The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1336 - Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-White Hustle Implodes

00:00:00.000 Race hustler Ibram Kendi is under fire after his Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston

00:00:06.680 University laid off some 20 employees, more than half of the center's workforce.

00:00:12.220 The Center for Anti-Racist Research was founded in June 2020 during the BLM shakedown campaign

00:00:19.540 that followed the death of George Floyd. Kendi was given a professorship and a center,

00:00:24.380 the purpose of which remains as dubious today as it was back then. Since that time,

00:00:30.460 Kendi's Center has raised tens of millions of dollars from donors, and now nobody knows where

00:00:37.940 the money went. It isn't that the Center produced nothing for its money. The Center launched a blog

00:00:45.540 on the Boston Globe's website, and then that's pretty much it. The Center promised to do lots of

00:00:53.660 stuff. It promised to develop a racial data tracker to be, quote, the nation's largest online database

00:01:01.020 of racial inequity in the United States, whatever that means. But that project, like so many of its

00:01:07.520 other initiatives, just never quite happened. And it was never going to happen, because these race 1.00

00:01:13.800 hustlers never produce much of anything. Their product is the shakedown. The product is white guilt. 0.87

00:01:22.220 And the business is getting donations to produce more white guilt to get more donations.

00:01:30.960 What did BLM ever produce? It produced lots of broken windows and empty store shelves and burned out

00:01:38.860 cars. And other than that, all it produced was white guilt, which earned it some $90 million in 0.93

00:01:45.360 donations, which then also disappeared along with the formal organization. The BLM founders moved into

00:01:52.840 mansions in Southern California, and everyone moved on to the next grift. The only reason that we are

00:02:00.360 hearing about this one, about the financial corruption of Kendi's Center, is that he made the mistake of

00:02:06.320 stiffing his woke employees, his fellow con artists, who are now turning the con on him.

00:02:11.300 But it almost certainly won't hurt him, because there's no shortage of white guilt. And there's 0.80

00:02:17.500 no shortage of money just waiting to be funneled into leftist patronage. Like a sidewalk shell game,

00:02:24.520 even if Kendi's BU gig goes under, just wait for him to pop up magically somewhere else.

00:02:31.220 Welcome back to the show. One in six American adults can't name a single branch of our government.

00:02:58.420 We will get to why that might be in just a moment. First, though, speaking of liberal black men who

00:03:04.200 appeal exclusively to yuppie whites, Trevor Noah just had an interview. He interviewed some,

00:03:13.840 well, all right, see you later, YouTube. He interviewed, I guess this part's going to be on

00:03:19.600 Daily Wire Plus and also X at MNOLLE's show. Trevor Noah interviewed a man who dresses up as a woman 0.83

00:03:28.400 and they discussed the topic of men who identify as women in women's sports. And the debate,

00:03:39.140 such as it was, was five minutes long. Here is the most interesting argument made by the transvestite. 1.00

00:03:46.720 There are many who were born biologically women who will say, but you have an unnatural advantage over 1.00

00:03:52.620 me and that makes the sport unfair. How do you respond to that?

00:03:57.040 Yeah, there's lots of ways you can respond to that. So the first is the very language of you were

00:04:02.920 born and I'm not biological somehow, like I don't think I'm a cyborg. So like this idea that like,

00:04:10.180 oh, you're not a biological woman. Well, I am a woman. That's a fact. I am female. So all my identity

00:04:15.840 records, my racing license, my medical records all say female, right? And I'm pretty sure I made a 1.00

00:04:21.820 biological stuff. So I'm a biological female as well. So this question of do trans women have an 0.96

00:04:28.280 advantage over cis women? We don't know. In fact, there's basically no published research on this

00:04:35.220 question. However, there's good reason to think that there isn't. But I think it's irrelevant because

00:04:42.460 we allow all kinds of competitive advantages within women's sport. 1.00

00:04:48.920 So it's irrelevant. Now, the follow up question, which of course, Trevor Noah does not ask. It's

00:04:53.540 amazing to watch in this interview, Trevor Noah, so obsequious and so afraid to erase any question.

00:05:00.160 Look, I'm obviously not transphobic, but you know, wouldn't maybe someone, some terrible person might

00:05:05.360 suggest that maybe it's wrong for men to compete against women in the sports. And this guy's answer is,

00:05:09.500 look, there is a wide spectrum of women within women's sports, some of whom are taller and faster 0.95

00:05:16.100 and stronger. And so we allow that range of competition. So why not just broaden the range

00:05:20.720 of competition by including men too? And the obvious follow up question is, well, why do men and women's

00:05:27.440 sports exist separately in the first place? If it's just a range of competitive advantage,

00:05:33.280 then why not have them all compete together? Because obviously we have all recognized forever

00:05:39.800 that men and women are not just different in degree, but are categorically different. And that's

00:05:45.100 why there are different categories. So women can have their own sports. Trevor Noah can't ask that

00:05:50.920 follow up question. He can't even poke at the most ridiculous part of that guy's argument, 0.87

00:05:54.500 which is clever of the transvestites to argue. And it exposes a weakness in the conservatives' 0.99

