deeper level.
00:07:09.780 So what are you waiting for?
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00:07:23.020 As we know, everything she says in the video is false.
00:07:25.980 It's not true that chattel slavery was unique to the Western world.
00:07:28.780 This form of slavery existed all over the world,
00:07:30.740 was practiced by non-white cultures for thousands of years.
00:07:33.260 This is just the kind of thing that if I already,
00:07:36.860 if I didn't already have zero faith in the education system,
00:07:39.060 I would find this very troubling that this, I mean, anyone could think this.
00:07:43.540 If we're going to hand out reparations,
00:07:45.220 given the ubiquity of slavery across the world for so many centuries,
00:07:48.280 then we should by all rights have 30 different reparations programs
00:07:51.400 to cover everyone whose ancestors were negatively impacted by it,
00:07:54.600 which would be basically everyone.
00:07:56.160 I'm a victim of oppression.
00:07:57.540 I'm 13% victim.
00:07:59.500 I'm 21% victim.
00:08:00.860 If it's true that people can be owed restitution for the legacy of harm
00:08:04.720 that impacts them in unspecified and unknowable ways today,
00:08:08.560 then again, reparations should come in many forms.
00:08:10.380 But of course, you know, when you think about it,
00:08:12.680 you realize that indeed the reparations mentality does come in many forms.
00:08:17.640 The basic idea behind reparations is that a person is owed something from society
00:08:22.500 because of the theoretical disadvantages that they experience.
00:08:27.040 And there, done.
00:08:28.780 What have you done?
00:08:31.200 I painted the truth.
00:08:32.640 I painted my truth.
00:08:34.180 Slavery reparations is just one manifestation of that spiritual sickness. 0.91
00:08:38.620 There are many other manifestations of it.
00:08:40.960 Indeed, our culture and our politics is driven by this mentality.
00:08:45.640 So just yesterday, we talked about programs in cities across the country
00:08:48.260 that give no-strings-attached cash payments to disadvantaged people.
00:08:52.820 Cash payments that, as we read, are often used on spa treatments
00:08:56.000 and fancy vacations and that sort of thing.
00:08:58.220 And this was not, you know, framed as slavery reparations,
00:09:02.260 but it's basically a form of reparations.
00:09:05.000 We're giving people money that they didn't earn because, for some reason,
00:09:07.940 in some way that no one can explain, they are owed it.
00:09:10.920 Again, this is pervasive.
00:09:13.340 Slaves built this country. 1.00
00:09:15.040 And we demand our 40 acres and a mule.
00:09:17.980 Now, if you go up to a person like this and you ask them to tell you about their goals,
00:09:24.880 about their ambitions, about their deepest longings,
00:09:28.460 and if you ask them that, they probably wouldn't be able to answer the question.
00:09:31.900 What do you want?
00:09:32.960 It's not that simple.
00:09:34.140 What do you want?
00:09:35.780 They wouldn't be able to tell you what their goals are, what they want to accomplish.
00:09:38.600 But if you ask them to list all of the ways that their lives are unfair,
00:09:43.800 well, they'll provide a detailed accounting.
00:09:45.660 I mean, they'll talk your ear off.
00:09:47.700 Then it's like, how much time do you have?
00:09:49.680 You know, I could tell you for six hours about that.
00:09:51.900 Oh, you're hurting me.
00:09:55.180 It's what drives them.
00:09:56.400 Drives them in circles, to be specific.
00:09:58.760 And this is the worst thing about reparations in all of its forms.
00:10:01.740 It's not that the schemes are always economically suicidal, though they are.
00:10:05.000 It's rather that they feed and encourage a mentality that dooms people to lives of discontentment and envy.
00:10:12.480 It leads to a passive life.
00:10:14.140 A life spent waiting for someone else to come along and give you what you think you are owed.
00:10:20.080 Give me that.
00:10:21.060 What?
00:10:21.800 Give me that.
00:10:22.880 When in reality, you're not owed anything at all.
00:10:25.380 Nobody is in debt to you simply because you exist.
00:10:30.200 And they exist.
00:10:31.620 Does that mean that you haven't been negatively impacted by things that have happened to you,
00:10:36.020 and even things that happened to your ancestors generations ago?
00:10:38.480 Whoever buys me, they better kill me the first day.
00:10:40.840 I'm going to go buck wild on the whole operation.
00:10:43.440 No, it doesn't mean that.
00:10:44.380 Indeed.
00:10:45.380 Bad things have happened to you.
00:10:47.140 If you're a person, there have been bad things that have happened to you.
00:10:49.500 And bad things happen to your ancestors, whoever you are.
00:10:52.420 And whoever your ancestors were.
00:10:54.280 And some of those bad things may even reverberate today.
00:10:57.300 I don't deny that.
00:10:58.440 Regardless, your history is what it is, or was what it was, we should say.
00:11:02.120 If things were different, you could be in a better place.
00:11:04.840 You could be in a worse place.
00:11:06.520 As we've covered before, you could not even exist at all.
00:11:10.240 It's just a thought exercise.
00:11:11.900 And it's not a very helpful or useful one.
00:11:14.800 And when this thought exercise becomes the animating force of your entire life,
00:11:18.400 when this idea that you could have it better if only this and that thing hadn't happened in the past,
00:11:22.740 then it becomes incredibly harmful because it's preventing you from living actively and proactively.
00:11:28.960 If you want to make your life better, then go make it better.
00:11:31.620 Stop waiting for someone else to do it for you.
00:11:33.640 That's the only productive way to live.
00:11:36.580 And it's why reparations, in all of its many diverse forms, is today canceled.
00:11:44.600 Oh, you almost had it.
00:11:46.620 You've got to be quicker than that.
00:11:47.740 You've got to be quicker than that.