00:06:01.820 response against transgenderism. And it's a weakness that I've been pointing out for a long

00:06:05.900 time. And it's in this stupid phrase, biological woman. I have said from the beginning, 1.00

00:06:12.940 the advent of this stupid phrase, that it's going to come back and bite us because it implies that 1.00

00:06:18.960 there is some other kind of woman. Conservatives think they're being clever when they say, well, 1.00

00:06:23.680 look, a biological woman, to be very precise, I'm not talking about a trans woman or a socially

00:06:29.320 constructed. I mean, a biological woman. There's only one kind of woman. There's not a, you can't 1.00

00:06:33.360 be a biological woman and a psychological man. You can't be a biological woman and a spiritual man. 0.84

00:06:37.780 You can't be biological woman and an economic man. There's just men and women. And so he flips this.

00:06:44.680 He says, what, am I not biological? Am I a robot? Am I a cyborg? No, I'm biological. I'm made of organic

00:06:49.880 matter. And I am a woman. So therefore I'm a biological woman. And if you accept the silly premise

00:06:56.160 that there are different types of women, that one could be one sex in one domain and one sex in 1.00

00:07:01.760 another domain, then his argument holds true. The issue is not the biological part. The issue is

00:07:07.360 the woman part. He's not a woman and never can be. No adjectives to modify that full stop. He's a man. 0.99

00:07:17.560 But as long as we cede any ground whatsoever to the absurd premises of transgenderism, then we're 1.00

00:07:27.960 going to find ourselves, even conservatives are going to find ourselves on the back foot making

00:07:31.840 weak arguments, just like Trevor Noah, refusing to bring up arguments at all. Which is why I got in

00:07:39.380 hot water earlier in the year when I pointed out on certain political issues, there's middle ground.

00:07:44.000 We can reach a compromise. We can live and let live. We can accept the glories of pluralism or

00:07:48.660 whatever liberals talk about. But on certain issues, we can't. It's either or. Either men can become 0.94

00:07:53.700 women or they can't. If they can, then we should just accept transgenderism at every level of society, 0.92

00:07:58.600 in the sports, in the workplace, for children, because a man can really be a woman. So a little

00:08:02.680 child might really be born into the wrong body or whatever they say. But if that isn't true, which it

00:08:07.380 obviously isn't, then we just have to stop entertaining transgenderism, period, in all of public life. 0.86

00:08:13.200 If that guy has some weird sexual fetish and he wants to dress up in front of his mirror, 0.64

00:08:17.540 no one's going to send the purity police to stop him. But the moment that he starts interfering in

00:08:21.820 public life with his nonsense, then it's a political matter and we've just got to be clear or it's going

00:08:27.000 to be unjust for everybody. Now, speaking of women, President Trump has hit the campaign trail

00:08:33.460 and he has identified a new nasty woman. You know, he brought up that phrase first against Hillary 1.00

00:08:40.020 Clinton quite aptly. Now he's turning that phrase on Megyn Kelly. 0.88

00:08:45.600 I sat down for an hour and then I did a Megyn Kelly one and she had, you know, just, boy,

00:08:51.680 she became nastier all of a sudden. She was pretty nasty, didn't you think? Anybody that watched it?

00:08:58.840 I don't think she was particularly nasty. And more to the point, you know, look, President Trump,

00:09:04.540 he's a good campaigner. He's a once in a generation political talent. So far be it for me to criticize

00:09:08.460 this strategy that has worked unexpectedly well for a long time now. But this seems to me a misstep.

00:09:16.380 Take aside any moral consideration. Take aside that I'm friends with Megyn Kelly. Take aside

00:09:22.740 that I think she conducted the interview in a very fair way. Just as a tactical matter,

00:09:29.100 if I'm Donald Trump, if I'm on the Trump campaign, I think I've got to notice Megyn Kelly is not the

00:09:35.720 enemy. Even though there was that spat back in the 2016 campaign, even though Megyn Kelly did ask him

00:09:42.460 a very tough question during the debate, said you've called women fat and ugly and stupid and 1.00

00:09:46.600 whatever. And Trump had the unbelievably brilliant answer, which was only Rosie O'Donnell, probably the 1.00

00:09:53.360 moment that he locked up that race. Just so fast on his feet, so funny. But in this case, 0.99

00:09:59.980 Megyn Kelly has been very fair to Donald Trump for many months now. She's been predicting for a long

00:10:04.760 time that he's got the presidential nomination locked up. I don't think she conducted the

00:10:10.380 interview in a bad way. And I just think there's a principle in politics, which is the conservation

00:10:14.980 of enemies. You don't want to grow your enemy list too long. And in this case, I don't think

00:10:20.660 Megyn is a fair enemy. I made this criticism of the DeSantis campaign when I felt that their online 0.91

00:10:25.420 campaign was just harassing and going after people who were winnable, who were potential allies,

00:10:31.860 who at least were being fair and were not the enemy. And I think that the same principle holds

00:10:38.160 true here. Maybe it doesn't matter for Trump because he's just so far up in the polls that he

00:10:43.020 can afford to expand his enemies list a little bit. But generally speaking, I think tactically,

00:10:49.520 this is kind of a misstep. He's on the precipice of locking up the nomination entirely. The interview

00:10:55.520 basically was fine for him, even though he kind of whiffed it on a couple of questions.

00:10:59.480 I don't think it really is going to upset his standing in the polls. Seems needless to create

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00:12:19.180 Speaking of gender, you've heard about this book, Gender Queer, which is this perverse porn 1.00

00:12:28.580 that liberal activists are trying to push into schools, even into middle schools and elementary

00:12:32.940 schools. And it shows graphic depictions of all sorts of bizarre sexual acts, and it's

00:12:37.160 just obviously inappropriate. I think for high schoolers too, but in the context of a school,

00:12:42.160 but certainly for middle schoolers and elementary schoolers. And this is the book that has been

00:12:49.280 brought up as the example by the liberals of the terrible right-wing book bans. There are those

00:12:54.880 conservatives peddling their censorship. They're basically Nazis. They want to burn books. 0.97

00:12:59.920 We're not for burning or banning books. No siree, we're for free speech and free inquiry and free

00:13:05.260 expression. But those right-wingers over there, they're the ones who want to ban books. Side with us.

00:13:12.160 And that has been somewhat persuasive to liberals and even to moderates and gettable people in the

00:13:17.680 middle. They say, oh, we don't want to ban books. I was told my whole life that banning books is bad,

00:13:21.980 so I don't want to be on that side. But then, according to a new survey that's out, when you

00:13:28.720 show voters what is actually in gender queer, all of a sudden they flip and 90% of them say that the

00:13:35.820 book is inappropriate. More than that, 93% say that the images of people doing weird sex stuff

00:13:41.980 in gender queer is inappropriate. This is according to the polling firm WPA Intelligence. This is provided

00:13:48.720 to the Daily Wire. They say that these sexually explicit cartoons are totally inappropriate for public

00:13:54.060 school libraries. And there's a lesson here for conservatives. Forgetting schools and gender queer 1.00

00:14:00.900 or whatever. When politics is abstract, the liberals have the advantage. When politics is particular,

00:14:08.900 the conservatives have the advantage. When we talk about the issue of immigration,

00:14:15.640 and you say, don't you think that people should be let into the country? Don't you think we should 1.00

00:14:20.120 be open and inclusive? Liberals win that immigration debate. When you say, hey, do you really think El

00:14:27.740 Paso should be run over by cartels who are raping and killing and murdering people? Conservatives win that 0.99

00:14:33.280 debate. Actually, you saw this in real time in 2016. For decades, as the debate over immigration had been

00:14:41.780 abstract, liberals won that debate. When Donald Trump descended that escalator and he said, yeah, Mexico,

00:14:49.760 they're not sending immigration in abstract. They're sending murderers and rapists and gangsters and human 1.00

00:14:55.900 traffickers and drug smugglers. They're sending really bad people who are killing people in your towns, in your 0.99

00:15:01.380 communities. You see it with your own eyes. Then the conservatives started to win that debate.

00:15:07.680 Well, banning books is bad. Yeah, what about this book? You really think seven-year-olds should be

00:15:12.440 exposed to extremely graphic images of extremely perverted sex? Oh, no, I don't think that.

00:15:20.280 Even on the subject of education broadly, when this kind of indoctrination was just abstract,

00:15:27.720 you send your kids to school and they learn whatever and they come home and they're saying

00:15:31.240 weird stuff and they're doing weird stuff, but you don't know. Look, it's school. It's an open

00:15:35.580 education. We're an open society. Parents did not become a powerful voting block. What happened during

00:15:42.320 COVID though? During COVID, all of a sudden, the classroom came into the home and parents saw the

00:15:47.860 particulars of what their kids were learning. And all of a sudden, parents became the most fired up

00:15:52.900 voting block in the country. All of a sudden, Glenn Youngkin wins a blue commonwealth, the

00:15:59.900 governorship in Virginia. All of a sudden, Joe Biden's DOJ starts describing parents in terms that

00:16:07.340 they would usually reserve for terrorists and domestic violent extremists. The particulars are

00:16:13.680 where we win. And this is good for us because politics doesn't happen in the abstract. That's a big

00:16:19.680 mistake of our modern liberal age. Politics happens with real people in real places in real time. It's

00:16:27.660 not just an idea. It's not just principles floating in outer space. It's real people in real time. So

00:16:34.580 any Republican campaign, any activist campaign, if you want to win and you're a conservative,

00:16:41.680 you got to get down into the particulars. The particulars are far more tethered to reality.

00:16:46.780 Speaking of particulars in campaigns, a new poll out from CNN and University of New Hampshire.

00:16:54.800 Trump is at 39% up in New Hampshire. Ron DeSantis is now down to fifth place.

00:17:01.920 Very, very bad news for the DeSantis campaign because the DeSantis campaign has pulled back

00:17:06.400 some of its staff from Super Tuesday and the later primary states. And accidentally,

00:17:12.280 they seem to have pulled out of Nevada, which is actually an early primary state, but whatever.

00:17:16.780 DeSantis needs to do well in Iowa. That won't be sufficient though, because Iowa hasn't predicted

00:17:22.340 the eventual Republican nominee in over 20 years. And DeSantis needs to do well in New Hampshire. And

00:17:27.460 DeSantis needs to do well in a number of the early states. And the numbers are going in the wrong

00:17:32.620 direction. So Trump's at 39%. Now, Vivek is at 13%. Nikki Haley is at 12%. Chris Christie is at 11%.

00:17:44.100 So underneath Chris Christie, you get Ron DeSantis. You dig into the numbers on DeSantis and the picture

00:17:52.040 looks even bleaker because the biggest drop has been among moderates. Moderates were backing DeSantis

00:17:58.840 26% back in July. They're now backing him 6% now. So he's had this huge colossal collapse among the

00:18:07.100 moderates. His drop among conservatives has been smaller, which could be predicted. His drop among

00:18:13.440 conservatives has only been 8%. The moderates is where he's collapsed. You know, I hate to say I told

00:18:19.100 you so. This is not his fault. This is what I said was going to happen. And the reason I saw this happening

00:18:27.840 is because Ron DeSantis' lane in the race, his only lane in this race, is to be the anti-Trump

00:18:36.940 candidate, which is to say the more moderate alternative to Trump. Even if you think Trump

00:18:42.340 is actually secretly a rhino or he's a Democrat or he's really not a rock-ribbed conservative.

00:18:47.340 That's not how he's viewed. He's viewed as the right flank of the party. And I think somewhat fairly

00:18:54.300 on issues like trade, on issues like immigration, I think he has hearkened back to a sturdier,

00:18:59.360 older, more right-wing conservative tradition. But even if you don't think that, that's just how

00:19:02.620 he's perceived. The people who want an alternative to Trump, who clutch their pearls and gnash their

00:19:07.800 teeth, they tend to be the more moderate side of the party. They tend to be the Lincoln project.

00:19:11.620 They tend to be the people who watch MSNBC and CNN. So that's where DeSantis has to be

00:19:18.600 to have even a shot in the race. But DeSantis isn't that guy. DeSantis is at his very best

00:19:25.260 when he's to the right of Donald Trump. DeSantis is at his very best when he's more pro-life,

00:19:30.420 at least in his rhetoric, than Donald Trump is. DeSantis is at his very best when he's more opposed

00:19:35.200 to the sexual revolution, at least in his rhetoric, than Donald Trump is. DeSantis is at his very best

00:19:40.220 when he's more in favor of wielding state power for conservative ends than Donald Trump is.

00:19:44.860 So that's where he's strongest. That's what makes him an attractive candidate to many of us.

00:19:52.460 But he doesn't have that lane in the race. His lane's got to be the moderate lane. And so he's

00:19:57.320 got to pick one. And as he moves more toward the moderate side, he's going to lose the conservatives,

00:20:01.940 who are going to probably stick with Trump. And as he moves more toward the conservative side,

00:20:04.760 he's going to lose the moderates, as happened in New Hampshire. If the DeSantis campaign continues

00:20:08.860 on the path that it seems to be on, there are going to be all sorts of post-mortems about how he's

00:20:13.740 just a very flawed candidate, and he just wasn't up for it, or how the campaign was poorly run.

00:20:19.200 And I don't think the campaign's been run particularly well. But I think all of that is

00:20:22.900 just missing the point, which is it doesn't need to be that he's a terrible candidate. It doesn't

00:20:27.940 need to be, as some people I think are preposterously saying, that DeSantis is a shill, leftist,

00:20:33.000 rhino, liberal, or whatever. It doesn't have to be any of that. It doesn't even have to be that his

00:20:36.600 campaign was poorly run. It's just that the circumstances of the race in this bizarre year,

00:20:43.240 where you've got the first former president running for a non-consecutive second term since 1892,

00:20:49.020 with all of the questions about the state of our democracy and election integrity and the upending

00:20:55.980 of the COVID lockdowns, it just, the circumstances have a say too, and the circumstances don't seem to

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00:22:46.320 Really, really great point. So true. Speaking of polls, one in six Americans cannot name

00:22:52.660 a single branch of the U.S. government. According to the Annenberg Constitution Day Civic Survey,

00:22:58.600 which is released every year, longstanding survey, a large number of Americans can't name

00:23:04.760 three branches of government. Two-thirds of Americans can name the three branches. So one-third of Americans

00:23:14.260 cannot name all three branches of government. Ten percent of Americans can only list two branches

00:23:22.720 of government. And another seven percent can only name one branch of government. And then what's

00:23:32.600 really crazy is that a full 17 percent of Americans cannot name a single branch of government. Why is that?

00:23:41.140 Is it because people are just really dumb now? I don't think IQs have necessarily dropped. 0.98

00:23:47.720 I don't think that explains it. I don't think that, you know, a father has an IQ of 100 and then his

00:23:53.820 son has an IQ of 90 and then his son has an IQ of 80. I don't think that's what's going on exactly.

00:23:58.900 I don't think it's just that the education system has collapsed, that that's part of it.

00:24:02.460 I think, and I know this is going to be politically incorrect, it might have something to do with the

00:24:09.260 all-time record high waves of mass migration that we've seen for the last 60 plus years.

00:24:15.240 That immigration into the United States, legal and illegal, over the last 60, I guess closer to 70

00:24:20.860 years now, has been the largest movement of human beings ever in recorded history. And this is no knock

00:24:26.760 on the immigrants. I'm not saying the immigrants are all big dummies or that they don't even like 0.99

00:24:31.140 America, or I'm not saying any of that. Just saying that when you flood a country with foreign 1.00

00:24:36.100 people, they're going to be less conscious of the particulars and the peculiarities of the country

00:24:42.680 into which they're moving because they just, they weren't raised in it. They don't have that. Even if

00:24:47.460 they studied for a civics test, you know, the test to allow them to become citizens, which for the

00:24:51.800 illegal immigrants doesn't even matter, they're not going to have that kind of instinctive down-in-your-bones

00:25:00.160 understanding of the country. They're not going to have that generational knowledge. And that

00:25:04.300 matters. I know that the left-wing liberals and the right-wing individualists don't want to say

00:25:10.020 that that matters, but it does. Generational stuff matters. The only reason that anybody talks about

00:25:16.080 the pilgrims on the Mayflower these days is because there are still a fair number of people who descend from

00:25:21.040 them and who have just a family interest in them. If those people didn't exist, no one would talk

00:25:27.700 about it. The only reason people talk about it is because they have genealogical interests in them.

00:25:31.800 The same goes for the sons and daughters of the American Revolution. The same goes for all sorts of

00:25:36.140 civic associations that have a genealogical component to it. Very politically incorrect to say these

00:25:42.480 days, but John Jay said it. John Jay, a very important founding father, first chief justice of

00:25:47.340 the Supreme Court, one of the authors of The Federalist, he said, with equal pleasure, I have as often

00:25:52.680 taken notice. The providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united

00:25:57.820 people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same

00:26:03.540 religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and

00:26:08.240 customs, and who, by their joint councils, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long

00:26:13.660 and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence. It's a hard truth for an age

00:26:20.860 that is opposed to very basic conservative truths, that if your family has been in a place for a long

00:26:26.920 time, you're going to have a little bit more of an attachment to it than if you've just arrived on

00:26:31.500 those shores. It's just a fact. I'll give an example. I was just in Hungary. I really like Hungary. I love

00:26:38.280 what the government is doing in Hungary. I think it's a beautiful place. I love the thousand-year

00:26:42.500 history of Hungary as a Christian nation, part of broader empires, fought valiantly. They've got great

00:26:50.380 food. They've got great stuff. If I move to Hungary, though, tomorrow, I would care about Hungary a lot

00:26:57.100 less than your average Hungarian on the street whose ancestors go back a thousand years. It's just a fact. 0.99

00:27:02.660 Maybe if I stayed in Hungary for a very long time, maybe many generations down the line,

00:27:08.620 my descendants would have a similar care for Hungary and Hungarian culture and history and the quirks of

00:27:14.440 how the society works. Maybe. But it would take a long time. Politics doesn't just happen overnight.

00:27:20.960 We have a strong focus on democracy and the present and we ignore a lot of history. Well,

00:27:30.060 for a democracy to really work, for it to remain stable and not be, as the founding fathers feared,

00:27:36.160 the worst form of government, you need to take into account a deeper democracy, which is that

00:27:40.880 democracy that I think it was Edmund Burke talked about. I always confuse this quote between Burke

00:27:45.000 and Chesterton, but it's the democracy of the dead. It's probably Chesterton, the way it's written so

00:27:50.380 cleverly and with such whimsy. We shouldn't just prioritize the members of our democracy who happen

00:27:58.640 to be walking around the earth at any given time. We should also give some care back in the generations

00:28:04.580 and also forward and care about our nation's future. But we don't do that anymore. So what do we do?

00:28:08.860 We tear down statues of our forebears and we leave as an inheritance to future generations,

00:28:13.280 nothing but a pile of debt, not conducive to a stable country. And if we lose that stability and

00:28:21.580 we lose that sense that there's something, if not sacred, at least worth admiring and even venerating

00:28:28.440 about our past, then we're just going to lose the whole country. It's just going to fall apart.

00:28:32.080 And you're seeing this happen now. Speaking of erasing history, New York City is looking to remove

00:28:36.360 the statues of our forebears. According to a list found in New York City's council agenda,

00:28:42.280 this is for Tuesday, September 19th, officials will consider a bill that would, quote, require the

00:28:46.860 Public Design Commission to publish a plan to remove works of art on city property that depict a person

00:28:52.760 who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery or who participated in

00:28:59.280 systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity. What does that mean? You

00:29:06.460 know the way that this is going to be interpreted, especially by the race hustlers at things like

00:29:10.360 Ibram Kendi's Center for Antiracial blah, blah, blah. This means everybody. This means everybody in

00:29:15.820 American history. Because all Americans have in some way, could at least be said to have in some way

00:29:23.680 benefited from slavery. Because slavery was a part of the American economy for a reasonably long time.

00:29:31.020 And a lot of our forebears, not all or even most of them, but a lot of them owned slaves.

00:29:37.400 And it was just part of the economy. So if you interact with it in any way, you're taking part in it.

00:29:42.540 Think about this today. For a thousand years in Western history, usury was basically illegal.

00:29:49.000 Lending money at interest was more or less illegal. And that's because Christianity considers usury to

00:29:56.320 be a crime and a sin. I continue to believe that. I continue to hold to Christian teachings.

00:30:03.300 And yet, today, it is impossible, virtually, I think just flat out impossible, to in any way participate

00:30:13.120 in society without somehow participating in usury. It's just part of the economy. So if 500 years from

00:30:22.160 now, we get rid of usury somehow, and our descendants say, you know, we're going to tear 1.00

00:30:27.140 down the statues of anyone who participated in that awful sin and crime of usury. They're going to tear

00:30:31.280 down all of the statues because it's just part of the air that we breathe. It's part of our society.

00:30:36.360 So these attacks, as Donald Trump predicted, these attacks on Robert E. Lee, these attacks on Stonewall

00:30:42.800 Jackson, these attacks on those mean old nasty Confederates to tear down their statues, it was

00:30:47.580 never going to stop with them. It couldn't stop with them. It was always going to move on to George 0.96

00:30:51.760 Washington and Christopher Columbus and everyone, all of them, crimes against the indigenous. What does

00:30:57.700 that mean? That means any white man who ever came to the Western hemisphere could be accused of such

00:31:03.000 a thing because the indigenous people were here before us. Well, all of them, the pilgrims,

00:31:08.820 Plymouth Rock, the whole thing has got to go. And what are we going to be left with? We're going to

00:31:15.820 be left with a big nothing country where far fewer than one in six Americans can name anything about

00:31:22.680 our civic life. Now, I've told you time and time again, I don't want to say that I didn't warn you,

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00:32:31.740 shop. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from

00:32:36.020 you in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles to save

00:32:41.800 an additional 55-0% off your first month. Take it away. Hey, Michael. I was recently rejected by a

00:32:49.320 woman that I truly felt that God had placed on my heart. I've never really felt that way about anyone

00:32:53.700 in my life. I've been in plenty of relationships. I'm 30 years old. I've recently experienced an

00:32:58.140 unprecedented season of consistent spiritual growth in a fantastic church community. And after asking God

00:33:03.040 for wisdom, I really felt that I was in tune with whom God intended for me rather than some random

00:33:06.880 girl that I wanted to pursue according to my own plans. It saddens me knowing that she continues to sit

00:33:11.400 completely alone at church every week. And she, despite being my age and very attractive, is still

00:33:15.820 single and doesn't seem plugged into a group of friends. How should I think about this? Does God

00:33:20.540 not speak to Christians about their lives? If scripture does not directly address a particular

00:33:24.340 issue in our life, are we on our own? And if my feelings are indeed in tune with God's wisdom and not

00:33:30.380 my own, should I continue to entertain the possibility of her changing her mind or forget about it and move 0.51

00:33:35.320 on? Thanks, Mike. Well, you're never on your own. God's always there with you. You should turn away

00:33:40.820 from God, but you're never actually on your own. But there's a big if there. You say, well, if

00:33:46.000 my desire for this girl and my belief that we're going to end up together is actually in align with

00:33:52.500 God's wisdom and not just my own desire or fantasy, then, you know, what's going on here? But that's a

00:33:58.580 big if. You just don't know. You say, the girl doesn't seem to have any friends. You don't know

00:34:02.880 that. All you see this girl is at church on Sunday. Or maybe she goes to daily mass. You see her

00:34:07.980 every day, but it's still only for an hour. So you just don't know that. You might be projecting

00:34:12.980 that onto this girl. You don't seem to know this girl very well. Now, it could be the case that this

00:34:17.620 girl is just a bit shy or a bit odd or, you know, and so maybe if you become friends with her a little

00:34:25.680 bit or you chat a little bit more, maybe you can convince her to go on a date with you. But maybe not.

00:34:30.740 Maybe she just doesn't like you. You know, not to be too harsh about it, man, but she gets a say,

00:34:37.660 too. And so you might have this sense. You might have a desire for this girl, and you might have

00:34:42.620 the sincere sense that God has ordained this girl for you. But maybe not. Maybe that isn't the case,

00:34:49.560 and maybe you got to look elsewhere. There is a distinction between love and infatuation. And if

00:34:56.960 you really don't know this girl, if you've barely ever talked to this girl, you just see her across the

00:35:00.740 cute, then, you know, your deep feelings of love for this girl are probably more akin to infatuation

00:35:06.320 than an actual love. I don't mean to discourage you. I mean, you know, being of a certain Italian 0.99

00:35:11.660 extraction, I think it's good to pursue girls. Even if, you know, the girl says, I don't want to

00:35:17.620 have a drink. I don't want to go get a cup of coffee the first time. Maybe you ask one or two

00:35:21.940 more times. You just try to, you know, say, no, but listen, you're very cute, and I'd like to take you

00:35:25.640 out to get a drink or something. So come on. Come on. How about that? So maybe that will work for you.

00:35:31.100 But you also have to accept the reality that, yeah, you just might not be her type,

00:35:37.780 even if you think she is your type. And so what I would recommend is, even as you perhaps leave

00:35:42.420 open the possibility that this girl might like you, go out with some other girls. It's okay.

00:35:47.840 You can explore. You're a single man. You want to get married. I'm not saying go be debaucherous or

00:35:52.600 anything like that, but you can go on other dates. There is also a strange fact of human nature,

00:35:59.060 which is that if you are going out on dates and it's clear that women like you and are attracted

00:36:06.760 to you, more women will like you and be attracted to you. You shouldn't use this in a way that's

00:36:11.520 exploitative or anything like that. But Drew Klavan once gave me advice, which is, I said,

00:36:18.260 what should I do in my career? And he said, well, the more you work, the more you work.

00:36:20.580 You know, so the more you're just doing anything, the more you're going to be likely to do the

00:36:26.120 things that you want to do. And I think that's probably true in personal life too. This is true

00:36:31.380 if you want to make more friends, go out and do things with people, just really anything. And

00:36:36.000 you're more likely to make more friends that way. And it's true of women as well. Next question. 1.00

00:36:42.360 Hey, Michael, I know we've talked about this before, but regardless of what I think,

00:36:45.880 what is your unbiased opinion on high school graduates, not going with the traditional route

00:36:49.920 of college and going with something more alternative, like a gap year YWAM or trade school?

00:36:55.340 Also being a parent, does that affect your view of college at all, especially with how woke it's

00:36:59.200 becoming from your friend with the green pants?

00:37:02.360 My friend with the, I know, I know who this is. It might be someone even in this building who's

00:37:06.560 asking me that question. It gets back to the point I made earlier in the show. It's all about

00:37:14.200 the particulars. I know there are some conservatives who come out, they say,

00:37:17.560 don't ever go to college. Don't go to college. College is stupid. I think some people should go

00:37:22.620 to college. Well, if you go to college, just, you should only major in engineering. I don't think

00:37:26.740 that's true. In fact, I think very few people should. I don't think that's the point of it,

00:37:30.200 a university education. Studying engineering is good. Becoming an engineer is good, but I just don't,

00:37:34.840 no, I wouldn't say that. Some people should study dusty old books. Well, okay, then everyone should go

00:37:40.560 to college. No, I don't think that either. I think way too many people go to college.

00:37:43.240 When I went to college, something like 70% of high school graduates went to college right away.

00:37:50.200 That's insane. And that number has dropped precipitously. But it's largely dependent

00:37:54.840 on what you want to do. So if you're extremely academic and you want to go study Plutarch or

00:38:05.660 something, I don't know, you want to go study Virgil, then yeah, you're probably going to do that

00:38:10.560 in a university environment. If you're not particularly academic and you want to do other

00:38:14.860 things, then why would you waste your time in college? If you want to get married and start a

00:38:18.780 family a little more quickly, you could do that too. If you want to take a gap year and maybe,

00:38:23.060 you know, go on some missionary trip or go on some internship or if you want to just start working

00:38:30.240 right away, you could do that too. I think I would just need more information. And I think I know

00:38:34.900 who wrote in with that question. So I guess in that particular, I would say,

00:38:41.180 if you're not that inclined to do it, don't do it. Now, I don't want to sound trite or cliche when I

00:38:46.520 say, follow your bliss. But, you know, don't try to slam a square peg in a round hole. If it's not

00:38:53.860 for you, then allow your desire to help guide you towards something that is more conducive to your

00:39:01.180 flourishing. I'm not saying just do whatever you want whenever you want to do it. But if you're more

00:39:05.160 drawn to some kind of, I don't know, missionary trip, or if you're more drawn to some kind of

00:39:11.060 internship, or if you're more drawn to family life and settling down right away, I don't think that's

00:39:17.220 necessarily a bad thing. I would judge that desire in the light of virtue and reason and come to a

00:39:24.960 conclusion that's right for you. And in many cases, that's going to mean no college. Though in some,

00:39:29.460 it might mean go to college. Next one. Hello, Michael. Alex here again. Long-time

00:39:35.360 listener. Huge fan. Currently about to finish my conversion to Catholicism. Thank you to you being

00:39:41.200 a big part of that and leading me to that and just the truth of the One True Church. So thank you so

00:39:45.200 much. Anyway, here's my question. So a discussion I get in frequently with one of my Protestant friends

00:39:50.140 is the Immaculate Conception. I somewhat understand it, and I'm trying to listen to many people like

00:39:58.060 Dr. Tony Marshall explain it, who's much more intelligent than I am, but I would just love to

00:40:01.760 hear your elevator pitch or your kind of dumbed-down version, if you will, for somebody like myself

00:40:05.940 of how do I not only, how do I explain this and fully understand the Immaculate Conception of Mary?

00:40:12.680 How is it that even though the Bible says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

00:40:18.680 how do I explain to a Protestant that Mary was sinless, that she really was, 0.86

00:40:24.360 Hail Mary, full of grace and sinless. So thank you so much, Michael. Can't wait for your answer.

00:40:29.000 God bless. Well, you just partially explained it right there, which is the full of grace part. But

00:40:33.880 for those who don't know, the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary without the stain

00:40:39.140 of original sin. So a lot of people think it refers to the virgin birth, you know, or the conception

00:40:43.820 of our Lord Jesus Christ without a human male participating. But it refers to the conception of Mary.

00:40:50.360 And so this raises a problem in the minds of some people, which is, well, hold on. I was told that

00:40:55.500 all sin and fall short of the glory of God. So that's got to include Mary too, right? Because

00:40:59.580 that's literally what it says. But if we were to interpret that verse in the most strict literalism

00:41:06.980 we possibly could, then we would have to conclude that our Lord Jesus Christ sinned and fell short of

00:41:13.400 the glory of God. Because he is among the set of all. He's a person, right? So did Jesus sin? No,

00:41:20.900 of course not. That's absurd. All sin and fall short of the glory of God is a true statement about

00:41:26.580 mankind and human nature. But our Lord Jesus Christ is obviously an exception to that rule.

00:41:32.740 And the Blessed Virgin is an exception to that rule too. Does this mean that Mary didn't need a 0.96

00:41:37.400 Savior? No, certainly not. The Immaculate Conception is a Catholic dogma, but it's been a belief of

00:41:43.300 Christians since time immemorial, which is that Mary was preserved from the stain of original sin 0.99

00:41:49.980 by a singular and special grace of Jesus Christ. So it is still that Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the

00:41:57.500 cross is what redeems mankind, but that there is a special ordering of that in the case of Mary.

00:42:03.800 One way to describe it would be if you fell into a ditch and then I come along and I pull you out

00:42:08.480 of the ditch, I saved you from the ditch, right? But if you were walking toward a ditch and I said,

00:42:13.880 hey, hey, hey, step around that. There's a ditch there. I also would have saved you from the ditch,

00:42:18.540 but I would have saved you from the ditch before you fell into the ditch, which is what our Lord did

00:42:22.320 to his mother. Part of the reason for this is that as Christ is the new Adam, Mary is the new Eve, 0.77

00:42:28.980 and both created without original sin. Part of this is because Eve is the new Ark of the Covenant.

00:42:37.600 Christ is the new Covenant and Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant and the Ark of the Covenant is 0.94

00:42:41.940 immaculate, stainless. But we also see this in scripture too, which is when, well, as you say,

00:42:47.660 Hail Mary, Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. This phrase full of grace is not,

00:42:53.720 hey, you're partially with grace. It's that you're full of grace. And then you see this in the

00:42:57.620 reading from Elizabeth to Mary, which is she says, blessed are you among women and blessed is the

00:43:03.460 fruit of your womb, Jesus. So this same word juxtaposed right next to one another to refer

00:43:10.700 to the blessedness of Mary and the blessedness of our Lord. It is a singular type of blessedness.

00:43:16.540 And then you just have 2000 years of the Christian tradition. So if you say, well,

00:43:19.460 that doesn't really convince me, Michael, I'm not persuaded. You're just reading parts of

00:43:25.240 scripture. You're just deducing certain things by reason. But, you know, that's not really what

00:43:30.240 I believe. Where is it in scripture more directly or something? I guess I would just have to ask,

00:43:34.460 why is it that Christians have believed this for 2000 years? And then in more recent centuries, 0.80

00:43:38.660 people stopped believing this. That's what I would just would always ask the question of

00:43:43.700 history, why one's views, which are supposedly so ancient are out of line with history. And then I

00:43:49.600 would ask the question of authority. When people say, well, I just read my Bible and I know what it

00:43:54.560 means. You say, well, a lot of people read the Bible and they have all sorts of varying

00:43:57.380 interpretations. So you haven't sidestepped the question of authority. Who has the authority

00:44:02.880 of interpretation and the interpretive principle? And even if you don't believe in the Pope yet or

00:44:09.860 something, you know, even if you don't believe in the authority of the church, you might at least

00:44:15.280 believe in the authority of the vast majority of Christians who have lived going back to the 0.99

00:44:19.180 apostolic age. Okay. I've got one more voice mailbag question to get to. I've got the mail,

00:44:24.880 I've got the written mailbag to get to. And it is of course, fake headline Friday. So I need your

00:44:28.300 help. And please, I'm just going to say, I'm going to read the headlines. And then some people

00:44:32.700 are going to say, oh, it's number three. It's number four. The chat is slow, but they're going

00:44:36.300 to say that one. Don't, you got to tell me which headline. You got to use the words from the

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 22, 2023

Ep. 1336 - Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-White Hustle Implodes

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